Chapter 66 Chunzhi, where are you going?
Chunzhi didn't know how Lu Jingyun got people to divert the stalkers.
The carriage passed through the streets, and everywhere she looked were familiar scenes.
Chunzhi has lived in Linshui Town for ten years and is familiar with every place here. Many pedestrians on the street are her regular customers.
Now she was about to leave here, feeling very reluctant, but she didn't dare to lift the curtain to look at the people and scenes outside the carriage. She could only take a look outside when the wind blew the curtain.
Every glance is full of reluctance.
Lu Jingyun saw Chunzhi's reluctance to leave and whispered to her, "Prince Chang'an is only here to inspect Nanzhou and will be back in the capital soon. You can always come back to Linshui Town if you want to."
He didn't think Prince Chang'an would regard Chunzhi as that important.
I'm not willing to let her go just yet, simply because the novelty hasn't worn off yet.
When he returned to the capital and married a beautiful wife and concubines, he naturally forgot about Chunzhi from Linshui Town.
By then, it won’t matter if Chunzhi returns to Linshui Town.
Chunzhi was not comforted.
Even if she could return to Linshui Town in the future, she didn't know when it would be.
If she were alone, she would definitely not leave.
But she was pregnant and could not afford to offend King Chang'an, so she could only hide from him.
Seeing Chunzhi still didn't say anything, Lu Jingyun took out three hundred taels of silver notes from his sleeve and continued to comfort her, "Take these notes and think of them as something I owe you. You must take good care of yourself when you are alone out there..."
As he spoke, he stuffed the banknote into Chunzhi's hand.
Chunzhi remembered correctly that Lu Jingyun once said that he would return her ten thousand taels of gold, but now he only gave him six hundred taels in total.
She put the banknote into her sleeve.
Lu Jingyun paused. He was originally afraid that Chunzhi would not accept it, but now seeing her accept the banknote so quickly, he suddenly didn't know what to say.
Chunzhi said: "You have failed me before, and now you are risking your life to help me..."
She thought that she and Lu Jingyun would probably never see each other again, so she said to him, "We're even now."
Lu Jingyun said, "I owe you a lot, this debt cannot be settled."
Chunzhi looked up at Lu Jingyun and felt that he seemed a little different from before.
I can’t tell exactly what the difference is.
Lu Jingyun, who had just returned to Linshui Town, seemed to have made up his mind to curry favor with the powerful and wealthy, and would rather let her down than become the superior one.
And now, he seems to regret it a little.
"It doesn't matter whether we're even or not." Chunzhi said, "Lu Jingyun, you and I will probably never meet again."
Lu Jingyun looked at her blankly.
He knew Haruji was leaving.
But her words, "We will probably never meet again in the future," still hurt his heart.
In fact, he had lost Chunzhi a long time ago.
These days, regret almost swallowed him up.
So Lu Jingyun began to think that even if he and Chunzhi couldn't be husband and wife, they could still be brother and sister.
No matter what, they truly got through those years of relying on each other together.
But Chunzhi didn't want to.
She didn't even want to look at him or say a word to him.
Now I have given up even the thought of meeting you in the future.
Lu Jingyun looked at Chunzhi intently. He even thought about taking Chunzhi away and raising her in a place only he knew where no one could find her except himself.
Just at this time, the carriage had arrived at the ferry.
The driver let out a "whoosh" and stopped the carriage.
"I'm leaving." Chunzhi immediately stood up and lifted the curtain to walk out.
Lu Jingyun wanted to reach out and hold her, but he only touched a part of her sleeve.
The sleeve passed over his palm and he didn't catch anything.
Chunzhi got off the carriage and walked towards the ferry without looking back.
"Haruji—"
Lu Jingyun lifted the car curtain and called her.
Chunzhi didn't look back. She found the captain of the ferry, bought a black-sailed boat, and paddled away from the ferry by herself.
Linshui Town is a water town. Chunzhi has lived here since she was nine years old and has long learned to row a boat.
She was carrying a lot of gold and silver, and was afraid of being hijacked when she took a big ship.
Buy a small boat and go wherever you want. Even if someone comes looking for you, they won’t be able to find you for a while.
Lu Jingyun's carriage remained parked where it was, watching Chunzhi row the boat away.
A long time passed.
Until the spring branches went away and turned into a tiny black dot and could no longer be seen.
Lu Jingyun told the driver, "Go back to the Lu residence."
The driver replied "yes" and drove away from the ferry.
An hour later, at Nanzhou Posthouse.
The secret guard hurried back to the inn to report, "Your Majesty, Miss Chunzhi is missing!"
"Gone?"
Huo Zheng was originally discussing with several officials how to overthrow Prince Ning. When he heard the report from the secret guard, he immediately stood up.
Seeing this, several officials tactfully took their leave first.
Huo Zheng asked the secret guard: "What do you mean by missing?"
The secret guard explained how he had been led away. "An hour ago, Lu Jingyun went to Taohua Lane. After he left, Miss Chunzhi disappeared..."
Huo Zheng felt a tightness in his chest when he heard this.
He knew best how much Chunzhi hated Lu Jingyun.
And now, in order to avoid him, Chunzhi would rather put aside her past grudges with Lu Jingyun.
Huo Zheng's handsome face darkened slightly. "Where did Lu Jingyun go after leaving Taohua Lane?"
The secret guard said, "The Lu family's carriage circled all the streets of Linshui Town and finally seemed to be heading towards the ferry."
"Ferry--" Huo Zheng's heart tightened, and he almost immediately realized that Chunzhi was about to leave.
When she was helping Yuzhu think of a solution, it was to let Yuzhu take a boat to leave Linshui Town and go anywhere she wanted.
"Prepare the boat and go to the Linshui Town ferry immediately."
Huo Zheng put down everything he was doing and immediately sent out all the secret guards to look for him.
The Prince of Chang'an had many men under his command, and was acting in the name of the government. He quickly tracked down the ferry captain and learned that Chunzhi had bought a black-sailed boat from him, which had been sailing downstream for several hours.
Traveling by water is downstream and is much faster than traveling by land by horse-drawn carriage.
Huo Zheng immediately took his men on a boat to chase after them.
He used the fastest ship, accompanied by a group of secret guards, and they boarded dozens of ships.
The wind was strong today, and with the wind and the current going our way, the boat was moving very fast.
It was still afternoon, but the weather had changed, the rivers were rippling with waves, and a storm was about to come.
Chunzhi entered the river from the river, watching the sky suddenly change. When she was about to dock, she saw that in the distance, there were originally few boats on the river, but suddenly dozens of boats appeared.
The boats were moving very fast, dark clouds covered the sun, lightning and thunder were flashing, she was a little scared and had a very bad premonition.
Those speedboats seemed to come with the wind and caught up in the blink of an eye.
Chunzhi stood at the bow of the boat, swaying in the strong wind.
On the bow of the speedboat closest to her stood Huo Zheng, dressed in brocade clothes and a jade belt.
Even though he was in a hurry, he still looked graceful and elegant.
It was the unfamiliar Huo Zheng, not the Huo Qi that Chunzhi was familiar with.
The speedboat was about to catch up with Chunzhi's black-sailed boat when Huo Zheng leaped up, skimmed across the water, and jumped onto the stern of Chunzhi's black-sailed boat. He asked in a deep voice, "Chunzhi, where are you going?"
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