"What do you think now?"

Zhu Zhiling pondered for a moment, then called the palace maid from Dingxiang Palace.

"You are very happy to serve Your Majesty. When she wakes up, she tells her that there is already news about Princess Qingyang. The princess left Nanhua Island and headed towards the southwest waterway. I have sent someone to Binzhou to chase her. In a few days, I can take her back to Taiye City."

"Yes." The palace maid took the order and left.

"Isn't this a poison to quench your thirst? You obviously don't know where your younger sister is..." Zhao Wuyin frowned.

"What's wrong? What I asked the palace maid to say is not false, it's not considered a deception. If my mother asks me again in a few days, she will say that she was escaped by her little sister using the Five Elements Art. At the beginning, she was told by her mother that the Five Elements Art that Yinhua passed on was so unrestrained that I wouldn't blame me."

"But you can hide this from the first day of the first day of the lunar calendar, or from the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar?"

"But the fifteenth is the best. I just want my mother to slow down after hearing this news. Don't let me get out of the way before Emperor Wen sends troops. Once Cangwu's 100,000 troops cross the Hanjiang River, will I feel more worried if I have any accidents in her at that time?"

A vicious gaze suddenly flashed in Zhao Wuyin's eyes.

"Then why don't you..."

Zhu Zhiling whispered, "Don't be fooled! Cangwu's army is just a river. Even if she doesn't have much time, she will force me to beside you and pass the throne to me just like my grandmother who used to her back then. She still has the tiger talisman of 60,000 people in the Jinyu Camp. If she turns against each other, Mu Yunzuo's army has not arrived, how can I fight? How can I protect you?"

She attached herself to her husband's ear and whispered: "That's why I have to keep her breath. We must not be too sick or too mild. Do you understand the degree here?"

Zhao Wuyin looked at his wife blankly, the bright moonlight behind her was cast on her body, and the golden crown on her top was shining brightly, but her face was even more difficult to see.

For a moment, Zhao Wuyin came to his heart, not knowing whether it was a blessing or a fear.

*******

It was already night at the Hanjiang Ferry.

The shore is still brightly lit. This is the westernmost border of the Bihai Kingdom and the only place where there are troops stationed in the Binzhou border.

Two thousand troops were garrisoned, with a small number of people.

You should know that the territory of Linzhou next to Imulan is only 2,000 troops, not to mention that the other side of the river is the Cangwu Kingdom, which has been a century-old alliance, and the number of people of two thousand is already considered large.

Rather than saying that these two thousand soldiers are used for defense, it is more important to manage the docks, including the transport of goods between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, the allocation of ships such as head ships, and the warning on the watchtower beside the docks.

alert?

Isn’t this just a look? Who can survive such a wide natural danger in Hanjiang except for the ships of the Bihai Kingdom? Even in Cangwu Kingdom, they are all commercial ships leased by the Bihai Kingdom.

So the duty on the watchtower is actually a formality.

Especially when you enter the night, it is even more impossible for someone to cross the river, so it is considered a fatal flaw when you are on duty at night, because you can get some extra salary and subsidy.

On the same day and night, as usual, the two soldiers went to the observation deck. They brought some dried fish, peanuts, and a small pot of old wine to survive the long night.

"The days pass so quickly, it's late summer in the blink of an eye."

"Hey, it's late summer, but it's still so hot, and there are no fewer mosquitoes at night."

"Isn't this the case in our Bihai Country? Not to mention the end of summer, you won't be able to see coolness without winter."

"Hey, it's good to start winter. You can get back to Taiyu until winter comes. You won't have to stay in this broken place anymore."

"What? You're twenty-five?"

"Yes, I was born in the twelfth lunar month, and it was twenty-five in winter. According to the law of our country of Bihai, you can return to your hometown to work as a farmer after the twenty-five."

"Then brother, you've made it through. I'm only twenty-three, and it will take another two years."

"Hey, actually, we're pretty good. This is Binzhou, not Linzhou. A few days ago, my hometown sent a message saying that a child from the same year as me, he went to Linzhou after joining the army. As a result, he was killed by the Imulans a few days ago. It was about to be twenty-five, but it still didn't last until the end, and the corpse was not picked up."

"Why were you killed? Haven't Linzhou been very peaceful in recent years?"

"Once upon time, Imulan people didn't know what crazy they were doing. Not to mention soldiers, even the entire family of the prefect of Linzhou was cut off and their heads were hung on the city tower."

"This Imuran is really cruel..."

"But you say he's cruel... it's strange."

"how?"

"I heard that these madmen entered Linzhou City and robbed and set fire everywhere, but they didn't even touch ordinary people. Except for the prefect's family and the soldiers of the garrison, no one died."

"Kill the officers and soldiers, but let the people go? Is there such a strange thing?"

"So these Imuran people are so evil. Fortunately, we are in Binzhou and we can't stand all over the world."

"You can't say this. Didn't this mean that the Imurans were the ones who kidnapped Princess Silver Spring last year? Then Luoying Lake is very close to here. Maybe one day the Imurans suddenly ran out of our noses?"

"What do you know? That matter has inside information."

"What inside story?"

"It is said that it was done by the Blade tribe. The Blade tribe is different from other Imuran people. They just want money and robbed the princess for money. Later I heard that I got a ransom of 30,000 taels of gold."

"Thirty thousand taels!! Oh my mother, if I could give my wife and children three taels of gold, I would be willing to sell me myself."

"Come on, you can still be worth three taels of gold, so you can't make a fucking dream of spring and autumn."

"Hehe, isn't it just talking in a sleep?"

"So the people of the Blade Clan are not scary. What is scary is the blood clan. The one who killed people in Linzhou this time was the blood clan."

"But how did you know that the Blade tribe was the Blade tribe who robbed Princess Silver Spring last year?"

"This is insider! I have someone in the palace."

"Someone? Don't believe it. Can the inside story of the palace still let people like us know it? That's called inside story?"

"...Don't believe it. There are really people in my palace. I have a childhood friend who works in the Jiade Hall..."

“What’s wrong?”

"Well……"

"Eunuch?"

"That's called father-in-law!"

"If you have it, then your father-in-law is just your father-in-law. What did he hear?"

"He heard the envoy of Cangwu Kingdom in the palace say in person that the arrows he picked up by Luoying Lake have the mark of the Blade clan!"

"Is this also called insider?"

"If you don't believe it, let it go... Maybe if the Blade tribe comes here to rob people one day, then it will definitely be a royal relative. Anyway, it won't rob you, so what are you worried about."

"Too."

"To be honest, Princess Qingle passed by us a few days ago, and I was really worried."

"Why are you sweating?"

"Imuran people, if the Blade tribe comes to kidnap again, I must rush forward to protect the princess!"

"You? You haven't seen you as brave as you."

"That's different. Life is rare and hard. If I can save my life, I can save the princess. Cangwu Bihai

Both countries have to thank me, so I won’t have to worry about the rest of my life.”

"You've been in the rest of your life."

"Just think it's earned for your wife and children."

"You're just dreaming. Will the princess's guard be your turn?"

"Why is it not my turn? Didn't you see how many guards were there that night? I counted clearly, grooms, buddies, servants, but only seventeen people with swords on them!"

"Seventeen people? So few?"

"Yes, there are eighteen arhats who protect the Buddha in the Buddhist temple. This princess only has seventeen guards when she gets married."

"Brother, you're really careless."

"That's natural. God won't always give you a chance, you have to catch it yourself. So that night I discussed with the boss and asked if we would give His Royal Highness somebody a night of protection."

"Why didn't the boss mention this to us?!"

"This is a secret! Can you tell me?"

"Not righteous...and what?"

"Then the boss told me that the princess camped at night and was not at the ferry, but was under the hillside five miles away."

"Why did you go there?"

"I don't know, it was said that the Cangwu mission's leader insisted on it. He was very polite and said that he didn't want to cause trouble to your country. Alas, I wish you caused trouble."

"What happened later?"

"What's the matter later? So the boss gave up."

"No wonder, Cangwu and our Bihai have a good relationship. It's okay if we know each other and don't bother with us. Besides, on that night, wouldn't we cross the river smoothly the next day? If you went to the guard that day, it would be in vain."

"Too……"

"Speaking of this, you said that Cangwu and our Bihai have such a good relationship, why are you setting up this observation deck? Could you still be afraid that Cangwu will come to call us?"

"After all, it's a national border, so you have to set up a few ways."
To be continued...