Ji Yan and Ruan Xiaoyi left the school, led by Ruan Xiaoyi, and the two went to the Ruan family compound to make the final preparations before leaving.

Maybe everything is finally settled, or maybe as a teenager is going to stay away from his family, Ruan Xiaoyi and his father get along a little better, at least on the surface, there is no tension as before.

Perhaps this is the way many fathers and sons get along with each other in the world.

Ji Yan discussed the itinerary with Ruan Xin and Xiaoyi at Ruan's house, and several people looked at the weather conditions again and decided to set off directly on the second day.

They planned to return the same way as they came, first by land to Jinan Mansion, then to Yanzhou Mansion, and then to Huainan to take a boat into Beijing.

At first, Ruan Xiaoyi's father wanted to arrange for him to be accompanied by four family members to go to the capital together. Casual care and protection.

But Ruan Xiaoyi was very unhappy, and felt that it was too ostentatious to take four family members to the capital, and bargained with his father for a long time.

Finally, the father and son reached an agreement to bring only two capable cronies.

After the discussion, Ji Yan accompanied Xiaoyi back to his bedroom, watching the subordinates help him pack his luggage, and some of the other carry-on luggage were all helped by those servants to collect and pack, but the thin glazed tiles that were finally successfully fired were carefully wrapped by him personally.

Ji Yan looked at this hurried packing scene, remembered one thing, and asked, "Do you need to say goodbye to your fiancée before you leave?" ”

Ruan Xiaoyi hesitated for a while, and just this moment of hesitation made Ji Yan see that in fact, Ruan Xiaoyi still had feelings for his fiancée Song Qingqing, and he had not always planned to withdraw from the marriage contract as he said.

Ruan Xiaoyi gave his answer: "No, the tigress ......"

He paused, changed his tone, and said, "It's not that I won't come back, I'll explain to her when I come back from the capital." ”

The people were all packed, and Ji Yan stayed in the Ruan's house that night, and only stayed early the next morning, and the four of them set off to the south together.

The small team of four of them is Ruan Xiaoyi, the leader of Ji Yan, and Ruan Xiaoyi leads two family members, but the two family members do not obey Ji Yan's arrangement, such a very strange organizational structure.

On the second day, everyone packed their luggage and packages, Ji Yan changed into coarse linen clothes again, and Ruan Xiaoyi and the other three also brought Ruan Xin's road guide for them.

Originally, Ruan Xin wanted to send four people and four horses, but Ji Yan felt that his mule had not been ridden smoothly, and the horse was estimated to be even worse riding, so he suggested changing to a mule, so that the road would be more low-key.

The four of them chose the mule, Ruan Xiaoyi saluted his parents at the door of the house, and was about to gallop the mule, with the red dust as his companion, chic and chic, and share the prosperity of the world.

"Wait!"

A crisp rebuke came from afar, still a familiar taste or a familiar recipe and tone.

Song Qingqing ran out of breath, looked at Ruan Xiaoyi, and complained: "Are you going to say goodbye like this?" ”

Ruan Xiaoyi originally felt a little guilty about Song Qingqing, but in front of so many people, he felt that he couldn't get off the stage, so he said: "Yes, in order to hide from you, a tigress." ”

Song Qingqing was obviously angry, her eyes were red and swollen, and she gasped and said, "Then if you have a kind, don't go back to Qingzhou, and don't let me see you again." ”

Ruan Xiaoyi obviously made a mistake that young people often have, and he also said angrily: "If you don't come back, you won't come back, see that I'm looking for a princess in the capital, and I'll be angry with you when I come back." ”

"Smack." A slap was slapped, just like the tone of the person who made the slap, crisp and refreshing, and it exhausted the thousand words in her heart.

Song Qingqing covered her face and ran away, Ruan Xiaoyi pursed her mouth, touched her cheeks, turned over and rode on a mule, and said to everyone: "Let's go." ”

Seeing all this, Ji Yan sighed for a while, he felt that it was necessary for him to be a brother and give these adolescent teenagers some life mentor-like advice, mainly the princess and the county lord are not so easy to find, so he said: "I think you should catch up, talk to your fiancée kindly, don't follow those bad teenagers, for the sake of face, regardless of feelings." ”

As a result, Ruan Xiaoyi replied to him very frankly: "Ji Yan, aren't you still single?" Do you think I don't know more about women than you do? ”

This sentence poked at Ji Yan's sore spot, and made him want to kick the child off the mule with one kick.

Ji Yan was a little hesitant, and he didn't know if he had made Ruan Xiaoyi more confident than before, whether this was a good thing, or if it hurt him and made him easier to be beaten.

The four of them walked according to the planned route, but as soon as they left the boundary under the jurisdiction of Qingzhou Mansion, it was raining non-stop.

And because Ruan Xiaoyi and his two family members only have ordinary road guides, they can only live in ordinary inns and can no longer live in post houses.

Fortunately, their plate is full of entanglements, so they live in good inns along the way, and the treatment inside is actually much more comfortable than living in the official post before.

Ji Yan rode on the mule, and the friction was still very painful, he still didn't master the essence of horseback riding, the key was the waist.

The most important body part of a young man is the waist, whether it is riding a horse to kill an enemy and killing a man during the day, or in the boudoir at night, well, in fact, it depends on the waist.

On this day, their group had already traveled to the boundary of Jinan Prefecture, because the mud itself was not thinned, and the recent wind and rain weather, so the road was muddy and difficult to walk, and the speed of several people had to slow down.

On the road in the past few days, Ji Yan has not been idle, he has been thinking about how to sort out a clearer idea of the harvest of the trip to Qingzhou, if he simply records what he has seen and heard, and reports it back, it is too brainless.

He himself came to the conclusion that there was no need to continue to bother to track down who came to Qingzhou Mansion to spread secrets, because first of all, all the clues were broken, and secondly, more importantly, even if the person who carried out the execution was found, he might still be a small character, and he would still be blind in the face of the whole puzzle.

This matter should still be considered from the source, who was able to obtain these information during that time, and why to spread this news, so as to spread the suspicions, and consider these two points clearly to grasp the core life.

At this time, a mule's hoof took a step into the air, and suddenly stepped into a small mud pit, and the whole mule instantly lost its balance, and Ji Yan was riding on it thinking about things, and one lost his mind, and directly fell off the mule and fell into the mud.

Fortunately, the mud puddle was not deep, that is, it was just below his ankles, but the muddy water stained his clothes, so he had to change into the tailor-made luxury suit.

A gust of wind struck, Ji Yan felt that it was still a little cold, and it seemed that another heavy rain was about to come soon.

However, at this time, everyone was in trouble, because they looked around, and there was no one within a radius of more than ten miles within their sight, let alone the inn, and they couldn't see ghosts.

Their original plan was to enter the city of Jinan today, so that it was not a problem to stay overnight, but unfortunately the sky did not fulfill people's wishes, and the road was difficult, which made them difficult, so they could only speed up the mule pace, hoping to find a place to stay as soon as possible.

The emperor lived up to his wishes, until it was completely dark, and they walked for more than an hour, and in the distance they could hear a river roaring in a low voice.

They saw the light, which was four large dim characters floating in the air, and it was very evident in the silence and darkness.

The four big words are:

Jihe Inn.