Rebirth of the High Gate Mistress

Chapter 123: It’s better to know your husband than your wife

The sun in the desert came out earlier. When Jingshu opened her eyes, the dazzling sunlight had already shot in through the gaps in the tent.

Li Ling came in with a bowl of hot oil tea, looked at his little wife and said with a smile: "I woke up."

Jingshu stood up, dressed herself, and asked, "I heard the post officer say something so scary before I came out, but I didn't expect it to be such a peaceful night."

Li Ling said nothing, only held the oil tea in his hand to his wife with a smile on his lips.

Jing Shu glanced at his half-smiling expression, took a sip of oil tea, and asked, "What's wrong? Looking at you like this, could it be that the sand ghost really came yesterday?"

 “Were you repulsed?”

Li Ling asked doubtfully: "How do you know?"

Jingshu drank the oil tea leisurely and carefully, glanced at her husband and said, "I guessed it from your eyes."

She asked Li Ling with a smile: "I guessed it right, right?"

Li Ling smiled and replied: "It's true that you know your husband better than your wife. If I want to hide anything from you from now on, I'm afraid I won't be able to."

He looked at his wife and said: "They did come for a sneak attack last night, and I shot one down. The rest were probably frightened and never came again."

Jingshu asked: "Did you catch the one you shot? What does it look like?"

Li Ling replied: "It's similar to what the post officer described, except that it's not a monster, but a human being."

He glanced at his young wife: "As you said, she does look like a descendant of the Yueshi."

When Jing Shu heard this, she immediately became energetic. She put down the tea bowl in her hand, looked at Li Ling and said: "Look, I was right. When I heard the post officer talking about this thing that day, I Then I guessed that they were the Dayue clan. I had read about these foreign races in books, but luckily I remembered some of them."

Seeing the proud look on his young wife's face, Li Ling echoed: "That's right. If my wife hadn't been knowledgeable and informed my husband that this thing was a human being and not a ghost, my husband would never have dared to step into the desert so easily. That thing attacked yesterday. Naturally, we can’t deal with it so easily.”

Li Ling stood up and bowed deeply to his wife in an exaggerated manner: "Thank you so much for being here, madam."

Jing Shu glanced at Li Ling's appearance. He suppressed a smile and pretended to be indifferent and said: "As for me, there is no need to say thank you for a trivial matter. But since you now know the powerful ability of this woman, you should be more humble in front of me from now on. Just listen to my opinion on everything."

Li Ling bowed deeply again, pretending to be respectful and said: "From now on, I will treat you with the same attitude as my wife."

The two of them were laughing in the tent, and a slender figure gradually appeared outside the tent, and then Ziyun's voice came: "Your Majesty, General Zhou, General Liang and General Hu have something to ask for."

Jingshu opened the tent door, and Ziyun slowly entered. She caught a glimpse of her young lady's rosy face, and her worried heart finally calmed down.

　　From the moment Ziyun came in, Li Ling's face returned to its serious and majestic look as if by magic.

He stood up and said to Jing Shu: "We will go and annihilate all those things today, so as to prevent them from doing evil here and harming people."

Jingshu also stood up and said, "I'll go with you too."

Before Li Ling could react, Ziyun grabbed Jingshu's clothes and said, "Miss, what are you going to do with me?"

Jingshu comforted Ziyun and said, "It's okay, my husband and the others caught one last night. Those things are not ghosts at all, but descendants of the Dayue clan."

With that said, she walked up to Li Ling and continued: "The book says that the Dayue clan often uses caves or big trees as caves. They are extremely powerful and are good at making rattan armor, which makes them invulnerable. My husband must not underestimate them. Take me there, I may be able to help you husband."

Li Ling listened patiently to his little wife's chatter, looked at her dotingly and said: "Although these barbarians are powerful, they are only a few of them. Your husband can still handle them with his elite bodyguards. If he encounters a strong enemy in the future, he will not be able to deal with them." , and then bring your wife as a military advisor."

Jingshu frowned slightly and begged with a pouted mouth: "Just take me there. I want to see if they live in the trees and whether it is like what is written in the book." Li Ling replied: "If you want to know, just wait until I come back and let you know."

As he spoke, he told Ziyun: "Take good care of Madam." Then he left the tent.

 Several lieutenants saw Li Ling and hurriedly came up to greet him.

Hunterless, Hu Dahai was punished by Li Ling the day before yesterday to fight with mud for a day, and last night he was on duty all night again. He heard that he was going to exterminate the barbarians today, but he was still in high spirits and gearing up with excitement.

Li Ling glanced at him and twitched his lips: "What's the rush? I'll let you use it later when I get the chance."

Hu Dahai was originally worried that the general would hold him tight and let him guard the camp. When he heard that he would be taken with him, he was so excited that his beard and eyebrows stood up, and he shouted with a voice like a gong. : "General, it's better that you understand me. I haven't been able to relax for a while, and I don't feel strong anywhere in my body."

He shook the cold light iron ax that weighed more than a hundred kilograms in his hand: "I, Old Hu, will definitely turn those barbarians into real ghosts."

Zhou Jin brought the barbarian who was shot by Li Ling last night and tied him up with an iron chain: "Cousin, let's set off now while the weather is nice."

Li Ling turned to look at the barbarian who was tied by the iron rope, and asked, "Will he be obedient and lead the way?"

Zhou Jin replied: "This thing is also heartless. I used two pieces of raw meat last night to make him obedient."

Hu Dahai squatted in front of the barbarian and fiddled with him: "Can this thing still understand human speech?"

Zhou Jin said: "He can understand it's simple."

As he spoke, Zhou Jin took a piece of raw meat from the soldier beside him, threw it on the ground, and said, "Eat."

As expected, the barbarian picked it up and ate it hungrily.

 Zhou Jin said again: "Let's go!"

The barbarian started walking back and forth around the iron rope again.

Hu Dahai chuckled: "As expected of 'Little Zhuge', you still have a way."

Li Ling ordered: "Now that everything is ready, let's leave Liang Jin to guard the camp. Let's take a hundred sergeants and set off right away."

Liang Jin cupped his fists and accepted the order.

Zhou Jin extended the iron chain to let the barbarian lead the way. Li Ling pressed in front of the team. Hu Dahai, who was eager to try, rode a horse to protect Li Ling's side. Several people led a hundred cavalry towards the barbarian's lair.

After walking for about an hour, he saw a few tall shrubs appearing in the vast desert. Li Ling ordered the soldiers to stand still.

He took the telescope and looked in the direction of the bush. He saw several similar barbarians guarding the tree with wooden sticks. There was a dark hole not far from the big tree, and several people were sitting in front of it. Barbarians.

Li Ling said to the soldiers: "Sure enough, we found their lair."

Hu Dahai was gearing up and was the first to shout: "General, let me lead those barbarians out first."

Li Ling nodded: "Go."

Hu Dahai clamped his legs together, and the good horse under his crotch was filled with wind, roaring and galloping towards the barbarian's lair.

 (End of this chapter)