Chapter 1092 Happy to meet, sad to leave
Jian'er did get rewards, and Lu Ping did have her own luck.
The carriage headed westward, getting up early and going to bed late for three days, until the foot of a mountain, the coachman said to her: "Madam, the youngest one can only send you through this mountain and you can't move forward any further. You must turn back. There is a small town on the other side of the mountain. Another carriage can be hired in the town. The younger one will hire you to get the car, and you can continue walking."
Lu Ping nodded and said nothing, but just looked up at the mountain in front of her, feeling a little scared. There was a faint uneasiness that followed, and this uneasiness did not come from the mountain, but from the hidden danger that had never stopped behind her.
The only thing she was worried about was that the people from the Lu family caught up. Although there was no movement in the past three days, it did not mean that there was still no movement behind it. It would take more than half a month to go from the capital to Ji'an County. It took too long. She sighed secretly, half a month was enough for too many things to happen.
"Go away!" She put down the curtain of the car and told the driver, "It is not easy to walk on the winding mountain road. We should focus on safety. No matter how anxious we are, we should not be in a hurry."
The coachman responded happily and comforted her, "Madam, don't worry, although the mountain road is not easy to walk, the villain has walked many times and there will be no accidents. This mountain is the only way to go west. There are many people walking, and the road has long been flattened by the carriages and horses in front of him, so there will be no trouble." After he finished speaking, he started to swim the mountain after hitting the horse.
Lu Ping sat in the car, and her feeling of panic became stronger and stronger. She lifted the curtains of the car and looked back. There was no special movement on the winding road, but occasionally birds and eagles flew up and chased each other. She stared at them for a while, and it was thrilling.
She stopped looking and went back to the car to rest and calm her mind as much as possible. The winding mountain road was walking upwards, and the carriage was slightly tilted backwards, and it was a bit bumpy. Lu Ping leaned against the back of the carriage, holding her big bag tightly in her hand, thinking that she would have to rely on the things she packed out of the bag and that little silver in her future life.
Although she is the eldest lady of the Lu family, she is not favored. In addition, she has had hidden illnesses over the years, and her family has ignored her. She has spent a lot of money on a monthly basis, but the money is not enough for her to reward her, and she can't save much. She has only saved more than 300 taels in these years, and gave Jian'er a part to make a living. What she can bring now is only more than 100 taels of silver notes, plus dozens of taels of broken silver. I hope that Ji'an County can have a place for her to live in. I heard that the eldest master and the eldest lady of the Ren family are still there. Lu Ping thought that she did not go to Ji'an County because of the eldest master of the Ren family, but she just yearned for that place. If she met by chance, I hope she would not let the other party misunderstand it.
Lu Ping thought of Ren Xitao without realizing it, but she didn't know that for the sake of Xuan Tiange's marriage, Ren Xitao and Ren Xifeng were also riding back in a carriage and fighting their lives. The coachman of the Ren family had already urged the carriage the fastest, and the two horses were raised by the Pingnan General's Mansion, which were specially used for these two little masters. But even so, Ren Xifeng still felt that the speed was too slow and kept complaining: "Just at this speed, when we arrive in the capital, I'm afraid Tiange will almost reach Gushu."
Ren Xitao smiled bitterly, "It's not that exaggerated. Do you think the capital is very close to ancient Shu? But calculating the days, Princess Wuyang should have left Beijing long ago, so we are more than one step late. Let's go back to Beijing to inquire about the situation first! If you are really unwilling to give up, you can chase south again. Team Xi will not go very fast. If we are fast, we should be able to catch up."
Ren Xifeng complained to his brother with a bitter face, "It's all your fault. He insisted on taking me to hunt in the mountains. If we can set off with Furong, we will definitely be able to get to Tiange's wedding."
"Why did you blame me?" Ren Xitao felt very aggrieved. "Don't you have to go? I've had a fight with me for two days. If I don't take you there, you'd have to lift the roof?"
Ren Xifeng was speechless and bowed his head without saying a word. The mountain road was bumpy, but when he thought that as long as he crossed the mountain, there was a flat road ahead and he could reach the capital in three days, he felt better. She asked Ren Xitao: "Brother, do you think I should give Tiange some makeup?" After saying that, he sighed softly: "Oh, I don't know if I can catch up with her wedding team, otherwise we should not go back to the capital first and go directly to the south!"
Ren Xitao laughed at her: "Just just now I was thinking about adding makeup to others. If you don't go back to the capital, what should you do to add? Could it be that you buy something to give it to the gift halfway through? It's not as good as the collection at home."
"That's right." Ren Xifeng began to plot against some good things in General Pingnan's mansion, and while calculating, he said: "I don't know if my father gave gifts."
"How could it not be given away? That's when the princess got married, and our mansion had a good relationship with the Wenxuan Mansion. Not only would my father give it, but the gift would never be lighter." Ren Xitao replied to his sister's words while lifting the curtain to look out the scenery. But he heard the sound of horse hooves coming from the opposite side. The car was very hurrying, and he could pass by their carriage at most thirty steps.
He didn't think much about it. This was a mountain road that was necessary to go west from the capital. There were many people walking. It was common to encounter one or two carriages. But he saw that he had to make a turn. The coachman slowed down and reminded them: "Master, Miss, the road ahead is narrow. We are a double carriage. If you can't run, you have to walk slowly."
The two masters in the car had no objection, but when they were turning, they just met the carriage that Ren Xitao heard. A very ordinary carriage should be the kind of rental. He didn't care too much, so he just reminded the coachman to be careful and try to give it to the other party, so as not to let the very thin carriage fall off the cliff.
The Ren family's carriage took the initiative to walk outside, which was on the edge of the cliff. The driver opposite him hugged his fists at the Ren family's carriage with gratitude. The two cars crossed and arrived safely. However, they never thought that at this moment, there was a sudden movement in the direction of the capital facing the Ren family's carriage. The sound of countless horse hooves was shocked, which made the birds in the mountains flap their wings and fly.
Ren Xitao could hear the sound of at least ten horses, without wheels, and it should be the kind of riding alone. He was surprised. He went back to look at the carriage that had just been crossed, and saw a black-faced woman in the carriage lifting the curtain and looking back with a worried look. Obviously, she also heard such a huge sound of horse hooves, and she seemed to care very much. Ren Xitao even heard her urging the coachman and said, "Hurry! Go quickly! Go quickly!"
It was this sentence that shocked Ren Xitao all the whole person! How could he be so familiar with this voice? He rarely dealt with women, and there were only two most familiar voices of women, one was his own mother and the other was his own girl. But one day, he suddenly remembered the voice of another woman in his heart. Although he had only had a few short words of communication, he still had not forgotten it until now.
He subconsciously shouted to the driver: "Stop!" Then he looked at the black-faced woman in surprise. The woman happened to hear him calling for stopping, and looked at him in surprise. The two of them looked at each other's eyes, both of whom saw surprise in each other's eyes.
Lu Ping had blackened her face, painted a mole, and even tied the woman's hair bun. If someone who didn't know her suddenly saw that she was just an ordinary person. Although she was good-looking, she was not very stunning because of her dark face. But Ren Xitao was different. He had been in the capital. Ren Xifeng had a crush on him to Ji'an County, just to prevent him from having any contact with the Lu family. As soon as he lived in Ji'an County, he found that he could not expel Lu Ping from his mind at all.
Because of this, Ren Xitao recognized Lu Ping at a glance, and Lu Ping naturally recognized Ren Xitao.
But what can we do? Behind us, the pursuers of the Lu family have arrived. They were sent by Lu Song, with more than a dozen people, half of whom were guards of the Lu family, and half were just masters invited by Lu Song for money. In order to capture Lu Ping, the Lu family had invested money, and even to prevent Lu Ping from escaping, they specially agreed to pursue the robbery on this mountain road, with the side of the mountain wall and the other side of the cliff, and Lu Ping had nowhere to run away.
Seeing so many people approaching, Lu Ping felt nervous, knowing that this disaster could not be avoided. Although she did not believe that these people would hurt her, because the Lu family also wanted her, a living person, to fulfill the glory of the family, but she just didn't want to become the Lu family's pawn. In the current crisis, she must make a decision as soon as possible.
But she didn't expect to meet Ren Xitao here. She looked at the person who also looked at her, and she didn't feel much. She felt a sudden thump in her heart. An emotion that had never been before suddenly came to her heart, making her unable to say what that emotion was. She was a little sad, a little happy, a little happy to meet, and a little sad. The pursuer had arrived, and Lu Ping reluctantly took her eyes off Ren Xitao and took the initiative to get off the carriage. When the leader heard the person chasing him loudly: "Miss, although you have blackened your face, we can still recognize you. Go back! The prime minister is still waiting for you in the mansion. Don't let your brothers do it, that would be too offensive."
As soon as these words were said, Ren Xifeng also reacted and said in surprise: "Miss from the Prime Minister's Mansion? That Lu Ping?" After that, he also came to the window to look.
Ren Xitao was squeezed by her and simply got up and got out of the car. Ren Xifeng was anxious, "Brother! Why are you going down? It's not our business, we have to rush back to the capital!"
The pursuers also noticed the carriage, but saw the word "Ren" written on the sign on the carriage. Someone recognized it as the carriage from General Pingnan's Mansion, so they did not take the initiative to make things difficult for them and pretended that they didn't see it.
But at this time, Ren Xitao had already gotten off the carriage and walked over to Lu Ping.
When Lu Ping saw him coming, he was shocked and subconsciously took a few steps back. Until Ren Xitao stood up, the two of them were still five or six steps away. When Lu Ping shook her head slightly at him, tears in her eyes. The black rouge could no longer cover her beautiful face, which made Ren Xitao suddenly think of the stunning surprise that arose in his heart when he first met Lu Ping in the Lu Mansion.
But Lu Ping hated her face. She looked at Ren Xitao and looked at the pursuers again, and suddenly laughed sadly. She said: "I have been a chess piece of the Lu family since I was born. The Lu family has not treated me sincerely for a day. Now they are forced to do things I don't want to do and marry someone I don't want to marry. My face is a disaster, and my life is also a disaster. Since this is the case, I will return my life to the Lu family. From now on, there will be no me in the world." After that, he looked at Ren Xitao again, opened his mouth, as if he had something to say, but he could not make any sound.
Chapter completed!