Perfect Encounter - Chapter 1.2
Chapter 1.2
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She couldn’t be at ease. Her feet were not fast enough, and the old driver may not be tight-lipped. When An Ping catches up with him, he may know she got off the cart here, and they will continue to chase her. She had to run. From this forest down, there will be another road down the mountain. If she is lucky, she may be able to get on another carriage and escape from this tiger’s mouth.
An Ruochen has never been a pessimistic person.
When she was a child, her father married a second wife, a third wife, and even a fourth wife and a fifth wife, and her mother, with tears streaming down her face became desperate. She felt it was a way of acknowledging her father’s lack of conscience and affection, but life should go on.
Then her mother died and she was bullied by the concubines, while her father did not care about her. Her old nanny was sad and worried about her every day. But she felt that since there was still a bowl of rice for her, she could survive.
What’s that saying? If you stay in the green hills, you will not be afraid of lacking wood to burn.
She grew up and actively tried to find a way out for herself. A good marriage was not something she wanted to have. The good ones didn’t look at her family. The ones flattering her father were not interested in her, who is out of favor. Naturally, she could not be interested in them either. Finally, it dragged on until now. The day before yesterday, she turned 18. At this age, if she is not married yet, it will cause gossip to spread..
Her father was not afraid of gossip. He even thought of using her to ask for an advantage. Marry her to the wealthy Qian Pei of Fu’an County, who has passed his prime, in exchange for a business opportunity.
An Ruochen did not know what kind of shit her father has in his head.
Although Qian Pei is wealthy, powerful, and well-connected, his reputation is as bad as a rat in the gutter. Qian Pei could be her father’s father, and her father still wanted him to be his son-in-law.
When the news of the betrothal came, and the maids cried, but An Ruochen did not cry. She didn’t have time to cry. She knew it was time for her to act. Since her mother died when she was ten, she expected she might come upon this day. She took every opportunity to learn the terrain in and out of the city. She saved every coin she could and learned crafts women could use to make a living. She made friends and asked for directions.
LIfe must go on, but not necessarily in a rat’s nest.
An Ruochen felt there was always a way out. Although she never left the family home too far, she fled decisively.
Now, An Ruochen ran down. The forest was big and the mountain was steep. In front of her there was sloping grass. After getting through this grass, she could go down the mountain. Once she reaches the bottom of the mountain, she will be able to find a good opportunity ……
Her brain has not yet finished thinking when An Ruochen tripped over a rock. She fell on her face. This was not the worst. The mountain had a steep slope and she rolled down the mountain.
The sky was spinning, and her head got dizzy.
An Rochen screamed and rolled down. There were two thoughts in her head. First, why are the rocks always against her? Second, luckily she has wrapped her chest. Big boobs are a mistake. It’s good that she has prepared in advance, otherwise, if they’re crushed, the consequences would be unthinkable.
Before her brain finished, she stopped rolling.
Her head hit the ground with a soft “ping” and her forehead hurt as if she hit a rock.
An Ruochen does not speak foul language, so she rubbed her head while looking up and chanting, “Pigs, dogs, cows, sheep, chickens, ducks, and geese.”
“Uh…..” It turned out it wasn’t a rock. It was a foot wearing a hard and shiny boot.
“……” Even if it was a boot, it can’t be as hard as a rock.
An Ruochen looked upward along with the boots. Thick thighs and narrow waist. A powerful chest that could not be hidden under the clothes. And further up, there was a cold and hard face as if chiseled in stone.
That face was now looking down at her. Without expression, without surprise, without doubt, without anger. As if to him, a girl rolling down out of nowhere to lie at his feet is equivalent to nothing.
Wait a minute, not lying down.
It is kneeling!
An Ruochen realized her posture was indecent. She was about to get up with her hands when she noticed something from the corner of her eye. She quickly turned her head. She was dumbfounded!
At the other end of the road, a large group of soldier brothers sat or stood close together. They were beyond the range of the number An Ruochen could estimate at a glance. What was even more frightening was that the soldier brothers were quiet. They looked at An Ruochen and the stone-faced man with an interested face.
An Ruochen froze.
God, a large group of men witnessed her wretchedly roll down the mountain to kneel at a man’s feet!
An Ruochen’s face burned like fire.
She was embarrassed. There seemed to be a thousand words ranting inside her brain but she couldn’t choke out half a word. With “pigs, dogs, cows, sheep, chickens, ducks and geese” could not express half of the annoyance she hid in her heart.
Just pretend she didn’t fall or kneel, can she?
An Ruochen looked at the big man’s expression again, then decided on her own: Yes!
She climbed up, saw her bag fall at the feet of the man, and was about to pick it up and continue to escape, when she heard a loud shout from the slope behind her: ” Young miss!”
An Ruochen’s whole body’s hair stood on end.
She didn’t look back. Her mind was spinning fast.
What to do?
It was impossible to run away now. Moreover, she couldn’t let them go back and report to her father that she had escaped with her belongings. She would have all her things confiscated and would get locked up in her room until she got married. She can’t be in such a passive situation just waiting to die.
If she fails to escape this time, she could still wait for the next time. With the green hills there, there was no need to be afraid of a lack of firewood. She just had to leave a way back for herself.
An Ruochen’s heart was pounding when she heard An Ping calling her as they rushed down the hill behind her. She turned her head and saw many flags flying high in a large procession of soldiers and generals across the road. A large flag with red letters on a black background stood out. The flag was embroidered with a powerful “Long” letter.
An Ruochen suddenly reacted to the big man in front of her wearing – an official uniform. She shook the man’s hand: “General Long, I finally get to see you!”
When the words left her mouth, An Ping and the others happened to stand at her side.
An Ruochen did not seem to notice them and continued loudly, “I have heard of General Long’s great name, and I have long admired you. I’ve heard about the Tiger Head Hill, where one man killed a hundred bandits and saved the villagers. The Iron Tree Ridge, where a dozen soldiers repelled a thousand enemy soldiers. The Baiyun River, where you defended Ningcheng with a boat formation, all of which I’ve heard a hundred times, and I’ve been hoping to see your real face. God has the eyes to let the General come to our city. I had to go through a lot of trouble to come here to see you. Now, I have gotten what I wanted. I have no regrets. God has blessed me.”
She was talking nonsense smoothly with enthusiasm and had no shame in her eyes. Her two hands squeezed the palm of “General Long” with force.
In the past few days, there has been news in Zhonglan City. The famous General Long Teng will be stationed in Pingnan County with his troops. Zhonglan City was decorated with lights to welcome this big man. So this was him, right? General Long?
An Ruochen carefully looked at this man’s appearance. Twenty-something years old, thick eyebrows, big eyes, straight nose and thin lips. He looked stern, his face full of frost but still handsome.
An Ruochen’s heart pounded, not by his handsomeness, but because this man was too young, and the legendary image of the invincible brave general was a bit mismatched. What if she called the wrong person?
She heard about several ranks of generals in the army and some kind of main and secondary generals, and she was always confused when the storyteller talked about it. She had little knowledge and did not know what rank the official uniform in front of her was.
An Ruochen has gone through several different responses in her head.
The General’s facial expression changed a little. He pursed the corners of his mouth and raised one eyebrow.
Like a smile yet not a smile.
An Ruochen’s heart beat faster. She could not see the meaning of his expression. Is it to ridicule her lack of attitude or to laugh at her mistaking his identity?