Dust was raised on the dirt road in the forest, and more than a dozen horses with uneven footsteps had just run away, and on the leading black horse, a young man was disheveled, and his resolute and handsome forehead was soaked with sweat drops, sliding down his cheeks, and the delicate jade pendant on his waist marked the noble identity of the man, he held the reins in his left hand, and his right hand was holding a blood-stained sword, and he rode the horse with the sword body, and he had already hit a bloody blur on the horse's hips, and the poor black horse, while neighing, while moving forward with all his might.

"Prince! This is already within the territory of Yan Kingdom! ”

A guard behind him shouted loudly, the young man tilted his head slightly, he had been running for three days and three nights, people were tired, horses were even more tired, if he continued to run like this, something would happen sooner or later, fortunately, he had already arrived in the territory of Yan Kingdom, those people should not dare to be too blatant, as long as they insisted on going to the city, there was room for turnaround.

"Don't let your guard down, they won't give up lightly! Drive! ”

The young man said, and put down a lot of force in his hand, this time, the black horse couldn't hold on any longer, and with a weak neigh, the black horse fell forward and fell to the ground, slamming the man to the ground with all his might.

You can hear the "click" of the bones in your right leg

There was a crisp sound, and I was afraid that my right leg was broken.

"Uh..."

The man who fell to the ground hugged the calf of his right leg and snorted, and the other guards immediately reined in their horses, and a few horses fell tiredly, and they didn't have time to take care of these, they hurriedly formed a circle around the man in a hurry, and surrounded him in the center, led by a general in his forties, who was dressed in the armor of a general, stepped forward, picked up some branches from the weeds on the spot, tied them to the man's broken calf bone, tore the cloth on his robe into strips, and tied the branches tightly to the man's calf.

"Prince, let a few people escort you first, and I'll take a few people to lead away the pursuers."

The middle-aged general said firmly.

"No, General Nie, I must not leave any of you behind!"

The young man grabbed General Nie's arm.

The sound of horses' hooves could be heard getting closer and closer in the distance, and a retinue of guards rushed over to give a report.

"Prince, they're catching up!"

The man clenched his fists, and his right hand touched the sword that fell into the weeds as he fell off the horse, and he struggled to his feet.

And General Nie pressed his shoulder.

"Prince! Only if you return to the capital alive, there is hope for the future of Yueguo! ”

He looked at the man steadfastly, and the man looked at him in a daze, he knew, he understood everything.

General Nie got up slowly, and the man pressed the tip of his sword against the ground, he was depressed in his heart, stood up with difficulty, faced General Nie, gritted his teeth, endured severe pain, and knelt down on one knee with his left leg.

"I, Cheng Yi, definitely..."

Cheng Yi didn't say the next words, but they were all silent, just a moment of silence.

"Three days later, in the Moon City of Yan Kingdom, if the prince doesn't wait for his subordinates, he will quickly contact Mr. Yan, and he will definitely be able to help the prince get out!"

General Nie knelt down in front of Cheng Yi and bowed deeply, "Prince, your subordinates followed you when you were a child, and you know your virtuous character, please take the hope of all our soldiers to return to Yue Kingdom alive and inherit the throne!" ”

In a hurry, General Nie took a few guards to ride on horses that were still standing, trying to lure the pursuers away, and the remaining guards set up Cheng Yi and walked towards the depths of the forest, to hurry to the city, where there must be more hope.

The wind and the sun are beautiful, this word, most suitable for today's brilliant and warm spring day, I saw a team of people and horses who held the honor guard from a distance and marched westward, in the carriage, Huo Ling gently opened a brocade box, and put a huge night pearl in it.

"This is the gift that the Queen Mother gave to Princess Jingwu? It's a little thinner, right? ”

Huo Ling took it out and held it in the palm of his hand, and Huo Xun, who was sitting on the side, took it from her hand, and said while being stunned.

"Don't underestimate this night pearl, when the Qi country was defeated, so many gold and silver pearls were sent to the Yan country, the most valuable thing is these night pearls, along the coast of the Qi country, the best night pearls in the world are in the Qi country, and there are only three treasures among them, one is placed as a treasure in the palace of the king of Qi, and the remaining two are sent to the Yan country, which is one of the two."

Huo Xun looked like an old master and talked about the origin of the pearl of the night.

"What about the other one?"

Huo Ling asked him with a smile.

Huo Xun looked very pity: "Hmm... I smashed it a year ago..."

Thinking of this, Huo Ling remembered the scene on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, Huo Xun angrily smashed the palace wall with his fist, she suddenly did not understand, rarely asked the father and the queen mother why persuaded the father to agree to the second brother's request to send him to Changyi, in fact, the father and the queen never refused the request of the queen mother, as long as the queen mother spoke, no matter what the request, no matter how outrageous the thing, the father would agree, but the queen asked too little.

What she couldn't understand was the queen mother's thoughts, and why the queen mother still asked to let Prince Yujue go with her.

"Second Prince, Prince Yujue wants to see you!"

The voice of Huo Xun's personal attendant Zhao Xi came from outside, and Huo Xun heard that Huo Xun wanted to see him, hesitated for a moment, and shouted outside.

"Stop, please come to the car!"

Huo Ling was a little surprised by Huo Xun's decision, she heard that Yu Jue was coming in, and subconsciously touched her hair bun.

Huo Xun smiled when he saw her small movements, and after waiting for a while, Yu Jue opened the curtain of the carriage and came in, and the space that was not narrow now looked very crowded.

The carriage was covered with a velvet blanket, and a small low case was placed on the velvet blanket, Huo Ling sat in front of the door curtain, Huo Xun sat on the right side, Yu Jue came in, looked around, and sat on the left.

"If the prince has anything to do, it's not too late to rest in Yuecheng at night, it's boring on the way, the prince will accompany me to play a game of chess, it just so happens that Ling'er is also a little bit good at chess, I play badly, she may be able to guide me a little bit."

It was a little funny to say these words from Huo Xun's mouth, Yu Jue listened, smiled, and nodded in agreement.

Hearing the second brother mention himself, Huo Ling was a little embarrassed, this was very hypocritical, he secretly glanced at Yu Jue, and saw the gaze he just threw at him, she hurriedly turned away, did he look at every little poem that made Qimeng secretly send to the Xinuan side hall?

Yu Jue and Huo Xun were playing chess, the black and white sides on the chessboard were facing each other, on par, Huo Xun's expression slowly became strict, and Yu Jue kept smiling.

Huo Ling, who was on the side, didn't say a word, quietly looked at Yu Jue's slender right hand that fell from time to time on the chessboard, and kept watching like that.

It was almost evening, the sky was slowly darkening, and the fight on the chessboard was still fruitless.

"Second Prince! We're in the moon city right away! ”

Zhao Xi's voice came from outside again, interrupting the two of them's train of thought.

"I think, it's Prince Yujue who is going to win, second brother..."

Huo Ling interjected at this time, and Huo Xun raised his eyes to look at her.

"This is not necessarily, we will arrive in Yuecheng soon, this chess has not yet reached the time to determine the winner, Prince Yujue, let's settle down at the post station at night, and then continue."

Yu Jue nodded at Huo Xun's invitation, and landed the last piece on the chessboard, as if it was a duel, and left an exit.

"Moon City, this name is so beautiful, the moon here must be very beautiful..."

Huo Ling opened the curtain and looked forward to the moonlight at night...