Started as a thatched house and ended up as a female figure

The rain stopped and the sun came out again, but Cheng Wan and others did not set off immediately.

The road was too muddy to walk on.

We can only continue on our journey after the road dries up a little.

Lieutenant General Zhang arranged for people to dig a large pit and bury the bodies of the eleven people.

Eleven people died, but they left behind a carriage and seven good horses for Cheng Wan and others.

There was also a considerable amount of gold and silver jewelry.

As seized items, gold, silver and valuables could not be disposed of without the permission of King Rui.

After Cheng Wan and Deputy General Zhang carefully checked the amount of gold, silver and valuables, they recorded the specific amount on a piece of paper in duplicate. They each kept one copy to be handed over to King Rui later.

Before seizing the imperial seal, Cheng Wan was the most excited.

But after Cheng Wan played with the jade seal, his mood has almost returned to its previous calm state. Now the most excited and even a little neurotic person every day is Lieutenant General Zhang.

Lieutenant General Zhang would secretly check the imperial seal "eight hundred times" every day. During the day, he would patrol outside Cheng Wan's tent intentionally or unintentionally. At night, he would stand guard outside Cheng Wan's tent and would not sleep all night.

At the same time, Lieutenant General Zhang looked at Cheng Wan with more and more loving eyes, so loving that it was sickening.

To Cheng Wan, she felt especially like Old Lady Lin at certain times.

Such as now.

Deputy General Zhang held the child in his arms and looked at Cheng Wan, who was eating dry biscuits with herbal tea, with a distressed look on his face: "Master Cheng, you have suffered so much. We will be able to bypass the capital in three or four days. By then, I will have someone buy some food so that Master Cheng can have a good meal."

The corner of Cheng Wan's mouth twitched. She had been eating this stuff for almost two months, but it seemed like the deputy general had only discovered it in the past few days.

"Brother Zhang, you..." Cheng Wan tilted his head and frowned: "Are you okay?"

Cheng Wan really suspected that this brother had become a little abnormal because of the matter of the jade seal and the prince.

"Great! I can't be any better!"

Deputy General Zhang grinned and looked extremely happy.

"Master Cheng, I know what you mean, I'm really fine.

I just think that I am so lucky to be able to escort the grain with you this time.

Not only did I complete the mission smoothly, but I also gained such a great credit on the way back."

Deputy General Zhang chuckled twice and continued:

"Sir Cheng, this little bit of help is enough for me to move up a level. When I come back to you, Your Highness..."

Deputy General Zhang glanced at Cheng Wan and said excitedly, "This is something I can brag about for the rest of my life! Maybe even my children and grandchildren will benefit from this!"

Cheng Wan was amused by Lieutenant General Zhang's honest look. She stuffed the last bite of biscuit into her mouth, took the child and began to feed him the millet porridge that she had carefully cooked.

"Come on, open your mouth, good boy~"

Lieutenant General Zhang saw Cheng Wan smiling, and the smile on his face faded slightly. He reminded Cheng Wan: "Master Cheng, this child... you'd better not invest too much emotion in him, so as not to be sad later."

"Brother Zhang, I have to take good care of the gift for the prince. Otherwise, what if it gets damaged?"

Cheng Wan smiled and looked up, meeting the gaze of Lieutenant General Zhang, his eyes cold.

Lieutenant General Zhang's heart tightened and his fingers curled up unconsciously.

He thought he had thought highly enough of this girl, but every time this girl would prove with facts that he still underestimated her.

Whether it is ability or character.

Deputy General Zhang laughed and shook his head, with a look of emotion on his face: "I really don't know how your parents raised a child like you. I really want to learn from your parents."

Cheng Wan groaned for a moment, then said seriously, "Then you probably won't be able to learn anything. This is a brain given to me by God."

"Hahaha..., no wonder, it turns out that God loves you, hahaha..."

Deputy General Zhang burst into laughter.

For a moment, the atmosphere was extremely cheerful.

However, inside and outside the capital city, which was not too far from here, there was panic and anger.

In the past two months, Cheng Wan has been busy doing errands for Prince Rui, and Prince Rui himself has not been idle either.

Cheng Wan set out to deliver food, while Prince Rui sent troops to the vicinity of the capital.

On the day when Cheng Wan and others joined the army, Prince Rui personally led the last wave of troops to approach the capital, surrounded the four city gates, and was ready to enter the capital at any time.

But the man on the dragon throne was a complete madman. Seeing that he could not escape, he simply used the entire capital city as his shield.

The man on the dragon throne used almost all of his military forces to force the people in the city and the loyal officials in the court to go up to the city walls to defend the city.

If I climb up the city wall, I might die, but my family members will survive for the time being.

If you don't climb the city wall, your whole family will die.

Most people know how to choose.

So every day King Rui's army had to face the people who begged them to withdraw.

King Rui was a qualified ruler. He was cold-hearted and rational enough. However, facing so many people, he could not easily give the order to attack the city.

Unable to bear the pressure of attacking the city, yet unwilling to retreat, the army of King Rui and the people of the capital remained in a stalemate.

The man on the dragon throne became more and more proud, while Prince Rui became more and more depressed.

By today, Prince Rui had almost reached his limit of patience.

"Continue to persuade the people in the city to resist that atrocity together. I will give them two more days. If they still cry and climb the city wall after two days, don't blame me for being cruel!"

"Yes!"

Prince Rui narrowed his eyes slightly, looking ferocious.

He had already fought here. Even if all the people in the capital were killed, he would still take over the capital and kill those who should have died long ago.

It’s just a person, not important or not. At worst, we can move to the capital from other places later.

Cheng Wan, Deputy General Zhang and others were originally following the route they took, bypassing the capital and then heading north.

Then, before they had even finished their journey, the two learned that King Rui was leading a large army to besiege the capital, and would most likely order an attack on the city tomorrow.

"What should we do? Most of the people guarding the city are ordinary people.

If the prince ordered an attack on the capital, even if we captured it, I'm afraid we would still be tarnished!

Besides, what’s more, it’s the lives of so many people!”

Lieutenant General Zhang paced around in panic, his face no longer showing the previous happy and relaxed look.

Cheng Wan looked up at the sky, then lowered his head to meet the eyes of Lieutenant General Zhang.

Deputy General Zhang's expression was more serious than ever before: "Sir Cheng, maybe there are other ways."

"give it to me."

Cheng Wan tied up the child handed to him by Deputy General Zhang in front of him, and then adjusted the position of the bundle containing the imperial seal in front of him.

After checking the things he needed to bring, Cheng Wan got on his horse and told Deputy General Zhang: "Change your route and go directly to the capital."

"Master Cheng, be careful and see you in the capital!"

Cheng Wan nodded, and finally glanced at Lin Gouwa who looked worried.

"drive!"