Chapter 3440 If that's the case, it would be great
When Nan Yan heard this, her brows furrowed.
"What are you avoiding?"
Xie Jiaojiao seemed to regret her slip of the tongue. She immediately put her hand to her mouth, then stood up awkwardly and saluted, saying, "Your Majesty, please forgive me for speaking nonsense. I hope you will not blame me."
Nan Yan looked at her with a frown, while Xie Jiaojiao kept her head down, obviously not intending to say anything more.
Nan Yan was silent for a moment, then said, "Well, it's been over ten years since I last came here, and I want to see what changes have taken place in Yongzhou. It would be nice to revisit my old place."
Xie Jiaojiao raised her head and smiled.
But Ruoshui beside her immediately said, "Your Majesty, this—without the Emperor's order, Your Majesty is afraid it will not be easy for you to leave."
Nan Yan thought for a moment and said, "Let De Lu ask Xiao Shunzi."
Delu went out and came back after a while.
He smiled and said, "The Emperor left a message before he left. If Your Majesty is bored staying in the South Courtyard, you can follow him. There are carriages and horses left at the palace. The Emperor won't be back before dinner."
When Nan Yan heard this, she smiled and said, "It would have been better if you had said no earlier."
It seems that Zhu Feng also knew that she was not the kind of person who could stay still, and was afraid that she would be bored staying alone in the South Courtyard, so he left these words.
Ruoshui, who was listening from the side, also laughed and said, "It seems that the Emperor cares about the Empress."
Nan Yan pretended to hit her.
Xie Jiaojiao, who was sitting opposite, saw Nan Yan's satisfied and happy smile, and suddenly felt as if her heart was pricked by a needle. Her eyes felt slightly hot, and she could only lower her head to hide it.
Nan Yan had already stood up with a smile and said, "Madam Li, then please accompany me to see the scenery."
Xie Jiaojiao immediately said, "Yes."
At the imperial concubine's command, carriages and horses were immediately prepared outside. Nan Yan took Xie Jiaojiao, and in addition to the palace maids and eunuchs who followed them, there was naturally a team of Jinyiwei accompanying them, and they left the South Courtyard together.
The city of Yongzhou is actually more lively than it was back then.
Even if she sat in the carriage and didn't look outside, Nan Yan could still hear the hustle and bustle of traffic and people coming and going on the street, with all kinds of accents from all over the world. When the wind blew up a corner of the curtain, she even saw a few blondes with heterochromia, obviously merchants from the Western Regions, walking on the street and talking business.
The busiest business on this street is naturally the raw silk and brocade business.
Yan State exchanged grain for raw silk from Yue State. The grain was cheap, so the raw silk was also cheap. Some silk merchants simply opened weaving workshops in Yongzhou. The silk brocade produced was naturally cheaper than that in the Central Plains. Therefore, some merchants from the Western Regions came here directly to do business. In this way, a piece of brocade sold to the Western Regions could make dozens or even hundreds of times the profit.
When the carriage passed through a wide street, Nan Yan suddenly remembered something. She sat up, lifted a corner of the curtain and looked outside.
At this moment, Xie Jiaojiao's smiling voice rang in my ears.
"Has the queen been here?"
Nan Yan looked back at her, then looked outside, then said softly, "Of course. It's just that more than ten years have passed, and this place has become almost unrecognizable."
This spacious street is considered the north-south dividing line of Yongzhou City.
After crossing this street, South City is in front.
That year, she followed Zhu Feng on a tour of Yongzhou. The north city was prosperous, but the south city was in ruins. This was because Prince Jing Zhu Yan was secretly colluding with the State of Yue. Both sides fabricated military exploits to obtain rewards from the court. But the unlucky people living in the south city had to suffer from the burning, killing and looting by the Yue people from time to time. Some people even had to flee their registered residence and flee to the State of Yue to make a living.
Today, it has completely changed.
Hearing Nan Yan say this, Xie Jiaojiao was silent for a while, then smiled faintly and said, "There are always some things that will never change."
Nan Yan turned around and looked at her again.
Their carriage continued to move forward. Yongzhou City was not very big. After traveling for more than half an hour, they were out of the city gate. Outside the city, there were still green trees and shades. There was no trace of the bleak or even desolate appearance that should have been in winter. The sun shone directly on the carriage, and the two men even sweated slightly.
Seeing her like this, Xie Jiaojiao said, "My Lady, do you want to stop and rest for a while?"
Nan Yan was also a little hesitant. She was really bored after sitting in the carriage for half a day. It would be nice to get out and get some fresh air.
But this is outside the city after all, so it’s not a good idea to just stop and rest.
So they were about to shake their heads to refuse, when suddenly the carriage hit something and shook violently. The two men were swung and fell onto the carriage floor.
The people outside were so scared that they shouted, "Be careful!"
"Is the queen okay?"
"What's going on?!"
Nan Yan calmed down a bit, then immediately looked up and asked, "What's going on?"
Ruoshui immediately came over and said, "Madam, the wheel hit a rock on the ground and broke."
"What?"
When Nan Yan heard this, she frowned and walked out. She saw that the wheel was indeed cracked. She couldn't help but said with a sullen face, "How could this happen?"
The driver was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and kowtowed for mercy.
Seeing him like this, Nan Yan sighed. Ultimately, this incident wasn't his fault. Who could have imagined that there would be a rock on the road that would just happen to break the wheel? The Jinyiwei following behind immediately came up to investigate, took another look at the wheel, and then said, "Your Majesty, please forgive me. Please, Your Majesty and Madam Li, please rest by the roadside. We will repair the carriage immediately."
Nan Yan asked, "How long will it take?"
Jinyiwei said: "It will only take a moment."
Nan Yan sighed and said, "Hurry up."
After all, she was a noble concubine, and it was really inappropriate for her to stop on the roadside "for people to see". The Jinyiwei and the guards following the carriage did not dare to neglect it. They immediately untied the carriage, pushed it aside, and began to repair the wheel.
On the other side, the accompanying palace maids and eunuchs found a lush green meadow on the side of the road, asked the guards to use sharp knives to cut the weeds flat, quickly set up a low table, spread a mat on the ground, and then invited the imperial concubine and Madam Li to sit over and rest.
Nan Yan walked over, took a look, but did not sit down.
After being stuck in the carriage for quite some time, she finally had the chance to get out and walk around, so naturally she didn't want to sit there any longer.
Then he took two steps to the side with his hands behind his back and said, "How far is it from here to the military camp?"
Xie Jiaojiao said, "It's not far away."
Nan Yan glanced at her and asked, "Do you come here often?"
Xie Jiaojiao said, "Yes."
Nan Yan was a little surprised. She glanced at Xie Jiaojiao and said with a smile, "Then you two must have a really good relationship. Otherwise, Master Li wouldn't bring you here so often."
“…”
Hearing this, Xie Jiaojiao's expression changed slightly.
After a moment of silence, she looked dazed and said slowly in a voice as thin as a mosquito's hum: "If that's the case, that's all right."
Nan Yan didn't hear clearly and asked, "What did you say?"
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