Pretend to be a couple
Lotus City gets its name from the lotus flowers that can be seen everywhere on the lake. Unfortunately, it is early autumn now and the lotus flowers have already withered, leaving only the green lotus leaves and the lotus pods interspersed among them.
The inn where Bai Miaoke and her group stayed faced the lake on one side. After washing away the blood stains from today's fighting, she sat by the window in plain pajamas.
Chun Xing was sitting next to her, applying medicine to her wound.
"Miss, you are too careless. Even if you wanted to protect the Prime Minister, you shouldn't have hurt yourself." Chun Xing muttered while applying the medicine.
"We were the ones who attracted those assassins." Bai Miaoke suddenly spoke.
"Ah? Isn't the assassin here to kill the Prime Minister? What does it have to do with us?" Chun Xing wondered.
"Do you remember yesterday at the wonton shop on the street? Two of today's assassins were there too." Bai Miaoke said in a deep voice.
"Is it because I let something slip?" Chun Xing was shocked, with a hint of panic in her tone.
Bai Miaoke patted the back of her hand soothingly, "That may not be the case. It's just my guess. After all, Lu Yu is a big shot that attracts the wind."
"What can happen if the young lady is protecting him?" Chun Xing curled her lips.
Then she said, "Don't blame me for being nosy. Master Lu, do you want to travel with us because you know that Miss is very skilled?"
"Uh...that shouldn't be the case." Bai Miaoke thought of the sincere eyes when he said he would obey her.
"But it's only the first day and the young lady has already been injured because of him." Chun Xing was still standing up for her.
Bai Miaoke said unconcernedly: "Well, it's not like you don't know me, this little injury is nothing."
Chun Xing looked at the inch-long wound on her creamy forearm. Although the wound was not deep, it was as eye-catching as a crack on a beautiful jade. She whispered, "I just feel sorry for you, young lady. You have to protect yourself too."
When Bai Miaoke rushed to his horse's back to help him block the attack, she didn't think too much about it. It was just an instinct in the face of danger.
So he comforted her, "I know. If there is any danger, I will be the first one to run away."
Chun Xing then laughed, and after carefully bandaging her wound, she retreated to the outer room.
Bai Miaoke sat by the window for a long time. The breeze gently blew her hair. Only then did she have the chance to calm down and think about something.
She found that she had started to care about Lu Yu's safety without knowing when. When she saw the killing move coming towards him, her heart seemed to skip a beat.
She is obviously a cold-hearted killer who is used to this kind of thing, so how could she lose her composure like this?
Unable to figure out the reason, Bai Miaoke was too lazy to think about it anymore. After all, it was a pity for the handsome man to die, and she was still thinking of having him become her son-in-law.
So Miss Bai quickly lay down on the bed with her arms and legs spread out, and fell asleep heartlessly.
Lu Yu next door was not so free.
He had just finished interrogating the assassin he had captured today. He put down the blood-stained dagger in his hand and slowly picked up the handkerchief beside him to wipe his hands.
"Take him away and deal with him cleanly." He ordered in a calm voice.
Soon someone dragged the bloody assassin away.
"Sir, can you trust his words?" Fugui asked.
"About nine out of ten." Lu Yu's face was so cold that it was almost freezing.
Just now, Lu Yu personally tortured the assassin, and it took him more than an hour to pry open his mouth.
The assassins confessed that they were sent by Grand Tutor Ma Hongzhe. They began tracking Lu Yu from the second day after he left Beijing, and only found him outside the city gate of Changzhou, so they waited at the city gate in advance.
They followed them all the way out of the city and set up an ambush in advance, only having a chance to strike when they reached the narrow intersection.
"Sir, several of them escaped. What if they go back and report the news?" Fugui looked worried.
"We will change the water route tomorrow and need to change our identities." Lu Yu said after thinking for a moment.
Fugui asked: "How should I change it?"
"Is she asleep?" Lu Yu suddenly asked without any context.
This sudden change of topic made Fugui stunned for a moment before he reacted, "I just saw that the light in Miss Bai's room has been turned off. I guess she has gone to bed."
"Then let's talk about it tomorrow." When mentioning Bai Miaoke, Lu Yu's cold expression eased a lot.
"I didn't expect Miss Bai to be so skilled. Today is really thanks to her. No wonder the young master wanted to find her." Fugui said with admiration.
Hearing this, Lu Yu frowned and said seriously: "She is indeed powerful, but this is not why I am looking for her."
Fugui hesitated and said, "Sir, you won't really say that to Miss Bai..."
"Don't tell anyone else about this." Lu Yu had a blank expression on his face, making it impossible to tell what he was thinking.
Fugui quickly responded and stepped back, thinking that he should be more respectful to Miss Bai in the future. After all, she might be his future master.
The room returned to silence. Lu Yu sat at the table stroking the black jade ring on his hand.
People who knew him well knew that this was his habitual movement when he was thinking, but no one knew that this black jade ring made of fine materials was a birthday gift from Ma Hongzhe to him.
That year, Ma Hongzhe had already become the prince's teacher, that is, the Grand Tutor, and Lu Yu, as the prince's companion, also became his student.
From poetry and scriptures to strategic strategies, from water conservancy and people's livelihood to battlefield tactics, he taught them one by one from scratch.
He still remembers what Ma Hongzhe said to him when he gave him the ring on his 20-year-old birthday: "Without desire, you cannot obtain; without intention, you cannot obtain; without technique, you cannot achieve."
Many years later, when Lu Yu entered the officialdom and became the ruthless prime minister rumored in the court, he finally understood this sentence:
Without desire, you cannot obtain; without scheming, it is difficult to win; without strategy, nothing can be accomplished.
This applies to everything you do.
Therefore, although they had different political views, Lu Yu had always been grateful to him, and the relationship between the two could be considered both enemies and friends over the years.
From master and apprentice to rival, if there is one person who knows Lu Yu best, besides his parents, it is probably his tutor.
Therefore, Lu Yu did not doubt that he could guess his moves, but the successive assassinations made him gradually begin to think about how their relationship as master and disciple had come to a point of life and death.
If you want to find out the reason, you may have to go to Suzhou in the south of the Yangtze River.
Lu Yu sighed lightly, frowning even in his sleep.
The next morning.
"I wonder if Lu Yu has any conscience? I saved him yesterday! How can you treat your savior like this!" Bai Miaoke's voice, still sleepy, came from inside the house.
She was awakened early in the morning by Fugui, who was sent by Lu Yu.
Fugui said nervously, "Mr. Bai, our Master really has something important to discuss with you, so please get up quickly."
As he spoke, he kept an eye on the movements in the house, ready to run away at any time. Lu Yu asked him to call Miss Bai, but he didn't say that this girl would be so grumpy when she woke up.
But he had to obey his master's orders, so he had been working hard in front of Bai Miaoke's door for a quarter of an hour.
It was not until he had persuaded her earnestly for who knows how many times that the door finally opened.
It was just smashed open by a flying pillow.
Fugui was too late to dodge and was knocked to the ground by the powerful pillow, falling headfirst.
As soon as he raised his head dizzily, he saw Bai Miaoke rushing out of the room and walking towards his master's room in a menacing manner.
He wanted to stand up and remind the young master, but he couldn't catch up with Bai Miaoke's pace.
In the end, I could only watch her push the door open and slam it shut.
Fugui rubbed his nose and thought that his mission had been completed, and the young master could only wish for good luck.
When Bai Miaoke walked in, Lu Yu was putting on his outer robe. He looked up in surprise at the woman who rushed in without even saying hello.
Then he saw Bai Miaoke with her face bare, and even a suspicious water stain at the corner of her mouth. Her hair was draped over her shoulders without any restraint, and she was wearing a loose men's robe on her body. It was obvious that she had just crawled over.
"You..." Bai Miaoke's bad temper suddenly disappeared after she saw Lu Yu.
Because he was only wearing his undershirt! And it was made of silver satin!
So Bai Miaoke no longer cared about being angry. Her big watery eyes couldn't help but glance down, as if unintentionally looking at Lord Lu's unspeakable position.
Although Bai Miaoke had never seen it, she looked at the protruding curve and felt that it might be quite good...
Lu Yu, who had not yet finished her second half of the sentence, looked over at her in confusion. Bai Miaoke suddenly withdrew her gaze and pretended to be looking at the scenery outside the window.
"Miss, the window is closed, what are you looking at?" Lu Yu was even more confused.
Bai Miaoke scratched her head awkwardly and said, "I wanted to help you open the window."
Lu Yu smiled and stopped worrying about her strange behavior. He just smiled and said, "I sent someone to wake you up so early. Are you still asleep?"
"No, no, I woke up a long time ago." Bai Miaoke was already very sober after that peek just now.
"That's good. I was worried that you would be unhappy." Lu Yu, who had also just woken up, spoke in a rare lazy tone.
"How is that possible?" Bai Miaoke said calmly.
Lu Yu just smiled and said nothing.
By the way, what do you want to talk to me about?" She finally remembered to ask about the real matter.
"We are being targeted." Lu Yu also regained his composure and said seriously.
"We should have killed all those people yesterday, so that they wouldn't go back and report the incident." Bai Miaoke said with regret.
Lu Yu: ...
"That's not what I wanted to say." Lu Yu said helplessly.
"We will change to the water route today. It will only take three or four days by boat from Liancheng to reach the Jiangnan area." He has made a plan.
"Okay, this is my first time to be on a boat for such a long time. I'll go to the street and buy some things to take with me." Bai Miaoke was a little expectant.
"Okay, it might be a bit boring on the boat." Lu Yu was unconsciously led off the topic by her.
"Yes, yes, you can bring a deck of playing cards. Orange, can you play playing cards?" Bai Miaoke asked excitedly.
"Yes." Lu Yu said concisely.
The two discussed the leaf cards for a while, and Lu Yu finally remembered the main business.
"I called you over here because I want to tell you that we need to change our identities before setting off again." Lu Yu said seriously.
"Don't I look like a scholar? Why do I need to change my identity?" Bai Miaoke was puzzled.
Lu Yu thought: The way you kill people like chopping melons, how can you be like a scholar... But he could never say this.
He only said: "It was exposed yesterday. I'm afraid the next wave of killers is on the way." His tone was light, but there was a hint of frost.
Bai Miaoke nodded thoughtfully. She was not afraid of any killers, but it was indeed troublesome to deal with too many people.
So she asked: "What identity should I change to?"
"You and I will pretend to be husband and wife. This trip is to visit relatives in the south of the Yangtze River, and the rest of us will be servants." Lu Yu slowly told his plan.
Afraid that Bai Miaoke would refuse, before she could speak, Lu Yu added: "It's just pretending, I won't offend you."
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