Chapter 219: Crossing the Same Boat

Compared with the previous battles, this battle in Liang County was more dangerous.

Ji Changqing left all the civil servants in Tao County, and the one thousand soldiers and medical officers he was going to take to Liang County were all experts in duck water.

I didn't want to bring Feng Qingsui with me, but she insisted on going.

"I came to Hezhou with you to kill my enemy. Now that I've finally cornered him, you want me to wait somewhere else for news?"

Ji Changqing couldn't convince her, and he knew that if he forced her to stay, she would definitely find another way to follow him secretly.

I had no choice but to agree.

The canoes are all by the water in Xin County, and it takes about six hours to reach Liang County by boat.

At sunrise, they gathered at the water's edge, pushed their boats into the water, and rowed towards Liang County.

The weather was fine all the way.

Although the sun is a bit scorching, it is still better than a storm.

Feng Qingsui and Ji Changqing sat in the same canoe. Looking at the tall figure sitting in front of her, paddling the boat, she inexplicably remembered a saying: "It takes a hundred years to cross the river in the same boat, and a thousand years to sleep on the same pillow."

The fact that she and Ji Changqing could sit on the same boat must have been the result of at least five hundred years of karma cultivation.

Their origins lie in Ji Changfeng.

She had seen Ji Changfeng from afar on the street and knew his identity, so when she met him in trouble at the border, she and Wuhua brought him back to Wucheng for treatment.

Ji Changfeng was seriously injured at the time and needed many precious medicinal herbs. She emptied her own money and Ji Changfeng's purse to get enough money to buy the medicine.

In order to make it easier to ask for medical fees in the future, she kept Ji Changfeng's jade pendant.

Unexpectedly, not long after leaving Fuzhou, I heard that he had died in battle.

I originally thought that after arriving in Beijing, I would ask someone to return the jade pendant to his family.

Who would have thought that this trip to Beijing would bring him the worst news of his life...

In order to find out the truth about the death of her sister's family, she and Wuhua gathered information everywhere and tried to infiltrate wealthy families.

It was at this time that the emperor appointed a new prime minister.

The man who had just been promoted from provincial governor to prime minister was none other than Ji Changfeng's twin brother, Ji Changqing.

It took Ji Changqing only seven years to rise from county magistrate to provincial governor, a promotion speed that was unprecedented.

Even though she knew Ji Changfeng had saved her life, she didn't dare to approach such a person easily.

She just wanted to find a high-ranking family to join, where her ancestors were glorious, her descendants were mediocre, and the house was in chaos, making it easy for her to take advantage of the situation.

Who knew...

Ji Changqing made three big moves as a new official, one after another, and all of them were targeted at the families she had carefully selected.

In desperation, she had to go to the Ji Mansion - Ji Changqing couldn't copy himself, right?

I thought Ji Changqing must be a scheming and calculating person, but I didn't expect him to be a very pure and filial cook.

Fate is truly indescribable.

Ji Changqing glanced at his reflection in the water and realized that Feng Qingsui was staring at him.

My back felt hot, as if her gaze had burned a hole in it.

He pretended to be nonchalant and asked, "What are you looking at?"

Feng Qingsui replied, "Second Master, the back of your head looks quite nice."

Ji Changqing: “???”

"Mom must have worried about you a lot when you were a child."

Feng Qingsui continued.

"If you were to... Mom would probably faint from crying."

Ji Changqing was silent for a moment, then slowly said, "I'll leave it to you then."

Feng Qingsui understood what he hadn't said and said with a smile, "Don't worry, Second Master. I will take good care of mother. But when mother comes to settle the score in the autumn, I won't be in charge anymore."

Ji Changqing: “…”

Does it sound like she's still looking forward to it?

Do you really like seeing him get into trouble?

At noon, everyone stopped to rest in a forest that was flooded to the treetops.

Feng Qingsui took out the dried meat and water bag and started eating lunch.

Seeing that Ji Changqing only drank two sips of water to moisten his throat and didn't eat any dry food, she leaned over to take a look and raised an eyebrow and asked, "You didn't bring any dry food?"

"That's not necessary."

Ji Changqing replied.

The fake death drug might be taken tonight, so he needs to empty his stomach.

Feng Qingsui's eyes flashed: "How can you have the strength to fight if you don't eat? Eat at least."

Ji Changqing knew she had bad intentions, so he said with a straight face, "I'm not hungry."

Even if he died of thirst or hunger, he would not let her see him in such a miserable state.

Feng Qingsui smiled.

"The Second Master carries a heavy image burden."

But she didn't dare drink too much water, after all, there was no toilet along the way.

The sun was scorching the earth like a fireball, and the fish in the water were so hot that their bellies were turned upside down.

Everyone was exhausted by the sun in the afternoon, but fortunately the land was right in front of us, and if we worked harder, we could get through it.

As the sun set, they finally arrived at the outskirts of Liang County.

There was no ambush on the shore, and all the soldiers reached the shore safely.

Admiral Xuan breathed a sigh of relief.

Looking back, he saw Zhuying leading the dozens of guards Ji Changqing brought from the capital away, and couldn't help but wonder: "What are they doing?"

"It's better to be prepared."

Ji Changqing replied with four words.

Admiral Xuan knew that he had other arrangements, so without asking any questions, he led a group of soldiers towards the county town.

Naturally, there was no time to stop for dinner, so I could only eat dry food while walking.

Arrived outside the city before sunset.

A large number of refugees gathered in front of the city gate. When they saw them, they all got up from the ground.

Someone said, "They have food on them," and the refugees rushed over, all of them looking ferocious and vicious, as if they were ready to devour anyone.

These people are almost all young and strong, without a single old person or child.

Their cheeks were also extremely plump, showing that they were definitely not starving.

Ji Changqing glanced at them and ordered: "Go ahead."

The soldiers stopped and poured the water they had brought ashore onto the ground. Then they took off the long bamboo tubes on their backs, put them into the water, pulled the piston at the end of the bamboo tubes, sucked up a tube full of water, and sprayed it towards the refugees rushing over.

Feng Qingsui once saw his master teaching farmers how to make this kind of sprayer to spray garlic water on orange trees to prevent insects.

This time when he came to Liang County, he told Ji Changqing about this idea because he was concerned that the refugees in Liang County might be instigated by the rebels and hinder their efforts to suppress the rebellion.

The air was filled with water mist laced with medicine, and the refugees inhaled it without warning and fell to the ground instantly.

The soldiers tied the unconscious refugees together, picked up the buckets of water, and continued on their way.

Admiral Xuan was once again shocked by Feng Qingsui's ingenuity.

The desire to marry a daughter-in-law is stirring again.

"With such a clever brain, what a clever child will she give birth to." He couldn't help but think, "If the Xuan family could marry a daughter-in-law like this, the ancestral graves would probably be filled with auspicious clouds."

Still have to give it a try.

Maybe the boy in their family will be lucky enough to marry a beauty?

When they arrived at the city gate, the soldiers took out grappling hooks and were about to attack the city when the gate suddenly creaked and slowly opened.

"I have finally received reinforcements from the imperial court."

A middle-aged man with a round head, wearing the official uniform of a county magistrate and with a mustache walked out quickly with a dozen people.

Looking at Admiral Xuan with tears of gratitude.

"I don't know how to address the general?"

Admiral Xuan was about to answer when Ji Changqing replied, "How do you know we are imperial reinforcements and not rebels?"