Chapter 233 Li Changyi is really annoying.
No one expected such a turn of events. Although the accompanying guards reacted very quickly, Magistrate Liang was still stabbed twice.
The village women had their arms and legs broken by the guards and were left by the roadside. They were all stabbed and bleeding profusely.
It was Gao Qi, an attendant of Magistrate Liang, who chased after them and stabbed them out of anger. If the guards hadn't wanted to avoid causing any deaths, Gao Qi would have killed those village women on the spot.
Lord Liang himself was struggling to make ends meet, and he had to haggle with Doctor Zhou for ages over the one tael of silver to hire a tutor. Who would have thought that these tenants he had been helping for so many years would turn out to be such ingrates!
"Your Highness! I beg you, please do justice for my master! I beg you!"
Gao Qi knelt down and kowtowed repeatedly, while Li Changyi remained silent with a gloomy face. No one knew what he was thinking, and the perpetrators had already fainted from fright.
The reason they took action was twofold: firstly, they saw that Lord Liang was soft-hearted and only had a few people around him. They thought that if they killed Lord Liang, they could kill the others without anyone noticing. Who knew that there were so many guards behind him? They also did not expect that among the people they wanted to kill was a prince of the imperial court!
They're dead, everyone in the village is dead!
Magistrate Liang's knife wound was quite deep, but fortunately Zhou Mujiao was well-equipped and quickly treated it. Turning her head, she saw Gao Qi still kneeling on the ground. Zhou Mujiao pursed her lips and said, "Gao Qi, come here."
After giving the prescription and explaining some precautions, Zhou Mujiao had someone send Magistrate Liang and his servant back to the city.
This Thirteen Mile Bridge was not a place to stay for long, so Zhou Mujiao immediately left the village. Li Changyi instructed his men to handle the remaining affairs at Thirteen Mile Bridge, and then followed Zhou Mujiao out of the village.
"Gillian! Gillian, wait for me!"
In front of Zhou Mujiao, Li Changyi no longer addressed himself as "King" or "Prince". However, compared to before, Li Changyi had changed and become shameless. He was already engaged, and it was really improper for him to pursue Zhou Mujiao, a married woman, like this!
"Ah Jiao, you may not know this, but Miss Meng and I have already made a three-point agreement. Once the Meng family has regained its footing in the capital, we will dissolve the engagement."
"Although I have no interest in that position, as a prince who has just been recognized by his ancestors and has such a close relationship with Zhao Yunjing and you, I think I still need some help to gain a foothold in the capital."
Li Changyi walked up to Zhou Mujiao, blocking her path: "Ajiao, Miss Meng and I will not marry, you shouldn't—"
“Your Highness, I have been married for a long time. If it weren’t for this grain promotion mission, I would be about to give birth by now. Not to mention that I only have Zhao Yunjing in my heart and will not look at anyone else, even if our marriage was arranged by our parents and we were a couple who had never met before, now that I am married, I should be loyal to my husband.”
Zhou Mujiao decided to be blunt: "Even if I'm persuaded by you now and betray Zhao Yunjing to follow you, can you guarantee that when someone with a higher status, appearance, and character than you appears, I won't be persuaded by them?"
"So, Ah Jiao thinks my status isn't high enough. That's easy." Li Changyi gave a strange smile. "I will definitely live up to your expectations, Ah Jiao, and I will make you follow me wholeheartedly."
Zhou Mujiao trotted along and soon reached the village entrance. She leaped onto her horse, clasped her hands in a fist salute to Li Changyi, and said, "Your Highness, farewell!"
After riding for a while, the guard told her that Li Changyi was still trailing behind, which annoyed Zhou Mujiao.
"Miss, why don't we use the emergency exit?" the guard suggested.
Emergency exits are used in extremely urgent situations; what kind of emergency is this?
Zhou Mujiao shook her head and ordered the team to speed up. They barely stopped along the way and finally managed to leave Li Changyi behind two days later.
However, Li Changyi's destination is also Nanjiang City, so they will meet again. But since they don't have to face him along the way, all the travel will be worthwhile.
Three miles outside the city of Nanjiang, a slender man stood. The wind tousled his hair, and sand blurred his vision, yet he remained gazing intently at the other side of the road, unblinking, as if afraid of missing something.
“Brother Zhao, Sister Ajiao said she wouldn’t enter the city until after noon. You arrived before dawn and have been waiting for more than an hour. Why don’t we go back to the city to rest for a while before coming back?” Hu Peiran suggested.
It wasn't that he didn't want to wait for Zhou Mujiao here, but Zhao Yunjing's health condition didn't allow it.
After quelling the rebellion of Jiang and his son An, Zhao Yunjing devoted himself to his work, helping disaster victims with post-disaster reconstruction and rushing to plant crops. Because the new magistrate had not yet arrived, he also had to temporarily manage the affairs of various departments in Nanjiang City. Although most of the affairs were distributed, the accumulated tasks almost filled up his time. In a day of twelve hours, if he could rest for two hours in a row, it felt like stolen time.
However, Zhao Yunjing liked this sense of fulfillment. The more things to do, the more it proved that the work was progressing. The progress of the work proved that their promotion work was effective, which meant that they were getting closer and closer to the goal of their trip. He wished he could wake up one day and harvest the harvest, so that he could inspect the results of their work.
After Hu Peiran finished comforting him, He Jiu also tried to persuade him. Zhao Yunjing then waved his hand and replied, "I'm fine. Ajiao will definitely arrive ahead of time. If you're worried, you can wait with me a little longer."
The two were naturally worried. Zhao Yunjing had only gone to bed late last night and got up again before dawn. He first went for a walk in the fields and then came here to wait before daybreak. They didn't object to him waiting, but he could at least sit down and relax for a while.
He stood there for over an hour without moving an inch. If Zhou Mujiao had missed her appointed time and hadn't arrived by noon, wouldn't he have turned into a statue waiting for her husband?
Just as He Jiu finished his internal monologue, the sound of clattering hooves echoed from the other end of the official road. Everyone turned to look in that direction, and Zhao Yunjing even took a few steps to the side of the road, his face beaming with smiles.
“Brother Zhao, this might not be Sister Ajiao…” Hu Peiran quietly helped her up.
“It’s her, there can’t be anyone else.” Zhao Yunjing’s handsome face relaxed. “I knew it had to be her.”
The sound of hooves grew closer, and soon the figure on horseback appeared. It was vaguely discernible that it was a woman, followed by a small caravan. Wherever the caravan went, dust filled the air. One moment the figure on horseback was visible, and the next moment it was obscured by the yellow sand.
"Whoa—"
With a sharp shout, the horse team arrived. Hu Peiran and He Jiu raised their hands to rub their eyes, and Zhao Yunjing went to greet them: "Ah Jiao."
"Didn't you say you wouldn't arrive until noon? Why are you out here?"
"My intuition told me you would come early, so I came." Zhao Yunjing smiled and extended his hand.
Zhou Mujiao jumped off her horse and took the hand that Zhao Yunjing offered. She noticed that he had lost weight again, and she felt a surge of anger, but even more so, heartache.
Her husband is a true man who stands tall and upright for the country and its people, and she is proud of him!
As the group entered the city, they encountered many ordinary people along the way. The people were busy and didn't have time to pay much attention to the commotion of the caravan. However, compared to before Zhou Mujiao returned to the capital, the people's faces showed smiles and hope.
However, it is clear that Zhou Mujiao was still too optimistic, as the situation in Nanjiang City is still quite bad.
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