“When you pulled the door, was it just at Xu time (7-9 PM)?” Si Hongjing confirmed.
“Yes.”
“I was near the warehouse of the camp at that time.”
Si Hongjing immediately had a guess in his mind:
“Could it be that the passage isn’t fixed, but rather the door closest to us?”
“Possible!” Yuan Ying instantly recalled their first meeting and suddenly realized: “You were on the city tower at that time, and the closest door was the city gate, so that’s why I appeared at the city gate!?”
So that’s how it was.
Although they didn’t know why they could meet through the door, they could now confirm that the time of travel was after Xu time (7-9 PM), and the location was the door closest to the other person.
“But, are you always touching the bedroom door as the first door after every Xu time (7-9 PM)?” Yuan Ying asked curiously.
Si Hongjing nodded.
There was no door in the camp tent, and there was no need for him to open the doors in the camp.
Yuan Ying nodded along with him.
She hadn’t left the house after 7 PM during this period, and Si Hongjing always came to the villa.
That’s why they didn’t discover this until now.
Although there was a cool breeze in the mountains, the pork would easily spoil if left for too long, so after Si Hongjing confirmed that Yuan Ying was okay, he moved the pork away first.
The thin soldiers were dozing off against the wall, dreaming that all the soldiers in the camp had meat to eat.
Not the sporadic shreds of meat in the meat soup, but large chunks of meat.
Suddenly woken up by the general, they opened their eyes and saw a large pile of pork, and their mouths were drooling with joy:
“General! Did the god give so much meat again? She is really uniquely kind to you!”
The speaker didn’t mean much, but the listener took it to heart.
Si Hongjing felt awkward in his heart and pretended to be angry:
“What nonsense are you talking about! Hurry up and get to work!”
The soldiers didn’t care about his attitude and happily went to work, carrying the meat while humming a little tune in their hearts, not minding the weight of the meat at all.
……
The next day.
Yuan Ying pulled the door again at Xu time (7-9 PM).
Outside the villa was still yesterday’s warehouse.
It seemed that he was still busy in the military camp.
Yuan Ying closed the door without any probing actions, and didn’t mention anything about her opening the door today after Si Hongjing arrived.
He greeted Yuan Ying as usual every day, and didn’t notice anything unusual.
In the next two days, Yuan Ying opened the door twice, and outside the door was the military camp’s warehouse. Seeing that the number of medicine boxes was decreasing, Yuan Ying secretly noted it down, and decided to prepare more.
On the third day at Xu time (7-9 PM), Yuan Ying opened the door.
The scene in front of her finally changed.
It was Si Hongjing’s bedroom.
The Jin Kingdom wouldn’t attack for the time being, so Dongping Pass should be quite safe, right?
She hesitated for a moment in front of the door, then went back to the room to change into the clothes Si Hongjing had brought her last time, casually pinned up her hair with a hairpin, and walked out of the gate.
The sound of rushing water rang out behind the screen on the right.
Yuan Ying looked over, and couldn’t see who it was in the dim light, but she had seen Si Hongjing wear the clothes draped on the screen.
She didn’t expect to run into him taking a bath.
Yuan Ying didn’t say hello, and tiptoed out of the door that the servants hadn’t closed properly.
“Who’s there?”
Si Hongjing keenly noticed someone.
But when he put on his clothes and came out, he saw the door shaking slightly, but there was no one there.
He closed the door of the bedroom, and went to soak in the herbal bath prepared by the medical officer again, thinking about what Yuan Ying would like to eat and play in the future, not knowing that the person he was thinking about had quietly arrived.
After Yuan Ying slipped out, she kept searching along the walls, and after a long time, she finally found a dog hole.
It was a bit short, but she could crawl through.
She didn’t hesitate to crouch down and crawl through, and then walked towards the place where there were voices and lights.
It wasn’t that she didn’t want to tell Si Hongjing.
It was just that she had been a public figure in modern times for a long time, and she didn’t want to be surrounded by people when she came to ancient times.
If she was with Si Hongjing, the ‘Great General’, then her little wish would not be realized.
“Girl, would you like to come in and take a look?”
“This hairpin suits you very well, would you like to try it on?”
She should have walked to a place similar to a modern ‘pedestrian street’.
Unlike the harsh and desolate environment of the border she imagined, the street was quite lively, with many vendors and people, and children chasing and playing from time to time, which seemed very popular.
Looking at this scene, she couldn’t help but feel a little emotional.
It must be very difficult to create such a peaceful and happy scene in the border area that has been in war for years.
He is indeed a heroic figure.
When passing by a wonton stall, Yuan Ying was warmly invited by the stall owner, so she sat down and ordered a bowl of wontons.
However, the seasonings were limited more than a thousand years ago, so these wontons were really not delicious.
But thinking about the situation in the military camp, she still ate the bowl of wontons clean, and handed the stall owner a piece of broken silver.
The stall owner couldn’t break the silver, so he went to exchange coins with the waiter at the next stall, and Yuan Ying sat there waiting, planning to leave after walking to the end of the street.
But……
“Have you heard? The general is an ominous person! He is the ‘lone star of heavenly evil’ said by the Imperial Observatory! Maybe the constant wars in our Dongping Pass are because of him!”
“Definitely! Otherwise, how could he, as a prince, be driven to our place?”
“He is really a scourge! He has harmed us so badly!”
Yuan Ying was stunned, and suddenly looked at the men sitting at the next table, and her anger surged up.
Si Hongjing is doing so much for the people, shouldn’t he be supported and loved by all the people in the city?
How dare they say such unconscionable words?
“What nonsense are you talking about!” Suddenly, a female voice rang out, angrily, “If it weren’t for General Si Hong guarding, you would have been killed by the Jin army long ago!”
“They risk their lives to protect you, how dare you say such heartless words?”
Yuan Ying looked over.
She saw that the woman was about thirty years old, her face flushed with anger, her hands on her hips, looking like she was going to scold those men to death.
She followed the woman and mocked those men:
“Heh, if he is the ‘lone star of heavenly evil’, why haven’t you died yet?”
“If you don’t know how the people of Shuoguan died, I’ll tell you, men were beheaded and torn apart, and women were raped to death, why don’t you let your family try it first?”
“Or do you think, why can you still sit here and eat wontons peacefully when the war is going on? If it weren’t for him as your protector, you would have been thrown into the animal realm and slaughtered countless times!”
Those men were angered by Yuan Ying and the woman, and rolled up their sleeves to start a fight.
Seeing this, the strange woman pulled Yuan Ying behind her and took a protective stance.
Fortunately, many people had gathered around at this time and condemned them.
In the end, these people could only give Yuan Ying and them a resentful look, turned around and ran away.
“Thank you, girl.”
Yuan Ying secretly breathed a sigh of relief and thanked the woman who was standing in front of her.
“You spoke so generously for the general, I should be thanking you…” The woman turned around while speaking, but when her eyes met Yuan Ying’s, her voice suddenly stopped.