Chapter Sixty-Eight: Broken Reputation
Li Zijun was about to continue and take further substantive action, when he suddenly saw panic and unconcealable entanglement in Jasmine's eyes! Li Zijun was poured a basin of ice water from his head, and immediately came to his senses, hurriedly pushed Jasmine aside, and quickly jumped off the bed.
"I've never been with other men except my husband, and my body is clean!" Jasmine saw Li Zijun's frightened appearance, thinking that he was disgusted with his body, and hurriedly explained.
Li Zijun is already her only hope, if Li Zijun refuses her today, she may never have a chance to save her sweetheart! At this moment, she completely forgot that she was still naked, kneeling on the bed and looking at Li Zijun with pleading eyes.
"That's not what I meant! you better put on your clothes first, and then we'll talk!" Li Zijun tried not to look at Jasmine, and put her clothes on the bed. Zuihou also used Jasmine's clothes to cover her upper body. Jasmine's current appearance is too tempting, and Li Zijun is worried that he will do something wrong again!
Seeing that Li Zijun's eyes had returned to normal, there was neither the desire to erupt nor the boredom of disgust, Jasmine sighed slightly, put on the clothes on her body neatly, and sat down on the chair just now.
"Tell me that you want to do this, I can only say try to help you find a way, but whether it can really solve your problem, I will judge after listening to it. I just hope you don't deceive me!" Li Zijun looked at Jasmine and said calmly.
"I want Childe to buy me, I want to use this money to buy a slave!"
"Your man?"
Hearing Li Zijun ask, Jasmine's cheeks turned crimson and nodded silently.
"How much does it cost to buy him?" Money is not a big deal for Li Zijun at present, and he is already ready to help Jasmine in his heart.
"One hundred gold coins!"
"A hundred gold coins!?What kind of man is your man?Imperial Marshal?" Li Zijun was taken aback by this number, and then he suspected that the woman in front of him was trying to deceive himself, and he asked with some dissatisfaction.
In the Zangbei Empire, a country where slaves are rampant, slaves are definitely the least valuable things, often those slaves who have no skills and look very ordinary, usually can't even sell a silver coin, Li Zijun really can't think of what kind of slave can be so valuable!
Unexpectedly, hearing Li Zijun's joking and blunt words, Jasmine actually nodded seriously.
"It seems that he is really a marshal!" Li Zijun snorted coldly, becoming more and more dissatisfied with Jasmine!
"Childe, I really didn't lie to you! Marshal Barron of the Aojin Empire, you should have heard of it, right?" Jasmine saw Li Zijun's increasingly angry expression, and she didn't think much about it, and Barron's name blurted out. But then she realized that she had lost her words and immediately shut her mouth.
"Barron?" Li Zijun immediately searched for this person in his mind.
"If you don't explain things clearly, it's hard for me to help you!" Li Zijun looked at Jasmine, who was speechless, and said coldly.
Jasmine didn't hesitate anymore this time, and mustered up the courage to tell the whole story.
It turns out that Jasmine and his man are both from the Aojin Empire, and his man is the most famous general of the Aojin Empire, Barun! It's just that Barron has changed dramatically at this moment, and he is appearing in the slave market of the Tibetan Empire as a slave to be sold.
"So, your husband is the same Barron general who caused the Fengqi Empire to suffer defeat more than ten years ago, but Zuihou united with the Fengqi Empire to betray Aojin?" Li Zijun asked in surprise when he heard Jasmine's narration.
This Barron general is also a legendary figure in the Youlan Continent, more than ten years ago, the Fengqi Empire attacked the Aojin Empire in an all-out way, and all the defense lines of the Aojin Empire at that time collapsed almost overnight.
At that time, Barron was not yet thirty years old, and he was only a lieutenant general in Hulunbei City. Hulunbei City is the Zuihou defense line of the Aojin Empire against the Fengqi army, and if the Fengqi army can pass through here smoothly, there will be no more danger in front of them.
At that time, Santa Cruz, the capital of the Aojin Empire, will be like a girl stripped naked, directly facing the offense of Feng Qi, a thug, without the slightest ability to resist. In the face of such a crisis, the court of the Aojin Empire was shocked, and the call for moving the capital became louder and louder.
And at this time, the main general of Hulunbei City gained strong confidence from there, and in the face of the menacing Fengqi Iron Cavalry, he actually fantasized about defeating the Fengqi army in a battle, and led his subordinates to take the initiative to fight. It's just that he never expected that with just one face, he would be defeated and die!
As a result, Barun was ordered to become the temporary commander of Hulunbei City, thus shouldering the heavy responsibility of resisting the Fengqi army.
What everyone didn't expect was that the Fengqi army was actually blocked by this little-known Barun in Hulunbei City for three months, which bought time for the Aojin Empire to regroup and mobilize the army.
Zuihou, with the support of the army, Barron began to take the initiative, he first attacked the grain routes of the Fengqi army continuously, constantly weakening the morale of the Fengqi army, and turning small victories into big victories. Later, Barron actually bucked the trend and won more with less, defeating the Fengqi army one after another, and driving the Fengqi Empire back to his own territory.
It was only because of the heavy losses and inability of the Aojin Empire to sustain itself that Barron was unable to achieve further victories.
But even so, after this war, the Fengqi Empire also lost a large number of soldiers, so that the Fengqi Empire did not have the strength to launch another large-scale war for nearly ten years.
It was also through this battle that Barron made himself the hottest general in the Aojin Empire!
The Fengqi Empire's attack on the Dongyu Empire this time has never been a major battle, which is also somewhat related to the great damage to the Fengqi Empire's vitality back then.
But I don't know Weishenme, more than ten years later, Barron got in touch with this sworn enemy of the year, and Zuihou was found internally to have ironclad evidence of his fornication and betrayal with the Fengqi Empire, and became the most suffocating traitorous general!
General Barron, who was extremely discouraged in his life, was picked off by his subordinates who were extremely disappointed in him, cut off his nose and ears, and gouged out his eyes after being tortured in the most cruel palace!
Soon after, Barron completely disappeared from people's sight! Li Zijun originally thought that he was already dead, but he did not expect that he would appear in the capital of the Tibetan Empire.
Li Zijun already felt that this matter was full of strange things, and when he heard that Barron had actually been exiled to Guayacan City, he felt that Barron's experience was a little illogical! But Li Zijun also thought of another thing at the same time, and he looked up at Jasmine.
"As far as I know, all of Barron's family members are official slaves, and his wife and daughter are even more direct, how did you escape?" asked Li Zijun embarrassedly.
In fact, Li Zijun knew what happened to Barron's wife and daughter, they were all sent to the official prostitute camp, and their lives were extremely miserable. So he didn't understand how Jasmine got out of where, and it wasn't just where anyone could come and go freely!
"In fact, with my identity, I can only be the woman behind him, and I am not qualified to really be his wife and concubine!" Jasmine suddenly said with a lonely look in her eyes.
"Ordinary civilian families shouldn't be able to cultivate such an outstanding temperament as you, so it's convenient to tell me, will you be qualified to marry him?" Li Zijun looked at Jasmine again and asked puzzled.
"I'm the daughter of the main general in Hulunbei City!" Jasmine said this, making Li Zijun's eyes immediately widen.
"You must be suspicious that I should have hated Barron, but Weishenme still has to work so hard to get here from the Aegin Empire to save him?" Jasmine said with a wry smile.
"Father's recklessness has put the empire in an extremely dangerous situation, and although the Fengqi Empire was defeated in the end, this did not reduce the empire's punishment for our family! My father's title was directly revoked, and my mother and our brothers and sisters were also stripped of their noble status. zuihou, we were kicked out of the original house. ”
"At that time, the oldest of our brothers and sisters was only in their teens, and they had no ability to survive at all!
"If my guess is correct, it was General Barron who helped you!" Li Zijun always felt that there was something wrong with this matter, but he couldn't think of the problem for a while, so he asked casually.
Jasmine looked at Li Zijun and nodded,
"For so many years, it has been General Barron who has secretly taken care of us. It can be said that without his help, we would never have survived until now!"
"It's because you're thanking him that you finally chose to make a promise?"
"In the beginning, I was really with him out of gratitude. But then, I found myself falling in love with him and becoming more and more obsessed with the moments I spent with him!" Jasmine said, her eyes glazed as she reminisced about her life with Barron, and her face suddenly flashed with happiness.
"Barron is a traitor, he doesn't deserve to be treated like this!" I don't know Weishenme, seeing Jasmine's appearance, Li Zijun's heart suddenly felt particularly uncomfortable, and this sentence blurted out. But then he felt a little abrupt and embarrassed, and he was ready to meet Jasmine's wrath. It's just that at this moment, he seems to have caught some clues, as if the mystery he has been thinking about is about to be revealed!
"Barron didn't betray his homeland at all, it was his homeland that betrayed him!" Jasmine said with a sigh instead of anger.
"Do you have any reason, or evidence?" Although Li Zijun's tone was very flat, the question seemed a little aggressive.
"Back then, when Barron led the army to victory, he was not more than thirty years old! At that age, a person was already a little young and vigorous, and just as he had just won a great victory, for the Aojin Empire, he could even be regarded as a building to the top! Under the spring breeze and steady progress, he was inevitably a little young and crazy!"
Moreover, because Barron was only from an ordinary aristocratic background, not only did he not have a strong backer to shield him, but he did not even have a person who stood up to remind him that Taoguang was obscure in order to protect himself! This also made him unknowingly offend many powerful people in the court! This also bought the foreshadowing for what happened to him today. ”
"Because of him, the Fengqi Empire, which has suffered huge losses, will certainly not let him go as an enemy easily! Bribery, framing, poisoning, assassination, and assassination, the Fengqi Empire is absolutely useless in dealing with Baron! At the same time, the Menglin Empire continues to fuel the flames, and the arrogant magnates beside Barron are also constantly fanning the flames, and Zuihou is even more directly falling into the trap against him!"
"The calm of the border of the Aojin Empire for so many years has become a straw for Balun, which eventually led to his tragedy today!"
"First of all, Barron, who was becoming more and more unhappy in the court, was driven out of the capital, although the court appointed him as the commander of the northern army, but in fact, the real power has always been in the hands of the deputy marshal, and Barron, who lacks cronies, has been completely hollowed out almost at the same time as he left the capital!"
"The idle Barron can only pass the time by patrolling the northern line, but even so, his opponents have not let him go!"
"Not long after Barron left the capital, he was found in his mansion to exchange letters with the Fengqi Empire, many of which showed that he was constantly betraying the motherland to the Empire! This has also become ironclad evidence that he has committed treason to the enemy!"
"The next thing is simple! I didn't know anything about it, and Barron, who was still patrolling the border, was arrested directly. Then a group of so-called angry henchmen appeared in time, and they swarmed up, and poor Barron didn't even have a chance to argue, and became what he is now. ”
"It's ridiculous to think about it! Barron's men are all in the south, how can they appear in large numbers on the northern border!? This is clearly Barron's enemies, worried that he will explain everything after returning to the capital, so he will secretly be ruthless and not give him any chance to make a comeback!"
"The emperor of the Aojin Empire, Bixia, actually saw through the so-called evidence of treason and was nothing more than a false accusation against Barron! It's just that he is facing the pressure of the powerful in the court, and it is difficult to help Barron get free, especially when he sees that Barron has become a waste, he has no need to offend those ministers involved in this matter. So Emperor Bixia pushed the boat down the river and convicted Baron of treason!"
"But out of public interest, although Emperor Bixia sent all of Baron's male family members to the border as slaves, and female family members were also filled into official prostitute camps, Zuihou still saved Barron's life!"
"Barron is already like this, what's the use of keeping this life!" Li Zijun shook his head and sneered when he heard Jasmine say this.
"After all, Barron can still live!" Jasmine said in despair.
"And then, how did Barron come to Puañacan?"
"Although Barron has become like this, his enemies still do not let him go, not only poisoning him, making him always weak and incapable of suicide, but also trying to get him here to be auctioned in the slave market, and of course no one wants to pay a high price of more than fifty gold coins for a waste like him!
"I can't get into that kind of superlative auction house, but I'm worried that if Barron lives in that environment for a long time, he'll go crazy if he doesn't die! ”
"This boss looks at me pitiful, and reluctantly offers a price of a hundred gold coins!" Jasmine said this, standing up and kneeling in front of Li Zijun.
"I beg Childe to be able to rescue him, and I am willing to promise you whatever conditions you make!"
Finally listened carefully to Jasmine's words, Li Zijun had roughly figured out the situation, he hesitated, and Zuihou still had to say the matter.
"Jasmine, in fact, you should have thought that the owner of the auction hall just said a number that he thought you would not be able to muster in order to make you retreat!"
"I can assure you with certainty that even if you have a hundred gold coins, you will not be able to rescue Barron!" Li Zijun said very firmly.
"weishenme, weishenme, he's going to lie to me? The boss told me that if I could raise a hundred gold coins, they would sell Barron to me!" Jasmine was actually a smart person, and she just couldn't turn that corner for a while. Li Zijun reminded her, and she immediately thought about everything clearly. Thinking about the grievances he had suffered during this time, and the fact that he had almost lost his virginity just now, Zuihou realized that all his efforts were just illusory, and Jasmine couldn't help but cry loudly.
Li Zijun looked at Jasmine who was constantly venting his inner anguish, and he didn't know what words to use to comfort her, so he just let her keep crying like this.
After crying for a long time, Jasmine gradually got tired, and she fell asleep on the head of Li Zijun's bed. Li Zijun sighed secretly, picked her up and laid her flat on the bed, and covered her with a quilt. Then he went to the corner of the wall with his knees crossed, replacing rest with cultivation, Li Zijun quickly turned off all distracting thoughts and urged the true qi to run in his body.
Late at night, Jasmine slowly woke up. Seeing that she was lying on Li Zijun's bed, she hurriedly checked her clothes and found that they were still on her body, so she was slightly relieved.
Li Zijun was worried that Jasmine would be scared when she woke up, so he didn't put out the oil lamp in the house, which also made Jasmine find him immediately.
Looking at Li Zijun's strange cultivation method, Jasmine frowned slightly at first, but then she showed a shy smile and secretly covered her pretty face with a quilt. It didn't take long for Jasmine to fall asleep again!
The next day, the two woke up almost at the same time, and Jasmine seemed to have become Li Zijun's maid, busy waiting for him to wash.
Li Zijun understood Jasmine's intentions, and did not refuse, enjoying Jasmine's care with peace of mind.
The two of them had breakfast in the room under the ambiguous eyes of the guy. After the guy packed up his things, Li Zijun took out a few silver coins and put them in front of Jasmine.
Seeing Li Zijun's move, Jasmine misunderstood his intentions, and immediately changed her face! Li Zijun didn't explain too much, and commanded:
"Jasmine, are you familiar with Guayacan City?"
"It's okay, if you want to go somewhere, I'm willing to be your guide!" Jasmine was still trying to get there.
"I have a special status, so I can't take you directly! Do you have any hotels with a good impression? You tell me the name of the hotel, and then wait for me at that place first." You take these silver coins first, and within three days, if there is no accident, I will go to look for you!"
"Childe, you don't want to get rid of me in this way, do you? Don't worry, even if you reject me directly, I can bear it!" Although Jasmine said it arrogantly, she was actually extremely worried.
"I promise you, and I will do my best, and I will never deceive you! But I will also show you that your request is not simple, and even if I go to you, it does not mean that I will be able to rescue Barron. If I really can't do it then, don't blame me for giving you a false hope!"
Hearing Li Zijun say this, Jasmine was finally relieved, and after agreeing on a meeting place with Li Zijun, she immediately packed up her things and rushed to Guayacan City first.
When Li Zijun was about to leave the hotel, he found that his mount also had obvious markings, and begged the man to buy him a horse again, and he rode the horse straight to Guayacan.
When rushing to Guayacan, Li Zijun suddenly had a feeling of worship, not that he had any faith, but that the road to Guayacan made him feel like this.
Not long after leaving the hotel, Li Zijun felt that he had walked up a 30-degree slope, and at first he could barely control his mount, but then he had no choice but to lead the horse forward on foot.
At this time, Li Zijun realized that the city of Guayacan had never been captured for so many years! The terrain here had been decided, not to mention attacking, even if it was to go up like this, it would not be a simple matter.
Li Zijun walked along the avenue, and at noon, he finally saw the gate of Guayacan. He took a closer look at the situation near the city gate, and all around him was calm, there was no tension, and it seemed that there was no change in the city of Guayacan.
It's just that Li Zijun saw a group of people surrounding a sign near the city gate, and out of curiosity, he also leaned over.
It turned out that this was a notice to invite a famous doctor, which said that the prince Mario had a poor appetite and hoped to hire a doctor who could cure the prince with a large amount of money.
Seeing this, Li Zijun finally believed the rumor he heard in Hohte City, it seems that there is really something wrong with Prince Mario.
Although Li Zijun has a certain understanding of Chinese medicine due to his cultivation, he is definitely not a miracle doctor! The top priority was to find the Night Elves first, and Li Zijun began to look for possible secret marks near the gate.