amaotonovel Chapter 363 What a lewd name
Chapter 363 What a lewd name
"Your Highness, all I can say is thank you for saving my life today. The Situ family owes you two lives."
"Don't think I'm joking. I mean it when I say I can help you stand up. But you must rest and recuperate during this time. As for Yelü Hanxuan, I will make them pay for their crimes in blood."
"Your Highness, why don't you return to Qiyang?"
"Chu Qiu, Huang Ziliang, and I have signed a pledge; we can't just get rid of Beiyang so easily."
"what!"
Military orders are absolute, and a pledge was made that failure to fulfill them would result in death, though it might not be death, but the consequences would be dire.
Why would someone make a pledge?
"This may also be what Chu Qiu wished for. He always wanted to be upright and honorable, to fight on the battlefield, to make military achievements, and to be remembered for thousands of years."
"But we don't want to. War is such a dangerous thing, it can cost us our lives at any moment, and seriously damage our country! How can a man like him bear such a burden!"
"But I believe in him, and I also believe in the person I chose."
As she spoke, she looked at the ceiling. She had no idea what to do about what was going to happen in the world. She had no idea what kind of dynasty the Northern Rong was, whether it was similar to or contrary to their customs.
But with Huang Ziliang around, she felt at ease. She only needed to be a figurehead and keep the people's hearts at ease.
A short while later, Chu Feng heard Wu Ziyan's soft snoring. Perhaps because she had been traveling all the way without rest, she had fallen asleep as soon as she closed her eyes.
Chu Feng even tried calling out a few times, but there was no response. He then tried moving his injured leg, but felt nothing except pain.
She didn't quite believe she could stand up. She had already been in tears while talking to Wu Ziyan in the dark. Just like Wu Ziyan said, crying made her feel much better.
Yelü Hanxuan embraced beauties on either side of him in his tent, one feeding him grapes and the other pouring him fine wine. He was living a very happy life.
"You mean the Fourth Prince of the Wu Dynasty has arrived? And he arrived in Beiyang tonight?"
"Yes, spies from Green City reported that there were three of them, but they didn't know which one was the Fourth Prince."
"Didn't we compare the images?"
“I took them, but none of them looked like her.”
"Oh? That's interesting. Could it be that our information is incorrect?"
She continued talking, but in the end she didn't stop drinking and eating grapes. This little thing was no big deal. Anyway, she had long heard that the Fourth Prince was a womanizer. The charm of a handsome man is something you never get tired of.
“Go to the slave camp, pick out a few good-looking women, and then put them among the refugees.”
Hu Mu Cong accepted the order. She was quite skilled at selecting beauties, after all, she often went to slave camps for amusement.
Hu Mu Cong only took a stroll around the camp and found several handsome men. Their looks weren't exactly breathtaking, but they were enough to stand out at a glance among the refugees.
Yelü Hanxuan lay on the beauty's lap with his head tilted to the side, holding her hair in his hand, frowning. He felt that this was still not enough. What if those beauties did not meet her standards? Wouldn't that mean she had already found out some information?
Or we could just lure her out, turn her into a cripple, and keep her as a pet. It would be quite fun to keep her like a dog.
"Have Hu Mu Cong prepare silver needles or daggers for those beauties, anything that can be brought in, and coat it with the most potent poison."
"General Hanxuan, what is the meaning of this?"
“Bu Lingzi, you’re talking too much.”
Working under him is truly exhausting. They have to decipher and guess what he's thinking, and if they do something wrong, they'll be punished.
Bu Lingzi went out to relay a message to Hu Mucong. Hu Mucong's attitude was that as long as there was a mandate from above, she would do it, and that way she would almost never make a mistake.
"Sometimes we don't know what General Hanxuan is thinking. He has all sorts of strange ideas popping into his head all day long. If we can't figure them out, he blames us for being stupid."
"Are you saying this to get punished again?"
"No, I'll go and poison the hidden weapons right now!"
The selected beauties were immediately taken to the refugee area by fast horses, and then they followed the refugees towards Beiyang City.
Before dawn, those beauties carrying hidden weapons had already arrived in Beiyang City. Anyway, they were all slaves and had been poisoned, so it didn't matter where they went.
They were shown the portrait before they left, but after looking at hundreds of faces throughout the city, they still couldn't find it.
Wu Ziyan had her hair styled in a simple man's bun, making her look very much like a man.
Today's first day is for patrolling the city. Once the fortifications in Beiyang are completed, they can leave here and then join forces with Rongyang and Xiaorong to attack the meadow area of Beirong.
Wearing a dark blue cloak and without makeup, Wu Ziyan patrolled the city with Chu Qiu, while Huang Ziliang remained in the tent, studying the surrounding map with his strategist and devising a plan of action.
"Why are there so many more people overnight? These people weren't here when I came yesterday."
Wu Ziyan looked around at the people squatting, lying down, or huddled together. They all seemed to be unfamiliar faces. Chu Qiu held her hand with one hand, afraid that she would trip in the mud.
"Because there are many people on the border who can't survive, they thought that Beiyang City might offer some way to make a living, but who knew that even after arriving, it would still be the same."
"Chu Qiu, do you see those people over there who keep staring at us? I always feel like there's someone watching me every other person in the crowd as we walk along this road."
After Wu Ziyan said that, Chu Qiu also began to notice the gazes that kept looking up at him from the crowd.
Wu Ziyan scanned the scene with his eyes and discovered that beneath the dusty and dirty surface lay a series of handsome faces, and it was these handsome faces that were casting his gaze upon them.
It's unlikely he's interested in her; he might even be interested in Chu Qiu beside him. Sure enough, as they walked further, a handsome man in tattered clothes suddenly rushed out from the crowd and grabbed Chu Qiu's leg. They couldn't find anyone similar to the portrait, only this one. Perhaps it was him.
Chu Qiu quickly pulled Wu Ziyan behind him, frowning, "What are you doing?"
"Please, sir, have pity on us! Give us some food, please!"
Once this began, other refugees surged forward one after another, regardless of whether they were sent by Yelü Hanxuan or not. Soon, the two were surrounded by the crowd.
Some grabbed their sleeves, others grabbed their skirts, making it impossible for them to move. They couldn't possibly be violent towards these disaster victims; what would people say if that got out?
"Give me something to eat!"
Wu Ziyan leaned against Chu Qiu's back and tried it out. She found that all the handsome men's faces rushed up to her. It was probably because the enemy had heard about her reputation for being a lecherous man and sent them over on purpose!