"Chen Ji, do you have any prejudice against me?"

"No."

Zhang Xia's eyes widened: "Then why are you so arrogant in front of the princess, but you haven't given me a good look? I asked your cat if he eats food given by strangers, and you said it's ridiculous for him to eat strangers. "?" Chen Ji leaned against a big tree with a knife and remained silent, and the forest fell into dead silence.

Previously, there were sounds of Mr. Feng and Pegasus fighting each other from time to time on the mountain. The sound of tearing wood fibers when trees fell down could be heard from a long distance away. But now, the sound of fighting has also disappeared.

The four of them looked at each other. Each of them had burning ashes on their faces, and their faces were as dark as a power stick that had just been drilled out of a coal mine. The prince suddenly spoke to ease the atmosphere: "Bai Li, let me help." You wipe your face."

After saying that, he was about to pull up his sleeves to wipe it, but Bai Li fended him off weakly, and said angrily: "You want to write the word "王" on my forehead again?" They looked at each other, and laughed as they looked at each other. Made a sound.

The prince looked to his left at Zhang Xia, then at Chen Ji, and suddenly said with emotion: "After all, we have lived and died together. If there was any estrangement in the past, let it go."

Zhang Xia thought for a moment, patted the dust on his body generously, came to Chen Ji and said solemnly: "Sorry, I know you are angry. I just said, 'Human life is more important than cat life.' Looking back now, if Zaozao was in the sea of ​​fire, , I should also think of ways to save it. I’m sorry.”

She put the oil paper bag into Chen Ji's hand and said, "You can eat them all."

Chen Ji lowered his head and looked at the snacks in his hand. He didn't expect Zhang Xia to be so honest. He was silent for a moment and said, "Thank you for coming to find me. If you hadn't knocked over so many soldiers and set off this mountain fire, I wouldn't have been able to do it." We can escape alive." Zhang Xia shook his head: "Needless to say, if you hadn't led us to escape into the military town before, we would have froze to death in the mountains."

The prince couldn't laugh or cry: "Stop, stop, why are you taking turns to be polite? I'm so polite that I get goosebumps... Where are we going now?"

Chen Ji took out a piece of snack and put it to Wu Yun's mouth: "Go to Luhun Villa as soon as possible. There are many literati, Taoists and Buddhists there. I think even if the Liu family finds our traces, they will not dare to do anything there. Your son, Miss Zhang Er , you and the princess get on your horses, I will clear the way in front."

Zhang Xia said, "But Zaozao can't carry us now."

Chen Ji looked at Zaozao, only to see the maroon-red war horse dripping with sweat. Standing in the dim light of the winter dawn, his body was steaming with moisture.

Horses will fall into a state of high temperature and dehydration after strenuous exercise, and it is difficult to recover. They need to be flushed with a lot of cold water to cool down to avoid multiple organ failure. Zaozao has been unable to carry three people up the mountain for so long, and he is afraid that he will still be alive if he carries three people on his back. Tired to death on the road.

Chen Ji looked at Bai Li again, hesitantly.

Previously, he was in a hurry and Bai Li was groggy, so he could still carry the other person on his back. Now that the other person was awake, it was inappropriate for him to carry him on his back. The prince hurriedly said: "I will carry Bai Li!"

After that, he lowered his body in front of Bai Li, who insisted: "Brother, I can walk for a while by myself."

The prince smiled and said: "You are still feverish and can't stand firmly. How can you escape? If I don't take you back with you, my father will have me hanged from the beam for a year. Hurry up and be obedient." Bai Li hummed softly and lay on the prince's back.

Chen Ji suddenly thought that the Liu family's rebellion might really have nothing to do with Prince Jing.

The Liu family wanted to capture the crown prince and the princess because they saw that Prince Jing cared about these two people, so they wanted to use their lives as a bargaining chip for blackmail. If Prince Jing had been in cahoots with the Liu family, there would have been no need for the Liu family to do this. .

The four of them walked down the mountain. As they walked, the prince was exhausted and slipped backwards. Fortunately, Chen Ji had quick eyes and quick hands and grabbed Bai Li's back, which prevented the two of them from falling to the ground. Chen Ji said softly: "Your Majesty. , let me carry the princess on my back. You are an ordinary person, you can’t walk far or fast carrying her on your back.”

The prince looked back at Bai Li in embarrassment.

Bai Li thought for a while, but did not mention the matter of walking on the ground, but said weakly: "Brother, let Chen Ji do it." The prince sighed: "Okay..."

Chen Ji tied the whale knife to Zao Zao's saddle. He held Bai Li's legs and carried her on his back, walking steadily down the mountain. Bai Li gently put her head on his shoulder: "Chen Ji, thank you. you."

Chen Ji smiled: "Is there anything I can thank you for? Didn't the prince say that we are now friends who live and die together?"

Bai Li hummed, and after a while he sighed: "I didn't expect us to survive. By the way, people say they don't know what their biggest wish is until they die. Brother, Zhang Xia, did you have any wishes before?" "

The prince laughed: "I am greedy and have two wishes. I wish we had not encountered this ambush in the iron-making workshop in Junzhen earlier, so we should be at Luhun Villa now. I stayed up all night drinking there, and I heard that a lot of strange women went there...

Chen Ji asked: "What about now?"

The prince gradually stopped smiling: "Now I want to quickly find a way to practice and become an official. Otherwise, I won't be able to protect my sister." Chen Ji said, "Then I won't be able to be the prince."

The prince said disdainfully: "If it's not right, then it's not right. My father is only forty-five years old. It's my turn to be Prince Jing. I have to wait for more than twenty years. If he has to endure it for a long time, he might be able to get rid of me." ." Bai Li said angrily: "Aren't you cursing that our father can only live to be more than sixty years old? Hurry up!"

Crown Prince: "Bah, bah, bah!"

Bai Li looked at Zhang Xia: "Zhang Xia, what is your wish?"

Zhang Xia held Zao Zao's reins and said casually as he went down the mountain: "My biggest wish now is to prepare a big wooden bucket and take a good hot bath."

Bai Li thought for a moment and suddenly asked Chen Ji: "Chen Ji, my father said earlier that he owed you a favor and could agree to your request. Have you decided what you want from him now?"

Chen Ji smiled and said: "I wanted to ask Prince Jing to find the best craftsman to make a scabbard for my sword. At that time, the prince just casually said, I want a lion to open his mouth, but it seems that I have no eyesight." Bai Li said softly, and after a long time she said, "This is not difficult. I'll find someone to beat up this scabbard and give it to you."

Chen Ji was startled for a moment: "Okay."

Speaking of the whale knife, the prince asked curiously: "Chen Ji, where did your knife come from?"

Chen Ji smiled and replied: "I picked it up in the mountains, because it was handy, so I took it with me."

The prince looked at the whale knife, and saw that the blade was bright and rust-free, and the golden tiger that swallowed its mouth was lifelike. It did not look like an ownerless thing in the mountains.

Just when he was about to ask further questions, he heard Dark Cloud meow softly.

Chen Ji suddenly tensed up and led the prince and others to hide behind a group of bushes. Zhang Xia didn't ask any more questions, but took his wife and lay down.

Chen Ji whispered: "Don't speak."

The next moment, Mr. Feng strolled out of the mountain forest, and Jiang Yan followed behind him, leading two war horses.

When he saw the two of them, Chen Ji's scalp instantly became numb and his whole body felt like he had fallen into an ice cave!

He carefully looked at the forest behind the two of them, but there was no sign of the golden pig or the Pegasus.

Dead? Or ran away?

Chen Ji never imagined that he and others would meet here after escaping so far!

Was he chasing after him, or did he just happen to take the same road?

At this moment, Mr. Feng was humming a tune and passed by them not far away without turning his head, seemingly not noticing them.

The little song is a bit strange: "Building, planning, marrying, Gen Palace chants, Kun Palace chants back, Xun Palace enters the tomb, Nong Palace suffers, endless life..."

Chen Ji suddenly wondered, wasn't the other party here to chase him? Could it be that they just met him by chance? Yes, there are not many ways to avoid the fire on the mountain now, so it makes sense that they took the same one.

Fortunately, Wuyun's hearing and sense of smell are far superior to humans, otherwise they would have collided!

He looked carefully and saw that there was a bloody hole in Jiang Yan's left shoulder, which must have been shot by Pegasus' arrow. However, Mr. Feng had no scars, and there was not even a wrinkle on his green shirt.

Jiang Yan held the horse with an expressionless expression, as if the wounds on his body didn't hurt at all. He was like a puppet, with only cold murderous intent all over his body.

Just when Chen Ji was about to take a closer look, he saw Jiang Yan glancing toward the mountain forest intentionally or unintentionally. He hurriedly lowered his body before the other party looked over.

Everyone held their breath, not even daring to take a breath. They just felt like there was a mountain pressing on everyone, which was extremely heavy.

I don’t know how much time passed, but Mr. Feng’s humming voice gradually faded away.

Chen Ji cautiously raised his head and looked around. There was no one left outside the bushes.

He took a long breath of relief and lowered his voice and said: "This Mr. Feng seems to be just a weak scholar, but when I face him, I feel an inexplicable sense of oppression. I have no idea what he is thinking. I don't know. I know what methods he has prepared."

Zhang Xia said: "I heard that Mr. Feng's real name is Feng Zhang. He was a candidate for the Jizhou Examination in the 18th year of Jianing. He was from a humble background but could write well. His Qingci was particularly brilliant. At that time, many people said that he was a candidate for the Imperial Examination. He was sure to win His Majesty's favor, but in the spring of the following year, he was ranked at the bottom of the imperial examination, and he resigned from office and disappeared."

She continued: "In the past six years, Mr. Feng seemed to have disappeared from the world. He reappeared seven years ago and was already the first staff member under Mr. Liu Ge. He had great power and became an executive officer inexplicably."

Chen Ji sighed: "When you are against this kind of person, you have to be careful and careful."

After that, he got up and walked out of the bushes with Bai Li on his back, intending to find another path to go down the mountain.

However, not far away, I heard the dark cloud meow again.

Chen Ji froze and slowly turned his head, only to see two war horses tied to a tree, trampling their hooves in boredom... No one was around the horses.

Mr. Feng and Jiang Yan have disappeared.

Chen Ji asked in a low voice: "Wuyun, is there anyone else nearby?"

Wuyun meowed: "No more, only these two horses."

Chen Ji let out a light sigh, why did Mr. Feng leave but leave two war horses here?
Chapter completed!