The Transmigration Routine of Always Being Captured By the ML

Chapter 14: The Wild Dragon Proud Days 1.14

[1] Meimei (妹妹) - younger sister. All the women are "sisters" and the "age" is determined by first rank, and then seniority.

"Ge/gege" - big brother

"Gōngzǐ" - son of an official; son of nobility; your son (honorific)

"Mufei" - mother-consort or mother-concubine. Mother who is also an imperial consort. They cannot be simply referred to as mother because socially, the mother of the imperial sons is the Empress.

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Li Luo was fully dressed in armor as he was riding on horseback. The sun shined on him and made him sweat.

Currently the army was walking on a mountain path overgrown with weeds, where trees' shades only sparsely stopped the fierce sunlight overhead.

Li Luo felt his hand on the reins somewhat stiff. Ever since Qin Yu reconciled with him, they had started helping each other once again and he had to do it everyday.

As long as there was a chance, Qin Yu would always stick to him to solve his impulses. Last night in the camp he was even dragged into the woods, where he needed more than two hours to make Qin Yu find his release. Li Luo felt as though his hands would break at that moment.

Dragon essence really was different from that of common people like him, it was as fierce as tiger. Li Luo could only admit defeated to Qin Yu, since he only needed half an hour at most to be done. Fortunately, his own property didn't fail in comparison to the protagonist's gun, because even if he had another setback he could only swallow it silently QAQ. In addition to this, Qin Yu liked to pinch his butt and bite his shoulder when he didn't react. So now his butt felt somewhat painful as he rode the horse, also his shoulder ached as it rubbed against his clothes. It was very uncomfortable.

Li Luo uncomfortablely moved his body and shifted his position to the other side.

Although Liu Ruoyan was delicate, she still came from a general's family and since childhood she had been taught horsemanship. So she wasn't bad at it and she actually rode her white horse splendidly, while following closely behind Li Luo. When she saw Li Luo's appearance, she immediately asked, "Mucheng gege, what's wrong? Is your body feeling uncomfortable?"

Li Luo felt awkward and his face revealed a trace of embarrassment. Since that day, he had tried his best to avoid Liu Ruoyan, but now the girl was being concerned about him and took the initiative to come over, so he couldn't simply ignore her and walk away, right? So he could only wave his hand, "I'm fine, Ruoyan Meimei [1] you don't have to worry." After he finishes speaking, he glanced at Qin Yu with the corner of his eye to see if he was paying attention to his action, and then he sighed in relief.

"Well, if you are feeling uncomfortable, just say it to Ruoyan." Liu Ruoyan pouted her small mouth, and say it in not so very happy tone.

"I will definitely talk to you if I do." Li Luo answered. He didn't refuse again, and nodded his head.

The sun overhead slowly inclined towards the west in a small angle, indicated it was 1-2 pm now. Normally around this time they would rest, so many foot soldiers were yawning occasionally, as they walked behind the cavalry in the front. The successive victories had made this group of soldiers lax and moreover their next target-Jing City, was still two or three days away on foot. They didn't think that their enemy would know of their presence as of yet.

Because he had a delicate body, Li Rui'an was unable to ride a horse, so he had found a small donkey and leisurely rode in the back.

His very beautiful face made the soldiers around him turn around one after the other, just to look at him. But Li Rui'an didn't care at all and his pair of beautiful eyes would just occasionally look at his surroundings.

Suddenly, he seemed to catch a glimpse of silver light being reflected in the distance.

Li Rui'an's heart immediately tightened, but he maintained a calm and collected demeanor on the outside. He secretly observed that suspicious place for long time and the longer he observed the bigger his suspicions got-he was very sure, that in that direction, there was an ambush.

He slightly lowered his head and pulled the rains of his donkey. He went ahead to catch up with Li Luo and once he was his side, he asked. "Su Gongzi, do you have water?"

"Yes." Li Luo turned around and looked at Li Rui'an, he grabbed a small canteen made of bamboo in his waist and handed it over to him. But then he saw Li Rui'an winking at him, as he slightly exposed the small edge of his own canteen in his wide sleeve.

Li Luo was slightly stunned for a moment, before immediately reacting. Why did Li Rui'an ask for water when he obviously had a supply as well? Could it be-Li Luo quickly recalled the storyline of his novel in his mind, and finally vaguely remembered, that something occurred on the mountain path.

Qin Yan very quickly felt the danger of losing his influence and was unable to stop it, but thankfully his Mufei-Jing Chun empress dowager, at that time found a very useful aid for him. It was the Bei Da Great General, Qi Cheng.

In the past, Qi Cheng and Nangong Ao were equally famous, but he then retired from his position as Bei Da Great General. During that time, Qi Cheng was almost 20 years younger than Nangong Ao, who had long since been successful & highly acclaimed. Therefore currently he was more than 40 years old. In the novel Li Luo wrote that this Bei Da Great General owed Jing Chun empress dowager his life, so when she begging him on his doorstep for help, he promised to help Jing Chun empress dowager to deal with the rebel army led by Qin Yu without any hesitation.

He was one of the characters that were harder to deal with and was set to be Qin Yu's first hurdle. After all, if the protagonist didn't have some bumps and collisions on his road of life, it would decrease his cool points.

So exactly in this location there was an ambush with which Qi Cheng wanted to test the waters by attacking them.

Naturally, this attempt didn't succeed.

Li Luo approached Li Rui'an and gave him a faint nod. Then he used his hand to support his forehead and faked feeling unwell.

Li Rui'an immediately understood and in a loud voice asked: "What's wrong Su Gongzi? Are you not well?!"

Qin Yu that rode in the front most of the group immediately turned his head to look at Li Luo. He immediately pulled his horse rein and moved toward the back.

Once Qin Yu turned around, Li Luo deliberately limbed his body to the side and fell down. When he saw that Li Luo was about to fall, Qin Yu immediately flew up and took ahold of Li Luo's waist, bringing him back on the saddle. Li Luo immediately got close to Qin Yu's ear and whispered: "Yu, beware of the ambush in front."

Qin Yu originally anxious look immediately ceased and as he lightly patted Li Luo's waist, the tense expression that showed in his eyes also disappeared. He breathed a sigh of relief, and then pressed his hand on the sword on his waist, his eyes were fierce as he shouted out, "Everybody be alert!"

Although they didn't know why Qin Yu gave them this command, because of their trust in Qin Yu all of Xiang Bei Army's soldiers didn't hesitate and immediately raised their own weapons, All of them vigilant.

Li Rui'an immediately hid, because he knew his fighting capacity was negative, and he didn't want to give Xiang Bei Army and Qin Yu any inconvenience. Furthermore he didn't want to die because of overestimated one's capabilities, so hiding in a safe place was the best option.

The soldiers who were hiding in front of them realized that they had been found out, so they didn't bother to continue doing it. At least a few hundreds archers stood in their position, the bows in their hands pulled to the full, so that the moment Qin Yu's group passed, they could immediately attack them.

Unfortunately, Qin Yu had found out their ambush and that lost them the best opportunity to attack.