Xu Huaisong looked at Shen Dingzhu with a dark and calm look that he had never seen before.
Even though his eyes were slightly worried, his tone was as calm and cold as ever: "Xibao, you will die."
This is the truth.
When a war breaks out, who cares who she is?
Xu Huaisong pursed his thin lips and his Adam's apple rolled twice: "You don't think that if you go outside the city now, you can find the soldiers of the Jin State and with their help, they can send you home? You are too naive. How could the soldiers do that? I recognize you, if you go there now, you will only die."
He lowered his voice again and said with some sincerity: "Come with me. Anyway, go to Pengcheng first. I promise to find a way for you after I go there, and I will definitely send you home, okay?"
Shen Dingzhu hesitated.
The war situation in Beiliang will become more and more anxious. She doesn't know what kind of military orders Xiao Langyan has given, and how far the fight must go to be considered sufficient.
All she knew was that if she continued to hesitate like this, she might not be able to return home within three years.
Shen Dingzhu shook his head gently: "Uncle, thank you, but I have already thought about it. I will go to Yuyangguan now. Please don't worry about my life or death."
Xu Huaisong didn't expect her to be so stubborn.
He laughed a little uncontrollably, his dark emotions hidden in a myriad of ways.
He was not very good at expressing emotions. In the end, he only raised his narrow eyes to look at her and asked quietly: "If it were your husband and you insisted on dying, would he agree?"
Shen Dingzhu thought about it seriously. With Xiao Langyan's character, she would probably be angry to death.
While scolding her, he stayed with her.
Thinking of this, Shen Dingzhu's red lips burst into a delicate smile. With such a twinkling look in her eyes, Xu Huaisong seemed to have seen her heart in that moment.
She didn't answer, but he already had an answer.
The black light in Xu Huaisong's eyes slowly dimmed like a falling star.
He nodded helplessly: "In that case, I shouldn't stop you anymore, otherwise I won't be as good as him."
Xu Huaisong is essentially a businessman. He always considers everything he does. Returning to White Lion City to rescue Shen Dingzhu is the most risky thing he has ever done.
And this time, he will definitely not accompany her to Yuyangguan again.
The path to the result could be seen at a glance. As a profit-oriented businessman, Xu Huaisong could only put all the banknotes he carried into Shen Dingzhu's hands.
"Like treasure, like treasure," he shouted in a low voice, looking at her face repeatedly, as if he wanted to remember her in his heart, "If you can live, if you can return to Jin, if you regret it, Write to me, be sure to write to me, no matter how far away you are, I will pick you up.”
Shen Dingzhu held the hot banknote in her hand, her nose sore: "Thank you."
However, she probably won't come back. If she can go home, she must stay with her children.
Xu Huaisong looked at her eyebrows for the last time: "Don't forget me, remember me. When you are desperate, I will be your last resort. This sentence is valid at any time."
As he said that, he opened his arms: "Can I hug you for a while? Just once, never cross the line."
However, Shen Dingzhu laughed so hard that she shed two tears. She gently patted the back of Xu Huaisong's hand. This was the most intimate gesture she had ever done to others.
Xu Huaisong took back his palm a little lonely, and Shen Dingzhu looked at him with the most sincere eyes: "Mr. Xu, take care."
Before she left, Xu Huaisong gave her a set of clean servant clothes and asked her to dress up in the carriage, hide her hair and graceful body, and rub the dirt on her face on the mountainside.
Shen Dingzhu stuffed all the banknotes into the innermost part of her clothes. When they were packed away, she said goodbye to Xu Huaisong and went their separate ways at the fork in the road.
Until she walked far away and looked back, Xu Huaisong was still standing under the big tree on the hillside, looking at her back from a distance. When he saw her turning back, he waved his arms.
He stood with his back to the light, his body moving slightly, like a pine and cypress that temporarily shaded her from the sun.
Shen Dingzhu sighed, turned and left, never looking back.
Xu Huaisong stood for a long time, and he really didn't wait for her to regret it. His expression became colder little by little, and he had no choice but to leave until the servant urged him to leave.
Shen Dingzhu's thoughts were clear.
The order of encounters in life is important, but it is not that important. Although Xiao Langyan can handle her experiences and encounters, Xu Huaisong may not be able to.
Even if she and Xu Huaisong were together, new conflicts would arise. What's more, her heart told her that she didn't know when it started, but she had already planted a seed for Xiao Langyan in her heart.
Their feelings are too weak, sometimes intense, sometimes turbulent, but they are inextricably stuck together and cannot be separated.
She couldn't deny that every day and night when they were dependent on each other, she had left a place for Xiao Langyan in her heart.
It's a pity that the moment she jumped off the cliff, the seeds that had sprouted in her heart seemed to be uprooted by the wind at the bottom of the cliff.
If being together is torturous, it might be the best choice for two people not to disturb each other.
Many people escaped from the direction of Yuyangguan. Some of them took carriages and planned to take a detour to Pengcheng, but more of them were extremely poor and could not climb over the mountains with their feet, so they were trapped. Here, the cries of disabled women and children kept coming.
Compared with them, Shen Dingzhu's behavior of going retrograde into the city was tantamount to seeking death, and many people looked at her in surprise.
A gray-haired old lady pulled her and said, "Young man, there is a battle going on with Yangguan. The Jin people are coming. The master guarding the gate fled as soon as he received the news. Now the city is full of defeated soldiers, fighting to the death." You can't hold on for long if you resist, you can't let it pass anymore!"
Shen Dingzhu lowered his head and looked at the servant clothes he was wearing. The old woman might have recognized her as a man because of this.
She said in a rough voice, "Thank you so much, grandma, but I have relatives in Yuyangguan, so I have to go."
When grandma heard this, she just sighed, shook her head and left.
Youyang Pass only has two entrances, one entrance and one exit. Now the general from the Jin Kingdom who suddenly appeared is leading troops to attack the exit from the southwest, while Shen Dingzhu successfully entered Guancheng from the entrance of Youyang Pass.
The city was a mess and panic of people fleeing. There were voices asking for help and angry shouts everywhere. The doors of houses everywhere around were wide open. A glance inside revealed that the owners had already emptied their belongings and fled.
As Shen Dingzhu walked toward the southwest exit, he kept seeing people supporting each other, shaking their heads and crying.
"It's over, it's going to be over. Once the exit is knocked down, we and White Lion City will be completely blocked, and we will become the territory of the Jin people in the future."
"There is nothing wrong with being from Jin. I heard that the emperor of Jin is at least not mediocre." They comforted each other, but their faces were filled with sadness.
The closer he got to the gate in the southwest and the city exit, the more he could hear the thundering sounds of fighting. Shen Dingzhu knew that he could not go past, otherwise he would be shot with bows and arrows before he could see clearly who the Jin general was leading the army. sieve.
She was already standing near the city wall, looking at the many defeated soldiers of Beiliang standing above them, who were desperately resisting, but long flaming arrows kept coming from below. Many people just screamed and fell from the wall. Go down.
Such a tragic scene made Shen Dingzhu's face turn pale. She was about to turn around and leave, finding a safe place to hide first, but unexpectedly, she was suddenly pressed down by a rough palm.
"Do you know how to shoot arrows?" The person who came was a tall and thick man. His armor had already been punched with several holes, and there was a broken arrow stuck in his shoulder.
Judging from his clothes, he holds the position of captain of a small team in the army.
Seeing that Shen Dingzhu's eyes were stunned, the man became anxious and opened his mouth to curse: "Why, are you afraid of being beaten by Jin people? Are you mute? Can you shoot arrows?"
Shen Dingzhu shook his head hurriedly: "No, no."
However, she said she couldn't, but the man still put a crossbow in her hand: "You have to go up and help even if you don't know! Hurry up!"
As he spoke, he pushed Shen Dingzhu away, and then said to the two injured soldiers beside him: "Go to the city to look for us again! If any man, young or old, pull me over, his mother's home is about to be lost. Still running? A bunch of cowards!"
Shen Dingzhu was holding a heavy crossbow and was pushed directly onto the city wall by them. Her mind was still in confusion. How could she be captured and become a strong man?
It seemed that all the generals who could take charge in Yuyangguan were gone. Even the captain of a small team could temporarily put on armor and take command.
Shen Dingzhu stood on the city wall with the cold wind howling, and couldn't help but look down at the city.
With just this glance, her eyes suddenly widened.
