Chapter Ninety-Four: Escape
(On the last day of October, there is still a pink one in your hands, please vote for a certain porridge, and the back chases very tightly, at least let a certain porridge keep the second position, and I am grateful for the tearsโญ(โฏ3โฐ)โฎ)
Before Lu Yanwan's breath was even, the door of the sedan chair was split, and there were broken wood chips across her cheeks, bringing up a few strands of blood, Lu Yanwan hurriedly shrank her body back, and suddenly spilled a large piece of powder in her hand, I don't know if it poisoned the man in black, and the other hand pinched the dagger tightly.
The poison that Lu Xianwan sprinkled was very powerful, as long as it touched a little, it could make the skin fester, until she died of pain, if it weren't for the golden silk gloves left by Meng Feiyang, she wouldn't dare to touch it.
The man in black had obviously been hit, and after screaming, he fell to the ground and rolled over. Wang Tanzhi finally arrived at this time, looking at the black-clothed leader on the ground with some surprise, and his subordinates did not hesitate, and slashed the long knife into his chest, the leader of the black-clothed man couldn't help twitching, and there was a "Gege" sound in his throat, but he couldn't say a word, after Wang Tanzhi's long knife was pulled out, he didn't move anymore, and closed his eyes a little unwillingly.
Wang Tanzhi let out a long breath, and then hurriedly walked to the edge of the sedan chair, knelt down and pleaded guilty: "Let Her Royal Highness the princess be frightened, please move to the tent to rest for the time being, and the subordinates will ask someone to repair the sedan chair first." โ
Lu Huiwan tilted his head and deliberately did not show his face, fortunately, although the door was split, there was still a layer of red veil, and the situation inside the sedan chair was not very refreshing outside, so he lowered his voice and said: "The palace has to change your clothes first, tidy it up, and you all go back and wait." โ
Wang Tanzhi didn't hear Li Yufen's voice, Lu Yanwan deliberately suppressed his throat again, but he didn't make Wang Tanzhi suspicious, so he bowed down and retreated, and went to deal with the aftermath, Wang Tanzhi sent soldiers to count the number of dead and wounded, and found that his side was dead less than ten people, and no more than thirty people were injured, while the enemy's nearly 1,000 men were killed and wounded. Wang Tanzhi couldn't help but be a little excited, such a record was something he had never imagined, and fortunately he didn't let the black-clothed leader hurt Her Royal Highness the princess, otherwise even if none of them died today, they would all have to be buried for the princess.
Wang Tanzhi ordered the soldiers to bandage the wounds and then clean up the corpses here, and at this time, Lu Yanwan in the sedan chair had already changed out of Li Yufen's clothes on his body, put back on his own clothes, and then changed the clothes of Li Yufen to Lu Xuan, who was sleeping on the side, and put on a posture of falling asleep with his face facing inward. After doing this, she took a kettle and got off the sedan chair.
Although Wang Tanzhi commanded his subordinates to do things, his attention has always been on the sedan chair, and when he saw Lu Yanwan getting off the carriage, he only glanced at it, at that time, Lu Yanwan was wearing a dark purple dress, her long hair was draped over her shoulders, and the torches as bright as day allowed Wang Tanzhi to clearly see the expression on her face, without a trace of fear and panic, and there was no expression in the face of these hundreds of corpses, as if she had long been used to it.
Wang Tan's heart couldn't help but be stunned, something flashed in his mind very quickly, but it was so fast that he couldn't grasp anything.
The howling wind was blowing wantonly, and the girl's long black hair and clothes fluttered in the wind, as if she was about to return with the wind, Wang Tanzhi suddenly frowned slightly, and walked forward quickly.
Lu Yan pulled the hair from his ears, and when he saw Wang Tanzhi, who had already reached his face, he said with a smile: "Her Royal Highness the princess wants to fetch water to wash, the hot water has run out, it seems that you need to burn some more." โ
"Her Royal Highness the princess is fine, you can leave this kind of trivial matter to the last general, Miss Wanwan, you go up and take care of the princess, and the hot water will be sent over after a while."
Lu Yan didn't refuse, handed the kettle in his hand to Wang Tanzhi's hand, and said with a smile: "Then there is General Lao Wang, I just want to go to make it convenient, and I'll be back in a while." โ
Wang Tanzhi obviously didn't expect Lu Yan to say this to him, so he coughed lightly in embarrassment, his cheeks were already slightly red, and he said in a low voice: "Miss Wanwan, please poop, but be careful yourself, and I don't know if there will be any thieves who have slipped through the net ambushed nearby." โ
"I will, thank you General Wang for reminding me." Lu Yanwan smiled gratefully with Wang Tanzhi, and then walked to the tent specially used to relieve his hands. In fact, there is a prepared bucket on the sedan chair, but it is dedicated to Her Royal Highness the Princess, and palace maids like her naturally do not have such good treatment, so it is normal for her to come down to relieve her hands.
When Lu Yan entered the tent at night, he took off the clothes on his hands, revealing the black tights he was wearing inside, and then took out a human skin mask from his arms and slowly covered his face, and soon, an ordinary-looking teenager appeared.
Lu Shuwan pulled out the dagger from her thigh and cut a small hole in the back of the tent where she could pass guรฒ, and ran away.
Li Yufen had the sachet that Lu Yuwan prepared for her, Lu Yuwan could find her by following the special smell, thinking about such a short time, with Li Yufen's body, she wouldn't run too far, Lu Yuwan thought, she should be able to find Li Yufen before dawn.
On Wang Tanzhi's side, after he commanded the soldiers to sort out the endgame, it was already ugly, Wang Tanzhi ordered everyone to set up camp and rest in place, then walked to the sedan chair, bowed outside and said: "Your Royal Highness Princess, the tent prepared for you has been re-erected, you can move to rest inside." โ
Wang Tanzhi waited for a long time, but did not wait for any reaction, some worries appeared in his heart, and he asked loudly, "Princess?" Princess? Did you hear the words of the last general? โ
After waiting for a while, there was still no response, Wang Tanzhi realized that something was wrong at this time, and he didn't care so much, so he immediately raised his feet and got on the sedan chair, and saw a woman lying sideways in the sedan chair, her brows suddenly wrinkled even tighter, she screamed a few times, but the woman still had no response, Wang Tanzhi could only bite his teeth and say, "The last general is offended, I hope the princess is not strange!" After that, he reached out and grabbed the woman's shoulder, turned her over gently, and saw the woman's face clearly, but was surprised, this person is not a princess at all, if she is not mistaken, it should be the personal palace maid next to the princess.
Wang Tanzhi also understood that Li Yufen had fled at this moment, and there was already a cold sweat on his body, and he thought of Lu Yuwan, who had just gotten down from the sedan chair, so he immediately jumped off the sedan chair and rushed towards the most remote tent.
When he arrived in front of the tent, he didn't care about anything, he directly lifted the curtain and went in, and sure enough, there was no one inside, and he soon found a big hole that had been cut by a sharp weapon, and his eyebrows were suddenly dyed with color, and he turned around and walked out of the tent quickly, and gathered all the soldiers who were already exhausted.
Lu Hui took advantage of the night to look all the way in the dense forest, because it was night, her vision was very obstructed, and she didn't dare to light a fire, for fear of attracting Wang Tanzhi, it was naturally much more difficult to find, fortunately, there was a moon tonight, so it would not be dark in both eyes.
Lu Hui searched for nearly an hour late, and felt that they were far away from Wang Tanzhi and them, so she whispered to Li Yufen, she estimated that Li Yufen should be around here, according to her temperament, she might run desperately forward at first, and when she was tired of running, she would definitely find a place to hide, waiting for her to come and find her.
Sure enough, after Lu Yuwan called for a while, she heard the sound of Xi Xi Suo from a bush, she immediately ran there, brushed aside the layers of leaves, only to find that this was actually a small cave, and Li Yufen was crawling out of the hole with difficulty, as soon as she saw Lu Yanwan, she almost cried with joy, hugged her and cried: "Woo, I'm still afraid that you won't come, I'm afraid that I'm afraid of death......
Lu Yanwan immediately comforted Li Yufen, "Don't cry, princess, if you recruit those pursuers, we will fall short, how did you find this cave, it's really amazing, it just so happens that we will stay here for one night today, and then set off tomorrow morning." โ
Li Yufen also saw that Lu Yanwan was too excited, so he cried regardless of it, and now after listening to Lu Yanwan's words, he was afraid of provoking the pursuers, so he immediately stopped crying, and the two of them hunched over and went into the cave.
The cave is not big, it should have been a nest of some animal, but Lu Yanwan and Li Yufen are both slender, so they don't feel crowded.
"I just listened to your words, kept running, and then I was tired of running, so I wanted to find a place to hide, and I happened to see a rabbit running in front of me, you also know that I have never seen a hare, and I was curious, so I followed it to chase it, and then I found this hole......" Li Yufen was a little embarrassed when she said this, as if she felt that she should not be so playful in this situation.
Lu Yanwan didn't say anything, she could only sigh at Li Yufen's good luck. Besides, she was just a child who hadn't grown up, so she couldn't be blamed for anything. "Princess, you can sleep for a while, we have to hurry tomorrow morning, and when the time comes, I will wake you up."
Li Yufen was frightened all night, and she was indeed very tired, so she nodded and fell asleep on the "bed" that Lu Xianwan had made with clothes. And Lu Yanwan took out the fire fold and a topographic map from his arms, spread the map in front of him, looked at the dense mountains and rivers on the map, and frowned and thought about it.
Lu Xiwan didn't know how long she had been watching, and the faint light coming in from outside the cave woke her up, and she hurriedly pushed the sleeping Li Yufen next to her, and shouted: "Princess, princess, wake up, it's dawn, it's time to get up." โ
Li Yufen opened her sleepy eyes, sat up very reluctantly, and after a while, she finally woke up, Lu Yanwan handed her the water bladder, she drank a sip of water, and then asked Lu Yanwan: "Wanwan, what are we going to do next, where are we going?" โ
Lu Yanwan pointed to a point on the map with his finger and said solemnly: "Let's go to the border pass, Yuncheng!" โ
Li Yufen's face changed, and she asked in shock: "Why do you want to go there, we finally escaped, don't we just want to stay away from that place?!" โ
Lu Huiwan smiled comfortingly at Li Yufen and explained: "It's because everyone thinks that the two of us will flee to other places after escaping, and we will definitely not go to Yuncheng, we will be safest if we go to Yuncheng, at least in the short term, we will not be found by the people of the imperial court." โ
Li Yufen nodded as if she didn't understand, "Since Wanwan said so, then it must be safe for us to go to Yuncheng." โ
Lu Hui was relieved to see Li Yufen so obedient in the evening, so he took out some pastries from his bag and handed them to Li Yufen, saying: "You eat something first, let's set off in a while, I have already seen the road map, I'm afraid that the team and the family should not be on the road today, let's fight for this time, today first through the Lingfeng Mountains, after passing the mountain, there will be a town, let's buy a carriage in it, add some water and dry food, and the road behind will be much easier." โ
Li Yufen looked at the map, nodded as if she didn't understand, and then saw Lu Yanwan take out two mask-like things from his arms, his eyes suddenly widened, and he asked curiously: "Wanwan, what is it in your hand?" โ
"It's the secret weapon I told you." Lu Yanwan blinked, the expression on his face was quite mysterious, and after saying this, he made Li Yufen close his eyes.
Li Yufen felt a soft thing covering her face, the touch was very similar to her skin, and when Lu Xiwan told her to open her eyes, she saw the face of a strange teenager in the small mirror.
"Yikes!" Li Yufen couldn't help but scream, and then he couldn't help but touch his cheek with his fingers, and pinched his face hard, feeling a burst of pain, and then feeling more and more novel.
"Wanwan, what is this? How did I become a different person? Li Yufen raised her head, her eyes were shining, and Lu Yanwan asked, she has lived in the deep palace for a long time, unlike Shishi and Qin Qin, she is used to staying in the market, naturally she does not have as much knowledge as them, and when she sees this human skin mask, she is naturally surprised and novel.
Lu Yanwan smiled, and explained to Lu Yanwan very patiently: "This is a human skin mask, when I was still in the workshop, I got it from a strange person, the two of us escaped now, Wang Tanzhi will definitely send someone to sue the emperor immediately, I am afraid that the officials in every town will have a portrait of you and me in their hands, as long as we enter the city, I am afraid that we will be caught, but if we put on a human skin mask and become the appearance of another person, the government and the emperor will not recognize us." โ
Li Yufen seemed to suddenly realize, and nodded again and again, "Wanwan, you are really thoughtful, so that my father will not be able to find us!" โ
Lu Yanwan looked at Li Yufen's happy appearance, and continued with a smile: "The mask I put on you is a teenager, from now on, remember to keep your voice down when you meet someone, you are small, it is most suitable to pretend to be a teenager, as long as you are careful, you should not be discovered." โ
After saying this, Lu Yanwan put on an old woman's mask on herself, and then took out a small porcelain bottle, poured all the liquid in it on her hair, and then kneaded it evenly with her hands, and after a while, her black hair instantly turned gray, and finally skillfully twisted her long hair into a woman's bun, and then inserted a simple silver hairpin, and suddenly an old woman in her fifties appeared in front of Li Yufen.
Li Yufen felt that today was the most magical day in her life, she circled around Lu Xiwan, looked left, looked again, and approached her hair and sniffed it carefully, before she couldn't help but ask: "Wanwan, what are you wiping the ground on your head, why did your hair turn white all of a sudden." โ
Lu Yanwan smiled unnaturally with a wrinkled face before replying: "It's the juice of Sydney flowers, a dye that can temporarily change the color of the hair, but if it touches the water, it will still fade." โ
The method of dyeing hair is also a kind of disfiguration technique, Meng Feiyang told her that there are many colors of hair dye, the white raw material is the most, and she uses the simplest one, because there are really no raw materials on hand, and she is very lucky to be able to get Sydney flowers.
Lu Yanwan helped Li Yufen tie her hair into a teenager's ball, and took out a cyan short cloth coat for her to wear, and she became a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy alive.
While helping Li Yufen sort out her clothes, Lu Xiwan instructed: "Princess, from now on I will no longer call you princess, you remember your new name, called Gouzi, the two of us used to live in the countryside of Fengcheng, your father was a soldier in Yuncheng, your mother died of a sudden illness, and now only our ancestors and grandchildren depend on each other, and life is really unbearable, so I sold my family wealth and went to Yuncheng to find your father." โ
Li Yufen nodded a little ignorantly, but still pouted and said, "This name is too ugly, can't you call it something nice?" โ
"This is how the countrymen are named, and the cheap name is easy to support, if it is good, others should be suspicious of us." Lu Huiwan knew that Li Yufen did not understand the world, so he patiently explained. Li Yufen nodded reluctantly, accepting her new name.
Lu Xi saw that the qiฤ was ready, so she put on her burden and was ready to set off, she had studied the route early in the morning, and the fastest way to pass the Lingfeng Mountain Range was only through the Lingfeng Cliff, and the road of this cliff was very narrow, and only one person was allowed to pass through the Guรฒ, so Wang Tan and a pedestrian would never pass through this road, but there were naturally advantages and disadvantages, behind this road is the mountain wall in front of the abyss, as long as one is not careful, it will fall, it is a test of people's psychological quality.
So when Li Yufen saw this cliff, there was a look of fear in his eyes, if it weren't for the human skin mask on his face, the little face would have been white.
Lu Yanwan also felt Li Yufen's slightly trembling body, so she could only clasp her hand and comfort: "Don't be afraid, grandma will pull you, and she will definitely let you get here safely." โ
Li Yufen glanced at Lu Yanwan in embarrassment, swallowed her saliva, and then beggingly said, "Juan...... Grandma, can we go another way, I'm scared ......"
Lu Yanwan touched Li Yufen's head and continued to persuade: "Good dog, this road is the fastest, as long as there is no accident, we can cross the Lingfeng Mountain Range in the evening, and we may be able to enter the city before dark." โ
Li Yufen looked at Lu Yanwan with tears in her eyes, and finally slowly followed her footsteps. The cliff path is naturally not easy to walk, Li Yufen almost always has her eyes closed, her body is close to the mountain wall, holding Lu Yanwan's hand in front of her, and moving forward step by step, although Lu Yanwan is also afraid, she is finally well-informed, and tries to keep her eyes on the road in front of her, and from time to time she has to be distracted to take care of Li Yufen behind her, but she has lost a lot of attention, and when the two of them finally finished walking the path, they were already covered with sweat, and Lu Yanwan's clothes were more like they were fished out of the water, sticky and uncomfortable.
Li Yufen relaxed her spirit, but her feet were weak, and she couldn't care about the demeanor of a princess anymore, so she sat on the ground with her buttocks, looked at Lu Yanwan and begged: "Grandma, rest for a while, I really can't walk......"
Although Lu Yanwan wanted to arrive in Fengcheng as soon as possible, he also knew that Li Yufen really couldn't walk, and looked at the sky again, it was already past noon, so he nodded and said, "Then rest for a while, eat something and leave." โ
The dry food that Lu Hui brought out at night was not much, only enough for the two of them to eat for three days, so she was in a hurry to Fengcheng to replenish supplies, but now they are running away again, if they can't eat enough, how can they have enough strength to run.
The two ate pastries and rested for more than a quarter of an hour, and Lu Hui pulled the reluctant Li Yufen to stand up, and hurried to the road again.
The two of them walked forward non-stop, and finally arrived in Fengcheng before dark, Li Yufen was almost about to cry with excitement, she had never walked such a long way since she was a child, she had long felt that the soles of her feet were painful, and the socks seemed to be stuck to the soles of her feet, she could predict that the soles of her feet must have bled out.
Lu Xiwan pulled Li Yufen to stop not far from the city gate, she saw the familiar figure at the city gate from a distance, and her pupils couldn't help shrinking, she didn't expect him to come so quickly......
Wang Tanzhi was staring at the people who entered the city with a cold face, the chill on his face almost froze people into ice slag, his eyes swept carefully over everyone's faces, as if he was afraid of missing a trace of clues, last night as soon as she found out that Li Yufen and Lu Yan were gone, she immediately asked people to quickly go back to the capital to report to Li Yan, and then let all the soldiers scatter in the forest to search, but this forest is too big, to find two people, like looking for a needle in a haystack, there is no harvest for a whole night, But it made the soldiers who had not slept all night even more exhausted.
After dawn, Wang Tanzhi first let the soldiers rest in place, he was alone, riding a fast horse through the Lingfeng Mountain Range, to the nearest Fengcheng, he guessed, Li Yufen and Lu Wanwan two weak women escaped, it is impossible to keep walking on foot, if they want to buy carts and horses, they must be purchased in the city, and Fengcheng is the nearest city, if there is no accident, the two of them will definitely come here.
Li Yufen followed Lu Yanwan's line of sight, obviously also saw Wang Tanzhi, a trace of panic flashed on her face, fortunately there was a mask to cover it, the panic was not too obvious, she just quietly grabbed Lu Yanwan's hand, and asked in a tight voice: "Grandma, what should we do?" โRS