Peach Blossom.

Wang Jing was stunned for a moment, obviously he was surprised by Tao Ye's suggestion.

"I know you are planning to leave overnight, so I came to find you in the middle of the night... If you want to go, you must take me with you!" Tao Ye's eyes were firm. When she said these words, she was actually nervous and flustered in her heart.

"No." Wang Jing's answer was crisp and clear.

Tao Ye was very angry: "Why do you deny me so quickly?"

Wang Jing patiently explained: "It's a long way to Yongchang, and I'm in a hurry. You can't even ride a horse, how can you get there?"

"I will learn to ride a horse as soon as possible. Whenever you stop to rest, I will go to practice. I promise not to hold you back!" Tao Ye looked very hardworking.

Wang Jing smiled helplessly: "Do you really think learning to ride a horse is that easy? If you just learn to ride, maybe it won't be that difficult, but I'm in a hurry, and I'll ride very fast all the way. Even if you learn, you won't be able to catch up!"

Tao Ye thought to herself, these ancient people usually used horses as a means of transportation, so wouldn't their familiarity be the same as her riding a tram? She would definitely not be able to keep up with the speed if she was learning and using it right away!

It seems that if she wants to win over her peers, she can only start from other aspects.

She remembered that when Xiao Rui and Wang Jing and his mother were talking in the room just now, they had mentioned their concerns about sneaking out of the city gate and being recognized by the soldiers guarding the city.

So she had an idea: "Even if you can ride fast on a horse, how can you pass through the city gate? Are you really so confident that you can disguise yourself so that the soldiers in Jiankang City won't recognize you? There are probably many cities you need to pass through on the way to Yongchang, right?"

Wang Jing was a little confused: "Does it mean I can pass through the city gate easily if you follow me?"

Tao Ye answered confidently: "Wrong! With me here, you don't even need to go through the city gate!"

"So where should I go?"

"Any wall, anywhere you want to go! I can help you climb over it!"

After hearing this, Wang Jing already understood how Tao Ye entered Situ Mansion. He couldn't help but laugh again: "Do you think the city wall is the wall of my house, so easy to climb over?"

Tao Ye smiled and said, "I know the city wall is much higher than your courtyard wall, but no matter how high the wall is, I can climb over it!"

"Are you serious?" Wang Jing looked at Tao Ye, half doubtful and half curious.

Tao Ye smiled and said, "Why don't you just give it a try? It doesn't cost any money anyway!"

Wang Jing went to fetch a horse, loaded all the luggage into a wooden box, and put the box on the horse's back. He also picked up his daily walking stick and sword and tied them to the horse's back.

After leaving the house, Tao Ye put on a serious attitude and warned Wang Jing: "Let's make a deal. If I can take you over the city wall, you must take me with you. You can't regret it halfway!"

Wang Jing smiled slightly: "What if you can't?"

"Isn't that easy? The road is wide and we can each go our own way!" Tao Ye was confident and naturally dared to say such words.

So, they rode on one horse together and came to the edge of the city wall. Looking forward, the city wall was indeed much higher than the wall of Situ Mansion, but it was only about seven or eight meters high, much shorter than Tao Ye had imagined!

Tao Ye's previous impression of city walls were all those in modern film and television works. They were very majestic, especially when performing scenes of soldiers attacking cities, they would use ladders and other things... She always thought that the city walls were at least dozens of meters high!

"So short?" Tao Ye couldn't help but sigh.

"What a big tone." Wang Jing looked at Tao Ye and raised his eyebrows.

He was very curious. With no trees or stairs to climb inside and a moat surrounding the city wall, how could Tao Ye climb over such a thick wall?

Tao Ye smiled and said, "You better open your eyes and watch carefully, we are about to fly over!"

Wang Jing nodded.

Tao Ye bit her finger and dripped green blood onto the cane tied to the horse's back. Before she was about to issue an order, she jokingly told Wang Jing: "This is the method of the demon. It will fly up in a while. Don't be scared to death!"

Wang Jing couldn't help but smile and nodded.

So Tao Ye gave orders to the cane: "Dear, take us over the city wall! Do you understand?"

As expected, the wooden walking stick did not disappoint Tao Ye. It instantly became much thicker and longer, and like a shoulder pole, it carried the two people and the horse, along with their luggage, and flew high, over the city wall, over the moat, and began to fall on the other side of the river.

Tao Ye was just feeling secretly proud of herself, but unexpectedly, the horse they were riding started to neigh in mid-air as if it had acrophobia, and its hooves moved wildly, causing Wang Jing and Tao Ye to sway left and right!

As soon as the horse's hooves touched the ground, it galloped forward, knocking Wang Jing, Tao Ye, and their luggage to the ground. Only the cane remained on the horse's back, moving forward with the horse.

Tao Ye was hurt from the fall, and angrily raised her head and yelled at Ma: "You, you, you come back here!"

When the wooden cane heard the command, it immediately broke away from Crazy Horse and returned to Tao Ye.

But without the heavy pressure of the cane, the horse ran even faster and disappeared in a flash!

"Oh my god..." Tao Ye was clearly calling for the horse...

Tao Ye stared speechlessly at the direction the horse ran. She had only thought that flying might scare Wang Jing, but she didn't expect that the one that was scared silly was actually a wild horse?

When she stood up, she felt that her legs and feet seemed to be injured, and suddenly she thought of Wang Jing's feet... She endured the pain and came to Wang Jing's side: "How are you?"

Wang Jing shook his head. He was sitting on the ground. There were many tiny beads of sweat on his forehead and the hem of his white clothes was stained with mud.

"Did you hit your foot just now?" Tao Ye knew that those beads of sweat must be caused by the pain in her foot, which made her very worried.

"It's okay..." Wang Jing took a long breath and spoke slowly: "I'll just sit there and take it easy..."

"Shall I take you to the family clinic and get you bandaged?"

Wang Jing shook his head again.

Tao Ye guessed that Wang Jing was unwilling to go to the clinic because he was afraid of exposing his identity! After all, this place was still in Jiankang.

Seeing Wang Jing trying to bear the pain, she felt very uncomfortable. She blamed herself again, saying that she couldn't be a good person, and she couldn't even be a good demon!

After a while, Wang Jing calmed himself down and took a look at his suitcase.

The suitcase fell off the horse's back and some of the items inside had fallen out.

Tao Ye seemed to sense what Wang Jing was thinking and was searching for something with his eyes. She looked in the direction he was looking and saw a small brown jar.

She hurriedly picked up the small jar and said, "Do you want this?"

Wang Jing nodded, opened the small jar, took out a walnut-sized pill, chewed it and swallowed it, then sat quietly for a while. It seemed that the pain was slightly relieved.

Tao Ye already understood that this was the painkiller that Wang Jing had mentioned before, the one that the imperial physician had prepared for him. It was a very powerful drug with serious side effects, and it caused him to lose his sense of taste...

"Give me back the cane!" Wang Jing said again.

Tao Ye immediately ordered the cane to be restored to its original state and returned to Wang Jing.

Wang Jing leaned on his cane and walked to the suitcase. He bent down to put the items back and hung the fallen sword around his waist.

Tao Ye hurriedly squatted down to help pick them up.

Unexpectedly, Wang Jing said, "Go!"

"Ah?" Tao Ye was shocked. She immediately curled her lips and frowned, showing dissatisfaction: "What do you mean? Although my method has a little flaw, I have helped you climb over the city wall. According to the agreement we just reached, you can't chase me away!"

Wang Jing took a deep breath, looked at Tao Ye, and said earnestly: "Miss Tao, Yongchang is really not a good place. If you follow me, it will be dangerous."

"I'm going because it's dangerous!"

"Why do you insist on getting involved in this mess?" Wang Jing seemed speechless.

Tao Ye lowered her head and murmured, "I... I have been thinking that if I hadn't appeared, maybe your Ah Jiao wouldn't have been killed... You would have lived a good life... And, it was me... who was fooled by Chen Ji... that put your father in danger... I think I... I have a responsibility..."

Before Tao Ye finished speaking, Wang Jing shook his head and interrupted her: "You think too much. These things have nothing to do with you."

Tao Ye was stunned for a moment.

Wang Jing explained to her: "Chen Ji is a man who will avenge his enemies, and he can't stand being humiliated by others. Since the day Ah Jiao offended him, I have been worried about unexpected disasters, so I never let Ah Jiao go out alone. For this reason, I don't want to be an official so that I can always be by her side. But I didn't expect that the princess would go to great lengths to divorce in order to marry me..."

Having said this, Wang Jing couldn't help but sigh in a low voice.

The east was slightly pale, and the clouds in the sky reflected a faint red, like residual blood, dimly shining on his face, making him look so vicissitudes of life.

Tao Ye could sense the pain in Wang Jing's heart: "You mutilated your feet because you didn't want her to leave the Wang family. You did it to preserve your marriage and her life."

"Yes. But I was still wrong... I hurt myself and lost the ability to protect her. Although my mother tried to save my life, I was the one who pushed her to the gates of hell. As a son, I have no right to blame my mother, I can only hate myself." Wang Jing bowed and picked up the items that fell on the ground one by one and put them back into the wooden box.

He knelt on one knee, closed the lid of the box, and looked up at the blood-red sky: "During the days when my mother chained my hands and feet, I was always worried about her getting into trouble, until I heard about her... I thought we were lucky, but I didn't expect... Later, the person who returned to the Wang family was not her, but you..."

Tao Ye squatted beside the box, not knowing what to say.

"Chen Ji was humiliated twice in his marriages, both because of me. Of course he hated A Jiao and the princess, but he should hate me more. He will not give up any opportunity to bring down the Wang family, so even if he doesn't use you, he will come up with other ways. He will do his best to make everyone who humiliates him pay a heavy price! Therefore, the tragedy does not lie in you, but in our years of feud." Wang Jing leaned on a crutch with one hand and lifted the wooden box with the other hand with difficulty, and once again prepared to go alone.

Without thinking too much, Tao Ye instinctively stood up, opened her arms and stood in front of Wang Jing.

Wang Jing looked at Tao Ye helplessly: "Why are you doing this?"

"I just want to follow you. Wherever you go, I will follow... Don't ask me why anymore! I... I was originally a homeless person. Can't you just take me in?" Tao Ye pouted, feeling an unspeakable grievance in her chest. She almost wanted to cry.

"Didn't you find your brother?"

"He's not actually my brother, he's just a fellow villager of mine! I don't have any brothers or sisters at all, I'm just one person... unlike your Wang family who has a large group of people..."

Wang Jing stood there awkwardly and said nothing.

Tao Ye could sense that he didn't really want to go with her, but he just couldn't resist the situation and was embarrassed to say something so harsh!

The two of them were in a stalemate. In the distance, there were already some pedestrians and vehicles passing by.

After a short stalemate, they heard a rapid sound of horse hooves approaching rapidly. The source of the sound was behind Wang Jing and in front of Tao Ye's field of vision.

Wang Jing looked back vigilantly and saw a group of people approaching.

Tao Ye was so nervous that she couldn't help but yell, "Oh my god! The bastard princess is here!"