Lu Jinan immediately dispatched a postman to notify the officials in Jiangnan to protect Xue Yao's safety, and then mobilized a warship, escorted the Minister of the Ministry of the Interior, and personally chased the grain ship to Jiangnan.
It will take a month or two to reach Jiangnan by water.
Xue Yao set off for ten days, Lu Jinan thought he could catch up, only to learn after interrogation that the assassin hired by the Minister of the Ministry of the Interior was ambushed at the Qixing Gate, not in Jiangnan.
Qixingmen is the transfer point to Gangnam, which can be reached by water in more than twenty days.
If the ship had been faster, Xue Yao might have stepped into the assassin's ambush, and would not have been able to intercept him in time!
Lu Jinan was at his wits' end, sitting alone in the cabin in despair, as if he had lost all of his strength. He slowly closed his eyes, remembering the year of grain collection, when Xue Yao, with his youthfulness not yet faded, had dug into the sky and dug into the ground to suppress the price of grain for him, and also the year of the Pingyong pandemic, when the boy had used his thin shoulders to support the people of the whole county... ...
Lu Jinan's back bent down little by little, one hand holding his forehead, a deep choking sob of pain emanating from the depths of his nostrils.
*
In the evening, the three assassins ambushed at the Qixing Gate finally waited for the official ship from the capital to collect the grain, only to find that Xue Yao was not among them.
He bribed the local agents to get the news - Xue Yao got off the grain ship at Lushan and went to Ping Rong County.
The three assassins immediately took a shortcut to Ping Rong County, striving to send Xue Yao to meet the King of Hell as soon as possible.
Xue Yao saved the woman's life, and he himself had a brush with Hades and escaped his first calamity.
Once the ten days had passed, he should have boarded the ship for Jiangnan as agreed, but the people of Ping Rong County repeatedly stayed, and their hospitality was hard to resist.
Without Lu Jin'an's official soldiers to open the way, Xue Yao could hardly push back and had to agree to stay for a few more days.
Old Zhang's family was especially grateful to Xue Yao, and the oldest son of Old Zhang's family even wanted to give himself to Xue Yao to be a cow and a horse.
If Xue Yao really brought a young man back to the capital, wouldn't he sour the lemon cub alive into a real tyrant?
The lad could only be persuaded to stay at home and look after his parents.
The young man was reluctant at first, but then he saw that Xue Yao really disliked him, so he had to beg Xue Yao to stay at his house for a few days, or at least finish that pig of his.
Xue Yao accepted the goodwill of Lao Zhang's family and stayed at Lao Zhang's house.
This stay has kept the killer waiting.
That group of assassins were top-notch experts hired at great expense by the Minister of the Household in conjunction with several high-ranking officials, and with many wide-ranging contacts, they quickly found Xue Yao's residence.
The employer instructed them to disguise themselves as robbers and kill people, so while Xue Yao was sitting in the courtyard of Lao Zhang's house eating pig's head meat, he saw a gang of mountain bandit-looking men with knives barging through the door, roaring for a robbery.
Xue Yao was confused throughout.
What kind of bandits rob poor peasants? It's too unprofessional ......
He didn't think much about it, and wasn't even too nervous, since he was a robber, he naturally left after giving enough silver, and any problem that can be solved with money is a small problem.
So Xue Yao kindly advised the bandits to put away their swords and negotiate for money.
The killers had already collected their employer's silver, so they wouldn't talk about the price with their assassination target, and without listening to Xue Yao's nagging, they took a few steps forward, and slashed at Xue Yao!
Fortunately, Old Zhang's son reacted quickly and pushed Xue Yao away with one hand.
"Murder!" Old Zhang's mother-in-law was the first to come to her senses, shouting out at the top of her voice, not unlike a seriously ill and weak patient, inviting all the neighbors!
The surrounding villagers were close by and soon footsteps rushed into the yard.
Xue Yao, relying on the large number of people, quickly climbed up and was about to plunge in for a counterattack, but he saw that the villagers who rushed in were all quickly hacked to the ground by the three bandits.
The villagers who were hacked to the ground struggled to hold the bandit's legs and shouted to Xue Yao in horror, "Run, Taoist Master!"
"Run, Eungyo!"
"Eungyo run!"
Xue Yao had no time to think and was pulled by Old Zhang's son as he rushed out of the courtyard gate.
The three bandits chased out of the courtyard gate with their blood-dripping long knives, only to be surrounded by the people of Ping Rong County who came after them.
Why did the robbers kill the villagers instead of taking the money?
Xue Yao looked back in fear as he ran away, and surprisingly collided with the line of sight of the robber who was right behind him.
The three robbers didn't even bother to search for their belongings at home and followed Xue Yao all the way, their faces filled with the teasing color of catching a turtle in a jar.
These three are not robbers at all!
"They're coming for me." Xue Yao stopped, pulled his arm out of the boy's hand, and yelled at the townspeople rushing in the distance, "Don't come over! Everyone spread out and go to the Yamen to report to the officials!"
The boy panicked and tugged at Xue Yao, "Eun Gong, run! They're catching up!"
Xue Yao didn't know why these three people wanted to kill him, there were too many possibilities, all he knew was that he couldn't run away.
As if they were deliberately admiring Xue Yao's despair, the killers followed behind without slowing down.
Xue Yao would rather be directly hacked to death with a knife than have this desperate thinking time before death.
He didn't dare to think about how Lu Qian would react when he learned of his death.
The Lu Qian of this life couldn't stand such excitement, couldn't live like a walking corpse like in his last life, and would definitely fall into madness, and might even take it out on Lu Jinan.
Don't dare think about it anymore.
Why?
He had spent his life doing good deeds and not competing with the world, and all he had asked for was for Lu Qian to be comfortable and happy, only to be rewarded with such a cruel result.
Is there really a Buddha of great compassion in the world? A Buddha who lets something so horrible happen, then a Buddha is a fucking asshole!
Xue Yao grabbed the wrist of the boy beside him, "Little brother, please, ask the officials to write a letter for me, go to the capital and send it to the King of Ning, and on the letter, write 'Xue Yao fell in love at first sight with a gentleman from a family in Jiangnan, and resolved not to return to the capital again, so please ask the Seventh Master to look for another man.'"
The boy said sharply, "What nonsense is Enkong talking about! Hurry up ......"
Before the words were finished, Xue Yao violently pushed the boy away-
A cold light pierced the eyes as a knife slashed straight down towards Xue Yao's launched hands!
*
The Ping Rong County stagecoach was expedited four hundred miles, and the letter was delivered to the palace in three days.
Lu Qian read Xue Yao's "cheating letter", only to take a sword, luggage are not prepared, on the official road, flying like rushed to Jiangnan, breaking the Beijing-Hangzhou official road race record, the red rabbit horse will look at the tears, Jieying horse will look at the silence.
After rushing to Jiangnan, the governor told Lu Qian that the grain collection team from the capital had not yet come to Jiangnan, and the government had received an urgent report from the palace, and had already sent troops to Pingrong County to protect Xue Yao's safety.
"Keep Xue Yao safe?" Lu Qian's gaze flinched as he grabbed the governor's front lapel and forced the question in a low voice, "Who dares to make Yao Yao incomplete?"
*
Half a month ago, Lu Jinan's warship passed by Lushan, and knowing that he could no longer catch up with the grain ship, he ordered his ship to dock and disembarked alone to make a trip to Pingrong County.
Lu Jinan vaguely felt that if Xue Yao were to pass through this place, he might also visit the people in Ping Rong County that he had once rescued.
It was this miraculous one-time heart-to-heart that allowed Lu Jinan to get out his sword in the nick of time and block the blade that was slashing at Xue Yao's arm.
Lu Jinan had no guards with him at the time, and could not withstand the siege of three top killers, so he carried Xue Yao and desperately escaped the pursuit.
At this very moment, Xue Yao was hiding in the office of Ping Rong County.
Lu Jinan had already learned from the Minister of the Household that those three were top killers, responsible for several murders, wanted by the government for more than ten years and still at large, with appalling assassination methods.
Once a mission is taken over, it cannot be canceled, this is the rule of the trade, so as long as the three assassins are not returned to the case, Xue Yao is still in danger.
Lu Jinan was short of manpower around him, and it was even more dangerous to go on the road rashly, so he could only let Xue Yao hide in the government office first.
Those three assassins were actually hiding in an inn near the courthouse.
Over the past few days, they had taken turns going to the courthouse to step on the spot, and had already identified Xue Yao's hiding place.
At sunset, a man in black wearing a bucket hat weaved his way through the crowd of people coming and going from the inn and climbed up to the second floor without a sound.
Walking to the guest room at the end of the long corridor and pushing open the door, the man took off his cocked hat, revealing a comical and appalling face--
A dark scar snaked from the bridge of his nose to the corner of his lips on the left side of his face, the end of the scar hooking upward and giving him a perpetually crooked grin, grotesque and comical.
"We can do it tonight." Scarab uttered the words softly.
In the dead silence of the guest room, two faces suddenly turned toward him at the same time, and it was as if these two people had just appeared in the room.
"It's long overdue." One of the assassins grumbled in a low voice, "That white-robed man is not a small person, if we wait any longer, we will definitely invite more trouble, there are only three of us, we cannot take the enemy lightly."
"Just the three of you?" A young man's voice suddenly came from outside the door.
"What man?" The faces of the three people in the room changed, and they leapt up like lightning, flashing their weapons towards the door.
The man outside the door gave a cold snort in an unpleasant tone, "You all arrived long ago, why did you only do it tonight? Calling Master to wait for so many days for nothing."
The leader of the killers looked to Scarab, "You were followed?"
"Impossible!" Scarred man's eyes showed his murderous aura, turned around and swam like a dragon towards the door, but he heard "whoosh" and "whoosh" two sharp sounds sounded behind him!
He turned back in a hurry, and saw the two brothers behind him waving their swords to block the concealed weapons flying from the window.
"He's in the window!"
Guessing that the arrivals might attack from both ends, the leader of the killers immediately ordered a change of formation, and as soon as he turned around, he saw the scarred man holding up his knife, his eyes widening listlessly as he suddenly lunged towards himself!
"What are you doing!" Before the leader could react, he was stabbed through the throat by the long sword that suddenly came through the scarred man's chest.
The leader covered his throat in disbelief, and in the moment before his vision blurred, he saw a man poking his face out from behind Scarab's head askew.
It was an extremely handsome young man, slightly squinting a pair of peach blossom eyes, facing the sunset shining in through the window, the light pupils of his eyes were like dissolving gold.
As the sun gathered its last rays, the government office received a report of a murder in an inn, with three tenants dead in their rooms.
After a few checks, the dead were actually the three killers.
Lu Jinan was puzzled.
What kind of hero saw the injustice and killed the murderer without leaving his name?
Anyway, crisis averted.
Xue Yao was finally released from the court and regained his freedom.
That night, the people of Ping Rong County held a festival in the mountains to pray for Xue Yao.
Lu Jinan had the Minister of the Household join him in this sacrifice.
"You said that there must be a conspiracy behind Xue Yao's willingness to be a junior companion all these years."
Lu Jinan stood under the tree, looking at Xue Yao not far away, surrounded by the common people in the center, and softly said, "Then you can see clearly now, this is Xue Yao's 'backstabbing plot' all these years. A few years ago, Xue Yao disregarded his own safety, controlling the epidemic and removing the plague, saving hundreds of thousands of people in Ping Rong County and even the two neighboring counties, so these powerless commoners treat him as a living god, as a regenerative parent. If he truly has the ambition you speak of, why doesn't he spend this life-threatening strength on befriending the powerful and wealthy?"
The Minister of the Household looked blankly at Xue Yao who was surrounded by the people not far away, and after a long time, his knees bent and he fell to the ground, bowing down and confessing his sins.
After the festival, the villagers celebrate with a feast around the fire.
Although he escaped from death, Xue Yao still had something in mind that he couldn't let go of, and he sought an opportunity to get out of the crowd and find the old Zhang family's son to ask--
"What I asked you to convey to the officials the other day hasn't been done yet, has it? If you haven't done it, you don't have to." Xue Yao thought she was dead that day and planned to trick Lu Qian into moving on.
If this letter is really sent to the capital, the lemon cubs will have to blow up in anger.
The old Zhang family's son's eyes lit up and he told Xue Yao in a particularly dependable manner, "After Your Excellency was rescued that day, I immediately relayed Your Excellency's orders to the magistrate, so please don't worry about Your Excellency!"
Xue Yao: "......"
Your benefactor is afraid it's over.
"Eun Gong, have another bowl of wine!" Old Zhang's son was kind enough to urge him to drink.
"No, I've got something to do later."
"Tonight? What else is there to do with the Benefactor?"
"Eh ......" Xue Yao twisted her head and looked around, intending to use Lu Jinan as a shield.
In the instant that his vision flowed, Xue Yao abruptly realized that not far away, there were villagers gathered around, and amongst the villagers stood a slender profile that stood above the crowd, with a red-gold bundle of crowns and a dark purple long shirt.
The figure stood between the villagers very abruptly, and very familiar, so familiar that Xue Yao some legs soft ......
Why is the lemon cub here!
You came here to take revenge because of the "cheating letter"?
Xue Yao sheepishly took two steps back, intending to go find Lu Jinan to help explain the proof.
However, as if Lu Qian had sensed his intention to escape, he leisurely turned his head towards him.
Xue Yao is ready to die.
The moment his eyes landed on Xue Yao's face, Lu Qian suddenly revealed a clear and innocent smile.
The smile was so cheating that it made Xue Yao lose his desire to live.
Lu Qian opened his long legs and quickly stepped closer, squinting and smiling at Xue Yao, "At the risk of asking, are you a local?"
"Huh?" Xue Yao was confused.
Did this lemon cub lose his memory because of a vinegar explosion! Why don't you recognize him?
Lu Qian lowered his head and cleared his throat, picking his eyes to look at Xue Yao, and said with a serious look, "Master is a son of a family from Jiangnan, and just now in the crowd, you looked at each other, and felt full of admiration."
"You ......" Xue Yao realized that Lemon Pup was acting out that "cheating letter" in which he fell in love at first sight with the "son of the Jiangnan family". ".
What kind of fresh revenge is this?
Xue Yao decided not to go along with Lemon Pup's script.
With a serious look on his face, Lu Qian continued to say to Xue Yao, "Can Master buy you a cup of milk?"
Xue Yao stifled a laugh and rolled his eyes, "I can't."
Lu Qian frowned seriously, "I hope you'll seriously consider this, Master is the freshest son of the family in Jiangnan."
Xue Yao: "......"
The night before leaving the capital, he teased the lemon cub that he did not like bamboo horses, like love at first sight, that is fresh.
Also Jiangnan "the freshest" son of the family, this guy is definitely the capital's first vindictive cub!
Xue Yao cried and laughed: ''Your Highness is addicted to acting? When exactly did you come to Ping Rong County? Why didn't you come to me earlier, I'm all ......"
"Don't move!" Lu Qian suddenly came close to Xue Yao's face and scrutinized it.
Xue Yao raised an eyebrow, "What's wrong?"
Lu Qian narrowed his eyes and sighed in a pretense of sophistication, "Master see you cicatrizes phoenix eyes, is the phase of the princess."
Xue Yao was at her wits end with this naughty cub and didn't respond, waiting for Lu Qian to finish his act.
Lu Qian face expectant, waiting for the watery little companion to remember the fiancé far away in the capital, and then conscience, refused to see this "Jiangnan wanderer", so that the cheating letter is invalidated.
However, Xue Yao did not cooperate at all with His Highness's words.
Lu Qian lost his eyes and lowered them, but still persistently muttered in a small voice, "This face of yours is extremely rare ......"
Seeing Lu Qian's lost look, Xue Yao was silent for a moment, took a deep breath, and suddenly turned around with a surprised expression, matching the cub's script, and said excitedly, "Really? I have the look of a princess?"
Lu Qian immediately revitalized his spirit and raised his head to reply, "Master never misses a beat when it comes to looking at people."
Xue Yao laughed in surprise, "Then Gongzi quickly show me! Where is my husband?"
Lu Qian stared solemnly at Xue Yao for a while and announced in a deep voice, "Your good match is now living in the palace, this is the will of heaven, it seems that a Jiangnan mortal like Master has no chance to own you."
"My husband lives in the palace?" Xue Yao raised an eyebrow and snapped her fingers, "It wouldn't be the most handsome prince from the east of the southern three houses, would it? I admire him the most!"
Lu Qian lowered his head and smiled, picking up his long eyelashes to look at Xue Yao.
For the first time the joy of the lost and found showed in his eyes, the kind of joy that carries with it a sadness that has not yet dissipated.
After a moment's pause, Lu Qian replied in a low voice, "It's him, you can only marry him in this life."
Xue Yao's eyes slowly widened, and she raised her hand to cover her mouth in surprise: "Oh my god ...... do I have this honor?"
Lu Qian was amused by the silly Yao Yao, and again hastily nodded with a serious look.
The laughter of the people around them blended with the evening breeze.
The smiles of these two boys eclipsed the beauty of the evening.
Lu Jinan stood not far away, watching his seventh brother play and laugh with Xue Yao, a smile gradually surfacing in his eyes.
It turns out that such a wonderful fit can happen between men.
*
In the twenty-first year of Lin'an, King Lu Qian of Ning ascended the throne by imperial decree and changed the name of the country to You'an.
In the first year of Yu'an, Xue Yao was made queen and awarded the seal of the phoenix in a golden book, becoming the first male queen of Daqi. Because of his efforts in controlling epidemics and providing disaster relief, the people built a shrine for the queen, and the people called him "the Bodhisattva Queen".
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Author's Note: The ending, which has been rehearsed in my head a million times, took me all night to write, probably because there was too much reluctance in my heart.
I want to stay with Yao Yao and the pups until the end of time, receive the big brother's kinetic education from time to time, watch the fox's second brother blowing the big brother's rainbow farts, see the fourth pup picking up his mother's bitter and sweet life, see the sixth pup being amused by Gu's person to cover his mouth, see the god of cooks, the Sword Sage, forcing a grandpa to taste his new dish, see the seventh pup being exhausted by the fifth brother's bb, tell the mother consort about Hou Yi shooting the sun, and all kinds of small belly hacks in order to draw Yao Yao's concern ...
But reason told me that it was now, that it was the most beautiful sentence in my mind from the very beginning to the present, and that such an ending, and by extension all the infinite futures, would be so beautiful that they would glow.
Hurray for all of you who have grown up with the pups.
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