Ning Yan looked at the branch against her throat and sheathed her sword: "I lost. My lord is good at swordsmanship, and I am not as good as him."
Chen Tang showed a little pride.
He used a branch to perform a complicated sword dance and said, "Every profession has its specialties. After all, swordplay is not Tunan's forte."
Ning Yan smiled and shook her head, her smile slightly bitter.
He said helplessly: "My lord, you are wrong."
Her swordsmanship has always been good and it is one of her specialties.
Chen Tang asked back, "What's wrong?"
"Every profession has its specialization. Among the six arts of a gentleman, I once specialized in swordsmanship. However, it is true that I have not taken it seriously for many years. It is easy to let go, but it is not easy to pick it up again." Ning Yan lowered her eyes and stroked her sword. Her eyes were filled with deep love, as if she was gazing at a lover she had not seen for many years. Even her fingertips were filled with tenderness and tenderness. "I am cramming at the last minute now, and I don't know..."
Chen Tang really didn't know this.
In fact, if you ask Xu Jie, he might tell Chen Tang that Ning Yan's swordsmanship was indeed amazing when she was young. There were so many students in the academy, and few of them were better than her in swordsmanship. The few who were better had the advantage of being well-trained and young. However, as she got older, Ning Yan gradually accepted that she was destined to be an ordinary person as a girl, and subconsciously gave up on herself.
The sword she treasured was put away by her.
Occasionally, she would practice with Yan An when she was in the mood, but not often. She abandoned swordsmanship, and her talent for swordsmanship also abandoned her. After Ning Yan had condensed her literary mind, she picked it up again, but she could not find the flash of inspiration and the exhilaration she had back then...
Her swordsmanship follows the orthodox style, and is now just average, without the ethereal and stunning skill it once had.
"Cramming at the last minute?" Chen Tang noticed Ning Yan's wording keenly, "But Tunan is a scholar of literary mind, and most of the scholars of literary mind stay in the rear. People like Wuhui are heretics. Since you have put it down, why force yourself to pick it up again?"
Chen Tang's thoughts are different from Ning Yan's.
No matter what it is or who it is, since it has passed and has been let go, regret and compensation are meaningless. Of course, she is not trying to discourage Ning Yan from giving up. She just wants to tell her implicitly not to get stuck in the past, her future is ahead!
Ning Yan pulled out half of the sword in one swipe.
The snow-white sword reflected an indifferent face.
She said, "Because I want to kill someone."
Chen Tang knew who it was right away: "Zheng Qiao?"
Ning Yan: "I will personally avenge my husband's murder!"
Zheng Qiao killed not only her beloved husband and her daughter's respected father, but also her lifelong soulmate, confidant and fellow traveler.
"If I can't kill Zheng Qiao with my own hands, I feel I will never be able to overcome my inner demons." Ning Yan gripped the hilt tightly, her knuckles turning white from the force, her eyes filled with murderous intent, "I will kill those who Xingning didn't kill and clean up the mess he didn't clean up. I haven't dared to mention Xingning much over the years, because when I think of him, I will think of his final..."
Not even a complete corpse was left.
Ning Yan knew Yan An best. With his gentle temperament, he would definitely want to give Zheng Qiao a complete body, but Zheng Qiao was different: "I can't even pick up a piece of his body..."
"Teach me how not to hate Zheng Qiao..."
Previously, he had been suppressing his emotions, filling his time with government affairs, the trivialities of the academy, raising his daughter, and educating his apprentices. However, emotions are not something that can disappear by ignoring them. It quietly accumulated and gathered when Ning Yan didn't even know about it, and now it has grown into a bloated and weird monster.
When Ning Yan followed Chen Tang and stepped onto Chaoli Pass, one step closer to the place where Yan An died and the place where his enemies were, the monster finally couldn't hold back and rushed out. With a powerful posture that Ning Yan couldn't ignore, it dominated her whole mind.
Chen Tang listened quietly to Ning Yan venting her emotions.
When the other party's emotions calmed down, she asked Ning Yan with a little distress: "Tunan, do you have to kill Zheng Qiao yourself?"
Ning Yan lowered her eyes: "Yes!"
Chen Tang said in distress: "But—"
Ning Yan: "But?"
Chen Tang nodded: "Yes, but I have already reserved Zheng Qiao's head for Deng Xian, he needs Zheng Qiao's head to complete the way of the scholar... But you have a grudge for the murder of your husband..."
The palms and backs of my hands are all fleshy.
Not allowing Jiang Sheng to perfect the way of a scholar
Or should you not let Ning Yan avenge her husband's murder
As the lord, she felt a rare dilemma.
Ning Yan knew about Jiang Sheng's way of scholar, but she didn't know the channel through which he perfected his way of scholar. When she heard this for the first time, she was speechless.
Chen Tang sighed, "As the lord, I can't favor anyone in this situation. Well, you guys can grab it among yourselves."
Ning Yan burst out laughing when she heard that.
The haze between his brows was wiped away: "My lord, are you so confident?"
If the commander of Chaoli Pass was not Chu Yao's old acquaintance Wei Shou, it would be almost impossible to take it down at the current price given the military strength and natural defenses of Chaoli Pass. If they could win, it would be a pyrrhic victory. It would be even more unknown if they could kill Zheng Qiao...
In the hands of the lord, taking Zheng Qiao's head is as easy as taking something from a bag.
Chen Tang pointed at the moon with a branch: "Because there is nothing in this world that I can't pick except the stars, the moon and the sun. What's more, that's just Zheng Qiao's head."
Ning Yan sighed: "I envy you very much, my lord."
I envy her confidence in facing any situation and any person, and this uniqueness is also what Ning Yan lacks. Because of the overall environment, even though she has talents that are not inferior to Yan An, after she became a teenager, her passion and dreams were hit by reality, which made her edges and corners invisible, and she had more hidden inferiority and lack of confidence in her heart.
She once began to doubt and question her own abilities and talents, and even hated her gender. She didn't know why women couldn't practice, maybe God favored men? Since this life couldn't change, let her be reborn as a man in the next life. Even if it was still a chaotic world, at least she could protect herself, show her talents, and have a wider world for her to spread her wings and fly high.
When she knew the truth, she finally reconciled with herself.
Ning Yan looked at Chen Tang, who was covered in a thin veil of moonlight, with a gentle gaze, and said, "If there is really a chance to capture Zheng Qiao, I only want half of Zheng Qiao's life, and the remaining half will be fulfilled by Xiandeng."
Chen Tang immediately clapped his hands like a seal: "Tunan is so generous!"
Ning Yan did not answer, but drew her sword.
Chen Tang understood what she meant at a glance.
Ning Yan is willing to give up half of Zheng Qiao's life, but the lord wants to practice moves with her and help her sharpen the sword in her hand!
The next day, Chen Tang covered his waist and yawned.
Seeing her sleepy appearance, people who didn't know the situation would think she was fooling around somewhere, for example, Shao Chong. He had been looking for Chen Tang to eat three meals on time these days, which made Gu Ren and his sixth brother very puzzled. Were the pancakes poisoned? Why couldn't Shao Chong leave
"Mr. Shen, here I come again!"
He started waving his arms from a distance.
When he ran closer, he found that Chen Tang was different, and his expression suddenly became mysterious: "Where did Chen Jun find happiness yesterday?"
Big eyes show even greater curiosity.
Chen Tang yawned, “On the mountain.”
As he said this, he rubbed his aching waist.
Shao Chong was startled: "On the mountain? With a tent covering the sky and the ground?"
Chen Tang didn't hear it clearly, she was really a little sleepy, so she responded casually: "Yeah, what's wrong? Do you think I should go with a quilt?"
Shao Chong blinked, inexplicably feeling that it made sense.
"B-but... aren't you afraid of catching a cold?"
Chen Tang said, "It's okay. I won't feel cold anymore after I sweat."
Breakfast for two people has been prepared in the tent.
Each person had two large rice buckets of corn porridge, meat buns and white steamed buns as big as an adult man's fist, neatly stacked in two large basins. Chen Tang sat down, pulling the pain, gasping for air, frowning and rubbing his waist...
Shao Chong, who no longer has the IQ of a child, said: "..."
Chen Tang took a bite and found that the familiar slurping sound was gone. Shao Chong was acting strange today. He was starving when he came to eat before, and he looked like someone was snatching food from him. But today he changed his nature. Pancakes, steamed buns, and corn porridge lost their appeal to him? Adhering to the principle of shameful waste, Chen Tang muttered in his heart and turned around to eat what he didn't eat.
Shao Chong's face was a colorful black.
The left eye says "shock" and the right eye says "shock".
Such a majestic and powerful Lord Shen, could it be that one below? You have to know that there is no woman within a ten-mile radius. The person who met Lord Shen late at night in the mountains, under the sky and on the ground, is most likely not a woman. In other words, it is still a man.
So, so-
Shao Chong felt that his three views had been impacted.
There is no taste for food today.
While my soul was flying away, I was eating mechanically.
Outside the tent, Gu Chi was trying so hard to hold back his laughter that his apple cheeks became numb and sore. Just as Shao Chong's worldview was about to be shattered and reshaped, he ordered someone to pass the message on.
Chen Tang said, "Just let Wang Chao come in."
Gu Chi rubbed his cheeks and slowed down his breathing before entering the tent.
"My lord, this is the account book of this meritorious service." Gu Chi handed over the scroll with both hands. When Chen Tang put down the clapper to take a closer look, he glanced at Shao Chong, who was busy eating with only the back of his head visible, and smiled, "My lord, does he seem to be feeling unwell?"
Chen Tang said with a worried look: "I sprained my waist."
Gu Chi asked again: "When did it happen?"
Chen Tang said with a gloomy face: "Don't mention it, it's embarrassing to talk about it. I was practicing sword fighting with Tu Nan last night, and everything was fine at the beginning. I don't know what happened. It was clearly a flat open space, but suddenly my ankle sprained and my waist twisted."
Please, she is a woman who is capable of being a 15th-level junior superior and facing a 16th-level senior superior. She is one of the top fighters in the coalition, but she actually fell flat on her face and sprained her ankle and waist. It is too outrageous and unscientific.
Gu Chi said uncertainly: "Maybe I should ask Ji Shou?"
Shen Tang fell into silence for three seconds.
“… I am so lucky to be alive.”
Kang Jishou, the plague god!
!
The account book in her hand did not make her smile, and her mood became even worse.
Why
It wasn't that the allied army members had gone out to get her spoils. With Gu Chi watching over her the whole time, she wouldn't be short of a penny. She was in a bad mood purely because of Xun Zhen's loan repayment bill.
"…poor and unlucky, even the tribulations I have experienced are not as miserable as this."
Gu Chi smiled and comforted: "Everything will be fine after the worst."
Chen Tang: “Hehe.”
She doesn't even believe in punctuation.
After the spoils were divided, the alliance army started another meeting. As a representative, the leader Huang Lie gave a speech, summarizing the gains and losses of the battle of Chaoli Pass, and describing a blueprint for the future without tyrants to cheer everyone up. Then he got down to business and discussed countermeasures.
The troops were divided into three groups and captured half of the counties in Yanzhou.
Huang Lie learned from the previous lesson and was extra cautious in the allocation - these counties were good and bad, with different levels of difficulty, and it would take some effort to allocate troops. Chen Tang didn't care about it. Even if she conquered Yanzhou, it would not be her place to rule. It was one thing that the enclave was difficult to govern, and it was also easy to make wedding clothes for others. It was better to exchange for substantial benefits.
During this meeting, Shen Tang remained silent.
Until I heard Huang Lie's arrangement.
She, Zhang He, Qian Yong, Tao Yan, four forces are all on the same path. The reason is also ready. They cooperated during the attack on Chaoli Pass, and the tacit understanding has been formed. It would be troublesome to regroup.
Chen Tang looked embarrassed: "Isn't this too bad?"
Huang Lie was easy to talk to: "What do you think, Mr. Shen?"
Shen Tang shook his head: "No, that's it."
Huang Lie is a person who likes to raise poisonous insects on his body.
However, it is still uncertain who is the nourishment and who is the Gu King.
Tao Yan didn't know what he was thinking, but Shao Chong beside Gu Ren disagreed. He argued with Huang Lie: "In terms of tacit understanding, it is obvious that my elder brother and Chen Jun have more tacit understanding."
He didn't want to leave Shen Jun's kitchen.
Huang Lie forced out a not-so-friendly smile and patiently explained, "This arrangement is naturally to balance the strength of each group. If the young general and Mr. Shen are assigned to one group, it will inevitably lead to an imbalance in the strength of the other group, making it easy for the tyrant to target and break through."
Gu Ren tugged at Shao Chong's sleeve.
He then reluctantly accepted the arrangement.
After the meeting was over, Gu Ren left with Chen Tang, worried: "Mr. Chen, please be careful on this journey and take care of yourself."
Chen Tang asked: "How do you say that?"
Gu Ren said bluntly: "Tao Shenyu has always been at odds with you, Qian Shuhe has suffered at your hands, and as for that Zhang Yongqing... I am not afraid of Shen Jun laughing at me, Gu has never seen through him."
Because of his personality and behavior, he rarely fails to make friends. After getting along with others, he can always open his heart to them and turn them into his younger brothers. He has his own way of dealing with people. Zhang Yongqing is different from everyone he has come into contact with...
The intuition of scholars of literary talent has always been sharp.
He doesn't like Zhang Yongqing.
I always feel like there's something bad going on here.
Remind Chen Tang that it’s never wrong to be more careful.
Even if you become a villain, it is better than taking a big fall.
Chen Tang thanked him, “Thank you, I will pay attention to it.”
She hadn't figured out Zhang He's position yet, but Huang Lie's arrangement for Tao Yan was exactly what she wanted. As the lord, she had her hands full of flesh and blood. When she avenged Luan Xin, how could she miss Gu Chi? She wouldn't take the initiative to attack her allies, but if an ally broke the rules first, she wouldn't mind teaching them a bloody lesson!
When she returned to the camp, there was a gift bag waiting for her.
"Yuanmou?"
Chen Tang saw Yun Ce again, whom he hadn’t seen for a few days.
The other person was actually carrying a bag on his shoulders.
Are you planning to change jobs
That's not right. Yun Ce is Huang Lie's main rider after all. He is not very useful, but he is indispensable. He is so talented, why would he change jobs for no reason? Facts have proved that Yun Ce really did not change jobs, but he came here with his luggage to find Chen Tang.
After Yun Ce finished speaking, Chen Tang knew the whole story.
"Alliance Leader Huang sent you to help me?"
Yun Ce nodded sincerely: "Yes."