Chapter 8: Disputes

"I'm begging you! You can help me and give this letter to the Elders' Pavilion!"

Mu Zixin patted her cheek vigorously to make sure it wasn't her hallucination, only to see that Wen Li, who had been arrogant a few days ago, was now kneeling beside the carriage like a poor bird, looking eagerly at the messenger and begging. She clutched a letter tightly in her hand, tears glistening in her eyes.

"Elders' Pavilion, are you kidding me," the messenger said contemptuously, glancing at the four slashes on her clothes, "the Elders' Pavilion doesn't have time to deal with a fourth-rank officer. ”

"But my daughter is sick! very sick, I have to go home and see her!"

"Then you should go to the city lord and talk to him. ”

"The lord of the city won't agree! He knows that there will be no one to manage the military affairs of the last city after I leave! I want to write to the Elders' Pavilion and ask them to send some more people to ......"

"Hah, let the Elders' Pavilion send someone? Who do you think you are? Don't waste time, next!" the messenger pushed Wen Li away from him.

"Who am I?" Wen Li thought it was funny, she suddenly got up and jumped into the carriage, grabbed the messenger by the collar, picked him up and slammed him into the car, the messenger was startled, and the letter in her hand was scattered all over the ground.

"Who am I? I'm the officer in charge of the end of the city! I'm the deputy lord of the city here! I've been guarding this ghost place for nearly twenty years, and I was a soldier and went to battle when I was young," she said, lifting up her left trouser leg, revealing a rusty iron pipe above the gray boots, "Look? This is left over from the time I fought against the enemy! I am in charge of the military affairs of the end city, and I have worked hard for so many years! A soldier who has become crippled to defend the Xuan Realm, can't he even go home now to see his sick daughter?"

"I sympathize with you, but I advise you to discuss this matter with your city lord!"

"I said he wouldn't agree! No one who came here could go back unless the Elders' Pavilion approved it! If anyone escaped, they would be sentenced to death and thrown away!"

"Then I can't take care of it, you better think of other ways," the messenger impatiently pushed away the hysterical warmth, squatted down and picked up the letter on the ground, "The letter you wrote can't even enter the gate of Ziyun Mountain, let alone the Elders' Pavilion!"

Wen Li collapsed on the ground, her hands covering her face in pain, and the officers on the side carefully bypassed her and began to scramble the letters around the messenger again.

"Let's go, this kind of person doesn't deserve sympathy, this is retribution!" Ling Xiang walked towards the city without looking back, Mu Zixin glanced at Wen Li, who was lying on the ground and hiding his face and crying bitterly, and after hesitating for a moment, he also turned around and left.

"You can't blame her entirely, she's just a stupid victim, she's nothing in the eyes of the Elders' Pavilion. ”

"When did you learn to empathize with others?" Ling Xiang faked an expression of amazement.

"I didn't sympathize with her, I just told the truth. Ten years of life in the Biansai have made her cold and ruthless, she no longer wants to sympathize with anyone, but she also doesn't want to hate anyone anymore.

"Then please tell me the truth, with your skills, why didn't you escape from this place earlier?" Ling Xiang asked with interest, "You are not gentle, even if the smuggling is discovered, ordinary people will probably not be able to catch you." ”

Mu Zixin didn't respond to him, she also thought about escaping in the past, but what happened ten years ago had made her lose the confidence to escape, she could only stay and face it, taking guarding the border as atonement, and decided that she would die on the battlefield one day. But for this ending, she can accept it calmly, at least the darkness that can be seen is much stronger than not seeing anything, but whenever she is alone, she can't help but feel a little desolate when she recalls the life ten years ago......

"Sister Zixin!" A crisp voice pulled her thoughts back to reality, only to see Wei You really standing not far away and waving at her, it seemed that they had returned triumphantly, but there was almost no change compared to when they first came out of the sky. The servants on the side were happily brushing the fur of the Flame Tiger, and her big guard sat on the stairs carefully wiping his two giant axes, and when he saw Mu Zixin and them coming over, he also nodded politely.

"You Zhen, you're back so soon?"

"Well, it's weird, we thought we would stay for ten days, but it's only the seventh day. ”

After hearing this, Mu Zixin and Ling Xiang glanced at each other tacitly.

"It's not hurt, is it?"

"No, those shrimp soldiers and crabs will not be our opponents at all," You Zhen happily spun around and jumped on the wooden railing beside him, "I used to hear people say how terrible and powerful the burning army is, but after I really saw it, I realized that it was not as simple as they said, we beat them as easily as crushing small bugs, and people really like to exaggerate......"

"That's because you haven't seen the real burning army!Little girl, looking at you, the seven days outside the world should be quite peaceful. Ling Xiang crossed his arms in front of his chest and looked at her coldly.

You Zhen avoided his cold gaze and lowered his head to play with the bow ribbon on his cuffs.

"You're wrong! In fact, we fight them every day, but they are simply vulnerable," she said, raising her head and looking directly at Ling Xiang, "I know you may not be able to accept this, but this is the strength of our Makuryo Mansion......"

"Hahaha," Ling Xiang suddenly burst out laughing, he twisted his face to the side, laughing so breathlessly that tears were about to erupt from his eyes. I saw him pinching his waist with one hand, and constantly wiping his eyes with the other, and the sound was so loud that the people around him stopped what they were doing and looked at him in a daze.

"I don't know what's funny?" You Zhen was also stunned for a moment, she glanced at Mu Zixin, who was expressionless, and then looked back at the people around her.

"I ...... Let me tell you......" He gasped for breath, as if he was about to suffocate to death, and then suddenly stopped, and said sharply: "You stupid little girl, you think you have seen the burning army after a trip to the world? You don't know anything at all! This time you can only say that you are lucky, if you run into the real burning army, let alone your small shogunate mansion, even the Yasukuni army will not be able to defeat it!"

"Shut up!" You Zhen jumped down from the railing, the Jade Jade Sword in his hand flashed out in his hand, and the guard beside her immediately got up and picked up his big axe. Mu Zixin looked at the familiar sword with some surprise, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it.

"What, you still want to fight me?"

"You should take back those rude words!" she said angrily.

"Grown-ups!"

You really wanted to make a move, but a soldier suddenly ran in front of her and almost crashed into Ling Xiang's body again.

"What are you doing, what's going on?" Ling Xiang held him down, and the soldier ran sweating profusely and looked at Ling Xiang with a panicked expression.

"My lord, the people from the Elder Pavilion are here!"