After my rebirth, I became the white moonlight in the Beijing circle

Knowing that he couldn't hold out for much longer, Lu Chen spoke directly, "Yun'er, I'm afraid that many spies have infiltrated Jiangzuo recently. I shouldn't let you go back at this critical moment, but Linxue is a good fighter on the battlefield, and she's not as good as you in assisting the government. Now the army is running out of food and grass, so I have to ask you to hurry back."

After he finished speaking, he immediately ordered Lu Bing: "Let my personal guards escort the Crown Princess back to Liyang."

When Fu Guiyun heard that his father-in-law wanted to give him the personal soldiers who had been with him through thick and thin, he quickly stopped him: "Father is fighting the enemy on the front line, surrounded by dangers. We should leave them behind..."

Before she finished speaking, Lu Chen waved his hand and said, "It's okay."

He smiled at her warmly: "These eight hundred warriors have fought with me for many years. They are the most loyal and brave warriors of the Lu family. Each of them is as brave as a hundred and has saved my life many times. I feel relieved to have them accompany you back to Liyang."

Thinking of the last time Liyang City was besieged, he had been brooding over it, and continued, "The situation on the front line is changing constantly, and it is constantly affecting the situation in the southern border. Prince Zhong has to stay on the front line to fight the enemy. With these warriors protecting you and the queen, your father will have fewer worries."

Fu Guiyun had already expected that the return journey would not be smooth, but for the sake of the more than 200,000 soldiers on the front line, she had to rush back early.

She didn't act pretentiously anymore. She knelt down and said devoutly: "I will never let my father down. I will collect food and send it to the front line as soon as possible. I will also burn incense and pray with my mother in Liyang every day, waiting for my father to return triumphantly as soon as possible."

Lu Chen's eyes filled with tears when he heard this, and he ordered the palace servants to help her up.

He was well aware of his own physical condition. Although the power of Chen Lin's arrow was not enough to injure his vital parts, it caused the war injuries he had sustained over the years to relapse. He was afraid that he would not be able to hold on until the day he returned.

The reason why he asked those around him to conceal the injury was because he knew the prince's character and was afraid that he would be narrow-minded and unwilling to let Chen Lin go, thus hindering the overall situation.

In fact, he should have died on the way to serve the king, but now he has become the founding monarch and has brought the Lu family to a new level. He has long been satisfied with this, and the only thing he is worried about is his first wife.

He longed to return to Liyang and reunite with the queen almost day and night.

However, the current situation did not allow him to have such extravagant thoughts. Only by sitting in the city wall himself could he rally the morale of the army and get the prince and the nephews of the Lu family to kill the enemy together.

He personally escorted Fu Guiyun out of the bedroom, and looking at the daughter-in-law whom he had always been proud of, he had a lot of words to say to her.

But in order to make her feel at ease along the way, Lu Chen did not dare to give too many instructions, and only simply reminded her: "Yun'er, you must be careful on the road, and take good care of your mother when you return to Liyang."

He was stubborn and strong all his life, and wanted to hide the truth from the world. Even Fu Guiyun could not detect any clues. He only felt that his father-in-law was still as strong and healthy as before.

He responded lightly, bowed respectfully to him, then followed Lu Bing out of the palace and led his tribesmen on their journey home.

Looking at his daughter-in-law's gradually receding figure, Lu Chen felt very relieved.

Everything he could arrange had been arranged. He believed that the child would be able to assist her husband and lead the men of the Lu family to fulfill his unfulfilled wish and realize the unification of the world.

Starting from Wengcheng, the journey was smooth sailing. Fu Guiyun sat in the carriage, checking the geomancy map with Shu Yan and Fu Sinian. She didn't find any enemy in the places where she guessed there should be ambushes, which made her puzzled.

"Could it be that the Crown Princess and His Majesty are worrying too much?" Shu Yan sighed in surprise.

Fu Guiyun remained silent. She believed that her judgment would not be so far off.

But afterwards, at every inn she stayed in, she could faintly hear the sound of tiles breaking at night, which occasionally woke her up from her dreams. She sent people out to investigate, but they were all false alarms.

This feeling always makes people feel familiar. She vaguely remembers that she and Song Weizhao encountered this situation from time to time when they were wandering in their previous life.

She gradually realized that it was not that there were no assassins lying in ambush on the road, but that someone was helping her in secret.

I don’t know who is so kind but unwilling to show up and meet me.

She had been thinking carefully along the way, and after thinking about it, she could only associate the person behind the scenes with the young man who gave her the ceramic doll.

Later in her journey, she tried to ask people to track down the heroes who came to help her, but they seemed to be well prepared, and even when she found signs of fighting on the road, she was unable to find any clues.

The journey was exceptionally peaceful and tranquil, and nothing unexpected happened, until they approached a dangerous peak outside the outskirts of Liyang City, and saw a familiar figure waiting at the foot of the mountain, which finally made Fu Guiyun nervous.

The man looked disheveled, but she recognized him at a glance.

"Little Kuizi."

She immediately stopped the carriage and asked the team behind her to wait. She rushed down and held Cheng Kui's hands tightly. She asked excitedly, "Where have you and Manager You been these days? Why are you here suddenly?"

Cheng Kui knelt down and cried, "I have failed the Crown Princess's high hopes. I have not been able to transport the grain back to Liyang. I am guilty."

Fu Guiyun and Shu Yan, who came down, helped the man up and kept comforting him: "If you have anything to say, please speak slowly. There is no need to blame yourself. I have always trusted you and Manager You to do things. If something went wrong, it must be because you encountered difficulties."

"Yes."

Cheng Kui said in detail: "My slave and Manager You did buy 200,000 dan of grain in the east, but encountered pirates on the way back."

"Pirates?"

Fu Guiyun frowned: "How is Manager You now?"

"I don't know his whereabouts either."

Cheng Kui didn't want to say too much, so he just said, "The princess should have an impression of the pirate leader. He was Hu Yesheng who was exiled from the Duke of Teng's mansion in the previous dynasty. I asked Steward You to escort the food and grass first, and I led people to hold back the pirates. Later, I was taken back to the pirates' lair, but I didn't hear that they found Steward You. I guess the food and grass must have been transported away by Steward You."

"That's good, that's good."

Fu Guiyun pulled him onto the carriage and said, "Let's go back and discuss countermeasures. Since there is no news from Manager You, this is the best news. We will definitely find food and grass."

The team set off again. Fu Guiyun learned that Cheng Kui managed to escape from the pirates' lair on his own. Although he still had many confusions in his mind, he did not ask any more questions and ordered the team to speed up.

Only after the entire team completely disappeared into the mountains did Lu Linzhi appear with his men.

Looking at the horse team going away, Lu Linzhi asked calmly: "Have you cleaned up the bodies of assassins and pirates in various places?"

The leaders of the twelve helms of the Liren Gang began to report one by one: "Although Dayan spent a lot of money this time, the assassins and pirates worked together and sent nearly 5,000 people, but when they came to Jiangzuo, they had to be slaughtered by our Liren Gang. In the battles at Tuofeng and Wuling, they had almost no chance to resist and were completely wiped out."

"The assassins ambushing in the posthouse were all targeting the Crown Princess. They didn't notice us at all. Before those idiots could react, we silently cut their necks. No one escaped."

"Even if the Crown Princess knew that someone was secretly helping us, she would not know that it was our Liren Gang, let alone know that the young master had returned."

A captain frowned slightly: "It's You Dian and the 200,000 stones of grain..."

"Cheng Kui has been rescued. The Crown Princess is always smart and will find a way to bring back You Dian and the food."

Lu Linzhi thought about it and no longer had any worries. He immediately ordered: "Everyone go back. We must closely monitor the entire southern border and never let the forces hiding in the dark have a chance to show up."

"Yes."

The twelve helmsmen immediately scattered.

After being delayed for more than ten days, thinking about Jinyang's affairs, Lu Linzhi did not dare to stay in Liyang any longer. He rode a horse, whipped the horse, hid in the narrow path, and galloped towards Jinyang.