Finally, when the snow first melted and the hard frozen ground under his feet began to become wet and soft, Li Yao made up his mind to leave the Long Xiang army to stubbornly defend and repel evil spirits, and took Li Yu's brothers and sisters, Xuan Ming and Xiahou brothers and more than a dozen horsemen to disguise themselves as a group of mountain and wild merchants, wearing fur robes, narrow sleeves and leather boots, and secretly went to the capital of the southern border to Chaohuang.

Li Yao couldn't bear it anymore. He and the Chunyue Yushu royal family wrote frequently throughout the harsh winter, and understood the situation, and he knew that the longer it dragged on, the more irreparable the situation would be, and they had to make a last ditch.

Li Yu could only rely on his uncle Wang to ride with him outside the city. Li Ni is also still riding with Xuan Ming.

A group of men and horses walked cautiously for two days, and the only sights were the remnants of snow in the wilderness and the desolate trees hanging from the dead branches. The men went to war and never returned, and the rest of the women and children fled in all directions, leaving only the old remnants who could not escape from the houses on the four walls of the house to starve and freeze, waiting for death with desperate eyes. Everything was like a desperate situation.

The dust under the crotch carried them steadily, making a powerful snort from time to time.

"Uncle Wang......" Li Yu shouted as he looked at him, his voice was still childish, and his tone was uneasy.

"Yu'er, we said before we went out, how do you call me?" Li Yao said softly.

"Dad, Dad...... " Li Yu was not used to it, and shouted a little stiffly, "Why do we have to take the risk of going to Chunyue?"

"Because there are our relatives there who can help us get back to Dijun. ”

The marriage between the Li royal family and the Yushu clan for generations originated from the will of the ancestors, and their fathers, grandparents, and great-grandparents were ...... This is the case from generation to generation, so the Changfeng clan wants to punish the royal family and kill Yu Shu. "But since they are relatives, why didn't they help us earlier, and now that our family and country are broken, we still have to take the risk to ask them?"

"They ......," Li Yao paused for a moment, and then said, "They also have difficulties." However, Yu'er, you should understand that in this world, no matter how close to the people you are, there is nothing they must do for you. From now on, you should think about whether they help you or not depends on what you can bring to them. ”

Li Yu was silent, he tried hard to understand the words, vaguely felt that the words should be right but so cruel, but he was still ignorant. He looked back at Ni'er, who was riding with Xuan Ming, who was dressed in capable men's clothes, dressed in the regular clothes of a girl in the market, looking more and more delicate and well-behaved, but he always looked lonely, bowing his head and not saying a word.

He then felt his shoulder be caressed gently and forcefully, and Li Yao said behind him: "Yu'er, but you remember one thing, I will protect you, I will make sure that you are all in order, and take back what belongs to you at all costs." He lowered his voice, "Just like your parents." ”

Li Yu looked back at him, and when he saw his Uncle Wang's firm red pupils again, his heart warmed, and then nodded at him.

"Brother!" beside them, the perceptive Xiahou Gong reminded Li Yao's voice to end their conversation.

Everyone raised their eyes to see a few small dots in the mountain stream in the distance, and then a group of six scouts in silver chain mail quickly rode towards them, and the silver banner that was waving in the wind showed their origins. Li Yu felt that the person beside him immediately became alert, and he couldn't help but lean against Li Yao's body behind him.

"Hey!" came the man at a gallop in a moment, stopped in front of them, and the leader of the group paced back and forth with the reins of his horse, and asked in a thick Haimin accent, "Where are you from, and what are you going to do?"

Xiahou pulled his horse forward, pointed to the goods on the carriage behind him, and replied with a smile and humility: "Officer, we are engaged in the animal skin business in the dense forest at the foot of Longshan Mountain in the west. ”

"The soldiers are in chaos, what kind of business are you doing, I advise you to save your lives, go back!" the scout led shouted loudly.

"No, school officer, the family is all old and weak, and they need to make ends ......meet," Xiahou Kai patiently negotiated.

The other scouts had split into two sides, one after the other, their hands resting on the hilt of their swords, and they looked at them one by one with a sharp gaze.

Li Yao had already led the horse to hide behind everyone, hanging his head and saying nothing, his red eyes were too eye-catching.

"Hey, you, look up!" someone shouted, pointing at him.

Li Yu trembled slightly, afraid of starting to intrude on him, he panicked and didn't know where to put his hand and where to drop his gaze.

Jiechen snorted impatiently, and Li Yao comforted it with his hand to calm it down, but he still hung his head. The other man shouted impatiently again, "Didn't you hear that?" and then there were a few sharp sounds, and the scouts' blades were quickly unsheathed.

Li Yu caught a glimpse of the guards who had already put their hands into the places where their weapons were hidden, and Xiahou Duo's face next to him was already cold and hard, and it was not a problem to solve these people, but Li Yao explained that this trip must be low-key in order to make themselves and the evil spirits safe, and no one would act rashly without him to speak.

"Hey, forget it, a few businessmen, let them go!" The scout led in front waved at his companion and shouted, it turned out that Xiahou had exchanged a cart of goods for his smile.

The traveling merchant from Yongsan left a cart of goods behind and continued to set their horses on their way to a distant destination under the watchful eye of several Fusang scouts.

"No, stop me!" everyone turned around, and the smiling scout leader changed his face again, and his expression was fierce and he led his troops to chase after him.

He swept the team again. "You, look up!" he suddenly raised the Mo knife in his hand and pointed at Li Yu and them.

Li Yu was nervous and didn't dare to move, Li Yao raised his head and looked at each other coldly.

"Red!" The scout leader was shocked and hissed, "Who are you......" Before he finished speaking, suddenly Xiahou Gong in front of him raised his hand and waved, and the silver light flashed, and a long bloody mouth instantly opened his neck, and his head was tilted diagonally, thick blood gushed out from the bloody mouth, but his mouth was still wide open.

Li Yu was so frightened that he immediately wanted to shout, but he was quickly covered by a big hand firmly covering his mouth, and finally only made a whining sound. In the afterglow, Ni'er's eyes were covered by Xuan Ming's hands, but he stared round, and saw the corpse of the scout leader fall from his horse, while the other silver-armored sergeants howled and were about to resist, but they were immediately rushed up by Xiahou Duo, who used daggers and short knives to cut their throats or pierce their hearts and chests, there was not much fighting, and there was not much sound, and these people quickly fell off their horses and died in a tragic situation.

Li Yu was completely stunned.

"We may soon be exposed, throw away the baggage, leave a few people to dispose of the corpses, and I will take them into the forest and go first. Li Yao calmly explained, then turned the horse's head, and led Xuan Ming and Xiahou Gong and several other horsemen to urge the horse into the mountain forest.

At this time, the mountains and forests are cold and pressing, the fog is filled, and the sight is only a few feet away. The trees were leafless, hung with ice and snow remnants, and their tall, straight trunks stretched out in the air with countless silver branches, as if they were full of monsters standing in the mist. There was silence all around, except for the sound of horses' hooves crushing the dead branches and leaves on the ground and horses panting hard in front and back. The group held their breath and concentrated, Li Yu trembled, and reduced the mist from his mouth to a minimum.

He hid in the crook of Li Yao's arm, feeling cold to the bone. He had not yet recovered from the horror of the killing, and he tensed his nerves, his eyes widened, staring firmly at the fog ahead, and he kept looking away.

As far as the eye could see, there were only trees and mist, but he had a strange feeling that he could not get rid of, and he always felt that there was something not far away. I feel like I've felt this somewhere.

"Uncle Wang!" he exclaimed, and everyone stopped alertly.

"What, Yu'er?" asked Li Yao.

"There, there's a shadow there...... All at once it passed. Li Yu raised his hand and nodded, he felt something flash, but as soon as the words came out, he wondered if it was an illusion.

"Everyone be on guard," Li Yao looked around, signaling to move on, he raised his hand and patted Li Yu's shoulder, "Yu'er, don't be afraid. ”

But what no one wanted to happen came anyway. The group walked forward for a while, and suddenly a sharp and sharp long chirp in the sky instantly broke the silence, everyone was shocked, this sound was already familiar, and they subconsciously looked up and followed the sound, only to hear a few more long chirps echoed, and the gray sky between the tree trunks has shown two sea eagles of the Fusang Army with wings spreading.

"Let's go!" Li Yao exclaimed, and a team of men and horses quickly ran through the forest.

The trees under him retreated one after another, the stumps were trampled by the horses' hooves, and the branches pierced diagonally slashed past them, Li Yu heard the wind rushing in front of him, the violent wheezing, and the familiar fear slammed into him, but he was still completely irresistible, so frightened that his hands and feet were stiff, almost suffocating.

The last longer and more piercing chirp fell from the sky, and Li Yu felt a cold wind sweeping over, and when he turned his head, a huge figure had covered them.

"Brother, let's go!" Xiahou Gong behind him shouted, Jin Tianyu looked back, Xiahou Gong had led all the guards to raise their knives to meet the attack, the sea eagle quickly pounced on a guard, hooked his shoulder with a sharp claw, but the guard was not to be outdone, howled, raised the knife to stab, the sea eagle leaned back, spread its huge wings and pounced forward, avoiding the sharp blade, and had pulled the guard from the horse into the air...... As they galloped farther and farther away, the fog had overwhelmed them, and only the screaming of the terror carried the frightened and pitiful Ni'er behind them. "Ni'er!" Li Yu shouted in vain, he felt a chill on his cheeks, and when he raised his hand, his palms were already full of wet tears.