Masquerade in Bridal Attire and Marry the Prince

52. Two Solutions

Translator: Antonia

When Du Chuxuan arrived, what came in sight was this scene. He was a little amazed by the scroll in Shan Zhongli’s hand and for a time depressed. Even though Du Chuxuan wasn’t a smart person, he had tried hard. The feeling wasn’t good when you tried your best but another person still succeeded faster than you.

He sighed briefly, but it was great to have a solution no matter from whom it came. He would be satisfied as long as they could win this battle because he really missed the dishes in the capital city.

The Turkic soldiers were perplexed by Shenglan Army’s sudden high spirits which immediately fought down theirs.

“What? You Turkic great soldiers are scared by a nameless commander?” Ashina Yi’s voice slowly drifted over from the behind.

He wore quite plain clothes today, all in light green. If Du Chuxuan was here, he would recognize that these clothes were the birthday gift that he had bought for Ashina Yi with the money he saved from his little amount of allowance.

Ashina Yi looked in the direction of Shenglan, pressing on the little grasshopper in his hand, “Since they are ready to fight, we’re not taking advantage of them. Let’s fight!”

His words weren’t quite like an encouragement before fighting, but the Turkic solders were fired up and shouted together. For a time, the morale of this side was overwhelming.

Without giving Shenglan more time, the Turks directly beat the war drums and rushed over. Shan Zhongli was stunned for a while and beckoned to let their drums beaten too. Then, he turned to hand the scroll to the several generals around him.

The scroll passed around, and immediately someone began to polish the apple. Although they didn’t know whether this solution would work out or not, after all it represented hope. If it did work out, then this son of Duke Ningyuan would take a skyrocket to become a very significant figure, because not everyone could manage to reverse the situation on the battlefield.

General Leng turned a cold eye to the cheerful scene. He didn’t trust the solution from the son of Duke Ningyuan. He had been observing over the days and discovered that whenever there was danger, this lord ran faster than anyone. How was it possible that such a person could tell whether the solution was a reliable one or not?

“General Leng, don’t we go to the battlefield?” His soldiers hadn’t participated in the previous rounds of battles, so now his force was the least damaged one. Someone always showed an opinion on this.

General Leng snorted coldly. The worst case scenario in choosing is taking every side. Since he had chosen to take the side of His Highness, he would never change his stance before his death.

These people’s brains were blinded by desire. Even if the Crown Prince suffered a tragedy, it would be the Eldest Prince who take his place. Since when could a son of a duke be the successor?

General Leng was right in this point. The Emperor thought the same thing.

But everyone else was drunken in their own wishful thinking.

Even Shan Zhongli himself didn’t maintain a clear mind, did he?

Yuxing Tianrui found Du Chuxuan in the barracks. Seeing him wandering towards the kitchen with misty eyes, he immediately pulled him over. Both of them wore the guards’ uniforms, so others didn’t take one more glance at them.

“!” At the sight of Yuxing Tianrui, Du Chuxuan opened his eyes wide, “Why are you here?”

He had thought Yuxing Tianrui should be somewhere making a detailed plan of the following steps. Wasn’t he anxious? “Shan Zhongli has gotten a solution. Mine will be useless.”

Yuxing Tianrui, seeing him walking with closed eyes, had thought he was sleepwalking and tried to take him back before everyone noticed him. Yet, here he got this big surprise.

“You’ve figured a way?” Their trip to the borders wasn’t to put an end to the Turkic invaders. Yuxing Tianrui had his own mission, so he was very happy at this surprise.

Du Chuxuan had expected Yuxing Tianrui’s reaction, “I’ve spent a whole day on it. If Your Highness wants to thank me, remember I’ll be waiting for you in the tent tonight.”

Despite whether Shan Zhongli’s solution was useful or not, Du Chuxuan had come up an idea for Yuxing Tianrui, so he must claim the reward.

Somehow, Yuxing Tianrui found Du Chuxuan’s uncontrollably sleepy state irresistibly charming. He nodded subconsciously and, when he realized what he had done, grabbed over the paper in Du Chuxuan’s hand and went away with Ada.

“What a cruel man that threw me away after using!” Du Chuxuan groaned, totally forgetting his casual joke. He had exhausted his brain for an entire day, so now he only felt extremely sleepy and wanted nothing but sleep.

Since he couldn’t find the way back to the tent, Du Chuxuan simply sat down on the ground and shut his eyes at once. The hidden guard who was following behind him could do nothing but chant sorry, then took out a cloth from somewhere to cover Du Chuxuan, and carried him back to the tent.

To be fair, that Mister was indeed smart. At least, based on his solution, the tendency of being suppressed by the Turks was improving, and in the west, there seemed to be a gap ripped out.

Ashina Yi coldly observed the battle. In the distant, he saw Shan Zhongli complacently arched his lips at him. Ashina Yi couldn’t help smirking. A fool is always a fool. You can do nothing with that.

Shan Zhongli’s eyesight was surely not as good as Ashina Yi to reach that far. He only believed that Ashina Yi was already pissed off. Hence, Shan Zhongli smugly took out his bow again.

This time he wasn’t so stupid like last time as to try to shoot Ashina Yi to death but targeted, as the Mister had told him, at the most important place of the formation eye.

The Mister had said the most important thing of a formation lied in changes. As long as he cut off the path of changes, the supply of the whole formation would be ended. By then, he’d like to see how Ashina Yi could maintain his pride and arrogance

An arrow cut through the air and was about to reach its target, when another arrow came from somewhere and shot it down.

He suddenly looked up and saw Ashina Yi shaking the bow at him. The provocation was obvious.

“Damn it!” Shan Zhongli was so pissed off that he nearly dropped his bow. To save his face, he instantly drew out three arrows from the tube. This was already the best he could pull off.