The mention of past events made Empress Dowager Hui’s face even paler.

"You strangled her alive and then personally buried her in the soil of Plum Garden. Yet you told my father she had eloped with a guard. My father didn’t believe it and sent people to find her, so you killed the ones my father dispatched. My father, who was gravely ill, never received news of my mother and passed away in anguish. Then you couldn’t tolerate me. Had I not fled quickly, I’d also be an unknown skeleton in some forest, wouldn’t I?"

In the past life, Empress Dowager Hui didn’t kill him in Beiyang, instead sent people to Zhen An Prefecture to assassinate him.

When the assassination failed, she sent people to lure him back to Beiyang.

Eventually, through collusion with others, he died from a betrayal in Beiyang.

But in this life, it’s his turn to decide everyone’s fates.

"Do you think by killing me, you can escape unscathed? Can leave the Beiyang military camp smoothly? Just because you came alive doesn’t mean you can leave alive." Empress Dowager Hui glanced lightly at the dagger, mocking.

Mu Yuanxiu laughed, "You needn’t use provocation to scare me. Before coming to see you, I certainly made sufficient preparations. If you don’t believe it, then let’s see whether you are the one carried away dead or I walk back to the Beiyang Imperial City alive!"

Empress Dowager Hui’s two hidden guards exchanged glances and together looked at her.

Their expressions were tense.

"Go investigate!" Empress Dowager Hui ordered them.

"No need, listen, isn’t it coming?" Mu Yuanxiu looked towards the entrance of the Central Army Tent, smiling faintly, "Did you hear anything strange?"

Empress Dowager Hui also looked towards the tent entrance, and the two hidden guards pricked their ears for a while, their faces changed dramatically.

"Empress Dowager, someone shouted that the granary is on fire!"

Empress Dowager Hui was shocked, "What?"

Mu Yuanxiu smiled faintly, "Rest assured, it will burn clean."

In fact, during his two infiltrations into the Beiyang camp, he had already sounded the Beast Taming Mysterious Sound, and the horses pulling the grains were quietly pulling the food away.

Another person, using the same Beast Taming Mysterious Sound, was secretly assisting him.

On the snowy night, the soldiers let down their guard, believing Zhao Country wouldn’t dare attack. The horses easily pulled away hundreds of carts of grain.

Outside Liangzhou City, 150,000 troops were stationed, and the grain stock was far more than hundreds of carts. By burning some, taking some during the chaos, and spreading rumors that it all burned, the army’s morale would be shaken.

Moreover, the Beiyang army had traveled from afar and without food, they would lose the will to fight.

"Consort Hui, do you think, with the grains gone, how many will willingly stay here to guard the camp?" Mu Yuanxiu laughed.

Empress Dowager Hui gritted her teeth, "As the Prince of Bei Yan, how dare you help the Zhao people? Aren’t you afraid of returning to Beiyang and facing the ministers’ reckoning?"

"Who exactly is helping Zhao Country will be sorted when back in Beiyang, and we’ll take our time settling this!" Mu Yuanxiu lifted Empress Dowager Hui from the cot, "Let’s go! Back to the Imperial City, we’ll settle new and old accounts together!"

The two hidden guards immediately drew their blades to seize her.

Mu Yuanxiu was already prepared, and he lashed out with the whip in his hand.

The force of the whip was tremendous.

The two hidden guards were no match and were knocked to the ground.

Mu Yuanxiu easily led his people out of the tent.

The hidden guard chased after them, "Someone, come! The assassin has taken the Empress Dowager!"

This loud shout alarmed many, and people immediately surrounded Mu Yuanxiu.

"If you want Empress Dowager, find her back at the Imperial City!" Mu Yuanxiu threw Empress Dowager Hui onto a horse, his long whip clearing a path, and rode northward swiftly.

Suddenly, the piles of grain in the camp caught fire, causing confusion among the soldiers.

A Big Flower leopard, not knowing where it came from, carried a red-clothed girl, charging left and right within the camp.

This scared many people and horses, causing them to flee in all directions.

You step on me, I step on you, there’s crying out here, shouting over there.

Wails arose everywhere.

A general shouted, "Shoot the leopard, capture the assassin!"

But the camp was already in chaos, where would they find them?

Xiao Shan and his companions took advantage of the chaos to escape.

These few weren’t keen on working for nothing; when escaping the camp, they didn’t forget to take some fine horses and weapons.

Xiao Shan also grabbed a prisoner and tied him on the horse.

They removed the Beiyang soldiers’ uniforms and donned their original outer garments, riding back.

When they reached the gate of Liangzhou City, according to Mu Yuanxiu’s instructions, they shouted the password toward the tower.

And showed the words written by Mu Yuanxiu on the banner.

By this time, the sky was already bright.

The soldiers on the tower saw clearly the banner Xiao Shan raised and heard Mu Yuanxiu’s instructed password code, and immediately opened the city gate.

Xiao Shan entered the city, learned Baili Huang’s office address, and brought the captured prisoner to see Baili Huang.