readytorunbook Chapter 435: The Princess's Delicate Body
Chapter 435: The Princess's Delicate Body
Shangguan Tang and Nangong Jingxuan held hands and rode on a tiger-drawn sleigh, followed by three thousand soldiers.
The soldiers looked at the couple on the sled and fell into deep suspicion.
"Is this really the commander-in-chief's wife? Isn't it said that the commander-in-chief's wife is a peasant girl and doesn't have any special abilities? But I think the commander-in-chief's wife is not ordinary at all."
"How could an ordinary peasant girl have the ability to come to Yulong Pass alone on a tiger-drawn sleigh?"
"Not to mention women, even strong men like us cannot travel from the capital to Yulong Pass alone in such extreme weather."
"Madam didn't say she was from the capital."
"Madam is the princess. If the princess doesn't live in the capital, where can she live?"
The soldiers kept whispering and expressed doubts about Shangguan Tang's identity.
Shangguan Tang and Nangong Jingxuan also heard their voices. The couple had a lot to say at the moment, and they also had important things to do later, so they had no energy to answer the soldiers' questions.
After walking for a while, Shangguan Tang saw several figures appear in front of her. It was Guan Xiaoniu and five others who came to find her.
From a distance, Guan Xiaoniu and his six companions saw a large group of people lying in the snow ahead.
They were so excited that they ran even faster.
"princess!"
They shouted and tried to run over.
Nangong Jingxuan and the three thousand soldiers also saw Guan Xiaoniu and his men, and were also very surprised.
"It's Guan Xiaoniu. He's not dead. That's great!" Nangong Jingxuan said, and suddenly realized something. He looked at Shangguan Tang and said, "Madam, are they together?"
Shangguan Tang realized that he had forgotten to tell Nangong Jingxuan about the dozen people of Guan Xiaoniu, so he quickly said: "I found them. I know everything about the food-collecting team. I only met thirteen living people."
Nangong Jingxuan's expression changed: "Only thirteen people?"
Guan Xiaoniu and six others had already run over, and Nangong Jingxuan asked the team to stop.
“Commander!” Guan Xiaoniu knelt down in front of Nangong Jingxuan, his voice choking with sobs: “I’m sorry, I failed in my duty. I didn’t bring the food back in time, and I didn’t protect the brothers. Please punish me, Commander!”
The other five also knelt down and echoed, "We are not doing our job well, please punish us, Commander."
“Get up, get up quickly, the snow is cold, don’t freeze your knees!” Nangong Jingxuan stepped forward and helped Guan Xiaoniu up: “Why should I punish you? You did nothing wrong. I am happy to see that you are still alive.”
"Thank you for your hard work!"
Nangong Jingxuan patted Guan Xiaoniu's shoulder gently: "On the way here, I found a lot of corpses. I thought you were all dead. Fortunately, some of you are still alive. It's good to be alive."
The three thousand soldiers also ran over, surrounded Guan Xiaoniu and his men, and asked about their well-being.
Guan Xiaoniu, a grown man, burst into tears amid so many questions.
"It was the princess who saved us. If it weren't for her, we would have died in that cave."
"There are still many corpses of our brothers in that cave, and we don't have the ability to bring them out."
The soldiers asked about the safety of Guan Xiaoniu and the other six people. After the six of them calmed down, Nangong Jingxuan ordered the team to continue on their journey.
Not long after, they arrived at the entrance of the granary.
Looking at the full warehouse of grain, the soldiers felt mixed emotions.
"Commander, it's not easy to take back so much food." Guan Xiaoniu suggested: "Can we send someone to inform General Zheng and General Su and ask them to send someone to take away some of the food? The food in Yulong Pass should be gone."
Nangong Jingxuan looked at the sleds in the granary. Without having to guess, he knew that they must have been put there by his wife.
He had just asked quietly, and there were still a lot of supplies in his wife's space, enough to keep the entire Yuan Dynasty going until summer.
Coupled with the supplies stored by the court, the Yuan Dynasty was not only able to survive the snow disaster safely, but was also able to recover at the fastest speed after the disaster.
"Long Er, come forward and listen to my orders. You take thirty people and go to the military camp on a horse-drawn sleigh. Tell General Zheng and Prince Consort Su about the food, sleighs, and snow sleds." Nangong Jingxuan solemnly handed the blueprints of the sleighs and snow sleds to Long Er and said, "Tell the military camp to build these things as quickly as possible."
Then he said to the rest of the soldiers, "There are many trees in the Daxiang Mountains. I order you to go into the forest and cut down the trees to build sledges and snowmobiles."
With sleds and sledges, it would be easier to bring food to Tianming Prefecture.
The soldiers went about their work separately.
Nangong Jingxuan and Shangguan Tang entered the granary. Since there were no outsiders here, the couple could talk more freely.
Shangguan Tang reached out and touched the rice in front of him and said, "I wanted to send the food directly to the army, but it's not easy to take it out. If I conjured so much food out of thin air, people would think I was a demon. Even if I hide and don't show up, the food appearing out of thin air will cause chaos."
It is easy to take out one or two kilograms of grain, but it is not easy to take out tens of thousands of kilograms of grain.
Nangong Jingxuan stroked his chin and thought: "We have to think of a way to get the supplies openly."
Shangguan Tang turned around and looked outside. The soldiers were working hard to cut wood to make sleds and snowshoes. Their faces were frozen purple and their bodies were covered with frost. Everyone was extremely tired. No matter how hard or tired they were, they did not dare to rest for a moment.
"If we can get the supplies in my space out sooner, we can save more lives. This is the meaning of our efforts to stockpile supplies over the past few years."
Nangong Jingxuan said: “If it really doesn’t work, I will accompany you to leave secretly, hide and throw out the supplies. Wherever you go, throw the supplies there, and say it is a gift from God!”
Shangguan Tang chuckled: "This method is also possible, but it will still cause some disturbances. Also, when I take supplies from the space, those things will fall very close to me after I take them out. If anyone sees it, they can easily guess that it is related to me."
Wherever she appears, supplies will fall from the sky. If anyone sees her, unless they are a fool, they can guess that it is related to her.
The human heart is unpredictable. Once people know that she can create things, who knows what they will do.
Listening to Shangguan Tang's words, Nangong Jingxuan frowned even more tightly. He wanted to save the people and soldiers, but he didn't want to expose his wife's space at all.
This kind of weird power will bring endless troubles to his wife.
"My wife is right. It is indeed very risky to do that. In the face of natural disasters, people are the most terrifying." Nangong Jingxuan said, "Let's ignore those things for now. Let's take the food back first."
"Okay, let's stop talking about this and go help the soldiers cut wood." Shangguan Tang pulled Nangong Jingxuan towards the forest.
It was difficult to cut trees in the ice and snow. The soldiers' gloves were worn out and they were hungry and tired.
Shangguan Tang came over and took the sword from a soldier: "I'll cut the wood, you go and have a rest."
"How can this be possible? The princess is so delicate and precious..." Before the soldier could finish his words, he saw Shangguan Tang chopping off a tree as thick as his body with one knife.