I have suffered enough in my previous life, my cousin will never marry me

Chapter 125 Uninvited Guest

"It's my cousin, young master. My cousin is still alive."

Liu Zhang glanced at Gu Tingchen excitedly and hurriedly ordered the crossbowmen hiding in the woods, "Hurry up and put away your crossbows. Don't hurt your cousin."

Tears welled up in Gu Tingchen's dark eyes. He had been marching for three days in a hurry, fearing that something might have happened to his cousin. Now he finally saw her appear in front of him safely. He was so lucky.

He wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes calmly, and then he drove his horse to Ye Wanshu. Looking at the dusty figure, who was soaked all over, his heart ached.

With a sinister look in his eyes, he pointed his sword at Yan Jin and said angrily, "Is this how you take care of people?"

Yan Jin was about to explain with a bitter face when Ye Wanshu spoke first: "Gu Tingchen, what are you trying to do?"

"Wanwan, Qizhou is very dangerous now. Come back with me."

Not wanting to frighten his cousin, Gu Tingchen quickly put away his sword and ordered someone to come forward: "I have prepared clean clothes for you, and a carriage. Go change your clothes in the carriage, and we will set off."

"Gu Tingchen, are you kidding me?" Ye Wanshu glared at him coldly. "My family's servants and the farmers are all in Baixiang County. Prince Yongning is leading the Yingzhou army in a bloody battle against the pirates. How could I abandon them and go back alone?"

"How can you resist the invasion of pirates with just the few people behind you?"

Gu Tingchen patiently counseled, "Prince Yongning overestimated his own capabilities and caused the Yingzhou army to go to Qizhou and die. Are you going to follow suit?"

Knowing that she couldn't bear to give up the Ye family's fortune, Gu Tingchen continued, "Wanwan, just follow me back to Lin'an. I promise I will build you a bigger fortune. If you want to make incense, I can summon all the incense makers in Daye Dynasty to Lin'an and let you use them."

Ye Wanshu completely lost her patience and said unhappily, "If the Censor is not here on business, please get out of the way immediately."

After saying that, he signaled Yan Jin to move on.

"Wait a minute."

Gu Tingchen waved his hand, and dense figures emerged from all directions, drawing their bows and arrows, aiming at the Yingzhou army.

"Wanwan, you are the daughter of the Prime Minister and my fiancée. For both public and private reasons, I must bring you back to Lin'an safely."

Gu Tingchen said solemnly, "Yingzhou troops, listen up! The pacification envoy Xue Jiu disregarded the safety of the people and fled the city. He has been brought to justice by this censor. I will take temporary control of the pacification envoy's troops. I order you to quickly retreat to Yuzhou and join forces to resist the pirate invasion. Anyone who disobeys will be killed without mercy."

"This……"

Yan Jin looked at Ye Wanshu anxiously: "Miss Ye, if we retreat to Yuzhou now, not only Baixiang County, but even His Highness will be in danger."

"Gu Tingchen, you are using your power for personal gain."

Ye Wanshu angrily scolded, "Since you've already reorganized and taken over the Pacification Commissioner's troops, you should have brought your men to the rescue of Qizhou immediately. Do you know that if Qizhou is lost, the entire Yuezhou will become a target of invasion by pirates?"

"Wanwan, don't think I don't know what you're thinking."

Gu Tingchen sneered, "You just want to rescue Fu Mingchi? I tell you, it's too late. He has already been killed by the pirates. You have no choice but to come back with me."

As soon as he finished speaking, he ordered Liu Zhang: "Take my cousin back to the carriage. Any Yingzhou soldiers who disobey orders will be shot on the spot."

"Let's see who dares."

As a low and loud voice was heard, everyone looked up and saw Ji Yuan coming with his men, exhausted.

Behind him followed the reinforcements led by Zhu Wencai.

"Big girl."

Tingfeng rode up quickly on his horse, looked Ye Wanshu over carefully, and then glared at Gu Tingchen angrily: "Did Young Master Gu hurt you?"

Ye Wanshu shook her head and stared at Ji Yuan in surprise. She never expected that her adoptive father would come here so suddenly.

Seeing him gripping the reins with great discomfort, his whole body covered in mud, it made people feel quite distressed.

"My dear, the master is worried about your safety, so he specially asked His Majesty for leave to come to Yuezhou to visit you."

Seeing that the girl was looking at the master, Tingfeng hurriedly explained.

"Wanwan, you and General Zhu should take your men to Qizhou as soon as possible. My father is here, and this brat won't dare to do anything reckless." Ji Yuan rode his horse to Ye Wanshu. Although he felt sorry for her running in the rain, he also knew that she was worried about the man in Qizhou at this time, so he didn't dare to stop her.

Gu Tingchen's anger intensified, and he raised his sword and pointed it at Ji Yuan. "Old man, do you really think I dare not kill you? For Wanwan's sake, I can respect you a little. If you continue to make trouble here, I don't mind starting with you."

Zhu Wencai's thick eyebrows trembled as he watched. He drew his sword in anger and pointed it at Gu Tingchen: "Your Excellency, you have absolutely no regard for the law. Do you really think you can do whatever you want in this world? You even ignore the Prime Minister."

"It doesn't matter."

Ji Yuan glanced at Zhu Wencai calmly: "Anyway, this isn't the first time I've been treated like this."

Zhu Wencai and Yan Jin were both choked upon hearing this. Thinking of the fact that His Highness had broken off the engagement, they didn't know how to respond.

"Gu Erlang, think it through."

Ji Yuan said slowly, "The 20,000 Divine Mighty Army behind General Zhu are the guards assigned to me by His Majesty. If you are not capable of annihilating them all, then let them go immediately and lead your troops to support Qizhou. Otherwise, I will definitely accuse you of treason when I return to Lin'an."

Upon learning that the emperor had asked Ji Yuan to bring his only personal army to Yuezhou, Gu Tingchen was stunned, and even Ye Wanshu was quite surprised.

"General Zhu, my daughter's safety is in your hands."

Ji Yuan smiled at Ye Wanshu and immediately said, "Wanwan, go quickly. Father will be here soon."

Ye Wanshu was worried about the safety of Qizhou City and Fu Mingchi at the moment, so she didn't act pretentiously. She signaled to Yan Jin and quickly rode away.

"Wanwan."

Seeing Ye Wanshu leaving with the people from Yongning Palace, Gu Tingchen anxiously wanted to stop them, but was stopped by Ji Yuan: "Gu Erlang, have you thought it through? Should we retreat to Yuzhou, or go to Qizhou to rescue them? Of course, you can also choose to kill me."

Gu Tingchen glared at Ji Yuan fiercely, then had to compromise and shouted to the troops of the Pacification Commissioner's Office, "Send an order to help Qizhou immediately."

After saying that, he put away his sword and chased after Ye Wanshu.

The quiet Qizhou official road became lively again, with horse hooves trampling through the clouds and endless cavalrymen shuttling through the rain.

After a long and tiring journey all night, at dawn, the troops led by Ye Wanshu finally arrived outside the city of Qizhou.

What caught the eye was the blood-red water flowing out of the city. It was all bloody red at a glance. The pouring rain could not wash away the blood spreading out of the city.

Looking at the piles of corpses in front of the city gate and in the water fort, Ye Wanshu felt a pang of pain in her heart.

In her two lifetimes, she had never seen such a tragic scene. It was also the first time that she personally felt the cruelty of the battlefield. Everyone said that Lin'an was good, but they didn't know that the prosperity there was built on piles of corpses like this.

At this moment, she could probably understand the mood and pride that Xiao Zhang had felt when she said that she would go to the northern border in person to safeguard the glory of the old Marquis Mu for half his life.

"Fu Mingchi."

She shouted anxiously in her heart, jumped off her horse in panic, and rushed into the city.

The scene in the city was even bloodier and more tragic. There were human walls made of corpses everywhere. If you look closely, you can hardly find a complete body. Some of the bodies had their arms chopped off or their waists cut off.

Ye Wanshu led everyone to search hard among the pile of corpses, and suddenly saw a familiar figure at the gate of the inner city.

The man held a silver spear in his hand, his feet seemed to be rooted, standing firmly in the rain, motionless. His slender figure was facing the towering mountain of corpses in front of him, almost blocking Ye Wanshu's entire view.

The scene of the first time she met him echoed in her mind. Ye Wanshu's eyes kept getting sore. She moved closer step by step and called out with a sob.

"Fu Mingchi."

He seemed to have not heard the movement behind him at all and continued to stand quietly in the same place.

Ye Wanshu walked up to him and looked at his paper-white face, which had been soaked and washed by the rain and had some wrinkles on it. His dark eyes remained open and stared straight ahead, and there was no trace of life in his whole body.

"Your Highness."

Zhu Wencai supported Fu Mingchi with a hoarse voice, and He Yanjin burst into tears hysterically.