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Before the incident in Daming Palace, Yuan Yu had already brought his men to Lu Mansion and escorted the entire family to evacuate.
Yuan Cixian secretly wanted to stand by Lu Shiqing's side, but she was not alone now. Her two children were still ignorant, and Xuan and Lu Shuangyu were also confused and flustered. She had to be their backbone.
After a few words to comfort the two, she took the child and the luggage that Lu Shiqing had packed for them, gritted her teeth and followed Yuan Yu to leave. In order to be quick, she did not stop for a moment. But even so, it was still extremely dangerous. As soon as the group handed over the sign to leave the Jinguang Gate, the gatekeeper behind them received an urgent order from the Daming Palace and shouted: "Oh no, it's the traitor's family, stop them!"
Immediately afterwards, soldiers and horses swarmed out of the city.
Fortunately, Lu Shiqing and Yuan Yizhi had already made arrangements outside the Jinguan Gate. The first wave of cavalry lurking on all sides jumped up and quickly engaged them.
These people were the private troops that Yuan Yizheng had raised in southern Yunnan. Although their number was small, each of them was well-trained as a fierce warrior. When their spears swept across them, it was no exaggeration to say that they were like a tidal wave. They were simply incomparable to the soldiers who were used to enjoying a comfortable life in Chang'an.
Soon, the cavalry successfully withdrew and headed west like the wind to catch up with the Yuan brothers and sisters, and another hundred people went to meet Lu Shiqing.
Yuan Cixian did not take the carriage. Yuan Yu led the way in front, while she, Jianzhi and Shicui were at the back, riding horses to guard the women, children and the elderly in front and pay attention to the movements in the back. So when the cavalry caught up, she noticed it at the first moment.
She didn't dare to stop and continued whipping the horse. When a deputy general caught up with her, she asked, "Are there any people left outside the city?"
"Don't worry, County Lady. More than a hundred brothers are waiting to pick up Minister Lu. With the Sixth Prince deliberately letting them go, there will be no mistakes!"
She nodded, knowing that now was not the time to be concerned about love affairs. Her mind was focused on the road ahead, so she continued to ask, "Where are we going to stay?"
Yuan Cixian knew that Lu Shiqing's hometown was Luoyang, but the Lu Bridge outside Yanxing Gate was the only way to the Eastern Capital, and this Jinguan Gate was facing west, which was the opposite of it. And it was obvious that the current Great Zhou could not accommodate them. Because Lu Shiqing could not kill Emperor Huining directly for the time being: first, he had to rely on kidnapping the old emperor to escape unscathed, and second, he could not kill him when Zheng Zhuo led his troops to chase him. If so, at the least, he would make the people he had won over with great difficulty go to waste, and at worst, people would be suspicious and suspect that this palace coup was a conspiracy between the two of them.
All under heaven belongs to the king. She thought that Lu Shiqing chose to evacuate to the west in order to temporarily leave this king's land.
Upon hearing this, the deputy general hurriedly replied: "Minister Lu has instructed that he has arranged the route ahead. Please ask the county lady to go west through Tubo, then turn north to Uighur."
Yuan Cixian was not surprised and quickly gave the order: "Okay. You take a few people to the front to take care of my brother, and call two teams of brothers to guard the two carriages in front, one on the left and one on the right. I and the rest of the soldiers will cover the rear."
"yes!"
*
From the time he rushed out of the Jinguan Gate at noon until the first watch of the night, Yuan Cixian never stopped for a moment.
Xuan, Lu Shuangyu and a wet nurse took the carriage with their two children, which was a little more comfortable. They could eat when they were hungry or tired. She had followed her father in the army in the early years, so she was not exhausted by the running around. However, her subordinates advised her to take a rest. Seeing that it was getting late and there was no enemy around, she obediently went to the carriage to save her energy.
It's not time to be a hero. She still wants to see Lu Shiqing alive.
After seven days of rest and sleeping in the open, the group successfully approached the Uighur border. During these seven days, they did not encounter any pursuers, nor did they receive any news about Lu Shiqing.
Xuan was well taken care of and did not suffer much health problems, but she was worried and asked about her son's condition several times a day.
Yuan Cixian didn't know what exactly happened to Lu Shiqing. She had two carriages, which were very slow. If he wanted to catch up, he should be able to catch up in less than an hour. But since he hadn't been there for seven days, it meant that he had taken a detour after leaving the city, intending to divert the imperial court's troops for them. After all, according to the old emperor's character, it was impossible for him to just send Zheng Zhuo out of the city. With an arrest warrant, all the states and counties of the Great Zhou would be on alert, and Lu Shiqing was surrounded by killing tactics everywhere.
However, the consolation is that his father and mother should have met up with him, and Zheng Zhuo, who was pretending to chase the enemy, would definitely intervene at the critical moment and help them escape danger. Yuan Cihan was not worried.
Three days later, on the night before entering the Uighurs, she received the first letter from the court while resting in the carriage. She had thought that no news was the best news, but now she was a little nervous. She opened the letter and saw that it said that Zheng Zhuo led his troops to annihilate a cavalry team of 100 people last night, but did not capture the imperial prisoner.
Yuan Cixian pondered the letter carefully and smiled faintly.
This cavalry team is not from the Great Zhou.
Although Zheng Zhuo and Lu Shiqing staged a palace coup, they tried their best to minimize the casualties. Even the seemingly brutal and brutal massacre in front of the Zichen Palace that day was ended at an extremely fast speed, and most people only suffered minor injuries.
She was sure that no matter how hard Zheng Zhuo tried to make his scene realistic, he would not wipe out an entire team in one go.
The only possibility is that a third party joined the hunt for Lu Shiqing, and Zheng Zhuo took advantage of the situation and simply "treated" these people as private troops in southern Yunnan and killed them all. In this way, he could report to the court and solve the problem for Lu Shiqing.
As for who this third party is, she thought, Xi Ju finally couldn't sit still.
However, Yuan Cixian was not worried about Nanzhao's straightforward killing move. What she was worried about was that Xi Ju knew the relationship between Lu Shiqing and Zheng Zhuo, and might try every means to collect evidence, or spread rumors in Da Zhou to mislead the deceived court officials.
The weather in the north gets cold quickly. The nights in late May in midsummer are as cold as autumn. A gust of wind blew into the curtains of the carriage, blowing the secret letter in her hand. The paper rustled, and Xuan, who was taking a nap on the couch beside her, opened her eyes.
Yuan Cixian quickly put the secret letter away and said apologetically, "Mother, I'm sorry to have woken you up."
Xuan saw it with her sharp eyes, and stood up to ask, "Is there any news about Shi Qing?"
She shook her head. "It's news from the court. Don't worry, we can enter the Uighurs tomorrow. Once we are safe, he will be able to reunite with us."
Xuan nodded with a worried look on her face. Just as she was about to ask her to go to bed and have a rest, she saw her brows furrowed and her expression tense.
Yuan Cixian lifted a corner of the curtain, stuck out half of her head, listened with her ear tilted for a while, then turned back and said quickly: "Mother, please hide in the carriage and don't come out." After that, she jumped off the carriage.
Yuan Yu also apparently heard the sound of the horses' hooves and quickly called the soldiers together: "Gather and listen to orders!"
The soldiers were either on guard or resting, but when they heard the noise, they all stood up, picked up their guns and mounted their horses, as if they had never slept at all.
Now everyone heard it. The deafening noise was getting closer and closer, and there must be at least a thousand people.
Yuan Cixian mounted his horse and shouted, "Squads one to three are on the left wing, squads four to six are on the right wing, squad seven is charging, squad eight is the rear guard, set up the formation to meet the enemy!"
After she finished speaking, she glanced at Yuan Yu and whispered, "If the situation is not right, you should take A Niang and the others to retreat first, and knock on the door of the Uighurs at night..."
When she got to this point, she heard a soldier shout in surprise: "County lady, look at the torches ahead!"
Yuan Cixian suddenly looked up and saw a torch burning in the night, swinging left once, right three times, and then repeating the same cycle again.
Her heart was pounding, not with nervousness but with joy.
Left one, right three, left one, right three, this is the code her father taught her. When Zheng Zhuo arranged for assassins to pretend to assassinate Yuan Yizhi in order to solve the conspiracy of Prince Ping, in order to avoid more casualties in the battle, he also used this code.
The brother and sister had some expectations in their hearts, but they remained alert and did not act rashly before they were completely sure. It was not until the enemy's troops approached them and a man in a black robe with his hair tied up with a wooden hairpin caught their sight that Yuan Cihan's heart trembled. He jumped off his horse and ran over like a fly.
Seeing her rushing towards him like an arrow, the enemy was not afraid of being trampled by the iron hooves. He quickly stopped his horse, waved his hand to stop the soldiers behind him, and was about to walk quickly towards her, but saw that she was already in front of him and threw her head into his arms.
There were camps and bonfires, with more than a thousand people on both sides, all with burning eyes, on high alert. Under the watchful eyes of everyone, she hugged Lu Shiqing just like that.
Lu Shiqing was exhausted from the past few days, and was almost knocked back by her. However, thinking of the thousands of soldiers behind him, and his father-in-law and mother-in-law watching him from their high horses, he steadied himself very firmly, then hugged her back and said, "I was not hurt by the pursuers, but I would have been hurt by you."
Yuan Cihan wiped away her tears, buried her head in his chest and took a few breaths. She originally wanted to smell the scent on his body, which was not like soapberry, but faint and reassuring. However, she unexpectedly smelled an unpleasant odor of mud.
But she still refused to let him go, and just buried her head and said: "You stink..."
Lu Shiqing choked and coughed awkwardly: "So many people are watching."
"I'm not having an affair, so what's wrong with hugging my husband?"
He sighed secretly, glanced back, and reminded: "Dad doesn't look good."
She then raised her head, let go of him, and looked behind him.
Yes, she had previously speculated that her father and mother were with Lu Shiqing, but as soon as she saw him, she forgot everything.
Yuan Cixian looked up and saw her father and mother riding a horse, one behind the other. Her mother was smiling calmly and with relief, but her father had a long, frosty face.
In fact, it was no wonder that he did that. After not seeing each other for more than a year, they met again. His daughter had already married and had children, but she was so excited when she saw her husband that she didn't even remember to say hello to her father.
Things have completely changed.
Yuan Cixian walked over with a shy face, looked up and said, "Dad and Mom, come down and give us a hug?"
Yuan Yizhi snorted at her and glanced away.
Feng tapped her forehead lightly: "You!"
*
The two families had a unique "reunion" in the wilderness. No one had expected that the first meeting of the in-laws would be in such a desperate situation.
But with a family reunited and thousands of people witnessing it, it’s actually not that bad.
The villagers on both sides talked to each other for a few words, and it was Lu Shiqing and Yuan Yizhi who called a halt, saying that although King Ping was dead, the Turks still existed, and in order to prevent the Turks from attacking the Uighurs again and causing chaos on the border, it would be best to set off overnight before that.
Everyone else had no objection, except Yuan Cihan, who suggested that she wanted to be like her father and mother and ride on the same horse with Lu Shiqing.
When the soldiers saw that the Lancang County Lady, who had been calmly commanding the battle in front of the enemy, snuggled into Minister Lu's arms like a little bird, and was even so weak and delicate that she asked him to carry her onto the horse, and she didn't close her jaw for a long time.
Lu Shiqing thought, come on, give her some face, and hugged her up, hugged her from behind, lowered his head and whispered in her ear: "Have a good sleep, and you'll be there when you wake up."
Yuan Cixian shook her head and said soberly: "I don't want to sleep. I want to talk to you."
Lu Shiqing couldn't do anything with her, so he shook the reins and drove the horse on the road. All the way, she kept asking him about her situation in the past few days.
He said it was nothing thrilling. At one point, they almost had a head-on confrontation with a group of local troops, but Zheng Zhuo was so slippery that he fired a fog ball and led them to the wrong path.
Yuan Cixian smiled after hearing this, then suppressed a sigh: "I know why he volunteered to capture my father and brother in the dream."
Lu Shiqing also smiled faintly.
In fact, this life is not much different from the previous one. After the Yuan family "rebelled", Zheng Zhuo also fell out with them, but this so-called "falling out" was just a show. From this, it can be seen that in the previous life, he also volunteered to fake the death of Yuan Yizhi and Yuan Yu in order to protect the Yuan family. It's just that for some reason, it was exposed.
For two whole years, Yuan Cixian misunderstood Zheng Zhuo for two whole years.
But if it weren't for this misunderstanding, she and Lu Shiqing would have missed each other just like in their previous life.
She leaned against him and said yearningly: "When he ascends the throne, we won't have to travel far away and can return to the Great Zhou. Then I will treat him to a drink."
Lu Shiqing responded with a "good" and was about to speak when he suddenly saw a Uighur-dressed soldier galloping towards them. He dismounted in front of everyone, knelt down and saluted: "The Turks are attacking, and the border is closed. Princess Jiahu has come to welcome you to enter the border. Please follow the princess and avoid being stopped!"
As soon as he finished speaking, another rider came from afar. It was a pretty figure. She looked at Yuan Yu in the team and waved, "General Yuan, I'm here to pick up Dabai. Did you take him with you when you escaped?"
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