Takatsukasa’s arm was previously unloaded by Cui Xingzhou. Although it was placed back by his subordinates after escaping, the area where the silver needle had pierced his hand was still painful, and he only carried his hand to the dock head with a gloomy expression.
Looking back, the mist filled the other side of the sea, but the gentle voice of the woman speaking just now always sounded in the ear of Takatsukasa.
After glimpsing through a peephole on the hill, Takatsukasa seemed somewhat possessed and always couldn’t forget the woman.
So, with several subordinates who were proficient in Chinese, they went to land again and happened to see the decorated medical shed in Cangwu County.
When the woman got off the carriage, although she was wearing a bamboo hat and a veil, her graceful figure and the charm of her movements were undeniable.
Immediately, Takatsukasa rushed to queue up. However, when standing in line, Takatsukasa also heard discussions from villagers nearby, which revealed that this woman, who looked like an immortal, was the princess consort of Prince Huaiyang, the commander of the Great Yan.
Takatsukasa also feels normal and stunning. How could she be a flower without a master?
However, in their Japanese culture, there was never just serving one man with such a national charm. The stunning appearance can make a man willingly fight for it all his life.
He will always take the initiative to achieve the things that he likes. This woman with a husband, he was also bound to win!
With this in mind, the pricked hand acupoint was throbbing again, reminding Takatsukasa that this beautiful flower was not only guarded by the evil dog but also a thorny one.
However, as the wife of a general, it was normal for her to learn some martial arts from her husband, all of which are just fancy punches and kicks. It was not surprising.
However, he had been seduced by her beauty twice and only got caught in a moment of carelessness. Thinking of this, Takatsukasa felt a bit frustrated.
When he caught her and cut open her previous man in front of her, she naturally knew who had the right to control her!
Thinking of this, Takatsukasa felt a long-lost competitive spirit burning vigorously, ‘Cui Xingzhou, the North Sea will be your eternal burial place!’
Miantang didn’t know that someone had planted evil thoughts on her on a lonely island on the other side of the sea.
That day, after being carried by Cui Xingzhou to the carriage and then back to the mansion, Prince Huaiyang refused to discuss and said, “You are not allowed to leave the mansion again! Especially in that medical shed, where there are many people, aren’t you raising a bunch of dog eyes for nothing?”
Miantang hugged Xiaoyi’er and said, “Xiaoyi’er, look at your father, he’s like a roaring tiger. Let’s not be afraid.”
After speaking, she lifted Xiaoyi’er’s chubby feet and kicked his old man’s taut handsome face.
Cui Xingzhou’s handsome face was stepped with his son’s small feet. He took his son and pinched his mischievous wife’s face, saying, “Are you teaching my son to beat me to vent on behalf of his mother’s anger?”
Miantang smiled and hugged everyone in her arms, saying, “You are the prince of the Huaiyang Prince’s Mansion. How dare I? If you don’t want me to go, I won’t go. I will stay home with my sister to settle accounts.”
Cui Xingzhou finally calmed down and hurriedly left when the troops of the military camp came down to look for him. In the next few days, he won’t be able to come back and needed to take a good turn along the coastline.
Cui Fu heard that Marquis Zhennan was coming tomorrow, and there was no decent furniture in the courtyard prepared for him. So she picked out a few decent pieces of furniture from various courtyards in her mansion and replaced them. She also instructed the servant to smoke the room with lavender to disperse the insects.
After all, coming from afar was considered a guest, so it was not easy for Marquis Zhennan to come and shoot cockroaches with his shoe soles.
After tidying up, it looked bright and impressive, although it was far from the royal mansion in the capital, it was barely passable. So everything was ready, just waiting for Marquis Zhennan to come and make the most of everything.
Just two days ago, Cui Fu and Lord Li Guangcai made a simple ceremony, and Lord Li finally carried a bag and moved into Cui Fu’s courtyard.
Miantang remembered Cui Xingzhou’s words, and whether he could win over Cui Fu depended on Li Guangcai’s abilities.
So early that morning, Miantang got up early and opened the window to listen to the movements of the yard. Causing Cui Xingzhou to laugh at her, she said that she look like a virtuous person when picking up walls with the long-tongued women on Lingquan North Street.
Liu Miantang kicked him with her foot, signaling to remain silent and not disturb her listening to the wall.
On that day, Cui Fu and her new husband got up a bit late. It was Lord Li who got up first, personally discharged from the courtyard, asked for hot water from the little maid, and personally brought it into the room.
Later, after Cui Fu got up and had breakfast with Li Guangcai, he was escorted to the door and watched as he turned over and mounted his horse to go on a mission to the military camp.
That day, Cui Fu and Liu Miantang were embroidering flowers or making shoe soles together, with long-lost and beautiful smiles on their faces.
Liu Miantang once again believed in the life philosophy of the old women in North Street. If the ‘Congee” between the husband and wife did not boil and bubble, it would not be hot!
Cui Fu finally began to feel the happiness of her newlywed marriage, and without mentioning it, she listened to the news from the post station. According to her itinerary, Marquis Zhennan should arrive the next day.
The next day, Miantang obediently did not go to the medical shed but instead inspected the courtyard prepared for Marquis Zhennan. After checking that there were no mistakes, she waited for Marquis Zhennan to come and chat with him in detail about the suffering of the people in the North Sea who lacked medical treatment.
But from sunrise to sunset, as the sun was about to set, there was no sign of Marquis Zhennan coming.
Miantang didn’t want to wait any longer, so she returned to her mansion. Cui Fu saw her back and asked where was Marquis Zhennan. Miantang shook her head and said, “He hasn’t arrived yet.”
Cui Fu couldn’t help but furrow her brows and worry, “Why hasn’t Marquis Zhennan come yet? Will something unexpected happen? Xingzhou is not at home, and even Guangcai has followed Xingzhou without anyone to discuss.”
Servant Li listened and said, “Marquis Zhennan has always liked to stroll around. Maybe it is delayed when he sees the beautiful scenery somewhere. We should send some people to search for it again.”
After listening to Servant Li’s words, Miantang also felt reasonable, so she asked Fan Hu to dispatch a group of guards along the way and ride a fast horse to search.
At night, Miantang didn’t sleep soundly, always feeling like something was on her mind.
Marquis Zhennan has arrived at the boundary of the North Sea. If anything unexpected happens, not only will Cui Xingzhou feel sad and lose his best friend, but he also cannot account for the orphans and widows in the Marquis’s Mansion as well!
Just as she was daydreaming, she only heard the sound of horse hooves hissing at the entrance of the yard.
Several guards hurried in, and Miantang got up and quickly walked to the door, wearing a long shirt. Soon, Cui Fu also heard a voice and rushed over.
The little maid picked up the big lantern, and in the dim glow, she saw a person covered in blood on the horse’s back.
The man was brought to Liu Miantang and knelt immediately, saying, “Hurry… Go and rescue my lord, he has been kidnapped by the Japanese.”
This person forced his injured body to the Huaiyang Prince’s Mansion. After speaking, his heart relaxed and he immediately couldn’t hold on and fainted. Liu Miantang had an impression of this person, who was the guard of Marquis Zhennan and used to often follow him.
Liu Miantang quickly ordered someone to bring the military doctor for treatment, while also asking several guards where they found him. The guard said that they had ridden a horse for more than ten miles before discovering him on the road. At that time, he leaned on the ground with a sword and limped forward. On the way back, the guard told them about the attack.
Originally, the team of Marquis Zhennan was attacked on a hillside five or six miles ahead.
At noon, Marquis Zhennan and his guards walked up to the hillside when a row of arrows suddenly shot down their horses, and then a group of Japanese people rushed out to surround them.
Several guards fought hard to protect Marquis Zhennan and retreated, but eventually died due to being outnumbered.
The guard was hit several times in the chest and back and fell to the ground without anyone knowing. After nightfall, he slowly woke up and found himself surrounded by the corpses of his comrades and Japanese people, but the marquis was nowhere to be seen. He knew that the marquis must have been kidnapped by the Japanese and struggled to report to the Huaiyang Prince’s Mansion.
But he was also seriously injured. If he hadn’t met the guards of Prince Huaiyang, he might have died on the road.
Cui Fu was stunned and only said to Liu Miantang, “We need to quickly deliver the message to Xingzhou and ask him to come back to save people.”
Fan Hu was on the side wondering, “The prince and his companions have boarded a sea ship. If we send a ship to search for him, they will encounter the vast sea area at some point. I’m afraid that when the prince returns, he can only collect the body for the marquis.”
Cui Fu and Zhao Quan both grew up playing together from a young age. Upon hearing that Zhao Quan would die, she immediately shed tears at a loss and said, “This… If something happens to Zhao Quan, how can our family explain it to the Old Lady of the Marquis Mansion?”
Miantang frowned and turned back to the room. In a short while, she came out dressed in men’s clothing, with her long hair neatly tied into a men’s bun and wrapped in a headscarf. At first glance, she looked no different from the common men’s attire in the North Sea.
She pinned a short knife to her waist and inserted two daggers into the bandages of her leggings. Then she said to Fan Hu, “Bring a few guards and ride to the military camp immediately. Instruct and take some elite cavalry to the hillside where Marquis Zhennan was attacked. I will take Lu Zhong and the others to search for traces on the mountain first. While the dew was not wet and the traces were still there, we should be able to find their general direction along the bloodstains.”
As soon as Fan Hu saw the posture of the princess consort, she was about to personally venture into the danger. He immediately became anxious and said, “Princess Consort, just let us go instead. You must not take the risk alone.”
Lu Quan, who was standing by, chuckled and said, “How can you guys find the traces of those thieves? Today, their ancestral master, we, will let them know how much they weigh.”
If it were kidnapped, the brothers in the Mountain of Yang would also be considered familiar experts, and their leader would be the expert among the experts.
Even a few Japanese people in Japan may not have understood the essence of robbing people without leaving any traces, have they?
However, Lu Yi felt that Fan Hu’s words were reasonable and did not want the leader to go there in person.
Miantang waved her hand and quickly walked out, saying, “What are you guys dragging one by one? If you don’t leave, you’ll really be waiting to help Marquis Zhennan to carry his coffin back to the State of Zhen.”
T/L Notes: Hello everybody, how’s the reading going? Recently I am a little busy with work and uploading might be unstable. But do rest assured that I will finish this. Last but not least, hope you enjoy🥰
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