Seeing the prince coming, the soldiers no longer looked at him curiously.
Yuan Cheng walked up to Huo Yan and patted his shoulder.
"Northern Qiang has been restless recently. The new king will surely make new moves. Take care on your journey."
Huo Yan nodded, "Okay."
The two have known each other for many years, so there is no need to say much.
Seeing that the time was almost up, Yuan Zhao reached out to take Yuan Qiyu.
"Come to mother's place, father..." She stopped talking in a hurry, "Uncle Huo should leave soon."
Huo Yan smiled, his eyes fixed on Yuan Zhao.
Yuan Cheng on the side couldn't suppress the corner of his mouth.
Huo Yan did not hand Yuan Qi Yu to Yuan Zhao, but just put him down and patted Yuan Musheng's shoulder.
"You two brothers are both men, you must take good care of mother and sister!"
Yuan Nan'an curled his lips, somewhat dissatisfied, "Uncle Huo! I don't need them to take care of me, I can protect them!"
Huo Yan touched her head and smiled, "I know. Uncle Huo is talking about taking care of Zhizhi."
Yuan Xuan, who was standing next to him, took the opportunity to speak: "Don't worry, Uncle Huo! I will definitely take good care of Nan Nan!"
Yuan Cheng glanced at his boy and saw him standing straight next to Yuan Nan'an, which made Yuan Nan'an look disgusted with him again.
Yuan Zhizhi was held by Gan Tang and reached out to Huo Yan.
[Uncle Huo, please come back soon~]
Huo Yan squeezed her little hand and said, "Zhizhi, grow up quickly. I hope that next time I see Zhizhi, she can speak."
The army had already gathered, and Mo Yu called out, "General!"
Huo Yan knew it was time for him to leave. He glanced at Yuan Zhao one last time and asked, "Do you have anything to say?"
Everyone's eyes were focused on Yuan Zhao.
She moved her lips and uttered only four simple words:
"Be careful in everything."
Huo Yan looked at her, then climbed onto his horse and said to Yuan Cheng, "Take good care of them."
Yuan Cheng nodded in understanding, "Don't worry."
With a "hiss", Huo Yan turned his horse's head and headed towards the leading position of the army.
After leaving the city gate, Mo Yu rode his horse to Huo Yan and handed him something.
"General, this was sent by Mo Feng. He said it was from His Highness to the General."
Huo Yan took it and found it was a pair of knee pads.
The pattern on it was embroidered crookedly, just like the handkerchief before, and he could recognize its embroidery at a glance.
Mo Yu was afraid that he didn't know, so he emphasized, "Mo Feng said that this was rushed out day and night after His Highness knew that the general was leaving the capital..."
Huo Yan held the reins in one hand and the knee pad in the other and looked back.
The figures of all sizes standing at the city gate are still vaguely visible.
He had traveled from the capital to the northwest many times. In the past ten years, he had never had any worries and always left without looking back or any nostalgia.
He always thought that the rest of his life would belong only to that desert.
But today... it's different.
…
Yuan Zhao stood at the city gate with the children until they could no longer see any sign of the army leaving the city, and then they prepared to get on the carriage and leave.
Yuan Cheng was busy and left first, taking Yuan Musheng with him and leaving Yuan Xuan behind.
Yuan Xuan was happy. With his brother Mu Sheng around, his father would discipline him less. He was happy to go back to the princess's mansion with Yuan Nan'an and the others.
The people at the city gate have gradually dispersed.
Yuan Zhao let the children get on the carriage first. As he was about to get on from the back, he heard an angry "Yuan Zhao!"
She turned around and saw Wei Shaoqing standing behind her.
Biyun was the first to stand in front of Yuan Zhao, fearing that Wei Shaoqing might do something right away.
Several children who were already on the bus lifted the curtain and looked out.
Yuan Zhao looked Wei Shaoqing up and down and saw that the clothes he was wearing were exactly the same as those worn by the guards at the city gate.
Wei Shaoqing was transferred to guard the city gate?
"Is there something wrong?" She asked calmly, treating Wei Shaoqing as if he were a stranger, without a trace of emotion in her eyes.
Wei Shaoqing was filled with anger, and the scene he had just seen was extremely jarring.
On the first day he was transferred from the government office to guard the city gate, he encountered Huo Yan going to war.
Seeing Huo Yan's rise to prominence, he felt jealous and gnashed his teeth.
But he didn't expect that his wife and children would openly come to see another man off!
Especially when he heard that little bastard Yuan Qiyu actually calling Huo Yan "Daddy" loudly, and the people around him acted as if they were used to it, he suddenly felt like he was being cuckolded.
Could it be that Yuan Qiyu is not his own child at all?
He couldn't suppress his anger, and saw that those children who had always been cold to him were smiling in front of Huo Yan.
If Yuan Cheng hadn't been there, he would have wanted to go up and punch Huo Yan twice!
Now that Yuan Cheng and Huo Yan were gone, he pointed at Yuan Zhao and asked, "You divorced me because of Huo Yan?!"
Yuan Zhao raised his eyebrows slightly and sneered. He didn't really want to pay attention to him, nor did he want to waste words with him.
She turned around and prepared to get in the car.
But Wei Shaoqing refused to give in. He grabbed Yuan Zhao's clothes, his face flushed. "Yuan Zhao! Tell me! Have you been secretly having an affair with Huo Yan for a long time?! Are you leaving me just for him?!"
"I knew it! You were so reluctant when the marriage was arranged, but you just can't forget him?!" His face was ferocious, and he looked nothing like the elegant gentleman he used to be.
He even spoke with conviction, as if he were the victim, and sarcastically said, "Tell me, you have met him privately quite a lot in the past ten years, right? Are these bastards all his bastards, Huo Yan? You are the one who is unvirtuous and should be divorced..."
Before he could finish his words, Yuan Zhao pushed him away and kicked him away.
"Wei Shaoqing!" Her face was stern. "What have you done that you still need me to tell the world about?!"
"You're dirty yourself, don't lump everyone in the same category as you!"
Wei Shaoqing got up and wanted to grab Yuan Zhao, but Fushan pinned him to the ground and he couldn't move.
"Yuan Zhao!!"
The foreman guarding the city gate also came over with his men, grabbed Wei Shaoqing, covered his mouth and apologized to Yuan Zhao.
"Your Highness, please forgive me for disturbing you."
Yuan Zhao glanced at Wei Shaoqing coldly and got on the carriage.
Gan Tang instructed the foreman outside, "You know what to do if you leave your post without permission."
The foreman, who had been particularly attentive to Wei Shaoqing because he was a royal consort, understood Gan Tang's intentions and bowed repeatedly, "Don't worry, young lady. I'll take him back and teach him a lesson."
Yuan Zhao's carriage left and Wei Shaoqing was dragged away, with a sinister look in his eyes.
He fell from heaven to the bottom of the valley, all thanks to Yuan Zhao!
How could she get what she wanted and be with Huo Yan and Meimei? !
He prayed in his heart that Huo Yan would die on the battlefield...
He paused slightly for this. He vaguely remembered hearing someone say that Huo Yan would be killed by thousands of arrows piercing his heart.
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