Chapter 42 (Catching Bugs)
"Little Princess, this... It's not me who is stopping you. It's the general who said in person that you are not allowed to get close to the Fourth Prince." The soldier who stopped her looked embarrassed.
Yun Mian looked at the prison cell right in front of her, but was unwilling to leave just like that.
She squatted not far from the sergeant and started chatting with him, then asked the system uncle to secretly fly in and take a picture for her to see.
It was just such a harmless request. If she asked the system uncle to fly to the enemy's military camp to take a picture of the defense map or something, both she and the system uncle would be judged as cheating by the main system and would be kicked out of this small world.
The system uncle was just coaxed into being happy by her, and he was super efficient. He came back in less than three minutes, and brought back some photos and dynamic videos of the fourth prince.
Yunmian stood up excitedly, patted her butt and ran back, as if the one who had been trying so hard to get in to take a look was not her.
"Uncle System, please let me see what he looks like. This way, if I happen to meet someone who looks similar to him in the future, he might be a member of the royal family of Tu Country!" Yun Mian's mind was filled with the same thought.
system:"……"
For some reason, it seemed as if it saw Yunmian's previous world, where they would wait for the wanted notices issued by the police every day, carefully memorize the appearance of murderers, and dream of meeting them and reporting them for a reward of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Yun Mian didn’t know there were such people in her world. She just carefully memorized the features of the fourth prince, and then nodded solemnly: "Uncle System, I have decided. I must disguise myself when I go out in the future!"
Otherwise, wouldn't it be a burden to the royal family on our side?
System: "...Mianmian, have you ever thought that perhaps no one else would be as whimsical as you?"
Besides, all the other children of the Yun family except her are in the imperial city, so it would be difficult for the enemy country to steal them!
Yun Mian's deep expression gradually broke, and then he snorted unconvincedly: "That's not necessarily true! My eldest brother is going to fight on the battlefield, and Yun Lin will also travel around to make money in the future. What if they..."
She didn't say the rest of the words because she was afraid that she might accidentally come across as a pessimist.
After slapping him twice, Yun Mian stared at the fourth prince in the cell, who looked about the same age as herself and had a pale and haggard face. She silently wondered how her mother and the others would use this child to attack the Tu Kingdom.
Yunmian thought of many ways, and finally summed up a sentence with Uncle System: "It is better to be early than late, otherwise things will change."
Afterwards, she told her mother about this, and smiled as her mother patted the dog's head and praised her. Then she heard her mother say, "We have already sent someone to do it. We have already contacted the imperial concubine. As long as her son is fine, she is willing to cooperate with us in everything."
Yun Mian looked at her mother's calm expression, but her mind went blank for a long time.
She thought of herself in the plot. Yun Yi sent people to assassinate her mother on the battlefield. Later, her mother returned to Beijing seriously injured... She was packed up and sent to Tuguo.
Later, Yun Yi's power grew, and he had more and more soldiers at his disposal... Could it be the work of my mother?
When Yun Yi used himself to threaten my mother, was my mother like the Imperial Concubine Tu, willing to do anything as long as her daughter was well?
Her heart suddenly felt a spasmodic pain. Yunmian curled up in her mother's arms, thinking to herself that she would never let her mother suffer like that again.
She is no longer the little Princess Yunmian who was trapped in the palace and could only be measured by the emperor's courtiers' value of marriage. She escaped and stayed with her mother, and would never let herself and her mother repeat the same mistakes.
Yunmian didn't know what to do when she was young, but she knows now.
Yunmian lit a candle, and under the flickering dim light, she bit the tip of the brush and thought carefully while writing a letter every day, word by word.
This letter was to the Queen's aunt. Before she left, she had promised her aunt that after arriving in the border town, she would write one letter a day except for the few days when her finger was injured. However, in order not to waste the troops' energy, these letters were sent back to the imperial city at a fixed time.
Yun Mian held her face in her hands and was stunned for a while, then she began to write carefully, stroke by stroke.
[Aunt, my hand has healed a lot. The military doctor said that I am still young and my skin and flesh will heal quickly. Maybe in half a month or so, there won’t even be a scar left after it heals.
Today I went to the prison to see what the fourth prince looked like, but my mother was too much. She even told the guards not to let me in! But it doesn't matter, I'm the super smart and resourceful General Mianmian! So I thought that this fourth prince might change the situation of our upcoming war.
But General Mom is a hundred times more powerful than General Mianmian. She thought about it a long time ago and has already done it. I heard that the other party is very cooperative.
But aunt, Mianmian is not writing this letter to complain about mother. I just want to tell you that I found that mother really loves Mianmian, so aunt, do you also love the eldest brother and the second brother very much? Does the mother of the second and third sisters also love them very much?
I think it is definitely true, just like we kids love our mothers the most!
Aunt, I'm telling you a secret. Children who are loved by their mothers are so happy, like flowers gently embraced by the sun.
Aunt, Mianmian will spend her whole life with mother. Please don't worry about her life anymore. Mother only has me, a little cotton flower, and I can't share it with others. Otherwise, she will have nothing. I will be so heartbroken that I will want to die. It's really scary.
Aunt, please don't be jealous. Mianmian loves you too. Mianmian will ride the tallest and strongest horse, pull the sharpest and fullest bow, and defeat the other three kingdoms. In this way, the ministers will not let the grown-up second and third sisters marry, but let other countries send hostages to Daqing, and no one will dare to bully us anymore!
The New Year is almost over, aunt, you and uncle should not miss Mianmian too much in the Imperial City. Mianmian will light longevity lanterns for you in the Border Town when the time comes. They will be very beautiful! ]
Yun Mian carefully folded a stack of letter papers and put them away, then stretched herself and looked at the bright moon in the sky outside the window.
There is still more than a month left until the New Year. This is the first year that she and her mother have spent in the border town.
However, my mother and my uncle, the military advisor, have set up a plan in Tuguo, hoping to see results before the New Year.
In fact, the enemy country did fall into chaos very quickly.
The country is in turmoil and the border will not be stable either. Yun Mian travels back and forth between Qiliang City and the military camp every day. Along the way, he sees many refugees who sneaked into Daqing from Tuguo.
The governor of Qiliang City has been nearly driven bald by worry recently. With so many refugees and now being a critical moment of confrontation between the two armies, who knows if there might be spies or something else hidden among those refugees?
Regarding this, Yun Mian stood aside and watched her mother give orders in a cold voice: "Imprison all these refugees outside the city, make them do labor and give them a certain amount of food. Don't let them eat too much. Send soldiers to guard them. If there is any unusual movement or epidemic, kill them without mercy."
The prefect breathed a sigh of relief and agreed to leave.
Yunmian looked at her mother's delicate but cold profile, and while studying, she thought about the reasons and pros and cons of doing so.
And, is there any better way to deal with it?
Ever since the prefect left, Yun Peijin's attention has been on his daughter. When he saw her with her eyes downcast, thinking seriously, a hint of joy flashed in his eyes, but he did not immediately speak out to interrupt the little girl's thoughts.
When she came back to her senses, he opened his lips and asked her softly, "Did Little Cotton think of anything?"
Yun Mian nodded obediently, looking at her with eyes full of admiration: "Mother is so amazing. Those refugees are not citizens of our country, so even if we execute them like the Snow Country treats refugees, no one will question it. But mother not only left them a way to live, but also prevented them from causing trouble and spreading the disease because of the possibility of carrying the disease. Although there are still many omissions that cannot be made up, this is already the best way to deal with the current situation between the two countries."
Yun Peijin touched the little guy's head and said gently, "In fact, a better way is to disperse them to other places. Daqing is so big that it can always accommodate them. But now is wartime, and our troops must be intact. Qiliang City is responsible for supplying our armaments and supplies as well as some issues such as the treatment of the wounded. Therefore, the governor can't spare more manpower to deal with these refugees, so we can only use this method to prevent the refugees from causing chaos during this period and causing greater impact."
In fact, the main purpose is to prevent spies and gatherings to cause trouble. The most important thing is if someone is carrying an epidemic disease... hundreds of thousands of troops plus the people of Qiliang City may all be doomed.
"Never think that generals and counselors are too kind." Yun Peijin taught his daughter: "For the sake of victory, we are the ones who work the hardest and use all means. Although most generals would not do such things that harm the harmony of heaven, we must not let down our guard at all, otherwise these lives will have to pay a heavy price for our momentary laxity."
Every time her mother said something, Yun Mian nodded seriously. Finally, she said thoughtfully, "No wonder Master always said that no matter how talented we are, we will die on the battlefield."
Because a real battle between two armies is not a simulation on a sand table, any mistake may lead to the total loss of a battle. The immature methods of her and Bai Lie, two little kids, are just children playing house in the eyes of their mother and master, who actually go to the battlefield.
That was why the master had always told her and Bai Lie that one had to actually go to the battlefield and kill enemies to be considered a qualified soldier, but this was still a long way from becoming a general.
Thinking of this, Yunmian hugged her mother's waist again, raised her face and praised her happily: "I am so lucky. Mianmian actually has the most powerful general in the world as her mother~"
Yun Peijin: “…”
Unable to bear it any longer, he wrote a letter to Yun Peishu that night, asking him how he had taught Xiao Mianhua in those three years.
Does he force Little Cotton to brag about his achievements in all kinds of ways every day after court session?
The seeds of doubt were planted one after another, and the emperor took the blame one after another, but Yun Mian managed to cover it up like a turtle shell with his own ability.
But such warm days did not last long at the border.
Soon, the spies sent back information that the third prince of Tu State had died young. The forces behind the third prince made a desperate effort and completely muddied the waters.
It just so happened that the General Qi stationed at the border was the second uncle of the third prince.
There is another chapter coming soon, Happy Lantern Festival.
I wish everyone happiness and health this year!
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