"Is your husband a musician or a coachman? How come you can also drive a coach?"

There was a voice coming from behind, and it sounded like a joke. Xiao Jiu guessed that this person was the car owner, and the other one was her maid.

Xiao Jiu chuckled, "Can't someone be both a musician and a coachman?"

A laugh from the car owner also came from inside the car. The woman's voice was not sharp and high-pitched, but rather deep.

She replied, "I see you are neither a musician nor a coachman."

"Then who am I?"

There was no answer from behind, and it took about a few seconds before the owner of the voice said, "When I left the city in the morning, I heard about a major event that happened in the city last night."

"Chi'er, the little prince of the Southern Barbarians, is dead. He was assassinated."

"Oh, is it so?"

Xiao Jiu's answer was very calm, with no questions or surprises.

The woman in red clothes in the car moved her eyelashes slightly, slowly raised her head, and looked at the blurry figure outside through the closed door.

"There are rumors that it was the musician who committed the murder."

Coincidentally, the three of them happened to meet Xiao Jiu, a musician disguised as a woman.

Who would a normal man dress up like this on purpose?

After this sentence, there was no sound outside the car.

He drove the car in silence. The maid in the car opened her eyes wide, and her eyes gradually became a little scared and nervous.

The coachman sitting next to Xiao Jiu was so frightened that he suddenly woke up. All the sleepy people had disappeared, and he sat there stiffly, not daring to move.

Everyone present knew very well that Xiao Jiu was one of the people who killed Nanman Chi'er last night. He was a murderer, and he was the one who was being arrested by both Nanman and Qi.

"Miss, are you not afraid?"

When he spoke again, he only heard the young man asking calmly.

Wei Lingyan calmly adjusted her sleeves and said, "What's so scary?"

It was a carriage that I stopped casually on the road. I was a stranger to the owner of the carriage, and I didn’t even know what the other person looked like. But now it seemed a bit interesting.

"Miss, aren't you afraid that I am a murderous villain and will be harmful to you?"

Very softly, Xiao Jiu heard a brief chuckle coming from the carriage, and it faded away like a cloud, leaving no trace behind.

Wei Lingyan sat upright, every move as if measured by a ruler, unhurried, confident and calm, "You are going back to the city. If you are not seeking death, you have a very important mission to kill us.

It will only cause you trouble."

Xiao Jiu lowered his head and looked at the sign on the car door. It looked familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it.

Then, the woman's words asked him to understand the key.

"Also, my surname is Wei." She paused deliberately, her voice sounding dignified and calm, "You should have heard of the most famous Wei family in Kyoto."

So this is the reason why women dare to go out of the city to pick green leaves without guards, without worrying about their own safety, because no one dares to touch the noble daughter of the Wei family in the hundred-mile radius of the royal capital.

The carriage she was riding in was the best sign. Anyone with eyes would know that this was something that should not be offended, but today she met a strange person like Xiao Jiu.

This was the first time Wei Lingyan encountered such a thing.

"Wei Guoliao..."

"I've heard of it. Not only have I heard of it, but I've also seen it with my own eyes. Maybe... it won't be long before I go to visit his old man."

Xiao Jiu said leisurely, as if there was a deep meaning in his words. His body was wet, cold and uncomfortable. He had been busy running for his life all night long, and his face looked a little haggard.

"What's the meaning?"

In the car, Wei Lingyan frowned slightly.

"It's not interesting. You can't tell the lady about this." Xiao Jiu said in a relaxed tone, with the air of a young man.

If he didn't tell her, there was nothing Wei Lingyan could do. After all, even though she agreed to his request, she didn't have the ability to force him to reveal all the answers she wanted to know.

The sky is bright, like the morning sun rising on the horizon, slowly changing from a wisp to a patch, filling the sky.

They were not far from the city gate. After a while, Wei Lingyan's voice came from the car.

"Why did you kill Chi'er?"

As the carriage rumbled forward, Xiao Jiu felt the morning breeze and said slowly, "He doesn't deserve to die? How many people of Qi have he insulted since he came to the capital of King Qi? The border between Nanman and Da Qi, and

How many people died tragically at the hands of the Southern Barbarians?"

The other few people were silent, but this was indeed true.

"But he was an envoy and the most beloved son of the Southern Barbarian King. Now that he dies in our Qi country, won't it cause a conflict between the two countries?"

"Chi'er's death is not a pity...but you may be in trouble."

"There are also the innocent people in Daqi. They are the ones who suffer the most due to the war."

Such a sentence floated faintly in the carriage. Xiao Jiu thought that they were doing justice for heaven and doing chivalry. She didn't care if Chi'er died, but if his death caused a war between the two countries, the people of Qi State would be affected.

, fearing another catastrophe.

Not worth it...

Wei Lingyan sighed, and Xiao Jiu said lightly, "Chi'er must die."

A cold glint flashed in his eyes, not only because of the evil things he himself had done, but also because of Jiang Zhen'er's affairs.

Jiang Zhen'er is an important chess piece used by Xiao Jiu to disintegrate the Qi State, but because Chi'er fell in love with her beauty, the old King of Qi wanted to secretly give her to him to stabilize the relationship between the two countries.

How could Xiao Jiu allow such a thing to happen, so Chi'er must die.

"Have you ever been to the border, miss?"

Xiao Jiu guessed that there was no such thing, and he had never been there, but judging from the news Xiao Lan had received from the North over the years, the Southern Barbarians had always been eyeing the Qi Kingdom.

Maybe the other party's cooperation with Yang Guosi was just to take advantage of the other party and take the opportunity to go south and invade Qi.

However, Xiao Jiu did not explain this matter.

"The war between the Southern Barbarians and the Qi State has always been going on, but the people in Qi's interior cannot see it. If we want to have no war, we must destroy the Southern Barbarians."

More than tens of thousands of soldiers died at the border every year, and even more civilians died at the hands of the southern barbarians.

Besides, who says evil people should be tolerated?

Just because you're afraid?

If you are afraid of this or that, if you take care of this and that, it is better to let the world become completely chaotic...

Only after great chaos can we usher in great peace.

Destroying the Southern Barbarians is easy to say, but how different is it from being realized?

Hearing Xiao Jiu's words, Wei Lingyan sneered silently. The matter had already happened and there was no room for maneuver. She simply said nothing more and remained silent.

After walking for a quarter of an hour, we finally arrived at the city gate.

Xiao Jiu was dressed very low-key in civilian clothes. She lowered her voice and said, "Miss, help me enter the city. I will repay the favor to you one day."

Rows of soldiers were guarding the city gate, searching for suspicious people one by one. People entering the city formed a long queue, and it would still be a while before it was Xiao Jiu's turn.

Wei Lingyan heard this and said intentionally, "How do you plan to repay my kindness?"

"What do you want, young lady?"

Xiao Jiu asked, leaning against the car door, looking lazily at the soldiers checking in front, not showing any nervousness, just like the other people waiting in line to enter the city.

There were so many people entering the city that their carriages stopped motionless.

In the silence, Wei Lingyan thought quietly for a while, and finally shook her head gently and said, "No need. If you ask me what I lack, I will definitely lack nothing, even if you can find me something I don't have."

Things, I don’t necessarily feel very happy about them.”

After a pause, she said: "Why don't you come back to the city this time? Don't do evil, but do good."

Outside the car door, Xiao Jiu was stunned for a moment, then chuckled softly, his white lips lightly coloring, but it did not diminish his handsome face.

He didn't expect that Wei Lingyan would make such a request to him.

"I promise you."

Xiao Jiu said.

If you can do good, whoever wants to do evil, at least he doesn't want to. But sometimes, people are always in control of themselves, and good and evil cannot always be distinguished so clearly.

But Xiao Jiu agreed. He didn't ask Wei Lingyan's name, and the other party also didn't ask Xiao Jiu's name.

We meet by chance and lend a helping hand. The kindness we receive today will be repaid in the future.

Xiao Jiu pretended to be a coachman and easily passed the city gate inspection and entered the city. The carriage drove into an alley.

Xiao Jiu jumped out of the car, turned around, cupped her fists and saluted, and said seriously, "Thank you very much, Miss, for your help. I will repay you for your kindness today."

There was no echo in the car for a long time, Xiao Jiu turned around and left.

Hearing the footsteps outside the car fading away, the maid carefully opened the corner of the car door and saw Xiao Jiu's figure disappearing through the gap. She immediately breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and said in confusion and fear, "Why do you want to help this person, Miss?"
To be continued...