Ji Xiang smiled: "Of course this is what happens later. Now Brother Xiong has to go to the capital to open up the market for dried fish. If there is nothing else, Brother Xiong, please go back and prepare quickly. We will set off in the early morning."

Li Da didn't expect to be in such a hurry, but he didn't ask, got up and left with Xiong Er.

When he reached the door, Li Da turned around again and knelt down to Ji Xiang and Tian Muyu: "The Crown Princess, the Fourth Prince, the innocence of General Xiong and the Northwest Army depends on you!" He kowtowed three times in a row, and then climbed up. He stood up, without even brushing the dirt off his knees, and strode away with Xiong Er.

Ji Xiang and Tian Muyu looked at each other, and their tacit understanding became a little firmer.

In the early morning of the next day, before dawn, Jixiang, Tian Muyu, and Erya opened the door and came out. They saw Xiong Er taking Xie Dongnan and others, each with a cart filled with seafood.

When everyone saw Ji Xiang and Tian Muyu coming out, they all saluted them.

Jixiang: "Brother Xiong, try to avoid Fengyu County and go."

Xiong Er waved his hand, and everyone filed in. There was no sound along the way, only the rustling of footsteps and the creaking of wheels.

Erya followed every step with Fu Lai in her arms, not lagging behind at all.

Ji Xiang turned around and saw that the little girl was not dissatisfied at all and was very satisfied.

When it was daybreak, everyone once again came to the intersection where Jixiang and Tian Muyu had chosen to enter the valley. This time they did not make the decision, but let Xiong Er decide which way to take.

Xiong Er chose to take the high road.

The main road was indeed different from the mountain road in the valley. Not only did we not encounter the shadow man and tiger, but we also did not encounter a team of heavily armed men in black. They kept going like this, and a month later they arrived near Lanjia Mountain, a hundred miles away from the capital.

Lanjia Mountain is like a barrier that stretches for hundreds of miles, protecting the capital behind it. If you go around it, you have to travel two to three hundred miles more. Xiong Er asked Tian Muyu whether to go around or go into the mountains. Tian Muyu said without thinking about going into the mountains.

The mountain road here is actually an official road. After all, it is the only road into Beijing. It is wide and flat.

Xie Dongnan, brothers Zhao Dong and Zhao Xi were very excited when they thought that they would arrive in the capital soon. Especially Zhao Dong and Zhao Xi had never been to the capital before. Xie Dongnan told them about a beautiful street in the capital. There are many snacks selling various kinds of snacks, and each one is more delicious than the other. The irritation in the mouth is like a stream, and I have to stop and wipe my mouth.

Xiong Er glared at Xie Dongnan: "They will delay their journey. You can push the goods in the car for them."

Xie Dongnan didn't want to push three people's goods alone, so he quickly pushed the cart to the front of the team, causing brothers Zhao Dong and Zhao Xi to chase after them.

Ji Xiang looked at them and smiled: "Don't talk about them, it's my first time in Beijing too."

Tian Muyu: "Don't go to Luohong Street in the future."

Tian Muyu suddenly said this, making Jixiang a little confused.

Jixiang: "Where is Luohong Street?"

Tian Muyu groaned and didn't know how to explain it. He was really arrogant. Why did he say this to Jixiang? He knew the beautiful street that Zhao Dongnan mentioned just now, but he knew it, so why did he say it? He was also annoyed that he had a habit of saying too much and always embarrassing himself from time to time. If Jixiang thinks too much, wouldn't it affect his image in her heart.

Tian Muyu: "You just don't want to go anyway." He replied stiffly to Jixiang.

Jixiang wondered: "The name of this street is a bit interesting, Luohong, Luohong. Are the trees on both sides of the street all trees with red leaves? When autumn comes, they fall one after another, and the ground is covered with red!" How could Jixiang not? She knows what the word "Luo Hong" means. She has traveled through a previous life and is no longer the innocent little girl from ancient times. Tian Muyu, you're too embarrassed to say it, so I'll just cooperate with you in your stupidity.

Sure enough, after hearing what Ji Xiang said, Tian Muyu's expression finally softened.

Xiong Er, who was on the side, glanced at the two of them, pushed a cart of goods and slowed down, trying to keep a sufficient distance from them.

Erya held Fulai in her arms and looked at the scenery on both sides with curiosity, showing her face as if she had never seen the world without any pretense.

There was a tea stall on the roadside in front, and the stall owner was an old woman. Although her movements were a little slow, she kept the place very clean.

Jixiang looked good and greeted everyone: "Everyone, please stop and have a bowl of tea." He said, taking the lead in finding a stool to sit down, "rest for half an hour before leaving. Old lady, please have ten bowls of tea."

"Okay, sir, please wait a moment." The old woman responded, went to the basket next to her, picked up ten bowls, placed them on two tables, and then lifted the teapot on the stove.

Tian Muyu sat down opposite Jixiang: "Mommy, I want it to be half-warm."

The old woman holding the teapot suddenly froze for a moment. Her dark eyes suddenly looked at Tian Muyu, and their eyes immediately brightened. But in just a moment, she returned to her original appearance, adding more to the bowls on the table one by one. Full of tea, except Tian Muyu’s, of course.

Tian Muyu was given tea with another teapot. After filling up the teapot, the old woman retreated behind Tian Muyu, seemingly waiting for everyone's instructions at any time, but in fact she was always paying attention to Tian Muyu's side.

Tian Muyu picked up the tea cup and took a sip. He suddenly stood there in a daze, and the hand holding the tea cup stopped motionless in mid-air.

Jixiang Alert: "Is there something wrong with the tea?"

She quickly took the tea cup in Tian Muyu's hand and smelled it. She found nothing strange and looked at Tian Muyu curiously.

Tian Muyu: "This tastes so familiar." As he spoke, his eyes couldn't help but look to the side of the old woman, looking at her suspiciously.

The old woman had already carried the teapot to Xiong Er's table and was adding tea to Xie Dongnan's bowl.

Ji Xiang: "The smell of childhood?"

Tian Muyu nodded unconsciously.

Jixiang's eyes turned to the old woman again. The old woman looked like she was in her fifties and did not look like someone of Tian Muyu's mother and concubine's generation. Tian Muyu's grandmother's generation, either in the palace or in the Jiangnan mansion, were all pampered people, and it was impossible to set up a stall and sell tea in this mountain.

Jixiang tried to remind Tian Muyu: "Is it the familiar smell in the palace, or the familiar smell in your grandfather's house in Jiangnan?"

Tian Muyu thought for a while, "In the palace, it smelled like this when my mother-in-law was still here."

Ji Xiang suddenly thought of something. Just when he was about to say that this person might be someone close to Tian Muyu's mother and concubine, he felt dizzy and fell in front of Tian Muyu.

Tian Muyu exclaimed and stretched out his hand to support Jixiang: "Jixiang! What's wrong with you?" Only then did he realize that not only Jixiang had fallen, but Xiong Er and the others on the table next to him had all fallen. Only Xiao Fulai, like him, was slightly Looking at everything in front of me in panic.

"Did you poison the tea?!" Tian Muyu shouted, jumped in front of the old woman, and pointed his sword at the old woman's neck.

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