Border Soldier: My fiancée snatched credit and broke off the engagement, so I promptly became a marq

"Take off your cape."

As soon as Lu Shuangyi finished speaking, Su Wan's face turned pale instantly.

Zhao Chenglie's grip on the knife tightened suddenly.

Chen Mu smiled.

This is what he's been waiting for.

"Commander Lu."

Zhao Chenglie forced a smile and said, "Why take the nonsense of a lowly cook seriously?"

Lu Shuangyi did not look at him.

She only looked at Su Wan.

"I said, take it off."

Su Wan's fingers gripped the red fox cloak tightly, her knuckles turning white little by little.

The cloak that was just draped over her was a symbol of dignity, of high social standing, and of the future that Zhao Chenglie had given her.

But now, the cloak felt like a red-hot sheet of iron, clinging to her shoulders, so hot that her breath trembled.

Chen Mu walked up to her.

"Will you take it off yourself, or should I do it?"

Su Wan's eyes reddened.

"Chen Mu, do you really have to do this?"

Chen Mu looked at her.

"When I took the knife for you last night, why didn't you ask the barbarians if they really had to do that?"

Su Wan was speechless.

She slowly took the cloak off her shoulders.

The cloak fell onto the table.

When the firelight shone on it, a slanted cut was indeed visible on the left side.

Three inches long.

From bottom to top.

It felt like someone had suddenly and abruptly ripped it open.

Chen Mu pointed to the opening.

"This is the first piece of evidence."

Zhao Chenglie's face turned pale.

Chen Mu looked at him.

"General Zhao couldn't answer before, but now he sees clearly."

"This cut was made from bottom to top."

"Because Wugudu turned around to save the grain, I cut from behind him, first slashing his cloak, then into his armor."

The surroundings were deathly silent.

The Zhao family guards who had been laughing the loudest just moments before no longer dared to raise their heads.

Lu Shuangyi approached and glanced down at the slanted opening of the cloak.

"Like a backhand strike."

Chen Mu nodded, then tore open the armor plating on his chest.

The wound was gaping open, a bloody mess.

Many people felt their scalp tingle after watching it.

"The second one."

Chen Mu pointed to the edge of the wound.

"A normal slash wound is flat."

"Wugu uses wolf-tooth curved swords, with barbs on the inside of the blade."

"If you get hit by his strike, the wound will split open, like being ripped open by a beast's teeth."

He pressed on the wound, sweat beading on his forehead from the pain, but he didn't let go.

"This knife wound in my chest left even black bones."

Lu Shuangyi glanced down.

"It is indeed a wolf-tooth knife."

A chorus of suppressed gasps filled the training ground.

Zhao Chenglie's face paled even more.

Su Wan was even whiter.

She witnessed Chen Mu taking the knife last night.

Of course she knew where the wound came from.

She just thought that Chen Mu wouldn't dare to say it.

Chen Mu picked up the broken ivory plaque.

"The third item."

"Half of the ivory tablets from Wugudu are here."

He looked at the severed head displayed on the high platform, a symbol of the achievement.

"The other half should still be attached to the real Wugudu."

Zhao Chenglie angrily retorted, "Chen Mu, stop playing tricks on me!"

Chen Mu ignored him.

He yanked open the wooden box containing the severed head.

Everyone gasped.

The severed head in the box was indeed that of a barbarian.

But Chen Mu only glanced at it before laughing.

"Fake."

Zhao Chenglie roared in fury: "You're talking nonsense!"

Chen Mu pointed to the teeth of the severed head.

"Even the black bones have three gold teeth."

"No, we don't have that."

He then pointed behind his ear.

"Wugudu has a scar behind his left ear, left from when the Northern Barbarian King drew his sword ten years ago."

"No, that one either."

Finally, he held up the broken half of the domino.

"The worst part is that I cut Wugudu's ivory tablet in half."

"You were in such a rush to grab the head that you didn't even find the tokens."

The drill ground was deathly silent.

All eyes were on Zhao Chenglie.

Su Wan's face was frighteningly pale.

Lu Shuangyi looked at Zhao Chenglie.

"Do you have anything else to say?"

Zhao Chenglie opened his mouth, but couldn't utter a single word.

Zhao Hong suddenly stood up.

"General Lu, a mere tear in your cloak and a tattered token cannot be used to accuse my son of stealing credit!"

Chen Mu turned to look at him.

"Then check the fourth item."

"Last night, Wugudu withdrew from the pine forest on the north slope."

"He hid the grain cart in the third dry ditch behind the pine forest."

"When I caught up with him, he had eight bodyguards with him."

"I can't kill eight, so I'll start with the grain carts."

"Only when Wugudu turned back to save the grain did I have a chance to kill him."

Zhao Hong said coldly, "You think you can just say you have it?"

Chen Mu looked at Lu Shuangyi.

"Behind the pine forest on the north slope, the third dry gully."

"There was also burnt rye, half a wheel axle, and a horse carcass that wasn't completely burned."

Lu Shuangyi turned her head.

"Go check."

The two guards immediately mounted their horses and rushed out of the training ground.

Zhao Chenglie's fingers began to tremble.

Su Wan quietly shrank behind him.

Chen Mu saw it.

He suddenly found the original owner of this body truly laughable.

This kind of woman is actually worth risking your life to save.

Soon, the guards returned.

"grown ups!"

"There is indeed a dry ditch behind the pine forest on the north slope."

"There were three burned grain carts, a horse carcass, and half a cart of rye in the ditch."

"There are also seven corpses of barbarian guards."

The drill ground erupted in uproar.

Zhao Chenglie's expression changed completely.

Lu Shuangyi looked at him.

"You said last night that you were the one who cut down the black bones on the west slope."

Why was his grain cart on the north slope?

Zhao Chenglie opened his mouth.

"I...I took a detour while chasing them."

Chen Mu smiled.

"Did you take a detour?"

"Then tell me, how many gullies are there in the pine forest on the north slope? Which one is big enough to hide a car in?"

Zhao Chenglie couldn't say it.

Chen Mu approached step by step.

"Did you hear Wugudu shout something in a barbarian language before he died?"

Zhao Chenglie's forehead was covered in sweat.

Chen Mu spoke for him.

He said there were still people at the south gate.

Lu Shuangyi's eyes suddenly turned cold.

The laughter in the training ground completely disappeared.

Chen Mu took out a piece of blood-stained sheepskin from his pocket and spread it on the table.

A simplified map of Blackstone Castle was drawn on the sheepskin.

The south gate, granary, and stables were all clearly marked.

At the very bottom, there is a Chinese character.

Zhao.

Zhao Hong's expression suddenly changed.

"Fake!"

"This is fake!"

Chen Mu looked at him.

"Whether it's fake or not, we can find out by checking the guards at the south gate."

Zhao Hong's face was contorted with rage.

"Someone come here!"

"Chen Mu has slandered his superior and disrupted morale; arrest him!"

Several of Zhao's personal guards immediately drew their swords.

Lu Shuangyi only said one word.

"Who dares?"

The swords of those guards all stopped in mid-air.

Zhao Hong's face turned ashen.

"General Lu, this is a matter within Blackstone Fortress."

Lu Shuangyi looked up at him.

"Is military merit on the frontier a family matter?"

"Is colluding with the enemy an internal affair also a family matter?"

Zhao Hong was speechless.

Just then, Su Wan suddenly knelt down, crying.

"General Lu, it's all a misunderstanding."

"Chen Mu only made a scene because he was angry about my annulment of the engagement."

She turned to look at Chen Mu, tears streaming down her face.

"Chen Mu, I know you resent me."

"But you can't ruin the Zhao family just because I married Young Master Zhao."

Chen Mu looked at her.

Even now, this woman still tries to portray her taking credit as a matter of personal feelings between her and her child.

They even tried to frame the act of treason as jealousy.

He walked up to her.

Su Wan looked up at him, her eyes filled with a pitiful expression.

If it were the original owner of this body, she would probably have softened her heart.

Chen Mu simply threw the red fox cloak in front of her.

"Kneel properly."

Su Wan shuddered.

"What?"

Chen Mu's voice was cold.

"I told you, you have to kneel down and return your military merits."

Su Wan looked at Zhao Chenglie.

Zhao Chenglie was barely able to protect himself, so he couldn't care less about her.

She then looked at Zhao Hong.

Zhao Hong pretended not to see it.

In the end, she could only look at Chen Mu.

"Chen Mu, we were engaged after all."

You weren't like this before.

Chen Mu nodded.

"The old Chen Mu died last night."

Su Wan's face drained of all color.

She finally lowered her head, knelt beside the cloak, and spoke in a voice as soft as a mosquito's buzz.

"Chen Mu, I'm sorry."

Chen Mu did not tell her to get up.

He looked at Lu Shuangyi.

"General Lu, what is the punishment for stealing credit?"

Lu Shuangyi glanced at Zhao Chenglie.

"Those who commit minor offenses will be punished with eighty strokes of the cane and removed from military service."

"Those who commit serious offenses shall be beheaded."

Zhao Chenglie roared, "I didn't steal the credit!"

Chen Mu suddenly raised his hand and pointed to a military officer behind the high platform.

The officer turned pale and ran away.

"Grab him."

As soon as Chen Mu finished speaking, Lu Shuangyi's personal guards rushed out.

A moment later, the officer was dragged back to the ground.

Chen Mu walked up to him.

"You were the one who altered the military merit list last night."

The officer trembled all over.

"I...I didn't..."

Chen Mu pulled a piece of sealing wax from his sleeve.

"The Zhao family's private seal".

He then pulled a silver note from his boot.

Five hundred taels.

"A military officer can't even save five hundred taels of silver in his entire life's salary."

The military officer was paralyzed.

Zhao Chenglie's face also turned pale.

Chen Mu said in a low voice, "Who told you to change it?"

The military officer dared not speak.

Zhao Hong roared, "Dare to spout nonsense again, and I'll wipe out your entire family!"

The officer trembled with fear.

Chen Mu smiled.

"Did you hear me?"

"He's getting anxious."

Lu Shuangyi's lips seemed to twitch slightly.

It looked like a smile, but it wasn't.

She looked at Chen Mu.

"You knew he had something on him all along?"

Chen Mu said, "He's just a civil official, but when he saw the ivory tablet, he was even more afraid than Zhao Chenglie."

"This means he knew the inside story."

"He touched his cuffs three times and his boots once before he ran."

"The person who hides things will find them by their own hands."

Lu Shuangyi's gaze towards him changed.

A lowly cook in the kitchen.

He was still recovering from a serious injury.

She was robbed of her credit, her engagement was broken off, and she was publicly humiliated.

Yet it can still keep track of everyone's reactions.

This is not luck.

She suddenly spoke:

"Chen Mu".

"If there really is an inside agent at the South Gate, you will take five men and go investigate."

Zhao Hong suddenly looked up.

"General Lu!"

Lu Shuangyi ignored him.

She looked at Chen Mu.

"Investigate the South Gate, and report the merits of Wugudu and the merits of guarding the gate tonight together."

Chen Mu looked at Zhao Chenglie.

"Young General Zhao."

"Whether I can retain my military merit will be known in a moment."

Just then, a rapid gong sounded from the city wall.

when!when!when!

Three urgent gong sounds.

Enemy attack.

A sentry tumbled and crawled into the drill ground.

"Report!"

"The guard at the south gate is dead!"

"The door latch was burned halfway off!"

"The barbarians are already outside the door!"

Chaos erupted on the drill ground.

Zhao Hong's expression changed drastically.

Lu Shuangyi suddenly looked at Chen Mu.

Chen Mu was not surprised at all.

The barbarian words Wugudu uttered before his death were not nonsense.

There are people at the south gate.

Tonight, Blackrock Fortress is truly facing a dead end.

Chen Mu grabbed the red fox cloak from the ground and draped it over his blood-stained shoulders.

Su Wan knelt on the ground, staring blankly at him.

She suddenly realized that the man she had despised, betrayed, and called a lowly soldier seemed to have really changed.

Chen Mu turned around and walked towards the weapon rack.

Lu Shuangyi watched his retreating figure and asked:

"Where are you going?"

Chen Mu picked up a long spear.

"Go and earn your second military merit."

He glanced back at Zhao Chenglie.

"To avoid people saying he killed him again."