Chapter 224 The Hit Was Too Heavy
When Shen Yuexi first saw Mei Dai's dagger being knocked away, her heart suddenly sank.
Mei Dai was still a woman after all, and she lacked strength. As soon as they met, her weapon was knocked away by the opponent. She was finished.
Although she had considered the possibility of asking Big Bear to make the opponent's weapons disappear, the problem was that even if they did, she and Mei Dai would have no power to resist against several strong men.
When her eyes fell on the shiny sword, her fear instantly turned into surprise.
The sword of the Western Rong people.
The Western Rong army was still far north of Nanping City, and even scouts couldn't possibly have come so far to the border between the two states. So there was no other possibility.
“Stop,” she yelled, jumping out of the shadows. “I’m here.”
When the man who entered the room saw her jump out, he immediately withdrew his sword, knelt on one knee and said, "Master, I finally found you."
The visitors were Qiang Lin's secret guards, five in total. Shen Yuexi had always dealt with Qiang Lin before, so when she first heard the voices of the other secret guards, she couldn't distinguish them.
Mei Dai breathed a sigh of relief, leaned against the wall and stroked her chest with her hands.
"Where is Qiang Lin?" Shen Yuexi asked anxiously without saying anything else.
The secret guard said, "Master, there are fourteen secret guards we are looking for. They are divided into three directions: southwest, east and west. The leader has gone to the west. I guess they will be here soon."
As he was speaking, the sound of hooves was heard in the distance, and Qiang Lin led the rest of the secret guards to arrive.
Seeing Qiang Lin again, Shen Yuexi was overjoyed. She quickly ordered, "This is urgent. Silence and listen to my instructions. First of all, no one is allowed to embarrass Sister Mei. She was the one who helped me escape."
Qiang Lin and the secret guards all kept their lips tightly shut and nodded to show that they understood.
"The rest of you stay and help Sister Mei dig the soil first. After Prince Mei is buried, you will escort Sister Mei to wherever she wants to go. Once you've finished escorting her, come back to me."
The secret guards nodded again and went to find shovels and pickaxes to start digging.
Shen Yuexi said to Mei Dai, "Sister, I'm anxious to get to Yongwei, so I won't stay here long. These secret guards are loyal and devoted, you can trust them. When the situation calms down, I'll come back here to burn incense for Prince Mei."
Mei Dai held her hand and said, "Sister, I know you're anxious to find your husband, so I won't try to keep you. Please be careful, we'll meet again someday."
After giving everyone his instructions, Shen Yuexi led a warhorse over, mounted it, and said to Qiang Lin, "Lead the way, we're going to Yongwei."
Qiang Lin didn't say anything, got on his horse and followed Shen Yuexi.
Mei Dai watched Shen Yuexi and Qiang Lin disappear into the darkness. Just as she was about to turn around, she suddenly cried out, "Ah!" and shouted to the nearby secret guards:
"Stop digging and come find my dagger."
Shen Yuexi was anxious and galloped for a while before she lost track of the directions. In ancient times, there were no streetlights, and at night, the wilderness was pitch black. She had no idea where she was, let alone where she was.
She reined in her horse and, hearing Qiang Lin catching up from behind, asked, "Why aren't you talking?"
It felt like I had forgotten something important, but I couldn't recall it for a moment. Could it be because Qiang Lin didn't speak?
"Master, do you really want to go back to Yongwei?" Qiang Lin answered hesitantly.
"Of course, I'm going back to find Xiao Zhuo. Why do you ask?" Shen Yuexi felt something was wrong. "Did he...did something happen to him?"
Before Qiang Lin could answer, Shen Yuexi's tears started to fall like pearls from a broken string.
"Is he...dead?"
It’s over. I didn’t expect that I would become a widow at the age of sixteen.
Qiang Lin hurriedly said, "Master, don't cry. That's not what I meant. King Zhao is still alive."
Shen Yuexi quickly raised her sleeve to wipe her tears, then smiled and said, "Don't breathe so hard when you speak. I thought something happened to my husband."
If you think about it carefully, even if Xiao Zhuo was injured, he is not someone that anyone can easily take over. Moreover, he still has 30,000 troops under his command.
"Master, it's King Zhao... King Zhao doesn't let you go back." Qiang Lin hesitated for a long time, but decided to tell Shen Yuexi the truth.
Shen Yuexi was still crying. When she heard this, she stopped wiping her tears: "You said Xiao Zhuo won't let me go back?"
"yes."
"Did he really say that?"
"Absolutely true."
"Tell me exactly what happened at that time." Shen Yuexi didn't believe that Xiao Zhuo would say such a thing.
Qiang Lin rode alongside her and said, "My Lord, when Mei Dai abducted you, we were protecting King Zhao as you instructed. Doctor Hua later came to see King Zhao and spent a quarter of an hour alone with him while he healed his wounds."
Shen Yuexi asked, "Did Doctor Hua tell my husband about what happened back then?"
"That's probably the case. I wasn't there at the time," Qiang Lin replied. "When King Zhao came out, his face was extremely grim. He went to the tent to look for his master, but when he found he wasn't there, he said..."
"What did he say? Tell me quickly." Shen Yuexi urged.
"He said 'She's gone.'"
"What are you talking about? What do you mean by 'he's gone after all'? I was knocked unconscious by Sister Mei with a stick and taken away. It wasn't my intention to leave at all. How could he, such a perceptive person, not even see that?"
Qiang Lin saw Shen Yuexi getting angry and said quickly:
"That's right. I checked inside the tent and saw that our master had been forcibly taken away by Mei Dai. But King Zhao seemed a little dazed. He told us, 'All of you go, find your master, and don't come back.' He didn't even give us a chance to speak before kicking us out. We swore an oath before the gods to protect our master. Since he's missing, we must come looking for him first."
"I'm so angry," Shen Yuexi had no place to vent her anger, so she simply put the reins in her mouth and bit them hard twice, "Don't you have any confidence in me? You stinky man."
It was the first time that Qiang Lin saw Shen Yuexi lose her temper, so he could only ask carefully, "Master, are we still going to Yongwei?"
"Go," Shen Yuexi put down the reins, "Lead the way."
Qiang Lin shook his head. His master was so strange. He had scolded Xiao Zhuo so harshly, but why did he still go to Yongwei?
The two of them galloped for who knows how long, until a ray of morning light appeared in the east.
Shen Yuexi felt a pain all over her body. She had been sitting on the horse for so long that she felt like she was about to fall apart. She reined in her mount and looked towards the east, only to find that the entire sky was covered by dark clouds, like a huge black pot turned upside down, with only a thin line of white and blue showing at the horizon.
"Master, can you still hold on? Do you want to dismount and rest for a while?" Qiang Lin stopped his horse in front, turned around and threw a water bag over. "We are not far from Yongwei."
"We're not far away, why are you still resting?" Shen Yuexi took the water bag, unscrewed it and took two sips of water. "Just hold on a little longer and we'll be there."
"Master, why do you insist on going to Yongwei? King Zhao clearly doesn't let you go back." Qiang Lin was confused.
"He is my husband. It would be strange if I didn't go back." Shen Yuexi wiped her mouth and threw the water bag back to Qiang Lin. She reached into her arms, touched around, and suddenly cried out.
Qiang Lin saw her face turn pale and asked hurriedly, "Master, did you lose something?"
"Bai Ling, Bai Ling is gone." Shen Yuexi lowered her head and raised her hands, turning them up and down and left and right.
No wonder I always felt like I was missing something important. Damn it, it seems Mei Dai hit me really hard, causing me to forget about this matter.
Qiang Lin turned his horse around and approached, asking, "What white silk?"
"An important thing." Shen Yuexi looked up and thought.
When Mei Dai hit her, she was looking at the white silk under the light. She remembered that Mei Dai had seen it before. Given Mei Dai's personality, she wouldn't leave such an important item in the tent.
Since Bai Ling was not in her arms, it must be in Mei Dai's hands. She left in such a hurry that Mei Dai probably didn't expect it.
"Forget it, let's go to Yongwei first." She lifted the reins and shook them, urging her mount on.
Yongwei was already within reach. It would be unwise to return to Mei Dai now. He should go to the military camp to find Xiao Zhuo first. As for who Xiao Zhuo's biological father was, it was not that important for the time being.
At present, Xiao Beiheng is leading his troops here. It is not clear whether Xiao Zhuo knows this news. He must be informed immediately.
She and Qiang Lin galloped a little further. Qiang Lin reined in his horse on the high slope ahead and called out to her, "Master, the southern city of Yongwei is just ahead. Going around it will lead to Prince Zhao's camp."
Shen Yuexi squeezed her legs against the horse's belly and climbed up the slope.
In the distance, at the foot of Yongwei City, a huge army of about tens of thousands of people was beating war drums and marching into Yongwei City.
"Master, look at the banners. They are the troops of the Second Prince of the Great Yan Dynasty." Qiang Lin lowered his gaze from his brows. "They are here to support the Jingzhou Army."
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