"You take me as a slave too?"
Helian Mingzhu's expression seemed to have suffered a huge insult.
"I never treat anyone in this world as a slave!"
He Mulan's encounter with Peanut was bad enough. The only same-sex friend who could talk to her gradually had a disagreement with her values, which made her frown and growl:
"You are all my friends! I have never divided people into superiors and inferiors!"
friend…
friend…
Friends like slaves...
"Do you really think so?"
Helian Mingzhu's expression changed from humiliation to sadness. She knelt down beside He Mulan and grabbed her hand.
"I... Although I'm just a palace servant now, I have a great brother... "
She looked up at He Mulan.
"My brother once said that he would prepare the best dowry for me, so that I could marry beautifully and become the most enviable woman in the world. My brother never broke his promise, so no matter if I was a slave, As long as my brother is still alive, I will always believe in his words."
He Mulan didn't know why she said this, but Helian Mingzhu's sad eyes still deterred her, and she couldn't help nodding her head.
"You brother, very good. I don't have an eldest brother, only a younger brother... "
She thought of younger brother Hua and her brother He Mujun, and a smile finally appeared on the corner of her mouth.
"Everyone who is the eldest brother probably thinks like this, hoping to make the younger brothers and sisters live comfortably and be happy forever."
"General Hua, you said before that you wanted to find a way to restore my freedom..."
Seeing that He Mulan didn't respond to the "dowry" and "great marriage", Helian Mingzhu mentioned her younger brother, and her heart gradually became colder.
But out of the deep love hidden in her heart, she continued to try her best to hold back her tears and ask He Mulan's promise.
He Mulan didn't know Helian Mingzhu's identity. She thought that Helian Mingzhu's gaffe in the past few days was because of her status as a "slave", and she was also frightened by the peanut incident.
In her heart, she had never complained that Helian Mingzhu did not save her as desperately as Peanut did, and even when she heard her previous request for her lack of freedom, a trace of sympathy rose.
If it wasn't for Peanuts, she wouldn't be able to realize how the world views the identity of "slave".
"I'll try my best. You're a good girl, and you shouldn't dress as a man all your life, that's really..."
He Mulan closed her eyes, and Peanut's face flashed before her eyes again.
"It's so painful."
'Where in the world can I find someone who understands my pain so well...'
Helian Mingzhu looked at He Mulan's sympathetic expression, only to feel that her chest felt as if she had been hit hard by a heavy hammer, causing her heart to ache.
If you don't really care about her, how can you show such an expression? He is the favored son of heaven, the most prosperous general of the Wei Dynasty, and he should not be so sad for her.
It is really difficult for such a man to let go.
"General Hua, you can treat me as a sister, a friend, or a slave..." She said with a trembling voice: "I like and admire you. Please don't..."
Please don't look at me like a slave.
Helian Mingzhu's expression when she looked at He Mulan was too shy, and the way of speaking like a chant made He Mulan think about a terrible guess...
It's been almost 30 years, except for the kid from the neighbor who tried to trick her into buying chocolate, no one has ever said "I like you" to her with such an expression.
"You said you liked..." He Mulan was stunned, "It wouldn't be the kind of like I thought, would it?"
She was so surprised, so unbelievable, so absurd, that the expression on her face was a grotesque, as if the funniest thing in the world had happened.
Not to mention that Helian Mingzhu is just a girl under sixteen years old, she is a woman who has experienced all kinds of sex. Seeing such an expression after her confession will greatly hurt her self-esteem.
"I, can't I like you?"
If it is a palace maid, an eunuch, a palace servant, can't you like you
But you also said before that there is no distinction between the superior and the inferior!
"Of course not!"
He Mulan's eyes widened, and she suddenly found that Helian Mingzhu's body was shaky. She suddenly understood that her tone of speech was too blunt, and immediately waved her hands again and again, explaining nonsense:
"I don't deserve your liking, no, I have no way of liking you! You should like a mature and heroic man, not me. Oops, I'm going crazy, what I said is..."
"General Hua, I understand what you mean."
Helian Mingzhu let go of the hand that touched Mulan.
Hua Mulan's hand, from the time she expressed her love, began to gradually become cold, and sweat began to appear in her broad palm.
She has been in the palace for a long time, and she has seen her brother and sister get along. She knows that if a man likes a woman, he will definitely not be so frightened when he hears the other party's confession.
When is she going to humiliate herself
Even if you can't let go of this warm temperature, it's time to wake up.
She is the princess of Daxia, the younger sister of Helianding, and not a little eunuch living in the palace of the Northern Wei Dynasty. She must leave some dignity to herself.
"Huh? You understand what I mean? I don't understand myself."
He Mulan, who was emotionally sluggish, was taken aback for a moment. Seeing Helian Mingzhu's solemn expression, her heart became more and more uneasy.
She always felt as though she had screwed up something.
"Zhao Ming, my words may be incoherent, but I never meant to look down on you. In my heart, I treat you as a good sister and a dear friend. I have a hidden illness and can't like women, so I give It's not what you want. Your brother wants you to get married, I'm afraid I won't be able to give it to you for the rest of my life... "
He Mulan scratched his face in embarrassment.
"I know that the peanut incident has frightened you. If you are still embarrassed to see me, you can calm down for a few days, and then come again when your mind is calmer."
Helian Pearl, who has a lot of love for Mulan, has few points left at this moment.
In order to reject your love, a man will even cover up with self-defeating, what is the point of fear? What's more, Helian Mingzhu boasted that she was a good-looking woman, and she had always been looked down upon by He Mulan.
"First Evolution"
Sadness and embarrassment made Helian Mingzhu kneel on the ground, bowing her head and bowing straight to He Mulan.
"General Hua, I have always remembered your life-saving grace several times. Although I adore you, I am not an obsessed person, so you don't have to panic. The promise that I was freed before..."
Her voice came from between her hands on the ground.
"You forget it."
After saying that, Helian Mingzhu got up quickly and left the king tent almost at a trot.
He Mulan's injuries were not yet healed. Although she could sit halfway, she couldn't get up or move around. She wanted to leave her to explain, but when she reached out, she only caught a corner of her clothes.
Her strength was too great, and there was a sound of cracking silk, and Helian Pearl was gone, only the half of the clothes left in He Mulan's hand.
"Is this... is it considered a different kind of cutting off the robe and breaking the righteousness?"
He Mulan looked sadly at the corner of the blue shirt in her hand.
Her homosexuality is still so bad.
It's not easy to have a girl who can talk to, and she actually likes her.
What is this called!
When Yue Lao tied the red thread to her, her eyes were lame!
"Mulan, why did I see Zhao Huangmen running out crying?"
Su Hejun stayed behind to deal with matters. Hearing that Hua Mulan was in danger, he rushed over from the Rabbit Garden Water Camp in a hurry. Hearing that He Mulan was fine, he was relieved and brought a group of egret officials to inquire about the truth. Come to see her when things are over.
He came to Hua Mulan for something, but before anyone arrived, he saw Zhao Ming, the new eunuch beside the emperor, running out.
"It's so sad to cry, it won't be a problem, right?"
"It should be fine."
He Mulan froze and said uncertainly.
"That's good. Although Zhao Huangmen is only an eunuch, he is a servant by the emperor's side. It is best not to offend him." Su Hejun was also a close minister of the emperor, so he naturally did not dare to underestimate these eunuchs.
"Although you have a good relationship with him, but a person like an eunuch, because of his disability, can't help but have an eccentric personality. One moment he showed your good heart and heart, and the next moment he may hate you to the bone. I don't think you have anything. Those who care about you, if you can cause less trouble, you can make less trouble, and let them at most."
He seems to have suffered from the eunuch's loss, and he speaks with some helplessness.
"If you treat them as women, maybe it will make them less embarrassed."
"I treat her as a woman, but she also treats me as a man..."
He Mulan smiled bitterly and muttered to herself, her voice so small that it was barely audible.
"He Mulan, I came to you for other things. Those Rouran people who killed your slaves, General Qiu Lin has taken care of for you. Before that, the Xingjun had tortured these escaped captives and got bad news."
He said solemnly:
"These Rouran prisoners all said that the one who escaped was released by the Xianbei people."
"what?"
He Mulan could no longer care about the guilt in her heart, and hurriedly asked: "Isn't it said that the prisoners are all people who are irrelevant? How can there be people from Xianbei who risk beheading to release prisoners? ?"
"But those Rouran people said that the man would run away because a Xianbei man came to deliver meals and loosened the ropes that tied him. It's odd that all the handymen who had delivered meals overnight. All died, but none of them were the one who delivered the meal that day. These Rouran people could not understand the Xianbei dialect, they only knew that the delivery person and the Rouran who ran away said something in Xianbei. They all escaped."
Su Hejun was left behind because Tuoba Tao had something he didn't understand for him to deal with. The prisoners who ran out of the prison tent coincided with the meeting, not the point.
He and He Mulan already had a deadly friendship, and he needed He Mulan's assistance, so he didn't hide it from her.
"It's not the weirdest thing. Do you remember when we came to this tent and pretended to be messengers, the person outside the tent who spoke yin and yang in a strange way, who was dedicated to sabotaging our good deeds?"
When Su Hejun mentioned that person, he still had a gnashing expression on his face.
"The crossbow/arrow on your knee was shot by him!"
"How could I forget. If it wasn't for him, we would have accepted Da Tan's surrender at that time, and there would not be so many things now."
If she wasn't injured, she wouldn't be here to recuperate.
If she does not heal her wounds, Hu Ben's army will not pick up the peanuts, and the peanuts will not die.
If there were not so many twists and turns, she would have followed Tuoba Tao to conquer Mobei.
It was because of that person's repeated obstruction that Da Tan died, and most of the veterans of the Hu Ben Army who went with He Su and Jun also died.
A'Dan Zhiqi was seriously injured, his left hand was almost useless, and he might not even be able to draw a bow in the future.
When it comes to him, not to mention Su Hejun, it is herself, who has also given birth to an unnamed fire, and can't wait to cut him with a thousand swords.
"This is the strange thing. Rouran's surrendered clan said that the man was a Han Chinese that day, and he was the gentleman that Da Tan invited to the princes, but Wu Ti and others said they didn't know this man, they only knew that there was a man beside the prince. A Han master who specializes in teaching Chinese characters."
Su Hejun was born in an egret official, and naturally smelled a different smell.
"The women were captured, and all the nobles of the Rouran clan surrendered, but we searched all over the Rouran army and couldn't find the Han. Sir, how can you sneak away? Thinking about that day, this person was almost able to persuade the Rouran clan to make a woman a new khan, so it can be seen that he is not an ordinary gentleman."
He took out a crossbow/arrow arrow from his arms and handed it to He Mulan.
"This is what Kou Qianzhi took out of your knee that day. I asked him for it. His Majesty is proficient in weapons and has researched on crossbows and famous bow swords. When I saw it, I was greatly surprised. I stabbed him and smeared it."
He Mulan pinched the arrow with two fingers, read it carefully, and nodded.
"It's this thing. Your Majesty gave me the murder weapon. You can take it back and study it."
Nu is a high-tech weapon in this era, and the North is all rangers. Wei attaches great importance to weapons such as bows and arrows, not to mention the complicated craftsmanship of making nu and nu arrows, which cannot be supported by Wei's national strength.
However, the Han army in the Southern Dynasty was generally equipped with this thing, and even businessmen who traveled between the two places could sometimes prepare a few for self-defense.
Once the relationship between countries is involved, things become complicated.
It was five or six years ago that Liu Song and the Northern Wei Dynasty fought. At this time, the two countries were in the period of alliance, and there were many envoys. Tuoba Tao would not be naive enough to think that Liu Song would not make any small moves at all, but the two In a country in the honeymoon period, if one country's malice towards another country has reached the point of killing the other country's lord, this "alliance" cannot be trusted anyway.
Maybe the next time Wei State goes on an expedition, the Southern Dynasty will go north, and it may not be possible to take the Central Plains back. After all, these areas were taken away by the late emperor from Liu Song, and Liu Yilong dreamed of restoring the mountains and rivers.
While speaking, the personal soldiers that Qiu Lin Mozhen had sent to protect He Mulan brought over the hand/crossbow that Tuoba Tao had given her, along with a few arrows.
A few arrows are compared, and it is indeed the same batch of production.
This thing is not an ordinary bow and arrow, mass production is absolutely impossible, the bore of the crossbow/machine is different, the arrows are mostly short and straight instead of narrow and long, and some even have barbs. Fortunately, He Mulan's knee There is no barb in the arrow, otherwise she can get rid of her armor and return to the field early, and go home to be a lame retired female general.
"This gentle Chinese gentleman should not know that some accomplices have also mixed into the Montenegro camp, otherwise this weapon will not be exposed anyway. It can be seen that although these people come from the same place, But they may not know each other, and even the news is not communicated with each other."
Su Hejun squeezed the arrow and put it in his palm.
"I don't know what the identity of the Rouran man in the prison tent is now, and he still needs to reveal the hidden chess pieces to release them. This man has not been caught yet, and I don't know whether he escaped or hid, no matter what. No matter what, you have to be careful, and you must be on guard when you meet someone with a face."
When Su Hejun said this, he paused for a while, and his tone became a little heavy.
"I also know about Peanut's child. You were hurt like that at the time, and you didn't understand Rouran's words. You can't stop it from becoming like that. Don't blame yourself too much."
He had worked as a follower by He Mulan's side for a period of time to investigate corruption in the army, and spent a lot of time with Peanut.
Su Hejun can be regarded as a person who really has no identity in this era. When he was an egret official, in order to investigate things, he also pretended to be a slave and the royal family. It can be said that he has no psychological burden.
In a sense, he may be the only person in the entire army who truly regrets the Peanuts apart from He Mulan.
He Mulan felt sour in her nose when she heard the word "peanut", and said softly, "I pride myself on being excellent in martial arts, and I never want to drag others down. Even in a chaotic army, I am the only one who protects others, and there is absolutely no one else to protect me. My reason. Peanut is quite spiritual, and I still want to let him recover his freedom in the future and make a career by himself, but I didn't expect that he would die so wrongly because of me... "
Hatred rose on her face: "Su He-Jun, killing ghosts or peanuts, they are all unreasonable deaths because of slanderous things. If you have any news or need my help, just let me know. , I must be held accountable."
Whether it's Liu Song, Xianbei people, or anyone else...
Those who disregard human life and play with the fate of others are all her enemies.
"If I have news, I will definitely tell you."
Su Hejun patted her shoulder understandingly. It is normal for her to feel hatred when she encounters this kind of thing several times.
"You should recuperate now. I think this northern expedition will end in one or two months at most. When you return to the court with us to accept the reward, you can't still look sick, right?"
"And your personal soldiers, after the peanut incident, is it possible that you haven't figured it out yet? No matter how good you are in martial arts, there will always be times like today, even if a heroic general like Kumoti has seven or eight by his side. There are more than 100 personal soldiers, and there are more than 100 military guards around your Majesty. Although the personal soldiers cannot plan their own future, if you have a good future in the future, if you open the gate of the government, you can always be a commander, etc., and you will be envious of others. , it's better than fighting in chaos, you should think about yourself..."
Su Hejun sighed meaningfully: "Do you think you will be just a little tiger general when you return to the capital to reward your merits? It's too much for a young famous general like you to have few personal followers. It's absurd!"
He Mulan casually perfunctory, but his mouth is full of bitterness.
To be her bodyguard, the future...
It's really not good.
Unless she concealed her identity for the rest of her life, and became a general of the Shangzhu Kingdom like Tuobati in the future, adding an official and a noble, otherwise these personal guards would not have a general in the future, and they would only be able to take the path like Chen Jie later.
Hua Mulan's previous military achievements were rank 12, and she was only a fifth-rank general, so it was so easy to get rid of her armor and return to the field. If she is really high and powerful, who knows if Tuoba Tao will accuse her of "deceiving the king"
If she had unrealistic thoughts before, she now knows it, not to mention that a woman can hold a high position, even an ordinary military household, if she does not have enough background, no matter how high the military merit is, she will not be able to reach that high. position, otherwise General Wang would have already become General Fujun.
The more Tuoba Tao valued her, the more anxious and frightened she became.
Even if He Mulan didn't want to admit it, she had come this way in this life, whether it was the repeated humiliation after being injured, or the death of Peanut, or the wrong love of Helian Mingzhu, she felt exhausted both physically and mentally.
During the Northern Expedition, the ordinary herdsmen who were homeless and displaced made her even more depressed.
She no longer vowed to hide her identity to the end, become an official, and reach the pinnacle of her life, as she had just entered the fantasy realm. Instead, she felt a sense of boredom.
In her previous life, Hua Mulan fought for 12 years because Da Tan ran away and Wu Ti succeeded to the throne. Rouran continued to toss for ten years, and there were several battles during this period. She could not find a reasonable chance to resign.
In this life, Rouran has been destroyed, and there is no more power to infringe on the Great Wei. The Montenegrin Camp will inevitably reduce its troops on a large scale, or transfer to other frontier defenses, or turn Heishan City into a military town, which may be a good time to resign.
Both A'Dan Zhiqi and Qiu Lin Mozhen are alive, so is General Wang, Di Yefei and several others have come back from different paths and have found a better future than the previous life. Hua Mulan's biggest regret has been made up, she does not need to continue to fight to obtain Caibo raises their children, and as long as she finds out the truth about the death of Peanut and Killing Ghosts, she will have nothing to worry about.
'Where do I come from? What are you here for? '
This He Mulan had often asked her own reasons before, and it had been a long time since she had asked herself again.
Are you tired
Still numb
"Su He-kun, if you think I want to get rid of my armor and return to the field, how likely is it?"
He Mulan looked at the egret official and asked tentatively.
"Huh? When he was 20 years old, he was disarmed and returned to the field. What are you kidding, Hua Mulan?"
Su Hejun showed a ghostly expression.
"Even if you want to disarm and return to the field, His Majesty will not agree!"
"I… "
"Don't even think about it!"
Su Hejun's eyes lit up with anger: "Everyone in this world knows that Your Majesty has the will to unify, but now the Xia kingdom is not at peace, Beiliang and Beiyan are still lingering, and the veterans are old and weak, such as Cuomo. To mention such a young famous general, because it is a clan, it can't be of great use."
Seeing that He Mulan was completely unaware of what he represented now, he simply picked a clear idea:
"Hua Mulan, you have a humble status, but you happen to be trustworthy. You have great ability but no ambition. You have long been trusted by Your Majesty. You are a useful talent given to me by the heavens. I will keep my eyes on you and wait. You are soaring! A young general like you, a young general like you…”
Su Hejun's emotions were a little excited, making him gasp for breath.
"If Your Majesty asks you to disarm and return to the fields, those humble people in the Wei who want to stand out must be cold-hearted..."
He Mulan's heart gradually sank.
She already vaguely knew the reason for Mulan's success in her previous life.
He also seemed to have a vague idea of why Qiu Lin Mozhen was buried with the ceremony of the general, why Di Yefei was favored by Cui Hao, and Dugu Nuo and some tiger heads, but these people joined the court instead of the army in later generations...
"... Your Majesty is in his prime now, and what he needs is a young vassal who is also a genius, and He Mulan, you..."
At this time, Su Hejun had completely lost the laziness of being an egret official. Tuoba Tao trusted him so much, and it must have been justified to have been with him for more than ten years.
I saw him slapped his palm heavily on He Mulan's shoulder and said in a low voice:
"Hua Mulan, why did Your Majesty send Daochang Kou and the imperial doctor to save your life? Even if you are dead, you are also the horse bone that the daughter bought..."
"As a general body, you die as a general soul, there is absolutely no possibility of disarming and returning to the field!"