Early November.
Temperatures across the Northwest have dropped to the teens, and at night they can drop to only one or two degrees.
The group walked through the mountains and forests to a nearby small village to ask for lodging. They gave the farmer ten taels of silver to rent three main rooms, while the farmer and his wife slept in a side room. For them, ten taels of silver was enough to last a year.
After hearing the report from the guard, Qi Yu's expression darkened slightly. "Shen Shaoyang called her wife?"
“That’s right. Although Shen Ze seems to have suffered some kind of brain injury and is acting foolish, he seems to really believe this. At the banquet, someone spoke rudely to the young mistress, and he almost killed that person.” The guard who answered saw Qi Yu’s face growing increasingly grim and automatically went silent.
Qi Yu pondered for a long time before telling the guards to go back and wait for orders.
The night was chilly, the wind blowing in as if it could reach her heart. In fact, these past few days, Qi Yu had been thinking about another possibility: why she appeared with Shen Shaoyang, and why Xia Jingfeng had that person named Yan Jiu save him.
What if Xia Jingfeng wanted to save not the Shen family, but simply Shen Shaoyang?
Thinking back carefully, three years ago, Xia Jingfeng first brought Xia Yixin to the court at that banquet. He was unaware that he had let the Second Prince's henchmen into the palace were hosting a banquet in the capital. Besides him, Shen Shaoyang also caused a commotion at the banquet.
After all, Shen Shaoyang was known as a playboy and handsome man back then.
Did she marry him purely for financial gain?
Qi Yu knew that this conjecture was somewhat absurd, but he couldn't suppress the surging blood in his chest.
After a long while, Qi Yu made a decision. No matter what, he had to find out the truth. Qi Yu decided to take only the fewest people and go to Kuncheng as quickly as possible.
As Qi Yu sped towards Kuncheng, the others, led by An Jiu, stayed here to guard the Lin family and wait for his return.
Just as Qi Yu was getting closer and closer to Kuncheng.
Late at night. At the north gate of Kuncheng, Xia Yixin changed into her night clothes and prepared to leave under the cover of darkness.
She left discreetly, but Shen Shaoyang seemed to have noticed something. Just in case, she also prepared a copy for Shen Shaoyang.
Fortunately, although his intelligence had declined, he had not forgotten his horse riding skills, and the two left the city under the moonlight.
After running for more than fifty miles in one go, the two gradually slowed down and stopped at the three-way intersection of the pipeline.
Shen Shaoyang looked at Xia Yixin with bright eyes. In his mind, it seemed like the two of them had done something really fun. He asked silly, "Wife, what are we going to do?"
At this moment, Shen Shaoyang was still wearing a large gold chain and the like. When he saw Xia Yixin jump off the horse, he jumped off as well.
Looking into his innocent, childlike eyes, Xia Yi hardened her heart and pulled off the gold chains, pearl rings, and other jewelry he was wearing, stuffing them into his hand.
“Your name isn’t Da Niu, it’s Shen Shaoyang. But don’t tell anyone that’s your name. Also, I’m not your wife. I put a small porcelain bottle in your bag. Take one if you’re injured or feeling unwell. Go back to the city we just left. I left a letter in the city lord’s mansion. The city lord will take care of you temporarily.”
"And what about you?" Shen Shaoyang's eyes dimmed little by little.
Xia Yixin always had the illusion that she was bullying a child, but she really couldn't carry this burden with her.
"Shen Shaoyang, I'm not your wife, I'm just a friend. You've just lost your memory. You'll understand when you regain it. Listen to me, go back and don't chase after me anymore."
She tiptoed and patted the slumped man's shoulder, then, without waiting for his reaction, mounted her horse and galloped off to the north.
Unfortunately, she soon realized she had been too naive.
Shen Shaoyang, that unlucky girl, was too persistent. The next day, while resting at a roadside teahouse, she hadn't been sitting for long when she saw a familiar, silly, smiling face.
She silently rubbed her forehead, took a sip of tea, tossed down the money, and mounted her horse again.
She thought she would at least have to chase after Shen Shaoyang for a while, but she didn't expect that she wouldn't see him even after arriving in the next town.
She had just rested overnight and was preparing to set off again when she suddenly heard a system notification.
"Ding! Host, host, the dungeon mission has been activated again: Rescue the male supporting character Shen Shaoyang. Time limit: 72 hours! The location map has been sent to your mind. Please check it."
What the heck? How can one person activate two instance quests, and the same ones at that?
When Xia Yixin checked the location, good heavens! She had finally managed to escape, but now she was running back. How did that unlucky kid Shen Shaoyang end up in Yecheng?
Moreover, at her current speed, it would have taken her a day and a half to get here on horseback. Even if the horse ran out of breath, she wouldn't be able to get back.
Besides, she's a complete weakling, what's the point of saving her?
The system was also a bit timid. "Host, I know it's dangerous. Don't worry, we'll get used to it after a while. I've specially arranged 24 hours of physical recovery time for you!"
Xia Yixin silently rubbed her forehead. "If you're going to go through all this trouble, why bother with such an impossible mission?"
"Actually, I wasn't initially like this... Sigh, it's all because the main storyline was affected. Don't worry, host, I'll do my best to help you!"
Helpless, Xia Yixin left the city and used her lightness skill to quickly fly towards Ye City.
A little over a day ago.
Regardless of Xia Yixin's good intentions, Shen Shaoyang, whose mental capacity was only that of a six or seven-year-old and who was a bit slow-witted, was very angry and a little aggrieved.
His last memory was a single belief—to protect her!
As for who he was protecting, he only had a vague memory of it, remembering a small dimple.
He remembered being beaten by his father and then being kicked out of the mansion. He remembered holding a tiny little thing and crying by the roadside. When he woke up, he found that he had grown up. What was even more amazing was that he had a wife, a wife who slept in the same bed with him.
The little dimples on her cheeks were exactly the same as the tiny little person in my memory.
"Shaoyang, this is the little wife your mother gave birth to for you. Do you like her?" The woman's last words before her death became an obsession that Shen Shaoyang believed to be true.
So even though he was left behind, Shen Shaoyang rode his horse and followed Xia Yixin all the way until they reached the teahouse where they were resting.
Shen Shaoyang originally wanted to chase after them directly, but unexpectedly, he overheard a merchant who was resting mentioning that "the largest pawnshop in Yecheng is currently selling a completely silver-white sword. It is inlaid with diamonds and gems, extremely luxurious, and obviously worth a fortune."
In a flash, fragmented images flashed through Shen Shaoyang's mind.
It was a scene of a man in brocade robes wielding a silver longsword, and that man was him!
That sword is called Azure Rainbow, and it belongs to him!
Shen Shaoyang jumped off his horse, grabbed the merchant by the collar, and asked urgently, "Where is that sword!"
The merchant was startled. Suddenly, a handsome but somewhat foolish and fierce-looking man appeared before him. Trembling, he confessed, "The Mu family pawnshop in Yecheng has someone offering ten thousand taels of silver. That's all I know..."
Shen Shaoyang abandoned the merchant, thought for a moment, then pulled him up again, saying, "Take me there!"
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