"Alas, misfortunes never come singly."
Qin Susu looked dejected. Her hair was disheveled, her face was covered in dirt, and she leaned against the wall, looking like a beggar.
Ling Ba looked up and gazed down at the towering city walls.
Too high. He doesn't have the general's superb lightness skill.
He couldn't get over it.
Qiu Yan looked up at the distant lights.
Now, everyone in the city knows that spies have infiltrated the city.
With their Central Plains appearance, even if they wanted to stay at an inn, they wouldn't dare.
"..."
The sound of running footsteps grew louder as they rushed closer.
Those Lu soldiers actually caught up with us again.
Qiu Yan rubbed her forehead and muttered to herself,
"It's haunting me!"
Ling Ba Si looked around.
Qin Susu's teeth were grinding together, making a clattering sound.
"Why are you here again? Can't a person get some rest? Is there no place for us to live in peace in Lushi City?" Qin Susu was on the verge of tears.
"Xiaoyan, I'm starving! I want to eat your squirrel fish."
She lifted her foot to run, but Qiu Yan grabbed her sleeve.
"What's the panic?" Their pretense wasn't for nothing.
Qiu Yan lowered her head, took Qin Susu's hand, and calmly walked towards the crowd.
"Ling Ba, keep up."
Ling Ba followed silently at the back, his head also bowed.
The dark sky concealed them perfectly.
Lu Shijun brushed past them and continued his search.
As night fell, fewer and fewer people remained in the city.
Qiu Yan and her two companions searched for a place to stay.
Suddenly, Qin Susu cried out in pain because she was running too fast.
He bumped right into the foreign woman opposite him.
She was unharmed, but the woman in front of her staggered from the impact.
Seeing that the woman was about to fall to the ground, Qiu Yan reacted quickly and pulled her up.
She met the woman's gaze at once, then quickly looked away.
With her distinct Central Plains features, she mustn't let anyone remember her at first glance.
The woman's eyes were full of astonishment, and she spoke in a language that Qiu Yan and the other two could not understand.
Qiu Yan glanced at Qin Susu and Ling Ba, turned around, and was about to run when she heard the woman say...
"etc!"
Qiu Yan turned around and asked in surprise:
"You can speak the Central Plains language?"
Beside them, Qin Susu and Ling Ba were both on tenterhooks.
Qin Susu curiously sized up the foreign woman in front of her, and her first words left Qiu Yan and Ling Ba speechless.
"You are really good-looking."
Isn't this the beautiful girl they met outside the palace that morning?
Ling Ba: "Xiao Yan, run!"
It's not surprising that they can speak Central Plains Mandarin; they've encountered similar people along the way.
Right now, escaping is the priority. This woman might just attract that swarm of persistent Lu Shijun soldiers at any moment.
"Don't go, I'm not a bad person."
The woman looked at Qiu Yan, "The three of you don't seem like bad people. Are you really spies from the Central Plains?"
Her eyes were full of smiles, instantly bridging the distance between them.
"Right now, the whole city is searching for spies from the Central Plains. Reward notices have been posted throughout the city. Anyone who catches a spy from the Central Plains will be rewarded with one hundred taels of silver."
Qin Susu lowered her head and counted on her fingers: "One tael of gold, ten taels of silver, one hundred taels of gold, and then one thousand taels of gold... Xiaoyan, we are really valuable."
Qiu Yan ignored Qin Susu's self-deprecating humor.
She wondered, "They've already posted the reward notice? How come they didn't see it?"
It seems there is no portrait, and they wouldn't understand Lu Shiyu anyway.
"No, we are not spies." Qiu Yan said, then turned around, preparing to leave with Qin Susu and Ling Ba as soon as possible.
"Wait!" The woman called out to them once again.
"You can't leave."
She knew their own army well.
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