C75

Did you make it up yourself?

Beijing.

Before the sky brightened, the palace gates had just opened, and the officials had already entered the palace, heading straight for the Hall of Golden Chimes.

An hour later, a servant rushed into the Sixth Prince's residence. "Your Highness, this morning, Commander Zhang Chong's request to expand the State Guard's encampment has been rejected by the emperor."

"What's going on? When did Zhang Chong's paper arrived? How did it get taken out during the morning assembly?"

Sixth Prince Zhou Mingzhen's delicate face had not yet lost all of its childishness, making him look younger than his peers. He should have been a sunny youth, but now his face was gloomy.

"Ministry of War submitted it. Ministry of War's Zhao Zheng said that because the scale of the encampment that Commander Zhang was requesting for expansion was larger than before, it had already far exceeded the scope of the encampment and thus, it was brought to the imperial court for discussion."

"Damn it, that old fool Zhao Zheng."

Zhou Ming stood up, and after circling twice he stopped, "When was the last time Zhang Chong wrote a letter."

"Your Highness, eight days ago, a pigeon sent a message."

"It should be enough to ride from Tan Yang to the capital in seven days. Logically speaking, this debt should have been presented to the emperor two days ago. Why did the Ministry of War specially press the pressure on you for two days?"

Zhou Ming frowned, feeling that something was amiss. "I'm going out of the palace to look for uncle."

"Your Highness, please do not. The Empress had just been scolded by the Emperor yesterday, and has some reprimand for your words. At this time, you must not leave the palace, if the Emperor finds out, he will be even more dissatisfied."

The court lady hurriedly stopped Zhou Mingzhen, afraid that he would impulsively run out of the palace.

Zhou Mingzhen's face turned ugly. After a long while, he finally said, "Forget it. Send a letter out for me."

"Yes."

After writing the letter, Zhou Mingzhen had the palace maid send him out of the palace while he went to find his mother, Shufei.

"Mother, Zhang Chong's request was rejected. Ministry of War suppressed it for two days before taking it out."

Shufei was already a middle-aged woman, but she was well-preserved in the palace. She looked like a twenty-eight year old girl, and her eyes were filled with moving charm.

"Zhao Zheng? Zhao Zheng is one of the Emperor's men and not a member of any faction.

Shufei frowned her beautiful eyebrows as she thought deeply.

"I've already sent someone to deliver a letter to uncle. I hope uncle can find anything."

"You did well, but now that the Tan Yang's paper has been rejected, your uncle can't ask for a higher position for a short period of time. The Tan Yang's influence is our backing, we cannot let your uncle think that we are not doing anything in the capital, so we must write a letter to pacify him."

"Yes."

"It's all because of that slut, Consort Xian. If it wasn't for her causing me to lose my composure in front of the emperor, the This Palace would have been able to speak a few words in front of the emperor right now."

"Don't be angry Empress, we have to endure this for now. Once the Emperor's anger is gone, it will be easy for you to cure the Consort."

"That bitch." Shufei endured his anger and scolded, then said, "Before, the Emperor would never reject Tan Yang's paper. I wonder what happened this time?"

Yuwen Mansion.

"Captain, Zhang Chong's papers have already been rejected. Sixth Brother has already been on the road for two days, when are we going to the Tan Yang? Is the marshal really going to marry that young master of the Ling Family?"

Yuwen Tong's courtyard was forbidden area in Yuwen City, even if Yuwen Tong left the capital, no one was allowed to go in or out.

"What's the rush? The mission given by the marshal has not been completed yet." Did you manage to find out anything about Li Zhong? "

"There was a bit of information just now, and it is currently following that lead. If nothing goes wrong, then the results will come out in the next few days."

"Yes." Yue Qi nodded his head, "Have you all made arrangements for the Wuhu Courtyard?"

"The arrangements have been made. Second Master has indicated that he will stay at the Wuhu Courtyard for the night. Besides the guards at the entrance, no one else will be going to the study room."

"Alright, be careful tonight. The study room is the last place we'll check."

"We've searched for two days and still haven't found any trace of Second Master or the Second Wife sending people to make things difficult for them. If we can't find any clues from tonight's study, will we continue to investigate?"

"Then tell the marshal the results first. We can't let down our guard just because of this. If there are any other clues, we can't let them go."

"Yes."

"Now that the news of the marshal's presence in the Tan Yang has yet to be revealed, the capital city is relatively calm." Now that the news of the marshal's presence in the Tan Yang has yet to be revealed, the capital city is relatively calm.

Yue Qi's face was sullen as he made his conjectures.

When the sky brightened, Ling Zhang still punctually appeared in nursing home. After sleeping for the night and recovering his spirit, no matter how hard it was for the guards to teach, he would still continue.

Furthermore, what surprised Ling Zhang was that he thought that after that night, the guards would be able to recall some information that they couldn't remember exactly about yesterday's basics. He didn't expect that everyone would remember everything firmly and even be able to identify the basics skillfully.

"Young master, we brothers woke up early and practiced here again early in the morning. Liu Yi is smarter than us and he remembered us well."

Seeing Ling Zhang's surprised expression, Wang Dashan walked over and proudly said.

Ling Zhang looked at Liu Yi, and Liu Yi walked over: "This subordinate remembers a little. We brothers also want to master this well as soon as possible, they all do not want to disappoint young master's teachings."

Ling Zhang revealed a smile, "Thank you, the brothers also did well."

"Young master, there's no need to stand on ceremony with your subordinate. It's our duty to strive hard and fulfil your wish."

Ling Zhang's mood immediately became a lot better. As long as he could see some hope, it didn't matter if it was hard to come by.

With the foundation of the previous day, the teaching progress on the second day had become much smoother. After a whole morning, Ling Zhang had finished explaining the general direction he was in, and now, he was going to talk about the detailed branches, as well as their corresponding location and characteristics within the Twelve Confinement Arrays.

Ling Zhang was not greedy, he knew that the guards had just started to interact with each other, so even if it was slightly complicated, they wouldn't be able to learn it, but he was just teaching them the most basic of things, making them have the simplest basic concepts in his mind, and then using the Twelve Confinement Arrays to point out the locations of the formations. He would force them to remember them, force them to remember, and then continue to practice.

As long as they could use a few formations together, he would have achieved his goal. As for the future matters, they would have to wait.

After a busy morning, he returned to the courtyard and saw Yuwen Tong standing at the entrance waiting for him. Ling Zhang just realised that Yuwen Tong had already returned.

"When did you come back?"

"I came back last night. I heard you went to bed early, so I didn't disturb you."

Yuwen Tong looked at Ling Zhang's appearance, which was covered in sweat, and blinked his eyes slightly. At this time of day, the sun was shining brightly, the sweat on Ling Zhang's face reflected bright and clear sunlight, and his jade-like flawless face had a blush after hard work. As he walked closer, the aura of the youth on his body assaulted his face, almost immediately eliciting some response from Yuwen Tong.

"Why are you looking at me like that? Is there something on my face?"

Ling Zhang touched his own face, puzzled, as he was staring straight at Yuwen Tong.

"It's nothing. It's just that you're sweating all over from all the work, hurry back to your room and change your clothes."

Yuwen Tong retracted his slightly aggressive gaze and walked into the courtyard with Ling Zhang.

Ling Zhang noticed that he was holding onto a stack of papers, "What is this?"

"Anything that will help you, wait until you're done changing."

Yuwen Tong kept them in suspense, to the point that even Ling Zhang couldn't help but look forward to it. He quickly returned to his room to change his clothes.

"Young master."

Someone greeted them with a bow from the corridor.

"Xia Feng, help me change my clothes and comb my hair again. Forget it, why don't you ask them to bring some water over?

Ling Zhang naturally instructed Xia Feng, and Xia Feng also quickly ordered people to fetch some water. Afterwards, he followed Ling Zhang back to his room, and the master and the servant both had a tacit understanding in their actions.

Yuwen Tong frowned, his gaze sweeping across Xia Feng's body.

He was a few years older than Ling Zhang, so his words and actions were calm and poisonous. He was different from all the other servants in Ling Zhang's courtyard. This person was Xia Feng, and he came back so quickly from the Yanzhou?

Yuwen Tong retracted his gaze and walked into the hall. The servants knew that Dao Yuwentong's identity was not simple, and his relationship with Young Master was not ordinary.

Ling Zhang quickly cleaned himself up and changed into a fresh set of clothes.

"Can you tell me now?"

Yuwen Tong saw that Xia Feng was like the others, he knew what he meant, and said: "You guys can leave, Xia Feng, go to the kitchen and have them bring lunch over here. I'll have lunch with Senior Yu, and I'll go tell my grandfather that we're not going there anymore."

"Yes."

Xia Feng turned and left, bringing along the others with him.

Ling Zhang looked at Yuwen Tong, urging him with his gaze.

It was really different from its previous awkward look, Yuwen Tong thought.

He spread out the stack of papers in his hand and pushed it in front of Ling Zhang, "Take a look."

Ling Zhang received it, and upon seeing it, he was greatly shocked. He suddenly raised his head and looked at Yuwen Tong: "You …"

"No doubt about it, I got it from you. Do you remember that you drew it in the study room the other day? I came to look for you."

Yuwen Tong's words were very frank, allowing Ling Zhang to calm down as well.

"I remember holding it down."

"The wind has lifted a corner, I can see half of it."

Half of it? But what is here is a complete matrix diagram!

Ling Zhang suddenly thought of a possibility and looked at Yuwen Tong in disbelief: "The remaining half, was what you completed yourself?"

Yuwen Tong nodded, "That's right, I already know half of it, and knowing the other half won't be difficult. This array has its rules, I just need to deduce it."

How could it be so simple? It was even more shocking than when Yuwen Tong found out about his array formation, if he was not extremely proficient in array formations, how could he have been able to do this? Yuwen Tong's research on array formations was simply too amazing, as expected of a member of the Yuwen Clan, Da Yue's number one Grand Marshal of the Army and Horse.