Su Yao did not feel that she had killed someone or destroyed his heart. She simply did not want to see Princess Mingchang jumping around anymore. The place she was about to go to had been plagued by wars in recent years. She did not know what would happen tomorrow. There were already many risks in the future. She did not want to be distracted by guarding against some inexplicable people.
What's more, she has family in the capital. Princess Mingchang may look smart on the surface, but in fact she can't even tell the difference between the important and the unimportant. She may do anything stupid.
Just in case, it would be better for her to lose any ability to cause trouble.
Things are pretty good now. Master Li is in power, and Princess Mingchang is being watched by a nanny from the palace, which is like her hands and feet are tied. Whatever she wants to do, Madam Li will oppose it. The power is now in the hands of Madam Li. Isn't this interesting
However, she already knew the outcome, so there was nothing to be happy or proud of. What she was worried about now was another thing. There was still no news from Yunnan, and she didn't know what had happened to Xiao Heng and the others.
At dinner, Su Yao asked Cui Yuan solemnly, "Sir, the situation has come to this point... If you were His Highness... "
What will be done
Su Yao had thought about this countless times, but still couldn't think of any good solution. The main reason was that she didn't know how many casualties Xiao Heng and his men had suffered, and what the situation was in Zhaotong.
In comparison, Cui Yuandao had stayed in Yunnan for a long time, so she felt that Cui Yuandao should be able to guess something.
Cui Yuandao also knew what Su Yao was worried about. He finally stopped playing coy and looked Su Yao in the face and spoke word by word: "County Lady, if our Highness can't even wait for us to come over, then... Even if we barely make it this time, there's nothing to hope for in the future."
The meaning of the words couldn't be clearer.
Cui Yuandao was indeed going to help, but they were also human beings, not gods. Before they arrived, Xiao Heng, Su Rong and the others had better protect themselves, otherwise, everything would be in vain.
Su Yao closed his eyes.
In fact, she also knew this truth. They were thousands of miles away, and no matter how urgent or worried they were, there was only a limit to what they could do. Keep speculating and worrying here was just a waste of time and only added to their troubles. However, everyone knew the truth, but how many people could really do it
Maybe it was because Su Rong was there too, but Su Yao felt a little restless this time and it was hard for him to remain calm.
In other words, she could do it at first when she first heard the news in the paddock, but as time went by, she became a little unconfident.
Cui Yuandao seemed to be thinking about something.
The sun was about to set, and the afterglow of the evening spread all over the earth, coating everything with a layer of gold. The town was bustling with people rushing home everywhere. Suddenly, a group of people rushed into the crowd from afar, grabbing a man with a turban.
The noise was so loud that everyone was startled. The people fled in all directions. Looking back with lingering fear, they saw the officials holding the scroll and looking at the man carefully.
After watching for a while, the officer kicked the man away in annoyance and shouted angrily: "Why are you covering your head when nothing is wrong?!"
The man was so frightened that his face turned pale. He almost cried when he heard the scolding. He stepped back tremblingly: "I'm sick and can't catch a cold..."
The officer snorted coldly: "Get lost!"
He ran away with his men.
The man sat on the ground without getting up. An old lady beside him sighed and came forward to kindly pull him up: "Young man, you are from the country, right?"
The man nodded hastily.
"Be careful next time. Our city has been in turmoil recently. I heard that rebels took advantage of the chaos to enter our city. Some time ago, the posthouses were burned down and many nobles died. Now the officials are searching for people everywhere!" The old lady couldn't bear it: "Don't run into them. I heard that a while ago, a man didn't know that he saw the officials pushing his mother, so he tried to stop them. In the end, he was beaten to death by the officials for disobeying orders."
Speaking of this, the people around started talking about it.
"Who on earth is this rebel? We've searched for a while, but we haven't found anyone!" A peddler couldn't help but mutter, "Even my family has been checked. They're like bandits... Who on earth are they arresting?"
He grumbled for a while, and was afraid that the tiger would cause trouble, so he lowered his head and continued to fiddle with the objects.
The man who had just fallen to the ground and was helped up by the old lady thanked the old lady, stood up again, walked through the alley and disappeared.
The vendor stared at his back, shook his head, and sighed: "The city has been closed for so long, when will it be lifted? My parents are still in the countryside."
This happened to be a topic that everyone was concerned about, and everyone sighed.
The man was not affected by these topics. He walked through the streets and finally stopped in front of a stilt house. He reached out and pushed open the gate.
There is a huge banana tree in the yard, and there are vegetable plots around it, planted with many lush green vegetables.
As soon as he entered the door, someone came out of the building. Seeing that it was him, he smiled and said, "Are you back? Go wash your hands and have dinner. We're all waiting for you!"
The man quickly agreed, drew water from the well on the east side of the yard, washed his hands, and went up the stairs stupidly.
Not long after, several people appeared silently at the gate of the courtyard. The leader was Lord Yuan. He snorted coldly at the officials who led the way and said, "What's suspicious about them? They are just ordinary country folk. You just couldn't find anyone, so you brought in incompetent people to fill in the numbers!"
The officers were scolded so badly that they couldn't even raise their heads.
Lord Yuan glared at them unhappily, turned around and walked away impatiently, not even bothering to look at the yard again.
Not long after, the door that had been closed opened, and the silly man came out. He stood on the stairs for a while before going back in. "We can't hide for long. The capital will definitely send people over. They have been searching more and more strictly recently, but all the exits are heavily guarded and there are sentries. We are like trapped beasts now. No matter where we go, we are in the wrong place."
He swept away his previous honest look, his face became stern, he raised his eyebrows and turned his head away: "Uncle..."
It’s Qing Kun who is beside Su Rong.
Su Rong hummed, patted his shoulder without saying anything, and turned back to the house.
Xiao Heng and Tang Yuan were in the room. Tang Yuan breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Su Rong coming in. "It's always unsafe to follow him here. Hiding here and there is no solution. We must come up with a solution as soon as possible, otherwise we will just sit there and wait for death."