Liu Jinghong ultimately did not accept Jing Zhe's proposal.

That's normal. After all, even in Jing Zhe's original era, not every woman could accept something as trendy as "singing the song of the Rear Courtyard Flower across the river," let alone Liu Jinghong.

Her reaction showed how shocked she was when she heard about it. It seems that these things cannot be rushed and must be dealt with slowly.

I mentioned it today, at least to prepare Liu Jinghong mentally, so that it will be much easier to carry out the operation later.

With that thought in mind, Jing Zhe happily returned to his room.

Nothing was said that night.

But his hard times were just beginning.

Jing Zhe and Liu Jinghong were childhood sweethearts, which was evident not only in their close relationship but also in the fact that Liu Jinghong would not hesitate to bully him if she really wanted to.

The next morning, as soon as Jing Zhe opened his eyes, he understood.

At 1:15 AM, Jing Zhe pushed open the door and went out.

Just then, Liu Jinghong stood outside the door with her arms crossed, her mouth pursed, seemingly still reeling from the blow of the previous night and in a bad mood.

"Good morning, Fifth Sister!"

Feeling a little guilty, Jing Zhe greeted them warmly.

"morning?"

Liu Jinghong frowned: "Everyone woke up at Chenshi (7-9 AM), but you only came out at Chenshi (1:15 AM). How dare you say it's early?"

"..."

Immediately afterwards, Liu Jinghong walked over and made intimate contact with his arm and ear. His delicate hands were no longer soft, but as hard as steel, causing Jing Zhe to grimace in pain.

But his "good days" have only just begun.

During the meal, Jing Zhe ate the steamed buns first instead of the porridge, which earned him a bit of "consolation" from Liu Jinghong. After the meal, Jing Zhe felt quite hurt.

When it was lunchtime, Jing Zhe learned from his experience and ate porridge first, then steamed buns. As a result, Liu Jinghong comforted him again, saying that he had only eaten one steamed bun, which was less than what he had eaten in the morning.

Jing Zhe spent most of the day under Liu Jinghong's merciless pleas, and was in great pain.

...

The next day, Jing Zhe was full of confidence and got out of bed early, before dawn.

Pushing open the door, Liu Jinghong was indeed not there.

When the hour of Chen arrived, he excitedly ran to Liu Jinghong's room to call her. However, Liu Jinghong came out rubbing her sleepy eyes and immediately started pinching and scolding him.

"Why are you disturbing my sleep so early in the morning? Are you asking for trouble?"

"..."

From then on, Jing Zhe finally gave up resistance.

Because you can never wake up someone who wants to hit you...

For three consecutive days, he didn't even manage to hold Liu Jinghong's hand, let alone climb into her bed again. This shows that when a woman is truly jealous, the power of jealousy should not be underestimated.

On the morning of the fourth day, Jing Zhe sat at the dining table, still wondering what reason Liu Jinghong would use to torment him today, when his deputy, Wang De, rushed in, panting.

Jing Zhe and Liu Jinghong exchanged a glance and stood up at the same time.

"General, the heavy cavalry... the heavy cavalry regiment is here!"

After waiting for four days, the infighting within the Western Frontier Heavy Cavalry Regiment should have ended, and they finally returned to fight.

The time passed faster than Jing Zhe had anticipated.

"Good, you've come at the right time!"

Jing Zhe clapped his hands twice, somewhat excited.

Wang De stared blankly at Jing Zhe, mouth agape, before reminding him, "President Jing... this time a ten-thousand-strong heavy cavalry regiment has come... the entire Western Frontier Heavy Cavalry Regiment has arrived!"

Although Wang De had participated in the production and burial of the giant hand grenade in the past few days, he did not know what the purpose of burying so many wine jars underground was, nor did he expect that these wine jars would cause great damage to the heavy cavalry regiment.

Because in his understanding of the world, this is simply impossible.

Therefore, he found Jing Zhe's current excitement unbelievable and quickly poured some cold water on it.

To everyone's surprise, Jing Zhe's temperature didn't drop; instead, it became even hotter.

"Good, it's good that everyone's here!"

He clapped his hands again, looking very eager.

This is easy to understand.

Three days ago, Jing Zhe had prepared to consummate his marriage with Liu Jinghong, but it didn't happen. He was furious, and for the next three days he suffered every day at Liu Jinghong's hands, which only fueled his anger. He had no chance to vent it.

Now that the heavy cavalry regiment has arrived, he naturally won't miss this good opportunity to vent his anger.

Liu Jinghong rolled her eyes at him and asked, "Is everything prepared outside the city gate? Have they discovered us yet?"

Wang De shook his head and said, "Don't worry, General. We've been following Chief Jing's instructions these past few days. We made the materials during the day and dug pits outside the city to bury them at night. By the time the heavy cavalry regiment arrived, we had already buried them for some time, and they didn't notice. In fact, their vanguard was all standing on top of them!"

Liu Jinghong nodded and said, "Okay, let's go take a look!"

...

Inside the city gate, all the Jinghong Iron Cavalry and sect disciples had gathered, weapons in hand, as if facing a formidable enemy.

Jing Zhe walked to Liu Jinghong's side, leaned down and whispered a few words in her ear. Then, Liu Jinghong called all the Jinghong Iron Cavalry down from the city wall and told them to wait fifty meters away from the city wall. The streets were already deserted.

Jing Zhe followed the same method, gathering all his disciples and followers together, and retreated with the Jinghong Iron Cavalry.

Inside the city walls, only Liu Jinghong and Jing Zhe remained.

In Jing Zhe's view, a fierce battle was bound to take place soon.

At that time, the heavy cavalry regiment of the Western Frontier might fire rockets indiscriminately. The more people on the city wall, the greater the casualties will be. It would be better to withdraw them all in advance.

He didn't need that many people present to detonate the grenade.

Once everything was arranged, Liu Jinghong and Jing Zhe walked together toward the city wall.

Arriving atop the city wall and witnessing the scene before me, I was still incredibly awestruck, even though I was somewhat prepared.

On the vast grassland west of the city wall, a vast expanse of black armor stretched out, with yaks and cavalrymen lined up one after another, extending a long distance westward from the city gate.

One-fifth of the area in front of the entire formation was located on land where Jing Zhe's men had buried giant hand grenades, covered with a thin layer of thatch, and went unnoticed.

At the very front of the formation, lined up in a row, were ten generals, with Jing Zhe's old acquaintance, Chamu, standing in the very center and at the very front, his body completely within the blast radius.

Compared to a few days ago, Chamu looked slightly different. His face was bruised and swollen, as if he had just been beaten, and the beating was quite severe.

"King Chamu, it's only been a few days, but you're even more radiant than before! Why didn't you return to Kadian to ascend the throne, but instead ran back to Liangzhou?"

Jing Zhe stood on the city wall and said with a grin.

"..."

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(I might write about my fifth sister again soon.)