Crossing the Passenger Sacrifice

As soon as Li Huoyue walked out of the hall, the cold night wind blew gently, and she felt a sticky chill on her back.

Only then did I realize that my back was already wet with sweat.

Her calves felt weak and her knees ached, but she had to run faster.

Fortunately, I managed to slip out before the door was locked.

When we arrived at Jingxuan Bridge, a must-pass road, we saw a familiar carriage parked at the other end of the bridge. A thin figure holding a lantern sat on the carriage, craning his neck to look towards the brightly lit area.

The carriage belonged to the Li family, but the person holding the lantern was too far away to be seen clearly.

Li Huoyue held his breath and walked all the way to the carriage.

"Why is it you?" Li Huoyue approached and found that the man was Jiang Yunshu who had just been picked up. "Where is the driver?"

Jiang Yunshu changed his clothes today, but they were still plain white, but the material looked several levels better, making his face look somewhat otherworldly.

"I came here by myself." Jiang Yunshu turned around and saw Li Huoyue coming. He took out a small wooden stool from the car and said, "Let's go. It's very cold here at night."

Li Huoyue remained unmoved.

"What's the matter?" Jiang Yunshu put down the small wooden stool and found that Li Huoyue didn't move at all. He didn't know what he was thinking about, and asked in shock, "Do you want me to kneel down and greet you first?!"

It seems that slaves on TV all do this.

"Can you drive?" Li Huoyue didn't dare to get in the car at all.

Jiang Yunshu breathed a sigh of relief. He thought that inviting a young lady to get into the car must follow the procedures shown in TV dramas.

"It's not difficult. I learned it in a short while." Jiang Yunshu raised the corners of his mouth, a little proud.

Li Huoyue did not ride her chestnut horse today. She looked at Jiang Yunshu suspiciously and was reluctant to move.

The fourth brother did not place any spies around the palace. Li Huoyue was in a stalemate for a while, but finally compromised and got in the car.

She felt extremely tired. When she got into the carriage, she did not sit against the wall, but fell down on the cushioned floor of the carriage.

She comforted herself that it would be fine after just a short distance, she would immediately call someone to drive, and everything would be fine.

"Miss Li, I see it's very lively over there. Can we go over to take a look?" Jiang Yunshu's voice came from outside the carriage, with his unique youthfulness and freshness.

"No." Li Huoyue refused without even thinking about it.

Jiang Yunshu was not discouraged and continued to beg: "I beg you."

"No."

"Well, the steering wheel is in my hands anyway!"

Li Huoyue: “???????”

She had to struggle to get up, lifted the car curtain, and said, "Have you forgotten that you were poisoned?"

The carriage headed towards Fangzi Road and quietly changed direction.

"If I don't want to go, then I won't go. I'll find a way to go!"

Li Huoyue added: "You'd better not go out during this period."

"why?"

"Kyoto is going to capture time travelers on a large scale."

Jiang Yunshu didn't quite believe it. "I heard that your father has been taken away. He is the only special inspector in the whole capital, and he hasn't come back at all. Oh, can you arrest him just like that?"

Li Huoyue was too lazy to argue with him. It was not the right time to arrest this man.

Seeing that Li Huoyue stopped talking, Jiang Yunshu thought that he had gone too far in his sarcasm. Women in ancient times were all thin-skinned, so he shouldn't think too much about it.

"You... I just said something nonsense, don't take it to heart, ha, the main reason is that I really want to go to these lively places, I have never seen these before."

Jiang Yunshu drove very slowly. Li Huoyue leaned against the car curtain, lifted it up, hooked it aside, and looked at the road ahead.

"Come to think of it, your place is pretty good. It's not like what I imagined, where girls are not allowed to go out."

Li Huoyue was so tired that he didn't want to talk. He just listened quietly to Jiang Yunshu chattering.

"And it's so late, but the streets are still so busy. What do you think the people living inside can do if they want to sleep?"

"With such a bustling night market, your country must be very rich!"

"What do you think about me delivering food? I think it will be very profitable!"

Li Huoyue finally spoke up: "No profit. Generally, larger restaurants will have delivery services, and the delivery staff's wages remain the same."

"Fuck, who is as talented as me?!" Jiang Yunshu felt sorry for losing a big business. "Oh, yes, there are other time travelers. Oh! I wish I had come here earlier!"

"This is a natural development and has nothing to do with the time traveler." Li Huoyue found it funny. "Besides...if you had traveled here earlier, you wouldn't be alive today."

"Ah? What's going on?" Jiang Yunshu had no idea, and he had never seen what it was like before. "Is it because I didn't meet you? So I will die soon? You are such a nice person."

"No." Li Huoyue blocked the false compliment, "If I were really good, could you still be poisoned?"

Jiang Yunshu: “…”

"The policy given to the Special Inspectors before was not so extreme towards time travelers. They didn't just kill them directly." Li Huoyue had never seen that time, but he could get a glimpse of it from the records of the Special Inspectors throughout the ages. "But time travelers were really easy to check back then. Basically, it wouldn't take more than a few hours for the travelers to expose themselves."

"Hahaha! I know!" Jiang Yunshu shook his head, "Basically you can't help but show off, right?"

"That may have something to do with it." Li Huoyue relaxed a lot without realizing it. "But it was more because Kyoto required everyone to speak a specific official language at that time."

"Speaking Mandarin?" Jiang Yunshu had never heard of it. "But will this expose the time traveler himself? Can't I just keep silent?"

"Then can you understand?" Li Huoyue spoke this sentence in Mandarin.

Jiang Yunshu heard some sounds coming out of Li Huoyue's mouth, but he couldn't figure out what she was saying, and it didn't sound like singing. After thinking for a few seconds, he suddenly realized, "Ah, this is Mandarin?!"

"Yes, the time travelers can't even understand what they are saying, let alone learn it. I have to speak it out." Li Huoyue looked at the moonlit road ahead, "Perhaps, pretending to be a fool may help me escape, but how can someone who thinks he has received higher education be willing to be a fool?"

"Wow! So I am living in a good era now?!" Jiang Yunshu sighed, "Which hero proposed to abolish the system of speaking Mandarin? If I have the chance, I really want to kowtow to this person! How many people will be saved by this!"

"Let's kowtow later. Now I want to ask you, have you taken the wrong road? Where have you taken me?" The more Li Huoyue looked at the road, the more he felt something was wrong. This was not the way home.

"You're not bringing me to the wrong place. I meant to bring you here." Jiang Yunshu also looked forward. Under the moonlight, the boy's expression was dark and unclear.

Li Huoyue sighed, "Can't you wait even a little longer? Please at least let me rest for a while."

"You..." Jiang Yunshu looked back at Li Huoyue who was leaning against the car curtain and found that the other party looked very calm, not surprised or scared at all. "You, you know?!"