There were many people watching on the street, and the noise was deafening. Mingyu's small stature was drowned in the crowd and was not noticeable at all. Lu Hao sat steadily on his horse and moved forward, and did not hear Mingyu's shouts.
Seeing that Lu Hao had already passed the inn, Mingyu did not give up and squeezed to the front, trying to call Lu Hao, but was stopped by the soldiers who were clearing the way and not allowed to approach Lu Hao. Mingyu had no choice but to stand there, jumping and shouting loudly: "Uncle Lu!"
Lu Hao sat on his horse without looking around. On both sides were crowds of people watching the army's march, but he didn't pay any attention until he heard vague and crisp voices of "Uncle Lu". Then he suddenly realized something. Turning around, he saw a dirty boy in the crowd holding a pair of scissors and shouting at him.
Seeing him turn around, the dirty boy's eyes brightened and he grinned, revealing a row of white, small teeth.
"Sir." Xiao Qi beside him shouted, "Why did you stop?"
Lu Hao walked all the way west, and now he looked back and followed the light. The golden sunset of early winter shone on Mingyu's face. In the blurred light and shadow, the only thing that attracted him was the pair of black and bright eyes of that dirty boy. He remembered, he knew the owner of these eyes!
Xiao Qi looked at Lu Hao in confusion. Lu Hao did not answer Xiao Qi. He jumped off his horse and walked towards Mingyu. The soldiers blocking Mingyu immediately stepped aside, and Mingyu hurriedly ran towards Lu Hao.
Lu Hao suppressed the trembling emotion in his heart and asked in surprise: "Why are you here? Where are the people in the mansion?"
Mingyu smiled sheepishly and shook her head, “This… is a long story. Now it’s just me and Lixiang.”
Recalling that the last time he saw Mingyu was in that dilapidated manor, Lu Hao naturally thought that the people from the Marquis' Mansion had escaped and abandoned Mingyu in the manor. Thinking of this, Lu Hao couldn't help but feel angry. Seeing that this was not the place to talk, and there were countless onlookers nearby, Lu Hao made a prompt decision and told Xiao Qi who came over, "You stay and take them to the military camp outside the city."
Xiao Qi was filled with surprise. He looked at Mingyu who was wearing tattered clothes, and then at Lu Hao. Lu Hao's gentle face was filled with a gentle smile, which frightened Xiao Qi's heart.
Lu Hao rode away first, and Xiao Qi followed Ming Yu to the inn to pick up Li Xiang. When Li Xiang learned that the man who came to reinforce the northwest was actually Lu Hao, whom they had saved before, her face was filled with uncontrollable surprise.
Of course, they couldn't put black mud on their faces when they went to see Lu Hao. After they washed their faces, they packed up and left the room. Xiao Qi, who was waiting at the door, was getting impatient. When he heard the door open, he raised his head. When he saw Mingyu, his eyes widened. He pointed at Mingyu and was speechless. After a while, he shouted, "I remember you! You are that pretty girl!"
Mingyu smiled and slapped away the finger that was about to point at her nose, correcting him: "Now you have to call me Brother Ming!"
Looking at Mingyu's clean and fair smiling face, Xiaoqi suddenly felt a little hot on his face. He turned his head away and walked in front, muttering stubbornly: "What brother Ming? He's just a girl!"
In Xiaoqi's eyes, Mingyu didn't have the slightest air of a lady from a marquis's mansion. She was just a girl about the same age as him. Subconsciously, he never considered her as the second lady of a marquis's mansion.
Lu Hao's military camp was stationed outside Baochuan City. From the city gate, the large tents stretched for several miles. Mingyu suppressed her surprise. With so many tents and so many soldiers, she wondered how long it would take to recover the lost land.
Lu Hao's tent was in the middle. It was already dark when Mingyu and his party arrived. Torches were lit in the military camp, and several candles were also lit in Lu Hao's tent, making the entire tent brightly lit.
"Uncle Lu!" Mingyu called him sweetly as she entered the tent. Now that she was in trouble and had to ask for help from others, she naturally could not put on airs like she did when she was in the villa. A woman can bend and stretch, and Mingyu implemented this life creed very well.
Lu Hao was about to stand up to greet her, but when he heard the crisp "Uncle Lu", his feet slipped and he almost fell to the ground. Is he that old? If I remember correctly, this little girl called him "Uncle Lu" several times today!
Under the candlelight, Mingyu's clean and pretty face was full of flattering smiles, and her voice was soft and sweet, but it could not hide the tension and uneasiness in her expression. Thinking of Mingyu's experience during this period, she must have suffered a lot. Lu Hao's heart softened inexplicably. It felt like stepping on soft cotton with bare feet, and his heart was full of warm tenderness.
"You haven't had dinner yet? I'll ask someone to bring it in." Lu Hao said with a smile. "It's just that the cooks in the barracks can't do anything good, so Second Madam can only make do with it."
Mingyu quickly shook her head, "No, no, I'm not wronged. During the days we escaped from Tianshui, Lixiang and I only ate dry buns and drank cold water."
Xiao Qi stared at Mingyu with eyes wide open. This little girl must be lying. How could such a delicate girl endure such suffering
Lu Hao's eyes dimmed, and he couldn't help but scold the dandy Master Bao in his heart. He wondered what kind of person would abandon his wife to fend for herself in a city that was about to be captured by the Tartars.
"Don't be afraid, it's very safe here. The Tartars haven't invaded again since they captured Gaoping. I'll send you away tomorrow morning." Lu Hao said softly. Thinking of those chaotic days when Mingyu and Lixiang, the two little girls, dressed up as beggars to escape, starving, he couldn't help but feel pity for them.
The candle flame burst out a spark, which was particularly loud in the quiet tent. Under the warm yellow candlelight, Lu Hao's eyes were warm and his voice was gentle. Mingyu felt a pang of pain for no reason. After so many days of fear, someone finally came to tell her "you don't have to be afraid."
"Well, I'll have to trouble Uncle Lu from now on." Mingyu smiled slightly and lowered her head to hide the red circles under her eyes.
Lu Hao still had a gentle smile on his face, but he didn't know whether to laugh or cry in his heart. This little girl was really something. When he needed a favor from her in the other village, she addressed him as "you" and "Lord Lu". But now that it was her turn to need a favor from him, her address had changed to the fawning "Uncle Lu". He really didn't know what to say.
Hearing the little girl calling him "Uncle Lu" sweetly, Lu Hao couldn't help but miss the days when she came and went at the other village with courage and a stern face.
While they were talking, Xiaoqi, who had gone to get food, came in with a large plate. Lu Hao gave up his tent to let Mingyu and Lixiang eat, and they would sleep in his tent at night, and he and Xiaoqi would squeeze in.
After Lu Hao left, Li Xiang asked in a low voice: "Is this okay? Lord Lu is a relative of the Marquis' Mansion!"
Mingyu naturally guessed what Lixiang was worried about. She reached out and took a big, white, soft bun and stuffed it into Lixiang's hand. She shook her head and smiled, "He shouldn't be a nagging person."
The food in the military camp was not as bad as Mingyu had imagined. It was cabbage stewed with meat, steamed buns and porridge. It was oily and filling, and quite good.
After dinner, Lu Hao's low voice was heard outside the tent, "Second Master, is it convenient for you to come in now? No skipping words.
Mingyu looked up. In the light of the torches outside, Lu Hao's figure cast a long shadow on the tent. He stood straight, just like those two days at the villa when he and his friends lived next door to Mingyu and stood straight in the corridor on a rainy day without looking around. Even when talking to Mingyu, he stood outside the door with his head down, observing etiquette.
Thinking of Lu Hao's gentle and handsome appearance, Mingyu couldn't help but recall a poem from the Book of Songs: "A gentleman is as sharp as a knife and as polished as a jade."
"Thank you, Lord Lu. Please come in." Mingyu said.
Lu Hao outside the tent also breathed a sigh of relief. Finally, no one called him "Uncle Lu" anymore, which made him feel hurt inside.
Seeing him come in, Li Xiang hurriedly saluted. Lu Hao waved his hand and smiled, "Miss Li Xiang, you don't have to be polite. After all, you and Second Madam are my lifesavers."
Li Xiang didn't dare to agree, and quickly said, "I don't deserve it, I don't deserve it."
Mingyu asked: "Lord Lu, I just heard you say that the Tartars did not invade eastwards after they captured Gaoping. Is that true
Lu Hao nodded and said, "That's true. The Tartars are now camping in Tianshui. There are not many defenders left in the northwest. We have fought with them several times and tried to retake Gaoping, but failed. I just got here too, so the information is limited and I don't know much."
Mingyu couldn't help but ask, "Why are you here to lead the troops?" As far as she knew, Lu Hao was an official of the Imperial Household Department and had nothing to do with leading troops to fight.
Lu Hao smiled, as if it were natural, and said: "In fact, I should have told you a long time ago. Although I am the Minister of the Imperial Household, I am actually the King of Shu's man. When the emperor passed away, the foreign relative Dong Xiangguo concealed the news of the emperor's death and summoned the princes from all over the country to the capital under the pretext of an imperial decree. In name, they were discussing the emperor's funeral and the crown prince's ascension to the throne. In fact, they took advantage of the princes entering the palace to imprison the princes and princes from all over the country. His Highness the King of Shu and I found a way to escape. We fled all the way west to Tianshui, turned into Sichuan, and returned to His Highness's fiefdom. It happened to rain those days and the King of Shu was unwell, so I decided to climb over the wall."
In fact, there was one more sentence that Lu Hao held back from saying: I met you because I climbed over the wall.
Lu Hao said it lightly, but Mingyu and Lixiang felt terrified. The danger was no less than when they escaped from Tianshui.
"Lord Lu is saying that the gentleman with you is His Royal Highness the Prince of Shu?" Lixiang screamed. Oh my God, a living prince. She was lucky to have saved a prince in this life!
Mingyu was thinking about something else, and asked hurriedly, "What about the others?" Seeing Lu Hao looking at her in surprise, Mingyu didn't bother to explain and said, "I heard that the prince was killed by Prime Minister Dong, so what about the people around the prince? Were they also killed by Prime Minister Dong? No more skipping words. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets on Qidian (). Your support is my greatest motivation.)
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