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Chapter 323 Does Brother Duan like you?

As soon as they entered Duan Rong's tent, they pounced on them.

Zhao Yong and Duan Rong looked at Xiao Mu excitedly, asking repeatedly if he was unwell, but Yun Fu denied it each time.

They looked at each other and then knelt down.

Duan Rong spoke first: "General! It was Duan Rong who was too reckless. This is all my fault. Please punish me, General!"

Zhao Yong also said, "I was also at fault. I didn't stop it in time. I've spent half my life in the military, yet I couldn't recognize the trap. I'm guilty..."

Xiao Mu didn't say anything, but let Xiao Ran help him sit down in the chair.

"Get up, all of you," he said.

Neither Duan Rong nor Zhao Yong stood up, their heads bowed as they awaited the reprimand.

"Can't you hear me calling you to get up!" Xiao Mu roared. "There's never a smooth journey in war. Duan Rong doesn't understand, but do you, Zhao Yong, think you don't?"

Xiao Mu's rise to the rank of general was not without its challenges.

Zhao Yong lowered his head, but his eyes slowly reddened. He knew that Xiao Mu had a hard time, but guilt was like a thick fog, filling his entire heart.

Xiao Ran sighed and walked to Zhao Yong's side to help him up: "You should all get up. Father is injured and it's not easy for him to help you up."

Seeing this, Yunfu also went to help Duan Rong up.

The two finally stood up.

"Tell me what happened," Xiao Mu asked.

A tear fell from Zhao Yong's eye as he recounted the general course of events.

It was similar to what they had heard in the Western Xia camp.

A tear fell from Zhao Yong's eye: "...How could three thousand men possibly defeat ten thousand? If it weren't for the Chu army coming to reinforce us, we probably would have died there too..."

He recalled the scene of the battle, in which the child picking fruit took a knife for him and died on the spot.

"It's not your fault." Xiao Mu sighed heavily. How could he not know how cruel the battlefield was? How many brothers who had just made friends one moment were now separated by death the next?

"Those Western Xia are so despicable, but our Jing Kingdom is not to be trifled with! Once my leg is healed, I will personally lead the army to punish them!"

Duan Rong immediately agreed: "Now that they have lost 10,000 soldiers, it is the time for us to attack."

Seeing that they had finally reconciled, Xiao Ran smiled and said, "As long as we still have the will to win, we will surely win this battle."

Duan Rong nodded, then realized that Xiao Ran was also there, and asked worriedly, "Sister Ran, are you alright?"

Xiao Ran shook her head: "I'm fine, it's just that Brother Duan's dagger can't be retrieved..."

Duan Rong looked puzzled, and Xiao Mu gave a helpless bitter smile: "She! She took your dagger and went to assassinate the Western Xia Yabghu."

"What!?" Duan Rong was filled with worry and rushed forward: "Are you injured? Did they do anything to you?!"

As he spoke, he grew increasingly angry and shouted, "Despicable Western Xia people!"

Yun Fu was taken aback by this reaction. She glanced at Duan Rong, then at Xiao Ran, and seemed to understand something.

Xiao Ran thought of Hu Yanyi, her heart filled with mixed feelings: "I'm fine. He didn't kill me, he just locked me in the stable."

"A scholar can be killed but not humiliated!" Duan Rong said fiercely. "When I encounter some damned Ye Hu, I will definitely kill him to avenge my sister Ran!"

Xiao Ran felt conflicted. Should she tell Duan Rong that she hadn't been mistreated and that locking her in the stable was intentional on his part...?

Xiao Mu wanted to exchange more pleasantries with the two, so Yun Fu and Xiao Ran left the tent together.

Yunfu hesitated, looking dejected.

Xiao Ran asked, "What's wrong?"

“Sister Xiao…” Yunfu’s face was pale, “Brother Duan, he…”

"Do I like you?"