"It's okay, it's okay, it's okay." Qin Ruoruo said "it's okay" three times in a row. She didn't expect Gu Yanyue to react so strongly to this matter. She hurriedly comforted her, "Fang Yan, I, and the palace maids and guards in the other courtyard are all fine. We beat the men in black to a pulp. If Fang Yan and I hadn't been unaware, one of them wouldn't have escaped."
"Sister Gu, the surprise attack you encountered must be related to the man in black we accidentally let go yesterday." Qin Ruoruo said this with some self-blame: "If Fang Yan and I had been more careful, we would never have let him go like that and asked him to go back and tip off others."
"This isn't your fault. If it weren't for you and Master He, Ah Ran and I wouldn't have been able to escape that night." Gu Yanyue noticed Qin Ruoruo's remorse and advised, "Besides, those 'no bishops' have been lurking outside the courtyard for a long time. It's only a matter of time before they attack us. After all, they've already poisoned us."
Qin Ruoruo's mention of "leaking information" reminded Yu Wenran that although the men in black this morning were knocked down by Gu Yanyue with the roasted snake meat smeared with poison, the situation that happened between Qin Ruoruo and He Fangyan that night could not be ruled out.
Yuwen Ran ripped off the token from his waist and handed it to He Fangyan, saying to him solemnly, "Master He, I have a favor to ask of you. Besides you, I'm afraid no one else can do this right now."
He Fangyan became nervous because of Yuwen Ran's sudden action. When he looked at what Yuwen Ran handed him, he found that it was a token representing the emperor's identity. He immediately felt that the task Yuwen Ran mentioned was not simple. He couldn't help swallowing and waiting for Yuwen Ran's next words.
Yuwen Ran continued, "I want you to ride with my token to Xuzhou, next to Qianzhou, to mobilize the army. I believe that 'No Bishop' will definitely take some action later. Qianzhou City has always been weakly guarded, and we only brought a few guards from the capital this time. We will definitely suffer if we face them later."
"Yes, I will definitely not let your majesty down!" After saying that, He Fangyan got on the horse sideways, bowed to Yuwen Ran and the others, and rode away.
"Mr. He has left with the only horse, so now we can only walk to Qianzhou?" Gu Yanyue looked at He Fangyan who disappeared on horseback in a short while, and asked a question whose answer was right in front of him.
"Yes, but we can't go to Qianzhou so brazenly." Yu Wenran said. He tore off his clothes and walked to the nearby poplar forest to dig up some mud. He smeared it on his body and face, then turned to Gu Yanyue and Qin Ruoruo and said, "Let's disguise ourselves as beggars and go to Qianzhou."
Seeing that Yuwen Ran had set an example, Gu Yanyue and Qin Ruoruo also tore off a few pieces of their clothes and smeared a lot of mud on their faces and bodies, following Yuwen Ran's example.
When the three of them had smeared themselves so much that they couldn't recognize each other, they headed towards Qianzhou City. At night, they simply found a random place in the poplar forest to rest for the night, and when they woke up the next day, they continued their journey.
As they approached the Qianzhou border, they saw a checkpoint blocking their way. Gu Yanyue, with her excellent memory, immediately recognized the leader as Wu Suo, the leader of the "No Bishop" group who had previously attacked her and Yuwen Ran. Judging from the situation, he seemed to be looking for them again, but this was the only way to reach Qianzhou City.
Yuwen Ran pulled Gu Yanyue and Qin Ruoruo aside and said to them, "We are so dirty now, and our faces are covered with stains. They won't be able to recognize us no matter what. Just keep your heads down when you pass the checkpoint later, and don't look up at them." After seeing Qin Ruoruo and Gu Yanyue nod, Yuwen Ran took them to the checkpoint.
The guards saw that the three of them looked like beggars, and they thought it was bad luck to see them, so they didn't want to check them and just let them go. Yu Wenran and the other two kept their heads down the whole time, and when they saw that they were not going to check them carefully and let them go, they felt a burst of joy in their hearts. Before they could be happy for a while, they heard someone behind them say.
"Wait a moment!"
Yuwen Ran and his companions were about to leave when they suddenly paused. Turning around, he saw Wu Suo and his men approaching. Afraid that Gu Yanyue and Qin Ruoruo would reveal their true identity if they answered him, Yuwen Ran spoke first. "I wonder what the commanders are doing that has stopped us?" Yuwen Ran deliberately lowered his voice to a deep, hoarse tone, making it sound completely different from his usual tone.
"Where did you come from, beggars?" Wu Suo felt that these three beggars looked familiar, but he was hesitant to confirm it. After all, he really couldn't imagine that Yuwen Ran, as the king of a country, would actually disguise himself as a beggar. "This is the road to Qianzhou. Don't you know that Qianzhou is suffering from a severe drought and famine? Even if you go there, you will just starve in a different place. You might even die faster in Qianzhou."
Yuwen Ran was embarrassed when he heard this. "But I heard that Qianzhou has grain sent by the imperial court, and the people in Qianzhou can already eat. That's why I brought my wife and my sister to beg all the way to Qianzhou to find a way to make a living."
"Bullshit!" Wu Suo cursed, tilting his head. "All that food was embezzled by the people from above. If you want to survive, don't go to Qianzhou. There's only one outcome: death."
Yuwen Ran thanked Wu Suo for his kindness and said that he had relatives in Qianzhou and he would go to see if that relative was safe and sound.
Seeing that he could not stop Yuwen Ran and the other two from going to Qianzhou to die, Wu Suo gave up trying to stop them and asked someone to let them pass.
Just as he was about to turn around, he suddenly saw Qin Ruoruo's nails. Her nails were clean and her hands were white, just like a lady raised in the boudoir. She didn't look like a beggar begging on the street at all.
Wu Suo grabbed Qin Ruoruo's hand and asked, "Who are you?"
Yuwen Ran saw that Wu Suo had become suspicious, but it was definitely not possible to confront him head-on now. After all, Qin Ruoruo was still in his hands. So he had to play dumb and said, "Master Jun, I don't quite understand what you mean. We are just beggars. How can we be considered human beings?"
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