58. The Traitorous General

King Zhou was very surprised that Yan Chu could recover to his current state and could actually drive a horse by himself. He originally thought that Yan Chu was nominally escorting the princess to marry, but in fact he had to ride a carriage like his eldest daughter along the way.

Zhou Mingzhu and others were also surprised, but seeing that Yan Chu's fingers had begun to tremble slightly after riding for such a short distance, they knew that he must be holding on, just to avoid embarrassing himself in public.

What a stubborn self-esteem, but it was useless. Being able to recover to this level was already the extreme.

The auspicious time was almost here, and King Zhou said some polite words, and the wedding team officially set off.

As the leader of this time, Yan Chu drove a horse and walked in the front of the team. There was a long road between him and the eldest princess' sedan chair.

The journey to the wedding was long. One of them was a princess and the other was a general. There was almost no contact between them. What Zhou Mingli liked to do every day was to take advantage of the short time when the curtain was opened when the palace maids brought her food and water, and look at the tall and broad back in the distance.

Most people in the palace thought that she specifically asked Yan Chu to send her because she wanted to humiliate him, but no one knew how much she loved that man.

Zhou Mingli's memory of her childhood was not deep. It was just the self-righteous cold violence of those people, as well as some ridicule and pushing. If they really let those people hurt her, they would not dare.

However, Zhou Mingli, who was still a child, often felt sad for those people's indifference and unreasonable disgust. She envied her second sister. Obviously, they were both daughters of the emperor, but because the other was born by the queen, she could please everyone without doing anything. Obviously, her birth was not something she could decide, and the emperor fell in love with her mother and had her, which was not something she could control.

Why don't everyone go to find the culprit, the emperor, but love to trouble her?

Zhou Mingli, who was still a child at that time, didn't understand, because her father was the king of Zhou. In Zhou, no one dared to disobey him or accuse him. This was the charm of power.

At that time, she paid the most attention to the young general Yan who often appeared in the palace. Among his peers, he was always the tallest and the loudest. For Zhou Mingli, who always faced her depressed mother, she liked such a full of vitality and vitality. This would make her feel that the world is still beautiful.

At that time, she watched him from a distance, because she didn't know whether the boy hated her like the children of other ministers who came to the palace, and would help other princes and princesses to bully her.

The first close contact was after she was bullied by her eldest and second brothers again.

That day, she hid in the rockery and cried secretly. She didn't dare to go back to her palace, because once her mother saw her like this, she would only feel more self-pitying.

Yan Chu found her while trying to pick up a ball that he had thrown far away. He didn't know she was a princess because the clothes she wore at that time were already dirty and made of ordinary cloth. He thought she was a little maid, but seeing how sad she was, he went up to comfort her.

He asked her if she was bullied and he could help her get revenge.

She replied that the person who bullied her was a very powerful person in the Great Zhou Dynasty and he couldn't stand up for her.

The young boy didn't hesitate at all. He said so at that time.

He was the son of the Yan family. The men of the Yan family were born to protect the Great Zhou Dynasty. As long as she was a citizen of the Great Zhou Dynasty, he would protect her for a day, no matter how powerful the person who bullied her was, as long as the person was wrong, he could help her vent her anger.

This was the first time that someone stood up and said he wanted to protect her, including her mother, who had always just told her to endure and not to cause trouble. Every time she saw her return to the palace dirty, she just asked the servants to boil water quickly, but never did anything for her.

Because her mother knew that in this palace, only the queen's children dared to tease her like this.

From that moment on, a boy named Yan Chu lived in Zhou Mingli's heart.

She didn't know if the boy had forgotten his promise to a little girl, but she took it seriously and remembered it for a lifetime.

From that day on, Zhou Mingli no longer chose to remain silent, and she began to try to please her father.

Although she was just a concubine's daughter, she was also the flesh and blood of King Zhou after all. This blood relationship could not be cut off, and King Zhou was such a soft-hearted man. Facing a quiet daughter who always revealed her admiration and love for him, his father, he unconsciously paid more attention to this eldest daughter.

Gradually, no one in the palace dared to bully her and neglect her. Everyone knew that this princess was now favored by His Majesty. The few remaining princes and others who dared to bully her also stopped after the warning of Queen Zhou, and just ignored her as a ball of air.

Zhou Mingli's life gradually returned to peace. Her favorite thing to do was to listen to the palace maids around her talking about the young general Yan who was so popular.

When he made military achievements, she was happy for him. When he was injured, she was worried about him and couldn't sleep all night. But Zhou Mingli knew that Yan Chu was destined to be with her second sister.

But what was there? As long as there was such a person in my heart, it was the happiest thing.

Zhou Mingli's eyes flashed with joy and bitterness, and finally turned into calmness.

She looked at the figure in the distance, maybe it was fate.

*****

"Little General Yan, I heard that the Yan family's ancestors have exquisite marksmanship. I wonder if my subordinates would be honored to ask for advice."

The journey to Jiang Country is very long, and apart from having to camp anywhere in the middle of nowhere, most of the time, the bride's convoy will arrive at the inn to spend the night before it gets dark.

Because the wedding team was too large, it was obviously unrealistic for everyone to live in the inn. Therefore, in addition to the princess and her personal attendants, there were only a hundred or so soldiers living there.

Others were either patrolling outside the inn, or camping outside to rest.

As Yan Chu was the general this time, of course he had his own room in the station, but tonight was special. The lieutenants felt tired from the journey. I don’t know who had the idea, so they sent a small team to hunt some game in the nearby mountains. I left it to the people at the inn and organized a bonfire party for him to attend.

Now it seems that the drunkard is not interested in drinking.

"Fuck you, Chen Erniu. After you became your new master, you forgot who promoted you when you were a young infantryman. When you said your father was sick, who gave you money?" You send it home to your father for medical treatment."

Before Yan Chu could speak, a strong black man sitting next to him stood up.

They had been together for six days, and Yan Chu also knew the name of the dark and muscular man. His name was Gou Xiong. He was a former subordinate of Yan Chu's father, and he was considered a direct descendant of the Yan family.

When something happened to Yan Chu, he was still guarding the city gate with troops. When he learned that Yan Chu was arrested for treason, he could not stop him.

In fact, a large part of the Yan family's army is no longer loyal to the King of Zhou, but to the Yan family. It is correct to say that the royal family is afraid of the Yan family. If a family with such a heavy army wants to rebel, it will be easy.

When Yan Chu was arrested for treason, many people in the army didn't believe it. They even stopped Fu Cong. The vague idea at that time was that as long as Yan Chu said something, they would rebel together.

It’s just that Yan Chu’s family was still in the capital at that time, and Yan Chu was still loyal to the royal family at that time. He believed that the King of Zhou would clear his name, so he immediately stopped those loyal men, thus causing his final fate. He ended up like this, and because of this, he lost the opportunity.

At the beginning, he was the famous General Yan, with the title of undefeated general. To rebel against him was almost a sure win. However, after that, he was a cripple with broken limbs and limbs. No matter how loyal those people were, they still had to win. Consider following a crippled master and what kind of fate awaits them and their family once the rebellion fails.

Gou Xiong was quite hesitant during this period. Out of his sincerity, he wanted to help the young general, but thinking about his family, he felt that he should keep a distance from him.

But as we spend more time together, this shackles of hesitation become more and more fragile.

Every day at Yinshi, before everyone got up, he watched the little general secretly get up to exercise, jogging non-stop every day, and still had to complete a hundred squats even though he was sweating like rain. He looked at the opponent's hands. The copper hammer he held in his hands went from the smallest weighing two kilograms to three kilograms in just six days.

This was of course easy for the former young general. Even a random person in the army would not be able to lift a three-pound copper hammer.

But you have to think about it, this is a man who has broken his hand and hamstring. Gou Xiong felt that in the young general, he saw unprecedented courage and the miracles brought about by perseverance.

He felt that his flame, which was extinguished when the young general was judged disabled by the imperial doctor, was burning brightly.

Yesterday, he had secretly sent a message back to his confidants. These days, the traitor Fu Cong has been lobbying them, the veterans of the Yan family army. Because of the silence of the young general, many people have been shaken.

He wanted to tell those people that the young general was not dead. As long as he was still alive and still had the heart, the Yan family army should be named Yan.

Gou Xiong thought, in fact, when he sent those letters, he had already made his current position clear.

Therefore, when Chen Erniu provoked Yan Chu, he stood up and refuted it for him without thinking.

Now that the young general is still recovering, we can't let these uneasy and well-meaning villains add fuel to the fire.

"Xiong, don't stir up trouble. You're not a general. How do you know what other people think?"

Chen Zhao frowned. Chen Erniu was his previous name. After he became famous, what he disliked most was hearing people mention this old name. It reminded others of his origins and the earthy smell that could not be washed away.

"Little general, if you can't do it, you can give some advice to your subordinates." He glared at Gou Xiong, then looked at Yan Chu with a malicious smile.