Chapter 782 A Dream of Youth 314
Xie Ning slept in a daze for an unknown amount of time. When she regained some consciousness, the sound of sparks exploding in her ears had stopped, and the surroundings were filled with cold air.
Seemingly sensing something approaching, even though she was still conscious, she reflexively tightened her grip on the sword.
A flash of blue light, and the sword tip stopped just short of the white wolf's neck. "Snowball..."
Xie Ning opened his mouth, but no words came out. His body relaxed, and all the strength he had painstakingly accumulated was released.
"Waaah—"
Snowball rubbed its fluffy head against Xie Ning's face. Its fur was snow-white, making the bright red bloodstains on it stand out all the more.
It wasn't hers. Xie Ning forced her eyes open, a burning sensation emanating from her back. Her head was spinning. She didn't need to look in the mirror; just touching her burning cheeks was enough for her to know how badly she was burning up.
Last night... I don't know if it was last night, but Snowball actually came. So it must have been a long time ago. At that time, she originally wanted to continue treating her wounds, but she just couldn't hold on any longer. Rather than saying she fell asleep, it would be more accurate to say she fainted.
Xie Ning buried her head in the snowball's fluffy body, her mind blank for a moment. She had never imagined that the Northern Jin army would be able to break through Shiling Pass and enter Bingzhou.
No, they shouldn't have come this way. Xie Ning's somewhat confused consciousness suddenly recalled the face of one of the Northern Jin soldiers. She didn't recognize the scarred face, but she had seen some of them at the city gate.
It's...it's that old man's subordinate!
Then there was the encounter at the Xu family's doorstep. Xie Ning's heart sank lower and lower. She didn't know what had happened, but the Xu family should have had no motive to ambush her.
Therefore, there may be other conspiracies involved.
She needs to get back quickly!
There are usually many merchants coming to Northern Jin, so she didn't pay attention to that particular caravan. It was normal for them to enter Xu Prefecture, because some Northern Jin merchants would first bring the best furs to curry favor with the powerful and wealthy.
This way, the price is higher than selling to other merchants, and sometimes other benefits can be obtained in return.
She was about to return to Beijing and was busy organizing materials, so she wouldn't pay attention to a small caravan.
But I never expected to fail here.
Normally, they could hold off even ten more riders without risking her life, since they had fourteen guards, ten of whom were armored soldiers who were not afraid of ordinary bandits.
But this time, they weren't dealing with ordinary bandits, but with Northern Jin cavalry. Xie Ning still couldn't figure out why they wanted to ambush her. She considered herself somewhat famous, but she was definitely not so famous that Northern Jin would take her so seriously that they would kill her... No, that's not right.
Xie Ning thought of the recent western expedition, Lingzhou, it was Lingzhou!
Although Xili has now been incorporated into the Great Zhou territory, apart from the young emperor of Xili, many of the other nobles have fled. The biggest thing she did during her western expedition was to implement a plan of combined internal and external attacks, which completely ruined their water attack plan and turned the tide of the war.
What if Xili surrenders to Northern Jin and demands the heads of her, the Yan family, and several other important generals?
In fact, after some people from Xili fled to Northern Jin, and with his own official position rising higher and higher, Xie Ning felt somewhat uneasy.
However, he had been busy ever since returning to Beijing from the Northwest. In addition to his regular work, he also had to go back to his hometown to mourn and attend to matters related to the girls' school, so the selection of guards was delayed again and again.
In addition to the original two guards, she wanted to select some more skilled guards. So, in early autumn, she told the Huo family that selecting guards at this time was not easy. First, they had to be skilled, and second, they had to be loyal.
The Xie family is a newly wealthy family, lacking the foundation of established clans. Therefore, half of the Xie family's guards were selected by the Huo family from their own escort agency, while the rest were added by Xie Wangzhi in recent years.
Upon hearing Xie Ning's words, Huo immediately sent a letter to the escort agency. However, there were not many suitable candidates for Huo, as the best ones had all gone to run escort missions and would not return until winter. By then, Xie Ning had already gone to Bingzhou.
Little did they expect that such a trip would lead to this accident.
Xie Ning regained some strength and, ignoring her hunger, first treated her wound. She needed to stitch herself up, so she couldn't use anesthesia, and she was afraid of aggravating her acupoints, so she couldn't even use silver needles to relieve the pain.
"Waaah—" Snowball seemed to sense Xie Ning's pain and anxiously circled around him.
"I'm fine..." Xie Ning finally managed to speak, but her voice was hoarse.
This kind of stitching was too difficult; after it was finished, she was soaked in sweat.
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