Escape
Daylight passes in a flash, and day and night alternate.
Jiang Nian remembered what You had said to her a few days ago, and was always wary of the people around her. At the same time, she looked for an opportunity to follow the route Zhou Jinyu gave her and walked through all the routes drawn on the blueprint.
During this period, she encountered many soldiers who were about to come towards her, but she cleverly avoided them all.
The soldier who was killed by You did not seem to cause much stir in the military camp, as if he was suppressed by his superiors.
They also knew that the time was approaching, so these seemingly insignificant matters, which would be troublesome if investigated, were put aside, waiting for the dispute to end in a few days before burying the matter completely.
Jiang Nian had no time to care about the dispute between Meng Hao and this party. The fact that the food and grass were about to be burned was putting pressure on her nerves, making her nervous. Looking at the barracks guarded by soldiers in the distance, she felt dizzy as if her blood was rushing to her head.
Taking a few steps back, even leaning against the wall where he could hide his body, Jiang Nian slowed his breathing for a moment, and went over the route he had reviewed repeatedly in the past few days in his mind again. After confirming that it was correct, he turned around and walked back.
Judging from the time, Ru might have attacked her in the past few days.
Xiao Yingzhu cannot enter the military camp now. If she wants to avoid Lu's attack on her, she can only rely on You or Zhou Jinyu.
But she didn't know when You would show up, and Zhou Jinyu...
She walked along the way she came, thinking about how to contact Zhou Jinyu as soon as possible, while thinking about how to sneak into the camp.
There were faint voices coming from the corner ahead. When Jiang Nian heard the words "the number of women washing silk is wrong", her expression froze. Without waiting for her to react, her body automatically slipped into a room that was decorated for no purpose.
"But if you go out and look for it, this place is so small that you can't get far even if you want to escape."
"I've been looking for her! How could a washerwoman get so far in this icy weather? I think she's still hiding somewhere here, waiting for someone to pick her up."
"Backup?" The person who asked the question first paused. The rustling sound of fabrics was heard from the other side of the wall where Jiang Nian was. Jiang Nian subconsciously pursed his lips, his movements stiff as he stood there, listening to the people outside continue talking.
"What makes you think that? How do you know she has someone who can help her?"
This is no small matter. If someone can pick up the person imprisoned here, it means that a spy has entered their military camp.
Although the puppet emperor did not have high expectations for this matter and even had a negative attitude towards the war, this was not an excuse for the Huandu spies to run into the military camp.
If the emperor knew about this...they would be in big trouble.
This matter must be suppressed quickly.
The first thing to do was to kill the washerwoman whose background was unknown and destroy the body. In this way, even if they did not hide the matter and the emperor found out, they would have a head to testify for themselves.
"Because think about it, if the washerwoman didn't have someone who could pick her up, how could she have disappeared for no reason? And the women next to her said that she hasn't been washing clothes on time lately. One day, she even threw her clothes away somewhere."
"If there wasn't someone in the camp who could contact her, I don't think anyone in this desolate place like ours could escape unseen through these layers of sentries without help."
The other party was silent for a moment, as if convinced by his reasoning. After a moment, he nodded and said, "That's right, otherwise he wouldn't be so blatant towards that washerwoman."
If we don't catch the washerwoman, we won't know the complicated reasons behind this. In short, the most urgent task is to catch her.
The two people standing outside the room exchanged a few words, and as soon as they reached a consensus, they left.
Jiang Nian sighed suddenly, calming down his extremely nervous mood. He planned to stay for a while, waiting for the number of soldiers coming and going outside to decrease, and then walk out of the room.
Unfortunately, reality doesn't go according to her ideas.
Squatting in the corner of a wooden box, Jiang Nian listened to the sound of footsteps coming and going outside, and sometimes there were urgent voices passing on messages. The shadows cast on the paper window clearly indicated that he could not go out directly at this moment.
Jiang Nian sat where he was, concentrating on listening to the conversations and whistles of the people outside. Occasionally, when he heard footsteps coming straight towards this room, he would get a little nervous for a moment, but when he saw that the people outside just stayed for a while and left, he would feel relieved.
Ever since she learned about Xiao Yingzhu's situation in and out of the military camp, she felt like she had a cushion in her heart, knowing that no matter what happened to her, as long as she could get through this period, someone would cover for her.
——However, although Jiang Nianxiang thought so, her actions still left no trace.
In this heavily guarded military camp, I have found peace of mind these past few days, and even my restless heart has become steady, and I have moved faster.
In his sight, those people coming and going seemed to be heading towards the enemy due to some sudden reasons. Jiang Nian rubbed his fingertips, which had warmed up because he didn't do laundry today, for a moment, waiting for the last figure to walk out of the room, and then took the opportunity to hide in another place.
But the person outside the house paused for a moment, as if he had noticed something, and the head of the person who was walking straight forward suddenly looked towards the window she was looking at.
The dark figure looked at her through a thin layer of window paper. Jiang Nian's heart shrank and she turned around and hid behind the wooden box beside her.
The door of the room was opened by the man. Jiang Nian listened to the sound of his footsteps and judged that he must be a sentry passing by. He came out to check because he felt that something was wrong here.
The open door let in a gust of wind, and the already cold temperature in the wooden house became even colder. Jiang Nian subconsciously curled up his fingers and his body stiffened involuntarily.
She could only pray that the other party didn't find her in this corner.
But the reality is never as we wish.
The wooden box that concealed her figure was being pulled. At the same time, a sentry blew a whistle outside: "Everyone! Search every corner of the barracks until you find the washerwoman!"
Jiang Nian's expression relaxed for a moment, and the black shadow above her head fell into her eyes.
A head popped up from above. When she saw the unfamiliar nose and eyes, her expression froze, and she subconsciously covered the other person's face with the powder clenched in her hand.
The thick white fog blocked the vision of both sides. The sentry coughed due to Jiang Nian's sudden action and was speechless for a while.
Without the fan that Xiao Yingzhu had given her before, Jiang Nian picked up a handy wooden stick next to her before the sentry could recover, and hit him on the head several times. When other people outside the door heard the noise inside, she took the opportunity to run out through another door.
The soldier who ran into the room following the sound just missed Jiang Nian who was running out.
The soldier saw the soldier in the room who was knocked unconscious by Jiang Nian's powder, and glanced at the wooden box that had been moved away next to him. He instantly understood what was going on and blew the whistle to call everyone over here.
In the midst of his busy schedule, Jiang Nian pulled out the route written by Zhou Jinyu, while thinking about whether the soldiers were called together just now because Lu had already arrived at the barracks and was asking them to find her so that he could take her away.
It's also a coincidence of yin and yang.
If Jiang Nian hadn't had time to go to the meeting point to get the note after the woman fainted, and hadn't run into You again, she would still be washing clothes in the place where she used to wash clothes, and would have been caught by You smoothly.
If Ru was looking for her now, it would be a reasonable inference that the soldiers could immediately discover that one of the washerwomen was missing.
It was freezing cold, and Jiang Nian was not wearing thick clothes. She ran towards another shelter in front of her while looking back at the situation behind her.
There were fewer and fewer people around, as if we had entered a deserted wasteland.
The brown frozen soil had sunk into deep and shallow pits under my feet. The view ahead was vast and bleak, and the deep blue sky fell into the seemingly endless plain. It seemed that no matter how hard I ran forward, I would never be able to escape from this cage.
Jiang Nian seemed to be unable to feel the lack of oxygen and the irregular beating of his heart caused by the intense exercise.
She wanted to stop and rest, but the sound of the passing wind seemed to give her the illusion that pursuers were pressing her directly. Even though her pace gradually slowed down, she was unwilling to stop.
So tired.
When can I escape from this dispute?
Will unrest break out today, tomorrow, or the day after?
When did the unrest they are talking about come about?
Because the soldiers had just been summoned, there were only a few people guarding the barracks in front of them.
It was like a trap standing there, quietly waiting for her to enter on her own initiative, so as to catch her.
Jiang Nian calmed his breathing, stood beside the barn, and closed his eyes.
The biting cold wind around her mercilessly slapped her body, urging her to move forward.
It was like a game that had been set up long ago, just waiting for her to make up her mind and be the one to start it.
Everyone around, whether it was the soldiers who were swarming here, or the things displayed in the barracks, or Lu, or Xiao Yingzhu who was outside the barracks...even Meng Hao.
They seemed to be waiting for an opportunity.
And the burden of this opportunity, as if by luck, fell on her head again.
Jiang Nian raised his hand and touched his lips.
I have been doing physical work these days, worrying about the information that may come back at any time, and spending my energy exploring the surrounding routes.
Busy all the time.
She didn't need to look in the mirror to imagine her lips turning dark blue and pale.
Jiang Nian closed his eyes slightly, trying to suppress the fear and panic that kept rising in his heart, as well as... the nausea that he could anticipate what he was about to face but didn't want to think about.
The package of simple tinder she had made in the carriage was still in her sleeve.
Having avoided layers of inspection, now, whether it was someone else's intentional guidance or fate, she had to take it and use it.
The fuse starts from her.
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