Chapter 30 Disasters do not walk alone

Huò bù dān xíng Disasters do not walk alone Misfortunes tend to come all at once

"Who's there?" Xun BingBing covered her exposed chest, while she looked around for the intruder.

Earlier on when she and the snake demon had passed by a beautiful lake by the meadows, she suddenly felt she wanted to take a bath. SheLin had been relentlessly looking for the young little miss and when Xun BingBing told him she was going to the lake and needed privacy, he simply left her.

The water was cool with the weather turning colder in the Cai kingdom, it was simply perfect for Xun BingBing to take her bath. She had magically removed her clothing and waded happily into the pristine emerald lake. She was about to finish her lake bath, when she suddenly heard a rustle. In her haste, she forgot she could magically will for her clothes to cover herself.

From far above the skies, Lu DingYi held his stomach laughing, while Ren YuanChang looked chagrined.

"SongQing is a male this time? Hahaha, no wonder you wouldn't tell me last time! This is so hilarious! YuanChang ah, what if this mortal incarnation of SongQing fall in love with a female?

You had guarded her so well in the past when she was a mere weak female, not letting any males bully her.

Now, SiMing has gotten more creative and changed her mortal fate to become a male.

Did he also plot for SongQing to find the same gender appealing? Look! Isn't SongQing dazzled by the beauty bathing in the lake? This a classic plot. Now the male will feel bad and want to take responsibility for the poor female!" Lu DingYi tried to repress his laughter to no avail, ending up giving an inelegant snort then another long round of laughter.

"MengEr, what are you doing? Why did you suddenly grab me and come here?"

"YueEr, the water creatures told me there's a certain immortal in the Lake near Xue kingdom. This young female immortal fits the description of that child of Crimson Wolf clan," YunMeng said excitedly while they teleported into woods near the lake.

"Hold up! I can detect Celestials up in the sky," MiYue hurriedly held back YunMeng and cloak their presence from the unknown Celestials.

"Huh? That looks like ... umm.. let me think, I know! I have seen them with the God of Lightning before. What is that baby face Lu DingYi doing here? Are they also keeping tap on the Crimson Wolf child? Perverts!" YunMeng peered up and whispered back to MiYue.

Soon, many things happened in the lake at same time. The girl in the lake ducked into the water and disappeared, the peeping Tom suddenly dropped down unconscious and was carried away by one of the Celestials.

"..." What scene is this ah? Why did the Celestials take away the mortal LaoHai?

"Who cares about LaoHai? Let's just chase the girl!" MiYue snapped for YunMeng's attention and grabbed her forth to the lake.

"Where's LaoHai?" MengTian roared. The imbecile General Murong ruined his plans. He should have ordered MengTian to kill him instead of trying to recruit him last time.

MengTian had been relaxing, painting when a messenger bird flew in and gave him the bad news that the Cai military at borders became crippled. The Cai and Sheng kingdoms had backed out from their trade and rejected the sorghum business from him, somehow believing that his grains were contaminated and causing the mysterious disease the border Cai soldiers faced.

At the news, MengTian lost his calm, crushing the messenger bird in his hands, the poor bird's blood, feathers, and bones spattered and scattered everywhere, staining MengTian's red robes.

The rebel soldier who had just arrived and saw the tantrum thrown by the usually elegant leader, blinked away the blood that had spattered into his eyes.

"Reporting to Leader. Captain LaoHai was caught unprepared and was wounded. Somehow he managed to return by himself and is now unconscious with high fever in his room."

"Who did it?" MengTian was so angry his veins was popping out, his beautiful face contorted, his flushed face only shades lighter than his red garb.

"This small one doesn't know. Commander LaoHai was last seen to be walking to the direction of the lake." The rebel soldier swiftly looked down. The leader hated people for looking at his face and he did not want to provoke he leader's ire.

Rushed steps were heard on the wooden corridor, and the assistant of the Leader of Eastern Righteous Alliance, came running towards the leader's main hall, his hair messy from his hair bun, "Leader! Bad news! Our troops stationed near the borders were taken in by General Murong! I worry the followers, no matter how loyal they are, will ferret our location. This incompetent one beg Leader to abandon this place and go to our other safe house now!"

"You.." General Murong had repeated 'you' trice already but from HeiYing's vantage point behind the stooped back of little master's, he could see that the General did not how to reprimand his child for defying his orders.

Murong XieChu's heart constricted hard when he saw LiEr leaping out from their hiding spot. He had grabbed his bow and shot the rebel before he noticed LiEr and after the arrow, he took out a dagger from his boots to aim at another rebel, before he jumped out to run and attack rebels. Murong XieChu trusted HeiYing to shield and protect LiEr.

The initial planned sneak attack was to wait for the enemy's commander, LaoHai, and capture him without spilling much blood. General Murong had instructed his men not to harm these rebels who were previously just common farmers, deserting army back to their families and ran away from the government, seeking refuge with Eastern Righteous Alliance (ERA). These desperate people and their young ones were later indoctrinated to turn to the beliefs of ERA.

LaoHai was supposed to be at this site two days ago and just earlier today, another source came informing the General that LaoHai was already near. All they had to do was to wait another shichen.

Not only LaoHai did not appear but the enemies seemed to weak without a leader. So in the end, it was more of a blessing in disguise when General Murong's heir became agitated and exposed their position, giving them all the cue for action.

Upon the first arrow, had also got into their usual trained formation. The designated archers readied their bows to shoot the rebels and the others fanned out to follow their General into the foray. The stored adrenaline and suppressed anger made the soldiers into working together in their resolution to defeat the enemy effectively.

Less than two ShiChen (4 hours), General Murong and his soldiers managed overcome the rebels and took over their camp. Deputy HeiYing gave instructions to find any hidden rebels and to dismantle any secret weapons.

While working simultaneously as trained, the soldiers grumbled in their hearts why they did not attack sooner. The rebel camp was unexpectedly easy to defeat. Waiting in that cold was truly undeserving ah!

Within one of the rebel tents, after it had been cleared, the first thing General Murong did was to straighten his heir, reprimanding for his impetuous actions. Outside, the soldiers busied themselves tying the rebels up while scuttling close to the tent, keeping their ears up.

By the General's strict army martial law, those who defied his words would have punishments ranging from 20 whips to buried in hot sand with no food for 2 days. Surely, the heir will be exempted from such drastic punishment?

They could understand the heir being hotheaded but over the months being having the heir in the midst, the soldiers had acknowledged that the heir was not stupid or outrageous as rumored to be. The heir had been kindly towards civilians and respectful to others, they could not believe that the boy would be the type to defy his father.

So what made the general's heir jumped out earlier like that?

"LiEr, tell DiE, why did you jump out like that? You have almost compromised our people, the situation and even risked many lives." General Murong XieChu sighed finally. He had taken few deep breaths and calmed himself.

As expected, in the end, he really cannot bear to scold young master, HeiYing was unsurprised and did not even bother to lift his eyebrows.

After not getting any father son drama, the soldiers went back and busied themselves to scout their camp and do thorough check.

LiWang looked up at her father. Her mask had covered her features but did not cover her bright pure eyes looking pitifully at her father, while something in her chest wiggled.