Chapter Fifty-Eight: A Chance Encounter with an Old Friend
Jiang Jinglan was bored during the banquet, looked around in the restaurant, and inadvertently saw Master Xue Jing of the Supervision Department.
When they heard this, they stopped talking. Tao Lao got up and beckoned Bai Ye and walked to the window bar with Senior Sister Xiao.
The street in front of the door has been unblocked, and a convoy is slowly passing in front of the hotel. Nearly 100 guards and servants surrounded the convoy. Lord Xue Jing stood outside the team with his hands behind his back, as if he was muttering something to the former enemy officer.
Long Wuji sat still and didn't move, just frowned: "He, he can't leave for the time being." The master was running fast, but most of the men and horses who accompanied him were still stranded in the city. ”
Tao Lao sneered and laughed: "This kid is also calm. ”
"Master?" Jiang Jinglan was a little puzzled, "Who is the master of the Supervision Division?"
After a while, she suddenly opened her mouth wide, "Lu Xiang?"
The old man stared at the street and said in a deep voice: "It's the beginning of the month, and Wuji has the general information." There were high-ranking officials from the imperial capital who lived anonymously in a large mansion in the city. This Xue Jing came to report the news every once in a while, and then received the order to go to the merchant inns and freight yards in nearby towns to look around. By the way, it also includes Fangyi. ”
Jiang Jinglan was very smart, and he found a problem with a roll of his eyes: "At the beginning of this month, I was already preparing for the war." Lu Xiang is so bold, what is he doing running to the front line?"
Long Wuji also stood up and sneered: "Naturally, it's to check our Jiang family." The imperial capital is hundreds of miles away, and it will take several days for the fast horse to transmit messages back and forth. Lu Zhonglin came to Baishui in person, and it seems that he is riveting enough to seize our handle. ”
Uncle Dacheng picked his teeth and lay on the railing, and chuckled: "What protects the family and defends the country, what resists foreign humiliation, in Lu Xiang's heart, which is more important than bringing down the Jiang family." ”
Bai Ye hid behind Tao Lao, counting the number of carts in the team downstairs, when he suddenly noticed that Lord Xue Jing looked up and stared upstairs. He hurriedly took a few steps back, avoiding the sharp line of sight.
Jiang Jinglan took advantage of the situation to move forward. Looking at each other, a strange light appeared in Xue Jing's eyes.
"Yo, Miss Jiang, I didn't expect to meet here!" Xue Jing smiled and arched his hand upstairs and greeted him warmly.
Jiang Jinglan stepped forward just to block Bai Ye, she didn't want to pay much attention to Lord Xue. The old steward Tao beside him did not show a little disdain on his face, and respectfully returned the salute.
"Hello Lord Xue. It's hard work for you to take risks and travel to the front line day and night. ”
"Tao Lao is polite, and the duties that should be fulfilled under him are not hard. “
Xue Jing's words changed, "But the sudden attack of the Southern Continent is really dangerous. I advise you not to go back to Quanzhou. It is not advisable to stay here for a long time, so it is better to find a place to avoid it as soon as possible. ”
Lord Xue Jing's generous face was full of sincerity, but the words "gloating" flashed in everyone's minds.
Old Steward Tao didn't hear his teasing, and asked with a smile: "Advice, where is a safe place?"
"Naturally, it's the imperial capital! Your Jiang family is world-famous in the imperial capital's courtyard, and Miss Man can live and recuperate there, and it is not too late to return to Quanzhou when the Nanlu people are defeated. Please rest assured, in the imperial capital, the Prime Minister will take good care of himself. ”
Jiang Jinglan rolled her eyes and sneered, "That's good." You're also going back to the imperial capital, aren't you? ”
Xue Jing's wide face immediately froze.
Long Shicheng suddenly appeared at the door of the first floor of the restaurant. No one noticed, he didn't know when he went downstairs.
Xue Jing watched Shi Chenglong walk up and approach, and couldn't help but take a few steps back before bending down to salute.
There is no way, although Long Wuji has no official or position, his reputation is too prosperous and his aura is too strong. Lin Shen, the former enemy division, bowed his head and bent down to follow him closely, like a follower.
Shi Cheng didn't look at Xue Jing squarely, pointed to the slowly moving convoy, and said bluntly: "There aren't too many big houses available in Baishui City. Are you done packing up? I have requisitioned the houses in Minhe Lane, and the refugees from outside the city will be resettled today. ”
Xue Jing's face changed several times, and he replied in a low voice after a while: "Sure enough, everything can't be hidden from Long Shicheng." ”
While talking, the people in the restaurant all walked down, only Bai Ye, who was still hiding upstairs.
He had dealt with Xue Jing in Fangyi. The commotion made by Fangyi the day before yesterday was too big, and the people in the Supervision Department must have known about it. And now that he is surrounded by the Jiang family, he doesn't want to show his face. In case he noticed that the Fangyi people were mixed with the Jiang family, this adult would inevitably be suspicious.
But he kept an eye on it, gently tugged at the cuffs of the senior sister, and left her on the third floor.
It is a condescending place with a wide view. In case something happens to Junior Ancestor Jiang for a while, Senior Sister's secret technique is most suitable to be displayed a little farther away to control the scene.
Jiang Jinglan, who jumped onto the street, paced back and forth, and turned a few times with a pair of wonderful eyes. Xue Jing saw it, and only felt dizzy.
"This fat man must be scolding himself for talking too much. Why are you messing with her......" Bai Ye covered her mouth and stole fun.
Senior Sister shook her head slightly. Jiang Jinglan's temper is best known to her, and it is also the bad luck of this official to catch up with her in the past two days.
There were no markings on the dozens of black boxcars that drove by one after another, but they were clearly all heavily loaded.
The seven or eight light carts at the end of the queue were decorated with emerald blue orchids and orange irises, which were supposed to be carrying civilian officials and female dependents respectively.
The sturdy attendants accompanying them on horseback were probably no less than a hundred, all expressionless. But from the appearance, it can be seen that many of these people can be regarded as masters of physical arts.
"Is this your team? What's on so many boxcars?"
Xue Jing was strong and calm, but his neck was already a little stiff. Old Steward Tao and Shi Cheng naturally knew who the owner of the convoy was. But after all, the main owner has long been gone, and there is no benefit in demolishing it on the street.
Jiang Jinglan didn't care about that, he patted Lord Xue on the shoulder: "People go." Let's leave something. Didn't you come out on patrol? What are you carrying with so many things?"
"This ...... Miss Hui, the responsibility of the Supervision Department is to travel all year round. Naturally, they will carry a lot of paperwork, archives and equipment. ”
"You're too much. Besides, what kind of belongings do you need to use such a good camphor wood box and nanmu box?
Miss Jiang seems to have made up her mind to find trouble with Lord Xue Jing. She tugged on Shi Cheng's sleeve: "Uncle Long, it's wartime, is it possible to requisition all supplies on the spot?" ”
Shi Cheng and Jiang Jinglan had a tacit understanding, and after listening to his words, he finally glanced at Xue Jing: "Lord Xue, you and I know what is in the car." It doesn't matter if it's anyone's good fortune to honor you, or where the stolen goods are confiscated, as long as the people who are resettled in the disaster can be resettled, you might as well keep them. ”
Xue Jing was scolded by the eldest lady several times, and saw that Shi Cheng also began to help unreasonably. Finally a bit of a gaffe.
He waved his hand again and again, and said hurriedly: "This is the official's chariot! Boss Long, let's enjoy a thin noodle, they are all confidential documents and files, as well as personal belongings, why are you embarrassed." ”
Before the words fell, a big car that had just passed behind Xue Jing suddenly clicked. A large camphor box crashed through the carport and flew into the air, falling heavily to the ground and falling to pieces.
In the cracked box, several pieces of fine porcelain rolled out.
Jiang Jinglan leaned over to pick up a teapot with a broken mouth, and squinted at Lord Xue, whose face was pale.
He Dacheng walked over calmly, carefully took the broken tea set, looked at it carefully, and said with a smile: "Yo! Porcelain with crystal powder! Soothe your mind and recuperate your body and mind." This is a tribute to the special product of the official kiln of Wenyang, Ulva!"
"Is this what you use with you, my lord?"
The two countries are at war, but they are carrying the precious tribute of the enemy country! If you can't say it clearly, this is enough to cut off your head many times in battle!
Xue Jing almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood, but he couldn't say it clearly, this was a beloved thing that Lu Xiang bought at a high price a few years ago. He clenched his fists in a hurry and anger, but he didn't dare to move.
He had already seen the black-robed attendant upstairs. It was the man who smashed the box with a volley.
This skill is not something he can compete with.
In a panic, he ignored a trivial matter, there were actually two spiritual power fluctuations upstairs, and one of them was still familiar.
But he didn't have time to think too much, Long Wuji had already walked towards the cart.
The two guards guarding the convoy immediately led their horses forward and blocked him in front of him.
These guards are used to being arrogant, although they have deliberately kept a low profile and did not draw their blades, but the items of the main family were inexplicably broken, which has never happened before, and the eyes of the two guards who stopped in front of Shi Cheng were red.
However, the situation of the confrontation changed drastically in an instant.
Long Wuji didn't even look up, and several horses in front of him suddenly screamed in mourning, and suddenly fell to their knees, throwing off the knight on their backs. The horse rolled several times to the left and right before he frothed at the mouth and struggled to get up, and then fell down again.
And the two attendants who had fallen were lying on their backs facing the sky, motionless. Apparently fainted.
For a while, a large area of silver light exploded on the street, and the guards of the Supervision Division and the guards of the former Enemy Division all pulled out their weapons. The atmosphere suddenly became tense.
Jiang Jinglan's boldness was a little excessive. The two sides were already facing each other, but she didn't care. Her attention was drawn to a high-boxed carriage not far away.
The curtain on the car had just wobbled a little. And the perimeter of the carriage was already surrounded by several circles of guards in an instant.
"Eh, there's someone in the car? Isn't this your own car? Who else is hiding?" The excitement in the eldest lady's eyes couldn't be concealed at all, and she turned around and finally saw General Lin Shen: "Your Excellency, don't you check the imperial officials? Look at these things he carried, do you suspect that he is in a foreign country? You see that there are people hiding in his car, and he wants to take advantage of the chaos to escape." ”
General Lin is under the control of the former enemy division, and he and Xue Jing are naturally on two roads. With Long Wuji's support, and the eldest lady of the Jiang family to speak, he waved his hand without hesitation. The guards in the street immediately rushed up and surrounded the carriage.
A helpless smile appeared on Long Wuji's face. He doesn't want to care, let's go mess around with the eldest lady. Anyway, she must not be in a good mood lately, and she also needs someone to vent to.
Xue Jing gritted his teeth, turned around and rushed to the side of the carriage. After running a few steps, he was blocked by a slightly shorter black-clothed attendant, and in a hurry, he reached out to push it.
Hearing only the sound of "swish", Xue Jing roared and took a few steps back, covering his right hand tightly.
It was the little sister who stopped him. She didn't use any secret arts, but the air around her was very hot.
In the chaos, Bai Ye, who was hiding on the third floor, said something to the senior sister again.
The senior sister beckoned lightly, and the curtain of the van carriage was swept into the air.
Jiang Jinglan, who was crowded in front of him, looked at the car and was dumbfounded.
There is indeed no prime minister in the carriage, and there can be no spy in the country. A cart full of frightened warblers and swallows were just birds.
"It's boring......"
Bai Ye was also surprised, but he didn't expect that Lord Xue, who was kind and kind, would have to bring so many women on an errand abroad. After a while, he suddenly understood that these women should be the people next to Lu Xiang's pillow.
Bai Ye shrank back stupidly, and was about to discuss with the senior sister again to continue making trouble, when suddenly at the moment when the door curtain fell again, he caught a glimpse of a person staring at him in the afterglow.
The eyebrows are faintly blurred, and the face is fleeting.
Bai Ye's heart suddenly suffocated. How do you feel, where have I seen this face before?