You died to save me, I promise you a lifetime

Night falls.

In front of the general's mansion, several low-ranking servants were chatting at the gate.

"Awu, what did you mean by what you said to me this morning?"

The servant named Awu said nonchalantly, "What did you say? I said a lot more this afternoon."

"You said I had no brains."

"You really don't have a brain."

"You still say?!"

"Just tell me what's wrong? I insist! You have no brains, no brains..."

"You don't have a brain, and your whole family doesn't have a brain!"

The two of them had a disagreement and started arguing with each other, which eventually turned into pushing, pulling, and fighting.

For a moment, a lot of people gathered in front of the general's mansion to watch the fun, and successfully attracted the attention of the spies outside the mansion.

Under the cover of night, two figures took the opportunity to slip out of the mansion from the back door, went straight out of the city, and took a shortcut to rush towards the border.

When passing through a jungle ten miles outside the city, Mu Chun, who was walking in front and had a very sensitive sense of smell and hearing, suddenly smelled a faint smell of ointment and heard a slight sound of a dead branch breaking.

In the jungle at night, besides the chirping of insects and frogs, there was this smell of medicine. There was only one possibility for this sound, that is, the two of them were ambushed.

Mu Chun stopped vigilantly, looked around, and reached out to stop Mu Rong who was following closely.

Seeing that their whereabouts were exposed, the men in black in the dark no longer hid and jumped out together.

"Leave what you have on you. Otherwise, you will die without a burial place tonight."

Mu Chun was shocked.

These people were dressed in night clothes and moved swiftly, which did not seem like an ordinary robbery.

But when the two of them left the house, they were extremely careful and made sure not to alarm anyone. How come they were stopped as soon as they left the city?

Could it be that someone doesn't want the General's Mansion to communicate with the border and has set up numerous checkpoints to block it?

After all, Mu Chun was a secret guard who had followed the general on the battlefield for many years. He was only panicked for a moment and quickly calmed down.

He bowed to the men in black and said, "My dear friends, we two brothers left the city overnight to visit our elder because we received a message from home saying that he was seriously ill. We left in a hurry and have nothing valuable on us. Please help us."

"What is your relationship? Where do you live?"

"We are brothers. My name is He Chun and his is He Rong. We live in Hejia Village, not far away."

At the command of the leading man in black, someone lit a fire stick and shone it on the two men's faces. After seeing clearly, he snorted coldly.

"Don't try to fool us. We know exactly who you are. You won't make it tonight. It's a dark, windy night, and we're just following orders. Don't blame us!"

After he finished speaking, he waved his hand and the man in black rushed towards the two men directly. Each move was fierce and aimed at the vital points.

The two men, already on guard, stood back to back. Mu Rong whispered to Mu Chun, "I'll hold them back, you rush out. The letter is important!"

Mu Chun shook his head. "I'm afraid it's a bit difficult. Their skills are not inferior to ours."

After saying this, he raised his voice, "Since you know who we are, you must be someone important. Could you tell me why you're intercepting us here?"

"You are about to die, so it's okay to tell you that we are not intercepting you here, but are secretly waiting outside the general's mansion.

You guys are quite skilled and have successfully avoided the spies outside the General's Mansion, but you didn't realize we were the ones lurking behind the scenes."

"Who are you? Why are you doing this?"

The leading man in black said as he attacked, "It doesn't matter who we are. What matters is that you can't send any information to the border. Hand over everything you have, and I'll leave you with an intact body."

Mu Chun continued to ask, "That's strange. Why can't we send messages to the border? What law have we violated by sending family letters to the border?"

The leading man in black lost his patience and shouted to his men, "Quick battle, quick decision!"

Suddenly, the men in black surrounded and attacked.

They were all highly skilled in martial arts. Although Mu Chun and Mu Rong cooperated well and used all their strength to attack left and right, they could not break out of the encirclement of the men in black.

After a fierce fight, the two men were no match for each other and gradually lost the upper hand and were injured one after another.

Just when Mu Chun thought he was doomed, he didn't care about the sword stabbing himself and reached for the letter in his arms to destroy it.

"Puff puff……"

After a series of sounds of hidden weapons hitting flesh, the men in black who were besieging the two men fell down one after another.

Another group of people flashed out from behind the tree. The leader instructed those around him, "Go check on their injuries. Do they need any help?"

Mu Chun and the other man were only momentarily stunned, then quickly expressed their gratitude: "Thank you all for your help! May I ask who your benefactor is? We will definitely come to thank you in the future."

"We are from Prince Zhan's Mansion, and this is our prince."

Mu Chun bowed and said, "So it's Prince Zhan. I will report this to the general, and the general's mansion will remember your kindness!"

War King Zhao Jingchen nodded.

"You're welcome! We were walking outside the city and happened to see the secret guards from the Third Master's mansion following you, so we followed them to see what was going on.

I just heard what you said and realized that you are from the General's Mansion. How are your injuries?"

"It's no problem, I can handle it myself."

"Let my people help you deal with it. I have some connections with your general and eldest son."

After the voice fell, several people lit fire sticks and went forward to check the injuries of the two men. After bandaging them, they returned to Zhao Jingchen and said, "Fortunately, they are just some flesh wounds, nothing serious."

Mu Chun and the other man thanked them again.

Zhao Jingchen waved his hand, "If you have something to do, go quickly!"

Mu Chun and the other man bowed and left. Zhao Jingchen whispered, "Go get some people to escort them to the border."

Several of his men hurriedly followed.

Zhao Jingchen glanced at the men in black lying on the ground. "I had no idea the Third Brother had such a long hand, daring to block the General's Mansion's connection with the border. Ah Zhao, what do you think he wants to do?"

The man called A Zhao was Li Mingzhao, Zhao Jingchen's capable bodyguard.

Hearing my master ask this, I stole a glance at his expression.

"The Third Prince and Lin Jinhao are very close. They are plotting Miss Mu's marriage while severing the General's Mansion's ties with the border. They must be planning some conspiracy."

Zhao Jingchen clenched his fists and said, "Keep an eye on them. I want to see what they want to do."

Li Mingzhao muttered fearlessly, "I told you to act earlier, but you refused to listen. Now that they're engaged, you're regretting it..."

Not wanting to be heard by Zhao Jingchen, who had excellent hearing, he narrowed his eyes and said something coldly, interrupting Li Mingzhao's next words.

"You're too idle, yet you dare to fabricate faults against me. Looks like I need to assign you a more busy task."

"No! Prince! Master! I will never dare to do it again!" Li Mingzhao begged for mercy miserably.

Zhao Jingchen kicked him directly on the butt.

"Why are you yelling and screaming? Do you think I'm going to live too long? Are you afraid that no one will know I'm here? Deal with them quickly."

Although Li Mingzhao was a prankster, he was decisive when it came to his actions. He took out a porcelain bottle from his arms and turned the people on the ground into pools of blood in a few strokes.

After confirming that there was no problem, he clapped his hands and quickly caught up with Zhao Jingchen and others.

The group headed directly towards the Zhan Prince's Mansion...