flstandardbreds Chapter 136 Zhao Ming Frowns
Chapter 136 Zhao Ming Frowns
Zhao Ming frowned, "This is indeed a problem, but we currently have no evidence and don't know who the spy is."
"I have an idea," Mu Yunxi said, a sly look flashing in her eyes. "We can set up a trap to lure the snake out of its hole."
Zhao Ming's eyes lit up. "Oh? Tell me about it."
So, Zhao Ming and Jin Yubin both approached Mu Yunxi. Mu Yunxi didn't delay and whispered her plan. After hearing this, Zhao Ming's mouth gradually raised a smile, "Okay, let's do it!"
After hearing this, Jin Yubin took a big step back and said, "I have never offended you. You can't plot against me!"
Mu Yunxi rolled her eyes at him, then poked his heart and said, "Think about why your proposed marriage partner doesn't like you!"
Hearing this, Jin Yubin became anxious and said angrily, "She looks down on me, she has no taste. I also look down on her weak and lifeless appearance! She doesn't look like a living person at all."
"With that mouth of yours, you deserve to be unable to get married. How can you talk like that to a girl?" Mu Yunxi glared at him after saying that.
Jin Yubin muttered unconvincedly: "That girl is not a good person either. She told the girls he knew about me...about me..."
Mu Yunxi looked over curiously, frowned, and asked, "What did they say about you?"
"She...she said I was vulgar, but it would have been fine if she just said I was vulgar, but she also said I looked like a monkey!" Kim Woo Bin said angrily.
Mu Yunxi couldn't help laughing after hearing this, "Haha, this description is really unique."
Zhao Ming couldn't help laughing. "Okay, don't be angry. Maybe the girl was just saying it casually and didn't mean any harm."
"No! She is just deliberately belittling me!" Kim Woo Bin said indignantly.
Mu Yunxi consoled him, "Alright, alright. That girl has no taste. You're handsome, dashing, and powerful. If you could be more virtuous in the future, you'd marry anyone you want with your status. But it's really wrong for that girl to frame you like that." Thinking of that girl's status... "I remember that girl was the legitimate daughter of a civil servant. Whose family was it?"
Mu Yunxi thought about it and couldn't remember it. It was only because she mentioned it to her that she knew about it. Otherwise, she wouldn't know that Jin Yubin had been broken off the engagement.
Jin Yubin was just delighted by Mu Yunxi's praise, but when he heard Mu Yunxi's question, his mood suddenly became depressed. He muttered softly: "She is the granddaughter of the Xi family..."
"Tell me in detail." Mu Yunxi was not gossiping, but Jin Yubin's identity had actually been broken off, which made her very curious! Zhao Ming was also curious. They looked at Jin Yubin with sharp eyes, as if to say: Come on, tell me.
After much hesitation, Jin Yubin finally said, "The man was already pregnant, and I couldn't hide it anymore, so I broke off the engagement. Master Xi, at his age, knelt before me and begged me, so I agreed. But afterwards, his granddaughter plotted against me, and that's when I got a little angry." He then warned the two, "Don't tell anyone! I heard from my mother that his granddaughter was secretly married off."
"Whose child is it? How do you know she is pregnant?" Zhao Ming put his arm around Jin Yubin's shoulders and urged him to continue.
He knew both Zhao Ming and Mu Yunxi well, and they were trustworthy. After some thought, he continued, "I don't know whose child it is. I didn't know she was pregnant at first either. My mother encountered it. My mother went to the temple to burn incense and heard a girl praying to the Bodhisattva for a safe birth of her child. She saw a familiar figure and went forward to check. When she saw it, she saw someone she knew... That's it. When the Taifu learned about this, he was so angry that he vomited blood. He was afraid that this incident would damage the family's reputation and delay the future of other children in the Taifu Mansion, so he knelt down and begged me..."
Mu Yunxi and Zhao Ming both looked at him with sympathy. Mu Yunxi teased, "If your mother hadn't encountered this, you would have become a father!"
Zhao Ming agreed with Mu Yunxi's words and nodded heavily: "Yes! That's right!"
"Oops! We've gone off topic. Let's get started!" Kim Woo Bin said as he punched Zhao Ming on the shoulder.
"Okay, I'll go write the memorial." Zhao Ming said.
"Then I'll go put the cannons on the city wall!" said Kim Woo Bin.
"I'll get a map to see where Zhaoyang Ship No. 3 is," Mu Yunxi said. Because Qingxue City is close to the sea, Emperor Qing Zhao dispatched a Zhaoyang Ship to assist them when they set out. However, it was a long detour from the southwest pier to Qingxue City, as the widest rivers in the country were only about ten meters wide, requiring them to go around the outer reaches of Zhao State.
This action also made Emperor Qing Zhao see the shortcomings of the East China Sea's defense, and he immediately ordered some craftsmen from the Southwest Wharf to rush to the East China Sea to build a new military wharf there. In the past, no human habitation was found in the East China Sea, so no military wharf was built in this direction.
After the three of them had made their decision, they each left to get back to the task at hand.
It took two days for the memorial to be delivered to Qing Zhaodi via an 800-li express. Meanwhile, a day and night of fierce fighting had already raged in Qingxue City, with both sides suffering minor casualties.
Mu Yunxi looked at the sea in the distance and thought to himself: These foreigners are so difficult to deal with. If I don’t come up with a plan to deal with them as soon as possible, the situation will probably become increasingly unfavorable.
At present, it was estimated that there were about 3,000 people coming, all of them strong men and excellent swimmers. If they couldn't win, they would abandon the ship and jump into the sea. Their people didn't dare to pursue them, fearing that there might be an ambush in the water. Mu Yunxi guessed that there were more than 3,000 people and they must have a backup plan.
She turned to Zhao Ming beside her and said, "General Zhao, the guards on the city walls need to be strengthened. We can't let our guard down even a little bit!"
Zhao Ming frowned and replied, "Well! These villains are too cunning. I'm afraid this will be a long battle!"
Mu Yunxi shook her head and said affirmatively, "No, they must have been forced into a corner. What the old man said may not be completely false. They don't have uniform clothing or unified moves, and their tacit understanding is entirely dependent on the command of the people on the distant fishing boats. They are more like militia."
Zhao Ming nodded in agreement. "But he was able to plan for more than ten years before taking action, and he's quite resilient. He just used the wrong method."
Mu Yunxi agreed with Zhao Ming's statement. Her gaze fell on the nearby water, as if a thought had occurred to her. She turned to Zhao Ming and said, "General Zhao, do you think this plan of mine is feasible? First, send a small team to find the Zhaoyang Ship No. 3, and have the Zhaoyang ship circle around and encircle the enemy. At the same time, deploy more bows and catapults on the city walls to strengthen the defenses. When the enemy launches another attack, we'll attack them from both sides and capture them in one fell swoop."
A hint of surprise flashed in Zhao Ming's eyes, and he quickly said, "This plan is feasible! As long as we coordinate properly, we will definitely catch the enemy off guard."
Zhao Ming quickly summoned the soldiers in the city and deployed a battle plan. As night fell, an elite force quietly boarded an ordinary ship and slowly sailed in the direction of Zhaoyang Ship No. 3...