After being turned into cannon fodder, I relied on involution to survive

Chen Qing and Zheng Yuzhi had mixed emotions. They had appreciation and admiration for Yu Zizhen's thoughtfulness at a young age, but they also felt ashamed and guilty that they had ignored each other's age and unknowingly criticized a child.

Because of this shame and guilty conscience, Chen Qing and Zheng Yuzhi, who were already fond of Yu Zizhen, who was somewhat of a heroic figure despite his noble birth, readily agreed that they would definitely take the time to visit Yu Zizhen when they came to Beijing again.

After successfully establishing contact with the person who wanted to win over her, Yu Zizhen was no longer so angry about Wan's scheme against her today.

Of course, being less angry doesn't stop her from retaliating in kind.

After returning to the palace with the two of them, Yu Zizhen gave the injured coachman half a month's leave so that he could go back and recuperate in peace.

The coachman, who was originally worried that he would be punished for not protecting his master, breathed a sigh of relief. He hurriedly thanked Yu Zizhen and left.

When the guards saw her like this, they thought they would be let off lightly, but unexpectedly, Yu Zizhen did not raise his hands to let them go like he did with the coachman.

She had a calm look on her face, folding her arms and looking at them, "First you failed to protect the master, and then you let the little thief who attacked me escape smoothly. Do I want you to just show off for good looks?"

Except for Feng Yuan and the guard she sent to report the news, the other guards who followed her were all original members of the Royal Palace in the capital.

Mr. Jiang had a lot of important things going on in private that needed people, so he only assigned Yu Zizhen two guards they brought from the Zhenbei Palace.

When nothing happened before, these guards in the palace of the capital looked carefree and reasonable, but now that something happened, Yu Zizhen clearly realized that these people had been worn away by the comfortable environment and should have been vigilant.

In fact, they may have even slacked off in their daily training, otherwise they would not be able to react at all if the horse that had just pulled the cart was frightened.

Feng Yuan and the guard she sent to report the news immediately rushed over on horseback and helped her stop the frightened horse from running away. Naturally, they had no time to catch the little thief behind the scenes.

But what about others?They didn't need to help her subdue the frightened horse, nor were they assigned other errands by her, but after the incident, they still just circled around her mechanically, as if their duties as guards were just to surround her. Side instead of keeping her safe.

Someone argued unconvincedly, "Your Majesty, what happened suddenly, we just couldn't react for a moment. Besides, we couldn't catch the person who did it. Isn't that because we were afraid of falling into the opponent's plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain, and we didn't dare to rush in all at once." Are you going to chase someone?"

Yu Zizhen nodded, looking very reasonable, "Very good, I understand what you mean. Is there anyone else among you who thinks the same as him?"

When she asked, two more people had the courage to defend their serious dereliction of duty.

Yu Zizhen listened with a smile, nodding his head from time to time.

When other people saw it, they immediately felt that she was still very young and could be easily fooled even if she showed off her aristocratic attitude, so more and more people followed her.

The more Yu Zizhen listened, the bigger his smile became. When those who had something to say fully expressed their personal opinions, Yu Zizhen began to point out people one by one.There was a system to help pinpoint the people, and she quickly pointed out the only two people who had not spoken, "You guys stand over here."

She singled out the silent guard, which made those guards who spoke a lot to defend themselves feel a little uneasy.

However, Yu Zizhen didn't do anything to them. She picked up a pen and personally drew up a training plan, "I don't raise people who eat for free and live in idleness. If you still want to continue to follow me, you must do it rain or shine." Study and practice diligently according to my requirements every day. Yu Heng, come here and read what I wrote to them."

Yu Heng responded "Yes", and the clear voice soon sounded in the flower hall.

The two silent guards looked uglier as they listened. This amount of training.
They were Yu Zizhen's bodyguards and had had much contact with her. They knew that she was not as young, ignorant, innocent and harmless as she seemed, but Yu Zizhen had formulated a training plan with this amount of training. They felt that Yu Zizhen was most likely planning to do it slowly. Cut off their flesh and torture them to death bit by bit.

The two of them grimaced, but Yu Zizhen felt that her step-by-step and continuously increasing training plan was actually very reasonable.

If she were to tell her, it was obvious that the guards in the capital's palace lacked awareness of crisis and lacked training in all aspects.

However, the guards who were feeling vaguely uneasy at first couldn't wait to express their opposition because of Yu Zizhen's outrageous training plan.

Their attitude was quite respectful, but they were all talking about how harsh and unreasonable Yu Zizhen's training plan was.

When she heard that she was being punished by everyone, Yu Zizhen still looked as smiling and kind as before, she said: "Can't do it? It doesn't matter, I didn't intend to keep you anyway."

Hearing the words "It doesn't matter", the smiles of those people had already risen. As a result, they soon choked on the second half of Yu Zizhen's sentence and their whole faces froze.

Yu Zizhen glanced at them and said, "It doesn't matter if you make mistakes. I can't forgive you for neglecting your duties time and time again. But you, when you made mistakes, not only did you not reflect on yourself or take the initiative to accept the punishment, but you were so bold that you joined forces to fool the young master and tried to use I don’t dare to keep people like you by my side if you use sweet words to evade responsibility.”

If they were afraid of falling into the enemy's plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain, couldn't they just separate one or two people to pursue them?
It's not like there are thousands of troops lying in wait outside, she just needs them to track down a despicable villain who shoots cold arrows at the back of her carriage.

When she said this, the guards who had just acted like "I'm very reasonable" suddenly all frowned.

These people all stayed in the royal palace in the capital before. Their combat power was not very strong, but they were used to living a leisurely life. Now, not only are their physical endurance not good enough, but they have also long lost the vigilance they should have as guards. His heart is incomparable to those guards from the north.

However, in order not to stand out too much, Mr. Jiang brought very limited manpower from the north.Most of these people have been assigned other tasks by him privately, so for Yu Zizhen, he can only use the original palace guards to make up the number.

Yu Zizhen knew that Mr. Jiang made such an arrangement. On the one hand, it was because he was really short of manpower, and on the other hand, he was dissatisfied that Yu Zizhen had been somewhat out of control since he entered the capital. Not only did he follow his own temper to make friends with the eldest prince, but he also sent the princess behind. The nuns and maids who came were all sent to the back house of the palace to guard the empty courtyard, and they were not allowed to stay with her, but she didn't say much. (End of chapter)