Chapter 1399

Seeing Duan Liuqing, Zhang Lu smiled slightly, then walked forward a few steps and arrived near Duan Liuqing.

"Qing'er."

Zhang Lu greeted Duan Liuqing with a smile.

Duan Liuqing, standing around the camp tent, placed her hands in front of her, bowed, and said, "My Lord, this slave dare not. My Lord can just call this slave Xiaoqing."

"Haha, still so distant, aren't you?" Zhang Lu said with his hands behind his back. "Didn't I tell you? No need to be so polite with me. What My Lord or not My Lord? You can just call this official by his name."

Duan Liuqing lowered her head and shook it, replying, "This slave dare not. There is an order of respect and inferiority; this slave is a slave, and My Lord is My Lord."

Hearing Duan Liuqing say this, Zhang Lu not only did not get angry, but the smile on his face became even thicker.

"I just like you like this."

"You say, what is wrong with following me? Why do you have to do these things?" Zhang Lu glanced at the surrounding maidservants.

The maidservants who heard Zhang Lu's voice all looked at Duan Liuqing with envious eyes.

"My Lord, the Lady has a life-saving grace to this slave; this slave should repay the Lady." Duan Liuqing lowered her head.

To say it was a life-saving grace, it was not entirely true.

At that time, after she jumped into the river from Caoyang Pavilion, she did not know where she had been washed to; when she woke up, she found that she had already been saved by a merchant caravan.

But at that time, because her body was weak and she had serious injuries, she could not move or speak.

Just like that, she followed the merchant caravan and recovered from her injuries.

By the time the injuries on her body were healed, she had already arrived in Shu Commandery.

That pair of merchants were selling silk.

They mainly came to Shu Commandery to stock up on goods and then sell them to Jingzhou, Yangzhou, and other places.

The group of merchants who saved her at the beginning did not have any good intentions in saving her.

They just saw that she was good-looking and planned to sell her after her injuries were healed.

If she could not heal and died, they would just throw her away; anyway, it was a business without capital, so it was appropriate no matter how they calculated it.

After arriving in Shu Commandery, the injuries on Duan Liuqing's body had already recovered, so those merchants treated her as a slave to be sold.

She wanted to just walk away at that time; after all, that group of merchants could not stop her.

But coincidentally, she met Zhang Lu's mother.

She was bought as a slave by Zhang Lu's mother.

Escaping from a group of merchants was certainly easier than escaping from a beautiful woman's home.

So Duan Liuqing followed Zhang Lu's mother back to the mansion.

But after returning to Zhang Lu's mother's mansion, she discovered one thing.

Zhang Lu's mother actually had dealings with the Governor of Yizhou, Liu Yan.

As a member of the Military Intelligence Department.

Duan Liuqing knew better than anyone what a good opportunity this was.

Being able to stay by Zhang Lu's mother's side was equivalent to being able to approach the Governor of Yizhou, Liu Yan, at any time.

And from Zhang Lu's mother's mouth, she could also learn a lot of intelligence about Yizhou.

So Duan Liuqing did not leave but lurked by Zhang Lu's mother's side, preparing to act at the appropriate time.

As for the news that she was still alive, she had already found a way to send it out, but it had been two or three months, and she had not received a reply.

"If you become my concubine, it can be considered repaying my mother's life-saving grace," Zhang Lu said. "Being my concubine, isn't it better than being a slave?"

Duan Liuqing, with her head lowered, had a flash of disgust and sharpness in her eyes.

Just when Duan Liuqing was about to refuse Zhang Lu.

A fast horse came rushing toward this side.

Then the soldier on the horse arrived outside the tent where Liu Yan was.

"Reporting to the Governor, there is an urgent letter from the city." The soldier did not dare to enter the camp tent and only dared to stand outside.

Before Liu Yan could speak, Zhang Lu's mother's voice came from inside the camp tent.

"Really, you have already left the city, can't you hide for a while and have some peace?"

Then there was Liu Yan's verbal comfort.

"Qing'er, you bring the letter in."

Zhang Lu's mother's voice sounded in the tent.

Duan Liuqing looked up at Zhang Lu, then bowed and performed a salute, then turned and headed toward the tent.

After taking the letter from the soldier, Duan Liuqing lowered her head and walked into the tent.

The tent was filled with the fragrance of wine, and Zhang Lu's mother, with half of her dress taken off, revealing her snow-white shoulders, was sitting beside Liu Yan.

Her charming face was full of unhappiness.

"Beauty, don't mind it. No matter what happens today, I will stay here and accompany you." Liu Yan said while comforting Zhang Lu's mother, and took the letter from the soldier.

Duan Liuqing knelt on the side, and before she could get up to take her leave, she saw Liu Yan stand up from his seat with a sudden jerk.

Zhang Lu's mother on the side was startled by Liu Yan's unexpected movement and let out a cry.

"This..."

Liu Yan's face changed greatly after looking at the content of the letter.

"What's wrong? So urgent, you scared me to death." Zhang Lu's mother complained in a coquettish voice.

Liu Yan did not speak but looked at Zhang Lu's mother and then immediately straightened his clothes.

"There is an important matter in the city; I must go back immediately."

"Beauty, I am really sorry today; I have broken my promise again, but this time it is really a very urgent matter."

"Another day, another day I will definitely accompany you well, Beauty."

Liu Yan said while walking out from behind the seat.

Zhang Lu's mother looked at Liu Yan, who was walking out of the camp tent, with a resentful expression, and angrily put back on the robe that had slipped off her shoulders.

"Let's go, go back." Zhang Lu's mother twisted her body and said, "Important matters every day, important matters every day."

Duan Liuqing, with her head lowered, had her eyes flowing, having completely remembered Liu Yan's expression just now in her heart.

That night.

The Governor's mansion in Chengdu city.

Liu Yan sat in the main seat in the deliberation hall with a dark face.

Footsteps sounded one after another outside the hall.

The Yizhou Attendant Jia Long, as well as Dong Fu, who had originally persuaded Liu Yan to request to be the Governor of Yizhou, and Zhao Wei, a man from Shu Commandery who had followed Liu Yan all the way from Luoyang to Yizhou, walked into the hall one after another. ===== CHAPTER 1401 =====