Chapter 97 Chapter 97 No Countermeasure Is the Countermeasure

His kiss was quick and urgent, leaving her no room for rejection or resistance.

Just as he was pressing her wrist and kissing her more fiercely, Nan Xu gritted her teeth and bit him.

She thought he would let her go because of the pain, but she didn't expect that the man in front of her didn't let go. Instead, he turned her hand over and held her tightly in his arms. With the faint taste of blood in his mouth, he deepened the kiss.

Yayu's eyelashes gently scratched her lower eyelid. Nan Xu looked at him with his eyes closed, looking very happy. She felt very angry and stretched out her foot to kick him. Just when she was about to hit him, she heard a noise from downstairs.

"Ah Xu, Ah Xu, where is Ah Xu? Sister, sister?"

Nan Xu was overjoyed. It was her eldest brother's voice!

She was about to struggle when the person in front of her released his restraints on her first. He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with his thumb as if nothing had happened, looked at her deeply, then pushed open the door as if nothing had happened and walked towards Nan Yicheng who was going upstairs.

"Brother, I didn't expect you to come so soon. If I had known, I would have sent someone to pick you up on the road."

Nan Yicheng was concerned about his sister's safety, and what Duan Wenpei said in Tianxiang Tower before leaving Beijing was really disheartening.

Seeing him coming towards her so warmly, Nan Yicheng didn't know whether to smile or not, so he could only nod slightly and looked past him to Nan Xu who was walking out of the house behind him.

He walked forward anxiously, pulled Nan Xu around, looked her up and down, and asked in a low voice, "Are you okay? Did Li Zhan do anything to you?"

At this time, in this place, Nan Xu suddenly saw her blood relative, and no matter how strong her heart was, it softened. She let Nan Yicheng look around and called him "big brother" softly with tears in her voice.

Nan Yicheng agreed firmly as if he had heard some heavenly music.

Nan Xu could no longer control her emotions and threw herself into her elder brother's arms.

Boys and girls sit at different tables at the age of twelve. When Nanxu was young, she entered the palace early to accompany the then-noble concubine, the Dowager Consort. Due to his personality and habits, he rarely visited the palace, only seeing his biological sister during festivals. Sometimes, while writing, he would suddenly think of Nanxu, and ask his second brother, who often visited the palace, to bring her some books and small items from outside the palace.

Nan Xu had never been as intimate with him as she was now. He stroked his sister's shoulder and turned to look at Duan Wenpei and his group with scrutiny.

He was a weak scholar who grew up in wealth and luxury. He never dared to face these high-ranking military men before. But now, he was not only the eldest son of the Yong'an Marquis Mansion, but also a brother who supported his sister. If his sister really suffered any grievances, he would not care about his status.

"Uncle—"

"My dear uncle, you have been traveling all the way and haven't eaten yet. Waiter, quickly prepare a sumptuous meal."

Looking at Nan Yicheng's stern face, Xie Jin's heart trembled. He hurried forward to smooth things over and kindly invited him to sit inside.

Nan Xu knew it was inconvenient to speak in front of so many people, so she didn't say much. She stood up, took her eldest brother's arm, and went into the next room.

The candlelight lit up the small space in the room. Looking at the short and intermittent voices coming from the room, Duan Wenpei lowered his eyes and slowly went downstairs.

Xie Jin followed behind him.

Xiao Jing wiped the corner of her mouth and was about to step forward when Liu Hui called her back and said he had something to discuss. Xiao Jing subconsciously wanted to refuse, but Liu Hui briefly explained what it was about. Xiao Jing paused and sat down with a frown.

Outside the inn, the cold wind blew up the dead grass on the ground, making it swirl in circles. Duan Wenpei stared at it in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking.

Xie Jin jumped onto the haystack next to him in a cool and leisurely manner, took a piece of hay and put it in his mouth, then looked up at the sky with his arms as his head rested on it.

Duan Wenpei found it funny. "It's not summer, there are no stars or moon. What's there to see? Aren't you cold?"

Xie Jin said he wasn't cold. "Being cold on the outside is better than feeling cold on the inside. I just had a chat with Sister Yin, and my heart is warm. Unlike some people, I'm afraid they're feeling overwhelmed and uncomfortable right now."

Duan Wenpei glanced at him indifferently, gathered his casually draped cloak, and warned him, "Sister Yin? Yin Ruizhu is the jewel in the crown of the Yin family's eldest wife and Ah Xu's close friend. You have a reputation as a playboy. You can provoke anyone, but don't provoke her."

Xie Jin snorted lazily, obviously not taking his words to heart. Duan Wenpei was so angry that he had no place to vent, so he picked up a wooden stick on the ground and hit Xie Jin with it.

Xie Jin's butt tilted, and the stick nearly hit him in the face. Xie Jin exclaimed, "Duan Huaizhou, you murdered your own cousin! I just helped you out, can you please have a little conscience?"

How much is conscience worth? Speaking of conscience, what he wants to ask most now is the little woman who wants to divorce after sleeping with her, where is her conscience!

Duan Wenpei didn't bother to pay attention to his jokes. He stepped forward with his long legs, leaned against the haystack, and looked up at the sky like him.

Seeing him so melancholy, Xie Jin couldn't help but twitch his lips. He raised his arm and bumped his calf. "I say, you've already got Miss Nan Er, why are you still like this? If I'm not mistaken, Miss Nan Er's lips were swollen when she came out of the room, and you're no less so. Logically, you should be in a happy mood at this time, but I see that Miss Nan Er doesn't look very happy."

He examined his overly handsome profile suspiciously and asked, "You wouldn't have said anything wrong and made Miss Nan angry, would you?"

Duan Wenpei didn't like others speculating about his and Nan Xu's private affairs. He crossed his arms, sneered twice, and retorted disdainfully, "My wife and I are very good friends. You should control yourself and don't mess around with other women."

"I..." He is really a dog biting Lu Dongbin, who doesn't know how to appreciate a good person!

"How are the arrangements for Jingyi and Li Zhan? Are there any troubles?"

Duan Wenpei didn't want to continue chatting with him about trivial matters, so he got down to business.

Xie Jin got angry when he talked about this. "Li Zhan was okay, he still had some sense of shame. But that Princess Jingyi, relying on her status, scolded Liu Hui and me. It made a fuss for a long time. In the end, I asked the tomboy to intervene and calmed it down."

"Tomboy?" Duan Wenpei frowned. Who is it?

Xie Jin realized belatedly that he had said something unintentional and explained, "Xiao Jing, he calls me Xie Huazi, so I call her Tomboy."

Duan Wenpei: ...

"It's normal to make a fuss, but you were right to let Xiao Jing come forward. No matter how arrogant Jing Yi is, she will still be a little cautious in front of His Majesty."

Xie Jin nodded. "We don't need to tell her. Xiao Jing knows everything now. A secret entry into Shu is no longer possible. With all this commotion, do you have any ideas for countermeasures?"

The son-in-law, who was supposed to follow the team into Sichuan to provide disaster relief, left the team and acted alone, accompanied by his wife, the emperor's sister.

Regardless of whether the princess came on her own or for other reasons, Li Zhan, as the princess's husband and subject, cannot escape responsibility.

Wei Yangbo, who was supposed to follow closely and enter Shu secretly under the emperor's order, suddenly changed his route and reunited with the princess consort.

Nan Xu's abduction by Li Zhan couldn't be made public, which naturally cut off the reason. In front of His Majesty, Duan Wenpei needed to find a perfect excuse for himself...

"There's no solution."

"ah?"

Duan Wenpei stood up, patted the straw sticks stuck on his body, stretched his muscles a few times, and felt a little sleepy.

Come to think of it, that ridiculous act of asking for too much and leaving an endless aftertaste was also his first time... Luckily, Nan Xu was unconscious at the time, otherwise... she would have laughed at him the first time...

"What do you mean there's no solution? Oh, oh, oh, let's get down to business! Why are you blushing?"

Seeing Xie Jin's teasing look, Duan Wenpei calmly covered his lips and yawned, saying casually, "No solution is the best solution. As for Xiao Jing, Liu Hui will give her a reasonable answer and won't embarrass her in front of His Majesty. As for us, since we have come out in the open, we will follow Li Zhan and the princess into Shu."

After Duan Wenpei finished speaking, he turned and walked towards the inn.

Xie Jin looked up at the figure disappearing at the door of the inn, and spat out the grass root in his mouth with some boredom.

Entering Shu with Li Zhan and the princess...

Xie Jin shook his head helplessly, women are misleading!

When he was guarding Jingyi, he noticed the woman named Yuan Yaoniang. If he was not mistaken, she was from the Tu Liao Yuan family.

Previously, they had been able to catch the Zhao family off guard by sneaking into Shu through a secret passage, but now they were going in so brazenly, who knew what tricks those wolves in the Zhao family were planning. Fortunately, Zhao Huaijue's life and death were still in their hands...

Xie Jin took out a bottle of green medicine he had taken from Li Zhan from his arms, looked at it carefully, and hummed a little tune.

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That night, the cold wind blew all night long.

Some people sleep soundly, while others stay awake until dawn.

When the rooster crowed for the first time, the people in the inn rubbed their eyes, got up and left the house one after another.

Nan Xu sat on the bed, hugging the quilt, for a long while. Just as she was about to get out of bed, the door was pushed open a crack, revealing a familiar face. "Ah Xu, are you awake?"

Seeing that it was Yin Ruizhu, Nan Xu hurriedly called her in.

"Why are your hands so cold? You're wearing so little. In the bundle on top of that drawer are the clothes that Duan Wenpei had sent yesterday. Find two that fit you and put them on. Don't get sick from the cold."

Yin Ruizhu originally had plenty of things with her, but they were all snatched away by the group of people doing the clipper business. She was grateful to be alive, and there was no hope that Xie Jin and others would get her two sets of warm clothes.

Seeing Nan Xu say this, she didn't hesitate, climbed up and took down the bag, took out two padded skirts and jackets and put them on, turned around and sat on the bed, holding Nan Xu's hand.

"You scared me to death. I know what it's like to be kidnapped, especially in this freezing weather. When I came here, I even brought the silver notes my sister gave me as a wedding gift. If Li Zhan doesn't let you go, I'll hire some gangsters to get you out by force."

She spoke calmly, but Nan Xu could sense the danger in her words.

What gangsters? She has never even been out of Kyoto, so how could she know any gangsters?

Nan Xu held her hand tightly and put it in the quilt to warm it. The two good sisters sat shoulder to shoulder and head to head and started chatting.

Nan Xu knew the hardships she had experienced along the way, and Yin Ruizhu also knew the despair Nan Xu felt when she was trapped by her former lover.

At the very end, Nan Xu wanted to ask her what her future plans were. She had no money left, and having run away from her marriage, it was futile to persuade her to go back. She had to think about her future.

It is not easy for a woman to enter the world alone.

Yin Ruizhu smiled and comforted her, saying that she had thought it through. She would go with them to Sichuan first, and after settling down and settling down, she would see if there was anything a woman could do. She could do that first and save some money later.

Nan Xu was speechless. She wanted to persuade him, but then she thought that Duan Wenpei might have to make some arrangements, so she stopped talking.

The two of them packed up and went downstairs. The lobby of the inn was already full of people.

Only then did Nan Xu realize that all the elite troops that Duan Wenpei had seen around him were deployed during this expedition to Shu.

Their eyes met briefly in the air. When Duan Wenpei opened his mouth to say something, Nan Xu took the lead and pulled Yin Ruizhu to sit at Nan Yicheng's table.

Sitting opposite the adjacent table was the listless Li Zhan.

Nan Xu didn't think twice and picked up a bowl of hot porridge on the table and poured it on his head without saying a word.

Jingyi was sitting on the other side watching the fun and was about to clap her hands in cheers when, in the stunned eyes of everyone, Nanxu picked up another bowl of hot porridge without hesitation and ended this silent and strange morning in the same way.