After the failed attempt to pretend to be dead, the sickly child was favored by the treacherous mini

Due to his serious injuries, Han Zhou left the capital ten days later than expected.

Han Zhou, not as heroic as when he returned and still unable to stand, abandoned his warhorse and was carried to a carriage by Fuxi and several bodyguards. He left the capital as the apologetic people saw him off.

From then on, no one in this divine capital dared to kneel down and beg others to seek justice for Shen Jinmo.

Because even though he had made great military achievements, Hou Shizhong did not end up with anything good.

It had been raining for days, and today was finally a sunny day. Han Zhou did not sit in the carriage again, but sat in the front room of the carriage with a dogtail grass in his mouth, thinking quietly about everything that had happened after Shen Jinmo returned to Shendu.

Gradually, he figured out several different meanings.

With the methods used by Shen Jinmo and Xia Hong, Xia Che and Chen Luo would definitely have no chance of survival if they left the Divine Capital.

Of course, Han Zhou had seen Chen Luo with his own eyes.

Judging from the two golden locks that his elder sister borrowed money from him to buy, Chen Luo also successfully gave birth to the twins, a boy and a girl.

Thinking about Shen Jinmo's firm words about letting him live, Han Zhou began to feel that there was a third force in this world that he didn't know about.

The wind and rain started again. As soon as Han Zhou got into the carriage, a team of secret guards hiding in the bushes came towards the carriage with swords in their hands.

The moment Han Zhou drew out his silver spear and jumped out of the carriage, he saw a carriage parked several feet away.

The door of the carriage was wide open, and sitting inside the carriage was Xia Che, who was dressed in moon-white clothes.

The wind and rain gradually subsided, and four guards who were actually Xia Hong's spies fell to the ground. Fuxi fell in the front room of the carriage and fainted.

Xia Che got off the carriage holding an oil-paper umbrella, breaking through the continuous rain and walking towards Han Zhou with the moonlight all over his body.

The two carriages parked on the road were taken away, and Xia Che led Han Zhou towards the forest path: "General Xiao Han, long time no see."

Han Zhou, holding a spear and standing in the wind and rain, looked alert: "My lord, are you waiting for me?"

He was beaten to the point of losing the ability to move, and after several days of treatment he was already unable to leave the bed. Later on, his health inexplicably improved. Putting all these pieces of information together, it seemed that someone was deliberately trying to slow down Han Zhou's progress.

An oil-paper umbrella shaded two people. The two figures in the rain and cloudy weather seemed to be stained by the moonlight, transforming into a bright light in the darkness.

"Yes, I used some tricks to prevent General Xiao Han from returning to the East Territory. I apologize to General Xiao Han."

The situation in the eastern border has stabilized, and with Han Shu guarding the front line, it won't make much difference whether Han Zhou returns earlier or later.

"It's nothing. What have you been doing all these years, sir?"

Xia Che lowered his head and smiled: "Are you asking about family matters or national affairs?"

The word "Azhou" instantly lowered Han Zhou's guard against Xia Che.

The man beside him was no longer the free and easy king of the capital, but compared to the glorious crown prince described by his parents, he was less unattainable.

"I'll listen to whatever you say."

"In the first year after leaving the capital, I walked around a county that was severely affected by the disaster, hoping to save the hungry people, but I was powerless and could only watch the people sink."

"Later, we passed through Dingxi County and settled in a village. I took A'Luo with me and worked from sunrise to sunset with the people there. We lived a very comfortable life despite the lack of food and clothing."

"After A'Luo gave birth to a pair of children for me, we spotted the special terrain of that village and planted herbs with the people. Gradually, we began to have surplus food."

"Last year, when the war in the East Territory started, I took A'Luo away from the village and lived in a different place in Dingxi County for a while. I found a way to safety with them."

"Because the tax rate has increased, the people from the neighboring counties of Dingxi County who are struggling to get enough food have started to move to Dingxi County one after another. Now A-Luo is settling these people in Dingxi County."

"And I traveled around the counties surrounding Dingxi County, trying my best to expand the territory so that more people could have enough food and clothing."

Whether it was the newly appointed officials of Dingxi County or the people of Dingxi County, they all regarded Xia Che as their breadwinner.

Xia Che has become the master of Dingxi County who has never been revealed to the public.

Anyone in Dingxi County who wants to kill Xia Che will be killed without a trace.

With longing eyes, he looked towards the direction of Dingxi County.

Han Zhou had thought of thousands of ways for Xia Che to survive, but he had never imagined that Xia Che, who had never worked in agriculture in his life, would actually walk among the people and lead them to live and work in peace and contentment in this dilapidated country.

The word "wise ruler" took shape in Han Zhou's mind.

Han Zhou looked down at Xia Che's hand holding the oil-paper umbrella. The hand that had been kept fair in his memory had turned black. The countless thick calluses on the fingers and palms invisibly confirmed what Xia Che said.

He looked up at Xia Che's face and said, "Your Highness seems to have darkened a lot."

"Azhou has become stronger and has grown a lot."

"Your Highness, if a dark-skinned person wears white, he will look darker."

Xia Che smiled: "My wife likes me to wear white."

Han Zhou was speechless, and after a long while he adjusted his mood and asked, "Will Your Highness allow everyone in the Great Xia Mountains and Rivers to live like this tomorrow?"

Xia Che raised the oil-paper umbrella and said, "Che once promised someone, I dare not fail."

"What can I do for your Highness?"

"30,000 men went on an expedition to the East, and when they returned victorious, only 10,000 men remained."

Xia Che wanted the extra twenty warships and the twenty thousand Tiger Army soldiers trained in the war.

The carriage stopped beside Xia Che, and Xia Che handed the oil-paper umbrella in his hand to Han Zhou: "General Han, don't rush to agree. General Han can investigate what I said today."

He raised his finger and pointed to the four secret guards behind him who were dressed in the uniforms of the personal guards of the Marquis Zhongqin Mansion: "The people who killed General Xiaohan should provide supplies to General Xiaohan."

"If you trust me, you can trust these people too."

The four people standing behind Xia Che knelt in front of Han Zhou.

"Your Highness, do you know about the death of the Grand Tutor?"

Xia Che nodded.

"When will Your Highness prepare to restore order and eliminate the treacherous villains?"

"I will wait for a time when I can achieve the greatest victory with the smallest sacrifice."

"The soldiers and civilians are all my people. I cannot joke with the life of any one of them."

Han Zhou knelt on one knee in the mud: "The day of the expedition to the East is the day when Your Highness will arrive."

The moment he bent down to help Han Zhou up, Han Zhou leaned close to Xia Che's ear and whispered, "On the day of victory, I wonder if you can abolish Shen Jinmo's skills and allow him to change his name and live."

Han Zhou wants Shen Jinmo to be alive, but he wants Xie Nanxing to be alive even more.

Xia Che smiled slightly but did not agree.

He just turned around, got into the carriage, and disappeared along the tree-lined path.

Fuxi, who woke up in the front room of the carriage, rubbed his eyes and was so scared that he rolled off the carriage.

The moment he hurriedly got up, Fuxi rubbed his eyes again when he saw Han Zhou walking towards him with an oil-paper umbrella and two wild rabbits.

Could it be that he was dreaming just now?

"Why are you in such a hurry? Hurry and take care of these two rabbits?"

Fu Xi took the rabbit and said, "Master, are you going to catch the rabbit?"

"You fainted from hunger halfway through the journey. Shouldn't I, your master, save you?"

He tapped Fu Xi's hand with his silver spear: "Hurry up, your master is hungry too."

"It's raining so hard that we can't even light a fire to roast the rabbit."

Just a moment after the words were spoken, the rain stopped and the sky cleared up. A beautiful rainbow appeared among the floating white clouds.

This is the most beautiful sunny day Han Zhou has seen in all these years.

He wanted to tell Xie Nanxing about this sunny day.