Chapter 263 Who wants to silence you?
Shen Yuanjing didn't answer, just lowered his head, as if he was really reminiscing about the past with Zhou Ru'an.
"I didn't expect that you would become a general in the blink of an eye!" Zhou Ru'an said with emotion.
Shen Yuanjing smiled bitterly and said: "Everything is fate, and no one can control anything. If this happened before, I would never have imagined that one day I would join the army!"
Zhou Ru'an saw that Shen Yuanjing's tone was not contradictory, and calculations flashed in his eyes, and then he got to the point bit by bit: "Yuanjing, Yunyue is younger than us. When we were in the palace, we didn't show up much. It's normal for you to have no friendship. , but Yunyue is a princess after all, and her identity lies here. If my father knows that you have neglected her so much, and wants to punish you, brother, I can't bear it for you!"
This sentence not only brought him closer to Shen Yuanjing, but also contained a warning. As long as Shen Yuanjing was not stupid, he would understand his good intentions.
Shen Yuanjing immediately retorted: "The second prince has been assassinated before, so you must understand our current situation."
Zhou Ruan looked at Shen Yuanjing doubtfully, what do you mean?
"Except for the three Turkic tribes who are determined to be evil, the other foreign tribes are not looking forward to the success of the marriage. I wonder if the princess has told you that we were assassinated several times on the way here."
Zhou Ruan's eyes turned cold and he cursed: "Damn foreigners."
Zhou Ruan: "The purpose of those foreigners is to assassinate the princess. Now that you have appeared in the northwest with such a high profile, those foreigners have one more goal. Their purpose is to assassinate members of the royal family, so that Zhenbei, which we finally established, can The army is in chaos!”
Although the assassination was a surprise, it also gave Zhou Ruan a taste of narrow escape. Several times he had to die at the hands of foreign assassins.
If it is true as Shen Yuanjing said, wouldn’t it be~
"My eldest sister asked someone to take over her identity as a princess and placed her outside. In fact, it was to save her life. That fake princess had to go through one or two assassinations every day, either by poisoning or by assassins. That fake princess , on the surface to protect the princess from disaster.”
Zhou Yunyue, who was looking forward to it, was thoughtful. She originally wanted Zhou Ru'an to find a way to kill the little maid, but she didn't expect that the little maid could be of such use.
What Shen Yuanjing said makes sense!
"Where is the foreign princess?" Zhou Ruan is not someone who is easy to fool.
Shen Yuanjing explained: "It is to appease those foreigners and to show them to them. You should have seen it when walking in the army these days. Most of the people outside are female guards. Although the name of our Zhenbei Army is very impressive, But only we ourselves know the inside. ”
Zhou Ru'an frowned tightly. He knew that if he was really an elite soldier and a strong general, his father would not let him take over so easily.
Shen Yuanjing also said: "Although the foreign princess cannot provide food for our army, she can provide half of the fodder for the horses. If it were you, would you like such a marriage partner?"
Zhou Ruan was stunned by these words. He thought about his current predicament seriously. Not to mention, if he could marry a foreign princess in exchange for food and grass, he would really agree.
Even if he doesn't agree, his father will make him agree if he finds out. Didn’t you see that after your father found out about Shen Yuanjing’s marriage to a foreign princess, he made him a Pingyi general?
Zhou Ruan's silence represented the answer.
Shen Yuanjing didn't push him. After he thought about it, he chatted for a few more words and then took Zhou Yunyue back.
This time Zhou Ruan didn't stop him anymore, he just turned around and hinted to Zhou Yunyue tactfully: "We brothers and sisters may have to stay in the northwest for a long time in the future. If you are bored, come to me!"
Zhou Yunyue understood the hint and did not dare to ask for anything else.
"Second brother, I will come back to you tomorrow."
Zhou Ruan nodded with satisfaction and sent the two of them off personally.
After the two left, he immediately ordered the guards: "Let people take action!"
"Yes!"
……
"General, my subordinates found several suspicious people nearby. Two are spies sent by Zhou Ru'an, and one calls himself Sun Qian, the grain and grass transport officer of the Wei family."
Shen Lanxi couldn't believe it. Sun Qian had another escort. Didn't he fall into the cliff and his whereabouts are unknown?
It is said that the whereabouts are unknown, and if you fall off such a deep cliff, you will die. Wei Dongzhu personally led people to search for the bottom of the cliff. From the top of the cliff to the bottom of the cliff, without trees and rivers to reduce resistance, it would be impossible for the two of them to survive.
Unless they never fell at all.
"Bring Sun Qian."
"Go and call General Wei!"
"Yes!"
Wei Dongzhu and Sun Qian came to Shen Lanxi one after another.
Sun Qian was wearing the clothes of the Zhenbei Army. Most of his face was covered by a beard. His skin was dark and he looked unkempt. If it had been before, Shen Lanxi would have thought he was a dirty person.
Now this man calls himself the food and salary escort officer of the Wei family. He looks like he is deliberately concealing his true appearance.
"What a coincidence, I just happen to have a portrait of you here!" Shen Lanxi took out Sun Qian's portrait and documents related to the food and grass transportation of the Wei family.
Wei Dongzhu took the portrait and compared it with Sun Qian.
After Sun Qian saw the portrait, he asked Shen Lanxi.
"Are you from the Shen family?"
Shen Lanxi: "Yes, did you see the person next to you? He is Wei Dongzhu, the major general of the Wei Army."
Sun Qian's eyes were very alert, he glanced at her carefully, and then quickly turned his attention to Wei Dongzhu.
"Are you Wei Dongzhu?"
Wei Dongzhu looked at him with firm eyes and said: "My father is the northwest guard, Wei Qianfan."
The vigilance in Sun Qian's eyes did not dissipate, and she carefully asked the question that she still couldn't figure out.
"Everyone says that the Shen family stole military pay. The Shen family and the Wei family should be life-and-death enemies. You two don't look like that."
Shen Lanxi laughed and said, "Is it possible that we have to hack each other to death to be considered enemies?"
"From what you're saying, you're convinced that our Shen family has stolen food and wages?"
Sun Qian's pupils trembled when he heard the last sentence, and it took him a long time to speak loudly: "We escorted the food and wages, and set out from the capital. We were cautious all the way, and we kept people on guard during the rest of the night. Even if a dog approached, We are all driven away, and the food and wages cannot be stolen!”
To this day, he still hasn't figured out how the food and salary were stolen.
Shen Lanxi was not in a hurry to answer his words. First, she had to confirm Sun Qian's identity.
"You are different from the picture!"
Sun Qian hesitated, pulled off the beard on his face, asked Haru Xue for a basin of warm water, and started to wash up in front of them.
"To be honest with you generals, I was forced to disguise myself to save my life!"
Sun Qian smiled bitterly and wiped his face clean, making it look exactly like the portrait.
Shen Lanxi's tone suddenly became sharp: "Who wants to silence you?"