Emperor Rules Family while I Rule the Country

Zhu Guanliang seemed to curve her lower lip, but she also didn't seem to see any of it. Maybe she was seeing things, and wanted to tell him with a few more words that she didn't have any intention to molest him, but he interrupted her before she could even speak.

"Don't drink again for the next few days."

"I'll write it down. I won't drink it even if it costs me my life."

For the first time in her life, she fled, her ears burning, feeling like a pawn.

She had only heard of how men were frivolous towards women and how women were frivolous towards men. She had never heard of or seen anything like that. She really did not have any presumptuous thoughts just now, but her actions inevitably caused people to misunderstand.

Zhu Guanliang had an extraordinary temperament and was a true gentleman.

Zhu Guanliang opened the window and personally saw her walk off into the distance. Only then did he open the < Commentary on the Various Diseases > on the table and take out a slip of paper from within. Then, he lit the candle and threw it into the copper basin.

The night wind blew in through the window, causing the shadows of the candles to sway. He indistinctly smelled a sweet fragrance. Lowering his head, he smelled his own body. How come he didn't know when the fragrance was coming from his own body?

Sure enough, after taking the medicine that Zhu Guanliang gave her, Zhou Leping went back and had a good sleep. Early in the morning, Qu Tan woke her up and gave her the blacksmith's mask.

She was even surprised. "You're done so quickly?"

Qu Tan said, "It was delivered early in the morning, probably because he was afraid that the general would use it urgently, so he must have beaten it up overnight."

This mask was also half made of iron. Although it was worn on the face, it wasn't very heavy and didn't have much of a style. It was a simple mask to cover her face, so she was quite satisfied with it.

Before going up to the Imperial Court, Zhu Guanliang gave her another two pills. Zhou Leping took them and fed them to her, and when he looked at her, he felt a little awkward.

However, Zhu Guanliang's expression was extremely calm. "I'm going up the mountain today, so I might come back very late tonight …"

"You're a doctor, not a prisoner in my house. You don't need to report to me about where you want to go."

Zhu Guanliang continued on, "Those two pills were left for the general to eat at night."

The atmosphere became even more awkward.

"Then why don't you give me two more pills?"

"Yes, it's poison, it's useless to eat too much."

"Then if I eat it now, the effects should be the same, right?"

Zhu Guanliang seemed to be too lazy to waste his breath on her, he cupped his hands and bowed, then turned and left without waiting for her to speak.

Zhou Leping rubbed his nose, then turned and met Zhou Leqi's eyes that were filled with laughter.

"Even though it's been a few years since we last met, your character hasn't changed. You've always been so impatient and impatient. You've never had the patience to wait for others to finish talking."

Zhou Leping said in embarrassment, "Brother, don't laugh at me."

"Some people tell you in private that no matter what, you have to change your personality in the future. The imperial court is not as good as your army, where you have the final say. But in the imperial court, everything you do or say will be watched and amplified until it reaches the emperor's ears."

Ever since she had returned to the capital, Zhou Leqi had been reminding her in a roundabout way that Zhao Shiqian was no longer the Zhao Shiqian from before. He was now a ruler, and the difference was that he was reminding her to put away those thoughts that she shouldn't have.

How could she not understand this logic? In fact, there was no need to remind him, she would naturally avoid suspicion, but in order to let Zhou Leqi feel at ease, she still nodded heavily, "Big bro, don't worry. I understand everything in my heart."

The court was filled with people who started it, and then a group of people came up with some ideas and came up with a solution for it. However, the people who started it were sometimes truly worried about the nation, and sometimes they were purely interested in a single person.

At this moment, for example, someone suggested to the Emperor that they hire a soldier. The reason was more than simple, there were too many soldiers in the army, and one after another, the papers that came up to manage the Emperor's military pay were filled with money. Not to mention where the military pay had been spent, it caused people to wonder if there was anyone who was rich enough.

These words were extremely targeted, even those with ears could tell that he was targeting Zhou Leping.

In the past few years, she had indeed asked the emperor for military pay, but the emperor had replied to her, either there was famine in the north, or there was floods in the south, and they needed to be treated. As long as they mentioned military pay, there was no money.

She had trained in war for the past two years and knew that it was not easy for Zhao Shiqian. She did not push him further, but who would have thought that there would actually be someone holding onto this matter?

Once she said those words, there were a lot of people who spoke out in agreement. Zhou Leping had went up to court the day before, and on the way, Zhou Leqi had told her to restrain her temper, she had almost forgotten about it. If she had a sword in her hand, then she truly wished to let those people who nodded their heads say yes, have a sword on their bodies.

She had brought her soldiers to the battlefield to sacrifice their heads and shed blood. She had escaped death many times and fought for every inch of land. The people who had been drinking together with her yesterday were able to say such words today.

Zhou Leqi gave Zhou Leping a meaningful glance to calm her down.

Calm, she had to be calm, she had to take a deep breath, and she smiled, "What Master Song has said is reasonable, but hearing is hearing, seeing is believing, Master Song should go to the battlefield and have a look, the army of hundreds of thousands of soldiers have to eat and drink, the supplies for the horses, the injured soldiers need to see the sick, the costs of the herbs, and the pensions for the fallen soldiers. Our soldiers have not received any military salary for two years, so winter clothes can never be used to make up for the cold."