"Senior brother, senior sister, a carrier pigeon sent by Brother Pomegranate."
It was still that misty mountain, and inside the mountain stood the Zhanchen Tower. A woman wearing a bright red flower in her hair turned around and took the letter from the girl's hand.
Then, she sighed and said...
"We have a chance to clear our name, but it's also a high-probability death opportunity."
The beautiful woman looked at the man lying on her lap eating grapes, and then at the girl behind her who had been raised since childhood and was eager to try.
How to choose?
"Clean up my name! Retire from the martial world, live a carefree life, and then I'll return to being a well-bred lady." Jiang Tianxin had planned it all out perfectly. Her senior brothers and sisters would make money, while she stayed home as a pampered young lady, living a blissful life.
"..."
What do you think? (Eleventh)
"I'll listen to you, I'll go wherever you go, but is this the last chance to clear my name?"
"In all these years, only Shiliu has sent back this kind of message once, don't you think?"
"Then let's go. Call those brats over later and ask them. Those who don't want to go, just pass the Zhanchen Tower down to them as their heirs," the man said lazily.
The woman chuckled a few times and asked...
"What you passed on to them was Zhanchen Tower? Or a huge black pot? Is there any silver left in their accounts?"
The man sat up and stared intently into the woman's eyes as he spoke.
"What money do we have? We need money to make a living, don't we?"
"Don't I have to spend money?" Jiang Tianxin said from the side.
"Senior sister, give me some money. I need to go down the mountain to buy some books," Jiang Tianyang said as he walked in from the doorway to the woman with the bright flowers on her head.
Liu Xiaohua nodded, wholeheartedly agreeing with the man's decision. Raising children was too expensive; not having them was the right thing to do.
"Cao'er, we'll reach the border town's garrison in another twenty li. The journey has been frighteningly smooth so far. Should we switch places? I'll go ahead and scout the way."
The girl shook her head. It was just one last push. If they could get it delivered, they could run home with all their might.
"Grass, look, smoke."
Wisps of smoke rose from the distant grasslands, unlike the large chimneys of the encampment, but rather the smoke rising from the Xiongnu people cooking while sitting on the ground. The girl frowned and said...
"They're waging a blitzkrieg; I reckon they'll rest for a bit after lunch and then prepare to attack again."
"What are they after?" the boy behind him asked.
"Marshal Tu Xiao cannot leave his post, it's that simple."
"What should we do then?"
"Fire." Without much hesitation, the girl took out a smoke bomb from her backpack, lit it, and shot it straight into the sky.
Miss Huo said that the best time to strike is when he is weak, such as when he is eating, sleeping, taking a bath, or going to the outhouse. Marshal Xiao can also understand the signal and has hidden the carriages. Even if the grain cannot reach the camp, as long as they meet when fighting the Xiongnu, they can tell them the location of the carriages.
"Marshal, there is blue smoke about twenty miles away from Pingyang County."
"Blue?"
"yes."
The man was dressed in silver armor, holding a large sword. His scarred eyebrows were slightly furrowed, and he hadn't shaved, probably because he wasn't home.
"Pass on my order! Huo Xiaocheng, lead three thousand men to rush towards the source of the smoke. Do not ask any questions. If you encounter any Xiongnu, kill them on sight."
"Yes, General."
The handsome, pale-faced general in black armor knelt on one knee, clasped his hands in a fist salute, and led the soldiers he had trained straight towards the Xiongnu. When Huo Xiaocheng arrived, the group of young men and women were already engaged in fierce fighting with the Xiongnu.
Whether it was because his sister's private soldiers were too skilled or because the terrain was too advantageous, when the scimitar struck the young man's arm armor, it only made a clanging sound and didn't even scratch the skin.
Among the group of youths, there were those wielding giant shields, spears, and swords, their formations shifting constantly as they charged forward.
Looking at the armor they were wearing, and then at the one Marshal Xiao had given him, Huo Xiaocheng felt a pang of jealousy. He admitted it; he was envious.
"Young Master Huo."
Little Grass, who was in charge of command from behind, spotted the black-armored, white-faced general at a glance and shouted loudly at him.
How should I make up this lie today? Let's just say it was an order given by Miss Huo before. They are all bodyguards hired by Huo Xiaolong. Yes, bodyguards.
The girl rode forward and said...
"Greetings, Young Master Huo. Behind that rock is the grain that Miss Huo instructed us to send you whenever the Xiongnu attacked. Pingyang County was besieged last night and is completely blocked."
Huo Xiaocheng nodded, somewhat embarrassed and unsure how to respond, having seen the girl before with Long'er.
He really wanted to ask, "Who are you? What do you do? Why is your armor so uniform? Where did it come from?" He had the answers to these questions in his heart, but Long'er didn't tell anyone, thinking he had kept it a secret very well.
"Thank you. As for the money, I'll ask you at the brothel after the battle." After a long while, Huo Xiaocheng managed to squeeze out these words amidst the noisy shouts and fighting.
"Let's talk about it later, after we're done playing." Li Xiaocao awkwardly gripped the ground with her toes.
The younger girl couldn't hold back any longer and said...
"Um...we are Miss Huo's bodyguards. Back in the village, she saw that I was healthy and fast, and that I looked pitiful running around like that every day..."
"So she hired over a hundred bodyguards?"
"Ah, no... well, these are all from my village and neighboring villages. They saw that I was eating well at Miss Huo's place, so they came over together. There are also many people from the county and other villages who couldn't come..."
This is getting worse and worse!
Little Grass knew she wasn't good with words, so she kept quiet.
Huo Xiaocheng nodded.
"It's okay, she's fine... she's fine. That's just how my sister is. She's naturally timid and weak, and she's afraid of danger, yes, afraid of dying."
The girl in armor nodded in agreement.
"Yes, Miss Huo is delicate and beautiful, so it's good to have more bodyguards."
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