Emperor Ming had witnessed Tuhelue's power during the three years of war, and he wanted to let the Xuanzhou soldiers continue to stay in Yaozhou without military rations.

But this time he tried his best and achieved the opposite effect. By then, Tu Yanfan was already dead, the entire Southern Army was wiped out, and they were buried in Yaozhou.

His action made Mu Jingyi and the soldiers become disloyal!

After leaving Yaozhou, Spy Shadow went to Yuzhou to check the military rations and King Shuochang according to Mu Jinan's new instructions.

King Shuochang suffered a stroke, so she had to go to Youzhou to find Mu Jinan first.

In order to avoid suspicion from others, the spy created a fake identity for herself and came to her master.

The tip of the moon hung in the cloudless night sky. The strong wind blew the heavy dark clouds suddenly covering the moon, and the bright light was cast on the lantern hanging in front of the carriage.

The "faint thread" of light swayed wildly in the unequal darkness of the sky and earth, but it was only blown out.

The lantern fell to the ground with a bang. Cha Heng lit another lantern and hung it in front of the carriage. He looked around and found that only the few steps ahead were bright.

The long dark street spread out on the ground like a bottomless abyss. The night opened its destructive mouth and swallowed up all the creatures in the world.

The carriage sitting in the belly of heaven and earth was shaking, and the insignificant sound of the wheels gradually disappeared in the "boom" thunder.

As the strong wind blew open the carriage curtains, Mu Jinan saw a small house hidden in a secluded place. She got off the carriage and entered.

There are only a dozen or so houses in this courtyard. The ground is covered with weeds. The doors of the houses are cracked with signs of time, and the green tiles droop in the attack of the wind and rain.

Everything in the courtyard endured the destruction silently, except for the green soapberry tree, which was rare in the north. Its limbs were shaking violently, as if it wanted to protect its roots and branches, but half of its body was broken by the strong wind, and all its white jade petals were knocked off by the heavy rain.

After all, the fruit did not bear fruit at the beginning.

Cha Heng entered the house and pried open the floor, and several people went down the tunnel along the ladder. The tunnel was not long and had a small hole for ventilation. There was someone keeping watch at the end of the tunnel.

Two prisoners were tied to wooden stakes, with cloth stuffed in their mouths and blood all over their bodies. The strong smell of hemostatic herbs filled their nostrils.

Cha Heng used the blade of her sword to push the hair away from their faces.

A gray-haired woman slowly opened her eyes when she heard the voice, and she looked up at the veiled woman in front of her.

The woman's face showed that she was indifferent to life and death, or that she couldn't bear the pain and wanted to die:

"I said I didn't know whether the little girl was dead or alive. Someone threw her to me. You've tortured me for ten years and cut off my limbs. Why don't you let me die?"

As Mu Jinan took off the veil, the woman's bloody eyelids suddenly opened, and her sinful eyes opened as wide as possible in the darkness, and every glance was filled with unbelievable fear.

The torch shone on the woman's face, and her bloodshot eyes flashed with countless cruel whip shadows. The whips cruelly lashed the young and weak girl again and again amid the faint sound of thunder and lightning.

The heavy snow made it hard to breathe, the frost and cold forced the lonely and miserable child to freeze to death, drown, or die in pain, and the salt water poured from the feet of the vicious dog onto her unyielding head.

She didn't bow her head! She's not dead!

"Boom" the sound of the iron chain colliding violently on the wooden stake and the woman's back and abdomen. Every resistance she made was a sin that should be paid doubly.

The woman's huge body had become as thin as a stick. She no longer had the strength and arms to swing the whip, nor did she have the vicious fingers that used to drink Mengshan tea and Tusu wine and then throw the child into salt water. She had never eaten a piece of bloody mutton again.

Everything she has was exchanged for Mu Jinan’s blood!

The little girl who stood at her feet back then has grown so tall now. With her lower limbs cut off, she can only see Mu Jinan's eyes when she is tied to a wooden stake.

The woman stammered with her mouth blocked: "Little slave, is that you?"

Mu Jinan's eyebrows slightly lowered, and the murderous intent in his dark eyes sank into the unfathomable sea with his eyelids. The rippling sea surface concealed an irreversible force that could capsize the ship.

The sea was surrounded by mysterious fog. When the first evil boat came in, Mu Jinan jumped high into the sky and stepped on the evil boat. Her long boots crushed the woman's head heavily.

Just like when the woman pressed her unyielding head into the salt water, Mu Jinan did not give her a chance to breathe: "It's me, I'm still alive!"

Her injured mouth, where her teeth had been knocked out, was filled with the salt water of injustice that could not be defended. The whip wounds that penetrated deep into her bones followed her dying body as she sank, and she cried out in pain countless times during the long years when no one came to her aid.

Late every night, the little girl covered in bruises would ask for help from the grown-up Mu Jinan.

The little girl's scarred hands grabbed her white clothes and cried loudly: "Mu Jinan, have you grown up? Can you kill the evil man for me?"

Mu Jinan looked at the bloodstains on her white clothes. The blood was spreading bit by bit like a vast ocean and flooding towards her. She was about to drown and looked up at the dark clouds in the sky:

"The dragnet of surveillance and assassination is waiting for her to fall. They are waiting for this weak, lonely woman to stir up the world and the dynasty, and then cut off this useless emperor star one by one. The emperor star is just an ant, and her life and death are in their hands!"

The little girl looked at Mu Jinan who was in great pain. She hated people who made excuses like this the most. She strangled Mu Jinan's neck with both hands, just like her enemy was strangling her. She wanted to kill her immediately!

The little girl's tearless face was filled with disappointment and hatred: "Haven't you returned to Sheng'an? You can wear such expensive brocade, you wear the white jade armlet bestowed by the royal family, you have learned the most powerful martial arts, you can kill countless villains with just one move, why don't you seek revenge on the slave owner's wife?"

The withered soul that died in the winter snow repeatedly questioned the honey locust flower that bloomed in the spring, accusing her of being greedy for life and afraid of death, and of a fleeting and vain life of wealth and glory:

"Mu Jinan, I thought you would be a hero when you grow up, but you have been in Sheng'an for so long and have not yet taken revenge. You are not as brave as me who killed the evil dog veins. Are you afraid that you will have nightmares if you kill someone?"

Mu Jinan avoided her with tearful eyes. She raised her hand to help her up and apply medicine on her wounds. Her injuries were too severe.

The little girl pushed the hypocritical and incompetent girl away. She tore at her own rotten skin while pointing at Mu Jinan's red eyes and yelling:

"Your kind nature is a joke to others who are plotting to kill you! You are a lonely ghost who can't even avenge yourself, so how can you talk about stabilizing the country?"

"You have become a high official, a princess or a prince, but you still haven't avenged me. Do you want to die and then say sorry to me in hell? Mu Jinan, you are not worthy of being me. You are a coward!"

"You are just a hound in someone's hand, and you only dare to bite the darkness that has passed the bright road!"

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