The Times Spent in Pretense

Chapter 26: Protect your dreams

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The Princess Jiamin stared at Hua Liuli with the look of a fool.

Hua Liuli looked back shyly and timidly.

In this quiet carriage, neither of them spoke. The rickety carriage did not know where to take them.

The curtain of the carriage was suddenly lifted, and the female killer looked at Hua Liuli and Jiamin who were facing each other, took out a knife from her waist, and slowly approached them.

"If you have something to say, don't scratch your face!" Princess Jiamin turned his face to the side, "We can make ourselves ugly, really! If you scratch your face now, it won't scab over for a while, which is more likely to cause suspicion. , it's not good for you."

The female killer's eyes swept across the two, Hua Liuli leaned against the wall of the car with tears in her eyes, and looked at her pitifully. This look reminded her of the kitten that was thrown to death by her master when she was a child.

She put the knife back into the scabbard, and said with a cold face: "I and the boss are only responsible for sending you out of the mountain. I won't care what they will do to you later."

"Sister, aren't you with us?" Hua Liuli looked at the female killer timidly.

"I told you not to call me sister." The female killer turned her head away from Hua Liuli, "Don't blame us, we can't help it. The son said that as long as you finish your vote, then let me and the boss be free. ."

"You kidnapped us out of the capital, and even if we fled to the ends of the earth, we wouldn't be able to escape the pursuit of the imperial court, so what kind of freedom do you have?" Hua Liuli lowered her eyelids, "It's better to let us go, maybe you can still save a life."

"Little girl, don't try to fool me with this kind of lie to children." The female killer sneered, "Don't be delusional. When you reincarnate in your next life, choose a lucky life, and don't die like your youth in this life."

The female killer withdrew from the carriage, and the fellows saw her coming out so quickly: "Why didn't you start?"

The female killer sneered: "Now scratching their faces, do you want to tell others clearly that there is something wrong with the faces of these two? Do you think you are stupid, or are the people in the court stupid?"

The person who asked the question suppressed his anger and turned to leave.

After leaving Jing, it was the death of these two killers. At this time, he couldn't destroy the son's plan, so he endured it. He turned around and let the others do a simple disguise on the two hostages so they wouldn't be recognized.

"I think this female killer may not live for long." Jiamin was afraid, but she didn't want to be seen by Hua Liuli, so she pretended to talk calmly to Hua Liuli, "People who say this in the book , will eventually die."

Hua Liuli blinked and ignored her.

The hands and feet of the two were tied, and the windows of the car were tightly sealed, and they had no idea where they were going.

A few hours later, the two were given two bowls of porridge, which seemed to contain hypnotic drugs, and they fell into a deep sleep.

When I woke up again, it was the second day. Taking advantage of the opportunity that the female killer took them to solve their physical problems, Hua Liuli looked around.

The person who kidnapped them pretended to be a caravan, and the people on the female killer's side didn't seem to get along well with the other dozen people, and the other dozen people looked at them with malicious and frivolous eyes.

"Young master said that we will be set free after we finish this matter." The female killer stuffed Hua Liuli and Jiamin back into the carriage, and said to the other dozen people, "From now on, we won't need to meet again."

"In order to bring these two women back to the capital, all the hidden piles and manpower we arranged have been discovered by the court. You are still in the capital, and there is only one dead end. Why not stay and continue to be loyal to the lord and create a great cause together."

The female killer handed over: "Farewell."

Seeing that they didn't listen to their persuasion, the man at the head turned pale. He glanced at the killers, turned around and said, "Let's go."

"The female killer you wooed all the way has left." Jiamin, who had not eaten for nearly ten hours, leaned weakly against the wall of the carriage, "What should we do now?"

If they are really sent to their destination, they are really going to die.

"The mountains here are high and the roads are dangerous, like the junction between the capital and Shanling Prefecture. It is said that there are few people here and there are often beasts..." Hua Liuli twisted her wrist, "It will be dark in two hours."

Hearing this, Jiamin felt even more nervous. Without the few killers who paid attention to "differentiation between men and women" watching, she was very worried about the rest of the people messing around.

Jiamin's worries soon became true. When they were resting at night, although the ropes that tied them were untied, the gangsters surrounding them mocked them with foul language.

If it hadn't been for them, Jiamin would have killed them long ago. Turning her head to look at Hua Liuli, who was burying her head in the meal, she was so angry that she scolded in a low voice, "Eat, eat, eat, you know how to eat, you are not weak, you will vomit if you eat this, and you will faint if you eat that, why are you now? Can you eat anything?"

"Special period, special treatment." Hua Liuli put down the empty bowl, wiped the corner of her mouth, and slowly reached out to her waist.

"Yo, is the little lady not full?" A man with a pointed mouth and monkey cheeks laughed, "Come on, call me brother, and I'll give you something delicious."

Others laughed, and others laughed.

"They are high-ranking princesses, how can you insult them?"

"The county lord of the court is not very good. At this time, isn't he acting like a dog?"

Insulting the noble princess in words brought them great satisfaction, and everyone had a cheerful smile on their faces.

Jiamin was trembling with anger, and even her eyes were red.

"When I was a child, someone told me that weakness is also a weapon." Hua Liuli looked at these men who wanted to make fun of them, "But weakness is a weapon that can only be used by humans, not animals."

"Yo yo yo, this little girl is calling us beasts."

"As expected of the county master, the scolding voices are so nice."

Swish.

Jiamin felt in a trance that there seemed to be a flash of silver light in front of her. Before she could react, she heard a bang, and the man closest to them suddenly fell to the ground.

The foul language disappeared, the laughter disappeared, and the only thing that could be heard in the whole valley was the whistling of the cold wind. The sound of woo woo, like a ghost crying.

She raised her head in a daze, looking at Hua Liuli standing in front of her, and the soft sword in her hand that she didn't know where it came from, her mind went blank.

"Every child of the Hua family will have a soft sword to protect themselves." Hua Liuli shook the blood on the soft sword, "I am weak and sick, and I don't like to use force."

"Everyone has a dream, but you ruined a girl's beautiful dream." Hua Liuli kicked the corpse that fell on the ground, and the corpse rolled to the side: "I'm usually not angry, it will kill you when you get angry."

"Damn, this woman is a biting dog, brothers, copy it!"

Jiamin woke up when she heard these people starting to draw their swords. She grabbed the sword beside the corpse, and pulled the sword out of the sheath with shaking hands, and stood beside Hua Liuli.

"Stay away from me." Hua Liuli glared at Jiamin.

Jiamin gritted her teeth: "Hua Liuli!"

"I'm not in good health, I'm afraid of infecting you." After Hua Liuli finished speaking, she rushed into the crowd with her sword in her hand without looking back. Her stride was so fast that Jiamin doubted who of the two of them was sick.

In the capital at this time, many people were dispatched to find the whereabouts of the two county masters from Princess Shun'an's Mansion, King's Mansion, Hua Mansion, and the palace.

Even the soldiers guarding the city gates were replaced by elite soldiers with serious expressions, and the gates of the major prefectures adjacent to the capital were all on guard, not letting anyone suspicious.

People in the capital, who have always been sensitive to the government's decrees, are privately guessing whether there is something big in the palace, or why there are many guards running around even during the curfew at night.

"His Royal Highness, there are traces of someone living in a ruined temple in the west of the city."

The prince looked at the map of the capital and clicked his finger on it.

"West of the city?" King Ying got up and said, "Nanzhou is adjacent to the west of the city. I will immediately lead my troops to hunt it down."

The prince ignored the British King who strode away. He closed the map and asked the attendant, "Is there any news from Huafu and Princess Shun'an?"

"Returning to Your Highness, not yet." The attendant thought for a while, "Princess Shun'an cried for a long time in front of His Majesty and wanted to put up a tracing notice, but His Majesty stopped him. It was much quieter in the Huafu, the third son of Hua. After asking His Majesty, I took people out of the city."

"Let's go." The prince stood up and walked out the door.

"Your Highness, it's already dark, where are you going?"

"Shanling Prefecture." The prince's robe was blown by the night wind, and he didn't look back, "Immediately arrange for someone to leave the city alone."

"Yes." Chang Sui was puzzled. The traces of the criminals who kidnapped the two county masters were found not far from Nanzhou. What did the prince go to Shanling Prefecture in the opposite direction

"Third Young Master, don't worry, the county master will be fine." On the mountain road, the servant who had followed Hua Changkong for many years saw the young master in a hurry, and said comfortably, "The county master is a clever person, and there must be a way to protect himself."

"I'm not worried that she can't protect herself, it's just..." Hua Changkong sighed, looking at the path in the night, and continued on his way.

The martial arts of the Hua family are summed up from the battlefield from generation to generation. There are no extra and cumbersome gorgeous moves. The focus of every move and every style is to defeat the opponent and protect himself and his comrades.

Keep yourself alive, keep your comrades alive, defeat your opponents, and protect the land under your feet.

The blade slashed the gangster's throat, leaving only a thin line of blood. When the blade slashed at the other person, the blood from the neck of the previous person spurted out and fell silently to the ground.

Until the last person fell, Hua Liuli turned around and walked towards the Princess Jiamin who was huddled in the corner with her sword in hand.

Under the moonlight, Hua Liuli had no blood on her body, her steps were light, and her expression was calm, but Jiamin felt that the other party was like a female Rakshasa who was going to avenge her.

She remembered the sarcasm and ridicule she once treated Hua Liuli, and the more she looked, the more she felt that Hua Liuli wanted to take this opportunity to kill her together.

Her teeth chattered, trying to make herself look calm: "Yes, I have something to say. In fact, I don't like King Ying at all. I used to talk nonsense. You are more than enough for him, but his eyesight is not good."

In front of his own life, the man he likes is a fart.

But she didn't expect that after saying these words, Hua Liuli's face became a little ugly, and she quickly said: "You are the number one beauty in the Great Jin, and you can choose from the five princes in the palace! And... and... you are The first pride of the Hua family, Madam is the luckiest thing in her life to have a daughter like you. Ah, ah, Hua Liuli, I was wrong, don't kill me!" Seeing Hua Liuli getting closer and closer, she covered her in fear. eyes.

In her life, she has never regretted her sloppy mouth like this moment. If she can go back alive, she must, must say a few words less, and she will not offend Hua Liuli if she is killed!

"what are you talking about?"

After waiting for a long time, the sword did not fall on her, Jiamin opened her eyes and saw Hua Liuli sitting on the ground with a pale face covering her chest, her voice was so weak that she could not catch her breath, she would faint: " Princess, I'm so scared, oh oh oh."

Princess Jiamin: "Huh?"

"Those beasts are so terrifying, but fortunately, the princess, you bravely protected me." After Hua Liuli finished speaking, she raised her head and stared at the princess Jiamin with her eyes full of joy: "The princess, you will definitely continue to protect me, this weak woman, right? ?"

Jiamin took two steps back in horror.

"Cough, cough, cough." Hua Liuli coughed a few times and looked at Princess Jiamin with a smile: "Is that right?"

Jiamin opened his mouth and was speechless.

Half an hour later, Jiamin sat on the tree, watching the beasts in the mountains tearing at the corpse of the gangster, covering her mouth and not daring to make a sound.

When the beasts dragged the corpse away, she asked in a hoarse voice, "What on earth are you trying to do?"

"Work hard for the dream." Hua Liuli hung the temporarily found herbs around the branches to drive away snakes and insects, "The county master will help me continue to fulfill this dream, won't it?"

Jiamin swallowed her saliva, her face turned pale with fright, she stared at Hua Liuli for a moment: "I see, I will keep this secret for you."

"What secret, do I have a secret?" Hua Liuli shook her feet with a smile, and the branches also swayed.

"I'm wrong, I mean, I'm willing to help you fight for your dreams." Jiamin felt that Hua Liuli was sick, and her brain was sick. No normal person would have such a wonderful hobby.

"Thank you, Princess, I believe what you said today." Hua Liuli narrowed her eyes with a smile, "You are a good person."

Jiamin closed her mouth aggrievedly, turning her head too lazy to look at Hua Liuli. After a while, she heard Hua Liuli's cough, took off her outer robe, and threw it on Hua Liuli: "Take it and cover it."

"Thank you."

"I'm just upset when you cough." Jiamin tied herself to the tree with a rope. She was afraid that she would fall off the tree when she fell asleep when she was so sleepy.

After a while, she opened her eyes and found that Hua Liuli was still sitting quietly, hesitated for a while, and said, "Don't worry, I won't tell you about your affairs."

Hua Liuli smiled and looked at her: "I know, go to sleep."

Jiamin didn't ask her what would happen to her if she didn't do it. In fact, she was so skeptical that even if she went back and told the truth, no one would believe it.

Some people just have the ability to confuse black and white and confuse others.

She fell asleep in a daze, and when she woke up the next morning, there was smoke in the mountains, and Hua Liuli sat beside her, as if she hadn't slept all night.

The two came down from the tree, Hua Liuli sighed, and she knew that this woman was going to toss again.

"People are so tired, they can't walk at all."

Jiamin held her arm with a livid face: "I'll help you go."

"Your Majesty, you are such a good person."

Jiamin sneered, if anyone praised her as a good person in front of her in the future, she would kill him.

The mountain road was difficult to walk, and the two of them didn't know the direction. They finally went down the mountain. The two found a small river to wash their faces. Hua Liuli found a big rock and sat down: "No, I'm weak and weak, so I can't walk."

"The other road leads to the official road, and you don't want to go. Now that you can't walk, what do you want to do?" Jiamin had already lost her temper after being tossed by Hua Liuli.

"You still dare to take the official road?" Hua Liuli beat her leg, "The two of us can be taken out of the Tian family, which means that there must be people with extraordinary identities to help them cover. You can be sure of the people you meet on the official road. , is it to help us or to deceive us?"

"Wait." Jiamin saw a donkey cart approaching in the distance, "I'll let someone else take us back."

When the donkey cart walked in, Jiamin realized that the donkey cart was tattered and tattered, and the driver had an unpleasant smell. She gritted her teeth and stepped forward: "Wait!"

"What's the matter?" The driver was a little unhappy when he heard this tone. As a person with a donkey cart in the village, who would see him being polite within a few miles

But seeing that it was a beautiful girl who stopped him, he looked much better.

"I am the county lord of the capital. Today is in trouble. If you send us to the capital, I will have someone give you one hundred taels of silver."

The driver looked at Jiamin's tattered clothes and messy hair, and was almost amused. Now these swindlers are getting bolder and thicker-skinned. Which county owner came to the country lane to hitch a ride and still wear such ragged clothes

He is a knowledgeable person from ten miles and eight townships, how would he be treated like this

"If you are the county owner, I will be the prince." The driver swung his whip, "Damn liar, stay away from me."

After he finished speaking, he glanced at the Princess Jiamin: "What a good girl, she looks good, how can you do such a deceiving and immoral thing?"

Without waiting for Princess Jiamin to reply, he drove away in his car. He was afraid that there were other people in the gang of liars. It would be safe to leave early.

"I, he..." Jiamin was shaking with anger. If anyone in the capital dared to be so disrespectful to her, she would have already lashed out with two whips.

She stood there and cursed for nearly a quarter of an hour. At the end of the road, another donkey cart approached. The driver was a middle-aged couple.

"Go away." Hua Liuli pulled her away, untied her messy bun, and let it drape softly behind her, "You can't even hitch a ride, what's the use of asking you?"

Jiamin: "… "

She didn't say that when she asked her to help her down the mountain just now.

She wanted to see how Hua Liuli could get on the bus.

The middle-aged couple went into the city to sell mountain goods. They were calculating how much money they could sell this time. Do they want to pull some cloth to make new clothes for the child. In the distance, they saw a little girl standing on the side of the road crying, with a white face hanging on it. With a grey mark, it looks so pitiful.

She seemed to hear the sound of them approaching, and the little girl raised her head and looked at them timidly, as if she wanted to ask them for help, but because she was too timid to approach, she took two steps back cautiously, and she accidentally tripped over the vines beside her. After a while, he fell to the side of the road.

"Girl, are you alright?" The middle-aged woman asked the man to stop the donkey cart with compassion.

"Sister." The little girl said with a trembling voice, "Me, my sister and I went to Beijing to look for relatives. On the way, an elder sister said to take us with you. How could you know that she took us farther and farther, and my sister and I found something wrong, okay? It's easy to escape, but I don't know where this is."

Speaking of which, she covered her face and cried, "I don't even know what to do now."

"Oh, you have encountered human traffickers." The middle-aged woman saw that the two little girls were white and pure, and guessed that they were girls who grew up spoiled at home, and said: "Girl, if you believe us, just follow us. Let's go to Beijing together, we happened to go to Beijing to sell mountain goods"

"Will it be too much trouble for you?" The little girl opened her beautiful big eyes and her face turned red.

"On the way." The middle-aged woman warmly greeted the two of them to get into the donkey cart. She heard that they had not eaten for a day, and gave them two cakes.

"You two children are too simple, you never thought about me and my family, who are also liars?" The middle-aged woman worried that the two little girls would be deceived in the future, and told them that several children were deceived. The story of "Don't take other people's cars casually in the future, do you know?"

"Sister's eyes are so beautiful, she looks like a good person." Hua Liuli took two bites of the cake and looked at the woman with wide eyes.

"You can't judge people by their appearance." The middle-aged woman touched her face, "A good-looking person may also be a liar, do you know that? Don't just trust other people's words in the future, let alone go out alone, you two are handsome. , the traffickers like to lie to you little girls the most."

The Lord of Jiamin County nibbled at the pancake expressionlessly, and what she said made sense. Wasn't there a good-looking woman next to her who didn't blink when she lied

Probably because Hua Liuli praised her beauty, the woman gave the two of them a box of snacks.

"Girl, you must have been scared this time." Seeing that Jiamin had not spoken, the woman thought she was frightened, and put a few plums in her hand, "Come, eat this."

The woman's hands are very rough, and the rough servants in the princess' house are more delicate than hers. But her hands were so warm that Jiamin felt a little embarrassed.

"Thank you." She pinched a few plums that were usually unattractive, and her face was inexplicably panicked.

"Thank you, sister." Hua Liuli smiled sweetly at the woman, "You guys are so kind, you will definitely get good rewards."

"What kind of kindness is this, it's just a casual thing." The woman felt happy when she saw the little girl's sweet smile, and brought some food for the two of them.

The men driving the car outside didn't talk much, and only reminded them a few words when they passed through some relatively steep roads.

Halfway through the road, the man stopped the car. The woman lifted the curtain and looked out suspiciously, "It's not here yet, why did it stop?"

"There are officers and soldiers guarding the front, I don't know what happened." The man replied, "It seems that I want to check my identity."

Hearing the words "officers and soldiers", Hua Liuli and Jiamin's expressions changed slightly.

There are many people entering and leaving the city lined up on the road, and they are all obediently being checked under the heavy guard.

In the mist, a man rode on a white steed. I don't know how long he had been in the mist. His hair looked wet.

"Your Highness." Hua Liuli recognized the person with a bright smile in her eyes.

The prince heard the call and looked back.

The shabby donkey cart stopped at the end of the line, Hua Liuli stuck her head out from behind the curtain, her white face had a few gray marks, and her ears were looming in the loose blue silk.

It's like a lost kitten that suddenly sticks its head out of the grass, and its dark eyes are full of joy and trust in seeing its owner.

The mist is lingering in the mountains and forests, and the beauty of the morning is easy to overlook many things.

In a trance, the prince felt like the owner who took the kitten out of the grass and wanted to wipe the dust off the kitten.

The author has something to say: Client Jiamin: I regret it now, very much.