Two soldiers pulled the man out of the barracks and came to a reed bush. They threw the man inside and were about to chop him down when Jiang Muxia swung a whip at him. The soldier cried out in pain and the knife in his hand fell to the ground.

Jiang Muxia whipped the other man with the whip in his hand. The two men dodged and shouted, "Girl, spare us. We are not going to kill him. We are going to save him. Please listen to us."

Jiang Muxia retracted the whip, looked down at them, and said coldly: "Tell me, what's going on?"

The two men knelt down in front of Cao Ke and kowtowed heavily, "Young Master, we respect General Cao Dao. Half a year ago, that evil woman Tianji secretly found the thief Wu Li and promised him a lot of money. He then gathered a group of evil people and secretly killed General Cao Dao, saying that General Cao went home to visit his family and didn't know when he would return. Then he took over the entire camp. We dared not make a sound, and we could not leave the camp. We were waiting for someone from the court to come every day."

Their voices choked with sobs, "Young Master, we have finally got you here. You have to make the decision for General Cao Dao."

After saying this, the two of them kowtowed deeply and did not stand up for a long time.

Jiang Muxia took out a dagger from his arms and stepped forward to cut the rope on Cao Ke.

Cao Ke stared at her unfriendlyly. He recognized her. This girl helped the soldiers kidnap people at the post station, and now she was pretending to be a good person.

He was wary of her from the bottom of his heart, with a look of eagerness on his face.

"Master Cao, I am sorry."

Jiang Muxia bowed to him and said, "I am Jiang Muxia, Tang Zhongbai's fiancée. I have no choice but to do this today. Please forgive me."

Cao Ke was surprised. He had heard that Tang Zhongbai found a country girl as his wife in Suanzao County, and that the young men from noble families in the capital made a fool of himself and spread the news everywhere.

Unexpectedly, his fiancée is not only beautiful, but also good at kung fu. It's true that you can't judge a book by its cover.

He knew that it was impossible for the handsome and elegant brother Xiaobai to simply marry a village girl who knew nothing.

Cao Ke changed his expression to a gentle one, bowed back to her, and said with a smile: "Cao Ke greets sister-in-law."

Jiang Muxia smiled speechlessly. Although this child was a little impulsive, he was not a rigid person. He was a smart child.

There were still two people kneeling in front of him, and they hadn't raised their heads yet. Cao Ke looked at them and his face darkened again.

He still had doubts about what the two men said. He believed that it was a trap set by Wu Li to lead him to his death.

He didn't believe them.

"Do you know where they buried General Cao?"

Jiang Muxia asked, she would only believe what these two people said if she found General Cao’s tomb.

In a military camp of tens of thousands of people, there are too many people harboring evil intentions. Just relying on them to say a few soft words and make up some stories whose truth or falsity is unknown is not enough to make people believe them.

There were many people in the camp with higher ranks than Wu Li, and she didn't believe that someone who knew what Wu Li had done would not run back to the capital to report to General Cao Xin. Even if they couldn't detect Wu Li's lies for a while, it had been more than half a year, and they could still turn a blind eye. How low was their vigilance?

"It's buried deep in the reeds. We can lead the way." The two men made a gesture to get up.

"Okay, but..." Jiang Muxia narrowed her eyes and pointed the dagger at them, "I don't believe you. If I find anything unusual about you, I will kill you immediately. So you better think carefully. Are you sure what you said is true? If you regret it now, I can still save your life. Think it over before answering."

The two men knelt down again, and without thinking, they said hastily: "Every word we said is true, not a single word is false. If we cannot find the general's burial place, we are willing to kill ourselves, and you don't need to do it yourself."

Jiang Muxia and Cao Ke looked at each other, neither letting down their guard.

"Okay. Lead the way."

The two followed behind the two soldiers. Jiang Muxia held the whip in her hand ready to strike at any time. She gave the dagger to Cao Ke, signaling him not to take it lightly.

The moon was bright in the sky, and the reeds looked like a paradise hidden in the light. The night breeze blew the reeds with a little coolness, and the reeds swayed with the wind, creating ripples of different heights, and the four people seemed to be walking on water.

We passed through one reed after another and reached the deep part. In the reeds, insects were chirping at the top of their lungs. From time to time, a frightened rabbit would jump out and desperately run for its life into the deeper parts of the reeds.

After walking forward for another dozen feet, a flat area appeared in front of them. It was not very big, with a raised mound of earth in the middle. The surroundings were very clean, without a single weed. A burning pit for burning paper was built on the edge of the mound with earth bricks.

There was a thick layer of old paper ash, as well as newly burned paper, three plates of snacks and a small jar of wine.

The snacks had been bitten by small animals and had tooth marks all over them.

"Sir, Miss, this is the general's grave."

The two men knelt down in front of the grave, kowtowed, and cried as they said, "General Cao, we have waited for the young master to come. Your injustice will finally be redressed. If you are in heaven, please bless the young master to be safe and sound, and bring the people who hurt you to justice smoothly. We will also be atonement for ourselves."

Jiang Muxia still had a question, "You said this is General Cao's tomb, how do you prove it?"

Her words were somewhat hurtful. If it was true, could the grave be dug up? Even if it was dug up, the person would be nothing but bones. How could it be proved that the bones were Cao Dao?

There was no way to prove it anyway. Her question proved that she had no trust in the two soldiers and questioned their pure love for Cao Dao.

Those who are not strong-willed will yell at her right now.

However, these two did not. They nodded and said, "I'm sorry, we have no way to prove it. If you don't believe it, we have no other options. We will go and report to the general right away."

She didn't know that the two men had knives in their hands. Before she could react, the two men had already stabbed the knives into her neck.

Suddenly, blood flowed like a column.

The sudden situation caught the two men off guard, and it was too late to save people.

"General, I am incompetent. I will come down to accompany you." They pointed at Cao Ke and said intermittently, "Young... Master, the soldiers on duty... are our... people. General Xue Ping... will... help you..."

The two men died with their eyes open, their eyes full of despair. The general who guarded them was buried here forever.

Jiang Muxia didn't know what to say, so she stepped forward and closed their eyes. "I'm sorry, you guys... why do you have to do this..."

She felt sad. She had killed two people with just one sentence. They had families too. How could she face their families?

"Sister-in-law, they are soldiers. They decided to die long before they came here." Cao Ke took the knife from the two men and turned it to show her. "These are their names. In the army led by my father, no matter how big or small the rank is, everyone has a knife engraved with their own name. It is used to commit suicide after being captured on the battlefield. They are heroes."

A tear fell from Jiang Muxia's eyes, and she put away the knife. "Luo Yongping, Li Fan. I will find their families in the future and help them take care of their families."

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