Chapter 202:
The General’s Mansion lost a treasure, all four city gates of Northern Frontier City were completely sealed, countless soldiers searched house to house.
Lu Ziyan personally led men to search for three days.
Entire three days, nothing was found.
The entire Northern Frontier was turned upside down by him, not even a fly could escape.
But such a big person had no trace.
General’s Mansion, study.
Lu Ziyan sat on the chair, motionless, looking at the letter paper in his hand.
The man who could command thousands of troops without changing his expression had his fingers trembling slightly at this instant.
There was only a short sentence on the paper.
“If Pei Yuqing is in trouble, I will certainly not live alone.”
The handwriting was graceful, each stroke extremely neat.
Lu Ziyan was too familiar with this handwriting.
The person who wrote it had embroidered his name on every sachet she gave him in those years.
At that time, she was willing to take pains for him, exhausting all her patience.
But now, she was gone.
Apart from warning him not to act rashly, she left him not a single word.
Outside the room, snow was falling heavily, inside the room charcoal fire was clearly burning, yet Lu Ziyan felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, his limbs and torso all ice-cold.
The maidservant who presented the letter knelt at his feet, head lowered gazing at the floor, intimidated by his aura, not daring to breathe loudly, wishing to disappear from the spot.
Suddenly, a muffled hum came from above, Lu Ziyan could no longer endure, blood sprayed from his mouth, dyeing the floor red.
The maidservant tightly covered her mouth, stopping the scream about to escape, silent as a cicada in winter.
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On Dayang Lake, separated from Northern Frontier by one city, Xie Wanning wore a coarse cloth padded jacket, a dingy headscarf around her head, wrapping herself tightly from head to toe, only exposing a pair of eyes.
Even the skin around her eyes had the dark dullness common among Northern Region people, as if weathered by hardships.
Xie Wanning had looked at herself in the mirror, her disguise was really good, anyone glancing at her would think she was an ordinary middle-aged woman.
Except… her eyes were too bright.
Noble ladies who had never truly suffered hardship would not have the numb gaze of those who toil daily for food.
This point, she really could not disguise, but as long as she avoided eye contact with others and stayed away from people, no one would notice anything off about her.
Three days ago, she walked out of the clothing store and went straight to the horse market, rode a horse out of the city.
She understood Lu Ziyan, knew that once he discovered she was missing, the city gates would surely be sealed.
And she had to get out before the city gates were sealed.
She succeeded, galloping all the way back to the shores of Dayang Lake, this lake runs through three cities, and compared to land routes, water routes are faster.
As for the destination?
Xie Wanning had no destination.
Even she herself did not know where she would settle, so even if Lu Ziyan was brilliantly clever, he could not predict her whereabouts.
Go search.
Search all the land routes, every dock, every city.
Xie Wanning turned back to gaze in the northern direction, her exposed eyes curving slightly, containing a bit of smile.
Everything going so smoothly was beyond her expectation.
Tomorrow she would arrive at Lu City, back in her boudoir she had read quite a few travelogues.
Heard that Lu City’s roasted lamb tasted extremely good, she should get off the boat and walk around.
If possible, it would be best to buy a few servant guards.
The world was not peaceful, bandits rampant, everywhere full of scams, abductions, deceptions, even outright robbery.
Right on this boat, Xie Wanning had seen two robberies, the victims both being merchants with some wealth.
And the identity Xie Wanning gave herself was a middle-aged woman going to Lu City to find her son.
