"You just said you wanted to talk to me about something, but you actually wanted me to end this?"
"Not entirely. I do have something to discuss with you. Have something to eat first, and then we'll talk."
Zheng Quchi wondered what it was all about. She wasn't hungry, so she ate a few bites and then put down her chopsticks.
"Go ahead and tell me."
Do you know where I went all day?
Zheng Quchi: "Go and capture Yuwen Sheng?"
"That's right."
"They haven't caught him yet?" she asked again.
"That's right."
"So what do you want to tell me?"
He has already left.
Zheng Quchi didn't understand what he meant: "So, are you planning to leave the city to continue the search, or have you decided to give up?"
"Since he is no longer in a place we are confident of, giving up is inevitable. However, although they are able to leave, the sentry posts and encirclement at the Julu Kingdom's pass are not so easy to break through. His hope of returning to Ye Kingdom smoothly is very slim."
"That's his business, it has nothing to do with me anymore. All I want to do now is go back to the North with you, I don't want to care about anything else."
"Do you really think that way?"
"You don't believe me?"
Gongshu Jiruo was silent for a moment, then asked, "Why did you marry Yuwen Sheng in the first place?"
"As you probably know, in the Kingdom of Ye, unmarried women who are sixteen years old or older must get married, or they have to pay taxes. You've seen our family's situation; we're poor, extremely poor. How could we afford to pay that money? So I joined the wedding procession..."
After hearing her brief account, Gongshu Jiruo suddenly said, "You may have been deceived by Yuwen Sheng."
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