"Ning'er, stop making trouble." Zheng Bingrong stepped forward and pulled Shangguan Wan Ning away. "I'm sorry to have embarrassed you, Master Yu. Please go in."
Shen Ziyu glanced at Shangguan Wanning with a meaningful look in his eyes. He smiled slightly and left with Qin Yuting.
Shangguan Wanning knew she couldn't stop him, so she turned her gaze to Zheng Guoxun who was sitting silently beside her.
"Grandpa, do you have anything to say to Ning'er?"
Shangguan Wanning didn't cry, but it felt like there was a wound in her heart that was being completely torn apart.
"I didn't intend to hide this from you. I just wanted to find a suitable opportunity to tell you. Since you heard it, I'll tell you now."
Zheng Guoxun stood up and walked to the window, looking at the sky in the distance, his eyes became cloudy.
"You were captured by human traffickers and then sent to Mu Jingrui. It was either a coincidence or something I arranged."
Shangguan Wanning's heart sank to the bottom and froze in an instant.
She always thought that she was lucky to remain innocent in such an environment, but she didn't expect that everything was deliberately arranged.
"Grandpa went through all means to send me to Mu Jingrui, just for the deployment map of his troops for the decisive battle with Xixia?"
"right."
"So, the troop deployment diagram that grandpa modified was not to help him, but to harm him?" Shangguan Wanning's voice was trembling.
"Ning'er, we are not harming him. We are just avenging our second brother and Zhixing." Zheng Bingrong tried to correct Shangguan Wanning's statement.
"Mu Jingrui is an extremely terrifying person. His research and attainments in the art of war have probably surpassed his father. There are not many people in the world who can fight him. My father and I were impressed when we saw the battle formation he arranged himself."
Shangguan Wanning took a few steps back, feeling hopeless.
"That is to say, if Grandpa hadn't changed, he might not have lost the battle at Tiangoujian?"
"It's not necessarily, it's definitely." Zheng Guoxun didn't like Mu Jingrui very much, but he still recognized his military talent.
Shangguan Wanning suddenly burst into tears. "I killed him...I killed him..."
Without her, Zheng Guoxun and Zheng Bingrong would not have been able to enter the camp so smoothly, and it would have been even more impossible for them to convince the deputy general and the lieutenant general after modifying the battle formation.
"Why are you crying? You have avenged Zhixing and your second uncle, you should be happy." Zheng Bingrong scolded.
Shangguan Wanning's eyes were bloodshot and she looked at Zheng Guoxun with great grief.
"Grandpa, when you agreed to my marriage to Jing Rui, did you already have a plan for revenge?"
Zheng Guoxun did not answer, which was considered as his agreement.
Shangguan Wanning was completely desperate.
"Grandpa, you have also fought on the battlefield. You know the cruelty and significance of war better than Ning'er. You want to avenge Zhixing and your second uncle, so you have to kill Jingrui. But what about the 100,000 soldiers? They are innocent... and you let them be buried with you? How can you bear it?"
Shangguan Wanning's roar and questioning made Zheng Guoxun's face change slightly. He clenched his hands in his sleeves into fists.
"For the sake of revenge, I can't care about so much. Our Zheng family has been loyal for generations, defending our country and sacrificing so much for the court and the people... But how did the court treat us? The emperor took away everything from the Yiyong Marquis's Mansion with just one sentence..."
Shangguan Wanning suddenly discovered that the grandfather she had always respected was blinded by hatred and had lost his mind.
She didn't have the energy to argue with him anymore, her mind was full of Mu Jingrui.
She turned around sadly and returned to the room she had been in in a daze.
Shangguan Wanning's mind was blank and she was in a daze. She had no idea what to do next.
Faintly, she seemed to hear some movement outside the door. She got up to open the door, but found it was locked.
"Open the door... open the door..."
"Ning'er, I know you hate me and your grandfather now. But when you grow up, you will understand our good intentions. I promised your mother that I would protect your safety. In order to prevent you from going to Tiangou Gorge, I have to lock you up temporarily."
Zheng Bingrong stood outside the door and sighed deeply. "Just calm down for a few days. When my father and I finish our business here, we'll send you back. I'll find you a good husband in the future. Forget about Mu Jingrui."
"Third Uncle, open the door, let me out...let me out..."
Shangguan Wanning stamped her feet in anger. She tried to climb out the window, but found that it was also sealed.
She remembered her third uncle's last few words and felt heartbroken.
Ask her to forget Mu Jingrui? How can she forget him? That man used his body to shield her from the arrows.
Shangguan Wanning took a deep breath and forced herself to calm down. No matter what, she had to go to Tiangoujian.
Even if... I can only see Mu Jingrui's corpse.
In the evening, the waiter came to deliver the meal, and she asked him again how to get to Tiangoujian.
The waiter was a little confused about the relationship between these customers, but he answered them patiently.
At this time, Shangguan Wanning took off her earrings and gave them to the waiter.
"No no no, girl, what are you doing..."
"Brother Xiaoer, I beg you, please let me go. If you don't let me go... they will sell me to a brothel..."
"Ah? Aren't they your grandpa and uncle?"
Shangguan Wanning felt a pang of heartache.
"They... are fake. Little Second Brother, please be kind and let me go. I won't be able to leave when they come back."
"But...how can I explain this to them?"
Shangguan Wanning hesitated slightly, found a pen in the room, wrote two lines of poetry on the handkerchief, and then bit her finger to make a fingerprint.
"When they come back, show this to them. They won't make things difficult for you."
The waiter was skeptical, but being kind-hearted, he was afraid that the girl was really in trouble, so he agreed to let her go.
He also packed a few steamed buns for Shangguan Wanning to eat on the way.
"Thank you. Brother Xiao Er, if I have the chance in the future, I will repay you." After Shangguan Wanning took the steamed bun, she bowed to the waiter and then ran away from the inn.
She was worried that her grandfather and third uncle would catch up with her, so she did not dare to stop for a moment and kept asking as she walked. It took her two days to finally reach Tiangou Stream.
But the situation here is very chaotic.
After the imperial court's 100,000-strong army was completely annihilated, the territories that originally belonged to the imperial court's jurisdiction were now infested with Western Xia troops, and the people living nearby either fled or died.
Looking at the desolation and misery before her, Shangguan Wanning felt extremely guilty.
All this was caused by her.
She asked the locals and took a shortcut to avoid the Xixia troops, but she got lost.
Even until the sun set and the sky darkened, she was still spinning in the same place, and she was so anxious that she was sweating coldly.
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