newbobooks Chapter 253 - Tired
Chapter 253 - Tired
As dusk fell, Feng Yixuan, who had been guarding the palace for a day and a night, finally collapsed, scaring Song Yunshi who was standing behind him. Fortunately, after examination by the imperial physician, he was diagnosed with overwork and would recover without medicine after a few hours of rest. Heartbroken, Song Yunshi ordered people to carry him back to the bedroom, while she stayed on the city wall to continue guarding. She believed that he would wake up before she could not bear it anymore.
Looking at the devastated scene below the city, Song Yunshi's eyes became red again. It is said that a general's success is built on the sacrifice of hundreds of soldiers. It turns out to be true!
It turned out that her father and brother were so great. She had only heard words of praise from the people and officials before, but she didn't know that the price behind the praise was so huge.
"Yuntian, you must be okay!" Song Yunshi clasped her hands together and kept praying to the sky.
"Empress, please look over there..." The soldier next to him shouted excitedly, pointing at the many black spots not far away.
Song Yunshi suddenly opened his eyes and looked in the direction of his finger. His eyes were instantly filled with mist. He really brought back reinforcements. He immediately put his hands to his mouth and shouted loudly, "Jiujiu...Jiujiu..."
Feng Shijiu kept waving the whip in his hand towards Song Yunshi in response.
As he got closer and closer to the palace gate, Feng Shijiu could no longer shake the whip in his hand. Although he had seen many corpses along the way, the piles of corpses at the palace gate almost made him fall off his horse. His heart ached as if pierced by thousands of arrows, and tears instantly burst out. He was still too late!
When he climbed up the tower and saw that only Song Yunshi was there, Feng Shijiu was stunned for a moment and said hesitantly, "Mother, where is father?"
"He was too tired and fainted. He is resting in the palace now." After she finished speaking, she hugged Feng Shijiu in her arms and thanked God for letting her Jiujiu come back safely.
"Have you been waiting here for a long time as well?" Feng Shijiu pulled Song Yunshi away and stared at her red eyes.
"Actually, it's not very..." Looking at Feng Shijiu's sharp eyes, Song Yunshi swallowed the rest of the words back into her stomach, then nodded gently. When did her Jiujiu become so... so manly.
"Someone, send the Queen back to the palace to recuperate. Everything else follows my command." Feng Shijiu frowned and gave orders loudly to the people beside her, which shocked Song Yunshi so much that she widened her eyes. Her Jiujiu was different.
After Song Yunshi was sent away by the palace servants, Feng Shijiu, as the crown prince, arranged the deployment of all parties in an orderly manner. The restless military morale was also slightly settled, and the palace finally returned to peace again.
On the other hand, Feng Muyan kept searching the place where they parted that day, but he didn't see anyone after waiting for a whole night. He had to ride back to the city in disappointment, but unexpectedly found many people running out of the city with bags on their backs. After asking around, he learned that the Chu Nan Kingdom had invaded, and immediately rushed towards the direction of the palace without stopping.
When he arrived at the center of Nanyue Kyoto, in order to hide his tracks, he smeared his entire face gray and black until the scars on his face were no longer obvious before continuing on his way. However, he did not expect that when he was a few miles away from the palace gate, the Chu Nan Kingdom had withdrawn its troops.
Feng Muyan's many years of experience in fighting on the battlefield told him that this was definitely a delaying tactic of the Chu Nan Kingdom. If his guess was correct, Chu Nan would still send troops to Nanyue in the next half month, and it seemed that they wanted to fight a protracted war.
In order to sneak into the Chu Nan military camp to find out the truth, he decided not to enter the palace first.