The prince disliked her, and the legitimate daughter was reborn and married to the regent

"What are you still standing there for? Stand up!"

Furious scolding rang in Zuo Mingyuan's ears. He stretched out his small arms and struggled to crawl out of the mud. His face was covered with traces of dirt, but his eyes were still bright.

"I'm so tired. I'm dying of exhaustion! I don't want to do it!"

The little guy shouted, and he turned his head away awkwardly, not daring to let the beautiful girl sitting next to him see him in such an embarrassing state.

"Why don't other people have to practice martial arts so hard?"

"Why should I roll around in the mud?"

At that time, he didn't know why he, who had always been willing to endure training, would burst into such a shameful and angry roar when he saw the girl coming to wait.

He just felt that compared to the clean girl, he was as insignificant as a speck of mud thrown on the ground.

But his father did not give him face. When he finally stood up, he stepped on him again.

"Does this make you angry?"

General Zuo hugged his arms, and shifted his gaze from him to Yun Nian, revealing a somewhat disdainful smile.

"If it wasn't because the teacher I hired for you was so angry at you that he threw away his book and came to me behind my back, saying that you were a complete fool, do you think I would waste my time here to teach you?"

Zuo Mingyuan lay on the ground, feeling as if his whole body was torn apart. His fingers grasped the mud and slowly clenched.

"Zuo Mingyuan, you are the son of the general's mansion. I am not afraid to tell you that I didn't want you to learn martial arts in the first place, lest the more prosperous the Zuo family becomes, the more it will arouse suspicion from...

The girl sitting on the side didn't understand, but the secret guard kneeling beside her suddenly became alert.

"If you can't read, you can't take the imperial examination. You can't even get a good name, not to mention that I could die in the war at any time. When I go to the general's mansion, what will you become by then?"

"Oh, of course you can inherit my subordinates. You don't know military tactics or martial arts, so you can only be sidelined and become an obedient puppet. But Zuo Mingyuan, I don't think you want to be a puppet controlled by others, do you?"

The boy in the mud could not understand the meaningful look on his father's face, which was full of years.

He just felt that being so embarrassed in front of Yun Nian made him very uncomfortable.

Zuo Mingyuan looked up, but Yun Nian was not looking at him. Instead, she was shaking her feet and letting the secret guard beside her fan her.

"I forgot to tell you that Prime Minister Yun has already told me that starting tomorrow, Xiyu will practice martial arts with you. Zuo Mingyuan, without strength, you can neither get nor keep what you want."

At that moment, something bright seemed to flash across General Zuo's eyes, but before he could see it, he had already turned and left.

Yun Nian knew nothing and didn't care about anything. Seeing Zuo Mingyuan in such an embarrassing state, she could actually laugh.

"You have to work hard. If you practice martial arts, you can protect me in the future. Let's secretly go and tie up and beat up those guys who say bad things behind my back."

Her eyes were so bright, just like the eyes of the clever little deer that Zuo Mingyuan saw when he followed his father to hunt.

He heard his own voice.

"it is good."

……

All the military tactics and ways to control subordinates that he had not mastered were now laid out in front of Zuo Mingyuan, and Yun Nian once again saw his embarrassment.

He wanted to achieve success, wanted to be noticed by others, wanted to be worthy of the girl he loved, but fate always played tricks on him.

The familiar yet unfamiliar faces in front of me all had fierceness and hesitation on their faces.

He suddenly smiled.

"Do you want me to open the city gate? You run first, and the remaining old, young, women and children in the city will stay here for you to stop Ke Luo's cavalry."

"By the way, it seems that the guys killed by those mummies can easily turn into monsters. In order to reduce the number of pursuers, how about you kill everyone in the city? Doesn't that fit your idea?"

Fuqiu raised her eyebrows slightly, and looked at the girl sitting next to her. The light and graceful piano music was like a silent comfort, moistening everything silently.

"How come you, my childhood sweetheart, look even crazier than Ke Luo's people?"

She lowered her voice so low that the soldiers naturally couldn't hear it. Only Yun Nian raised the corner of her mouth slightly.

"Maybe he has always been like this, but he just pretends to be careless on weekdays."

Is that so? Yun Nian was not sure, but she knew that Zuo Mingyuan was not a guy who shouted about justice and fairness. He had his own yardstick and compared people with his own heart.

He is more indifferent than anyone else. He considers those who are recognized by him as good people even if they have done all kinds of bad things, and he despises those who are excluded by him even if they are just a little bit weak.

Even though the sun was shining brightly, Yun Nian felt as if she had entered a cold winter, with a chilly atmosphere.

It came again, the pain that was like maggots attached to the bones, slowly spreading along the spine to all parts of the body, the pain was so severe that even the fingertips began to tremble.

She curled her eyes, and when she played the last note of the piano, she hid her hands in her sleeves. Her sleeves trembled, but no one noticed.

Look, she discovered something. Yun Nian tightened her fingers and stabbed her palm.

This was the same pain, the same chill, exactly the same as what I felt from Yun Shuo.

Afraid of my brother, afraid of my childhood sweetheart, who else?

Yun Nian suddenly stood up, handed the zither to Langya, pushed open the door of the side room and walked in.

"Oh!"

She slammed the door shut, awakening the confused soldiers.

"We just want to stay alive. I don't want to bring the enemy in. I, I don't know."

"No matter where you go, you can't escape. Yes, you can't bring the enemy back home."

"Are you crazy? Don't be fooled by his few words!"

Zuo Mingyuan snorted coldly, looking at them who had already lost their composure, and spoke bluntly,

"If you hold on, you still have a chance of survival. If you run away, you will die. Your names are all recorded in the conscription register, and your place of origin is also clear."

He looked meaningfully at the center of the chaos.

"Unless you stay away from the town forever, once you check the pass, you will know that you are deserters. Anyone who wants you to escape is simply a murderer."

At this point, even the slowest people reacted and looked at the scholar-like soldier with angry eyes.

"get out."

He also turned around and stood in the room that Yun Nian had just entered, with his hand hovering in the air.