Noble First Daughter-in-law

Chapter 996 Reunion of old friends

Lei Yu was shocked as if she heard thunder, but He Du, who was tightly held in her arms, didn't know what was going on. He opened his eyes wide and looked at her, then at Ashina Zhuxie, his little face full of confusion.

After a while, He Du stretched out his little hand and gently touched his mother's ear.

Lei Yu seemed to have just woken up from a dream. She looked into Ashina Zhuxie's deep wolf eyes again. There was a little more evasion in her eyes. She lowered her head and said, "What I mean is that the child is too young. You shouldn't feed him with a knife. It will hurt him."

"..."

Ashina Zhuxie looked at her for a long time and said, "Okay, then we won't need a knife."

Having said that, he put the knife back into the scabbard.

Lei Yu was relieved, but the next moment, Ashina Zhuxie said, "But sooner or later, he will have to learn to eat with a knife."

"..."

"He is my son, a Turk."

"..."

"In the future, you will inherit my throne as Khan."

Lei Yu took a deep breath, looked up at him, and said, "That's also a matter for the future."

After saying that, he silently moved the child and the plate of meat to his own dining area, picked up a small piece of meat with chopsticks and put it to Hedu's mouth. He had been drooling with greed for a long time, and immediately bit the fragrant piece of meat and started chewing it in big mouthfuls.

Looking at her son's cute appearance, a gleam of light that looked like a smile appeared in Lei Yu's eyes, but because there was a third person present, the corners of her mouth were always pressed down, and her lips were nervously pursed into a line, making her lips a little pale.

It was obvious that she didn't like having him in her tent, but Ashina Zhuye still stayed and sat back on the couch, watching the mother and son eat their food, taking turns to eat. It was a very heartwarming scene - in fact, for more than a year, he, the Khan of the Western Turks, and this Han Khatun had been living like this, forced and unwilling, but today, the two of them were married and had a child.

He suddenly said, "You still prefer the life of the Han people."

Lei Yu finished the last mouthful of soup, took out a handkerchief to wipe the corners of his mouth, and said, "I am originally a Han Chinese."

Ashina Zhuxie said: "You Han people all say that if you marry a man, you follow him. If you marry me, you will be a Turk. You should try to get used to the life of Turks, such as eating more meat, and -"

He said, reaching for the knife at his waist.

Lei Yu glanced at him coldly and said, "If you want me to get used to the life of the Turks, why don't you take all these away?"

She was talking about all the furniture and utensils in the tent.

These were prepared by Iasu to please her when she was still a little princess of Western Turkic. Later, she was forced to follow Ashina Zhuye, and not only did she keep these things, but Ashina Zhuye, like Iasu, also bought more food, clothing, housing and transportation items from passing merchants in the Central Plains over the past year or so, so that she could maintain her previous living habits.

Ashina Zhuxie looked at her for a while and said, "If that's the case, you won't laugh."

"...!"

Lei Yu was stunned for a moment, then she looked away in panic.

Ashina Zhuxie stared at her pale face, a faint smile appeared on his face. He leaned back on the couch in a more comfortable position and said, "We will reach Xiazhou soon. After we take Xiazhou, if you are willing, I can take you through the pass and visit the Central Plains. You must want to go back and have a look." Lei Yu's eyes lit up.

But she thought about it and did not answer the other party's question. Instead, she said indifferently: "The Central Plains is not the Turkic Empire. You can come as you like and leave as you like."

Ashina Zhuxie tilted his head slightly and looked at her: "Could anyone stop me?"

Lei Yu said coldly: "You seem to have forgotten that someone went to the Turkic tent before and returned unscathed, and took someone with him."

"...!"

Speaking of this, Ashina Zhuxie's face darkened slightly.

Of course, he did not forget that Yuwen Ye, the King of Qin of the Great Sheng Dynasty, although he led a large army into the grassland, he broke into the Turkic tent alone and brought his Queen back unharmed.

In Ashina Zhuxie's heart, this incident may not be a shame, but it has always been a regret.

From the moment they met, he understood that Yuwen Ye was not an ordinary person. He was even more terrifying than the man who had been sniped by Yang's heavy cavalry and whose combat effectiveness was greatly reduced. This was because this man was willing to risk his life. In other words, when he went to the battlefield and confronted the enemy, he seemed like a different person.

Ashina Zhuxie intuitively felt that this person might be the biggest enemy of the Western Turks.

He should be eliminated.

Unfortunately, the time they met was the most critical time for him to fight for the position of Khan. If he had paid a little attention, he might have been defeated and become a bandit. For his own position of Khan and the future of Western Turks, he could only let Yuwen Ye go and let him take Shang Ruyi away.

When Lei Yu mentioned the old story, Ashina Zhuxie's eyes turned cold and he said, "I haven't forgotten it. It would be even better if I could meet him this time."

Upon hearing this, Lei Yu's eyes flickered: "Where is he?"

Her anxious look made Ashina Zhuxie's face darken, and he asked, "Why do you care so much about him?"

Lei Yu said: "I just care about my old friend."

Ashina Zhuxie stared at her and said, "You have quite a few old friends. Before, there was Shang Ruyi, and now there is Yuwen Ye. Who else?"

Lei Yu heard the sarcasm in his words, frowned and wanted to say something, but before he could open his mouth, there was a burst of hurried footsteps outside the tent, and someone stopped at the door and asked, "Khan?"

Ashina Zhuxie said, "I'm here. Come in."

The door of the tent was pushed open, and his trusted maid Zhenzhen walked in from outside. She first bowed to the Khan and Khatun, then placed a letter in front of Ashina Zhuye and said, "This is the news sent back by the spies in the front."

"Oh."

Ashina Zhuye took it. Because it was close to Xiazhou, he received almost three letters a day about the battle situation there. In his mind, the outcome was actually already decided. After all, they used three times the enemy's force to besiege Xiazhou, and the other side had no choice but to surrender. So he was almost interested when he opened the envelope.

But after reading just one sentence, his eyes immediately lit up and he sat up straight on the couch.

Lei Yu frowned slightly, not knowing what the battle situation was like ahead, and asked, "What happened?"

Ashina Zhuxie's mouth curled up into a faint smile. After putting the letter back into the envelope, he looked up at her and said slowly, "You may meet your old friend again."