"Even if you turn the cell upside down, you will never see a living fly." He heard someone shout.
His heart tightened as he listened to the man move the huge wooden barrel above his head.
A man with a rough voice stabbed the ground with a knife.
Xiao Yeheng was in the hole half a meter below the ground, clenching the sword in his hand and preparing to kill.
Perhaps feeling unlucky, another young man yelled, "It stinks so bad. Who would hide here? The color of the ground is the same as that of other latrines, so no one must have disturbed the ground."
"The boss asked me to dig three feet into the ground and inspect it, and not miss any spot. What else can I do?" The man with a rough voice answered, "I have a stomachache and need to poop." He stepped on the wooden bucket and squatted down to solve it...
"You slacker poops a lot! You'll age in vain." The masked man with a young voice fled away from the stench.
After solving the problem, the rough man was about to continue digging when he heard the leader outside shouting, "We've already searched, there are no survivors here, search elsewhere!"
The man with a rough voice quickly followed suit.
Xiao Yeheng, who was in the deep underground pit, breathed a little sigh of relief.
...
Yan Shuixin stood in the open space outside the prison, listening to the men in black reporting to the leader that there were no survivors in the latrine.
Her hanging heart fell back into her stomach.
While waiting, the man in black, looked at Yan Shuixin's slim figure. He suddenly raised his hand and pinched her chin, forcing her to look up. "You have a good figure. Go to the utility room with me. Let me take care of you once."
Yan Shuixin really wanted to stab him to death, but she couldn't defeat hundreds of men in black with swords. She smiled charmingly and said, "Wan Niang has already being pillowed by thousands of men and pressed down by tens of thousands of men. I don't mind companying one more, but Zhao Bing had a dirty disease before his death, and I was forced to accompany him for a while. So, I don't know if I also been infected with venereal disease."
Upon hearing this, the leading man frowned with disdain, "You bastard, I almost forgot about this."
"Wan Niang really doesn't dare to pass on venereal disease to you." She murmured.
Only then did the other party stop trying to take advantage of her.
Wan Niang had slept with many men, but she, Yan Shuixin, had only slept with King An, and she would not tell this lewd and wretched man.
"There are too many corpses buried in the open space behind the prison. They are buried deep, more than 300 of them. They are smelly and rotten. When they are flipped over, the rotten flesh peels off, and the rotten juice splashes onto people. I don't know if it is poisonous?" A masked man in black hurriedly came to report, "We're really not sure if there are any other survivors."
The leader of the man in black narrowed his ferocious eyes and glared at Yan Shuixin, "Bitch, how many dead people are there?"
Yan Shuixin felt depressed in her heart. She was a modern person and had never been called a bitch before.
Maybe it was because she had killed people in prison, but she really wanted to kill the leader of the men in black with a knife.
This is not the time for confrontation. When King An goes out, she will find this man and chop him into pieces!
After considering her tone, Yan Shuixin said carefully, "Master, even if you don't believe me, you still have to believe Master Bai Jinchuan. Prior to his death, the number of dead people in the pictures he drew is correct. They've all dead, and Feng Hai's corpse is still outside the prison. Aside from the corpses that were burned in the fire, there are no other live humans."
A doubt flashed in the eyes of the leader in black, "Why did you set fire to the corpse? To cover up that King An was not dead?"
Yan Shuixin really wanted to give him a thumbs up, but she exclaimed, "Master, please don't accuse me unjustly." She pointed to the corpse that had been burned black and scorched, "Isn't King An lying there?"
In fact, among the six charred corpses, Zheng Quan's corpse had been dead for many days, and his flesh and blood were scorched. If you look closely, you can tell it's not a new death. However, the purpose of this group of people was only to focus on King An, and they did not pay much attention to the charred corpse with intact limbs. The body of Wang Mo, who pretended to be King An, was only brought out alone with a missing leg.
"It's burnt and turned into carbon. Who knows if it's really King An?" The leader of the men in black was confused again.
"That's exactly who it is." Yan Shuixin seemed dissatisfied but didn't dare to resist, and imitated Wan Niang's manner, "You must know what happened in the prison from Bai Jinchuan's drawings before his death. Prince An actually rejected me, although I come from a poor family, I am also proud. Being rejected is a great shame and humiliation, so I have a great grudge against King An! Doctor Yan once said before that it's better to burn corpses, and if not, it should be buried to avoid causing a plague. In this summer heat, the dead meat rots quickly, so of course I burned it. In addition, the number of burned corpses is correct, and I can't conjure up a new dead body out of thin air."
"It seems to make sense." The leader of the man in black drew his sword, and placed the sharp blade against her neck, "Since you became the winner yesterday, so why did you only leave the prison today?"
Yan Shuixin pretended to be trembling with fear, "Wasn't it because I was afraid that you will break your promise and not only refuse to pay the reward, but also kill people? Look, you want to kill me now..."
The leader of the men in black contemplated and took back his sword, "You have a point. You will not lack rewards."
Yan Shuixin passed the test and was about to breathe a sigh of relief when a man in black suddenly stepped forward and whispered to the leader, "Boss, the charred corpse of King An is not right."
"What's wrong?"
"Although King An's corpse was burnt to carbon, it fell off when touched, leaving only a skeleton. It's hard to tell whether it was a human being from the texture of the flesh. However..." He pointed to the incision of the broken bone on the left leg of the charred corpse, "A broken bone that has been cut for a long period, such as King An's, will have a rough and round incision on the bone if you walk with a prosthetic leg. The left leg bone of this corpse is sharp, obviously newly cut."
With the words of the black clad subordinate falling, the leader suddenly drew his sword and was about to chop off Yan Shuixin's head, "Okay, you really dare use a fake corpse to impersonate King An. You deserve to die!"
Yan Shuixin dodged his attack and explained, "Absolutely not. That's King An. The reason why his left leg was freshly cut, is because I cut it. The evidence is here!"
She quickly took out a small cloth bag from her arms and spread it out. Inside was a leg and elbow about the width of two fingers wrapped in oil paper.
King An said that there are many veterans outside, and the fracture of the new corpse cannot be deceived, so more preparations must be made.
So, she cut off an extra piece of skin from the corpse, took a small section of the leg, sewed the skin on the broken leg, treated it, and used it as a piece of meat that had been healed and then cut.
The cut flesh had long since rotted and discolored, and at first glance, the fracture on one side looked like it had been healed before.
If you pick up this section and look closely, you can still see it.
The gamble is that they don't look closely.
As the oil paper package was spread out, a strong rancid smell floated in the air, making several men in black almost gag.
Yan Shuixin's expression changed and she obsessedly picked up the severed elbow and kissed it with her lips, "The body of King An, the younger brother of the emperor, is full of nobility. How could Wan Niang let him burn completely? I just want to hack him up and take half-dismembered limbs home as a souvenir, and I kiss him dozens of times every day. Master, you won't fail to fulfill this small request, will you?"
She didn't want to be so disgusting and scary, but she had to fight so hard to survive!
"I can tell that this bitch has gone crazy in prison." The leading man in black couldn't bear her disgusting behavior, so he lifted up a corner of the mask and retched several times, revealing half of his face.
Yan Shuixin memorized half of his outline without leaving a trace, and lowered her eyebrows.
The person in black, who was the leader, seemed to believe that it was the severed limb of King An, and said, "Fortunately, I didn't sleep with you, you disgusting woman."
Yan Shuixin pretended to be cowardly, but she didn't feel relieved because she had escaped a disaster, "It's Wan Niang's loss that I can't accompany you." She pretended to cherish flesh, and she wrapped a small leg and elbow back in oil paper, carefully wrapped it with cloth, and took it back into her arms. The oil paper was previously found in one of the prison cells.
The leader of the men in black waved his hand, "Take Wan Niang to receive the reward."
Yan Shuixin then followed the four masked men and stepped out of the hole in the prison wall.
From a distance, she heard the leader of the men in black order, "Pour a layer of oil on the floor of the prison and set it on fire. Not even a fly will be allowed to stay!"
"Yes." Several men in black responded
.
She looked back and saw a group of men in black moving large jars that had been placed on the cart. Each jar was filled with oil, and they were unplugged and poured into the prison.
If oil burns the prison, even if Xiao Yeheng is buried in a hole half a meter deep, he will be cooked by the heat. How can he still be alive?
With her fists clenched tightly, Yan Shuixin could hardly resist the urge to rushing back to save Xiao Yeheng.
She glanced at the circle of archers outside the prison, and the menacing groups of men holding knives inside the prison.
She is not a fairy, she cannot stop a hundred people with one blow. She estimated that she couldn't kill even a few people. If she rushed over now, her sacrifice will be in vain.
Silently, she followed the four men in black holding long knives through the open space more than a hundred meters outside the prison, and they entered the dense forest.
Judging from the footsteps and figures of these four people, they are men.
The towering trees are lush with branches and leaves, almost blocking out the midday sunlight.
The mountain breeze blew, and it actually brought out a cool breeze.
"Master, where are you taking me to receive the reward?" Yan Shuixin asked deliberately. If they really wanted to take her to get the reward, one or two people would be enough to lead the way, why would they need four?
Perhaps the leader in black thinks four people are enough to kill her, right?
"Stop talking nonsense, just follow along." One of the men in black shouted.
"Master, Wan Niang can't spend more than three thousand taels of gold on her own. She doesn't dare to carry it alone for fear of being robbed." Yan Shuixin deliberately tried to test them, "Why don't I give half of the gold to you after receiving the reward? And you escort me home?"
Three of the four men remained silent, and one looked at her sarcastically, "What are you talking about? Shut your mouth!"
Yan Shuixin thought to herself. If she could really receive the reward, half of the more than three thousand taels of gold, which most people would not be able to earn in a few lifetimes. If she generously shared half of it, who would not be tempted?
It can only be said that she couldn't receive the reward at all. These people came to escort her to the afterlife.
She also knew that King Jin would not allow the things in the prison to be leaked. It is estimated that these subordinates who knew about it were also controlled by poisoning or something like that.
Seeing that they were getting deeper and deeper into the dense forest, Yan Shuixin was worried about how to kill four men in black with knives at once.
Judging from the footsteps of these people, they are not weak in martial arts.
"If this bitch hadn't been infected with dirty disease and her disgusting personality, I would have wanted to have a good time on the spot, "said one of the men in black.
"What are you thinking about? This round of deadly games will be over soon. After receiving the reward, are you still afraid that you will have no women?" Another person answered.
Yan Shuixin listened silently.
Doesn't the game end when she becomes the only one alive? These people really thought she was stupid, thinking she couldn't understand that they wanted her life.
They probably thought she was just waiting to receive her reward.
With keen eyesight, Yan Shuixin spotted a snake coiled on the tree in front of her. With her weak internal strength, Yan Shuixin shot a stone out of her hand and hit the snake's belly. The snake fell down and wrapped around the neck of one of the men in black.
Yan Shuixin was grateful that no one had searched her body. The dagger used by Zhao Bing was hidden in her sleeve pocket.
She picked up the dagger and sliced one of the men in black in the neck from behind.
The other two people in black were unaware, so they stepped forward to check on their comrade who was entangled by the snake. She stabbed one of them in the back of the neck with a knife.
The dagger in his hand flew over and the third man in black was pierced through the neck as well.
The three men in black were caught off guard and had no time to react. They opened their eyes in disbelief and went to the afterlife.
Seeing this, the fourth man in black quickly took out his bamboo tube and prepared to send a distress signal.
Yan Shuixin knew clearly that she had only one chance to kill the other party, otherwise, she would probably die. Immediately, she jumped into the air and flew towards him, knocking him to the ground. She pressed him down and grabbed the signal tube in his hand. The other party immediately drew a knife to kill her, whilst she bit a thin piece of blade between her teeth. The iron blade swiped across his neck, and his throat was sliced open. He stared in surprise. The blade he had just drawn out was half a finger away from her head, and he closed his eyes.
She pushed away his hand that still held the knife, breathed a sigh of relief, and finally temporarily lifted the crisis of death. She took off the thin blade in her mouth and held it between her fingers.
This iron plate was originally ground out from a rusty shovel in prison and used as a surgical knife for Xiao Yeheng's left leg injury.
Everything has a commemorative value and cannot be lost.
Yan Shuixin quickly body searched each of the four corpses of the men in black. After leaving the prison, food and money are essential.
Fortunately, she found a large piece of dried meat pancake from each person. It smelled like meat and was made of pork. Fortunately it wasn't human flesh, she doesn't eat her own kind.
She also found four silver ingots totaling about five taels each, as well as ten copper coins and a sheepskin water bottle.
Yan Shuixin took a few sips of water from the sheepskin kettle and washed her mouth first. She had just kissed rotten flesh before, it was so disgusting.
After washing her mouth and drinking water, she wolfed down a meat pancake. This is a solid pork pancake with salt, although it's a bit hard, but it tastes good. She hasn't had such delicious food in a long time!
She quickly took off her prison trousers and outer shirt, dug a hole under the tree and buried it with Wang Mo's flesh, filling it with soil and covering it with leaves. She buried the flesh to prevent them from discovering that the corpse in the prison with the missing leg was not King An.
One of the corpses on the ground was about the same height as Xiao Yeheng. She took off his clothes, pants, mask, shoes and socks, and tied them around her waist.
She then put on the clothes of the shorter corpse in black, stuffed three dry biscuits and silver into her sleeves and trouser pockets, tied a water bottle around her waist and wore a sword.
The signal tube was also retrieved.
With a black mask covering her face and haircut, she looked exactly like that group of vicious men in black.
She dragged the four dead bodies into the bushes nearby, covered them with weeds, turned back, and covered the blood stains on the ground with mud and rotten grass.
This is in case the others discover that these four people haven't returned in a long time and send someone to look for them.
If they can't find the bodies for a while, it may cause a delay.
After doing this, she immediately turned around and ran towards the prison.
She hoped it's was not too late, she has to go back and save Xiao Yeheng!
Otherwise, if the entire cell really caught fire, Xiao Yeheng would definitely be trapped in the hole and die.
Since she didn't go too far, she quickly ran back behind the big tree in the open space fifty meters away from the prison.
Outside the towering cell wall, there was still a circle of vigilant archers. More than fifty carts were parked in the open space on the side wall. Only five carts were filled with jars of oil.
It is estimated that the oil tanks on the other fifty or so pallet trucks have already been moved into prison.
The masked man in black wearing a long knife continued to move the oil jar. It is imaginable that when the move is completed, he will definitely break the jar and light it on fire.
Yan Shuixin couldn't run across the fifty-meter open space and approach the prison. It would be a disaster if she was discovered.
Around the other side of the high wall of the prison, there were trees and grass blocking it. It was only about thirty meters away from the wall, so she ran silently towards it.
All the archers were setting up their bows to guard the prison, and no one paid attention to the rear.
She bent her back and found an archer turning his head to look in her direction. She quickly hid behind a large rock one meter in front of her, keeping her body low and holding her breath for fear of being discovered.
When the other party looked around, they didn't discover her.
She stood up again and ran a few steps towards the high wall of the prison. She was only ten meters away from the cell wall when the other two archers turned their heads at the same time and saw her in surprise.
Yan Shuixin's eyes were not panicked at all. She pretended to have just straightened her trousers, walked to the two of them, lowered her voice, and spoke in a dull androgynous voice, "I really couldn't hold it in anymore. I went to pee just now, brother. Don't complain to the boss."
Anyway, her face was covered, and the other party wouldn't know who she was unless she pulled the cloth covering her face.
The two archers' hands were already sore from pulling their bows, and their heads were dizzy from the sun. They also had to urinate urgently after waiting for so long.
Hearing what 'he' said, one of them said, "I'm going to pee as well."
Yan Shuixin nodded slightly, held her head high with a sword on her waist. With a steady step of a man, she walked to one of the carts filled with oil jars, picked up a large jar of oil with both hands, and followed the other black clad men into the large hole in the prison wall.
Many jars of oil were placed in the open space inside the prison like an array. The jailer's quarters, the burned prison cell, and the infirmary were all re-arranged with jars of oil.
Ten masked men in black clothes stood in the middle of the open space, with the leader in front giving instructions, "The burial ground behind the prison, the latrine, the utility room...an oil tank must be placed in every place and broken. We will withdraw and light the fire immediately!"
"Yes." The team of men in black carried out the order.
Just as Yan Shuixin was about to mix up among several black clad men and walk to the jailer's quarters, the leader of the men in black suddenly pointed at Yan Shuixin and said, "Stop!"
She suddenly felt a surge of anxiety.
Has she been discovered? If she gets caught, she would be dead!
Although she was fearful in her heart, she covered her face with a black cloth, and her drooping eyelids were restrained, trying to imitate the eyes of the men in black, neither humble nor arrogant. A man in black standing next to her thought he had been called, and asked respectfully, "What are your orders, boss?"
The loud male voice of the leader ordered, "It's just that there is no oil tank in the utility room." Pointing to the people in the row with Yan Shuixin who were moving the oil jars, "You guys, go to the utility room and place the oil jars there."
"Yes." Several men in black responded.
Yan Shuixin then followed a few people towards the utility room in fear.
Once she was out of sight of the boss, she didn't dare to breathe, and deliberately walked at the end of the row of men in black. When they all entered the utility room, she quickly ran to the toilet while no one was paying attention. .
The floor over the latrine was almost full of oil jars, and a man in black was counting them. When he saw her, he shouted, "There are enough jars here. If they are burned, even a mouse that digs three feet into the ground will not be able to survive. Put it somewhere else."
"Yes." Yan Shuixin lowered her voice and nodded respectfully. She hugged the oil jar and turned around to pretend to go somewhere else.
In fact, she didn't leave at all. When the man in black who was counting in the latrine didn't pay attention, she put down the jar and quickly ran into one of the toilets.
She looked around and waited for the man in black to look away again, while shrinking back.
When he turned to look elsewhere, she ducked into another room.
After several thrills, she finally ran into the hut where Xiao Yeheng was hiding in the pit.
On the ground inside, Yan Shuixin saw that the huge wooden barrel had been moved away. There were stab marks on the ground where the holes were dug and filled with soil. Could it be that something had happened to Xiao Yeheng?
She was so frightened that her face turned pale. She looked closely at the huge bucket and saw that it had only been moved halfway, and the stab marks on the ground were not deep.
No one should have noticed the pit below.
The toilet door had been ajar before, but she quietly closed it tightly and bolted it with the wooden bolt.
She gently pulled out the sword and used it to dig out the hole that had been filled with soil, as silently as possible.
In this hut, the three walls were surrounded by oil jars, which would be extremely dangerous if burned.
She must rescue Xiao Yeheng before someone outside sets fire.
Xiao Yeheng was hiding in the hole under the soil. She actually wanted to call him. If he heard her, he would also push up the wooden cover and loosen the soil, which would make it easier for her to dig.
However, she was afraid that if her voice was slightly louder, she would be discovered by the men in black outside.
She didn't dare to speak out at all.
Xiao Yeheng, who was hiding in the pit, heard someone digging the soil above him. Suddenly, his fierce eyes flashed with a murderous aura. He sharply held a knife in his hand, preparing to chop the opponent to death as soon as he lifted the wooden cover on the roof of the pit.
Yan Shuixin dug for a while, then spread the soil on the ground beside it, and finally saw the wooden cover on the roof of the pit.
Just as she was about to reach out and lift the lid, she suddenly remembered that she had made an agreement with Xiao Yeheng to speak out when she came to save him.
She wouldn't dare to remain silent now, especially since she was wearing black clothes and a black cloth covering her face. Wouldn't he think she was someone else?
If he sliced her by accident after opening the lid, she would die unjustly.
Yan Shuixin thought for a moment, then inserted the sharp blade wrapped in cloth from a corner of the cover.
Xiao Yeheng couldn't see anything inside of the pit. He heard a movement in one corner of the wooden cover. He fixed his eyes and looked closely, and he noticed something in the shape of a blade.
This blade was so familiar, it was the same blade that Xin'er used to cut rotten flesh for him.
Could it be that the person above is Xin'er?
He reached out and took down the blade, which meant that he knew the identity of the person above him. Fortunately, Xin'er was smart and passed a code to notify him. Otherwise, if he was accidentally killed her, he could not imagine the consequences.
Yan Shuixin saw that the person in the hole had taken the blade, so she took off the mask and confidently lifted the lid.
Xiao Yeheng, whose face was as pale as paper, stood up in the pit. His half-scarred and half-handsome face was full of excitement, with his single eye filled with tears. He looked at her and he silently called out, "Xin'er!"
He thought he would never see her again.
Yan Shuixin's chest was also filled with sourness.
He was a seriously injured person who was buried in a hole in the ground. If she didn't come to rescue him, he wouldn't be able to break through the soil and the huge barrel above him. He would have to wait for death. He trusted her so much that he obediently stayed in the hole below such a toilet, silently waiting, and entrusting his life and death to her.
She won't let him down!
Raising her small white hands, she pulled him out of the hole and stood firm on the ground. She unbuttoned her clothes, took out the black shirt and pants, mask, shoes, and socks that were tied to her body, and then handed them to him, saying silently, "Put it on."
He understood the shape of her mouth and was very surprised as to where she got these clothes. He immediately complied without asking.
There will still be people entering the thatched cottage and breaking oil jars, so no one can find any underground cave here, otherwise it will be troublesome if they investigate the origin of the big hole.
While he was busy changing clothes, she picked up the sword from the hole in the ground.
She couldn't carry two swords before, since she could only wear one on her waist. Fortunately, this jailer's sword was the same style as the one worn by a group of masked men.
Yan Shuixin quickly put the lid back on, dug all the unearthed soil back into the pit, and worked with Xiao Yeheng to move the big wooden barrel back to cover the new soil below.
In this way, if no one moves the bucket, the secret passage below will not be discovered.
"Break the oil jar!" a male voice shouted outside, and the oil jars everywhere in the prison made a continuous sound of being broken.
This place is about to be set on fire, they must leave immediately!
Yan Shuixin covered Xiao Yeheng, who was already dressed in black, with a cloth covering his face, and put the jailer's sword on his waist.
After looking at him, she saw that his shoes, socks and hairstyle were all consistent with the attire of the men in black outside, then she opened the latrine door and the two of them walked out.
A man in black with a knife who had been outside for a long time stared at the two 'colleagues' strangely, "Why are you two in there? When did you go in?"
"You didn't pay attention. We just went in." Xiao Yeheng calmly answered the words, drew out his sword, and broke the oil jar in the latrine. "Stop with the nagging, and break the jars quickly. If you don't get out in time, the boss will issue the command to start the fire, and you will die."
His life was at stake, and the man in black didn't have time to be suspicious and immediately knocked open the oil jar outside.
Yan Shuixin also drew her knife to help.
While Xiao Yeheng was 'working', he secretly glanced at Yan Shuixin. It was not that he didn't know what the lackeys outside were doing before, but he was too injured to get up from the pit, and he couldn't kill a large number of black clothed death guards.
He thought he would die here, but she suddenly fell from the sky and rescued him.
She cured the rot on his left leg, allowed him to eat hot food in prison, and this time...
She has saved him three times.
"All the jars have been knocked over, everyone needs to retreat. After a hundred calls, light the fire!" A male voice came from the direction of the prison area, and immediately there was a sound that kept counting, "One, two, three, four..." and so on.
When the count reached eighty, all the oil jars in the thatched cottage were finally broken.
To prevent his feet from stepping on oil, the man in black stood on the ground with a wooden board, and said to the two 'colleagues', "Hurry up, there is oil everywhere in the prison. If you don't go out, once the fire is ignited, it will burn to the point where there will be no residue left."
After he was done talking, he jumped up and flew towards the outside of the prison.
Seeing that there was no one else around, Yan Shuixin asked Xiao Yeheng, "My lord, can you do lightness skill now?"
"It's okay." He clutched his painful chest and nodded.
"The way you walk can easily be spotted by others, so you cannot gather with the team of men outside." She glanced at the direction of the nearest prison wall. "There are archers everywhere outside the prison. Let's start from the place where there are fewer ambushes outside the prison wall. Let's go."
He nodded.
Yan Shuixin picked up the wooden board used by the man in black who had just left, and ran to the nearby cell wall with Xiao Yeheng. She put one end of the wooden board on the wall and blocked the other end with a stone to stabilize it.
At this time, the countdown outside the prison had reached ninety-five, "Ninety-six, ninety-seven, ninety-eight..."
In two seconds, the fire will start! There is oil everywhere in the prison, if it explodes, it will definitely be fatal!
Yan Shuixin doesn't know lightness skills, so she got anxious and glanced at Xiao Yeheng, "Otherwise, you should go out first."
Xiao Yeheng couldn't help but grasp her waist and use his lightness skills. With the help of a wooden board leaning against the wall, their figures flew out of the towering prison wall.
At the same time, shouts of "one hundred" rose and fell, and someone threw a torch at the prison where oil was pouring all over the place.
In an instant, there was an explosion accompanied by flames shooting into the sky.
Fire filled the sky and broke through the night sky!
Xiao Yeheng held Yan Shuixin in his arms and stopped twenty or thirty meters outside the prison wall. Then he held her in his arms and continued to fly thirty meters away while performing lightness skill.
The circle of archers surrounding the prison had already retreated to a safe area fifty or sixty meters away from the prison wall.
They saw two people flying out, dressed in the same clothing, without shooting arrows.
Everyone just stared at the two of them.
An archer asked warily, "Who are you? You have such high level of lightness skills, why haven't I seen you before? Why did you fly out from this direction, instead of joining the main team?"
Xiao Yeheng let go of Yan Shuixin and was about to make something up, he knew that if he was not careful, their secret would be exposed.
Before he could speak, several more masked men in black with swords ran towards the prison wall in a panic, shouting angrily as they ran, "I'm going to be like a roasted chicken if I take one step slower!"
"Boss, you've gone too far. If it hadn't been for my good lightness skills and being able to run fast, then right now..."
"Fuck him, I was almost burned to death!"
The attention of the group of archers was attracted by those people. The archer who asked the question before glared at the masked men, "Are you looking for death? How dare you be dissatisfied with the boss behind his back?"
"You're doing fine by remaining outside, while my brothers and I carried oil for an entire day and almost died. Why can't we be allowed to complain a few times?"
"I, like my brothers, have to pull my bow and be on guard all day long, and constantly be exposed to the sun, what kind of free time do I have?"
Yan Shuixin and Xiao Yeheng took advantage of the argument between these people, ducked out of the way, and quietly run into the deep forest.
The archer who had just questioned Xiao Yeheng looked back and narrowed his eyes slightly, "Where are the two people who flew out just now?"
The others looked at each other and said they didn't pay attention.
At this time, the leader of the men in black shouted, "Everyone, come here and count the number of people!"
"Maybe we are going to assemble." Someone said, and the archer in doubt said no more and went to gather with the others.
Hundreds of masked men wielding bows and arrows and swords formed a line dozens of meters outside the prison wall, where the flames were blazing.
The leader stood in front with serious eyes and asked his subordinates who were counting, "Are the number of people correct?"
"Yes, it's correct." said the subordinate who was also masked in black, "But, the four people who went to kill Wan Niang haven't come back yet."
The leader looked at the evening sky and suddenly spoke seriously, "They haven't returned at this hour, then something must have happened to them. Maybe that bitch Wan Niang has escaped."
"There are barren mountains and dangerous terrain in every directions, as well as murderous swamps. So, she cannot have run far." The subordinate commented.
"Search with all your strength, capture her or kill without mercy!"
Following the leader's order, all the men in black immediately dispatched.
Half a moment earlier, Yan Shuixin and Xiao Yeheng ran into the deep forest while a group of archers were not paying attention. Suddenly Xiao Yeheng stopped, took off the cloth covering his face, and vomited a mouthful of blood.
She lowered her voice and exclaimed in shock, "My lord..." She quickly reached out to feel his pulse and found that his organs were severely injured. In addition, the poison of Qihuan Powder had spread throughout his body due to his lightness skills just now. With his condition, it was already impressive that he could keep himself from passing out.
"Xin'er, just go." Xiao Yeheng held on to the tree trunk nearby, his face so pale that it was almost transparent, "If you continue to be with me, you will only be hurt."
"I won't leave, I'm willing to risk my life to save you. This is not the time for us to part ways." She frowned, quickly lowered herself, dug into the mud to bury the blood he spat out, and then evenly sprinkled it with rotten leaves.
To avoid being found with blood stains.
He pointed to the path ahead on the left, "According to what I observed from the top of the prison tower, the path over there should lead down the mountain. Before they notice, you can run down the mountain quickly, so that you can escape them one step faster." He covered his painful chest and spoke with difficulty, "I am seriously injured and can no longer move around. If you stay, it would only result in one more death."
"Then we'll stay together." She looked determined.
From afar, they heard the leader on the other side of the plain giving an order to hunt down 'Wan Niang'.
"What a bad luck." Xiao Yeheng frowned and pushed her, "Hurry up, before it's too late!"
"I won't leave you behind." She spoke softly.
Hundreds of men in black were about to disperse with swords in hand, but they were delayed for a while because they could not see clearly at night.
Yan Shuixin couldn't escape quickly with Xiao Yeheng, who had difficulty walking.
She frowned and thought of a plan, whispering a few words in Xiao Yeheng's ear.
The two people immediately turned around and headed back towards the prison.
She almost had to support him so that he could stagger forward slowly.
At this time, the sky was already dark, and the moon was hidden behind the clouds. Except for the open area where the prison could be seen illuminated by the flames, the rest of the area was completely dark.
The two of them walked around to the dark area thirty meters behind the prison, where there was a massive boulder.
When Yan Shuixin sneaked into the prison to rescue Xiao Yeheng, this was the place she used to hide herself.
It is estimated that this boulder was made by the archers in order to shoot arrows into the prison at close range, and it came in handy.
Before the hundreds of soldiers who were searching for her dispersed, Yan Shuixin helped Xiao Yeheng to crouch down and hide behind the boulder.
A large number of people, each holding a torch in one hand and a knife in the other, searched in all directions. No one expected that two of them would hide in the same spot behind their backs.
These people had previously gathered in an open space fifty meters away from the prison, and she was betting that they would spread outwards and would not search the thirty meters radius around the prison, that was within their line of sight
When several men in black walked 20 meters in front of the boulder, Yan Shuixin and Xiao Yeheng squatted close to the boulder and moved around to ensure that no one saw them.
When hundreds of men in black were searching the surrounding area with torches, the two of them did not dare to take it lightly.
Because thirty to fifty meters ahead, the leader was standing outside the prison, followed by ten guards with swords behind him.
The leader had no plans on joining the team to search the deep forest.
One of the subordinates in black brought a chair from nowhere for the leader to sit on.
The leader of the men in black sat down, half-squinting his eyes as if waiting for the results of the search.
Fortunately, the direction he was sitting was facing the other side.
Yan Shuixin prayed that the other party would not notice them, otherwise, if he suspect that someone is behind the boulder, they would be in trouble if he came to check.
Xiao Yeheng should not use force now, otherwise, it will aggravate his internal injuries and endanger his life.
She could never defeat eleven people by herself, she would only face death if she tried.
The black-clothed leader looked around, saw the huge stone, and pointed at it, "Have you searched over there?"
The two people hiding behind the stone were both frightened.
The subordinate in black replied, "Before the prison was set on fire, the archers were lurking there. There was no one there before we gathered."
Before the leader in black could say more, a man in black suddenly rushed out of the forest and reported, "Report! Boss, the bodies of four people were found in the forest ahead."
"Let's go and have a look!" The leader in black led the team away.
After everyone had gone away, Yan Shuixin finally breathed a sigh of relief, "I was almost scared to death."
Xiao Yeheng looked at her distressedly, "Xin'er, it's my incompetence..."
"Don't say that." She raised her hand and covered his lips, "Your Highness, to be honest, you are very capable. In prison, although I could play some tricks to survive, but in the later stage, if you hadn't protected me, I would have died a long time ago. Moreover, if you hadn't killed those strong men in the prison, there would be no way that I would be the final winner, and I wouldn't be able to escape, nor be able to help you flee as well. To put it simply, it's all your credit."
"Xin'er!" He hugged her tightly, knowing in his heart that she was just comforting him. How lucky he was to get such a good woman!
Yan Shuixin pondered, "They discovered those four corpses and must have seen that I removed the clothes from two of them. They would undoubtedly believe that I am impersonating one of their people and that I have an accomplice, otherwise, there would be no need for me to steal two sets of clothes. I really regret not stripping the four corpses naked, but I was afraid the prison might burn down, and I didn't have much time."
"You did a good enough job." Xiao Yeheng looked at her with admiration, "I have never seen a woman as smart as you."
"Would they guess that I stole the clothes, and then went back to the prison to save you?" She worried.
"At the very least, they might have guessed that another prisoner was still alive. Because 'Wan Niang' escaped alone and didn't need two clothing, and there was also no one alive outside the prison at the time, so 'Wan Niang' got some clothes and returned to the prison to save others." Xiao Yeheng thought for a moment and continued, "There is just so much open land around outside the prison. So, once they've finished searching, they'll definitely reassemble and remove the black fabric that conceals their faces to find out who is impersonating them."
"Then what should we do?" She was anxious.
Xiao Yeheng looked at the torches approaching from all directions, "They are back." He laughed at himself, "I guess it would be better to die in the sea of fire than to be caught by them."
Yan Shuixin took a few steps forward and looked around the prison, which had been burning for a long time and was gradually diminishing. The massive prison wall had been burned down, leaving an empty space inside.
In fact, even if you pour oil into the prison to burn it down, the open area within is so large, and the building materials are also made of stone mud, so the fire will gradually be put out once the oil is poured in.
However, these group of people obtained a large amount of firewood to burn within and outside the prison wall, so that's why the fire lasted so long.
Even so, there was a gap where the firewood had ignited and a vast expanse of empty space inside that had been extinguished.
"Yes, thank you for the reminder, Your Highness. Let's go back to the prison." Yan Shuixin moved ten steps ahead to the grass and plucked out a vine, which broke into four pieces. She grabbed four stones and tied them to the bottoms of her and Xiao Yeheng's shoes with the vine.
Xiao Yeheng looked at her admiringly and said, "That's really a good idea."
"Let's go." She helped him enter the prison through the gap where the fire had been extinguished.
Through the stones on the soles of her feet, she could feel that the ground was hot.
Yan Shuixin glanced at the burning prison around her. The gap left by the extinguished fire must be re-lit. She pulled out her sword and pushed several large logs that were burning elsewhere into the gap.
The gap was on fire again.
From the outside, although the prison fire is weak, it looked like it hasn't been extinguished.
She supported Xiao Yeheng and continued to walk to the empty ground in the prison, where the ground was not too hot because the flames had most likely died out a long time ago.
Soon, the voice of the leader in black sounded outside the prison, "Go and search behind that boulder. Perhaps the two of them might be hiding behind it."
The rustling footsteps outside the prison circled around the boulder where the two had previously hidden, and then turned back to report, "Boss, there's no one over there."
"I have feeling that Wan Niang stole the clothes because she went back to the prison to save someone. Moreover, She has been impersonating us and has most likely already saved the individual. And you losers didn't even notice it!" The leader in black was furious, "Everyone take off your face coverings and let's see!"
Yan Shuixin could imagine hundreds of people pulling off the black cloth covering their faces.
"How come it there's no one!" The voice of the leader in black outside the prison was very angry.
Someone suggested, "Boss, I'm not sure, but maybe Wan Niang and the person she wanted to save were burned to death."
"If that's the case, that would be great." The leader didn't believe it, "But with such a scheming mind, how could she die so easily?"
"Boss, we have a new discovery!" Another person approached from a distance, as if offering something, "This amputated limb was buried far away from where the four people died, and was dug out by a few mice!"
The leader looked like he was facing a formidable enemy, "Wan Niang, that bitch pretended to be affectionate with the flesh to make me believe that King An was dead. She threw away the flesh, which shows that the person she wanted to save was King An, and that he is not dead!"
"Boss, what should we do?"
"Wan Niang is the least of our worries. If King An is not dead, once he is allowed back to the capital and conducts an investigation, then King Jin will suffer. King Jin once ordered that King An must die. If he lives, all of our heads will fall to the ground!"
The situation was serious, and an archer's voice broke the silence, "Boss, I remembered that when the fire first started, there was a tall and thin man flying over a high wall with one person, one tall and one short, both wearing our uniform. Their lightness skills were extremely high, unlike ours. As soon as this subordinate wanted to delve deeper, they disappeared."
"That was few hours ago, they must have run far away. Hurry up and chase after them!" The leader in black ordered, "Go down the mountain and chase them, they need food and drink, and without grain, they can't survive the day."
When the leader glanced at the prison, which was still burning despite its weak fire, he never imagined that the two people he wanted to pursue were so close by.
"Yes!" A group of men in black quickly executed the order.
Yan Shuixin and Xiao Yeheng stood in the open space inside the prison. When they heard that everyone outside was running away, it took a while before they breathed a sigh of relief.
The gap where she had added firewood went out again, so she went to add another piece of wood and said gloomily, "Damn mice, I buried all of Wang Mo's pieces, and they dug them out, so now it's been exposed that you're not dead."
"Heaven's will." Xiao Yeheng had no choice but to say, "I can only say it's bad luck."
Yan Shuixin turned back to Xiao Yeheng and sighed, "My lord, I didn't expect us to go back to prison again."
Xiao Yeheng raised his hand and caressed her back. He glanced down at her with deep love in his gaze and said in a low voice, "With you, no matter where I am, I am home."
"I didn't expect that King An, who is not a womanizer, could also say sweet words." Yan Shuixin chuckled. She wanted to look up to the sky and laugh out loud, but even though the men in black were gone, she still felt anxious and didn't dare to laugh loudly.
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His hands carefully caressed her eyebrows, and when he thought about having sex with her, his eyes were full of desire, and he said hoarsely, "Xin'er..."
"My lord, don't be lustful." She had no choice but to say, "Don't forget the poison in your body, you can't have sex."
His eyes darkened.
She leaned her head against his thick shoulder and said distressingly, "Husband, I swear to my life that once conditions permit, I will do my best to remove the poison from you."
He really wanted to be cured. If he could not touch Xin'er for the rest of his life, he would be in a lot of pain, but he also knew that there was no antidote for this kind of poison. "Just try your best and it will be fine."
"Right now, we have to replenish our strength." She took out two pork pancakes from her sleeve pocket and handed one to him, "Your Highness, you eat."
It was now midnight, and he had only eaten a roasted bird in the morning. He was indeed starving. Seeing that she still had something in her hand, he took a piece of the pancake and asked, "Where did you get this from?"
While eating the pancake, she took off the water bottle tied around her waist to drink water, "I killed the four men who wanted to kill me and snatched their food. There were four cakes in total, and I was extremely hungry at the time so I ate one. We each have one of the remaining three. We'll save one and eat it tomorrow."
"How did you kill those four people?" Xiao Yeheng's heart skipped a beat, "Were you injured?"
She shook her head, "I just got lucky with a surprise attack." She recounted the process in a calm tone.
But Xiao Yeheng was so distressed and frightened that his face darkened.
"we'll all be safe." She looked at him firmly and handed him the sheepskin kettle.
He took it and took a sip, without drinking too much.
The two of them ate, then sat in the open space snuggled together and fell asleep.
The ground was slightly hot, and Yan Shuixin was afraid of burning her hair while lying down.
One night passed, and at dawn the next day, the fire in the prison was completely extinguished, and the ground became cold again.
Yan Shuixin and Xiao Yeheng guessed that the hundreds of men in black had searched the nearby mountains and would not come back again.
The two of them stepped out of the prison, which was full of broken eaves and broken walls, and headed down the mountain.
Fortunately, Xiao Yeheng had no problem walking after a night's rest.
Following the road that might be going down the mountain, the further they walked, the deeper the forest got.
The dense ancient trees towered above the sky, and there are clumps of weeds everywhere, like a deserted mountain with no people.
After walking for two hours, Yan Shuixin stopped in confusion, "My lord, are we going in the wrong direction?"
"It's possible." He nodded, "If we go the wrong way, don't blame me in your heart."
"I won't blame you." She pointed to a triangular mark on a tree in the forest, "This forest is too big. Even the men in black can easily get lost. This should be their route mark."
Xiao Yeheng nodded slightly, and the two of them followed the marks.
Sure enough, they found the same mark on the tree trunk more than a hundred meters away.
After looking for more marked trees, but not finding anymore, Yan Shuixin became anxious. Suddenly her feet stepped into mud. Just as she was about to lift her feet, she found that her body was slowly sinking. "My lord, don't come here, this is a swamp!"
"Xin'er, don't move. If you struggle, you will only sink faster!" Xiao Yeheng quickly pulled two long vines from the nearby tree, twisted them together, and tugged them. When he felt they were tough enough, he went over to the swamp. He threw out one end of the vine and gave it to Yan Shuixin.
She had already sunk halfway into the swamp, and immediately grabbed the long vine that Xiao Yeheng threw towards her.
He grabbed one end of the vine and finally pulled her onto the hard ground.
Yan Shuixin let out a long breath, looked at Xiao Yeheng and said excitedly, "Thank you, my lord, for saving my life."
"You are my life, how can I not save you?" He hugged her body tightly in his arms, not caring that her lower body had all been stained with mud.
She took a deep breath. Although she was stuck in the quagmire, she actually had a way to get out by herself.
Tear off the belt around her waist, connect it to the sword's handle, and hurl the sword into the air, causing it to become trapped on a V-shaped tree trunk near the mud. At this point, she could use her strength to climb out using the belt.
But she wanted Xiao Yeheng to have more confidence in himself, so she deliberately waited for him to save her.
Xiao Yeheng thought that with Xin'er's intelligence, she would definitely have a way to save herself, and raised his eyebrows, "Xin'er, you deliberately waited for me to save you, didn't you?"
Yan Shuixin refused to admit it, "I was scared to death just now."
Although he was confident in his heart, he also understood that she wanted him to feel that she owed him too.
Touched by her thoughts, Xiao Yeheng no longer struggled with his thoughts.
After all, she and him were one.
Yan Shuixin looked around the dense forest where even the noon sunlight could barely penetrate, "My lord, what should we do now?"
"There's no other way out, let's keep moving forward." He opened his lips.
Yan Shuixin also knew that if they take the wrong road, the road ahead might be even more uninhabitable and more dangerous.
However, Xiao Yeheng was seriously injured and could barely walk.
In all directions, the two of them couldn't find any path at all.
Afterwards, to avoid falling into another swamp, the two of them each picked up a long wooden stick and poked the ground to see whether it was hard ground before daring to walk forward.
Sure enough, this method allowed them to avoid at least dozens of swamps, both large and small.
There are a lot of mosquitoes in the woods.
Both of them had bites on their bodies.
By noon, the two of them were tired and hungry.
The trees above them are lush and leafy, but the sunlight is still as fierce as fire.
"Let's rest for a while." Yan Shuixin leaned against the trunk of a big tree, her head full of sweat from exhaustion.
Xiao Yeheng suddenly drew his sword and stabbed towards Yan Shuixin. She was frightened and her eyes widened, but she didn't move.
"Why don't you dodge?" Xiao Yeheng wondered.
"Because I believe that the prince will not hurt me." Before she could finish her words, she realized that the sword in his hand was stabbing a snake that was coiled around the tree trunk above her head.
The blade had punctured the snake's belly, which made it twist and struggle.
"Ah!" She was most afraid of snakes, and her face turned pale in fear, "Throw it farther away!"
Xiao Yeheng walked five steps away and threw the snake into the air. He slashed it horizontally in mid-air, and the long snake turned into two. After it landed on the ground, the two snake bodies twisted wildly on the ground. It took a while before it stopped moving.
She looked at the snake carcass, which was about the same color as the tree trunk. She was really tired and careless.
Fortunately, Xiao Yeheng had a sharp eye. It was a highly venomous snake, and being bitten would be disastrous.
Death is not inevitable. If poisonous snakes are around, there must be medicinal herbs nearby.
Yan Shuixin searched around carefully and found several herbs in the grass that could cure snake venom. She pulled them out and put them in her pocket for later use.
The two of them shared the only piece of pork pancake and drank all the water in the sheepskin kettle.
When you are in the forest, you can find something to eat so that you will not starve to death.
Taking one look at the snake carcass on the ground, Yan Shuixin really wanted to start a fire and roast the snake meat.
However, they can't light a fire, otherwise the firewood pile will smoke, and it will be troublesome if it attracts those men in black.
After resting for a while, Xiao Yeheng and Yan Shuixin continued on their way.
Passing by a pool of water, the two of them were very thirsty and wanted to drink water.
They saw a few mountain rats by the water, but they passed by without drinking. It was clear that there was something wrong with the water quality and it was not drinkable.
Thus, they could only pass by it.
After walking about another hundred meters, a shallow lake suddenly appeared in front of her. Yan Shuixin saw a rabbit drinking water.
Animals can tell whether water is poisonous or not.
So, the two of them squatted by the lake and drank until they were full. Yan Shuixin also filled the empty sheepskin water bag with water.
"You're lucky that I can't start a fire, otherwise I'd catch you and roast you for dinner." Yan Shuixin looked greedily at the rabbit drinking water.
The rabbit was frightened and ran away on all fours.
Xiao Yeheng smiled and wanted to say that he could catch it and roast the rabbit meat, but unfortunately, he couldn't be willful.
They can't risk being detected again.
Yan Shuixin washed the mud off her pants. Xiao Yeheng wouldn't let her wear wet pants, so she took them off and placed them on a stone to expose them to sunlight.
Anyway, the most intimate thing happened between the two of them before, so he did not avert his gaze.
Her clothes were a little longer and could cover half of her thighs, so she wasn't afraid of him looking at her.
Her legs were straight and slender, and her skin was white.
His eyes were hot, almost on fire, he couldn't help but turn his head sideways to avoid looking at anything inappropriate.
She was very bold and had the heart to tease him.
Around one or two o'clock in the afternoon, the sun was very bright. After waiting for almost two hours, the pants were dry and she put them back on.
It's time for them to prepare the next meal.
It's odd that humans, who are such highly developed creatures, experience hunger after skipping even one meal.
There were no fish in the lake, so the two of them were pretty unlucky.
Yan Shuixin found edible mushrooms on a few tree trunks not far from the lake. She hurriedly picked them and raised her voice, "My lord, we don't have to starve anymore."
He responded by the lake, "Be careful, they might be poisonous..."
"I recognize them, these are oyster mushrooms." She picked all the oyster mushrooms, took off her coat and wrapped them up. She walked next to him, washed them in the lake, and shared them with him.
Raw food is particularly unpalatable. In this case, it's good to have some food, so they can't be picky.
They had no choice but to continue on the road. Although the deep forest was dangerous, there were also many treasures. Yan Shuixin found a ginseng as thick as a pinky finger and some medicinal materials for healing wounds.
She forced Xiao Yeheng to eat both. In this way, his internal organ injuries could get better.
Unconsciously, it became dark.
Everything was silent, the mountain wind blew, and a wolf howled in the distance.
A terrible atmosphere that made the scalp tingle spread throughout the vicinity...
Yan Shuixin is a modern person, and she really has no experience of spending the night alone in the deep mountains and wilderness. At most, it would be an outing in the wild with a few acquaintances, and not in this kind of environment.
Fortunately, Xiao Yeheng was by her side, which alleviated her inner fear.
The two of them chose to sit and cling to a large tree while sleeping among its sturdy branches.
"My lord, as long as you are here, I am not afraid." She leaned against him, and she could only see the darkness when she opened her eyes.
The warm body of the man behind her made her feel safe.
"Well, you sleep, and I'll watch over you." He raised his hand and stroked a strand of black hair scattered around her temples.
"Are your internal organs still hurting?" she asked with concern.
"I feel much better after taking the medicine you picked up."
After walking on the mountain road for a day, she was very tired and fell asleep unconsciously.
Fortunately, no wolf appeared. The first rays of sunlight gleamed in the deep forest in the morning, birds sang on the branches, and squirrels gnawed pine cones on the trees. It appeared that everything had sprung to life.
Yan Shuixin slept the entire night in Xiao Yeheng's arms, she stretched out her stiff body after waking up
When she realized she was being poked by something, Xiao Yeheng muttered hoarsely behind her., "Xin'er, don't move."
She blushed.
He was poisoned and it was not appropriate to 'do things', otherwise, there was no one in the wilderness, and he would really be able to do that.
He held her in his arms, performed lightness skills, and jumped down from the tree.
Falling suddenly, she hugged his neck and almost exclaimed, "My lord, can you use your inner strength?"
"I'm better now. I can use my inner strength to move a little without any trouble."
"That's good." She checked his pulse again as usual and found that the injuries in his internal organs were much better. Unfortunately, the toxicity of the Qihuan Poison was getting worse.
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The two of them found some wild fruits to eat, as well as grass roots...
There are many kinds of edible food around.
They also made the triangular mark on some trees so that if some of the men in black saw them, they'd assume it was one of their accomplices who made them. This would also keep them from going in circles and walking for another day.
The two eventually found their way from the forest to an irregular mountain road, which indicated that it had been opened by humans and was frequently trampled on.
It's clearly near a populated area!
The two looked at each other, feeling particularly excited. After walking along the mountain road for a while, they heard footsteps coming their way.
Xiao Yeheng and Yan Shuixin quickly hid in the bushes nearby.
A few feet ahead, they saw two large men dressed in black and with swords walking up the mountain route. One of them complained, "The boss has no clue what's going on. He still commands us brothers to search the mountain. It's already been three days. I have no idea where King An and Wan Niang have gone, or if they're still in the mountains."
"Three days ago, the boss sent a message ordering the main force to move to the city gate down the mountain. King An and Wan Niang would never be able to escape, no matter how fast they run. They will definitely still be trapped in Duanji City."
"That's not certain. In the past three days, every house in the city has been searched by the boss and his men, and not even the shadow of King An has been seen."
"Could they have grown wings and flown away?"
"If they really have flown away, then I'll be dead if it happens. Let's continue searching the mountain."
Two big men in black chatted and searched far into the forest, occasionally complaining about being terrified of losing their life in the mountains.
Yan Shuixin and Xiao Yeheng got a lot of information from their conversation.
The city at the foot of the mountain has already been inspected, so she and Xiao Yeheng will have to sneak into the city, which is now slightly safer.
There were probably dozens of men in black looking for them on the mountain, scattered in all directions, looking like headless flies.
After three days of searching, they have started to slack off.
Yan Shuixin and Xiao Yeheng waited for the two guys to walk further away, and only then did they emerge from the bushes and walked side by side down the mountain.
Walking halfway down the mountain, they spotted a man dressed in black and wielding a sword coming towards them...
The other party had his face hidden, most likely because he was doing evil and was bold enough to hunt down a prince. There's even a residence not far away, so he didn't dare to expose his real face in public.
There were no bushes nearby, and no other places to hide this time.
Xiao Yeheng and Yan Shuixin had already covered their faces with black scarves and were not panicking.
It's just one person. If their disguise doesn't work, they'll just kill him. However, if they really kill the opponent, and the other party does not return to his team when the time comes, then the whereabouts of the two of them will also be exposed.
If their whereabouts are discovered and a blanket search is conducted, it will be troublesome.
It's best to muddle through.
"Brother, you go up the mountain. We both have already searched for those two people on the mountain. After three days of exhaustion, we want to head down the mountain to replenish ourselves with food." Xiao Yeheng took the initiative to speak. He sat on a big rock nearby to rest and raised his left hand to scratch his forehead. In fact, he scratched himself to conceal the fake eyeball.
Yan Shuixin looked at his actions and felt that his artificial eyes was not a big deal, because it is too realistic. The prosthetic eye obtained by the prince's power is not something that can easily obtained by the rest of the world. If he squinted his eyelids a little more and made the artificial eye less visible, it would be the same as the real one.
Unless you're within one meter of him and look carefully, it's difficult to discern his fake eye. Otherwise, people would have noticed him long ago.
But he also wears a prosthetic foot and walks with a slight limp. He must not let others see him walking.
Yan Shuixin also sat aside.
The man in black had a tired look in his eyes. Along the way, he also met another colleague who was going down the mountain. He didn't think much about it, and left after greeting.
Seeing his retreating figure, Yan Shuixin whispered enviously in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "My lord, you see, he is so lucky."
"Indeed." He unknowingly avoided death, it's really good luck.
"So there is a saying in ancient times that curiosity kills people. It makes sense now." Yan Shuixin sighed, "You and I have fought so hard to survive at this point, whereas the other party simply walked away carelessly. It's as if we're the same beings, but have different fates."
Guilt appeared in Xiao Yeheng's eyes, "Xin'er, it's me who has caused you trouble..."
"Don't say that." When she looked at him, he went silent. But he felt even more guilty and uneasy.
After returning to Beijing, he will definitely do his best to compensate her.
Another masked man in black came up the mountain aggressively in front of them. The long knife in his hand slashed the weeds on the roadside from time to time. He looked like an evil spirit at first glance.
Yan Shuixin secretly held the handle of the sword in her hand, ready to slash at anyone if necessary.
She couldn't handle a bunch of men in black. But it was only one man, and with Xiao Yeheng on her side, she was confident that she could kill the opponent in ten moves.
The man in black saw the two of them and greeted them harshly, "Which team are you from?"
"Wang Hu's team." Xiao Yeheng answered.
A few days ago, when they were still hidden behind a large boulder outside the prison, listening in on their search. Someone on the black team called their colleague this, which came in handy at this moment.
The evil man in black asked again, "Have you searched the swamp?"
"No." How could Xiao Yeheng tell him that no one was there, but rather right in front of him.
"It turns out that you have already searched, then I won't waste my time looking any further. Instead of going to the swamp, I can just head east on the mountain." The evil looking man muttered to himself, walking up the mountain faster and faster.
"Hey..." Yan Shuixin called him in a low voice, "You heard wrong, the swamp has not been searched, so go ahead." Of course, it will be a waste of effort.
The other party pretended not to hear and ran away without a trace.
She was still prepared to take someone's life. But each one of them end up having great luck, and avoided dying in front of her.
"There are wolves lurking in the mountains and forests, and swamps that can swallow them up, so these people are not willing to take any risks." Xiao Yeheng sneered, "There's only a few dozen people left to search the mountain. In a short period of time, we encountered four of them, all of whom were loitering around."
"If it were up to me, I wouldn't do my best to search either. Just put on a good show, and walk around like a headless fly." Yan Shuixin smiled, feeling like her speech had become more and more like ancient people since she crossed over to ancient times and followed the local customs, "But this is a good thing for both of us."
The two of them took a short rest and stopped hiding. They walked down the mountain along the dirt road and arrived at the foot of the mountain.
There are fields all around the foot of the mountain. Where farmers are working hard in the fields, and the crops are growing vigorously.
Yan Shuixin saw a cucumber field with a wooden fence, and green cucumbers hanging beautifully among the vine leaves. Two masked men in black were stealing cucumbers brazenly, and not only had they grabbed the cucumbers with their hands, but they had also filled up their bags.
A farmer with a slightly handsome appearance and a height of about 1.78 meters saw the scene and was enraged, but he didn't dare to speak.
Obviously, he hates these robbers extremely.
Seeing this, Yan Shuixin and Xiao Yeheng entered the nearby cornfield, firstly to hide Xiao Yeheng's slightly limp footsteps, and secondly, they hadn't eaten vegetables in a long time, and they both wanted to have a few bites of fruits and vegetables.
The two men who stole the cucumber looked over from a distance, as if they were meeting a friend.
Yan Shuixin and Xiao Yeheng are not afraid of them, given that they are only two men, they can easily handle them.
At worst, just kill them and then run away.
However, it was an open robbery and a terrible act. The two men each picked up a bag of cucumbers and continued up the mountain, with no intention of stopping to say hello.
Yan Shuixin and Xiao Yeheng had not eaten enough in the previous few days, so each of them nibbled on a raw corn, before walking dozens of steps to the cucumber field and eating four cucumbers.
Finally, their stomachs were full.
2
The two of them walked to a fork in the road, when they saw the farmer stretching his neck to look at the stolen fruit and vegetable patch with a distressed look on his face. His clothes had several patches, and it was clear that his family was poor. Yan Shuixin asked in a low voice, "Are the cucumbers and corn fields yours?"
He nodded.
When Yan Shuixin killed four men in black previously, she found four ingots of silver and ten copper coins. She thought for a while, and when the farmer wasn't paying attention, she threw ten copper coins into the grass beside her, and said to the farmer, "You dropped your money."
She had noticed that the surrounding edible grain had been turned over. Half of the melon plants and sweet potato fields were now empty. Basically, the crops in the area have been reduced by nearly half, and it appears that they were all done by those in black.
Theft is theft, and this was obviously a robbery in broad daylight.
Yan Shuixin didn't want to increase the burden on ordinary farmers. She couldn't control what others robbed. According to the prices of this era, ten copper coins are enough for what she and Xiao Yeheng had picked up.
But because the other men in black were all stealing food, she and Xiao Yeheng couldn't pay the bill politely for fear of arousing unnecessary suspicion.
It's safer to present it as money dropped by others.
After saying that, she and Xiao Yeheng left.
The farmer picked up the copper coins and counted them. There were ten coins in total, and he quickly called out, "Master, this money..."
"Perhaps it's because God saw your misery and provided you with it, so just keep it." Yan Shuixin turned around and glared fiercely. The other party was so frightened that he lowered his head and did not dare to look further.
Then, Yan Shuixin and Xiao Yeheng entered a village called Yejia along the country road. Perhaps it was because the men in black have been plundering too much lately, so when the nearby villagers noticed the two people's outfit, they either hid themselves or simply lowered their heads, not daring to look any further.
For a while, Yan Shuixin paid attention to whether anyone noticed that Xiao Yeheng was slightly lame. If anyone came over, the two of them would stop and flash their swords, and the other party would run away.
After entering the village, the dirt road turned into a patchwork of bluestones, and there was a pavilion in the center of the village.
Many villagers, both young and elderly, dressed in linen and coarse clothing, gathered in the pavilion and gnashed their teeth.
They all had resentment against the sudden appearance of dozens of men in black. These people took the crops as if they were their own, and would not give them a penny. Occasionally, some of the men would enter the villagers' homes and demand wine, and they were all filled with murderous intent if villagers didn't give it up.
They then discussed how Zhao Yuanwai, who was a man over the age of sixty in the city. This old man had kidnapped Huang Yueniang, the Huang family's sole daughter, who was only sixteen years old, and made her his wife. The Huang family's couple went to the officials to lodge a complaint, but were turned away by the county magistrate, who said that it was the old man from the Huang family who gambled with Zhao Yuanwai's money, and it was also the old man Huang who signed the contract to pay off the debt with his daughter.
The Huang family's two elders went about complaining, claiming that they had never stolen money from Zhao Yuanwai and that the county magistrate had been bribed by Zhao Yuanwai, which was unjust. Five days ago, while no one was looking, the elderly couple from the Huang family hung themselves on a tree outside the Yamen.
For a while, there was widespread public unhappiness. Almost everyone believed that Old Man Huang was innocent, that the county magistrate was corrupt, and that Zhao Yuanwai was an old beast.
When Huang Yueniang learned about the death of her parents, she stabbed Zhao Yuanwai to death and ran away. The government are still on the hunt for Huang Yueniang.
There were also a few bold villagers who claimed that if they saw Huang Yueniang, they would shelter her quietly, but the others disagreed and said they would get in trouble.
Zhao Yuanwai is no longer alive, and his sons are the biggest bullies in the city. They will undoubtedly seek revenge for the death of their father.
Nobody dared to bring up the subject of sheltering someone anymore.
Yan Shuixin and Xiao Yeheng stood on the side of an adobe house, quietly listening to the villagers chatting. They also talked about the recent martial law in Longji City. They said that two gangsters, a man and a woman, had appeared. They even drew portraits of the criminals. The man had a part of his leg amputated and scars on the left side of his face. He was said to have been hurt during a battle with officers and soldiers. The woman is nothing more than a coquettish bitch.
The government also made two portraits for Yejia village. Yan Shuixin saw with her sharp eyes that the woman in the portrait had the appearance of Wan Niang, while the man was similar to Xiao Yeheng.
Xiao Yeheng obviously also saw the portrait.
This is trouble.
The local government had obviously followed King Jin's order. They claimed to be looking for thieves, but in reality they were looking for her and King An.
It's so despicable that she and Xiao Yeheng were framed as gangsters!
Fortunately, Xiao Yeheng's left eye was not announced as fake. It was probably because they were afraid that the traits would be similar to King An's and would draw the attention of the palace. Therefore, only some of the features were included, and the portrait is only two-thirds similar to King An. The girl in the portraits of the two gangsters was identified as Wan Niang, a girl from a poor family. It is estimated that King Jin felt there was no need to change her name, but the male criminal was identified as Zong Han.
The city has been placed under strict martial law. When entering the city, the inspection is relaxed, but when leaving, it is highly strict.
Because Xiao Yeheng's internal injuries were too serious, Yan Shuixin decided to find a place to stay for a few days and wait until he recovered before making any plans.
The two of them can't live alone because if they light a fire to cook, they'll arouse suspicion.
She planned to pose as Huang Yueniang and find a villager's house to stay first. After sifting through the information about the villagers she knew from their discussion, she planned to stay at Li Youzhu's house at the east end of the village.
The family has a simple population. In addition to Li Youzhu, there is an elderly woman who fell and broke her leg. The family is poor and cannot afford medical treatment.
Li Youzhu had a married sister. In the beginning, because the Li family owed money to the Tian family in the neighboring village, he had to marry off his fifteen-year-old sister, Li Youyun, to a thirty-year-old bachelor of the Tian family.
Li Youyun's life in the Tian family was not good. Because of her situation, Li Youzhu and his mother were more vocal about Huang Yueniang's troubles.
Living in the Li family's home is the most ideal.
Although this village is called Yejia Village, only half of the surnames in the village name are Ye, and the rest are a mixture of various surnames.
When Yan Shuixin mentioned this idea to Xiao Yeheng, he disagreed because Li Youzhu was a bachelor. In addition, the left half of Xiao Yeheng's face was scarred, and the limping of his left leg was particularly obvious. He was well aware that if anyone spotted him, he would be easily caught.
In desperation, he agreed to Xin'er's proposal. No matter what, it is the best policy to find a place to heal his internal injuries first.
The Li family is the first house in the east end of the village. It has a large yard, with mud walls and a big locust tree in front of the door.
Very easy to find.
Along the way, Yan Shuixin and Xiao Yeheng intimidated the villagers with their swords, preventing anyone from approaching close enough to observe the two of them.
The two people pretended to leave the village through the east end of the village.
When the villagers saw the two evil spirits leaving from a distance, they breathed a sigh of relief.
Yan Shuixin and Xiao Yeheng left the village, but they came back when no one was paying attention, climbed over the wall, and hid in the Li family's yard.
As soon as they entered the yard, they noticed that cabbage and garlic were grown on one side of the land, while more than a dozen native chickens were raised on the other.
From a visual inspection, the house appeared to have three rooms and a main room, with a separate kitchen and utility room next to it.
Looking through the window in one of the rooms, they saw a middle-aged woman in her forties or fifties lying on the bed, moaning and groaning. This was probably Li Youzhu's mother.
There were two other rooms, one locked and one with the door open.
The locked room was probably where the married Li Youyun lived before. There was no need to guess who the other room belonged to, it was most likely Li Youzhu's bedroom.
Yan Shuixin and Xiao Yeheng exchanged glances and prepared to enter the locked room.
In fact, it is not difficult to open ancient locks, but it's just that they don't have the right tools at hand.
Yan Shuixin noticed a loose bluestone that looked to be moveable outside Li Youyun's door. In modern times, some people like to put their house keys under the carpet.
Perhaps this is the same scenario?
She reached under the stone slab and felt around, and sure enough, she found a key. She took it out, opened the lock, and opened the door.
The two silently entered the room, which was furnished with a bed, closet, dressing table, table, and chairs. There were windows in the front and rear of the room, and sunshine flowed in through the paper windows, providing excellent lighting.
There is a dressing table, indicating that this is undoubtedly Li Youyun's room. There was only one bed with no bedding, which revealed that the room's owner had not been home for a long time.
Yan Shuixin gently opened the cabinet door, which had folded bedding and several shabby blouses placed in the cabinet.
Very good!
The black clothes she wore with Xiao Yeheng were too eye-catching. They had to change out of the bad guys' clothing.
Moreover, the two of them had not showered for several days and were covered in stinky sweat.
Yan Shuixin quickly took off her black shirt, shoes and socks. She found a pair of women's old cloth shoes under the bed, put them on barefoot, and hid the black clothes under the bed.
She was wearing a white and yellow middle coat, and the word "prisoner" was printed on her underwear.
She took off all her clothes, without shying away from Xiao Yeheng, and went to the cabinet to choose a blouse to put on first.
Xiao Yeheng looked at her steadily. Her skin was so white and her figure was so good...
When he remembered how many times he had sex with her that night, his one eye caught fire again, and he closed it, not daring to look any farther. Now, he can't have sex anymore.
After Yan Shuixin changed her clothes, she heard movement at the courtyard door, and then footsteps. Apparently someone was back.
A middle-aged woman's raised voice came from the next room, "Zhu'er, are you back?"
"Mother, it's me." A young male voice responded.
Yan Shuixin saw him through the slightly open door and found that it was the man she had previously given ten copper pieces to.
He came back carrying a bamboo basket full of corn and cucumbers.
