Most of the people in the inn had left, but the carriage from the Alfalfa Palace was still parked at the door.
"Senior Brother, why hasn't that girl come yet?" One of the junior sisters couldn't help complaining under the bright sun.
The clothes worn by the six people were no different from yesterday's. If you didn't look closely, you would have thought that they had not taken a shower.
At this time, it was noon and the sun was at its strongest. Even if the carriage was parked under a big tree, the hot wind was still very uncomfortable on people.
Before Jin Yuan could speak, Jasmine was the first to retort: "Seventh Junior Sister, what you said is wrong. Something like that happened last night. It's human nature for Miss Ninth to get up late."
"But it has already delayed our trip for half a day..." Junior Sister Seven said angrily. Before she could finish her words, she heard an ethereal voice from afar, "Sorry, I'm late."
The six people looked over together, and when their eyes touched the face of the visitor, several of them couldn't help but twitch the corners of their mouths.
These nine girls, whose faces were made up like those of a dead person last night, have completely changed their style today, and their exposed skin has turned into a wheat color. They look healthy, but they look very inconsistent, especially
When she smiled, her teeth were very white, and she felt a bit happy for no reason.
But her makeup was so perfect that if everyone hadn't seen Su Jiu's white face last night, they would have almost thought that this is what Su Jiu looks like.
Jin Yuan stared at Su Jiu's eyes for a while, then came to his senses and called everyone to get on the carriage.
Su Jiu quickly came to several people and handed out a porcelain bottle to six people, "Thank you for taking care of everyone. I'm really sorry for getting up late today. This is the golden sore medicine I made myself. It is very effective.
I hope you don’t mind.”
Several people accepted it with dignity, and the incident was considered a thing of the past.
The carriage was not particularly large and could seat six people. Among these people, only Jin Yuan could drive a carriage, so he sat in the coachman's seat.
Jasmine was the second to last one on the carriage. As soon as she jumped on, she turned around and stretched out her hand to Su Jiu, "Come on, Miss Ninth, I'll pull you up."
After what happened last night, in everyone's minds, Su Jiu is just a spoiled young lady who knows martial arts, but not much, and needs special care.
"Thank you Jasmine, but I like to sit outside. Brother Jin is bored driving alone, so I'll just sit aside and chat with him."
Su Jiu smiled and declined Jasmine's kindness.
Jasmine subconsciously glanced at Jin Yuan and saw that although he was stunned by Su Jiu's proposal, he had no intention of objecting. She let out a disappointed sound and got back into the carriage.
Behind the carriage were tied the two Qingda people caught last night. Their hands were tied with pig knots. This place was still more than ten miles away from the nearest city-state. The shopkeeper wanted to continue doing business, so naturally
There was no time to send the two to the official, so after discussion, Jin Yuan decided to send them there himself, and he could also watch them all the way to prevent the two from escaping.
The place where the carriage was set up was very spacious, and there was room for three people. Su Jiu and Jin Yuan were sitting on opposite sides, not touching each other, but Jin Yuan felt blushing so much that he almost forgot how to drive a carriage for a while.
, it was Su Jiu who reminded her, and then she took the horse's rope and shouted.
The carriage was not very fast, and the two Qingdas behind the carriage could keep up even at a trot. The few people were busy rushing, but they did not speed up to torture the two Qingdas. This shows that Jin Yuan is a principled person, even if the two Qingdas
People have lives in their hands, but this is not the reason for them to resort to lynching. Karma and retribution are determined by the official law.
Although they said they were accompanying each other, they actually didn't chat much along the way. Because they were worried about the two people behind them, the carriage entered Qingcheng in front of the city gate.
Jin Yuan spoke to a few people and rushed to the county government with Qingda and others first.
Qingshan Inn.
Compared with the inn at the foot of the mountain, it is obviously many times more luxurious. There are three floors in total, with a lobby on the first floor, private rooms on the second and third floors, and are divided into classes A, B, C and third according to price. Classes A, B and II are all on the third floor.
There are a lot of people staying in the hotel recently, Class C wing room
Almost all of them were occupied, and there was only one room left for Class B. The rest were all Class A. Although the six of them came from Alfalfa Palace, they couldn't afford such a squandering with their money. After paying the money, their faces were dark.
Not even wanting to eat the food, they each went back to their private rooms.
Naturally, Su Jiu would not wrong herself. Today, while Jin Yuan was driving, she secretly stuffed some silver coins into his baggage. The gold sore medicine was an apology, and the silver coins was a thank you. Su Jiu didn't want to owe anything to others.
After letting the waiter serve good wine and delicious food, Su Jiu ate happily in the room. Just after finishing the meal, she was about to take off the things on her face, take a bath and go to bed, when suddenly there was a knock on the door.
Su Jiu opened the door in confusion and saw Jin Yuan standing at the door drunkenly, his baby face flushed.
"Brother Jin, have you been drinking?" Su Jiu frowned slightly.
At this time, the makeup on Su Jiu's face had not yet been removed, but Jin Yuan was staring at Su Jiu infatuatedly, no, to be precise, he should be staring at Su Jiu's eyes.
This has been the most actions Jin Yuan has done in the past two days.
Although Jin Yuan drank too much, he was still in good spirits. He looked at Su Jiu and moved his lips, "Miss Jiu, can you lend me a moment to speak."
As the saying goes, speak the truth after drinking.
Su Jiu really wanted to hear the story behind Jin Yuan's behavior, so she nodded.
The two of them came to the backyard of the inn. There was a small pavilion in the backyard. It was already nighttime. Looking from the pavilion, the inn was brightly lit with candles and had an indescribable smell of fireworks.
Before Su Jiu could sit down and pose for a long conversation, Jin Yuan stopped and said, "Miss Ninth's eyes are very imaginative for the same old friend."
Jin Yuan stood in the darkness, looking at Su Jiu, his eyes gradually blurring, "That happened a long time ago. Eleven years ago, I was just a seven-year-old child. Because of my playfulness, I was abducted by traffickers at the entrance of the village.
A small border town in Beiyan Kingdom."
Jin Yuan drank and was immersed in his own emotions. He didn't notice the change in Su Jiu's expression when he mentioned the words "Beiyan Country".
"There was a famine at that time, and the people in the village were starved for food. Sometimes they even had no food at all. They could only eat rice bran mixed with wild vegetable roots. But the place where we were locked up could give us white flour. Although
Most of them smell bad, but at that time, as long as you had something to eat, you didn’t care whether it was bad or not.”
Jin Yuan smiled, "I was ignorant at the time, and even thought that life like this was not bad, until a three or four-year-old girl was brought to the prison where the children were detained..."
In the darkness, Su Jiu finally reacted and looked up at Jin Yuan with a bit of surprise in her apricot eyes. Su Jiu couldn't remember clearly what happened back then. But as Jin Yuan told Su Jiu, it suddenly dawned on her.
It turns out that the little boy who woke him up in prison to remind him was actually Jin Yuan.
"It's a pity that I have never met her again since then." When Jin Yuan said this, his eyes were fixed on Su Jiu. Seeing that her expression was as usual, he sighed inwardly with disappointment, "I'm sorry.
Miss Jiu, I didn’t mean to offend you.”
"It's okay, I like to listen to stories. Although Brother Jin has never seen that little girl again, he is willing to help me because I have eyes similar to hers. It shows that Brother Jin you are a good person."
Jin Yuan opened his mouth, and just as he was about to explain that his act of saving Su Jiu was not just because of that, he heard Su Jiu continue to say: "By the way, Brother Jin, I also have something I want to tell you."
"you say."
"My brother is coming to pick me up, so I won't be with you the rest of the way." Su Jiu said with a smile.
By coincidence, a candle lit up in a certain room of the inn, and a beam of light illuminated this corner of the pavilion. The girl's eyes were bright and clear, almost overlapping with the pair of eyes in her memory.
Jin Yuan's lips moved slightly, but he couldn't say anything to save him. It was just a chance encounter, and someone else's brother was coming to pick him up, so how could he ask for it.
After a long silence, he only uttered four words, "Have a safe journey."
"I will pay attention to safety. Brother Jin, you should also be careful. Maybe we will meet at the Penglai Conference." Su Jiu stood up and cupped her hands towards Jin Yuan, "You will leave early tomorrow.
, I might as well sleep in, so I won’t send you a special gift! Take care.”
Jin Yuan originally wanted to express his feelings to Su Jiu while drinking. People in the world are so straightforward. Jin Yuan was a little more restrained, but he didn't expect that the words of confession had not been spoken yet.
He heard this bolt from the blue, and by the time he reacted, Su Jiu had already walked towards the inn.
Jin Yuan was not stupid, so he naturally understood what Su Jiu meant and followed Su Jiu into the inn.
No matter what happens, the sun always rises.
The carriage in the Alfalfa Palace only stopped for one night, and left in a hurry before dawn. The high spirits of the world are sometimes reflected here, with bumpy roads and unexpected encounters.
Su Jiu opened the wooden window, watched the carriage leave, and stretched herself. Now she could only go to the Penglai Conference by herself.