slave like jade

Chapter 109 Go to the battlefield
The blood in Yu Xiaodao's whole body was congealed. Although he already knew that Yu Ruyan was his brother's man, he had always been deceiving himself and was unwilling to believe or accept it. But seeing this scene with his own eyes now was a breakthrough. Breaking the bottom line in his heart is more painful than killing him.

Seeing Yu Ruyan lying in the arms of another man, the two of them are still so close, Xiaodao's previous worries about Yu Ruyan all turned into raging jealousy——

I waited and hoped all night and night, fearing that something might happen to her, and even walked all the way in the dark from Putuo Temple all the way to Kyoto, my feet were covered with blood blisters, and my heart was burning with urgency, but I didn't expect , The truth of the matter is so cruel!
Because when she was with him, she completely forgot the agreement with herself, abandoned herself outside the mountain gate alone, and turned her love into ashes!

The food that I held in my arms all night and was reluctant to throw it away had already cooled down, and I didn't have the strength to hold it anymore. When I let go, the thing fell to the ground with a bang.

Mu Ling was startled, looked back, and suddenly saw the knife outside the window, his sharp eyes were startled, and then he was surprised, and was about to call him, but Yu Xiaodao, after seeing his gaze, turned cold and cold. Glaring at him fiercely, he turned around and left.

Afraid of waking Yu Ruyan who was sleeping, Mu Lingzhi didn't call out to him, but quickly put her away, covered her with a quilt, and chased her out.

However, after only a short while, Xiao Dao was no longer in sight. Mu Lingzhi still couldn't be reconciled, and chased him from the palace all the way to the city gate, but he still didn't catch Xiao Dao.

He was about to go out of the city to go to the Putuo Temple again, but at this moment, a horse rode in outside the city, and the horse barely drove into the city gate, foaming at the mouth, as if it couldn't bear it anymore, and fell to the ground .

Mu Lingzhi followed his eyes, and found that the man on the horse was dressed as Da Qi's postman, but his face was full of wind and frost, and his body was pressed under the horse.

The soldiers guarding the gate rushed forward to help him, but the post envoy said in a hoarse voice: "It's urgent at the border, send the letter to General Chen!"

Mu Ling took a quick look, but saw that there were three feathers stuck in the cowhide envelope, it was an urgent military situation!

I couldn't help but feel a 'click' in my heart, and my face sank.

Now that he has seen Chenzhi with his own eyes and knows that he is fine, he will be found one day, but the military situation is so urgent that he turns around and rushes towards Chen's residence without even thinking about it.

Wei's army didn't care at all that Daliang's soldiers and horses were also sent to the border of the Three Kingdoms, so they sped up their journey and even sent a vanguard army to attack Daqi's grain and grass camp at night.

After showing Mu Lingzhi the General Chen Yiqing's newspaper, he said with a rare solemn expression: "Da Wei is determined to win Da Qi this time, even though your Liang's army is also on the border, you can't wait to face Da Qi's opponent. .”

Mu Lingzhi's eyes were gloomy, and he said coldly: "Actually, Da Wei is not fully sure about Daliang, so he is anxious to attack Da Qi before my Liang's soldiers and horses have assembled, or Da Wei has found out Well, Daliang's troops are only [-] of my own soldiers, or perhaps, Dawei has already guessed my father's plan, so he has no scruples to attack Daqi."

Chen Yiqing's complexion darkened, and his expression was serious and worried: "I heard that the leader of the army this time is the eldest prince Sima Rong, who is the most ruthless of the Wei Dynasty. This biological mother is just the maid of the prince who is the prince of Wei. He has been neglected by the king of Wei before. In the past few years, he was born out of nowhere and seized the power of soldiers and horses. He is very ruthless and vicious, and his methods are also different from ordinary people. I heard that he was the one who advocated the conquest of Wu. If we conquer the state of Wu, I am afraid that we will surely win the state of Qi!"

Mu Ling's face was clear, and he said calmly: "The king of Wei is old, and the battle for the throne is already on the stage in the Great Wei. He is a prince from a humble background, without the influence of his mother's family, and he wants to succeed the king of Wei. The throne, I'm afraid it is very difficult. Therefore, the only way to exchange the throne is with military merit. For the throne, Sima Rong will definitely fight to the death and lead Wei to win this battle. Therefore, this time, it must be a fierce battle!"

Chen Yiqing thought for a while and couldn't help but wondered: "He defeated Wu Guo is already a great military achievement, why don't he stop here, why continue to attack Qi Guo at the risk of exhaustion of the soldiers? There is no time to wait for a while. "

"If I'm not mistaken, the prince of Wei must have made two preparations. One is to win the Qi country and return to the country to claim credit, so that he can have the capital to inherit the throne of Wei Wang. But I heard that the power of Wei's prince Sima Jie is also the same. Powerful, his mother's family is even more powerful, even if Sima Rong has military achievements, it is estimated that it will be difficult to shake the position of the crown prince, so he has already made a second-hand plan."

"What's the plan?" Chen Yiqing asked in confusion.

"Create mountains and open up land, and establish yourself as a king."

Chen Yiqing's face darkened.

Mu Lingzhi went on to say: "The crown prince of the Wei Kingdom will definitely regard Sima Rong, who has made great military achievements, as the biggest threat. If he can't win the throne of the Wei Kingdom in the end, when Sima Jie ascends the throne, Sima Rong will have no choice but to die. Therefore, he must I want to call myself the emperor here after conquering the state of Qi."

"In this way, it's really a life-and-death battle." Chen Yiqing's eyes darkened after hearing this.

"The first batch of military rations was destroyed, you need to prepare again, but the war cannot be stranded because of the military rations, let alone because there is no food and grass soldiers will not go to the front line, so the current strategy is to treat others in the same way as others In my body, I led troops to go around a long way to ambush the rear of the Great Wei, and destroyed their food and grass camp. Compared with ours, their army was farther away from the country, and all the soldiers have already dispatched. Therefore, cutting off their food and grass is also cutting off their retreat! Let them not dare to move on. Buy more time for us to prepare food and gather troops.”

Mu Lingzhi understands this truth, and Sima Rong, the commander-in-chief of the Great Wei, also understands it, so the grain and grass camp of the Great Wei must be as strong as cast iron.

Moreover, it was extremely dangerous to go deep into the enemy's rear, but before Chen Yiqing objected, Mu Lingzhi had already led five thousand elite soldiers and was ready to set off.

Before leaving, Chen Yiqing gave him his own armor to put on, and did not forget to tell him: "The accident happened suddenly, and the armor made for you is not ready yet, so wear mine first and make do with it."

"You are injured, remember not to fight recklessly, if you really can't, retreat immediately, life comes first - this is a military order!"

"Don't worry, she hasn't forgiven me yet, how can I die willingly?!"

Mu Lingzhi looked at his friend's worried eyes, and thought of Yu Ruyan who refused to look back, his heart was filled with bitterness, but he still pretended to be relaxed and joked with Chen Yiqing.

Chen Yiqing sent him to the gate of the city, and said firmly: "When Your Highness returns from a great victory, I will accompany you to plead guilty to my sister-in-law. If she still doesn't forgive you, I will... I will cry in front of her palace gate for three days. Sanye, cry until she can't bear to forgive you."

Mu Lingzhi waved the horsewhip in his hand and flew away, and the voice came from afar in the wind——

"This method is very good!"

When Yu Ruyan woke up again, Mu Lingzhi was no longer in the room. She seemed to have really had a dream. When she woke up, the person in the dream disappeared along with the dream.

Missing the good opportunity of the night of the palace banquet, it will be very difficult to find another opportunity to leave the palace without a trace, and after Brother An came back from the outside and told her about Mu Lingzhi, Yu Ruyan was shocked Living--

She never expected that he, a Prince of Liang, would fight for Qi Guo for her!
Although everyone in the world knows that he is brave and powerful, but this time Wei has 40 troops, while Qi has only 20. In addition to his injuries, this time I am afraid...

Yu Ruyan has no intention of going out of the palace anymore.Every day at dawn, I would run to the Imperial Study Room as soon as dawn, and ask about the military situation reported by the Ministry of War every day.

The news I get every day is that the battle is getting more intense day by day, and there are countless casualties. The list of casualties handed over to King Qi’s table by the Ministry of War is more and more every day. Every time, Yu Ruyan endures the panic in her heart I was afraid to read those casualty list books, and my heart would be cold every time I read a book.

From being afraid of seeing Mu Lingzhi's name at the beginning, to seeing the death list piled up like a mountain, Yu Ruyan seemed to see the fresh lives dying in front of her. Thinking of the relatives behind these lives, Maybe their family members, wives and children are also like her, anxiously waiting for news from you, and their hearts are suddenly beyond grief.

Suddenly, she felt that the pain of being forced to marry was nothing compared to these men who lost their lives for the country.

She still felt that if she got married, she could use her own life to exchange so many fresh lives and return so many complete families. She felt that she should do this!
Worrying day and night made her heart ache, torturing her so much that she couldn't sleep all day and all night.The whole people in Daqi were also disturbed by the war. Even the marriage between Yu Mingzhu and Shangguan Xianzhong not long after, King Qi ordered that it should not be arranged as before, and should be kept low-key and simple.

Concubine Shu saw that Yu Ruyan had been tense for such a long time, unable to eat or sleep, and if this continued, she was afraid that her body would not be able to bear it.So the imperial physician prescribed her a soothing decoction and forced her to drink it. Finally, after being unable to sleep for nearly a month, Yu Ruyan fell into a deep sleep under the influence of the decoction...

Mu Ling was dressed in white armor, and led five thousand elite soldiers into the enemy's rear camp like a god. The silver spear in his hand swept across the thousand troops like a dragon out of water, and no one within ten feet could get close to him.He broke through the enemy camp, was the first to rush into the grain and grass camp, held a torch and ignited piles of grain and grass one after another, and Da Wei's grain and grass camp immediately became a sea of ​​flames...

A shining longbow was drawn into a full moon, with three cold feathers on it at the same time, and the three cold feathers were all aimed at Mu Lingzhi.Mu Lingzhi, who was fighting in the sea of ​​flames, didn't notice the cold arrow behind him at all. The next moment, he was hit by three arrows in the back, and blood flowed everywhere on his body...

The moment he was shot by the arrow feathers, his eyes widened in disbelief, his eyes were filled with despair and pain, the next moment, his body swayed, and he fell off the horse into the sea of ​​flames...

"Ah..." Yu Ruyan woke up from the nightmare with a terrified scream, she opened her eyes abruptly, and cried out in despair: "Ling Zhi, don't!"

Brother An, who was watching her by the bed, was shocked. Seeing her shaking like a sieve, with a terrified and hopeless expression, he quickly stepped forward and hugged her shoulders to comfort her: "Princess is having a nightmare, don't be afraid, don't be afraid. Dreams are fake."

Even though he opened his eyes and saw that he was in the quiet Jinying Palace, on the bed in his own bedroom, everything in the dream was too real. Yu Ruyan could feel the warmth of the blood splashing on her face...

Her whole body was cold, her heart seemed to have fallen into an ice cave and could no longer be warmed up, her body was shaking so hard that she couldn't stop, the expression on her face was panic and fear that she had never seen before, the thought of those three sharp arrows shooting at the same time Shooting at him, piercing his back fiercely, Yu Ruyan's heart ached to the point of suffocation, and she grabbed onto her chest firmly.

An Ge took her hand and kept comforting her. Seeing her trembling uncontrollably, he thought she was cold, so he quickly went to the table and poured a cup of hot tea to her hand. Yu Ruyan finished drinking the tea with gritted teeth, and returned the cup To Ang, I didn't expect that with a shake of my hand, the teacup hit the ground with a bang and shattered...

She stared blankly at the broken cup on the ground as if she was stupid, and a bad premonition suddenly emerged in her heart.The next moment, she had turned over and got up from the bed, stumbling towards the imperial study.

She was filled with deep panic, and a voice kept telling her that something happened to Mu Lingzhi!
However, as soon as he reached the gate of the courtyard, he bumped into a group of people head-on. It was Yu Mingzhu, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, who led the maids and palace people in grandly and mightily.

For the first time, she no longer looked at Yu Ruyan coldly, but looked at her with a hint of pity, but her voice was unusually proud.

"Everyone in the world envies you for marrying a good man. It's a pity that the good times don't last long. You will become a widow in just a short time!"

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Yu Ruyan's tense nerves collapsed even more when she heard the word 'widow', she stepped forward and grabbed Yu Mingzhu's collar, looked at her with a ferocious expression, and gritted her teeth Said: "If you dare to talk nonsense again, I will cut off your tongue like the fourth sister, and make you husband and wife a pair."

Hearing her mention Yu Huaizhu, hatred flashed across Yu Mingzhu's face, but her eyes showed a trace of fear inadvertently.She tried her best to break free from Yu Ruyan's hand, thinking of the news she had just received, she couldn't help feeling extremely proud and relieved her hatred.

She has always been above all the princesses in this palace, but since the incident of Shangguan Xianzhong, and everyone saw the demeanor of the third prince of Daliang, Mu Lingzhi, everyone in the palace couldn't help but Everyone turned the wind direction, and they all envied and respected Yu Ruyan, and because of Mu Lingzhi's contribution to Qi's campaign, even the king of Qi treated Yu Ruyan differently, and no one dared to bully her anymore. One by one, they mentioned that the fifth princess is much better than the eldest princess. How can Yu Mingzhu, who has always been loved by thousands of people, endure it?
Thinking of Mu Lingzhi's death in battle, this bitch would no longer have a backer to rely on, and became a widow, Yu Mingzhu felt extremely proud and relieved her hatred.

She looked at the pale Yu Ruyan coldly, and proudly said: "Because of Wu Zhaoyi's incident, my father denied all the remarks of Daoist Yiyun, saying that he is a charlatan. But now, it seems that his words are also It’s not all a lie, at least, it’s right to say that you are an ominous person.”

"Nowadays, your most brave son-in-law was killed by you and died on the battlefield. Do you still dare to say that you are not an ominous person?"

Yu Mingzhu wished to tell Yu Ruyan the news in the happiest and most proud tone in the world, the more sad she was, the happier she would be to relieve her hatred.

Sure enough, when Yu Ruyan heard her words, no trace of blood could be seen on her originally pale face, her head exploded with a 'buzz', she couldn't believe what she heard, and asked in a hoarse voice: "You , You, what did you say?"

"Heh, I'm here to tell you that your good husband-in-law is dead. Thousands of arrows pierced his heart, and his white armor was stained red with blood. Tsk tsk, don't be too miserable."

The words uttered by Yu Mingzhu's red lips were like the most vicious and sharpest blade in the world, piercing into Yu Ruyan's heart.

Brother An exclaimed and hurried forward to help her up, Yu Mingzhu condescendingly looked down at Yu Ruyan who was already pale, her cold voice was extremely vicious.

"Hello husband's armor has been quietly sent back to the capital, and now it is placed in the middle of the royal study of the father, because he is afraid that Liang will know, and the father ordered the news of the death to be kept secret..."

Yu Ruyan didn't know how she got to the imperial study room, she only remembered the moment when she pushed open the door of the palace, the blood-stained armor placed in the middle of the palace pierced her heart and began to bleed and collapse.

Her eyes were red to the point of bleeding, and the dead silence on her face made everyone in the hall feel pity. Even King Qi really felt sorry for his poor daughter for the first time. With both hands, comforting words: "Daughter, don't be too sad..."

Yu Ruyan shook off King Qi's hand and walked in front of the armor in a daze, her legs softened, and she knelt down in front of the armor with a 'plop', stroking the dried blood stains on it with trembling hands, looking at the sharp arrow on the armor There was almost no intact part of the left arrow hole, and the gap cut by the sword, and the heartache was so painful that I suffocated.

The next moment, his throat was sweet, and a mouthful of blood spattered on the blood-stained armor.

"Princess please forgive me!"

The ministers around looked at the poor fifth princess in front of them, and couldn't help but shed tears.

"Where is he? Where is his body? I want to see him!!"

A roar seemed to exhaust all the strength in Yu Ruyan's body, her eyes were bright red and she shouted sharply at Qi Wang like crazy.

"...the body of the third prince has not been found yet, but this armor was found, but...but the soldiers saw with their own eyes that he fell off the horse with arrows in his body..." King Qi was startled by Yu Ruyan's description His heart trembled, and he was stunned for a while before returning to her with heartache.

Thinking of Mu Ling's death, and not knowing how to deal with King Liang, King Qi immediately frowned and felt a headache.

Hearing King Qi's words, Yu Ruyan's ashen heart trembled slightly, and her mind suddenly flashed back to the image of Mu Lingzhi practicing soldiers and horses in the barracks.

He was so powerful and brave, how could he die so easily! ?

She didn't believe it, as long as she didn't see his dead body, she would never believe that he had passed away!

Arriving at this point, Yu Ruyan was suddenly filled with strength, and got up from the ground with a whoosh, her blood-red eyes flashed with determination, she gritted her teeth and said, "I won't believe it if I don't see His Highness's corpse for a day." Something happened to him. Father, I want to go out of the palace to find him!"

It was the hottest summer season of the year again, as if history was repeating itself, Yu Ruyan left the capital once again, and walked towards the unknown road ahead.

Before leaving the city gate, Yu Ruyan found a shop marked with the sign of Yuejia and went in. She showed her feather badge. When the shopkeeper saw it, she came out from behind the counter respectfully. Yu Ruyan handed him the letter in her hand and asked him to Send someone to Putuo Temple to give Xiaodao.

In fact, for such a long time, Yu Ruyan also thought of Xiaodao, knowing that he was waiting for her, she felt very guilty about him, but what happened later made her have no time to take care of him, so she had to explain to him in the letter. He understands.

Please be good to the shopkeeper. Before leaving the house, Yu Ruyan suddenly thought of Yue Yu whom she hadn't seen for a long time, and couldn't help asking: "Is there any news about the head of Yue? Is he okay?"

The shopkeeper was slightly taken aback, and after a while, he replied politely with a smile on his face: "Thank you for your concern, Miss Yue. Although we don't know much about the news about the head of the house, it is good news if there is no news. I think the head of the house is safe and sound now!"

Yu Ruyan looked at the feather badge in her hand, and asked again: "I heard that the business of the Yue family spread all over the world. I wonder if there is still a business of the Yue family in the territory of Wu before?"

The shopkeeper said: "Although the war is raging over there, the business is still going on, it's just that many shops have been closed compared to before."

Yu Ruyan thanked the shopkeeper, didn't stop any longer, and left the capital with An Ge on horseback, heading towards the battlefield where the flames of war raged...

Ever since Xiaodao saw Mu Lingzhi and Yu Ruyan kissing each other intimately that day, his heart had been filled with endless jealousy. After the jealousy cooled down, it solidified into a deep hatred for Mu Lingzhi. meaning.

He also wanted to hate Yu Ruyan, but unfortunately, no matter what, Xiaodao couldn't hate her, so even though he was sad, hopeless and resentful, he was still reluctant to leave Qi State and Putuo Temple, because he had always hoped, hoped As long as I insist on waiting, my sister will definitely come to him according to the agreement, and then they will retreat to the countryside in the mountains together, living a happy life in a paradise.

From then on, Xiaodao still guarded outside the mountain gate of Putuo Temple day and night, and waited for Yu Ruyan's arrival by the side of the mountain road. However, day after day, when his heart was about to freeze to frost, he waited Arrived at Koshiha whom I haven't seen for a long time.

Yue Yu stood quietly in front of Xiaodao in snow-white double-breasted clothes, and said with a gentle smile, "Xiaodao, you have grown up!"

Seeing Yue Yu suddenly, Xiaodao felt an inexplicable sense of intimacy in his heart, as if he had found a relative. He felt endless grievances and sufferings in his heart, his eyes turned red, and he choked up, "Why did Brother Yue come here?"

I haven't seen him in just a few months, Xiaodao's face changed from the immaturity before, tinged with vicissitudes, Yue Yu's eyes flashed with pity, and he stepped forward to gently stroke his head and said warmly: "Your sister asked me to send you a letter." gone."

Hearing that Yu Ruyan had written him a letter, Yu Xiaodao's quiet heart lit up with fire: "Is it true that sister is coming here soon?"

After all, before he had time to see the pity and loss in Yue Yu's eyes, he quickly took the letter from his hand, and eagerly unfolded it.

When the incident happened suddenly, Yu Ruyan just told him in a few words in the letter that she was going to travel far away on business, so that he should not worry.

The joy that Xiaodao was full of was turned into ashes again, and his heart became cold again and again.

He lowered his head decadently, suppressing the loss and sadness in his heart, and said full of doubts and unease: "My sister is going on a long journey? Where is she going? Why didn't she take me with her? Could it be that she really doesn't want me anymore?!"

Panic welled up in my heart, and Xiaodao suddenly panicked and frightened like a homeless child, and impulsively walked towards the direction of Kyoto: "I'm going to find her!"

"Where are you going to find her?" Yue Yu sighed softly, causing Xiao Dao to stop his hurried steps.

He anxiously turned around and looked at Yue Yu with a sad face, and pleaded hopefully: "Brother Da Yue, do you know where my sister has gone?"

Looking at the flustered and absent-minded face in front of him, but looking at his knife full of hope, Yue Yu felt a little unbearable in his heart, and said for a moment: "I heard that when the third prince of Daliang was helping the army of Qi to attack Wei Guo's grain and grass camp Something happened, probably, maybe your sister went to the battlefield to look for him."

When Xiaodao heard that his brother had an accident, his heart sank. Although he hated him in his heart, if something happened to him, his heart would still be very painful.

What's more, thinking that Yu Ruyan went to the battlefield where swords have no eyes, Yu Xiaodao didn't dare to delay any longer, and even had no time to say goodbye to Yue Yu, and disappeared.

Qingcha Fu Yueyu got into the carriage and sat down, and asked: "Master, are we going back to the capital?"

Yue Yu's pale face showed a bit of uneasiness, and finally sighed: "I don't trust her, follow her!"

(End of this chapter)