"Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty. On behalf of the entire Dong family, I am deeply grateful."
"Your Majesty, I will definitely bring you this."
Later, Qin An added.
"Your Majesty, your Majesty also said that there are a lot of government affairs today, so you can just greet the Second Madam to have a meal first, and there is no need to wait for him."
Lin Wanyi nodded. The emperor probably knew that if he were here, the second wife Yun would not be able to have enough to eat.
So I simply didn’t show up.
Anyway, after dinner, the second lady Yun Shi left the palace.
The emperor will come to accompany you when the time comes.
"Eunuch Qin has had a hard time making this trip. It's a small road."
"The slave is here."
"Take Eunuch Qin to get some hot food, and then send Eunuch Qin out."
"My slave obeys your orders."
Qin An smiled when he heard this, and the reward was in his heart.
Since the younger brother followed the second prince to the prince's residence, he didn't have many opportunities to see him.
So, it's good to have some time now to talk.
So he respectfully withdrew.
On the way to the small kitchen, the two started talking.
"How are you doing as an errand for the second prince?"
"Master, don't worry. It's okay. The Second Prince is very interested in this slave. You see, even this cotton coat was given to Aunt Du and added fine velvet to the slave. It's very warm."
"That's good, that's good. Remember to be more careful when you are on duty. The imperial concubine and the second prince are both kind people and they will not treat you badly. Do you understand?"
"Hey, I got it."
Although the master and apprentice did not speak much, they were full of warmth.
Seeing his younger brother living so easily, Qin An's heart was filled with comfort.
In my heart, I want to be loyal to Lin Wanyi.
For no other reason than for her to choose a safe place for his brother, he would be grateful for the rest of his life.
Qin An naturally also knew that the second prince would leave the palace and establish a palace in the future.
And then we have to go to Yunzhou.
Therefore, there may not be many opportunities for the two brothers to meet each other.
But compared to living in fear in the palace, Qin An would rather let his younger brother follow the second prince and stay away from this place of right and wrong.
He has suffered enough in his life.
In the next life, reborn in a simple family.
Just live a peaceful life.
Walking and talking all the way.
After the snowstorm stops, it means that spring will come again.
It was calm inside the palace, but outside the palace it was very windy and snowy.
Shengjing City and Ganzhou are thousands of miles apart.
If we go slowly, I'm afraid it will only take three or four months.
To enter Ganzhou, you have to cross the border of Suizhou.
Suizhou.
Thirty miles outside the city there is a rapid river called Sansha Bay.
This is a secret road leading to Ganzhou.
Very few people know.
There are densely packed people hiding in several ravines in Sansha Bay.
The leaders are naturally Feng Qi and Jiang Huanqing.
Since they left Shengjing City last year, they have been wandering around the hinterland of the Central Plains.
Everyone outside knows that they are people who have been ordered to move from the northwest to the Central Plains.
But only they themselves understand the true purpose of this trip.
Just to find out all the secret roads from Shengjing City back to Ganzhou.
The purpose was for nothing else, and that was to completely intercept and kill the northwest prince as he fled back to Ganzhou in a hurry.
Otherwise, if he is really allowed to return to Ganzhou.
That is letting the tiger return to the mountain.
Not only will the northwest rebel, but war will also break out in the Central Plains.
How could the emperor and the fourth prince allow this to happen?
That’s why it’s deployed in advance.
Those three thousand soldiers and horses are all well-trained people.
More than half of them are from the secret guard camp who are good at surveying and investigating.
The Marquis of the Northwest once laughed at the little emperor's whims.
With only three thousand people, he tried to dismantle the northwest where the Liu family had been in power for many years.
But he didn't expect that these three thousand people he despised were prepared to capture him.
At this time, he was only about ten miles away from being caught.
The northwest wind is much stronger than that in Shengjing City.
Therefore, everyone who has been hiding here for several days has a flushed and chapped face.
When the wind blows, it brings with it some numb pain.
I saw one person moving forward as fast as the wind, and then stopped in a low-lying area.
Said softly.
"General, the spies are here to report that the Northwest Marquis and his party are indeed heading here."
Hearing this, Feng Qi couldn't help but cast a look of approval at Jiang Huanqing.
"You kid can do it!"
Jiang Huanqing raised the corner of his mouth, but there was no hint of pride or complacency.
After receiving the secret report from Shengjing City, they began to reduce their manpower and deploy agencies.
Originally, three locations were selected.
But when the order was finally issued, Jiang Huanqing overcame all objections and gathered 80% of the people here.
If the remaining 20% is left, smoke bombs will be placed elsewhere.
There are relentless pursuers behind you, and there is a specially arranged "dead end" in front of you.
The Northwest Marquis, who was tired of running for his life, had no time to think too much.
He thought the world still belonged to him.
This realm is still the realm that he has the final say on.
Therefore, step by step, he fell into the trap that Feng Qi and Jiang Huanqing had laid out.
"His Majesty gave a fatal order, asking us to capture the Marquis of the Northwest and return to revive him! So there is no room for error! Do you understand?"
"yes!"
In the eyes of all those who are lurking, they are bound to win.
Three thousand versus fifty, if they let the Marquis of the Northwest escape.
Not to mention that the emperor wants their lives, even they themselves are embarrassed to stand in this world anymore!
"Okay, get ready."
"yes!"
Thousands of pairs of eyes were staring at the bamboo forest not far away in the dark.
And that calm river, that endless flat land.
They all seemed to be accomplices in burying the life of the Northwestern Marquis.
In the bamboo forest, Northwest Hou and his party were galloping on horseback.
Even though everyone’s face is full of exhaustion.
But no one dared to stop their horses.
With great difficulty, they managed to escape from Pingzhou's pursuers.
But in fact, they are already at the end of their tether.
If I can't get back to Ganzhou, I'm afraid I will be killed by the pursuers behind me.
The reason why I didn’t take the main road was simply because this place can greatly shorten the distance back to Ganzhou.
Also, very few people here know about it.
They can avoid the soldiers who are chasing them all the way.
The Marquis of Northwest, who had never been in such a state of embarrassment in his life, had been traveling for more than half a month.
Basically, I am on horseback. Occasionally I can stop and rest for an hour or two, which is considered good.
When they fled from Shengjing City, they only had time to take away their followers.
A mere 400 people have been running around till now.
Those who died from exhaustion, those who fell behind, and those who died trying to stop the pursuing soldiers.
More than half of it has passed.
Now there are no more than fifty people following him sporadically.
But all of them can block ten with one.
When entering the bamboo forest, everyone's strings were tense.