The horses were galloping along the road, but that did not affect the riders' speech.

"How can you say I'm stupid?" Zhu Zan said while standing on his horse with his hands spread out, his posture steady.

Miss Jun turned around and looked at him.

"Oh, do I have to praise you for being smart?" she said with raised eyebrows.

Anyway, he had already been embarrassed enough, so what was there to be afraid of? Zhu Zan remained calm and collected.

"You could say I'm smart," he said. "At least I noticed that you were in a weird mood, right?"

"You are the one with a weird mood." Miss Jun said with a glare.

"Look, this is weird." Zhu Zan said, "You've never been like this before. You always say what you think and admit what you know. Tell me honestly, are you saying one thing and thinking another?"

Miss Jun seemed a little speechless as she looked at him.

Zhu Zan hadn't finished yet. He said "hmm" and pointed at her ear.

"Look, his ears are red," he shouted.

Miss Jun's whole face turned red, she was angry.

"I used to be like this, but you didn't even notice it before." She raised her eyebrows and sneered, "Do you think it's weird now? Check your conscience and tell me whose fault it is."

What you fear will come true. Zhu Zan's head suddenly buzzed. If he had known, he should not have mentioned the past.

And women are really hypocritical. They say that the past is in the past and they are used to looking forward. They are totally lying. You see, she still remembers it.

Was she always like this? He hadn't noticed it before, and that was indisputable.

Zhu Zan's face turned red and he couldn't say a word.

Miss Jun snorted, turned around and urged her horse forward. Only then did she feel a little proud. She felt a little nervous when she thought that this guy had actually noticed her gaffe. But she also felt lucky that he could think of such a thing.

Are you stupid?

She bit her lower lip to hold back her laughter. Zhu Zan followed her silently without fear of being discovered.

"Okay, now it's my problem."

Zhu Zan suddenly shouted and urged his horse to catch up.

Miss Jun quickly composed herself and looked straight ahead.

"It's good to know." She said, "Don't look for the problem on others. It's obviously your own problem. You should think about why you feel differently."

"That's easy." Zhu Zan said. "Because I like Chu Jiuling, I naturally care more about it. You weren't like that before, so I naturally didn't care."

There seemed to be something strange said, Miss Jun said "oh" and acted strangely.

"Why do you like Chu Jiuling?" Since she found it strange, she couldn't help but ask, "You two aren't familiar with each other, right?"

Did they ask about Chu Jiuling? Zhu Zan was a little flustered. He really didn't want to discuss this with anyone.

"I like it so I like it. There's no reason for that." He answered immediately to quickly end the question.

"You're not familiar with her." Miss Jun became more and more curious, and it was much easier to continue the conversation once she started.

"What does this have to do with familiarity?" Zhu Zan said with a glare, "I know a lot of people. How could I not be familiar with you before? Does that mean I should like you?"

Miss Jun said "oh" and nodded.

That seemed to be true. He and her had been dealing with each other since Runan, and later on they had many interactions. They were indeed very familiar with each other, but she really didn't like him at that time, and she even disliked him for deliberately distancing herself from him.

The two looked at each other.

No!

It was like a bolt of thunder across the sky, shocking both of them.

Chu Jiuling is Jun Jiuling, they are not two people, they are one person.

"I see, what you like is actually a name." Miss Jun said hurriedly, as if some trouble would happen if she was a little slower.

"You know nothing." Zhu Zan said anxiously, his face flushed. "I like people. How can I recognize you when you look like this? If you had said you were Chu Jiuling from the beginning, you would have thought whether I liked you or not."

He was right, and Miss Jun couldn't help but glare at him.

"I started out by saying, do you believe it?" she said.

Zhu Zan choked.

"I don't believe it." He said in a muffled voice.

He was not lying with his eyes open, Miss Jun snorted.

"You almost strangled me," she said, pointing to her neck.

This was of course when she suddenly called out his name in Runan.

Zhu Zan lowered his head and wanted to twiddle his toes, but found himself riding a horse.

"You have to be reasonable, right?" he said in a muffled voice. "If you were in that situation, wouldn't you do the same thing?"

If someone suddenly called her Chu Jiuling at that time, she would definitely poison him to death immediately. Miss Jun thought about it seriously.

"Of course not," she snorted.

Zhu Zan glanced at her.

"What else can I say?" he said, throwing up his hands.

What can we do if women don't make sense?

"Then you are wrong in this matter, right?" said Miss Jun.

Zhu Zan said "oh" and suddenly felt a little strange.

"What?" he asked, and then he felt even more puzzled. "What are we talking about?"

He looked at Miss Jun, and Miss Jun looked at him.

Yeah, what are they talking about?

It seems to be saying that he likes Chu Jiuling.

There seemed to be another bolt of thunder in the clear sky, which made Zhu Zan feel as if smoke was coming out of his body.

"Did I say that?" he stammered.

"You didn't say it." Miss Jun looked at him seriously and pointed ahead. "There is a post station not far away. You have been thinking about the news from the north. Go there and see if there is anything you need."

Zhu Zan said "oh" and looked ahead. He hadn't received any news from the North for a while. Was there any problem? He frowned.

Miss Jun urged her horse to go faster. As if sensing her mood, the horse's steps became lighter, and the sound of its hooves was almost inaudible, for fear of disturbing something.

…

There were no major events in the north. Since the peace talks, there had been peace, especially in the areas close to Baozhou, Xiongzhou, and Bazhou.

The Jin people had already moved in and did not invade the border on a large scale. The Zhou people who remained in these three places and did not have time to escape were also properly resettled and were not bullied or enslaved. Life was so peaceful that people felt that the previous battles and massacres were all just dreams.

However, the provincial border was too close after all. Unlike the previous separation that was automatically vacated by the Juma River after a hundred years of fighting, it could be crossed in one step, so some minor incidents still happened.

At a garrison northeast of Anguo Prefecture in Qizhou, a dozen Zhou soldiers held their bows and crossbows tightly in their hands, looking nervously outside the garrison.

There were no scary soldiers or horses outside the fort, only two old men in fur robes, obviously dressed as Jin people.

They had no knives or guns and did not look ferocious. Instead, they were wiping their tears with their hands as if they were crying, and they saluted the garrison repeatedly.

"Go away!" the leading officer shouted again, waving his hands at them and raising his crossbow. "Anyone who crosses the border will be killed without mercy."

The two Jin men grumbled a bunch of incomprehensible nonsense, but finally, frightened by the flashing crossbows on the garrison, they shook their heads helplessly and walked away.

Seeing them disappear from sight, the people in the garrison breathed a sigh of relief.

"Zhang Zhicheng, what are they doing?" asked Li Dujian, who came upon hearing the news.

Zhang Zhicheng seemed a little indifferent.

"Two Jin herdsmen said they lost a few sheep. They saw them running into our city and wanted to come in to look for them," he said.