“Yuwen Sheng…”
Zheng Quchi lowered his voice and called out to him.
"Um?"
“Walking around so openly on the road is like exposing ourselves, isn’t that a bit too… arrogant? How about we crouch down in the grass and crawl forward?” Zheng Quchi offered him a somewhat immature suggestion.
In Zheng Quchi's mind, once they were surrounded and ambushed, they had to be even more careful about the land beneath their feet. The enemy was hiding in the dark, so they made them lose sight of them. If they couldn't find the enemy, how could they carry out their encirclement and annihilation plan?
Yuwen Sheng lowered his eyes, gazing intently into her large eyes that were earnestly seeking his opinion, and laughed again with delight.
"They might be lying in ambush right here in these reeds. Are you planning to take over their territory?"
Zheng Quchi: "..."
She imagined the scene: the group of them were crawling forward, exhausted, and about to take a break when they looked up and saw another group of people lying there right in front of them. They looked at each other, completely bewildered.
She gave a dry laugh: "Forget it then. By the way, did you hear anything?"
She suddenly turned her head to the side, looking like she was listening intently.
Yuwen Sheng listened carefully and asked, "What was that sound?"
Zheng Quchi said with a stern face, "It's the sound of an impending storm."
Yuwen Sheng: "..."
Seeing his speechless expression, Zheng Quchi grinned. Who said he could tease her and make fun of her, and she couldn't tease him back?
Seeing her beaming, no longer looking as distressed as before, he raised an eyebrow and slowly said, "I've discovered..."
"What did you find?" She casually looked up at him.
Yuwen Sheng said with a half-smile, "You seem to be less and less afraid of me now. You're calling my name more and more naturally now."
Yuwen Sheng's words startled Zheng Quchi. She scratched her eyebrow, reflecting on her recent behavior—
She belatedly realized that she actually... wasn't so afraid of him anymore.
When did it start?
I don't remember.
It just happened naturally.
She retorted, "I only call your name because you asked me to..."
"Mm," he replied with a smile.
"You said I was your wife..."
"yes."
He agreed with everything she said.
Zheng Quchi walked alongside him, and he naturally took her hand. In order to be close to protect him, she did not refuse this behavior that should not exist.
She turned her head and lowered her eyes, seeing that he walked at a steady pace, neither too fast nor too slow, as if deliberately accommodating her short legs. Their pace remained consistent.
She had been gone for so long before she suddenly realized this.
Isn't all of this something he indulged?
Looking back, his attitude towards her was indeed different from others. He never showed her any displeasure or acted like a general. Most of the time, he did whatever she said and rarely refused her.
The only time he ever changed his expression and lost his temper with her was when she said she wanted a divorce, and the two parted on bad terms.
He clearly doesn't like her, yet he treats her so differently. This... this can only be attributed to the family tradition of the Yuwen family.
"The men of your Yuwen family are quite good to their wives," she whispered.
Aside from this extremely domineering rule that cannot be violated.
Yuwen Sheng didn't hear him clearly: "What are you muttering about?"
She was about to speak, but when she looked up and her gaze passed over his shoulder, she froze.
She took a deep breath and said, "...Yuwen Sheng, let me ask you, how many people can you take on at once?"
"What's the meaning?"
“What I mean is, you’re right…” she said stiffly, “the enemy is indeed lying in ambush in these reeds.”
Yuwen Sheng heard the commotion behind him. He turned around and stared ahead. He saw a group of people pushing through the tall grass as they emerged. With a light flick of their sharp blades, the surrounding grass and reeds fell down.
A huge crowd suddenly appeared, and gradually more and more people gathered, surging in from all directions shoulder to shoulder.
"Yuwen Sheng, it's been a long time."
And the person at the very front was an old acquaintance of theirs—Mo Ye.
His robust and tall body was draped in a scarlet cloak, dressed in the scale armor and leather helmet of a general, with thick, fiery eyebrows and a wickedly handsome face.
When he saw Yuwen Sheng and Zheng Quchi, his expression was inscrutable, and he kept forcing a smile.
He was accompanied by a general whose armor was a completely different color and style from his own, and the soldiers surrounding him were also dressed in blue and red.
Zheng Quchi knew he would have to face this scene sooner or later, but as expected, the imagined scene was not as terrifying as witnessing it with his own eyes.
The four members of the Xuanjia Army could only feign composure in the face of the enemy's all-round encirclement, but in reality, they had long been prepared for a desperate battle.
Yuwen Sheng seemed unsurprised to see Mo Ye appear. Even when faced with such a strong sense of urgency, he remained unchanged. He curled his lips and said meaningfully, "Besides the Southern Chen Kingdom, the Hong Sheng Kingdom has also joined in. Now, the three kingdoms are working together just to kill Yuwen Sheng. I am deeply honored."
General Beitang of Hongsheng Kingdom stared at Yuwen Sheng with a stern look: "You should indeed be proud. In order to lure the enemy into the trap, our three kingdoms have gone to great lengths to get to this point."
"For example, that rough map of Shimoda, wasn't that information you deliberately released?"
"Of course, but it really is real. Otherwise, how could you have fallen for it? You thought that by deliberately drawing away the pursuers, you could get your men back to Ye Kingdom smoothly? Heh, too bad, I sent people to intercept them on the way. They won't live to see the time when they hand over that Xiatianbu map to the King of Ye." Mo Ye spread his hands, his smile a cruel and regretful look.
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