The Flourishing Tang Dynasty: Beginning with Marrying Yang Yuhuan

Chapter 27: Knowing it is impossible but still doing it

After returning to the inn, Li Heng sat in the yard, lost in thought.

Li Heng now doesn’t want to continue investigating. He is wondering whether his efforts are really useful and can really change the trend of history?

Li Ying sat there for a long time, until sunset, when Xin Yunjing ran in excitedly.

Xin Yunjing said, "Your Highness, General Wang sent someone to report that after your suggestion, he has identified the body of the Fenglin County Lieutenant. Not only that, General Wang also found a new coroner, and the coroner found that the Fenglin County Lieutenant died before the Fenglin County Magistrate died."

Li Heng was a little depressed now, and just said, "Okay, I understand."

But Xin Yunjing continued, "General Wang also speculated based on your previous suggestion that someone else threatened Chen Wulang that day, and the Fenglin County Lieutenant might be a good person. Based on this speculation, General Wang found a secret room in the Fenglin County Lieutenant's mansion. There was an account book in the secret room. The account book recorded how they colluded with Cui Chong, embezzled disaster relief grain funds, and how they destroyed the Li River dam. Your Highness, you are really as good as a god!"

Li Heng was slightly surprised when he heard this.

I have to say that Wang Zhongsi is really smart. He can draw inferences from one example with just a little advice.

If he had not expected what happened later, Li Heng would have been happy, but after knowing the consequences of this incident, Li Heng could not be happy.

Li Heng said calmly again: "I understand."

Seeing Li Ying's indifference, Xin Yunjing thought to himself, "His Highness Prince Shou is truly an expert. Not only is he able to foresee things, but Wang Zhongsi's ability to handle cases does not arouse his interest at all. It seems that I really need to learn from His Highness, or Wang Zhongsi will laugh at me."

Xin Yunjing thought to himself and stepped out.

An hour later, Xin Yunjing happily rushed in again and said, "Your Highness, we have the account book and General Chen sent by Lord Niu to assist us. Song Sitian has confessed. He has exposed Huangfu Weiming, Wu Sicang, Wang Sihu, and officials of all ranks in Lanzhou and Fenglin County, a total of more than 40 people. General Wang is leading a team to arrest them. As soon as Song Sitian confessed, General Wang immediately sent someone to report. General Wang did this in the hope that Your Highness would not worry and take care of his health."

"Okay." Li Ying forced a smile, "General Wang is thoughtful."

"Your Highness, please take a rest. I will go to patrol outside the door." Xin Yunjing retreated again.

Yang Yuhuan, who was standing by, saw that the case had been solved, but Li Ying was still not happy. She went into the house to change her clothes, came up to Li Ying and said, "My dear, you have been working hard on this case these days. Now that the case has been solved, I will dance for you."

Hearing that Yang Yuhuan wanted to dance, Li Heng became interested and said, "Okay, thank you, madam."

You know, in history, Yang Yuhuan's dancing skills were unique.

However, Li Ying pretended to be sick the day after their wedding, and Yang Yuhuan was worried about Li Ying's health. In addition, Yang Yuhuan had no chance to jump as they traveled all the way afterwards.

"Here."

Yang Yuhuan playfully bowed to Li Heng, and then began to dance.

At this moment, the sun sets, and the afterglow of spring shines on the dancing Yang Yuhuan.

The slender and soft dancing posture is like the blooming gardenia swaying in the light smoke of early spring, or the tender green willow branches by the pond gently touching the calm water surface, or like the white clouds gathered on the hills drifting in the wind.

Everything in the world, including the sun, moon and stars, seemed to have come to a standstill at this moment.

Li Heng stared blankly, and at this moment, he truly understood why Yang Yuhuan dared to call herself "shy of the flower".

After the dance, Yang Yuhuan came to Li Ying.

Dancing is a physical activity, and Yang Yuhuan was so tired that her face was a little red.

She said to Li Ying, "My dear, what do you think?" "Yes, yes." Li Ying nodded heavily, stretched out his hand and pulled Yang Yuhuan to sit next to him, saying, "You dance so well. You must have suffered a lot when you were learning to dance."

Yang Yuhuan was stunned when she heard this, then nodded and said, "Yes. In fact, I was already beautiful when I was young... Well, at that time, people around me told me that if I did nothing but sit there, people would come to please me."

Li Ying said: "Yes, they are right."

Yang Yuhuan shook her head and said, "But I don't want to be a puppet like that. I want to do something that I like. The book says, 'know it's impossible but still do it'. I think what this means is that when doing something, you don't need to ask whether you can do it, but whether you should do it. I learned dancing and piano without thinking about whether I could do it, but I just felt that I should do it this way."

Li Heng was stunned when he heard what Yang Yuhuan said.

“Knowing it’s impossible, but still doing it!”

Yes, isn't what he wants to do now to do something even though he knows it is impossible?

If you do nothing, you will just wait to die.

Try hard, maybe there is still a glimmer of hope.

Just because I can’t change anything this time doesn’t necessarily mean I won’t be able to change anything next time.

And, has he really changed nothing?

Li Ying looked up at the horizon. The setting sun was going down the mountain with its remaining light, but tomorrow it would also climb to the top of the mountain and spread its bright morning light.

Li Heng's excited mood slowly recovered. He grabbed Yang Yuhuan's hand and said seriously, "My lady, thank you."

"Why are you thanking me?" Yang Yuhuan was a little confused.

Li Ying looked at Yang Yuhuan. Besides her beauty, Yang Yuhuan was also intelligent and hardworking. Her piano skills and dancing were both unrivaled at the time. A girl like this would never be overshadowed in any era.

And he, Li Heng, considers himself to be not stupid, and he has the foresight to travel through time. But if he cannot leave his mark in this era, then he is such a waste!

Thinking of this, Li Heng smiled and said, "It is my blessing to marry you, and I will keep this blessing."

Yang Yuhuan smiled when she heard this and said, "I believe you, my lord. How about I play a piece of pipa for you?"

"No hurry." Li Heng smiled slightly, "General Wang will be here soon, so why don't we let them enjoy my wife's piano skills?"

Yang Yuhuan asked curiously, "How did you know that General Wang would..."

Before he finished speaking, Xin Yunjing rushed in in a panic and said, "Your Highness, General Wang is here."

Upon hearing this, Yang Yuhuan looked at Li Heng in astonishment and said, "My dear, you are truly as good as a god!"

Li Heng smiled and said, "Just now General Xin reported that General Wang has taken people to arrest the person. If they catch him, it means the case is closed, and General Wang will definitely come to report the case. If they can't catch him, it is very likely that Wu Sicang was not caught and Huangfu Weiming also ran away, so General Wang will come to me to explain. No matter what the situation is, General Wang will come, so it's not difficult to guess."

Yang Yuhuan nodded and asked, "Do you think General Wang has captured the person?"

Li Ying glanced at Xin Yunjing and said, "Judging from General Xin's expression, it should be no."

(End of this chapter)