The lower right corner of the secret letter is stamped with a jade seal.
After Ting Yu finished reading the letter, the room fell silent. Jiang Tangzhou didn't speak for a long time, only closed his eyes and his mind went blank.
He didn't know what to do next.
If he waits at the border, even if he is under house arrest and has no personal freedom, he can wait, but if he is asked to return to Qin Kingdom, then... what will Yin Wenzheng do
He had promised he would wait.
But on the other side, it was Jiang Yingzhou who threatened him with death. Jiang Yingzhou always liked to use such methods, because he knew that he couldn't really watch him die.
The house was quiet without any movement, but suddenly there was the sound of weeds being stomped and crushed outside the house. Ting Yu walked out vigilantly, opened the curtain and asked who it was.
A man stood at the door and said with a timid expression: "...it's me."
Ting Yu felt that he looked familiar, and when he saw the embarrassed look on his hand when he handed over the things in his hand, he remembered that this person was the child Jiang Tangzhou saved in the chaotic city before, and he seemed to be Yan Siran.
He had grown a lot taller than before, and his face had grown, but he still looked like a child.
"Is there something wrong?" Ting Yu asked him.
"I..." Yan Siran said timidly, "I went up the mountain to hunt a few rabbits today. Knowing that Mr. Jiang was trapped here, I was worried that he wouldn't be able to eat anything good, so I secretly sent some over at night."
He raised his hand, and he was really holding a dead rabbit.
Just as Ting Yu was about to say no need, he heard Jiang Tangzhou inside: "Come in."
Ever since Yan Siran chose to learn from Heng Jun, Jiang Tangzhou hadn't seen him again. At first, he asked Tingyu to ask him how he was doing. When he found out that it wasn't bad, he lost a lot of thought on it, so this kid Suddenly coming to the door, Jiang Tangzhou was stunned for a moment.
Wan didn't expect that it was just a handy helping hand at the beginning, but the child remembered it until today, and even sent him a rabbit.
"Have you eaten yet?" Jiang Tangzhou put his mind on him, "During these days, the Qin and Heng troops are constantly fighting. Where are you staying?"
"There is a big brother in the military camp who is very nice. He has been leading me and taking care of me." Yan Siran said a little shyly, "Because I was brought back by the general, so they treat me well. But... I Still too young to do anything."
Yan Siran didn't say that he was just dawdling in the military camp, and originally wanted to learn some real skills, but in the end they treated him like a child and didn't teach him anything at all.
"That's good." Jiang Tangzhou nodded, "It's hard for you to remember me, but you sent a rabbit over."
"Of course I should remember," Yan Siran said, "Young Master Jiang is my benefactor, so the benefactor must not be forgotten."
As he spoke, he wiped his nose and smiled. When he saw Jiang Tangzhou's expression, he couldn't say what he had prepared.
In fact, because of Yin Wenzheng's return to Beijing, Jiang Tangzhou was under house arrest, and his life was not easy, but he didn't have the nerve to say these words. Jiang Tangzhou's willingness to give him a place to stay was already very good, and he didn't dare to ask too much. requirements.
"Then Young Master Jiang, I'll..."
"Wait." Jiang Tangzhou paused, interrupted him, and asked, "What have you learned now?"
Yan Siran was a little embarrassed when he heard this: "... well, I'm still too young, so some things are not suitable for me to learn."
Although he didn't say it clearly, Jiang Tangzhou understood what Yan Siran meant.
He frowned, thought for a while, and said: "Do you really want to learn skills?"
"Of course!" Yan Siran raised his head abruptly, his eyes brightened slightly and said, "In this world, only by learning the real skills can you survive and live well, so I want to practice martial arts and protect myself and the ability to protect others."
"If you want to practice martial arts, you won't learn much in the barracks." Jiang Tangzhou didn't intend to embarrass Yan Siran at first, but now he can't find anyone better, so he can only pin his hopes on him body, said, "Then you do me a favor, I promise to find you a good master, how about it?"
Yan Siran immediately raised a smile: "Okay! What's the matter?"
...
"Master, do you really want to go?" Ting Yu put on the cloak for Jiang Tangzhou, still with a bit of hesitation on his face.
She naturally didn't want to leave, she liked life in Hengguo more than in Qinguo, at least she didn't have to worry that she might die today the moment she opened her eyes every day, and she didn't have to worry about it every day.
Jiang Tangzhou was extremely calm. He raised his hand and burned the secret letter sent by Qin Guo to ashes under the candlelight. I thought it would be a little longer.”
"Why do you care so much about that...that person's life and death." Ting Yu said bitterly, "Ting Yu sees his attitude towards him and keeps it in his heart. If Ting Yu chooses, I will never let Grandpa go back."
Jiang Tangzhou smiled bitterly: "You don't understand."
Listening to Yu Xin said that she naturally didn't understand why Jiang Tangzhou had repaid grievances with virtue for so many years. No matter what excessive demands Jiang Yingzhou had, as long as he could satisfy them, he would satisfy them one by one.
"We have a slightly larger number of people, and we need to be extremely careful when we do things." Jiang Tangzhou said, "Can you and Yan Qing get through this matter?"
"Yeah." Ting Yu lowered his head and replied sullenly, "I've already said it all. At midnight tonight, we will gather under the locust tree outside the camp."
"Well, the people from Yingzhou will come to pick us up then."
When he said this sentence, Jiang Tangzhou's mood inevitably became a little bad.
He left in such a hurry that he didn't even dare to send a letter, so he could only let Yan Siran convey it on his behalf.
But Yan Siran is only a ten-year-old child, it is impossible to ride a horse to the capital to deliver a letter, so he can only wait here. Who knows how long it will take to wait for Yin Wenzheng
After such a farewell, we just don't know when we will meet again.
Jiang Tangzhou took all the letters that Yin Wenzheng sent to him during this period of time and took them to Qinguo.
At midnight, the night was dark and the wind was high, and the camp was completely silent, except for the occasional spring breeze that made people tremble involuntarily. The two guards guarding the gate were already fast asleep—Jiang Tangzhou was very obedient during this time and never had any troubles, so their guards were very relaxed.
Ting Yu supported Jiang Tangzhou and walked out of the camp with simple luggage.
A simple and low-key carriage had been waiting under the locust tree for a long time, and a man in black was dozing off on the horse. He opened his eyes sensitively when he heard the movement, and asked in a low voice, "But King Zhen?"
"Yes." Jiang Tangzhou replied, and after seeing the token handed over by the man in black, he stepped on the carriage.
At the last second when he got into the carriage, he turned his head and took a look—although he couldn't see anything, it was as if Yin Wenzheng was right in front of him.
Not long after, Yan Qing and Xie Yi also came over. Because this matter must be low-key, the four of them were in the same carriage together.
"I have wronged King Zhen." After the man in black said, he put down the curtain, and with a "wow", the carriage turned around and headed towards Qin Guo.
...
The moment he stepped out of the dead desert, Jiang Tangzhou felt a long-lost sense of familiarity.
Although Hengguo and Qinguo are only separated by a small dead desert, the climates on both sides are very different. Hengguo is still somewhat cold in winter, but Qinguo is already in spring. The temperature suddenly rose a lot, and the cloak on Jiang Tangzhou's body couldn't be worn anymore, and he was sweating all over.
Ting Yu put away Jiang Tangzhou's cloak, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Although I have been in Hengguo for more than a year, I am already a little familiar with the environment there, but when I come back to Qinguo, I still feel more comfortable here. "
"After all, you are from the Qin Kingdom." Jiang Tangzhou said lightly, "Let's rest here for one night before setting off."
After rushing on the road for a whole day and night, Jiang Tangzhou saw that the man in black looked a little unhappy, so he proposed to rest for the night.
But he didn't want the man in black to be completely tireless, and said: "King Zhen, I suggest you return to the palace earlier. Your Majesty is waiting for you."
have to. Jiang Tangzhou didn't need to think about it, he knew that this was definitely one of Jiang Yingzhou's dead men.
They are all people who have been fed with ecstasy soup, and they have to complete the tasks assigned by their masters even if they lose their lives.
Jiang Tangzhou guessed that this person's mission must be to bring him back to the palace as quickly as possible.
Jiang Tangzhou didn't want to embarrass him, so he stopped being persistent, but said: "Then let's find a place to have dinner before we start?"
The dead man didn't continue to say anything.
Jiang Tangzhou didn't see this man's face because he ate dry food for several meals before, and now he had to eat dinner. He took off his mask, and Jiang Tangzhou realized that his face was as pale as paper, and a little sick. As for his appearance, he was very ordinary, and he would never be able to find that kind among the crowd—such a person was more suitable to be a dead soldier.
There is still a storyteller in the restaurant, but the content of this person's story is quite different from Hengguo's.
"The two successive generals of the Heng Army were like dogs of the same feather. They used all kinds of despicable means to catch our Qin army by surprise. They didn't spare even the old, the young, the women, and the disabled. They did things like set fire to the city more than once..."
"Pfft—" Ting Yu couldn't hold back the tea in his mouth, "I understand now that people like to make up things from their own point of view. I used to think that Hengguo called us too much, but now Only then did I realize that the side of Qin Country was not very polite to Heng Country's side."
Jiang Tangzhou smiled and said: "So, people can't believe what they hear, and what they don't really see is not the truth."
Ting Yu nodded seriously: "My master taught me that."
A few people had a meal in a hurry, and when they heard that Mr. Shu had fabricated countless stories about the constant army being like evil spirits, the dead soldier urged: "King Zhen, we have to hurry."
Jiang Tangzhou could only sigh, and sat back in the carriage with several others.
It's night again. Jiang Tangzhou took a last look at the other side of the dead desert, wondering what Yin Wenzheng was doing at this moment
Was there already news of his disappearance
The carriage gradually sank into the boundless darkness, as if it disappeared out of thin air.