This indicates that only the military used this road, and no civilians walked on it...
This doesn't seem normal, does it?
Once the city falls to the enemy, according to common sense, the people in the city will inevitably move away with their families to escape. She saw that there was only one main road in the city paved with fine sand, but no large number of people had passed through it recently. This was not in line with common sense, and she had to be wary of it.
She stopped her journey into the city and decided to go to Julu Camp first to investigate the situation.
She crouched low among the bushes, looking down from a distance to observe the camp. This was not difficult for Zheng Quchi, whose eyesight was astonishing.
Pushing aside the tangled pile of withered grass, one could see that the camp, both inside and out, had been completely emptied.
There were no guards, no patrols, no trace of anyone on the sentry posts or the walls of the camp. Just a few days ago, the huge camp was heavily fortified, with tens of thousands of soldiers coming and going, but now it was empty, like a ghost town devoid of human habitation.
"How could the military camp be completely emptied? If I hadn't been here before, I would have doubted whether this was really the Julu Camp."
How utterly devastating was the defeat of the Julu Kingdom in this battle? Did the military doctor and Mo Ye escape, or were they annihilated or captured by the enemy?
Which country did it, or were they barbarians?
No, the barbarians shouldn't have the strength to make the Julu border garrison break camp, empty out the camp, and flee at the first sign of trouble...
Her heart suddenly started pounding, and a sudden sense of panic washed over her. She pressed her lips together tightly until they turned white.
Stop overthinking, Zheng Quchi. It can't be him, no way...
Zheng Quchi walked down, carefully listening to the sounds around him, and groped his way into the camp.
She initially used the cover to survey the interior, and only after confirming that it was empty and no one was left did she dare to move forward.
She came down from the mountain hungry, and now that it's almost noon, she's even hungrier.
Therefore, she first found the camp's kitchen.
After rummaging through the boxes and cabinets, they found some leftover beans and shriveled bamboo shoots in a bamboo basket, as well as a small bag of millet, glutinous rice, and some other odds and ends to eat.
Perhaps because the camp was evacuated in such a hurry, many things were ransacked and messed up. Good things like meat and wheat were all taken away, leaving only these things, but they were all enough to fill our stomachs.
There were no seasonings, just the simple, original flavor of the food, which wasn't very appetizing. But in the current situation, it was good enough to be full, so Zheng Quchi wasn't picky.
The food problem has been temporarily solved, but her injuries cannot be delayed. However, she searched the entire camp but could not find any medicine. What should she do next?
Should we risk venturing into Wind Valley Sand City to investigate, or endure our injuries and see if we're lucky enough to encounter a barefoot doctor along the way who can solve our problems, or perhaps reach the nearest town...?
After cooking himself a meal, Zheng Quchi was so exhausted that he lay down in the main army tent.
Although she was drowsy, a sense of depression and irritability lingered in her heart, preventing her from falling asleep peacefully.
She misses home.
Once people are no longer faced with life-or-death problems, they begin to let their emotions run wild.
She misses Fuxian County, her eldest brother, her youngest sister, and sometimes even the former "Liu Fengmian," but... she probably can't go back.
If Yuwen Sheng knew she was still alive, would he still not let her go...?
Ironically, he didn't even know who she was.
In his eyes, she was perhaps just the Mo family spy, the one who betrayed his promise time and time again, "Sang Xuanqing," rather than his wife, "Zheng Quchi."
She covered her eyes with one arm, unable to bear recalling her time with Liu Feng... no, with Yuwen Sheng.
This is insane!
Zheng Quchi, an unremarkable, ordinary, but complex low-level craftswoman, one day, unexpectedly marries a great general of a country. The main thing is that no one knows about this yet... including herself.
She got married, but had no idea who she married. He got married, but he also had no idea who he married. If such a couple and such a thing were to be told, it would be utterly absurd.
She recalled why she chose him in the first place, but now she realized that he didn't meet any of the criteria. Yet, he had pretended to be sickly and weak, and also incredibly beautiful, to deceive her and make her propose to him.
She was deceived by his appearance and married him, but what about him? He was a great general of the country, the most powerful minister in the entire Ye Kingdom besides the King of Ye. What was he after if he agreed to marry her?
Are you attracted to her poverty or her dark complexion?
She was blind, but his eyes had always been perfectly fine; he wasn't blind at all. Now that I think about it, the reason he always covered his eyes with a veil in front of her wasn't because he had a problem with his eyes, as she thought, but simply to hide the Phoenix Tears.
Phoenix Tears was his Achilles' heel. She used to be his wife, and he hadn't done anything to her, but...
At that time, at the foot of the cliff, he clearly came to save her, but his attitude towards her suddenly changed, and he killed her. It was because "Sang Xuanqing" saw the phoenix tears under his mask... So, what exactly are the phoenix tears?
I can't understand it. Her understanding of this world is still too shallow. Half a year is not enough for her to understand the world outside of Fuxian County in Ye State.
"If he knew that I was Zheng Quchi, and that he married that country girl, would he still have taken action against me?"
On New Year's Eve this year, she remembered that "Liu Fengmian" had said that he had something important to tell her.
Inside the carriage, he asked her what she thought of Yuwen Sheng.
She found the question strange at the time, and she couldn't quite remember what she answered. The only thing she remembered was that she said she had a very bad impression of Yuwen Sheng, and that his behavior at the time was very strange, but she didn't think much of it.
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