Xiao Yu glanced sideways at Wang Zhong and saw that the veteran trapped in the camp still buried his head on the ground.
"General Wang, take care of yourself."
Wang Zhong didn't answer, but Xiao Yu saw his lowered head raised slightly.
Xiao Yu glanced at the other people who were bowing their heads on the ground, and shouted: "Get out of the way, my prince!"
None of the dozens of strong men stood up, but just walked on their knees to create a path for the three of them.
Xiao Yu took a breath and strode forward, with Hong Xiao and Qin Qin following closely behind.
After walking out for a long time, Xiao Yu didn't dare to look back, but he obviously heard whispers behind him, but he couldn't hear a word of what was said specifically.
It was only then that his puffed-up chest relaxed slightly, and his back was already dripping with cold sweat without even realizing it.
He was really scared, afraid that he wouldn't be able to scare those former veterans of his father's army.
Just as he was thinking of this, garlic suddenly stirred under his feet, and one leg was pinned to the other for some unknown reason.
If Hung Hom hadn't quickly caught him with his eyes and hands, he might have fallen face first to the ground.
He smiled awkwardly at Hong Xiao: "Thank you, thank you."
Hong Xiao glared at him: "Walk well."
"Alas, alas."
Taking this opportunity, Xiao Yu turned his head and looked back.
A group of strong men had already stood up, but it was too dark. He could only see the general outlines of those people, but could not clearly see the expressions on their faces.
He couldn't tell whether Wang Zhong had stood up long ago and kept watching them leave.
But seeing those people standing there with no intention of turning back, he felt a little relieved again and no longer as nervous as before.
The pace of the three people speeded up unknowingly, but they still maintained a strange formation.
Xiao Yu and Hong Xiao were walking side by side, holding each other's arms. It seemed that the two of them had maintained this posture since Xiao Yu's soles were mixed with garlic, while Yu Qin was walking alone one body away from Xiao Yu's left. With.
Xiao Yu's heart was beating fast, and a soft and hard thing rubbed back and forth on his right arm as he walked, making him feel uneasy.
Xiao Yu used the corner of his eye to observe Hong Hao from time to time.
The moonlight was like silver, outlining the outline of Hong Kong's handsome face. Xiao Yu couldn't see her expression at the moment because of the black scarf.
I just felt that he looked serious and nervous, looking straight ahead.
At this time, Xiao Yu realized for the first time that her eyelashes were very long, and couldn't help but take a few more glances.
Hong Xiao suddenly realized that Xiao Yu was secretly looking at her, and her eyes became more wary.
He scolded in a low voice: "What are you looking at?"
Xiao Yu didn't know what he was thinking at that time, so he replied: "Your eyelashes are long and curled."
The red eyes were wide open, and in addition to suspicion, there was also a bit of sullenness in them.
"You...what did you say..."
At this time, Xiao Yu finally realized that he had said the wrong thing, and he opened his mouth not knowing how to explain.
At this time, Qin Qin quietly turned around and smiled.
"Did the young prince praise you just now? He complimented you on your beautiful eyelashes." Yang Qin tapped their chin again on their still entangled arms, "Hongxiao, you and the young prince have a really good relationship."
At this time, the sullenness in Hong Xiao's eyes turned into panic again. She quickly pulled her arm out of Xiao Yu's, keeping a body distance from him, but explained to Qin Qin.
"You really deserve a sore on your mouth. What are you talking about? The young prince almost fell down just now, but I just helped him."
"He was so intimate that he didn't want to pull his arm back!"
"Oh, you really know how to talk nonsense. I was just nervous for a moment and focused on the journey."
"You are focusing on the young prince."
When Yuqin said this, she smiled from ear to ear. Completely forgetting the dangerous situation we just faced.
Hong Xiao hurriedly made a gesture of silence, looked back, and saw that the veterans trapped in the camp were almost submerged in the dark night.
"Sharp teeth and sharp mouth, be careful when you go back and I'll sew your mouth shut."
"Hehe... If you really sew my mouth shut, it can only mean that you have something secret in your heart and are trying to hide it. Tell me honestly, you like the young prince, right?"
"You...you really deserve a beating!"
The two women started fighting while talking.
Just now, Yang Qin was joking about Hongxiao and herself, which made him a little embarrassed. At this moment, he could only follow the two of them at a short distance.
The two women fought for a while, and then the formation changed again.
Hong Xiao was walking in front alone. She seemed to be avoiding suspicion and not wanting to get too close to Xiao Yu.
Xiao Yu was replaced by the considerate Qin Qin, and the two became relatively harmonious in their conversation.
"Why was the young prince so nervous just now? Doesn't Prince Jiangxia have a very good command of his style?"
"They were all meant to scare people. Now that I think about it, I'm still a little scared! At that time, I wanted to scare them first. The original intention was to distract them, so that you could have a chance to escape them. Crossbows, subdue a few of them first."
Yuqin's eyes widened: "Conquer them? The young prince likes us too much. It's okay to fight alone, but to deal with them, even ten Yuqin together may not be able to win. Little prince, although Yuqin is not good at martial arts , but they are very accurate in judging people. Those people are all well-trained professional soldiers. The rabble in the backyard are different from them. They are the Five Guards and Yulin Guards who defend Jiankang City and claim to be the elite of the Southern Dynasties. They were even more different from them. Yuqin could see that those people had fought with swords and guns on the battlefield, and they were not just fancy tricks. Maybe the young prince had not been aware of the danger before, but Yuqin was really worried. I was scared for a while.”
Hongxiao turned his head and rolled his eyes at them: "Huh, if you gain the ambition of others and destroy your own prestige, how can a mere soldier from the Southern Dynasties compare with our soldiers from the six towns of the Northern Dynasty?"
Yangqin smiled, she didn't care about Hongxiao, and continued to talk to Xiao Yu: "Originally, when I met the young prince for the first time on the boat, I thought that the young prince was just a young man who had not settled his personal affairs. Hehe, he is just a young prince. Baby, I didn’t expect that just now the young prince was as powerful as a general who has commanded thousands of armies. I just felt that the knees of those people opposite me suddenly softened when they saw the young prince, hehe..."
Xiao Yu didn't feel like a general. He didn't know what Yuqin meant by saying this. He didn't know if he was deliberately trying to please himself, or if he wanted to get close to him for another purpose.
He just told the truth: "Looking back, I was actually scared, but the situation was urgent, so I had no choice but to take a gamble. In the past, I heard the old steward in my house said that I look like my father, who is younger than me." There was a nine-point similarity between them, so I wanted to take advantage of this to give it a try. After all, those people were an elite army formed by my father back then, and they should be quite loyal to my father, so I just took advantage of them. Only after knowing this can I dare to take such a gamble."
"No wonder, I often heard people say that the Prince of Jiangxia controlled 30% of the military strength of the Southern Dynasty back then. He had many powerful soldiers and generals and built many elite troops. Now he is also the target of large sums of money to win over the feudal officials and local vassal kings in various places. I don't know those dozens of people. From which army?”
"Trapped in the camp, I'm afraid this is the only fire left..."
When Xiao Yu said this, he seemed to feel that the look in Yuqin's eyes changed.
I saw Hongxiao turning around with an angry look on his face, regardless of etiquette, as if he had come to ask questions.
"What did you say just now? Which army? Trapped in a camp?"
"Yes, what's wrong?" Xiao Yu asked.
"Is Qin Yi among those who kneel and kowtow?"
Hong Xiao said and turned around suddenly, angrily going back to find those people.
"Hongxiao, what are you going to do?" Yuqin asked nervously.
"I didn't expect to meet them here. I'm going to kill them all!"
"You can't go! You can't kill them! They might even kill them!" Yuqin went to pull the red ribbon, but she broke free.
When Yang Qin was about to stop him, Hong Xiao showed his rapier and forced Yang Qin back a few steps in a few strokes.
Seeing that she couldn't control her fiery companion by herself, Yuqin had no choice but to turn to Xiao Yu for help.
"Little prince!"
Xiao Yu hesitated for a moment when he saw Hong Xiao's excessive reaction, and then came back to his senses after Jing Qin shouted.
Hongxiao had already run out more than ten steps, and Guangqin had just been forced back and was still behind him.
Xiao Yu didn't think much and ran up to stop him.
I heard Hong Xiao yell angrily: "Don't stop me!"
Silver threads flashed past like lightning cutting through the darkness.
Xiao Yu was startled and hurriedly retreated to dodge, but his chest was still cut open by the sword's edge.
Blood seeped out along the black material.
Hong Xiao was stunned, and her original anger was gone. The confused look in her eyes made her not know what to do.
Yang Qin was also stunned. She walked slowly towards Xiao Yu, so nervous that she was stumbling when she spoke.
"Little...little prince..."
Xiao Yu did not look back, but waved his hand.
"It's okay, it's just a skin injury, not deep!"
Looking up at Hung Hom again, he was still standing there blankly, the rapier in his right hand quietly falling to the ground.
Xiao Yu had some sweat on his face due to pain, and he forced a smile at Hong Xiao.
"It's okay, Hongxiao, let's go back!"
Hong Xiao suddenly burst into tears, as if she had been wronged in some way, which made Xiao Yu a little confused.
He walked over and patted the woman's thin shoulder, but he didn't know whether to wipe the tears from her face.
"Don't cry. If you don't treat me as an outsider, you can tell me in detail when you get out. If you have a chance, I will make the decision for you and talk to the people who are trapped in the camp."
Hongxiao suddenly threw herself into Xiao Yu's arms, which surprised Xiao Yu.
The woman cried and said: "What's the use of talking? My grandpa was killed by them. What's wrong with my grandpa? He was just a doctor who helped the world. My mother-in-law and my sister were also raped by them." He was completely killed. My brother, who had just learned to walk, was crying for his grandma, but they threw him into a dry well and threw him to death. Wuwu... What's the use of talking? It can save my family's life. ?"
Xiao Yu felt lost. He hugged Hong Xiao and patted her back gently, silently comforting her wounded heart.
Yuqin stood behind them and remained silent for a long time, letting time slowly pass by.
The originally chaotic backyard behind him seemed to have calmed down, and the fires at the several fire points had also been brought under control.
Yuqin stood for a while, frowned, and took two steps forward: "Little prince, let's leave quickly! I'm afraid something will happen again if it's too late."
Xiao Yu nodded in agreement, and finally helped Hong Xiao wipe away the tears on her cheeks.
At this time, Hongxiao was as well-behaved as a kitten.
The three of them continued walking. This narrow path was deep and long. For a while, Yuqin seemed to see some kind of mark.
"Go to the right!" Yuqin said.
The three of them walked a hundred steps in the direction marked by the mark. In front of them was a wall, and they entered a dead end.
Just when the three of them were about to cross the wall, a woman's clear voice suddenly came from the wall.
"Below are the Qinqin and the Red Thread."
"Exactly."
The tone of the person above was excited and lively.
"You guys are back. I've been waiting for you. Hey, why is there still one person?"
"That's the young prince." Qin Qin replied.
The man on the wall didn't seem surprised.
"The young prince is with you!"
"Exactly."
"Oh, I got it. Come up quickly. The other sisters should have withdrawn. Let's go back quickly."
Xiao Yu suddenly shouted: "Wait, my two partners are still inside, can you..."
Before Xiao Yu finished speaking, the person on the wall said contemptuously:
"The young prince is talking about ugly men and boring gourds?"
Xiao Yu blinked: "Exactly."
"Don't worry, young prince, you can meet them when you go out."
"They are fine."
"They're fine!"
After the man on the wall finished speaking, he lowered a rope.
Yuqin turned around and said, "Young prince, you go up first, Hong Xiao and I will follow."
Xiao Yu was not polite to them, nodded, pulled the rope a few times and climbed up the high wall.
After he stood firm, he saw a girl with a baby-fat face squatting there and smiling at him.
"The young prince is so skilled. At first, Hui Yin thought that all the princes and nobles in the Southern Dynasty were just embroidered pillows!"
As she said that, the girl squeezed Xiao Yu's arm. The hard muscle made the girl smile shyly, but when she saw the scar on Xiao Yu's chest, she couldn't help but frown.
Xiao Yu turned his body slightly and said sarcastically: "If you are not good at martial arts, you are not good at martial arts."
The girl who claimed to be Fen Yin seemed to have figured out something, so she just smiled and asked no more questions.
At this time, when I looked down the wall, I saw that Hongxiao and Yangqin were just using the rope to borrow strength, and they were much lighter and freer than Xiao Yu when they climbed up the wall.
The four of them had just stood still when they heard the sound of metal colliding and men yelling and cursing not far behind them.
Fen Yin jumped on the roof, pointed in the distance and shouted: "Look! They are fighting among themselves!"
The other three people turned their heads together and heard the sound of fighting coming from the street they passed before.
Little bits of fire were swaying back and forth over there.
"Wang Zhong..." Xiao Yu murmured.
It seemed that the brothers who were trapped in the camp were fighting with the guards in the backyard.
"Haha...Does this mean dog bites dog?" Anixin seemed innocent and spoke without any scruples.
The red scarf on the side had already pulled the black scarf from her mouth. She remained silent, biting her lips lightly with her teeth.
Xiao Yu only roughly understood why Hong Xiao hated the trapped camp so much, but he couldn't figure it out. With his father's strictness in running the army, he would not easily let his men harm the people.
Xiao Yu thought of this and looked at Yuqin.
Yuqin's face was calm, and there was no sign of any disturbance. She seemed to know what Xiao Yu wanted to ask, so she spoke.
"It's all old news. In the third year of my reign in Wei Yanchang, my mother-in-law picked up the red silk ribbons from the pile of dead people in Suiyang City. Before that, there was a big war in Suiyang. The cause was that Emperor Shizong of our dynasty was seriously ill. , you took the opportunity of the Southern Dynasty to Expedition to the North. At that time, your father planned to encircle a fortress there for reinforcements, hoping to lure King Zhongshan to lead troops to rescue him. King Zhongshan saw through the plan, stood still, and faced your father across the river. This confrontation lasted for three months. , which was a hardship to the defenders and civilians in Suiyang City. Suiyang City ran out of food and supplies, but they still defended. On the eighty-fifth day of the siege, Qi General Qin Yi took advantage of the defenders' slack and led him to the city at the fourth watch. He led the elite troops called the trapped camp to climb into the city, opened the south gate, and the Qi army swarmed in, spreading all the grievances of the eighty-five-day siege on the people in the city."
"My father doesn't know how, he definitely doesn't know!"
Xiao Yu was about to defend, but he saw Hong Xiao turning his head to look at her. There was no anger in his eyes, but more sadness and pain.
Xiao Yu was silent. He stared straight ahead, listening to the harsh shouts and curses.
Hong Xiao suddenly said: "The mission is completed, why are you still here watching those jackals fighting each other?"
She turned around and jumped off the wall, disappearing into the darkness like a fallen leaf in the wind.
Qin Qin and Fen Yin followed closely behind.
Xiao Yu glanced back, sighed softly, and jumped off the courtyard wall with the three of them.
