wait for another year

Zhao Xu woke up once in the middle of the night, and there were only a dozen or so scattered people around, with their backs turned to him to keep out the wind and watch the night, while Pei Jun and one or two others wiped his sweat.

"What time is it?" Zhao Xu asked in a low voice.

Pei Jun glanced at the sky, "It's about time."

"How's it going outside?"

"I don't know."

Zhao Xu stopped talking and fell asleep again.

Pei Jun tremblingly kept watch for another midnight, before he dared to close his eyes and take a nap, but just as he fell asleep, he was awakened by the loud killing sound.

A young pawn with strong skills climbed up the tree to have a look, and said happily: "Master Pei, there is a fight over there, have reinforcements arrived?"

Pei Jun's spirit was shaken, and he followed suit to look around. Sure enough, there were about a thousand people fighting fiercely at the foot of the mountain.

After all, Deng Jun ran for a long distance first, was ambushed, and then searched all over the mountains for a long time. Both his physical strength and morale could not keep up.

Soon that part of Deng Jun was killed in pieces and fled towards the mountains.

The reinforcements were divided into two groups, one group rescued Zhao Xu, and the other continued to destroy Deng Jun.

"My lord, should we shout for help and call for reinforcements?"

Pei Jun hesitated and said, "There's no rush, it's better to be more cautious."

After an unknown amount of time, I heard someone shouting loudly, "How is the princess?"

"It's Suan Ni!" Pei Jun also knew a lot of people beside Xuanyuan Hui. Suan Ni had been injured before and his voice was hoarse than ordinary people, so he recognized it instantly.

Suan Ni is Xuanyuan Hui's chief bodyguard, since he has arrived here, it means...

Pei Jun felt ecstasy in his heart, and when he shouted down the mountain, he was already crying, "Pass to the doctor!"

The suspension bridge had been burned long ago, and they don't know how they found the way, not long after, Suan Ni arrived and ordered Zhao Xu and other wounded soldiers to be carried away.

"Where's your lord?"

While observing Zhao Xu's injury nervously, Suan Ni said: "The general will come directly from Shannan Road, the prince should still be in the Huainan Road camp."

It was inconvenient for Pei Jun to ask about Xuanyuan Huibu, so he said melancholy: "Situ's injury was almost healed, but it burst again when he evacuated just now. Now it will take more time to recuperate."

Suan Ni let out a long sigh, "The lord just expected that the princess would do this, so he asked Dou Li to continue marching south, and ordered me to return to the teacher to help. Hearing that the city of Minzhou was broken, the lord turned pale with fright, but he is wise and mighty Soon he guessed that it was Wang Hao's plan, so he decided to use it to see if he could wipe out Deng Fuyu's troops in one fell swoop."

Pei Jun was admiring and sighed, "Survivors will have future blessings. I think Situ's good days are yet to come."

After returning to the camp, a doctor immediately came to check the pulse and prescribe a prescription. To everyone's horror, Zhao Xu's wound was deep. It would have been fine if she had recovered well before, but she was so busy running for her life that she bled profusely under the bumps. And some suppuration.

Zhao Xu has had a fever for three whole days, and the military doctors are helpless.

Pei Jun paced back and forth, "What's wrong with Situ, can you tell me?"

"It would have been fine if I had been bedridden for a few days before, or if it had been delivered a few days earlier, I'm afraid there are still..."

"What's there?" Suan Ni at the side was so impatient that the general doctor almost frightened him to death.

Pei Jun frowned, "If something really happened to the princess, how will you and I explain it to the prince when we go back?"

"You not only have to confess to this king, but you also have to confess to Suzhou Shengmin, to the scholars of the world, and to your conscience!"

As if Pei Jun was struck by lightning, as soon as he turned his head, he saw the halberd bearer at the tent opening the curtain, and Xuanyuan Hui, who was covered in dust, walked in quickly.

After galloping for hundreds of miles almost without stopping, and just after a fierce battle, Xuanyuan Hui's description at the moment is really not good-looking, not to mention his disheveled face, and he is so thin that his cheeks are slightly sunken.

He walked to Zhao Xu's couch, looked down and saw that his hands were stained with blood, so he simply bent down and pressed his forehead against Zhao Xu's, it was astonishingly hot.

Standing up, Xuanyuan Hui looked at the military doctor with a gloomy face, "What do you mean by disregarding medicine and stones? My concubine Hongfu Qitian, I think it's clear that your medical skills are not good, so I don't need you to wait here. Just prescribe some prescriptions to reduce fever." !"

"My lord." Seeing that he wanted to drive the general doctors away, Pei Jun couldn't help being anxious.

"This time I stayed with the concubine until she escaped danger. I will never forget your meritorious service in protecting the lord. Suan Ni, if you have to work hard, after one or two hours, you will go outside the city to meet the distinguished guests."

Seeing Suanni's inquiring gaze again, Xuanyuan Hui said coldly: "I was really worried, so I came here in person. Just now I sent another [-] cavalry to pursue, and Deng Fuyuxiao must be shown first. The revenge of the princess must be avenged. "

"Your Highness is mighty." Suan Ni said dryly.

Xuanyuan Hui waved his hands, "You all step down, it's good that the princess has me here."

Although hesitant, Suan Ni and Pei Jun looked at each other and left.

Xuanyuan Hui cleaned his face and hands, changed into clean normal clothes, and lay down beside Zhao Xu. He must be sleepy, but he didn't feel sleepy.

Using Minzhou as bait this time was originally the decision of the generals, and everyone made the decision to abandon Minzhou and leave Shannan Road.The rest of the people didn't know much about Zhao Xu, and most of them thought that Zhao Xu would flee back to Suzhou with other gentry.

He knew, however, that Zhao Xu would rather die in exchange for a lifetime of fame and legacy than to live with a crime.

Xijie has reached the extreme, but that's all.

Just as no one else can be inserted between the two of them, it is difficult for him to allow Xuanyuan Hui to get mixed up with others, even if he is extinct.

In fact, just ten days ago, he thought about everyone's proposals for a very short and very quick moment. After all, Zhao Xu is powerful, if he is still alive and takes control of the military, there is no guarantee that he will not be another Deng family in the future.

But when he thought of Zhao Xu being buried in some unknown place with blood and blood, he felt pain like tormenting his heart.

He asked himself - is he really that intolerable to the Zhao family, really that intolerable to the gentry?

After thinking about it, he had to admit that his grandfather doted on the Empress Dowager Deng back then, which eventually led to the disaster of the Deng family, and he felt somewhat empathetic.

Weakened other Hedong clans, but allowed the Zhao family to grow bigger. As long as Zhao Xu is still in this world, he is willing.

Let Zhao Xu be the queen, the queen mother, or even the regent queen mother, if you think about it carefully, there is nothing wrong with it.

If only he could wake up.

Xuanyuan couldn't stop kissing his face, his eyes, and his lips, as if under such harassment, Zhao Xu would slap him away as usual.

However, it does not.

He just lay quietly on the couch, as if he didn't want to talk to Xuanyuan Hui again in his life.

It's just unlucky.