Nangong Lizhu probably fell into helplessness and collapse since she left the capital, and she did not deliberately remember those things. It would take some effort to remember them now.
I waited patiently for her.
She frowned and thought hard for a long time, then said, "We first passed by Caozhou, stayed there for two days, then arrived in Runan, and only rested for one day, and then passed Huainan and Tongling. We stayed in these two places for a long time, as if we had lasted more than three days..."
I silently counted these places with my fingers, and my brows couldn't help but frowned.
I asked, "What did you do when you stayed in these places?"
She glanced at me: "I did nothing."
“…”
I forgot that she must have been very sad at that time. What else can she do if she is wrapped up by her "father" and leave her loved one? I asked, "Then you---Nangong Jinhong, what did he do?"
Hearing me ask this, Nangong Lizhu's eyes showed deep pain, and I almost couldn't bear to ask any more. After all, at this time, whether it comes to mention Yao Lao or Nangong Jinhong, it would be a torture for her.
But I can't help but torture her.
She frowned in pain, and her voice trembled slightly, "I don't know what he did. Every time she went to a place, they put me under house arrest and treated me with delicious food and drink, but they didn't let me leave my room. Only when I went to that place and left that place, I could have some freedom."
“…”
After hearing what she said, I couldn't help but sigh softly.
Although I had just felt something from several places where Nangong Jinhong went, I still needed more evidence to help me prove it, or to let me figure out what the other party was going to do.
Seeing my a little discouraged look, Nangong Lizhu bit her lower lip, thought for a while, and suddenly said, "But something happened when I was in Runan."
I looked up at her and said, "What's the matter?"
"At the beginning, they were not so strict with me, so on the night I arrived in Runan and stayed, I originally wanted to sneak back to the capital, but because they discovered it, they were all very strict with me."
"That--"
"It was when I was about to escape, I accidentally walked to my father--and walked out of his door and heard him talking to someone inside."
My spirits frightened: "Who should I talk to?"
"It seems that the one named Yuan Mingde."
Yuan Mingde!
This name is no stranger.
I first found their letters in Pei Yuanxiu's study. Speaking of which, he and the Lin family of Yunzhong and Gongsun Qi should have had the most closest contact with Pei Yuanxiu. Since Nangong Jinhong has been secretly helping Pei Yuanxiu from the beginning, of course he must have had contact with them.
I asked hurriedly, "Then what did they say?"
Nangong Lizhu frowned again and tried her best to recall what happened that day, but after a while, she bit her lower lip and said softly: "I'm really-at that time, I was just trying to escape, and I didn't pay attention to what they said, and it's been so long..."
“…”
"However, I only remember that in the end, it seemed that the two of them had agreed on a time to do one thing."
"Do one thing? What?"
"I, I didn't hear it. When I walked outside their door, they had already agreed on it, but they just made an appointment at the end."
"When is that?"
She thought for a while and said, "It seems to be on the seventh day of November."
"Ninety-day seventh?"
A flash of inspiration in my mind: "Isn't that just, half a month later?"
She nodded, but was obviously a little confused: "But, what will they do in half a month?"
I looked at her - in fact, the best thing to ask her is to ask her, but when she overheard it, it was the time when the other party had agreed to everything, and she couldn't ask no matter how hard she asked.
November 7th... November 7th...
Nangong Jinhong and Yuan Mingde made an agreement on the seventh day of November. What was the agreement?
Since he has been secretly working for Pei Yuanxiu, and Yuan Mingde and others have always colluded with Jinling's forces, this agreement, according to normal circumstances, should be inferred with Nangong Jinhong instead of Pei Yuanxiu, or Jinling, and made it with them.
Then, Jinling and Runan Yuan clan agreed to be on the seventh day of November—
My heart suddenly beat.
At this moment, Nangong Lizhu suddenly seemed to remember something again and grabbed my wrist: "By the way, I remembered it!"
I hurriedly looked at her: "What did you remember?"
She said: "Not only did he go to Yuan Mingde, but he was in Caozhou before, and then to Huainan and Tongling. Before leaving, when he said goodbye to the local people, he seemed to say one last word - don't forget our agreement."
I suddenly opened my eyes wide: "What do you mean is that they, he, have made an agreement with all the prefectures and counties that have passed by, and all the powerful and powerful gentry, and have made an appointment for this time?"
Nangong Lizhu said: "It should be."
“…”
I couldn't speak, and I suddenly felt a chill behind me.
I hurriedly spread the palm of my left hand, and my right index finger was on it, and silently chanting: "November 7th, November 7th..."
Nangong Lizhu looked at me, puzzled: "What are you doing?"
I didn't say anything, just gasped.
Caozhou, Runan, Huainan, Tongling...
After leaving the capital, Nangong Jinhong passed by all the places he was certainly the only way for him to go south to Jinling, but if you look at it from the other way, it is also the only way for Jinling to use a pen to the capital!
And, not only that!
If we add the Lin family in Yunzhong, there is also the territory of Gongsun Qi that they had imagined before—
They formed a siege against the capital!
Then - the seventh day of November!
This time is not an ordinary agreement. If I guess correctly, it should be the time that Pei Yuanxiu had set since the beginning of the morning. If at this time all the powerful and powerful gentry in these places began to raise troops and attack the capital at the same time--!
My feet became weak and I fell to the ground.
Nangong Lizhu was startled by me and hurriedly reached out and grabbed my arm. Fortunately, she had not lost her mind yet, so she tried her best to lower her voice: "Yan Qingying, what's wrong with you? What's wrong with you?"
I looked up at her and saw myself in her beautiful pupils, and my pale face was covered with cold sweat.
Chapter completed!