Chapter 2 The general gave her a coffin

"What are they going to do?"

"Maybe they are going to send us away, but I don't know where to."

The women seldom went out, so they tied their belts and dressed neatly before leaving the barracks one after another.

Jiang Yanyi was glad that only her outer robe was torn, and her middle and inner clothes were intact. She followed the crowd out of the tent, secretly looking at the surrounding terrain and environment, and assessing the feasibility of escape.

It was late autumn, and the weather here was extremely cold.

Their barracks were on the edge of the military camp, with countless military tents pitched in front, so dense that it was dizzying. There were patrolling soldiers in the military camp, and the guards were very strict.

On the short sand dunes in the distance, the withered yellow leaves of the poplar trees swirled and fell down when the wind blew.

It was indeed outside the Great Wall.

Jiang Yanyi could only use one word to describe this ghost place: remote and poor.

A new army was stationed outside the camp. The army was uniformly dressed in dark iron armor. They poured in from the gate of the camp like black ants. On the flags fluttering in the wind, there was a red word "Feng" on a black background, which made people feel cold all over.

"Feng" is a royal family surname. Could it be that the male protagonist has come to the border?

Jiang Yanyi was scared out of her wits by this idea. With the degree of partiality and protection of the male protagonist in the original book, if he knew that she was not dead after entering the barracks, he might have directly ordered his soldiers to drag her over and watch her being tortured to death by the soldiers of the three armies with his own eyes.

She quickly recalled the plot of the original book. In the book, the vicious female supporting role had just died, and the male protagonist was still raping her.

Although the female protagonist's body was occupied by the male protagonist, she was always thinking about the second male lead Lu Linyuan. Once, when she was tortured by the male protagonist and fainted, she called Lu Linyuan's name. The male protagonist was jealous and demoted Lu Linyuan to the border. The female protagonist felt that she had harmed Lu Linyuan, and she cried every day and became more indifferent to the male protagonist.

The male protagonist's self-esteem was hurt, and he threatened the female protagonist that he didn't have to be with her. He turned around and went to the queen to vent his anger, but who would have thought that he would be so successful. After learning that the queen was pregnant, the heroine cried again and realized that she had already had feelings for the hero. The heroine

was determined to break this bad fate and complained to her father, Minister Jiang. With the help of Minister Jiang, she faked her death and escaped from the palace. She went to the border to find the second male lead and planned to be with him for the rest of her life. The hero was naturally furious and immediately went to the border to snatch the heroine back...

According to the development of the plot, Jiang Yanyi felt that it should be some time before the hero came to the border. Did something happen that made the hero come to the border in advance? Or was there someone else holding the "Seal" flag?

The little leader who had called them out before saw the army and was obviously a little flustered.

After he counted the number of people, he immediately shouted, "Follow me, follow me!"

The small leader led the way in front, and his soldiers were responsible for escorting them from behind.

With this situation, let alone running, even if they turned their heads to look somewhere, the soldiers walking behind could see it clearly.

The women in the team were all panicked when they saw the army stationed in the camp.

Even Chunxiang, who had stayed here the longest, looked a little pale.

Someone whispered to her, "Sister Chunxiang, where are we going?"

Chunxiang sneered, "There are so many new soldiers, and if you take us over, what do you think we can do?"

The women who heard this turned pale.

There are less than a hundred military prostitutes in the Xizhou camp. If they are given away as rewards to the three armies, there will be too many wolves and too little meat. Can they survive until tomorrow?

The little leader led them into the military camp, as if Chunxiang really said, that they would be sent to the new soldiers to play with.

Many women were already sobbing softly, and those who had been in the camp longer had numb faces.

Some clever girls said they had to pee urgently, but the little leader simply replied, "Hold it in."

It seemed that the little leader knew all about their escape tricks.

Jiang Yanyi's heart was pounding.

Outside the Xizhou camp.

The sunlight in late autumn was not dazzling. A man and a horse stood in front of the army. The black warhorse was half a head taller than an ordinary warhorse. It stomped its hooves impatiently and snorted defiantly. In front of the warhorse was the black-armored army that poured into the Xizhou camp in an orderly manner.

The man on horseback was tall and slender, wearing heavy armor made of black iron. The fierce tiger head on his shoulder was so aggressive that it could scare children to cry every night. He raised his hand tied with the black iron wrist guard and touched the warhorse he was sitting on. The horse, which was still restless just now, calmed down instantly.

When the autumn wind blew, a few strands of his hair, which were casually tied up on his head, fell down, making the face that once haunted the ladies in the capital more unruly.

A guard came riding from a distance. When he was almost in front of him, he quickly turned over and dismounted, half-knelt on the ground and said, "Master, there is news from the capital that the legitimate

son of Lu Xueshi was demoted to Xizhou." Feng Shuo sneered and turned his head slightly. The sunlight fell on his handsome face, but his eyes were like broken snow and ice: "Three days ago, the legitimate daughter of the Jiang family was sent here to be a camp prostitute. Now the legitimate son of the Lu family is demoted. What does the little emperor want to do?" The

only person who dared to say this about the current emperor was the man in front of him.

The guards did not dare to reply, but they knew in their hearts that their master had just taken over the Xizhou camp, and the legitimate daughter of Jiang Shangshu died tragically in the army. This would definitely become a major reason for the civil officials to criticize their master in the future.

A line of wild geese flew across the sky, and their cries were very long.

Feng Shuo picked up the bow hanging on the horse's back, put a black-feathered arrow on it and pulled the string to the full, his narrow eyes half-closed.

"Swoosh!"

The sharp arrow came off the string, and a wild goose fell from the sky, while the rest of the wild geese flew away in panic and screamed.

He threw the bow in his hand to the guard beside him and said two words casually: "Noisy."

The guard said: "The military doctor went to see her yesterday and said that the daughter of the Jiang family might not survive."

It was really a trouble that this woman died in her own military camp.

Feng Shuo frowned: "What's going on with the Jiang family?"

The guard said: "There's news from the capital that the eldest daughter of the Jiang family died suddenly and has been buried. Madam Jiang has gone mad after losing her daughter, and the young master of the Jiang family broke his leg when he buried his sister."

Feng Shuo's eyes flashed with sarcasm. It seemed that Minister Jiang had no intention of recognizing this daughter. However, Madam Jiang and her son were crazy and disabled, which was intriguing.

He sneered and showed kindness: "Prepare a coffin for the eldest daughter of the Jiang family when she is buried."

Her relatives refused to recognize her when she was alive, and she didn't even have a coffin after her death. She could only become a lonely ghost. As a daughter of a noble family, it was really pitiful.

Jiang Yanyi, who was rewarded with a coffin, was still following the crowd like a quail.

The little leader had already led them through twists and turns into a barracks filled with thick smoke. There were countless fruits and vegetables piled up on the open space outside the barracks. Some soldiers without armor were washing vegetables skillfully.

The little leader entered the barracks gate and shouted directly: "Lao Li, I found some kitchen helpers for you!"

Helpers... kitchen helpers? ? ?

Jiang Yanyi and all the girls who came with her were stunned, and then they were ecstatic.

Compared to being rewarded to those soldiers and tortured to death, they would naturally be more willing to help in the Huotou Camp.

Only Chunxiang looked a little embarrassed. She had insisted before that she would reward them to the soldiers, but ended up coming to the Huotou Camp to work.

After the little leader finished shouting, an old soldier wearing a coarse cloth apron came out of the barracks with a big soup spoon in his hand.

"Brother, you have really helped me a lot. The general's 100,000 troops arrived as soon as he said they would. I have taken out all the ingredients for tomorrow so that we can have dinner tonight, but we don't have enough manpower." General

?

Jiang Yanyi raised his eyebrows slightly and put his heart back in his stomach. It's good that it's not the male protagonist who came. However, there is no mention of this general at the border in the original book. I think he is just a passerby.

"Okay, okay, you can use these people first. If you still don't have enough manpower, I will transfer some more from the barracks." The little leader greeted Chef Li and left with his people.

Chef Li had to go back to the stove to work, and had no time to assign tasks to Jiang Yanyi and the others one by one, so he called his apprentice over: "Liu Cheng, assign the tasks. Two hundred thousand soldiers are waiting to eat. If the food can't be cooked by then, we will have to move our heads!"

"Okay!" Liu Cheng responded quickly. He was tall and strong, and looked stronger than the soldiers in other camps, but his eyes were wandering, and it was obvious that he had a lot of ideas.

He looked at them one by one and assigned tasks to the women.

Jiang Yanyi noticed that anyone who was pretty and said something flattering was assigned easy tasks by him.

Chunxiang was obviously acquainted with Liu Cheng. After the two of them exchanged glances, Chunxiang was called to light a fire in the barracks.

Lighting the fire was the easiest job. All they had to do was sit on a low stool behind the stove and add some firewood when the fire was about to go out.

The rest of the average-looking people were assigned to wash and cut vegetables. It didn't seem like hard work, but they had to prepare food for two hundred thousand people, so they had to be so busy that their hands and necks were sore

. Jiang Yanyi stood at the end of the crowd. When Liu Cheng was assigned to their group, his eyes flickered around Jiang Yanyi several times. She had a good figure and looked particularly outstanding at first glance, but Jiang Yanyi kept her head down.

Chunxiang could tell at a glance that Liu Cheng was interested in Jiang Yanyi. She coughed twice and winked at Liu Cheng.

Liu Cheng glanced at Chunxiang and said to the rest of Jiang Yanyi and his group, "Go peel the taro."

The taro was dug out of the soil and was covered with a lot of mud. This was the dirtiest and most tiring job.

Chunxiang was satisfied, and before leaving, she deliberately glanced at Jiang Yanyi with contempt.

Jiang Yanyi rolled his eyes rudely, and Chunxiang was so angry that her face turned red and her neck became thick.

She didn't understand what Chunxiang was so proud of at all, weren't they all prisoners?

Jiang Yanyi was not picky about the job, there was no peeler here, and she could only peel the taro clumsily with a knife, which was actually a good thing for her, as she could use this opportunity to familiarize her current body with knife handling.

Knife skills are the basic skills of a cook.

In her previous life, Jiang Yanyi started cutting vegetables and practicing knife skills since she could hold a kitchen knife.

Now that this body has been well-maintained, her hands are white and tender without any bruises. Jiang Yanyi was not used to holding a knife, and after peeling more than a dozen taro, she slowly regained her feeling and peeled faster and faster.

The other women who were assigned to peel taro felt that it was Jiang Yanyi's fault that they had to do this hard job. Seeing that Jiang Yanyi peeled quickly, they piled most of the taro in front of her.

They pretended to have done nothing and chatted idly, "Sister Chunxiang is really popular."

"Sister Chunxiang is pretty. If you are pretty, you can also go in and sit by the fire."

When it comes to appearance, they can't help but look at Jiang Yanyi a few more times.

Jiang Yanyi's appearance is beyond reproach. His oval face is the size of a palm, with a pair of affectionate eyes, red lips and white teeth. Even though he looks sick, he still makes people feel pity for him.

A woman saw that Jiang Yanyi's bowl of taro was almost full, so they were prepared for it, fearing that someone would come to take the goods and get scolded. She reached out to take Jiang Yanyi's bowl of taro, and said viciously: "Hurry up and peel them, these are all yours! If you hadn't been against Sister Chunxiang, we wouldn't have been implicated!"

She had only stretched out her hand halfway when Jiang Yanyi suddenly threw the knife in his hand down.

The knife hit a taro, just a few inches away from the woman's hand, and the woman was frightened and broke into a cold sweat.

Jiang Yanyi raised his clear eyes, looked at her and said calmly: "Take one and try it."