Chapter 238: The Red Blood Order Is Out, Don't Dare Not Follow
Ming Lanruo and Chen Ning looked at each other, their whole bodies tense, as if the person standing outside the door was not a human being, but an unknown demon.
Ming Lanruo took a breath, calmed down, and coughed lightly: "I'm discussing the menu for tomorrow's trip to the prefect's mansion. I'm not free. You can carry the hot water to your room and wash it first!"
"Qiao Yan" outside the door narrowed his eyes and said calmly: "This subordinate has something to report."
Ming Lanruo frowned slightly, what did he notice?
She glanced at Chen Ning and Jing, and slightly raised her chin towards Sister Hong.
Chen Ning immediately squatted down, looked at Sister Hong who was captured on the ground, and said a few words silently with her lips.
Sister Hong opened her eyes slightly, a trace of hesitation flashed in her eyes, and finally nodded.
Half a quarter of an hour later, Qiao Yan saw the door in front of him open.
Jing He stood at the door, expressionlessly looking at the two large buckets of hot water next to him, then looking at him: "Come in."
Qiao Yan entered the door and saw Ming Lanruo sitting at the table at the door, Chen Ning standing behind her holding a sword, and a middle-aged woman in shabby clothes sitting in front of her.
There are several cookbooks with wet notes on the table.
Seeing Qiao Yan come in, the middle-aged woman stooped slightly as if she wanted to stand up, and stared at Qiao Yan warily.
Ming Lanruo smiled slightly: "Sister Hong, there are only a few dishes we have ordered. I will go to the kitchen to find you later. Can you try it first and see if you can cook it?"
Sister Hong lowered her eyes and said in a low voice, "Yes."
Afterwards, Ming Lanruo said naturally: "Jinghe, Chen Ning, you take Sister Hong down, and if there are any shortcomings, let someone prepare the goods."
Jing He and Chen Ning were preparing to leave with Sister Hong.
Qiao Yan's eyes stayed on the menu for a long time, but suddenly he smiled warmly and unpredictablely, interrupting them: "Since the lady is busy, I won't disturb you. I will report to you later."
After saying that, he bowed slightly and walked away casually, leaving behind a free and easy figure.
Ming Lanruo: "..."
Jinghe & Chen Ning: “…”
Sister Hong: "..."
What does this person want to do? Come in, hang out for a while and then leave?
The same sentence came to several people's minds!
Ming Lanruo's delicate eyebrows twisted. She always felt that "Qiao Yan" must have noticed something. He was not the kind of person who made useless efforts without aim.
But... now is not the time to dwell on this!
She looked around at the others, and decided to solve the things that needed to be solved first.
"Is there anyone around?" Ming Lanruo wrote a sentence directly on the paper and handed it to Chen Ning and Jing He to read.
Unlike Chen Ning and others, she couldn't read lips, so she could only use this method to see if Cang Qiao was far away.
Chen Ning and Jing He were both masters. They listened quietly for a while, then looked at each other and shook their heads in unison.
Ming Lanruo felt relieved now and looked at Sister Hong: "Tell me, the red-blooded orphan who was exiled by General Mu has been lurking around me these days. What exactly do you want to do?"
Sister Hong slowly straightened her back and looked at her coldly for a while: "Where did I reveal my flaw?"
She knew it was useless to deny it in front of those sharp star eyes that seemed to be able to see through people's hearts.
Ming Lanruo said calmly: "Because I don't really plan to let anyone accompany me to the prefect's mansion to cook."
Who is a person named Tang who deserves to be allowed to cook for her?
Sister Hong's eyes widened slightly in an instant, and the scars on her face twitched: "So, the mission you posted to enter the prefect's mansion was a trap!"
Ming Lanruo bent her eyes and smiled: "Normal people should think that the prefect's mansion is like a dragon's pond and a tiger's den. No one would want to take it with just ten taels of silver. Those who want to take it must be people with ulterior motives."
Either he had evil intentions towards her and King Qin, the imperial envoys from the capital, or he had evil intentions towards the prefect of Tang Dynasty.
"The Tang Prefect's actions over the years have made people angry, and the wandering red-blooded orphans have often tried to assassinate him, so your people will never let go of this opportunity to enter the prefect's residence to assassinate him."
Ming Lanruo took a sip of tea and even poured a cup of tea for Sister Hong.
After coming to Northeastern Xinjiang, what she saw with her own eyes and the news sent by Chen Ning and others made her know a lot of things.
Sister Hong smiled self-deprecatingly: "So Concubine Ming has issued a task - to accompany you to cook dishes to celebrate your birthday, and wait for us to take the bait."
What's funny is that they really took the bait. They couldn't get to the island in the middle of the lake owned by Magistrate Tang, and of course they didn't want to let go of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!
Because they planned to go in with Ming Lanruo, Magistrate Tang would have to take a bite of the birthday dishes served by the dignified concubine Ming!
When the food was served, they poisoned or assassinated the Tang magistrate, and then absconded, leaving the King of Qin, Ming Fei and the Tang magistrate behind.
But he didn't expect that everything was actually a fishing trap for the seemingly delicate and cold beauty in front of him.
Ming Lanruo's starry eyes were bright, with a cunning and cold light: "That's right, originally, if you hadn't gone out to contact people after hearing the news, I still wouldn't have been able to find your whereabouts."
Sister Hong was shocked and looked at her in disbelief: "What do you want to do!"
Did she expose her own people because she was eager for quick success?
Sister Hong's sharp eyes flashed with anger, and she reached out her hand and quietly touched her sleeves.
"I advise you to think clearly about what you are doing. The first time you used a weapon against me, I tolerated it for the sake of my grandfather. This time, I will not tolerate it and will carry out the punishment of facing a traitor with blood."
Ming Lanruo suddenly held tea and said quietly.
Sister Hong froze and looked at the sharp short blade that was placed on her neck again at some point.
She looked at Jinghe with a troubled look on her face and sneered angrily: "Why, all the red-blooded orphans in the central and southern parts have surrendered to the imperial court? Guan Yuecheng is really a good disciple!"
Guan Yuecheng, the chief instructor of the 800,000-strong border army, is openly serving the Northern Shaanxi Frontier Army, but secretly he is also a red-blooded person, but now he is afraid that he will become a dog for the imperial court!
Jing He said coldly: "Bah, you who betrayed the Lord are worthy of mentioning the name of my adoptive father!"
"Hahaha... Bah! You beasts are the only ones who betrayed Xiao Shuai and colluded with the imperial court!" Sister Hong seemed to be stimulated and pouted hard at Jing He.
Then, she looked at Ming Lanruo as if she were an enemy, gritting her teeth——
"You...you have the blood of the Xiao family flowing in your body. Your mother died in the hands of Emperor Ming, but you married his son for glory and wealth, and became a thief and a father! Are you a beast like you worthy of being my red-blooded master? What a shame.
I thought you..."
Sister Hong took a deep breath and said coldly: "Oh, since I fell into your hands today, I will kill or cut you to death, but even if you find our foothold, you don't want us to be like those weaklings in the central and southern parts of the country.
Abandon your faith and submit to the imperial court!"
Sister Hong's round of scolding made Chen Ning extremely angry. How could they become weaklings who submitted to the imperial court?!
"You're talking nonsense——!"
Ming Lanruo took Chen Ning's arm, and she keenly noticed something was wrong in her words: "I thought the goodwill I showed you was enough. When will I persuade you to surrender and submit to the imperial court?"
With all the things she has done and said so far, even if she cannot make the red-blooded orphans from the Northeast Territory completely believe her, they should not misunderstand her to such an extent?!
Sister Hong sneered angrily and contemptuously, and scolded again: "Do you think I don't know? The man named Qiao Yan just now is from Dongchang. He is inseparable from you. Dongchang's shadow guard haunts the inn.
Around you, you have a close relationship with Dongchang Eagle Claw, what are you other than lackeys of the imperial court!!"
Too bad I thought that this daughter of the Duke of Ming Dynasty had the legacy of the Xiao family! I still spoke for her in front of all the brothers!
Ming Lanruo was stunned for a moment, and Chen Ning and Jing He looked at her involuntarily.
Ming Lanruo understood that this was the Northeast Territory after all - the red-blooded orphans had been wandering around this land for twenty years, and this was their territory.
The powerful dragon was defeated by the local snake, so Cang Qiao took control of the upper-level military attachés of the Jinyi Guard in Northeast China.
If he stretches out his hand, he will definitely not be able to leave any traces like those in the capital and the south, and his identity will be revealed!
Dongchang represents the most ferocious minions of the imperial court. Sister Hong and the others naturally misunderstood?
Ming Lanruo was silent for a while, then sighed softly: "You should know that the current governor of Dongchang, the nine-thousand-year-old Cang Qiao, is the adopted brother of my mother Xiao Guanyin, and also my uncle."
"I need to unite all the forces that can be used for me. I can't let Dongchang become an obstacle in my search for red blood and revenge for my mother and the Xiao family."
She couldn't tell her now that she had slept with the powerful governor of the East Factory and her beautiful and cruel uncle.
I can only...change it to something more acceptable to everyone.
"Are you saying that you are using the palm admiral of Dongchang?" Sister Hong's eyes flashed with shock, and she was doubtful.
She vaguely knew that the current governor of the East Factory was once recognized as the godmother of Miss Xiao Guanyin.
But... will the nine-thousand-year-old, who is known for his wit and ruthlessness, be taken advantage of by her so-called 'dirty niece'?
"As humans, we have weaknesses." Ming Lanruo said calmly.
She actually didn't lie, Cang Qiao's weakness was indeed her.
But now she has to change the topic, otherwise it will be really hard to explain!
She took out an emerald and purple gold lock engraved with unique curly grass patterns from her collar and placed it on the table.
"I have never surrendered to the imperial court. On the contrary, I am looking for red blood to avenge the Xiao family and my mother. Maybe you can take a look at this, do you recognize it?"
As soon as Sister Hong's eyes came into contact with the purple jade, red gold and emerald lock, her pupils suddenly shrank and she reached out to take it tremblingly.
After a moment, she suddenly looked straight at Ming Lanruo: "I need three drops of your blood, drip it in the center of the jade lock!"
Ming Lanruo was stunned for a moment, then he quickly took out the knife and swiped his fingertips, and a few drops of blood fell on the center of the purple jade and red gold lock.
For a moment, the blood spread rapidly along the lines of the curly grass on the fingertips, as if the lines were sucking blood.
Sister Hong suddenly pressed her hands on the center of the purple jade and red gold lock, and heard a few "click, click, click" sounds.
The purple jade and red gold lock instantly exploded into several pieces, the mechanism bounced, and finally the left and right sides joined together to form a token.
The curly grass pattern has also turned into a fierce flame pattern. In the center of the token, there is a dark red like blood - the word "red"!
Ming Lanruo looked stunned, this is...
Sister Hong trembled and suddenly knelt down on one knee, raised the token high as if holding a holy object, and almost hysterically choked with sobs: "Purple jade red blood, the order of red blood in the world, no one dares to disobey!!"
In this life, I can still see the purple jade red blood order that can only be awakened by the blood of the Xiao family! Xiao Shuai's tiger talisman!
Ming Lanruo and Chen Ning exchanged glances, and both saw shock and complicated emotions in each other's eyes——
This thing is indeed the Yin Tiger Talisman used by the Xiao family to command thousands of troops! And it was given by the Queen Mother!
The tiger talisman has yin and yang. The yang is in the hands of the emperor, and the yin is in the hands of the general. When ordering thousands of troops, the two should be combined into one.
But as the saying goes, foreign kings will not accept orders, not to mention that the original foundation of the Red Blood Army was the Xiao family of Qinghe hundreds of years ago.
They believe in the belief that they are never any king, but stand before the darkness and protect the lives of all people under the sky!
It’s not like we didn’t overthrow the foolish emperor and change the dynasty!
Therefore, the Yin Tiger Talisman in the hands of the Xiao family is the real tiger talisman that can truly command the red blood!
"Sister Hong, get up." Ming Lanruo sighed softly and calmly helped up the excited and trembling Sister Hong.
Sister Hong took a deep breath and looked at Ming Lanruo. This time, there was no bloodthirsty anger in her vicissitudes of life, only indescribable emotions remained: "Ming..."
"Call me eldest lady, Chen Ning, Jing He and the others are all red-blooded orphans, so they all call me eldest lady." Ming Lanruo curved her lips and smiled, knowing that they didn't like to call her Ming Fei.
Because that was the title that led to her being imprisoned in the royal family.
"My subordinate Hongting, the former sixth-rank Colonel Zhaoxin of the 19th Red Blood Army, is here to see the eldest lady!" Sister Hong suddenly leaned forward slightly, put her legs together, clasped her fists and saluted, her voice was low but sonorous and powerful.
Ming Lanruo gently held her wrist: "Red Colonel Duo Li, you have suffered a lot these years. For the sake of convenience, I will call you Sister Hong."
Sister Hong raised her head, her eyes suddenly reddened, and asked complicatedly: "Miss, you... came to find us, you really want to..."
Even if Miss Ming is seen holding the Purple Jade Red Blood Order, twenty years later, things have changed and people have changed. Even General Mu has changed. Can Miss Ming really be trusted?
"I want my father to be safe, I want the red blood to be reunited, I want to rebuild the mountains and rivers, I want to shoot down the vicious sun from the sky, and from now on - the sun and the moon will change the sky!"
Ming Lanruo spoke every word, looked deeply into Sister Hong's eyes, and calmly let her see her heart.
The sun is the synonym for the emperor, which is a completely treasonous statement that should punish the nine tribes.
Sister Hong had been tempered by life over the years and had a suspicious temperament, but now looking at Ming Lanruo's magnanimous, bright and hot eyes, she suddenly believed it.
Sister Hong suddenly knelt down: "In the name of blood, I regard my Lord as the king and will never betray!"
This is a special oath of allegiance and surrender that the Red Blood Legion has sworn for more than a hundred years, with the smell of iron blood and gunpowder smoke in the north.
Chen Ning looked at this familiar scene and suppressed his excitement. He couldn't help but blush slightly. The red-blooded orphan drank the wind, frost, rain and snow together, and suffered the pain of massacre, betrayal, and displacement.
Even though they had almost become estranged from their comrades in the Northeast, at this moment, he still felt excited when he saw the same military salute.
Ming Lanruo looked at her with a surge of emotion. She, the sixth-grade Colonel Zhaoxin of the 19th Army, finally recognized her identity as the heir of the Xiao family.
Hongting serves as a school captain as a woman, so her status among the red-blooded orphans wandering in Northeast China must be high, and her appeal is even higher!
Starting from the Red Pavilion, these red-blooded orphans who were forced to wander in the northeastern border will all gather around her. Based on this, she can fight against the red-blooded legions that have shaken General Mu's command.
She got a very important piece of the "puzzle" and was one step closer to her goal!
A cold and blazing light flashed under Ming Lanruo's eyes, and she clenched the purple jade red blood order in her hand!
The group of people talked for a full hour before they dispersed and dispersed.
Ming Lanruo looked at Jing He, hesitant, but still sighed: "Go and call Qiao Yan over, just say, I want to take a bath."
She is not afraid of being mean to others.
But Cang Qiao...he is an ancestor full of heart and mind!
Especially since this person is so mean...
She actually didn't want to hide it from him, but... let alone the red-blooded orphans wandering in Northeast Xinjiang, Sister Hong was furious when she saw the people in Dongchang!
Even Chen Ning and Grandma Wang have no trust in Dongchang.