As night fell, Su Jinyue was the only one still riding his horse on the official road!

At the last moment when the palace gate was locked, Xiao Duo rode out of the city gate with Song Yan and Meng An.

"Master!" Song Yan said, "Why did Lord Su have to clean up the mess for you after he caused it?"

"That's right." Meng An rode his horse beside Xiao Duo, "The Xuanwu Army in the capital still has so many matters to deal with..."

Xiao Duo held the reins in his hands, "If the lives of tens of thousands of people on the border are a mess in your eyes, you two don't have to follow me!"

Song Yan realized that he had said the wrong thing in front of his master, and hurriedly admitted his mistake, "Master, I was just dissatisfied with that Marquis Su, and I spoke without thinking!"

"Please punish me, master!" Meng An also said.

Xiao Duo said: "Let's go to Suling tonight."

"Yes, Master!"

Su Jinyue drove her horse to an inn on the official road and dismounted. She asked the waiter to take the horse to feed it.

She entered the store alone, and the shopkeeper greeted her with a smile, "Miss, would you like to stay overnight or stay the night?"

"Just take some food for the journey." Su Jinyue put the silver coins on the table, "Prepare some dry food for me that will be easy to store on the journey."

"Okay!" The shopkeeper ordered the kitchen staff to prepare some dry biscuits. He turned around and smiled at Su Jinyue, "Miss, are you going to travel overnight?"

Seeing Su Jinyue nod, the shopkeeper looked at Su Jinyue's night outfit and advised her, "Although it is safer to take the official road, it will take more than 40 miles to find a place to rest if you leave here. If a girl walks alone at night, I'm afraid..."

"No problem, thank you, shopkeeper." Su Jinyue said, "I'm in a hurry to get on my way. By the way, shopkeeper, I want to ask you about someone."

After describing Xiao Duo's appearance, Su Jinyue asked the shopkeeper, "Have you seen this person passing by here today?"

The shopkeeper thought for a moment and shook his head, "I've never seen it."

It seemed that they might not stay here. Su Jinyue nodded and said, "Thank you, shopkeeper."

"You're welcome, young lady." The shopkeeper handed her what she wanted, "Everything you want is here."

Asking the waiter to bring the horse over, Su Jinyue mounted the horse and continued to move forward, slowing down her pace. She had already come here, and her father's men should not be able to catch up with her.

Su Jinyue was riding a horse and looked back at the official road illuminated by the moonlight. Calculating the time, Xiaotao's carriage should be catching up with her soon.

"Girl, there is an inn ahead. Shall we rest for a night?" the coachman shouted into the carriage.

Xiao Tao was anxious to see her mistress, so she immediately said to the outside, "No need to rest, we need to hurry!"

"Okay!"

The carriage had just passed the inn. Xiao Duo and the other two got off their horses in front of the inn, and Song Yan took their horses to feed them with food and grass.

Xiao Duo took Meng An into the inn.

Meng An called the shopkeeper, "Shopkeeper, prepare a table of food."

“Here I come!”

The shopkeeper came out from the kitchen and saw Xiao Duo among the two. He was stunned and asked, "You are..."

Meng An immediately raised his hand to protect his master, staring at the shopkeeper with cold eyes, "How?!"

"Sir, please don't misunderstand me, please don't misunderstand me!"

The shopkeeper quickly explained, "Just now a girl came to ask me about a person, and that person looks very much like that young man."

Xiao Duo's dark eyes darkened, "What does she look like!"

The shopkeeper said almost immediately: "It's obvious that she is a daughter of some rich family. She is very beautiful. I even tried to persuade her to stay here for one night, but she was in a hurry to leave..."

Before the shopkeeper could finish his words, Xiao Duo had already walked to the door of the store.

"Song Yan! Bring the horse here!"

Hearing the sound, Song Yan immediately led the horse over and said, "Master, what's wrong?"

Xiao Duo jumped onto the horse swiftly, "You and Meng An take some dry food for the journey, I will go ahead!"

"Master, but..."

Before Song Yan could finish his words, Xiao Duo had already rushed out on his horse!

"Master, what happened..."

Meng An came over and patted his shoulder, "Let's not worry about the master's business. Let's get the things first and catch up with the master and his family later."

"Them?" Song Yan looked at the direction where Xiao Duo was going away with concern. He really didn't understand what was going on.

In front, Su Jinyue slowed down and met up with Xiaotao.

"Miss!"

Xiao Tao got off the carriage and saw that her young lady was fine. She finally let go of the worry that had been weighing on her mind all the way.

"Miss, please get in the carriage and rest for a while." Xiao Tao said.

Su Jinyue shook her head. "We can't abandon this horse. It's General Xiao's horse. You stay in the carriage and protect our stuff. Go all the way to the border from the official road. I'll take a shortcut."

Xiao Tao shook her head repeatedly, "No, Miss! It's too dangerous, you should stay with Xiao Tao..."

"Listen to me." Su Jinyue said, "Don't waste any more time."

Unable to persuade her young lady, Xiao Tao could only say worriedly, "Miss, please be careful on the road!"

"Don't worry." Su Jinyue's lips curled up, "Ordinary people can't do anything to your young lady!"

Putting on a veil hat, Su Jinyue suppressed the smile on her lips and rode her horse at full speed into the woods outside the official road!

There were not many pedestrians in the middle of the night. Xiao Duo rode his horse all the way to catch up, but he only saw Xiao Tao's carriage.

Sure enough, after Xiao Duo stopped the carriage, he saw Xiao Tao lift the curtain and showed a surprised expression, "General Xiao!"

After seeing Xiao Tao, Xiao Duo looked inside the carriage and asked, "Where is your young lady?"

"Miss...Miss, she rode alone and took the shortcut over there!"

The light in the forest was very dim. Xiao Duo clenched his hands tightly around the reins and said, "Nonsense!"

Xiao Tao was frightened and almost cried, "Slave...slave..."

Xiao Duo frowned, "Wait here, the people around me will take you forward."

"Yes, young general, my lady..."

Before Xiao Tao could finish her words, Xiao Duo had already turned his horse around and headed towards the woods.

The terrain in the forest is complex, but it is nothing for Su Jinyue.

In her previous life, when she was in Zhuangzi, she was often forced to go into the mountains to chop firewood. She had to look at the grass and trees to identify the direction ahead. This memory was almost engraved in her bones and blood.

Under the moonlight, the forest was completely silent, with only the occasional faint chirping of insects.

About a quarter of an hour later, Su Jinyue heard a strange noise coming from the forest behind her!

She immediately stopped the horse, dismounted swiftly, and hid behind a tree.

Su Jinyue listened to the noise outside, and the direction of movement seemed to be coming towards her!

Xiao Duo followed Su Jinyue's whereabouts all the way.

suddenly!

Xiao Duo saw a horse standing alone in the forest, and he recognized at a glance that it was the horse he gave to Su Jinyue.

As if he had thought of something, Xiao Duo smiled helplessly and got off the horse, "Miss Su, come out."