The lobby of Jiang Mansion.
Jiang Xiuyuan paced back and forth, his hands behind his back. Occasionally, he would stop and think, his eyes revealing the wisdom of an old man.
"Dad, what are you doing?" Jiang Hai asked as he entered the door.
Turning his head to look at Haodaer, Jiang Xiuyuan handed the note to Jiang Hai and said,
"Your father-in-law has gone to the border. Qin Bai came to deliver the letter himself, and I just received it."
Jiang Hai took a look at the note. It only wrote the time of departure, probably a few days before they arrived in Xincheng, and the destination of Donggu Pass.
The paper was not big, and Su Hui could not write much, so she just picked out the key points.
"Let me see." Yuchi Ziling heard Jiang Xiuyuan's words and reached out to Jiang Hai for the note anxiously.
Jiang Hai found a chair to sit down and scratched his head. He hadn't expected this to happen. Wasn't his father-in-law a member of the Capital Guard? How could he be sent to the border? This didn't make sense.
Yuchi Ziling also sat down next to Jiang Hai with a worried look on her face, lost in thought, and didn't say anything.
"Liuzi, call your father over." Jiang Xiuyuan shouted to Liuzi outside the door.
"Okay, master." Liuzi responded and ran to find Hao Bo.
That’s right, Liuzi is actually Hao Bo’s late-born son, whose full name is Hao Liu.
A moment later, Hao Bo came to the lobby and looked around. He felt that the atmosphere seemed a little depressing.
"Master, are you looking for me?" asked Hao Bo.
"Well, my relative Yuchi Zhong was sent to Donggu Pass on the border. What do you think about this?"
Considering that Hao Bo had been in the capital for a long time, Jiang Xiuyuan asked him to provide advice.
Several people started a brainstorming session in the lobby about various possibilities.
"So it's very likely that the Third Prince is behind this."
Jiang Xiuyuan figured out the situation and thought the same thing as Yuchi Zhong. It was very likely that the third prince wanted to send the capital's left guard away and replace them with his own people to make it easier to seize power later.
"This old emperor is really confused, ah." Jiang Xiuyuan dismissed everyone and left Jiang Hai behind.
"Son, what do you think about this?
I'm worried that Yang Hongye might not just send the Left Guards away; it's not impossible that he'll use some dirty tricks against Yuchi Zhong when the battle begins."
"Damn, is this so insidious?" Jiang Hai was a little annoyed. "Is it too late to take people to Donggu Pass now?"
"It should be possible. It's not that easy to send a large army to war. It takes more than a month to reach Donggu Pass from the capital. The question is, can you handle it? This is not like our Southern Xinjiang. It's not a joke."
Although Jiang Xiuyuan knew that the military camp in the north of Jiang Hai City was very powerful, he had also seen them use explosives to split mountains and rocks.
However, when fighting at the border, the battlefield is huge, with no less than 100,000 soldiers on the battlefield, so some concerns are inevitable.
"It's okay. I have a million soldiers. Don't worry, Dad. Since Yang Hongye might make some moves on the battlefield, we just need to prevent them from fighting. Hehe."
Jiang Hai had an idea and grinned.
"What do you want to do?" Jiang Xiuyuan asked in confusion when he saw his carefree look.
"If we drive the foreigners back before the army arrives, wouldn't we avoid having to fight? And it won't expose our strength. You can just retire here and enjoy your retirement."
"It doesn't seem that easy. It would take quite a while for you to get there even if you were on light cavalry."
"No, it's faster to go there by boat. Okay, Dad, I know what to do. Let's go." Jiang Hai waved his hand and walked out of the lobby.
At this time, the land route seemed to Jiang Hai to be simply unsightly. His trip to the capital had already left him with a trauma, so how could he possibly travel by land again?
"When do we set off?" Jiang Xiuyuan asked from behind.
"Let's do it tomorrow morning. We need to prepare today and then go to the military camp to find Wu Gong and the others."
"OK."
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Walking out of the lobby, Jiang Hai saw Yuchi Ziling waiting in the corridor not far away.
"What happened? What did Dad say?" Yuchi Ziling was a little anxious.
"Let's go to the military camp and prepare to go to the battle."
"Are you going to help my father fight the foreigners?"
"Yes, we're leaving tomorrow morning. Do you want to go?"
"go."
Yuchi Ziling nodded affirmatively and was very happy to hear Jiang Hai say that he would go to help.
Now that she has married into the Jiang family, from the perspective of this era, she must put the Jiang family first. Whether to help her in-laws is up to the head of the family.
Jiang Xiuyuan already owed Yuchi Zhong a huge favor, and they were even in-laws, so he couldn't bear to see him fall into danger. So, letting his son make the trip was understandable.
"Gee!" Wenzhi drove the carriage out of Jiang's house.
In the car were Jiang Hai and his wife, and the Rainbow group. Originally, they only needed to bring Cai'er with them to the military camp, but Hong'er and Cai'er had been inseparable these days, so she went along too.
On the way, Hong'er was embroidering something with needle and thread. Fortunately, the roads in this new city were flat and Jiang Hai's carriage was stable. If she were somewhere else, it would be impossible to embroider while walking.
"Well, Hong'er embroidered these yellow chrysanthemums very well. Let me show them to you, young master."
Seeing that the atmosphere in the car was quite depressing, Jiang Hai tried to find something to talk about. He estimated that as expected, Hamster Cai'er would immediately speak up to stop him.
As expected.
"Master, why do you always like to take girls' things?" Cai'er spoke.
"My dear, you see, Cai'er and I must be incompatible with each other." Jiang Hai ignored Cai'er and started talking to his wife.
"Haha, maybe." Yuchi Ziling chuckled.
"Don't worry, luckily my mother-in-law got the news quickly," Jiang Hai said, seeing her worried look, "we have plenty of time to go there."
"Yes." Yuchi Ziling nodded, "But, are you so confident that you can win? The soldiers in Xincheng are indeed very powerful, but they are very few in number."
"Oh, what should I do? I'm so scared. My wife, you have to protect me." Jiang Hai pretended to be serious and fell into his wife's arms.
Cai'er's throat felt a little itchy and she wanted to cough. However, she still had the self-discipline of a well-behaved girl, so she endured it and finally turned her attention away.
Accepting the fact that they are husband and wife, Cai'er now pretends to ignore it and continues watching Hong'er embroider.
"Be more normal." Yuchi Ziling was embarrassed by his girlish appearance, but luckily everyone in the car was her friend.
"That's quite normal. I don't know any martial arts, so this makes sense."
Jiang Hai raised his eyes to look at his wife, but he couldn't see her because she was blocked. So he closed his eyes and took a nap.
The carriage drove into the military camp and went directly to the research institute behind it.
Jiang Hai got out of the car and walked in.
Wu Gong had come here since the night Jiang Hai got married and had never returned. Jiang Hai went straight to his study.
The door opened, and Jiang Hai took a closer look.
"Hey, are you really shortsighted in martial arts?"
I saw that Wu Gong was wearing glasses with small silver frames. I have to say, they looked really good with Wu Gong's gentle appearance.
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