Chapter 274: Bringing You Back to the Court

"Why did you trick so many people in?" Cheng Nianying pointed at the guards on the ground, "Change clothes."

Under her command, the third prince and guard Wei changed their clothes, while she changed her clothes with guard Yuan.

"What should we do with Liang Xiang's body?" asked the third prince.

"Put your clothes on him."

The Third Prince's voice was slightly stiff: "I...will dress him?"

Cheng Nianying tilted her head and said nothing.

The third prince forced a smile and said, "I... will come. Of course, I will come."

The fifth prince immediately followed and said, "Third brother can't do it alone, so I'll come too."

The third prince's mouth twitched, but he did not refuse.

As the legitimate son of the king, the Third Prince had seen dead people before, but why did he have to clean up the bloody mess in the past?

He really can't do it alone.

The two brothers who were fighting to the death just now, now looked at each other and attacked together with their noses pinched.

The Third Prince still found it difficult to face Liang Xiang's death. He turned his face away slightly and pulled down Liang Xiang's clothes.

Suddenly, he stopped moving.

The fifth prince cursed inwardly, why is he still being lazy at this time?

The fifth prince winked at him, but he couldn't see it, so he could only curse in his heart and continue working.

The third prince was thinking a lot at this time.

But in the blink of an eye, his opinion of the new crown prince of the Huan Dynasty was completely changed. She killed without blinking an eye, was too strong, but not too reckless.

Prince Liang firmly and fully supported her, and the famous Prince Danshuo was also her lover.

Even though she is a woman, she has already shown herself to be far more terrifying than other men.

The Third Prince hated Liang Xiang's abuse of power, but he had a longer-term vision than the Fifth Prince.

Liang Xiang said something very well. At this time, why should we still abide by the rules set by the previous Central Plains dynasties?

...We can't let her go back!

If she returned to Huaiyuan and ascended the throne with the support of the people, the Huan Dynasty would only become a behemoth that was even more ferocious and powerful than when the previous emperor was alive.

While thinking in his heart, the third prince finally looked directly at Liang Xiang's death. He quickened his movements and stripped off Liang Xiang's clothes, even his pants.

I wonder if the Crown Prince of Huan Dynasty will avoid it... after all, she is a woman.

The third prince turned his head suddenly.

But he met Cheng Nianying's calm gaze.

Cheng Nianying kept staring at them, never moving her eyes away.

Wangyue lifted the tent into a tiny arc and stared at the movements outside through the tiny gap.

"Hurry up." Cheng Nianying urged.

The third prince forced a smile: "Yeah, yeah."

Yes, she is not an ordinary person. How can we treat her with common sense?

It was almost impossible to launch a sneak attack when her face was turned.

No one knew the ups and downs in the Third Prince's heart. They finally changed clothes for Liang Xiang.

"You and I carry Liang Xiang's body out." Cheng Nianying said again.

The fifth prince asked hurriedly, "What about me?"

"You walk with us and lead the way."

This is why Liang Xiang's clothes had to be changed, so that others would mistake him for the third prince in the dark.

When Shentu Yu and other Liang Xiang's men saw this, they regretted not retreating three feet away and dared not let the ordinary soldiers see them.

With the five princes walking nearby to provide cover, this naturally made things easier.

"Where are we carrying them to?" the Fifth Prince asked, then answered himself: "To the place where the people of Huan Dynasty are imprisoned?"

"Um."

The fifth prince took a deep breath and said, "Okay, okay, I will definitely cooperate with you."

The Third Prince frowned secretly, thinking about the possibility that if he went out and shouted loudly, he would attract others and trap the Crown Prince of the Huan Dynasty here...

But after thinking about it carefully, he found that it was not possible.

Liang Xiang brought his own private soldiers on this trip. They were very loyal. Once Liang Xiang was found dead on the spot, the ordinary soldiers would be in chaos, but they would only want to take revenge first and follow Liang Xiang's wishes before his death, and still support the fifth prince to ascend the throne.

I'm afraid I'll be killed by then.

The third prince sighed irritably.

Did she have all this figured out long ago? Was that why she wasn't afraid to bring just one person to the camp?

The fifth brother is timid by nature, and now he has to obey her to save his life.

"Don't be dazed, let's go." Cheng Nianying said in a low voice.

So the five princes walked in front and set up the tent.

Cheng Nianying and the third prince lifted Liang Xiang's body from behind.

Very heavy.

The Third Prince couldn't help but glance at Cheng Nianying's expression again. ...She still looked perfectly at ease. As if she had handled corpses a thousand times before.

How did the Huan Dynasty train a new crown prince?

The third prince pressed his tongue tightly together, unable to understand.

Just as the third prince guessed, when he saw them carrying the corpse out, Shentu Yu called out to the others to leave from a distance.

The night is getting deeper.

Many soldiers also went to sleep, leaving only a group of patrolmen. After they were stopped by Shentu Yu, the rest of the road was unobstructed.

"Finally, you made up your mind to do it." Shentu Yu smiled and turned away with satisfaction.

"Now that the internal troubles have been resolved, I imagine that tomorrow morning, Your Excellency will use those Huan Dynasty civilians to attack the city. I've heard that the Huaiyuan County Magistrate loves his people like his own children. I wonder if he can still fire arrows when his people are tied to siege vehicles?"

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Behind the stable, the woman opened her clothes and wrapped the child in her arms.

The others did almost the same.

The son hugged his father and mother tightly.

But the chill could not be filled. The wind seemed to come from all directions, drilling holes in the bones.

"Mom, I'm hungry." The child mumbled in a daze.

The woman shed tears silently and put her finger into the child's mouth.

They couldn't remember how many days they had been abducted.

There was also food and water on the first day.

On the second day, only food was given.

On the third day, only water was given.

There was no sign of food or water behind them. They were tied to the back of the stable, and when they were extremely hungry, they would nibble on the horse grass and compete with the horses for water.

suffer hunger and cold.

It’s hard, so hard.

"I'm afraid I'm going to die here." Someone spoke in the dark.

This sentence immediately infected the others, and some of them began to sob softly and suppressedly.

The child, on the other hand, did not feel desperate. Instead, he clung to his mother's arms and, as he often did at home, cried out coquettishly, "Mom, I'm hungry."

"Hungry."

Each cry pierced the adults' hearts.

"Since we are doomed to die, we might as well destroy the Wenxiang people's horses. Didn't they tie us to the horses?"

"War requires horses, right?"

"Uncle San, don't be impulsive!" someone else said hurriedly.

"Yes, Wu San, he has a wife and children."

"I'm not impulsive. You and I, the men, will find a way to destroy the horses and make those women take their children and run away on horseback. The soldiers are only concerned about the noise we make; maybe that will make them run away."

"How can they ride horses?"

"I'm going to die. I have to ride even if I don't know how to ride! Learn how those soldiers kidnapped us on horseback that day. Learn how to ride like them!"

“…”

Wu San gritted his teeth and said, "If I don't fight, am I going to wait for Wen Xiangbing to show mercy?"

"Okay!" Wu San's wife responded first, "Let's do it."

The people scattered outside Huaiyuan City, in addition to farming, also hunt on weekdays. They are tempered day by day in the wind and sand. Even women are not weak.

Wu San seemed to have been waiting for this moment. He smiled and took out the stone he had secretly sharpened, grabbed the rope that tied the person and started cutting.

There was a glint in their eyes.

Both sad and bright.

As many as can survive...

Just then, footsteps suddenly approached.

A corpse was suddenly thrown at them, and they were so scared that they almost died on the spot.

Before he could even move, he was discovered by the Wen Xiang soldiers? What was the Wen Xiang soldiers going to do?

"People of Huan Dynasty?" A woman's voice sounded first in the dim tent.

"You, you..." The people trembled and could not speak clearly.

The fifth prince was the first to speak: "It's them, that's them. Liang Xiang planned to use them to attack the city, so he hasn't killed anyone yet, not even one!"

"Did anyone die of illness?"

"No, no! Absolutely not! I was just hungry for a few days..."

"Let's go, I'll take you back to Huan Dynasty." Cheng Nianying walked up to them.