Su Qingluan knew from beginning to end that one of her main tasks this time was to give Mu Xingzhi, a "sick man", a reason to leave Huaxi Village smoothly and purposefully, so as to go to Xunyang near Jingzhou City. County, suddenly "disappeared" without arousing anyone's suspicion.
After all, wherever he went, even in a small county, the closer he got to the capital, the more nervous Su Qingluan became about identity checks.
Even recently, even if you enter the city, there are officers and soldiers patrolling from time to time for interrogation. Although you have not actually entered the capital, you can still feel that the storm is coming.
But in fact, her mission has not been completely completed. After all, before everything settles, whether the identity of "Mu Xingzhi" can be completely abandoned is still two different things. Moreover, if Song Bo, as the "Steward of Mu Xingzhi", is in It would be much more convenient to act secretly than to return to being "the confidant of His Highness the Seventh Prince".
But if Mu Xingzhi continues to act as "Mu Xingzhi", even if he uses disguise to change his appearance, for those "old friends" who are very familiar with him, Su Qingluan believes that those people will definitely have suspicious.
After all, although disguise can change one's appearance, there are also many things that cannot be changed about a person's characteristics other than appearance. Take the voice for example - even if it is possible to temporarily change the voice, it is impossible to produce a lasting change in the timbre unless the vocal cords are damaged.
The other is body shape. Although Mu Xingzhi can change his body weight to control the visual impression of his body shape, his absolute height cannot be changed. In addition, some scars, moles, etc. on the body cannot be removed without accidents.
There is no laser mole spotting technology in this era. If you deliberately injure yourself and leave scars in order to cover up the marks, although the marks can be removed, it will obviously be more suspicious.
What's more, even on the face, there is one feature that is absolutely impossible to change - the human eyes.
There were no colored contact lenses in these days, so the color and shape of the pupils could not be changed at all. Including the outline of the eyelids, because there are not so developed medical aesthetics technologies, the eye features are what they are born with and can only stay that way.
Even the most basic method of change like covering up is not possible - unless Mu Xingzhi sets himself up as a "lame" and then becomes a "blind".
Let’s not talk about whether this is feasible or not. Simply speaking, it limits walking ability and vision. The range of activities that “Mu Xingzhi” can move is greatly reduced, and the usable value of this identity is also reduced a lot.
Therefore, it is best for "Mu Xingzhi" to reduce the frequency of his appearance. Then the missing state of "no one alive but no dead body" is the most ideal and least likely to arouse suspicion.
In this way, it is logical for Su Qingluan, as a "family member", to stay in the capital to wait for the news of her husband because of her unwillingness. Most importantly, it is logical for Songbo, as the steward of Mu Xing Land, to stay and continue to take care of Su Qing. Luan, this lady.
Of course, Su Qingluan herself also understood that the more people belonging to Mu Xingzhi left around her, the higher her "mission completion" would be, so she cried and said to her old uncle: "Old man Uncle, you are ill in bed, and it is really inconvenient for Qingluan to bother you. I just think that I don’t know whether my husband is alive or dead, and Yaoyao has been with me all the way. Now that Yaoyao has to stay, I feel... really uncomfortable..."
After saying that, there was another burst of thunder and no rain.
The old uncle was obviously smarter than everyone present. When Su Qingluan said this, he immediately heard the song and knew its elegant meaning. He let out a long sigh: "I am an old man, and there will be no tomorrow for me, son." We are all grown up, and those who are married are also married. I am worried about a daughter like this. If I can follow you to the city and find a good family..."
However, Yao Guang's acting skills were obviously not that good. Su Qingluan's performance was "adding drama on the spot" and the old man was also "improvising". Yao Guang did not follow the train of thought and was a little dazed.
Fortunately, Su Qingluan was right next to her, holding Yao Guang's hand and asking sideways: "Yao Yao, how are you? Do you want to go to the capital with your cousin to wait for your cousin's letter?"
On the surface, it was a soft-spoken inquiry, but within the wide sleeves, Su Qingluan squeezed Yao Guang's fingers with a little force.
Yao Guang is just not good at acting, but she is not a fool. She reacted to such a reminder and declined at first. However, under the strong arrangement of her "father", she "had" to reluctantly decide to follow Su Qingluan. Go to the capital.
Originally, Su Qingluan thought that Yaoguang was also the uncle's only daughter, so regardless of whether she left her old father and her cousin to go to the capital to inquire about her cousin's whereabouts, it would lead to the confusion of others who didn't know the truth. Are people gossiping?
After all, Su Qingluan gradually realized that the real "actors" here in Xunyang County could be counted on one hand, and the rest were really uninformed people - just Just like those villagers in Huaxi Village.
In fact, this is more reasonable. Although it is said that "there is strength in numbers", in this case, too many people will bring more variables, and the possibility of leaks will also be greatly increased.
Later, Su Qingluan discovered that in Xunyang County, everyone seemed to agree that the son would inherit the family property, and it was also the son and daughter-in-law's responsibility to support the elderly. Besides receiving the dowry, the daughter was just "thrown water."
Although Su Qingluan herself did not agree with this model, she had to admit that it was indeed a common phenomenon in this era - even Yang and Su Guangfu couldn't help but say to Su Qingluan when she got married: "At home, Don’t worry, your brother is still here.”
After all, in this era, this is the "natural" thing.
Su Qingluan has no intention of changing this secular concept, but objectively, this does make her resistance to bringing Yao Guang to the capital a lot less logically.
The two "car owners" had completed their work when they successfully delivered Su Qingluan and his party to Xunyang County. Since the carriage was "rented", they naturally had to return it to the original owner and let them drive back on the same route. ——Of course, it would be logical if they took on any other tasks on the road, but from the outside, this group of people had nothing to do with Su Qingluan and the others.
So Su Qingluan's current configuration is a threesome of Song Bo, Yao Guang and her.
However, because the identity of the shopkeeper of "Su Ji" was unknown, Su Qingluan was not considered to be unaccompanied in the capital in any case, so she decided to go to "Su Ji" in Jingzhou first after arriving in the capital. Check out the branch.
In fact, although Su Qingluan personally signed the appointment document for the shopkeeper of the Capital Branch, she has never met the shopkeeper in person - because the current shopkeeper took office less than a year ago, and the one she appointed at the beginning was... I resigned due to illness.
Because of this, Su Qingluan wanted to send information to the other party before they knew her, and see how the service was in the store. Maybe there would be a surprise?
As it turns out, surprises are impossible, and there are quite a few shocks.
