"Whose skeleton is it? Or, who is the skeleton?"

Yu Wenying looked at the lake quietly for a long time, as if she hadn't heard me at all. I stopped asking questions, but just kept looking at his face that looked deep in the moonlight, and his eyes that looked particularly deep in the rippling waves reflecting the lake.

It took him a little time to smile and said, "When Miss Yan asked me, did she already have the answer in her heart?"

I took a deep breath.

"Actually, with Miss Yan's intelligence and talent, I have heard so many stories along the way, and I must have guessed the answer."

“…”

"Why have to ask me?"

"..." I thought about it and said, "Population is speculation. If all speculations are not confirmed, then they are all false. But I think Mr. Yuwen knows the truth."

“…”

"Is this truth really so difficult for you to speak of?"

Yu Wenying looked up at me, and the look made my throat choke slightly.

He looked at me quietly for a while, then sighed and said, "Actually, this truth is what Miss Yan has always guessed - yes, this ghost town is the place where the Longxi Army was buried back then."

“…!”

really!

Although as he said, I had guessed it thousands of times in my heart and was ready to accept the truth, when I actually heard him say it, my heart still hopped hard.

Here, this peaceful lake, the "ghost city" that made everyone frightened, turned out to be the burial place of the well-equipped and almost invincible Longxi Army back then!

My voice trembled slightly: "All?"

Yu Wenying looked at me and said softly: "All the Longxi Army are buried here?"

“…”

He didn't say anything, I slowly turned my head and looked at the calm lake. As the night wind blew, little ripples disturbed the reflected moonlight. The thin moonlight seemed to be sad about the golden swords and iron horses and mountains and rivers from a hundred years ago. I just felt a sense of sorrow in my heart. I slowly squatted down and immersed in the cold lake with one hand.

This is the burial place of the Longxi Army.

Below this seemingly calm lake, the soldiers who were wearing chain mail and once fought endlessly in this Gobi desert, but now everything has passed, and their heroic posture has turned into dead bones, and even the sun is rare to see.

Yu Wenying looked at me quietly for a long time and said, "Ms. Yan is sad for them?"

“…”

When I heard his cold words, I also felt that I was too emotional. After all, this army had nothing to do with me, and it was a hundred years ago to die in the battlefield. I was sad about spring and autumn in this place, and it was indeed a bit pretentious to see him.

I withdrew my hand and shook my head gently and said, "It's not sad. The brave general will eventually die in the formation. The horse is wrapped in a corpse. This should be the last and best fate for all the brave and war-going soldiers."

"The brave general will eventually die in the formation? The horse's body is wrapped in a corpse?" Yu Wenying looked at me for a while, then raised her head and looked at the lake, and said lightly: "I hope this is the case."

“…!”

My heart moved slightly and I turned to look at him: "What do you mean?"

“…”

"Aren't they killed in battle?"

Yu Wenying said calmly: "I don't know how they died."

"Don't you know?" I looked at him in surprise and immediately smiled reluctantly: "Yes, this is all a hundred years ago, and no one knows what happened here at the beginning. But--" I looked at him and said tentatively: "Duke Yuwen, he should know?"

Even if Yuwen Kang didn't know, did Yuwen Kang's fathers not know. After all, they were all ministers of the previous dynasty and one of the Eight Pillars. Yuwen Kang and others even had to pay tribute to the Longxi Army every year. How could they not know how the Longxi Army was destroyed?

Yu Wenying was silent for a while and said, "He doesn't know either."

"What?!"

This time, I was really shocked.

"How come I don't know?"

“…”

"Duke Yuwen, shouldn't he have met the Longxi Army? Also, aren't you all--"

"I know what you are going to say," Yu Wenying said calmly. He turned his head to look at me: "Indeed, my grandfather was an official of the previous dynasty and had contacts with the generals of the Longxi Army, and even had a deep friendship. So he has always remembered to pay tribute to the Longxi Army over the years, but they really don't know how the Longxi Army was destroyed."

“…”

"It is said that the Longxi Army was destroyed overnight."

“…”

"No reason, no reason, just disappeared."

“…”

"This is also why my grandfather has been paying homage to them for so many years, and even before his death, he asked me to pay homage to the Longxi Army. He hoped that I would have the opportunity to find out the truth. And I, I, I am not afraid of hardships, must come to this place to pay homage to them, and I also hope that the dead bones buried here can tell me what happened at the beginning."

I gasped.

I thought it was an arduous battle and a tragic battle that destroyed the Longxi Army, but I never thought that even Yu Wenying and even Yu Wen Kang did not know the reason. The Longxi Army, which had once galloped across the desert in the northwest, was destroyed overnight?

Is this the reason why they didn’t even leave a single mark in the history books?

“…”

I stiffened my neck for a long time before I forced a chuckling: "Once, it's not like that, I've really encountered a ghost, right?"

After saying this, I shivered for a moment.

"ghost?"

When Yu Wenying heard my words, she chuckled and said, "Ghosts are also afraid of evil people. My grandfather and others said that this Longxi army has been defending the northwest. Every year, it has to fight nearly a hundred fierce battles with the cavalry invaded by the Eastern Chaga tribe, killing countless enemy generals. The sand here is stained with their blood. Will such people be afraid of ghosts?"

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"Only ghosts are afraid of their share!"

I nodded softly and murmured, "I have also heard that there is a soldier, an ordinary Longxi Army soldier, who can actually repel a small team of cavalry from the Dongchaga team and rescue the merchants they robbed."

"oh?"

He probably had heard a lot of stories about the Longxi Army from Yuwen Kang, so he did not show much shock at this story. Instead, he felt a little tired first and turned around and said, "It's too late, so let's go and rest early."

"Wait," I called him and said, "Mr. Yuwen, you said you don't know the reason for the destruction of the Longxi Army, but you always know who the commander of this army is."

Yu Wenying stopped, but she did not turn back immediately, but turned her back to me and said in a deep voice: "Do you think I know?"

I said, "Mr. Yuwen is the same age as me, and I don't know what the Longxi Army was destroyed overnight. This is understandable. However, your ancestors and the Longxi Army have a deep friendship. After so many years, they have never forgotten to pay tribute to the heroic spirits here. It's not that I don't even know the name of the commander."

“…”

"Since they asked you to pay tribute, it's impossible. You won't even tell you the commander's name."

Yu Wenying's shoulders drooped slightly, as if someone had been talking to the point of his heart and could not escape. He slowly turned his head. With the moonlight, I saw a faint smile on his face, and there was a little helplessness and bitterness in his smile: "Ms. Yan is really trying to get some trouble, and she doesn't give me any relaxation."

I said softly: "Didn't Miaoyan say it too during the day? Don't wait until someone asks me before talking. This seems to be not good for everyone."

“…”

He raised his eyebrows slightly.

Obviously, he also remembered Miaoyan's words, but the next moment, he looked at me with a smile: "Since that's the case, then I want to ask Miss Yan what else is there? I didn't ask a question, but Miss Yan didn't say it either."

“…”

I was slightly stunned, but I didn't expect that he would actually turn my army.

I thought about it: "Mr. Yuwen means-"

He slowly walked forward and looked straight in my eyes: "Let me explain it clearly. I heard a rumor that Miss Yan is not only the eldest lady of Yan, one of the Eight Pillars Kingdoms, but your other identity is also very special."

“…”

"I don't know if this rumor is true or false."

He was really a general.

I was silent for a moment, looked at his extremely bright eyes, sighed lightly, and said, "It's true."

A gust of wind blew the water surface, the moonlight shattered, and the light in Yu Wenying's eyes trembled.

His breath became obviously tense, and he said in a deep voice: "You are really-"

I said calmly: "After my mother left the capital, the Ranger went to Xichuan and married my father. After that, she gave birth to me with my father."

Yu Wenying's expression became solemn.

He looked at me and murmured, "So it's really...you're really..."

“…”

I looked at him calmly, and the two of them met silently for a long time. When he looked up at me again, his eyes became a little more serious and said to me: "Please forgive me for my previous sin of negligence."

I smiled bitterly: "Why are you talking about negligence? Even if my mother really appears in front of you, her identity is just the Yan family...madam. The dynasty is destroyed, and too many things disappear with it."

Yu Wenying didn't agree, just looked at me with a complicated expression.

I said, "Then, can Mr. Yuwen answer my question now? Who is the commander of the Longxi Army?"

This time, Yu Wenying was silent for a longer time, and it seemed that it was a bit difficult to speak. I don’t know how long it took before I heard his low and hoarse voice ringing in the night.

"The commander of the Longxi Army, surnamed Zhu."

My heart sank hard.

The surname is Zhu?
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