“Who is it?!”
Ji Yongjia stood on the city gate tower, frowning as he looked at the carriage parked at the city gate.
The northwest is so dry that all the people have fled to the capital in the south, and no one is coming to Bailong City.
The sudden appearance of a carriage must be a problem.
Except for the people of Bailong City and Qianhuang City who knew that there was water in the two cities, people in other places did not know.
It is impossible for anyone to risk dying of thirst and come to Bailong City.
Nanny Zhang looked at the tightly closed city gate and her heart skipped a beat. Then she heard a voice coming from the gate tower.
She quickly climbed down from the carriage with trembling legs and saluted the soldiers at the city gate.
"This servant greets the official."
"I am accompanying the young lady to visit relatives in Fire Extinguishing City. Please help me, sir."
Nanny Zhang grinned with her cracked lips and looked at the city gate tower in a flattering manner.
"Visiting relatives!?" Ji Yongjia looked at Aunt Zhang suspiciously.
"The drought in the northwest is very severe. Are you coming to visit relatives at this time?"
The severe drought in Northwest China is well known to the world.
Who has a problem with their brains to come to visit relatives in the place with the most severe drought at this time?
Aunt Zhang pulled the corner of her lips,
"Your Excellency, you may not know that the young lady hurried here because of the severe drought in the northwest."
"The eldest lady's grandmother is in Fire Extinguishing City. The old lady has always loved the eldest lady. When the eldest lady heard about the severe drought in the northwest, she became very worried."
"It's because I was so nervous, Madam, that I rushed here from the capital."
After saying these words at the top of her voice, Aunt Zhang felt her throat was so dry that it was bleeding.
Ji Yongjia frowned as he listened to Aunt Zhang's hoarse and sharp voice.
This sound is really unpleasant to listen to.
"Who is in the carriage?"
"There's only the eldest lady!"
After saying this, Nanny Zhang walked to the carriage with her tired legs and pushed open the door.
Ran Xiangyu walked out of the carriage with a dry laugh and bowed towards the tower on the city gate.
"Please, sir, please do me a favor and let me see my grandmother as soon as possible."
Ji Yongjia frowned and looked at Ran Xiangyu standing in the carriage. The more he looked, the more familiar she looked.
"You guys came from the capital?"
"......" Ran Xiangyu was slightly stunned, and the corners of her mouth rose slightly.
Does she speak Mandarin so well, or has her accent become completely like that of someone from the capital?
"Yes~~ Sir, you have a good eye."
She had only lived in Beijing for six years, but she was already no different from the locals, which meant that she should have been a Beijinger.
If the Shen family hadn't gotten into trouble and implicated her, she would be able to act with impunity in the Ran family now.
Hey~~
Now, not only can he not walk sideways, but he has also become a stray dog.
The hardships I've endured along the way are greater than those endured by all the people in the Ran family combined. It's such a sin.
Ji Yongjia frowned, raised his arm and fiddled with the small-eyed imperial guard next to him.
"Does this woman look familiar to you?"
The little eyes were startled, and he looked carefully.
"I can't see clearly, Brother Ji, do you know him?"
He just saw Ji Yongjia staring at the girl for so long that he thought the guy had fallen in love with her.
Could it be that this girl is Ji Yongjia's old lover in the capital?
"...Looks familiar." Ji Yongjia frowned, "Let's go down and take a look."
If they are just visiting relatives, then it is fine to let them go.
Chen Yong said that there would be no restrictions on the people entering Bailong City. Qianhuang City was short of people, so no matter how many people came, they would be welcome.
He just asked him to carefully check whether there was anyone with fever or illness when letting the people into the city.
Places where many people die from drought are prone to plague, so we must be extra careful.
With a creaky sound, the heavy city gate slowly opened.
Ran Xiangyu and her servant looked at the open city gate and smiled at the same time.
Just let them pass.
Otherwise, if they were blocked at the city gate and those servants caught up with them, the two horses would be in danger.
"Thank you, sir!"
Ran Xiangyu looked at the officer leading the way out and immediately saluted.
At this moment, she no longer had the arrogance and domineering spirit she had in the capital.
The reason why she dared to act so arrogantly in the past was because the Shen family would support her from behind.
Those officials and yamen runners were very polite to her because of the Shen family.
Now, she is a stray dog, and the Shen family is an existence that cannot be mentioned at all, so naturally she has to be humble in front of the officials.
Ji Yongjia looked carefully at the slightly dirty girl standing in the carriage.
The eyebrows and eyes do look familiar, but the girl's face is a little dark and gray, so it doesn't look very real.
Looking at the master and servant's chapped lips and dirty faces, they must have struggled to get here without any water to drink.
Ji Yongjia glanced into the carriage and waved his hand.
"Come in."
He is from Beijing. Maybe he has met me before in Beijing, so he looks familiar.
"Thank you, sir." Ran Xiangyu looked up at Ji Yongjia happily.
The moment she saw Ji Yongjia, her eyes widened in shock.
It’s him!!
The cousin of Shen’s third sister-in-law---Ji Yongjia!
Ran Xiangyu knew all the relatives of the Shen family very well and had visited them all secretly to avoid meeting any family members she didn't recognize.
However, she just knew him and they had never communicated with each other.
Otherwise she would have been able to tell it from the sound just now.
"Miss~~"
After thanking the official and climbing onto the carriage, Nanny Zhang looked at Ran Xiangyu who was still standing there in a daze, raised her hand and pulled her arm.
"You can go into the city now."
".....Oh...Oh, okay!" Ran Xiangyu quickly withdrew her gaze and took two steps back into the carriage.
When the carriage started to creak, Ran Xiangyu came back to her senses.
She covered her pounding heart, her eyes full of surprise.
Ji Yongjia is here, which means Shen Yong's family is also here.
At the beginning, those palace guards chased Chen Yong, and after being subdued by Chen Yong, these people were taken away by Chen Yong.
She clearly remembered that Ji Yongjia was among them.
Who is Ji Yongjia? He is a palace guard.
So what is Ji Yongjia doing now? He is actually guarding the city gate.
This means that Ji Yongjia has been subdued by Shen Yong, and Bailong City should have been taken by Shen Yong.
Thinking of this, Ran Xiangyu couldn't help but giggle.
She actually made the right bet!
She said, Chen Yong's martial arts were so powerful, and so many palace guards couldn't do anything to him, so how could he die from a small drought?
Besides, Chen Yong's father and brother both died in the northwest, so he would definitely come to the northwest.
Sure enough, she was very smart and guessed everything correctly.
Thinking about living the life of a city lord's wife in the future, she couldn't help but want to laugh.
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