Chapter 205: As Smart as You

Just as Shen Shuyao was lost in thought, the horse finally stopped.

She didn't dare open her eyes, and even deliberately slowed down her breathing.

Suddenly, the hand that was originally around the waist loosened, and the body fell to one side because it had no support.

But she was awake after all, and as her body fell down, her legs naturally tightened around the horse.

After Shen Shuyao did this action, she realized that she had made a mistake.

Sure enough, I heard the person behind me say, "Since you're awake, go down by yourself!"

As he spoke, he pulled the woman, who had already leaned to one side, back.

Now that she was found out, Chen Shuyao couldn't pretend anymore.

She turned her head and saw a dark-skinned man.

The man looked to be no more than twenty years old. When he saw her looking at him, he frowned but did not say anything.

Chen Shuyao guessed the identity of this person. She originally thought that he was a vicious and desperate criminal, but the person in front of her did not seem like that.

"You were the one who knocked me out? What do you want to do?" In order to break the deadlock, she simply asked directly.

Facing the woman's close gaze, the man turned his face away: "It's not me." Then he stared at her again, "You want to go back?"

In Shen Shuyao's previous life, she was used to finding loopholes in other people's words.

At this moment, hearing the man say this, she thought that things had turned around.

"Is it to control Xiao Mo?"

The man looked at her and didn't answer. Instead, he reached out and helped her down from the horse.

The man led the horse into a mountain path, then turned and said to her, "Follow me!"

Chen Shuyao was secretly anxious. If she didn't take the main road, the chances of her being found would become smaller and smaller.

When she was picked up by the man just now, she was holding a pearl comb in her hand, and now she picked up a pearl and threw it on the road.

The man glanced at her, not sure if he noticed her or not, but he didn't look as if he was worried that she would run away.

Come to think of it, where could a woman like her run to in such a desolate mountain and wilderness?

Next, the man took her through the mountains and forests. They didn't walk fast and didn't seem to be in a hurry.

But when faced with Shen Shuyao's questions, he pretended to be deaf and kept silent.

"Are you going to take me to Nanyang Prefecture? How do you know that I will be valuable? Let me tell you, I am not that useful to the prince. When have you ever seen a general on the battlefield care about a woman in the inner house? He can marry another man after his wife dies. She may be prettier and more obedient than me. After all, fame, wealth and power are the foundation of men." After they sat down after dark, the man caught a rabbit and roasted it, and then Shen Shuyao coaxed him from the side.

The man looked at her. Shen Shuyao was already hungry, and now she felt a little greedy when she smelled the aroma of rabbit meat.

She licked her lips. "So what's the point of taking me to Nanyang Prefecture? Waiting for Xiao Mo to lead his troops to annihilate you all? Even if you hang me on the city wall, I'll probably be shot into a sieve. A man will sacrifice his own family for the sake of justice, and I'll just die in vain."

The man looked at her with a strange smile, then threw a rabbit leg to her.

Chen Shuyao had no choice. She guessed that this should be the person responsible for picking her up, and as long as he could send her there, the mission would be completed.

Although she is safe for the time being, she will be in big trouble if she really arrives in Nanyang Prefecture.

So she had to escape on the road, and succeed in one go.

The other party kept his mouth shut, so Shen Shuyao was unable to get any useful information from the man.

As the sky gradually darkened, her worries grew.

I wonder where those maids are now?

Have you returned home?

If they go back, what kind of excuse will they make?

And Xiao Mo, he should have escaped by now, right?

In the final analysis, today's matter was due to their negligence. The bad guys acted intentionally but unintentionally. Xiao Mo thought that those people were targeting him, so he let Chen Shuyao go, but he didn't know that the other party was actually targeting her, the prince's wife.

After Chen Shuyao had gnawed the rabbit leg till there was not a single bit left, she asked again, "Are we still going on the journey tonight?"

The man did not hide it from her: "Rest here for one night."

Chen Shuyao said, "I just ate rabbit meat and I feel a little uncomfortable. I need to go to the bathroom."

The man glanced at her and said calmly, "Don't even think about running away. You know, I'm just doing this for someone else. For now, we can still get along peacefully, and I'll do my best to meet all your requests. But if you don't cooperate, then I'll have to think of another way."

His voice was not loud, nor did he seem to have any fierceness in it, but Shen Shuyao looked at his expression and knew that what he said was true.

He escorted himself away by himself. If he didn't have some real abilities, those people would not have been able to find him.

For a leader of the imperial guards like Xiao Mo who can mobilize nearly 100,000 troops, the bigger the target, the easier it is to be sniped, and there is no need to do that.

Sending him here alone now, and then hiding in the mountains after he succeeds, can be considered a highly profitable venture.

Chen Shuyao nodded, but in the following time, she either went to the toilet or went to the stream to drink water. Later, she said that the weather was too cold and she wanted to pick up some firewood nearby.

But every time she appeared in front of the man on time, and even used leaves to help him collect some water, "Aren't you thirsty? Drink some!"

Seeing the people in front of her looking at her suspiciously, Chen Shuyao brought the leaf to her lips and said, "Here, drinking it won't kill you. You just said we are in a cooperative relationship, don't worry! I won't cause you any trouble. You know, I'm just a woman in the inner house. If you leave me in this wilderness now, I'm afraid I might be taken away by a wolf. We have been walking for who knows how long just now. I am alone in the mountains and can't even tell the direction. Even if I want to run, I can't."

The man reached out and took the water from the leaf and drank it.

Afterwards, Chen Shuyao lit a fire again, claiming it was cold, and even threw some unknown branches and leaves into it...

They walked for the entire afternoon. Although they were still heading towards Nanyang Prefecture, they had entered deep mountains and old forests. Most people would not enter, and once they entered, they could not leave.

But gradually, he felt a little drowsy, and saw the woman in front of him throwing undried branches and leaves into the fire while giving him a flattering smile.

The thing was emitting smoke, and he thought to himself, she is indeed the wife of the Crown Prince of the Duke's Mansion, she can't even pick firewood.

As I was thinking, I gradually closed my eyes.