After meeting Meng Waner in Luochuan, she felt like returning home.
Therefore, the group of people, who had hardly had any decent rest along the way, had already crossed many levels of checkpoints and arrived at Yicheng City late at night.
Yicheng has closed the city gate at this time. The garrison probably learned about the large-scale deployment of troops from the three surrounding counties and was more cautious than before, even though Meng Waner under the city had revealed her identity and even handed over a The governor's order was still reported one by one by the guards. Until a city guard captain who had seen Meng Wan'er in person came in a hurry, no one dared to open the city gate easily.
Meng Waner had lost her patience and shouted directly towards the city wall, "Captain Mo! Hurry and open the city gate. I have something urgent and I must go see my father immediately, otherwise something may change!"
On the city wall, the captain's face was illuminated by the firelight and his face was flickering. He pointed at Bai Qi behind Meng Wan'er and asked, "Of course I don't dare to stop Miss when she returns to the city, but these people behind Miss... look You don’t look like one of our Yongchang cavalry! The lady was kidnapped by a gangster, what’s the secret?!”
"I am not being held hostage. As for the inconvenience of telling you what happened, I can only say that my father knows about it!" Meng Waner pulled the reins with her hands to control the irritability of the horse under her crotch and said, "These people behind me are here. He rescued me outside Xingcheng and escorted me back. He meant no harm. Captain Mo, I know you are responsible for your duties and are rigorous in your work. But with the many generals and experts in our Yicheng city, you shouldn’t think that with the help of With just a hundred cavalry, they can stir up trouble, right?! Why are you afraid of them?!"
"It's not that I'm afraid. Although they are famous all over the world, I, Yongchang, have never been afraid." The captain said these meaningless words while listening to the report of a scout-looking person next to him. After a while, such a scout was replaced by another one. , waited until the third person had finished reporting, and then said to Meng Waner, who was already a little angry in the city, "Miss, don't be surprised, now the prefect has issued a death order, Yicheng's defense needs to be tightened, and no one from outside the county is allowed to have ulterior motives. I have ordered people to report to the prefect's palace. Please wait here for a while. When the prefect in the palace replies with permission, I will open the city gate as soon as possible and kneel down to welcome the young lady into the city!"
Meng Waner clenched her silver teeth, but she had no choice but to turn her head to look at the tall man in black riding a horse beside her, who was Mingyue. "Why don't you all wait for me outside the city? I will enter the city alone first," before Mingyue could reply. She then added to herself, "Don't worry, since I promised the prefect of Li County to bring all the words, and Bao'er is still in your hands, I will definitely tell all those words to my father!"
Mingyue was silent for a while.
Luo Changgong, who was just behind the two of them, suddenly spoke, "Young Master asked me to come, not to take Miss Meng back to Yicheng, but to serve as Miss Meng's bodyguard. Will the Miss finally say anything to the Yongchang Prefect about this matter?" It doesn't matter, our existence is just to ensure that Ms. Meng is safe."
Meng Waner turned back to look at the calm eyes under Luo Changgong's blood-red mask, "He...do you think I'm in any danger now that I've returned to Yicheng?! I grew up in Yicheng, here. ....."
"Miss Meng," Luo Changgong simply interrupted Meng Waner this time and said with an unprecedented determination, "For you in the past, Yicheng was your safest home, but since you have gone through Yinling After a fight with Qiu Feng, and being escorted back by my eunuch, everything is different. At this moment, there are probably many people who want your life in this city, and you don't know them at all. Who is it? It’s us who are more trustworthy when it comes to protecting you.”
Meng Waner frowned, widened her eyes, and stared at Luo Changgong for a while. Then she turned back to look at Yicheng, with its gates tightly closed in front of her. She actually felt strangely strange. She had never been a fool. , just after thinking about it, I already understood the meaning of Luo Changgong's words. She was just a fan of the authorities, or she was stubborn and didn't want to believe that Yongchang has suffered the last irreparable fate from the moment she came back. Crack, "So your eunuch didn't really want me to tell my father those words, he just...he just wanted everyone to know that you sent me back to Yicheng, and then let everyone in the city, Seeing my father’s choice..."
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, but turned his head and glanced at Luo Changgong seriously.
Luo Changgong still said in that calm and indifferent voice, "If the young master just wanted to do this, he would never say so many words to you. Since he took the trouble to say so many words, those words to him are very important."
Meng Waner lowered her head on the horse and remained silent.
In this way, the people above and below the city waited quietly for less than a stick of incense. Only then did a little noise come from the city. Then the soldiers ran quickly. After a while, the city gate slowly rose. , a palace attendant of quite an age, trotted out of the city with a group of soldiers, knelt down in front of Meng Wan'er's horse with a plop, and said with a cry, "I'm late, I made the young lady suffer!"
A group of city guards who were following behind also knelt down, and the leader was none other than Captain Mo who was still standing on the city wall just now.
Meng Waner turned the horse's head, bypassed the palace waiter and the soldiers, and rode slowly towards the city without looking back, "I don't blame you, let alone Captain Mo, get up, just like my father said You have to do that and guard the city gate."
The palace attendant did not get up, so neither did Captain Mo and others.
Meng Waner and a group of light cavalry behind her galloped into Yicheng. The sound of iron hoofs on the ground disturbed the dreams of many people in this cold dark night.
After a smooth journey, the group finally arrived at Yicheng Summer Palace. The place was already brightly lit. Meng Waner could see from a distance that Meng Jiaoyang, who was only wearing a heavy nightgown, was surrounded by palace attendants and guards. , waiting in front of the palace, at this moment, Meng Waner, who had never shed tears even when her nephew was being chased by Yin spirits, couldn't help but her eyes were red, and she was about to shed tears.
She turned over and dismounted, hurried up to meet Meng Jiaoyang, and knelt down while holding Meng Jiaoyang's arms, "Father, my daughter is back..."
"It's good to come back, it's good to come back," Meng Jiaoyang quickly helped Meng Waner up, held her hand and looked up and down with concern, and then looked behind her. There was only a tall man in black, and A group of Qingqi who were familiar to him seemed to want to ask something, but they hesitated and said again, "Just come back."
But Meng Waner couldn't bear it anymore and was already crying, "Father, Bao'er..."
Meng Jiaoyang patted the back of Meng Waner's hand, turned sideways with a smile, and pulled her towards the palace. As she walked, she said to a slovenly middle-aged man beside her, "Yilan, let this guy in black follow you." Come on, the rest..." He turned to look at a pale-faced and beardless palace attendant on the other side, "Lao Gu, let them wait outside the palace."
The middle-aged man glanced sideways at Mingyue, who was dressed in black, and said nothing. The palace waiter Lao Gu bowed to the end.
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