"Won?"

Except that he won the battle and everything is okay, Jiang Lao never thought about it and didn't want to think about other possibilities. He subconsciously asked this sentence.

"The slaves and maids can inquire, only these." Ming Shao was also anxious when he read Jiang Lao anxiously to know the movement in Huaizhou. I don't know."

She knew that Jiang Lao might not like to hear this, but she had to say, "Girl, look at the slave and maid, it really doesn't look like a victory..."

As soon as Jiang Lao moved away from the stone he was pressing on, he dropped it back from a high altitude, and his heart was so uncomfortable.

The north wind was blowing slowly, and while Ming Shao was talking, she was listening to the movement outside.

What fell in my ears, except for the sound of wind and snow, was replaced by the crowing of birds on the tree, which was very quiet.

If she had won a battle, how much would she have heard people cheering, how could it be so quiet?

"You don't have to say it so early, maybe the emperor is anxious to return to the palace for something else."

The letters she received and the news she had only inquired about, the situation in Huaizhou has been optimistic one after another.

"Since the emperor is going back to the palace, we don't need to stay here anymore." Jiang Lao said, "Let's go back too, and ask someone to take care of it, and see if we can know what happened to the emperor's sudden return to the palace this time."

After leaving the palace, Jiang Lao only stayed in Ning’an Bo’s Mansion for two days. When he was in the palace, the emperor left in a hurry, but the news in Jinling City ran unhurriedly. The fire didn't burn, no one cared about Huaizhou, and there was no movement at all about Huaizhou.

On Liao Qiubai’s side, Jiang Rao also asked someone to ask, but there was no news. Jiang Rao wanted to know what was going on. He entered the palace and lived with Concubine Yun Gui. The mother went out to take care of a few times, and finally he was pleased to move. In front of Emperor Zhaowu, the servant **** Li Ren and her pretended to meet by chance in front of Xiujialou.

Now that he had to pretend to be a chance encounter, Jiang Lao didn't go there and waited early. He waited until the hour was about to show up. Only when she saw Li Ren, she was blessed and said, "Auspicious father-in-law."

Li Ren looked around and looked back at Jiang Lao. His eyes were small, and there was a ray of light in them, as if he could see through people's thoughts.

The old man who has been practicing in the palace for so many years does have some ability to see through people's hearts. Before Jiang Lao could speak, he said first: "The girl has invited slaves so many times, do you want to know about Huaizhou? "

Although it was a question, the tone was affirmative.

He sighed and said to himself: "Why should the girl ask in a hurry? Sooner or later you will know."

Sooner or later, what Li Ren said was not terrible. What was terrible was that his sigh was filled with sympathy and sympathy for her. Jiang Lao could hear him, and he couldn't help feeling nervous. Li Ren sighed again and lowered his voice. Said to her: "Not many people know about this. The minion only tells the girl about you. Don't speak out."

Jiang Lao nodded hurriedly.

"We won the battle in Huaizhou."

"But General Xi and His Highness Nine both fell to the cliff. The whereabouts of the two of them are unknown. No one has been seen so far."

Before the joy on Jiang Lao's face changed, he heard Li Ren say something like this again, her palms were cold. Seeing Li Ren was about to leave, she hurriedly caught up and asked, "How many days have you been missing?"

Li Ren slowed down and shook his head. "That's all the slave knows. On the Huaizhou side, the emperor has sent someone to find him. Before he can find both of them, this news will not be spread out for the time being. Only a dozen people know. The generals and the princes are not trivial."

He told Jiang Lao again, "Girls don't want to tell others."

...

Fairview Palace.

Queen Jiahe comforted the seventeenth prince, "The generals holding the talisman and the prince are nowhere to be seen. It’s no small matter. The emperor doesn’t want to disturb the people’s hearts and is unwilling to make a public statement. You don’t have to worry about it. If you don’t want it, you have to spread the news."

Even if Emperor Zhaowu didn't publicize it, Empress Jiahe still learned about the disappearance of Rong Zhu and Xi Zimo through the eyeliner she arranged in Huaizhou.

"What about General Xi?" The seventeenth prince frowned. "If General Xi can't get it back, wouldn't the military power in his hand fall into the hands of others?"

"Unexpectedly, that crippled death would have to be put on the back." Empress Jiahe said with a gloomy face, "But Xi Zimo is not the only one who can secure the military power south of the Quezhi Mountain Range for us. Your grandfather can find someone to replace him. When the emperor is about to send generals south, he will find a minister in the court to recommend him. If he loses a Xi Zimo and removes the thorn in his eye, it is considered a gain."

She hid her face and laughed, "He died for the country, and the saint will definitely feel that this palace teaches well, and he will show his love to you even more."

The seventeenth prince lowered his head, "I haven't seen the corpse before I die, and my son always feels uneasy."

"At that time, he had healthy limbs. How could he be a crippled and useless person? In the case of Yecheng, he was lucky enough to run into Jiang Xingzhou's family passing by. Otherwise, he should have been on Huangquan Road. You should not worry about it. For these useless things, it is better to go to your grandfather more to see how your grandpa takes Xi Zimo's military power back into our hands and learn from his strategy."

The seventeenth prince reluctantly relaxed, nodded, seeing Jia and the queen in a good mood, for a while, he was a little reluctant to leave, and the child leaned close to Jia and the queen, "mother queen."

Empress Jiahe was indeed in a good mood, and had a little more connivance with the 17th prince that was not common in normal days, and was not in a hurry to drive the 17th prince back to the academy, and looked at the 17th prince with patience.

"Before I came, at Xiujialou, I saw Grandpa Li who was next to my father and the man who had married his brother Jiu discussing something together. I don't know if they have talked about Huaizhou."

"Why do you always pay attention to her?" Empress Jiahe's tone was loose and casual, and didn't take Jiang Lao to heart. "Even if she knows, what's the use? Can I go to the mountains of Huaizhou to get people out?"

"But Yecheng was the one who rescued Brother Nine that time. In the last time, didn't she let the emperor father scold her mother in front of others?"

Empress Jiahe was reminded by him, thinking of the lunch in the palace, her face became a lot ugly, she frowned, "You have some truth in what you said."

She said very impatiently: "At this point, you can't let a little girl go bad."

...

One month later, the people sent by Emperor Zhaowu to search for Xi Zimo and Rong Zhu still found nothing. Emperor Zhaowu finally made the news public.

The Lingnan area, which was originally under the control of Xi Zimo's army, was temporarily controlled by Xi Zimo's lieutenant before Emperor Zhaowu found a suitable candidate.

It's another new year.

On the day the news of Rong's disappearance came out, the queen fell to her knees and wept bitterly all day.

After crying, he fell ill and healed in a few days.

Concubine Yun Gui felt nauseous when thinking of the empress’ hypocritical appearance. When she was alone with Jiang Lao, she couldn’t help but scolded Emperor Zhaowu, “The empress’s tears are horrible, maybe the illness is fake, so the emperor actually exchanged letters?”

"Even if the emperor had his idea in his heart, this scene would have been overdone."

Regardless of what Concubine Yun said, Jiang Lao always held the stove, sat quietly on the couch, lowered his eyebrows and closed his eyes, and said nothing.

It was too quiet.

Concubine Yun Gui glanced at Jiang Lao, and saw that she had scolded the Queen and the Empress together. She didn’t say anything. She stopped scolding and sat next to Jiang Lao and embraced Jiang Lao, “Every year, there’s no news. It's not that I can't find it. Didn't it mean that only the bones of General Xi were found, but the Nine Highnesses were not found."

Jiang Lao still did not answer.

Concubine Yun Gui held her tightly in her arms.

She hoped that the marriage of the little niece would go smoothly, Jia and the queen's villainous ambition, and the pretending look of a kind mother made her sick, but she didn't believe what she said just now.

Even people like Xi Zimo who had been marching outside the war all year round failed to survive, and Rong Zhu might be really bad luck.

Concubine Yun Gui became dumb, and finally confided her heart, "Sorrow."

"You don't want to think about it."

"I don't think about it."

Jiang Lao got out of Concubine Yun's arms at this time.

"Now in Huaizhou, the war is gone, and the epidemic has been suppressed."

She didn't cry, her eyes were not red, but her tone was very light, as if she couldn't see the surprised expression of Concubine Yun, she shook her fingers and said: "If you set off tomorrow, you will be on the road overnight, maybe ten days. If you can go to Huaizhou, you can find someone to go into the mountain and look for someone. If you can find a lot of people to help, it will take about four or five days. If you can change it, you will bring more silver. In some difficult places, you don’t need to spend too much. For some silver, I'm afraid no one wants to go. You must bring enough money. If you can't find it after looking through it, you have to look through it a second time."

She mumbled for a long time, her eyes lit up, and she smiled and said to Concubine Yun Gui: "Auntie, is there anything wrong with my calculation? I have calculated so many accounts, and I will definitely not be wrong."

When she lowered her head, there were no tears in her eyes, but when she laughed, there were tears in her eyes. Concubine Yun looked at her with an eyebrow, feeling a little scared in her heart. She took Jiang Lao’s hand and said, "You won’t really want to go. Bar?"

Jiang Lao didn't look at her, just looked out the window, the expression in his eyes was very pale, he sank in his own world, as if he couldn't listen to others' persuasion.

In fact, it is true.

Concubine Yun Gui grabbed Jiang Lao’s arm and told Jiang Lao to turn her head and look at her, “If you can’t find it after reading it again, then you can search it a second time. If you can’t find it again or again, do you want to stay in Huaizhou forever? ?"

Jiang Lao became silent.

"Are you crazy?"

Jiang Lao smiled faintly, "I'm not crazy."

The more she laughed at Concubine Yun, the more shocked she became. The laughter was uglier than crying. It would be better for her to cry in front of her, holding Jiang Lao's arm tightly.

"Auntie, please don't stop me, I won't find it again by myself, and I feel uneasy." Jiang Lao smiled, and his tone changed slightly, "I should go to prepare the carriage."

She gently brushed away Concubine Yun's hand, "No matter what happened or not, he is now in Huaizhou. No matter it's a person, it's something else."

Her timid temper made her not even dare to say the word "corpse", but her tone was firm, "I will come back if I find him, and I want to bring him back."

Concubine Yun Gui looked at her like this, but she couldn't say a word to persuade her.

Some people seem to be soft-tempered, well-behaved and obedient, but not without the backbone. When she really came across something she had made up her mind, her temper was so tough that she couldn't bring back ten cows.

Concubine Yun no longer persuades.

Jiang Xingzhou and Jiang Qin did not persuade them.

Jiang Xingzhou even regretted not being able to nod earlier and agree to their marriage.

Even if he gets married first, his daughter will be widow after Rong Chen's accident. He doesn't care about the opinions and perspectives of others, but his daughter's long-cherished wish will do.

It's better than having the marriage unfinished at this moment, so that the daughter has been thinking about it, giving birth to an untouchable scar in her heart.

This kind of scar on the heart will hurt once when I think about it.

He indulged Jiang Lao to go to Huaizhou, not only that, but Jiang Jinxing followed along with him.

He was afraid that his daughter would be the same as those sung in the play. If he couldn’t find anyone, he finally couldn’t think about dying for love. Now Ning’an Bo’s mansion is under his control both inside and outside. He and Jiang Qin can’t get away from him. To raise a child for a thousand days, it’s better to ask Jiang Jinxing to follow, and wait for her daughter to have a look at her younger brother and think about her family.

Jiang Lao didn't know what was going on in his father's heart, but he was taken aback when he saw Jiang Jinxing following.

She just accompanied Ming Shao to order the silver and supplies she brought, and asked Ming Shao to hand it over to the leader of the escort. She saw Jiang Jinxing all dressed in blue and carrying a small baggage and walked over in a hurry. Surprised, "Why are you here too?"

Jiang Jinxing didn't speak, Ming Shao and the **** were connected. When she came back, she saw Jiang Jinxing's figure. She deliberately coaxed Jiang Lao into a gloomy mood. She smiled and said to Jiang Lao: "The young master is here to protect the girl 80%."

Jiang Lao was in a bad mood, Ming Shao thought of ways to make Jiang Lao happy.

Compared to when I was a child, my head and body were rounded, and I walked like a ball rolling on the ground. I started to grow and lose weight quickly. Whether it's a body or a face, he looks much more handsome.

Especially when he didn't speak, closed his mouth, and stood there quietly, he looked like a handsome family man from side to side.

It's just not so likable when you speak.

He frowned and glanced at Ming Shao. It seemed that he was dissatisfied with what Ming Shao had just said. He muttered twice, "Huaizhou has a nice scenery, I'll go there to see the scenery", while turning on his horse, he looked at with disgust. Jiang Lao, "Hurry up and get on the carriage, don't delay my journey."

Jiang Lao got in the carriage. After driving out, he opened the window and took a look outside. Seeing Jiang Jinxing riding a horse behind her carriage, he shook his head.

Obviously, he came to protect her, but said that he wanted to go south to see the scenery.

He grows up day by day, it seems that he has reached a particularly tangled age, he was more frank when he was a child, and more and more duplicity.

...

Two days later, I arrived in Qiliu Town, and drove the road for two days and nights day and night. Seeing that whether it was a maid or a coachman, it was a little overwhelming. Jiang Lao planned to rest in Qiliu Town for one night and wait for tomorrow to continue. Hurry up.

After arriving in Qiliu Town, he had to change the waterway. Jiang Lao told Jiang Ping to rent a few boats at the ferry with the other servants. He was accompanied by Ming Shao and his guards to book an inn where he could rest at night.

Ming Shao followed Jiang Lao and looked at Jiang Lao’s back. He used to walk outside for a few years, but Jiang Lao was rarely seen wearing a cone hat. Now I don’t know if it is Jihuai’s post that he has begun to pay attention to the rules. Taboo, she doesn't need to say, just, go so fast.

Ming Shao hurried to catch up, "Girl, aren't you tired?"

Rushing through the night, almost drained everyone's energy, besides that, let alone the girl who has never been alive.

"A little tired."

Jiang Lao is honest.

Although she said this, she looked at the plaques on both sides of the street and looked for the location of the inn, but she didn't stop at all.

Tired and exhausted are more important things than not in my heart.

After walking to four or five inns in a row, the family was full. Jiang Lao thought about it in his heart. Now that the new year’s pass has just passed, the inn may have ordered the inn to book first if they are anxious to make money and go on business. I can't book one, so I don't leave by boat tonight.

It's just that these people who came with her will suffer.

Jiang Lao knew that he was compassionate to his servants, and he remembered what he owed them in his heart. When he returned from Huaizhou this time, he should be promoted and rewarded.

Even if others don't think so, she feels in her heart that she can find Rong Ming and go back to Jinling.

She could guess the opinions of others. Not only others, but even her father, her mother and her aunt, thought that she might be wasting her time on this trip, and she couldn't find anything in the end, only she didn't think so.

In the dream, his two legs were weak and shriveled like an old man, and he could climb to a position where everyone was afraid. Now that his leg injury is healed, without the hateful cruel temperament, the situation will only be better.

You can definitely find it.

Even if she was a little bit self-deceiving, she could only think like this. If she didn't think like this, her heart hurts so much that she can't bear it.

When she arrived at the eighth inn, just in time for a guest to leave, Jiang Lao quickly wrapped up the empty room, but she found a place to stay. She finally breathed a sigh of relief in her heart and sent someone to follow the shopkeeper in the inn. I went to the best restaurant here to buy a lot of good food for a big price, and rewarded the people who went to Huaizhou with her. I didn't have much mood to eat, so I went to the room to rest first.

Jiang Jinxing saw Jiang Lao go back to the room first, and took two beanbags he had brought out from Jinling for private possession. He followed up on the stairs, threw one to Jiang Lao, and sat down directly in front of the couch with his legs crossed. "You are better than those crying women, but you can't skip meals."

"If you don't eat more, you will collapse before you reach Huaizhou. You are not a real fairy and you can live by drinking some dew."

The child's mouth owes more and more day by day, and he winks his eyebrows and looks disgusted, but it just cures Jiang Lao.

Jiang Lao was indeed afraid that, as Jiang Jinxing said, he would collapse before reaching Huaizhou. He looked down at the bean paste bag, tore a small piece, and took a bite.

Jiang Jinxing looked at her for a long time, his voice suddenly softened a lot, "Sister A, don't worry."

"Brother-in-law must be fine."

With bright eyes, he said with some admiration: "I have never seen anyone as beautiful as his Kung Fu. My martial artist can't match it."

Jiang Lao felt a little weird.

Everyone said that something happened to Rong Chen, and she felt stubbornly that they were all wrong.

But when her brother vowed to tell her that Rong Ming was okay, she felt uneasy in her heart?

Jiang Lao shed tears.

I don't know if it's because Jiang Jinxing is usually too rude, and she didn't say anything right. She did this.

Jiang Jinxing looked at her like this, and the young boy's face was flat.

It's over. It wasn't troublesome at first, but he said it was as troublesome as those crying women.

"It's okay."

The more he said that Jiang Lao cried more fiercely.

Jiang Jinxing: "..."

"I won't say anything." He finally closed his mouth and watched Jiang Lao twisting the bean paste bun with his fingers. He stretched out his hand and held it in his mouth, raising his hand step by step as if he was surrendering. I walked out of Jiang Lao's room and went to the innkeeper to change his room to the one next to Jiang Lao.

The innkeeper readily agreed and asked Xiao Er to help carry his luggage up.

Jiang Jinxing went back upstairs after changing the room. He didn't notice that after he turned around, the innkeeper and Xiao Er's eyes became sinister, they were discussing things in general, and silently glanced at each other.

...

Jiang Lao's habit of admitting that the bed hasn't changed, it's a little hard to fall asleep when changing at night, and he turned around several times.

At this time in the past, when Ming Shao heard her turning over, he must have said something to her, but today he did not.

She couldn't sleep and gradually didn't want to sleep anymore, quietly got up, lit the candle by herself, and began to look at the topographic map of Quezhi Mountain in Huaizhou.

After lighting up the candle, she glanced at Ming Shao, who was sleeping in the room with a mat. Jiang Lao was a little helpless, and only said in her heart that she had been on the road these few days, which really exhausted her maid.

She looked at the terrain map and remembered the gullies and gully in her heart. Waiting to smell the smoke, at first she thought it was because she didn’t often light candles, lit other things, and waited for the smoke to get stronger, outside the window. Thick smoke billowed in, and Jiang Lao suddenly noticed something wrong.

She put down the sheepskin map and shook Ming Shao. Ming Shao kept her eyes closed and she was too heavy to wake up.

Jiang Lao tried her breath change, got up quickly, opened the door to find someone.

The door was locked from the outside.

She yelled twice and no one came.

Jiang Luo quickly understood that this was a trap of others.

The fire outside was getting brighter and brighter. Jiang Lao bit his lower lip and looked around. There was no water to put out the fire except for the water in the pot.

The smoke was too choking, she instinctively soaked the veil with tea, covered her face, looked at the closed door, and cast her gaze to the window lattice.

He walked quickly and pushed it twice, but was also locked from the outside.

Jiang Lao coughed twice. He didn't have much time to think. He took out the dagger at his waist and chopped dozens of knives against the wood in the center of the window lattice. No wood was broken, and he was desperate. The door was knocked open.

Jiang Jinxing's panting figure stood in front of the door, clutching his arm, just before he slammed into the door.

He was woken up by the smoke in his sleep. He knew that the fire started later than Jiang Lao, but he was stronger than Jiang Lao, and ran out before breaking the window.

A window, a door, even if Jiang Jinxing has grown for a few years, he is not as tall as Jiang Lao. His shivering appearance is obviously very painful.

"This inn is a den of thieves. Just now I saw a black shadow in the yard sneaking out. Since the rooms are locked, I guess the door of the yard is also locked. The owner and the shop second had a problem, so came with us and ate. The vegetables they led to buy were all fainted, and only the two of us were sober."

He endured the pain and went to the inn courtyard with Jiang Lao carrying Ming Shao. Jiang Lao patted Ming Shao's face and still didn't see her awake. Jiang Jinxing went to try the front entrance of the trial courtyard and was indeed locked.

Jiang Jinxing's face flushed, and he dug out the innkeeper and the eighteenth generation ancestors of the second inn, scolded them all over, and turned around, trying to help Jiang Lao put Ming Shao on his back and walk out the wall together.

"Don't scold me for now." Jiang Lao stopped Jiang Jinxing who wanted to bring Ming Shao with him. "You don't have to help me. You will only have trouble moving and delay work if you bring her."

"You first go over the wall by yourself, and quickly find someone to come back and put out the fire. At this moment, the fire is not big, and no one will be injured if you find the water. I will stay here to guard her, and try to see if I can wake up others. "

"I won't wake up, I tried it early." Jiang Jinxing's anger was faint, and he was trembling. He didn't know it was angry. It was too painful to hit the windows and doors just now, and he couldn't recover after a long time. He kept shaking. He said, "Don't leave me too far. The black shadow that rushes out is clearly a skilled person. I am afraid that the skill is not low. Maybe it is for you. If you are alone, I am afraid that something will happen."

She was only guarding this younger brother. At this moment, listening to him talking like this, Jiang Lao was taken aback, and his smoked eyes became more sour. Jiang Jinxing looked at her expression and frowned, like a little old man. So sad, he slapped her on the arm, and said fiercely: "Don't cry, hurry up and climb the wall."

Jiang Lao: "..."

There were no tears in an instant.

The courtyard wall of this inn was too high, she had to move the wooden barrel in the courtyard and step on it to climb up.

Knowing in her heart that wasting a little more time could kill people, after riding on the wall, she stared at the wall to balance her body, and never thought of looking down.

She knew she would be scared if she watched it.

When you get scared, you have to delay time.

Jiang Jinxing also climbed the wall. Seeing Jiang Lao didn't dare to open his eyes, he stunned, looked down for Jiang Lao, and said to her, "You can jump. There just happened to be a pile of firewood there."

As soon as his voice fell, Jiang Lao jumped down.

I'm afraid of changing.

But those servant girls who got darts in exchange are all because of her. If it's because she lost her life, it won't work.

The sound of the wind in her ears was mixed with the sound of horseshoes running from nowhere, and the sound of horseshoes sounded like the ground was shaking.

Maybe someone is coming

Fight the fire.

This thought flashed for a while, and Jiang Lao felt a lot more at ease. He fell into the pile of firewood, but he didn't hear the sound of the firewood breaking, but just a dull sound.

Her feet didn't even touch the ground.

Jiang Lao subconsciously thought that he was caught by Jiang Jinxing who jumped first, and felt that it was absolutely impossible for her brother to be no taller than her.

What's more, my brother told her to jump first.

Before opening his eyes, I suddenly realized that this person had a medicinal smell she couldn't be more familiar with, and was a little surprised.

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