bookcurios Chapter 178: Not Being Looked At
Chapter 178: Not Being Looked At
"Ajin, do you really want to be your brother so much?"
"Oh, isn't that what my brother always does?"
"Ah Jin, you and I are brothers after all. I don't want to see you go on like this, so I'll give you a chance this time."
"Tsk, doesn't your brother hate the Han Chinese's tricks the most? Why are you beating around the bush now?"
Tuoba Kui really disliked Tuoba Jin's attitude. After all, he was the Khan of Beidong.
He is his brother, how could he talk to him like this.
But he had other things to do right now, so he could only suppress the anger in his heart.
"Ajin, go to the border and see how the battle is going. I'll give you three days. After three days, I'll receive a letter from a flying eagle."
Tuoba Jin widened his eyes, becoming more and more shocked at his brother's shamelessness.
He really didn't know how the other party had the nerve to say such things.
It would take three days to travel from the royal court to the border by horseback at full speed, but he actually said that he would receive his letter sent by eagle in three days.
Even though the eagle is extremely fast, it can fly back to the royal court from the border in just half a day.
But doesn’t it take time for him to get from the royal court to the border?
Doesn’t it take time to understand the battle situation?
Doesn’t writing a letter take time?
He was asked to complete these tasks within two and a half days. Tuoba Kui really didn't consider himself a human being.
"Ajin, while you're gone for a few days, I'll let the queen take good care of your mother. You can go without worry."
Tuoba Jin's heart was tired, it was always like this.
The last time he was asked to go to Dongxia and find a way to kill the new king of Dongxia, he was threatened in the same way.
He was really tired and didn't even want to care about the woman's life or death anymore.
She closed her eyes and agreed to Tuoba Kui's unreasonable request.
"Come here, prepare the horse for the Third Prince."
Tuoba Jin was already well aware of Tuoba Kui's shamelessness, but it still opened his eyes.
He was imprisoned for more than a month and was only given a very simple meal and a spoon once every one or even two days.
No matter how healthy he was before, he is now extremely weak.
He was asked to complete a task that would take others four or five days to complete in three days, without even having time to breathe and recover.
This really doesn't treat him as a human being.
"Ajin, this is urgent. The faster you go, the better. Let Xunji go with you this time."
Tuoba Jin was no longer in the mood to say anything more to this person. Before leaving, he took Beidong Khan's favorite cloak and put it on.
He took the reins handed to him by the servant, mounted the horse, and whipped it to rush towards the border.
He hadn't received any new news in the past few days, and since Tuoba Kui was so nervous and anxious, it must be that something big had happened.
He also wanted to go and see what had happened, and Tuoba Kui's mask of calmness almost fell off.
He also let the fastest and most precious Swiftness in his hand go with him.
He had not rested for two days and two nights. After leaving the palace, he went back to his house to get some dry food, water, and his usual weapons.
Finally arrived at the border camp.
There was not a single soldier to be seen, only devastation.
Tuoba Jin rode his horse around the ruins of the military camp.
All you see are piles of coke.
Some human tissue can be vaguely seen through the charcoal.
He took another detailed look around the military camp, and his heart was filled with shock.
Although most of the military camp had been burned, with his experience he could still tell what each part was used for.
There was not a single grain of rice left in the military camp's granary, and those who were burned were all soldiers of the North Winter Alliance.
Judging from the size and quantity of the coke pile, there were at least tens of thousands of people there.
When I walked to a lookout tower in the center of the military camp, I caught a glimpse of several lantern-like things hanging above my head.
Looking up, I met a pair of eyes wide open in fear.
Now that winter has arrived, the weather in the north is extremely cold.
The head that Leng Qing must have placed on the watchtower was still intact.
Only the blood on the neck was frozen, the rest had not changed much from when it was first cut off.
Tuoba Jin's pupils constricted as he glanced at the familiar faces. The shock in his heart could no longer be expressed in words.
He used his Qing Kung Fu to fly up to the watchtower and pulled out the arrows that were stuck on it one by one.
Arrange the heads neatly on the ground.
A closer look revealed that the wounds on their necks were very neatly cut.
But the arrow stuck in his head didn't look like it was pierced by a sharp arrow.
It looked more like someone had just skewered heads and arrows there.
He then picked up the heads and carefully examined the wounds on their heads.
It can be vaguely determined that their heads were cut off first, and then pierced with arrows and fixed on the watchtower.
Anyone who has such ability must be a person with great martial arts skills.
Thinking of this, a noble and arrogant figure emerged in his mind.
He narrowed his eyes and could vaguely guess what had happened.
And then, all he had to do was confirm his guess.
So he took out paper and pen from the bag on his horse and began to write a letter to Tuoba Kui, explaining the situation here in detail.
He picked out a few important heads and wrapped them up in a bundle.
Tuoba Kui's most precious eagle is not only extremely fast, but also much larger than an ordinary eagle.
It's a bit heavy to bring a few heads back, but it's not a big problem.
After sending Xun Ji away, Tuoba Jin did not rush back to the royal court.
Instead, he looked for traces of battle on the ground nearby.
Judging from the traces on the ground, the war here took place at least seven days ago.
It looks large in scale, but the battle should be extremely fast.
The last time he received news from the border was about half a month ago.
At that time, the only news was that Tuoba Kui's son and daughter had a scandal and died together.
There was news that the two Hulun brothers killed each other for unknown reasons.
Coincidentally, Tuoba Kui's son and daughter met with the accident at the same time as the Hulun brothers.
There was little news from the border military camps, but there was a lot of news from the royal court.
Tuoba Kui killed their only son in front of the queen.
As well as the scandals of many tribal rulers and Beidong officials.
These things happened suddenly, and those people were not stupid, so they could naturally notice something was wrong.
The strange thing is that they all knew that someone did it on purpose, but even with the whole country's strength, they couldn't catch the person behind it.
If he put these things together, he could be sure that the deaths of Tuoba Kui's children and the Hulun brothers were not accidents.
It is very likely that these things were done by the same group of people, or the same person.
The figure of that person appeared in my mind again.
"If it's him, it's not impossible."
"However, he is the king of a country after all. Why would he come to such a dangerous place like the border in person?"
Tuoba Jin really couldn't understand it.
However, he believed that most of these things were done by the new king of Dongxia.
He suddenly launched a war against his country and massacred the people of a village in his country.
Given his recent attention to the new monarch, this is indeed his style.