I should marry the traitor

Chapter 247 Let’s Eat Something Dirty
After leaving the underground altar, Mu Ying came to the inner ring room, where a gentle-looking girl was taking out food from a lunch box and placing it on the table.

There were three meat dishes, one vegetable dish and one soup. The dishes were delicious and fragrant, and there was also a bottle of wine.

"Feiqin, you are the one delivering food again today."

"Don't mention it. Daddy and mommy had another fight. Mommy went back to her parents' home in anger, and daddy went to comfort her again."

Mu Ying greeted her with a smile. Mu Feiqin was her second uncle's daughter, and thus her cousin.

In the past, the job of delivering meals was done by her second uncle, but as Mu Feiqin grew up, this job was given to her every now and then.

There is no problem with that. Responsibilities are passed down from generation to generation, and Feiqin's cute little face is much more pleasing to the eye than second uncle's big beard.

Mu Ying ate the food with big mouthfuls. The three meat dishes, one vegetable dish and one soup were quite filling. However, Mu Feiqin had no intention of sitting down to eat with her. She had already eaten. These were all prepared by the kitchen just for Mu Ying.

After all, mixed-bloods generally have a big appetite, and Mu Ying can finish five dishes by herself.

After eating and drinking, Mu Ying's face was rosy. After burping with a slight smell of wine, she stretched lazily.

"Feiqin, has anything interesting happened recently?"

"Interesting things, what aspects?"

"It's meaty. If it's not meaty, I don't like it."

Mu Feiqin rolled her eyes when she heard that, but still tapped her chin with her fingers as she thought about it.

Ever since Mu Ying awakened the Sakura Dragon bloodline at the age of fourteen, the head of the family immediately decided to let Mu Ying take over the responsibility of guarding the Sakura Dragon.

After all, the person in charge of guarding Yinglong in the Mu family at that time was a mixed-race person with 80% blood from a branch. Obviously, the awakened Mu Ying was more suitable than the other party.

The Mu family is a military family in the royal palace. Mu Ying has been influenced by her family since she was a child and has been determined to become a loyal minister and a good general. Even after her bloodline was awakened, this value has never wavered.

Mu Ying has been smart and sensible since childhood, and she took on the responsibility of guarding the Sakura Dragon without any complaints.

After all, once the Sakura Dragon is born, countless lives will be lost. This is the eternal responsibility of the Mu family, and it must be shouldered.

But Mu Ying had to guard the Sakura Dragon for many years and had little time to go out for fun, so she had to satisfy her curiosity by listening to her family's stories.

The difference is that the person who told her stories before was the ugly uncle with a big beard, but now it was her cute little cousin.

"I heard that Dong Baifeng in the north personally led the army and captured the governor of Dongyou, Huang Guoer, alive."

"Ah? Dongyou Island is surrounded by the sea, but it can be conquered. Does Dong Bai have a powerful navy?"

"It shouldn't be. I heard that there was a traitor in Dongyou, who joined forces with Dong Bai to break through Dongyou."

"Tsk, an isolated island on the sea is not like a city on land. If you want to cooperate with the insiders and the outsiders, the status of the traitor must be a bit high."

"I heard that he seems to be Huang Guoer's adjutant, and his name is something like Huang Xianzhi."

"Second in command? And someone with the same surname, who can betray her. I wonder what kind of utter waste this Huang Guo'er is, and how can she be ranked on the same level as me?"

"Not entirely. I heard that Huang Xianzhi is a person of a different surname. It was Huang Guoer who gave her a surname and promoted her."

"Idiot, who does she think she is? The Emperor of Daqian? She has been a military governor for a few years and she wants others to change their names. Even my Mu family is not so shameless!" Mu Ying expressed deep contempt for Huang Guoer's stupidity. She was well versed in military strategies and believed that if she were to come to Dongyou Island, it would never be conquered.

"Sister Ying, why are you so angry? Dongyou is lost, so what does it have to do with us?"

“It’s still somewhat related.”

Mu Ying poured the remaining wine in the jug into the cup, took a sip with her rosy lips and said:

"Although Dong Bai is still the queen and the emperor is still nominally of the Li family's bloodline, she has great ambitions and abilities."

"She was the governor of Xiliang, and she took control of the central government. She also expelled Yuan Shao from Jizhou, and the governor of Beishuo also surrendered to her. Now she has defeated the governor of Dongyou..."

"In other words, judging from the influence of the radiation, of the five regions of Daqian, namely the southeast, northwest, northeast and center, only the south is left that has not succumbed to Dong Bai's tyranny."

"What a great person! I really want to meet her. The only heroes in the world are me and Bai Er."

Mu Ying revealed a fascinated look as she spoke. In the eyes of those who didn't know the inside story, Dong Bai was simply the Feng Aotian of Daqian, and even Mu Ying felt so.

He rose from humble beginnings, and was ordered by the Xiliang Jiedushi to destroy the Western Yi tribes; he then moved into the central government's Denglin Feng Palace and slept on the dragon bed at night, completely controlling the central court; then he expelled Yuan Mochu, who had been a third-generation official for four generations, and subdued An Xinlin, the Jiedushi of Beishuo, basically pacifying the north; then he defeated Dongyou Island, captured Huang Guoer, the Jiedushi of Dongyou alive, and completely eliminated the constraints from the east.

Dong Bai - a truly outstanding person.

But the more Mu Ying admired Dong Bai, the more she felt that she was very dangerous. With her powerful abilities and undisguised ambitions, would such a woman be willing to be a queen?

Mu Ying still thinks that the reason why Nanli and Dong Bai have always lived in peace is that the emperor of the Li family is still sitting on the throne.

The Molong bloodline sits on the throne of the emperor, which is the bottom line of the Yinglong bloodline. Once Dong Bai wants to usurp the throne, there will be an irreconcilable contradiction between her and Nanli.

Based on the ambitions and methods Dong Bai had shown before, Mu Ying felt that Dong Bai’s next step might be a strategy targeting the south.

Perhaps the war would not spread so quickly. After all, before Jiaozhou, there were three states: Jingzhou, Yangzhou and Yizhou. No matter which direction Dong Bai marched from, he would still have a big battle to fight.

What's more, the north is not completely stable either. At least Youzhou and Bingzhou are not under Dong Bai's control. Maybe she will choose to fully assess the north first?
However, this possibility is not great. After all, Youzhou and Bingzhou are relatively close to Beishuo, and there is no capable person who can lead the resistance. If there was any, An Xinlin would have dealt with them long ago.

Therefore, these two states were relatively obedient to the laws of the imperial court and there was no need to attack them.

Therefore, Dong Bai’s next move is most likely to be an expedition to the south.

I heard that the daughter of the Yuan family has regrouped in Yangzhou, and has taken over the two states of Yang and Yu, and is poised to compete with Dong Bai. Perhaps we should unite with her.

No, Mu Ying suddenly realized that what she wanted to hear was some romantic stories, so why did he start thinking about military affairs again?
Mu Ying, who obviously just wanted to have fun, came to her senses and hit Mu Feiqin's head hard with her knuckles.

"Ah! Sister Ying, what are you doing?"

"I asked you to tell me some romantic stories, why are you talking to me about military and national affairs?"

"Well, there have been a lot of brothels in Nanli recently. Does this count?"

"Hmm? Is the war in the north having such a big impact? Are all the refugees running to my Nanli?"

Mu Ying was chatting and laughing with Mu Feiqin who was cleaning up the dishes, but she didn't know that although the statue of the Ancestral Dragon on the underground altar was intact on the outside, its inside had been completely corroded.

(End of this chapter)