Wuhua City
On the same night, Pin Yue wiped the blood off the sword with his right hand, raised his eyes, and his dark eyes were sharp.
"Why."
A young man in red used his fan to deflect the incoming sword, his peach blossom eyes filled with helplessness: "That's enough, that's enough."
The sword was retracted, and the moon was like a hook.
"Have you thought it through? You're going to follow Ren Beixi and Gui Yao to the capital instead of riding in my carriage." Jiuchong chuckled softly, "Well, if you have a new move to learn, you won't abandon me. Little Moon, think about it again."
Pin Yue clutched her beloved sword. She had taken only one thing with her when she left the general's mansion: the sword Ren Zhong had used in his youth. It had been given to each of his two sons by General Ren Dingshan as a coming-of-age gift, but Ren Zhong had been born with a leg problem.
She was just about to sheath her sword when the red figure in front of her jumped behind her at some point.
While holding her breath, the feather fan turned into a dagger, and the blade lifted her hair. Pin Yue turned around and drew her sword, but was defeated and forced to the roots of a tree.
"That's enough!"
Pin Yue raised his eyes and locked onto the smile on Jiu Chong's lips. He turned his face to the side and said in a faint voice, "I don't want to go with you."
Jiuzhong's sword gently slashed across her neck, leaving a shallow blood mark: "You stabbed me with a sword, are you still angry?"
"Liar." She said in a depressed tone.
Several sky lanterns slowly rose from somewhere at the foot of the mountain, flying quite close to the cliff where the two of them were standing. Seeing this, he smiled widely.
"Why, you ran off to follow Gui Yao, and now you want to celebrate her birthday with her?" Jiuzhong's slender index finger touched Pinyue's thin lips. Seeing that she was obviously startled and looked away, he felt jealous. "Little Yueliang, your birthday gift is the first thing I'll do after leaving Chaochunlou."
Pin Yue pushed him away: "...I don't like it."
Finally, they stood together on the edge of the cliff. Jiuchong lowered his eyes and saw her thin clothes, and stopped fanning himself for no reason.
He said, “I’ve grown taller.”
"Yeah." Pin Yue liked to polish her sword when she had nothing to do. She was just an ordinary woman before she met Ren Zhong. After being chosen to enter the general's mansion, she thought this was her way out in life.
She saw the stone carvings on the scabbard.
This pause was noticed by Jiuchong.
It was a sleepless moonlit night, but the end of their reunion was like the gurgling of water under a cliff. Pinyue retracted his sword, and most of the candles at the foot of the mountain were extinguished. There was a sound of a sword ringing, and birds somewhere in Xiaohe Village were stimulated to cry out.
She saw the sleeves of Jiuchong's red dress waving.
"Leave."
Jiuchong just asked nonchalantly with a smile: "Don't you blame Guiyao? When you were in the general's mansion, your name was Guiyue, but when she came, you lost your name..."
"No."
"I got the name."
Back then, she was sent to the general's mansion because of the man in front of her. She thought she would be an ordinary maid, but she was ordered by the lady to serve the famous eldest son of the Ren family, Ren Zhong. From then on, she stood behind Ren Zhong and pushed his wheelchair under the changed name "Gui Yue".
She didn't know where the osmanthus came from. Ren Zhong said he loved osmanthus the most and took her to Shuxi Mountain to water the osmanthus trees he had planted.
Ren Zhong asked her original name.
She shook her head, swallowing the answer she had found in his study. She later considered changing the name many times: Qiong Yue, Bi Yue, Yin Yue, but in the end, she still couldn't match the words he wrote: "The waxing moon wanes, and the waning cannot equal poverty."
The girl drew her sword and ran away.
Jiuchong was left standing on the cliff edge, still waving his feather fan. He retrieved the lantern he had prepared from his bag, blew on the tinder, and then aimlessly let his long eyelashes droop as the flames fell onto the fireworks tube behind him.
Fireworks suddenly rose into the sky, and the footsteps of those walking in the dark at the foot of the mountain stopped.
"then."
A flat voice.
Jiuchong's eyes flashed, and he stretched out his arm and used the fan to catch the object thrown at him. Under the last firework, he could see the stone sculpture in his hand clearly.
Thinking that this was carved with the tools of a coroner, Jiuchong felt a little excited.
Turn around and think again.
He has probably killed more people than this knife.
"Sir, should we set off back to Beijing immediately?" the man in black in the woods asked with a bow.
Jiuzhong raised an eyebrow: "That's so boring."
So the next day, Gui Yao and Ren Beixi walked back to the hillside from the fork in the road of Xiaohe Village and reunited with the newly reorganized convoy.
She lay in the carriage, swinging her legs in light green bloomers back and forth behind her, her fingertips pointing to the list held down by her elbows.
The non-NPC accompanying personnel had changed from Li Cong to her aunt. She asked, why did her uncle almost cry last night? It really wasn't about her birthday, but because of the reluctant farewell to her aunt. Speaking of which, her aunt was going to the capital to visit her close friend, but she didn't know who it was. Gui Yao was a little curious.
The animals all stayed in Xianyu City.
Yesterday, she saw Momo, a big black dog, rolling around in a coquettish manner for a long time, but was ignored by Ren Beixi. She went over and took Ren Beixi's hand, and asked curiously, "Why did you bring Momo to Beijing? He seemed reluctant."
Ren Beixi was silent for a long time.
"Since you like it, I will follow you."
Judge Gui gave an order and asked the big black dog to carry the iron basin that he had used for a long time in Xiaohe Village and run back to the general's mansion from the foot of the mountain. Just then, he heard Xiaohui report that Mo Mo had returned to the mansion and was chasing Miaomiao around.
The red-bellied pheasant Aji was detained and recruited by his uncle and became a check-in attraction next to the lotus flowers in Xiaohe Village.
As for the shabby little carriage at the end of the team?
Gui Yao picked up the brush beside her and spun it flexibly in her hand, leaving no ink stains on the list. She jumped out of the carriage in three or two steps and saw Ren Beixi looking at her, a smile hidden in his thin lips.
Dinner was roasted wild birds eaten at the camp nearby.
Guiyao touched the marks on her face, which should have been washed away. She saw Jiuchong standing lightly not far away and tugged at Pinyue's sleeve. "Why is he here?"
Pinyue turned his face away, meaning that he didn't want to talk.
Seeing this, Gui Yao secretly asked, "Master Pinyue, do you know how old Jiuchong is this year and whether he is married?"
"You don't even call me sister now, and you want to get something for free?" Pinyue glared at her.
The little lotus in pink clothes was seen frantically biting the hot meat handed to her by someone. Her pretty eyes were quite moist. She muttered "Scream if you want." Just when she was about to exert force, Ren Beixi pinched the back of her neck and she ran away.
Gui Yao used the force to climb onto Ren Beixi's shoulders, forcing her slender waist to straighten. She leaned over and whispered in his ear, "It will take a few more days before we can enter the capital, General Ren."
Her answer was a big chicken drumstick.
Gui Yao's eyes lit up immediately: "Did you beat anyone else?"
Ren Beixi said "hmm", and then his cheek was touched gently. He raised his black eyes, grabbed Gui Yao's greasy hands, pulled them into his arms, and wiped them carefully with his handkerchief.
Guiyao: "Then how should I eat?"
She lowered her eyes and saw that the chicken leg she had just bitten was taken back and after a while, it was handed to her mouth again.
Now that it’s done, eat.
This kind of bonfire camping lasted for several days after leaving Xianyu City. On the last night, Guiyao finally got to eat hot pot as she wished, with simple ingredients and a hot spicy base.
So tempting.
She put the noodles in the bowl and breathed hard because of the spiciness.
Xiao Hui picked up several pieces of potatoes, chopped them into small pieces and mixed them with rice. While eating, he recommended this way of eating to people around him.
Don’t eat spicy food during the lean months.
She said casually: "You haven't finished telling me what happened yesterday."
I'm getting excited.
"I've been talking about this opportunity to star in 'The General's Order' all along, and it's finally coming to an end. I've followed the general for years, killing enemies and protecting him. Who would have thought that he'd just dumped me off to West Street after I returned to Xianyu City? And I have to play him!"
"I have to use drama as a cover while being an intelligence spy." Xiao Hui shrugged helplessly.
He glanced dejectedly at Jiuchong beside him.
Jiuchong snorted.
Gui Yao naturally thought of the various situations near the West Street theater and laughed so hard that she fell back. The system in her mind suddenly popped up and said with a helpless tone: "This is not acting, it's cosplay."
Gui Yao nodded with some doubt. In the distance, she heard Ren Beixi calling her name, so she turned around and waved exaggeratedly with her arms.
After Ren Beixi sat down, he picked up Guiyao's remaining bowl, scooped half a bowl of hot pot soup and drank it in one gulp.
I lowered my eyes and suddenly realized it.
Everything before my eyes seemed like a dream.
His subordinates who fought bravely were joking with those who were originally his enemies, and the woman that his brother couldn't let go of the most before his death was meticulously sharpening her knife. At some point, he could call these people... friends.
The sleeve was pulled.
His lover's eyes were bright as water, and she leaned close to his ear and whispered, "I never thought that I would have such a moment in my life, friends, a lover, and a clear goal."
"What goal?"
"The goal of entering Beijing!"
Before entering Beijing, you have to pass by another place.
"Wuhua City".
The convoy was allowed to pass through the city gate. Gui Yao curiously opened the curtains and looked outside. The streets here were a little more ancient than those in Xianyu City. Most of the merchants were selling flowers and plants. But the further they went in, the more they saw that many shops inside and outside had their doors closed.
Cross another stone bridge.
What caught my eye was a very long line that stretched as far as the eye could see from the bridgehead, yet it was quite neat and not messy.
While Gui Yao was still wondering why this happened, someone in the team suddenly shouted, "Food! There must be food in this team! Everyone, go grab it!"
Suddenly, Ren Beixi carried her back into the carriage, tied the curtains securely, and she fell to the ground. However, she did not hear any shouting about grabbing food.
There was no noise, banging, or arguing.
Instead, it seems even weirder.
Gui Yao hurriedly followed Ren Beixi out of the carriage, only to see the group of people who had been queuing up to receive food kneeling on the ground.
Her eyes met Ren Beixi's silent eyes. The man held the scabbard tightly from beginning to end and had no intention of drawing the sword.
In the distance, a man resembling a scholar approached, escorted by the common people. He walked quickly, his right hand clenched tightly by his side. He rushed in the morning light, inquiring as he walked, "Did you see clearly? It was the Ren family army and not someone else?"
He is actually a blind man.
When the people saw this man, they were as happy as seeing a sweet rain, and they all knelt down to pray. Guiyao went to the side, touched the head of a dog on the roadside, and asked it who this man was.
The dog was speechless: "What are people doing? I'm a dog, why should I care what people are doing?"
Guiyao thought it would be better to just communicate with people briefly.
She walked back to Ren Beixi in two or three steps, raised her head slightly and listened to the man say, "It's really you. I am Lu Qingshan, the prefect of Wuhua City, and I'm here to meet you, General Ren!" Just as he was about to kneel down, Gui Yao quickly supported him with her hand.
"I presume you are the General's wife, the Lady of the Gui family. I pay my respects to you..."
This time it was Ren Beixi who helped.
Now that I have introduced myself, it’s time to ask some useful questions.
Gui Yao listened attentively with her hands in her pockets. The system meowed in her mind and she covered her face helplessly.
No way...
She thought she could go directly to the capital to complete the mission, but once the system appeared, it meant that the side quest was beckoning her.
System: "Hello, host. I have something to discuss with you. It shows that a side quest has been triggered. However, it is now clear that since the host has recovered, the system no longer has the leverage to allow you to continue the quest."
"So the system has selected a subsidy for you, which is considered a benefit."
Guiyao blinked.
"Hasn't the host always told the original system that he wanted to read people's minds?"
If the host decides to complete this side quest.
You can get the benefit of reading people's minds!
It was so hard to refuse. Gui Yao blinked and asked, "Is this mission difficult?"
She heard the system thinking, "Great, there's a chance."
Honestly, she was quite curious about why she could hear the system's inner voice, but the conversation was about to end. After hearing the word "simple," she quickly said, "Take it! I've long wondered what's going on in Ren Beixi's head."
The system smacked its lips. It remembered that the previous system's feedback was that Gui Yao wanted to use her mind-reading skills to survive better.
"...Can you wait for me to finish?"
“Simple, that’s impossible, okay.
/ Congratulations to the host, unlocking the new map Wuhua City, and triggering the side quest: Xiangshu Youyi / "
Gui Yao was pushed back to the carriage by Ren Beixi.
Ren Beixi said in a deep voice, "Yaoyao, we may have to stay in the city for three days."
"Why?" Gui Yao raised her eyes and asked.
"First, Wuhua City is adjacent to the capital, and has always been the richest area in the An Dynasty besides Xianyu City."
He paused briefly before saying, "The second reason is that the people Lu Qingshan brought with him are all new faces."
Ren Beixi unfolded the piece of paper that was clenched in his palm, and saw only three big words: Your Majesty is in danger.
The man tapped his knuckles lightly on the carriage window and casually opened the curtain, letting the disrespectful letter float out of the carriage and into a pot of flowers on the street.
Looking back, I saw Guiyao holding up her face.
"What do you want, Yaoyao?"
"Should we say this person has brains or not? The letters you've been sending these days have all been written in cipher. If he were your man, how could he not know this? There are many suspicious points about this person. If you need to investigate, why not stay a few more days?"
Gui Yao was thinking about her side quest. Obviously, her quest was closely related to this person.
She met his gaze.
Ren Beixi simply said in a deep voice, "But what he said is true."
"So Yaoyao, we have to make this a quick decision."
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