boyutpedia Chapter 224: Thunder
Chapter 224: Thunder
"Report! Ruan Shiping, the commander of Jialing Pass, indeed left his post without permission and went to rescue Ruan Wantie, the doctor of agriculture."
"Assholes!" Murong Jinyang was so angry that he directly brushed away the memorial on the imperial desk, "A bunch of ungrateful wolves. I gave them honor and status, but they still betrayed me!"
Zhou Che lowered his head and picked up the memorials that had fallen to the ground one by one.
"Your Majesty, why did Fu Yuanhao not respond to your repeated requests for assistance when Doctor Ruan was kidnapped by the Moliang people?"
"Am I deliberately holding it back? Do I have any people around me who can be sent out to help?" Murong Jinyang asked back.
“The group of secret guards in Qingshui County can be assigned over there.” Zhou Che whispered.
Murong Jinyang said bluntly, "Chase and others should protect the little girl. Compared with her father, she is much more valuable!"
“But as a child, it is hard for us to watch our father being kidnapped and do nothing.” Zhou Che argued.
"So I want to see how Ruan Qingqing and Ruan Shiping, a pair of siblings, choose between loyalty to the emperor and filial piety. What I want is absolute loyalty, not superficial flattery!"
Veins bulged on the back of the angry emperor's hands.
Zhou Che closed his eyelashes slightly and swallowed the bitterness in his mouth.
"Your Majesty, Doctor Ruan is a fifth-rank official in Yunqing and has made great contributions to the people of Yunqing. But just because he trained Ruan Qingqing and Ruan Shiping for Yunqing, they are worthy of our wholehearted protection. You are not testing them by doing this, but chilling their hearts!"
"My dear Lord Zhou, do you also think that I did something wrong?" Murong Jinyang's eyes changed immediately.
"I think that Your Majesty's move is a little inappropriate! Please consider the long-term plans first!" Zhou Che knelt on the ground and pleaded with sobs.
The air pressure around Murong Jinyang dropped instantly. He stared at his old partner who was kneeling on the ground in front of him, his eyes gradually becoming deep.
"It is because of my great plan that I want to test the siblings. I would rather destroy those who are disloyal than allow them to live to the day of rebellion."
"Your Majesty, Doctor Ruan is their father. He was indifferent even when his father was in trouble. Do you dare to employ such an unfilial and unrighteous person? Can you use him with confidence?"
Zhou Che asked two questions helplessly.
"But if they are unfaithful, it will be a devastating blow to us Yunqing!" Murong Jinyang leaned back on the dragon throne dejectedly.
This time Zhou Che didn't say anything.
The emperor's suspicion is the devil hidden in his heart, and cannot be changed by just a few words of consolation from him.
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In a remote county town of Xiling Prefecture, at the border between Yunqing Kingdom and Moliang, after a fierce battle, Ruan Qingqing and his group squeezed into a residential area and took turns to rest.
"The people of Moliang are like wild wolves that have taken bloodshot, rushing forward ferociously and persistently. Although they know that they will die if they move forward, they keep charging forward without any hesitation. They are planning to fight to the death!" Ruan Shiping looked at the resting place of the people of Moliang in the distance, and his eyes changed several times.
"I heard that disasters continued in Moliang, the land became barren, and a large number of people starved to death every day. Not only did they not gain any advantage on the battlefield, but they were also forced to pay a lot of compensation. They wanted to kidnap the master and bring him back to help them turn the tide, but they failed repeatedly. In the end, they had no choice but to target the master's father. Now that they have lost even the last straw in their hands, how can they not go crazy?"
Zhuge Hong sighed softly.
"No matter whether they are crazy or not, if they dare to stretch their claws towards our Yunqing, they must be prepared to be chopped off!" Ruan Shiping snorted coldly.
"The current situation is that we don't know how many of them are rushing here. If we continue to fight, we will all die in the end!" Wushang pointed out their current situation succinctly.
Ruan Shiping glanced at him suspiciously.
"It shouldn't be that they keep pouring in here like this! Unless the border garrison has fallen. But if it has fallen, the court should take action." Ruan Qingqing frowned and expressed her doubts.
Just like the Jialing Pass before, as soon as there was any problem, people were sent to fill it immediately.
How can a country's borders allow for loopholes?
Ruan Shiping's expression suddenly changed when he heard this, "Not good! Something might have happened to the commander of Xiliang Pass. The court has not made any movement. It should be that Xiliang Pass is controlled by the Moliang people, so they haven't discovered it yet."
"Their goal is not to fight for a city or a pond, but to let the people of Moliang take the opportunity to enter Yunqing from Xiliang Pass, and then slowly plot against Yunqing. That's why we always run into people of Moliang in Qingshui County..."
As she spoke, Ruan Qingqing was frightened by her own inference and broke out in a cold sweat.
"It shouldn't be that bad, right?"
She comforted herself.
However, the expressions of everyone present changed because of this.
"Da Zhuang, Hu Zi, Meng Zi, the three of you must quickly send my father and my eldest sister back to Qingshui County, Lulin Prefecture." Ruan Shiping gave the order immediately.
"If the situation is really as the master has inferred, I'm afraid no one in our group will be able to escape." Zhuge Hongmeng poured a pot of wine into his throat and said lightly.
Wu Shang also nodded in agreement, "That's right, they can't afford the gamble! The longer this kind of thing is kept secret, the better it is for them."
"So we can't pass the message outside?" Chase frowned.
"Then aren't we really going to die here?" Lu Dunren asked rather unwillingly.
"Not entirely. Before I came out, I told Zhang Qiuming that if I didn't return within ten days, he must come to reinforce me. At first, I was worried that General Zhang, the defender of Xiliang, would be unhappy with me coming to his jurisdiction and would make things difficult for me. I never thought that I would encounter such a shocking bolt of thunder when I came here!" Ruan Shiping sighed.
"You said that the commander of Xiliang is Zhang Qiuming's father, General Zhang?" Ruan Qingqing was surprised.
"Well, from the looks of it right now, his father is either dead or under control." Ruan Shiping nodded.
"That means everyone has to hold on for at least ten days." Yue Linlang looked a little unhappy.
"Perhaps it won't take ten days. The secret guards will soon report General Ruan's absence from his post to the emperor. Given the emperor's temperament, he will never allow a frontier general to overstep the line in any way." Chase said with his head down.
"With Lieutenant General Lin covering for me, I shouldn't be discovered so quickly." Ruan Shiping didn't care.
Chase snorted coldly, "Do you think our secret guards are here to eat and do nothing?"
Lu Dunren looked down on him. "If you are not here to eat for free, how did you let our boss escape from Qingshui County?"
"My order was to hide in the secular world, keep a close eye on strangers coming and going in Qingshui County and verify whether they are foreigners. It was not to protect Miss Ruan." Chase took a long breath and looked at Ruan Qingqing, "But I am also very curious, how did Miss Ruan avoid the layers of inspection by the city guards?"