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"Mmm..." Yang Ying frowned slightly, then gently turned over, resting her small head on Wei Tingyu's right arm.
"Honestly! The Marquis has no regard for women!" On Wei Tingyu's left, Ren Ruyi, upon hearing the movement, looked up at Yang Ying's small face. She saw that there were still two tear stains on her cheek and said with a helpless sigh. Thinking about what had just happened, Ren Ruyi was a little worried about the young woman Yang Ying! But as for Wei Tingyu, he showed no mercy even though the girl was crying. He was truly heartless! Thinking this, Ren Ruyi even felt indignant on behalf of Yang Ying. And the embarrassment she had felt from being watched by Yang Ying up close had completely vanished from her mind!
"Mmm..." At this moment, the drowsy Yang Ying also heard Ren Ruyi's words. Her long eyelashes fluttered slightly, and she opened her eyes, looking at the two of them with a look of confusion and asking, "Marquis! Sister! What are you two talking about?" But her voice was as faint as a wisp of smoke, clearly indicating that she barely had the strength to speak.
"Nothing! Go back to sleep!" Wei Tingyu, of course, felt sorry for Yang Ying at this moment. He quickly smiled and said.
"Get some rest! We have to hit the road early tomorrow!" Ren Ruyi also nodded. At this moment, her feelings for Yang Ying were not much different from those for a biological sister.
"Okay!" Yang Ying responded softly, then pouted and fell back into a deep sleep. Tonight, she finally belonged to someone. The uncertain future that had been weighing on her heart for so long had finally settled down! Yang Ying's mind was much calmer. One could say that this was the most peaceful night she had slept since she was a child!
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The next morning, Wei Tingyu was, of course, enjoying the service of Ren Ruyi as she helped him get dressed. And when Yang Ying saw this, she naturally didn't want to be left behind and insisted on helping Ren Ruyi serve Wei Tingyu. Although Ren Ruyi felt sorry for the young woman Yang Ying for having endured so much last night and wanted her to lie in bed for a little longer, when she saw that she insisted on getting up to help, she couldn't persuade her otherwise and agreed.
As a little princess, Yang Ying had, of course, been served by others since she was a child, so she didn't need Ren Ruyi to teach her how to serve someone. The only problem was that she was not familiar with men's clothing, but fortunately, she learned very quickly. In no time at all, she had mastered the essentials. This scene made Ren Ruyi sigh with admiration in her heart. This young woman was truly a natural at serving men! If she had had this level of understanding when she was learning the contents of the books with her, that would have been great! She would have saved so much effort!
Of course, Ren Ruyi also took this time to discuss serious matters with Wei Tingyu! Since Yang Ying was now a true sister of the family, she was also one of Ren Ruyi's own people, so there was no need to hide anything from her.
"Marquis!" Ren Ruyi said while helping Wei Tingyu straighten his collar from behind, "We are getting farther and farther away from Wudu, and I'm afraid that those people hiding in the shadows are about to make their move!"
"Are there assassins?" Yang Ying, who was kneeling in front of Wei Tingyu and organizing his belt, was startled when she heard this and quickly asked. She was a little woman filled with happiness now and had not had enough of this life, so she was even more afraid of assassins than before.
"There must be!" Ren Ruyi nodded and said, but then she leaned her face from the side of Wei Tingyu and looked at Yang Ying with a smile, "But my sister Ying doesn't need to worry! No assassin can get past me!" After saying that, she glanced at Wei Tingyu, who had his eyes closed and hadn't said anything, then turned to Yang Ying and raised her eyebrows, "Besides, we also have the Marquis, don't we? He will surely not allow any assassins to harm my sister!"
"Mmm!" Yang Ying's face turned red upon hearing this, and she nodded shyly. The look in her eyes when she looked at Wei Tingyu was filled with admiration and adoration. Especially now that she was kneeling in front of Wei Tingyu, her expression of looking up at him with a face full of admiration was exactly that of a super fan girl!
Looking up from the ground to the sky! Looking at the moon from the stars! These two idioms, which describe a wife's obedience to her husband, now had a concrete manifestation in Ren Ruyi's eyes!
"It's not just assassins!" At this moment, Wei Tingyu opened his eyes, smiled at Yang Ying who was looking up at him with admiration, then reached out and lifted her chin, and at the same time, he said, "It's also possible that there will be an army!"
After all, this matter also involved King Danyang, Yang Xingjian, who also had his own power within the Da Wu army! And hadn't there been a plot in the original story where an army was involved in attacking the welcoming envoy team? So Wei Tingyu had considered this possibility long ago!
"An army?" Ren Ruyi was startled by Wei Tingyu's words. Then, her eyes darted, and she felt that this possibility was indeed very high; she just hadn't considered it before. But if an army was truly involved, then that would be a problem! Let alone herself, even Wei Tingyu would have a hard time stopping them! No matter how skilled your martial arts were, when faced with thousands of soldiers swarming up like ants, there would eventually be a moment when you would run out of strength!
But Ren Ruyi looked at Wei Tingyu's expression, and he didn't seem to be in a panic at all. This was because he was currently fully focused on flirting with Yang Ying, who was kneeling in front of him! Ren Ruyi suddenly felt speechless in her heart! It seemed that she had been overthinking it! This Marquis must have a backup plan or a countermeasure, so what was she worrying about?!
But the young woman Yang Ying was also completely unfazed by his words? The only thing in her eyes was Wei Tingyu, her ideal husband. Other matters, no matter how important they were, such as her life or death, didn't seem to be a part of her consideration at this moment! Thinking this, Ren Ruyi could only roll her eyes in her heart in silence!
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"As I expected, they've come!" Wei Tingyu looked at the two letters in his hand and sneered. Just now, he had received two carrier pigeon letters in succession. After opening them and comparing them, he found that the contents were almost identical, and he immediately confirmed that this information was true and accurate!
And at this moment, Ren Ruyi and Yang Ying, who were sharing a carriage with Wei Tingyu, also looked at him at the same time, their faces filled with confusion.
"Marquis?" Ren Ruyi couldn't help but ask out of curiosity.
"You can see for yourselves!" It was impossible to hide such a big matter from Ren Ruyi and Yang Ying, so Wei Tingyu directly handed the two letters to the two women. They took them and glanced at them, and their expressions immediately changed drastically! These two letters were clearly not written by the same person, but they both warned Wei Tingyu that there was an army of about a thousand people following the team! And the purpose of this army was, of course, to kill Yang Ying and Wei Tingyu!
"What is this?" Ren Ruyi frowned, glanced at Yang Ying, whose face had turned pale with fear, and then asked again.
"Two pieces of information! One is from the Empress! The other is from the Liudao Hall!" Wei Tingyu smiled slightly and then said, "So it should be credible!" He had already known from watching the show that this skirmish with an army was likely unavoidable. Now, he had received carrier pigeon letters from both Xiao Yan and Yuan Lu at the same time, which further confirmed the credibility of this information. Of course, the loyalty of Xiao Yan and Yuan Lu was also verified in Wei Tingyu's heart at this moment. At least, they hadn't disappointed him!
"We can abandon the carriages and supplies and travel quickly to outrun the pursuers!" Ren Ruyi thought for a moment and then offered a suggestion. This was because the welcoming envoy team was quite large, with over a dozen carriages! Their travel speed was actually very slow, not much different from a leisurely outing! But if Wei Tingyu took Ren Ruyi and Yang Ying and the six Jinyingwei and traveled light, they could definitely outrun the thousand pursuers!
"No!" However, before Wei Tingyu could speak, Yang Ying shook her head and said, "What about the gold? Without these hundred thousand taels of gold, how can Anguo agree to release my imperial brother?"
"Is the gold more important, or is your life more important?" Ren Ruyi frowned upon hearing Yang Ying's words and rebuked her, "As long as you're alive, you can always find a way. If the welcoming envoy dies on the way, then your Emperor brother will have no hope at all!" In her opinion, no matter how skilled Wei Tingyu's martial arts were, it would be impossible for him to protect Yang Ying from a thousand pursuers, as a person would eventually get exhausted! Moreover, these thousand pursuers might just be the vanguard to stall the team, and there could be more behind them! At that point, if they were surrounded, it would all be over!
The welcoming envoy team, besides Wei Tingyu's Jinyingwei and herself, only had about fifty to sixty soldiers who could fight! This number was enough to fight off some robbers, but they would definitely be no match for a thousand fully armed soldiers!
"Then..." Yang Ying was startled by Ren Ruyi's words, and she also felt that what Sister Ruyi said made a lot of sense. But she still turned to look at Wei Tingyu, wanting to hear his final decision! No matter what decision he made, as long as she was by his side, Yang Ying wouldn't be afraid of anything!
"We absolutely cannot abandon the gold!" Wei Tingyu thought for a moment, then a confident smile appeared on his face, and he said, "Give the order! We are not going to Shuzhou anymore; we are turning to Tianxing Gorge!"
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Half an hour later, on a high slope at the entrance of Tianxing Gorge, Wei Tingyu stood with Ren Ruyi and Yang Ying, observing the terrain.
"The leader of the pursuers is named Zhou Jian, and he is a close confidant of King Danyang!" Wei Tingyu said with a cold smile, "To be so impatient to act within Da Wu's borders! King Danyang is truly bold!"
"He is afraid that it will be harder to act once they leave Wuguo's borders!" Ren Ruyi also sneered along with Wei Tingyu and said.
"I never thought that my brother, King Danyang, would actually do such a thing!" And Princess Yang Ying frowned at this moment, but her face was filled with determination! At this moment, after half an hour of inner struggle and Ren Ruyi's explanation, she finally accepted the conclusion that King Danyang was a big bad guy!
"I will never acknowledge him as my brother again!" Thinking this, Princess Yang Ying even raised her small fist and shook it fiercely at the sky, making a face as if she was in an irreconcilable feud with King Danyang, Yang Xingjian.
Wei Tingyu and Ren Ruyi looked at each other and saw a hint of satisfaction in the other's eyes. It was truly not easy to get this young woman to grow up! It seemed that the saying, "Learning from others is slow, but learning from experience is quick," was an eternal truth, no matter what world you were in!
"This Tianxing Gorge is indeed a good place for an ambush! The Marquis chose well!" After Ren Ruyi sighed, she looked at the terrain below and nodded, but then she looked at Wei Tingyu with a worried expression. "But even if we have the advantage of the terrain, we only have fifty to sixty people. How can we successfully ambush over a thousand pursuers?"
This question not only confused Ren Ruyi, but even the young woman Yang Ying, who knew nothing about military matters, also thought of this.
"Who said we only have fifty to sixty people?" Wei Tingyu smiled faintly and then answered. Since the first day he transmigrated, he had been accumulating wealth! And now, it was finally time to use it! According to the system's binding, the Marquis of Jining's warehouse was the entry point for the system's recharge! As long as Wei Tingyu willed it, the real gold and silver in the warehouse could be directly exchanged for soldiers from the system's barracks to appear by his side!
Excluding the dowries that his wives and concubines had brought with them when they married into the residence, the money Wei Tingyu had earned from the perfume business alone had already reached three hundred thousand taels! And before, after he had conquered Empress Xiao Yan and Princess Yang Ying, he had even unlocked an "Imperial Sister and Sister-in-law" achievement! His system's barracks had also been upgraded to level six, and he could spend three hundred taels of silver to recruit an elite fubing! The accumulation of wealth over all this time and the upgrade of the system's barracks were all for this moment, weren't they?!
Thinking of the wealth of a hundred thousand taels of gold, how could Wei Tingyu feel bad about spending three hundred thousand taels of silver?
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And at this moment, at the intersection where Wei Tingyu had ordered the turn, the pursuer Zhou Jian and his thousand soldiers were stopped.
"General!" The scout officer quickly ran to Zhou Jian's horse and cupped his fists, saying, "According to the original plan, the King Li's convoy should have been heading toward Shuzhou! But there are no carriage tracks leading to Shuzhou!"
"Instead, the carriage tracks toward Tianxing Gorge are very deep!"
"They must have given up on going to Shuzhou and turned toward Tianxing Gorge!"
"..." Zhou Jian frowned upon hearing this. After a moment of thought, a smile of having seen through the enemy's trick appeared on his face, and he said, "It seems that the information has been leaked! But this kind of trick can't fool this General!"
"Listen to my order! The entire army is to turn toward Tianxing Gorge!"
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Again, at the high ground at the entrance of Tianxing Gorge, where one could overlook the entire situation in the gorge. Wei Tingyu sat on a temporary high platform, with a delicate table in front of him, right in the center of the high ground. Ren Ruyi and Yang Ying sat obediently on his left and right, pouring wine and serving him food! The convoy and the gold, under the protection of two female Jinyingwei, had already left this place, which was about to become a battlefield, through the exit of Tianxing Gorge and were camping in a forest a few miles away.
"They've finally arrived!" At this moment, Wei Tingyu's ears twitched slightly, and he said with a smile.
"They've arrived?" Ren Ruyi and Yang Ying were startled at the same time, and then their four little ears perked up. Ren Ruyi quickly heard the sound of horse hooves rumbling in the distance. Her hearing was naturally better than Yang Ying's. A little while later, Yang Ying's face became truly nervous, because at this time, she had also heard the sound of a thousand horses galloping, getting closer and closer. It made sense. The sound of over a thousand warhorses carrying fully armed soldiers galloping on the road could indeed be heard from very far away. Then, a large cloud of dust rose in the distance, and the distance was getting shorter and shorter.
Wei Tingyu reached out and grabbed Princess Yang Ying's soft hand, smiled at her, and signaled to her not to be afraid or nervous!
"Mmm!" Princess Yang Ying was startled, and then she gave him a sweet smile in return. And Ren Ruyi looked at the direction where the dust was rising with a calm expression, but her eyes were filled with excitement.
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"Stop!" Zhou Jian, leading his subordinates, rushed into Tianxing Gorge. He then saw the three people sitting on the high platform in front of them. Besides the red-robed woman on the far left, whom Zhou Jian didn't recognize, he recognized the people in the middle and on the right at a glance. This was because King Danyang had sent him portraits that vividly depicted Wei Tingyu and Yang Ying after they had disguised themselves as men! Seeing that his targets were right in front of him, Zhou Jian instead waved his hand, stopping the entire army. The thousand-plus cavalry, who were running at full speed, stopped within a short distance of a few dozen steps. This was enough to show how well-trained this army was!
What a shame! Wei Tingyu shook his head at this sight. These thousand people must be King Danyang's trump card for fighting for the throne!