It has to be said that Mi Jiang's swordsmanship is much better than when she and her sister Mi Rui kidnapped Zhao Hongrun, and her speed is also much faster.
This made Zhao Hongrun feel at ease a lot.
After all, regardless of whether it was the strange insect in his body or not, they still got along day and night in the past two years. It is undeniable that Mi Jiang's status in Zhao Hongrun's heart is still very high.
Therefore, Zhao Hongrun naturally did not want Mi Jiang to be injured, let alone put her in any danger.
However, judging from the current battle situation, Mi Jiang was fighting one against two and was not losing at all, so there should be no problem.
It has to be said that although Zhao Hongrun can only perform a few superficial swordsmanship, his eyesight is still good. No, in just half a stick of incense, the two witches of unknown origin have already fallen under Mi Jiang's sword.
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On the other hand, Mi Jiang's face just turned a little pale and her breathing was a little difficult.
Wait a minute, Mi Jiang seems to be injured?
Zhao Hongrun couldn't help but feel shocked and quickly stepped forward.
Because he saw that Mi Jiang's left wrist was bleeding profusely.
"Mi Jiang, are you okay?" Zhao Hongrun was a little nervous for some reason.
"It's not a problem, it's just that the breath is a little bit rough." Mi Jiang shook her head, took a few breaths, and adjusted her breathing.
"You said it was okay, aren't you injured?"
Zhao Hongrun grabbed Mi Jiang's left hand and frowned at the bleeding wound on his wrist.
However, when Mi Jiang noticed the wound on her left wrist, she was stunned for a moment, and then her expression became a little strange.
She subconsciously said: "This injury was not caused by these two people..."
At this point, her explanation stopped abruptly.
"It's not these two people?" Zhao Hongrun was slightly stunned when he heard this, and then he noticed that Mi Jiang's left wrist, covered with blood, could vaguely see several healed scars.
These scars seem to be old, with the new injuries covering the old ones, and most of them are concentrated on the wrists.
"Your injury..."
Seeing Zhao Hongrun frowning as he stared at the wound on his wrist, Mi Jiang calmly took her left hand out of his hand and said calmly: "It's nothing, this is from when I was practicing my witchcraft secrets."
Zhao Hongrun looked at Mi Jiang suspiciously. After all, because of the strange insect in his body, there was an incredible spiritual connection between the two, just like a telepathic connection. Therefore, even though Mi Jiang's face showed no expression, Zhao Hongrun could still feel it.
, this woman is lying.
However, Zhao Hongrun also understood what kind of character Mi Jiang was. If she didn't want to explain, it would be useless to ask.
So, he just said: "Let's bandage it first."
"Hmm." Mi Jiang nodded obediently.
At this time, Wei Jiao, the chief of Zong Wei, and Cen Chang, the chief of Su Wang's guard, were driving away the Su Wang guards who were surrounding them.
"Let's take a walk, there's nothing to see."
"It's gone, it's gone."
As a result, King Su's guards retreated knowingly, but before leaving, they still couldn't help but secretly look at Zhao Hongrun and Mi Jiang and whisper to each other.
After all, the relationship between Zhao Hongrun and Mi Jiang has always been a gossip that these King Su guards are concerned about.
In fact, not to mention these Su Wang Guards, even Cen Chang, the chief of the Su Wang Guards, was very concerned about this matter.
No, Cen Chang came over at this moment and greeted Mi Jiang with a smile on his face: "Master Mi Jiang's swordsmanship is getting better and better. It only took a while to kill these two thieves."
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Facing Cen Chang's flattery, Mi Jiang, who had never been good at words, just nodded slightly and greeted the other party.
Cen Chang didn't mind this at all. After all, the person in front of him might be their Princess Su in the future. How could he dare to offend her?
Because of Cen Chang's interruption, Zhao Hongrun remembered the two witches on the ground not far away, frowned and asked: "The two of them."
"I have killed him." Mi Jiang replied calmly.
Hearing this, Zhao Hongrun was slightly stunned.
Although he knew that Mi Jiang had learned witchcraft from the Ba Kingdom and that many people had died in her hands, since the two met, this cold witch who always had a cold face had almost never killed anyone again.
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However, today, two shrine maidens of unknown origin were killed without mercy.
Obviously, there must be some reason for this that he doesn't know.
"If you die, just die."
Zhao Hongrun nodded and told Cen Chang: "Send a few people to bury these two girls."
As soon as he finished speaking, Mi Jiang interrupted him and said: "Although they are old enemies, they are still the witch priests of my witch sect. I will personally let them return to their hometowns."
"Old enemy?"
Zhao Hongrun was stunned for a moment, and then he saw Cen Chang turning to look at him, and nodded: "In that case, let's wait until the wound on the hand is bandaged...Cen Chang, please move these two corpses to your nephew's house first.
Inside the tent, I am watching."
"Yes!" Cen Chang responded with clasped fists.
Seeing this, Zhao Hongrun took Mi Jiang's hand and returned to the handsome tent. Although Mi Jiang kept saying that he could just bandage it, Zhao Hongrun applied medicine for her himself and bandaged the wound with a bandage.
While being bandaged, Zhao Hongrun asked casually: "Why are you in the army? If I remember correctly, I asked you to go back to Daliang to accompany my mother, right?"
The "you" he refers to are Mi Jiang, Yang Shixing and Miss Su. After all, in the eyes of his mother, Concubine Shen Shu, these three girls seem to have been their default daughters-in-law.
Facing Zhao Hongrun's question, Mi Jiang said calmly: "I don't like staying in the palace."
What she said was true.
You must know that Mi Jiang has never liked living in a palace. That majestic palace will inevitably remind her of her home in Runan, her father Xiong Hao, Jun of Runan, and the tragic past of her childhood.
What's more, Zhao Hongrun's mother-in-law Shen Shufei was too enthusiastic about her, and her enthusiasm made Mi Jiang a little scared.
After all, every time she met Concubine Shen Shu in person, Shen Shu Concubine would ask them indirect questions about the two of them. Mostly, "How far has your relationship developed?"
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Although Mi Jiang is expressionless on weekdays, this does not mean that she is hard-hearted, she is just not good at expressing herself.
As for the final reason, I'm afraid she just wanted to stay where he was for various reasons.
Zhao Hongrun was not surprised by Mi Jiang's answer, because Mi Jiang was always a very independent woman.
After thinking for a while, he asked: "How long have you been in the army?"
Before Mi Jiang could speak, Zongwei Chief Wei Jiao couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. He was about to leave the commander's tent calmly when he heard Zhao Hongrun ask lightly: "Where do you want to go, Wei Jiao?"
"Ah?" Wei Jiao smiled coquettishly and said: "My humble duty is to go out for a walk... You see, you bandage Master Mi Jiang, my humble duty is very inconvenient here..."
"Hmph!" Zhao Hongrun snorted, squinting at Wei Jiao who had a sly smile on his face, and said calmly: "If you dare to hide this from me, you are braver than Shen Yu."
"How can it be..." Wei Jiao, the Zongwei chief who was quite heroic in the eyes of outsiders, seemed to soften at this moment, and actually showed a mocking smile and said: "Your Highness, how dare you hide your humble position? Look at you, I really don’t know about Lord Mi Jiang’s involvement in the army..."
Seeing that Wei Jiao was not asking for trouble, Zhao Hongrun snorted and said, "Oh? When did I say that it was Mi Jiang's fault?"
"Uh." Wei Jiao was speechless.
"Hmph!" Zhao Hongrun snorted coldly.
Think about it and you will know that Mi Jiang was hiding among the Wei army in a witch costume. If it were not for the protection of the Zongwei Chief Wei Jiao, how could Zhao Hongrun, as the commander-in-chief of the Wei army, not even hear about it?
It is even possible that not only Wei Jiao, but also all the sect guards, including Prince Su's guards, are protecting Mi Jiang. After all, they know Mi Jiang's identity best, she is half Princess Su.
Just when Wei Jiao was looking embarrassed, Mi Jiang came to his rescue and said, "It's not the fault of Chief Wei Zong, I begged them not to tell you... Because of your relationship, they don't dare to offend me. So don't blame them."
"Your Highness, you heard me, don't care about low-level matters." After saying that, Wei Jiao quickly fled from this place of right and wrong.
Looking at the swaying tent and shaking his head, Zhao Hongrun bandaged Mi Jiang's wound and asked, "Why did you hide it from me?"
"If I tell you, you will definitely send someone to take me back to Daliang, and I don't like staying in Daliang."
"..." Zhao Hongrun glanced at Mi Jiang and said nothing, obviously because he was right.
"A few days ago, when I was assassinated by an assassin disguised as a little woman in Qi County, you were the one who warned me, right?"
"Um."
"Why didn't you show up then?"
"The guards around you are not weak and can protect you more than enough."
"What about today?" After tying the binding cloth into a knot, Zhao Hongrun looked up at Mi Jiang, frowned and asked: "Where did those two witches come from? What kind of dragon gate do they claim to be, and they seem to know how to dance swords... In order to kill the two of them with your own hands, you did not hesitate to expose their whereabouts. It is not simple to know the origin of the other party, right?"
Hearing this, Mi Jiang glanced at Zhao Hongrun a few times, and seeing the latter's firm attitude, she explained: "I don't know the Dragon Gate they are talking about. It may be where they are now... These two women are the water witches of the Chu Kingdom. A shaman priest who believes in the water god Gong Gong. I am a witch priest who worships the fire god Zhurong. You have stayed in the Chu Kingdom for about ten days, and you should have some understanding of the gods of the Chu Kingdom."
Zhao Hongrun nodded, and then suddenly felt something was wrong, and asked doubtfully: "Didn't you learn the witchcraft of Ba Kingdom? Why are you involved with Chu Wu again?"
Mi Jiang was silent for a moment, and then explained in a low voice: "The witchcraft of the Ba Kingdom consists in using poison with poison. As for the sword dance, it is inherited from the fire witch lineage of Chu Wu... When I first learned this skill, I taught it to my sisters. The two witchcraft mothers-in-law asked my sisters to swear on the witch altar that if they encounter witch priests from the Gonggong lineage in the future, they will kill them all without mercy."
"This grudge seems to be quite big."
"Why?" Zhao Hongrun asked in confusion.
"I don't know the specific grievances. It is said that the witch priests who worked together killed all my Zhurong fire witches, and my Zhurong fire witches fled to the country of Ba. Many years later, they merged with the Ba witches...and now... Of the Chu witches, only the shamans and priests from Gonggong are left..." At this point, she hesitated, as if to explain something, and added: "If I don't kill them, I will die. Shuihuo. No way, both sides have no room for maneuver."
"oh……"
Zhao Hongrun nodded, finally understanding why Mi Jiang showed no mercy to the two witches.
At the same time, in an unused tent, among the corpses of the two witches, one of the corpses suddenly opened his eyes and sat up, covering the wound in his heart.
I saw this woman looking at the corpse next to her with painful eyes, and then deep hatred flashed in her eyes.
"In the Ruins of Zhu Rong... that lineage is still alive and is still involved with Young Master Run of Wei State... This matter must be reported to Grandma Wu and Master Chu Shuijun immediately, so that the Zhu Rong lineage cannot be resurrected!"