The King of Liang, the feudal lords outside the town, and the generals inside

Since that day, Ye Zhiyan has been clean for a long time.He always admires his ability to bear, no matter what happens, he can find a way to get out.During this time, he developed a new hobby - washing horses.

The war horses in the military camp are more precious than people to some extent. Not only the grain and fodder for food must be pulled by ox carts, but they also need to be taken care of by special personnel at ordinary times, so that the cavalry can exert their greatest power.

Bai Yu gave Ye Zhiyan a pass token, and the grooms were already familiar with him. When they saw Ye Zhiyan coming with a bucket and a brush, they greeted him with a smile, "Why is Mr. Ye half an hour late today?"

"I got up late." Ye Zhiyan put the bucket next to the horse, and the horse recognized him, turned its head and rubbed his arm with its nose.

He had just soaked the whole body of the horse when he suddenly felt something hit him behind him. Before he could turn his head, the brush in his hand was taken away.

Ye Zhiyan turned his head to look suspiciously, and immediately backed away in shock, knocking the horse staggering, and then he recklessly climbed over the fence, almost falling over.

The armor on Yuchi Yuanhe's body was too heavy, so he could only follow around the fence, Ye Zhiyan had already run away.

The groom was confused, looked at Yuchi Yuanhe, and then at the back of Ye Zhiyan riding Juechen, vaguely understood what was going on, stared in astonishment and buried his head in serving the horses.

Ye Zhiyan ran wildly all the way, and didn't stop until he was exhausted. At this moment, he had already run to the place where the fire was lit and cooked in the camp, and the cook was also busy cooking lunch.

Ye Zhiyan panted and looked back, but he didn't see anyone chasing him, so he breathed a sigh of relief and sat on a rock to rest for a while.Only now did he realize that his palms were covered in cold sweat, and he was still trembling slightly.

He curled himself up into a ball, biting his lower lip helplessly, and only hoped that he would meet Bai Yu or Mu Fengyi and take him away safely.

A cook looked at him for a while, then came over and patted him on the shoulder, and said, "It's smoky and dirty here, why don't you sit in the tent?"

Ye Zhiyan raised his head, facing his well-intentioned suggestion, just pulled a wry smile on the corner of his mouth, choked up and said: "It's okay, there is no one dirtier than me."

The cook was stunned, and just about to say something, a sound of hooves approached, Yuchi Yuanhe got off the horse and walked towards Ye Zhiyan.

"General." The cook immediately stood up straight.

Ye Zhiyan stopped running, he had no strength left.Besides, Yuchi Yuanhe had already given him to his soldiers to play with, so what was he afraid of.

Yuchi Yuanhe waved his hand, signaling everyone around him to back down.Ye Zhiyan stared at him, and then his eyes fell on the saber at his waist.

"Where are you going? I'll see you off." Yuchi Yuanhe said.

Ye Zhiyan stared blankly at his sword, and after a while he retracted his gaze and lowered his head, waiting for Yuchi Yuanhe's usual humiliation and trample.

Yuchi Yuanhe squatted down, looking straight into Ye Zhiyan's eyes from bottom to top.Those beautiful eyes were empty at this moment, their luster had faded like that of an old man, they were chaotic and dim, as if covered by a layer of cloud.

The culprit was a little at a loss at this time. He was full of drafts and forgot the beginning for a while. He looked into those eyes for a moment, then looked away, stood up and stretched out his hand to pull Ye Zhiyan.

Ye Zhiyan got up obediently, and let Yuchi Yuanhe pull him onto the horse and go to a place he didn't know and didn't plan to ask.

"Talk to me?" Yuchi Yuanhe embraced Ye Zhiyan behind him.

"You kill me." Ye Zhiyan said.

He turned his hand back and touched Yuchi Yuanhe's sword hilt.

Yuchi Yuanhe grabbed his wrist and said in a low voice, "I'm sorry."

Ye Zhiyan didn't speak or move, he only knew that Yuchi Yuanhe's fingers were pressing firmly on his pulse.It's like this again, this person even wants to restrain him by apologizing.

"The things I did to you were too much, I know. I don't expect you to forgive me right away, but I promise, I will never do this again in the future. "

"What exactly do you want to do?" Ye Zhiyan asked right after he finished speaking.

Yuchi Yuanhe sent him back to the inn in the city, and the entire inn was emptied for Bai Yu to live in, including Cui Zheng and Ye Zhiyan who also lived here.

As soon as they arrived, Bai Yu's carriage also came back, Qiu Ye moved down the carriage stool to help him out, Bai Yu saw the two people who seemed to be very "close" at a glance, and stopped in surprise.

"Your Highness!" Ye Zhiyan broke away from Yuchi Yuanhe's hand and ran to Bai Yu's side as if he was being pardoned.

"Your Highness." Yuchi Yuanhe stepped forward to salute, "The last general is to send Young Master Ye back."

Seeing Ye Zhiyan's appearance, Bai Yu knew it was not that simple. He looked at Yuchi Yuanhe warily, nodded and said, "Okay. Go back to the barracks. There are many things in the camp. We are going to attack Zhangju Mountain soon."

Yuchi Yuanhe had no choice but to leave.Before leaving, he took a deep look at Ye Zhiyan, who felt his gaze and turned sideways even more flustered.

Bai Yu dragged Ye Zhiyan into the inn and took him to her room.Before Bai Yu could speak, Ye Zhiyan said, "Your Highness, we..."

"Did he do something to hurt you?" Bai Yu asked.

Ye Zhiyan nodded.

"Is it physical or emotional?"

Ye Zhiyan lowered his head and pinched his hand tightly.

Bai Yu sighed, separated his hands, and rubbed the place where the red mark was pinched, "I don't have to ask why you didn't tell me earlier, you must have your own reasons. But no matter what it is The reason, I can still feel that you don't seem to trust me. Or, you don't regard me as a friend. "

"...friend?" Ye Zhiyan looked at Bai Yu with surprise in his eyes.But that was only for a moment, and then he seemed to think of something, and then avoided Bai Yu's sight, and he was so ashamed that he couldn't lift his head.

"I never told you. In fact, when I saw you for the first time at the emperor's brother's birthday banquet, I liked you very much. Although I was not familiar with you at that time, I always had a feeling that we were destined. I feel very kind when I look at you. By the way, do you think our voices are quite similar?"

The more Bai Yu said that, Ye Zhiyan felt more and more guilty. He couldn't speak, so he could only keep silent, because he was afraid that he would not be able to help telling what happened back then.How his mother designed to frame his younger sister, causing her to be separated from her sweetheart, was given to Bai Yu's father as a gift, and finally was nailed into the coffin alive.Although none of this was done by him, Ye Zhiyan understands what it means to "release anger", and no one can be completely innocent towards the enemy's son.He was afraid that Bai Yu would hate him.

"Now can you tell me what happened? About Yuchi Yuanhe." Bai Yu raised three fingers, "I promise, if you don't want me to embarrass him, then I will definitely not wear small shoes for him."

Ye Zhiyan said slowly: "He has always been very bad to me, he often bullied me and humiliated me, but today he suddenly came to apologize to me. He changed too fast, and I don't know what to do."

Bai Yu thought for a while, and said, "If you don't want to associate with him anymore, I'll tell him not to come to you again, and ask Qiu Ye to protect you personally, so you don't have to be afraid of him."

Ye Zhiyan shook his head, "Your Highness still has business matters, don't worry about my affairs, I will take care of it."

"Now that I know about it, I can't do nothing."

Ye Zhiyan smiled and said, "Your Highness doesn't need to do anything else, what you said today has already helped me a lot. Really."

Half a month later, Qin Ran got the news from the spies that after Ding Zhao was released by Bai Yu, he went to Zhangju Mountain to meet the guard Guo Ke there.Ding Zhao's original intention was to guard Zhangju Mountain with Guo Ke, but Guo Ke suspected that he was a nail sent by Baiyu to plant beside him. A general had already defected to King Liang, and Ding Zhao's Jieyangzha fell so quickly that he didn't even receive Ding Zhao's request for help.Therefore, Guo Ke refused Ding Zhao's request and imprisoned him instead.

After confirming this matter, Qin Ran led his elite troops to launch a fierce attack on Zhangju Mountain, using kerosene and saltpeter to ignite Guo Ke's camp.The nearest Jieyangzha had already fallen, and when the reinforcements from Pingzhou City arrived, the melee had already subsided, and Guo Ke was also beheaded by Qin Ran.Mu Fengyi set up an ambush on the way for the reinforcements to retreat, and easily won another big victory.

The only unsatisfactory thing is that when Bai Yu went to look for Ding Zhao, he found that he had committed suicide in prison, and there were still his last words left in blood on the wall.It was only then that Bai Yu knew that Ding Zhao had killed all his wives, children, and children with his own hands when Jieyangzha fell.He will not surrender.

Bai Yu had no choice but to order Ding Zhao to be buried generously with the honor of a duke.After the ceremony, he stood in front of Ding Zhao's grave for a long time.

Mu Fengyi said ashamedly: "Your Highness, forgive me, I really didn't expect Ding Zhao to..."

Bai Yu shook his head, "You did nothing wrong, I drove him to a dead end."

"Your Highness, war is like this. The generals know what they will face when they put on this armor. This is his own choice." Let’s see, his parents, wife and children are not innocent? Ding Zhao is really cruel, he sacrificed the lives of all his relatives to fulfill his loyalty, is this considered selfish or selfless?”

Bai Yu said: "I don't know. Whether it's right or wrong, maybe there is no fixed standard."

"Then His Highness doesn't have to blame himself. We just do what we should do. As for the rest, it's useless to be too sad. At this point, killing and being killed His Highness can only choose the same."

"I'm thinking of Yan Xun again." Bai Yu said, "I asked him before if he was not afraid when he killed someone."

"What did the general say?"

"He said, of course he was afraid, but he had no other choice. Later, he could only paralyze himself with 'every time he kills an enemy, he can protect a Da Zhou commoner', and gradually he was no longer afraid."

Mu Fengyi nodded and said, "The general is right."

Bai Yu let out a long breath, stretched out his hand to hold the longevity lock on his chest tightly.