Quick Transmigration: Why did you provoke him? He's love-struck!

Chapter 479 Relying on Favor (24)

Zhao Yuan's pupils contracted slightly.

At this moment, Yan Zhen was in the front courtyard of the Prince Zhao's mansion. She blocked General Chen's way and asked him if he had seen a slightly plump young woman in the Daliang army.

Upon receiving a negative answer, Yan Zhen frowned slightly.

Fu Xue hasn't returned yet. I don't know if she got lost in the mountains or was captured by the Liang army.

After General Chen left, Yan Zhen went to the back garden and had his servants bring over more than ten flowerpots, filling them with sandy loam soil to try planting potatoes.

Tingzhou is located in the northwest, and winter will arrive in another month.

This season is not suitable for planting potatoes, so Yan Zhen plans to "plant them in a greenhouse" to see how the potato yield is, so that he will have a plan in mind when next spring.

It took almost an hour for Yan Zhen to plant ten pots of potatoes and have them moved to a shady place.

As she squatted by the fishpond washing her hands, Zhao Yuan's personal guard ran over: "Miss Tan, the master requests your presence."

"coming."

When Yan Zhen returned to his dormitory, the cook brought in a bowl of millet porridge.

She took the tray, quickly walked to the couch, sat down, and handed the bowl to Zhao Yuan: "Have something to eat."

Zhao Yuan leaned against the couch, his gaze towards her indescribable.

Seeing that he didn't take the bowl of porridge but instead looked hesitant, Yan Zhen thought that he had gotten his clothes dirty while digging in the dirt, so she looked down to check herself and asked, "What's wrong?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Zhao Yuan suddenly leaned over, reached out and cupped the back of her head, and kissed her on the forehead.

Yan Zhen: "..."

She looked at Zhao Yuan with a bewildered expression.

Why did you suddenly kiss her?

Zhao Yuan said solemnly, "I will not let you down in the future."

Yan Zhen was silent for a few seconds, recalling the words she had said to Zhao Yuan before he fell into a coma on the mountain: that she wanted to marry him.

It seems Zhao Yuan took it seriously.

Well, marrying him and becoming the Princess of Zhao is beneficial to my plans anyway, so this is a win-win situation.

Thinking of this, Yan Zhen hummed in agreement.

Zhao Yuan took her slightly indifferent reaction as shyness, picked up the bowl of porridge, and drank it all in one gulp.

"I'll get better soon, and when I do, we'll..."

He wanted to say, "Let's get married," but then he thought of Tan Junzhuo's status.

Because she intentionally suppressed the news, not many people in Tingzhou knew that she was a princess of Liang.

The troops sent by the Liang Dynasty to search for her also thought she had disappeared nearby and did not know that she was now in Tingzhou City.

If her true identity were revealed to the public at this time, it would inevitably attract the Liang army to seize her, which would contradict Tan Junzhuo's original intention of "rest and recuperation".

But he felt it would be unfair to her if he didn't reveal her identity to the public.

Ultimately, Tingzhou, who was penniless, and he himself did not yet have the means to marry her in a grand and extravagant manner.

Thinking of this, Zhao Yuan's expression wilted.

Yan Zhen noticed the change in Zhao Yuan's expression from excitement and anticipation to disappointment and dejection, and asked curiously, "What are we going to do?"

“…Let’s just focus on farming,” Zhao Yuan said sullenly. “Once I’ve conquered the world, I’ll marry you with a grand wedding procession.”

“Okay,” Yan Zhen readily agreed.

Zhao Yuan noticed her reaction and his heart softened.

No wonder she, a frail woman, dared to risk being killed to come to Tingzhou to seek refuge with me. After arriving in Tingzhou, she even accompanied me to dig up the imperial tombs, go to the Northern Jurchens, and risked her life to protect me. Upon learning of my death, she even committed suicide for love...

It seems that although she doesn't say it, she has long admired him.

Thinking about it, Zhao Yuan recalled what he had done to her before, and felt both regret and guilt.

How could he have treated her like that!

He must treat her well from now on and never betray her deep affection.

Yan Zhen was unaware of Zhao Yuan's complicated thoughts. She was thinking about Fu Xue and, after careful consideration, asked, "My lord, could you do me a favor?"

"Just call me Zhao Yuan," Zhao Yuan said. "Go ahead."

"Fu Xue hasn't returned yet. Could we send someone disguised to leave the city and go up the mountain to look for her?"

Zhao Yuan immediately replied, "Alright, I'll have someone take care of it right away."

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Zhao Yuan was young, and after being bedridden for three or four days, the wounds on his body began to scab over.

Although the doctor advised him not to practice martial arts yet, he began to handle military affairs in his study.

"The Liang troops have withdrawn from Tingzhou and are heading to Yunzhou," General Chen reported.

He personally led his troops out of the city to warn the Liang army, thinking that a fierce battle between the two sides was inevitable.

However, the Liang army had no intention of fighting at all, and withdrew after being warned twice.

Zhao Yuan sneered upon hearing this: "The Northern Jurchens are eyeing us covetously. It's not like Tan Xuanmo doesn't want to live. If he fights with us now, wouldn't that be creating an opportunity for the neighboring Yunzhou and the Northern Jurchens to reap the benefits?"

Speaking of this, General Chen asked in confusion, "Didn't they say that the Great Liang sent a princess to the Northern Jurchens for a marriage alliance, and that the two sides were already related by marriage? Why is the relationship still so strained?"

"Who knows."

General Chen was completely puzzled. He glanced at his lord, who was sitting slumped in his chair, looking quite pleased with himself. He asked curiously, "My lord, has something good happened recently?"

"Ok?"

"You seem to be in a good mood."

Zhao Yuan toyed with the copper coin in his hand: "Really? Maybe I'm just happy to see the Great Liang in trouble."

After saying that, he stood up and said, "If there's nothing else, you can go back. I'm a little tired and want to rest."

"Yes."

General Chen turned to leave, but Zhao Yuan seemed to remember something and called out to him again: "Wait."

General Chen paused, turned around, and bowed, asking, "What are your orders, my lord?"

Zhao Yuan hesitated for a moment, then asked, "Do you know which clothing shop in the city has the best designs?"

After saying that, he added, "It has to be for women."

As soon as he said that, General Chen understood.

So, the lord is in a good mood because he has a woman.

He didn't point it out, but said solicitously, "This subordinate will send someone to inquire, and then have the shopkeeper bring the most fashionable styles to your residence for you to choose from."

Zhao Yuan nodded: "Okay, go and do it—by the way, invite the jewelry shop along as well."

General Chen acted swiftly; by the afternoon, more than ten shopkeepers from clothing and jewelry stores had brought boxes of goods to his study.

Looking at the brightly colored clothes displayed by the shopkeepers, Zhao Yuan imagined how Tan Junzhuo would look in them and thought that this one looked good, and that one looked good too.

In this selection, he only eliminated a few sets of clothes with stiff fabric and dark colors, keeping all the other dozens.

The same applies when choosing jewelry; the more elegant and luxurious the style, the more suitable it is for Tan Junzhuo.

A woman like her deserves to be cherished and to enjoy the best of everything in the world.

Zhao Yuan was happily browsing through things in his mansion when Yan Zhen, accompanied by a group of soldiers assigned to her by Zhao Yuan, rode her horse to inspect the farmland behind Tingzhou City.

Because of the poor soil, Tingzhou could not grow many kinds of crops, and the yield was low.

In recent years, a series of natural disasters have killed many people, and coupled with years of war, many farmlands behind Tingzhou City have been abandoned.

After inspecting the area, Yan Zhen had a general idea of ​​what was going on.

Back at the Prince Zhao's residence, Yan Zhen found pen, ink, paper and inkstone and began to draft a memorial on the maintenance of farmland before winter to prepare for the planting of potatoes and cotton in the following spring.