Chapter 432: Defection

dawn.

The first rays of sunlight in the early morning shone down.

The glow in the sky is bright red.

The reflection made people's faces red.

But it was not as bright red as the glaring blood on the snow.

But in less than half an hour, the entire general's mansion was cleaned out by the people.

Brand new.

Not a trace was left.

If it weren't for those neatly arranged corpses.

You can't even tell that this place has experienced a great war.

This night.

The people of Cangzhou City were very excited.

Because they killed the northern barbarians with their own hands and avenged their loved ones.

The only weapons they had were harpoons, axes, fish knives, and sticks.

He personally chopped off the enemy's head.

Even if these northern barbarians were not necessarily the ones who killed their relatives, what difference did it make?

These people also have the blood of innocent people in Daliang on their hands.

He even wanted to assassinate their general.

It wouldn't be a pity to die ten thousand times.

It was also this battle that made them realize that not only the soldiers guarding the border could go to the battlefield, but they, as ordinary people, could also do so.

Cangzhou is the battlefield.

Just as Madam Lu said, to defend Cangzhou is to defend Daliang.

This is their hometown and their roots.

They will defend Cangzhou together with the garrison.

The people left one after another.

Xiuxiu came back with people cleaning up the scene. She looked tired and haggard, and the murderous aura around her was still there.

I happened to meet Liu Qingqing helping my sister treat her wounds.

"Why are you here? Aren't you..." Xiuxiu looked surprised.

I didn't see Liu Qingqing the whole night last night, and I thought she was the one who invited those Northern Barbarian killers.

Before I had the chance to ask my sister if it was her, this woman came to my door again.

"Sister, don't believe her..."

Without hesitation, Xiuxiu pulled out a dagger and pressed it against Liu Qingqing's neck: "Tell me, are you a spy for Prince Chen?"

Liu Qingqing was stunned for a moment, then her expression returned to calm. Without any nervousness, she continued to apply medicine to Lu Qingyao.

Not even his hands shook.

He readily admitted, "I am indeed a spy for Prince Chen. I confessed this to Madam Lu last night, but I have never harmed you in the slightest, nor do I have any intention of doing so... We are friends, not enemies."

She was the first to discover that the Northern Barbarians had sneaked into the General's Mansion.

Then she suddenly realized it.

Prince Chen never trusted her at all, and even colluded with foreign invaders to send someone else to kill Mu Yunji.

Even the northern barbarians wanted to kill her.

It's really hateful.

She didn't want to wait any longer, so she decided to switch sides immediately.

As a woman, she admired Lu Qingyao's breadth of mind and courage.

She was even more impressed by her wrist.

The first half of your life is in the hands of others.

In the second half of her life, she wants to be the one who controls her own destiny.

Xiuxiu was skeptical: "Then where did you go last night?"

It's possible that the Northern Barbarians' assassination attempt failed, and they wanted to use her to gain Ajie's sympathy.

Lu Qingyao helped her explain.

It turned out that Liu Qingqing discovered that the Northern Barbarians had sneaked in, knew the purpose of their trip, and also knew who the spy was who let them into the city, so she told everything.

She herself went to inform the military camp.

"Who is the spy? Have you caught him?" Xiuxiu put down the dagger in her hand, still half-believing and half-doubting.

Although Liu Qingqing's current identity is just a little maid beside her elder sister.

It is impossible to mobilize the garrison troops to let the northern barbarians into the city.

But there is always a chance of something happening.

Lu Qingyao said, "He's been caught. He's Liu, the military supervisor in my father's camp..."

This person was someone she had never expected.

General Liu is my father's old subordinate and also his brother who has been through thick and thin with him for many years.

Although he was sent by the emperor to monitor his father, he saved his father from danger several times.

She didn't believe it when Liu Qingqing told her.

But the eldest brother sent people to search Liu's house, and actually found a secret passage leading out of the city, and also found several half-burned letters.

Only then did I realize that this man had actually betrayed my father back then.

He was also involved in the military pay embezzlement case that year.

Sometimes the person who wants you dead the most is the one you trust the most.

Xiuxiu was stunned for a moment and stopped questioning the spy.

He just looked at Liu Qingqing and continued to ask, "You said you were a spy for Prince Chen and didn't want to harm us, so why are you still staying in the General's Mansion? Could it be that you really have a crush on our Brother Feng?"

Speaking of Jiang Zifeng, Liu Qingqing's brows twitched slightly, and she looked embarrassed. "That's not the case. I just happened to save Mr. Jiang, so I had no choice but to stay with him. I even... lied that we had physical contact... but in fact, there was nothing."

Now that everything has been made clear, she might as well confess everything about how she met Jiang Zifeng and rescued him.

Although she deceived Madam Lu, she saved her son in the end.

We are even now.

"Then why do you suddenly change sides now?" They have been secret guards and death squads.

I don't believe in the excuse of having a change of conscience.

"I want to get rid of King Chen, I want to get rid of my lowly status..." The most important thing is that I don't want to help the evil.

Of course, if I said this, the beautiful lady in front of me would definitely not believe it.

After all, she had been aiding and abetting the evil for many years.

She stepped forward and bowed to Lu Qingyao: "Madam, do you still keep your promise to me?"

Lu Qingyao nodded. "As a token of my gratitude, I will have someone deliver the documents of separation, the silver, and the deeds to the farm and shop to your room tomorrow morning. As for your identity, I will announce to the public that you stole the military token and assassinated Duke Shen, and have now been executed..."

"Are you satisfied with this arrangement?"

"Very good, thank you ma'am!"

Liu Qingqing left in such a casual manner, leaving Xiuxiu with a confused look on her face.

"Sister, are you just going to let her go like this?"

"What else can we do? We can't repay kindness with enmity." Lu Qingyao smiled faintly.

This is Liu Qingqing's true nature. She is straightforward when it comes to what she wants.

No awkwardness, no affectation.

I think it must have been hard to pretend to be a spy all these years.

There will be no good results if you follow a traitor like King Chen who collaborates with the enemy and betrays the country.

She is not stupid.

With such a good opportunity to escape, I naturally know what to choose.

Xiuxiu smacked her lips, and her sister said, "Just let it go."

She remembered what she had just said, but since Liu Qingqing was there, she couldn't speak.

Only then did he sit down next to his elder sister and said seriously, "Sister, I'm going to kill General Liu. If he returns to the capital and bites General Lu, and files a complaint with the emperor, accusing him of treason, our Lu family will be in trouble again."

Lu Qingyao pursed her lips and thought for a while: "Well, wait until Mu Yunji finishes interrogating him before killing him. We will announce to the public that he died at the hands of the Northern Barbarians."

She clenched her fists.

In the excitement, the wound on his shoulder was torn open again, and blood oozed out.

Even though he was protected by the people of the city, he was still injured despite being careful.

She was stabbed several times in the back and once in the shoulder, but fortunately the wounds were not deep.

It's just that for a period of time, you can't lift the sword or make any large movements.

When Xiuxiu saw the wound exposed by her elder sister after she took off her clothes, her eyes immediately turned red: "Sister, does it still hurt?"

"It doesn't hurt anymore." Lu Qingyao warned Xiuxiu: "Don't let anyone know that I'm injured."

"Can't Feng Ge'er and Lord Mu tell you either?"

"cannot……"

Lu Qingyao didn't want her son to be distracted, nor did she want Mu Yunji to have any psychological burden.

Xiuxiu's eyes were red. As she reapplied the medicine to her, she blamed herself: "Sister, it's all my fault. I failed to protect you."

"How can you be blamed for this? It's just a minor injury, nothing serious." Lu Qingyao patted her hand to comfort her.

I've been through so much, this little injury is nothing.

Xiuxiu, on the other hand, no matter how good her skills are, is bound to get hurt: "Come here, I'll help you apply medicine, your arm is bleeding."

Xiuxiu didn't care about this minor injury, but she still rolled up her sleeves and stretched out her hand.

It feels good to have a sister who loves you.

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