Noble First Daughter-in-law

Chapter 1132 Greed for life and fear of death
Outside the tent, the cold wind was howling.

The soldiers who had escaped from Huiluo Cang were still sleep deprived, so they gathered around the campfire outside the tent, chatting casually. The youngest of them looked around and asked, "Boss Xu, why is Guan Chiying gone?"

The middle-aged soldier known as Boss Xu poked the fire with a stick in his hand: "He's going to talk to the people here to see when we can return to Luoyang."

The young man immediately said, "Luoyang is surrounded like an iron barrel. How can we go back?"

Boss Xu and several other soldiers immediately looked at him and said, "But our wives, children and elders are all in the city. If we don't go back, will they still be able to survive?"

The young man shut his mouth in resentment.

Liang Shide had some plans when he sent Chen Cai to lead this group of people out of the city to get grain from Luoyang Granary. If he just picked some people at random, given the current situation in Luoyang City, these people would probably flee far away as soon as they left the city. Therefore, this group of people were almost all carefully checked and selected. Chen Cai himself was from Luoyang and had a wife and children in the city. With their families in his hands, he had no fear that these people would never come back.

The young man was silent for a while, then said angrily: "That Guan Chiying looks so spineless, why did they choose him?"

Boss Xu frowned and said, "You better keep your mouth shut. If he hadn't mediated, we wouldn't know what would have happened. This is someone else's territory!"

The young man muttered, "I just can't stand him. He looks like a coward!"

Seeing his contemptuous expression, Boss Xu frowned but didn't say much. Instead, another soldier sitting next to him bumped his shoulder against him and asked softly, "Brother Xu, I seem to have heard that Guan Chiying's family used to be an official, a high-ranking official."

When this was mentioned, everyone showed curious expressions and looked at Boss Xu with wide eyes.

Boss Xu was silent for a moment, then he sighed and said, "Yes, his family is a high-ranking official. During the reign of Emperor Yang, he was a doctor in the court."

Hearing this, everyone gasped in shock.

Someone asked, "Such a high-ranking official, why is he with us now?"

Old Xu said, "It's just bad luck. When Emperor Yang was going to tour Jiangdu Palace, who knew it was there - ah. But I heard that the government officials kept advising him to stop before he set off. Later, Emperor Yang was furious and kept them in Luoyang without allowing any of them to accompany him. As soon as Emperor Yang left, you know, the owner of Dongdu changed."

Everyone nodded.

Of course they knew, and some of them even followed Liang Shide to attack Luoyang.

Someone asked again: "What about his family?"

Boss Xu lowered his voice and said, "I heard that the officials of their family, along with some other officials who stayed in Luoyang, were arrested. They were stubborn and many of them refused to surrender. Lord Liang was about to kill them all. At this time, Guan Chiying stood up and said that he was willing to surrender to the Lord."

Upon hearing this, the young man immediately showed a look of contempt.

He said: "I am afraid of death."

Boss Xu glanced at him and said nothing. The others asked, "Then, will you let him go, sir?"

"Yes." Boss Xu nodded, then sighed and said, "But his family thinks he is afraid of death and is ashamed of him. Even though he survived, they still refuse to pay attention to him. Now he is alone in the army and can't go back home."

Everyone sighed.

Just as these people were sighing, on the other side of the road, Shang Ruyi finally raised her feet again and turned back. The soldier following her immediately asked, "Princess, what's wrong?"

Shang Ruyi smiled and said, "The wind is a bit cold, I'd better go back."

The soldier couldn't help but frown, thinking that this princess was really nosy. She just told him that she wanted to go out for a walk after dinner to digest the food, so he could only follow her. But after walking a few steps, she felt cold and wanted to go back. Are all women so troublesome?

However, after all, this was the princess, and General Xiao had personally instructed her to be well guarded and served. He couldn't say much and had to follow Shang Ruyi back.

When Shang Ruyi returned to his tent and sat down, he felt his mind was in a mess.

But there seemed to be a thread looming in the tangled mess, as if as long as she stretched out her hand, even just touched it, she would be able to discover some secrets.

Shang Ruyi was still thinking about all sorts of things and feeling confused. He didn't fall asleep until very late. When he wanted to go to bed to rest, he felt his hands and feet were cold. He knew he couldn't fall asleep, so he asked someone to tell the people below that he wanted a bucket of hot water.

The cook had been resting, but after hearing this, he had to get up and light the fire. He filled a bucket with hot water and carried it over to her, muttering unhappily as he walked: "This woman is so nosy. She doesn't want to eat this and that, but wants this and that. She really treats this place as her own home. The general is the same. She is not his wife. He can't touch her even though she has all these good food and drinks. I don't know what she is thinking."

Just as he was muttering to himself, a person suddenly appeared in front of him.

The leader of the group was startled and almost spilled the water in the bucket. He stopped immediately and asked, "What are you doing?"

The soldier smiled at him and said, "I am here to get water for the princess."

Hearing this, and seeing that the soldier was wearing the clothes of an ordinary soldier, he thought that he must be sent by the general to take care of the princess. The head soldier handed over the bucket and said, "Okay, I'll give it to you. Take it quickly, and don't blame me if the water gets cold. I'm going to sleep."

The soldier smiled and said, "Don't worry, you can't blame me."

The leader of the group snorted coldly and turned away.

The soldier who took the bucket watched him walk away, then carefully carried the bucket towards Shang Ruyi's tent. Although he bumped into patrolmen and some sleepless people chatting around the campfire along the way, these people treated him as one of their own when they saw his clothes and did not check him, so he walked unhindered to Shang Ruyi's tent.

He took a deep breath, opened the curtain and walked in.

Shang Ruyi was sitting on the bed, still thinking about what she heard during the day, and was startled when she suddenly saw someone coming in - although she was a prisoner, Xiao Yuansui always treated her with courtesy, and no soldier dared to enter her tent without informing, so she immediately wanted to scold him.

But just as she was about to speak, all the words in her voice were immediately stuck in her throat when she took a closer look at the soldier's face.

The man looked at her cautiously, as if he himself was standing on the edge of a red zone. He hesitated for a long time before whispering in a low and hoarse voice: "Shang - Princess Qin?"