Jill helped me tie my hair and explained the route to Fengzhou in detail.

Ming'er opened the curtain and looked at the dozen or so attendants uneasily, and asked, "Miss Ling, are those attendants reliable?" ”

"Well, don't worry, this girl." Ji'er said seriously: "They are all old men from our Ling Mansion, and they follow the second brother to go south and north to do business, this time they only follow me and Young Master Cousin to Fengzhou Silk Village to deliver goods, and I don't know anything about it." ”

"Young Master Cousin?" Ming'er blinked at me, and suddenly smiled and said, "What a handsome young master!" ”

I straightened my sleeves and said, "I'm Ji's cousin now, so Ming'er should remember to change her words in the future, don't call it a mistake." ”

"Yes, young master," Ming'er agreed with a grin.

"Miss Ling, let's go" Liluo's voice came from outside the car, and then the car moved.

In the twilight of the morning, the bluestone road is still a little wet, and occasionally one or two farmers carrying vegetables are passed, and the shops on both sides are preparing to open, and the little second brother is diligently sweeping the courtyard......

I don't remember how long it had been since I felt this folk morning, and Ming'er sighed beside me, "Sister, everything in front of me seems to have returned to the beginning." ”

Yes, it seems to have returned to the years when I was in Furong Le Fang, the sound of roadside vendors selling cooking cakes and fried fruits, listening to people feel so relieved and comfortable, if one day Bao Yuan and I can be an ordinary couple in the folk and live a simple life, how good it would be!

Listening to Jier, all the way north from Chengdu Mansion, you need to go through five places to get to Defengzhou, including Hanzhou, Mianzhou, Jianzhou, Lizhou and Xingzhou. According to Liluo's speculation, Baoyuan set off two days earlier, and if it wasn't for the hurry, he should have arrived in Mianzhou.

"Mr. Li, if we travel in a hurry for a day, will we be able to catch up with them and find out their whereabouts?"

"If you don't take a car and ride a horse instead, you can get to Mianzhou City this evening." Liluo was very sure.

"In that case, let's go on horseback instead." I really can't hear from him right away, even though it's only been two days, but I'm already thinking about him.

"How can this work, sister, you are recovering from a serious illness, where can you ride a horse for a long time and be tired." Ming'er tightened her eyebrows on the side and said hurriedly.

Jill didn't care, and said: "We are all on the official road here, the road is flat, and the weather is good, so we can ride horses more freely." ”

"Exactly!" I chimed in: "When I was in the palace, I rode horses a lot, and I didn't feel hard at all. ”

"However, my sister ......" Ming'er still wanted to dissuade her.

I don't want Ji'er to interrupt on the side: "Miss Ming, don't stop your sister being long, my sister is short, remember it's 'young master', right, cousin?" He squeezed his eyes at me.

I smiled and said loudly: "Mingya, let's take the car, this young master will ride a horse first." So saying, he got up and got out of the carriage.

Behind me, Ming'er pulled Jill and grunted, and I got out of the car and let out a long sigh of relief.

In the crisp autumn weather, there is not a trace of floating clouds in the blue sky, and the road winds through the forest, and I only feel that the whole chest is filled with a fragrant and sweet breath that belongs to freedom.

Then Jill also got off the car, went to the accompanying convoy to hand over with the leading strong man, and soon led a white horse back to me, arched his hand and smiled: "Please also ask my cousin to get on the horse, how about you and my brother ride for a ride?" ”

"Very good!" I laughed, rolled over and jumped on horseback, and tightened the reins, "Ride!" Then he rushed out at a gallop.

The wind was cool and pleasant on the face, and the foreground was constantly changing, and the sound of Dada's horses' hooves came from behind him, thinking that Jill had followed, and when he looked back, Liluo had also followed.

After a quick run, I slowed down slightly, and Jill caught up and walked with me. Liluo followed the two of us.

"I didn't expect my sister's riding skills to be so good!" Jill was genuinely impressed.

I grinned and said, "I have a good teacher." ”

"It's the emperor, right?" Jill has always been smart.

"Hmm!" I nodded yes, how many years have passed, I still remember the past when he took me to ride a horse at the foot of Qingcheng Mountain, think about how young and stubborn I was at that time!

"My sister has a really good relationship with the emperor." Jill said softly, looking into the distance with a pair of beautiful eyes.

"Jill will definitely meet someone who knows each other in the future." I laughed at her.

There was a moment of loss on Jil's face: "What a blessing it is to know each other, Jill is afraid that he will not have such a blessing." ”

"Sister, doesn't Mo already have a sweetheart?"

Jill bit her lip unnaturally and smiled at me in return, "Sister, don't talk about me, let's hurry and strive to get to Mianzhou City as soon as possible, first, to find out the news, and second, to facilitate accommodation." Jill didn't want to talk deeply, and the whip urged the horse to go out.

"Hurry up, otherwise you won't be able to reach Mianzhou after dark." As Li Luo galloped past him, he said lightly.

Looking at the two men who had run away, I made up my mind and whipped my horse to follow.

Unexpectedly, the horse's foot strength is extraordinary, when it was nearly dusk we arrived in Mianzhou City, Jill took us to live in the city of Yuelai Inn, it is said that this is the most prosperous area of Mianzhou City.

After settling in, I went out to inquire about Baoyuan's whereabouts, and I followed Jill to the market.

The market is not lively, and I often hear people mention "Ba Zi Shui" after walking for a while, I don't know how to ask Jier, Jill thought about it, and said: "This is a very famous landscape in Mianzhou, we should not see it in this season, and it will be when the water rises in summer." ”

"Why when the water is rising?" I was puzzled.

"Listen to the second brother said, in this Mianzhou City, if the water rises, climb the Nanshan and look into the distance, you can see the Fujiang River flowing south to the north of the state city, that is, turning west to become two streams to the Feilai Stone Mountain and the Anchang River merge into a strand, to the south and then to the east around the Mianzhou City such as the shape of the Ba character around a circle, so it is called "Ba word water". Jill understood it, but I was confused.

"Even if you can't see it, then why are the people in the market talking about it?"

"I don't know, why don't we find someone to ask." Jill said, and asked for a shop.

After a while, Jill came back and whispered to me: "The shopkeeper said that yesterday, when a noble son climbed the height of Guanba Zishui, he saved the daughter of Chen Yuanwai's family in the city from the hands of a scoundrel, and Chen Yuanwai also wanted to marry the daughter to that son...... Cousin, do you think that noble prince will be the emperor......" Because I raised my hand, Jill hurriedly covered her mouth and did not say any more.

Regardless of whether that noble son is Bao Yuan or not, this is definitely not the time for extraneous branches, I pulled Ji'er back to the inn in a hurry, thinking that I should come back to Liluo to inquire about the news.

When he arrived at the store, Liluo had already returned, and asked about Bao Yuan's whereabouts, he said: "Today, the city is talking about the refusal of the daughter of the Chen Mansion, and listening to the description of the son who refused to marry, it is very similar to the emperor, and it is said that their group left for Jianzhou at noon today." ”