Zi'an knew that if Chu Jing couldn't find her in Miaojiang, he would be furious and the scene at Wolf Tail Mountain would be repeated. She couldn't kill thousands of people.
Chu Jing's target was her, not the Miao people, so as long as he caught her, there was no need for Chu Jing to go against the Miao people.
But if she stayed in Miaojiang, the people of Miaojiang would not hand her over. They all respected Wen Yi's words as the law and would protect her even at the cost of their lives.
When they came to Miaojiang from the capital, Ye Wang showed them a map and had a certain understanding of the terrain of Miaojiang.
So, after she entered the forest, she quickly turned around and went down the mountain. She wanted to appear in front of Chu Jing.
Wu Yanzu and the others waited for about a quarter of an hour, but Zi'an still didn't come out. Wu Yanzu was a little worried, so he walked into the forest carefully and called out in a low voice: "Master, Master!"
The sound startled the birds, but no one answered.
Wu Yanzu hurriedly looked around, but there was no trace of his master in such a big forest.
He thought about it and felt that something was wrong, so he ran out and said to Azha and Shugong, "My master is missing."
Aza and Shugong looked at each other, their faces changed slightly, "He won't be captured, will he? But that shouldn't be the case. If he was captured, we would definitely hear something."
Besides, people can’t get up the mountain that fast.
Wu Yanzu calmed down and thought for a moment, then said with a pale face, "She must not want to implicate us, so she walked into the trap herself."
"What should we do?" Shu Gong and Azha had never dealt with such a situation before, and they never expected that someone would fall into the trap.
"Azha, you go back to Miaojiang first and explain the situation to Uncle Xing, and ask him to send someone to look for him. Shugong, you and I will look for him here. Master is in poor health and can't walk fast, but maybe we can catch up with him." Wu Yanzu said immediately.
"Okay." Aza responded and hurriedly ran back the same way.
Since that day, no one has seen Xia Zian again.
Qin Zhou personally led his men to Miaojiang, but saw many corpses in the miasma forest in the mountains, but neither Zi'an nor Chu Jing was seen.
When Qin Zhou arrived in Miaojiang, he found out that the people of Miaojiang had been looking for Zi'an. Uncle Xing told Zi'an that she left on her own that day and guessed that she went to find Chu Jing.
Qin Zhou searched in the mountains for a whole month, and people from Miaojiang followed suit, but none of them could find Zi'an's whereabouts.
It was as if she had disappeared into thin air.
There is no trace of it anymore.
Besides Zi'an, Chu Jing also disappeared out of thin air. Chu Jing's body was not found among the pile of corpses.
Qin Zhou did not leave Miaojiang for a month.
Finally, it was Doctor Wen Yi who told her, "You are now the ruler of a country. When you ascend the throne, you have responsibilities on your shoulders. You abandoned the people of Beimo for Zi'an. First, she can't bear the scolding. Second, she doesn't want you to do this."
Qin Zhou left. She came with 5,000 troops, but only took back 2,000. The remaining 3,000 continued to search in the Miao area.
Murong Jie's marrow cleansing was so painful that he was reborn, but he managed to make it through.
Liang Hanwen finally detoxified Sun Fang'er, and the antidote for the Tongming Gu was developed. On the day Murong Jie took the antidote, he went to Miaojiang.
He didn't come back for two years.
In the past two years, in addition to the missing Zi'an and Chu Jing, King Nan Huai's whereabouts are also unknown.
Did King Nan Huai die? No one knows.
Are Zi'an and Chu Jing dead? No one knows.
A few days before Prince Liang married Yi'er, Murong Jie returned to the capital.
The King of Liang stayed in Daliang for half a year at that time, and finally persuaded the old emperor to agree to let Yi'er go down to the Great Zhou to be the princess.
However, he had to keep Yi'er for more than a year, so it had to be two years after Zi'an disappeared before he could marry Yi'er.
A lot of things have happened in the past two years, but they are all good things.
First, the prince ascended the throne, and Grand Secretary Yuan and the King of Guangdong became ministers. Concubine Mei was named Empress Dowager Mother, and Hu Huanling was named Empress Dowager Mother. Hu Huanling only enjoyed the honor of Empress Dowager, but had no real power, and even had to rely on others in the harem.
Secondly, Wu Yanzu married Wanjing, and he also entered the Huimin Office as a doctor.
Guiyuan married Xiaosun. When they got married, Xiaosun cried for several days.
After Qin Zhou ascended the throne, A Jing came to Da Zhou to propose marriage to Rouyao. The two got married eight months after Zi'an disappeared.
Ajing did not return to Beimo. The Beimo Emperor Qin Zhou specially appointed Ajing as a peace envoy between the two countries to stay in Dazhou temporarily.
Su Qing and Lingli got married a year after Zi'an disappeared, and she became pregnant just three months after their marriage.
I forgot to mention that Liu Liu had such a big belly, but in the end she only gave birth to one baby. Liu Liu was very disappointed. She had always thought it was triplets, but she obviously did not inherit her mother's good skills.
There is another thing, I don’t know if it is good news or not, Xia Lin actually married Sun Fanger, and it was Sun Fanger who asked for the marriage. The two of them lived in seclusion in Hanshan.
Prince An also married Yuan Cuiyu in Daliang. The couple settled down in Daliang and seldom returned.
A'man was pregnant for nine months and gave birth to a daughter. From then on, Prince Li became a daughter slave and no longer cared about etiquette and morals. He talked about his daughter all the time.
As for Zhuangzhuang, she became pregnant a month before Prince Liang got married. After two years of marriage, the couple finally succeeded in conceiving a child.
Everyone's life seemed to have not changed much after Zi'an passed away.
However, whenever I am happy, I always think of that person, think of what she has done for us, and think of her voice, appearance and smile.
Everyone said that no one knew where she was hiding, but everyone knew in their hearts that Zi'an was dead.
If she didn't die, there was no way she wouldn't come back.
In the past two years, Murong Jie's people, Qin Zhou's people, and Ye Wang's people have traveled all over the country but have not found her.
The day Murong Jie came back, he did not inform anyone and just went back home quietly.
The palace has always been managed by Nanny and Wanjing. After Xiaosun got married, she followed Guiyuan to the farm and occasionally came back to help, but without the master's mansion, it has been like stagnant water in the past two years.
The nanny has aged a lot. Since the day she learned that Zi'an was missing, she started to eat vegetarian food and chant Buddhist scriptures, praying to the gods and Buddhas in the sky to send her princess back.
She was disappointed for two years.
When she saw Murong Jie coming back, her tears suddenly fell. The handsome regent looked as miserable as a gangster.
"Mammy, the king is back."
"It's good that you're back, it's good that you're back." The nanny wiped her tears and said with a sob, subconsciously looking behind him, hoping that someone would suddenly appear.
Murong Jie saw through her thoughts and said, "I didn't find her."
Mammy could hear how much disappointment and despair were contained in these four words, and her tears fell even harder. "I will be back."
Murong Jie walked back silently, entered the yard, closed the door, and sat inside for the whole day without drinking water or eating.
He often did this when he was in Miaojiang, taking a few steamed buns with him and going out for a few days.
He didn't know where she was, but if she died, she must have died in the mountains of Miaojiang, and he wanted to be there with her.
No matter whether she is dead or alive.
(End of this chapter)