Chapter 193 Rescue

"How long will it take us to reach Tianshui City?"

Hua Sheng sat on the donkey cart and felt that he had become one with the livestock. He could not tell the difference just by smell.

"Should be soon."

Hua Sheng frowned and looked at the man in front of the cart, "What's wrong with you these days? You've been hesitant to speak and you don't dare to look at me. Have you done anything to offend me?"

She originally planned to leave, but she found along the way that human hearts were much more sinister than she had imagined. The man in front of her had some skills and a good heart.

So she didn't leave, thinking that she would give him a large sum of money as travel expenses when they arrived in Tianshui City.

From the angle she couldn't see, Lin Ye's face was as red as a monkey's butt, burning with anger, and even his neck was stiff. He didn't dare to look back at her.

"No, no, it should be here in three or four days."

"Hmm." Hua Sheng sighed, holding her cheek with her hand and looking at the bright moon. Now she could no longer smell the fishy smell.

Lin Ye turned his head carefully, saw a smooth and delicate face on one side, and then turned back suddenly.

The scenery of that night immediately came to his mind, and even his breathing began to feel hot.

It is always troublesome to bring someone with you. That night, he wanted to steal her pass, but he saw a scene that he would never forget in his life.

The silky black hair hung down to her waist, her round and smooth shoulders emerged from the bathtub, her slender back was smooth and white like jade...

She took off her robe, and the jade pendant on her belt tapped rhythmically against the cheap screen. Lin Ye suddenly realized that the person he had been looking for was right in front of him.

"Hey, big guy, is that a person lying there?"

"Huh?" Lin Ye came back to his senses and looked in the direction of her finger. A man covered in blood was lying there.

"Dead?"

Lin Ye stopped the car and walked over cautiously. He shook the man on the ground and frowned, saying, "He's not dead. It looks like he fainted from excessive blood loss."

"Should we save him then?"

Lin Ye was a little hesitant.

There is unrest in the Tianshui City area. Who knows who this person is and where he came from?

"No."

"Just let him lie here? He's going to die, right?"

Lin Ye looked back at the frowning girl, hesitated for a moment and said, "Then let's find a clinic to bandage him. Whether he lives or dies, it all depends on his fate."

Hua Sheng nodded immediately.

Lin Ye dragged the man by the arm and put him on the cart. Then he found a nearby clinic, gave him some money, and put the man in the clinic.

"I paid the money, which should be enough for you to stay in the clinic for a while. You can leave after you recover from your injuries."

Shen Yunbai struggled to open his eyelids, but they were blurry and he could only vaguely see a pair of half-curved eyes, like a clean and clear lake, reflecting the bright crescent moon.

That was the light that he had never touched despite having been in darkness for so many years.

"Thanks."

The hoarse voice, as if it had been polished by sand, was extremely unpleasant compared to the woman's clear and pleasant voice. Shen Yunbai pursed his lips and stopped talking.

"You're welcome. Take good care of him. I'm leaving now."

The eyes curved into crescents again and slowly disappeared from sight.

At the crowing of the cock the next day, the two began their journey again. The road was covered with thick fog, and it was almost pitch dark.

Hua Sheng was a little scared.

"Has your family arranged a marriage for you?"

"Hmm?" Hua Sheng looked up at the man driving the car, very alert, "Why are you asking this?"

"…Just chatting." Lin Ye laughed, "We are two men, what can I do to you?"

That's true. Hua Sheng relaxed his guard and said calmly, "I have a fiancée. My parents and the matchmaker agreed. We will get married in twenty days."

Lin Ye was stunned.

"Then why don't you stay at home to prepare for the wedding? Why go to Tianshui City?"

"Finish the regret." Hua Sheng said calmly, "I have stayed at home for half my life. I want to go out and see the scenery. I will rush back before the wedding."

Lin Ye turned around and looked at her deeply, "You are not satisfied with your marriage."

Hua Sheng suddenly fell silent.

Lin Ye thought she would not continue talking, but she suddenly said, "It's not that I'm dissatisfied. It's my parents' order. It's a blind marriage, isn't it?"

"It's just... I have a lover who is impossible to be with."

There was a deep sense of loss in her words, and Lin Ye's heart trembled.

"Does your family know?"

"I don't know. I dare not say."

"If you don't try, how do you know it's impossible?"

Hua Sheng sighed softly, "You don't understand. For some people, their marriage is not only up to them, but even their families have no say. There are too many factors that prevent them from being together."

"Then change your sweetheart."

Hua Sheng stopped talking and Lin Ye didn't look back. Perhaps because he didn't dare or for some other reason, he held the reins very tightly.

After an unknown amount of time, he heard the woman murmur.

"I only see you once in my life, and it lasts forever."

Five days later, the carriage finally arrived at Tianshui City safely.

"How about I give you some money and you can find an inn to stay in first. I'll notify you to go to work after I've talked to your family." Hua Sheng tentatively discussed with Lin Ye.

Lin Ye looked at the silver handed to him, with a smile in his eyes, "Don't bother, I'll go with you. I'll be waiting outside the door until you've talked to your family before going in."

“…”

Can’t get rid of it?

A look of distress appeared on Hua Sheng's face.

"I...my elders have bad tempers, so you'd better not go there for now."

"It doesn't matter. I won't look at his face."

The two men were in a stalemate on the street.

Hua Sheng pinched his purse, wondering if it was too little.

A clear and surprised voice suddenly came from behind.

"Hua Sheng."

"Cousin." Hua Sheng ran towards her in surprise. He reached out to hug her but then withdrew his hand awkwardly. .

"What's wrong?"

"Well... the neighbor who was traveling with me smelled a bit, and it stained me a bit. I'm afraid it will stink you, so I'd better wait until I go back and wash up before hugging you."

Shen Anan followed her gaze and looked at the neighbor in the cart.

“…”

"Hua Sheng, did you come here in a donkey carriage?"

"Yeah, yeah."

Hua Sheng winked at Lin Ye, asking him to leave quickly, but the latter seemed not to notice.

Shen Anan's strange gaze shifted to the man standing beside him, and he raised his eyebrows, "Mr. Lin."

"The Fourth Prince's Consort." Lin Ye bowed respectfully, "I am here to assist you on the orders of the Fourth Prince."

"It's been...hard all the way."

"...Cousin, what did you call him?" Hua Sheng felt like his brain was almost at a standstill.

"Mr. Lin, Lin Ye, my future sister-in-law's brother." Shen Anan introduced the two of them, "Why, didn't you come together? Don't you know?"

“…”

"Princess Hua Sheng." Lin Ye bowed to her.

Hua Sheng was stunned for a long time before he managed to utter, "You...had already colluded with my brother, right?"

"Unfair, I don't have a pass, so I thought of picking someone up along the way, and I happened to meet the princess outside the city, by chance..."

"I also learned about the princess's identity by chance on the way."

Hua Sheng was skeptical, "When did you know?"

Lin Ye certainly wouldn't dare to say that he accidentally peeked at you bathing, he could only say, "I accidentally saw your jade pendant a few days ago, and it happened that Master Ling wrote to me and asked me to find you all the way, so I found out."

"Oh, how embarrassing." Hua Sheng thought about his behavior just now, covering his face and wishing he could disappear right there.

Lin Ye lowered his head and couldn't help but raise the corners of his lips.

Shen Anan glanced back and forth between the two of them, and said with a smile, "Let's go back and change clothes, take a shower and rest before we talk."

Hua Sheng immediately followed her. She had been enduring it all the way, but now she wanted to vomit when she smelled the smell on herself, especially her hair was messy. Shen Anan plucked several chicken feathers from her head.

She couldn't help but complain, "You are not a delivery man, why are you driving a cart, making me squeeze in the same cart with chickens, ducks and geese for so long."

"...Please forgive me, Princess. The Lin family is now under house arrest. I have a special identity, so in order to avoid being discovered by the government, I can only disguise myself."

Shen Anan said with a smile, "If not for this, you wouldn't be on the same road, and I wouldn't have brought you here by mistake."

"That's true."

Soon they arrived at the gate of the mansion. Shen Anan hesitated for a moment, but still pulled Hua Sheng, "Hua Sheng, there is something I want to tell you."

Hua Sheng blinked her clear eyes.

"An An," a deep and pleasant male voice suddenly sounded behind him.

Hua Sheng looked in the direction of the voice and his body stiffened instantly.

The next moment her vision was blocked and she still stood there in a daze, unable to recover.

"Uncle, didn't you go to the government office? Why are you back at this time?"

Qi Jinping turned sideways and glanced at the young scholar who was blocked by Shen Anan, then said, "There is nothing important in the government office, so I came back first."

"Oh," Shen Anan immediately pulled Hua Sheng to the side, "This is my friend, from Beijing."

"Well," seeing that Shen Anan had no intention of introducing, Qi Jinping nodded slightly and walked into the house first.

The dark blue brocade robe was blown up by the wind, revealing the sharp outline of a man who had practiced martial arts for many years, as he passed by Hua Sheng.

She stood there blankly, her mind was blank, like a dying person who had temporarily fallen into the abyss. Everything in front of her eyes was dark, and feelings of suffocation, panic, and helplessness all flooded into her heart.

"Are you okay?" Shen Anan turned sideways and looked at her worriedly.

"That person just now... was he?"

Shen Anan pursed her lips, “Yeah.”

She had originally planned to tell her in advance, but she didn't expect Qi Jinping to come back early.

"It's him, it's him," Hua Sheng kept repeating this sentence. There was no surprise in his eyes, only dull silence.

Lin Ye frowned as he watched this scene. He keenly sensed something and looked with sharp eyes at the back of the man who was gradually disappearing in the courtyard.

Unexpectedly, the man turned around and looked at him, and the coldness in his eyes frightened him.

This person has a very strong sense of sensitivity.

Qi Jinping frowned, glanced at a few people, turned around and continued walking forward.

"Just now...it was really him," Hua Sheng was still repeating this sentence while sitting in the bathtub, and Shen Anan agreed with him tirelessly.

"Yes, it's him."

"Isn't he at the border? How come he's here?"

Finally asking a useful question, Shen Anan breathed a sigh of relief.

"The Qi family army is not only at the border, but also in other areas. The border is peaceful now, so as long as he doesn't get close to the capital, he will be fine. This time, Xiao Yuan asked him to help me."

"Oh." Hua Sheng remained silent for a while, then suddenly sat up straight, splashing water all over the floor, "Was I really that embarrassed just now? He must have smelled the stench on me."

"...You were standing behind me just now, so he didn't see you. Besides, you were dressed in men's clothes, so he wouldn't think of that."

"Yeah."

She fell silent again and slowly sank into the water.

Shen Anan took the time to look at the shadowy silhouette on the screen, "Hua Sheng, you and the young master of the Zhao family..."

After a moment of silence, she spoke, "I'm not running away from my marriage. I just want to take a walk and come back a few days before the wedding."

"And now?"

After meeting Qi Jinping, is she still willing to go back and fulfill her engagement?

Hua Sheng remained silent.

Shen Anan sighed and did not continue to ask. The marriage with the Zhao family was easy to talk about, but it would be very difficult to have a result with Qi Jinping.

"Just follow me for the next few days. If you think clearly, I will send someone to take you back in advance. You should be able to make it in time for the wedding ceremony."

She still hoped that she could go back and complete her wedding. After all, the path she took with Qi Jinping was too difficult.

"I'm not leaving." Hua Sheng suddenly raised her voice, perhaps sensing something was wrong, and whispered, "I don't want to leave. I'm not leaving."