Shi Zhong, who had been following Yue Chen everywhere, was trying his best to be a background character. He tried to hold back, but he still choked on his own saliva.
"That's...that's it?" Shi Zhong stared dumbfounded at the endless sea of prisoners.
Hua Cai looked at Shi Zhong, whose jaw had dropped, and thought his expression was a bit much: "What, when you fought wars, did you just return the prisoners to their homes properly?"
Seeing that there were still empty seats behind her, Hua Cai decisively moved back and stood next to Shi Zhong.
She decided to ignore Yue Chen until she calmed down.
Hearing Hua Cai's words, even though Shi Zhong knew she was just making things up, he quickly shook his head and denied it: "The prisoners have all been sent to mine and farm. Cough cough, you know, our Yue Kingdom is not good at this. The Li Kingdom prisoners have been sent to mine and forge iron, the Liang Kingdom prisoners have been sent to farm, and the Qiu Kingdom prisoners have all been sent to the military camp to raise horses."
Hua Cai didn't really want to know the whereabouts of the previous prisoners; she just asked casually to avoid Yue Chen. Little did she expect it to be such a way of handling things that perfectly exemplified "making the most of waste."
"You guys—you guys really have some ideas." After hesitating for a long time, Hua Cai finally polished up her "careful planning" a bit.
“That’s right,” Shi Zhong said proudly, taking Hua Cai’s words as a compliment. “This method was devised by our Third Prince.”
Hua Cai: ...We've brought up that kid again.
She stole a glance at Yue Chen's back, who had been left aside, and listened to the conversation between the two. She remained in the same position, looking at the prisoner army below, lost in thought.
The scene became awkward for a moment. Hua Cai was wondering whether she should find an excuse to leave when someone rushed over: "General, the person you requested to be kept in solitary confinement has woken up."
woke up?
Hua Cai perked up, greeted Shi Zhong, and followed the messenger toward the specially made prison in the military camp.
Yue Chen, who was "focused" on watching the prisoner-of-war camp below, twitched his ears. Hearing Hua Cai leave, he suddenly turned to Shi Zhong with a worried look: "What should I do? It seems like she really doesn't want to talk to me anymore."
Shi Zhong rolled his eyes. This kid was too dull. He acted so aloof when the other person was here, but now that they're gone, he's starting to get anxious.
"I'm telling you, do you want to kill her or marry her?" Shi Zhong felt that this question was very important. His own brother seemed to be too caught up in the situation to understand, leaving him, an outsider, completely confused.
Thinking back on the past three years, the ruthlessness with which you attacked people didn't seem fake. Now you're all distressed because others are ignoring you. What exactly is this kid up to?
Upon hearing Shi Zhong's words, Yue Chen actually frowned and began to seriously consider them, which made Shi Zhong's heart sink.
It's unbelievable that it took so long to think about this.
After a long, long wait, Shi Zhong was starting to get sleepy when Yue Chen finally looked at him with a headache and said, "We have them all."
Shi Zhong stared at Yue Chen with a completely bewildered expression.
What does "have" mean?
"You want to kill her and marry her at the same time?" Shi Zhong thought that either Yue Chen had gone mad, or he himself had gone mad.
Yue Chen nodded very seriously.
"But... but why did you want to kill her?" Shi Zhong asked, his heart aching, the same question that countless people had asked him countless times over the past three years.
Shake head.
“神经病吧你。”石中彻底暴躁了，狠狠的抓了抓自己的头发，目光不善的看着他：“在你想清楚到底是想杀还是想娶之前，不要再因为这事来烦老子，我真的会揍人的。”
If Shi Zhong hadn't known Yue Chen for a long time and understood his personality, he would have beaten Yue Chen into a pulp without hesitation because of the feeling of being teased.
Watching Shi Zhong leave in a rage, Yue Chen smirked, looking down at his hands, remaining motionless for a long time.
There were no prison cells in the barracks. The so-called prison cells were just a tent that Hua Cai had deliberately set aside, where he tied up the prisoners he brought back like dumplings and guarded them with heavy troops.
Amidst the densely packed military tents, one tent, surrounded by layers upon layers of enclosures, stood out conspicuously.
"General." Upon seeing Hua Cai approach, the guard at the gate hurriedly spoke.
"Hmm." Hua Cai responded faintly, then bent down slightly and went inside.
This tent is of standard centurion size; it's not very large, but there's enough room for four or five people to squeeze in.
The tent was silent, with two people staring at each other, neither of them saying a word.
Hua Cai's arrival instantly snapped the two people, who seemed to have turned to wood, out of their daze and looked over at each other.
“General.” The guard was the owner of this tent, one of the centurions of the Vietnamese army.
Hua Cai nodded, signaling him to go out first, then turned to look at the person on the ground who was tied up.
This man had sharp eyebrows and bright eyes. Even though he was bound like this, he still couldn't hide his noble air, except for the expression on his face—well—it was a bit creepy.
"As expected of the carefree prince who has been raised in luxury since childhood, he remains so calm even as a prisoner." Hua Cai gently brushed a stray hair from her forehead and smiled as she looked at Li Yuan, whose eyes were practically popping out of their sockets.
What a joke! Li Yuan is on the verge of a breakdown. If he weren't bound hand and foot and unable to move, he would have already run away for his life.
This is absolutely unbelievable.
“You you you—you are Jin—Jin—” Li Yuan stared at Hua Cai’s face, which was faintly visible in the firelight, and stammered, but he couldn’t say the name no matter what.
He thought she looked like her the first time he saw her on the battlefield, but she was a commander of a large army, a general from the Yue Kingdom. How could someone as pampered and brainless as Jin Baozhu command and direct the Yue Kingdom's army?
These were two completely different people. Therefore, when Li Yuan saw Hua Cai during the battle between the two armies, he was only shocked for a moment before he realized what was happening.
This is just someone who looks extremely similar to Kim Bo-joo.
Yes, that's it.
Li Yuan felt that he had guessed the truth.
However, once he took off his armor and changed into civilian clothes, he looked even more like, no, he was practically the real Kim Bo-joo.
"Impossible! You...you're not her! Jin—she died three years ago!" Li Yuan's hands and feet were bound, preventing him from standing up. He stared at Hua Cai with a horrified expression, desperately trying to back away.
Three years ago, her elder brother witnessed her drinking the Blood-Dissolving Powder. Since there was no cure for the Blood-Dissolving Powder, there was absolutely no way she could still be alive.
Jin Baozhu was already dead, a fact that Li Zheng and Li Yuan had long recognized. All the hardships they had gone through, even resorting to overwhelming force, were to force the Yue Emperor to hand over nothing more than a piece of gold and silver.
"Why not? Do you expect me to personally force-feed you a bottle of blood-dissolving powder?" Hua Cai approached step by step, looking at Li Yuan's horrified face as he retreated, and a surge of pleasure suddenly welled up in her heart.
Is this—Jin Baozhu's feeling?
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