The Peasant Girl’s Splendid Manor

Chapter 464: Return to Crisis (4)

Finally having a free day, Mo Yan sat in the yard, made herself a pot of tea, and read with gusto while holding a travel journal.

 “唧—唧—”

Just when she saw the wonderful point, one after another chirping came from high in the sky, interrupting her thoughts. She didn't even need to raise her head to listen to the sound, and Mo Yan could guess who it was.

Maomao flapped its powerful wings and kept hovering over Mo Yan's head. He didn't know whether he was looking for a place to stay or whether he wanted to attract her attention.

Mo Yan pretended not to see or hear, took a sip of tea and continued to stare at the book.

Even though Maomao had developed his spiritual intelligence, he was not a human being after all. Seeing that Mo Yan ignored it, he had no choice but to flutter his wings and land on the small table, raising the paw with the mailbox tied to it.

Mo Yan was stunned for a moment, then put down the travel diary in his hand, took out the letter and opened it slowly. Every seven days, Lei Dingfeng will receive a letter. The content of each letter is different, some are long and some are short. Although they had not seen each other for several months and were thousands of miles apart, through these pages of letter, she felt as if she had personally visited the war-torn border town and watched him riding a horse and holding a sword as he went into battle to defend against the enemy...

Mo Yan knew it was dangerous. She could bear not to reply a word, but she couldn't control her thoughts not to miss him.

Looking at Maomao's dripping eyes, she gave a wry smile, lowered her eyes and looked at the letter in her hand, which still smelled of ink, word by word. When she saw the five words "I will return in mid-April," her heart was shocked. , there was a moment of blankness in my mind!

 He is coming back?

Mo Yan calmed down and read the entire letter word for word from beginning to end to make sure that she understood correctly. He was really coming back!

A strong joy spread from her heart. She stood up excitedly and accidentally knocked down the tea cup. She didn't care to clean it up and ran directly to the desk in the study. She spread out the white paper and waited for the ink to be polished. When she started writing the reply, she was suddenly stunned!

 On the snow-white paper, there was only a blurred mass of black ink in the end.

 …

 Shanhai City was the first city that the Ba people conquered Da Chu, and it was also the last city that Da Chu’s army of hundreds of thousands recovered.

Just three days ago, the Ba tribe fell into an ambush carefully laid by Xiao Ruiyuan. More than half of them were killed or injured. They were unable to compete with Da Chu's hundreds of thousands of troops, so they had to leave their corpses on the ground and return. At this point, the battle that lasted for more than five months finally ended.

 It’s night, the temporary commander-in-chief’s residence.

The empty mailbox made the hope in Xiao Ruiyuan's eyes gradually fade away, and his whole person became cold again. However, what happened next forced him to temporarily put aside his love for his son and daughter.

 “How are you preparing for the return journey?”

After reading the secret message from the capital, Xiao Ruiyuan's sharp eyes flashed with a dark light, and his deep voice echoed in the empty room, conveying a sense of solemnity.

A dark shadow suddenly appeared. Xiao Jiu knelt down on one knee and replied respectfully: "Everything is ready. Master can act as planned at any time."

Xiao Ruiyuan nodded slightly and said in a deep voice: "The journey back to Beijing this time will definitely be unstable. The fewer people who know the scheduled return date, the better."

Xiao Jiu's face turned solemn: "I understand."

Those who want to seize the throne of the crown prince have long wanted to put their master to death and make the prince completely unable to stand up. This time, the master defeated the Ba people, and the prince's reputation in the court is bound to be much higher. Those people are just afraid that they can't stand it anymore. Cramp the master's muscles and strip him to his bones. The existence of the secret guard is to protect the safety of the master. No matter what, he must protect the safety of the master and protect the master's safe return to Beijing.

 When Xiao Jiu retreated, Xiao Ruiyuan pressed his forehead tiredly.

Compared to the turbulent capital, he preferred to stay on the border and fight on the battlefield. However, since he was marked by the prince's party, he could no longer choose the path he wanted to take. He once thought that if the prince could safely pass the age of twenty-five and successfully sit in that position, he might be able to win the favor of guarding the border for the rest of his life. If he couldn't make it through... the worst he could do was lose his life!

However, ever since I met that woman, I have been concerned about her. In the past, when faced with the murderous intentions of these demons and monsters, he would not have taken it to heart and would have faced the difficulties and killed them all. But now, he does not want to take risks anymore. He wants to go back alive to see her...

Ever since receiving the letter from Xiao Ruiyuan that he was about to return in triumph, Mo Yan couldn't keep up his spirits. Every time he went to the city, he would sit in a teahouse and listen to the rumors. He wanted to know about the return of the army. Specific date.

It’s just that there are so many rumors every time that it’s difficult to distinguish the true from the false. On the other hand, the storyteller in the teahouse used a very imaginative mind to explain the story of Xiao Ruiyuan's courageous defense against the enemy. The venue was almost full and very popular with the people. Mo Yan listened carefully several times and could almost recite it backwards.

One afternoon, Mo Yan, Mo Wu and others sat down around the table and began to count the money earned from running a stall for a month, intending to string the copper coins together and take them to the bank to exchange them for silver.

“Sister, sister, you’ve been counting this bunch of copper coins for almost an hour, and you’ve almost scratched the surface of the words on it!”

Xin'er looked at her sister who was obviously wandering again with an extremely helpless expression. She couldn't even remember how many times this happened today.

Mo Wu, who was sitting on the other side counting money, raised his head with a suspicious look on his face: "Yan Yatou, you've been like this lately, you...are you worried about something?"

Mo Yan broke out into a sweat, fearing that she would see something, so she quickly found an excuse to cover it up: "Auntie, maybe I was too busy a while ago and didn't get a good rest. I myself feel that my brain is not as flexible as before, and sometimes I turn around. But Wan'er!"

Mo Wu looked at her face and saw that her face was white and rosy, and she didn't look like she was overworked, so she became more confused. But Mo Yan didn't say anything, so she couldn't ask more questions, so he gave her a few words of advice, asking her to rest more and not work too hard.

Mo Yan responded guiltily, and when he was about to breathe a sigh of relief, Maomao, who had not been seen for several days, suddenly rushed in like a cannonball, and screamed one after another from his mouth...

 (End of this chapter)