Chapter Thirteen: Arguing with the Comments

What? The barbarian has broken through the barrier? Su Zhenzhen's heart skipped a beat. This was practically the difference between dying later and dying immediately.

Summoning the Ghost General might scare the villagers, but the barbarians and General Huo have a blood feud. Not only will they not be frightened, they might even get their hands on someone who's been disemboweled.

The villagers behind her were constantly being killed by the barbarians' arrows, which bought Su Zhenzhen some time.

Hensheng also realized the seriousness of the situation, "Don't worry about me, you can definitely get out."

The comments in my mind disagreed.

No way! The male lead is so handsome; if he falls into the hands of barbarians, he'll definitely suffer inhuman torture.

If anyone recognizes him as a descendant of the previous dynasty, the male protagonist might not even be able to hope for death. Female protagonist, you can't abandon him!

Su Zhenzhen was truly impressed. She didn't consider herself a compassionate saint, but she never thought of abandoning Hensheng and running away alone.

But the commanding tone of the comments made her very unhappy.

"Come on over here if you dare! All you do is whine and complain all day long. Do you know how noisy you are? Did I say I wouldn't interfere? The problem is, we can't beat him in a fight, and the two of us can't run away. What do you want?"

Seeing Su Zhenzhen angrily cursing at thin air, Hensheng's face turned terrified. "Is there something I can't see following us?"

"To be precise, they're following me," Su Zhenzhen said irritably. "You don't need to place your hopes on them. They're not even as good as ghosts. At least ghosts can scare people, but all they do is gossip all day long."

Su Zhenzhen originally thought the comments would argue with her, but to her surprise, they actually helped her contact the organizers to send her some weapons, whether they had changed their ways or not.

That's a great relationship.

With hope in her heart, Su Zhenzhen pulled Hensheng along and ran even more energetically.

However, no matter how fast two legs are, they can't outrun four legs, not to mention that cavalry is a major weapon of the barbarians.

The pursuers were getting closer and closer, but the organizers didn't utter a single word.

Just as Su Zhenzhen and her companion fell into the range of the arrows, another troop of soldiers surged out from behind and began to annihilate the barbarians.

They were swift and decisive, killing the barbarians with almost a single stroke each.

Before long, the barbarians were either dead or had fled.

The group gradually approached Su Zhenzhen and her companion. The leader was rather weak, and after she removed her mask, a familiar face was revealed.

"Chunzhi!" Su Zhenzhen exclaimed in surprise, then realized something, "You wouldn't happen to be that maid from the Huo family, would you?"

Now that things have come to this, the fact that Chunzhi has appeared with a troop of soldiers suggests that she already knows everything.

Chunzhi shook her head.

Su Zhenzhen thought that the age didn't seem to match up.

Then Chunzhi blurted out, "She is my mother."

Su Zhenzhen's heart tightened. "Then... then who is your father?"

Chunzhi glanced at Hensheng indifferently, "I don't know who my father is either. My mother found me on the way north from the capital."

Su Zhenzhen gripped Hensheng's hand tightly, ready to run away at the first sign of trouble.

"Don't worry." Chunzhi looked at Su Zhenzhen reassuringly. "I'm not my mother-in-law. I understand the principle of 'the grievances should be settled by the perpetrators.'"

Chunzhi made a gesture, and the old man was brought up. It turned out that during the chaos just now, he was very lucky to have encountered the troops that were rushing this way. Otherwise, it was hard to say whether he would be alive now, since most of the villagers had already died under the barbarian's arrows, and a few had been trampled by horses.

Old Bai walked behind Su Zhenzhen before mustering the courage to speak to Chunzhi, "Niece-in-law, thank you for what you did earlier."

Chunzhi waved her hand dismissively, "It was just a small favor. Where are you going next?"

That's a good question. For Su Zhenzhen, anywhere is fine as long as she can meet her sales targets.

Hensheng thought it over carefully, "I want to head south to the capital and find answers to some questions."

Chunzhi nodded. "Then go ahead. I won't give you these troops. If one day the whole world submits, all people will naturally follow."

After saying that, Chunzhi turned her horse around and rode away.

The old man looked puzzled. "What does she mean by that?"

"What I mean is..." Su Zhenzhen said while searching her mind for any good things the organizers had sent her, "This army is the family business her husband built up. If she didn't have the ability, she wouldn't give it up just because of a status."

“There is another reason,” Hensheng added. “Now that the barbarians have broken through the pass, if we let them advance unchecked, the people of the Central Plains will suffer greatly. At this time, we need a force to plug the breach opened by the barbarians.”

Su Zhenzhen glanced at Hensheng with some surprise. As expected of someone of imperial blood, his political awareness was indeed high.

"Alright, alright, let's hurry up and figure out how to get there?"

It is unclear how many troops Chunzhi has, and it is also unknown whether all the soldiers at the front have been killed in action, so it is hard to say how long the barbarians can be held off.

Su Zhenzhen was also very generous, taking out three Mighty Pills and giving one to each person.

The Rejuvenating Pill is used to treat illnesses, while the Mighty Pill is used to enhance physical strength.

The three of them ran south with all their might, making it look like a wilderness marathon.

Su Zhenzhen didn't stop until it got dark and turned on her flashlight.

"Old man Bai, look where we are now?"

It must be said that an old horse knows the way, but an old man remembers the route better. When he was young, Old Man Bai was fleeing famine and practically traversed the entire Central Plains.

In 906-century terms, it's practically a human-shaped map.

"We should have left Beijun. Ahead is Heijun. Of the nine provinces in the Central Plains, Huzhou, the northernmost one, is vast and has abundant food. It has always been a tempting target for the barbarians. If the front line collapses completely, it will only be a matter of time before Huzhou falls into the hands of the enemy."

Su Zhenzhen listened to these stories as if they were just stories, since she was not from this era and could not personally experience this kind of patriotism.

However, there is a very important problem right now.

Do you know how the previous dynasty fell?

Logically, with a new dynasty established, the emperor should have paid close attention to border defense. So why was there such a severe shortage of food at the border that they had to borrow from the common people? They even brought in some kind of charlatan to sacrifice living people for peace.

"How did the previous dynasty fall?" Old Bai didn't know either. "From as far back as I can remember, everyone was starving, there was drought and war everywhere, so the village chief led us to flee the famine. We went almost everywhere. Sometimes I wondered if I was a jinx, why was there war wherever I went? It wasn't until we came to Huzhou, where General Huo was stationed, that we finally had some peace. More than ten years later, I heard that the country was unified and there was no more war. But the barbarians from beyond the Great Wall still came to raid the autumn harvest from time to time, and the imperial court sent troops. Then everyone was busy with their own lives, who had time to think about the new or old dynasty?"