Since the defeat of Ji Yingzhou City, Beigongchen has already sensed the impatience of the King of Qi, so he sent people to Great Wei to seek peace.

Among the officials of the Great Wei, there are many lords and factions, after all, they have fought a battle and lost their lives and money, if they continue to attack Yan in the north, they need a lot of grain, grass and troops, although the wind and rain have been smooth in recent years, but the treasury revenue is not necessarily much more than in previous years, and it is really inappropriate to spend such a big price to attack the border defense cities of Yan State.

What's more, what happened to Ding Zhen, Rong Liang was even more worried about Xiao Shaobei, if he captured Beiyan again, he was afraid that the power in his hands would be too big to be uncontrolled.

So Xiao Shaobei received the emperor's decree that he decided to make peace with Yan after sending out a soldier.

Although Xiao Shaobei was reluctant, he still obeyed the holy decree and retreated.

Rong Che's injuries were already healed, and when he walked into the Dingbei Hou Mansion, he saw Xiao Shaobei practicing his sword, full of anger, as if he was about to vent from the edge of the sword, and slashed with a horizontal knife, splitting a thick wooden stake into two!

"Master Hou, His Royal Highness King Xuan has come down. His guards reported from the sidelines.

Xiao Shaobei's eyes moved slightly, turned around neatly, put the sword in his hand behind him, and looked at Rong Che.

He handed the sword to the guards on the side, and then said to Rong Che, "Why are you here?"

Since Ji Yanning fell into the water, Xiao Shaobei led his troops to attack the border city of Yanguo, but Rong Che led people to look for the Luanshui River for nearly a month, but still found nothing, and returned to Yingzhou City a few days ago.

Rong Che's eyes flashed slightly: "I heard that the imperial brother agreed to sue for peace?"

Xiao Shaobei raised his chin and pointed to the holy decree placed on the stone table not far away, and said in a slightly sarcastic tone: "Where is it!"

Beigong Han captured Ji Yanning, and even caused her to fall off the Luan River, Xiao Shaobei couldn't wait to arrest him and break his body into pieces.

Rong Che had already guessed that this would be the result, and he said: "With the temperament of the imperial brother, it is inevitable to agree to sue for peace, not to mention that if it is to attack the Yan Kingdom, the cost is too great, and the soldiers have just experienced a big battle, and they really need to rest." ”

Xiao Shaobei's deep eyes carried a trace of deep annoyance, and said: "But the news I got is that the King of Qi of Yan State rebelled, and Emperor Yan Beigongchen personally led troops to crusade against King Qi. The current Yan Kingdom is in chaos, if you take the opportunity to attack in one fell swoop, it is not impossible to take the capital of Yan Kingdom. ”

When Rong Che heard his words, there was a trace of wave in his deep eyes, and he asked, "Can you tell the imperial brother about this?"

The corners of Xiao Shaobei's lips hooked up a sarcastic smile: "It is precisely because I said that he is so taboo, if Ding Zhen leads the soldiers and horses in the northern Xinjiang, he may be happy to let Ding Zhen lead the troops to attack the Yan Kingdom at this time." ”

This is a distrust of Xiao Shaobei, of course, Xiao Shaobei feels that he himself is not worthy of Rong Liang's trust, if he can, he will avenge his father!

Rong Che fell silent.

"Are your injuries better?" Xiao Shaobei didn't want to continue the topic, and asked Rong Che instead.

Rong Che said: "After the scab, it's okay, the doctor said that you can practice martial arts after a while." ”

Xiao Shaobei hummed lightly, then walked up to the power stone table, picked up the bright yellow holy decree, and walked towards the study.

Rong Che was about to follow, but saw a familiar figure at the door.

He looked over and remembered that the person was the only maid Ji Yanning brought to Yingzhou City this time, Ying'er.

Rong Che walked out of the courtyard and heard the conversation between Ying'er and the soldiers guarding the courtyard gate.

"You don't have to ask every day, if there is news about Miss Ji, Master Hou will definitely not hide it from you. The soldier said.

Ying'er bit her lip and said, "I'm just...... I'm afraid I'll miss something. ”

The soldier sighed lightly, Miss Ji had not heard from her for more than a month, and if she could survive, she should have come back a long time ago.

He said to Ying'er: "You go back, if there is really news, I will tell you." ”

Ying'er answered, a little lost.

"Are you Ying'er?" asked Rong Che.

Ying'er looked up and saw Rong Che in front of her, her eyes widened in surprise, and then she nodded.

Rong Che's eyes flashed slightly, and he couldn't see through what kind of emotion it was, he said, "Take this king to see the courtyard where Yan Ning lives." ”

Ying'er nodded, answered yes, and then took Rong Che to the courtyard where Ji Yanning lived.

Stepping into Ji Yanning's courtyard, Rong Che came for the first time, but seeing that this place was still clean, only orderly, it seemed that it was not affected at all, but the complexion of the people was a little bad.

After all, there is no news of his master, and no one will be psychologically good.

Rong Che's eyes swept over the courtyard, and then walked towards Ji Yanning's room.

Ying'er originally wanted to stop it, after all, the eldest lady has never liked others to enter and leave her room casually, but when she thought that it was His Royal Highness King Xuan in front of her, Ying'er's words couldn't be said for a while.

There weren't many things in the room, they were neatly arranged, and there were still books on the desk that she was reading before leaving.

Rong Che stepped forward and picked up the book, which was a travelogue of Laizhou, introducing the customs and customs of Laizhou.

He remembered that Ji Yanning read a lot of books and was very miscellaneous, but her memory was still very good, and she had the ability to never forget.

He looked at the desk, several books were about Laizhou and Southwest Miao Village, he frowned slightly, could it be that Ji Yanning was very interested in these two places?

But among the great Wei, the good places are very large, and if you talk about them, these two places are not famous.

Rong Che glanced at a small box next to the bookshelf, it should be something that Ji Yanning brought from Chang'an, he lowered his body and half-squatted down, opened the box, and most of it contained some books, including medical books, travelogues, and some folk miscellaneous conversations.

She picked up a copy casually and found that it was also about Miao Village in the southwest.

"Has your young lady ever been to Laizhou and Southwest Miao Village?" Rong Che looked up at Ying'er who was standing aside.

Suddenly, hearing Rong Che's question, Ying'er was slightly stunned, and then shook her head and said: "It shouldn't be, the slave maid hasn't been with Miss for a long time, but I heard Sister Ziyu say that Miss has been staying in Jiangzhou before, and going to Chang'an is her first time going far away." ”

Rong Che suddenly remembered that he asked Ji Yanning before why he knew Yan Xu, she said that she had been to Chang'an when she was a child and met Yan Xu, who was still young.

It doesn't seem to be the case.

However, Ji Yanning has a lot of secrets, and he can't guess many things at all, but she doesn't want to say it, and she won't force it too much.

Now he only hopes that Ji Yanning is still alive.

He put the books back and was about to close the lid of the box, but found a small thin bamboo tube among the books, and he picked it up with some curiosity, only to find that it was a small bamboo tube that could hold something, and a piece of paper was stuffed inside.

Rong Che took out the small paper in the bamboo tube, only to find that it was a map.

Looking at the handwriting marked on it, it should have been drawn by Ji Yanning himself.

However, this map is not a complete map of a certain place, just a few places spliced together, and several places drawn on it, in addition to the Laizhou and Southwest Miao Villages that have appeared in several travelogues just seen, as well as Liangzhou, and Yanguo Lindu.

The above connects these places, and there are two lines from Yingzhou City, one is to the Lindu of Yanguo, and the other is to Laizhou in the East Sea. Laizhou leads to Miao Village, which leads to Liangzhou and then to Chang'an.

Here's a road map.

Could it be that this is Ji Yanning's purpose of leaving Chang'an in the first place?

Rong Che looked at the map carefully, and a thought suddenly flashed in his heart, if Ji Yanning hadn't died, would she have gone to Lindu or Laizhou first?

But is she really alive? Rong Che felt a slight pain in his heart.

This hope is too slim, the water of the Luan River is so turbulent, and she has not heard from her for so long, but he is afraid that it will be more auspicious, but even so, he does not want to believe the news that she has died until his body is found.

Rong Che put the map back in its place, then stood up and left the room.

After Great Wei accepted the peace talks, Beigong Han had already received the news that King Qi was planning to rebel, and was walking back with some soldiers and horses.

After Ji Yanning stayed in the inn for two days, he finally planned to leave Tanzhou City.

Because the Yamen of Tanzhou City posted a notice, because there were too many refugees from all over the city, there were too many people crowded into Tanzhou City now, and they were afraid that the soldiers and horses of the King of Qi would come directly to control Tanzhou, so the city gate would be closed on the second day, and the entry and exit had to be strictly checked.

Ji Yanning walked with a group of merchants, after all, it is safer to have more people.

In order to make herself less prominent, after all, a girl will always be too conspicuous when she goes out, so she changed into men's clothes, her face was pockmarked, and her hair was as messy as possible.

She looks like this, even if she knows that her identity is a woman, the people in the caravan don't think they can look down on her.

Ji Yanning didn't care, she just followed the caravan on horseback, there were many people like her, after all, when the war was in turmoil, everyone went out together.

She felt that since she had lived with Aunt Niu for a while, there were too many things she could endure now.

She was born in a family in her last life, and her food and clothing were all first-class, even if she was hard, she would not deduct her from eating and wearing, and later became Ji Yanning, although she was a merchant girl, she didn't have to worry about food and clothing, but being with Aunt Niu made her deeply understand how the poor people live.

Even if it's dirty now, she can accept it calmly.

However, if there are rebels, there will be thieves, and Ji Yanning has only been on for two days when he met bandits.

"If you want to live, leave your money and things, otherwise don't blame us for being polite!"

Stopping in front of the caravan were more than a dozen strong men with large swords in their hands, looking fierce and vicious, staring straight at the goods they were carrying.

Everyone was shocked, and when they looked back, they were all bandits, and they surrounded them like this.