"Xiao Yunyu, what are you doing?" Wang Jiang stood up, clutching his chest, his eyes blazing with anger. "Ahem, ahem, do you still think this is the capital? How can you be so arrogant and domineering?"
Xiao Yunyu's deep peach blossom eyes looked around at the soldiers holding weapons in a defensive posture and sneered.
His gaze fell back on Wang Jiang, and he narrowed his eyes and warned, "Follow me, or don't blame me for being rude!"
Wang Jiang shouted with disdain, "Xiao Yunyu, do you think that just because you're a general now, you can tell me what to do and give me orders? Don't you even open your eyes and see whose territory this is?"
Xiao Yunyu's voice was slightly cold: "The whole world belongs to the emperor. I say again, I have already taken Xidi City. Will you go and defend it?"
Wang Jiang laughed heartily, as if he had just heard a ridiculous joke. "Hahahaha, ahem, Xiao Yunyu, are you still dreaming? You think you can capture Xidi City in such a short time? That's just wishful thinking!"
The place where Wang Jiang rested was a high slope. Looking into the distance, he could vaguely see Dong'an City.
He pointed to the northeast, his face showing an undisguised mockery: "See? As long as you can take that place back, I'll listen to you."
Xiao Yunyu raised his eyebrows: "How about you defend Xidi City and I attack Dong'an City?"
Wang Jiang listened to him seriously and looked at him suspiciously. Although Xiao Yunyu usually acted arrogantly, he never boasted. Could it be that...
Wang Jiang couldn't help but look more serious and asked, "Did you really take Xidi City?"
"Do I have to lie to you?" Xiao Yunyu said as he prepared to take out the token.
But Wang Jiang suddenly said, "Okay, I'll trust you for once."
He turned around and shouted to his men, "All of you, follow General Xiao to Xidi to check the situation. Go quickly and return quickly."
At this point, he added in a low voice: "If anything goes wrong, come back and report to me immediately!"
Xiao Yunyu paused as he was touching the token, his flamboyant peach blossom eyes darkened. He had known that the two factions in the northwest were operating independently, but he had never expected that they didn't even have this little bit of trust.
Xiao Yunyu turned around and ordered Qi Heng: "Take your Qi family army to defend Dong'an City. Don't act rashly before I return."
"Yes!" Qi Heng took the order and left.
Xiao Yunyu easily stepped onto the horse with his long legs and led several of Wang Jiang's men towards Xidi City.
On the city wall of Xidi, the military flag with the word "Xiao" flying high indicated that the city had changed hands.
Wang Jiang's men looked at each other, all of them with disbelief in their eyes. How did Xiao Yunyu achieve such a fast siege speed?
However, this is not the time to study this.
One of them was the first to react. He clasped his fists and said, "General Xiao is brave. We will go back and report to General Wang." After that, several people immediately turned their horses around and rushed back.
Xiao Yunyu rode his horse into the city. Many of the shops on both sides of the street were still intact, and not all the houses were destroyed. Only the county magistrate's office was in a bad state. It seemed that this place was a key target at that time.
The soldiers came forward and saluted respectfully.
Xiao Yunyu nodded slightly, sizing him up before ordering, "Organize the troops. Once General Wang's men arrive, head towards Dong'an City and join up with the Qi family army."
The soldier was stunned when he heard this, then cautiously reminded, "How about we leave some men behind? Considering Wang Jiang's character, if we hand over Xidi City, which we fought so hard to capture, to him, he will definitely replace all the flags on the city walls with his own."
Xiao Yunyu chuckled: "If he is capable of defending it, then Xidi can be considered his contribution, so what?"
He looked at the soldiers with a light look in his eyes: "You just need to follow orders."
"Yes!" The soldiers quickly bowed their heads and clasped their fists, responding respectfully.
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As soon as the sun rose, the two best friends set out for the southern city, but they didn't expect to meet Shen Qianye on the way and he was actually walking back.
He immediately spotted Li Sisi driving a carriage towards him in the crowd, and hurriedly rode forward with a relaxed look on his face.
"We've been looking for you all the way. I'm glad you're okay." As he spoke, Shen Qianye couldn't help but glance at the carriage.
Seeing this, Li Sisi smiled and joked, "Don't worry, my Nian Nian is fine! You didn't come here just to see us, did you?"
She searched around Shen Qianye with her eyes and asked doubtfully, "Where are Bai Ying and Aunt Shen?"
"They have already entered the city. I was worried about you two girls and the children on the road, so I thought of going back to look for them."
Shen Qianye smiled: “Now that I have found you, I feel relieved.”
Perhaps because they stayed overnight in Aunt Pei's sister's village, there were fewer refugees fleeing with them on the road.
By evening, they finally arrived at the next city.
The city gate was under martial law, and after checking their identity documents, the two girlfriends followed Shen Qianye to the inn.
As soon as Aunt Pei and Aunt Shen met, they immediately held hands and went to complain.
Shen Baiying was followed by Wang Yi, following closely and looking flattering.
Shen Baiying's originally unhappy expression immediately turned into a smile when she saw Li Sisi: "Sisi, I'm glad you're all okay. I've been looking for you all the way, but I didn't see you even after arriving in the city. I was so worried."
Li Sisi told her about how they and Aunt Pei stayed in her sister's village for one night.
Shen Bai nodded in understanding: "So that's how it is!"
She ran over to Li Nian, who had just paid at the counter, and lowered her head to look at the little girl in her cradle. "Is Jinhe okay? She must have suffered so much to have to flee at such a young age."
She sighed and said, "If you hadn't settled in Dong'an City and went to the southern cities, you might not have encountered these things."
Li Nian smiled, automatically ignoring her last words, and replied, "Thanks to the nanny's careful care along the way, the little one was very well behaved and didn't cry much."
She didn't know if it was her illusion, but she always felt that Bai Ying seemed a little hostile to her now. But when she thought about it, she didn't have any conflicts with Bai Ying, right?
Did I offend her unintentionally?
Shen Baiying glanced in the direction of her second brother and said loudly to Li Nian seemingly unintentionally: "Then it probably looks like you or your ex-husband."
Li Nian smiled at her but didn't respond.
He turned to Yu Niang and said, "Go and take the things off the carriage. We've been traveling all day and everyone must be tired. Let's go and rest early."
The nurse came running over at this time, looking embarrassed and said: "Miss, my family has no money to stay in an inn. Can I borrow your carriage to sleep in tonight?"
Li Nian then remembered that there was a wet nurse, so she said, "I've booked another room next to mine. Jinhe is still young, so please continue to take care of her at night. The carriage is small and it's cold at night, so you can bring your grandson to stay in the room as well."
The wet nurse's eyes lit up when she heard this. This way, their family only needed to rent a lower-class room to live together.
"Okay, okay! Thank you, Miss!" The wet nurse said gratefully, and hurried out to call the family in.
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