Chapter 46: Escape
Ruoyeqi returned to Yuncheng and announced the order to withdraw his troops, and the generals who remained in the city were all stunned, what happened? Why did the tide suddenly turn around?
These people asked the soldiers who had gone out of the city about the situation, but these people were all stunned and did not say a word. Someone found out that their princess did not come back with them, and immediately guessed that it was because the princess was captured by them that they withdrew the army. But when someone asked Ruoyeqi, Ruoyeqi just said calmly: "Those who disobey orders or are verbose will be killed!" β
But this order is so absurd that many generals look at me and I look at you, and refuse to carry it out.
Seeing that everyone refused to act, Ruoyeqi immediately drew the sword at his waist and killed one of the generals beside him.
This move completely shocked the suspicious generals, and these generals whose minds were not controlled did not dare to disobey, so they had to follow Ruoyeqi on foot outside the city in despair.
When they went out of the city, they saw the commander of Dayan who was riding on a horse not far away, and the red-clothed princess who was still bright and dazzling in the distance, and they suddenly panicked in their hearts. They have no horses or weapons in their hands, and the princess is in their hands, if the army of the Great Yan Kingdom kills them, will these people not be killed by the neck? Thinking of this, those who were not captured in their minds suddenly began to run towards their own country. Fortunately, this Yuncheng is the closest city to Liguo, and there is still hope of escape.
Jia Qianqian took advantage of this opportunity and began to interrogate the princess of Nali Kingdom.
"Hey, are you the princess of Liguo?"
The girl in red replied obediently, "Yes."
"Do you like the three princes of the Great Yan Kingdom?"
"Yes."
"Do you want to marry him?"
"Yes, but my father doesn't agree."
Jia Qianqian asked Long Jie again, "Long Jie, what is the identity of the girl holding you?" β
Long Jie Muran, who looked sluggish, replied, "The princess of Liguo." β
"Is she good-looking?"
"Beautiful."
"Do you like him, then?"
To Jia Qianqian's surprise, Long Jie turned out to be at a loss, neither saying he liked nor disliked.
Is this a difficult question to answer? Jia Qianqian had to change her words, "Do you want to marry her?" β
This time, Long Jie replied very simply, "I don't want to." β
Jia Qianqian was stunned and asked again, "Then who do you want to marry?" β
"Qianqian." Jia Qianqian was about to respond, but suddenly found that he was not calling her, but just answering her question just now. The person he wants to marry is himself! Jia Qianqian only felt that his mood was suddenly extremely relaxed, Long Jie was captured, and what he said was an instinctive answer, he said that he wanted to marry her It seemed to be from the heart.
Jia Qianqian suddenly felt that it was so cool to be able to control other people's minds, and any true thoughts of the controlled people could be known, and any secrets in their hearts could be dug out.
couldn't help but want to tease Long Xiao again, so he came to Long Xiao's side and asked, "Long Xiao, who do you like the most?" β
Who knew that Long Xiao replied blankly: "I don't know." β
Cut, this guy, doesn't even know who he likes the most. Jia Qianqian secretly sneered.
"And who do you want to marry?"
"Jia Qianqian."
Jia Qianqian couldn't help but roll her eyes, this guy didn't say that he liked her the most, but he still wanted to marry her, and he was really just robbing Long Jie. It's just that Qianqian doesn't know that with Long Xiao's psychological state, he doesn't know how to love people at all, and he doesn't know who he likes the most, and he wants to marry Jia Qianqian, but it's just an instinct to support him, that is, he thinks that this woman is acceptable and can be with him for a lifetime, so marry her, then get her.
When Long Xiao's army arrived, they were stunned by the scene in front of them, the people of the Liguo country actually left Yuncheng on foot empty-handed, while their commander stood there, looking indifferently ahead. and their third prince also returned, but he rode on the same horse with a girl dressed as a Liguo.
"Generalissimo, what's going on?" Perhaps it was too shocked, and two high-ranking generals couldn't be afraid of the cold Long Xiao, and came over to ask.
Jia Qianqian hurriedly smiled and said, "Don't ask so much, just wait for a while after they all leave, just go in and take over Yuncheng." β
The two generals glanced at each other, this girl who came with the emperor's gold medal was really powerful, and she actually let the prince of Liguo withdraw so barely, how did she do it? What conditions did the emperor promise to Liguo?
"Shall we take this opportunity to intercept them?" A general saw that all the people of Liguo were unarmed, and he was immediately ready to move.
Jia Qianqian hurriedly shouted, "Can't? There is no command from me. After thinking about it, he probably felt that it was wrong, and then changed his words: "Without the order of your marshal, no one is allowed to act without authorization!" β
Due to the large number of people, although they did not bring anything, it took almost an hour for Ruoyeqi's army to completely withdraw from Yuncheng.
Seeing that the time for them to regain their senses was approaching, Jia Qianqian suddenly regretted that he shouldn't have let them leave their horses behind, and he should have let them ride their horses to escape for their lives.
Thinking of this, Jia Qianqian took out the gold medal and said to a general in his right mind: "You immediately take 20,000 horses to drive away the people of Liguo, just drive them out of the border." Remember, you can't kill anyone, you can only drive them away. "The people of Liguo are also human beings, they are all fresh lives, if they are slaughtered unarmed, God will definitely not tolerate her Jia Qianqian.
Seeing that Long Xiao was still silent, the general thought that the command here had been handed over to this strange girl, so he had to take the order.
Jia Qianqian just began to think about how to deal with the aftermath, with the cleverness of Long Xiao and Long Jie, after she came to her senses, even if she didn't remember the fact that she used the scepter to capture people's minds, she would wonder what demon magic she had cast, and when the time came, she would definitely catch her and ask her to understand. Now, it's time to run for your life.
He took out his scepter and shook it in front of them, giving himself an hour to flee for his life, and then ordered Long Xiao to enter Yuncheng and stand by.
Long Xiao took all the people who were captured and entered Yuncheng in a daze. Jia Qianqian then tied the scepter, and then galloped to the rear.
After running for nearly half an hour, the bones of the bumpy body on the horse were about to fall apart, and when he saw a small town, he was about to hit the horse over, and suddenly thought that if Long Xiao Longjie regained his senses, after becoming suspicious, he would arrest her and look for her traces, and he would not be able to show his face in any place with a lot of people. Riding on the horse, Jia Qianqian couldn't help but smile bitterly, she really wanted to find fault with herself, and it was a good day to go in and out of the palace dining room to eat and drink, but now she was fleeing cautiously like a wanted criminal in the government.
Flee, if you really want to flee, where should you flee? The world is so big, in addition to the familiar Anyang City and the capital that is a little familiar just now, with her parents and relatives there, where can she flee to? The capital is absolutely impossible to go back, and now I can only go to Anyang City, hide there, and see the situation before making plans.
And this scepter, which can exert great magical power, should you take it with you, or bury it again? Stay by your side, you can defend yourself and control others at critical moments. You can take it with you, and the scepter is not a small thing, and you can't sit on it when you tie it to your body, and it's easy to get exposed.
After thinking about it, Jia Qianqian finally thought of a way. He went to a farmhouse, took out a little bit of silver, bought the peasant woman's half-used clothes, put them on, and wrapped the scepter in a large robe so that it was impossible to see the shape, and then came to the market town. I bought a filial piety dress and a coffin in the town, and put the wrapped scepter in the coffin. He hired a carriage at a high price, only saying that his father-in-law had died and that he wanted to transport his body back to his hometown. The coachman looked like an honest countryman, so there was no need to worry about it along the way.
Sure enough, as Jia Qianqian expected, Long Jie and Long Xiao of Yuncheng came to their senses, and they were all confused, why did they stay in Yuncheng inexplicably? And this princess of Liguo, who was terrified and noisy after she came to her senses, why did she stay here?
The generals whose minds were not controlled recounted the situation, and they were even more stunned. What kind of demon spell did Jia Qianqian cast? And what about her people? In any case, the people of Liguo left a large number of horses, weapons, and baggage and fled back, leaving behind a hostage princess, Long Jie was also safe and sound, and the Great Yan Kingdom was a complete victory. Long Xiao immediately reported the situation here to the imperial court, and at the same time wanted to ask how his father gave Jia Qianqian the gold medal, and how did Jia Qianqian do all this, but what was the instruction of his father?
And Ruo Yeqi, who came to his senses, was even more dazed and afraid, oh my God! It's terrible that there is such a witch who can perform demon magic in the Great Yan Kingdom. If they want to take their own lives and the lives of all the soldiers, I am afraid it will be easy. The situation came to a big reversal, the country of Dayan had such a terrible talent, the emperor of the state of Li was also afraid, and immediately sent envoys to the country of Dayan to sue for peace, expressing his willingness to cede five cities, and at the same time willing to declare himself a vassal to the country of Dayan, and also to marry his daughter to the three princes of the country of Dayan.
Emperor Yong'an in the capital was even more confused in the face of all this. He gave Jia Qianqian a gold medal, but he didn't know that she went to the northern border city. The envoy he sent to negotiate is still on his way. Everyone has a huge question, how exactly did Jia Qianqian do it? Does she really know how to cast magic spells? And after she did all this in the border city, she disappeared, what about her? This Jia Qianqian said that she should be the biggest hero of the Great Yan Kingdom, but everything she did was too weird. So an order was given, and the whole Dayan Kingdom offered a heavy reward to find Jia Qianqian, and only by finding her could we know the truth of the matter.
The life of Jia Feiwen, the servant of the ministry, was even more miserable, and the emperor asked him to inquire about Jia Qianqian's situation in detail, as well as the letters she left when she ran away from home, and his colleagues all looked at him with strange eyes, as if he could also use the law. The house was surrounded by spies. The couple couldn't figure out what was going on with their baby daughter.
When the news spread, and Nie Wuzheng knew about it, he immediately guessed that all of this could only be done by the mysterious power of the scepter. Jia Qianqian really deceived him again and swallowed the scepter privately. The flame of love gradually extinguished, replaced by anger, and a thousand thousand regrets that they had told her the mystery of the scepter. Women, as expected, are unbelievable, they are too stupid and naΓ―ve. This scepter was supposed to be his, and it was only him who could control this mysterious power, and he wanted to use this mysterious power to control the Great Yan Kingdom, and control any country outside the Great Yan Kingdom.
Nie Wuzheng also gave an order, and all the Xuancheng people of the Great Yan Kingdom also immediately looked for Jia Qianqian, and they must find her in front of the official mansion. If he finds her again this time, he must harden his heart, even if he tortures her, he must force her to hand over the scepter, he is the master of the scepter, and the scepter can only really exert its power in his hands.
These two groups of people were frantically looking for her, and no one expected that the unkempt widow, dressed in filial piety, and carrying a coffin, would be the person they were looking for. No one noticed that in the thin-skinned coffin was the magical jade scepter that could make the country change hands and control everyone's minds.