A Da lowered his head and accepted the order and went out. He had been investigating for two whole months but had not found a single thing about the lady. Now that he had finally found a little clue, his master was desperate and was trying every possible means.
To find out where Miss Xu, whom we had so finally escaped from, is, we have to look at the hilltop over 120 miles north of the capital.
The sun had just risen, and a small mound on the hilltop rose up, revealing a gray face. "Alas!" Before it saw any danger, it sighed. For the past two months, Xu Yixing's biggest regret every day was why he hadn't killed all the bandits in the world!
She rolled her eyes several times and didn't see anyone, so she got up from the pit where she was hiding, brushed off the dirt on her body, and limped down the mountain.
Just as I was halfway up the mountain, I heard a loud shout from behind: "Stop!"
Xu Yixing couldn't turn back, and hurriedly ran forward, fearing that a hard arrow would shoot her to death from behind. But before she could run two steps, the sound behind her turned into two crisp groans, followed by the sound of someone falling to the ground heavily, as if someone had been attacked and died.
Even if she cherished her life, she couldn't help but look back again at this moment, and then she stood still. "Are you Ying Wu?"
This "Oiran" in front of him, with a tall figure, delicate features and heavy makeup, didn't look like Ying Wu in any way, but Xu Yixing did recognize the steel knife in her hand that was as thin as a cicada's wing. It was made by the Shadow Guards, and among his Shadow Guards, only Ying Wu could disguise himself like this, right?
"Master, you have good eyes." Ying Wu put the knife in his arms, ignoring the two men whose necks had just been cut. Ying Wu walked over with a graceful step. Even Xu Yixing, a woman, felt dizzy at the sight of her waist and steps.
"Those two people are chasing you?"
"Yes, I'm sorry to have frightened the master." Ying Wu turned around and pointed at the two men. "They had already spotted you and were betting on whether you could escape from this mountain. I solved it for you."
Xu Yixing swallowed his saliva frantically. Oh my god, he thought he was flawless, but it turned out that he had been seen by the checkers a long time ago. He was afraid that those two people would attack him before he even stepped into the mountain road.
Ying Wu carefully looked at the person in front of him, his eyes lingering on her tattered clothes, and...
"This is not the place to talk. The two bodies will probably be found soon. Are you safe?" Xu Yixing interrupted him, his tone almost pleading.
"Walk."
The place that Ying Wu brought Xu Yixing to was something she had never imagined in her entire life.
"Cuihongyuan?" Xu Yixing sat in Yingwu's room, still in disbelief. "I say, wasn't the money I gave you enough? You've only been away from me for two months, and you're already selling your body?"
Ying Wu smiled sweetly and suddenly changed her voice to a female one: "Miss, you're joking. I'm not short of money, but I'm very anxious because I can't find you~"
"Stop, give me something to eat first." Xu Yixing was afraid that when he got nauseous and vomited, he would have no food and could only vomit acid, which would be too pitiful.
"Everything is ready. There is a bathtub over there. Please clean up first and I will come back later." Ying Wu stood up and said goodbye, as if this place was very safe and posed no threat at all.
When Xu Yixing saw him leave, he had more to say and ask than a thousand words in his heart, but he was really hungry and dirty at the moment, so he decided to wait until everything was packed up before he called out to Ying Wu. Sure enough, he came in, still dressed as a woman.
"I ask, you answer. How are the others?"
"I'm not sure. After we separated in the capital, everyone went on the sealing mission and we haven't been in touch since."
"What is the seal?"
Ying Wu's eyes flickered slightly as he recounted the events of that day one by one.
After he returned to the palace after retrieving the account books, he immediately realized that the person lying on the bed was not Xu Yixing, and Ying Jiu was also missing. He immediately understood that his master must have escaped as he had said before. It must have been an emergency, for his master to have taken Ying Jiu with him first.
So she immediately took her things and left. She originally wanted to go to the palace to find Ying San who was in charge of watching Chao Jianyi, but she didn't expect to meet Ying Jiu outside the palace first. After the two of them got to know each other, she realized that something bad had happened. It turned out that the exile her master was talking about was about her being alone on the run?
Hey, this is too disloyal!
The two of them just had a brief discussion and immediately decided to let Yingwu leave before the city was sealed, while Yingjiu would wait here for Yingsan and tell him about the Shadow Guard's plan to seal the city completely.
"The so-called seclusion means that when a Shadow Guard is unable to continue due to a major incident, they temporarily lie dormant, waiting for the right time to become active again."
"I see." Xu Yixing smiled approvingly. She had indeed moved the person far away when she left, but she hadn't expected the Shadow Guard to have their own way of survival. She thought she didn't need to worry about it. "But since it's sealed, why did you come to me?"
Ying Wu smiled, but there was a hint of inexplicable resentment in his eyes, which should not be displayed in front of Xu Yixing. However, after he finished explaining, Xu Yixing understood why he looked at him that way.
"The master left in a hurry, probably because he didn't want to take us with him as a burden..."
Before he could continue, Xu Yixing quickly explained, "I don't think you're a burden. I'm just worried that if we go together, our reputation will be too big. And I'm afraid I'll get you into trouble if I go alone."
"Yes," Ying Wu nodded slightly, having already guessed at this reason. "It's just that my master, you're giving the outside world a rosy view. You're a woman, carrying a large sum of money and looking delicate, and without any guards. You're clearly a 'hostage'. I'm afraid you won't be in danger before you get too far from the capital."
Xu Yixing's face flushed slightly. She had indeed considered the safety issue before leaving Beijing, but she was confident that she had some fighting skills, and she brought so many banknotes that she could find a good person even if she hired someone temporarily. Who knew she would be careless.
That day, under the urging of her "large sum of money", the coachman whipped the horses faster, shortening the journey of more than a day to one night. In order to conceal her tracks, she did not get off the coach at the agreed Xiaoxi Town, but left at a small village before it. She let the coachman drive the empty coach to the destination, while she herself went to the mountains to hide for a while.
Unfortunately, when they were resting at a house in the mountains, they encountered bandits coming down the mountain to rob them. They actually tied up all the people in the small village and took them up the mountain. It was called a village, but in fact it was just a few mountain households gathered together, with a total of only about twenty people including adults and children.
As a "fish in the pond", Xu Yixing was very pitiful and was tied up and taken to the mountain. After going up, he found out that this group of bandits were not originally on the mountain. Because the soldiers destroyed their original nest during the suppression of the bandits, they brought some of the remaining people to move here.
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