Chapter 8 This is not a place where you can come and go when you want
Qin Zhen looked at Lou Yan steadily, and after a while, she said, "Are you afraid that I'm cold?"
Lou Yan's heart skipped a beat, then he straightened his expression.
"It's windy here," Lou Yan whispered, "It's not good for you or me."
Qin Zhen seemed to smile, but when Lou Yan looked up, there was no expression on the other person's face, as if the glance just now was an illusion.
Lou Yan himself knew that this argument was untenable. If Qin Zhen asked a few more questions, he would be at a loss for words.
Even he himself couldn't explain why he reached out to Qin Zhen at that moment.
Fortunately, Qin Zhen didn't ask any more questions, but followed his wishes, led the people into the mountain gate, found a place leeward, and sat on the ground.
Seeing that she was so informal, Lou Yan also sat down not far from her.
"Tell me, what do you want to say to me?" Qin Zhen asked.
Lou Yan pursed his lips and said softly: "I was lucky enough to be saved by the girl that day, but I have been harassing him for many days since then. I really feel bad about it. Now that the wind and snow have stopped, we think it's time to leave."
Qin Zhen narrowed her eyes: "Want to leave?"
Lou Yan nodded: "I'm afraid that the elderly at home will be worried if I don't come back for several days. In addition...my master has been in bed for many days and needs to go down the mountain in time to recuperate."
After hearing this, Qin Zhen nodded: "The reason is very good."
Lou Yan: "Then we will..."
"But we can't go down the mountain," Qin Zhen interrupted Lou Yan and said expressionlessly: "Longhu Mountain is so nice, and many people can't come even if they want to, so why are you in a hurry to leave?"
Lou Yan finally realized something was wrong.
Qin Zhen wanted to detain them.
But why?
To Qin Zhen, the two of them are just ordinary people and have no value.
Qin Zhen seemed to see through his thoughts, smiled and said, "You have forgotten, this is not an inn or restaurant, where you can come and leave as you please."
Lou Yan fell silent for a moment. He didn't accept the words, and it didn't matter if he didn't.
In any case, they were saved by someone else and entered someone else's lair. Now they find out that the other person is a bandit and want to escape. What will the other person think?
Qin Zhen stood up, looked at Lou Yan condescendingly, and said half jokingly, half seriously: "You also know where this place is, so do you want to consider joining us?"
Lou Yan was stunned: "What?"
"Join us," Qin Zhen said, "Follow me, and I promise to treat you better than your original master."
After a while, Lou Yan said: "I'm sorry, I can't betray my master."
Qin Zhen shrugged and said, "That's a pity."
After saying that, he was about to leave.
Lou Yan quickly stood up and followed, asking, "Can I write a letter home? I just want to report that my family is safe."
Qin Zhen didn't even look back and said, "No."
Lou Yan: "..."
He didn't ask for any favors from Qin Zhen. As soon as he returned to his room, he found that there were more than twice as many guards outside the house as before. They were guarding the front and back so tightly that not even a fly could fly out.
Lou Yan returned to the house with a solemn expression.
Xiao Jue was half-leaning on the head of the bed, feeling extremely lethargic. The medicine had made him look sallow and thin, and now it was difficult to even take two steps on the ground.
When he saw Lou Yan coming back, he immediately asked angrily: "Where were you just now?"
Lou Yan: "I talked to Miss Qin."
Xiao Jue's expression darkened: "What did you say?"
"Ask her to let us go down the mountain." Lou Yan said.
Xiao Jue sat up all of a sudden, almost impatiently: "Did she agree? When are we leaving? Hurry up, if I drink that medicine, my life will be at stake."
Lou Yan stood still without moving.
Xiao Jue's expression changed: "If you have anything to say, just say it."
"We're afraid we won't be able to leave for the time being."
Lou Yan casually opened half of the window, and there were more than twice as many bandits coming and going outside as before.
Lou Yan closed the window again, turned around, and said to Xiao Jue: "Master, although I don't know why, Qin Zhen wants to keep us."
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Qin Zhen has been going to the meeting hall every day these days to ask if the spies sent by Qin Hong have returned.
On this day, after she and Lou Yan separated, they went to the meeting hall again.
As soon as he entered the door, he had just said a few words to Qin Hong when someone stumbled in.
The father and daughter both changed color at the same time.
Qin Hong stepped forward, picked up the man, and asked in a deep voice: "What happened?"
This person was the spy he sent out to inquire about the court's movements.
At this time, the man smelled of blood, and he was staggering, relying on his breath to hold on.
"Big, big boss," the man's voice was hoarse and urgent: "The imperial court sent Yuan Chu to lead 30,000 troops, and they will set off soon to go to Longhu Mountain to suppress the bandits. The emperor ordered that the bandits in Longhu Mountain must be quelled. Take
Qin Hong is brought to justice."
After saying this, the man could no longer hold on and fainted.
Qin Hong's face was gloomy and he called for people to take the spies down for treatment.
He turned to look at Qin Zhen and said, "What your elder brother said in the letter is not false."
Qin Zhen was not surprised and just said: "Father, make plans in advance."
Qin Hong raised his hand and rubbed his eyebrows, and was silent for a long time.
Qin Zhen waited for him silently for a while and then said softly: "Yuan Chu is the youngest son of the Minister of War. He joined the army at a young age and became famous in the army. Now that the war in the border areas has calmed down, he was entrusted with important tasks not long after he returned to the capital.
, presumably, he will not lose his reputation as a major general."
"Father, Yuanchu is not easy to deal with." Qin Zhen said, "We are not opponents."
She knew Yuan Chu.
In his previous life, Yuan Chu was a fierce general under Lou Yan.
He is young and has a bit of madness in him. He doesn't listen to anyone except Lou Yan.
But such a person is just a hungry wolf when placed on the battlefield.
When Xiao Jue ascended the throne, many people who had helped him were rewarded by everyone, but Lou Yan unusually did not receive any awards. For this reason, Yuan Chu even broke into Xiao Jue's dormitory with a gun to seek justice for Lou Yan.
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In the end, it was Lou Yan who knelt outside Xiao Jue's door for an hour and saved Yuan Chu's life.
In short, the current Yuanchu is just an untamed wild wolf cub. If he takes the lead in encircling Longhu Mountain, Longhu Mountain will not be able to get away.
Qin Hong looked at Qin Zhen and said dullly: "How do you enhance other people's ambition and destroy your own prestige?"
Qin Zhen was anxious: "Father, think about it for yourself, eight thousand versus thirty thousand, what are the odds of winning?"
Qin Hong: "Even if you die, it's better than working as a lackey for the imperial court!"
"Working for the imperial court is better than losing your life!" Qin Zhen said sternly in front of her father for the first time: "Brothers 8,000, don't they have parents and relatives? Do they want to be bandits by nature? You don't want to be a hawk for the imperial court?
Then have you asked them if they want it?"
Qin Zhen took a breath and said softly: "Father, I...I want you to live."
She didn't want to be like her last life, watching her father leave.