Guan Jiyu's wrist was held tightly, and she seemed to lose her mind for a moment. Jiang Yingnian was still immersed in this ambiguous atmosphere, but Guan Jiyu seemed to be suddenly pulled down from the clouds, and she felt a wave of pain on her face.
Stiff, he pulled his arm away from Jiang Yingnian's hand and said feebly: "Why should I hit you? It sounds like I love to hit people."
Jiang Yingnian raised his eyebrows and said: "You have been stubborn since you were a child, but you still have the best kung fu. Anyone who wants to provoke you must be wary, right?"
"I see that you have never been afraid." Guan Jiyu continued to walk forward and said, "When have you ever been afraid when you provoked me? And, in fact, except for you, no one has provoked me at all."
Jiang Yingnian scratched his head and said, "I didn't do it just for fun. The house is so boring, who would I look for if not you..." He muttered, "I provoke you not because I like you..."
Guan Jiyu gave a fake smile, looked at him sideways and teased: "Wow, then I thank you for your liking. I can't stand your strange liking."
Jiang Yingnian seemed a little unwilling to say: "I know I was very childish before, but look at who else have I done this to besides you? You are the only one I have done this to..."
Several horses suddenly rushed out on the street. The road was already congested, but the people on the horses did not give way at all. They just ran rampantly and unscrupulously, causing many complaints from people visiting the market on the road.
Jiang Yingnian and Guan Jiyu stood on the roadside and glanced at the retreating team, only to realize that those people were actually the team from Duyuanqiao.
Jiang Yingnian whispered: "They left before us, and they were riding horses all the way. Why are they here now and walking slower than us?"
"Is it because they have to rest for a long time on the way?" Guan Jiyu guessed: "Or are they just trying to do something small here?"
The two of them were still confused when they heard people on the road complain: "These people in Xuli are really rude. I wonder if all the people in Xuli are like this? Are they even more barbaric and unreasonable than the Guyi people in the north?"
It is said that people from Guyi are the most informal, but I think people from Xuli are even worse."
"That's it, tell me, in our small place, we used to live peacefully, but in the past half year, we kept encountering these Xuli barbarians. Because of their status, they regarded it as their own territory. Come to think of it.
Just leave and don’t take us, the locals, seriously!”
Jiang Yingnian had been in the north for a long time, so naturally he knew the accent and intonation of the Hechiliu people. He asked carefully, "Do they come here often?"
Several Hechiliu people nearby nodded and said, "That's right! Our house is right in front of here, on this road -" The person who took the lead in speaking pointed to the street in front of him and said, "That group of Xuli people always
Every time I pass by here, I get very excited. People with children at home dare not take their children to walk here, for fear of encountering them one day. They will not take the initiative to avoid women and children. If they are touched,
If it's flashing, you can only blame yourself for being unlucky."
Guan Jiyu was worried and confirmed again: "Have you seen their appearance clearly? Are you sure they are the same group of people?"
Several Herculean people said firmly: "Oh, it's absolutely true that they come here often, almost every month, right? I don't know why, but the leader of the group comes here very often. It seems that
What does it have to do with our Herculean royal family?"
They were not surprised and said half-jokingly: "Now, with our eyes closed and just listening to the sound of horse hooves, we all know it's them."
Finally, a Hechiliu man said helplessly: "The world is in chaos. Something happened at the Yanjiang Corridor, so all the refugees were sent to our place. The royal family and nobles ignored it and kept their peace.
The state of Li is very stiff, but on the other hand, it allows the people of Xuli to treat this place as their own home. I don’t understand, I really don’t understand.”
Jiang Yingnian and Guan Jiyu looked at each other, and they both knew something. Jiang Yingnian immediately asked: "Where is the best inn here? We came here from out of town to visit relatives, and we haven't gone anywhere yet.
I want to rest here."
The Herculean man standing with them on the roadside pointed to the front enthusiastically and said: "Just keep going forward from this street, even if you can't see
Just go to the inn and look at the horses of the Xuli people, they always rest there."
After Jiang Yingnian received the news unexpectedly, he suppressed his inner joy and pretended to be calm: "It's really annoying. The number of these Xuli people is not small. I don't know if there are any free rooms in the past."
He took Guan Jiyu's hand and said, "Shall we go over and have a look? There's no telling if we can miss an empty room."
It has to be said that Jiang Yingnian mastered the tone of voice of the Hechiliu people very well. Even after chatting for so long, these people did not realize that Jiang Yingnian was from Xuli.
Jiang Yingnian and Guan Jiyu were dressed in authentic Hechiliu attire, and they didn't feel out of place at all when blending in with the crowd. They walked to the door of the inn in a swagger, and sure enough they saw the horses of Duyuanqiao's group stopping at the door of the inn.
Guan Jiyu looked longingly at the door and saw a stall selling gauze scarves at the entrance of the inn. He pointed at the stall and said to Jiang Yingnian: "Go and buy me a gauze scarf. I will cover my face.
Du Yuanqiao recognizes me, and I'm worried that my identity will be exposed."
Jiang Yingnian quickly bought a gauze scarf and brought it over. It was a smoky purple gauze scarf. He handed it to Guan Jiyu and said, "This color is very beautiful. You can try it."
Guan Jiyu quickly put on the veil. Although the color of the veil did not match the maroon clothes on his body, it did not reduce the delicacy and elegance of the veil at all.
Jiang Yingnian nodded with satisfaction and said, "The things I picked are really good-looking."
"What about you?" Guan Jiyu pointed at Jiang Yingnian's face and said, "He also recognizes your face. You can't also wear a veil, right?"
Jiang Yingnian walked to the pillar at the door of the inn, leaned over and touched a handful of ashes with his hand, then wiped it on his face and said, "Isn't this enough?"
He smiled triumphantly, pointed at his own face, then pointed at Guan Jiyu's face, and said, "Do you think we two look like distant cousins who come to visit relatives in the countryside?"
Guan Jiyu couldn't help but chuckle and said: "It looks very similar."
She suddenly remembered the time when she and Jiang Yingnian worked together to repair the tent in Qingzi Camp due to heavy rain. The two of them were very embarrassed by the heavy rain at that time, but Jiang Yingnian did not.
Still smiling, he asked her, "Do you think we two are like drowned dogs now that we've been soaked in the rain?"
Jiang Yingnian seems to have changed a lot over the years, but it doesn't seem to have changed at all.
His youthful spirit and the childlike innocence in his heart are still preserved to this day.
After the two of them had "packed up", they entered the inn gracefully. The people accompanying Du Yuanqiao were eating in the lobby. When they saw someone coming in, their first reaction was to stare at the person who walked in.
After seeing that Guan Jiyu and Jiang Yingnian who came in were "locals" wearing Hechiliu local clothes, they felt relieved and continued to eat their food with their heads down.
Jiang Yingnian and Guan Jiyu tacitly glanced at them from the corner of their eyes, then walked to the counter calmly. Jiang Yingnian asked, "Is there any housing available?"
The shopkeeper said: "What a coincidence, there are just two rooms left. Do you want one room or two?"
"One room."
"Two rooms!"
Jiang Yingnian and Guan Jiyu answered almost at the same time. Not only the shopkeeper looked at the two of them strangely, but even the guards from Duyuanqiao who were eating noticed them both.
Jiang Yingnian naturally put his arms around Guan Jiyu's shoulders, took him into his arms, and said, "Shopkeeper, don't listen to her, just ask for a room!"
He took out the broken silver from his arms, threw it on the counter, and said: "My money didn't come from the strong wind. You woman really don't care about my hard-earned money at all? Isn't it because we had a quarrel on the way here?"
You have to live separately after a few words, so if we go to my cousin's house, we must not let others see that we are angry,"
It became clear to the shopkeeper that it turned out to be just a couple having an quarrel, so he advised, "What's there to be unhappy about? The couple lives in two rooms. Isn't this a joke? I'll give you one room."
Well, if you two have anything to say, please talk about it carefully after closing the door."
The sound of chopsticks being used behind him came again. Guan Jiyu breathed a sigh of relief before following Jiang.
Yingnian walked to his residence on the second floor of the inn.
After entering the room and closing the door, she immediately whispered to Jiang Yingnian: "Du Yuanqiao is not down there, he must also be in a certain room upstairs."
Jiang Yingnian took off his coat, lay down on the bed casually, and said, "Since we already know that he is here, we can only continue to wait. He can't be hiding in the room all the time, right?"
"What's impossible about that?" Guan Jiyu picked up the kettle and poured a glass of water. He took a sip and said, "He is a cautious person. He might just hide in the room and never come out."
Jiang Yingnian closed his eyes and whispered: "Then we have to eavesdrop. At night, let's go to the roof, open up the tiles, and find which room he is in." He seemed to be a little proud.
: "When we were in the Qiang Witch Palace, didn't we also search from room to room in order to find Brother Helan? You and I have some experience in doing this kind of thing. It's just a different way. It's not a problem.
"
Guan Jiyu said with a guilty conscience: "That's different, isn't it? Tonight Duyuanqiao must have posted guards around the inn. If we act rashly, I'm afraid we will alert the enemy..."
She licked her lips and said, "What's more, I'm not in good health and my mind is still groggy. It may be slow to go up to the roof. I'm afraid it will drag you down."
Jiang Yingnian thought for a moment and felt that what she said was reasonable, so he said: "Then just stay in the room and watch what I do!"
