She walked barefoot to the edge of the tent and peeked out. The soldiers sleeping by the fire outside were not from Izumo, and the flags fluttering in the wind bore the name Zhou.
Her eyes welled up with tears, and soon they streamed down her face.
She thought she would never escape in this lifetime, but unexpectedly, she was rescued, and it was the people of the Great Zhou who rescued her.
The soft sobbing woke Xie Nanfeng, who was closest to the sound.
Xie Nanfeng glanced around and saw someone at the entrance of his tent. He got up and walked over.
"Miss, are you hungry? Don't worry, this isn't Chuyun Kingdom anymore, this is the camp of the Peng family army of the Great Zhou Dynasty," Xie Nanfeng said.
"Thank you, thank you, General, thank you for saving my life!" The girl knelt down straight down.
Xie Nanfeng picked the person up.
Hearing the commotion next door, Lu Zheng came over as well.
He was curious how a girl who looked no more than fourteen years old had ended up in the hands of Izumo.
The borders of several countries are guarded by the Peng family army, and ordinary people will not approach them. In Kuncheng, the only exit from the Great Zhou is the West Gate. Apart from businessmen from other countries, no girl will be allowed to leave there easily, let alone human traffickers who abduct girls.
Inside Xie Nanfeng's tent, the little girl, dressed in one of Xie Nanfeng's soldiers' uniforms, ate two roasted sweet potatoes and potatoes, and drank a large bowl of water before she regained some strength.
She told him about her background.
She was originally a village girl named Jin Yingying from a village under Tongzhou Prefecture. Her family owned several dozen acres of land and could be considered a moderately wealthy farming family.
But one night three years ago, someone suddenly broke into their house and killed all their family members. That night, she had an upset stomach and went to the outhouse. She was bitten by a snake in the outhouse and fainted from fright, thus escaping the disaster.
Although she was a farmer's daughter, she was afraid of snakes, insects, rats, and ants.
When she woke up, it was already daylight. Her entire family had been killed, and she was terrified.
Unexpectedly, the group returned and found her.
They didn't kill her, they just kidnapped her.
She didn't know where she was going; she had been tied up in the carriage the whole time.
After she got out of the car, she realized that she had been in the car of a merchant from Xingnan Kingdom. The merchant had spent a lot of money to buy her and planned to make her his concubine when she grew up.
She stayed in Xingnan for a year and found a chance to escape, but she was chased and got lost. Somehow, she ended up in Izumo.
She wanted to disguise herself as a man, but the men of Izumo were all tall with deep-set features.
She tried to pretend to be mute, but was unintentionally frightened into speaking.
Finally, she was sent to Azhar's general's mansion.
Ashar had been stationed at the border and was originally planning to return to her bridal chamber, but war was about to break out, so Ashar had someone send her to the camp so they could consummate their marriage first.
Tonight is her wedding night with Ashel.
At this point, she cried.
Fortunately, General Xie saved her chastity; otherwise, even if she had been rescued, she would not have survived.
Lu Zheng frowned and looked at her: "Tongzhou Prefecture, Jin Yingying? When you were ten years old, did you accidentally enter an ice cave?"
Jin Yingying's eyes lit up as she looked at Lu Zheng in disbelief.
Lu Zheng said expressionlessly, "Do you still have the jade pendant that the man in the ice cave had on you?"
Jin Yingying nodded and then shook her head: "General, that jade pendant was valuable back then, so I didn't dare take it back and buried it in our village. Does the General recognize that young master from back then?"
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