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The next morning...

When Ji Kongqing woke up, Jing Mingrui was still soundly asleep.

Last night, the two of them huddled together on a camp bed, with Ji Kongqing on the inside and Jing Mingrui on the outside.Because both of them were extremely tired, they soon fell asleep.

Ji Kongqing curiously stretched out his fingers to touch the blue marks under Jing Mingrui's eyes, he had never seen Jing Mingrui have dark circles before.

The person who was disturbed by him just frowned, muttered and fell asleep again.

Ji Kongqing straightened up, put his hands on both sides of Jing Mingrui's body, and carefully observed the sleeping person.His eyes finally froze on Jing Mingrui's somewhat chapped lips, staring blankly for a long time, Ji Kongqing bent down in a mysterious way...

Ji Kongqing stopped suddenly, he heard someone approaching the tent and began to whisper to the soldiers outside the tent.He secretly sighed a pity, knowing that with Jing Mingrui's vigilance, he might wake up soon.

Jing Mingrui opened his eyes as expected, he looked at Ji Kongqing who was straddling his body, showing a puzzled look.

"I was just about to get up quietly first." Ji Kongqing rolled over and got off the bed, smiled and stretched out a hand to Jing Mingrui, "Since you're awake too, why don't we go together."

Jing Mingrui nodded, and borrowed his strength to sit up too.He patted his cheeks with both hands, stood up and began to wash.

He took out a robe and handed it to Ji Kongqing, while muttering: "I don't know where you lost your clothes, so you can wear mine first. Hey, why is your face so red?" It couldn't be dyed. Have a cold?Jing Mingrui reached out to Ji Kongqing's forehead.

Ji Kongqing failed to steal the fragrance just now, but she tried to force herself to be calm, feeling extremely ashamed.Afraid of being discovered by Jing Mingrui, how dare he touch him, he hastily shrank his neck back.

"?" Jing Mingrui looked at his empty fingertips with a puzzled expression.

Ji Kongqing quickly explained: "Your quilt is too thick, I'm so hot that I slept in it, so change to a thinner one tonight."

Jing Mingrui said in his heart that you are addicted to sleeping here, but his intuition told him that it is not appropriate to ask Ji Kongqing to move a place, so he just smiled and followed the other person's words: "I'm afraid the place is too small and a little crowded, so I decided to move it." It's going to be very hot."

Ji Kongqing raised his eyebrows, exuding a sense of dissatisfaction.

Jing Mingrui wiped his face and began to tie his hair: "Then I will ask them to make a bigger bed today."

Ji Kongqing held back her smile, lowered her head and washed her face.

"Your Majesty, are you up?" A woman's voice sounded from outside the tent, "I brought you breakfast."

Ji Kongqing could tell that she was a red lady, but deliberately gave Jing Mingrui a puzzled look.

Jing Mingrui frowned at Ji Kongqing's messy hair, and untied his hair tie: "Lady Hong, wait a moment, it will be ready soon."

Jing Mingrui helped Ji Kongqing recomb his hair with a horn comb, and whispered in his ear, "It's the lady who killed Wei Wuji. She seems to be helping out in the kitchen these two days."

Ji Kongqing only felt that his scalp was numb, and the little sour smell that had just emerged immediately dissipated to nowhere, and the blood rushed to his ears.

Looking at Ji Kongqing's blood-red earlobes, Jing Mingrui flicked them maliciously: "Not only are you blushing from the heat, but your ears are also red, just like a little girl."

Ji Kongqing coughed, took two steps forward, and said loudly: "Miss Hong, Your Majesty has finished washing, please come in."

The red lady came in with a small bamboo basket, and she was taken aback when she saw Ji Kongqing dressed in black: "Young Master Ji! Thank God, have you escaped from the barbarian's trap?"

The red lady put down the bamboo basket, looked Ji Kongqing up and down, and exclaimed: "Is Mr. Ji unscathed?"

Ji Kongqing didn't explain her experience, but just thanked the red lady for her concern.

The red lady's cheeks were flushed, she took out four steaming pans from the basket, rubbed her hands together: "Your Majesty, I have made a few pastries, but I don't know if they suit your taste. I don't know that Mr. Ji is also there , so I’m afraid the preparations are not enough.”

"It's okay, I'll send someone to bring some more." Jing Mingrui recruited a soldier and asked him to fetch some food.

The red lady seemed to want to talk to Jing Mingrui, but because Ji Kongqing was here, she had to stand silently aside.

Ji Kongqing took advantage of this time to tidy up the bed and folded the quilt.He suddenly remembered something, and said angrily, "Mingrui, my Lie Yan battle died."

Jing Mingrui was sorting out the paperwork on several cases, and he couldn't help raising his head after hearing his complaints. He knew that Ji Kongqing had a lot of affection for this horse, so he thought for a while and said, "It's okay, I'll get you a horse in a while. Chiji is here."

Ji Kongqing was somewhat skeptical as to how Jing Mingrui would acquire such a rare and rare horse.

At this moment, the soldiers just now brought two big bowls of porridge, some steamed buns and some side dishes.

Jing Mingrui and Ji Kongqing started to eat.

Ji Kongqing seemed to appreciate Hong Niangzi's dim sum and couldn't stop eating.

Jing Mingrui never had any demands on food, and when he saw that he liked it, he didn't compete with him, and concentrated on drinking porridge and eating steamed buns.

The two chatted while eating, analyzing the current battle situation.The red lady wanted to interrupt several times, but unfortunately she had nothing to say on this topic, she just condemned Wei Guo's evil deeds, and could only listen in silently for the rest of the time.

Jing Mingrui and Ji Kongqing ate so fast that they wiped out all the food in a short while.

Jing Mingrui put down his chopsticks and called out to his soldiers to send a message to all the generals to discuss matters.

The red lady had no choice but to pack up the dishes, bid farewell and leave.

Jing Mingrui did not intend to destroy Wei State in one fell swoop.

He estimated the gathering speed of soldiers from all parts of the Wei State, and decided to quickly concentrate his troops to go south to join Jingmingquan, looking for opportunities to besiege Daliang, and force Wei State to seek peace.

Of the [-] bow cavalry that Ji Kongqing trained with great difficulty, he lost [-] in the battle on Wusol Mountain, and [-] because of Wuman's ambush.Later, he did not return for a long time, and Jing Mingrui sent the rest of the cavalry to meet Jing Mingquan, making Ji Kongqing a polished general.

Jing Mingrui originally wanted him to lead another team of cavalry, but Ji Kongqing didn't want to compete for other people's command, so he declined his proposal: "I'd better go back to my old job and be your guard. Wait until I get back Afterwards, you must remember to dispatch another thousand and eight thousand sharpshooters to me."

Jing Mingrui feigned anger and said, "You have a big appetite! Do you want to entrust everyone who knows how to shoot arrows to you?"

Ji Kongqing waved his hands and said with a smile: "Soldiers are more expensive than elites, little boy Rui, why did you forget what you said?"

Jing Mingrui kicked quickly.

Ji Kongqing laughed and ran away.

On this day, the army has been assembled and will set off southward early tomorrow morning.

Ji Kongqing went to have dinner with Jing Mingrui.

In the past two days, he has been sticking to Jing Mingrui almost all the time, except for the occasional red lady who spoils his interest, Ji Kongqing's mood can be said to be quite high.

He carried a small jar of wine in his hand and walked towards Jing Mingrui's tent.

Ever since he heard that Jing Mingrui had a good capacity for alcohol but suddenly stopped drinking, he has been trying to lure him to have a drink.Hehe, as the saying goes, one speaks the truth after drinking, one becomes chaotic after drinking... Stop it, Ji Kongqing stops herself from continuing to think wildly.

As soon as he walked near the big tent, he heard a familiar voice, and couldn't help frowning.

The red lady has been hanging around Jing Mingrui these days, and she wants to squeeze in when they can have dinner together.Even if he couldn't say anything, he would silently look at Jing Mingrui with spring eyes.

Ji Kongqing couldn't figure it out, she seemed to be pestering Li Di all the time before, why did she change her target so quickly?Only a fool like Mingrui couldn't see her intentions at all.

"Did you say that Your Majesty and Young Master Ji are a couple?" The red lady asked in a low voice.

"I don't know. Maybe it is." Ji Kongqing recognized the voice of the little soldier with whom he had a good relationship.

"How can this be done? Your Majesty is the king of a country, how can he be with a man?" The red lady suddenly raised her voice, "Besides, I heard that Mr. Ji...had a bad reputation before?"

"You are not allowed to speak ill of Brother Ji!" The little soldier said angrily.

"But as the emperor, Your Majesty must marry the Empress. Hanging around with men all day will not only damage your Majesty's reputation, but I'm afraid that Young Master Ji will be ridiculed by the world!" The red lady seemed worried.

"This...Brother Ji may have nothing to do with His Majesty!" the little soldier whispered.

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Ji Kongqing didn't continue to listen, he turned around and went to the military supply office to get a horse, and galloped out.

When Ji Kongqing finally calmed down, he secretly cursed himself for sneaking out in disregard of the military order, and he probably will take the initiative to lead the army stick when he goes back.

He thought to himself that since it came out, it would be better to break the jar, so he simply found a dry stone and sat down, slapped the mud off the wine jar, and took a gulp down his throat.

This is the strong wine used for heating in the army, Ji Kongqing drank it in a hurry, and suddenly coughed due to choking.

Ji Kongqing managed to stop coughing, and felt weak for a while.He put down the wine jar, lay down on the stone, and looked up at the sky.

He didn't understand, since when did he fall in love with Jing Mingrui?

When I first arrived in Chu State, my heart was still ashamed, and I never thought about finding another person who would accompany me for life.

The relationship between him and Jing Mingrui for more than ten years is naturally deep, but he has never thought about it in this direction.Even when Jing Mingquan used it as a joke, or when he personally used Jing Mingrui as a shield to reject Jing Mingfei, he never thought about changing his relationship with Jing Mingrui.

In Ji Kongqing's heart, Jing Mingrui is Jing Mingrui, an irreplaceable person who is the pillar and meaning of his existence.

Sometimes he felt that his feelings for Jing Mingrui had surpassed all other feelings. Could this be the connection between the twin stars?

It may be that Mingrui is too warm, Ji Kongqing smiled wryly.

After arriving in Chu State, Ji Kongqing's mood became much calmer, and she soon came out of despair.In many things that happened later, he could always feel Jing Mingrui's concern for him, which made him involuntarily start to yearn for this warmth.

When did you decide to try to make Mingrui accept you?

Since when did you almost uncontrollably want to express the love in your heart?

Since when did you know that the other party's feelings have not changed, but you want to use this friendship between confidants and try to get closer to him?

Ji Kongqing didn't even have time to try whether he could accept a woman, but he fell into a new emotional vortex and couldn't extricate himself.

The previous one was for revenge on himself, and Mingrui, would he accept his feelings out of sympathy because he didn't want to lose his best friend?Ji Kongqing thought to himself a little mockingly.

He fumbled to the wine jar beside him, and took another big gulp of wine into his mouth.

At the same time, the Chu army camp...

"Is this Wei Wuji's corpse?" Li Di pointed to the headless corpse in front of him.

"Yes, we have already found the soldiers of the State of Wei to recognize him." The soldier replied.

"Okay, then sew the head on and use a good coffin." Li Di waved his hand, ready to leave.

Suddenly, Li Di stopped abruptly.

He pushed away the soldier who was unbuttoning the corpse's clothes and was about to start stitching up the head. He tore off the skirt of the corpse, and carefully observed a two-finger-wide wound on the chest of the deceased.

This wound...!

Cold sweat dripped from Li Di's temples all of a sudden, he said badly to himself, refused the soldiers to follow, and left quickly.