The world was spinning and Siyun was seeing stars.
I secretly regretted why I chose this road and stopped this family's carriage?
Now she had avoided the servants sent by the Jiang residence to chase her, and avoided the danger of being sent back to the Liu family, beheaded, or sent to the music school.
But it was obvious that the family she stopped were not good people either. Not only did they not know how to be gentle with women, but their skills were also so agile that they looked no less capable than the guardians around the saint.
Could it be that she had just escaped from the tiger's mouth and fell into the wolf's den?
After a while, the servants of County Magistrate Jiang's mansion arrived next to the Wei family's team.
Seeing that there were many people gathered in front of the carriage in the middle, he first glanced at the crowd cautiously. Seeing that Aunt Liu was not there, he breathed a sigh of relief and asked with a more polite attitude than before, "Did you see a woman in a green dress running along this road?"
"I didn't see it." The Wei family members seemed a little distant.
Seeing that some were lassoing the horses and some were driving the carts, and that they all looked anxious to get on the road, the two servants did not dare to forcefully demand a search of the carts.
After all, County Magistrate Jiang was only a minor local official. It was ok for him to show off his power in the county town, but he would not dare to offend any noble passing by outside the county town.
"Thank you very much, we will look somewhere else."
The servants of County Magistrate Jiang's mansion left, and the Wei family's convoy was back on the road.
As soon as they reached the fork in the road, Siyun in the carriage struggled to get off.
As soon as he stuck his head out of the car, Feng Ping slashed the back of his neck with a knife and he passed out.
"Miss Wei." Qi Xu rode his horse a few steps back and came to Wei Yunlan's carriage.
Wei Yunlan knew what he wanted to ask. He couldn't speak openly about his experiences as a ghost, so he reminded him cryptically, "The Liu family is deeply involved in the iron mine incident. Now that someone from the Liu family has come to our door, we can follow the clues and investigate the person behind it."
Following the opened curtain, Qi Xu's deep eyes met Wei Yunlan's clear eyes, and there was a hint of inquiry in Qi Xu's eyes.
But in the end, he didn't ask any more questions, and just nodded and said, "Miss Wei, what you said makes sense. Then we will take Liu Siyun back to the pavilion for interrogation."
"Mr. Xiao, please go ahead." Wei Yunlan lowered the curtain and leaned against the wall of the car, frowning slightly.
Her previous guess might be wrong. The status of this Guard Xiao in Tianshu Pavilion should not be equal to those with rankings like Yu Wu and Yu Qi, but should be higher.
Although Guard Xiao didn't talk much with the others, Wei Yunlan could still tell that among the ten people, he was the one who could really make the decisions.
I wonder what his position is in Tianshu Pavilion, the head of a hall, a captain, or a leader of a certain generation? But no matter what his position is, as long as he has no ill will towards their Wei family, she will just pretend that she doesn't know.
When they arrived at the border of Lianzhou, Siyun, who was hiding in the carriage, was taken away by a team of people from Tianshu Pavilion.
Seeing from the carriage that the group of people were quite respectful to Guard Xiao, Wei Yunlan became more certain of his guess.
The team left Lianzhou and entered Xingzhou.
As the largest state among the ten states in the north, Xingzhou is almost as large as Zhuozhou and Linzhou near the capital.
However, the number of people settled in Xingzhou is less than half of that in Zhuozhou, because Xingzhou and Lianzhou are close to this area, which has a stretch of land that stretches for dozens of miles with cracked land and no grass.
The natural disaster that happened 20 years ago happened here. The word "Xing" in Xingzhou was also given to it by the late emperor at that time, implying that everything was in need of reconstruction.
Unfortunately, twenty years have passed and there is still no vegetation growing here.
When entering this area, the most obvious feeling is dryness. When you lift the car curtain, you can almost smell a pungent smell.
Wei Yunlan and several maids in the carriage did not feel much of the smell, but Heiyun, who was in the same carriage with them, used her hind paws to kick the hair around her nose for a long time, then turned her head and buried it in the soft cushion on the seat, covering her nose tightly.
Even Heiyun had such a strong reaction, Wei Yunlan subconsciously felt something was wrong.
"Tell the team to speed up and travel urgently tonight and not stop on the road." Wei Yunlan sent someone to the front to inform the other carriages.
The carriage moved a little faster.
However, no matter how hard you hurry, there is no way to increase your speed to the fastest.
This area is not just dry and cracked. In some places, there are deep and shallow pits, the deepest of which is almost as deep as a person. When encountering these pits, the carriage can only take a detour.
Wei Yunlan had already brought Heiyun onto the first carriage.
Looking at the environment outside the car window, Gao sighed and said, "This is the wrath of heaven twenty years ago."
Even if you have not experienced the disaster personally, just by looking at the current appearance of the area, you can know how horrific the scene was.
No wonder the late emperor would rather sacrifice his own life to appease the "wrath of heaven".
Compared with the previous emperor, the current Emperor Xiaoming is really...unworthy of being an emperor.
It would be great if the prince could ascend to the throne. I wonder if the prince who traveled far away from the capital to Tanzhou has arrived safely now?
"A-choo." Qi Xu sneezed for no reason on horseback.
Feng Ping immediately looked over nervously, rode closer on horseback, and lowered his voice: "Master, the north is cold, and this place is also quite dry and cold, could you put on an extra coat?"
"I'm not cold." Qi Xu shook his head slightly. He was not wearing thin clothes, but he still did not refuse his subordinates' kindness. He shook out his cloak and put it on.
The sky is dim.
The horse's hooves splashed up dust and sand, making the vision even more blurred.
Passing another deep pit, Wei Yunlan squinted and looked outside the car, and suddenly noticed that there seemed to be a few particularly conspicuous black spots on the yellow soil on the opposite side of the pit.
Just as she noticed the situation over there, many people in the team also saw it.
Liu Quan, the driver, turned around and said, "Master, Madam, Miss, there seem to be a few people lying across the street..."
As they got closer, they could already see clearly that on the opposite side of the pit were several figures covered in sand. Next to the people, there were two overturned carriages and things scattered on the ground. But no one knew where the horses that had originally pulled the carriages had gone.
Wei Maolin said: "Go and see if there is any breath."
Wang Gui, who was sitting on the front shaft of the carriage, followed Liu Quan and jumped down. He ran over and squatted down. After checking each of them one by one, he reported: "Master, there are six people here, and three of them are still breathing!"
Qi Xu jumped off his horse, tapped a few times at one end of the pit, and flew to the other end. He raised his sleeves and swept away the sand covering the overturned carriage, revealing the mark on it.
"They are merchants from Yuezhou or Baizhou."
"The car is loaded with medicinal herbs produced in those two states."
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