"girl---"
Lu Qingfeng, who had been guarding the strict separation between men and women, sat at the entrance of the cave for half the night. When he heard Qin Sheng wake up, he quickly asked from outside, "Is there anything wrong?"
"fine……"
Qin Sheng remembered that the horse had run too fast last night, and the jolting was too much for her, so she fainted.
She looked down at the clothes she was wearing.
There were several dried bloodstains on his sleeves, from when the horse ran too fast after entering the dense forest last night and got scratched by the branches on both sides.
The wound on her arm must have been given a quick treatment by Lü Qingfeng, but it was still burning with pain.
“Lü Qingfeng…”
Qin Sheng tried several times but couldn't stand up, so she had no choice but to ask Lü Qingfeng for help.
"Excuse me," Lü Qingfeng said, then bent down to come in, picked the person up, and carried them out.
There was a steep slope outside, and Lü Qingfeng carried her down it.
The horse that was tied to a tree about the size of a bowl last night is now grazing.
Lü Qingfeng placed Qin Sheng on the horse.
He led the horse forward, and Qin Sheng asked, "Are we going back?" She was worried that those people from last night might be lying in wait.
"I will escort the young lady back to Ningzhou directly," Lü Qingfeng replied.
As long as she's not around, those people shouldn't bother anyone else; that was confirmed last night.
Qin Sheng thought for a moment, nodded, and hummed in agreement.
“Lü Qingfeng…” Qin Sheng hesitated for a moment, then asked, “You heard them talking last night, didn’t you? They weren’t speaking the official language of Da Xiang, it was…”
"It's the Western Rong language," Lü Qingfeng said calmly.
"..."
Qin Sheng was somewhat surprised, "Can you hear the Western Rong language?"
"I know a little. Last night, those people said, 'If we can't capture Qin Yu's sister, we won't be able to explain ourselves to the general.'"
As he spoke, Lü Qingfeng turned and glanced at her: "They seem to be trying to use you to threaten your brother."
Qin Sheng closed her eyes; her face and lips were pale.
Western Rong people...
The Great Xiang is currently at war with the Western Rong. Those Western Rong people probably want to capture her and take her to the front line of Crescent Moon City.
But how did they know she was in Ningzhou?
The Western Rong people could not possibly be so powerful.
Qin Sheng pondered for a while, and the more he thought about it, the paler his face became, unless... there were spies from the Western Rong people in the capital.
Who could it be?
It was no secret that she left the capital that day, and it was even less of a secret that she came to Ningzhou; anyone could find out with a little inquiry.
Qin Sheng felt a little cold, and she called out, "Lü Qingfeng..."
After a pause, Qin Sheng said, "Will they not give up until they catch me? What if they..."
"Won't."
Lu Qingfeng turned to look at him: "Judging from their tone last night, this is their last chance. They should already be on their way to Crescent Moon City."
"..."
Qin Sheng looked at him strangely: "You can understand the Western Rong language?"
Last night, she only heard them chattering away, but she couldn't guess what language they were speaking.
"I know a little about it."
Lü Qingfeng had already turned his head and led his horse across a stream.
Qin Sheng stared thoughtfully at his retreating figure. She hadn't thought much about it before, but now it seemed... was Lü Qingfeng really just fulfilling his promise to be her bodyguard for those twenty taels of silver?
...
The following evening.
Because we took a side road, which was more difficult to travel, we rode horses all the way back to Ningzhou, and it wasn't too late when we got back.
Qin Sheng and Lü Qingfeng arrived at the mansion gate at almost the same time as Caiyue and the others.
"My lady!" Caiyue was trembling with fear the whole way back, her heart filled with worry.
Seeing Qin Sheng get off her horse unharmed, he couldn't help but tear up and immediately ran towards her.
"I'm fine." Qin Sheng raised her hand and patted Caiyue's shoulder. "How about you? Is everyone alright?"
"It's nothing." Caiyue sniffed and said, "Those people broke in that night, but I don't know why they left."
Caiyue was terrified; she thought she was going to die.
After all, those people were carrying gleaming knives!
But then someone outside shouted something, and those people didn't even glance at her before retreating very quickly.
Caiyue hurriedly went out. Everyone had already been awakened, but Madam and Guard Lü were missing.
Steward Yu said that those people were after the lady, and that she should have gone back to Ningzhou with Guard Lü via a back path.
Caiyue was in a panic. She had been worried all the way back, fearing that something might happen to her wife.
Only when she saw Qin Sheng standing safely in front of her did she finally breathe a sigh of relief.
Everyone entered the mansion together.
Qin Sheng first went back to her own yard in the backyard, took a shower, changed her clothes, and ate some hot food.
Jade carefully applied medicine to all the scratches on her body.
While applying the ointment, she worriedly asked, "What if it leaves a scar?"
My wife has been pampered since childhood, with fair and delicate skin. If she were to have a scar, that would be truly...
"Let them stay."
Compared to this, Qin Sheng didn't care much. She asked Emerald to prepare writing materials, as she wanted to write a letter to her brother.
People from Crescent Moon City occasionally talk about the current situation of the battles between the Western Rong and the Great Xiang at the front.
I heard that this year, the Xirong region first experienced continuous torrential rains, which washed away farmland and crops, and then there was an insect plague, resulting in almost no harvest.
That's why they gathered their troops and wanted to head north to plunder Crescent Moon City and Kesai City of Da Xiang.
However, the garrison strength of these two cities deterred the Western Rong people from making any rash moves.
Furthermore, Qin Yu, a general from Daxiang known as the "Little God of War," led his troops to Crescent Moon City. After their initial victory, the morale of the Western Rong army was greatly diminished.
Now that the two armies are facing each other, the Western Rong army is merely putting up a brave fight.
With General Qin Yu guarding Crescent Moon City, those who returned from there all said that the Western Rong people would never be able to cross over.
Is that why those people wanted to kidnap her to threaten her brother?
But……
Qin Sheng felt a dull ache in her head, and many things were weighing on her mind, but she couldn't figure them out for the time being.
The letter to my brother was written quickly.
After sealing it, Qin Sheng had it delivered to Qin Yu in Crescent Moon City by fast horse.
It suddenly started raining outside. It was early summer, and although it was still a bit cool, there was more rain.
Fearing rainwater would splash in, Emerald quickly closed the window.
She turned her head and said, "My wife has rushed back all the way, we should be safe now. My wife should get some sleep and rest."
Qin Sheng shook her head; she couldn't sleep.
After thinking for a moment, she asked Jade to light the lamp, sat down at the table, picked up her pen and wrote a letter to Yue Rongheng, reminding him that there might be someone in the capital secretly colluding with the Western Rong people.
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