All sects work

Chapter 166 Northwest
County Magistrate Cao was troubled by this until midnight. When he was about to fall asleep, he suddenly remembered what the county magistrate had said: "They will all be killed after we leave the city."

He suddenly opened his eyes, struggled to get up from the bed, and staggered out of bed.

This series of actions frightened Madam Cao so much that her heart started beating wildly. She covered her chest and cursed, "Oh my, what are you singing in the middle of the night to scare me to death?!"

County Magistrate Cao poured himself a glass of water with trembling hands, gulped it down, and slowly leaned over the table.

Mrs. Cao saw this and hurriedly stepped forward. She felt the sweat on his forehead and said in surprise, "Old Cao, what happened to you? I'll ask someone to call a doctor!"

County Magistrate Cao held her hand tightly and said in a weak voice, "No need. I'm not sick. I was just frightened."

"Ah." Madam Cao was even more surprised. She held his hand and sat down. "You were not like this when the Qu Kingdom attacked you. What scared you so much?"

County Magistrate Cao took a deep breath and finally calmed down.

He admitted that he was too timid to face the storm alone.

If he himself is a tree, he hopes that his wife can also be a tree, standing shoulder to shoulder with him, giving each other the courage to face the wind and rain, instead of looking up to him, entangled with him, and unilaterally absorbing energy from him.

The price of doing so is to give up some of one's power.

He put in a lot of effort and patience for this, wasn't it just to avoid facing these major changes alone?
Therefore, in response to Madam Cao's question, he hesitated for only a moment before leaning closer and lowering his voice, "My Lord is going to start a rebellion."

He thought he was going to see his wife's face turn pale, but unexpectedly, Madam Cao was just stunned for a moment, then patted his hands and said disapprovingly: "Hey, that's it, the master is obviously not an ordinary person, it's not surprising that he has such thoughts."

"Do you understand how serious a matter this is? If you are not careful, you may lose your head!" County Magistrate Cao glared.

Mrs. Cao did not answer him, but asked: "Then why did you get up in the middle of the night?"

"Because..." County Magistrate Cao choked.

Madam Cao smiled and said, "Because I suddenly remembered that your recruitment might be a death warrant?"

Yes!

Even ordinary people who might leak secrets are to be silenced. The county magistrate is not a good person. How could he let him know such a huge secret and then give him the option to refuse?

Thinking back to the conversation in the evening, it was more of a threat than a solicitation.

County Magistrate Cao covered his face.

Poor him, like a fool, he actually struggled all night whether to accept the county magistrate's recruitment. He thought to himself that his wife was ignorant and fearless. After all this time, he was the ignorant one?
County Magistrate Cao wiped his face and looked at his wife: "Aren't you afraid?"

"Do you still remember the day after we got married?" Mrs. Cao couldn't help laughing when she thought of that day. "Early in the morning, you grabbed my hand and said, 'I can't protect you from the wind and rain. You should be a tree in the future, not a vine.'"

Mrs. Cao was so frightened that she fainted from crying.

This sentence was like the sky falling down for a woman who had been following the rules for 17 years and had been taught since she was old enough to understand that she should obey her husband after marriage and regard her husband as her god.

"You have seen a wider world, and you may think that your life is peaceful and happy, but I am a quail that grew up in a small nest. I thought my world would move from one nest to another, but who would have thought that when I looked out, I would find that there were raging waves outside. It seemed that if any wave hit me, I would die." Madam Cao patted his hands and sighed, "At the beginning, I really lived in fear every day."

County Magistrate Cao was already very careful, but he couldn't empathize after all. "To you, every day is just an ordinary day, but to me, it feels like I'm facing a life-and-death test every day." Mrs. Cao thought of how she was at the time and couldn't help but feel pitiful and ridiculous. "When I was at home, my parents told me what kind of person I would be. When I married you, you told me what kind of person I would be. It was like a law of heaven, and I had no right to refuse. How similar is this situation today?"

"It's just moving from this small nest that I'm used to to a big nest. If this is the only way, I can only find a way to struggle to survive. After struggling for a while, maybe I can learn to fly and see a wider landscape. What you are used to is not necessarily good, don't you think?"

County Magistrate Cao looked at Madam Cao as if he was meeting her for the first time.

If you say she is brave, she is so submissive. If you say she is cowardly, she is so resilient.

"It is fate that we can eat from the same bowl," County Magistrate Cao could not help but sigh.

……

Midday on the moon.

The night wind at the northwestern border rolled up the dust on the ground and swirled up into the sky.

The soldiers on the Pingcheng Pass watchtower had their faces covered with cloth, and the wind and dust blew past, leaving a thick layer of dust all over their bodies.

He frowned and squinted his eyes, and was about to wipe his face, but suddenly he saw two figures, one tall and one short, approaching at a very fast speed in the distance. He rubbed his eyes in a hurry, but his eyes were full of dust. His eyes were red, but he couldn't shed even a tear.

He still saw the two people clearly.

The night was dark and dusty, but the woman was dressed in plain clothes, spotless and too eye-catching.

When they were about ten feet away from the city, the lookout finally shouted hoarsely: "Stop!"

woo-

The horn sounded, and more than a dozen soldiers leaning against the city wall stood up with their spears in hand.

"I'm from Yannan!"

A clear female voice came to my ears with the wind.

"Cong Yannan?" General Shao, who had just come out of the city wall, looked down in surprise when he heard the name.

Cong Yannan is the wife of General Zhennan and one of Xiao Hongfan's few good friends. Even the general of the Xiao family army guarding the northwest has heard of her.

"It's really her." General Shao was full of suspicion.

If Xiao Hongfan asked Yannan to support the Northwest, it would barely make sense, but she did not bring any supplies, and she looked clean as if she had just walked out of the house. She was accompanied by a little boy, who should be her son Guan Xiang. There was something strange about her.

"Open the door." said General Shao.

The deputy general quickly dissuaded him: "General, I'm afraid there is an ambush!"

General Shao pulled the corner of his mouth, but it hurt his dry lips: "Hiss, let them in, there is not even a mouse in the drought, wouldn't it be a good opportunity to set up an ambush?"