Shen Dingzhu was sitting in a rickety green cloth donkey cart. The farmer driving the car was about to leave the city for Xishan. Shen Dingzhu walked out of the back door and saw him selling vegetables at the entrance of the alley before walking far.
The two briefly discussed it, and the farmer's vegetables were almost sold. Shen Dingzhu pulled out a hairpin from her head as travel expenses, and the farmer agreed to take her out of the city.
At this moment, the donkey cart had just left the city gate, and the farmer turned back with a smile. His eyes, which were nearly forty years old, looked a bit gloomy. His mouth was smiling, but the outline of his eyes had not changed.
He glanced at Shen Dingzhu a few more times.
Inside the wooden carriage covered with green cloth, the beauty is wearing a pink peony and crescent white dress, her hair is tied loosely with a pink silk.
She came out in a hurry, and the summer heat steamed up the fine sweat on her greasy forehead. At this moment, her pink lips panted and she breathed slowly, but her beautiful eyes were filled with calmness.
The farmer asked: "Madam looks like she comes from a wealthy family. Why are you leaving alone in such a hurry? Where are your servants?"
Shen Dingzhu glanced at him, her clear and beautiful eyes were filled with black mist, making her skin look even whiter and more attractive.
"Just hurry up and drive faster." She didn't answer.
The farmer stopped talking to her. The swaying donkey carriage was quite obvious on the mountain road. When they entered the Western Mountain, they found that there were fewer carriages passing by, and there was almost no carriage in sight.
However, when they were approaching the location designated by Shen Dingzhu, the farmer began to pull the donkey cart in a circle. Shen Dingzhu saw it and asked coldly: "Why are you wasting your time?"
The farmer stopped the donkey cart and blew a whistle, and the surrounding dense green forest responded with two short bird calls.
He turned around, finally no longer hiding it, and stared at Shen Dingzhu with his smiling eyes: "When did the imperial concubine discover my identity?"
Shen Dingzhu's fair face was cold and even more cold.
"The location of Shen's Mansion is close to the Imperial City. Real farmers will not sell vegetables there. It hasn't rained recently, but there is yellow-brown mud under your boots. It is mountain soil. I know who you are and I have caught you. My daughter’s people are in the same group.”
Shock flashed in the farmer's eyes, and he looked down at the shoes. Sure enough, even if he stole the clothes and the donkey cart, he didn't hide it.
The look on his face gradually became sinister: "Then you still dare to follow us? Is there really an ambush?"
The reason why he took Shen Dingzhu around was because he couldn't believe that such a weak beauty who was pampered and cherished by Emperor Jin actually dared to follow him out single-handedly.
He once suspected that Shen Dingzhu was just a bait, and that he might be followed by a group of secret guards. However, he was wrong. He circled for so long and found no suspicious traces.
Shen Dingzhu frequently looked at the path between the mountains and fields. She knew her daughter was nearby, so her tone became a little urgent.
"The fact that you haven't taken the child's life for so long shows that you have a purpose, which is nothing more than to exchange hostages. You let my daughter go, and I will be the handle in your hands."
The farmer laughed and said, "My dear concubine, you are so naive. If we catch you, we will have two chips."
After saying that, he put two fingers on his lips and blew a whistle. Seven or eight men in black emerged from the dense forest around him.
"Take her away and tell the eldest son that Fu's plan was good and he really deceived this woman."
Shen Dingzhu calmly got off the donkey cart. Before the men in black could take action, he was already stunned in place by the beauty under the sun.
What a beautiful face, with a body as lithe as a peach, snow-white skin that glows pink under the kiss of the sun, delicate and picturesque eyebrows, half-length black hair blown by the summer wind, making the temples look beautiful. The fluffy hair on the side gently scraped her fair cheeks, adding a touch of cool beauty to her.
She didn't do anything, just standing there was pleasing to the eye. No wonder Emperor Jin doted on her in every possible way. Such a woman was most suitable to be kept in the pavilion.
The man pretending to be a farmer spat: "Damn it, have you never seen a woman? When he returns to Beiliang with the gong, each of them will have eight or nine women!"
Only then did those people react, but Shen Dingzhu took the initiative and walked over. However, they did not dare to reach out to catch her. Seeing her cooperation, they surrounded her in the center.
No one noticed that along the way the donkey cart came, there were broken silver threads.
After a month, Shen Dingzhu finally saw her daughter again.
"Chengcheng!" She was led by these men in black to the depths of the dense forest. Next to her was a towering cliff, and below was the endless raging Huaihe River.
Xiao Xincheng was caught in the hands of two strange men. When he saw Shen Dingzhu coming, the little guy cried out, kicked his calves, and struggled desperately.
The man standing at the back said coldly: "Let her pass."
As soon as the rope on Xiao Xincheng's feet was untied, he ran towards Shen Dingzhu.
"Chengcheng," Shen Dingzhu looked at the child with tears in her eyes. Seeing that the little guy's round face was also quite thin, she hugged her daughter into her arms distressedly, "It's all my mother's fault for letting you." Suffering out there.”
Xiao Xincheng's strength for so many days finally collapsed in her mother's arms. She cried loudly, telling with her tears the fear and helplessness she had felt for so many days.
"Mom, you are here. Is dad nearby? These people are bad guys. They want to steal daddy's things! Also, there is Grandpa Zhou, who is also a bad guy. They are in the same group!" The little guy choked with sobs. road.
Shen Dingzhu suddenly raised his eyes and looked at the tall man standing behind the man in black not far away.
The man was born with a pair of sharp and ruthless phoenix eyes, and the weather over the past few days has made him even more cold.
He must be the eldest son among those people, and at his feet, General Zhou was covered in wounds, blood stained his clothes, and he was pale and unconscious.
Shen Dingzhu's heart trembled. He never expected that the spy who had been cooperating with Beiliang country was actually this general!
On the left side of the eldest son, Fu Yunqiu stood. She held her head high like a winner, showing off her current situation. She was finally superior to Shen Dingzhu!
Shen Dingzhu stood up slowly and pulled his daughter behind him.
"Young Master, if you dare to let my daughter come over, it proves that you are sure. We can't escape. I'll tell you the truth. I didn't want to escape this time. The emperor will not let you go. Four battalions of troops are gathering in the palace. They will attack at any time. If a fight breaks out, the sword has no eyes, for fear of hurting the child, please let my daughter go and take me as a hostage."
Xiao Xincheng hurriedly pulled her sleeve: "Mother, I don't want it!"
Shen Dingzhu patted the little guy's shoulder gently, comforting her silently.
However, the eldest son looked her over, and his lips formed a playful smile.
"Shen Dingzhu, actually we have met before. Although we have only met a few times, we are still old friends. I am very sorry to meet you again in such a situation. But since you have thrown yourself into a trap, I will take advantage of this opportunity. I'll trade you and your daughter for my second brother."
As he spoke, his eyes turned completely cold: "If he cannot come back, the rushing Huai River below will be the burial place of you mother and daughter."
Shen Dingzhu was not afraid at all.
Instead, she became calmer, her eyes as black as two pools of water, standing there as if the lush summer existed just for her.
"Since the eldest son has said so, you might as well let me understand more clearly. You have been planning for a long time and planning so many right and wrongs. What do you want to get in the Jin Dynasty?"
Xiao Xincheng took the lead and tugged on her sleeves to answer: "It's a secret order. I heard him talking to Grandpa Zhou!"
Shen Dingzhu's heart sank.
At this moment, in a dense forest far down the mountain, two smoke horns suddenly shot into the sky.
The expressions of the men in black surrounding the eldest son changed.
"My eldest son, the Jin Emperor has sent troops to attack us!"
The eldest son looked at Shen Dingzhu with stern eyes and said in a cold voice: "It seems that we have really caught the right person. Xiao Langyan has been able to stand still for so many days. Shen Dingzhu has just arrived and he can't help it anymore. "
What he said made Fu Yunqiu's eyes even more filled with jealous rage.
"Tie them up, mother and daughter, and hang them to the edge of the cliff."
Shen Dingzhu hugged Xiao Xincheng tightly, her eyes showing a stern expression: "What are you waiting for? Catch these traitors!"
As soon as she finished speaking, dark guards suddenly sprang out of the dense forest beside her, like divine soldiers descending from the sky. They were all wearing silver and black light armor, with iron masks on their faces, and they were holding long knives. Every move they made would see blood.
The man responsible for taking Shen Dingzhu up the mountain was dumbfounded. He had just noticed that there was no one following Shen Dingzhu.
How come these secret guards are like ghosts!
The eldest son frowned, and the unconscious General Zhou suddenly woke up. He looked up and saw the secret guard rushing towards him, and was horrified.
"It's the Xuanjia Army!"
