Chapter 424 No End
When Song Lan arrived outside the Huwei Army camp, the sky had just begun to brighten.
She asked the soldiers guarding the camp to tell Yun Chen that she had something important to discuss with him.
After a while, Yun Chen did not come, but Fu Lin came.
This was the first time Song Lan met Fu Lin. Seeing that this man had a calm and introverted temperament and was dressed like a deputy general, but his rank was relatively low and he could not be considered Yun Chen's confidant, he calmly restrained his anxious look.
After being in the Eastern Palace for so many years, she knows how to hide her emotions.
She also knew very well how important and consequential the things she was about to remind Yun Chen were, and that it was better to be safe than sorry.
Otherwise, if there is any mistake, her life may be in danger.
She must meet Yun Chen in person, and it would be safest to give the letter to Yun Chen in person.
Thinking of this, Song Lan quietly touched the letter in her arms and hid it deeper to avoid any trace. Then she smiled and saluted the visitor:
"Greetings, General. I am an old friend of General Yun. I have something to ask General Yun. Please be accommodating."
Fu Lin looked Songlan up and down and smiled slightly:
"My name is Fulin. Miss, you have come at an inopportune time. General Yun is in the city and not in the camp. May I ask what you want from General Yun?"
It turned out to be the leader of the rebel army who was elected by the people and later defected to the Lion Army. Song Lan had naturally heard of such an extraordinary person. She smiled and said:
"It's just a small matter. I'd better go talk to General Yun. I also want the general to tell me the specific location. Where is General Yun in the city so that I can go find her."
He glanced at the sky, then at Songlan, who was dressed as a man but looked like a beautiful woman, and said:
"I just happened to be going to the city. It's just dawn now, and the road is not safe. I'll take the girl with me."
Song Lan could not refuse such a thoughtful and perfect reason, so she and Fu Lin could only ride their horses and slowly head towards the city.
Walking on the road, it was quiet and deserted. The misty blue light made the shadows of the trees on the roadside blurry, and the sky was gloomy.
For a moment, it was hard to tell whether it was almost dawn or night.
Fulin and Songlan chatted politely from time to time:
"From the girl's accent, she seems to be from Kyoto? With her temperament and appearance, she must be from a prominent family, right?"
"You are too kind, General."
"May I ask your name, young lady?"
"Woad."
"Young lady, you are now busy helping orphans after the war. Being a teacher? This is truly a great deed and admirable."
"General, you are very kind. I am just a poor teacher, teaching children to kill time."
"Ms. Su is too modest."
After Fu Lin said this, Song Lan paused, tightened the reins of his horse, stopped the horse, and looked at Fu Lin warily.
She only said her name was "Songlan", but never told me her last name.
But Fu Lin continued to ride calmly, as if he was not at all worried about revealing such a flaw, and said quietly:
"Miss, don't you have something urgent to discuss with General Yun? Why don't you leave?"
The posture was so calm and composed that Song Lan almost thought she was hallucinating.
But she was sure that she had not heard wrongly. She put on a serious face and stared at Fu Lin's back suspiciously and cautiously for a long time. After thinking it over again and again, she gently pinched the horse's belly and continued to move forward.
Fu Lin seemed to deliberately slow down his horse. When Song Lan's horse came parallel to him, he said in a very normal tone:
"The young lady's teaching cottage is about twenty miles west of the old forest in the south. General Yun sent someone into the forest yesterday to heal an injury. On his way out, he happened to pass by the teaching cottage and ran into the young lady. When old friends meet, they must have a little chat. But what did they talk about? After General Yun left, the young lady tossed and turned all night, unable to sleep. She didn't even have time to change her clothes, and she came here at dawn?"
Following Fu Lin's half-smile, Song Lan noticed that she was still wearing the same clothes as yesterday.
She spent the whole night hesitating whether to remind Yun Chen and had no time to change her clothes. After sleeping in them overnight, her clothes had many wrinkles on them, but if you didn't look carefully, you couldn't see them at all.
Song Lan couldn't help but be secretly shocked. She didn't expect Fu Lin to have such sharp eyes and be more meticulous than an ordinary person. He guessed from just a few words that she actually had something very important to discuss with Yun Chen.
This style seems quite similar to... Huo Gannian.
"Girl, let's stop the horse and let me go to the bathroom." Fu Lin did not continue with what he had just said, but asked to stop the horse because he wanted to pee.
Songlan was already filled with doubts at this time, but since he had to go to the bathroom, he had no choice but to find a big tree to stop.
Fu Lin went around behind the tree for a while, and when he came back, he was still adjusting his belt as he walked.
When passing by Isatis, something slipped from his waist and fell to the ground with a "bang", right at Isatis' feet.
Song Lan picked up the thing naturally. It was a dagger made of tiger teeth.
She brushed off the dirt on it and prepared to return it to Fu Lin. She looked at the dagger unconsciously, but the more she looked at it, the more familiar it looked, and the more frightened she became.
Although Song Lan tried her best to conceal her expression, Fu Lin still saw the slightly trembling hand when she handed over the dagger.
Fu Lin had a faint smile on his face, and was still not panicked by the fact that he had revealed such a big flaw.
Song Lan then realized that the so-called "revealing one's true colors" was just a trick to test her.
Neither of them spoke, but they each got on their horses and continued on their way.
After a long silence, Song Lan's shock and anxiety gradually subsided, and her heart sank to the bottom.
She knew she had been discovered.
From the first moment he saw her, Fu Lin guessed that she actually had something important to discuss with Yun Chen.
"Miss Su" and "Tiger Tooth Dagger" tested and confirmed his guess one after another.
As Nan Lijun's female official companion since childhood, Song Lan was familiar with the divine tiger and naturally recognized its rare, huge and sharp fangs. She also personally witnessed the divine tiger's fangs being pulled out and the culprit being sentenced to death.
But after recognizing him, according to common sense, he should be shocked, covering his mouth and asking Fu Lin how he survived, but he should never hide his emotions and pretend not to know him.
Hiding it just revealed that what she was going to talk to Yun Chen about must be related to the man in front of her, and -
It's about a "remarkable and shocking conspiracy".
Song Lan couldn't help but laugh at herself. She didn't expect that after all these years of shrewd planning, she would end up being defeated so easily by Fu Lin, falling victim to her best and most accustomed ability of "hiding her emotions".
No wonder they say birds of a feather flock together. How could the person who could become Huo Gannian's sworn brother be just an ordinary creature?
Thinking of this, Song Lan knew that there was no need to continue pretending.
She looked ahead again—
She probably wouldn't be able to reach the end of this gray road that hadn't yet been illuminated by the sun.
"I'm very curious. How did you escape from the prison? Who were the two people who were beheaded in your place? How did you avoid identification on the day of execution?"
Facing Song Lan's questions, Fu Lin smiled slightly and said only two words:
"you guess?"
Song Lan's back tensed, and his eyes trembled slightly. "What you are aiming for is Nan Lijun's position, right?"
Fu Lin smiled and said nothing.
Song Lan said with a gloomy look:
"Can you spare her life? She's not a bad person. She's just too stupid and trusting. She's been manipulated by others."
Fu Lin still didn't speak.
Song Lan nodded slightly, already understanding what he meant. Her eyes instantly turned red and she sighed helplessly.
"I've left the Kyoto court, devoting myself solely to teaching... Those children are truly pitiful, parentless. Without guidance, they'll likely live a mediocre life, never able to bridge the social divide... If I promise to keep this secret from now on, will you let me go?"
After a long silence, Fu Lin's smile faded and his face gradually became expressionless:
"Guess again."
The next moment, he jumped off the horse's back and landed behind Songlan.
The tiger-tooth dagger pierced through Song Lan's heart from behind, piercing the letter hidden deep in his chest.
Isatis struggled and whimpered in pain, and bright red blood flowed down the texture of its tiger teeth, dripping down the horse's back and falling on this endless road.
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