I'll Go See What Great Qi's Military Camp Is Like

Eunuch Liu waved his hand and said:

"I just went to check, I remember it was in that spot, but the thing is gone."

But now, even that grove of trees is nowhere to be found.

Noble Consort Ning was furious. "Go and find out where Zhou Wanwan went last night!"

The Brocade Guard left quickly, and after a while, returned to report, "Zhou Wanwan Brocade Guard n't home yesterday. I asked her parents, and they said she went traveling."

Noble Consort Ning squinted and asked, "You've gone traveling? Did you say where you're going?"

The Brocade Guard shook his head and said, "No."

Noble Consort Ning snorted coldly and said, "This little brat, he's quite fast."

Zhou Wanwan did run quite fast, and the soldiers also felt they were quite fast.

They spent the night in the treehouse, and when they opened their eyes again, they found themselves at the border.

The Border Pass Army rubbed their eyes, their faces full of disbelief. "What happened? We're home in just one night?"

"I'm back! I'm back! Waaaaah... I haven't seen my parents for three years."

These Border Pass Army all grew up on the frontier. I don't know what's gotten into the court that makes them insist on sending them to the capital.

Zhou Wanwan looked at them and said, "Let's go to Yanmen Pass first and see how things are."

They walked towards Yanmen Pass, and the closer they got to the Yanmen Pass, the more desolate it seemed.

Pedestrians hurried along the road, and there were many corpses by the roadside.

Zhou Wanwan pulled someone aside and asked, "Big brother, what happened? How come there are so many corpses?"

The man sighed and said:

"It's all because of those barbarians from the Great Qi, burning, killing, looting, and committing all sorts of atrocities..."

Add to that the drought, and countless people have died.

You're from out of town, right? You'd better run! If those barbarians catch you, you'll be in big trouble."

He had barely finished speaking when he saw several hundred soldiers running over from not far away.

The soldiers in the Great Qi army uniforms looked at them coldly and said, "Arrest them and take them back to the camp."

Zhou Wanwan looked at them and said, "Are you bullying me? Why are you arresting us?"

The man beside her trembled with fear and said, "Girl, don't say anything. These people don't care about such things."

The man laughed, "This girl's got some nerve! I like her, and she's pretty too. I'll take her."

The people around him egged him on, "Boss, can we get some of that benefits too?"

The man, with a lewd expression, said:

"I'll give it to you when I don't like it anymore, but I still like this child quite a bit right now."

The children of the Great Xia Kingdom are all fair-skinned and delicate.

Zhou Wanwan was accompanied by Zheng Xing'an, so these people naturally thought she was easy to bully.

Zhou Wanwan said, "I'll go back with you. I can walk by myself."

Those people laughed even harder.

They took Zhou Wanwan to a dilapidated oxcart. Zhou Wanwan sat next to Zheng Xing'an, Zheng Xing'an said, "Miss, are we just going to the military camp together?"

Zhou Wanwan nodded and said, "That's right! I'll go see what the military camps of the Great Qi Kingdom are like."

This was also Zhou Wanwan's intention, so she dismissed everyone around her.

Qin Shan led his men to Yanmen Pass first, while Zhou Wanwan planned to go directly to the military camp.

Before long, the soldiers arrived from all directions, seized many women, and threw them all onto the oxcart.

The oxcart started moving very quickly.

Zheng Xing'an said, "Miss, more than 200 people have been arrested here, not just women, but also men. What do they want to do?"

Zhou Wanwan said, "Men are used as miners or slaves, and women have many more uses. I didn't expect the border to be so chaotic."

The women were crying uncontrollably. One of them asked softly, "Child, how did you get here? Where are your parents?"

Zhou Wanwan said softly, "I don't know."

Several women looked at Zhou Wanwan at the same time. One woman whispered, "Good heavens! This child is only five or six years old, right? How could they bear to do this?"

"Son, you have to find a way to escape! We'll cover you a little later, you absolutely must get out, understand?"

Zhou Wanwan shook her head at them and said, "Aunties, don't worry about me, I'll be fine."

"You don't understand, what's wrong with you, child? We want to save you, you know?"

"In a moment, when they're not looking, you must find a way to escape."

Zhou Wanwan stopped talking. There were hundreds of soldiers around her; even if she ran, where could she run to?

The woman looked around and said:

"Why are there so many people? There aren't any good opportunities right now."

Once you reach the Great Qi army camp, you must run, or your life is over.

Zhou Wanwan looked at her and asked, "Sister, where did you come from? Why were you caught?"

The woman sighed and said, "My father is a commander of a thousand men. I was just about to deliver food to him when these bastards grabbed me."

Zhou Wanwan nodded and said, "Oh, I see! Is our city in chaos?"

The woman nodded and said:

"It's all in chaos, and the people around here are suffering terribly. These past two years have been years of disaster, and the people are already in dire straits, and now there's fighting between the two sides."

Our town is called Sunset Town, and it happens to be located at the border between the two armies.

So it's the most chaotic town.

Soon, they were thrown into cages by the Great Qi soldiers. There were hundreds of cages in the large area.

The Great Qi soldiers outside the cages kept staring at the women, drooling. "These women are of really high quality, really good."

"High-quality products are also more expensive!"

"I spent all my pay from last month on this, it was totally worth it! I love the little one, did you see it? It's so pretty!"

"Such delicate skin, tsk tsk tsk..."

The woman immediately hugged Zhou Wanwan and said, "This outfit you're wearing is going to cause trouble! And your face is too beautiful."

Zhou Wanwan looked around with great interest; the Great Qi was indeed a powerful and well-equipped army.

These people all had horses, and each of them was incredibly burly.

They were all dressed in armor, and the woman rambled on, "My name is Mu Qing, what's your name?"

Zhou Wanwan said, "My name is Wanwan. This Great Qi is indeed quite powerful!"

Mu Qing said helplessly:

"Our imperial court feeds its soldiers moldy rice and dresses them in tattered cotton quilts."

Do you think our soldiers can defeat the soldiers of the Great Qi?

Zhou Wanwan frowned and asked, "How could the rice get moldy?"

Mu Qing sighed:

"Since I'm going to die anyway, I'm not afraid to say these things. It's not just the rice, even the weapons are rusty."

Therefore, in all these years, our Great Xia has never won against the Great Qi Kingdom.

Every winter, many soldiers starve to death, and many more freeze to death.

My father used to be in charge of over 3,000 people, and over 500 of them starved to death. The court of our Great Xia Kingdom is full of beasts."