The smell of food also attracted the refugees who were slowly advancing on the post road, but when faced with the fierce guards with swords, they suppressed the greed they had just emerged.
The most important thing is that the further south you go, the greener the vegetation becomes, and it is no longer as bare as the north. With plants, they will not starve to death. No one is willing to risk their lives to rob the rich team as long as they can persist.
Xia Jing naturally noticed that the food attracted the attention of the homeless people on the roadside, but now that there were hundreds of guards guarding them, it was enough to temporarily scare them so that they did not dare to act rashly.
Most of these hundreds of guards were young men from Yuzhou farms. They put on the royal guard uniforms and wielded swords, which looked quite capable of intimidating outsiders.
"When did we have such a lightweight carriage in our team?"
In the middle of the afternoon, the sun was not so bright. Xia Jing took her maid around the camp and accidentally spotted a small blue cloth carriage parked outside the team. She asked Hongmei who was following her.
Hongmei glanced at the small green cloth carriage several times. Except for a carriage driver outside, she could not see the situation inside the carriage. She guessed: "It must be some family member in charge."
When Xia Jing heard this, her curiosity about the carriage dissipated.
In the green cloth carriage, the master and servant were very nervous, observing the situation outside through the gap in the curtain. It was not until Xia Jing's master and servant walked away that their tense bodies relaxed.
Linglong breathed a sigh of relief, glanced at her master's drooped eyelids, and asked the doubts in her heart: "Miss, it was a good opportunity for the princess to come over just now, why didn't you go down to say hello? Before the fourth lady arrived,
Wouldn't it be better for you to survive in the palace by showing your face in front of her first?"
Lan Qin raised his head and stared at the green cloth car curtain, and smiled to himself: "In your eyes, your lady, I am very good. But you have to know what my identity is? My identity is not in the eyes of the princess at all.
It’s important for people to know themselves, so we’d better not disturb her.”
Linglong frowned tightly and said disapprovingly: "Miss is now the fourth master's concubine. Seriously, she is also the princess's daughter-in-law. It is only natural for a daughter-in-law to pay homage to her mother-in-law. Miss, please don't belittle yourself again. You act like this."
If you don’t feel bad, Fourth Master will feel bad!”
Listening to the maid's words, Lan Qin felt hot and her face turned red. She glared at the maid angrily: "Don't say this nonsense in the future. I am the princess's daughter-in-law. If you hear this, you will laugh out loud."
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Linglong stuck out her tongue. She was really careless. If the mistress of the house heard what she just said, she would be beaten to death without any way to avenge her. "Miss, this slave is just talking between the two of us. How dare you say nonsense in front of outsiders?"
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Lan Qin lowered his eyes and said sadly: "It's not good for two people to talk. Be careful that the walls have ears. Besides, I haven't served tea to the mistress yet, and I haven't been recognized by the mistress. So I can't be regarded as the fourth master's concubine?"
Linglong sighed in her heart. She didn't know how to persuade the young lady. She just hoped that the fourth lady was easy to get along with. Otherwise, given the young lady's temperament, she might not have a good time in the backyard of the palace in the future.
In the evening, the old emperor's escape team finally arrived.
A few crooked flags on the mountain road in the distance were leading the way, followed by a long procession. The mental outlook of the people was too far away to know at the moment.
But from the first few flags, we can see how hastily the team fled.
The caravans that stopped by the roadside rested for an hour at noon and then left. Most of the remaining caravans were people from the court, and those who knew the situation behind them stayed behind.
As soon as the emperor's team moving south appeared, everyone on both sides of the post road was boiling.
The teams of carriages and horses started to move. When the southward moving team passed by the post road, the convoy on the roadside followed consciously.
The emperor's team traveled smoothly. When passing a motorcade, the motorcade would slowly enter the post road in order, following the rear of the team.
And so on.
When the team passed by the palace's motorcade, Xia Jing realized how embarrassed the once majestic Zhi Jinwu and the imperial guard were now!
Zeng Yan looked at the royal motorcade following the imperial guards from a distance, his eyes filled with excitement and tears. He was about to rush forward to pay his respects to his master, but Xia Jing stopped him as soon as the horse snorted.
"Princess, behind the imperial guards is our royal palace's motorcade. I want to go up and pay my respects to the prince."
Xia Jing ignored Zeng Yan's displeased look, but pointed to the motorcade that was ready to go on the roadside, "The motorcade is driving normally, don't go up and do those false etiquettes, hurry up and arrange the motorcade with the captain of the guard to get in, and join the palace's people
Let’s go together in the convoy.”
Zeng Yan pursed his lower lip and wanted to say that if you cut in line, wouldn't it affect the normal movement of the convoy?
But after a moment of hesitation, he shut up, thinking that she was right. If he didn't jump in line at this moment, his team would have to follow at the back.
Although there may be teams joining in from the front, they are separated from the prince's team, and it is not convenient to manage them after all.
A carriage from the palace cut into the queue, so the queue behind them had to stop slowly. Only when all the motorcades came in did the queue behind them slowly start moving again.
Li Chengmu stared at Xia Jing, who was sitting opposite, with an inquiring look on his face, and asked tentatively: "Why don't you, mother and concubine, go to pay your respects to your father?"
In the past, when she was in the palace, whenever her father came back to the palace, she would go to greet her father no matter how late it was. But this time when she didn't see any action, he couldn't help but ask.
Xia Jing leaned against the car wall, rolled her eyes at her son, and said four words calmly: "Escape is important."
She has a masochistic tendency so she goes to see others and their concubine Niwai. Of course, even if they show affection in front of her, she will not be angry.
Xia Jing feels that inheriting the body of the original owner is barely acceptable, and inheriting the man of the original owner. Forgive her for not being able to accept it emotionally and physically.
Li Chengmu imitated her actions and rolled his eyes at her. Who would believe this?
It seems that his mother-in-law died once and she really had a great enlightenment.
I'm afraid my father will be disappointed today. This time he won't be able to wait for his mother and concubine to pay him respects.
Xia Jing was worried about whether the team in front of them could hold on after running for their lives for so long and running a lot of distance without stopping for a moment.
And she didn't know that she had become a talking point in the team.
In the largest and most luxurious carriage in the royal palace, Aunt Sun fanned Prince Qian Li Jingfu and glanced out the window from time to time.
"The carriage that just passed by should belong to the princess's sister. Why didn't it stop? I thought the first thing my sister did when we met was to pay greetings to the prince. After all, prince, you have been worried about her. She comes
Please say hello to your lord, don’t worry."
Later, he noticed that King Qian Li Jingfu didn't seem very happy. He quickly changed the topic and said happily: "But having said that, Sister Wangfei is really rich and noble. She can crawl out of the coffin even if she is mourning. Her experiences
It's really strange. I just don't know if she was scared when she was lying in the coffin, surrounded by cramped and dark surroundings."