Chapter 416 Kiss (3)
The staff was stunned for a moment, then bowed and agreed.
Fu Xiuyi looked away. Since the game had already begun and the battle for supremacy was just around the corner, recruiting more talented people in the shortest possible time was the most urgent task.
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Shen Xin left Beijing early the next morning.
It was early in the morning when he left the capital, before daybreak, and Chen Xin left on the sly. Firstly, he didn't want to embarrass his colleagues, with whom he had connections. If he had come to see him off, it would have been a blatant act of disobedience to Emperor Wenhui. The emperor's mood was fickle, and taking his anger out on them would be bad. Secondly, Xiaochun City was thousands of miles from Dingjing, so the sooner he left, the sooner he would arrive.
But even if we ride at full speed, it will take more than half a year to arrive.
Although Shen Xin had been taken over by the Shen Family Army, leaving only the front line, he still had a group of confidants in private. Together with Shen Qiu's men, Mo Qing, and Ah Zhi, he was not afraid of encountering any danger. The journey was quite good. Luo Xueyan and Shen Xin were initially worried that Shen Miao's body would not be able to withstand such a long journey, and that she would feel uncomfortable during the journey. Who knew that Shen Miao did not even cry out when she was tired. Even Shen Xin praised her repeatedly: "Jiao Jiao is worthy of being my daughter. Such a strong and tenacious heart, which daughter in Dingjing City can match her?"
Luo Xueyan rolled her eyes at him, but she felt even more guilty towards Shen Miao. This pampered girl had to endure so much hardship while traveling across mountains and rivers with him.
Jingzhe was tugging at the carriage curtain. As it was his first time traveling far away, he was rather surprised. He pointed at the birds in the sky, and then at the hares in the forest and exclaimed in surprise. Seeing Shen Miao's calm expression, he asked curiously, "Why don't you find it new, young lady? You can't see these things in the city."
Having said that, Gu Yu also knocked on Shen Miao’s face and asked tentatively: “Miss, it seems that you don’t have any nostalgia at all.”
Luo Xueyan, who was sitting in the carriage, was stunned.
Leaving the hometown where she had lived for over a decade to go to a place she had never heard of, Xiaochun City was certainly not as prosperous as Dingjing City, and being unfamiliar with the place, any young girl would express her attachment to her hometown and her reluctance to leave. However, Shen Miao remained calm from beginning to end, and sometimes even seemed a little cheerful.
Cheerful? Leaving home, what's there to be cheerful about?
Feeling Luo Xueyan's gaze, Shen Miao was slightly startled, then smiled, looked at the scenery passing by outside the carriage, and said: "My parents and elder brother are all by my side, what is there to miss? Even if I stay in Dingjing, without my relatives, it still doesn't feel like home, right?"
As soon as these words came out, Luo Xueyan felt a pang of pain in her heart. Thinking that this time she had come back and had clearly seen the ugly faces of the Shen family, they had thrown Shen Miao into that family for so many years, thinking that she had a good life. Now it seemed like a huge joke. Shen Miao probably had never considered those people as family, otherwise she would not have said such words.
Thinking of this, Luo Xueyan held Shen Miao in her arms and said guiltily: "That's right, Jiaojiao will be with your father, mother and big brother from now on. No one will dare to bully you."
Shen Miao snuggled in Luo Xueyan's arms, lowering her eyes to hide the hint of coldness in them.
Leaving her homeland, embarking on a lonely journey—how could this be her first time? In her previous life, when she was a hostage in Qin, she had traveled alone through mountains and rivers, everywhere. She had brought her trusted maid with her, and how many times had she suffered in a foreign land? The scenery back then was just like now, and though it was blurry now, I still remember the feeling of that moment clearly. From Dingjing to Qin, and back again, both roads were bleak and desolate. Pitifully, she thought she was doing justice, for the common people, but she had no idea how ridiculous and incompetent she looked in the eyes of everyone.
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