Chapter 65 Military orders are hard to disobey! (Please collect! Please vote! Please invest!)
Ye Mingsheng, who was familiar with Xu Zhaojie's character, absolutely did not believe that he, who was always vindictive, could be so kind as to allow him to take his subordinates back to rest. There must be something fishy about this!
But what could this strange thing be?

Ever since the last time he discovered that Xu Zhaojie had sent this person to assassinate him, Ye Mingsheng has been thinking about how Xu Zhaojie would deal with him. Today, he already has a general idea in his mind.

First of all, as the main general, he had undoubtedly made a great contribution in the surprise attack on Liujing. Therefore, as long as he did not make any mistakes and gave Xu Zhaojie an excuse to deal with him, Xu Zhaojie would not deliberately make things difficult for him in public.

After all, although Xu Zhaojie did not want to capture the palace, the matter had already been done. Xu Zhaojie bowed his head in the face of the general trend, chose to compromise, and joined the plan of the Supervisory Office.

Therefore, according to the official statement, it was under his leadership that he launched a surprise attack on Liujing. Therefore, if Xu Zhaojie deliberately targeted him, he would be slapping himself in the face and would be easily criticized in the court...
Therefore, if Xu Zhaojie wants to deal with me, he can only use dirty tricks, or in other words, he can only untie other people's hands to kill me!
According to this line of thought, the most likely conspiracy contained in the military order given to him by Xu Zhaojie was from his marching route, which was about 700 miles from Liujing to Datian Pass, the eastern gateway of the Great Zhou.

Although he had an idea, Ye Mingsheng was not sure what Xu Zhaojie was going to do on his way back to China!

Although they will pass Huishan where some bandits are entrenched on the way, according to the intelligence Ye Mingsheng has now, the bandits in Huishan are not yet a force to be reckoned with, and the largest group has only a few thousand people. They pose no threat to him and his group of fully armed Great Zhou imperial guards...
Xu Zhaojie would definitely not be so stupid as to use this group of bandits to deal with him!

But if that is the case, then what exactly is Xu Zhaojie doing behind the scenes?

This question left Ye Mingsheng somewhat puzzled.

Although he knew that Xu Zhaojie had no good intentions in doing this and was definitely looking for an opportunity to kill him, after all, he was the commander of the Xuanwu Army and the dignified Marquis Zhenyuan of the Great Zhou Dynasty, while he was only a small commander of the seventh rank, and it was difficult to disobey military orders!

If he disobeyed the military order and did not set out from the palace tomorrow, it would undoubtedly give Xu Zhaojie an excuse to deal with him. So Ye Mingsheng had no choice but to take it one step at a time and report Xu Zhaojie's military order.

After receiving the order to go home, Ye Mingsheng's military camp fell into a carnival, and everyone's face was full of smiles. Since they rushed to Gongdu last year, they have been in Gongdu, a foreign country, for almost a year. They have been homesick and eager to return. The Great Zhou Imperial Army has strict military discipline. If it were other armies, I'm afraid there would have been groups of deserters long ago. The next morning, just after dawn, Ye Mingsheng led his troops out of the west gate of Liujing and walked on the wilderness outside the city. Riding on a horse, Ye Mingsheng looked back at this majestic Liujing City, which was like an ancient behemoth, and a complex feeling emerged in his heart that was hard to explain...

He had a premonition that it wouldn't be long before he would return here again, but by that time, his fate would be determined by himself, and no one would be able to drive him back and forth!
Because his soldiers were eager to return home and wished they could grow wings, they marched at a very fast speed along the way. Except for a half-hour rest at noon, they walked more than seventy miles in a whole day, walked out of Liujing's territory, and arrived at the neighboring Fengxi County!
As the sun set in the evening, Ye Mingsheng's troops set up camp in a small town in Fengxi County. Although according to the terms previously agreed upon between the Gongdu Kingdom and the Great Zhou Dynasty, Ye Mingsheng could ask this town to provide supplies free of charge, but seeing that the government treasury in this place was so empty that rats could run through it.

The people in the town were all dressed in rags, and many of them were naked. From the elderly in their sixties to the hungry babies, they all looked malnourished and skinny. Ye Mingsheng really couldn't bring himself to do it...
In desperation, Ye Mingsheng could only leave some loose change, collect a batch of sorghum rice from the town, and then organize his soldiers to go to the nearby river to catch some fresh fish, so that his soldiers could have a hot meal in the evening.

Late at night, Ye Mingsheng, who tossed and turned on the straw mat and couldn't fall asleep, simply gave up and walked out of the tent, wanting to inspect the sentries in the military camp.

But before he walked far, he saw Pei Zhixiu wearing a thick cotton coat, sitting on a huge rock, looking up at the crescent moon in the sky.

After watching Pei Zhixiu for a while, Ye Mingsheng didn't want her to be at peace at the moment, so he turned around and continued to patrol the military camp.
However, his footsteps woke up Pei Zhixiu who was admiring the moon not far away. She turned her head to look at Ye Mingsheng and said softly, "The moonlight in Gongdu is pretty good, right?"

Hearing this, Ye Mingsheng also looked up at the bright moon floating in the sky. There was no cloud in the sky and the moonlight was bright and flawless. Tonight was indeed a good time to appreciate the moon. He nodded immediately.

In this way, the two of them stood and sat, admiring the moon together for a while. After a while, Pei Zhixiu spoke up and took the initiative to break the silence between the two. She whispered, "Thanks to General Ye's care during this period, I was able to survive. I will remember the general's great kindness in my heart. However, traveling around Da Zhou to seek medical treatment has been my dream since I was a child, so... I want to walk around by myself and feel the beautiful mountains and rivers of Da Zhou..."

Pei Zhixiu's words struck Ye Mingsheng like a thunderbolt. He felt mixed emotions. After pondering for a few seconds, he looked at Pei Zhixiu with a complicated look and said, "What are your plans?"

"When my father was young, he left the palace and went to Shuozhou in the Great Zhou. It was because of that trip to Shuozhou that his medical skills improved and he became the imperial physician of the royal family in the palace. When I was young, he often told me about the prosperity of the Great Zhou and the flourishing of Fengzhou's medicine. So this time, I also want to go to Fengzhou to take a look." Pei Zhixiu replied softly:
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