Allure of a Country Maiden
Chapter 867 - 865_1

Chapter 867: Chapter 865_1

Half a month later, there would be an earthquake here, it suddenly dawned on Xiao’er regarding Bai Tian’s words earlier.

She then grabbed Shangguan Xuanyi’s hand, and quickly walked back, "Brother Shangguan, let’s go, Bai Tian said just now, that half a month later, there’ll be an earthquake here."

Fortunately, they cam across Bai Tian and his crew. Half a month later, their soldiers would already be stationed here, and therefore encounter a natural disaster as soon as they arrived!

If there were to be annihilation of their entire army, she, being the one who claimed to seize this place, would become a sinner for eternity!

Though it wouldn’t be a major earthquake, a human’s life would seem too small in front of a natural disaster.

Upon hearing this, Shangguan Xuanyi’s face changed. However, it was still half a month away so there was plenty of time. He grabbed Xiao’er who was anxious and said, "Don’t worry, half a month is fifteen days, plenty of time to leave. Let’s explore the islands first. I plan to build a hidden guard and elite soldiers training base of the Imperial Court here. These islands are surrounded by the sea on all sides, offering enough secrecy, and we don’t have to send additional troops to be stationed here."

A hidden guard and elite soldiers, who possess top martial arts skills and can fight a hundred opponents single-handedly, are selected from among ordinary soldiers and given special training.

Xiao’er felt it was a good idea after listening to him. "We can start this in half a year."

"Why?" Shangguan Xuanyi could not hear the conversation between Xiao’er and Bai Tian.

"Because there will be a big earthquake here in half a year which may cause changes to all the islands, big and small here."

On hearing this, Shangguan Xuanyi felt it would not be quite appropriate to build the training base for hidden guards and elite soldiers here.

He trained the hidden guards and elite soldiers to resist enemies, not to fight against natural disasters!

Against a severe natural disaster, human strength was futile.

In the face of a mighty natural disaster, even the elite soldiers and hidden guards, no matter how strong they were, could only sacrifice themselves.

If earthquakes were frequent in this area, the talents he had painstakingly cultivated would not be enough to offer to a natural disaster!

"It looks like we need to find another island to set up the training base, considering the frequent earthquakes here."

"Relax, after half a year the frequency will reduce," the golden python climbed onto Xiao’er’s arm, having returned to them.

This time Xiao’er directly took it into her space.

Xiao’er relayed the golden python’s words to Shangguan Xuanyi, after which he felt relieved.

The two of them took the smaller boat again and returned to the island where General Di was located.

The tents here were already set up by then.

After Shangguan Xuanyi sent Xiao’er to the largest tent, he left to find General Di to discuss the plan to evacuate the troops from here as soon as possible after ten days.

"Why are we evacuating the troops again?" General Di was confused as to why they had just agreed to occupy here and now they were planning to pull troops out after ten days.

"I have other plans for this place," Shangguan Xuanyi explained briefly. He glanced outside the tent, where he noticed a slight movement.

When Shangguan Xuanyi said that, General Di realized it wasn’t appropriate to ask further.

All he had to do was to follow his directives.

After spending a night on the island, the very next morning, Shangguan Xuanyi received two Pigeon Post letters.

One of them was from the hidden guard staying in Nangong Country, the letter said the Nangong Emperor was assassinated in bed by a beauty rewarded to him by the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and his life was hanging by a thread. The father of that beauty was from Minze Country.

Shangguan Xuanyi frowned when he read this.

Xiao’er opened another letter. It was sent from the official of the Imperial Court. They would reach Zhan’er Island by tomorrow.

"The official sent by the Imperial Court will arrive on the Zhan’er Island tomorrow, we must set off now to rendezvous with them," said Xiao’er after reading the letter.

"So soon?" Shangguan Xuanyi took the letter from Xiao’er to read it and then handed her the letter he had.

"The winds and waves have been strong these days. They have been sailing downwind, naturally they will arrive a day or two earlier than expected."

Xiao’er, after finishing her words, lowered her head to read the content of the letter and frowned. "What does it mean that the father of the beauty sent by the Eastern Jin Dynasty is from Minze? They wanted the Eastern Jin Dynasty’s beauty to assassinate the Nangong Emperor and plan to blame us? They’re dreaming! They want to throw all the dirt on us!"

"Seems like successfully reclaiming the Zhan’er Island is impossible!" One of the generals said after listening to Xiao’er’s words.

General Di then said, "Our soldiers will arrive before sunset, tomorrow. We owns Zhan’er Island if they give it to us, and even if they don’t, we will seize it directly. Either way it will be ours!"

"Set off for Yi’er Island. General Di, gather your army and await orders!" said Shangguan Xuanyi before he pulled Xiao’er towards the small boat docked at the shore.

"Yes, Sir! Your orders will be followed!" General Di responded loudly.

At the same time, Gong Qinghua also received a letter via Pigeon Post. After reading it, he burned the letter.

What help could a bunch of small islands provide? Gong Qinghua paced back and forth in the room, thinking hard but to no avail.

If he could not figure it out, so be it! No matter what the use was! His troops would retreat from here in ten days, and then he would deploy some soldiers to take over the islands!

With this manoeuvre, even if Shangguan Xuanyi had any plans, it wouldn’t be possible to execute them!

A cold smile appeared on Gong Qinghua’s face.

Are there still 50,000 soldiers waiting for orders to occupy Zhan’er Island?

To get that barren land, they are really keeping up the grandeur! But, the more the merrier. As long as they step foot on Zhan’er Island, they will be gone forever!

Xiao’er and Shangguan Xuanyi returned to the larger ship and headed towards Yi’er Island to rendezvous with the officials of the Imperial Court.

After half a day of sailing, they finally met the officials from the Imperial Court, among whom were the Honglu Temple priest and Zhao Youwei.

The two of them boarded Shangguan Xuanyi’s large ship. After greeting each other, they set off for Zhan’er Island.

Zhao Youwei discreetly looked at Xiao’er, she seemed to have grown slightly taller and thinner since their last meeting months ago.

Previously, he heard that she had been abducted by the second prince of Nangong Country. He was worried that she might have been subjected to severe torture. Now seeing that she was safe and sound, he was relieved.

Zhao Youwei only looked at Xiao’er briefly before shifting his gaze to the vast sea.

Since Xiao’er had promised Fu Ranhui that she would return for her wedding, she asked upon seeing Zhao Youwei, "Has the date for Mr. Zhao and the princess’s wedding been set?"

Zhao Youwei froze for a moment before responding, "Yes, it will be at the beginning of next year. The princess will send Princess Xiao’er an invitation."

He only remembered that it was set for next spring, but couldn’t recall the exact date.

"Good, I will definitely return for it," Xiao’er said with a smile.

"Good." Zhao Youwei saw her smile and became slightly distracted, nodding subconsciously in agreement.

After finishing the conversation with the priest of Honglu Temple, Shangguan Xuanyi noticed how Zhao Youwei was looking at Xiao’er. His eyes flickered and he stepped forward, took Xiao’er’s hand, and said, "It’s windy here, let’s go back into the cabin!"

"Okay," Xiao’er nodded.

Zhao Youwei saluted Shangguan Xuanyi.

Ignoring him, Shangguan Xuanyi just walked away, pulling Xiao’er with him.

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