"Why didn't they say anything before opening the window?"
Faced with Gu Qian's cold gaze, Ling Qi coughed lightly, her expression slightly unnatural.
Qiu Yan looked at Ling Qi with displeasure. When did this person arrive? She hadn't even noticed.
"Gu Qian, this person is sneaking around the inn window in the middle of the night instead of sleeping. He should be punished!"
"Go back and get a hundred lashes!" Gu Qian echoed Qiu Yan's words.
"Uh..." General, you asked me to protect your woman, okay?
Ling Qi's face crumpled. "General, I know I was wrong. Please retract your order."
One hundred lashes! What must his buttocks look like then?
Ling Qi paused, then stared at Qiu Yan's flat stomach:
"Miss Xiaoyan, the general will handle what's wrong in Huaiyuan. You're pregnant, after all..."
"cough……"
Ling Qi's words were abruptly cut short by Gu Qian's dry cough.
"Pregnant what?" Qiu Yan stood still, her eyes sharp.
"Pregnant woman... ah..." Ling Qi had barely uttered the words when Qiu Yan swiftly struck him with a palm, knocking him off the windowsill.
Qiu Yan glanced back at Gu Qian, who was sitting on the bed with a blank expression. She was so angry at Ling Qi that she almost laughed.
This man needs to be taught a lesson.
She'll definitely teach him a lesson later.
However, Ling Qi was not afraid of death.
He returned shortly after. "I have something else to say, General..."
"Ling Qi, what did you just say?" The cold voice fell, and Ling Qi shuddered, falling off the windowsill again.
But in an instant, he climbed onto the windowsill again, "General, I spoke without thinking, please forgive me."
Gu Qian: "Add another hundred strokes of the military rod!"
"General, are you serious?" Ling Qi slumped his head, dejected.
On the opposite rooftop, Ling Ba shook his head helplessly at Ling Qi, that good-for-nothing.
After the two left, Qiu Yan asked the waiter for another set of bedding, which she then laid out on the floor.
Looking at the bedding on the ground, Gu Qian thought of Ling Qi's irritating face and decided that punishing him with two hundred lashes would be too lenient.
Midnight, the hour of Zi (11 PM - 1 AM).
A group of troops led by Ling Yun and Ling Zhi appeared silently outside Huaiyuan City.
At the front of the army was a military wagon. Beside the wagon, two guards stood steadily and walked in unison, keeping a close watch on the people inside.
The city gate guards stood on the city tower, looking at the unidentified army that appeared in the distance, and shouted, "Oh no! Someone is attacking the city! Quickly report to His Highness!"
The other guard looked into the distance and indeed it was an army. "Are you sure they're here to attack the city?"
The first person looked closely and asked, "Wait, how many of them are there?"
"Not many, only a few hundred people."
"Surely several hundred people, haha, what's there to fear? Now, Huaiyuan City is already in the hands of my Northern Qi."
Soon, the army approached.
Before anyone could ask, Ling Yun shouted from below the city gate, "Listen up, we are General Chu's men! Open the city gate immediately and let us in!"
At this moment, the garrison commander heard the noise, went up to the city wall, looked at the hundreds of soldiers below with suspicion, and asked, "If you are General Chu's men, do you have any proof?"
"General Chu is here!" Ling Zhi said, lifting the carriage curtain.
Their general was a timely help, saving them a lot of trouble.
The moonlight, mixed with the firelight, illuminated Chu Tian's weathered face.
The distance was too great for the guard to see clearly.
He shouted across the distance, "General Chu, is that you?"
Chu Tian clenched his teeth and refused to speak, inwardly cursing Gu Qian's ancestors for eighteen generations.
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