Dugu Jingyao is reborn as Li Chu's beloved

Chapter 518 To Jiangling

The next morning, before dawn, Li Chu and others got up, packed up, and prepared to set off as soon as the city gate opened. This way, they could reach the south as soon as possible and return to reunite with their wives and children.

When Li Chu set off, Dugu Jingyao and others came to the gate of the mansion to see him off. However, after spending such a long time together, the others knew that Li Chu only had Dugu Jingyao in his heart. In addition, Dugu Jingyao always treated them very well, which made their love for Li Chu lessen a little.

As a result, now that Li Chu was away on a long journey, except for Dugu Jingyao who was really reluctant to let him go, the others just hoped that Li Chu would return safely, and they didn't really care about how long it would take for him to come back...

At the same time, the Li family was also ready to go on the other side, but there were only Gu Shiyi and Song Yan in the farewell team, but Tinglan was nowhere to be seen.

Li Xi was about to leave, but when Tinglan didn't show up, he waited for a while. Finally, when the deadline was approaching, Xiu'er came to report, "Your Highness, Concubine Lan has a sudden high fever and can't come to see you off. She asked me to give this letter to Your Highness. Concubine Lan specifically asked Your Highness to read it on the way."

Hearing this, Li Xi felt a little disappointed and worried, so he asked, "Then let Lan'er have a good rest, and you just take good care of her."

Xiu'er agreed and stood aside. After everyone watched Li Xi and others leave, Gu Shiyi and Song Yan took their people back to the palace, and Xiu'er also slipped back quietly.

After Li Xi's carriage left the city, he could not help but open the envelope, but found that there was nothing written inside. Li Xi thought that Ting Lan was playing a trick on him, but he heard a strange noise coming from the carriage.

Li Xi frowned and looked under the seat beside him, then took out his dagger and prepared for defense. Fortunately, he was slow to act, because the person who came out from under the seat beside him was none other than Ting Lan.

The dagger was already at Tinglan's neck. Fortunately, Li Xi held back his strength. When he saw it was Tinglan, he quickly put away the dagger and said, "Lan'er, aren't you sick? Why..."

Tinglan was startled by Li Xi holding a dagger to his neck. He patted his chest and said, "I was scared to death, Your Highness. If I hadn't found this excuse, how could I not appear in the farewell procession?"

Li Xi couldn't help but laugh, shaking his head helplessly. "You, you're really messing around! I'm going there to comfort the refugees, not to enjoy the scenery. There's an epidemic there, so why are you following me?"

Tinglan sat next to Li Xi, nudged him and said, "But I really don't want to be away from you for so long..."

Li Xi couldn't do anything to Ting Lan. He said, "You, I really can't do anything to you! You can go, but you have to be obedient and not run around, otherwise I will ask Li Yuan to send you back to the palace!"

Tinglan quickly smiled and hugged Li Xi's arm and said, "Yes, Your Highness, I will obey you!"

The situation was different on the other side. They were all grown men. In order to reach the south earlier, Li Chu even chose to ride a horse instead of a carriage despite the cold weather.

But after all, he also brought disaster relief supplies and a small part of the Dugu family army, so he couldn't be much faster.

At the end of the day, we only visited one city and found an inn in the suburbs near another city to rest.

To ensure the safety of their supplies, Li Chu and his companions booked the inn and refused to accept any outside guests. After dinner, the team leaders returned to their rooms to rest, while the remaining personnel shared a dormitory. They patrolled in groups of ten, changing shifts every hour.

When Li Chu returned to the room, he asked Feng Shengyi to take out the pen, ink, paper and inkstone to write a letter to Dugu Jingyao. After writing the letter, Li Chu let the ink dry, carefully sealed it and put it in an envelope, asking Feng Shengyi to send it back to the Prince of Chu's Mansion when he arrived at the next city.

After finishing the letter, Li Chu was a little tired after a day of running around. After washing up, he fell asleep. He thought there would be a sneak attack tonight, so Li Chu also slept very lightly, and Feng Shengyi did the same.

But nothing happened that night. The next day, after waking up and having breakfast, everyone packed up and set off on their journey.

After about ten days of this journey, they finally arrived in Jiangling. Of course, some of the southern towns they passed by were more or less affected by the frost disaster along the way.

It even felt colder in the south than in the north, but other towns were less affected because of their smaller populations. Li Chu had Feng Shengyi inquire about the situation on the way, but in order to prevent the news of their arrival from reaching Jiangling in advance, they did not stay for long.

Of course, on the day they arrived in Nanling, they deliberately did not enter the city immediately. They first let Feng Shengyi lead a few people to pretend to be ordinary people to explore the situation.

Feng Shengyi brought back news: "Your Highness, there's a porridge stall in Nanling City that's distributing porridge, but there's not much rice in the porridge, it's mostly just water."

Another Dugu family soldier who went with them also said, "Your Highness, not only that, the prices of rice and noodles in this city are ridiculously high. Only the rich can afford them. Farmers who make a living from farming either have surplus food at home or can only wait for the government to provide porridge."

Before Li Chu could say anything, Guo Ziyi was indignant. "Jiangling is clearly a wealthy place that everyone envies. How could they not even have a little surplus food? They're only giving the people rice soup?"

The Minister of Revenue also agreed, "It shouldn't be that way. Jiangling's tax revenue was always good before. Even if there was a frost disaster, there shouldn't be no surplus grain!"

Li Chu was even more certain that something was fishy going on. He said, "It's too cold to be stationed outside. Let's go into the city tonight. I want to see what the Jiangling prefect has in store for us."

Everyone agreed when they heard this, and they packed up together. The few people who had just disguised themselves also changed their clothes.

Seeing that everyone had packed up, Li Chu thought for a moment and said, "Feng Shengyi, you and a few Dugu soldiers will take some of the supplies and stay outside the city first. Find a warm place to rest for the night. The rest of you will follow me into the city with the remaining supplies."

Feng Shengyi agreed, and the Dugu family army left behind a small team of about 20 to 30 people, who stayed with Feng Shengyi, while the rest followed Li Chu into the city.