Chen Qiu did not ask the driver to stop, "Go straight out of the city"
Then the driver shouted "Gee!"
"for……"
"Don't ask me why. I don't know why myself. I just did it because I wanted to." Chen Qiu knew what Gu Ruojin was going to ask and interrupted her. Chen Qiu was speaking from her heart. After the idea of saving Gu Ruojin came into her mind, she did not hesitate for a moment. She did not dare to stop along the way. She was afraid that if she stopped, she would not want to go anymore.
Gu Ruojin didn't say anything else. Chen Qiu took out a cloak from a corner of the carriage and threw it to Gu Ruojin. "This is what I usually use to protect my legs in the carriage. If you don't mind, put it on. It's very cold outside."
Gu Ruojin put on the cloak, smiled and shook his head, "Who am I to despise now?"
Chen Qiu took out a purse from his sleeve pocket and handed it to Gu Ruojin. "Here are 1,000 taels of silver notes and some loose silver. No matter where you go, this 1,000 taels will be enough for you to use for a while."
"You probably won't be able to come back to Kyoto in the future. If you still want to go back to the Chen family, then you will probably have to stay there and never come out again. It's up to you to decide. After we leave the city, the carriage will be left for you. It's up to you to decide whether to leave or stay."
"Thank you. I didn't expect that you would be the one to save me in the end." Gu Ruojin looked at the purse in her hand. She didn't know how to describe her current mood.
She had a crush on Ye Chen, and she felt uncomfortable when she knew that Ye Chen was going to get married, but she also knew in her heart that from the day she got married, she and Ye Chen would never have any relationship anymore.
At that time, I had selfishly wondered whether Ye Chen could keep his heart for me and not fall in love with his wife.
At that time, she was jealous of Chen Qiu. When she later learned that Ye Chen fell in love with Chen Qiu, she even felt a little hatred.
But later she felt that she was really ridiculous and pathetic. Later she tried hard to get along with Chen Qingyun, from the initial mutual respect to the present Chen Qingyun cleaning the backyard for her.
"Madam, could you please do me another favor?" Gu Ruojin suddenly spoke to Chen Qiu.
"you say"
"I want to see Chen Qingyun again. After seeing him, I will decide whether to stay or go." Gu Ruojin thought of the man who was fifteen years older than her. He was domineering and unreasonable but he loved her and spoiled her very much. She had to see him no matter what.
"Okay, I'll take the message to the pavilion ten miles away. How long will you wait?" Chen Qiu agreed directly.
"If he doesn't come by the end of the afternoon, I won't wait any longer." Gu Ruojin wanted to look outside, so she reached out to the curtain of the small window and then retracted her hand.
"good"
"Madam, we're leaving the city." The coachman's voice came in.
"I'll get off first. You drive to Changting by yourself. I will definitely convey the message." Chen Qiu got off the carriage after saying this.
"lady"
"Well, anything else?"
"Thank you, ma'am, for saving my life." Gu Ruojin bowed to Chen Qiu. Because they were in the carriage, the action looked a little strange, but it was still clear that Gu Ruojin knelt down on one leg.
"Okay, I accept it." Chen Qiu nodded, indicating that she accepted Gu Ruojin's thanks.
Gu Ruojin drove the carriage to the pavilion ten miles away. Chen Qiu walked to the city gate and showed the Tianzi token he had to the soldiers guarding the city, and successfully requisitioned a horse.
Chen Qiu first rode to the palace gate and asked the guards, "Has the court been dismissed? I wonder if Master Chen has come out yet?"
"The court has been dismissed. There was a fire in the Ministry of Justice's Sky Prison. Lord Chen has gone there." An imperial guard came over and bowed to Chen Qiu, reporting her question.
"Thank you." Then Chen Qiu rode his horse back towards the Heavenly Prison.
As soon as he walked over, he saw Chen Qingyun kneeling in front of the prison door. Fire was spewing out of the door from time to time. Chen Qingyun knelt there, looking at the prison door that was emitting thick smoke, as if it had no life.
What happened last night should have been known to the adults when they attended court today. It wasn't just Chen Qingyun's family that was imprisoned here, but now he was the only one here. Those adults probably hadn't come before, fearing that the people inside would be implicated. This fire might have been exactly what they wanted.
Chen Qiu walked behind Chen Qingyun and said, "Master Chen, there is no need to be like this. The person you want to see is waiting for you. She will wait until the end of the afternoon at the Ten-Li Pavilion outside the South City Gate."
Chen Qingyun slowly turned his head and looked at Chen Qiu, "Is it her?"
"It's her. I'm just here to pass on the message for her. What happens afterwards has nothing to do with me." After saying that, Chen Qiu didn't ride his horse, but walked towards the palace by himself.
The Heavenly Prison was actually not close to the imperial palace, so she left the horse to Chen Qingyun.
Chen Qiu was walking alone on the way to the palace. She suddenly missed Ye Chen very much and wanted to see him right now. Chen Qiu's pace became faster and faster, and later she just ran. Finally, she felt that running was too slow, so she just used light skills.
Chen Qiu shuttled directly across the rooftops and ran towards the palace.
When she arrived at the gate of the palace, she showed the token in her hand and went straight into the palace. When she arrived at Xihe Palace, Ye Chen was at the gate of the palace, wearing the cloak she had given him before, smiling at her as she ran towards her.
Chen Qiu ran over and threw himself into Ye Chen's arms, "Are you back? Have you finished what you wanted to do?"
"Well, we're done, let's go home!" Chen Qiu's face was pressed against Ye Chen's chest. Ye Chen was tall, and when Chen Qiu hugged him like this, his head could only reach Ye Chen's chin.
"Okay, let's go home. From today on, it's a new year." Ye Chen hugged Shen Qiu tightly and rubbed his chin on the top of Shen Qiu's head.
The days passed one by one. Chen Qiu did not ask what Chen Qingyun and Gu Ruojin finally decided. He just assumed that Gu Ruojin had died in the fire.
After Ye Chen came out of the palace that day, he wrote a letter to the Northwest and sent it together with Chen Qiu's letter from home to the Northwest by express delivery over 800 miles.
The map that Xiao Mu brought back clearly marked that there was a Luojia Village in the Qishan Snowfield. Ye Chen thought of his brother-in-law. If he could wipe out the Luojia Village's nest in the northwest, the border would probably be more stable.
The people of Luojiazhuang really do everything they can. This map clearly lists the evidence that Luojiazhuang is trading with the Tatars in the northwest. Chen Qiu's family is there, and Qi County is the gateway to Dayin in the northwest. If something goes wrong there, not only Qi County will be in danger, but the entire northwest will be in danger.
Before the Lantern Festival, Lu Chenyuan sent people from Wuzhou. He used his silver-armored army to deliver the treasures from Fuze Cave in Langya Mountain of Wuzhou and the treasures collected from Luojiazhuang to Kyoto.
There were fifty horse-drawn carriages in total. The ones coming were Jixiang and Jiang Hua. These two people were acquaintances of Ye Chen and the others, so it would be more convenient for them to come and take over.
They brought a letter from Lu Chenyuan. Lu Chenyuan was very quick. In just one month, he had already dug up all the Luojia Village in his jurisdiction.
The Luojiazhuang incident caused bloodshed throughout the Great Yin Kingdom because the imperial court acted too quickly, and the people of Luojiazhuang were confident. They felt that they were dispersed and hidden enough, and the imperial court could not weaken their power so quickly.
But they didn't know that the hatred they had formed before had exposed them all to the sun, and Ye Chen didn't have to spend much effort to grasp all their locations.
After New Year's Eve, Ye Chen crossed out the Luojia Village on the map one by one at lightning speed.
By the end of February, news from all over the country was reported to Kyoto. No one in the Luojiazhuang village shown in the map was spared. From then on, the power of the Luojiazhuang village was no longer a threat.
At the same time, people came from the northwest. They were Chen Qiu's sisters-in-law Hongling and Chunhong. Chunhong came this time and did not plan to leave, while Hongling did what Chen Qiu had done before.
However, after Hongling came to Kyoto, she bought enough things needed by the Northwest and returned directly, unlike Chen Qiu who came back with the task of honoring his parents.
"Sister-in-law, how are you guys? I haven't heard from you for a long time." Chen Qiu put his arm around Hong Ling's arm. The two knew each other before. Although they fought every year, as the saying goes, there is no acquaintance without fighting. They fought every year, and later they felt a sense of mutual understanding.
"Everything is fine. Grandpa and grandma are in good health. Dad and mom are doing well too. You don't have to worry."
"Well, I feel relieved that you are all well. Daddy and brother are guarding the border in the northwest, and my husband and I are taking care of you in Kyoto. When you have children in the future, you won't have to run around every year. I will prepare the things you need here and then have someone send them over." Chen Qiu knew the hard work in Qi County, but his sister-in-law and brother would have their own children one day, so he should worry about the shopping himself.
The two entered Qiuchen Courtyard, and Ye Chen happened to be there. Hongling took out a letter and handed it to Ye Chen, "This is a letter from your eldest brother. Let me hand it to you personally."
After Ye Chen took it, he opened the letter directly. The content of the letter was similar to what he had guessed. It was about Luojiazhuang in the snowy plains of Qishan in the northwest.
"Sister-in-law, my brother said in the letter that something happened during the siege of Luojia Village, but he didn't say in detail what it was. Do you know?" Ye Chen put down the letter and asked Hongling.
"Something happened? Is big brother injured?" When Chen Qiu heard that something happened, she thought that the only thing her brother could hide was his injury.
Hong Ling glanced at Ye Chen and then at Chen Qiu before saying, "Yes, your brother was slightly injured, but it's not serious. Don't worry, otherwise I wouldn't have left him behind and come back."
"Where are you hurt? What happened?"
"One arm is injured. The meridians in my left hand are injured and I have been numb ever since." Hongling's eyes turned red as she spoke.
"How could this happen?"
"After receiving the letter from my brother-in-law, my father and my husband began to make preparations. On the day of the siege of Luojiazhuang, someone leaked the news, and the people of Luojiazhuang knew the marching route of my husband and his men in advance.
"They set an ambush along the way, and my husband's group was forced into a snow ditch. They planned to bury them alive with an avalanche. Later, a pack of snow wolves rescued them, but during the fight, an arrow hit his left arm, injuring a meridian." Hongling recounted her understanding of the incident to Chen Qiu and the others.
"Oh, by the way, the pack of snow wolves that saved your elder brother was brought by the female wolf you rescued that time. I heard from your brother that the wolf had no fangs and half of it was hairless." Chen Qiu had almost forgotten that he had saved a female wolf. Its two wolf cubs should have grown up by now.
It is better to make some good connections. Good deeds will be rewarded and evil deeds will be punished, which is probably what it means.
"What did the doctor say? Can my brother's arm be saved? Has the news leaked out and been found out?" Chen Qiu didn't express much emotion and asked Hongling about her brother.
"We found out that there were people from Luojiazhuang in their team. They were the ones who leaked the news in advance, and later a snow wolf led them to Luojiazhuang. When they got there, Luojiazhuang had already been surrounded by snow wolves, so even though they got the news in advance, they still couldn't escape." Hongling was also impressed by the intelligence of those wolves. How did they know that those were the people Chen Yue was going to deal with?
"Why would the Luo Family Manor build their manor in the Qishan Snow Plain? It's sparsely populated there, and it's inconvenient to get in and out."
"Aren't all their manors built like this? They choose places where there are few people, and put some secret sentries outside. If anyone approaches, if it is a civilian, they will just kill them. The picture that Senior Xiao Mu gave me was made because they killed a girl and made a grudge. If they hadn't killed innocent people indiscriminately, that picture wouldn't exist, and I wouldn't have wiped out so many of their manors so easily. After this time, the vitality of Luojia Manor was damaged more than just a little bit, and they have no chance of survival." Ye Chen folded the letter in his hand and put it in.
However, Luojiazhuang is deeply rooted. Although almost all of their manors have been uprooted, what about those people with the White Plum Mark scattered all over the place?
There is still a person with superb lightness skills who has not been caught. Ye Chen will not be able to sleep well as long as this person is not dead. Her identity is obviously very important in Luojiazhuang.
This woman is a shrewd person and will resort to some despicable means. If she is not eliminated, others will be unable to sleep or eat.
Chunhong and Jixiang slept in the same room with Xing'er. It turned out that Xiaofu and Mingyue lived here with Xing'er.
"Xing'er, I heard from them that you are going to get married too?" Chunhong's personality makes it easy for her to get along with others. She has only been here for a short while but she has already become friends with some of the big guys in the yard, calling them sisters.
"Which girl doesn't want to get married?" Xing'er blushed when she was asked the sudden question. She was stunned for a moment before lowering her head and asking Chunhong back.
"As for me, no one said I have to get married. Even the law doesn't stipulate that girls must get married. I plan to be self-taught after I turn 25, and then be a head aunt under the lady. When I get old, I will be a nanny. As long as the Ye family does not fall, I will live more decently than most people outside." Chunhong said without restraint.
Xing'er and Jixiang quickly covered her mouth, "What do you mean the Ye family will not fall? How can you say that?"
"Isn't it enough that I say it won't fall? It's not like I don't say it will fall tomorrow?" Chunhong's words became more and more outrageous.
Xing'er rubbed Chunhong's temples with her fingers. "Whether it falls or not is not up to us to decide. The master is kind and generous to us, but we must remember our status. Not causing trouble for the master is our first duty, understand?"
"Also, this Kyoto city is different from the Northwest. If you step on three people, one will be a government employee. You should use your brain when speaking and doing things, otherwise you won't know how you died. Remember?" Xing'er taught Chunhong earnestly, just like when she returned to Kyoto from the Northwest every year in those years, she would start talking about Mingyue as soon as she left the Northwest. Chunhong and Mingyue had similar personalities, and she was afraid that she would get into trouble and lose her life here without knowing when.
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