Ye Mingsheng, who is familiar with Xu Zhaojie's character, absolutely does not believe that he, who always insists on revenge, can be so kind and allow him to take his subordinates back to rest. There must be something fishy in this!
But what is this strange thing?
Ever since the last time he discovered that Xu Zhaojie had sent Mo Mo to assassinate him, Ye Mingsheng had been thinking about how Xu Zhaojie would deal with him. To this day, he already had a general idea in his mind.
First of all, as the leader of the surprise attack on Liu Jing, there is no doubt that he has made great contributions. Therefore, as long as he does not make mistakes and gives Xu Zhaojie an excuse to deal with himself, then Xu Zhaojie will not deliberately embarrass himself.
After all, although Xu Zhaojie did not want to capture the palace capital, the matter had already been cooked. Xu Zhaojie also bowed his head in front of the general trend, chose to compromise, and joined the Supervision Department's plan.
Therefore, according to the official statement, he launched a surprise attack on Liu Jing under his leadership. Therefore, if Xu Zhaojie deliberately targeted him, he would be slapping himself in the face, and he would be easily criticized in court...
So if Xu Zhaojie wants to deal with him, he can only play dirty tricks, or in other words, he can only kill himself by taking someone else's hand!
According to this idea, the most likely conspiracy contained in the military order Xu Zhaojie gave him was the more than 700 miles of his march from Liujing to Datian Pass, the eastern gateway of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Although he had the idea, Ye Mingsheng was not sure what Xu Zhaojie wanted to do on his way back to the country!
Although we will pass through Huishan where some bandits are entrenched along the way, according to the information Ye Mingsheng has now, the bandits in Huishan have not yet become established, and the largest group only has more than a thousand people. To him and his group of heavily armed Zhou Forbidden Army soldiers, they did not pose any threat at all...
Xu Zhaojie would never be so stupid as to use these bandits against him!
But if that's the case, what is Xu Zhaojie doing behind his back?
This question left Ye Mingsheng a little puzzled.
Although he knew clearly that Xu Zhaojie had no good intentions when doing this, and he definitely wanted to find an opportunity to kill him, but after all, he was the commander of the Xuanwu Army and the dignified Marquis of Zhenyuan of the Great Zhou Dynasty. He was just a small commander of the seventh rank, and it was difficult to disobey military orders. ah!
If he disobeys the military order and does not set off from the palace tomorrow, he will undoubtedly give Xu Zhaojie an excuse to deal with him. Therefore, Ye Mingsheng, who has no choice but to choose to take one step at a time, informs Xu Zhaojie of the military order. .
After receiving the order to go home, Ye Mingsheng's military camp fell into a carnival. Everyone's faces were full of smiles. Since they rushed to the rescue of Gongdu last year, they have almost stayed in Gongdu, a foreign country. After almost a year, I was already homesick and eager to return to the Forbidden Army of the Great Zhou Dynasty, which had strict military discipline. If it had been any other army, groups of deserters would have appeared long ago.
Early the next morning, at dawn, Ye Mingsheng led his troops out of the west gate of Liujing and walked in the wilderness outside the city. Ye Mingsheng, who was riding a horse, looked back at this majestic building. Ryugyong City, which is like an ancient behemoth, has an indescribable complex feeling in its heart...
He had a premonition that he would return here in a short time, but by that time, his fate would be controlled by himself, and no one could do anything to drive him back and forth!
Because the soldiers under my command were eager to return home and wished they could get wings, the marching speed was still quite fast along the way. Except for a half-hour rest at noon, they actually walked more than seventy miles in one day. Ryugyong’s territory has reached the neighboring Toyosai County!
As the sun set in the evening, Ye Mingsheng's troops set up camp in a small town in Fengxi County. Although according to the terms entered into by the previous Gongdu Kingdom and Dazhou Chaotian, Ye Mingsheng could request that this small town provide supplies free of charge. , but seeing this place, the government treasury is already empty enough for mice to run away.
The people in the town are all dressed in rags, and many people are even half-clothed. From the elderly in their 60s to the babies waiting to be fed, they all look like they are malnourished and skinny. Ye Mingsheng is really a little bit... I can't take it anymore...
In desperation, Ye Mingsheng could only leave some scattered silver coins, collect a batch of sorghum rice from the town, and then organized his soldiers to go to the nearby river to get some fresh fish. The soldiers under his command had a hot meal in the evening.
Late at night, Ye Mingsheng, who was tossing and turning on the straw mat and still couldn't fall asleep, simply stopped sleeping and walked out of the tent, wanting to inspect the sentries in the military camp.
But before he had gone far, he saw Pei Zhixiu wearing a thick cotton coat, sitting on a boulder, looking up at the crescent moon in the sky.
After watching Pei Zhixiu for a while, Ye Mingsheng didn't want her to be peaceful at the moment, and was about to turn around and continue to inspect the military camp.
However, the sound of his footsteps woke up Pei Zhixiu, who was admiring the moon not far away. She turned her head to look at Ye Mingsheng and said softly, "The moonlight in the palace capital is not bad, isn't it?"
Hearing this, Ye Mingsheng also raised his head and glanced at the bright moon floating in the sky. He saw that there were no clouds in the sky and the moonlight was bright and flawless. Tonight was indeed a good time to appreciate the moon, and he immediately nodded.
In this way, the two of them stood and sat together, admiring the moon for a while. After a while, Pei Zhixiu spoke up, took the initiative to break the silence between the two, and whispered: "Thanks to General Ye's care during this period, the little girl can I have been able to survive because of the general's kindness to the little girl. However, traveling around the Zhou Dynasty to seek medical advice has been my dream since childhood, so... I want to walk by myself and feel the great rivers and mountains of the Zhou Dynasty. ········”
Pei Zhixiu's words made Ye Mingsheng feel as if he had been struck by lightning. His mood was really mixed. After pondering for a few seconds, he looked at Pei Zhixiu with complicated eyes and said, "What are your plans?"
"When my father was young, he left the palace and went to Shuozhou in the Great Zhou Dynasty. It was precisely because of that trip to Shuozhou that he improved his medical skills and became the royal doctor of the palace. When I was young, , he often talks to me about the prosperity of the Great Zhou Dynasty and the prosperity of Fengzhou’s medical practice, so this time, I also want to go to Fengzhou to see it.” Pei Zhixiu replied softly:
