Chapter 72 Zheng Yuezhao and Wen Huan's plot

Wen Huan left in the morning, and before noon, Zheng Yuezhao anxiously asked Deputy General Yuan: "Why hasn't the general come back yet?"

Deputy General Yuan answered truthfully: "The snow mountain is not close to here, and the Marshal will be back in the evening at the earliest."

Zheng Yuezhao still looked uneasy, and after a while, he asked again in a hurry.

Deputy General Yuan is loyal to Wen Huan, but he is honest and foolish, so he would just repeat this sentence over and over again.

By the afternoon, Zheng Yuezhao could no longer sit still and walked out of the tent: "I want to go find the general. Has something happened to the general?"

Deputy General Yuan quickly blocked her way: "No! Without the Marshal's order, the young lady cannot leave the tent!"

Zheng Yuezhao looked at him with red eyes and asked in a tearful voice: "What if something happens to the general while he's away? I can't live without the general!"

Deputy General Yuan didn't know why the young lady didn't understand what he was saying, so he frowned and repeated, "Marshal, nothing will happen. When I went hunting with a few young masters in the past few years, we sometimes came back in the evening and sometimes after dark. And even if there is something wrong, the young lady will only cause trouble if she goes."

Unexpectedly, Zheng Yuezhao became even more emotional after hearing this, and walked past him and walked out quickly: "Even if I die, I want to die with the general!"

Deputy General Yuan could only try to stop her, but as soon as he grabbed her wrist, he was slapped in the face.

"How dare you!" Zheng Yuezhao was so angry that she burst into tears. Her slender hands trembled as she looked at him in disbelief. "I am the general's woman. How dare you touch me?"

Lieutenant General Yuan was so frightened that he quickly let go.

Zheng Yuezhao had already left the tent, and Deputy General Yuan followed immediately. He did not dare to stop her, so he could only compromise and said, "Madam, I will take you to the general. You don't know the way."

Zheng Yuezhao knew that he had a military mission and could not get rid of it, so he stopped and ordered him with tears in his eyes: "I can ride a horse, find me a horse and take me to find the general."

Lieutenant General Yuan had no choice but to do this. He ordered people to prepare horses and selected a dozen soldiers to follow him before he dared to set off with his young lady.

*

Wen Huan was lucky today. He found traces of a red fox soon after entering the mountain. After spending a lot of effort hunting it down, he was even happier to see that the dead fox had excellent fur, which was shiny and smooth.

He was hurrying back with a group of people. When they were almost at the camp, they suddenly saw a man riding a horse hurriedly coming towards them not far away. He looked more and more familiar. As he got closer, Wen Huan's face changed.

“Why are you here!?”

His roar startled all the birds in the forest and the man dismounted with a pale face and knelt on the ground. It was Deputy General Yuan.

"Please forgive me, Marshal. My wife followed me out to look for the general. On the way, the horse got scared and carried my wife to the canyon where the prince of Xitian was trapped. I hurried to chase her but failed to catch up. When I got there, I asked our garrison soldiers and learned that my wife had entered the Chixia Valley. The Marshal's order was that people could enter the canyon but not leave. The soldiers in ambush hid in the dark and did not stop her..."

Wen Huan felt the world spinning, his ears buzzing, and he staggered back two steps.

"marshal!"

At the call of his subordinates, he came to his senses, pulled out the knife of the soldier behind him, and slashed at Deputy General Yuan with bloodshot eyes: "Who told you to bring her out! I will kill you!"

Deputy General Yuan did not dodge or evade, and looked ready to die. Wen Huan was held by his confidant's arms and stopped: "General Yuan is loyal to the Marshal, there must be a reason for this incident! General Yuan, explain quickly!"

Deputy General Yuan did not explain and looked as if he accepted the crime. The soldier traveling with Deputy General Yuan became anxious and told him the whole story.

"How can you blame General Yuan for this?" After hearing this, Deputy General Qian said quickly, "The young lady insisted on leaving. She is the woman in the Marshal's heart. How can Deputy General Yuan stop her? Please calm down, Marshal, and go back to discuss how to rescue the young lady."

The knife in Wen Huan's hand fell to the ground and he closed his eyes tightly.

The Prince of Xitian was a lustful man. Upon hearing that the king was seriously ill, he became regent and raped almost all the women in his father's harem. Even the slightly pretty maids in the palace could not escape his clutches.

When Wen Huan thought of Ah Zhao's face, he felt his hands and feet go numb and the blood flowed backwards.

He said with trembling teeth, "What else are we discussing? Pass on my order, lead the troops to attack Chixia Valley immediately and wipe out the remaining bandits in Xitian!"

"No, Marshal!" Deputy General Qian said with wide eyes, "The Emperor hasn't sent Concubine Jiang over yet. If we wipe out the remaining bandits, we will have no reason to demand hostages. When His Majesty settles accounts with the Marshal after we return to the capital, we will be completely at the mercy of others!"

Wen Huan clenched his fists and looked towards the direction of Chixia Valley with red eyes.

"marshal!"

Everyone looked over and saw Guo Zhenxiong riding a horse coming from the direction of the camp. He probably saw them stop halfway and was curious, so he rode over to greet them: "The marshal won't let us advance, I'm so bored, I was going to catch some fish in the mountain stream over there and grill them. Why are you here too? Do you want to come with us? Hey, why is the marshal crying?"

Wen Huan's confidants were too lazy to pay attention to him, but they were afraid that his nonsense would anger the marshal, so they briefly told him the story: the marshal's concubine had accidentally entered the Chixia Valley.

Guo Zhenxiong's expression suddenly changed: "How could this happen? What on earth are you doing? You can't even take care of a little girl!"

Wen Huan's cronies glared at him.

Guo Zhenxiong dismounted, walked to Wen Huan, and said in a serious voice: "Marshal Wen, the worst outcome is not what you think. Those people in Xitian have been trapped in the valley for more than ten days. I'm afraid they are so hungry that they have to dig up tree roots to eat. Food and sex, food comes before sex."

Wen Huan thought of something and suddenly turned pale.

Guo Zhenxiong was about to persuade him to send troops, but Wen Huan had already clenched his shaking hands and issued an order to send troops to Chixia Valley.

Deputy General Qian was anxious: "Marshal!"

Wen Huan calmed down, his expression was solemn, and he said in a voice as loud as a bell: "Anyone who disobeys military orders will be executed immediately."

*

In a cave in Chixia Valley, Zheng Yuezhao sat in a corner with his knees hugged, looking at the barbecue that the Prince of Xitian was eating, and trying hard to suppress the urge to vomit.

Next to her, a Xitian soldier who had fainted was tied up, his legs exposed.

The Prince of Xitian ate meat, looked at her with a smile, and mumbled something inaudible. The people of Xitian around him laughed with ill intent.

After she had laughed enough, a Xitian native who was fluent in both languages translated for her in an ambiguous way: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince asked if you want to eat. You will have to eat a lot before you have the energy to serve His Highness!"

Zheng Yuezhao shook his head in fear.

The people of Xitian laughed again.

Zheng Yuezhao lowered his eyes and thought of his sister.

My younger sister has always been timid, so why would she escape from the building again and again? I guess the people she faced were as disgusting as the people from Xitian today, so disgusting that she would rather be beaten and let her sister die than be contaminated by them.

My sister has always been clean. She came from a clean background and will always be clean.

When ordered by the prince to undress, Zheng Yuezhao did not resist. She knew what she wanted to do. She wanted revenge, but she also wanted to survive.

The one who is dirty is the one who defiles himself, not herself.

Domain name: Her outer garments fell to the ground one by one, and when she was about to remove the last layer of cover in front of everyone, the sound of horse hooves suddenly came from outside.

The people of Xitian in the cave were frightened and took up their weapons. No one cared about Zheng Yuezhao who was alone anymore.