Chapter 605 - Chapter 605: Take Me With You, You Won’t Lose Out
Chapter 605: Take Me With You, You Won’t Lose Out
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
Su Ying told Zhou Qing to bring a box to her. “This is your dowry which I added.
Keep it safe.”
“Thank you, Your Imperial Highness.”
As they were talking, the sound of firecrackers erupted outside the door.
Moments later, the palace maid’s voice rang out outside the door. “Your
Imperial Highness, the groom is here.”
Aunt Zhao quickly covered Bai Shuang’s head with a veil and led her out of the room. The wedding matron was already waiting at the door. When she saw Bai Shuang coming out, she proceeded to carry Bai Shuang on her back.
The sound of firecrackers burst forth again. Everyone immersed themselves in the celebratory atmosphere and sent Bai Shuang all the way to the palace gate.
It was a great honor for a palace maid to get married in the Imperial Palace, and it was also the prestige Su Ying bestowed on Bai Shuang.
Su Ying followed slowly at the end of the line until she saw Si Chen dressed in the groom’s red robe. He received Bai Shuang from the wedding matron’s hands.
Si Chen glanced in Su Ying’s direction before pulling Bai Shuang to kneel down with him. They both then kowtowed to Su Ying.
It was as if he was promising Su Ying that he would never let Bai Shuang down
in this lifetime.
Su Ying’s lips curled up slightly. She did not like to hear all those vows of eternal love. People’s hearts could change, regardless of who they were. Thus, she hoped that even if Bai Shuang was married, she would always remain true to herself.
Amidst the loud explosions of firecrackers, Su Ying’s figure gradually disappeared into the crowd.
The 1,000 troops that Xiao Jin gave her were already waiting outside the city, but Su Ying did not plan to go with them. They would only delay her schedule.
The sun was already setting in the west. In the horse carriage outside the city gate, Xiao Jin held Su Ying’s hand tightly and was unwilling to let go.
Su Ying glanced at the sky. If Xiao Jin didn’t turn back soon, the city gates would be closed.
“Alright. I’ll be leaving first.”
Xiao Jin pulled her into his arms and kissed her lips, feeling very reluctant to let her go. His voice was hoarse as he said, “You must return safely.
“I will.”
Su Ying jumped off the horse carriage nimbly and mounted a horse. “I’m off.” She raised her whip without hesitation and the horse galloped off in a cloud of dust.
Xiao Jin remained standing in the horse carriage. Even though Su Ying’s figure had already disappeared from his sight, he still had no intention of leaving.
Zhang Shuming looked at the darkening sky and reminded softly, “Your Majesty, it’s getting late. It’s best to return to the palace first. The First Prince and the Young Princess are waiting for you.”
Xiao Jin cared about his two children. Mentioning them would always help Xiao Jin regain his rationality in the quickest way possible.
Xiao Jin pursed his lips and returned to the horse carriage.
A thousand troops was not a small number. Wherever they went, they would attract the attention of other people.
Su Ying had them disguise themselves as different merchant groups before
they headed for the northern wilderness.
At night, Su Ying met up with them at the designated location.
-All of you don’t have to follow me. I’ll pick a team to go with me. The rest of you will proceed to the northern wilderness as I told you before. You don’t have to ask which team I’m in. You won’t be able to recognize my disguise. Do you understand?”
She didn’t want to waste too much time on the road. By telling them this, she could better hide her whereabouts.
“Mistress, then how are we going to protect you?’
Su Ying raised an eyebrow. She was safer alone than with anyone else.
“No one knows my identity, so who will give me trouble? Just do as I say.”
“Yes, Mistress.”
At night, Su Ying followed a group of soldiers to rest in the forest. Before dawn, she left the group, but no one knew and they assumed that she was hiding in the group.
However, Su Ying had barely traveled far before she saw a man on a horse blocking her path.
His seductive eyes lit up and he beamed brightly at Su Ying. Su Ying reined in the horse and stopped to look at Mo Tu with a frown.
“What are you doing here?”
“Previously, you said that you were leaving the capital city, Sect Master. Your subordinate was very worried. Therefore, I secretly followed you here to protect you along the way, Sect Master.
Su Ying’s brows furrowed even more tightly. She only managed to shake off those people after much difficulty so that she could switch to a faster mode of transportation. How could she let Mo Tu follow her?
“No need. You can stay in the capital city and help me keep an eye on the activities within the Chu State.”
A hint of reproach flashed across Mo Tu’s eyes. “Can Sect Master really bear to part with me?”
Su Ying didn’t want to waste time with him. “Go back.”
“What if your subordinate insists on following?
Mo Tu nudged his horse and inched closer to Su Ying.
Su Ying looked at Mo Tu, who was only half a step away from her, and her brows gradually relaxed. “You’re so disobedient.”
Mo Tu’s face lit up. He thought that Su Ying had relented.
However, before he could rejoice, he felt a slight prick of pain on his back. The image of Su Ying in front of him gradually became more and more blurry.
“Sect Master…”
Su Ying dragged him to a big tree before mounting her horse. The anesthetic would only last less than 15 minutes, and Mo Tu would wake up on his own by then. “You’re so disobedient. You leave me no choice but to use force.”
Before she finished speaking, she had already galloped off on her horse.
In order not to be discovered, she had chosen the more remote minor paths. Other than taking a short rest to eat something, she did not stop at all, generally speaking.
Before dark, she would enter the interspatial store to rest for four hours. When it was past midnight, she would take the motorcycle out of the interspatial store and continue on her way.
Actually, she wasn’t unhappy about riding a horse, but it almost made her thighs bleed from the abrasion. Thus, she really didn’t like it.
After confirming that she was going to set off, Su Ying specially instructed Hea Shouyi to prepare lots of meat, food, and snacks for her to keep in her interspatial store. This way, her stomach wouldn’t suffer along the way.
Su Ying dug out a pot of shredded chicken from her interspatial store and ate it. After wiping the grease off her mouth, she took the motorcycle out of her interspatial store.
She traveled as fast as the wind all the way. Xiao Jin and the rest would never have thought that Su Ying would arrive at the border in less than half the time they had predicted. The troops he assigned to Su Ying hadn’t even completed half the journey when Su Ying was ready to exit the kingdom’s border.
Chu Yun said in his letter that all the parties were locked in a stalemate in the area surrounding the mine. No one was giving in to anyone. Now, they were just waiting to see who could not stand it anymore and make the first move. Su Ying rode her horse to the border and took out the border clearance documents that had been prepared beforehand.
She didn’t use the documents that Xiao Jin had prepared for her. Instead, she had privately told the Ministry of Revenue to prepare these substitutes for her. Xiao Jin didn’t know about this for the time being. Otherwise, she wouldn’t be able to explain how her border clearance documents showed up at the border in such a short time.
Su Ying looked at the gate at the border and felt as if a lifetime had passed. She recalled that they had also experienced many twists and turns before they left through this gate.
Now that she was exiting via this place again, it was a completely different situation.
The soldiers allowed Su Ying to leave the kingdom after seeing the border clearance documents in her hands.
The moment she stepped out of the border gate, Su Ying took a deep breath. She could actually smell the scent of unrestrained freedom!
Su Ying hurried to the entrance of the northern wilderness in one breath. As soon as she reached the entrance, she realized that the surroundings had been destroyed.
When she was in Sky Alpha City, she had sent people to build an entrance here. She had also assigned people to stand guard and ask about the background of those who wanted to enter the northern wilderness.
However, now, the boundary walls and barriers they had built had been toppled, and there were even traces of burning on them..