My eyes fell on Ji Jiu's gray hair, and I whispered, "I didn't expect you to be so calm when you saw her." "I thought you hated her!" ”

I glanced at him and asked bluntly, "You were plotted against in the Sealand Palace, isn't she inextricably involved?" ”

"Why do you still have the face to come and beg you to leave?"

I asked a few questions in a row, reached out and folded an unknown wildflower from the flower on the side of the pavilion, took a few pieces in my hand, and said: "There will be a war in the near future, and the two major forces of Sealand are leisurely and tight." ”

"On the one hand, I sent a letter, postponed the opportunity to meet, and was busy rewarding this reward and that."

"The other side is even more outrageous, I came here myself, and I plan to take you away."

"If you are moved by her and followed, aren't you afraid that she will take you to the battlefield as a bargaining chip to blackmail the empress?"

Ji Jiu looked at me, patiently listened to my words of complaint mixed with concern, and said with a smile: "I said that I wouldn't go with her, why don't you believe it?" ”

"I don't have my ears back, didn't she say that she would leave tomorrow morning, but you didn't refuse."

Ji Jiu's eyes flashed, and he said lightly: "Xiaolin, I'll tell you now, I'll leave tonight, do you believe it or not?" "Ah," I said, looking up at him with wide eyes, "really? You have been in Zhuyuan for a few years, and you can leave tonight, the guards in the East Courtyard, I don't think the kung fu is low, so I'm not afraid that they will stop you and won't let you leave? “

I glanced at him and said affirmatively, "Those people are all loyal to the empress, right?" “

A faint smile appeared on Ji Jiu's lips, and he looked at me with his hands in his hands, his eyes did not dodge: "I am outside now, not in the bamboo garden, if I can come out, I can naturally leave." “

My mind was in a mess, and I couldn't help but say, "What about your agreement with the empress?" “

Ji Jiu's voice was as hoarse as ever, but his tone sounded very relaxed and a little joking: "Why do you think about this more than I do." I knew that she had made an appointment with me, but I didn't know that I thought it was you. "Isn't it about the same? You've got the idea of using a stand-in. “

He smiled wryly: "The agreement is still there, just change the location." “

I winked at him and asked, "You mean, you're leaving Bamboo Garden for North Zealand?" Go straight to the battlefield to find her? “

Ji Jiu said that he did not cancel the agreement. But he is about to leave the East Courtyard, and I naturally think that he is going to the battlefield in the north of Zealand to see the empress, which is a very reasonable inference. "I thought I could see it, but now it seems that it can't."

He was succinct.

I thought about it quickly, shook my head and said, "This is not in line with my established plan, I am going to help you get a chance to leave, so I agreed to be your stand-in." “

I had hesitated to consider whether to help with this favor at the beginning, but in the days when I was his attendant in Zhuyuan, I couldn't find fault with his words and deeds that dissatisfied me. Just from the perspective of being an attendant, being able to find such a master is a blessing from the previous life.

What is my identity now, don't I just confirm the identity of this squire? "Now I understand what you mean, in fact, you have the ability to break away from the control of the empress, so I don't have to help you."

He changed his plans. I made the appropriate adjustments, and I couldn't think of a reason to continue with him.

Of course, I understand my current predicament in my heart, or the same sentence, if I want to go to Zealand, I need to raise some funds, I am wondering, should I ask Ji Jiu about it, but I am afraid that this inquiry will appear at this moment when the situation is unknown. Not proper.

I was hesitating, Ji Jiu looked at me intently and asked, "What's your plan?" “

Ji Jiu asked me thoughtfully, "Xiaolin, my plan has been put on hold for the time being, why don't you just complete your plan for you?" “

He raised his head and glanced at the sky and said, "It's not early, let's talk while going down the mountain." ”

He chose the same path as difficult as me. I followed behind him, my steps were also slow, I wanted to ask him why he didn't take the carriage from the main entrance, and Ji Jiu asked again:

"Xiaolin, tell me what the plan is? Your plan? ”

My feet slipped. I almost fell, and hurriedly tried to grab the small branch on the side of the road, Ji Jiu reached out and grabbed me, my heart jumped, the hand he held on my arm was not at all the weakness and weakness of a long-term sick person I imagined.

Although the medical skills are not very good, and the kung fu is only general, but I feel the strength in a person's hand, and I know that Ji Jiu's condition is reserved, he has at least practiced kung fu before.

Maybe because of the injuries on his body, that accident affected him, and more likely, he was affected by the palace change in his birthplace.

My plan was, of course, to go to the Sealand Palace, and I almost blurted out that, I whispered a thank you to him, then looked sideways at him and said, "Go to the Sealand capital." "Then listen to you, follow your plan and go first to the capital of Sealand, and I also happen to meet a few old people."

I was skeptical for a moment, but he didn't look like he was joking, so he thought about it and nodded silently in agreement.

The chaos in front of him was confused, it is safer to leave right and wrong than to stay here, Ji Jiu has seen the people in the palace, and the decisions he made always have his reasons, and it depends on how he withdraws.

For me, going to Sealand is a step closer to my destination than I had planned, and I'm happy to see it happen

Ji Jiu took me in through the side door, just like when I came out alone before, there was no one else at the side door.

Not long after entering, when we walked along the lakeside path, the calm and capable steward under Ji Jiu intercepted us halfway.

The East Courtyard, like all fireworks lands, is not visited early in the morning.

The path by the lake is quiet, and you can hear the sound of fish jumping out of the water.

The steward took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it to Ji Jiu with both hands: "I just received it, hurry." ”

Ji Jiu frowned between his eyebrows, took the letter and read it quickly, instead of handing it to me directly like the last time, he stayed in place for a moment, pondering, as if he was considering countermeasures.

I observed his expression and asked, "Is it a letter from the empress?" Things have changed? ”

Ji Jiu turned his head to look at me in surprise, didn't speak for a while, his gaze stayed on my face, and then he whispered to the steward: "What I asked you to prepare, are you all right?" “

The steward said respectfully: "It's all ready, Ninth Master, everything you want to use tonight is ready." “

Take precautions, it seems that Ji Jiu's plan is not a day or two, he has already planned.

My mind was still on the letter he had put away, and I didn't know what it was about, but I had a gut feeling that there was something new on the empress's side.

Ji Jiu whispered a few words to the steward, I watched the steward walk out of our field of vision, and when Ji Jiu led me through a small forest, he lowered his voice and said, "Go from this place." "Where is the road?" I glanced at the gable in front of me in amazement.

A scene that surprised me then happened, I saw that Ji Jiu was like a trick and disappeared from the side of the bushes, wasn't that a wall? I was confused when I heard his voice say, "Not yet." “

I had to go to the bush too, and when I saw that I was about to hit the tree, he stretched out his arm from behind the tree and pulled me, and there was a secret door that was not visible from the outside.

I sighed and gossiped: "Are there many such doors in the East Courtyard?" Aren't there a lot of shortcuts that I don't know about? "When you go out of the East Courtyard in the morning, you won't go through such a door, right?"

Ji Jiu took me through the shortcut, and entered the bamboo garden in the blink of an eye, and the exit was also behind a rockery, because it was close to the wall, on the surface, it was completely impassable. "When designing this courtyard, the empress used the most clever craftsmen in the whole of Sealand, so I don't need to answer the questions you asked, you should know the answers." "There are a lot of them," I said again, "and I can see that she is prepared for danger in times of peace." “

Ji Jiu raised his eyebrows and asked, "How do you say this?" "The people who can come up with so many organs are either worried about being assassinated all day long, or they are very serious and always have a heart of worry."

I snapped my fingers and said, "But there are also some contradictions with her people, how can such a person put aside the affairs of the country and go out to travel?" "It's hard for me to figure it out, probably only people close to her know about it."

"People are complex and multifaceted, and you can never see everything."

"Agreed."

In the same place, just after dawn, the troika took the distinguished master and stopped at the same place where they had met yesterday.

She had been in the car for a long time, her knuckles gently tapping against the wall of the car, and she finally couldn't hold it anymore and got out of the car.

His eyes stayed at the pavilion in the middle of the mountain, and the soft words of yesterday were still in his ears, but there was no one in the pavilion until now, and he must know that it was more than half an hour later than the appointed hour.

Her mood is getting more and more anxious, the hidden guard has not transmitted any abnormal movements to her from yesterday to now, could it be that she is sick again?

When the sun rose, she finally saw the person dressed as a steward running in a hurry, and knelt on the ground and said a few words, which made her look violent!

I sat at the other end of the carriage, drowsy.

Ji Jiu is too good at picking the hour, choosing to run in the middle of the night, you must know that once the law of people's work and rest is formed, it is very painful to break it, along the way I am always worried that someone will chase after me, and the movement of a random carriage passing outside makes me nervous.

It's not easy for me to keep my eyes open until now!

When he heard the calm steward talking to Ji Jiu, he replied: "It's out of the realm, and the other party will definitely not be able to catch up." ”

I closed my eyes with relief.

Our carriage is on the mountain road to the capital of Sealand and can be reached in about three to four days according to the predetermined route, depending on the weather conditions in the mountains.