I am neither beautiful nor crazy

in the hall.

During this period of time, there was no more news from Northern Xinjiang. While suppressing the news that the prince had been killed by an arrow, the emperor thought about sending generals to Northern Xinjiang.

After all, Jiang Chibin has evil intentions and is still guilty of the crime.Without the prince, he must not dare to entrust the army of northern Xinjiang to his dispatch.

The atmosphere in the hall was a little subtly depressing.

The emperor glanced around, frowned and said, "Where did Jiang Yu and Su Yang go?"

Xia Zhixing's expression changed slightly, and then he stepped forward and cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, His Highness the Seventh Highness is unwell, and the situation is very grim. Yesterday, I went to visit His Highness's mansion, and that's what I learned."

The emperor sighed and didn't say much.

"What about Su Yang?"

No one answered below.

The emperor suddenly became angry and patted the table heavily.At the beginning, it was Su Yang who used his official position as a guarantee to let Jiang Chibin go to the northern border, and had the opportunity to pay for his meritorious deeds.I don't want to think that the military power in Northern Xinjiang is in the hands of Jiang Chibin alone before the crown prince leaves the army.

And Su Yang's disappearance at this point in time made it hard not to connect the two things.Jiang Chibin even had enough motives for the prince's sudden loss in battle.

"Within three days, no matter where he is, I will find him." The emperor was so angry that a mouthful of blood got stuck in his throat, and then he swallowed it forcefully.

After the dynasty, everyone felt that the situation in northern Xinjiang was not as smooth as imagined.After all, the few insiders kept silent about the military situation, but they still wanted to send troops there.

The emperor still intends to order Xiao Xiangling to go to war, but the other party still shirks on the grounds of "existing illness".

In the end, General Yang Guang took the initiative to ask for help, and soon went to northern Xinjiang to support him.

However, Xiao Xiangling came to Jiangyu Mansion.

Now that Jiang Yu is in poor health, it is probably related to falling into the ice water last night.After all, he was always afraid of the cold, so after soaking in water for a long time, no matter how well he recovered, he would inevitably have a fever for two days.

Xiao Xiangling used to come to Jiangyu Mansion often, but this time he suddenly felt that it was impolite to come empty-handed, so he brought some precious cold-dispelling herbs from the mansion.

Gu Yuan led him into the room, and a gust of hot air rushed towards his face, the other party pointed to the locked door, "His Highness is inside, but his body is extremely cold, and the imperial physician is not allowed to see the wind or anyone. "

Xiao Xiangling was not surprised at all. He put the medicinal materials in his hands on the table, pointed to the small window beside him and asked, "Just take a look through the window, okay?"

Gu Yuan lowered his gaze and nodded.

Xiao Xiangling just opened the window a small crack.

The person inside was probably fast asleep, lying on the bed with his eyes closed, his complexion extremely pale due to illness.A wrist was exposed outside the bedding, curled up naturally in an extremely relaxed state.

Gu Yuan kept staring at Xiao Xiangling's expression, he opened the window and looked at it for a while, then pulled it back, stood up calmly, and there was nothing wrong with it.

Gu Yuan calmly let out a long breath, seemingly extremely relaxed, but mixed with some imperceptible regret.

Jiang Yu left that piece of jade before he left, another meaning was: Xiao Xiangling knew where to find him.

But the man didn't realize that the person inside was not Jiang Yu himself, so how could he go out to find it.

"Master Gu, can I go in and have a look?" Xiao Xiangling walked up to him and asked again.

"I'm sorry, General Xiao, the imperial physician clearly said..."

"He's not here." Xiao Xiangling suddenly said in a low voice, and Gu Yuan stopped talking suddenly.

Xiao Xiangling observed the other party's expression, and said in a tight voice, "The war in Northern Xinjiang is still undecided, and the northern invaders are far less stupid and vulgar than the people of the Central Plains think. Still have to send troops there, isn't it clear what the situation in northern Xinjiang is?"

Xiao Xiangling's gaze was like a torch, "It's not just Beijiang. With his identity, where will he be safe? How many people are watching from the dark, just waiting to catch him and then hurry up. If you hide his whereabouts for him, you are not helping him, you are helping him." kill him!"

Gu Yuan stared into the opponent's eyes, slowly got up, and finally replied in a low voice, "General Xiao has noticed..."

"Where is he?"

"If I say it, will the general go to help with all my strength?" Gu Yuan asked slowly, "No matter where, no matter how dangerous the surrounding situation is, no matter how much worry you have during this trip."

He took a light breath, "If the general is willing to guarantee, I will believe you."

Either way, it's not a friendly promise.

If you agree to go to help without knowing the other party's situation, the risks you need to bear are unpredictable.

But he had to test it out with the most stringent requirements. It was impossible for him to hand over the life of his highness to a person who only had interests in it.

There was a long silence, the other party should be weighing the risk and feasibility.

However, just when Gu Yuan thought that the other party would not agree, and was even ready to change the topic to ease the atmosphere, Xiao Xiangling nodded.

"Okay, I promise you."

Gu Yuan was taken aback for a moment, then looked up at the other party's expression.

The eyes are burning, frank and powerful, just like these four words have weight.

Gu Yuan stared at him for a long time, then finally took out the jade in his cuff.The jade was clear and transparent, with a bright red luster under the slanting sunlight, strange and poignant.

Xiao Xiangling's outstretched hand froze in mid-air, and his voice was a little unstable for a moment, "Why did he leave this?"

"Your Highness said, once you see this thing, you will know where to find him."

Xiao Xiangling took the jade and then clenched his fists tightly.

"Brothers have been drinking porridge for days, not to mention fighting, even lying there waiting to die can't eat so little." In the ice and snow, a leading soldier kicked over the cold porridge pot, cursing.

"Then you have the guts to vent your anger on His Highness, and I can't produce food." The soldier who was trained was also reluctant, but he didn't dare to get angry because of his status.

Hearing the sound, the people around hurried forward to try to persuade them to fight. Looking at the pitifully small gruel in their bowls, although they didn't say anything to complain, they couldn't hide the resentment in their hearts no matter what.

I think back when General Xiao led his troops, although they didn't say that they were victorious in every battle, how did they ever suffer from such grievances that they couldn't eat enough.

Now that the two princes came to the battle, they were full of confidence, but after several defeats and several times of being intercepted by the northern bandits, their impression of those princes was completely overturned.

——It’s just a group of lazy people who don’t know how to use soldiers. They only know how to worry about their accounts all day long. Can they worry about the enemy to death?

"Let's go, I'm afraid of someone!" Unexpectedly, the soldier who took the lead in making a fuss would rush into the tent, and before everyone had time to stop him, he had already strode in aggressively.

But among a group of excited soldiers, there was one person who was particularly unusual.

He sat in a corner with his head down, the armor on his body seemed a little too big, and the helmet almost covered his eyebrows.

He didn't come out to receive the meal, and even though the noise was loud just now, he didn't look up.Dirty blood was stained on his body, but the whole person looked cold and quiet. If he didn't turn his head to look, it was almost difficult to notice his lifelessness.

"New here? Kid?" A soldier noticed him and sat down beside him. "Why don't you go to eat and always sit on the floor to keep the cold?"

The man looked up at him.

The soldier's voice actually choked, and the other party's eyes were cold and sharp, which made people feel chills, which had nothing to do with the word "child" at all.

But only in an instant, the man lowered his head again, and said softly, "I'm not hungry."

The soldier smiled and didn't care about the anomaly just now, "You don't look old, you are afraid. After you stay for a long time, you will get used to it. Blood, injuries, and dead people are all common. matter."

As the soldier spoke, he lifted the bowl violently, and the porridge immediately bottomed out.

"Then what if you don't have enough to eat?" Jiang Yu looked at his movements and asked, "Is it normal?"

The soldier sighed, looked around and saw that no one was there, so he lowered his voice and said to him, "After all, this is not the time for General Xiao to lead the troops. The Northern Frontier Army was so majestic back then, and it is now in such a mess. Helping the grandson is remembering the hatred and waiting for us."

He said and stood up, "Young people should eat more while they are still alive. For those of us who have today but no tomorrow, don't make things difficult for yourself."

"Wait a minute." Jiang Yu stood up, "May I ask this senior, when did you join the Northern Border Army?"

"It's been ten years since I was young. If I can't die this time, I should go back to spend time with my wife and children."

Jiang Yu's voice paused, "I want to ask...in the battle half a month ago, did His Highness the Crown Prince die."

"You can't ask about this matter." His eyes panicked, "This is what the Second Highness specially ordered us not to talk nonsense, or else..."

"Only you and I know about this matter, and I'm not stupid, so I definitely won't tell anyone else." Jiang Yu took out a small piece of fine gold, flipped it casually a few times with his slender fingertips, "Would you like it. "

The man looked at Jiang Yu's hand for a long time, and finally calmed down and said in a low voice, "Isn't he dead? With an arrow pierced through his heart, he lost his breath immediately."

He looked around to see if anyone noticed the movement here, but he didn't see that the moment he said "dead", the eye sockets of the person opposite him turned red instantly, and even the arm hidden under the cuff trembled slightly.

"Where is the body?"

"Since you can ask the question of whether the prince is dead or not, how can you not know where his body is?" The man's voice was so low that he could hardly hear him, "Isn't it just the body that was casually thrown into the corpse pile last night? You can't see a human face anymore. His Highness ordered the corpse to be frozen in the snow, and you have to take it with you when you go back... What's wrong with you?"

Jiang Yu lowered his eyes suddenly, barely able to cover up the intense emotion in his eyes, and when he raised his eyes again, it was no different from usual.

He stared closely at the soldier's eyes, which subconsciously avoided when Jiang Yu first asked a question.

But now, there are piles of corpses reflected in it, all of them are bloody and bloody, and they can't rest in peace.

But Jiang Yu had a strong intuition that there was no prince's body among them.

"You're lying." Jiang Yu pressed, "You said that His Highness the Second Highness ordered you to find that corpse, that it was a person who was somewhat similar in shape and appearance to His Highness the Crown Prince, and that his face was disfigured to make it pass the test. I know this because I was the one who brought that corpse to His Highness the Second Highness last night."

The soldier's eyes suddenly became flustered.Because he clearly felt that when the prince's body was mentioned, the young man in front of him seemed to have completely changed, becoming crazy, paranoid, and ruthless.

He was taken aback by this sudden change, suddenly panicked, and tremblingly said, "You... who the hell are you?"

"It's just a person who is just like you, working hard." Jiang Yu said coldly, "I know that the corpse is not His Royal Highness, so where is he?"

The soldier was about to speak, but was interrupted by Jiang Yu, "I know you know about this matter, if you lie to me, I can see it too."

Jiang Yu stared into the other's eyes, "I promise I won't betray you."

"Lost...lost." The other party replied tremblingly.

"Lost?" Jiang Yu frowned, "You told me that such a big body was lost?"

"It's really lost." Although he didn't know the origin of the man in front of him, his intuition was enough to show that he was not just an ordinary soldier, so the soldier gritted his teeth and said, "There are not many people who know about this matter." , Most of the brothers who participated in that battle know, if you don’t believe me, you can ask them.”

Seeing that his eyes did not seem to be deceitful, Jiang Yu continued to ask, "So the Second Highness asked us to find a corpse similar to that of the prince, and it is precisely because the corpse is lost?"

"Perhaps this is the reason." The man replied, lowering his voice again, "It's strange to say that His Royal Highness's body was kept in the barracks, and there were countless brothers holding weapons at the entrance of the tent, and surrounded the camp. It was airtight. But this person just disappeared out of thin air, and he could not be found. They all said that this is the spirit of His Royal Highness after death, and he..."

Jiang Yu frowned slightly, "Didn't the Second Highness order someone to burn all the corpses?"

"That's what I said at the beginning, but just before the fire started, the Second Highness suddenly sent someone to say that it couldn't be burned. I heard that the Second Highness suddenly had a nightmare at night, dreaming that the dead soul of His Highness the Crown Prince said that the body could not be burned ..."

The two were talking, but suddenly there was a scream from the tent.The soldier beside him looked up, and his face turned pale instantly.

Jiang Yu raised his eyes, frowned when he saw this, and looked away.

I saw that the person who had just clamored for the account theory had already come out, but he was lying down and thrown out.

There was a deep bone wound on the neck, and blood flowed out continuously from the wound, showing a particularly ferocious expression.

He was not completely dead when he was thrown out, his eyes blinked, but he was completely out of breath in an instant.

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