Quick Transmigration: Help! What to do when my husband is obsessed with love?

Chapter 94 Rebellious Officials of the Former Dynasty 26

Zhang Qiran was nervously mustering troops outside the tent, while Ling Yi, with Xiao Yao's help, put on light armor, styled her hair in a simple bun, and carried her helmet outside.

When she lifted the tent flap, the soldiers Zhang Qiran had selected all turned their gazes toward her, some with suspicion and some with confusion.

What exactly is this princess planning to do?

Instead of staying home and embroidering, you want to fight a war?

Isn't this absurd?

Zhang Qiran ignored the thoughts of these fools. Only those who had been beaten by the princess knew just how formidable she was.

He diligently led over the princess's warhorse, and as Ling Yi mounted hers, he also mounted his own.

Ling Yi glanced sideways: "General Zhang, what are you doing?"

Zhang Qiran: "Huh?"

"I... I'll go with you," he said, sounding a little unsure of himself.

He's a general, so it's quite reasonable for him to go to war with the princess.

Ling Yi glanced at him sideways: "You stay and protect the prince."

"no!"

These words were not spoken by Zhang Qiran, but by Xiao Yao.

His expression, which had remained calm since hearing that Ling Yi was going to war, finally changed at this moment: "Zhang Qiran has to go with you!"

Without this person's protection, he wouldn't feel comfortable fighting alone.

Ling Yi frowned: "The situation in Tongcheng is unclear; he has to protect you."

Xiao Yao shook his head firmly this time: "He has to go, otherwise you shouldn't go either. I can't let you go to the battlefield alone for the first time."

He took two steps forward, looked up at Ling Yi riding on horseback, and said softly, "Think about me too, okay? I have feelings for you, and I worry about you too."

Ling Yi swallowed back the advice she was about to give, seeing the slight redness in his eyes.

She forced a smile and said, "Alright then, take him with you. Take care of yourself too."

Xiao Yao gently patted the flying light he had given to Ling Yi and whispered, "I'm entrusting Yi Yi to your protection."

After saying that, he took two steps back: "Go ahead, I'll be waiting for you in Tongcheng."

Ling Yi nodded and announced loudly, "Let's set off!"

Following her words, the cavalrymen left the camp in an orderly fashion.

Ling Yi rode her horse in the middle of the group. As she looked back, she saw her father-in-law peeking out of the tent to observe them and smiled.

"Old man," she called out, stopping the old man who was trying to pull his head back, "wait for me to return from my northward grazing trip, and I'll bring you cattle and sheep to accompany your wine!"

The old man stared blankly at the dust-filled camp, and after a long while, he said, "That kid is fierce!"

Are they even going north to raid for supplies?

This all happened more than a decade ago.

But at this moment, he was starting to look forward to the smell of cattle and sheep from the north.

Do the cattle and sheep raised by the nomadic people who live by the water taste as good as those they raise?

Xiao Yao also watched Ling Yi's departing figure until they completely disappeared into the horizon, at which point the forced smile on his face gradually faded: "Lu An, am I really useless?"

Lu An was taken aback, and then saw that his usually smiling master's face was full of disappointment.

He tried to comfort her, but Xiao Yao wouldn't listen and just kept saying to herself, "In the capital, I couldn't protect my mother, and she had to kneel outside my father's palace to beg for forgiveness because of me."

“I’m a useless piece of trash, which is why I had to escape that meat grinder’s battlefield and come to the northern desert that the other brothers despise.” Xiao Yao’s face showed a hint of indifference and self-contempt: “Yi Yi said that the northern desert has high skies and low clouds, which is the kind of place she likes.”

"But I know that she likes both the northern desert and the southern region. She doesn't say she likes the southern region, but it's because if I were enfeoffed in a prosperous place, it would arouse the jealousy and attempts of my brothers to win me over. For my sake, she can only like the northern desert."

“Master.” Lu An had never seen his master like this before.

"The capital is not safe, so I fled to the northern desert, but the northern desert is not safe either. Where can I escape to now?"

"I could only escape behind Yi Yi's skirt and let her protect me with her blood."

"And I could only be a coward, trembling and crying helplessly under her protection."

In the end, Xiao Yao actually laughed.

If he hadn't met Yi Yi, he thought he could have remained incompetent forever, living a carefree life as a prince while his father was alive, and a quiet, pleasing prince after his father's death, drifting through his life in a daze.

But Yi Yi is here, and the Jiangnan region she loves is too far away.

His mother was also trapped in that world.

Xiao Yao stared intently in the direction Ling Yi had left for a long time, then suddenly shook his head: "Forget it, what's the point of saying all this?"

"Rest assured, we have our own battles to fight once we reach Tongcheng." With that, he lifted the curtain and turned to enter the tent.

Looking at the still swaying curtain, Lu'an suddenly felt that his innocent and adorable master seemed to have grown up.

In the past, the master was protected by his mother, and now he is protected by his queen. Now that both of his protectors are gone, he is finally growing up to be a responsible person.

Lu An gazed wistfully at the boundless grasslands of the northern desert, unsure whether this was a good thing or a bad thing.

Ling Yi had no idea what kind of shock her expedition brought to Xiao Yao.

She simply led her troops northward.

Along the way, she also broadened Zhang Qiran's horizons.

He had initially thought Ling Yi was a quiet, ruthless person who didn't talk much, but when she infiltrated the soldiers' ranks, Zhang Qiran realized he was wrong.

This woman, who possessed terrifying memories and could recall the soldiers' basic information, effortlessly became one with them.

The soldiers would tell her about her mother's chronic leg pain, her wife's temper, and how her child didn't like to study.

In just one day, the soldiers who were initially resistant to her began to regard her as one of their own.

Watching Ling Yi chatting and laughing among the soldiers, even naming a soldier's newborn daughter who was only a few days old, Zhang Qiran suddenly thought of a general—

Wuqi.

He felt he should also have a good cry, because from this day forward, his soldiers would be fighting for their new general.

When they set up camp for the night, Ling Yi defeated all the soldiers who dared to challenge her by the campfire before sitting down in front of Zhang Qiran with a smile: "General Zhang, what are you thinking about so intently?"

Looking at her radiant smile, Zhang Qiran suddenly couldn't quite recall what the princess looked like in her golden hairpins and splendid attire.

He gave a bitter smile: "I think the Princess must cherish our military strength."

Such a natural-born general, I only hope she isn't inherently cruel and doesn't disregard the lives of her soldiers.

Ling Yi smiled: "I'm here to lead my subordinates to achieve great things, how could I not cherish them?"

Holding the wine flask high, Ling Yi laughed heartily, "Drink it all! Let's kill the enemy!"

Drink your fill, then slay the enemy!

The soldiers' voices rose in succession following Ling Yi's voice, and then surged into the boundless grassland like a torrent.