Chapter 231 He Was Raised by Wolves
The military camp, which had just experienced a war, was filled with the smell of blood.
The attacks outside the city had not stopped in the past few days, and the casualties in the city were severe.
It was not a frozen winter day, but the stench of rotting corpses and wounds mixed with the blood made people nauseated when they smelled it for the first time.
Lu Xinran's face had turned pale due to the cloth tied on the tip of his nose, and Song Junyan's complexion was not good either.
"Your Majesty, the general is just ahead."
The soldier leading the way didn't look at their pale faces, but took a few quick steps to lead them in the direction of Xie Lang.
Lu Xinran kept reminding the system that as long as they could download the booklet, they would leave immediately.
Regardless of whether General Xie had rebelled or not, she was not in a hurry to know the news.
The soldier walked very fast. Before he entered the wounded barracks, he could already hear wailing sounds one after another, and the smell of blood and rot became more and more obvious.
Xie Lang, wearing silver armor, was watching the situation in the wounded camp accompanied by his men.
Hearing the soldier's words, he immediately turned sideways and shot a hawk-like sharp gaze at the three of them.
This is a tough guy!
However, as soon as they met, this thought came to Lu Xinran's mind.
"Tongzi, is it loaded?"
"alright."
The terrifying sense of oppression made her system tremble along with her emotions.
Lu Xinran immediately backed out: "Prince, let's go back first."
"You go back first. I'll have someone take you back to your mother while I go meet General Xie."
He is a prince and has come here on a mission. At this moment, he is only a few steps away from the commander of Hanyu Pass and cannot turn back and be rude.
Lu Xinran hummed, pulled Lu Xinlan and turned away.
Although I haven't opened Xie Lang's booklet yet, I can tell from his fierce gaze that he is someone not to be trifled with.
She felt inexplicably frightened, and felt that if she didn't leave now, she would never be able to leave again.
She walked fast, and Lu Xinlan, who was afraid that she was talking nonsense in her heart, walked even faster, almost dragging her and her sister away and disappearing quickly from Xie Lang's sight.
The distance between him and me was far more than fifty steps.
Lu Xinran turned around and took a look. Although they were very far away, the oppressive gaze seemed to still be on her.
How could this person be so scary?
"Sister, do you think the prince will be okay?"
What if the traitor is Xie Lang, would he just kidnap Song Junyan as a hostage?
Thinking of this, Lu Xinran suddenly became a little worried.
Having been together day and night along the way, she was very satisfied with her husband.
He is a man of few words but very tactful, very respectful to the Empress, and lacks the overbearing aura of a prince.
Where else can you find such a good boss!
If something happens, does she have to restart her plan of saving money and running away to raise a puppy?
Lu Xinlan pulled her along without stopping until they saw the General's Mansion far away, and only then did he feel a little relieved.
"It will be fine. General Xie is the general guarding Hanyu Pass. How could he put the prince in danger?"
She deliberately changed the meaning of her words and took her for a few jogs until they returned to the general's mansion and to the queen's side. Only then did they both breathe a sigh of relief.
[Let me see what's going on with this General Xie. Why is he so intimidating?]
[They are all warriors who fought on the battlefield, but why is he so domineering? He looks like someone who is not easy to mess with.]
Hearing the familiar voice, the queen immediately waved her hand to signal everyone to be quiet.
She wanted to know whether the person who betrayed her was Xie Lang.
[He and General Qi were both picked up by the Empress! ]
Lu Xinran flipped through the booklet and exclaimed in wonderment as if he had never seen the world before.
[The Empress followed her father to the battlefield when she was five years old, but she was too young at the time, and her father was afraid that something might happen to her, so he only let her ride out of the city after the battle was over.]
[After the war, the city was in ruins, and the surrounding villages and farmlands were all devastated by the trampling of iron hooves.]
[Every time those people from outside the Great Wall came to attack the city, they would go to the surrounding villages to burn, kill, and loot, especially women, whom they would take back to use to give birth to their children.]
【And the children of Da Chu will be killed by them. 】
[General Qi managed to escape death in this situation, and was picked up by the empress who happened to pass by.]
[Xie Lang is the same as him, but he was picked up in the second year after General Qi came to the Zhang family. When he first arrived at the Zhang family, he was like, well, a wolf cub.]
[At that time, no matter who he looked at, his eyes were particularly vicious, like a lone wolf in the snow in winter.]
[It was the Empress and the Zhang family who always cared for him and took care of him, which gradually helped him to lose his overly obvious wildness and be able to talk to others normally, study and practice martial arts.]
When he suddenly heard about his past, Qi Yu's face was full of nostalgia.
Although several decades have passed, the scenes from that year still seem to have happened yesterday in his mind.
The queen lowered her head slightly, waiting patiently for what was to come.
[Those were the happiest times for them. Even though the war was intense and they were inevitably injured every time they went to the battlefield, they were still very happy.]
【Until the Emperor, who was not yet a crown prince, arrived.】
[The empress fell in love with the emperor at first sight. The young girl's love was bright and passionate. The old scumbag noticed it almost immediately, and then he found a way to get a marriage for her.]
【Zhang Yongping knew that the late emperor had always been extremely jealous of the Zhang family. After the empress received the imperial decree of marriage, he thought carefully and decided to bring the Zhang family back to the capital after defeating the Qiang people.】
[He had originally made arrangements to have Qi Yu and Xie Lang guard the two border checkpoints.]
【With the wars to support them, they will each train their own subordinates or their own offspring, and then these two dangerous places will not be without successors.】
【but……】
When Qi Yu's inner voice stopped, his cheeks were already hot.
He did not dare to look up for fear that the Queen would look at him and see the embarrassment hidden deep in his heart.
But he was afraid, and his inner voice revealed this unspeakable thing.
[But none of them had married, and they had no children of their own, so the Zhang Family Army would soon be unable to be passed on to them.]
[They have always wanted to hand over the military power of the northwest to the prince born to the empress, but the empress has not had any children since she got married.]
[In the former Prince's Palace, later the Crown Prince's Palace, and later the Imperial Harem, princes and princesses were born every year, but the Empress's Palace was always quiet.]
[Qi Yu doesn't want to assume the worst, but Xie Lang does. He is a wolf cub raised by wolves.]
[He tried every means to go to the capital to gather intelligence, and finally learned from Sun Linyuan's son that the empress had no children because the emperor was jealous of the Zhang family.]
[Knowing that the Empress had been treated coldly by the Emperor since her marriage, and knowing that all the concubines in the harem could step on her. ]
[All of this made him extremely angry. He wanted to write to her and ask her if this was the day she had been looking forward to watching the sunset.]
[Is this all she got for rejecting his love? ]
[But the palace was full of traps and he was at the border, so his letters could never reach her, and he couldn't leave the border to go to the capital to see her.]
[He can't leave, so he can only find a way to get her to come. ]