Acacia, don't be negative

Chapter 440 The Bad News Comes

Su Chen was stunned.After returning, I never tried to escape again.He wished to drink a few more doses of the medicine prescribed by the imperial physician, give him acupuncture and moxibustion to heal his wounds, etc., all comers would not refuse.But he strictly obeyed all the imperial physician's orders.

The injuries in the back did not worsen, and Su Chen's physical fitness was not bad, and he recovered very quickly.

It's just that now that Su Chen is about to go south, the imperial physician is still not at ease, because he is not completely well, and he can't do anything too traumatic.Accompanying him, Su Ruoqing also arranged for several imperial physicians to join Ye Song and the others so that they could act as military doctors in the army.

At night, the flames of the dim city were bright, and the soldiers guarding the city did not dare to relax for a moment.Nanzhen's army stopped five miles away. I don't know what their intention is. They need to be on guard at all times to prevent the enemy from attacking the city.

The spies sent out to inquire about the news have not returned yet.

Ye Song and Su Jing stood side by side on the high platform. The soldiers below regarded death as home, and those passionate young men of Beixia, in order to defend every inch of Beixia's territory, those without knives took shovels, and those without guns took sticks , as if ready to do a big job.Even if death is unavoidable in the end, but if one person can kill two Nanzhen soldiers, that is still a profit.

Ye Song waited for Su Jing to order troops.She glanced at the waiting team, frowned, and felt that something was wrong.

Her sanity and memory have returned to normal, and it is unlikely that she will succeed if she tries to fool her again.

After counting soldiers, Ye Song looked at Su Jing and suddenly asked, "Where's Chen Mingguang? Why haven't I seen him?"

Su Jing's complexion changed drastically, and several lieutenants in the audience also changed their complexions. Everyone pretended that they had never heard of it before, and fell silent together.

Ye Song looked at Su Jing's face, every slight change fell into her eyes, the creases between her brows became deeper and deeper, she looked straight into Su Jing's eyes, and asked again: "Where is Chen Mingguang?" , where did you go?"

Su Jing coughed and said, "I let him do other things."

Ye Song followed closely, the flickering flames reflected her side face, she asked, "What did you ask him to do?"

Su Jing used to tell a lie just like singing a song, without a pause, and there is no need to beat the manuscript at all.It's just that he can no longer lie to Ye Song with a faceless face, and it's still such a cruel lie.So Ye Song saw the clue all at once.

Ye Song's heart sank, and he asked again: "Did something happen?" She couldn't remember where Chen Mingguang went anyway.Before she died once, she remembered that everyone was separated, but now that she thought about it, she hadn't seen him since then, "Did he never come back after he retreated from Liuzhou? Didn't he send someone to look for him?" ?”

Liu Jie said in a timely manner: "I have come back, and I was still here before the second lady woke up, but the prince did let him go out to do business. The prince sent him to the next town to the north of the Huncheng. Need to settle in."

The lie was barely plausible.But it still sounds far-fetched.

Ye Song thought for a while, and said to Liu Jie: "Shouldn't you do things like appease the refugees?"

Liu Jie helped his forehead, and suddenly felt that his self-esteem was hurt.

The battle was imminent, and Ye Song didn't think about it anymore. He put away the slightest strangeness in his mind, and then said: "That's fine, if the refugees can't settle down and make trouble, it will be very troublesome, but I just don't know if Chen Mingguang has enough people." not enough."

Liu Jie said: "Don't worry, no matter how much the eunuch over there doesn't care about things, at least there are a few available manpower in the yamen, Master Chen will definitely be able to take care of this trivial matter."

Afterwards, the spies sent out came back, and from the moment they entered the city gate, they roared loudly, "Report—"

The spy came to Su Jing, and Su Jing asked: "Is there any abnormal movement in Nanzhen?"

At that time, Ye Song was arranging the soldiers to divide into several small teams, once the battle started, they would be responsible for guarding the checkpoint.

I only heard the spy say: "Nanzhen's army is still stationed five miles outside the city, the lights are brightly lit, and there is no intention of attacking at all, but..."

"but what?"

"But in front of the Nanzhen army, there is a cross more than three feet high. There is a man hanging on the cross. His face cannot be seen clearly, but he is vaguely wearing the armor of our General Beixia..."

Ye Song stopped and turned to look at the spy.

The next moment, Su Jing's eyes turned cold, she turned around and pulled out her saber from a soldier's waist, and stabbed the spy's body mercilessly with her backhand.The spy's eyes popped out, he vomited a mouthful of blood, and looked at Su Jing in disbelief.

Su Jing slightly opened her lips, articulate, her voice was like a cold spring under the moon, and said: "It's more than three feet high, no matter how brightly lit it is, it's still night, your eyesight is so good that you can see clearly what the person on the cross is wearing in a hidden place." Is it the armor of General Beixia?"

The spy took a cold breath, held the sword pierced into his stomach with both hands, looked up at Su Jing, then smiled a little bit, and said word by word with difficulty: "As expected of the God of War, this palace I really can't hide the small plan from you. It's just that, don't you, Bei Xia, pay attention to how safe it is for people to be buried in the earth after death? General Chen is now suspended by the palace. Although he will not send troops for the time being, he whips his body every day to let General Chen His body is slowly rotting in the wind and the sun, and death will not be peaceful. If you want to get back his body, please ask God of War and Miss Ye to go alone, and I promise that it will be fine..."

Before she finished speaking, Su Jing sent the sword in her hand deep into the spy's body, suppressing the anger all over her body.The spy twitched twice, then died.

Of course, Ye Song listened to those words verbatim, and was stunned on the spot.However, his mind was spinning rapidly, and he searched all the generals surnamed Chen in the Beixia military camp, and found... there was only Chen Mingguang...

Ye Song looked at the blood on the ground and the spies. It was obvious that they were not Beixia's spies, but were sent by Nan Zhen. The words he said must also convey Nan Xirong's original words.

A bone-piercing cold feeling climbed up Ye Song's soles, continued to climb along her legs, and soon spread to her whole body.

She slowly raised her eyelids, her eyes fell on Su Jing, and she said, "Why don't you let him finish speaking? Which General Chen is he talking about?" Among them, is there any general whose surname is Chen?"

Everyone chose to be silent.

Ye Song couldn't help looking at Liu Jie twice more, Liu Jie pursed his lips and lowered his head halfway, as if he had nothing to say, finally turned his head to look at Su Jing, and asked: "Is Chen Mingguang really going?" Have the refugees settled in the next city? We are here to fight, and now we can’t take care of ourselves. In the face of the national crisis, those refugees will not have the consciousness to unite against the enemy, but will cause riots? Where do we have extra manpower? Take care of them, you didn't send people to Suzhou to take care of them in Liuzhou before, did you?"

Ye Song approached Su Jing step by step, stood in front of him, raised his head slightly, squinted upwards, and stared at his face, "I asked you if you were? So, where did Chen Mingguang go?" She trembled His eyes trembled, the emotions in his eyes were about to erupt like a torrent, and he couldn't help but took two steps back, "Or, what he said is true... the general Chen hanging in front of the Nanzheng army," Ye Song's face turned pale, and she swallowed hard, as if she wanted to digest this cruel fact, but this fact was like a thick and sharp thorn in her heart, making it impossible for her to digest it no matter how hard she tried. She reached out and grabbed Su Jing's skirt, stared at his eyes, the corners of which were already red, and gritted her teeth, "Tell me, besides Chen Mingguang, who else in this army is named Chen?"

In the end, Su Jing's answer extinguished her last hope of luck: "No."

"That, that," Ye Song pointed to the dead spy Nan Zhen on the ground, and asked Su Jing directly, "Is the person hanging on the cross he mentioned really Chen Mingguang? Is he really dead?"

She didn't believe it, but she hadn't seen her for a few days.Chen Mingguang's martial arts are so powerful, she still remembers that she was not his opponent in the martial arts competition but just won by luck, and now that she is still alive, she absolutely does not believe that Chen Mingguang died like that.

Ye Song held on to his last hope, "Didn't you say that you sent him to do other things? Didn't he go to other places to appease the refugees? So, that person is not Chen Mingguang, right?"

Liu Jie made a gesture to the silent soldiers, and they all went to their posts according to Ye Song's arrangement just now.

The fire in the brazier was blown by the wind so that sparks were everywhere.

Liu Jie stood on the spot, watching Su Jing approach Ye Song step by step, and finally wrapped her long arms around her, and hugged her into her arms.It was like silent comfort, more like companionship and care without complaint or regret.The flames prolong the overlapping shadows of the two, swaying in the night wind, like a melodious and sad song.

Su Jing lowered her head slightly, put her lips next to Ye Song's ear, and said softly, "Ah Song, I'm sorry."

Ye Song was stunned, his eyes were red, and he didn't even have the strength to struggle, "Why did you lie to me?"

Su Jing's answer is beyond reproach, "I'm just afraid that you will be sad."

Ye Song asked: "If Nan Zhen's spies don't sneak in tonight and don't tell the truth, are you going to keep telling me? Are you going to lie to me for the rest of your life that Chen Mingguang is still alive and he just went out to do something? ?”

Su Jing was speechless, but hugged Ye Song even tighter.

A lie will always be exposed, sooner or later.He just wanted to feel sorry for her.

During Ye Song's difficult time, Chen Mingguang took good care of her.In order to help her, he lost his official position, fought together on the same stage, drank together, and fought together on the battlefield regardless of life or death.Chen Mingguang once asked if he could be friends with her. At that time, Ye Song regarded him as a friend.For Ye Song, Chen Mingguang is one of her few loyal and respectable friends.

But now, she didn't even have time to see Chen Mingguang for the last time, and Chen Mingguang was placed high in the enemy's camp!
(End of this chapter)