"I always thought that the queen was pardoned by her father, and the imperial concubine left the palace again, so he would become more low-key." Xuanyuan Jue said simply.

Murong Xuanji smiled coldly and said, "How can an ambitious person give up so easily? Now that the eldest prince and husband have had an accident, his immobility makes me feel uneasy. ”

"Don't worry, I'll be careful." Xuanyuan Jue glanced at Baoqing, who bowed his head and was silent, and said, "Miss Baoqing, let's stay by your side, I'm fine." ”

"No, if something happens to you on the way, it will make me feel at ease, and I can rest assured that there is a person to take care of Baoqing along the way." Murong Xuanji looked at Baoqing and asked, "Baoqing, what do you think?" ”

"Baoqing obeys Miss's arrangement." Baoqing said calmly, even the expression on his face was so calm that people couldn't see his thoughts.

"Eighth Prince, let's settle it like this. When do you plan to go? As soon as Murong Xuanji's words changed, the matter was decided.

"Tomorrow morning!" Xuanyuan Jue quietly looked at Baoqing, and found that she always lowered her head, and said in a somewhat complicated mood: "There is nothing important in the court recently, and my father is also a little unwell, so I won't be in court early these days, I should be able to come back early if I go back quickly in these days, and it would be better if I could bring that person back." ”

Murong Xuanji listened carefully to Xuanyuan Jue's arrangement, "The second brother's witnesses will trouble the Eighth Prince, I will keep an eye on everything in the capital." ”

The sun had just risen on the morning of the second day, Xuanyuan Jue and Baoqing quietly left the capital with a few entourages.

"Eighth Prince, where are we going now?" Baoqing saw Xuanyuan Jue get off the horse, and also dismounted with him, and asked with some puzzlement.

"Don't call me the Eighth Prince here, so as not to expose your identity." Xuanyuan Jue thought for a moment, and then spoke again: "You just call me Eighth Master." ”

Although he felt awkward, Baoqing still whispered a word to the eighth master, and when he saw Xuanyuan Jue nodding with satisfaction, he also said: "The eighth master doesn't need to call me Baoqing girl in the future, I am just a little maid in the Nine Emperors' Mansion, and it will be good to ask the eighth master to call me Baoqing in the future." ”

"Okay, Baoqing." Xuanyuan Jue was not polite, he called Baoqing a little unnaturally, saw Baoqing lowered his head a little unnaturally, smiled slightly and whispered: "You take a closer look at the people who come and go in this town, many of them are business trips that have passed through in the past, and the most important thing is that this is the border area, which belongs to the three places, and we can find out some news from the people who pass by." ”

Xuanyuan Jue said as he took Baoqing into a restaurant, the restaurant has two floors, upstairs and downstairs are full of guests, and it seems that business is very good.

Xuanyuan Jue, Baoqing and the others sat down by a window on the second floor, and from the upper floor, they could see the people passing by on the street clearly, which was a very good location.

"A few guest officers are from out of town, do you want to try the signature dishes in our store?" The shopkeeper came over enthusiastically and poured tea and waited, "We have everything flying in the sky, running on the ground, swimming in the water, everything here, what do you want?" ”

"What do you want to eat?" Xuanyuan Jue opened his mouth and asked Baoqing first.

Baoqing didn't expect Xuanyuan Jue to ask for his opinion, so he was slightly surprised, but quickly calmed down and said lightly: "I don't care, it's better to be the eighth master." ”

Xuanyuan Jue nodded, thought for a while and said to the shopkeeper, "Get a few of the best dishes in your store and send them over." ”

"Gotcha!" The shopkeeper happily put the towel on his shoulders to wipe the table, and immediately went downstairs to place an order.

"Baoqing, pay attention to the table behind you, those people have been following us along the road since we left the capital." Xuanyuan Jue took a sip of water from the water cup, but quietly passed the word to Baoqing.

Baoqing pretended to accidentally get rid of the chopsticks in front of him, and bent sideways to pick them up, and quickly glanced at the people Xuanyuan Jue just said, although they were a little raw, but from the clothes of those people, they didn't look like people from poor places.

"Could it be someone sent by the Three Princes to follow us?" Baoqing asked Xuanyuan Jue in a low voice.

"I don't know." Xuanyuan Jue also said with some uncertainty: "If it is really someone sent by the third prince, it is too unsettling, but if it is just that we are too suspicious, it may also be a misunderstanding." ”

"In that case, we might as well stay in this town for one more night." Baoqing opened his mouth and proposed, "Since the eighth master said that there are more people coming and going here, maybe we can ask if anyone has seen the poison in the master." ”

Xuanyuan Jue thought for a moment and nodded and said, "That's fine, let's observe them for a little more time, I hope we are mediocre people." ”

After having lunch in the restaurant, a few people found an inn nearby to stay, but they didn't expect to meet those people who felt suspicious.

Just when Xuanyuan Jue hesitated to step forward and ask why those people had been following him, those people actually took the initiative to come over and greet him, which made Xuanyuan Jue and Baoqing a little surprised and puzzled.

"Are you from the capital?" A man who looked a little older on the other side asked Xuanyuan Jue.

Xuanyuan Jue nodded and asked calmly, "How do you know?" Listening to your accent, it doesn't seem like you're from here, and it seems like you're from the capital of Beiming Kingdom. ”

The older man smiled slightly and said: "Childe is really good hearing, several of us are indeed from the capital, and we have met a few on the road before, I didn't expect us to be so fateful and come all the way from the capital here." ”

Xuanyuan Jue just smiled faintly, "You guys won't be living here tonight, right?" ”

"Do you also live in this inn?" The older man looked at Xuanyuan Jue in surprise, and said with a happy smile: "It's really fate, even the inn you chose is the same, I don't know where you go next, look at the same different roads, if you are on the same road, why don't we go together." ”

"No, we're definitely not going to be on the same road." Xuanyuan Jue refused with a smile, and suddenly pulled Baoqing to his side, hugged her, and said with a smile: "My wife and I have just gotten married, and she has never traveled far, so I took her out to play in the mountains and rivers." ”

Baoqing was startled when Xuanyuan Jue suddenly hugged him, and was even more surprised when he heard what he said, but seeing him calmly looking at those suspicious people, Baoqing didn't say anything, just stayed quietly in his arms, and the two looked really sweet like a newlywed.

"I see, this son really thinks he is a good husband." A younger man behind the elder said with a smirk.

Xuanyuan Jue just smiled slightly, glanced at Baoqing gently and said, "I'm sorry, my lady may be a little tired from the journey, I'll accompany her back to the house first and say goodbye." ”

Xuanyuan Jue hugged Baoqing all the way back to the guest room before letting go of her, and explained a little embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, I was rude just now." ”

Although Baoqing also felt a little embarrassed, he knew that everything was just a show, so he didn't really get angry, but said lukewarmly: "Special circumstances, I can understand it." ”

Seeing Baoqing's somewhat cold attitude, and unlike other girls who would be shy about their daughters, Xuanyuan Jue had a faint sense of loss in her heart.

"From the conversation just now, do you think those people could be people sent by the Third Prince?" Xuanyuan Jue put aside the faint loss in his heart, and asked Baoqing with his spirits.

Baoqing thought for a moment and shook his head and said, "I don't see it." When I stayed by the side of the master and the young lady before, I also met some people sent by the third prince, but they didn't greet them directly like those people just now. The people of the Three Princes will not be so tactful. ”

Xuanyuan Jue nodded approvingly, and said seriously: "I think so too." If the third prince really sent someone to follow us, even if we found out, he would not show his face, let alone go to such great lengths to get to know us. ”

"Whether they were sent by the Third Prince or not, I feel that their motives are not pure." Baoqing quickly decided, "We have to get rid of them." ”

"Do you have a way?" Xuanyuan Jue looked at Baoqing with some expectation. Although he had the impression that Baoqing had been quiet and sometimes made people forget her existence, Xuanyuan Jue knew that she was a very smart woman.

Baoqing nodded and said, "Let's leave quietly tonight, and your entourage will leave tomorrow for the time being, and we will leave them when those people find out." ”

Baoqing's idea made Xuanyuan Jue a little moved, on the one hand, he felt that this method was not bad, and on the other hand, he thought that he could act alone with Baoqing without anyone disturbing him.

"Okay, that's it!" Xuanyuan Jue agreed without hesitation.

In the middle of the night, the earth was shrouded in darkness, and even the moon in the sky was hazy as if draped in a thin veil, so dim.

"I've seen it in the afternoon, and there's a hill not far from the town, and it's very close to where we're going." Xuanyuan Jue stood by the door and looked at the movement outside through the small crack in the door, "But that mountain road is very rugged, and it may be more troublesome and dangerous than us riding a horse from the main road. ”

Baoqing thought for a moment and said firmly: "Although the mountain road will be dangerous, but at least it will not be followed, if the Eighth Prince is worried, I can go through the mountain road alone, you and the others will ride to the road, and then we can meet in one place." ”

"No, since we are here together, we have to act together on the same day." Xuanyuan Jue immediately rejected Baoqing's proposal, and insisted on saying: "I will walk the mountain road with you, whether there is danger or not, we will bear it together." ”

Hearing Xuanyuan Jue say this, Baoqing didn't notice that the corners of his mouth were raised, and his mood became very good.

"There's no one outside, let's go." Xuanyuan Jue quietly went out to explore the wind first, and found that there was no danger and no one was watching, so he beckoned Baoqing to follow him.

The two of them quietly left the inn in black night clothes, flew on the eaves and walked on the wall, and soon left the town, walked a long way, and finally came to the foot of the mountain road that Xuanyuan Jue said.

"Do you want to wait until dawn to go?" Looking at the mountain road in front of him, where the camera could not be seen, Xuanyuan Jue confirmed with Baoqing again.

"Let's go now." Baoqing didn't think about it and decided, "I don't know when those people will find out that we are gone, and the sooner we go, the less chance we can be found." ”

"Okay, let's go." Xuanyuan Jue suddenly grabbed Baoqing's hand and walked towards the mountain. In order not to attract attention, the two of them didn't even dare to use torches, so they could only walk slowly on the mountain road by the hazy moonlight.

Being grabbed by Xuanyuan Jue's hand, Baoqing was a little uncomfortable, and quietly struggled for a while, finding that he was holding his hand harder, and he didn't want to let go at all.

"Eighth Prince, I can go by myself." Baoqing opened his mouth and said, trying to pull his hand out of Xuanyuan Jue's hand again.

"Don't move." Xuanyuan Jue pulled Baoqing to his side, and said seriously: "This road is not very easy to walk, I will hold your hand, and it is easier for everyone to take care of each other." ”

Although Baoqing felt that Xuanyuan Jue's explanation was far-fetched, and he also felt a little uncomfortable being led by him, Baoqing did not continue to struggle, but obediently still let him hold his hand, and just wanted to find the soldier as soon as possible and prove his innocence to Murong Xijie.

The two of them didn't know how long they walked, until the sky began to turn white and the sun slowly rose, and the two stopped, looking at the endless road ahead, and the endless road behind, both of them were a little tired from walking.

"Let's take a break and get back on our way." Xuanyuan Jue saw that some beads of sweat were oozing from Baoqing's forehead, so he pulled her to a big stone next to her and let her sit down and rest.

"Where are you going?" Seeing Xuanyuan Jue drop himself and prepare to run away, Baoqing blurted out and asked.

"I'll look around and see if there's any wild fruit or water source, and I'll come back and quench your thirst." Xuanyuan Jue stopped and said.

"I'm not thirsty." Baoqing opened his mouth to refuse, "You've been walking for so long, and you're tired, so just sit down and rest." Later, when we continue on our way, we will keep an eye out for wild fruits or something. Although he is outside now, Baoqing has always remembered that his identity is just a maid of the Nine Emperors' Mansion, and he doesn't dare to let the noble Xuanyuan Jue find food for himself.

Xuanyuan Jue Baoqing thought in her heart, thinking that she just couldn't bear to see that she was too tired, she was caring about herself, and her heart felt sweet as if she had eaten honey.