Chapter 198: Gentleness itself
The team that went to Li's house to see her future husband was clean, except for the horses and carts, which were still the original. Those people from the Liu family, whether they made sense or not, were taken back to the barracks by Chu Jingyan and locked up, so as not to cause trouble.
Some people are obedient on the surface, but they don't know what bad things to do when they are released behind their backs. What's more, even those close to them can betray people, how can they trust these people who have never dealt with them?
This place is still four or five miles away from the northwest city, and according to the speed of this carriage, it will take about half an hour to walk.
Chu Jiayin opened the curtain and looked at the world outside, and the more he walked to the northwest, the more desolate and terrible he felt. Obviously, they are moving from a sparsely populated place to a populated place, and this change seems strange.
I only arrived in the northwest yesterday night, and Chu Jiayin didn't have time to look at the inner environment, and he didn't know what the situation would be under that house during the day. When he first came here, Chu Jiayin only remembered how anxious he was chased, and he didn't look carefully at how desolate this place was.
Now that I really feel it carefully, I suddenly found that there seems to be a rancid cannibal vulgar in the northwest. If the officials here are not poor, I am afraid they will really be cannibalistic demons! Take the sacrifice of the people to make wine and meat!
Thinking that he met those South Vietnamese people who were slaves in Xiliang, Chu Jiayin felt even more heartbroken, those slaves in the northwest of South Vietnam The official family didn't care about horses? Let them fend for themselves, if those people make mistakes, they should be like this, but there are still children of a few years old, and how can the sin of mistakes be counted on the children's heads?
"Don't look at it, the scenery along the way is not very good. I haven't been to Kyoto yet, but it's said to be a good place. Leng Lan said beside him.
Chu Jiayin also didn't return to Kyoto City for two years, and she was a little sad for a while, and her speech added a hint of sentimentality: "Yes, Kyoto City is very good, and it's fun to celebrate the New Year." I just don't know why, I always want to escape from that city and see the outside world. When I really go far, I can't help but miss it. I haven't been back for two years, and I don't know what happened to Kyoto City and my relatives in Beijing. ”
"Didn't it mean that if the matter is settled, your second brother will take you back to have a look. When the time comes, you have to take me, I have no one in my family, and I don't have much money in my hand, I heard that your family is rich, and I have to slaughter you when the time comes! Leng Lan stretched out her hand to hug Chu Jiayin, hugging her very rarely.
Chu Jiayin felt a trace of pressure, and the soft touch of the dumplings always reminded her of her inexplicably shrunken figure in her life. Obviously, I didn't have such a flat life in my previous life, could it be that practicing martial arts really affected my development?
But Chu Jiayin is sad, if it doesn't last long in the future, people can't tell if it's a man or a woman when they take off their clothes!
"Okay, I'll take you to eat all over the inner and outer cities of Kyoto when the time comes." Chu Jiayin made a promise that inviting someone to eat would be easy for her to add a pair of chopsticks.
Chu Jiayin still doesn't believe that Leng Lan can still eat her into a poor egg with that mouth!
"Okay, then we need to finish the mission sooner, so I can go back to Kyoto City with you sooner. I want to go and see it, it's Murong Han's stinky thing, and he doesn't take me with him every time he goes back. Leng Lan seemed to have a deep complaint against Murong Han, and every time he mentioned him, he would unconsciously carry a little resentment.
Entering the city gate in the northwest, Chu Jiayin only felt that it was terrifyingly desolate. What was it like when I went to the inn to see Murong Han last night, and what it looked like during the day now, the only difference was that there were three or two more people on the road. Those shops, stalls, and so on, are just placed on the street for decoration, and no one takes care of them at all.
"Sister Leng Lan, do you think this northwest border is haunted? What kind of trouble is there during the day? Chu Jiayin really couldn't understand what a huge city could be other than being haunted if it was so desolate!
But hauntings can't be made during the day!
"Earlier, I saw many South Vietnamese people being captured as slaves in Xiliang, but at that time I only saw a few thousand people. This northwest city is not small, could it be that there are more than a thousand people missing, and it will become desolate? "The only thing that can be explained is that there are probably more than 1,000 people in the northwest who have been taken away!
Then the situation is serious.
Leng Lan clasped her arms with both hands, thinking: "As soon as you say that, I feel strange." Although our soldiers and horses did not come from the main gate and these streets, we have no way of knowing the situation here. So what did our General Murong do? Didn't he live in an inn in the city all the time, was he blind, or did he deliberately hide it from us? ”
Chu Jiayin just wanted to put the curtain down, but was stopped by Leng Lan. She frowned, as if sensing something was wrong. Chu Jiayin followed her gaze and found a bunch of strange people, carrying many dishes, snacks and the like.
Now, I am in a panic on the stall. The streets are lively, but compared to other places, they are rather bleak. But it's much better than when Chu Jiayin and the others first came.
"Are these people getting up late together?" Chu Jiayin asked curiously, but when she looked at the sky, the sun was booming, and noon had passed.
Even if you get up late, it can't be this time, right, or are people in the northwest used to going out day and night? Not long after, Chu Jiayin and Leng Lan saw Murong Han coming from another direction, as if he had come back from elsewhere.
Well?
Those who had just set up their stalls were chatting with a smile, and the expressions on the faces of several of them were still a little stiff, and they saw Murong Han hurriedly greeting him. After Murong Han entered an inn, the enthusiastic expressions of these people were no longer there.
Their eyes all stopped on Chu Jiayin's carriage and the people who followed them. They whispered to each other, and after a while, a man walked out.
Leng Lan hurriedly lowered the curtain of the carriage and sat back on the seat of the carriage.
"Sister Leng Lan, which one are they playing?" Those people didn't want to show Chu Jiayin at all, she only had to pay a little attention to it, and she could notice that something was wrong.
Leng Lan's face was not very good, and he replied: "This Lord Li is really trying to perfunctory us." I'm afraid these people on the street are all for acting for Murong Han, and when he has stayed here enough, Lord Li will definitely order a cannon to send off the guests. ”
"Is there really no stall in the Northwest Territory? So what do they rely on to support themselves on weekdays? Chu Jiayin was very depressed, even if he grew vegetables and rice at home and raised chickens, ducks and geese, and then raised silkworms and weaving cloth, he didn't have to worry about food and clothing, so he had to do business.
Otherwise, wouldn't you even be able to eat salt, the northwest is not near the sea, and you can't dig up salt in the mountains, so it's impossible to shovel salt yourself.
"Who knows, you have to ask Master Li himself to find out. When you enter the Li family, don't goof. Leng Lan instructed, although Chu Jingyan is optimistic about people who don't need her to worry about it anymore, but what if it happens.
In case Chu Jingyan's lover has a Xi Shi in his eyes, and he sees the wrong person once, then he can't compensate his wife and lose his soldiers? ! Speaking of which, if Chu Jingyan is really sure that he can ask Chu Jiayin to handle things well, why should he call her to accompany him?
Doesn't this mean that Chu Jingyan, a bastard, is not sure at all?
Leng Lan was suddenly enlightened, but he was also very disappointed in the two big brothers.
Chu Jiayin was a little flustered, but it should be no problem to pretend to be Liu Qingqing. As long as she doesn't encounter any tricky and troublesome things, she is okay with acting, but when she needs her brain to do serious things, she occasionally has a brain pump and makes a mess for others.
The official Li Mansion was built in the center of the city, and there are finally some people here, and the people I saw along the way are no longer acting. However, there is no shortage of actors who have just left, just after Murong Han left here.
Looking at the direction Murong Han came from earlier, he should have come to the Li Mansion early in the morning and talked to Master Li about something. I didn't go back until after lunch, so those who were acting didn't hurry up and set up their stalls in the afternoon.
There were two people guarding the gate of the Li family, and as soon as Chu Jiayin's carriage stopped, a person who seemed to be a family member came over and asked, "Is it Miss Liu Qingqing?" ”
"Our girl is Liu Qingqing, is Master Li at home?" Leng Landai replied, according to the rules, everyone's daughter goes out with a maid, and she never takes the initiative to talk to people.
If you want to speak, you have to pick people, and men can only talk to those sons, elders with status. The women didn't care, but a few people couldn't put down that shelf in their hearts, and they didn't want to talk to those maids who were slaves.
Chu Jiayin's family is much stricter than Liu Qingqing's family, and she came out with such a little splash skin after she was completely raised! At the same time, I have to rely on my grandmother's favor, and I don't care about being a naughty scoundrel like her and Chu Jiazhen.
Chu Jiazhen is stubborn and stubborn, and she has married herself into a good family after all. I'm afraid that as soon as Chu Jiayin goes home, life will be difficult. Ji Xu's age is imminent, and if he can't find a good family again, he will set a family matter, plus those bad things before, Chu Jiayin's reputation is not wanted.
Chu Jiayin was thinking about what would happen when he returned home, while listening to Leng Lan talking to the servant. The man replied, "Your Excellency is at home, please get off the bus." ”
"Girl, let's go down." Leng Lan pretended to be presentable, really like a well-trained girl in the compound.
She lifted the car curtain, went out of the car door first, and greeted Chu Jiayin out. A man under the car, pretending to be a servant of the Liu family, immediately brought a stool and put it under the car, letting the two get out of the car.
Leng Lan got out of the car next, and then stretched out her hand and let Chu Jiayin get down.
Chu Jiayin couldn't help twitching in her heart, when she was the sixth lady in the Chu family before, she wasn't so troublesome!