95. Get
"The imperial court... has already sent that batch of grain and fodder... to the border town..."
The servant was covered in dust and almost choked with sobs, constantly looking up at Yun Zhihe.
Yun Zhihe pursed his lips and remained silent for a long time. The officials next to him looked at each other, and their expressions showed despair and despair.
Yun Zhihe had no expression on his face, except for his tightly clenched fists. He remained silent for a long time in the silent hall before speaking softly.
"It's alright, you can leave now."
"Sir, how is it?"
Lord Chen almost started to cry, his voice hoarse and his eyes red.
Yun Zhihe turned to look at everyone, stammered his lips but still said nothing.
In just a moment, everyone understood.
There was nothing Xiaoyun, the talented lady who had been Beidi's spiritual pillar in recent months, could do.
Even if she is extremely smart, there is nothing she can do...
After months of tug-of-war, with ammunition and food running out, some officials could no longer control their emotions and collapsed, suppressing their tears.
Yun Zhihe looked at her sobbing and was speechless.
She should have said, women, don't cry.
Or rather, there is always hope.
It’s better not to say such ridiculous things.
Yun Zhihe closed his eyes, clenched his fingers, and ignored the desperate people in the house. He walked out and looked at the flowers and plants in the yard in silence.
It is growing vigorously, completely different from the gray and dilapidated appearance in the city.
She looked for a long time and felt someone approaching from behind. She turned around and found it was Qin Zhi.
His skin, which he had tried to whiten in the capital, had turned darker again. Compared to before, he looked even more unbridled and wild, with a noble and unbridled look on his eyebrows.
At this time, she also pursed her lips, reached out and grabbed Yun Zhihe's sleeve, her pine green eyes flashing slightly.
He couldn't say anything.
Then he suddenly hugged Yun Zhihe from behind, resting his chin on her shoulder, his voice choked with sobs.
"Yun Zhihe...I..."
The tip of his nose turned red and he spoke softly with a trembling voice.
"Are we going to die?"
The temperature of their bodies touching each other was so intense that it almost burned her.
Yun Zhihe was in a daze for a moment, but did not push him away. She lowered her head, her eyelashes trembling like crow feathers, and her voice was light.
"……I guess so."
Qin Zhi paused, then hugged her tighter, his breath heavy and trembling against her ears.
"Then I... I..." He paused, trembling a little, and lowered his eyes, "You know my feelings, right?"
Qin Zhi wanted to laugh at himself. At such a critical moment of life and death, he deliberately expressed his love.
Yun Zhihe paused, reached out and held his hand that was around her waist. The calluses on his hands had become thicker and rougher in the past few months.
"I know."
She pursed her lips.
“…But I don’t like you.”
Qin Zhi increased his strength, but she didn't pull away. Instead, he let out a low growl in embarrassment.
"This prince knows!"
His eyes were red and tears fell on Yun Zhihe's neck.
"I don't know who you've been missing these past few months, but why can't you look at me more often? At least look at this prince!"
"This prince... has been begging you to look at me, but you only think of that man whose name I don't know. Do you think I can't see your feelings?!"
Qin Zhi trembled a little and continued speaking in a hoarse voice.
"Why can't I...melt you? Look at me..."
“Please…”
He cried and hugged Yun Zhihe tightly, buried his head in her shoulder, and cried tremblingly, and this time he finally made a sound.
Qin Zhi sobbed for a while, then continued speaking tremblingly.
"Anyway, we're both going to die, so you and I, being husband and wife for one night... is fine."
"At least let me get you at the last moment."
Such lowly words of courtship should not have been spoken by Qin Zhi, who was born with pride and willfulness, but he spoke out of his own depravity.
Begging her.
Yun Zhihe suddenly paused. She reached out to pull Qin Zhi's hand away, turned around quickly, and at the moment when he was stunned with tears in his eyes, she grabbed his shoulders and looked straight at him with a firm look on her face.
"I won't die. Not at the last moment."
“…I have an idea.”
There was a smile in her eyes, which immediately bloomed in Qin Zhi's eyes. He was stunned for a moment, and before he could react, he found that Yun Zhihe had already run out in a hurry, obviously to discuss countermeasures.
Qin Zhi looked at her back.
She was wearing white, running like a fluttering butterfly, and then gradually walked away.
Qin Zhi reached out and wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, sneered, and sniffed.
He was so fond of her.
She was worthy of his joy.
…
Mo Beise raised his eyebrows and listened to the reports from the people sitting below, then chuckled softly in a hoarse voice.
"……surrender?"
He paused and asked the man to repeat himself.
"Taishu Yun said he wanted to surrender."
"She? Surrender?"
Mo Beise sneered, then covered his face and started laughing.
“Uh-huh…surrender…surrender?”
His voice was as clear as a silver bell, hitting everyone's eardrums.
Mo Beise suddenly stood up and kicked the person who reported to the ground, looking down at him with a cold expression.
"You can find such false information. It seems you are useless."
“Hmm—”
The man was kicked so hard that blood gushed out of his throat. He spoke hurriedly with a sobbing voice.
"Your Highness! Yes, it's true... Yun Taishou wrote in a letter that food is running low and the city is out of ammunition and food. I only beg Your Highness to spare the lives of the people!"
Mo Beise paused, was silent for a while, and waved his hand to let everyone retreat.
At this time, a long and loud eagle cry resounded through the sky. The tall eagle was holding a carrier pigeon in its beak, and the pigeon was trembling in its beak.
Mo Beise stretched out his hand, and the eagle landed straight on his arm, loosened its beak, and the pigeon fell stiffly to the ground.
Mo Beise picked up the pigeon, unfolded the flying book, looked at the words on it in silence for a while before he sneered, pursed his lips, and said nothing.
After a long moment, he scoffed and muttered something under his breath.
“…No wonder.”
He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and murmured softly.
"Yun Zhihe..."
…
The surrender shocked the whole city, and many people even threw feces and cursed at the gate of the prefectural government.
"You're a coward! You have no shame! You're a damned corrupt official!"
"You bastard official! You actually succumbed to the tyranny of the barbarians!"
"You're not fit to be an official! You're not fit to be an official! Get out of here!"
Such words.
Yun Zhihe listened to the shouting and cursing outside, put down the book in his hand, and turned a deaf ear to it with an indifferent expression.
Azhi was so anxious that she cried and wanted to rush out to argue, but Yun Zhihe stopped her. She could only bite her lower lip and wipe away her tears of anger.
Qin Zhi, who was standing next to him, just looked at Yun Zhihe silently, pursed his lips, and said nothing.
He just listened to the increasingly loud shouting and cursing outside and sneered.
"You'll find a way."
It was a murmur of helpless mockery.
He did not mock her cowardly surrender, he always believed in her.
However, she never explained her actions, and the growing public anger almost overwhelmed the entire city.
She allowed herself to be stigmatized again.
Qin Zhi's eyes were a little red.
He spoke in a muffled voice.
"Why don't you explain? Even if you surrender, you are still saving them."
"The barbarians always massacre the city in their first battle. They burn, kill, plunder, and commit all sorts of atrocities... Even so, you saved them..."
Qin Zhi's voice was filled with tears.
Yun Zhihe paused, put down the book, and looked up at Qin Zhi.
"After months of depression, there must be a way to vent."
"Besides, surrender is surrender... They are right."
After saying that, he lowered his head and started reading again.
Look, she allowed herself to be that outlet, and she never explained.
Qin Zhi just looked at her and raised his hand to wipe away his tears.
…
Even though he knew that the situation was very good now, Mo Beise was still afraid of a trap. He directly made a request that on the day of entering the city, Yun Zhihe must leave the city alone to be the hostage to prevent any mistakes.
She agreed calmly.
Qin Zhi didn't know at first, but only reacted when he saw her gradually walking out of the city wall.
But...it's clear that there are 50,000 soldiers lying in ambush in the city...
If she went out as a hostage, and the enemy entered the city and was surrounded and ambushed—
She will die.
This thought began to violently impact Qin Zhi's brain, and his brain was working almost crazily.
She will die.
She was prepared to use her own life as a bargaining chip to win the enemy into the city and launch a counterattack.
Qin Zhi suddenly tried to come over. He opened his eyes wide and was about to growl when Azhi suddenly covered his lips and pulled him back.
“Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm”
He struggled to run towards Yun Zhihe, who was alone, but was strangled. Azhi cried and said to him.
"Prince, please don't, wuuu, wuuu, don't make a fuss..."
“Mmmmm—”
Qin Zhi looked at Yun Zhihe's departing back, his eyes almost popping out of his chest. The enemy troops were on full alert outside the city, and the ambush inside the city was also very tight.
He watched Yun Zhihe walk out of the city gate, and then the city gate was about to close.
It was not until this moment that Qin Zhi was released. He was panting, his face flushed, and he almost roared at Azhi.
"You know what she's going to do, right?!"
"Why are you stopping me?! I'm a prince! I'm more worthy of being a hostage than her!"
"Let me take her place, let me take her place..."
He was muttering and was about to run out, but was suddenly caught by Azhi, who was in tears.
"Prince! Please stop making trouble! Miss... Miss..."
She begged for this counterattack with her own life.
The moment the enemy enters the city, they will not surrender, but launch a fierce counterattack. The anger in that moment will crush her, and then she will die.
Qin Zhi struggled desperately and roared with tears streaming down his face.
"Yun Zhihe! Yun Zhihe!"
At the moment when the city gate slowly closed, Yun Zhihe turned his head to look at him, then suddenly closed it.
...never see her again.
Qin Zhi collapsed in shock.
Mo Beise sat on his horse and watched Yun Zhihe getting closer and closer. He laughed so hard that his body almost shook.
He leaned over and stretched out his hand, his eyes curved and smiling.
"Come on, come up."
Yun Zhihe was calm. She chuckled at him and turned over to his horse. Mo Beise pressed tightly against her back and spoke with a smile.
"Madam Yun is quite frank."
He closed his eyes and took a deep breath of her hair almost obsessively.
Then suddenly, he raised his hand and gave orders.
"Go into the city—!"
The cavalry laughed loudly and galloped towards the slowly opening city gate.
The army entered.
Mo Beise was neither hurried nor slow.
Just as the cavalry rushed in, suddenly, an arrow shot out and hit the chest, and blood splattered everywhere.
The smile on his face was still frozen.
Then someone in the army yelled, "There's an ambush! There's an ambush!!"
Mo Beise watched the cavalry rush in and get trapped in the city. He rode his horse and walked behind, holding Yun Zhihe in front of him, laughing out loud.
“Haha ...…”
Yun Zhihe's expression was calm and composed, with a slight smile still on the corner of his lips.
Mo Beise smiled until tears came out and he murmured.
"I knew it, I knew it... I knew it..."
"drive!"
He watched as the army got stuck in a muddy ambush, then he let out a scream, smiled, turned around, and rode his horse back.
Yun Zhihe paused, a little confused.
"you……"
Mo Beise smiled with his teeth showing, his eyes darkened, and he ignored the screams behind him.
"I wasn't born for any war...Victory or failure has nothing to do with me."
He chuckled softly, the ending tone low and sweet with love.
"As for me...from the beginning to the end, my only target has been you."
"look……"
He hugged Yun Zhihe tightly.
"I've got you."
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