Chapter 162 You to Gu Changxiao
Jinsui didn't know how Liuyun caught up with them. It had been nearly half a month since they set out, and Liuyun was still injured. How could he have chased them alone in this icy and snowy place? Yan Jiu was worried about her going alone. What if it wasn't Liuyun but an assassin or a horse thief? He also got off the car and rode his horse, bringing his guards and Jinsui to the end of the team. The man would not show up, so Jinsui took a deep breath and felt the cold air go straight into her lungs, freezing her to shiver.
He shouted loudly: "Liuyun, come out!"
No one responded. After a while, Jin Sui shouted again, "I know who you are looking for. Come out and I will take you to find him!"
Still no one responded, Jin Sui could only look at Yan Jiu: "If you shout, he might not believe my promise."
Yan Jiu raised his eyebrows slightly and sat upright on the horse's back, unlike Jin Sui who was frozen and hesitant.
He looked towards the deserted wilderness and said loudly, "Liuyun, this family master promises to let you see him."
With a whoosh, a person jumped out from the wilderness.
Jin Sui was startled, you Sun Wukong! The Yan family guards were also startled, they were ambushed so close, and they didn't notice it at all. If this man is an assassin, the head of the family is in danger.
Liuyun's eyebrows and eyelashes were frozen, his face was purple and red, and he looked directly at Yan Jiu: "Really?"
Jin Sui's mouth twitched. As expected, he didn't trust the promise of a woman like himself.
Yan Jiu turned his horse around and asked: "Why would this master lie to you?"
Looking at Jin Sui, he said, "I'll leave it to you. I can take him with me, but he has to be obedient."
Jin Sui agreed on behalf of Liu Yun and nodded repeatedly: "He is very obedient!"
Liuyun was taken to the cargo carriage. Jinsui had already cleared out space for two people to sit in. He was frostbitten and was not suitable for warming himself by the fire.
First I gave him a hot water bottle to warm his feet, then a foot warmer, and asked him to take off his shoes and socks to warm his feet. His toes were frozen purple, and if they had been frozen black blood later, he would have had to have his limbs amputated.
Then give him some hot ginger and jujube tea, and some energy bars and oatmeal porridge first. He is not allowed to eat meat for the time being.
Liuyun thought the girl looked familiar. Seeing that she was taking care of him like a brother, he felt a little embarrassed: "Thank you, young lady, but I want to see Taoist Xiao Ji first."
Jinsui is speechless about the blindness of men in this era.
"Why are you chasing after Taoist Xiao Ji?"
"Protect him! I promised the prince that I would protect him."
Jin Sui was stunned. Not to mention Gu Changxiao, just the fact that Liuyun almost froze to death in order to catch up with her, she was quite moved by this stubborn young man.
"How do you know Taoist Xiao Ji is here?"
Liu Yun said firmly: "Although Lord Cheng said that he did not see Taoist Master Xiao Ji in the Yan family's team, I can be sure that he is here."
"Does he not want to see me? Does he blame me for not saving that groom boy?"
Liuyun used to be a quiet person. He was like a shadow in the border town, appearing from time to time and then disappearing.
In such a long time in the border town, Jinsui had never spoken to him as much as this time.
Jin Sui sighed softly: "Of course he didn't blame you! You were seriously injured, why didn't you take good care of yourself? What are you doing here?"
Liuyun started coughing. He was relying on his youth, his injuries had not been fully healed and he was running around and exposed to the cold. If he had been a little weaker, he would have died on the way.
"Thank you for your concern, young lady, but I really need to see Taoist Xiao Ji right away. Can you help me invite him over?"
Jin Sui looked at him helplessly, and disguised herself in front of him. She took off her hairpins, combed them into a high ponytail, drew thick eyebrows, and said in a low and hoarse voice: "Liuyun, I am Taoist Priest Ji."
Ruyuan saw Liuyun as if he had dementia, staring at her blankly, as if his brain had crashed.
After a while, he raised his hand towards Jin Sui's face. Perhaps he felt that this was rude, so he bent his index finger and poked Jin Sui's cheek quickly like poking a cat, and exclaimed:
“It’s true!”
Jin Sui's forehead was full of black lines, he was speechless, the border town was like a huge dye vat, no matter you were a cool handsome guy, a gentle handsome guy, or a sunny boy, you would all turn into a funny guy after going to the border town.
Is this an action that an adult man would do? Well, Liuyun seems to be underage, younger than her.
"Master Xiao Ji, how did you become a woman?"
Jin Sui lowered her head to gather her emotions, then raised her head with a serious look on her face: "The Yan family has a medicine that can turn eunuchs into women. You'd better be obedient, or we'll be sisters."
Liuyun's pupils shrank suddenly, but he recovered quickly: "You are lying, there is no such medicine."
"Then how did I become a woman?"
Liuyun's lips were tightly pursed, his ears, which had turned purple from the cold, were getting hot, and he also felt that he had just said something stupid.
"You are a woman."
This is an affirmative sentence, not a question.
Jin Sui raised his eyebrows: "You are smarter than Yan Shiyi!"
Liuyun didn't think this was a compliment at all. Being smarter than that idiot was not something to be happy about.
"What would you have done if I hadn't gone north?"
"Chase the prince! They are fighting hard in the northern border, I can't sleep in Plum Blossom Villa."
What a pure child! Jinsui felt soft in her heart. It was because she always met such people that she couldn't leave decisively.
Thinking of Han Xing, Hei Hu and Liu Yun, if they died in the Northern Frontier, she would never have peace for the rest of her life.
"Your injury hasn't healed yet, so stay in the Yan family convoy and wait until we reach the Northern Frontier, and then we'll go find the Black Feather Army together."
Liuyun hummed softly, which surprised Jinsui: "Do you really listen to me?"
Liuyun nodded: "The prince said that we must listen to Taoist Xiao Ji."
Jin Sui's heart skipped a beat, and then his face turned cold: "If your prince doesn't trust me, why would he send you to follow me?"
Liuyun said hurriedly: "That's not the case! The prince said that if you are alive, he can rest in peace even if he dies."
Jin Sui snorted, "Then let him die with regrets! I gave him the Black Feather Battalion so that he could help his brothers get promoted and make money, not so that they could die!"
Liuyun didn't know how to respond, so he lowered his head and ate silently. Jinsui gave him some clean cotton clothes: "Change your clothes and have a good sleep."
Liuyun took a look at Yan Jiu's luxurious carriage and asked: "You and Yan Jiu live in the same carriage?"
Jin Sui rolled his eyes at him and said, "What are you thinking, little kid? I've even slept in the same bed with your prince! When you're away from home, convenience is the most important thing. We're all from the military camp, why would you care about this?"
Liuyun asked a very explosive question in a very normal tone: "Will you marry the head of the Yan family?"
Jin Sui went up to him and touched him, and found that he didn't have a fever. Then she replied in the same normal tone: "I am a Taoist nun, and I won't marry."
Liuyun nodded with relief: "That's good. In the future, you can ask the prince to build a Taoist temple for you in the border town, and you can be a Taoist nun in the border town."
Then he asked another question: "Does the prince know that you are a woman?"
Jin Sui shook his head: "I was very successful in pretending to be a man, but your prince has poor eyesight and didn't see it."
Liuyun nodded: "That's true."
I don't know whether it means that she succeeded in pretending to be a man, or that his prince has poor eyesight.
"Can you turn around and go back? The prince will be angry if he knows I didn't send you away."
Jin Sui pointed at the Yan family guards outside and said, "Can you defeat these 1,000 people? If you can, I will go back."
Liuyun looked at her with a very aggrieved expression, as if to say "You are bullying me".
"Whether I go back or not, your prince will be angry. You should just stay at home and recover. We will go to the northern border together. You just said you would listen to me."
Jin Sui added some sleeping pills to his medicine and took two animal skin blankets. He didn't dare use a charcoal basin for him, for fear that he would sleep too soundly and get carbon monoxide poisoning if no one came in.
Liuyun seemed to have not slept for a long time and fell asleep quickly wrapped in the animal skin mat, but Jinsui discovered that his hand under the pillow was holding a dagger.
I can't imagine how this child has been resting lately? He probably sleeps with one eye open! Jin Sui closed the door and returned to Yan Jiu's carriage.
In a negotiating tone, he said, "Can you take Liuyun with you? No one in the Northern Frontier knows him, and no one will find out that he is the King of Li's man."
Yan Jiu chuckled: "Since he is chasing us, we have no choice but to take him with us."
"The journey is boring, but having an old friend from the border town to accompany you will make Miss Ji feel better."
He thought that Jinsui's sleeping all the time meant that she was in a bad mood, or didn't want to communicate much with the Yan family.
At this time, the captain came to report that they had arrived at the Yanshang Post. Jin Sui was delighted: "I'll go ask around, there should be news about Twelve Lady."
The post station is very small, with only one courtyard and twelve rooms. It is semi-underground, windproof and snowproof and very warm.
Yan Jiu and Jin Sui took a few guards in to inquire. The shopkeeper was from Yanzhou, so he naturally knew the head of the Yan family and was extremely respectful to him.
When he heard that he was asking about a young girl, Jin Sui listed several of her characteristics: "She was dressed in red, rode a fierce horse, had a silver whip, was tall, had an oval face, had big eyes, and was extremely beautiful."
Yan Jiu even looked sideways upon hearing this. It was rare to see a woman praising another woman so frankly.
Thinking of his silly sister expressing her love to Miss Ji many times, Yan Jiu felt a headache. Neither of them was reliable.
The shopkeeper shook his head: "Not to mention a very beautiful girl, no woman has passed by this place in the past month."
Jin Sui and Yan Jiu were both panicked and asked hurriedly, "Did the Li King's troops pass by here?"
The shopkeeper nodded and said, "We passed by five days ago, but we didn't dare to do business with the army, so we closed the shop early and moved the sign away."
Except for merchants who are familiar with the terrain, it is really hard to find this place if the road signs are removed. The northern border is thousands of miles of desolate and the roads are all rutted.
At this time, Yan Jiu asked: "After the army passed by, were there any single people passing by? Regardless of gender."
The shopkeeper's eyes lit up: "Yes, there is. Three days ago, a young man with the badge of the Jin family came riding a fierce horse and asked us to prepare horse feed, cotton clothes and tents for him."
Jin Sui said to Yan Jiu happily: "This must be Twelve Lady!"
During the polo match, the nobles of Yan gathered together. It was easy for her to get the badges of other families to prevent being caught up by the Yan family. Disguise as a man and change your name. Isn't this what Jin Sui did before? The silly girl actually chased here alone! She is more stubborn than Liuyun. There are wolves at night. How can she spend the night alone?
Jinsui felt more and more distressed. He didn't expect that the only love affair he had since traveling through time was with a girl, and this girl was so infatuated with him.
When I find her, I will sincerely apologize to her. Even if she stabs me in anger, Jinsui will not frown.
Alas, if I had confessed to Twelve Niang at the beginning, she was too cautious and had too many concerns at that time.
Seeing Yan Jiu frowning slightly, his eyes were full of worry. As an elder brother, he truly lived up to his role as a father, but his younger sister had reached puberty and was stubborn, so he really didn't know what to do.
I thought my sister would back down after suffering so much along the way, but I didn't expect that she was alone and hadn't given up even after following me all the way here.
Jin Sui comforted him weakly, "Many people in the Black Feather Camp know Twelve Lady. As long as she catches up with the Black Feather Camp, she will be fine."
Yan Jiu nodded slightly and asked the shopkeeper to prepare hot water as he would stay overnight.
The entire store can only accommodate a hundred people at most if the sleeping quarters are full. The others were originally planning to sleep in tents, but the shopkeeper said there was a large semi-underground warehouse in the back that could barely accommodate everyone.
In this way, the team walked for half a month and finally slept in a house for the first time. There was enough firewood and they could boil water without fetching snow. From the time they entered the store at noon until dark, the big pots were always on and everyone soaked their feet in hot water.
Jin Sui was too embarrassed to show up in front of Yan Jiu because he felt guilty, so he kept helping in the kitchen. He went to see Liu Yun halfway through the meal and was relieved to see that he didn't have a fever and was sleeping soundly.
Then he quietly asked the shopkeeper how the lone man he saw that day was doing, whether he had eaten much, and whether he had frostbite.
The shopkeeper said respectfully that because he had the Jin family badge, the store served him well, he took a hot bath, ate two large bowls of mutton noodles, and took twenty noodles with him when he left.
There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with him. His hands and ears don't have frostbite.
When Jin Sui brought food to Yan Jiu, he told him what the shopkeeper had said.
Unexpectedly, Yan Jiu seemed to be nonchalant and said, "Twelve Lady is too stubborn. This long journey will temper her a bit. Miss Ji doesn't need to worry too much."
Jin Sui shook his head: "It's my fault after all."
Yan Jiu didn't think so: "But you never made any promises to her from the beginning to the end, nor did you have any feelings for her. It was her wishful thinking. Do you have to be responsible for someone as long as they like you?"
Jin Sui shook his head: "But I did lie to her. If she knew I was a woman, she would never do such a thing."
Yan Jiu chuckled: "You have deceived many people, are you responsible for all of them?"
Jin Sui looked at him and said, "I am not a cold-blooded person. Twelve Niang has been sincere to me. Now that something like this has happened, I can't just sit back and watch."
Yan Jiu suddenly asked quickly: "What about Gu Changxiao?"
Jin Sui was startled, lowered his eyes and said angrily: "Why mention him? I went to the Northern Frontier for the brothers in the Black Feather Camp!
It would be fine if I didn't know, but now that I know, I can't just sit there and watch them being taken to their deaths by Gu Changxiao!"
Yan Jiu was not satisfied with this answer: "Miss Ji, you should know very well that Gu Changxiao drove you away from Border Town in order to protect you.
Don't you really have any personal feelings for him?"
Jin Sui raised his head and looked directly at Yan Jiu. Their eyes met, and neither of them backed down. "Jiulang, do you think that the only emotion between men and women in this world is love, and there is no other emotion?"
"I admit that I admire Gu Changxiao's character, and we have been through a lot. But if you say that I went north for him, then I can only say that you underestimated me, Yan Jiulang."
"In my heart, Black Tiger, Frost Star, and the brothers in the Black Feather Camp who once entrusted their lives to me and fought with me to kill the Tartars, punish the horse bandits, and capture Zheng Yun are more important!"
"Although I am a woman, I also know the greater good. If Gu Changxiao dies in the northern border, the people in the border town will inevitably become refugees again, which is what I least want to see."
"Is there nothing in Yan Jiulang's heart that you would risk your life to protect?"
"There are always some things that stand out from the rest. Love is just a embellishment."
My dears, the last few chapters are just a transition, and soon we will start to do things.
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