Shangguan Wan Ning rolled her eyes, snorted heavily and turned her head to the other side.
"What are you going to do with her?" Sun Jinyao looked at Chang Qingqing and asked.
Mu Jingrui said coldly: "She is not the real Chang Qingqing at all. Since she is an enemy, there is no need to keep her."
After saying that, he called his men and took her out.
"Now that the matter is over, I don't have anything to do for the time being."
"Brother Yao, are you really not injured?" Shangguan Wanning walked to Sun Jinyao's side and asked with concern, "It must be very hard for you to be traveling around these days."
Sun Jinyao saw Mu Jingrui's unkind eyes from the corner of his eye, and the corners of his mouth raised slightly.
"It's not easy. I'll find a place to rest first, and we can talk again when I recover."
After saying that, Sun Jinyao walked out.
The military tent instantly became quiet.
Mu Jingrui came to Shangguan Wan Ning's side and said seriously: "I have something to give you."
"What?"
"Can you change your name for Sun Jinyao?"
Shangguan Wan Ning was startled, suppressed a smile, raised her head and asked, "Why?"
"Because...as soon as I heard you calling him Brother Yao so affectionately, I wanted to beat him up."
This is the truest thought deep in Mu Jingrui's heart.
He couldn't tolerate Shangguan Wan Ning's dependence on a man other than him.
"General Mu, you are really trying to burn bridges. I just helped you so much, and now you turn your back on me in the blink of an eye?"
"Two different things." Mu Jingrui said calmly.
Shangguan Wan Ning ignored it and walked out of the military tent to go back to sleep.
Everything seemed to be solved overnight. She was in a good mood and had no dreams all night.
Early the next morning, Shangguan Wan Ning was awakened by the sound of a horn. She hurriedly put on her clothes and rushed out. She saw that Mu Jingrui had put on his armor and was riding a horse, ready to go.
Mu Jingrui looked over at her, gave her a reassuring smile, and then led his troops to fight.
"Don't worry too much," Sun Jinyao came over at some point and said calmly, "The 80,000 elite soldiers of the barbarians were trapped in the canyon, like turtles in an urn. For Mu Jingrui, it was like searching for something, and they would be back soon.
"
Shangguan Wan Ning forced a smile, but she still felt uneasy.
Just as Sun Jinyao expected, Mu Jingrui led his troops to the canyon and attacked. The opponent was defeated. In just half a day, more than half of the 80,000 elite soldiers were damaged, and the remaining soldiers, horses and equipment surrendered.
However, Mu Jingrui did not see the legendary Holy Son.
Only after he questioned the captives did he find out that the Holy Son had foreseen that the situation was bad after being poisoned by witchcraft, and escaped overnight with his henchmen.
Mu Jingrui was full of contempt for this behavior of running away from the battlefield.
Without any obstruction, the troops led by Mu Jingrui were unstoppable, quickly regaining the lost territory and approaching the barbarian territory.
Shangguan Wan Ning could tell that Mu Jingrui wanted to completely annihilate the barbarians.
Mu Jingrui stationed 100,000 elite troops in a city on the border to temporarily recuperate and wait until he had deployed his battle plan before launching a large-scale attack.
Shangguan Wan Ning was studying Lu Xiangzi's medical skills seriously every day. She saw several medicinal materials with geographical limitations that happened to be nearby, and wanted to take a look with her own eyes.
She made an appointment with Sun Jinyao to go out together and search for him in the back mountains.
Sun Jinyao showed little interest in Lu Xiangzi's medical skills, and seemed to be solely studying with Shangguan Wan Ning.
"Brother Yao, come here and see if this is the one recorded in the book?"
Sun Jinyao took the herbal medicine from Shangguan Wanning's hand, smelled it, and threw it aside.
"No. The book says that this herb has a light smell and thin leaves; the one you pulled out has too strong a grassy smell."
Shangguan Wan Ning discovered that Sun Jinyao was much more talented than her in medical skills, but he was completely unwilling to put his thoughts into it.
The two of them continued walking forward when they suddenly heard the sound of slow but messy footsteps.
Sun Jinyao immediately protected Shangguan Wan Ning behind him.
Not long after, a group of ragged people came from the corner, all of them old, weak, women and children.
Their expressions were sad, their steps were staggering, and they were listless.
An old woman fell to the ground as she passed by Shangguan Wan Ning. She struggled a few times but could not get up. The people walking with her were all indifferent and turned a blind eye.
Shangguan Wan Ning ran over and helped the woman up, checked her pulse and found that she was just physically exhausted.
She took out the water she carried with her from her backpack and fed the old woman a drink.
After a long time, the old woman regained her composure, opened her eyes, looked at Shangguan Wan Ning, and said a few words that she didn't understand at all.
"They should be barbarians."
After being reminded by Sun Jinyao, Shangguan Wanning noticed that the corners of the clothes exposed under the old woman's coat were indeed different from those in Central Plains clothing.
"Girl, can you... give my daughter a sip of water?"
A woman about the same age as Shangguan Wan Ning came over, speaking blunt Chinese, with eyes full of begging.
Shangguan Wan Ning handed over the water bag and took out the dry food to share with them.
Everyone then let down their guard and ate hungrily.
A little girl ran over and fed the half-eaten cake to Shangguan Wan Ning's mouth.
Shangguan Wan Ning looked at the girl's clear eyes and couldn't refuse. She took a small bite. "You can eat it."
"Girl, thank you." The woman came over and bowed.
"No, it's just a trivial matter." Shangguan Wan Ning asked out of curiosity, "By the way, where are you going?"
Everyone looked at each other and pondered for a long time, and it took a long time for the woman to sigh deeply.
"We are from the barbarian tribe. We have been fighting with the Central Plains these days. It was going well, but the Central Plains court changed a general. Not only did he take back the city, he also injured our Holy Son."
"The clan leader took away all the men in the clan and asked them to go to the front line to fight, leaving only these useless women outside. We couldn't stay in our hometown any longer, so we had to go to the border, hoping to pretend to be Han Chinese and beg for food.
eat."
Shangguan Wan Ning and Sun Jinyao looked at each other.
Sun Jinyao saw through Shangguan Wanning's thoughts. After all, she is a woman, and she is a young lady who has never experienced human suffering. Seeing such a situation, she will definitely feel soft-hearted and want to help them.
However, these are extraordinary times, and we must not be kind to women.
"There is only so much you can do. War is inherently cruel." Sun Jinyao pulled Shangguan Wanning to stand up, "It's getting late, go back."
Shangguan Wan Ning was a little helpless.
Suddenly, the group of people knelt down.
"Girl, I'm sorry."
"What are you..." Shangguan Wan Ning's throat hurt so much that she was speechless.
She secretly screamed that something was wrong, and before she had time to think, her vision went dark and she fainted.