Chapter 70: Heli Remarried
"What are you talking about, Uncle Habu? I have only met her for one or two times. How could I fall in love with her? I just feel that she is as beautiful as the Gesang flower on our grassland, making people unable to remove their eyes."
Bahu remembered the shocking glance he saw in the hot spring village again. It was not why even though he knew that Su Muwan had become a wife or even a princess, he still couldn't forget that scene.
"Why didn't I meet her earlier? I don't know what the man who can marry her looks like?" he murmured.
"Second Prince, don't worry, you will see him soon." Hab thought of the secret letter he received a few days ago and said confidently to Bahu.
Bahu was a little puzzled, "Why?"
"The eldest prince was defeated by Shangguan Yu in the first two battles, and leading the army was not good. Shanyu sent a message to him and asked him to return to his country, and you would replace the position of the chief general. So we have been anxious to find you these few days. The military order is in front of us, so we cannot delay here for too long."
Hab said as he took out the secret letter from his body and handed it to Bahu.
When he heard that it was a serious matter, Bahu became serious and had a special sign of the royal family on the secret letter. He opened it and read it in a hurry, and his face became a little bad.
My mother sent a message to her, saying that her father attached great importance to this battle and hoped that after he succeeded, he could do his best to clean up the humiliation of defeat in the previous two battles.
"Uncle Hab, when was the last time the two armies started a war?"
"It was four days ago when we returned to the Second Prince, so we must rush back now!"
The two armies confronted each other, and now the eldest prince has returned to the country. The Huns are like there is no master general. Once they fight again, they will inevitably suffer a little, so Hab is a little anxious.
"Okay, then let's go and meet who Shangguan Yu is!" Bahu wanted to see if Shangguan Yu is worthy of Su Muwan.
Hab, a big man of all sizes, didn't know why he was a little shy at this time, "Is there anything I don't know if I say it or not?"
"If you have anything to say, please say it directly." Bahu was a little curious when he saw him like this.
"Prince, we are the Huns. The rules of the Huns are naturally different from those of Dazhou. If you really like the Princess Yu, after you win the battle, you can go to Shanyu and ask the Emperor Dazhou to separate the two of them. Wouldn't it be better if you marry her into the house? What's more, I heard that Shangguan Yu had already had three wives before. Now, in addition to one princess, there is also a concubine. He is so fickle, so Princess Yu might not want to live with him."
Hab finished speaking in one breath, feeling his old face turned red. He taught the prince who had been raised since childhood to make things difficult for him.
But he saw that Bahu was obsessed with Su Muwan and was worried that he would be distracted when fighting, so he simply said it, which could be regarded as a motivation to win the battle.
In fact, what he said was not something he wanted to coax Bahu. The Huns have always been open-minded and are particularly open to matters between men and women.
After her husband died, she married her uncle, and even after her father died, her son married her father's concubine. This is not surprising. So even if Su Muwan really gets along with Shangguan Yu and marrys Bahu again in the future, this is normal in the eyes of the Huns, and the good girl is so kind to ask for.
If a widow remarries, there will inevitably be many gossips, and the ones who marry can only be people with worse conditions. However, on the grassland, some widows are more popular than unmarried girls. This can be said to be caused by some different customs and cultures of the two countries.
When Bahu heard Uncle Hab start to say these things, he wanted to stop him, but when he heard him say that Shangguan Yu was a little fickle, he began to have some thoughts in his heart.
He saw that Su Muwan was indeed a little frown, and he heard that she came here to find Shangguan Yu thousands of miles away, but Shangguan Yu only sent these few people to escort her back. Maybe she would be by his side and she would be really unhappy.
If this is true, then I really have to fight as Uncle Hab said!
After all, Bahu dared to guarantee that if Su Muwan married him, she would definitely be the only one in her heart, so she would not let her suffer any grievances, and would hold her in her palms and put her in her eyes.
So, he must defeat Shangguan Yu!
With such belief, Bahu led his group to the battlefield at the border.
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Su Muwan, who was rushing on the carriage at this time, would not know that she was not happy because she was worried about Shangguan Yu's safety. She was unhappy because of Shangguan Yu's "fiction". It can only be said that she was a misunderstanding by mistake.
Mo Yan had already sent a guard to rush back and report to Shangguan Yu that the Huns royal family appeared in Jinzhou City. He and Guo Dupu were afraid that they had two different intentions. The rest continued to take Su Muwan with him.
Su Muwan felt that if her group of people were really targeted and still swaying like this, it would be a bit eye-catching.
After thinking for a while, she decided that her group of people would dress up in disguise and confuse those enemies in the dark.
She first asked Mo Yan to change to an inconspicuous carriage. The carriage she is sitting in is made in the army. The style and specifications are different from ordinary carriages, and they are particularly conspicuous when walking on the road.
She was tall and still dressed like a man, pretending to be a rich businessman and took her concubine and guard to the capital to do business.
The concubine is naturally Xiao Liu. She is in her youth and has another pretty word for appearance. She is the most popular woman among the rich businessmen, so it is not conspicuous to dress up as a concubine.
Su Muwan asked Mo Yan and the others to change their clothes again. After changing their bodies, they all changed their identities and mixed in the carriages coming and going on the road. The more inconspicuous it is, the more inconspicuous it is.
The road I took when I came was not allowed to go. When I came, Su Muwan walked on the official road. Every other section of the road, there would be an official post. She held the sign given by Shangguan Chen and walked smoothly.
But if you still walk that path now, you will be afraid that it will not work. If the enemy ambushed at the post station in advance, his group of people will fall directly into the trap.
So this time they changed the path that merchants often took. Although they took a few detours than before, their safety is more secure.
Shangguan Yu was frowning at this time, flirting with a list of the army, and thinking secretly.
Just now, a guard who sent to escort Su Muwan came back. In the name of beating, he said that he was sent by the princess to deliver the letter from his family, but when he took it, it was Mo Yan's handwritten letter.
Shangguan Yu knew that there might be something important, so he hurriedly asked everyone around him to retreat, leaving only Lan Yu and the guard who came to deliver the letter.
He opened the letter and read it all at once. When he saw Su Muwan being assassinated, he felt a little worried. Although he knew that she was not injured at this time, he was still a little worried about her.
He knew something about the people of the Huns' royal family in Jinzhou City.
Since the last time, the Xiongnu camp took the initiative to provoke and rebel, the last time the Xiongnu camp has been dormant.
Later, the secret spy reported that it was because the Xiongnu Khan was defeated twice when he saw that the Xiongnu Khan was not happy, so he removed his position as the chief general and asked him to go back, and sent another son to him.
Shangguan Yu guessed that the royal family that Su Muwan and others saw was Maodun's other son.
But Shangguan Yu had no impression of Guo Dupu as Mo Yan mentioned. Who was this person and why did he send someone to assassinate Su Muwan?
When he saw this person, Shangguan Yu simply asked someone to get a list of all official positions in the military camps with more than a thousand households.
Finally, Shangguan Yu found the name Guo Feng on this, so why hadn't he seen him before?
Shangguan Yu called the person in charge of the list and pointed to Guo Feng's position and asked him, "Why have I never seen this Guo Duhu?"
The man thought for a while and replied, "The general doesn't know that Guo Duhu suddenly got into a bad disease before the general came, saying that it would infect people, so he is still at home and has never come out to see anyone."
Oh, why was the timing of his illness so coincidental? Shangguan Yu felt that there might be something else hidden in it.
"Has this Guo Duhu been here in Yumen Pass before?"
"No, Guo Duhu was transferred from the capital a few years ago. His wife and children in his family are still here in the capital. He is the only one in his mansion, so he is very lonely." The man felt a little pitiful to him.
If he was transferred from the capital, someone would have to instruct him behind him. Who would this person be? You must find it out quickly, otherwise I will suffer a great loss sooner or later.
"Okay, you go down first." Shangguan Yu asked the man to retreat after learning about the situation.
After seeing him leave, Lan Yu spoke: "Master, can they be the two people in the palace?"
Shangguan Yu shook his head: "I don't think they look like it, their hands can't be reached in the army."
"By the way, how did I ask you to check the account?"
Since Shangguan Yu came to this gate, he felt that the military's accounts were unclear. The soldiers were full of cabbage and radish every time, without even a little oil and water. Life was too difficult, but he remembered that his father sent hundreds of thousands of taels of military pay to Yumen Pass every year.
Where did the hundreds of thousands of taels of military pay be spent? Shangguan Yuming was not able to check it out, so he had to send Lan Yu to secretly check the accounts.
"I was about to report to the Lord. The account that the military report to the court was very watery. Take this daily meal for example. The number of accounts that the military report was enough to eat every meal, but in fact, the food that was put down for the kitchen was less than a fraction of the amount of the account."
Lan Yu said seriously. When he first looked at the accounts, he was very surprised. No matter who did it, he was too bold.
"What's even more excessive is that every soldier who died on the battlefield would have a bribe to his relatives, and each person would have a few taels of silver. Although it was not much, it was considered a comfort. Most of the people who came to join the army had poor family conditions, and a few taels of silver could make them live a better life.
But I asked a choreman who had a fellow villager who died in the battlefield and sent less than a tael of silver to his old mother."
Shangguan frowned. In fact, the original intention of the father to make this security deposit was to appease the people's hearts. The amount was not low. Who would have thought that someone would regard it as an opportunity to make a fortune?
This eating look is too ugly!
Chapter completed!