Princess Jin'er opened her mouth in surprise, not understanding what the Qin guards meant by doing this.

"Princess, don't be afraid, this guard just doesn't want to alarm many people, let's just go out of the city quietly to exchange scenes." Qin Xingyi explained, opened the door, took Princess Jin'er's hand and walked out.

The gate of the west courtyard was quiet, the gate was closed, and there were several guards standing outside the door.

Qin Xingyi pulled Princess Jin'er to the courtyard, listened intently, and found that there were traces of several people lingering outside the gate of the west courtyard, knowing that going out from the gate of the courtyard would definitely alarm those people, so she turned to say softly: "Princess, we can't go out from the gate of the courtyard." ”

Princess Jin'er's eyes widened, and she asked in a low voice, "If you don't go out from the door, how can we get out?" ”

Qin Xingyi looked at the wide-sleeved dress worn by Princess Jin'er, expecting that she was a pampered person who had grown up in the palace since she was a child, and it was impossible to climb the wall or trees, so she let go of her hand and whispered: "Princess, wait a minute, I'll move the tables and chairs." ”

Princess Jin'er saw that the Qin guards turned around and left, she didn't understand what she was doing with those things, she wanted to ask but was afraid of alarming the guards outside the courtyard gate, she opened her lips and swallowed the question back, and stood in place dumbfounded.

Qin Xingyi did things quickly, and hurried to move things out of the room, first moving out of a square table, and then a chair, placing them under the courtyard wall one after another, beckoning to Princess Jin'er and motioning her to come over.

Princess Jin'er walked over hesitantly and asked unconfidently, "Guard Qin, do you mean we go out from here?" I'm scared ......."

Qin Xingyi leaned to Princess Jin'er's ear and comforted, "What are you afraid of? Does the princess have a fear of heights? Come, I'll help you up, and I won't let you fall." ”

Qin Xingyi breathed a sigh of relief, grabbed Princess Jin'er's waist with both hands and lifted her hard, sent her to the chair, and then jumped onto the chair lightly, lifted the princess to the table again, and jumped on the table according to the law.

Princess Jin'er's face turned a little pale, and she wanted to ask if she was going to jump on the courtyard wall next three times? She was panicked, and she didn't come to ask yet, but she felt that her waist was lifted up and "flickered" on the wall all of a sudden, and she just wanted to call "Mom".

Qin Xingyi turned over and climbed onto the courtyard wall without hesitation, stretched out her hand to stop her waist, and when she jumped down with Princess Jin'er's delicate body, she thought that she had forgotten about her feet, so she jumped straight down.

Poor Qin Xingyi's physical strength was insufficient after the injury, and her foot had not healed, so she took Princess Jin'er over the wall and fell on the ground outside the courtyard with a "pop".

Qin Xingyi was so injured by her ankle that she couldn't support her on the ground, she fell under Princess Jin'er, hurriedly covered Princess Jin'er's small mouth that she wanted to shout, rolled on the spot, and hid in the nearby bushes.

The guards waiting outside the gate of the west courtyard seemed to hear a noise, and two of them turned around and came over to inspect it, but when they didn't find any movement, they withdrew and retreated to their original positions.

"I'm sorry to frighten the princess." Qin Xingyi let go of Princess Jin'er's mouth, gasped and hurriedly apologized.

Princess Jin'er was not injured, she fell on Qin Xingyi's body just now like falling on a soft cotton mat, easily turned over and got up, and said, "Princess Ben is fine, don't apologize, you hurry up, right?" ”

Qin Xingyi fell to the ground, the wound on her shoulder was hit, and she couldn't breathe in pain, holding down her shoulder with one hand, and her eyes turned black.

Princess Jin'er panicked, pulled Qin Xingyi's sleeve and shook it a few times, and asked worriedly, "Guard Qin, are you okay?" ”

Qin Xingyi gasped for a while, lay on the ground and looked up at the stars in the sky gradually fading, knowing that time passed quickly, the sky was about to dawn, and she couldn't delay for a moment, she struggled to sit up, felt a sharp pain in half of her shoulder, and became very difficult to speak, and said, "It's okay, please help me princess and help me stand up." ”

Princess Jin'er hurriedly stretched out her hand to help, and finally made Qin Xingyi stand up and asked, "Guard Qin, can you go?" ”

Qin Xingyi gritted her teeth, stood up strongly, staggered a step forward, and instructed, "I can go, princess, you follow." ”

The two men walked in the direction of the north of the city, one after the other, and their steps became slower and slower.

The border city of Puwang is not large, and the location of the post station is not too far from the north city gate. If Qin Xingyi hadn't been injured, this little distance wouldn't have taken much time.

But now Qin Xingyi's injury is not light, and he didn't take the injury medicine in time, and the injury has become aggravated, and the distance has become long and rugged, and it is difficult to walk an inch.

Princess Jin'er's situation is not bad! She is a princess, usually suffocated in the boudoir, almost always going out by sedan chair or carriage, rarely trekking long distances, walking a few miles, actually snoring and wheezing, legs and feet are sore, and she can't walk.

"Guard Qin, what should I do? Princess Ben couldn't walk anymore. Princess Jin'er had been following behind Qin Xingyi, and when she saw that she was walking with difficulty, she didn't stop, but she felt that her legs were adorned with a big stone, and she couldn't take a step.

Qin Xingyi's strength was too exhausted, and her state was already at the end of her strong crossbow, but she was so worried about the exchange of hostages that she refused to stop, covering her shoulders and moving forward desperately, when she heard Princess Jin'er say that she couldn't walk, she probably couldn't be contagious if she was exhausted, and she suddenly felt that she couldn't walk.

Qin Xingyi held on to a tree on the side of the road, gasped for a while, and urged in a hoarse voice: "Hurry, princess, this is the last chance, if you still want to ask the third prince questions." ”

Princess Jin'er also hated herself for being useless, Qin Guards could walk in front when they were injured, but she was so embarrassed that she was left behind! She dragged her legs, rubbed beside Qin Xingyi, hugged the tree, and apologized: "I'm sorry, it's Princess Ben who dragged you down." ”

Qin Xingyi gasped and shook her head, raised her eyes to look ahead, fortunately, it was not far from the North City Gate, and she could see a few fires shining not far away, which was the stall in the North City Gate that came out early to sell breakfast snacks.

"Princess, work hard, there is porridge for sale in front, let's go over and drink some hot porridge." Qin Xingyi said expectantly, feeling hungry.

Qin Xingyi's encouragement played a great role in spurring Princess Jin'er, arousing her fighting spirit, and said, "Okay, Qin guard, let's go." ”

In this way, the two women encouraged each other to march towards the north gate together.

Zhou Laohan, who made breakfast at the gate of the north city, was very industrious, rushed to the vicinity of the city gate before dawn, set up a long table and three benches, was busy boiling water, heard footsteps, looked up and saw a gorgeously dressed girl and a guard coming, and hurriedly beckoned to take a seat.

Zhou Laohan had a complete set of things to eat and drink at the stall in the morning, including hot millet porridge, roasted sweet potatoes, sesame fire, and so on.

Qin Xingyi sat down next to the stove to roast the fire, and the rain-soaked clothes on her body had been damp, and she could take this opportunity to dry at this moment.

Princess Jin'er rarely eats outside, and a small stall like this for the poor people has hardly been patronized, and the first time she eats here, she doesn't know if it's clean or not, so she just asked for a bowl of millet porridge, holding a bowl of hot porridge in both hands, looking at Qin Xingyi's red cheeks and asking, "Guard Qin, thank you for your hard work." ”

Qin Xingyi tossed all night after being injured, feeling sleepy, guarding the hot stove at the moment, her whole body was warm, and she said in an astringent voice: "I really want to sleep for a while." ”

"Then you sleep, it's not dawn yet." Princess Jin'er said very considerately.

Old man Zhou was busy burning the stove more vigorously, and in a blink of an eye, he saw the blood stains on Qin Xingyi's shoulder, because Qin Xingyi was wearing a man's guard costume, he asked in surprise: "This little brother, are you injured?" There was a lot of blood on his clothes. ”

Qin Xingyi was afraid that she would reveal her identity, so she had to comfort Zhou Laohan and said, "It's not in the way, I accidentally fell." ”

Zhou Laohan was a warm-hearted person, and suggested: "Little brother, seeing that you have shed so much blood, go to the pharmacy to grab some medicine to eat, don't delay, it will be troublesome to get tetanus." ”

"It's okay, I still have something to do, let's get back to it." Qin Xingyi didn't want to heal her injuries quickly, but unfortunately she didn't have time, and the sky was almost dawn.

Zhou Laohan took a bowl of hot porridge and handed it to Qin Xingyi, and said, "Little brother, why are you bothering? What urgent matter can be more important than seeing a doctor and healing your wounds, drink a bowl of hot porridge to warm up. ”

Qin Xingyi took the hot porridge gratefully, she and Zhou Laohan didn't know each other, and they were cared for by chance, which was really warm in the world.

Qin Xingyi and Princess Jin'er were sitting at the breakfast stall in the north city gate, each holding a bowl of hot porridge and about to taste it, when they suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves in their ears, and more than ten knights drove by with a carriage and a prisoner's cart.

Qin Xingyi stood up suddenly, the hot porridge in his hand almost spilled on his body, and at a glance, he saw a young man in prison clothes lying on the side of the prisoner car, with a pale face and unkempt long hair, wasn't it the third prince Xuanyuan Mingyu?

"The convoy ......" Qin Xingyi shouted, and quickly put down the porridge bowl in his hand.

Princess Jin'er heard Qin Xingyi shouting three words, and knew that the convoy was going out of the city to exchange hostages, so she hurriedly put down the porridge bowl in her hand and shouted, "Guard Qin, do you have any silver?" We haven't paid off the porridge yet. ”

Qin Xingyi was so anxious that her eyebrows burned, at this time, the princess still remembered the porridge money slowly, it was really the style of a decent man and a gentleman. She took out a piece of silver and threw it on the long table, and cried, "Princess, go quickly, we are late." ”

After resting for a while, Princess Jin'er felt that her calves and stomach were sore, and she finally stood up and agreed, "Okay." ”

Qin Xingyi took Princess Jin'er's hand, tried her best to speed up her pace, and when she came to the city gate, she was surprised to find that the city gate was slowly closing, and shouted: "Don't close the city gate, we want to go out of the city!" ”

Many people had already gathered in the city gate waiting for dawn to leave the city, and they found that only one convoy would leave the city after the city gate was opened, and then it would be closed again, and they crowded forward.

The soldiers guarding the city gate waved their spears and forced back the civilians who were in a hurry to get out of the city, shouting: "The county magistrate has an order, close the city gate immediately, you people don't know what to do, hurry back." ”

Qin Xingyi was disappointed, her shoulder hurt even more, and she said to Princess Jin'er: "Princess, the big thing is not good, we can't get out." ”