Chapter 397 Breakup
The news of Huo Gannian and Yun Chen's breakup quickly spread throughout Guangyuan City and the Lion Army and Tiger Army.
People vividly described the heartbreaking scene in front of the city gate.
In the pouring rain, Yun Chen left mercilessly. Huo Gannian knelt on the ground and collapsed, shouting, "Yun Chen, don't leave me!"
This dramatic rumor reached the ears of Duan Jie and Fu Lin. They glanced at Huo Gannian, who was sitting there like a drowned dog, and shook their heads repeatedly. There were only two words in their minds:
Serves you right.
After hearing the news that Yun Chen and Huo Gan Nian broke up, Rong Yi's eyes lit up and he said happily:
"I feel like my chance has come!"
Seeing this, Luo Dongdong on the side couldn't help but curse "mother", jumped up and hit Rong Yi on the head, cursing:
"Even rabbits don't eat grass near their burrows! How come you, a jerk, are even thinking about your own boss?"
"That's because I've never tried it before. I'm just curious and want to try it!"
"You haven't tasted 'shit' either! Do you want to try it?"
"Say that again? Boss—Luo Dongdong said you're 'shit'!!!"
In addition, everyone in the Yun Mansion heard that Yun Chen had not reconciled with Huo Gan. Bai was so anxious that she paced around the room, constantly burning incense to Yun Zhongjun's tablet and muttering to herself.
Yun Lan was quite open about it. "It's okay. Young couples quarrel, but they make up at the foot of the bed."
Yun Tian frowned and whispered, "The problem is that they haven't had their wedding night yet, so they've never slept in the same bed..."
Yun Lan realized the seriousness of the problem and immediately fell into deep thought. Just as he was thinking about organizing a dinner party, inviting Huo Gannian and Yun Chen to come, and giving them some tiger and wolf medicine, he heard the horn of the army setting off.
At the city gate, the Lion Army and the Tiger Army stood on each side.
In front of the Lion Army, the lion flag was soaked by the rain, and Huo Gannian was also wet. He looked at Yun Chen opposite him with a heartbroken face, his eyes as pitiful as an abandoned puppy.
On the other side, in front of the Huwei Army, the brand new red-eyed tiger-head flag was wet by the rain, making the red eyes even more blood-red and ferocious. Coupled with the fully armed and cold-looking Yun Chen under the flag, it was really frightening.
Yun Chen didn't even look at Huo Gannian, and spoke in a cold and hard voice:
"The Lion Army will march north to fight Luojiang, and my Tiger Army will march east to fight the Black Scale Cavalry. Now that the imperial decree has been issued, we will part ways. All war supplies and troops will be divided equally. Only the fate of a few lieutenants remains uncertain, and the East Palace has asked you and me to decide for ourselves."
After she finished speaking, Huo Gannian on the opposite side still had a resentful look in his eyes, staring at her face blankly, obviously not hearing a word she said.
Duan Jie couldn't bear to watch it any longer, so he quietly pinched Huo Gannian's waist from behind. Huo Gannian shuddered and came back to his senses, saying in a low, hoarse voice:
"Then it's voluntary, everyone can choose for themselves..."
Yun Chen nodded in agreement.
Duan Jie, Fu Lin, Rong Yi and others looked at each other in bewilderment.
What does that mean? Are we supposed to choose who to follow?
What's going on? Parents are divorcing and letting the child choose? Why are you two making things difficult for us by breaking up?
Everyone was speechless.
Rong Yi and Luo Dongdong walked up to Yun Chen and stood behind him without saying a word.
Seeing this, Duan Jie walked behind Huo Gannian.
The remaining "newcomer" Fu Lin looked left and right, scratching his head in worry, and then walked to Huo Gannian.
Finally, only Ye Yan was left standing in the field. He looked at Yun Chen first, but the latter did not have a welcoming expression. It was obvious that Yun Chen was sad about Ye Yan because he had deceived his benefactor Meihua Po Yue.
Helplessly, Ye Yan could only walk towards Huo Gannian.
"Then I'll follow General Yun." Fu Lin said with a smile, then walked out from behind Huo Gannian and joined Yun Chen's team.
The troops and generals had all been divided up. Yun Chen straightened his clothes, and the Cloud-Swallowing Beast under him immediately twisted its butt and carried her away without even looking at Huo Gannian.
As the Tiger Army's troops gradually walked away, Duan Jie and the other Lion Army soldiers stood there in a daze, feeling like abandoned dogs themselves...
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At the same time, at the back mountain of the Taoist temple, looking out towards Yunlu.
Huo Luyu, dressed in a Taoist robe, stood on the edge of the mountain top, gazing at the flag of the Tiger Power Army gradually moving away.
She wore no makeup, and her hair was simply tied up and wrapped in a silk scarf. She looked clean and simple, with an air of neither sadness nor joy.
On the wall of the Taoist temple gate, Shan Ji stood in a fiery red robe, holding a sword.
"I don't understand you. Why don't you accept Yun Chen? If you are willing to accept her, given her heartfelt gratitude and loyalty, she will give you the person, even her life."
"That's why I absolutely cannot accept it—she is Yun Chen, not En Yi's slave."
Huo Luyu's words made Shan Ji's scalp numb.
Looking at Huo Luyu again, the love in Shan Ji's eyes remained the same, but there was more respect.
Who said that little girls don’t know how to take revenge?
Shan Ji felt that compared to those Wuyi Blood Guards who had extremely high combat power, seemed to be living a life of debauchery, sleeping with women, killing people, and having a great time, but were actually a group of rootless and heartless idiots, the little woman in front of him obviously understood the world of martial arts better than them.
Huo Luyu's love for Yun Chen is no less than Huo Gannian's.
"Oh..." Shan Ji sighed pretentiously and jumped off the wall lightly.
"Since you have let Yun Chen roam freely in the world, I will repay her kindness on her behalf - I will give you this slave of kindness."
Almost in an instant, all kinds of details came to mind and were pieced together in my mind to form the answer to the riddle.
The mountains are silent and the clouds are heavy.
The same Guangyuan City in Youzhou, the same appearance, and the same sadness when mentioning the lonely grave under the crabapple blossoms.
Huo Luyu immediately understood why Shan Ji's eyes were red at that time.
"You are a good brother." Huo Luyu said to Shan Ji.
Shan Ji didn't say anything, but just smiled at Huo Luyu and looked towards the distant horizon together.
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If someone looked down at the earth from the sky at this time, they would see three teams heading in different directions.
The imperial carriage is heading west, the lion's might is heading north, and the tiger's might is heading east.
There is also a small commotion hidden in the deep mountains and dense forests that no one knows about.
The two figures fought fiercely, both sides were injured and bruised. Neither of them was willing to seize the opportunity to give the other a final blow, nor did they dare to throw down their weapons first.
In the end, let go without saying anything.
He threw down his guard's sword, sat down on the ground, stretched his legs and neck, and said breathlessly:
"I'm tired. I don't want to fight anymore. Brother Ye, give me a quick death."
Ye Yan also stopped, propping himself up on the ground with his knife, sweating profusely from exhaustion. He then walked over to Bu Yan with the knife in hand, threw it down with a bang, and sighed:
"You kid, why did you have to come to this point today!"
Buyan grinned and said, "I knew this would happen when I resigned. I know too many secrets of the Huo Gang and the Young Master, and I know the Young Master's current plans. If I stay, there will be endless trouble."
Ye Yan glared at him. "So you're still going to resign? Just resign! The first thing you'll do is bring up the matter of Plum Blossom Breaking the Moon! Can the Young Master trust you with your life?"
After that, the two fell silent.
Ye Yan held his head in worry and sighed heavily.
Bu Yan knew that although Ye Yan was ordered by Huo Gan Nian to kill him, he couldn't do it no matter what.
To some extent, Ye Yan, like Yun Chen, values his brothers' lives more than his own.
Unlike Yun Chen who was held in the palm of Huo Gannian's hand, both Buyan and Ye Yan were essentially just slaves in Huo Gannian's eyes.
Apart from Yun Chen, how many people treat these guards as brothers?
The word "royal guard" sounds nice, but it means nothing more than a loyal dog who can die at any time.
Bu Yan understood all this in his heart, and Ye Yan knew it better than him.
"Bu Yan, if we can follow the young master to defend the country and kill the enemy, we can also follow him to overturn the world. Why don't you want to? Is it because of the emperor?"
"That's not the case. I don't care who becomes emperor. I just think that when the young master is changing the world, so many innocent people shouldn't lose their lives... and he shouldn't have deceived such a good person like Achen..."
Ye Yan didn't understand, "What do you mean?"
He smiled and said mysteriously, "If you want to end up like me, then just listen. I dare to tell you!"
"Forget it! I don't want to die until I kill Jiao Zuotai to avenge my wife and children!" Ye Yan waved his hands repeatedly.
When the words "wife and children" were mentioned, Bu Yan fell silent for a moment, and his expression was even more complicated than when he was talking to Yun Chen.
But he didn't dare to say it, and really didn't know where to start.
After thinking for a long time, he took on the attitude of chatting with Ye Yan in the past and started to "chat" casually.
"Brother Ye, I heard that the young master once had two sworn brothers. Did you know about this?"
"I heard that the late emperor sentenced him to death for pulling out the teeth of a tiger in the palace, and the young master was also punished."
"Oh. Anyone who can become sworn brothers with the young master must be extraordinary. If he were still alive, he would definitely change his appearance and identity and start over again. At least he could become a general."
"Nonsense. But he's already dead, so there's no point in saying anything."
"Hey, do you remember how we stole the truth and saved a death row prisoner?"
"How could I possibly forget? To get the person out from under the noses of the prison guards was a credit to the young master's well-planned plan. He was so skilled at it, it seemed like he'd done it before."
"That's right. By the way, among the current members of our Huo Gang, has anyone seen the young master's two sworn brothers? I asked around, and one of them seems to have the surname Qin."
"No. Not long after the Young Master's two sworn brothers were executed, the Young Master and the Second Miss were attacked in Youzhou. All of their guards were surrounded and killed by the Wuyi Blood Guards. That's when the Young Master's leg was broken. I joined the Huo Gang after that, and I'm the first one among the entire Huo Gang's guards today."
No one had ever heard of or seen those two people. They only heard that they came from a prominent family and were once close friends with the Zhuang family. Unfortunately, they later fell into decline. After Old Master Huo moved the Huo Mansion to Yancheng, they gradually left Kyoto.
"Oh, by the way, I heard that General Duan Jie's hometown is Youyang, and so is Fu Lin."
"It seems so. Youyang was flooded many years ago when the Luozi River changed its course. The entire village was gone. It's not easy for them to survive."
"Yuyang is plagued by disasters year-round, and the population and household registration are in chaos. Hey, I also heard..."
"How can you have heard so much? You are the most talkative person in the whole day! If you had just kept quiet, the young master wouldn't have thought of killing you to silence you if you had resigned!"
Ye Yan was so angry that he glared at Bu Yan. He couldn't bear to do anything to Bu Yan, so he could only pull up the weeds on the ground to vent his anger.
Buyan glanced at the direction where the imperial carriage was still moving, and estimated that too much time had passed since he used the excuse of going to the bathroom to leave the team.
He chuckled, said a few words at last, then moved with lightning speed, pulled out the tongue and cut it off fiercely, blood splattered all over Ye Yan's face.
"Brother Ye, remember this secretly. The divine tiger is missing two fangs and a molar. Also, please ask the young master if he can spare my life—"
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