Jiaohua

Chapter 1544 Snow

Twenty miles northeast of Qingquan Town, there is a palace that was built less than three years ago.

A magnificent cavalry slowly stopped in front of the palace. Two aunts with thick eyebrows, deep eyes and unusually straight noses stepped forward and lifted the luxurious gold-threaded and jade-beaded curtain.

Shang Taiyu was about to fall asleep, with his head supported by one hand.

The delicate lady Chiyu snuggled up to his side and raised her hands to knead his neck muscles.

"Your Highness, we're here." Chi Yu said in a delicate voice.

Shang Taiyu didn't say anything. He suddenly stretched out his big hand and hugged the beautiful lady in his arms. He turned over and pressed on the beautiful lady's soft and slender body.

"Your Majesty~" Chiyu said in a charming voice, "You are still in the carriage, what are you going to do?"

Outside the carriage, the two aunts lowered their brows but did not avoid leaving.

"You are the wildest and most coquettish fox on the grassland," Shang Taiyu pinched Chiyu's delicate face, "your hands were teasing me just now. So, you also know that this is a carriage?"

Chiyu's eyes were as charming as silk, and she smiled and said, "Is that what your lordship said?"

Her hand slid slowly along Shang Taiyu's chest to the jade belt around his waist. Her slender fingers lifted the belt, and then loosened it, and the belt gently bounced back to Shang Taiyu's waist.

Shang Taiyu's eyes were extremely deep, almost spitting fire. He suddenly tore open Chi Yu's collar, bit her lips, and stroked her smooth shoulders with his big hands.

The north wind was howling and snow was falling heavily. The two aunts raised their hands and put down the luxurious gold-thread and jade-bead curtain.

Everyone stood quietly in the howling cold wind, listening to the sounds coming from the carriage that showed no regard for the presence of others.

Behind a grassy slope not far away, Lin Wuniang sat on the ground, holding her shoulders with her hands, her back pressed tightly against the gently undulating grass.

After escaping from He Yan's mansion, she stole a horse and fled for many days. On the way, she accidentally heard people talking about a temporary palace here.

After she came here, she lived secretly in the utility room at the back for two days. This afternoon, there were suddenly more people in the palace, and she had to escape before the security of the palace became tight.

After two days of recuperation, the pain in her shoulder still did not subside. Her winter clothes were not thin, and the opponent's palm actually injured her bones directly.

Finally, there was movement from the carriage. A man and a woman got off the carriage. Surrounded by a group of guards and maids, the man and woman walked on the snow towards the towering stone steps of the palace.

Lin Wuniang stared at the couple closely. The man was tall and strong, not young. He was exactly the age of a middle-aged or elderly man in power.

The woman was definitely under 30 years old. She was tall and slender even in her winter clothes.

The identities of this couple are obviously much more noble than Tao Lan and He Yanpo. Perhaps...

A decision was made in Lin Wuniang's mind.

She had come to the Northern Desert to assassinate Tao Lan with the intention of dying. Of course, if there was a chance to survive, she would still fight to survive.

Now, she thought that it was not impossible to try the assassination again. The worst that could happen was that she would die!

But tonight, I have to find a way to get through it.

The heavy snow stopped only at sunrise in the early morning.

Early in the morning, Xia Zhaoxue and Qian Dahe were awakened by a burst of dog barking.

Qian Dahe got out of bed and opened the window. The street was full of people buying and selling goods. Several big dogs were following a lame man. The man was leaning on a crutch and walking very slowly. The big dogs would bark wildly at anyone who got within ten steps of the man.

The crowd was also frightened by this gesture and stayed away from this man.

Seeing the big box of money lying motionless at the window, Xia Zhaoxue asked, "What's going on outside the window?"

Qian Dahe said enviously: "A lame man brings several big long-haired dogs, and these big dogs don't allow others to get close to him. I also want to raise a few. They're so majestic. However, I probably can't train them." Xia Zhaoxue paused, listened to the barking of dogs outside the window, and suddenly remembered some letters from his younger sister.

"Brother, do you still remember Mr. Liuhe? He gave me a little yellow dog. It's really cute. Zhili loves playing with it now. Someone asked us why we didn't teach it to shake hands, bow, or roll over. Zhili said, let it follow its nature. We have trained many birds and horses. Let's just let this little dog be a free dog."

Xia Zhaoxue smiled indifferently. His younger sister often wrote many trivial things in the letters she wrote to him, like she was writing a story.

It was more like the letters he wrote to another younger sister in his early years, full of words, with a lot to say and a lot to write.

Qian Dahe closed the window and came back, lying down on another wooden bed. He glanced at Xia Zhaoxue and said, "Ding Xue, are you smiling under your beard?"

Xia Zhaoxue said: "I think so."

"You had a good dream?"

"I miss my little sister."

"That's great," Qian Dahe rested his hands on his arms, "Unlike me, I have nothing, but your sister still writes to you every now and then."

Xia Zhaoxue smiled and closed his eyes: "Come back to sleep."

The barking sound outside the window gradually faded away, but after turning a street, the lame man suddenly stopped in front of a wall.

There were three wanted posters posted side by side on the wall, all three were identical. The lame man read the words on the wanted posters and then looked at the portrait.

Lin Wumei.

The lame man frowned his rough eyebrows. Lin Wumei, assassinate Tao Lan?

Did Lu Wuwei betray Tang Xiangsi, or did the cooperation between Tang Xiangsi and Tao Lan break down?

  It couldn't be possible that Lin Wumei betrayed Lu Wuwei?

Lin Wumei's love for Lu Wuwei is even more loyal than the dogs around him.

Thinking about those people from Mingfang City who came to the market yesterday, they started looking for Central Plains medicinal herbs as soon as they arrived and bought all they could find at high prices. Could it be that it is related to Tao Lan?

It seems that Tao Lan's situation is not optimistic.

The lame man took a last look at the wanted posters on the wall, shook his head and left.

These past two years, nothing has gone well for me.

Hengxiang collapsed, Hejing collapsed, and now, is the Beimo, far outside the Great Wall, also beginning to collapse?

Now I don’t know whether his nephew Chongmen Hui, who is far away in Hejing, is still alive.

If he is alive, he must not come here. He does not want Chongmen Hui to bring those old guys who are chasing after him and whom he cannot afford to offend.

Maybe, those old guys had hundreds of opportunities to catch him, but they deliberately didn't catch him just to let him come.

Thinking of this, the lame man sighed and looked at the mastiffs beside him.

These beasts are only there to scare passers-by. If the group of old guys are really attracted over here, these few dogs won't be enough for them to practice on.

The sun was growing bigger and bigger, the glow of the sunset was fading, and the accumulated frost and snow in the countryside of Qingquan Town was dazzling and bright, so bright that it hurt people's eyes.

At the foot of the Jinyue Mountain, the herdsmen began to pack up and prepare to leave.

There is too much snow on the mountain and it may collapse, which is very dangerous.

In the distance, the wooden fence looked like a long wooden dragon, and the soldiers guarding several stations were chatting lazily.