Chapter 310 (2/2)

Of course, none of these matters had anything to do with Ji Man. In the midst of that heavy rain, Ji Man never looked back as she had got into Errong's carriage while bring Dengxin along.

Ning Yuxuan silently watched as the carriage moved farther and farther way.

Inside the carriage, Errong squeezed her friend's ice-cold hand and said, ”Forget about everything else. You can just live with me in the future.”

Nie Qingyun was still wearing his prison clothing and sitting across from them. His eyes were blood red.

”How can I forget?” Ji Man partially closed her eyes. ”Errong, after we find an inn and change out of our wet clothes, I'll share a carriage with my older brother, and you ride another carriage by yourself.”

”Why?” Errong tightened her grip on her hand. ”What are you planning?”

Ji Man curved the corners of her lips. ”If I was the second prince, I definitely wouldn't allow any members of Nie Clan to leave the capital alive.”

Stunned, Errong suddenly became panicky. ”He took the late emperor's imperial edict. He can't go back on his words, ah.”

”In the face of imperial power, only a muddled-headed idiot would keep his words.” Ji Man took a deep breath, then she looked at her and said, ”It was outside of my expectations that you would come here to save my older brother.”

She had originally though that it would be very difficult for Nie Qingyun to escape too.

Errong glanced at Qingyun, then she pursed her lips and said, ”He thinks that I'm an idiot. It's not like I'm someone that doesn't know anything. At first, I was really sad when I went back to my maiden home, but as soon as my father explained the matter, I understood what Qingyun had been thinking.”

Ji Man nodded. ”It's good that the two of you can mutually understand each other. Older brother, you want to keep living too, right?”

Nie Qingyun clenched his fist. ”If I don't keep living, then I wouldn't be worthy of Errong come from so faraway to save me.”

”Let's stop at that inn up front and send the servants to buy clothes for us to change into as well as hiring another carriage.” Ji Man squeezed the edge of her thoroughly wet clothes and lightly said, ”After that's done, just follow my plan.”

Errong glanced at Nie Qingyun in worry. ”Nothing bad will happen, right?”

”It'll depend on our luck.” Ji Man wryly smiled. ”We're going to have to do something dangerous if we want to escape with our lives. Besides, we don't have anyone to help us.”

One of the carriage's wheels suddenly got stuck in a water-filled pothole, and the carriage stopped. While the three people inside this carriage were startled, Dengxin and Baizhi had already gotten off from their carriage and walked to the carriage in the front. Holding up umbrellas, one of them said, ”Masters, please leave the carriage. We have to pull the wheel out of the pothole.”

Ji Man parted the carriage's curtain to look. There happened to be an unremarkable-looking inn by the carriage. Because of the heavy rain, there weren't many pedestrians on the streets.

”Let's change our clothes here.”

Errong nodded in agreement, and they went inside the inn. They had one of the inn's staff lead their horses to the stable to get them fed, then they sent him off to purchase another carriage for them.

Ji Man and Nie Qingyun looked like two bedraggled drowned rats. Fortunately, the innkeeper didn't ask any curious questions and just led them up the stairs. He even warm-heartedly brought over two commoner outfits for them to change into.