However, Helian Cheng's tone remained cold. "The army is attacking Kang City, why would a woman like you need to help them?"
Dan Shu retorted: "If I have a way to take down Kang City, then why would I waste so much manpower and resources on it?"
Although his attitude had not eased up, he had still given Dan Shu a chance. "What method do you have?"
Dan Shu said, "Princess Jing and Xiao Suyan are from the Dongluo, have you forgotten? Based on what I know, this Kang City Token is also surnamed Xiao. Perhaps, this Kang City Token is related to Xiao Suyan in some way, and we don't know what kind of relationship it might have. "So …"
"Wait a moment …" Helian Cheng stood up and stopped Dan Shu, "What did you say just now?"
Dan Shu stared blankly at her. "Just now … I say, the Dongluo is also surnamed Xiao, maybe this Kang City is related to Xiao Suyan somehow … "
"Yes, that's it!" Helian Cheng frowned and walked out of his seat, he had a contemplative look on his face as he paced around, "Our army had just arrived at the Kang City, and attacked it the same night. However, the Kang City seemed to have expected this and was already prepared for it … Could it be because Princess Jing had sent a message to the Kang City? "
Beneath the bed, Qi Yu was also shocked. Was what Dan Shu said to Helian Cheng true? King Jing's wife, Xiao Suyan, was also from the Dongluo? And, could she be related to the Kang City Token?
It was no wonder why King Jing and the others objected to Eastern Barbarian fighting. Most probably, there was also the reason for it, right? Then, did Xiao Suyan deliver the message to the Kang City in the end?
Qi Yu's body tensed, if Helian Cheng went to look for trouble with Helian Cheng, it would be troublesome! She was counting on Helian Cheng to help out and prevent the war between the two nations with her!
Helian Cheng's guess caused Dan Shu to be stunned. "Could it be that even Princess Jing has the ability to transmit the news of the sneak attack team's Kang City attack from the moat?"
Helian Cheng frowned, Xiao Suyan had also sent over the news that the sneak attack team was planning to ambush Kang City from the moat? No, that's impossible. Other than Xu Chang, him and Helian Jing, the rest of the members of the sneak attack squad, no one else knew that the sneak attack team was going to infiltrate their Kang City through the moat.
If it was possible, it would be Xu Chang who passed the news to his daughter Xu Rouzhi, and then secretly let people save Xu Rouzhi.
The moon in the night sky shone its cold light on the entire land. At this moment, whether it was the Kang City or the Eastern Barbarian camp, both were extremely quiet.
At Helian Jing's camp, his personal guard hurriedly entered and said softly, "Your Highness, we have received important information!"
"What kind of information?" Helian Jing who had already closed his eyes to rest slowly opened them.
"Outside the Kang City, there is a horse carriage running in our direction. That horse carriage … "On the carriage …"
The guard wanted to speak but hesitated. Helian Jing frowned, his slender finger holding onto a teacup, he said coldly: "If you have something to say, don't stutter."
"Yes." The guard lowered his eyelids and whispered, "The decorations on the carriage are made from the brocade of the Western Xia."
Western Xia?
Helian Jing's hand slightly froze. For some reason, when he heard the two words "Western Xia", his reaction seemed to be uncontrollable.
"Could it be that the Western Xia people are also participating in the competition between Eastern Barbarian?" Helian Jing's tone was cold.
The guard said, "This subordinate has yet to report this matter to the Commander. Does Your Highness want to personally go out of the camp to take a look? "
Helian Jing put down the teacup and fearfully stood up. The guard beside him immediately brought the cape back and tied it for Helian Jing.
Outside the Yuan Gate, Helian Jing's tall figure stood under the moonlight. In the darkness of the night, sure enough, a carriage came from far away and stopped three hundred meters away from the Eastern Barbarian camp.
In the spacious campsite, the Eastern Barbarian soldiers had already lined up and were protecting Helian Jing.
Helian Jing was not worried, in the middle of the night, the other party had arrived alone with a carriage, what kind of threat could they pose to the Eastern Barbarian Army? Just that, if the Kang City had any conditions to negotiate, then the messenger should have come on a horse and not on a horse, right?
On the battlefield between the two armies, carriages were a transportation vehicle for useless scholars.
"Who's coming from the opposite direction?" The Eastern Barbarian soldiers roared at the carriage.
A beautiful face slowly peeked out of the window of the carriage. Immediately after, a green-clothed servant girl lifted the carriage's curtain and helped a yellow-clothed girl down.
He turned around and looked at the silent and exquisite Kang City behind him, then turned around and looked at the heavily guarded Eastern Barbarian camp in front of him.
The green-clothed servant girl waved the white cloth in her hands, and said loudly: "Excuse me, is Fourth Prince's King Jie present? Old people have come, to see Fourth Prince! "
The bodyguard beside Helian Jing was moved: "Your Highness, that is an old friend seeking an audience?"
Helian Jing's heart had already madly throbbed several times!
Old friends seek an audience! And, call him Fourth Prince!
The cold moonlight illuminated everything on the ground. The slim figure under the carriage looked so familiar.
Of course it was familiar! That was the figure that he had never left in his dreams even in the past three years!
Helian Jing's heart quickly tightened, and he slowly took two steps forward.
The guard beside him said anxiously, "Your Highness …"
Helian Jing slowly raised his hand to stop her. Then, he took a few steps forward.
The Eastern Barbarian soldiers tensed up, the archers immediately drew their arrows, ready to support Helian Jing at any time; their pikes in their hands, ready to charge into the array at any time.
Everyone was very nervous. What was going on with Prince Jie? Although this was not a battlefield, it was hard to say if this was the Dongluo's plan to lure the enemy. Could it be that Prince Jie wasn't afraid of falling into the enemy's trap?
Looking at Helian Jing's figure that was slowly approaching from afar, the woman's vision suddenly blurred.
She slowly walked towards Helian Jing.
The green-clothed servant girl nervously followed behind, not daring to get too close or too far away.
Besides the coachman, there didn't seem to be a fourth person on the carriage.
Just the two of them?
Helian Jing slowly walked forward and finally, the yellow clothed girl stopped a few steps away from him.
"It really is you!" Helian Jing uttered in a stumped voice. That voice seemed to be in a dream, as if it was tinged with a bit of pain.
"It's me." The woman was smiling, but there were also tears in her eyes, shining brightly under the moonlight.
"It's really you?" Helian Jing pinched his own wrist, wasn't he dreaming?
"Of course it's me." She gave a low laugh. "Don't you feel any pain by pinching yourself like this?"
"It hurts!" He released his hand. "So this is not a dream."
"Of course it's not a dream." "I came for you."
"I never expected you to come for me!" He clearly felt pain in his heart, but a cold smile floated at the corner of Helian Jing's mouth, "Did you come here to persuade my Eastern Barbarian to stop fighting?"
"Why attack my country? Didn't you clearly promise me that you would put aside your hatred and live a good life? "
"No, I never did." Helian Jing said coldly, "Dongluo are my enemies. Now that the end of Dongluo has arrived, I have no reason to not act on behalf of the heavens, to eliminate Ji City, that sloppy-looking ruler who only does things by himself and harms countless people!"
"Why is it that the end of the Dongluo already? Although my Royal Father … "
"Princess Zhuo Hua," Helian Jing interrupted the woman's words, and said coldly, "If you are here to persuade her to be amiable, then I will advise you. The matters of the battlefield are not something that a woman like you can meddle in! "
Princess Zhuo Hua frowned sadly, "Do you still hate my Royal Father that much? Back then, he … "
Helian Jing coldly snorted. "Back then when he married Princess Zhuo Hua to Western Xia for the sake of the future of Dongluo, it was still better to have a rich and promising relative than some poor relative who could not see the future!"
Princess Zhuo Hua lowered her head in grief and choked with sobs: "Since you understand his painstaking efforts, then why must you hate him? If you were in his shoes, perhaps you would have made the same choice as him. "
Helian Jing laughed coldly: "I will not steal my subordinates and my good friends' wives, and will not find excuses to kill all of my people just to prevent myself from becoming the great master. I will also not hurt my other sons to the point of crippling them for the sake of preserving one son's status!"
Princess Zhuo Hua looked at Helian Jing in shock: "Why do you misunderstand my Royal Father so deeply? It was just a misunderstanding! "
"Whether it is a misunderstanding or not, the person in charge is clear. The princess listens to my words and believes them to be true, so how can she see the truth?! "
Helian Jing's words made Princess Zhuo Hua unable to say a single word.
She stared at Helian Jing in a daze as tears rolled down her cheeks.
Seeing his beloved girl wipe her tears, Helian Jing's heart ached. In the end, he could not help but soften his tone: "When the two nations are at war, why did they send a weak girl like you to pacify the war? Your Royal Father, has overestimated your strength! "
"I do not have any weight," Princess Zhuo Hua forcefully retracted her tears. "Then what if it is your child?"
"What did you say?" Helian Jing's body trembled slightly. Child? What child?
Princess Zhuo Hua turned around and glanced at her. The green-clothed servant girl immediately turned around and returned to the side of the carriage.
What son?
Helian Jing's heart tightened, but when he saw that tiny figure hobble out from the carriage, his body violently trembled, and his voice shook with incomparable shock and astonishment: "That … "That's …"
Princess Zhuo Hua glanced at Helian Jing, then turned and pulled the adult like little fleshy person wrapped in a beautiful robe towards her. She gently bowed and hugged the little fleshy person to her chest, then said gently: "Nian’er, quickly come and call me uncle."
Helian Jing looked at the child in Princess Zhuo Hua's arms in shock. This child's entire body was fleshy, plump, and chubby.
"He … Whose child is he? " Helian Jing's voice began to tremble.
The child looked to be a little over two years old and did not know anything. His pair of big pure eyes looked at him with black sockets as he spoke in a childish voice, "Uncle …" "Father!"
Princess Zhuo Hua looked at Helian Jing, with tears in her eyes, and a gentle smile hanging on her lips: "When I married Xi Xia, two months had passed since I married the Nian’er."
As if he had received a heavy blow, Helian Jing suddenly retreated two steps. The guards far behind could not hear their voices clearly, and could only see their figures. Seeing Helian Jing retreat, they immediately raised their hands: "Prepare to shoot, protect your highness!"
"Stop!" Helian Jing shouted.
The archer immediately halted.
Helian Jing clenched his teeth and slowly raised his head. He looked at Helian Jing with eyes that were injured like a trapped beast, and asked painfully word by word: "What's his name?"
"Nian’er." Princess Zhuo Hua replied softly.
"How old?" Helian Jing clenched his teeth and asked again.
"Until the day before yesterday, exactly two years and five months."