Wronged

Three days later.

"Your Highness, I really don't know where that group of soldiers went." Mu Wan'er paused and pretended to be aggrieved: "I know nothing about this, and the heavens can see it! But if Your Highness wants to think so... I can't help it."

[The male protagonist is confused, what does the troops taken away by the King of Beiping have to do with me? 】

[Does he think I'm in league with the King of Beiping? Absurd, too absurd!]

Gu Yihan sat upright on a wooden chair, smiling but saying nothing. He glanced at his fiancée standing in front of him and pointed to a spot on the map: "According to Wan'er, if the Chu army passes through this place, will they encounter an ambush?"

He was ordered to bring 3,000 soldiers to the border, but they disappeared overnight.

At the same time, the King of Beiping, who had been stationed at the border for all these years, also disappeared.

【Why did you suddenly change the question? 】

[System, is there an ambush here? ]

[You don't know? Okay, don't blame me if your favorability drops. ]

Mu Wan'er's mouth twitched. Seeing that Gu Yihan was staring at her without blinking, she had no choice but to take two steps forward and pretend to look at the map seriously.

After a moment, she spread her hands, blinked her big eyes, and said honestly: "Your Highness, I don't understand."

"What about this place?" Gu Yihan pointed to another place.

Mu Wan'er sighed, smiled and shook her head, still looking innocent.

[I don't know about the ambush, I just know that you didn't stay at the border for so long in your past two lives.]

[Also, if Chu didn't lose tens of thousands of soldiers, it would be impossible for it to win this war.]

Gu Yihan's expression was slightly tense, and he tapped the table with his fingertips: "Really?"

Mu Wan'er was frightened by his serious expression and nodded.

She really couldn't understand ancient maps.

The atmosphere was silent for a moment until Gu Huaizhi opened the tent and walked in: "Cousin, the spies just reported..."

Gu Huaizhi paused and glanced at Mu Wan'er who was drawing circles on the ground with her toes: "Why are you here?"

"Ask your brother." Mu Wan'er shrugged, but soon realized that she had said something wrong, so she smiled and said, "I'm here to see my future husband."

Mu Wan'er glanced at the two of them and said without waiting for them to speak, "You have something to say, right? It just so happens that I have to go find my sister too."

Having said this, she hurried out of the tent, as if she was bored here.

Hearing who Mu Wan'er was going to look for, Gu Huai's jaw tightened unconsciously.

After she left, Gu Huaizhi suddenly stroked his chin and said with a smile: "It seems that your cousin's fiancée... doesn't have much affection for you."

Gu Yihan smiled noncommittally and looked his cousin up and down: "How is Ah Huai's injury?"

Gu Huaizhi's expression froze, and he rubbed his thumb and index finger subconsciously, then raised his eyebrows: "As my cousin sees."

Over the past three days, Mu An Ning has been busy working with a group of doctors to prepare medicine, saving many soldiers from danger, including himself.

Although his health was not as good as before, the wound no longer continued to bleed, and no one could stop him from staying in the bed.

However, he and Aning have not spoken a word since he woke up from his coma, and even the medicinal herbs were given to him by Gu Ji.

Gu Huaizhi forced himself not to think about that figure anymore and started talking about business: "Cousin, the spies reported that the Liang army retreated another four miles."

Gu Yihan turned his eyes away from the map and pondered for a long time without saying anything.

He really couldn't understand Liang's move.

I thought they would strike while the iron is hot and take advantage of the heavy casualties of the Chu soldiers to launch a sudden attack, but there was no movement and they were even retreating.

When he actually arrived at the battlefield, he suddenly realized that military tactics might not be effective at certain times.

But what is more unpredictable than the enemy's intentions is the human heart.

After Gu Huaizhi sat down, Gu Yihan spoke calmly, "Have you found any trace of that group of soldiers?"

Gu Huaizhi's expression changed slightly, and his tone was slightly frustrated and dull: "No."

Gu Yihan and his cousin looked at each other and stopped talking at the same time.

It was obvious that the troops he brought would never come back, and the King of Peking would never come back either.

Overnight, the emperor's most trusted and capable general defected to Liang without any warning.

I'm afraid that when the emperor learned about this, his first reaction would be to disbelieve it even more.

Not long after, Gu Huaizhi suddenly raised his eyebrows and laughed, breaking the silence: "Cousin, you can go back to the capital. General Lu and I are here. Let the emperor's uncle rest assured that we will protect the country of Chu."

What he also wanted to say was that he should bring Mu An Ning back to Beijing as well.

He was really worried about letting someone else send her off, so he thought it would be more appropriate to let his cousin, the one who started it all, send her off.

Gu Yihan was slightly startled, then smiled and shook his head: "You and I both know why the emperor sent me here."

One was to test whether he had any ulterior motives, and the other was to test whether Gu Huaizhi had any ulterior motives.

But the emperor did not expect that the person he trusted most had ulterior motives, nor did he expect that the current war situation was indeed not favorable to Da Chu.

Hearing this, Gu Huaizhi couldn't help but sigh and said what he had been holding back in his heart: "You could have come alone, but why did you bring the girl to the border?"

Gu Yihan's expression changed slightly, but he soon smiled and said slowly, "I don't want to be separated from my future wife for even a moment. Ah Huai, are you jealous of me?"

Gu Huaizhi's forehead jumped, and he heard Gu Yihan say again: "Besides, if I hadn't brought Miss Mu, who has great medical skills, you would probably still be lying on the couch."

This was actually a pleasant surprise. He had not expected that the Marquis's Mansion would send him an extra girl.

If Mu An Ning had not discovered the herbs hidden in the forest earlier, they would still be in a shortage of medicine.

Of course, the best thing would be to ask the court to send medicine for the injuries.

But the strange thing is that after several days, there was still no movement and no doctor came.

Gu Huaizhi could sense some euphoria in his cousin's tone, but his eyebrows couldn't help but show some joy: "Aning's medical skills are amazing."

Gu Yihan looked at his cousin's smug expression and couldn't help but laugh, "Ah Huai, I was praising her, not you."

*

Mu An Ning was applying medicine to a soldier's arm when he was suddenly frightened by a man's voice and almost dropped the medicine bottle on the ground.

The man said, "Put on your clothes!"

Everyone looked at him, only to hear the man say in a cold voice: "It's not decent to be shirtless in public!"

The man was dressed in a low-key black suit, but had an eye-catching scarlet sachet on his waist.

"Young General Gu!" The soldiers stood up and saluted, but they did not listen to the young man's words and still had their shirts off.

Some were even brave enough to joke, "General Gu, the sun is really too hot. You asked us to put on clothes, but it would cost us our lives."

Everyone burst into laughter, and the depressing atmosphere eased for a moment.

Some people echoed: "Yes, General Gu, you should try it too, it's really refreshing."

Originally, they thought that Gu Huaizhi, as a royal relative, would be difficult to get along with, but after coming to the border these days, he unexpectedly treated all of them as brothers.

Even in the confrontation with the Liang people a few days ago, he saved many people at the risk of his own life.

This also prompted them to be less reserved towards him than before.

Just today...

Seeing that Gu Huaizhi's expression was still frighteningly dark, the soldiers finally realized that something was wrong. They looked at each other, hurriedly put on their clothes, and said with full energy: "Yes, General Gu!"

Seeing this, Gu Huaizhi's expression finally eased a little. He looked at the doctors around him who were bandaging the wounded, and then walked quickly to the girl in the corner.

Mu An Ning and the soldier of the same age as them, who were squatting, were suddenly shrouded in a shadow.

Mu An Ning had already retracted his gaze and ignored the figure behind him. Instead, he applied some medicine to the little soldier's wound.

This medicine is made from a mixture of three kinds of herbs and is surprisingly effective.

In the past few days, she, the doctors, and some uninjured soldiers have been collecting, mixing, and applying medicine almost every moment.

Initially, they were reluctant to let a girl like her do these things, but later on, they were so overwhelmed that they no longer refused to have an extra helper.

She actually felt a little uncomfortable at first, after all, the injured were all men, but when she thought that there was no distinction between men and women in front of the doctor, she no longer worried about it. After all, the Liang people could attack at any time.

However, if this matter were to get out, she would probably be blamed by her grandmother and adoptive father for being impolite. But saving lives was more important.

The young soldier swallowed his saliva, then chuckled and said, "General Gu, General Gu."

He was just an unknown person, and it was his first time talking to a general, so he was quite excited.

The young man nodded, folded his arms and stood there motionless, staring at the two people on the ground.

The smiling soldier seemed to sense something strange, and hesitantly withdrew his arm, saying tentatively: "Thank you, Doctor Mu. I, I think it's almost done. I can bandage the wound myself."

Mu An Ning frowned, took a piece of white cloth from the medicine box, and said slowly: "Let me do it."

The soldier's injury was on his arm. How could he bandage it by himself? Moreover, using the military's bandaging method, it would probably become loose in a short while.

The young soldier glanced at the young general's expression and couldn't help trembling, but the girl had already put the gauze on his arm, so he had to sit still.

After the girl bandaged the wound skillfully, the soldier thanked her immediately and moved to the side.

Mu An Ning didn't say anything, but stood up and prepared to treat the next soldier.

In the area under her "jurisdiction", the injured only suffered injuries to their arms and cheeks, which were conspicuous parts of their bodies.

Therefore, the men she saw were basically all dressed properly, and Gu Huaizhi's order just now had little effect on them.

However, as soon as Mu An Ning took a step forward, the boy behind her also took a step forward. When she was about to squat down again, the boy finally gently grabbed her arm and forced her to turn around.

The silent soldiers present looked at each other, secretly looking at Gu Huaizhi and then at Mu Anning.

One of them was dressed in white, the other in black, and both had a red object tied around their waists; they looked strangely well-matched.

Mu An Ning's eyes unconsciously swept across the boy's lips. He didn't say anything, but his heartbeat seemed to speed up uncontrollably.

Gu Huaizhi pursed his lips tightly, lowered his eyes, and spoke slowly as everyone pricked up their ears.

"Aning, you haven't talked to me for three days..."