Chapter 218: The Northern Barbarians
After Zhou Huaiyu turned around, she only felt her back tight, because she knew that the lean man had been staring at her back. Zhou Huaiyu wanted to escape as soon as possible, she thought about it, and finally decided to enter the city.
The guards at the gate of the city who were in charge of the inventory focused on taking care of those who went out of the city, so Zhou Huaiyu entered the city very smoothly.
After a delay back and forth, before I knew it, it was already dark. Zhou Huaiyu thought about it again and again, but still felt that it was better not to rush to the night. She originally intended to escape and enjoy this prosperous world, and if she was accidentally persecuted by the wicked again, she would really regret it.
After such a decision, Zhou Huaiyu only felt tired and couldn't hold back anymore, so she found an inn, and then told Xiao Er not to let anyone disturb her or anything, and she had a good rest.
Zhou Huaiyu paid an extra ten copper plates to indicate a tip for Xiao Er, so Xiao Er patted her chest excitedly and promised that she would definitely find the most secluded room for her and not let anyone disturb her.
Zhou Huaiyu entered the room, and as soon as the door was closed, she really felt that the noise outside was much quieter, and she didn't care about it much, soaked her feet, and then went to sleep in the cold quilt. Of course, she didn't forget that she was on the run, so she didn't even take off her clothes and fell asleep.
Because she was so sleepy, Zhou Huaiyu fell asleep almost quickly, so when her door was quietly opened with a dagger not long after, she didn't notice it at all.
Zhou Huaiyu dreamed that she fled overnight, and the carriage turned her all over her body in pain, and suddenly there was a more violent shaking, and she was about to hit the car board, Zhou Huaiyu was frightened "Ah", and then woke up completely.
For a while, Zhou Huaiyu still didn't know what night it was, but in the next second, she remembered that she had entered Heshun City, found an inn to live in, and was sleeping.
But this small and bumpy place is clearly a carriage, how could she be in the carriage?
Zhou Huaiyu was so frightened that she wanted to sit up, but after struggling, she found that her arm couldn't move, and at this time she found that she was tied up and thrown straight in the carriage.
In an instant, Zhou Huaiyu broke out in a cold sweat.
She didn't scream immediately, because she didn't know what the other party's purpose was, let alone who the other party was.
If it was the Zhou family, or Zhao Jing, it would be okay to say, at most, they would catch her and send her to the capital again, but what if it wasn't their people, but some traitors and wicked people on the rivers and lakes?
Zhou Huaiyu wanted to cry without tears, but there was no way, she couldn't sit still at this time, so she forcibly straightened up, wanting to find out if there were any tools in the carriage that could allow her to help her untie the rope, but to her disappointment, there was nothing in the carriage except her.
What's even more tragic is that at this time, suddenly the carriage was bumpy again, and her upright body immediately fell down again. At this time, she finally knew why she was in pain when she dreamed just now, because it was not a dream, it was that she was in pain all over, she was tightly strangled by the rope, and she was thrown I don't know how many times.
Maybe the movement in the car was a little different this time, the carriage slowly stopped, Zhou Huaiyu didn't bother to pretend to be asleep, stared at the car door, and then the car door was opened, although it was already dark outside, but Zhou Huaiyu still recognized at a glance, the coachman outside the car door was the lean man with a different accent from Shuncheng today.
"You, be honest, or break your legs." The lean man was no longer using a simple "um" to cover up his abnormal accent at this time, although there was no expression on his face, but the tone of his voice was gloomy, and Zhou Huaiyu knew that he was not joking.
He didn't break her leg directly, but tied her, is it because it is not good to sell for a broken leg? Or is it because she has to take her to a far place, and if she breaks her leg, it is bound to be a lot of inconvenience?
Zhou Huaiyu was thinking wildly, and without saying a word, the man looked her up and down, and suddenly spoke: "You, Miss Zhou of Wu'an Houfu?" ”
Rao is Zhou Huaiyu forced himself to be calm, but the panic in his eyes still made the thin man see it clearly, and then he showed a shallow smile, no more nonsense, turned around and closed the door, the carriage continued to move, and after a while, it began to run wildly.
Zhou Huaiyu didn't understand why she was already dressed up like this, but she still leaked, and this thin man was obviously not from the Zhou family or Zhao Jing, because if it was the Zhou family or Zhao Jing's people, they would never dare to treat her like this. But if it weren't for the Zhou family and Zhao Jing, who would want to arrest her?
Zhou Huaiyu couldn't figure out how to think about it, the only thing she could do was to try to control her body in the small darkness to avoid more pain from falling, and then force herself to close her eyes and recuperate, because she might encounter something even more unbearable.
No matter who wants to arrest her, just looking at the attitude of this lean coachman, the other party is not good!
Sure enough, the carriage went wild all night. At the beginning of the period, Zhou Huaiyu was still able to control herself, but then her strength was too fast, she could only let herself curl up, and then grabbed the bulge on the wall of the carriage with both hands to fix her expression slightly, so that she could barely support it all night.
In order to escape, Zhou Huaiyu deliberately learned about some towns around the capital, so when she got out of the carriage and saw the people in front of her wearing one-armed robes and heavy felt hats, Zhou Huaiyu immediately realized that she had come from the capital to the Beiguan border of the Great Li Dynasty overnight.
The people here speak very similarly to the lean coachman, but because they are in the land of the Great Calendar Dynasty after all, these people speak the Great Calendar more fluently than the lean coachman. However, seeing that the lean coachman did not have much joy to see his fellow villagers, and he still could not speak without speaking, Zhou Huaiyu understood that this lean coachman was probably coming from the direction further north.
But, why did the people over there tie her up?
Suddenly, Zhou Huaiyu thought of what Zhao Jing said, he said that Guo Hongye wanted to marry her, and he was already ready to propose to the Zhou family. If this is true, then maybe someone in the capital has begun to know about it. And Guo Hongye has been guarding the northern frontier for many years, and often dealing with the northern barbarians, the two sides are incompatible, and you are dead or alive.
You don't have to think about it to know that there will inevitably be spies planted by the Beiban clan in the capital, if these spies know that she is about to marry Guo Hongye, then do they just have a reason to tie her up?
The more Zhou Huaiyu thought about it, the more she felt that this must be the case, otherwise she grew up in the capital honestly, where would she provoke the people of the Northern Barbarian Clan?