Sister-in-law Xu saw Yuan Qi bring a woman for the first time, although Yu Zijin's face and skirt were still covered with ashes, and she looked very embarrassed, but she did not dislike it because of this, and she was still very enthusiastic.

"Come, girl, how can you be so thinly dressed on this cold day? I don't see what bags you are carrying, so let's do it, if you don't dislike it, sister-in-law has a few new clothes here, you two will take them and wear them first, to keep out the cold."

Yu Zijin looked down at the clothes that were indeed a little unsightly, and they were too thin, but they were not as twisted as the official women, and accepted it happily, "Then thank you sister-in-law first." ”

"Thank you, sister-in-law!" Yuan Qi also received it aloud.

When Yuan Qi said this, it attracted Yu Zijin's attention, and he couldn't help but take a look by the candlelight. Beiyuan is cold, and the local people will be like Brother Xu, wearing a big coat and then going out, but Yuan Qi is no different from himself, only wearing the regular clothes of the inner room and swaying outside, I think he should also be frozen.

After changing his clothes and coming out, Yu Zijin suddenly felt much warmer, and sat quietly by the stove to roast the fire.

"My sister's birth is really exquisite, and it is not as good as your brother." After looking at Yu Zijin, who had finished tidying up and washing the ashes on her face, Sister-in-law Xu couldn't help but be a little surprised.

"Thank you, sister-in-law." Yu Zijin smiled slightly. Beiyuan's regular clothes are mostly based on arrow sleeves, knee-length pleated skirts with a pair of delicate boots, if you are traveling, you will put on a big coat, compared with Dongqi, it is indeed very different.

Yu Zijin mostly wears a more feminine skirt on weekdays, or wears a flowing narrow-sleeved men's dress when he is young, but at this time, he wears a neat Beiyuan regular clothes on the upper body, but it is even more heroic.

Yuan Qi, who had changed his clothes, walked into the small hall, and saw Yu Zijin, who was sitting next to the stove and smiling lightly, he was a little stunned, he thought he had saved a little slave who had escaped, but he didn't expect that now he looked more like a rich lady in distress.

"Of course my sister is good-looking, and I don't look at who her brother is." Yuan Qi looked proud, it was a set of lies, and the brother and sister may not be very similar, so it makes people believe that Yu Zijin is his sister.

"I haven't seen you mention it before, you bastard, you have such a sister who looks like a fairy, do you plan to hide and not see anyone?" After speaking, Xu Shen was about to beat Yuan Qi.

In this situation, Yu Zijin couldn't help but feel a trace of sorrow. I don't know how my brother is doing, I have been away from home for so long, my father should be very worried, and he is now alone in Beiyuan...... Lin Xiao and Ah Shan should also be in a hurry.

As if sensing Yu Zijin's abnormality, Yuan Qi approached with a haha, stretched out his hand to put his hand on Yu Zijin's shoulder, and laughed in a low voice: "Don't worry, when it is sunny tomorrow, I will send you home." Promise to hand you over to Daddy and Auntie unscathed. ”

The Xu family and his wife didn't know what they were talking about, and laughed loudly, not noticing the small movements of Yu Zijin and Yuan Qi here.

When Yuan Qi laughs, he always shows his two little tiger teeth, which is quite the temperament of a young man next door. In addition, it seems to have a wonderful contagion, infecting Yu Zijin, so that she can't help but relax and readily agree.

But, go home? The Ling Mansion is still in the east, and Bailishu is still chasing after him, how to go home?

In the early morning of the next day, Yu Zijin was "woken up" by a hot milky fragrance, quickly dressed and got out of bed, and pushed open the door.

"Xiao Ran, come on, sister-in-law's freshly heated milk is fragrant." Yuan sat up on a small stool, holding a large bowl in his hand, and greeted Yu Zijin warmly.

"The girl is awake, let's eat something first and cushion my stomach." When Sister-in-law Xu saw Yu Zijin come out, she immediately stepped forward and took her hand, handed over a bowl of hot milk, and said with a smile.

"Thank you, sister-in-law." Yu Zijin took the hot milk with a rich milky aroma, couldn't wait to take a sip, and suddenly felt a warm current up and down, and the whole person slowly warmed up.

He sat down on a small chair and looked out the window while drinking hot milk. I saw that the window was slightly hidden, and the sky after the snow seemed to be exceptionally clear, and I could feel the light outside just by looking out through a small opening.

Squeak –

The door of the small hall was opened, and a gust of snow drifted in from outside, and Yu Zijin couldn't help but shrink his neck. Xu Shen rubbed his hands and walked in quickly, even if he quickly closed the door, the coldness that was involved for a while still could not dissipate.

"Although the snow has stopped, it is still very cold this day, and the horses have been brought out for you both. If you are in such a hurry to leave, you might as well stay for half a day and wait for the snow to melt before leaving. Brother Xu took off his coat and handed it to Sister-in-law Xu, and sat down nearby by the stove.

"No need, after staying overnight, I should go back early, otherwise the people at home will be worried." Yu Zijin understood that Yuan Qi had something to say, but he misunderstood that his family was in Beiyuan, so he felt that he should send her back as soon as possible, so as not to worry his family.

Yu Zijin did not refute either, and temporarily acquiesced to Yuan Qi's statement.

"It's rare that your kid is still thinking about his family, okay, I don't force you, be careful on the road." Xu Shen got up and patted Yuan Qi's shoulder, heartily.

After breakfast, the two said goodbye to the Xu family and his wife, but as soon as they arrived at the door, Yu Zijin was a little embarrassed. There were two jujube red horses tied to the door, obviously for Yu Zijin and Yuan Qi, but in fact, they didn't know how to ride......

Seeing Yu Zijin's hesitant look, Yuan Qi couldn't help but be a little puzzled, "What's wrong with you?" ”

"Well, I, can't ride a horse." Yu Zijin was a little embarrassed, staring at the horse in a daze, neither advancing nor retreating.

"You don't know how to ride a horse?" Yuan Qi looked shocked. Since ancient times, regardless of men and women, anyone who is over ten years old, the elders in the family will arrange to learn equestrianism, and it is a girl as big as Yu Zijin in the Northern Plains, not to mention exquisite, but they can also do some equestrianism.

When Yuan Qi said this, Yu Zijin couldn't help but have hot cheeks. Although he is not from the Northern Plains, he does not have the rules of learning equestrianism at the age of ten, but as the daughter of Yu Feng, the god of war of the Eastern Qi Dynasty, she can't ride a horse when she grows so big, and it is indeed too embarrassing to say it.

Seeing that Yu Zijin was a little out of shape, Yuan Qi realized his gaffe, raised his hand and scratched his head, and then smiled: "It's okay, I'll take you with me, girls don't have to be equestrian." ”

After speaking, Yuan Qi happily turned over and stretched out a hand to Yu Zijin.

"By the way, I haven't asked yet, where do you live?" Yuan Qi pulled Yu Zijin onto the horse, sat in front of him, protected him with his arms, and pulled the reins, and the horse ran steadily.

"I ...... Just send me to White City, trouble. Yu Zijin didn't deliberately conceal the fact that he was from Dongqi, but he regarded Yuan Qi's help as an emergency in the rivers and lakes.

Yuan Qi thought that Yu Zijin was still on guard, so he refused to say where his home was, and he could understand it in his heart, so he didn't say much, and rode his horse in the direction of Baicheng.

A quarter of an hour later, the two arrived at the gates of the city. Since it was forbidden to gallop horses in the city, the two dismounted when they were still a short distance from the city gate.

"Is there something happening in the city today, the number of soldiers patrolling the city gate is twice as many as in the past." Seeing the people lining up to enter the city at the city gate, as well as the soldiers on duty around him, Yuan Qi frowned and muttered.

After speaking, Yu Zijin also raised his eyes to look, but when he saw a cyan figure, he immediately raised the alarm bell in his heart, and quickly hid behind Yuan got up.

Feeling Yu Zijin's abnormality, Yuan Qi glanced at the inspection officials at the city gate, reacted instantly, turned around, and blocked her tightly, "The person who arrested you?" ”

On the night when he accidentally rescued Yu Zijin, Yuan Qi saw that those people's clothes and appearances were all from the south, not from the northern plains, and then looked at the man in Tsing Yi under the city gate, it was even more clear.

"Do you know who I am?" Yuan Qi was able to guess what he was saying so quickly, and the vigilance in Yu Zijin's heart rose again, like a frightened rabbit, all the grass and trees.

"I don't know, just guessing that you're not from the North Plains. Don't worry, if you don't want to say more, I won't force it. Looking at Yu Zijin, who seemed to have become a little startled because of some kind of change, Yuan Qi couldn't help but say comfortingly.

"I'm sorry." Yu Zijin suddenly felt that he was a little bit of a villain's belly, and the moment Yuan Qi saw Qingyun, her first reaction was to protect herself from being discovered, but she still doubted Yuan Qi, and a touch of guilt welled up in her heart.

Yuan Qi didn't take this to heart, but was a little worried about the current situation, "Then what should you do next, those people don't seem to want to give up." ”

"If you take a detour from Baicheng to Yuncheng, I'm afraid you won't be able to get there in ten days and half a month, plus the cold winter is coming, it's not a good thing to move forward with a blizzard." Yuan Qi thought for a while, looked at the clothes on his body, and made up his mind, "It's better to be like this......"

At the gate of the city, Qingyun walked to the side of the carriage, leaned over and clenched his fists and said: "Shizi, the whereabouts of the county lord have not been discovered yet. If she escaped from Baicheng overnight yesterday, we would be here to intercept her, wouldn't it be a waste of work. ”

There was a cold voice from inside the carriage: "She will definitely come." ”

"What do you guys do?" The soldiers defending the city asked in a cold voice.

"This eldest brother, my wife seems to have been sick recently, and her whole body is pockmarked, so she rushed to Baicheng overnight to find a doctor for treatment. I hope that the eldest brother will be convenient. The old man said slowly, some rickety spine rising and falling as he spoke.

The old woman beside her covered her mouth in a low voice and coughed lightly, inadvertently revealing a section of her wrist, and her slightly dull skin was densely covered with red dots, and her fingers seemed to show some signs of decay.

When the soldier saw this, he only felt a little unlucky, and besides, the person he was looking for was a fourteen or fifteen-year-old woman, and he said that it must have nothing to do with the old couple who were sick, and waved his hand to let the two of them in.

Yu Zijin and Yuan Qi glanced at each other unintentionally, thanked the soldiers repeatedly, and then walked towards the city with staggering steps.

"Wait!"