After a moment of silence, Ning Que shook his head with a smile, looked at her side face, and suddenly felt that her eyebrows looked extraordinarily elegant in the morning light, reflecting on her cheeks. To him, she looks much cuter today than she did the other day on the trip.

Of course, indifference and pride will not be as beautiful as calm and graceful.

However, he still thinks that the girl in the fire is the best-looking.

Hua Shanyue stared at the surrounding forest and found that there were many corpses on both sides. Seeing the bloodstains and other evidence of the fierce battle, he picked up a thin, handleless mini-sword, and he finally realized how cruel the assassin was last night. With this realization, the color on his face disappeared.

He motioned to his subordinates to prepare their horses and said, "Your Highness, the support troops below are already on the way. We should leave as soon as possible.

Princess Li Yu nodded in agreement, ready to attack under the protection of the armored cavalry.

Then Hua Shanyue glanced at Ning Que and looked at him coldly and ruthlessly, that kind of emotionless look made everyone else feel cold. He tried to guess the true relationship between the young soldier and the princess. However, no matter how hard he tried to find clues, he could not see any potential threat from this young soldier. As a result, his vision grew more and more indifferent.

The indifference in his eyes is actually a variety of probabilities, and Ning Que is well aware of this. Ning Que looked at his back and remembered the warmth and tenderness in his eyes before. Ning Que knew that he wouldn't cause any harm to the princess, he was just overprotective.

To be honest, the major general's strong love for the princess has nothing to do with a low-level soldier like Ning Que. However, Ning Que really didn't like the indifferent attitude expressed by Hua Shanyue's indifferent eyes. He knew that this indifference, for the most part, represented a powerful force that could support the culling operation at any time, but it also represented contempt.

Ning Que didn't like him, so he stood up and smiled at the princess who was about to ride a horse. Ning Que raised his chin and said, "Your Highness, in fact, I have always wanted to say something to you since we were in Wei City......

Hua Shanyue suddenly glanced back at the pretty princess sitting on the white horse. She turned around with a frown, staring silently at the young soldier standing by the campfire. She seemed to blame him, but in the end, she whispered, "I'll tell you when we get back to Chang'an."

Hua Shanyue asked in a low voice about the bodyguard captain's situation, and then set off. Hua Shanyue had a general understanding of the princess's experience after joining the company, as well as Ning Que's performance in dealing with the assassination attempt. He was silent for a while, then walked over to Ning Que's side. Then he said without emotion: "You have made a great contribution this time." We will reward you when we return to Chang'an... Well done, boy.

Ning Que took Sangsang to their dilapidated tent and began to clean up.

Sangsang struggled to tie the big black umbrella to his back. Then she suddenly looked up at Ning Que and asked with a frown, "Young Master, did you deliberately say 'you have something to say' just now?"

"Yes," Ning Que replied nonchalantly as he wiped the congealed blood from the blade. "That guy named Hanayama Moon is so hypocritical and boring, I don't like him. So, I just want to provoke him.

"Young master, what do you want to tell the princess?" Sang Sang stopped what he was doing and asked curiously.

"I don't know." Ning Que inserted his sword into the sheath and shrugged. "After all, I can't say stupid things like 'I've been in love with you since we first met in Weicheng' or 'I've been crazy about you,' ......"

"However, Huada may think so, and the princess will think so......"

"Idiots think in idiotic ways. I'm not surprised by that," Ning Que replied.

The little maid looked him in the eye and said sincerely, "Don't you think you're a bit of a hooligan sometimes?"

Ning Que lowered his head slightly and agreed silently.

Sangsang shook his head. After a few seconds, she looked at him again and asked, "Young Master, apart from you, everyone else in the world is an idiot in your opinion?"

Ning Que thought carefully while buttoning the sheath. After a long time, he replied earnestly: "That's not my problem. The truth is, there will always be a lot of idiots in the world who do stupid things. A privileged person like Hua Shanyue should not be regarded as an idiot. However, since he actually believes that he is in love, he is actually an idiot.

Sang Sang pointed his finger at himself and asked seriously, "So, in your eyes, am I also an idiot?"

Ning Que looked at her little black face and replied seriously. "You're not an idiot, you're just stupid."

Before the group left from the entrance of the North Mountain, an incident occurred.

Some of the cavalry of the Furuyama generals stayed behind to observe the scene. The assassin who dares to attempt to murder Princess Tang will definitely not leave any clues. So, they stayed not to find evidence, but to protect the body. When the reinforcements arrive, all the bodies will be transported back to Chang'an for burial. This is the rule of the Don Army - under no circumstances can you leave your companions.

They carefully lined up the corpses of soldiers in the forest. Instead, the corpses of the enemy were left where they fell, waiting to be burned to ashes. However, when it came time to burn the body of a middle-aged scholar in a turquoise robe, they hesitated. They knew that he was a Great Sword Master, so they weren't sure if they should show him respect worthy of his identity.

Hua Shanyue frowned slightly, and decided to bury this Great Sword Saint. However, at this moment, Lu Qingchen whispered to him. "This man has fallen into a demonic situation."

Hearing this, the major general's face suddenly turned cold. He looked down at the corpse again, this time without any respect in his eyes. He waved his hand unabashedly disdainfully, as if driving away a fly. Then he said, "Throw it into the fire and burn it with the rest."

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That morning, they crossed the North Hill Road from the foot of the North Hills, and at noon they joined up with the support forces. Under the strong protection of hundreds of elite cavalry, Li Yu, the fourth princess of the Tang Dynasty, and her retinue continued to march towards Chang'an. By this time, no one would threaten her, whether they were from the Tang Dynasty or one of the other empires.

A few days after the assassination attempt, Li Yu and the little prince of the barbarian tribe stayed in the carriage and did not appear in public.

Even with hundreds of skeletons, the surviving bodyguards and steppe savages continued to protect the princess around the carriage despite their injuries. Elder Lu Qingchen was in the second carriage. Seriously wounded bodyguards and barbarians sat in the carriages below. Ning Que and his little maid Sang Sang sat in their own dilapidated carriage, far behind the others.

On the border under the command of Gushan, all the heavy armored cavalry changed into light armor, and the marching speed increased significantly. Although the solid carriage in front could keep up and keep up, Ning Que's carriage could only barely keep up.

One of the horsemen returned to the carriage and cursed. "You're moving too slowly, hurry up!"

As before, after they left Wei City in the spring, Ning Que seemed to sleep on the axle of the carriage again. It seemed that he could fall at any time, and it was entirely up to Sangsang to support him with great effort. While being scolded by the cavalry, he just glanced at them and didn't say a word.

Looking at the back of the cavalry leaving, Sang Sang wiped the sweat from his forehead. She narrowed her willow-like eyes, and then said, "Young Master, they don't seem to like us.

"The word 'dislike' is used very well. If you say, 'We seem to have been forgotten,' it would sound very pretentious and gorgeous.

Ning Que walked to the first carriage, thinking about the princess he hadn't seen since he left. "For poor people like us struggling to survive, any expression of pretentiousness or ostentation is considered nasty," he laughs.

It's like a fairy tale, sitting by a campfire with a princess. Such an idea, whether in Chang'an or in the grassland, is just fantasy and will never be true.

In fact, if a young soldier from a border town happens to save a nobleman, they will be rewarded accordingly. And then they never interact again, that's the real story.

There are epic heroic deeds in the world. However, there are no fairy tales. If Romeo wasn't the son of a nobleman, but just a garbage man, Juliet would have been even more hesitant to die for him.

For these things, Ning Que has always been very clear. He knew that the girl he saw by the campfire was just a hallucination. Most importantly, he was never really emotionally touched. He only appreciated the fact that the princess could relax like this. Therefore, he did not feel any regrets.

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After the team was resupplied at the Gushan Headquarters, it did not rest for even a moment. Instead, they chose to continue moving south. The princess was obviously in a hurry to go back to Chang'an to find her lovely father.

Hua Shanyue did not misunderstand the relationship between Ning Que and the princess, because he had investigated Ning Que's background and found that he was just an ordinary soldier from a border city. Obviously, nothing will happen between them. Therefore, Ning Que did not care during his time in the Gushan Governor's Mansion.

After setting up camp for them to rest, Sangsang went to a nearby river to fetch water, wash rice, and kill some fish so she could cook a hearty dinner. The young man and the little maidservant scooped the food of the main course into a bowl and began to eat happily, adding a few sauerkraut and chili peppers. They don't stop eating until they're full.

A cold, stern man walked into their tent, but when he saw this, he shook his head and smiled. "We asked you to eat with us, but you refused. We thought you resented us. But, as it turns out, your dinner is much better than ours...... You are lucky to have such a clever maid.

This is obviously an exaggerated compliment. However, Sangsang didn't say anything. She just smiled and continued to eat, while Ning Que felt that this was an obvious fact.

This person's name is Peng Guotao, and he was the leader of the bodyguards of the Tang Dynasty. He excelled in the bloody battles on the North Mountain Road and won the trust of the princess. He took his subordinates and followed the princess to the grassland. On the way back, they encountered several ambushes. He was left with only seven loyal subordinates, much to his deep grief.