Chapter 19 Shaking
It has been five days since Xie Liangyue came out of Tanzhou. She counted the time, plus the delay before, if the father and the others walked quickly, they would probably have arrived in the south of the Yangtze River by now.

Because they have to speed up their pace, they don't rest at the inn every night.

Xie Liangyue was sitting on a rock at this moment, and in front of her was the kettle handed over by Ji Chulan.

She sighed heavily, and said melancholy: "I hope the crime will not be in vain."

Ji Chulan didn't understand why she traveled thousands of miles to the south of the Yangtze River, and as a princess, she obviously had a more suitable way to travel, but she had to sneak around.

He also asked at the beginning, and the other party said he was looking for his father, but he felt that this excuse was quite lame.

"Why hasn't Qiao Ji come back yet?" Xie Liangyue drank his saliva and wondered.

"This place is remote, and the surrounding area is sparsely populated. It is not easy to find a family, and there is no guarantee that the family will have ready-made food to sell to him."

Ji Chulan's tone was light. He felt that they were all working for the county governor, and the relationship should not be so stiff, but after getting along with each other for the past few days, Qiao Ji still looked at him with a bad face.

He himself is not a good-tempered person, and since that's the case, he can save himself the trouble of flirting with him.

Xie Liangyue bumped all the way, tormenting her delicate body so that her waist ached and her back ached. She stretched out her hand and hammered her waist, thinking about the next plan.

According to Qi Yujin's temperament, in order to show himself to the emperor, he will rush to make meritorious service, and if he is not complete, he will personally come to the rescue.

In this way, the local people will definitely flatter him.

And what I have to do is to give him a blow when he is most proud.

Then slowly find his weaknesses.

"what--"

She was thinking about something in her mind, but the hand that beat her waist suddenly slipped, and she punched the stone below her.

This exclamation startled Ji Chulan, who closed his eyes and meditated, he woke up instantly, and quickly grabbed Xie Liangyue's hand to check.

A pair of slender hands were worn out, blood dripped out, and the places around them were still a little red. Ji Chulan frowned, and quickly went to the carriage to get the medicine and came back.

"hiss--"

Xie Liangyue shivered when the medicine touched her wound, she bit her lip to make Ji Chulan's movements lighter.

The two were very close, and the movement of holding hands seemed very ambiguous.

But they didn't notice it, until an angry voice sounded from behind.

"What are you doing?"

Qiao Ji saw this scene when he came back, his heart was filled with anger, and he walked over with a sullen face.

Xie Liangyue withdrew her hand the moment she heard his voice, she turned around and looked at Qiao Ji's unfriendly expression, and asked, "Why did it take you so long to come back?"

Qiao Ji replied hoarsely: "There are too few people."

When he was talking, he kept staring at Ji Chulan, as if he wanted to see a hole in the other party.

Ji Chulan didn't want to talk to him, she tidied up the medicine bottle on her own, and said to Xie Liangyue: "It's best not to touch the wound of the princess, if there is anything to wash, just order it."

"You are hurt?"

Upon hearing this, Qiao Ji immediately looked at Xie Liangyue nervously, "Where did you get hurt? How did you get hurt?"

He didn't have time to think, and asked several questions in a row, without even taking into account the minimum etiquette.

Xie Liangyue sighed and said, "It's nothing, I just knocked my hand accidentally."

Qiao Ji quickly put down the things in her hands, and carefully grabbed her hand to check.

"I took the medicine, it's all right."

Xie Liangyue was very uncomfortable by his reaction, she withdrew her hand and said, "I'm hungry, what did I buy?"

Qiao Ji heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that she was not seriously injured, his expression returned to normal, he opened the cloth bag he brought back, and laid out the things one by one.

"There are farmers here. There are no good things, only these. The princess will make up for it first, and when he enters the city tomorrow, his subordinates will arrange a restaurant for you."

Xie Liangyue shook her head, picked up a piece of sweet potato, broke it and gave him half.

"There's no need for the restaurant, and I'll be in Jiangnan in a while, and I'm not that squeamish."

Ji Chulan was gnawing on sweet potatoes, and curled her lips when she heard this, thinking that whoever scratched the skin just now was about to cry.

After eating, Ji Chulan led the horse to the grass in the distance, leaving Qiao Ji and Xie Liangyue staring at each other.

"Does the princess's hand still hurt?" Qiao Ji broke the calm and asked.

"much better."

Xie Liangyue leaned against the car, looked sideways at him, and asked, "Why do you always fight against Ji Chulan?"

Qiao Ji was stunned for a moment, then lowered his head and said softly, "No."

Xie Liangyue was helpless, she straightened up, propped her chin, squinted her eyes and gave a "tsk" sound: "Do you know that you have a bad temper? Especially when you get angry, your face turns black and scary."

"Did I scare you?" Qiao Ji turned around suddenly and asked nervously.

Xie Liangyue didn't answer, but kept staring at him.

Qiao Ji was stared at like pins and needles by her, his eyes darkened, thinking that he must have frightened her.

"No," Xie Liangyue said after a while, "I just think you can be more stable."

Qiao Ji blushed for a moment, he clenched his hands unnaturally, and heard her say again: "Go to rest early, we have to continue our journey tomorrow morning."

Afterwards, Xie Liangyue got up and got into the carriage.

Qiao Ji looked at her closed car door, his eyes dimmed.
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In the next few days, the closer we got to the boundary of Jiangnan, the darker the sky looked.

It wasn't until the moment she stepped into Meizhou that Xie Liangyue really felt the unprecedented melancholy.

The current rain is not as heavy as it was a few days ago. Sitting in the carriage, Xie Liangyue felt the sound of the rain splashing on the boards. The window curtains fluttered with the wind, but they were all blown away in a short while. wet.

"Princess, shall we go to the government office?"

The wind was too loud, Qiao Ji's voice was not very clear when it came in, Xie Liangyue shouted outside: "Find an inn first."

Wearing a bamboo hat, Qiao Ji exchanged a glance with Ji Chulan, who was also dressed in the same attire, wiped off the rain from his face, and drove to find an inn.

After settling down, Xie Liangyue called Ji Chulan to her room.

She leaned against the window in silence for a long time, then turned her head to look at the silent Ji Chulan, and couldn't help asking: "Why don't you ask me to call you here?"

Ji Chulan shook her head, "The princess can just explain something, and the subordinates should do it with all their heart."

"You are a smart person," Xie Liangyue smiled, "I have something to ask you to do."

She came over, took out a small box from her cuff and handed it to him.

When Qiao Ji arranged the carriage and came back, he saw Ji Chulan coming out of Xie Liangyue's room.

There was a trace of unhappiness in his heart, but because he remembered Xie Liangyue's words, he didn't say much.

The two looked at each other and nodded at each other at the same time.

Before leaving, Ji Chulan suddenly took the initiative to talk to him.

"I'm going out for a while, and I guess it will take some time before I can come back."

Qiao Ji frowned upon hearing the words, ignored him, turned around and knocked on Xie Liangyue's door.

Ji Chulan was no stranger to his attitude, he shook his head, turned and left.

When Xie Liangyue heard the knock on the door, she yelled "Come in". After seeing Qiao Ji coming in, she asked, "Is everything settled?"

Qiao Ji nodded, and after a while, he hesitated and asked: "Since you have already arrived in Meizhou, why don't you go to find the prince?"

Xie Liangyue paused when she drank water, and then said: "My father didn't let me come, but now I'm here by myself. It's still such a special time, so don't let my father be distracted."

Qiao Ji didn't answer, he still didn't understand why he insisted on going his own way even though he knew that the situation was special at this time, did the princess have some ulterior plan?

But what can she do?

Xie Liangyue seemed to have seen his thoughts, and she hesitated in her heart whether to tell him or not. After all, this matter is more complicated to talk about, and plotting the prince itself is a serious crime that will be beheaded. I may not be able to retreat completely.

It's not that Xie Liangyue didn't regret it along the way. Wanting to use Qiao Ji itself was part of her plan, but when she found out the other's intentions, she wavered again.

Revenge is my own business, do I really want to implicate irrelevant people?
(End of this chapter)

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