"Alas..."
"Alas..."
After a while, there came another "alas."
"Yu Weiheng!"
Caught off guard when her name was called, Yu Zi jolted in fright.
"Present! What orders do you have, Military Advisor?"
Kang Shi finally lost patience. "Why have you been sighing nonstop?"
As a gambler, he could least stand hearing sighs.
Sighs carried away good luck and brought misfortune.
Yu Zi said softly, "Military Advisor, this is my first time marching to war with the army, and the result... Isn't it all right for me to sigh a couple of times?"
Although Yu Zi had been "stirring up trouble" in Ten Crows and other places these past two years, putting into practice the methods she had learned from her granduncle, this was her first proper campaign with the army. When her granduncle hinted that she might be allowed to join this expedition, she had been so excited that she could not sleep for two days and two nights.
But then—
She was actually joining as Kang Shi's subordinate official.
It was not that she objected to being a subordinate official. As a rookie, having an old hand guide her on her first campaign was an opportunity outsiders could beg for and never obtain. What truly struck her was Kang Shi's Way of the Scholar. Who in the entire government office did not know that his luck was abysmal?
Yu Zi was afraid that she would join the army only to end up accomplishing nothing. By the time Lord Shen's main forces began attacking Xiaocheng, perhaps she would not even have glimpsed the shadow of an enemy on her side. When she thought of Lin Feng, who was younger than her yet had already fought in several major and minor battles...
She was already less gifted than others.
If she