Murong Yun stopped at the city gate. Luan Yi on one side took out the token from his horse and threw it to the gate guard. When the other party saw the token, he immediately lowered his head respectfully and at the same time returned the token to Luan Yi with both hands.
Behind him, the guards moved out of the way.
This was of course not Murong Yun's own token. She took it out of the dressing box to represent Murong Yun's identity as the daughter of Hua Yan and the direct heir of the General's Mansion, considering that she needed to register for residence on the way to the city.
Fortunately, the token was not thoughtful enough to have anyone's name engraved on it, it was just the family emblem of the General's Mansion.
After leaving the city, Murong Yun immediately sped up the horned beast under her, wanting to reach Liao City as soon as possible.
The two-horned beast lived up to its reputation and ran straight into the air. Thanks to its strength, it was able to evade the group of people at another fork in time.
At that fork in the road, Murong Yun was so frightened that she forgot to breathe when she saw the personal guard representing Murong Jia appearing.
She heard that Murong Jia had obeyed the emperor's order ten days ago to dispatch food and troops to Luohe County, the nearest city on the edge of Liao City, in addition to the nearest Xishu Prefecture.
It's just that the military strength there is relatively weak. Not only that, although Luohe County has the most beautiful scenery among the counties and states, the large amount of lake water means there is not much arable land there, so it is also the poorest county.
The only advantage is that there are many waterways in the county, which can be used to transport some military rations to pass through.
This move was originally for emergency purposes, but it was the best method that Emperor Murong Xia could think of at the moment.
But these are not what Murong Yun is thinking about now. What she is thinking is that fortunately, she ran fast enough. If Murong Jia sees her and knows that she is going to Liao City, he will catch her immediately...
On the other side, Murong Jia was riding a two-horned beast as well. The journey was dusty. Although he saw a few people riding a double-horned beast on the other side of the road from the corner of his eye, he didn't take it to heart.
After all, this is the foot of the Capital, and the two-horned horses, which are rare to see elsewhere, are not uncommon in this place where the powerful gather, so they don't care.
Thinking about going to Luohe County this time and seeing the increasingly poor conditions there, he felt a little overwhelmed. The food and troop adjustments were barely completed, and he had to explain it to the Emperor.
Just thinking about this made him frown.
Murong Yun didn't know this. She walked under the stars and the moon all the way, but only eight days later, she stepped into the territory of Liao Province.
If Luohe County is the poorest in South Chu, then Liao Province is the most miserable.
This land, which occupies a huge area but has very little rain, has become even more desolate after this year's severe drought. Pedestrians along the way have sallow faces and thin faces, with hardship in their eyes.
Not to mention a prosperous place, there are only a few cities here, and there are more large villages. The people are busy all year round, working on the land that cannot harvest much food.
Murong Yun, who had seen so many of these in the past few days, really wished he could conjure up a Grandpa Yuan to improve their rice seeds and so on...
"Master, this place is only more than a hundred miles away from Liao City. Do you want to take a rest?"
Luan Yi looked at the sky which had turned dark again. They had been riding for eight consecutive days. He and the Luan guards were fine, but the princess, who had been rich and noble since she was a child, could not bear this hardship.
"Okay, let's take a rest."
Murong Yun sighed, her whole body was sore and her back was sore. If it weren't for the support of her seventh-level spiritual cultivation ability, she would have suffered a long time ago.
But even so, her muscles still throbbed in pain when she dismounted.
On the contrary, looking at the Luan Guards, all of them were in high spirits. Because they were going out this time, they did not wear the uniform Luan Bird masks.
But Luan Yi is good. Why would they wear bird masks anymore? Its because they change to white masks...
Murong Yun originally thought she could see the true faces of these Luan guards, but she raised her head and was stopped by Luan Yi.
"County Princess, Luan guards are not allowed to show his true face for the rest of his life. This is a rule."
Even when these Luan Guards are carrying out orders and are not allowed to wear masks, they will disguise themselves. In short, they cannot show their faces to others.
Although Murong Yun tried to order the other party to take off the mask, Luan Yi did not disobey that order. He just pulled out a sword and handed it to Murong Yun, saying that it was okay to kill him first and then see...
This successfully silenced Murong Yun's curiosity.
In fact, Luan Yi insisted on this rule for the benefit of Luan guards, even though the royal family trained the secret guards to be cold-blooded and ruthless, and all the secret guards could not live past the age of thirty-five.
However, blindly squeezing and ordering cannot achieve excellent results, so after the Eldest princess took over, a new order was added to the Luan Guard that was trained to belong to her.
Luan Guards who reach the age of thirty-two, they can go through a secret method, break away from the Luan Guards, and enjoy the last three years with freedom.
Freedom, that is something that is beyond the reach of all dead soldiers and cannot even be dreamed of.
That secret method is a kind of spiritual formation. As long as the departed Luan guard does not reveal the secret, it will not be activated.
Therefore, the mask cannot be taken off, because once it is taken off and the true face is revealed, Luan guards can no longer leave Luan guards. Luan Yi has performed his duties faithfully all these years just for the freedom of the last three years.
For him, if he never enjoys his own life in this life, then there is no meaning in living.
"Master, please use it."
From the food Li Yunjin specially prepared for Murong Yun, Luan Yi used a clean branch to skewer a dry steamed bun and baked it. He also took out the rest of the dried meat, etc., and brought it to Murong Yun along with water.
"Well, this will be here soon, you can share the rest with the others."
Murong Yun took the food and saw that there was still a lot of food left in the package. She thought that she could not eat meat alone. It was pity for these Luan guards, who were considered popular in Liujing, and had been chewing white steam buns for several days.
"Yes."
Luan Yi paused for a moment, then nodded and followed the order, but instead of dividing all the dried meat, he kept most of it.
Based on his guess, the master might not know. Judging from the current situation, when she enters Liao City tomorrow, she might not even be able to eat white-flour steamed buns.
However, the current Murong Yun had no such concept at all. After resting for a while, the sky turned completely dark, so she did not continue on her way.
When Murong Yun woke up at the end of the day, she opened the tent and took a look. With half-open eyes, she saw white snowflakes falling from the sky. The earth that was still very desolate yesterday was covered with silver.
It wasn't until the cold snowflakes fell on Murong Yun's eyebrows that she finally woke up from her daze.
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