"It wasn't me."
"If it's not you, how do you know that war is about to break out?"
"I went to the military camp to look for you, and just returned. The Northern Qi army is advancing like a whirlwind; they will surely attack the city tonight..."
Qiu Yan couldn't hear what Bai Lu said after that.
She fell silent.
Bai Lu took a few steps, glanced around, nodded to Qiu Xu and the other person, and then asked Qiu Yan, "Where is the little baby beside you?"
"He went to Shangjin." Qiu Yan spoke slowly and deliberately, leaving no room for doubt.
Bai Lu asked no more questions and stood silently.
Gu Xiaoran noticed that Qiu Yan had suddenly become calm, and felt uneasy.
"Mother, what's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"
Gu Xiaoran's voice caught Bai Lu's attention.
She turned her head and glanced at the four-year-old child, feeling that he looked familiar, but she couldn't quite place him.
Qiu Xu and Qiu Ling'er had met Bai Lu before, and they were somewhat surprised by her arrival.
All they knew was that this woman was a maid that their sister had taken in sometime during their lives.
"No." Qiu Yan smiled faintly, a slight twitch at the corner of her lips.
Gu Qian possessed extraordinary skills, and she believed in him; she was certain they would win this war.
Although the border is not peaceful, life still goes on.
Qiu Yan looked at Bai Lu: "You didn't come here just to tell me this?"
Bai Lu shook her head and whispered:
"I've been looking for you for many days."
"Since Ling Qi has let you go, why are you still looking for me?" As Qiu Yan spoke, her gaze fell on Bai Lu's slightly protruding belly.
It's rare to see a child grow so strong after enduring wind and rain during the White Dew season.
Bai Lu remained silent. She hated Ling Qi and never wanted to hear that name again.
Qiu Yan walked a few steps and sat down on the stone bench in the courtyard, where she chatted with Bai Lu.
"Did Qin Feng send you?" This was the only reason Qiu Yan could think of.
However, Bai Lu shook her head: "No."
After Bai Lu finished speaking, she sat down opposite Qiu Yan.
Although Qiu Yan didn't believe Bai Lu's story, now that war had broken out between the two countries, if Qin Feng wanted to capture her and frame Northern Qi,
It is impossible for him to then take his anger out on Gu Qian and send troops to Northern Qi.
"What else did you do?"
Qi Yuan alone was not enough to provoke the Northern Qi emperor to send troops.
Qi Yuan was merely the trigger for the Northern Qi's military campaign.
"I've been looking for you all this time." Bai Lu's implication was that she was unaware of the situation.
Through the moonlight, in a daze, Bai Lu saw Qiu Yan's profile clearly, the striking knife scar, and her body became somewhat unsteady.
"You really are meticulous. Even if you don't say it, I know that you must have done something treasonous to Northern Qi again and framed Shangjin."
Qiu Yan didn't pay attention to the look Bai Lu was giving her.
Bai Lu: "You've misunderstood me. I really didn't know."
After saying that, she stared at Qiu Yan's profile and asked, "Who hurt you? Tell me, who was it?"
"Bandits." Qiu Yan repeated her previous statement. She didn't know who was behind the man in black.
She didn't want to continue the conversation.
"Let me guess, you killed the Crown Prince of Northern Qi?"
Bai Lu's eyes remained fixed on Qiu Yan's profile: "We failed."
"Don't look at me like that." Qiu Yan turned her head and instructed Cao Shi to prepare a guest room for Bai Lu, then took Gu Xiaoran to rest.
...With a rumble, the horizon became brightly lit.
That night, Ling Yun and Ling Zhi each led a squad of soldiers to launch a surprise attack on the main force of the Northern Qi army, successfully diverting their attention.
Gu Qian's original intention was to destroy their cohesion and turn them into a disorganized mess.
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