[forty-six] tragic sacrifice
She was stunned, looked up and saw Qian Shan here. The girl thought it was her own illusion. She raised her hand and rubbed her eyes, frowned and asked, "Why are you here? Aren't you... accompanying Xue Qing in the capital?"
Qianshan looked at her, her eyes turned slightly red, and she said even more: "Miss is still thinking about me and Xue Qing? What did you say when you asked me to leave you for Kyoto? You promised me to take good care of yourself. But now, your body is so weak that you are now, and you haven't woken up for five days. Do you know... what did you scare us?"
Seeing that she was so sad, Jiang Chengjia couldn't help feeling a little guilty: "I...I took the decoction on time, and it has not been interrupted in the past few years, but... my body has never improved. Ashan, I'm sorry, it has made you worry."
Qianshan was about to say something else, but the sleeping man next to the bed was awakened by the movements of the two of them. He immediately looked at Jiang Chengjia as soon as he opened his eyes.
The boy and the girl were in a row, and the complex emotions surged like waves in an instant.
For some reason, the atmosphere became awkward. Jiang Chengjia, with a haggard face, smiled slightly at Ning Nanyou and said, "Long time no see."
The husband opposite was a little embarrassed, and he lowered his eyes silently, without answering her words.
Jiang Chengjia talked to herself for a moment, and suddenly remembered what happened before she fell into a coma. Her expression changed slightly, and her slender eyebrows were curled up together. She asked, "Why am I here? How did you rescue me? Where are Chunniang? Where are Que'er and Xiao Cui?"
When the girl asked about these three people, whether it was Qian Shan holding a meal by the bed or Ning Nanyou sitting leaning against the edge of the bed, his expression was very unnaturally distorted.
Qianshan didn't even dare to look at her, lowered her eyes and said guiltily: "Yun Jingjun and His Highness Rui drove troops to Ruyang together, and fought hard with Fu Zhe to fight to the death before taking down the city. It happened to be... rescued you, a girl in time."
She explained how Ruyang City was captured and why she was rescued, but she did not mention Yan Chunniang, Xiao Cui and Ji Que in just a few words.
Jiang Chengjia felt confused and asked again: "Where is Chunniang? Where is she? Where is Que'er and Xiaocui? Are they okay? These two girls are timid, so they probably have to comfort them well."
Qianshan stammered and couldn't answer, so Jiang Chengjia turned her eyes to Ning Nanyou. Unexpectedly, the man opposite her also had a serious and serious face, lowering her eyes and not speaking.
Jiang Chengjia immediately felt an ominous premonition. She twitched gently between her eyebrows, struggled to stay, and shouted, "I want to see them and take me to see them."
Before her feet touched the ground, Ning Nanyou picked up her in the air and put them back on the bed.
Jiang Chengjia kept slapping and pushing, trying to break free from his arms, but she was helpless because she was too weak and had no strength to resist.
She could only keep shouting, "Why stop me? What's wrong with them? Why don't you tell me?"
Qianshan didn't speak, and Ning Nanyou didn't say a word.
Jiang Chengjia's uneasiness became stronger and stronger. She made a fuss and turned out the bed again, and while the husband was not paying attention, she rushed out of the house almost frantically. Seeing her like she was not giving up, Qianshan immediately knelt on the ground, reached out to hold her robe, hugged her legs, and blocked her: "Girl, you have just woken up and can't go..."
Ning Nanyou held her in his arms, held her in his arms, and comforted her softly: "Aluo, they are not bad. When you are in good health, I will let you see them. But now... listen to me first and have a good rest?"
Seeing the two of them stopping her so hard, Jiang Chengjia became more and more panicked and afraid. She shook her head desperately and kept murmuring: "I don't believe it. You must have something to hide from me? Let me go out. You let me go out!!"
Ning Nanyou refused to let go, and Qianshan always knelt down and hugged her legs tightly.
Jiang Chengjia became more and more angry, and finally couldn't bear it. She waved her fist and suddenly punched the man in front of her. The punch seemed to hit the wound on Ning Nanyou's shoulder, making him relax for a moment. She took this opportunity to bend down and dodge, and reached out to plunder Qianshan's arm. Even if she fell to the ground, she did her best to escape from Qianshan's imprisonment.
She stumbled to push the closed door, and then thumped down the crack of the door to the corridor outside. She covered her painful arm and got up from the ground in a mess, looking at the surrounding environment.
She seemed to be in a mansion, and looking at the surrounding building form, it should be the prefect's mansion.
The two people were about to chase after them. Jiang Chengjia hurriedly rushed towards the steps under the corridor, groping through the courtyard, bypassing the two corridors, and coming to the screen wall.
Because she had just woken up, she was exhausted and was panting after only a few steps.
She leaned against the wall and rested for a while, and then she saw Ning Nanyou and Qianshan appearing faintly from behind the rockery. So she simply ran out of the screen wall of the courtyard, galloping all the way out of the mansion.
However, the moment she stepped out of the prefect's mansion, she was shocked and shocked by the scene in front of her. The neighborhoods of Guoxiang were everywhere, and the places where she touched were traces of burning by the fire.
The stone bricks on the long street were covered with tragic corpses with blood left marks and sprinkled across the city walls, which was shocking to see. The strong and overwhelming atmosphere of death continued to permeate the air, mixed with the pungent burnt smell, the fishy smell and the dusty smell of mud and water, rushing straight to the forehead.
Jiang Chengjia was disgusted, and the sour water in her stomach kept rolling, almost causing her to vomit directly in front of the prefect's mansion. She endured the discomfort and nausea, and staggered on the street, searching aimlessly. What she remembered in her mind was the scene where Yan Chunniang, Ji Que and Xiao Cui came to see her off before leaving Weidu.
The more she thought this, the more she became frightened and uneasy she felt.
Just as she didn't know where to look for someone, a sound of horse hooves hitting the ground suddenly came from behind her. She turned her head and saw Ning Nanyou riding his horse called the wind and galloping from the corner, bent down her tall body, reached out to her, and her low voice gently came into her ears like a gentle wind: "Come up, I'll take you to the military camp."
Jiang Chengjia was lost for a moment and was moved by him. Unconsciously stretched out her hand. Ning Nanyou grabbed her palm with force, and put a little force on her arms, then pulled the delicate and thin her onto the horse and hugged her in his arms.
She leaned into his arms, her face pale and scary.
Ning Nanyou grabbed the reins and yelled, waved his whip hard, and ran forward at full speed.
The cold wind in her ears whistled, making her cheeks hurt. I don’t know how long she was taken by her husband to the suburbs not far from the city.
The tent here has not been completely demolished yet, and the Jingshuwei and Yue Mingjun are cleaning up the endgame.
In front of the half-breaking and half-complete tent, a white cloth about ten meters long was spread out, and soldiers who died in this battle were placed on it. Jiang Chengjia looked over and saw three petite and thin figures in the upper left corner of the white cloth. She opened her eyes wide and stared at the three corpses that had long disappeared.
Ning Nanyou held the reins and slowly stopped in front of the fence. He jumped off the horse, stretched out his hand to the girl, and was about to hug her. However, Jiang Chengjia had already supported her hand on the horse's back, and jumped off from it. She staggered toward the white cloth full of corpses, and stopped in the corner to the left.
The girl's eyes stared at the three pale girls who were lying straight on the ground, with no hopelessness, and a great despair arose in her heart. She was shocked by the scene in front of her and almost couldn't breathe in one breath.
She was shaking and almost fainted. Ning Nanyou quickly held her into his arms with his eyes and hands.
The girl looked as if she was ashamed and asked word by word: "What happened...why? Why?"
Ning Nanyou was silent for a moment, and replied in a low voice: "Yan Chunniang intended to use Fu Zhongwen to convey information to the outside world to inform Zhuying that you are here. She did use this relationship to contact the Lord of the Water Pavilion in Ruyang City. However, this city was surrounded by the Fu army. Although the news was in the hands of the Lord of the Water Pavilion, it was two days later before it was delivered to Zhuying.
It was during these two days that Fu Bo noticed Yan Chunniang's plan, angrily scolded Fu Zhongwen, and sent Chunniang to the military tent as a prostitute. She fought to the death, but Fu'er camp was full of living Yan Luo with countless blood stains. How could he spare her? After being bullied, she was rescued by Fu Zhongwen. However, Fu Bo still felt unhappy and actually wanted to send you into the military camp to enjoy the soldiers. Xiao Cui and Que'er... In order to protect you, they volunteered to follow the bandits away.
Yan Chunniang learned about this... she wanted to save them, and then she was stabbed in the sword while arguing with the soldiers. By then, Xiao Cui and Que'er had been insulted, and the group of beasts were pressing them under her body and ravaging them wildly. Although they were rescued in time...the serious injuries had already made them unable to support them. In less than an hour... they all..."
Ning Nanyou couldn't speak at all when he said this. He turned his body and twisted his head, and quietly shed tears on the side.
Jiang Chengjia slowly squatted down and knelt beside the corpses of the three girls. He stared at their neatly dressed at the moment, not knowing what to do. Her eyes gradually moved downward and fell on the exposed legs of the girls. Seeing the calves that should have been smooth, covered with deep and terrifying bite marks, one by one, red and purple, connected together.
Chapter completed!