Chapter 290: The Calm Before the Storm

Zhang Jilin had already turned over and got on the horse, looking at Liu Meiniang, who was still silently wiping her tears at the door of Zhang's mansion, Zhang Jilin thought that it hurt like being pricked by a needle, and finally turned over and dismounted, walked over in a few steps, hugged Liu Meiniang into her arms, and hugged her hard.

"Mei Niang, wait for me to come back." Zhang Jilin said hard in Liu Meiniang's ear.

"Hmm." Liu Meiniang had a thick nasal voice, but she still nodded.

"Take care of yourself." Zhang Jirin said. Liu Meiniang still nodded. Until Zhang Jilin's figure was no longer visible, Liu Meiniang was still standing at the door.

"Madam, go back, it's windy outside," Zi Su stepped forward to hold Liu Meiniang's arm and said. Liu Meiniang nodded, and followed Shisu Baizhi into the gate together.

Zhang Jilin really went to Southern Xinjiang alone this time, no one was brought, Fengming She Ning Tianxuan all stayed at home, and before leaving, Zhang Jilin called all the people to the study.

"Master, let your subordinates go with you." Feng Ming heard Zhang Jirin's decision, even if he knew it before, but if he really let Zhang Jilin go to Southern Xinjiang alone, not only Feng Ming, but everyone was unwilling.

"Master, I'll go." Tianheng said.

"Master...... It's really not right for you to go alone. Tianshu also expressed his opinion.

"You don't have to say much." Zhang Jilin raised his hand and signaled several people not to say it anymore, the things he decided rarely changed, and several people also knew Zhang Jirin's character, as long as Zhang Jilin decided something, it would be difficult to change it.

"Master, southern Xinjiang is too dangerous." Kaiyang still tried to persuade Zhang Jirin that no matter who they were, they could go, but Zhang Jirin went, and they didn't want to go in the end.

"During the time I left, Tianshu, the affairs of the family will be handed over to you to be responsible, and the safety of the lady, you must be responsible, especially when I am not at home, there may be many people to try the depth, you don't have to be polite, just say hello, don't care about anything, since some people don't know the height of the sky, let them remember it for a long time." Zhang Jirin's eyes became very sharp, and when he said this, Feng Ming and the others shrank their necks and felt a chill.

"Yes, master." Tianshu arched his hand, and the rest of the people also nodded, indicating that they knew.

"Be sure to protect Madame." Zhang Jilin said again, and several people nodded solemnly, they all knew how much weight Liu Meiniang had in Zhang Jirin's heart, it could be said that it was more important than Zhang Jirin's own life, and they would naturally do their best.

"Master, do you want to bring a ghost?" Feng Ming asked.

"Belt." Zhang Jilin raised his head and said, these few people are relieved, the ghost thirteen kills are Zhang Jirin's trump card, Zhang Jirin is almost not easy to move, this time to go to southern Xinjiang, Zhang Jirin did not let them follow, bring the ghost thirteen kills, and a few of them will not worry.

"The ghost is back?" Kaiyang asked in surprise.

In the days when the Ghost Shadow Thirteen went back to his life, Kaiyang was busy outside, so he didn't know about the comparison.

"Hmm." Zhang Jirin's fingers tapped on the table.

"That's good." Kaiyang smiled.

Although She Ning doesn't know what a ghost is, he thinks he is also Zhang Jirin's person, but with this name, he must also be a ruthless character. However, She Ning has never been a curious person, and he will not take the initiative to ask, but She Ning faintly understands that this time, Zhang Jirin is completely classified as his person, although Zhang Jirin and Tianshu did not hide it from She Ning when they discussed things before, but in the end, it is different, thinking of this, the hand in She Ning's sleeve tightened.

For She Ning, the first time he found Zhang Jilin was because Feng Ming came to him and asked him for help, as a condition to help She Ning take revenge in the future, which She Ning believed that Zhang Jilin could cook, but the longer she followed Zhang Jirin, the more She Ning was convinced by Zhang Jirin.

Now She Ning, although he is still obsessed with revenge, he is more about measuring what he can learn by following Zhang Jirin. finally understood why Feng Ming could follow Zhang Jirin with all his heart.

After leaving the capital, Zhang Jilin had a few more people around him.

"Ghost Thirteen Kills, Zhang Ning has seen the master."

"Ghost Thirteen Kills, Zhang Ci has seen the master."

“……”

Several shadows floating over like ghosts stood in front of Zhang Jirin's horse.

"Let's go." Zhang Jirin nodded and said lightly. A few people whistled, and a few horses ran out of the woods not far away, and a few people turned over their horses and galloped away with Zhang Jirin.

After walking for a distance, Zhang Ning and Zhang Ci glanced at each other.

"Master, aren't we going to southern Xinjiang?" Zhang Ning asked.

"No, no." Zhang Jilin took out the kettle and took a sip of water during the break.

"Yes, master." Zhang Ning and Zhang Ci nodded, and didn't ask anything more.

Zhang Jilin did not go to southern Xinjiang this time, but on the border of southern Xinjiang.

If it succeeds this time, everything should be fine, but if it doesn't work out this time, then ......

"Speed up the trip." Zhang Jilin said.

The few people who followed nodded their heads.

Sure enough, as Zhang Jilin said, Emperor Changping has not mentioned the matter of giving Xiao Ru a marriage in the past few days, Xiao Ru finally breathed a sigh of relief, Fang Yao's wedding date is approaching, and Liu Meiniang has been lively here in the past two days.

Fang Yao took advantage of the fact that she had not yet become married, and ran out to play every day for the past two days, Liu Meiniang was unable to move, so Fang Yao came to Liu Meiniang's house. After all, in the capital, Fang Yao doesn't have many friends, although she hasn't known Liu Meiniang for a long time, Liu Meiniang always gives people a feeling of wanting to be close.

"Mei Niang, in the future, I will be the child's godmother," Fang Yao said while touching Liu Meiniang's belly.

"It doesn't matter if you don't have a godmother, but you can get married." Liu Meiniang blinked and smiled, and just one sentence made Fang Yao's face flush, Liu Meiniang couldn't help but sigh that the ladies in ancient times were too easy to be shy.

The two chatted again, Liu Meiniang finally made Fang Yao stomp her feet, said that she would ignore you again and left, Liu Meiniang smiled helplessly, she remembered that Fang Yao said the same thing last time, what a lovely girl.

Fang Yao had just left Xiao Ru and came, there was nothing going on inside or outside the palace in the past two days, and the calm always made people feel a little weird.

"Shisu said you arrived a long time ago, why didn't you come? Fang Yao is gone. Liu Meiniang pointed to the position next to her and motioned for Xiao Ru to sit down and speak.

Xiao Ru smiled, Liu Meiniang always felt that Xiao Ru's smile was bitter.

"Fang Yao's little girl." Xiao Ru shook her head and said.

"yes." Liu Meiniang also sighed.

To say that among the three of them, Fang Yao should be the most innocent one, and the family protects her. Fang Yao herself is also a heartless person, there are some things that Liu Meiniang can know, Xiao Ru can know, but Fang Yao still doesn't know.

"Is there something you don't want her to hear?" Liu Meiniang also reacted to Xiao Ru's meaning, she probably had something to say to her, Fang Yao was inconvenient here.

"I really didn't expect that." Xiao Ru spoke, but Liu Meiniang didn't answer, waiting for Xiao Ru to continue.

"I didn't expect him to be treasonous." Xiao Ru's tone trembled a little when she said this.

"Who would have thought?" Liu Meiniang patted the back of Xiao Ru's hand for comfort, and she didn't have to think about it to know who Xiao Ru was talking about, who else was there besides Long Qi?

"Mei Niang, I don't seem to have seen through him." Xiao Ru muttered to herself.

Liu Meiniang didn't know how to comfort her, such a thing was too dramatic, if it was her, she wouldn't be able to accept it for a while, this person can be a bad person, a scumbag, or a murderer, but I didn't expect that this person would collaborate with the enemy and commit treason, which has too much impact on people, not to mention that Long Qi's grandfather, Long Aotian, is loyal to the people.

"Don't be too upset." Liu Meiniang said dryly.

"I'm not sad, Mei Niang, you know me, I won't be sad because of such a thing, I'm just ......" Xiao Ru paused, just what? Is it just a pity or a heartache?

Xiao Ru has always been a smart woman, knowing that Long Qi did such a thing, it was equivalent to the last bundle of straw that crushed the camel, Xiao Ru had no feelings for Long Qi since then, so looking back at the marriage of Emperor Changping, Xiao Ru was not so repulsed, and saw Nie Changfeng on the street that day, Xiao Ru only felt weird, when Nie Changfeng stepped forward to greet her, Xiao Ru just hummed lightly.

"Some things, let it pass in the past, don't keep trapping yourself in memories, what you like is just the old him, and the nostalgia is also the old him, and there is no good feeling for the current him." Liu Meiniang said.

"It's like you're so experienced." Xiao Ru was amused by Liu Meiniang's words, and when she thought about it, she felt that what Liu Meiniang said made sense.

The two of them talked for a while, Xiao Ru saw that Liu Meiniang seemed sleepy, and she was embarrassed to disturb, so she said something to Liu Meiniang and left.

But on the way back, I met Xiao Yuyan.

"The Third Princess." Xiao Ru nodded and prepared to leave.

"The county lord of Shaoyang has been doing well lately." Xiao Yuyan suddenly stopped Xiao Ru.

"It's okay, I'm worried about the third princess." Xiao Ru said lightly that Xiao Ru had no likes or dislikes for Xiao Yuyan before, but later Xiao Yuyan's style of acting became more and more unacceptable, and Xiao Ru slowly disliked Xiao Yuyan as a person, but Xiao Yuyan is a princess, she is the county lord, and the two of them don't interfere with the river water.

"I think the county lord of Shaoyang seems to have something on his mind, why did something happen to the lover?" Xiao Yuyan's words were tingling.

"The third princess is cautious." Xiao Ru was not annoyed, hooked her lips and said, Xiao Yuyan is now a mad dog who bites whom, she was forced to marry Song Qingshan, she was arrogant and difficult to accept, but the people she didn't like, such as Liu Meiniang, Xiao Ru, Fang Yao, all had a smooth life, which was enough to make Xiao Yuyan's heart unbalanced.

"Hmph, Lord Shaoyang, I heard that Nie Changfeng invited troops to go to Southern Xinjiang, I also said why it was so sudden, I didn't expect to hear the news that I was going to give marriage, Lord Shaoyang, people would rather go to war than marry someone, it really makes people laugh out of their teeth." Xiao Yuyan covered her mouth and giggled, like an old hen that had just laid eggs.

Xiao Ru breathed a sigh of relief, she thought that Xiao Yuyan already knew about Long Qi.