After I disguised myself as a man, I became everyone's white moonlight

Chapter 126 Losing is Losing

Bian Hangqing was not good at swordsmanship, and had never fought with someone as skilled in swordsmanship as Chu Xi. For a moment, he had no idea how to deal with the young man in front of him.

The young man had his long black hair tied up in a high ponytail, which fluttered with his sword moves, making him particularly dazzling.

Bian Hangqing had a very difficult time dealing with the situation. No matter how much the soldiers below the ring cheered him on, beads of sweat involuntarily broke out on his forehead.

I was careless. This young man had almost no flaws when using the sword. If I had known this, I would have just... admitted defeat.

As soon as this thought came up, Bian Hangqing's face became even uglier. He was not angry with Chu Xi, but he was angry at himself for not being ambitious enough. He couldn't do it if he let it go, and... he tried to give up, which was really shameful.

Zhou Qi below was concentrating on paying attention to what was happening on the stage and didn't notice that there were several people standing quietly beside him.

"Who do you think is better between the two of them?" asked a strong voice.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Qi quickly looked to his side and saw the new general standing beside him. He saluted and said, "I greet General Han."

Han Yaojun nodded slightly, with a faint smile on his lips, "Old Zhou, what do you think of the swordsmanship of this Prince Chu?"

Zhou Qi stared at Chu Xi, who was on the stage, forcing Bian Hangqing to retreat repeatedly with just a sword. His swordsmanship was exquisite and almost flawless. He said, "Your swordsmanship is vigorous and magnificent. You are worthy of being the heir of the Marquisate trained by the old Marquis himself."

Han Yaojun heard this, his eyes darkened and his lips curled, "Deputy General Zhou is right, only the Prince Chu, who was personally trained by the old marquis, can do such a vigorous and magnificent move."

The other two lieutenants standing behind them heard their conversation, looked at each other, and then continued to look at the spirited young man on the ring.

It is not uncommon to see teenagers aged seventeen or eighteen serving in the military, but there are very few with such amazing martial arts skills.

Zhou Qi and Han Yaojun had only been working together for less than a month. Han Yaojun was transferred here after that incident. Although he also came from a family of military generals, his family background was far inferior to Chu Jiang's.

The Han family is also a well-known military family in Chaoyang. Generations of them have served in the army and guarded the northwestern border cities of the Great Zhou. It is precisely because of the Han family's presence that the shepherding and fighting peoples in the north were unable to invade the Great Zhou.

Han Yaojun is eight years older than Chu Jiang. He is twenty-five this year. It is said that he has not married yet because he has been guarding various places all year round.

This time he was transferred to Xi'an City. At a young age, he became a general defending a city and was in charge of 50,000 elite soldiers. Naturally, this attracted a lot of criticism.

Compared to the discussions Chu Jiang is facing now, the criticisms of him behind his back when Han Yaojun first arrived were many times more unpleasant.

"Then who do you think will win between the two of them?" Han Yaojun knew very well that even though he had been here for almost a month, there were still many people who refused to obey. Even the three deputy generals around him were... forced to obey.

Zhou Qi answered without thinking, "Prince Chu."

Faced with Zhou Qi's almost unhesitating answer, Han Yaojun smiled without comment and said nothing else.

The highest-ranking general, dressed in a gray uniform, with his hands behind his back, stared silently at the spirited young man on the ring, with a thoughtful look in his eyes.

In the same situation, he wanted to know whether this prince from the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery Mansion could win the hearts and minds of everyone in the end!

Chu Xi, who was fighting with Bian Hangqing on the ring, naturally had no idea that someone was "paying attention" to her under the ring.

After what happened in Yunzhou, Chu Xi already knew that the world of novels is just like the real world. If you make different choices, the final results may be completely different.

She knew that if she attacked in advance, it might save the people from four years of war and slaughter, but it might also make the Great Zhou face the cruel reality of disintegration sooner!

Everything has two sides. With her appearance, the things happening around her and the people who appear around her will naturally be completely different from what she has seen.

But Chu Xi had seen the people of Yunzhou helpless in the face of the epidemic, and could only kneel down and pray to the heavens to beg the so-called gods to open their eyes and save them. He had also seen all kinds of calculations behind the prosperity of the capital.

On the way to Xi'an to take up her post, she saw many scenes of couples being separated from their families because their homes were looted by bandits.

I have seen the miserable situation of tenants who work so hard but still cannot support their families all year round, and are instead forced by their employers to sell their wives and daughters just to pay off their debts.

I have also seen elderly, weak, women and children whose hometowns were forced to leave their homes in search of a way out due to floods, droughts and other disasters and could no longer survive.

Outside of the capital, she could hardly see any city without a beggar, or maybe... there were beggars in the capital too, but she just hadn't had the chance to see them yet.

In the so-called prosperous times, the people even had trouble feeding themselves! Some starved to death, and some sold their wives, daughters, and children. Whose fault is it for such a tragic situation?

Of course, it is Your Majesty who enjoys supreme power in the capital, collects high national taxes to refine the elixir of immortality, and extorts money from the people. He is an unscrupulous official!

For the first time, she deeply realized the saying: Hell is empty and the devil is on earth.

Those in power cannot see the hard struggles of the people below, and the people below cannot see any hope of survival. Every year, peasants who cannot make a living are forced to go to the mountains to become bandits and rise up in uprising.

In the end, the bandits who rose up in rebellion were suppressed by the imperial troops. This seemed to have become an irreversible cycle, repeating over and over again.

Chu Xi always remembered the original intention of coming here, so she closed her eyes. When she opened them again, she accelerated her sword moves with a determined look, faster than before.

The sword was so fast that even though Bian Hangqing tried to dodge, he still couldn't avoid having a piece of his hair cut off by the sword. In an instant, a sword was placed across his neck.

Before Bian Hangqing could even react, he had already been completely defeated by Chu Xi. It was not until the cold sword was against his neck for three full seconds that he came back to his senses, looking a little dejected.

He lowered his head, "I lost."

Seeing this, Chu Xi immediately retracted her sword and made a sword flower, with the tip of the sword pointing upwards. She held the hilt with her hand, and the sword was aligned with her arm, placed behind her robe. "Thank you for letting me win. You fought with others first, and then fought with me. I took advantage of you."

Upon hearing this, Bian Hangqing immediately raised his head and looked at the calm and confident young man opposite him with a determined gaze. "If I lose, I lose. You don't have to make excuses for me. I am not someone who can't afford to lose. Even if I lose this time, I will always win it back in the future."

The most shameful thing is to be inferior to others in skills and yet refuse to admit it.

The reason why Bian Hangqing was depressed was that he remembered that he lost to a teenager who had not even reached the age of championship, and he felt ashamed of his defeat.

It’s not that we can’t face this fact.