Wei Jingzhuo turned around and left with a curt remark: "Don't keep bothering me, it's time to go."
Although they had traveled day and night and had shaken off the assassins, they couldn't guarantee that the assassins wouldn't find them.
Upon hearing Wei Jingzhuo's words, the man trembled with fear, kneeling on the ground and pleading, "My lord, spare me! Spare me! I still have... I still have an eighty-year-old mother to take care of. I don't want Dalan anymore, and I don't want the indenture either..."
His arm was bleeding profusely, so he had no choice but to grab the indenture with one hand and tear it into pieces with his teeth, crying out, "Look, it's already torn to pieces, please let me go."
Lin Qingfeng gripped his sword and looked back at Wei Jingzhuo. Seeing that Wei Jingzhuo did not linger, he immediately understood his master's meaning and said to the man, "Get lost."
The man breathed a sigh of relief, clutched his arm, and disappeared.
Su Wan said to Da Lan, "He has already torn up the indenture. You are safe now and can go home. My husband and I have other matters to attend to, so we will take our leave now."
Dalan's eyes were red and swollen, and she knelt down with a thud: "Madam saved me, but when I go home, my mother will still sell me. I want to be Madam's servant from now on, and I will go wherever Madam goes."
Su Wan shook her head repeatedly: "That won't do."
She saved Dalan out of momentary sympathy. She and Wei Jingzhuo were already on the run, so she didn't have time to take anyone else with her.
Dalan pleaded desperately, "Please, Madam, don't abandon me. I'm very hardworking, my embroidery skills are good, and I can do manual labor. If Madam has children in the future, I can even help Madam take care of the children..."
Su Wan rubbed her temples: "Stop, stop, stop. If you really consider me your savior, then don't bother me. I have to go."
The sun was high in the sky, and pedestrians were beginning to appear on the road. Not worried that Dalan would run into any trouble alone, she returned to the carriage.
When Wei Jingzhuo saw her, he said, "That person isn't reasonable. Don't waste your breath talking to him."
Su Wan was about to retort, feeling unconvinced, when Granny Cui, who was standing beside the carriage, said to her, "Madam, she has been following us behind the carriage the whole time."
Su Wan looked back and saw that Da Lan was indeed following closely behind the carriage, but not too close.
Helpless, she said to Granny Cui, "Let her come along. We'll settle her in a populated village when we get there."
She didn't know where Wei Jingzhuo was going; she only remembered him saying he was heading west. As for where west was, she, being terrible with directions, had no idea.
She asked Wei Jingzhuo, "Ah Jin, where are we going now?"
Not only was she confused, but Lin Qingfeng also wanted to know.
Heading west, one main road leads to the Northwest Camp, which guards the border of Youzhou, while the other leads to a village even more remote than Shigang Village, called Linyuan Village. That is the true place of exile.
He didn't think his master would go to a place like Linyuan Village, where chickens don't lay eggs and birds don't even poop.
Unexpectedly, Wei Jingzhuo said, "Linyuan Village."
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