Chapter 12: Diverging Paths

"This ......" Ning Zhengjie hesitated for a moment.

"Lord Ning, rest assured, this official will send someone to protect the Ning family all the way."

Xie Yunyan glanced at Yuan Wu, and Yuan Wu snorted.

Looking left and right, seeing that there was no one around, he raised his hand and pointed to the tip of his nose and asked in disbelief: "The master wants to protect Lord Ning and Lord Ning all the way?" ”

"What? No way? ”

Yuan Wu shook his head again and again and waved his hand to refuse, "No, no, no, Xuanfeng is not here, and the master's close guards can't be deleted anymore." ”

Glancing back at the guards who were bandaging their wounds, he continued: "We have also suffered heavy casualties in this line, if it is not a fluke today, I am afraid that ......"

Strange to say, when exactly the assassin was poisoned and what kind of poison was in it, Yuan Wu couldn't figure it out.

But as long as it's good for you, it's good.

Ning Zhengjie arched his hand and said: "Lord Xie, how dare the old man bother the guards, the old man and his wife can go to Beijing on their own." There's just one thing I want to bother adults! ”

……

Ning Shu ate the pastries on the low table slowly, and there was cold hostility in her bright eyes.

"Miss Ning doesn't have to look at me like this, it's what Lord Ning wants. If Miss Ning doesn't want to, get out of the car now...... It's too late. ”

Xie Yunyan lowered his eyes and read the book, and his words were provocative.

The group was so conspicuous that he suggested splitting their way to Beijing in order to distract the Assassins.

Ning Zhengjie thought that the assassin's target was him, and before leaving, he painstakingly entrusted Ning Shu to Xie Yunshen, in his opinion, Xie Yunyan had many effective guards around him, and Ning Shu would definitely be much safer along the way.

Unexpectedly, Xie Yunyan agreed to his request, and when they separated, they still left most of the guards to protect him and Mrs. Ning.

Ning Shu was inexplicably rushed to Xie Yunyan's carriage by Ning Zhengjie on the grounds that the carriage was too small, and when she came back to her senses, most of the hour had passed, and it was naturally too late to chase people.

Tilting her head slightly, she rolled her eyes, and she was silent.

"It's roughly estimated that it will take a month to go to Beijing, Miss Ning carefully and don't break it."

Seeing that he didn't answer, Xie Yunyan picked up the corner of the page and turned the page, and said faintly: "Also, if Miss Ruoning has nothing to do, it is better to write the IOU." ”

Ning Shu: ......

The fire was chaotic, and the whole house was burned to the ground, presumably the IOUs had already burned to ashes.

Squinting at the four treasures of the study on the small table, Ning Shu simply wrote it neatly and handed it to Xie Yunyan.

"In the future, you and I will not owe each other, I believe that Lord Xie is a person, and after receiving the IOU, he will not tell the events of that night."

Taking the paper and looking at the ink on it that had not yet dried, the corners of Xie Yunyan's lips provoked a yin owl arc.

The handwriting of the hairpin is different from the delicate spirit of the talented woman in Kyoto, and Ning Shu's handwriting is angular and angular, and she has a resolute spirit.

He guessed that there must have been a lot of reluctance in her heart.

After all, a thousand taels of gold is not something that ordinary people can afford.

"Will it be paid off in ten years? What if you can't do it yet? ”

"Don't worry, Lord Xie, although my background is not as noble as that of adults, a thousand taels of gold will not stump me."

Ning Shu rubbed his palm with his fingertips silently, it was really not enough, and it would not be impossible to poison him at that time......

"Master, if you miss the town ahead, I'm afraid you'll have to sleep in the mountains and forests tonight."

Outside the carriage, Yuan Wu's voice suddenly sounded, breaking Ning Shu's reverie.

Xie Yunyan lifted the curtain, looked at the dim sky, and said slowly: "Go to the town to find a post station to repair overnight." ”

"Yes."

The town is small, but lively.

The sound of selling on both sides of the street was endless, which was a lively scene that Ning Shu had never seen when she was in Miaojiang.

Driven by curiosity, she looked back at Xie Yunyan and said, "Lord Xie, I want to go down and have a look." ”

"I encountered an assassin during the day, if Miss Ning made any mistakes, it would be difficult for me to face Lord Ning."

"Don't worry, my lord, even if I do meet an assassin, I will have the ability to protect myself."

"Oh?" Xie Yunyan raised his eyebrows and looked at Ning Shu, "How can Miss Ning protect herself?" And how do you meet us? ”

said that she wanted to get out of the car to see the street scene, but in fact, Ning Shu wanted to avoid Xie Yunyan.

Since waking up from rebirth, this man has always appeared in front of his eyes, intentionally or unintentionally.

The thought of seeing him for the next whole month gave birth to a touch of rejection in Ning Shu's heart.

"The carriage doesn't run around town, I'll just follow the carriage."

Ning Shu saw Xie Yunyan's hesitant expression, and suddenly smiled: "Could it be that the adults want to pester me?" ”

"Parking! Let Yuan Wu follow you, otherwise I won't be able to give Lord Ning an explanation. ”

Sure enough, this clumsy "agitation method" is still very effective.

Ning Shu jumped out of the carriage briskly, her eyes shining into the street scene at the beginning of the lights.

The items sold in the simple town were not as luxurious as the things in the capital in her impression, and they were not as peculiar as Miao Jiang, which failed to attract her attention.

But the heat rising everywhere, with the rich smell of meat, made her saliva dry.

Walking to a wonton stall, Ning Shu pursed her lips, and her eyes seemed to be looking through the wontons in the pot.

"Yo, such a delicate little lady is from out of town, right? Would you like a bowl of ravioli? ”

The stall owner is a self-cooked aunt, who has been by the kettle all the year round, moistened by the heat, and her whole face is red and shiny.

Ning Shu smiled and shook her head: "No." ”

"Come on, little lady, my wontons are the best in town, you want to eat them again after eating them."

Smelling the aroma, Ning Shu has automatically made up the wonton brain into delicacies from the mountains and seas.

How...... What a shyness in the pocket!

The ten taels of silver left for Xie Yunyan that night were still the medicine money rewarded by Liu Niang!

Hurriedly turned around and ran to the jewelry stall on the other side.

The eldest aunt deserves to be the eldest aunt, and she saw through Ning Shu's predicament at a glance, and her hearty voice came from behind Ning Shu: "Now the little lady, in order to maintain her figure, she doesn't eat much at night......"

Yuan Wu's mind is not as delicate as that of his aunt, not to mention that he has done a lot of "physical work" today, the fragrant wontons and the big elbow he saw when he passed by the cooked food shop just now, he can't wait to eat it.

He comforted him seriously: "Miss Ning should be hungry after a day's journey, right?" ”

"I'm not hungry, if the Yuan guard is hungry, you can eat, I'll walk around here, you come to me after eating."

Ning Shu said casually, and casually picked up a peach wood hairpin on the stall and looked at it carefully, so that Yuan Wuzhen, who was nervous, thought that she was a fairy who grew up drinking Qiong Jelly and Jade Liquid, and she didn't eat the fireworks of the world.

Glancing back at the wonton stall behind him, he sniffed, and he hesitated, "Then, girl, don't go far." ”

"Well, go ahead."

Speaking of which, Yuan Wu also put down his reserve, and couldn't hide his smile and rushed to the wonton stall to order a bowl of extra wontons.

Ning Shu put down the peach hairpin and continued to wander with a somewhat lost gaze.

I don't know how long I walked aimlessly, and when I was about to return the same way to find Yuanwu, I didn't know when there were two young people standing behind me. Zuo's eyes looked at Ning Shu's graceful figure unabashedly.

One of them rubbed his chin with his fingers and said lightly: "Ouch, what a beautiful little lady, is this lost?" Do you want my brother to take you home? ”