Xia Jing knew that her behavior had changed, and the first thing she noticed was the two people who were waiting on her.
But she didn't want to keep pretending to be the original owner just to avoid letting them notice. In the coming troubled times, a woman like the original owner who was pampered in the back house of a wealthy family would not be able to survive.
At present, she can only let those around her slowly feel her changes.
As for whether they will become suspicious, survival in troubled times is extremely difficult, who would care about her changes?
Hongmei placed the dinner on the table and stepped aside anxiously.
Xia Jing saw her nervousness, as did the two steamed buns, a cup of chicken soup and a plate of pickles placed on the table.
Xia Jing sat down and stirred the chicken soup in the stew pot: "Is this the only food in the inn?"
She also wanted to get a little more space.
Hongmei lowered her head and explained the current situation of the inn. Due to the drought, the inn had long been closed. Yesterday afternoon they fled to the county town and commandeered this inn as a temporary resting place. The ingredients in the kitchen were delivered by the county magistrate himself.
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"The drought is serious now. Princess, please overcome it. It will be fine when we return to the capital."
Xia Jing nodded, said nothing more, and asked Hongmei to go down and help her prepare a dagger and some wound medicine.
Hongmei raised her head in surprise: "Princess, please accept it."
"I have my own uses, so hurry up and prepare."
Hongmei agreed, and when she was about to go out, Xia Jing stopped her again: "Let the kitchen make all the remaining ingredients, try to make them into shelf-stable food, and then distribute them to everyone so that they can carry them individually."
If you want to survive in troubled times, the palace's existing bodyguards are the best capital. It's also a habit developed in the last days, that is, there is nothing wrong with always being prepared.
This is called being prepared!
Hongmei turned around and said, "This place is only about twenty miles away from the capital. It only takes an hour for our group to take a carriage. Princess, are you sure you want someone in the kitchen to make dry food?"
This is what Xia Jing is confused about: "Since there is only about twenty miles away, why don't the boss and the others insist on returning to the capital in an hour?"
Hearing this, Hongmei told the news she heard from the guards: "The capital has been heavily guarded recently. The four city gates, the north gate and the west gate have been closed all day since the day before yesterday, while the south gate and east gate have been closed all day.
The gate can be opened for four hours every day. After the Shen hour in the afternoon, the city gate will be closed and no one will open it."
She also heard that more and more families in the city had received the news and chose to leave the city early to escape. The city gate was only open for four hours every day, and the convoys lining up in the city to leave the city had no end in sight from morning to night.
Xia Jing couldn't help but raise her eyebrows after hearing the explanation: "Well, I understand. Just prepare as I just said."
Hongmei prepared wound medicine and daggers according to Xia Jing's instructions, and asked Baimei to go to the kitchen and supervise the people in the kitchen to make dry food.
Of course, everyone was staying in an inn, and the actions of the two maids beside the princess could not be hidden from the other masters.
The several masters of the palace had the same opinion this time. No one took it seriously. They thought that Xia Jing had experienced a life-and-death disaster and became even more timid. They and the palace could not afford to waste the food in the inn, so they let her do whatever they wanted.
Dispose of it.
Xia Jing had dinner, and Hongmei brought the dagger and wound medicine over. After she put away the dishes, she put these two items into the space.
In the middle of the night, everyone in the entire county, whether it was the refugees on the streets or the people sleeping in their houses, fell into a deep sleep.
In the inn forced by Prince Qian's Mansion, except for a few guards on duty, everyone else was sleeping soundly.
Suddenly, a scream of a night falcon passed outside the inn, and Xia Jing sat up from her sleep.
She exerted her mental energy and saw no abnormalities around the inn, but her eyelids twitched a few times.
She quickly got up and got dressed, but fortunately, the eldest maid brought her a set of regular clothes before going to bed, so that she no longer had to wear the complicated burial clothes, which would otherwise affect her movements too much.
Bai Mei, the maid who was on duty at the door during the night, heard the movement inside the house and gently stood at the door and shouted: "Princess?"
Xia Jing smoothed her hair with her fingers, quickly tied it into a bun on the back of her head and pinned it with a hairpin. Then she opened the door: "Go and wake up everyone else!"
Bai Mei yawned: "Princess, what happened?"
"Go if you are told, don't ask any questions!"
Xia Jing did not lower her voice intentionally. As soon as she finished speaking, she attracted the guards standing on duty at the top of the stairs.
"Princess, what happened?"
Xia Jing glanced at Bai Mei. She didn't know why, but Bai Mei felt a little cold behind her. She shrank her neck and walked back to knock on the other doors on the second floor.
Two guards came closer, and Xia Jingcai said: "Wake up the others, and your guards will be on alert immediately. There is a situation outside."
Hearing this, the two guards were confused and looked at each other. One of them stepped forward and bowed: "There are several brothers on duty outside tonight, but they didn't find anything going on. How did the princess know that there was something going on outside?"
Could it be that he was suffering from hysteria? But the guard did not dare to say this, so he could only curse in his heart.
At the same time, the door of the next room opened. Li Chengyi leaned on the door frame and yawned, "Is this a nightmare? Don't be afraid. We are all in the inn, so don't be afraid if thieves come."
But before he could finish his words, several shrill screams came from the distance, which frightened Li Chengyi to the point of almost losing control.
At this moment, without Xia Jing giving orders, Li Chengyi held the door frame with one hand and covered his chest with the other, and said to the guards: "What's going on outside? You two, hurry up and see what's going on outside?"
But before the guards could go downstairs, screams could be heard one after another in the street outside, and other rooms in the inn were quickly opened.
"What happened?" The prince put on his clothes and went out. He stood in the corridor and asked the guard on the first floor of the inn.
Li Chengmu ran out wearing obscene clothes: "Concubine, why are you up? What's going on outside?"
Seeing that he was still running towards her, Xia Jing's face darkened instantly: "Hurry up and put on your clothes and meet up on the first floor. You have to be fast!"
The master and servants in the inn all woke up with a start, and chaos instantly broke out. Xia Jing pushed aside the dazed son in front of her, and took the lead to go downstairs.
When she got downstairs, before everyone else came down, Xia Jing found the inn's kitchen, put the iron pot on the stove, the cupboard next to it, and the steamer on the table into the space, turned around and went out, and then put the pot on the table.
Several jars and jars in the corner were retracted into the space.
Returning to the lobby on the first floor of the inn, Li Chengmu got dressed and rushed down from the second floor. Xia Jing grabbed him and walked out the door without saying a word.
Seeing this, the two maids Red Plum and White Plum quickly followed.
When the prince's uncle Li Chengshang saw that all the masters and housekeepers in the palace had arrived, he waved for everyone to follow. He followed Xia Jing's footsteps and left the inn first.
There was a fire in the north of the county seat, making the sky orange.
Li Chengmu looked to the north in fear: "Mother, is this Beidi army attacking?"
"Probably not!" The Beidi army is the wolf of the prairie, and the movement of their attack will not be so gentle. The thunder is loud and the rain is light.
Xia Jing pushed him: "Hurry up and get on the horse with the same momentum as when you took me riding yesterday."
If she hadn't been born in the last days and never learned to ride a horse, there would be no need for him to take care of her.
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