Jun Mohan immediately opened the secret door in his bedroom leading to the hot spring room, then led the others into his hot spring room, intending to escape the capital through a secret passage within it.
Actually, the hot spring water in Jun Mohan's secret hot spring pool was also channeled in from the outside through a secret passage. Its source was in the same cave where Leng Ruoli had discovered Jun Mohan bathing last time.
At this moment, Jun Mohan was leading a few people out through this hot spring water channel.
It took the group the time it takes for an incense stick to burn before they emerged from the secret passage, arriving at the cave where Jun Mohan had bathed last time. However, due to Leng Ruoli’s sudden intrusion last time, Jun Mohan had ordered the cave entrance that Leng Ruoli had used to be blocked. Now, he was leading them out through a different opening.
After walking for only five or six minutes, Jun Mohan and Leng Ruoli emerged from a house. Outside the door, an old man with white hair was chopping firewood in the courtyard.
Upon seeing Jun Mohan, the old man quickly bowed, "This old servant greets Your Highness, Your Highness Consort!"
"Uncle Liang, there are no outsiders here, you need not be so formal." Jun Mohan walked up to Liang Bo and immediately helped him up.
"Your Highness, some courtesies cannot be dispensed with!" Liang Bo insisted.
"Your Highness, who is this Uncle Liang? I've never seen him before," Leng Ruoli asked, leaning close to Jun Mohan's ear in confusion.
"Uncle Liang was a servant of my birth mother when she was alive. He was extremely loyal to her. After my birth mother passed away, he has been living alone guarding this residence. Previously, he also came to the Leng Prince's residence to drink our wedding wine on our wedding day," Jun Mohan explained.
Upon hearing this, Leng Ruoli raised her eyebrows, nodded, and said earnestly, "Oh, so that's how it is!"
Jun Mohan lowered his gaze to look at the expression on Leng Ruoli's face, a subtle smile curving his lips. This little woman must be overthinking again.
"Uncle Liang, are our carriages ready?" Jun Mohan asked immediately.
"Your Highness, I have prepared two carriages for you," Liang Bo replied respectfully.
"Good, thank you, Uncle Liang," Jun Mohan said very courteously.
Afterward, the group walked out of the courtyard, got into the carriages. Jun Mohan and Leng Ruoli took the first carriage, Yin Chen and Chu Mingxuan took the second carriage. Yin Yi and Yin Er each drove a carriage, and they slowly drove towards the woods.
The scenery outside the carriages was beautiful all the way. Covered in silver, the entire world was white.
After driving for half an hour, the two carriages emerged from the woods and onto the main road.
The road on the main path was much smoother than in the woods, not as bumpy. Leng Ruoli soon fell asleep, resting her head on the table inside the carriage. Jun Mohan, on the other hand, had been reading a military book the entire journey.
Leng Ruoli didn't know how long she had slept when the carriage suddenly stopped and jolted, waking her up.
Upon waking, Leng Ruoli discovered she was actually sleeping in Jun Mohan's arms.
"Lier, you're awake. I was afraid you'd hit the carriage wall, so I picked you up."
Leng Ruoli felt a bit speechless upon hearing this. If he was going to hold her, why make such a clumsy excuse?
Leng Ruoli ignored Jun Mohan, climbed up from his embrace, and rubbed her stiff neck.
"Where are we?" Leng Ruoli asked casually.
"We've just arrived at Qingyun County, not far from the capital. It's too late today, so I'll find an inn to stay for the night," Jun Mohan said calmly.
Hearing this, Leng Ruoli glanced out the carriage window. It was already pitch black. With the snow, the temperature at night would be very low, so it was better to find an inn for the night.
Then, Jun Mohan scooped up the drowsy Leng Ruoli from the carriage and led the group into the inn.
The inn looked quite large at first glance. There were two tables of guests drinking and eating in the hall. Behind the counter, a tall and thin middle-aged man who looked like the innkeeper was constantly manipulating an abacus, seemingly calculating accounts, but it looked rather strange.
Two waiters who were busy wiping tables saw guests enter. They casually tossed their towels over their shoulders and approached with smiles, greeting them, "Guests, please come in! Are you here to eat or to stay?"
"We'll eat first, then prepare three superior rooms for us," Jun Mohan said faintly.
"Certainly!"
The two waiters replied readily.
One waiter immediately beckoned them to sit and take their order, while the other went to arrange their rooms.
"Guests, what would you like to order?" The waiter who was taking their order placed the menu on the table and asked as he poured them tea.
As soon as he finished speaking, Jun Mohan and the others remained silent. Leng Ruoli looked up, glanced at everyone, and said slowly, "Waiter, bring us all your restaurant's best signature dishes, and then a pot of rice."
After ordering, Leng Ruoli took out two taels of silver from her sleeve and handed it to the waiter.
The waiter took the silver, his eyes lighting up, and replied with a beaming smile, "Certainly! Guests, I'll arrange it right away."
The waiter then trotted to the counter with the silver, handed it to the innkeeper to record in the ledger, and then ran into the kitchen to instruct the chef to cook.
"Your Highness, Your Highness Consort, I feel the atmosphere of this inn is very strange," Yin Chen said in a low voice that only a few could hear.
"The atmosphere is indeed very strange, because the people sitting behind us are assassins," Leng Ruoli said calmly. She had felt a hidden killing intent from those two tables as soon as she entered.
Upon hearing this, Jun Mohan nodded.
"Indeed, those two tables are full of killers. Even those two waiters and the innkeeper who's calculating are killers," Jun Mohan said with a composed expression.
"What! Even those two waiters? Jun Mohan, how did you see that?" Leng Ruoli asked, full of suspicion. She had observed the waiters carefully, but how could she not have noticed? Ah, her detective skills were really declining.
"Because their internal energy is very high, and they are deliberately concealing it, so it's normal that you didn't notice them," Jun Mohan explained patiently.
"Sigh—"
Leng Ruoli sighed.
Having been in this ancient era for several months, she always felt that it was more dangerous than navigating through poisonous dens and battling in her previous life.
Every few days, she was either being assassinated or schemed against. Tonight, she had even entered a black inn. Her heart felt so weary!
Leng Ruoli mentally complained fiercely for a while about the worrying public security.
Then, she slowly took out six antidote pills from her sleeve and handed them to everyone, saying with a smile, "To prevent them from poisoning us, quickly eat the antidote pills I gave you."
As soon as she finished speaking, Jun Mohan, taking the lead, swallowed the antidote pill in his hand.