kvmb Chapter 201 I'll bet 12!
Chapter 201 I'll bet 12!
Lu Yangyang barely rested for a day and a night, only stopping briefly for a little over an hour at the post station to change horses.
Of course, she wasn't blindly chasing after him. After determining that the other party was unlikely to commit the crime in the capital, she decisively chased after him out of the city.
Unable to wait for the number of carriages that had come out during the inspection, she could only arrange for people to split into several groups to search for them.
Lin Feng led a team to catch up first. She then borrowed some more people from Pei Ji and sent people to chase after them along every official road outside the city gates, and to inquire about clues at the nearby official road stations.
Fortunately, the first news came yesterday evening: a suspicious-looking carriage had replenished its fodder at one of the post stations. The driver had not left the carriage at all, only asking the post station staff to replenish his water bag and buy some dry biscuits.
Lu Yangyang immediately followed this direction, arranging for people to search the surrounding area while giving chase.
Just before dawn, the men sent out found a pearl hairpin in a nearby haystack and rushed over to give it to Lu Yangyang. Lu Yangyang immediately went to investigate the surrounding area. There was no blood, but there were carriage tracks. She looked at the terrain; the place was relatively secluded at night. It was very likely that the other party intended to kill Princess Li Duan there, but for some reason, they temporarily abandoned the plan and dragged her onto the carriage instead. That pearl hairpin was probably a clue deliberately left behind by Princess Li Duan.
From this, Lu Yangyang was almost certain of the direction the other party had left in; her anxiety stemmed from not knowing if she could catch up.
So she didn't dare waste any time, nor did she dare to be sure of her judgment. She immediately dispersed the people again to search, and followed the road herself.
It wasn't until the afternoon that they arrived in Pingyang County.
Lu Yangyang sat on her horse, gazing absently at the county town ahead. Logically speaking, if the other party wanted to silence her, they wouldn't have entered the town. However, she hadn't found any suspicious traces along the way.
Either Riduan has been silenced, or she has found a chance to escape.
If you run away, the county town has a lot of people, so it's the safest place.
She hesitated briefly, but finally dismounted and entered the city first.
Her horse had been running for several hours and couldn't go on any longer. She had to find a place to change horses.
Furthermore, if Ritsuya really does enter the city, she will definitely go to the pawnshop first.
Pingyang County was not a large town, and there weren't many pawnshops. Lu Yangyang first went to the inn to settle her horse, and then immediately inquired about several pawnshops in the town. She went to each one one by one, and just when she thought there was no hope, she finally found a clue at the last pawnshop. When she saw the pearl hairpin that the other party took out, which matched the one she was holding, Lu Yangyang finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Without saying a word, she immediately pulled out a 100-tael silver note. "Shopkeeper, I'll take this hairpin, but you must tell me who the person who came to pawn it is."
The innkeeper's eyes lit up when he saw the silver note. He had only spent ten taels of silver to buy the hairpin, and if he sold it, it would only fetch twenty or thirty taels at most. This person was offering it for one hundred taels, which was several times the price. He immediately told Lu Yangyang everything about the visitor. Following the clues, Lu Yangyang quickly found out which inn the visitor had stayed at, but unfortunately, it was too late; the visitor had already left.
However, Lu Yangyang learned that the other party was a woman who had gone out to find her relatives, and she had just left the city with her family.
Knowing that Princess Liduan was still alive and had successfully hitched a ride with someone else, Lu Yangyang finally breathed a sigh of relief. She first bought some food, quickly filled her stomach, then bought a horse, found a security escort agency to deliver a letter to the princess, and then hurriedly chased after her again.
After leaving Pingyang County, Lu Yangyang chased after the caravan until nightfall, finally catching up with Madam Chen's convoy at the next post station.
She spent a little money and easily found the other person's room, then knocked on the door.
Hearing the noise, the person inside immediately called out, "Who is it?"
Lu Yangyang replied, "Madam Chen, I am the cook at the inn, here to deliver pears."
Madam Chen said in surprise, "Pears? I didn't ask for any pears."
Just as Princess Li Duan was about to find a place to hide, she suddenly jumped up, rushed to the door, excitedly pulled it open, and sure enough, she saw Lu Yangyang.
She froze for a moment, then jumped up and hugged Lu Yangyang's neck, leaping onto her and bursting into tears.
Lu Yangyang strode into the house and slammed the door shut.
Li Duan cried for a while, gasping for breath, before slowly sobbing softly. When she calmed down a little, both her eyes were red from crying.
Lu Yangyang was relieved to see that she was still alive and well. Madam Chen very considerately got up and said, "The two young ladies can chat for a while. I'm actually a little hungry. Let's go to the kitchen and see if there's anything good to eat."
He left the room, leaving the two of them alone.
Li Duan grabbed Lu Yangyang's arm and, before Lu Yangyang could ask anything, whispered and sobbed, "I heard... I heard Xue Wanning say to a man, 'Didn't you say you were going to kill Brother Sheng? How come he's still alive?' Then the man said, 'What's the rush? There will definitely be good news by the end of the year.' I was terrified. I turned around and tried to run, but there was nowhere to hide. I hadn't even taken two steps before someone knocked me unconscious."
"Yangyang, what should we do? What should we do? That wretched woman Xue Wanning, why did she want to harm Brother Sheng? The man she conspired with, I only saw his back, he looked somewhat familiar, he should be a guest that day, but I can't remember who he is, and I don't recognize his voice either, he deliberately lowered his voice, I can't recognize it." Li Duan looked at Lu Yangyang with a nervous and pitiful expression, her face full of panic and helplessness.
Lu Yangyang flicked her forehead: "You almost died!"
She immediately thought that Li Duan might have overheard something and been caught in the act, which was why he wanted to silence her. However, she never expected that it was about her elder brother. She had been restless because of this for the past few days. Although the Crown Prince had told her that he had arranged for people to go there after her elder brother left, and also arranged for people to keep a close eye on the Third Prince. He would inform her immediately if anything unexpected happened.
However, she only remembered the terrible news in her dream, and did not know exactly what happened, when it happened, or what changes might occur. She was always worried and that's why she was restless.
I never expected it to actually happen.
Xue Wanning has already pledged allegiance to the Third Prince, and the man she's conspiring with, even if not the Third Prince, is most likely someone connected to him. And now, the Third Prince has clearly also won over the First Prince.
After nearly two years of undercurrents, the battle for the throne in the capital is finally about to begin.