"Master, the Raozhou Prefecture is ahead." Xia Ning asked while driving, "Should we stop in Raozhou City?"
Now their carriage was very inconspicuous. After leaving Xianyang and arriving at Luzhou Prefecture, Cheng Ying ordered the more than a thousand soldiers to leave. Those people were once Cheng Ying's confidants. If they stayed in Xianyang, they might be liquidated in the future, so Cheng Ying brought them out when he left the city.
In the carriage, Cheng Ying's face did not look very good. After he planted the poisonous insect in Yu Jiao's body last night, she had been in a coma ever since, but there was no abnormality in her pulse.
He touched Yu Jiao's forehead and said to the outside of the car: "Raozhou is not safe. Let's hurry on our way. If Jiaojiao is still not awake tomorrow, we will take a detour to Ji'an Prefecture." He remembered that there were also Miao people living in the Ji'an Prefecture area.
Cheng Ying frowned, poured a cup of tea, pinched Yu Jiao's jaw, and poured the tea into her mouth.
It's hard to say he regretted it, but Cheng Ying was very anxious at the moment. He gently stroked Yu Jiao's cheek, his eyes bloodshot, and whispered softly: "Jiao Jiao, don't you want to wake up and see me?"
After saying this, seeing that the person in his arms still had no reaction, Cheng Ying suddenly became angry. He pinched her cheek hard and said angrily: "Why don't you love me?"
If she was willing to give up Yu Qizhe, why would he plant the Gu in her body?
"I can give up everything just for you. Can Yu Qizhe do that?" Cheng Ying felt sad when she said this.
Without Yu Jiao, he really didn't know what to do with himself. Yu Jiao was the meaning of life for him.
Only with this obsession can he survive.
At this moment, the person in his arms suddenly moved. Cheng Ying lowered her eyes to look at her fluttering eyelashes, and her hands around her waist tightened involuntarily.
The moment Yu Jiao opened her eyes, Cheng Ying's nervousness reached its peak. Her voice was calm after restraint: "Are you awake? Are you feeling unwell?"
Yu Jiao stared at him blankly for a while, then asked cautiously, "Who are you?"
Yu Jiao suddenly stood up and got out of his arms when she realized that she was in his arms. She looked around the carriage and narrowed her eyes slightly: "Where is this?"
Cheng Ying narrowed his eyes slightly, turned the ebony Buddhist beads on his wrist, and said calmly: "Don't you recognize me?"
Yu Jiao shook her head. She lifted the car curtain and looked outside. Seeing the unfamiliar environment beside the road, she asked again, "Where is this? Who are you?"
Cheng Ying twisted her Buddhist beads and looked at Yu Jiao without blinking, wondering if she had lost her memory of coming to Taiyan, so she said softly, "Jiaojiao, I'm Fu Chuan."
Yu Jiao turned around in shock and looked at Cheng Ying in disbelief. Her face was tense: "Who do you say you are?"
Cheng Ying smiled, and seeing her behavior, she concluded that she was missing the memory of Tai Yan and only remembered things from her previous life.
His voice became a little warmer: "Jiaojiao, I'm Fu Chuan."
Yu Jiao still looked defensive: "How can you prove it?"
Cheng Ying slowly spoke of many things that had happened in the past, mentioning every tree and blade of grass on the Qinling Mountains, and witnessed the expression on Yu Jiao's face change from alert to tears in her eyes.
"Brother, is it really you?" Yu Jiao's eyes were red and her voice was choked with sobs, "Am I dreaming? Are you still alive? How did you become like this? Where is this place? Why is everything so antique?"
Cheng Ying took out a handkerchief from her sleeve and gently wiped away the tears from her cheeks. She said in a warm voice, "It's a long story. We are now in a dynasty called Taiyan..."
He spoke softly and slowly, saying that after his death he came to Taiyan for unknown reasons, and met a powerful sorcerer, who calculated that Yu Jiao's life in the modern era was about to end, so he asked the sorcerer to use a method to make Yu Jiao reborn into this dynasty.
Yu Jiao listened quietly and sighed: "There are such mysterious things in this world. Where should we go now?"
"Let's go to Jiaxing." Cheng Ying held her hand, looking embarrassed. "I have offended the new emperor, so I have no choice but to take you to flee to the sea."
"How could senior brother offend the new emperor?" Yu Jiao looked surprised.
Cheng Ying slowly talked about how after he traveled to Taiyan, he was already a young eunuch who had been castrated. In order to protect himself and survive in the palace, he worked for Emperor Mingzheng Zhu Kuang and climbed up step by step to the position of the Chief of the Imperial Household Department. Now that the new emperor has ascended the throne, he wants to get rid of this corrupt eunuch as soon as possible.
"Jiaojiao, are you willing to go to the sea with me?" Cheng Ying looked at Yu Jiao, not wanting to miss any of her expression.
Yu Jiao thought for a moment and asked, "I will go wherever Senior Brother goes, but it's such a vast ocean, where can we find a foothold?"
Cheng Ying was relieved, a smile appeared on the corner of his lips, and he took Yu Jiao's hand and said, "I have arranged it. Pirates are rampant in Zhouhai. There are three main forces. The largest one is called the Hosokawa Pirates. They occupy Nanwan Island. Their leader Song Su and I are old acquaintances. Our trip to the sea is to Nanwan Island."
"Pirates?" Yu Jiao frowned slightly, somewhat resistant. "Pirates are extremely vicious people who rob and kill people everywhere. How could Senior Brother deal with pirates?"
It is human nature to have a dislike for pirates. Cheng Ying explained: "The court has a maritime ban. Most of those pirates were ordinary people living in coastal fishing villages. As the saying goes, if you live by the mountain, you can eat by the mountain. If you live by the water, you can eat by the water. If you can't make a living, they won't go to the sea to become pirates."
"The pirates of Hosokawa's group don't often go ashore to harass the people. They mainly engage in maritime trade, bringing back gems, volcanic lakes, ivory, spices, medicinal herbs and other things from Java and Dora, then going ashore and pretending to be merchants to sell them to Taiyan. The profits from this are beyond the imagination of ordinary people. If they only rely on robbing the people in the fishing villages, it will be difficult to support the operation of the fleet."
"How could Senior Brother know so much?" Yu Jiao guessed, "Could it be that Senior Brother is the real boss behind the Hosokawa Pirates?"
Cheng Ying knew that she was smart, and he said so much just to reassure Yu Jiao. When she guessed it, she nodded with a smile.
He comforted Yu Jiao and said, "Nanwan Island is a piece of land in the sea. Although it is not as prosperous as the inland, there are mountains and forests on the island. The scenery is very nice. It is usually calm. Hosokawa's people live there with their families. They don't kill and fight all day long. However, they occasionally go to war with the other two pirate forces. After all, on the sea, the law of the jungle speaks, and whoever has the strongest fist is the boss. Money can move people's hearts, and killing and robbing are not uncommon. However, Hosokawa has muskets in his hands and cannons on the ship. The two pirate gangs dare not offend Hosokawa easily."
Yu Jiao nodded, and the other hand hidden in her sleeve that was not held by Cheng Ying was slightly curled up.
"Senior brother, how far are we from Jiaxing?" she asked.
"It's still two days' journey." Cheng Ying said.
Yu Jiao was silent for a while, then blushed and said, "Brother, can we find a place to stop for a while? I want to go to the bathroom."
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