Shangguan Wanning rolled her eyes, snorted heavily and turned her head to the other side.
"What do you plan to do with her?" Sun Jinyao looked at Chang Qingqing and asked.
Mu Jingrui said coldly: "She is not the real Chang Qingqing at all. Since she is an enemy, there is no need to keep her."
After saying that, he called his men to take her out.
"Now that the matter has come to an end, there is nothing for me to do for the time being."
"Brother Yao, are you really not injured?" Shangguan Wanning walked to Sun Jinyao's side and asked with concern, "You must have been very tired these days running around outside."
Sun Jinyao saw Mu Jingrui's unfriendly look out of the corner of his eye, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly.
"It's not easy. I'll find a place to rest first, and we'll talk when I'm back to normal."
After saying that, Sun Jinyao walked out.
The military tent suddenly became quiet.
Mu Jingrui came to Shangguan Wanning and said seriously, "There is something I want to give you a suggestion."
"What?"
"Can you change the way you address Sun Jinyao?"
Shangguan Wanning was startled, and trying hard to suppress her smile, she raised her head and asked, "Why?"
"Because...when I heard you call him Brother Yao so affectionately, I wanted to beat him up."
This is Mu Jingrui's truest thought deep in his heart.
He couldn't tolerate Shangguan Wanning's dependence on any man other than him.
"General Mu, you really are such a traitor. I just helped you so much, and you turned your back on me in the blink of an eye?"
"Two different things." Mu Jingrui said calmly.
Shangguan Wanning ignored him and walked out of the tent to go back to sleep.
All problems seemed to be resolved overnight. She was in a good mood and had a dreamless night.
The next morning, Shangguan Wanning was awakened by the sound of a horn. She quickly put on her clothes and rushed out, and saw Mu Jingrui already wearing armor and riding on a horse, ready to go.
Mu Jingrui looked at her, gave her a reassuring smile, and then led his troops to battle.
"Don't worry too much," Sun Jinyao came over at some point and said calmly, "80,000 elite soldiers of the Barbarian Tribe are trapped in the canyon, like a turtle in a jar. For Mu Jingrui, it's as easy as taking something out of a bag. They will be back soon."
Shangguan Wanning forced a smile, but she was still worried.
Just as Sun Jinyao expected, Mu Jingrui led his troops to the canyon and attacked. The enemy was defeated. In just half a day, more than half of the 80,000 elite soldiers were killed, and the remaining troops and equipment surrendered.
However, Mu Jingrui did not see the legendary Holy Son.
He asked the captives and learned that after the Son of God suffered the backlash of witchcraft, he anticipated that the situation was not good and fled overnight with his trusted men.
Mu Jingrui was full of contempt for this kind of behavior of deserting the battlefield.
Without any obstruction, the troops led by Mu Jingrui were unstoppable and quickly recovered the lost territory and approached the territory of the barbarians.
Shangguan Wanning could see that Mu Jingrui wanted to completely annihilate the barbarians.
Mu Jingrui stationed 100,000 elite soldiers in a city on the border to rest and recuperate temporarily until he had deployed a battle plan before launching a large-scale attack.
Shangguan Wanning studied Lu Xiangzi's medical skills very seriously every day. She saw several medicinal herbs that were only available in certain regions and happened to be available nearby, so she wanted to see them with her own eyes.
She asked Sun Jinyao to go out together and search in the back mountain.
Sun Jinyao had little interest in Lu Xiangzi's medical skills and seemed to be just accompanying Shangguan Wanning to learn.
"Brother Yao, come and take a look. Is this the kind described in the book?"
Sun Jinyao took the herb from Shangguan Wanning's hand, smelled it, and threw it aside.
"No. The book says this herb has a light smell and fine leaves. The one you pulled has too strong a grassy smell."
Shangguan Wanning discovered that Sun Jinyao was much more talented in medical skills than she was, but he was simply unwilling to put his mind into it.
The two continued walking forward and suddenly heard a slow but messy sound of footsteps.
Sun Jinyao immediately protected Shangguan Wanning behind him.
Soon, a group of ragged people came from the corner, all of them were the elderly, the weak, women and children.
They looked sad, walked unsteadily and were listless.
An old woman fell to the ground when she passed by Shangguan Wanning. She struggled for a few times but couldn't get up. The people who were walking with her were all indifferent and turned a blind eye to her.
Shangguan Wanning ran over to help the woman up, felt her pulse, and found that she was just exhausted.
She took out the clean water she carried with her from her backpack and fed it to the old woman.
After a long time, the old woman came to her senses, opened her eyes, looked at Shangguan Wanning, and said a few words that Shangguan Wanning could not understand at all.
"They should be from the barbarian tribe."
After Sun Jinyao's reminder, Shangguan Wanning noticed that the corners of the old woman's clothes exposed under her coat were indeed different from those in the Central Plains.
"Girl, can you... give my daughter a sip of water, too?"
A woman about the same age as Shangguan Wanning came over, speaking stiff Chinese with pleading eyes.
Shangguan Wanning handed over the water bag and also took out some dry food to share with them.
Everyone then let down their guard and ate voraciously.
A little girl ran over and fed the half-eaten cake to Shangguan Wanning's mouth.
Shangguan Wan Ning looked at the girl's clear eyes and couldn't refuse, so she took a small bite. "You eat it."
"Thank you, young lady." The woman came over and bowed.
"No, it's just a small matter." Shangguan Wanning asked out of curiosity, "By the way, where are you going?"
Everyone looked at each other in silence for a long time, and after a long time the woman let out a deep sigh.
"We are from the Barbarian Tribe. We have been fighting with the Central Plains for some time. It was going well, but then the Central Plains court changed a general. Not only did he take back the city, he also injured our Holy Son."
"The tribe leader took all the men away and asked them to go to the front line to fight, leaving only the useless women outside. We couldn't stay in our hometown, so we had to go to the border, hoping to pretend to be Han Chinese and beg for food."
Shangguan Wanning and Sun Jinyao looked at each other.
Sun Jinyao saw through Shangguan Wanning's thoughts. After all, she was a woman, and a young lady who had never experienced the sufferings of the world. Seeing such a situation, she would definitely feel soft-hearted and want to help them.
However, these are extraordinary times and we absolutely cannot be soft-hearted.
"There's only so much you can do. War is inherently cruel." Sun Jinyao pulled Shangguan Wanning to her feet, "It's getting late, let's go back."
Shangguan Wanning felt helpless.
Suddenly, the group knelt down.
"Girl, I'm sorry."
"What are you doing..." Shangguan Wanning's throat hurt so much that she couldn't speak.
She thought to herself that something was wrong, but before she had time to think, her vision went dark and she passed out.
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