The prince stepped on me to get to the top, I angrily flirted with the enemy's hostage

Su Rou said, "If you really can't bear to leave me, you should go to the South Country. You won't be away for too long. I have made all the arrangements there. Just be well. Dad and I will come to pick you up."

If A Niang stayed in the capital, she would have worries.

Su said, "When will you pick us up?"

Su Rou pondered for a moment and said, "I'll probably have to wait for my father to come back."

If possible, Su Rou hopes to let the Su family live in the Southland forever.

If they entered the city early, when the North fell, the South would most likely not accept refugees from the North, and they could avoid such problems.

Su said, "Okay..."

Su suddenly agreed, which surprised her.

Su Rou said, "I thought you wouldn't agree, why did you suddenly change your mind?"

Su looked at her with a sullen look in her eyes. "You are now able to stand on your own. There are some decisions... that I should obey you."

After leaving Su's yard, Su Rou stretched out her hand and looked at her palm covered with thick calluses.

As the saying goes, old age is a time for support. Su Rou suddenly felt like she had grown up a lot...

She will definitely take charge of this general's mansion.

Su Rou asked the maids in the mansion to start preparing the things that Su and Meng would take away when they left, and submitted a memorial to the emperor early to inform him.

The emperor leaned over the desk, looked at the memorial in his hand, and sneered.

The eunuch standing by took a look and came forward, saying in a delicate and feminine voice, "Your Majesty, is there any problem with Captain Su's memorial?"

The emperor threw the memorial aside. "Su Rou told me that she wanted Su Chong to escort the two ladies of their family to the Southern Kingdom. She also explained why they wanted to go. The reason was well prepared in advance. But the head of the Yufang Yuan family will also be leaving in the next few days. I think she is afraid that her mother will be dragged into the struggle again."

The eunuch Chang said, "Your Majesty, do you disagree?"

The emperor said, "I agree. As long as Su Rou doesn't leave the capital, she will never escape from my control."

Su Rou sat in the yard, watching the maids in the mansion busily carrying the box out of the door and then moving it to the carriage outside.

Su Chong said, "Didn't you say we'd have to wait for a while? Why are you packing up now?"

Su Rou said, "Yuan Wen wants to leave the capital. The Northern Kingdom is currently at war with the Great Desert. To prevent the Northern Kingdom from being conquered, Yuan Wen wants to evacuate with the caravan first."

Su Chong said, "She doesn't trust Dad. Dad will definitely not come back."

Su Rou crossed her legs. "No, facing such a situation, we must protect themselves first. Big brother, you should also pack up and send my mother and the second wife to the Southern Kingdom and return immediately. Dad will lead the troops to set off. Although there are still enough troops left in the capital, the emperor probably won't be willing to use us for his own purposes. Bring some of the men and maids from our family with you to take care of them."

Su Chong said, "I understand. I'll be back right away after I send them off."

Yuan Wen had to set off on the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, so they couldn't pack much.

Although the Southern Kingdom was safe, Su Rou only asked them to take a small amount of silver.

Money is something outside of one's body, and she cannot guarantee that the servants in the mansion who followed her to the South Country would not have any ulterior motives.

That house is not like the general's mansion. There are people patrolling at night. She cannot arrange a large number of guards for Su and Meng, but it is still possible to arrange a dozen people.

Su Rou turned around and saw Su and Meng.

Su Rou flipped over and stood up, "Mother, why are you in the front yard?"

Su said, "Do we have to set off immediately?"

Su Rou shook her head, "Yuan Wen will leave on the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, so there's still time to prepare."

She glanced at the jewelry boxes and clothes worn by Su and Meng.

Su Rou said, "Mother, don't dress too conspicuously when you get to the South Country. If you have any trouble, go find Yuan Wen. The people in Yufang can only trust Yuan Wen."

Su nodded, took Su Rou's hand and patted the back of her hand gently.

"I'm afraid I won't be able to have a good New Year this year... Ah Rou, you're in the capital, so be careful."

Su Rou laughed dryly twice, her eyes slightly sore. In her previous life, she never got to celebrate the New Year with her father and mother...

They are all doing well now. Although it is a pity that they cannot get together for the New Year, she is also satisfied.

As long as they are all fine.

This is her only wish.

On the day of departure, Su Rou saw them out of the city gate.

Outside the city is the extremely deserted suburbs.

Just one door separates the inside and the outside, and there is a world of difference between them.

Originally, this city gate was very lively.

Su Chong was riding a horse at the front of the team, followed by more than a dozen carriages.

Yuan Wen opened the curtain, his brows full of worry, "Is it really okay for you to stay here alone?"

Su Rou nodded and said, "Hurry up and go, there's still some sunshine."

Yuan Wen called Su Rou, "Wait a minute, I have something for you."

Yuan Wen got out of the carriage, holding a huge birdcage in his hand.

Yuan Wen lifted the cloth covering the birdcage. "This was given to me by the people of the desert to thank me for spending money to save their people. There's a pair of them, and they can fly faster than ordinary pigeons. They're tamed. You get one, and I get one. If you need me, you can release them."

Su Rou looked at the falcon, which was still in its fledgling form in the cage.

This thing is a treasure...

Su Rou's eyes lit up as she looked at it, very pleased. "I've heard that the people of the desert are good at taming falcons. It's time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the people of the desert have invested a lot of energy in it. But is it okay if you give it to me?"

Yuan Wen shook his head, "It doesn't matter. If you give it to me, it's mine. If I give it to you, it's yours too."

Although Su Rou thought that the falcon was a good thing, she also understood that the people of the desert had other purposes in giving Yuan Wen two successfully trained falcons.

Su Rou accepted the birdcage and said, "Thank you."

After watching the team leave, Su Rou returned to the general's mansion carrying the birdcage. She stared into the eyes of the falcon in the cage and felt uneasy.

Su Rou stood up and asked the maid to go to the palace to invite a beast trainer.

The animal trainer had a small whip on his waist, came very quickly, and had some strange little gadgets on him.

The clothes on her body are like the style of the desert...

There was no such animal trainer in the palace originally, but there were so many little princes and princesses in the palace.

On the emperor's birthday that year, a concubine in the palace invited a troupe of horse-playing opera performers from outside the palace in order to win the emperor's favor.

The emperor loved them so much that they were kept in the palace and became the imperial cavalry.

She had seen it when she followed her father into the palace when she was young.

It's magical to say the least. It's really interesting to be able to make animals stand and perform acrobatics on the stage in different ways.

"I just checked this falcon. The desert people train falcons in pairs. One falcon flies out to find the other. There's only one way to check if this falcon is doing anything strange. Tie a letter to its leg and see which way it flies."

Su Rou raised her hand and said, "Tie an empty one to its leg and send someone to follow it."