GBP Chapter 352: Crossing Fellows
Chapter 352: Crossing Fellows
Ji Anni said, "Laide is still on the mountain. He won't be in danger."
Long Mohan shook his head and said, "He is just a small guard. The rebels don't need to kill him as a warning to others, and they don't need to use him as a hostage. They shouldn't make things difficult for him."
Ji Anni was no longer worried about Lai De, but she still felt a little unwilling to accept the situation. She sighed, "Alas, are we just going to watch them burn down the palace?"
No matter what the reason, burning the palace was too violent, and Ji Anni could not agree with it. The descendants of the mountain ghosts wanted to burn the palace to ashes based on a legend, which was too much.
"It doesn't matter. The reinforcements should be here soon. They won't be rampant for long." Long Mohan walked to the window anxiously, looking at the mountains and fields in the distance, hoping to see the flags of the reinforcements.
"Who is the leader of the Anti-Imperial Society? They seem to know everything about the palace. Otherwise, how could they know the date of Princess Tianning's wedding so quickly?" Ji Anni began to suspect that there was a spy from the Anti-Imperial Society in the palace. Because from the date of Princess Tianning's wedding to the deployment of the guard, even the well-trained imperial guards had many loopholes due to the tight time. How could the Anti-Imperial Society, which was based in Nandu, find out the loopholes of the imperial guards in a short time and ambush them in the woods where the guards were relatively lax?
"Maybe someone is tipping them off..." Long Mohan sighed as he looked out the window. Their suspicions were just suspicions, because there was no clue to investigate further.
"Hey, what is that?" Ji Anni came behind Long Mohan and imitated him, looking out the window. But Ji Anni's eyes did not fall on the mountain path, but on the Ebony Escort Agency across the street. In a yard behind the escort agency that seemed to be used for accommodation, above a house, there was a strange rack. The rack was in the shape of a net, with many thin wires distributed on it.
This shape is so familiar!
Ji Anni's eyes suddenly widened, and she wanted to fly over from the window to check what was going on. Isn't this strange frame an antenna?
But how could there be antennas in this era? Ji Anni was shocked and confused, and she scratched her head anxiously.
"What's wrong?" Long Mohan looked at her in confusion, not knowing why she suddenly became excited.
"Look there, look there, what is that?" Ji Annie excitedly grabbed Long Mohan's arm and shook it, pointing at the antenna-shaped device in the distance and yelled.
"What is what?" Long Mohan stretched his neck, not understanding what Ji Anni wanted to show him.
"It's that rack! It's the one that's crisscrossed, thick and thin, connected into a large piece, like a spider web!" Ji Annie jumped up on the spot excitedly.
"Ah!" Long Mohan finally saw it. He stared at the strange object for a long time, but still couldn't figure out what it was. He guessed casually: "It's probably a grape trellis, right?"
"Pfft." Ji Annie couldn't help laughing out loud. Long Mohan was so interesting. His brain structure was so unique that he could come up with such a novel answer as grape trellis.
But in fact, Ji Anni did not notice that it was not Long Mohan who had a strange brain structure, but herself. In the era of Tianyou Holy Dynasty, everyone's first reaction after seeing the strange rack should be that it was a grape rack, but only Ji Anni, a visitor from another time and space, would think that it was a communication device such as an antenna used to receive electromagnetic waves.
"Then what do you think that is?" Long Mohan was dissatisfied with Ji Annie's ridicule at him.
"I'll tell you, I'll tell you... Humph, forget it, you won't understand anyway." Ji Anni swallowed the words that came to her lips. Instead of spending time explaining to Long Mohan what an antenna is, she might as well rush to the scene to see what it is. From a rational point of view, Ji Anni also found it hard to believe that the mesh she saw was really an antenna, but if it wasn't an antenna, what else could it be?
In order to solve this problem, Ji Anni said to Long Mohan: "Brother, you just went out for a walk, now it's my turn to go out for some fresh air, okay?"
"What are you talking about? Are you trying to sneak into the Ebony Escort Agency?" Long Mohan is indeed Long Mohan. He saw through Ji Anni's plan at a glance.
"What do you mean by sneaking in? I walked in openly and asked them what that... that antenna was."
"You can go if you want. I'll go with you." Long Mohan's husband not only has to work part-time as a brother and father, but also as a personal bodyguard.
"No, you should have a good rest." Ji Anni didn't want to bring another burden with her. (Let's not talk about who is the real burden for now.)
"Can you walk?" Long Mohan's eyes tilted downwards and fell on Ji Annie's ankle.
"Of course I can walk. I feel much better after applying the medicine." Ji Anni had already walked many laps in the room. If Long Mohan hadn't reminded her, she would have almost forgotten that she had injured her foot.
"No, if you want to go out, I must go with you. Don't forget, your current body..."
"It's Zhao Ji's, right?" Ji Anni spoke quickly and said the second half of the sentence before Long Mohan finished speaking.
"I'm glad you know." It is said that a prime minister has a broad mind, and Long Mohan's tolerance for Ji Anni can really be said to have reached the level of being able to drive an 80-ton oil tanker like the Knock Nevis in his stomach.
"Well, you are the emperor anyway, you have the final say." Ji Anni shrugged. Although she said it very aggrievedly, she actually knew in her heart that Long Mohan was accompanying her to protect her because he cared about her.
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Arriving at the main entrance of Wumu Escort Agency, I was frightened by the fierce guards. There were only two guards, each holding a large machete with a green glow. If they stood on the execution ground, they would look like executioners, which was intimidating and people dared not approach. Ji Anni also mustered up a lot of courage to dare to walk up to them and ask, "Two brothers, we are here to look for someone. Can you tell them?"
"Looking for someone? Who?" One of the executioners replied. His voice was like a jet plane, causing Ji Annie's eardrums to hurt.
Long Mohan answered for Ji Anni, who was so busy covering her ears that she forgot to speak, "His surname is Tang, his name is Jinglan, and he just came into our room and took two arrows away."
The escorts of the Wumu Escort Agency were no worse than the Imperial Guards in terms of martial arts. If they tried to sneak into the escort agency, they would undoubtedly be playing with their own heads, so Long Mohan and Ji Anni decided to find Tang Jinglan as a guide. In short, they would first enter the escort agency and then slowly approach the strange room with the antenna installed. In terms of family background and skills, Tang Jinglan could be regarded as a well-known figure in the Wumu Escort Agency, and the executioners had also heard of his name.
"Wait here for a moment." One of the executioners turned and left, probably to make an announcement.
Ji Anni and Long Mohan waited at the door for about a quarter of an hour, and Tang Jinglan's familiar figure finally appeared in front of them.
"Miss, brother..." Tang Jinglan bowed to them and looked at them in confusion, not understanding why they suddenly came to visit.
"Brother Tang, we have something to ask you. Didn't you say that if we need help, you would go through fire and water for us?" Ji Anni winked at Kang Jinglan.
Tang Jinglan didn't remember when he had said "go through fire and water", but he was kind by nature, so even when faced with a request from someone like Ji Anni, whom he had only met once, he did not refuse, and kindly asked, "May I ask what trouble the lady has encountered?"
"Let's go in and talk slowly." Long Mohan pulled Ji Anni and took half a step toward the door.
He was afraid that Ji Anni would tell the truth and say that they wanted to check the antenna hut. If the two fierce-looking guards heard this, they might regard them as spies and refuse to let them pass.
"Oh, okay." Tang Jinglan put aside the past grudges and remained friendly and kind to Long Mohan.
Seeing that they knew each other, the two guards no longer doubted the identities of Ji Anni and Long Mohan and let them pass.
With his back to the main entrance, Tang Jinglan led them around the corridor and walked forward about a hundred steps. Seeing that there was no one around, he asked, "Miss, brother, what on earth do you want to do?"
"To be honest, Brother Tang, we want to find a room." Ji Annie went straight to the point. She looked around while speaking and had already started looking for the target cottage.
"Room?" Tang Jinglan stopped and turned to look at Ji Anni and Long Mohan in confusion. Many people came to Wumu Escort Agency to look for people, and many people came to look for trouble, but this was the first time he heard of someone coming to look for a room.
Ji Anni said, "I wonder if Brother Tang knows, it's in the northwest corner of the escort agency, there's a room with a lot of antennas installed on the roof." After saying this, she realized that maybe Tang Jinglan didn't understand what "antenna" was, so she kindly explained, "In short, it's a room with a lot of nets installed on the roof, very much like spider webs."
"Girl, how do you know about antennas?" Tang Jinglan stared at Ji Anni in great surprise.
"I, of course I know, but...but how did you know?" Ji Anni's eyes were no smaller than Tang Jinglan's.
They stared at each other, and suddenly, an incredible idea emerged in their minds at the same time.
They were like revolutionaries who had suddenly exchanged secret codes. They just wanted to hold each other's hands tightly and said tearfully, "Comrades, we will meet again in this life."
Thinking of this, Ji Anni rushed forward excitedly, grabbed Tang Jinglan's sleeve and asked, "No way, are you also... are you also..."
"Girl, could it be that you... could it be that you..." Kang Jinglan was so excited that she couldn't speak. She held Ji Anni's hand tightly and almost pulled her to dance with her.
"What's wrong with you?" Long Mohan was confused and had no idea what was going on.
Ji Anni and Tang Jinglan stared at each other's face without blinking. They both shouted excitedly at the same time: "Are you also a time traveler?"