Wu Hongkun dragged Song Zhiyun back to their room. Seeing his wife remained silent, he pretended to be relaxed and made small talk. "Oh! This second brother is really hard to fool!"
Song Zhiyun didn't say anything, remaining silent, but under her wide sleeves, the hand holding a blank piece of paper tightened.
Although he knew his wife was angry, Wu Hongkun had no choice but to go to the battlefield.
He is the eldest son, and the burden of defending the Northern Territory will fall on him sooner or later. His father has carried it for him for so many years, and now it is time for him to take a break.
"Hey!" Seeing that Song Zhiyun still ignored him, Wu Hongkun felt helpless. He was not good at coaxing girls, so what should he do?
He originally thought that Song Zhiyun would continue to ignore him, but he didn't expect that as soon as they returned to the room and closed the door, she turned around and threw herself into Wu Hongkun's arms, hugging him tightly.
As soon as he opened his mouth, he choked up, "Hongkun, I regret it."
Wu Hongkun was stunned, and then he understood why she had been silent just now. It turned out that she was afraid that she would not be able to hold back her tears on the way!
He hugged her back tightly, wishing he could hold her in his heart. They had been married for only a year, so how could Wu Hongkun bear to let her go?
Tears streamed down her cheeks, soaking a large area of Wu Hongkun's robe. After a long while, he slowly let go of her and wiped her tears. "Don't be afraid, Zhiyun. I will be back soon."
Song Zhiyun's tears flowed even harder, but she was afraid that she would make him worry and distract him from the battlefield, so she choked up and nodded, "You must come back safely."
"good."
"Zhiyun, thank you for packing my luggage. Time is urgent and we have to leave in two days."
Song Zhiyun nodded and let him go to rest first. "The new shoes I made for you are almost finished. I have to finish them and bring them to you."
"Okay, then don't stay up too late." Wu Hongkun didn't try to persuade her. It was better to do something than to overthink...
Wu Hongyi returned to the room holding the two slips of paper. He suddenly laughed, then threw them into the trash can with a chuckle. He shook his head and muttered, "Brother and sister-in-law, this trick of yours can only fool Hongjing, an honest man."
Then he lit a candle, went to his desk and began to write a letter.
One letter was for my eldest brother and his wife, one was for my third brother and his wife, one was for my youngest sister, and the other was for... Wei Lingran.
It was already midnight when he finished writing the four letters. He began to pack his things. In addition to his clothes, he also took the sachet that Wei Lingran had given him.
After a quick nap, he got up with a grim expression when the rooster crowed for the first time and accompanied Wu Hongkun to the camp outside the city to inspect the troops.
When I returned home in the evening, a sumptuous farewell banquet had already been prepared.
Even though Wu Hongkun was not drinking because he was going to go to war tomorrow, Wu Hongyi still forced him to drink a glass. "Just one glass, it's no problem."
After that, the family temporarily forgot about their worries and happily finished the meal.
This is the custom of the Wu family. Before a man goes to war, everyone must have a happy reunion dinner together to practice for the man.
Because Wu Hongkun had to go on an expedition early the next day, everyone went back to their rooms early to rest after dinner, and did not notice that it seemed particularly easy to fall asleep tonight.
Only Wu Hongyi, at midnight, he picked up his packed bag and went into his elder brother and sister-in-law's room at night, took away some emergency pills and items prepared for him by Tian An, and then put down the letter he left for them.
After leaving Wu Hongkun's yard, he sneaked into Wu Hongjing's yard and stuffed the letter in through the crack of the door. Finally, he placed the letters to Wu Yufei and Wei Lingran on the table in Wu Yufei's boudoir.
After finishing all this, he left the general's mansion without looking back.
The next morning, Wu Hongkun woke up after the rooster had crowed countless times. He looked out the window and saw that it was already bright outside. He got up in shock and said, "Oh no! Something bad has happened."
Song Zhiyun, who was beside him, was woken up. She stood up and looked out the window and was also frightened. She hurriedly got up to help Wu Hongkun change his clothes. Delaying the flight was a serious crime!
The two of them worked hard, and in just a moment Wu Hongkun was dressed and ready to go out without even having time to wash his face.
But when I went to get my luggage, I found that something was missing, and there was a letter on the bag.
"This..." The couple looked at each other. Wu Hongkun quickly opened the letter and found out what was going on.
"This, this is nonsense!" He slammed the letter on the table in anger. "This second brother is so treacherous."
Song Zhiyun took the letter from him suspiciously, and only understood the reason after taking a look at it.
Wu Hongyi said in the letter that he had long seen through the couple's tricks, saying that while the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind, he was ultimately the more skilled one.
He told the two brothers to stay at home with their wives and children, and let him go to the battlefield. He also told the two brothers not to compete with him for the military merit.
"So, your second brother went to the battlefield for you?" Song Zhiyun said in disbelief.
At this moment, she felt mixed emotions, both happy and guilty, and always felt that she was a little mean.
After a while, Wu Hongjing and his wife and Wu Yufei also ran over with letters.
Seeing that everyone was holding a letter in their hands, everyone fell silent.
After a while, Wu Yufei looked at Song Zhiyun, "Second brother's letter said that eldest sister-in-law proposed to use a drawing of lots to decide who would go to the battle. Was this a plan you and your wife had discussed in advance?"
Song Zhiyun nodded and told the truth, "Actually, the three slips of paper I had that night were all blank. No matter how hard my second and third brothers pulled, they couldn't get a slip with words on it. Later, when my second brother was suspicious, I replaced the slip with the words on it. That's why the slip he got from me later had the words on it. Your eldest brother had already decided to go to war."
"So, second brother saw through your tricks and simply played along, drugging us all in our wine last night so we could sleep through the night?" Wu Hongjing said in disbelief.
No wonder he usually sleeps lightly and can even hear the sound of wind blowing leaves falling, but he didn't even have a dream last night.
"Big brother, you and second brother are both more scheming than each other! I am the only one who is honest!" Wu Hongjing didn't blame them, he just felt that his two brothers had made so many plans for him in private, but he was stupid and knew nothing.
On the third day after Wu Hongyi led his troops to war, Wei Lingran was finally released by Mrs. Wei.
The first thing she did after regaining her freedom was to run to Wu's house.
Mrs. Wei knew about it but didn't try to stop her. She lifted her daughter's house arrest just because she knew Wu Hongyi was gone. After all, she couldn't really keep her daughter locked up forever. Now that Wu Hongyi was gone, she couldn't do anything even if she was released. Maybe if she made a fuss, things would get better.
But she underestimated the affection between them.
Sure enough, after Wei Lingran arrived at the Wu family and learned that Wu Hongyi had already left for the battlefield, she was immediately filled with pain. "It's me, it's all my fault. He must have been heartbroken because of what happened between us, so he went to the battlefield without hesitation."
For a while, everyone in the Wu family tried to persuade her, but no matter how they repeatedly emphasized to her that it was not her problem, she would not listen and even insisted on going to the Northern Territory to find Wu Hongjing.
In the end, it was Kary Wu who took out the letter that Wu Hongyi left for her before he left. Only after reading it did she slowly calm down.
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