Chapter 63: The headache caused by the nerd
"Stop talking."
Zhou Yunjia is only fifteen years old this year. He was originally the young master of Zhenbei Palace, but as a result of an imperial decree, he immediately became a stray dog.
If it weren't for the protection of his mentor and the people sent by his grandmother, he and his fourth brother would have been captured and sent to the capital as soon as the imperial edict was announced from the capital.
But even if no one caught them, the fourth brother still tricked him, got him drunk, and threw him to Yang Yuhao, sending him to Nanzhou for refuge.
Yang Yuhao, who was beside Zhou Yunjia, sighed and said, "Just listen to your fourth brother and go to Nanzhou first. Nanzhou was once the fiefdom of the Grand Princess. Going there will at least be considered returning to your own territory."
"Or..." Yang Yuhao hesitated.
"I'm not going to your house." Zhou Yunjia directly interrupted Yang Yuhao's hesitation.
Yang Yuhao sighed.
The reason why he was able to parade around town with Zhou Yunjia without being discovered was entirely because of his identity.
His grandmother was the emperor's elder sister, and his mother was the emperor's niece.
When the emperor first ascended the throne, he changed his recognition of Ruizong as his father. His grandmother, the only one who had a blood relationship with the emperor, took advantage of him and got the title of princess, while his mother got the title of a county lady.
The emperor has only one biological sister, which is why Ji Mingzhu chose him. He has no brothers and no worries.
Over the years, the emperor always felt that he owed his sister, and his sister died early, so he gave all his attention and love to Yang Yuhao's mother, Princess Yuyang, and even let her marry Yang Bingtian, the current high-ranking prefect of Luzhou.
Their family was a staunch royalist, so no one had ever thought that Yang Yuhao would flee south with Zhou Yunjia, whose family had been exterminated by the emperor.
Yang Yuhao did not regret his behavior. After all, he, Zhou Yunqi and Zhou Yunjia were brothers who had been together for many years.
But if his parents knew about this, they would definitely scold him for being ungrateful and might even send Zhou Yunjia back to the capital.
Zhou Yunjia clenched his fists and said, "I'm going to Nanzhou to wait for my fourth brother. If I can't wait for him, I'll go to the Northern Territory!"
"Can't you just stay in Nanzhou quietly?" Yang Yuhao was so angry that he had a headache looking at the blockhead in front of him.
"Do you know what's going on out there right now? The northwest is in turmoil with the plague, the northern border is in dire straits, Luzhou and Qingzhou are suffering from severe drought, and people are exchanging their own children for food. If a fair-skinned and tender little scholar like you were to step out, you'd be thrown into a pot and stewed in no time. Believe it or not!"
Yang Yuhao was not trying to scare him. If they hadn't been escorted by this group of battle-hardened guards, they would never have gotten this far.
"My grandfather was a first-rank general, my uncle was the General Zhenbei, my father was the General Anbei, and I..."
Before Zhou Yunjia could finish his boast, Yang Yuhao held his hand and whispered, "You're just a wooden general!"
"I know your elders are skilled in martial arts, but your mediocre skills can't even beat your little maid. Who can you beat?"
Zhou Yunjia's face flushed. "Chun Que is born with supernatural powers, and she has been learning martial arts from my third sister since she was a child. How can I beat her?"
"Anyway, if there's no news from my fourth brother, I'll go to the northern border. Men of our Zhou family would rather die on the battlefield!" He is a member of the Zhou family, and he will never be a coward!
Yang Yuhao was so angry at the wooden head in front of him that he almost vomited blood, "What am I going to do if you die?"
"I will help you find out about your fourth brother. Just go to Nanzhou honestly!"
Anyway, he couldn't lead this blockheaded nerd, so he had to quickly find someone from the Zhou family and throw him out. Yang Yuhao was afraid that if he stayed with Zhou Yunjia for another month, his life would be shortened by ten years.
"Yun Jia, listen to Senior Brother and stop struggling. Providing an offspring for the Zhou family is more important than anything else!"
He had already checked on the families of criminals exiled from the capital, and he didn't know whether Zhou Yunqi had met the exiled family members of the Zhou family.
"I'm really useless. My martial arts skills are not as good as my elder and second brothers, and my intelligence is not even half as good as my fourth brother's. I've lived for more than ten years, but in the end, I can only continue the Zhou family lineage." Zhou Yunjia wanted to cry again when he said this, "But I don't even have a wife to carry on the family lineage."
Yang Yuhao: …
Is there anyone who can come and rescue him?
Yang Yuhao looked at Zhou Yunjia speechlessly, "Are you playing tricks on me?"
His martial arts skills are not as good as the eldest and second eldest sons of the Zhou family, and his brain is not as smart as the fourth son. He is not even as good at reading as Zhou Yunjia!
Speaking of a wife, he is nineteen years old this year and still unmarried.
Zhou Yunjia looked up in confusion when he heard Yang Yuhao's words, then looked at Yang Yuhao with an expression of sudden enlightenment. Just this one expression almost gave Yang Yuhao a heart attack and made him vomit blood.
"Brother, don't be discouraged. Life is long and you have hope." Zhou Yunjia advised sincerely.
Yang Yuhao covered his chest and sat on the other side of the car. "Don't talk, let me be quiet."
"oh."
Seeing Zhou Yunjia being so obedient, Yang Yuhao couldn't help but say, "It's great that you're like this. Be good and obedient, stay in the carriage honestly. When we get to the capital, I'll find a chance to have someone send you back to Nanzhou."
"knew."
…
At night, when Uncle Liang and others were on guard against Zhou Yunshu and her group behind them, the patrol team on Zhou Yunshu's side did not dare to relax their vigilance.
The two teams were on guard against each other, and the ten-meter space in between was like a natural moat that no one could cross.
The next morning, just as Zhou Yunshu's team put up the pot, the convoy in front set off.
Wei Zhong came to Zhou Yunshu after those people left.
Zhou Yunshu looked at Wei Zhong, who seemed to have something to say, and asked bluntly, "What's wrong?"
"Should we slow down to avoid conflict with those in front?"
Wei Zhong saw Zhou Yunshu looking at him and continued to explain, "Last night, the patrol encountered the guards of the convoy ahead. They were very skilled, and I guessed that someone important was sitting in the carriage, so I thought of slowing down to avoid unnecessary disputes."
What Wei Zhong said made sense, but Zhou Yunshu felt that Wei Zhong might have recognized the people in the convoy ahead and that was why he said this to her.
She knew that Wei Zhong posed no threat to her for the time being, and she also knew that he would not put herself in danger for the time being, so when Wei Zhong said this, Zhou Yunshu did not refuse and let him make his own arrangements.
The convoy in front deliberately sped up, while Zhou Yunshu and her group deliberately slowed down. Thanks to the deliberate actions of the two teams, they did not encounter them again until they went down the mountain.
She didn’t know if it was Zhou Yunshu’s illusion, but after coming down from the mountain, she felt that the whole team’s spirits had improved a lot, and even everyone’s health was much better than before.
When resting at the foot of the mountain at night, she even heard many people in the team reluctant to leave Anshan.
Zhou Yunshu shook her head helplessly. It was because there were so many people that even ferocious animals would avoid them. If there were fewer people, they might really be eaten alive by the beasts in the mountains.
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