"Here! Here!"

A loud and clear voice came from above their heads, and everyone was overjoyed and turned around.

Then they saw five young men standing on the top of the city wall, and a young girl wrapped like a rice dumpling happily waving her hands and smiling at them.

A young girl was standing on one knee on the city wall, the sword in her hand was still dripping with blood, and her side was expressionless. The young man, who had no emotions at this moment, was holding something round wrapped in cloth in his hand, which was still dripping with blood.

The young man on the other side was waving a tall flag in his hand. They recognized it as the flag of the Canglan Empire. On this day many years later, it was once again planted back on the wall of Xishan City. He was like a victorious general, with his head held high, arrogant and unruly, and dazzling to the naked eye.

The boy at the edge of the group had a scholarly air and was glancing sideways at a few friends who were very different from him. The gentleness in his unique silver eyes was like moonlight and was about to overflow.

The Xiao family army was ecstatic, but at this moment, their eyes turned red. They did not need to rehearse in advance, and now they all moved in unison, clenched their right fists, knocked on their left chests, knelt on one knee, and entertained with the highest etiquette of the Canglan Empire army!

In the heavy snow, there was only the sound of the cold wind and the deafening sound of fists hitting armor. It seemed as if the sound was striking on everyone's heart, and their heart was beating rapidly.

The five tall young men responded with the same etiquette.

The people outside the venue were so jealous that they felt their blood boiling.

Heavy snow continued for several days. On the night of the raid, Xiao Hefeng ordered his men to move out all the useful things in Xishan City and quickly retreat to Lianyue City. Xishan City suddenly became an empty city, completely desolate.

Xiao Hefeng led an army of 250,000 and repelled 500,000 enemy troops when they had very little food and grass left. After this battle, the Galan Barbarian Kingdom did not immediately make a comeback, and Lianyue City got a chance to catch its breath.

However, there was no peace in Lianyue City at night, because the enemy troops had retreated, but the traitor was still there, and someone had sent assassins from the capital.

These batches of assassins came one after another, as if they were risking their lives, and tried to kill all the generals of Xiao's army in order to cover up the bloody truth.

Chu Chaozhao and eight other men guarded for several nights. It was not that the Xiao family army was useless and could not deal with the assassins, but the noise was too loud and they could not bear it anymore.

The few people who were woken up in the middle of the night were like evil spirits from hell, so full of resentment that the Xiao family army couldn't help but retreat when they saw them, stepping on the creaking snow, and killing in the cold wind.

Jiu Moyi stood beside them, roaring madly: "Is this the end? It's been several days! If you have the strength, why didn't you show up and kill the enemy before!"

Shangguan Suchen beside him sighed silently, the dark blue color under his silver eyes was particularly obvious, and he looked at Xiao Hefeng with a bit of fatigue.

Xiao Hefeng's face was full of apologies: "I'm sorry, our people entered the capital in several groups in disguise, and we haven't received any news yet. Those people in the imperial court must have known about the defeat of the barbarian army, and they were desperate and afraid that the matter would be exposed, so they made up their minds to kill us. I'm sorry for getting you into trouble."

Shangguan Suchen sighed silently again, shook his head and consoled, "How can I blame you? But if the high-ranking officials in the capital can't be contacted, the barbarian army will probably come back soon. How about we go?"

Xiao Hefeng shook his head: "How can we let you take risks again? We have sent out many experts, but many of them have died. The other side not only sent out well-trained troops, but also martial arts masters. But don't worry..."

A cruel light flashed in his eyes: "Soon."

Knowing that tonight was destined to be a restless night, they were forced to be night owls and simply decided not to sleep.

In the big tent, the charcoal fire crackled, and the roasted lamb on it was oozing oil and sizzling under the roasting. The simple roasting ingredients removed the mutton's mutton smell, forcing it to emit the most tempting aroma of mutton.

Chu Chaozhao was wrapped in a thick white cloak with a white fur collar, his big eyes fixed on the meat on the fire without blinking.

The four friends all looked at her lovingly, comforting her not to worry and saying that she would be well soon and could eat something else to fill her stomach, while at the same time they either indirectly or directly urged the temporary chef, Ye Heming.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry! Hurry!" Ye Heming's hands left afterimages as he processed the mutton. While processing the mutton, he also had to turn the mutton over and grease it. He was too busy to handle it all. "You are starving ghosts reincarnated! I'm not this tired even after killing assassins tonight! I've roasted so many sheep for you, don't you know how many!"

But when his furious tiger eyes turned and met the pair of eyes that were blinking as if sparkling with tears, his expression changed instantly and he stopped talking. The rough beard on his face was trembling because of the smile, and it was obvious that he was trying hard to smile kindly.

"My dear, it will be ready soon. Our little Ah Zhao is so pitiful. Have you never eaten mutton before? My poor dear, wait a little longer. Daddy... No, uncle, I will make you mutton with different flavors right away."

That smile was so kind (and ferocious).

This is raising her as her own daughter!

The others sitting around were all frowning: Can your double standards be any more obvious? And that sentence, Dad, don't think we didn't hear it!

Those friends who knew Chu Chaozhao’s life experience secretly gave him a thumbs up in their hearts: You are really not afraid of death!

Chu Chaozhao felt helpless for a moment. This guy really likes being someone's father.

Tushan Rongqing laughed while craving for mutton but couldn't eat it.

——I really want to see your father’s reaction when he heard this here, hahaha!

In front of him were blown-out red candles and a hall full of photo stones.

Chu Chaozhao raised his eyebrows and smiled evilly.

——Don’t mention it. I kind of want to see it too.

Someone pulled open the curtain of the big tent, and a gust of cold wind rushed in, making the fire even brighter. The people had no spiritual power to protect them, so they shivered subconsciously and looked over with dissatisfaction.

Chu Chaozhao subconsciously thought: Look, my eldest son is here.

Oh no, General Xiao is here.

Xiao Hefeng walked in with a happy look on his face, washed his hands in the basin of clean water, sat down, and skillfully turned the mutton over and started to brush it with oil.

Chu Chaozhao propped up his chin and raised his little head to look at the mutton, wishing he could swallow it immediately. Without the blessing of spiritual power, his stomach, which was already like a bottomless pit, would become even hungrier and more difficult to satisfy.

She still asked with a smile, but her mind was absent-minded: "Is there any good news for General Xiao?"

Xiao Hefeng lifted up the wide sleeves under the iron wrist guard, and turned the roasted mutton slowly and methodically with his slender fingers. Although it was such a plain thing to do, he did it so elegantly, as if what he held in his hands was not roasted mutton, but a work of art carefully crafted by his hands.

"Yes, we sent out eight spies. Six of them were open spies to attract firepower, and one was a secret spies to confuse the enemy. They all protected the last secret spies and went deep into the capital. Those people thought we had failed. All seven spies were blocked a hundred miles outside the capital. Little did they know that one team had already entered the capital and met Her Royal Highness the Princess. I heard that Her Royal Highness the Princess will arrive in Lianyue City in the next two days."

"Your Highness?" Ye Heming recalled the little princess in his memory and asked happily, "But is she the one that the current emperor loves the most?"

"Of course." Xiao Hefeng nodded. "If that princess comes, as long as she sees the truth with her own eyes, those people's good days will be over!"

Jiu Moyi's gossip fire burned again: "Is this princess really that powerful?"

Everyone listened attentively.

Xiao Hefeng smiled and said, "Of course, you don't know that the previous emperor was incompetent, which led to treacherous ministers in power and the royal heirs fighting for the throne. The people suffered terribly and all lives were destroyed. Xishan City was lost at that time. Our current Majesty slaughtered the palace with blood and ascended the throne at the age of thirteen. He personally killed the previous emperor and other royal heirs who had caused chaos in the court, and quickly restored the national strength of the Canglan Empire with the power of thunder."

"Then he is a good emperor." Shangguan Sulan praised pertinently.

"He is a good emperor, but also..." Xiao Hefeng was silent for a moment, and lowered his voice, "He is still a tyrant, killing people by nature, and the officials in the court are miserable, but under his rule, the people are healthy, so no one can say anything."

Ye Heming buried his head in processing the mutton, and sneered sarcastically: "You dare not say that."

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