Shen Tian
When Jiang Nian woke up again in the carriage, it was getting dark outside the window.
Fortunately, God was merciful to her. When she woke up, she happened to hear the coachman talking to someone outside.
"...Okay, okay, was this arranged by Lord Ru? Of course! Of course I don't mean to disrespect you! Please get in the car, sir."
The driver was talking to someone next to him.
The confused voice lingered in Jiang Nian's mind through her still unclear head, as if with infinite echoes, urging her to wake up from the darkness of her deep sleep.
My heart, which had been tense for a long time, relaxed a little when I caught a glimpse of the light through the cloth. However, the obstruction made it difficult to see the situation outside, so I calmed down.
The man who was communicating with the driver seemed not to want to say more. After a faint response, the curtain was lifted.
The already small carriage became thicker, and the other party's cold yet slightly gentle aura instantly spread out.
Jiang Nian's body was tense for a while, then relaxed instantly.
The other party had no intention of observing her, and didn't even look at her.
He just sat there leisurely. When the carriage moved forward again, a gust of wind blew and the knot tied behind Jiang Nian's head was untied. After a while, light suddenly penetrated the darkness with his closed eyes.
The wheels continued to move forward, and the driver in front had no idea what was happening inside the carriage.
After a while, the person sitting opposite her stuffed something into her lips, and then a clear liquid flowed down her throat. Jiang Nian was choked and coughed. She subconsciously wanted to cover her lips, but she stopped herself. She just frowned, opened her eyes, and looked forward.
The man's face appeared before him.
......
A very familiar face.
Jiang Nian was surprised for a moment, then looked into the man's eyes.
She said why this voice was so familiar... So, Xiao Yingzhu had already made a backup plan?
Zhou Jinyu.
This is indeed a person who can still be placed in Donglan, belong to the Wumi people, and can also be the cooperative party of Donglan and can act freely.
She hadn't thought of this.
Jiang Nian blinked, and then realized that he was too excited. All the annoyance that was blocked by the cloth was swept away, and he felt that the blood in his body was burning.
Too happy.
During such a long period of time.
Was it a week, or half a month? She had lost count. Every day she could only lie in this carriage, listening to the wind, the birdsong, the burning wood or the flickering candlelight, or in a corner of a deep mountain forest, listening to the driver find food and cook in those wooden houses.
Everything is empty.
There was no one around to talk to her, and no books to provide her with tasks.
I can only shrink in this little world.
When the driver occasionally fell asleep, he would quietly slip out of the carriage to pick a few fruits that he had learned from medical books and eat them.
They live a life that is even more dull and boring than that of primitive people.
Finally, the day of meeting Zhou Jinyu ended.
Jiang Nian naturally wouldn't waste time lamenting these trivial things. The excitement only flashed through his mind for a moment, and then he immediately fell into his thoughts.
Many questions popped up in her mind, but when she looked into Zhou Jinyu's gentle eyes, she felt a little timid.
The scene of her first meeting with Zhou Jinyu was still lingering in her mind. If she asked a question now, she would feel like she was being tested.
The feeling of being tempted was like a poisonous snake, snaking out from long-lost memories and lingering in my heart.
Jiang Nian calmed himself down, wondering whether Xiao Yingzhu had told Zhou Jinyu about their current relationship, while also thinking about how to ask questions to understand the current situation as quickly as possible.
Zhou Jinyu was not in a hurry at all. After he separated from Meng Jian, he wandered around leisurely for a while. Until the day before Xiao Yingzhu entered the capital, he was called back by those fat and lazy crows.
Xiao Yingzhu was worried that Jiang Nian might encounter an accident in the capital, and was also worried that Emperor Changde would do something else. If he was delayed by other things and could not go there directly, it would probably lead to unacceptable consequences.
From the moment he opened the letter sent by Crow, Zhou Jinyu knew that his rest time was about to end, but he did not expect that the task assigned to him by Xiao Yingzhu was to guard one side of a map.
If anyone related to the Wu Mi people passed by, they would be stopped and asked about their situation.
“…”
Hearing Zhou Jinyu's simple retelling of this to her, Jiang Nian was a little confused for a moment, but she quickly grasped the truth: "You mean, he probably knew from the beginning that Lu would not return directly to Donglan, so he kept a trick on this border road?"
"Um."
Zhou Jinyu smiled faintly, there was not much emotion in his eyes, and although his words were gentle, there was not much emotion in them, which made people feel a little uncomfortable.
"However, he probably didn't expect that this strategy of keeping one on the defensive would actually be used."
"After all, he has always been very determined that his possessions will not be divided, so..."
Zhou Jinyu smiled meaningfully: "He must be panicking now, and is using his connections to find your current location."
Jiang Nian was a little embarrassed for a moment. She couldn't find out from Zhou Jinyu whether he knew about the relationship between her and Xiao Yingzhu, but whether he knew or not, as long as he was told so, it could only mean two things.
One is teasing, and the other is joking after knowing the truth.
"...Wouldn't he have guessed you were on this route?"
Zhou Jinyu wiggled his fingers, looking at her with amusement. "How could that be? I was originally ordered here just in case. No matter how powerful Xiao is, he's only human. He couldn't have predicted that Lu would take you away and then choose this path out of the thousands of roads leading to Donglan."
"Too clever is foolish. Even if Xiao has a lot of doubts, he will think too much—"
"For example, Ru might use a more covert method to send you to the Wu Mi people."
Jiang Nian recalled Lu's attitude in Zuihua Tower.
He has always stood firmly on the side of the Wu Mi people. Now it is much better to hand her over to the leader of the cult than to Donglan's military camp.
But why did he hand her over to the military camp?
Seeing the worry in Jiang Nian's eyes, Zhou Jinyu explained calmly, "Maybe his life is in danger. He's afraid that he'll be wiped out before he can even establish his own career."
“So we have to seek protection from another party.”
shelter?
Jiang Nian was stunned for a moment, then something occurred to him: "You mean... worry?"
She had not heard anything about You's movements from Xizhen and Yuhe before, and she almost thought that You was going to follow the route given to him by the goddess and become a leisurely person wandering away from the world.
With his ability, he will definitely be able to get rid of the Wu Mi people's pursuers.
But now...
Is he going to kill Lu in order to avenge the goddess?
Zhou Jinyu wasn't overly moved by these emotions, and simply stated the matter-of-factly: "Although Lu is powerful, he can't withstand You's tactics. Now that he's attacked you, he probably feels his life is in danger, so he's hiding in panic."
“…”
Jiang Nian found it difficult to comment on these trivial matters. She just sighed and shook her head and said, "As Xiao's subordinate, you don't intend to..."
Although Xiao Yingzhu had no intention of intervening in this matter, Zhou Jinyu would receive a generous reward if he could capture You and hand him over to the court.
after all...
Earlier, when Xiao Yingzhu was talking to others in the study, she also heard a little about Meng Jian and Zhou Jinyu.
Zhou Jinyu’s mission was to follow Meng Jian and not let Meng Jian escape from his sight.
With Zhou Jinyu's ability, he can definitely do so.
But not only did he not do that, he even deliberately saw Meng Jian off when he knew he was leaving.
What is this? Is this true friendship revealed in times of adversity?
Even when the two sides have different positions.
Therefore, Zhou Jinyu was detained by Xiao Yingzhu.
Their cooperation agreement should have ended the moment Meng Jian was captured by Xiao Yingzhu, but now because Zhou Jinyu deliberately let Meng Jian escape, it has become a debt paid with his own body.
He would pay Xiao Yingzhu back the same amount as Meng Jian was worth at the market price.
Jiang Nian blinked in confusion.
She knew that Xiao Yingzhu was not short of money, and his current intention was simply to get Zhou Jinyu to work for him for a while longer.
Zhou Jinyu didn't care what Jiang Nian thought about his situation, and just continued: "So, this is the whole story of how I ended up here."
"However, Miss, you should want to know something else now, right?"
Facing Zhou Jinyu's smiling gaze, Jiang Nian's eyes lingered for a second on his fingertips that were pressed against his lips and chuckled, and continued: "Well, I want to know..."
"The location where the grain and fodder are stored in Donglan's military camp."
—
Xiao Yingzhu's departure was not a spur-of-the-moment decision.
The moment Jiang Nian got into trouble, he was mentally prepared.
It just took him some effort to prepare for this.
When Jiang Nian was worried, he could sense what Jiang Nian was worried about, but...
The secret guard in front of him came towards him, pointing to the carriage parked in the bushes ahead, and gestured to him: "Master, according to this point, it will only take eight hours to reunite with General Meng from here."
Xiao Yingzhu's slightly wandering thoughts were stopped. He nodded calmly and said, "Let's set off now."
"yes!"
It was rare for Xiao Yingzhu to make such a scene. He didn't even bring the secret guards far away in the capital. The people around him were all secret guards he trained in the border areas.
The secret guards received instructions from the day Jiang Nian got into trouble. Xiao Yingzhu asked them to check which route Jiang Nian might be taken, and then select the most likely point and set off directly.
After so many years of working together, they usually communicated with Xiao Yingzhu through letters. This was the first time they went on a mission with Xiao Yingzhu in person. Several secret guards were so nervous that they even stepped onto the carriage clumsily.
Xiao Yingzhu didn't care about the actions of the secret guards. He didn't even look at them. He just lifted the curtain calmly and sat in the carriage without saying a word.
The thoughts that had just been interrupted by the secret guard came back to his mind again.
......
A slightly tired feeling rose from the bottom of my heart.
He couldn't quite tell what he wanted most at the moment: the business in his hands or Jiang Nian.
If that day, he had not gone to the court to follow up on the military progress with Meng Hao because of Jiang Nian's worries, then the marching plan might have deviated.
After all, time waits for no one.
But for the sake of military intelligence, Jiang Nian was released for a short time, and the result was...
During the half hour that he was away, Jiang Nian was taken away by Lu who was guarding the capital.
He could clearly think of Lu in the capital.
But he just left.
He was too complacent, so when a basin of cold water fell from the sky and poured down on him, leaving him feeling extremely empty inside, reality hit him hard.
Although he now has a clear target of Jiang Nian's whereabouts, he still feels guilty and depressed, and his head aches slightly.
He worked tirelessly for several days and nights just to come up with a plan to rescue Jiang Nian from the military camp safely, but his energy was limited.
After planning this series of events, he no longer has much energy to act on his own.
People's energy is limited, and he had already spent a lot of time and energy to complete the tasks assigned to him by Emperor Changde.
Although those things seemed few, as if the emperor had a rare sense of guilt, it took a lot of time to complete the tasks.
He knew that Emperor Changde intended to keep him in the capital.
At the same time, she also knew the unspoken meaning of this mission - since she was the bait, she had to perform the show to the fullest.
Emperor Changde will send people to follow Jiang Nian's carriage and completely eliminate the military camp or the Wu Mi people.
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