Chapter 30 We Are Not Enemies
"I don't know the details." Wu Xinyuan was afraid that they would attack again, so he added hurriedly, "But I know that Beiling gave you 50,000 taels of silver.
It was with this money that the lord was transferred back to the capital."
"Is Mrs. Wu involved?" Wei Qingyan asked.
Saying one more word was painful. Wu Xinyuan shook his head subconsciously. The wound touched the dagger, and the pain made him cry and snot. "Madam is usually in the backyard, and I rarely see her. Please spare my life. I will never do evil again..."
Spare?
How could I possibly forgive you?
Her people did not die on the battlefield, but died in the calculations of such a villain. If she spared him, how could she be worthy of them?
Wei Qingyan lowered his eyes, turned his arm, and thrust the dagger into Wu Xinyuan's throat...
The next day, noon.
Jingzhe and his group were waiting in the valley beside the official road. He had been riding a horse and had been running back and forth on the official road several times, looking anxious.
The time agreed upon by General Wei has passed, but the prince and his men haven't returned yet!
Waited another half hour.
He jumped on his horse again and said, "No, I have to go back to Yu County to see if anything happened to the prince and the others."
"Let's go together." Yan Lan and others also stood up.
As soon as everyone mounted their horses and got out of the valley, they saw two riders running towards them from afar.
"Miss Chang, it's Miss Chang and the others." A guard shouted first.
Jingzhe kicked his horse's belly and rushed forward, "My Lord, are you all right?"
"Nothing, let's go back to Beijing." Shi Yu shook his head slightly.
Yan Lan on the other side also checked Wei Qingyan with her eyes. Seeing that she had no injuries on her body, but her face looked not so good, she did not dare to ask more questions.
Wei Qingyan half-closed his eyes and said to everyone calmly, "Let's go."
Then he rode forward.
Shi Yu followed, and the others hurriedly followed.
Because of the delay during the day, everyone missed the inn at night, so they directly found a flat place by the water, lit a bonfire and rested.
Everyone was either roasting dry food or collecting firewood, and no one spoke.
"Ugh..." A retching sound broke the silence.
Yan Lan squatted on the ground with her back to everyone, covering her mouth.
"Miss Chang, Yan Lan hasn't eaten since yesterday." Jingzhe squatted beside Wei Qingyan and whispered, "She vomited at the smell. She must have been scared."
Jingzhe was really worried about Yan Lan, and he also really wanted to talk to Wei Qingyan.
Although the silent General Wei was frightening, he dared not disobey his master's orders.
Wei Qingyan glanced at Yan Lan, stood up and went into the woods next to him. Soon he came back with a bamboo joint as thick as his arm.
Seeing this, Jingzhe understood what she was going to do and quickly took it over, "Miss Chang, I'll do it."
Cut the bamboo joint into three bamboo tubes, wash them, and fill each half of the tube with water.
Some clever guards had built a simple stove with stones, put the bamboo tube on it, and the water boiled in a short while.
Wei Qingyan tore up the dry biscuits and threw them in, stirring them with a bamboo stick until they became a paste.
"Drink something, your stomach will feel better." Wei Qingyan handed Yan Lan a bamboo tube that had cooled down and was no longer hot.
"I'm sorry for disturbing you." Yan Lan was very apologetic.
She didn't mean to do it, but whenever she ate, she would think of the bandits' appearance before they died, and the smell of burnt corpses in the air, and her stomach would churn uncontrollably.
It was like this last night at the inn, and it is like this today.
In order to take care of her, everyone tried their best not to touch meat. She knew everyone meant well, so she stayed away from her. Unexpectedly, when the smell of the sesame cake wafted over, she couldn't help but vomit.
Wei Qingyan held her hand and took her pulse unnoticeably.
It wasn't a slippery pulse, so she secretly breathed a sigh of relief, "No one blames you."
Everyone has a first time.
"But, no matter what the situation, you must ensure you have enough physical strength."
Because you don’t know whether there will be danger in the next moment, or whether you will have the next meal.
Yan Lan instantly thought of Yan Qing and Wei Qingyan.
By the time the news of their deaths reached Linzhou, there were already several versions of the story, but the one that impressed her the most was the line, "I heard that the National Protection Army was trapped in the mountains, starving to death. It's a pity that the heroes of our Great Wei have starved to death."
"Miss Chang, does it feel uncomfortable to be hungry? They said my brother and Qingyan left hungry."
After asking, she felt rude again.
Miss Chang looks like a capable person, how could she have ever been hungry?
But the people around him answered, "Yes, I feel anxious, weak, and my stomach is cramped and burning."
Yan Lan was slightly stunned, but soon realized that Miss Chang was lost that year and must have suffered hardship outside when she was young.
She didn't know how to comfort them, and thought of the suffering her relatives had experienced before they died. She tilted her head back and took a sip of the batter in the bamboo tube. Her stomach was churning, and she gritted her teeth and pursed her lips tightly as she swallowed.
Wei Qingyan silently stroked her back.
I didn’t spit out the first mouthful, so I drank the second mouthful…
When she finished drinking the whole bamboo tube, Yan Lan's eyes were filled with tears. She was choking and felt uncomfortable. "When the Luo family's affairs are settled, I will go to Huangshaling to see my brother and bring him lots of delicious food."
"Okay." Wei Qingyan responded.
At night, everyone takes turns on duty.
After Yan Lan fell asleep under the tree, Shi Yu sat next to Wei Qingyan and asked, "Why don't you tell her that Yan Qing is not in Huangshaling?"
"Let her take it easy." Wei Qingyan took a bite of the dry biscuit and chewed it carefully.
Wu Yuchu chased Yan Qing in order to erase the traces of her dispatching troops to Ganzhou, but when she did not see Yan Qing's body, she ordered Wu Xinyuan and others to withdraw.
It can be seen that he was sure that Yan Qing would have no chance of survival.
Who was the person behind him? And at whose hands did Yan Qing die?
She has not yet found out.
He didn't even know where Yan Qing's body was, so how could he bear to tell Yan Lan?
Yan Lan was already feeling depressed, so she should at least take a few more days to digest what was happening.
"Miss Chang, you are going to investigate the person behind Wu Yuchu next, right?" Shi Yu handed her a water bag.
Wei Qingyan turned his head to look at him, "Your Highness, don't you doubt why I know what happened three years ago?"
She remained silent all the way because she didn't want to tell lies.
After killing Wu Xinyuan, she also killed several people in the county government who were involved in the evil deeds.
He cooperated all the way and never asked a single question.
Wei Qingyan didn't believe that he had no curiosity.
"This king trusts Du Xueyi." Shi Yu handed the water bag to Wei Qingyan again and said softly, "What you did is harmless to this king. We are not enemies. Other things are not important. In fact, this king should thank you."
If he had not followed her to Yu County yesterday, how would he have known the truth of that year.
A trace of self-blame crossed his calm face, "I didn't even know about Yan Qing's mobilization of troops. I wasn't there... I didn't find Yan Qing's body next to Xiao Yan. I should have paid more attention.
I was careless, Yan Qing is Xiao Yan's close bodyguard..."
Even if I die, I will die by Xiaoyan's side.
Wei Qingyan took the water bag from his hand, took a sip, and swallowed the dry bread in his mouth.
Of the 20,000 National Defense Army soldiers, 10,000 died in the ambush at Beiling. By the time Shi Yu arrived, their bodies were unrecognizable. Another 10,000 died at Huangshaling, where they were mixed with the bodies of the Beiling Army soldiers...
The sea of blood and corpses was filled with broken arms and bodies.
Shi Yu was a prince, so it was normal that he didn't notice the body of a guard, and he couldn't be blamed.
But, Shi Yu didn’t suspect that there was anything strange about the incident in Huangshaling?
She returned the water bag to Shi Yu and asked, "When Your Majesty arrived at the battlefield, did you find anything unusual?"
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