Chapter 387 Bad News

For the people of the Jin Kingdom, everything went smoothly during the year when Emperor Mingde succeeded to the throne, but after that, the story about a certain general in the court and King Huai who lost in the battle for the throne has always been the favorite of the teahouse storyteller.

In the summer of this year, King Xia Jun, who was regarded as the protector god by the people in the cloud, suddenly rebelled. However, it was unexpected that General Jin Wu, who had always been brave and invincible, was defeated by Ding Guohou in less than a month. Hou became the veritable god of war in Dajin.

After taking down Mengcheng, Huo Xun immediately escorted Zhao Feng back to the capital.However, he left Yunzhong within a few days, but was shelved in Yi'an City at the junction of Yunzhong because of a heavy rain.

"The rain has lightened, and we can start tomorrow."

Noticing that the sound of the rain outside became quieter, Huo Xun stood in front of the window and looked at the muddy water on the ground and humanity on the seat behind him.

Xiao Ruan was holding a bowl of ginger tea in his hand, but when he heard his voice, he just hummed and didn't speak.

Qin Zichuan had been away from the waterway for seven full days, and it was time to spread the news about her.She expected that Zhao Yan would definitely find her, but she didn't know how the other party would contact her.

Especially now that she and Huo Xun are inseparable, she is really worried that even if Zhao Yan sends someone, she will not be able to pass it on to herself.

Should she...

"Ruan'er, what's wrong with you? But you don't feel well?"

Xiao Ruan was thinking in her heart, suddenly felt that the light around her was dark, Huo Xun had already walked to her side, looking at her worriedly.

She lowered her head and drank a spoonful of ginger soup like a cover, Xiao Ruan was about to speak when someone knocked on the door outside, and Li Yan's voice came from outside.

Huo Xun nodded apologetically with Xiao Ruan, and immediately turned his gaze to the door.

"General, a secret message from the capital."

Li Yan walked in and immediately handed a letter to Huo Xun.

After reading the above content, Huo Xun's expression froze: "You call the lieutenant soldiers immediately, I have something important to announce."

"Sir, what happened?"

Xiao Ruan noticed the abnormality and couldn't help stepping forward to ask.Huo Xun's eyes flashed, he put away the letter, and looked at Xiao Ruan with a complicated expression: "There are two pieces of news, one is good news and the other is bad news."

"What's the bad news?"

It seemed that Xiao Ruan had expected that Xiao Ruan would ask about the bad news first. Huo Xun held the envelope with his fingers and hesitated for a moment before finally speaking: "The crown prince has been involved in annihilating Zhao Yan's 20 troops, but he has not captured Zhao Yan. Now... Zhao Yan I don't know where I'm hiding."

Hearing this, the teacup in Xiao Ruan's hand fell to the ground with a clatter.

She originally wanted to use Qin Zichuan to let Zhao Yan know her whereabouts, so that she could contact him in advance and stabilize him to find the whereabouts of the child.

Zhao Yan had obviously been driven to a dead end, but she didn't save her child's life as they had guessed. Now, is her child dead or alive?

Xiao Ruan's face was very ugly, Huo Xun could see Xiao Ruan's thoughts at a glance.

He sighed, hugged Xiao Ruan in his arms and softly comforted him: "Ruan'er, you are worried, the child will be fine, and we will find him..."

"Don't lie to me again! You don't care about our children at all! You always tell me that it's all right, but what happened! It's been more than a month, and not only has there been no news about our children, even life and death I no longer know!"

Before Huo Xun finished speaking, Xiao Ruan suddenly pushed him away, his eyes filled with anger.

But when she saw the same sad face of Huo Xun, she couldn't express the anger in her heart anymore, so she could only turn her body away with red eyes.

She knew that Huo Xun had always been in contact with the prince, and that the prince had asked him to exchange his child for his life when he was besieging Zhao Yan. Even whether it was Yunzhong or the capital, everyone was helping them find the whereabouts of the child .

But the problem is, they have searched for so long and still have no news of the child.

Just like a person who can't swim wants to cross the river, he tried all the ways to cross the river but it didn't work, and in the end he had to choose the most direct and risky way - risking drowning and dying directly swim over!

After making up his mind, Xiao Ruan wiped away tears, suddenly turned around and looked into Huo Xun's eyes and said decisively: "I'm going to see Zhao Yan! As long as you release the news, he will definitely appear!"

"No! This is too dangerous!"

Huo Xun subconsciously wanted to object, but Xiao Ruan suddenly grabbed Huo Xun's hand, and even pleaded in his eyes: "Sir, even if it is dangerous, we have to do this, we have already left the child once! If I don't think of a way to find him again, I will never feel good in my life..."

At the end, Xiao Ruan's voice was sobbing.

During this period of time, she had dreamed countless times that various accidents happened to her children. As soon as she closed her eyes, she would see all kinds of children dying tragically. She was in a trance all day long, and even regretted leaving with Huo Xun.

The woman's fingers were cold, and her whole body was shaking slightly because of crying.Huo Xun blamed himself and hugged her tightly into his arms: "It's all because of my husband's fault, because my husband didn't protect you and the child well..."

Huo Xun did not expect Zhao Yan to be so calm.

Zhao Feng was captured, and the 20 army in Zhao Yan's hands had also been captured. At this time, where would he place his hopes?Could it be that he still wants to hide in order to make a comeback?

Suddenly, a bright light flashed in Huo Xun's mind, and a ball of ink suddenly surged in his eyes.

"Ruan'er, just give me a few more days, I promise, Zhao Yan will be caught soon!"

After finishing speaking, Huo Xun didn't wait for Xiao Ruan to speak, lightly kissed her on the forehead, and immediately left the room.

Xiao Ruan didn't know what he suddenly thought of, subconsciously chased to the door, and suddenly found that the other party's figure had disappeared without a trace.

I don't know when the rain outside had stopped, and the yard was full of water, Xiao Ruan bit her lips and was about to catch up, when suddenly there was a sound of piercing in the air, something was projected and nailed to the door frame .

Xiao Ruan looked for the sound, only to find a flying knife stuck in the dagger above the door frame.

An envelope was nailed to the bottom of the flying knife.

With a jump in her heart, Xiao Ran quickly glanced around, seeing that she didn't notice anything unusual here, she quickly took off the envelope and closed the door.

"I'll see you in the woods on the back mountain at tomorrow's hour, only one person can come, otherwise..."

A sentence was scrawled on the letter paper, but there was a bunch of soft hair attached to it.

Xiao Ran's eyes turned red, and he instantly realized that this was a message Zhao Yan secretly asked someone to send him, and this lock of hair was the child's hair!

The prince clearly said that Zhao Yan had lost track, so could it be that he was actually hiding somewhere in Tong'an?
Xiao Ruan's heart thumped, estimated the time, a flash of light flashed in his eyes, he held the lock of hair tightly and made a decision.

The next day, the rainstorm had stopped, and the water on the road had evaporated.Huo Xun ordered all the team escorting Zhaofeng to set off immediately, and when he returned to the room to pick up Xiao Ran, he found that there was no trace of her inside.

Huo Xun's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately asked people to look around.

"General, I have searched everywhere, but I still haven't found any trace of Madam."

After a stick of incense, Li Yan hurried over to report.After hearing this, Huo Xun immediately showed a panicked expression: "This is impossible! Madam will never leave here, there must be some accident! Immediately find me the bodyguard who protects Madam, and I will inquire personally!"

The anger in Huo Xun's voice was so obvious that anyone could hear it right away.Li Yan knew that Huo Xun was most nervous about Xiao Ruan, so he didn't delay at all, and immediately went to call Xiao Ruan's guards in.

"When did Madam disappear!"

"General, madam said that you asked to leave today, and we will wait for you in the carriage early in the morning. We saw her get into the carriage with our own eyes, but we didn't see her leave. We really don't know why she disappeared..."

The two guards looked at each other and lowered their heads at the same time, Zhao Yan couldn't help being surprised when he saw this.

Xiao Ruan was still awake when he got up, how could he wait for him in the carriage early in the morning?And he has been unable to find her trace for so long, could it be that she really left privately as he said last night?
"Report! General, Madam has news! This is a letter from Madam specially sent by the guards guarding the city!"

City guards?

How could they have Xiao Ruan's handwritten letter?

Huo Xun hurriedly took the contents of the envelope and glanced at it, his complexion suddenly turned pale.

"Li Yan, immediately take Zhao Feng to hide secretly according to my arrangement last night, and the others will follow me!"

Li Yan didn't know what happened, but seeing Huo Xun's solemn expression, he quickly responded and led a team of guards towards the execution vehicle ahead.

Seeing this, Huo Xun looked at the address on the letter paper for a moment, and immediately led people to the back mountain to find Xiao Ruan.

"Excuse me, have you ever seen such a tall and slender woman walking up the mountain?"

The nearest mountain to Tong'an stretches for thousands of miles, Huo Xun did not find the slightest trace of Xiao Ruan, after several inquiries, he finally came to a flat and open place.

"General, we found a hosta in the grass here."

Huo Xun finally took a look at the jade hairpin in the guard's hand, and his face suddenly became very ugly.

In the letter sent by the gate of the city, Xiao Ruan said that she had received a secret letter from Zhao Yan and wanted to meet at the back mountain. She was worried that the other party would be aware of it. She did not dare to hand over the letter she had written long ago to the gate of the city until she left the city. guard.

But they searched all the way, not only did not find any trace of Zhao Yan, but found the jade hairpin that Xiao Ruan had dropped.

Thinking that this jade hairpin was most likely accidentally dropped by Xiao Ruan and Zhao Yan's people during a dispute, Huo Xun felt as if someone had stabbed him hard in his heart, and was so painful that he couldn't speak.

He had already made arrangements last night, but ignored Xiao Ruan.

She left without explaining to herself, probably because she was worried about his obstruction.

"Immediately investigate all the outsiders in Tong'an City. Within a day, I need to know where Zhao Yan is!"

(End of this chapter)

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