C41 (1/2)

”If I appear together with the general in front of everyone, it will definitely arouse their suspicion. A commoner, a country woman, who has lost her husband, is not afraid of gossip or gossip. Since the general is not married yet, his reputation must not be tarnished. ”

After hearing Su Zhi's words, Xiao Qian turned to look at her, a faint smile on his face, ”Remember, you did leave the camp tonight, but you went back before the incident happened. You don't know anything about what just happened. For the sake of safety, I will personally send you back. I will return to camp after dawn. ”You understand?”

Su Zhi nodded as if she didn't quite understand. She listened to his arrangements and was escorted back to the tent, unharmed.

Something had happened in the army, and the night was not peaceful.

The two children were frightened and woke up early.

The little bun wailed incessantly as he curled up in his big brother's arms, shouting for his mother.

A Jin didn't know what was going on outside. When she woke up, she felt unsettled even if she didn't see her mother. Seeing the ruckus outside and not daring to go out, she could only coax the little bean bag and wait for her mother to come back.

When Su Zhi sneaked back to the camp, the guards had already changed. She said that they had just left and were quite frightened when she saw a few flashes of fire in the sky. She quickly came back.

Hearing her words, the gatekeeper wasn't surprised at all.

Su Zhi heaved a sigh of relief. Thankfully, they had swapped people before and after, so she could just say whatever she wanted.

When she entered the barracks, she could hear the little girl's crying from a short distance away. She quickly ran back.

Su Zhi opened the tent and saw that both of her eyes were swollen like peaches. Even A Jin's eyes were red.

When the two kids saw that she had returned, they tightly embraced the woman on her left and right. The two kids' actions pained Su Zhi to death. It was only after a long while did they console the child.

As she lay on the bed, Su Zhi's mind was still not at peace. She did not know how Xiao Qian was doing.

He kept tossing and turning until daybreak, unable to sleep soundly.

The next day, the sun had just risen.

Su Zhi stared at her sleepy eyes as she got out of bed to get busy with her meals. All of the soldiers who had gone out to search the back mountain had returned, and even Tan Zhao, who had been searching all night, had returned.

She asked about Xiao Qian's whereabouts in private, but no one knew. She only knew that the general had gone in the direction of the Huns and hadn't come back yet.

Su Zhi was a little worried about Xiao Qian, who hadn't returned for an entire night. She was the one who had caused the disaster, which was why she had implicated him.

Thinking about it, he felt guilty. As a great general, given how powerful the other party was, when had he ever felt aggrieved about not being able to return to the camp?

She specifically left some food for Xiao Qian, absent-mindedly cleaning up the leftovers. Her heart was completely focused on the back mountain, and she didn't know where Xiao Qian would return from.

Liu Zhong stood to the side and helped her. When he saw that she was still in a daze, he joked, ”Is Lady Su thinking about the general?”

Su Zhi nodded mechanically and quickly shook her head, ”What nonsense are you talking about? Why aren't you working?”

Liu Zhong narrowed his eyes and laughed sinisterly, ”Speaking of which, it sounds strange. Last night, when the signal from the back mountain was ignited by someone, Vice Commander Qin went to the tent to look for the general and found him missing. ”Where do you think the general will go in the middle of the night?”

Su Zhi rolled her eyes at him, not caring at all, ”That's still hard to say. I must have heard some sound of wind and gone to the back of the mountain to investigate.”

Liu Zhong put down the slop bucket in his hand, rubbed his chin and said thoughtfully, ”That's unlikely. The general has never encountered such a situation in his life. He would not dare to give an order at the first possible moment. However, he did not do so yesterday. This only means that the general was not in the camp from the start, which meant that the Vice Commander had failed to do anything. ”

Su Zhi's eyebrows twitched and she acted like she was very busy. She lifted the basket of cabbage beside her and put it in the wooden bucket to wash.

”Hey, hey, Lady Su, you've washed this cabbage.”