I don't want to play anymore

Long Yanzhao got up to check outside the tent, Gu Jingyuan also stood up and went outside with him.

Outside the tent, there is indeed a group of women and children in the distance, led by several soldiers.

There are probably more than ten of these women, and there are five or six children, depending on how old they are, the youngest is still a baby in swaddle.

Some soldiers in armor carried stretchers, some helped hold children, and some helped several injured women in a well-mannered manner.

"What's going on here?" Long Yanzhao casually called a soldier from a distance to ask.

Even though he hadn't had time to change his clothes, he was still dressed in a solid black suit, but after staying in the barracks for a long time, the soldier knew that it was the emperor.

He replied respectfully: "These are women and children who were privately imprisoned by the generals guarding Jingping City."

"The general who defends the city?" Long Yanzhao asked, "That coward who abandoned the city and fled?"

"Yes... I heard that the general still has strange hobbies. Any woman he likes in Jingping City will be detained in an unknown cave dungeon, specializing in inappropriate things..."

"How unreasonable!" Before he finished speaking, Long Yanzhao was already furious.

Gu Jingyuan directly turned his eyes away, unable to bear to look any further.

I didn't know what was going on just now, so I didn't pay much attention to it.

Now looking at those women and children from a distance, they are all dressed in shabby clothes, some faces are dirty and their eyebrows can't be seen clearly, and there are injuries on their faces...

The emperor said, "Go on."

"Yes... I don't know how long they have been imprisoned. After we occupied Jingping City, these women and children were still imprisoned and no one released them. This is not today. General Yan took people to wipe out the evil, and accidentally found that The dungeon, and then rescued them."

The soldier explained that he also felt that those women and children were pitiful.

"These women and children finally saw the light of day again. They have been like this all the way, crying and laughing for a while..."

"Tell General Yan to ask the imperial doctors to show them."

As he said that, Long Yanzhao ordered, "Open another separate yard to settle them in. Check their identities one by one, and if there is nothing abnormal, let them live here temporarily. Then hire a few reliable people from the local area to take care of them. they."

"Yes."

The soldier took the order and went, Long Yanzhao caressed Gu Jingyuan's back unobtrusively, and said, "Don't worry, Yuan, I will take care of them."

"En." Gu Jingyuan replied, but still pursed her lips tightly.

For a main city as large as Jingping City, the generals guarding the city, that is, the city lord, generally have to be high-ranking officials in the country to be eligible.

Although Beirong is poor, the corruption of the bureaucratic family is even worse than that of Dayi.

It's not surprising that such beasts appear in collusion with each other.

But Gu Jingyuan searched his memory, but he didn't know who the guarding general of Jingping City was.

He has been away from here for too long...

"A Yuan, let's go back and change our clothes first." Long Yanzhao didn't want his mood to be affected, so he proposed.

Gu Jingyuan nodded.

The generals who defended the city have now abandoned the city and fled... Let's talk about the war on the battlefield.

He turned around with Long Yanzhao.

But just when he turned around, he suddenly heard someone shouting in the distance: "Second brother!"

……

Upon hearing the sound, Gu Jingyuan suddenly stopped.

His thin body looked a little thin in the wind, which made the sudden change in his body's stiffness a bit obvious.

He stood there, his eyes wide open.

Behind him, commotion broke out among the women and children again, Long Yanzhao turned his head and saw a woman with a bun was desperately trying to push away the soldiers, running towards them.

——Just kidding, Daying is where the emperor is, what if this woman is an assassin?

The soldiers naturally wanted to stop them desperately.

But that woman was also persistent, not only did she want to rush over regardless, but she kept shouting——

Gu Jingyuan's expression was sluggish, his lips moved, and he was a little speechless.

Seeing this, Long Yanzhao asked people to stop first, brought the woman over, and then asked Gu Jingyuan, "Ah Yuan knows that person?"

"That's..." Gu Jingyuan's fingers trembled twice, staring blankly at the woman in the distance, he couldn't believe a name, stuttering for the first time: "Cheng... Zhi."

……

Ah Zhi in memory will always be an innocent little girl.

She likes to pick flowers for herself, she will share her favorite things with herself, and she likes to call her brother after her.

Ah Zhi was two years younger than him.

She and Gu Jingyuan are not born of the same mother, but the daughter of Concubine Huiwen, who has been raised in the palace as a princess since she was a child.

But she is very close to Gu Jingyuan.

There are many rules in the palace, Ah Zhi was young at that time, she couldn't go out to ride horses and hunt like Gu Jingyuan and the others, but whenever she saw Gu Jingyuan, she would always run around behind him with round eyes. .

She likes to go out and see the outside world and like new things.

Every time he enters the palace, Gu Jingyuan can see her newly invented gadgets and drink her latest broth.

……

Until the day Gu Jingyuan escaped from Beirong, she was a naive and romantic little girl.

He still remembered the other party's clear and melodious laughter like a silver bell.

Gu Jingyuan will always remember that when he was just locked up, Cheng Zhi once secretly went to see him.

An ominous person who is about to be executed, everyone is afraid to avoid it, but Ah Zhi forcibly violates the king's order and breaks into the dungeon.

The little girl in a plain and clean blouse didn't pay attention to the stains in the prison at all. She just lay on the outside of the dungeon and asked him what's wrong in a daze.

Followed by crying and became a tearful person.

The little princess who grew up in the palace, Ah Zhi has never seen such a scene, Gu Jingyuan knew that she was frightened.

He wanted to tell her it was okay.

But he was in too much pain at that time, and he couldn't say it after all.

Later, Cheng Zhi was forcibly taken away by the soldiers who were chasing him.

She was never seen again.

Gu Jingyuan also understood.

With his father's method of exterminating them, how could he let Cheng Zhi run in again.

In fact, he didn't want Cheng Zhi to visit him at all.

——Cheng Zhi is too pure and kind.

He will implicate her...

…………

Seeing the woman with the bun being brought closer by the soldiers, Gu Jingyuan was shocked, his peach blossom eyes were rippling, and his eye sockets were red and moist.

"Cheng Zhi?..." Long Yanzhao on the side repeated the name, and then gasped!

——Could this be what Ah Yuan once mentioned, that sister? ?

... Gu Jingyuan told him before that he has a younger sister.

A person who stands out in his memory, at least qualified to be specially mentioned by him...

Looking at Gu Jingyuan's reaction, Long Yanzhao has already confirmed that he is absolutely inseparable.

At this time, Cheng Zhi was already very close.

She was so close that she could see Gu Jingyuan's face more clearly, as well as the familiar scar on the brow bone, she couldn't hold back any longer, and threw herself into Gu Jingyuan's arms crying loudly.

"Second brother, it really is you! You, why are you here!"

The two soldiers who brought her over didn't expect it, they didn't expect that she would dare to throw herself into the... arms of the person next to the emperor, and they were at a loss as to come over to grab her.

But before that, Long Yanzhao stopped all movements of those two with a wave of his hand.

A woman's cry echoed around her.

Long Yanzhao looked at this woman who was in a state of embarrassment and cried like rain, and then looked at Gu Jingyuan who was standing there, frozen all over, and he was sure that this was Ah Yuan's younger sister.

——If it wasn't for that important sister who is worthy of Gu Jingyuan's memory, Ah Yuan wouldn't be so at a loss.

It won't hurt her heart because she cried.

In the tent of the commander of the Dayi Army, Cheng Zhi was put on a chair covered with clean animal skins, and beside her was a little boy who looked like four or five years old, who was standing timidly at the side, secretly watching Gu Jingyuan's eyebrows and eyes.

Gu Jingyuan sat opposite Cheng Zhi.

He wanted to pour tea for her, but his fingers trembled violently. In the end, Long Yanzhao did it for him, poured two cups of tea first, handed one cup to Cheng Zhi, and placed the other cup in front of the child beside her.

Gu Jingyuan stared at Cheng Zhi blinking and blinking. Cheng Zhi also looked a little nervous, but the excitement of meeting her second brother here did not fade away. She said, "They all said you were still alive, so I knew it. Although I never thought I'd see you again...Second brother, how have you been all these years? You..."

"Azhi." Gu Jingyuan's voice became depressed and deep, just like the question Cheng Zhi asked him just now, he asked her with difficulty: "Why are you here?"

"I..." Cheng Zhi looked at Gu Jingyuan, then at Long Yanzhao who was beside him, and finally told him what happened slowly without hiding it from him.

"Second brother, not long after you left... the king of Ya Kingdom came to ask for a marriage, and my father... chose me and went to make a kiss..." Cheng Zhi said, pulling the child beside him, and said to him: "Zan'er come here quickly, call uncle."

The child who was not as tall as the table looked at Gu Jingyuan timidly, and called uncle.

Gu Jingyuan's eyes were already widened when he heard her talking about getting married, but now he suddenly heard someone calling him uncle, he couldn't help blinking violently a few times.

Turning his gaze to Zan'er, he waved to the children: "Zan'er, come here."

"Come to...uncle."

The kid named Zan'er was still a little embarrassed and didn't dare to go over.

The only thing that remained the same was that he had been staring at Gu Jingyuan since he came in.

It wasn't until he was encouraged by his mother that he ran up to Gu Jingyuan and looked up at him.

Gu Jingyuan's round eyes are like a pool of crystal clear water, when he gazes at it, it will automatically be filled with a faint breath of tranquility.

Zan'er showed [-]% curiosity about him, and was infected by Gu Jing's wish-like temperament, gradually began to not be afraid of him, and kept looking at him.

Gu Jingyuan has no experience with such an older child, but this is Cheng Zhi's child, so it is naturally different.

He said a few words to him.

Long Yanzhao next to him knew that it was not convenient for the children to listen to their brothers and sisters talking at this time, so he said to the child very discerningly: "Zan'er came to uncle, do you like this big camp? Let's go, uncle will take you Go around."

Then find a child to play with him in the past.

The commander's camp is huge, with bookshelves full of books on one side, weapon racks on the other, and various maps and sand tables.These things may seem ordinary to adults, but they are enough to coax a four or five-year-old child.

Long Yanzhao introduced the various decorations in the weapon rack to Zan'er, and the child really left all other emotions behind, and was led away by him with great interest.

Seeing that Zan'er smiled, Cheng Zhi couldn't help but shed tears: "This child is also suffering a lot, and I have suffered a lot, second brother..."

"Azhi, don't cry yet." Gu Jingyuan took a clean silk handkerchief and handed it to her. He stood behind the chair where she was sitting, gently stroked his sister's thin shoulders, and asked her, "Zan'er is you." With the king of the Ya Kingdom..."

"Yes." Cheng Zhi stopped the tears, knowing that he would ask himself why he ended up living here since he was already married, so he continued to tell: "When I married, the king of the Ya Kingdom was already in his 30s, and he already had a wife and a concubine. In groups, just after the death of the first wife, the marriage between the two countries, the father let me..."

A woman born in the royal family is so pathetic, she has never been able to control her own destiny.

Especially when meeting a father who always only regards his children as tools.

Cheng Zhi resisted, but to little effect.

Just like the other sisters who were married off by their father, she seemed to understand her own destiny.In the end, she still had to use it as a tool for marriage, marrying a man more than twice her age.

The man didn't cherish her either.

Beiya borders Beirong, and is a small country further north than Beirong.

The level of civilization there is even lower than that of Beirong. People almost live a life wrapped in hair and blood, and all kinds of daily necessities have to trade fur and fresh meat with nearby countries.

But even in this way the monarch's harem is full of intrigues. Although Cheng Zhi married in the past as a regular wife, she lived in a foreign country without the protection of the monarch, which was equivalent to falling directly into the wolf's den.

In the past, the lively and innocent little girl had to take all kinds of precautions and suspicions in order to keep herself and her son's life there.

She had a hard time in those years.

"What happened later? Why did you and Zan'er appear here again..." Gu Jingyuan, who was standing behind Cheng Zhi, was almost motionless. He lowered his eyes and looked at his sister's back. I was almost bleeding by myself.

But he still gently supported Cheng Zhi's shoulders, standing there majestically, hoping to give him a little strength in this way.

Monarch Beiya has about twenty children, and Zan'er is not the favored one.And Cheng Zhi, as a tool for the marriage between the two countries, was better at the beginning, until more than a year ago, the old Beirong king passed away and the crown prince came to the throne...

As soon as the new king of Beirong came to power, he made drastic reforms, overthrowing many things that the previous king had done.

Among them is the Covenant of Allies with North Cliff.

Bei Rong proposed to renegotiate the content of the covenant, hoping to gain more rights for himself.

As soon as the covenant was negotiated, it took more than half a year to negotiate.But from the time when the new king proposed to tear up the old covenant, Cheng Zhi was no longer a tool of marriage, but a victim of marriage.

She wrote many letters to her former prince brother, hoping that he would think about her.

But the new king's intention is very decisive - the daughter who is married is the water that is thrown out.What's more, in matters between countries, how could they make concessions for a woman.

After that, Cheng Zhi's life in the palace became difficult. She was often punched and abused by the monarch, and even Zan'er was beaten several times by the drunk monarch.

Cheng Zhi is still a woman with a strong personality in essence, but she was too young when she married and didn't understand anything.After getting married and having children, after a few years, I always feel that I can bear it.

But the result of all the patience was that the way of life for her and Zan'er became narrower and narrower. Cheng Zhi, who had a premonition that the situation would only get worse, began to plan to take Zan'er away to save her son a way out.

Finally, last year, Dayi suddenly went to war against Bei Rong.

Bei Rong was caught off guard and unable to catch up. The king of Bei Rong, who had been extremely arrogant and confident before, had to ask Bei Ya to send troops for help.

The King of Beiya has already been tricked by the King of Beirong, how could he help him now.The mission from Beirong was turned away and had to go back the same way. It was at that time that Cheng Zhi sneaked into the mission and fled all the way back to Beirong.

But after returning to Beirong, although this is her accustomed homeland, there is no one she can rely on.

It is impossible for her to go back to the capital to question why the prince's brother abandoned her, and it is impossible for her to return to the palace as a princess...

In desperation, Cheng Zhi chose to hide her name, find a place to settle down first, and then raise Zan'er.

But what she never expected was that the lord of Jingping City was a shameless, daring, licentious person.

——Cheng Zhi went to the street once, and was caught by the city lord by accident!

Her appearance is not bad, and she has an extraordinary temperament, which is different from ordinary women.

The city lord likes to "collect" all kinds of beauties, and Cheng Zhi is a single woman with no relatives, friends, and no one to rely on, which completely meets his standards.

Not long ago, she and Zan'er were secretly captured by the city lord, and they were taken into that dungeon.

Cheng Zhi learned there that more than a dozen women were imprisoned in darkness, and many of them had been imprisoned for more than a year.

Some of those children were forced to have children with the city lord, and some, like Zan'er, were imprisoned there with their mothers and became chips for the city lord to blackmail and control his mother.

Cheng Zhi was also terrified, but the strange thing was that after they were locked in, the city lord never showed up.

At first, someone would come to bring them food and water, but the frequency of that person appeared less and less, until a few days ago, even that person disappeared completely.

They can only rely on the moss and cold spring water in the deep dungeon to survive until the appearance of the Great Yi Army today.

"After being released just now, those military masters gave us all the food and water on their bodies, and brought us back here."

Speaking of today's experience, even Cheng Zhi couldn't help crying with excitement.

"Ah Zhi, it's all over." Gu Jingyuan was speechless the whole time, not knowing what to say, now racking his brains, he could only comfort her and say, "It's all over."

"...Second brother, are you from Yiguo now? You're from here..."

Cheng Zhi was a little uncertain.

Because my brother's clothes are very ordinary.Besides, seeing the relatives who had been lost for many years suddenly, her mood was ups and downs, and she couldn't take care of it. She didn't even notice that this was the largest tent in the camp, which was where the commander lived.

But she noticed the gazes and attitudes of those soldiers looking at her brother just now, there was a hint of respect and respect in it, it didn't look like they were treating an ordinary person...

"Second brother, you are not an official here, are you?" Cheng Zhi asked tentatively.

Gu Jingyuan subconsciously raised his head and glanced in Long Yanzhao's direction.

In the distance, Long Yanzhao was holding Zan'er with one hand, holding the child high, standing in front of the sand table and explaining to him what a sand table was.

At the same time, after silently listening to Cheng Zhi's narration, he raised his head to look at Gu Jingyuan as if he had a tacit understanding.

There was an inexplicable brief meeting of eyes in the air, Gu Jingyuan's eyes trembled with anger, and his lower lip was bitten with bloodstains.

But after seeing Long Yanzhao's eyes, he suddenly calmed down again.

The trembling fingertips paused, as if they had received a hint of encouragement and strength.

Then, Cheng Zhi heard Gu Jingyuan say, "Yes, I am from Yiguo now."

"And serve in the court."

"Ah Zhi, Second Brother will protect you and Zan'er in the future." He said firmly and earnestly: "It's all over. With Second Brother here in the future, neither you nor Zan'er will suffer any grievances."

"Second brother, I..." Cheng Zhi couldn't help shrinking into a ball when he heard these words, and cried again.

Even though she was afraid that Zan'er would hear it this time, she could no longer control the volume no matter what.

Sitting beside Gu Jingyuan, she seemed to become that little princess who was pampered and held in the palm of her hand in an instant.

From a little girl with no intentions to an adult in an instant, after so many years of having no one to rely on, Cheng Zhi didn't expect to have a family anymore.

But second brother...

In the end, the one who warmed her was the second elder brother who always acquiesced in her running around behind him and making trouble, and who always pampered her the most...

She knew that the second brother must have suffered a lot outside.Sometimes at night, when she thinks about her second brother, she will be so distressed that she can't help crying.

But she really never thought that she would see him again in her lifetime.

Such a slender, tall and handsome second brother...

It's really great.

……

Seeing her mother crying, Zan'er immediately jumped out of Long Yanzhao's arms and ran back to comfort her in a sensible way.

"Mother, why are you crying again?" A childish voice sounded from the tent, "Do you miss your uncle again?... But you have already found your uncle."

Children's words are not taboo, and sometimes they are the cutest.

Cheng Zhi immediately burst into laughter, touched the child's head, and said to him, "Don't talk nonsense."

Gu Jingyuan heard it from the side, and he asked Zan'er: "Does Zan'er know uncle?"

"I know." Zan'er nodded obediently, and couldn't help running to Gu Jingyuan, looking up at the scar on his brow.

Gu Jingyuan bent down, hugged him, and sat on his arm.

Just then, Zan'er was led around by Long Yanzhao, and became more courageous, now he naturally put his arms around Gu Jingyuan's neck, and said seriously: "Mother often mentions uncle, and she will cry when she thinks of you. "

"Zan'er, don't talk nonsense." Cheng Zhi stood up embarrassingly. Before she could react to the surprise of seeing her second brother, she was suddenly mentioned the embarrassing things in the past.

She wanted to invite Zan'er to go back, so as not to overwhelm her uncle, but Zan'er was not convinced, and said, "I'm not talking nonsense, mother said, uncle has a scar on his eyebrow, it's red."

"My mother also said that if my uncle was here, we wouldn't be in this situation..."

"Zan'er!" Cheng Zhi called him even more embarrassed, "What are you talking about, you can't be rude."

But Gu Jingyuan was already stunned there.

It is inevitable that close relatives will cry a lot when they meet, and Gu Jingyuan is no exception.

His eye sockets suddenly turned red.

No... not just close relatives.

This is the only blood relative in the world who misses him.

It turns out...in Beirong...

There are people who have been thinking about him.