Chapter 138 Finale
"Princess, we can't hold on for much longer."
"Wait a little longer."
A group of people with dishevelled hair and dirty faces, wearing rags, their slender jade fingers used to be stained with nail polish and rings, but now their ten nails have been worn flat, and their delicate fingers are covered with calluses. They roughly drew a map on the sandy ground, and Jiang Ruohua pursed his lips that were already dry and bleeding: "The thieves of Yan State are desperate to fight me to the end. We can't give them back the secret medicine we stole with great difficulty!"
"Someone is coming."
The sentry shouted in a low voice, and everyone immediately packed up their things, wiped off the traces on the ground, and evacuated in the planned direction at a gesture of Jiang Ruohua!
The race against time does not allow any mistakes. For this moment, they have been planning the action for almost a year. After separating from the main force, Jiang Ruohua and this group of scattered people accidentally fell into the enemy's lair.
Everyone is ready to fight hard, and if it doesn't work, they also want to send Jiang Ruohua out first.
But the enemy would not let them succeed. Jiang Ruohua decided to stay here temporarily. Her identity was special, and the enemy was determined to use her to deal with her father.
Based on her understanding of her father, this trick would not work. Her father would not give up his duties for her.
But she wanted to make the thieves believe that she could contain her father.
A bold plan was conceived in her mind. Facing the enemy's covetous eyes, she began to quietly arrange her plan without panic. In the enemy camp, she became a little girl who could only bluff and a villain who was desperate to survive. In the enemy's ruthless ridicule, all her actions looked like a trapped beast. Her wings were easily broken. She could only lie on the ground and struggled hard, and she became a laughing stock.
She was tied up and beaten in a miserable way. She was used to severely dampen the morale of the captured army.
The captured soldiers were trembling with anger. Jiang Ruohua endured the pain in her body and did not speak. She believed that someone in the army must understand her meaning. In the past few years of getting along day and night, she and the soldiers had their own unique tacit understanding.
She could not become a hostage to threaten her father, but she could never sit and wait for death. If she committed suicide to protect her own ridiculous reputation, wouldn't it be her incompetence?
Now that the battlefield has come, she vowed to earn fame and return!
Her ancestors endured humiliation and endured hardships. She, Jiang Ruohua, has never been a delicate girl. She can do this kind of thing. As long as she can bring victory to the Great Qi Dynasty, there is nothing that cannot be abandoned!
Deliberately pretending to be incompetent and ignorant, allowing people to bully and abuse, forgetting all the unpleasant words after hearing them, this is a skill that she trained early from her master, and at the right time, she will say hard words to make the enemy believe little by little that her father will definitely give up everything for her.
The captured soldiers did not get angry because of the humiliation. Although many people almost thought they had followed the wrong person and were full of disappointment and anger, fortunately there were relatively calm people among them, who immediately expressed their thoughts when the enemy was drinking and relaxing at night.
After several years of getting along, they actually knew Jiang Ruohua's strength, loyalty, and wisdom.
How could she be such a person who would give in so easily?
There must be something wrong with everything abnormal. Everyone gradually settled down, calmed down and waited patiently, and finally waited for the news from Jiang Ruohua one day a few months later.
The enemy was arrogant and believed Jiang Ruohua's acting in the past few months. They believed that the whips, punches and kicks were enough to wear out a person's will and make her spit out everything.
It was also this arrogance that allowed Jiang Ruohua to get a lot of news quietly.
For example, her father was commanding the army according to the marching plan she had set before.
This also gave Jiang Ruohua more confidence and improved her plan better.
The enemy was cunning. Although her plan was gradually being perfected and advanced, it was not smooth sailing. Every step of success cost countless people and many lives. Everyone was ready to die for victory.
Stealing intelligence and spreading it at the risk of death, everyone was trying their best to endure the pain of losing their brothers who had been with them day and night, just for the moment of victory.
"Go on!"
Jiang Ruohua threw the secret medicine in her hand to someone. Looking at the pursuers who kept appearing behind her, she ran in another direction alone!
The enemy did not think about it and firmly believed that she was going to find the main force with the secret medicine, and a large number of people followed her!
The stolen horses fell down exhausted after running into the strange rock valley. Jiang Ruohua rolled on the ground for several times, gritted his teeth and stood up to continue moving forward. The army kept approaching and gradually found something wrong.
A pair of scissors brushed past Jiang Ruohua's ear, and blood fell on the yellow sand. She reached out to cover her ears, and continued to cheer up and run deeper, not daring to stop for a moment!
It's almost there, it's almost there!
The valley is a mess, like a natural maze. Walking to a dead end, the enemy's mockery is close at hand!
"Jiang Ruohua, you can't run away!"
Several arrows have been shot at her feet, and she is exhausted.
The eldest prince of Yan State laughed wildly with a hideous look on his face: "Little bitch, the humiliation in the past will be returned a hundredfold today!"
Jiang Ruohua leaned against the strange rock and chuckled: "You couldn't do it in the past, and you can't do it today. Even if I die, the iron hoofs of the Great Qi Dynasty will definitely flatten this place!"
As if reflecting these words, arrows mixed with falling rocks rolled down from the top of the strange rocky hill. The hills on both sides were filled with soldiers of the Qi Dynasty. However, the enemy troops without the secret medicine were demoralized and beaten. Throwing away the helmet and armor, there is no more discipline to speak of.
He endured the humiliation and endured the heavy burden to steal intelligence and secret medicine, and also designed to lead the enemy into a desperate situation. Da Qi caught turtles in the urn, wiped out all the enemy troops, and won a great victory!
Jiang Ruohua smiled, watching the extremely arrogant eldest prince die under the arrows, and sat down leaning against the strange rock with some weakness.
She did it.
She really did it.
Great, they won this battle!
When he woke up again, he had returned to the camp. His father's eyes were red, and the feelings he had suppressed for so long were finally released at this time.
"Dad almost thought he would never see you again."
As the father and daughter embraced each other, Jiang Ruohua's eyes turned red, but he still pretended to be relaxed and said: "If I end up being wrapped in horse leather, I won't be ashamed of my origin."
A few veterans on the side wanted to lighten the atmosphere and said, "How can we? The princess has made a great contribution this time. We will move forward according to your plan, and you led people to sneak into the enemy camp to cooperate with others. Only this time can we It’s definitely a first-rate achievement to break off this hard bone so smoothly!”
Everyone had different opinions, but most of them had the joy of victory in their eyes. News of the great victory quickly spread back to the capital.
Everyone's hanging hearts immediately dropped.
The territories of several countries were merged into the territory of the Qi Dynasty. Those who can make decisions among the remaining people will temporarily serve as managers and return to Beijing with the army.
When Jiang Ruohua came back, she looked much different than before. She was calm on horseback. She was not the heroic girl, but a general returning from the battlefield.
After everyone returned to Beijing to report their duties, the eunuch beside Luo Fengming took out an imperial edict from the secret compartment and looked at Luo Fengming.
This imperial edict has been stored for several years and is slightly dusty, but it is a legacy of the late emperor.
There was only one thing written on it, which was to establish a queen for the next emperor, and the person appointed was Jiang Ruohua.
The late emperor was very shrewd. He saw early on that Jiang Ruohua was no ordinary woman. He guessed that the Jiang family might be glorious again because of this woman, so he left this decree early and used the most noble status in the world to come. Help his son control these powerful ministers.
This imperial edict was waiting to be read out as soon as Jiang Ruohua came back.
Luo Fengming also changed a lot from the past. He looked more mature and became more like an emperor. This imperial edict brought his thoughts back to that night a few years ago.
When I saw Jiang Ruohua again, she had indeed changed too much, or in other words, this was her truest appearance.
If he sends someone to read out the will, then everything will really be lost.
"Destroy it."
He did not follow his father's wishes and kept Jiang Ruohua by his side.
Instead, they made an exception and allowed Jiang Ruohua to be granted the title of military general as a woman, and let her inherit her family's title. This was the first time the Qi Dynasty was founded. It looked ridiculous, but no one dared to say anything.
It was Jiang Ruohua who stood up when no one dared to resist the enemy, and it was Jiang Ruohua who led the soldiers to victory. She deserved her title, and her dirty words made her appear weak. How could these self-proclaimed noble ministers be willing to do so? They lost their dignity again and no one dared to speak.
After getting rid of his fatigue and recovering from his injuries, Jiang Ruohua went to see his old friends after a long absence. Xie Shuyan's eldest child has learned to read and will recite the poems she just learned from her master in front of everyone. They also The relationship is as good as when they were in the boudoir, but after they got married, there was very little time to see each other again.
Halfway through the get-together, Princess Shangyang whispered: "Since you're not here, I actually get together with them less. Although I'm happy to meet them, I feel like we can't chat anymore."
"It's not surprising." Jiang Ruohua actually felt the same way. "We and they are probably walking on two different roads. We have different contacts, so we naturally have a lot less to say. But I think... no matter what, as long as we live That’s fine.”
"That's true." Princess Shangyang nodded, "They are all in love with their husbands and have children, so they are happy. Although there is less to say, everyone still misses others as before. enough."
The group of people chatted a lot about old things. As they talked, Liu Xiyun seemed to remember something important and mentioned it to Jiang Ruohua: "Do you still remember your third cousin?"
"Jiang Ruoting?"
Jiang Ruohua felt a little strange after not mentioning her for many years. After she entered the palace, Jiang Ruohua never paid attention to her. Now she doesn't know whether she is alive or dead.
"Yeah." This can be regarded as an old friend of everyone. Unfortunately, after recognizing Jiang Ruoting's face, all the sisters broke off contact with her. Liu Xiyun said, "I originally thought that she was being treated like that in the palace. It should have been gone a long time ago, but when I went to the palace and heard about it from my aunt, I found out that she was quite stubborn, and even after being bullied like that, she still dreamed of taking revenge on you one day. "
"She has been waiting so hard for our emperor to ascend the throne, but she is determined to get close to the emperor and wants to be the new emperor's concubine."
Jiang Ruohua smiled after hearing this. Today, she and Jiang Ruoting are completely different. Such an action that is destined to fail will no longer make her as happy as when she took revenge on the third room.
It turned out that it was already a thing of the past.
"Then what?" But she couldn't dampen the sisters' interest, so she continued to ask.
"She really overestimates her abilities. His Majesty also saw how she slept in the late Emperor's bed. How could he be fooled like this? He just thought that she was not Mr. Jiang's granddaughter. He allowed her to see her family again before she died. ”
Mr. Jiang was originally unwilling to come. Who would admit that he had such an embarrassing granddaughter?
Not only that, the other children in the third bedroom of the Jiang family were also very disgusted. In the end, it was the young master of the third bedroom, Jiang Ruoting's frail brother, who had no choice but to take a look at her.
Jiang Ruoting called her younger brother to save her and asked him to take care of the family relationship between her siblings. However, she did not expect that her behavior had already brought shame to the Jiang family, and her younger brother was no longer the frail and sickly younger brother. He had been taught very well by his father-in-law in the past few years. His bad habits have long since been corrected.
"It was my father and mother who did something wrong back then, but my sister persisted in insisting on it. It was because of her generosity that the eldest sister did not anger me. Today, the Jiang family can be like this, and I and other concubine brothers and sisters can be where we are today. It is all because of eldest sister's hard work." Among them, I don’t understand, when has my eldest sister ever offended you? Why does my eldest sister have to take something that doesn’t belong to you?”
Such remarks completely made Jiang Ruoting despair, and she was hanged to death in the cold palace with a piece of white silk.
Jiang Ruohua chuckled after hearing this. It seemed that the other brothers and sisters were also doing well now.
Not long after, she received a long-lost letter from her foreign family.
It was a letter from Zhao Yuexi. After reading it briefly, I could feel the change in her from the lines. She seemed to be more confident in her speech than before.
The Wen family talked and laughed about Zhao Yuexi. They all said that it was hard to believe that she could do things well when she looked so submissive at first, but they didn't expect that she would actually do something great later. She smiled gently, and now He looks like a good boy.
The letter contains greetings and relationship with Jiang Ruohua, as well as her own situation. Zhao Yuexi has found someone she can trust for the rest of her life. Now they run several shops together and live a happy life.
Jiang Ruohua also smiled and wrote her a reply. She had returned safely from the border and had won a great victory.
The previous dynasty was busy dividing these countries and taking over these people. For this reason, the ministers also began to worry constantly. After all, there were two completely different lives inside and outside the customs. How could the remaining people stop fighting? became a top priority.
At the celebration banquet, Jiang Ruohua met Luo Yu again.
For some reason, I felt like there was something different on his face.
The two of them walked to a quiet place without realizing it, and gently held hands together.
Luo Yu's palms were full of sweat and he looked very nervous.
Jiang Ruohua smiled and joked that he was nervous.
Luo Yu scratched his face and asked her if she felt her appearance had changed.
Jiang Ruohua nodded, but she couldn't hear what he was saying at this moment, so she didn't understand why.
"Actually... I think this requires you to keep looking at Luo Zhengyu's face. I guess you will always think of things from the first life, so I used some of my unique methods to make me... look more like him now. Hehehe...it's just about right, not as good-looking as Luo Zhengyu."
He looked a little mediocre, but Jiang Ruohua didn't care. Appearance was never the most important thing.
And the most important thing has already been obtained by each other.
Luo Fengming watched from a distance from behind, then returned without incident, and took the opportunity to mention the draft to the Queen Mother.
The Queen Mother was naturally happy and immediately ordered people to prepare.
It’s just that the resettlement problem of the people of several countries in the past was still a headache. Their habits were different and many things were difficult to do. Moreover, the people of these small countries were accustomed to the previous life. Most of them believed in respecting the strong. Compared with the officials sent to the local area, , they are more willing to listen to the words of soldiers who have led troops to fight.
And to say who made the greatest contribution in this war...
Luo Fengming is more far-sighted than his father and has more trust in loyal ministers.
For the first time since the beginning of the world, Jiang Ruohua was crowned king. During her lifetime, she would manage the land and people she conquered, and help these people better adapt to the life of the Qi Dynasty.
The courtiers did not dare to object, but they could not help but repeatedly asked the emperor to consider a marriage for Jiang Ruohua and to consider Mrs. Wang's choice to ensure her loyalty.
"I have made up my mind about this."
After traveling to the fiefdom, news of the sudden death of King Ying came from the capital.
At the same time, a man appeared in the fiefdom that made King Huijing fall in love.
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