The depths of the gloomy jungle are silent, with towering trees obscuring the sky, and a strange pale smoke wafting through the forest.

The weak girl was alone in the woods, looking around, full of confusion, and took a few steps forward with her skirt in her hand, and the sound of branches and leaves being trampled under her feet was heard. Fear came up from her heart, mixed with the cold and soaked her whole body, she couldn't help but shiver, and she didn't know whether it was sweat or water dripping from her temples.

"Boom!" she called, but the only echo in her ears was empty. "Uncle Wang, Yu'er!" was already a cry in her voice.

A figure seemed to appear in the thick fog in front of him. Her heart was pounding, and fear made her feel dizzy.

"Anyone?" she said with almost all her strength before she let out a slight trembling sound.

The figure disappeared in front of it.

"Hey!" she shouted, desperate to catch up. But apart from her rapid breathing and the sound of the branches and leaves on the ground breaking, there was only an endless forest of trees and a gray mist that never dispersed.

She stopped, despair overheading her.

In the smoke in front of him, the figure of a man in a green shirt and brocade robe appeared again, he turned sideways and stood majestically.

She looked closely, and the man seemed to turn to face her, but it was difficult to make out his face in the fog.

She strode closer, but he stood still.

She mustered up the courage to continue approaching the man, close enough to see him clearly, but in the blink of an eye, the man suddenly disappeared, and what caught her eyes was a wolf with its back to her and a wolf with sharp hair, slowly shaking its three wolf tails, leaning down and gnawing on the bones of a person on the ground, and the sound of the bones being bitten was heard.

She was immediately suffocated with fright, unable to move, and the beast turned to her, revealing three hideous wolf heads of the same appearance, three of which showed a cold green light, staring at her firmly, and then they suddenly opened their mouths together, showing their tongues and fangs covered with blood, and roared at her "Wow".

"Ah!" she screamed, and sat up from her bed, and the beast disappeared with the jungle and fog, and she was in the empty tent.

Xuan Ming ran in when he heard the sound, and hurriedly grabbed her shoulders to reassure: "The princess has a nightmare, don't be afraid." ”

Li Ni's body was already wet with sweat, and there were beads of sweat between his temples, I don't know if it was because of palpitations or cold sweat, and his weak body couldn't help but tremble.

"Mingming, I dreamed that the moon was off. ”

"Alas, princess, the moon is thousands of miles away, why bother thinking about it, it's all my fault, it's useless to talk about it. ”

"Today's sacrifice is over, and when I meet Uncle Wang, I will ask him. Li Ni has always been thinking about the moon holiday.

"Nothing to ask, princess. You must be tired from this sacrifice, I'll wipe it for the princess, and then go to sleep. ”

"I don't want to sleep, you can help me up, I want to go outside and have a look." ”

At this time, the vast flower field is a purple and red, looking around into the distance, three sides are faintly stacked mountains, leading to the Phoenix City is the splendid flower field spread out straight and the blue sky of the clouds into a line, everything seems to be full of feelings of the divine power to create an extraordinary realm, everyone is in it, full of fragrant warm and fragrant warm and wind gusts of wind, it really makes people feel relaxed.

The scents of the flowers have their own effects, but the appearance of the blooming flowers alone is enough to make the girls laugh. Li Ni and Xuan Ming broke away from Chunyue's maids, left the camp, and ran a long way in one go.

"Mingming, hurry up and run!" Li Ni trotted lightly all the way on the ridge with her skirt, causing the bees and butterflies in the field to fly one after another, and let out a laugh like silver bells all the way, she hadn't laughed like this for a long time.

"Princess, slow down, be careful!" Xuan Ming smiled as she walked around behind her.

"Wow!" Li Ni couldn't help but exclaim, stood there, and then squatted down again, "This flower is so beautiful, what is it called?"

The flower stood there, much taller than the surrounding flowers and plants, and had many branches on its branches, and on each branch there was a flower of different colors with full petals, which was quite beautiful.

"This flower is called the seven-hearted orchid, and there are seven flowers, each of which is a color, the first one must be white, the middle color is from light to dark, and the last one is dark. ”

Jin Tianni listened, squatted in front of the flowers and counted them silently, and sure enough, it was seven, and sighed lightly: "It's amazing." ”

After looking at it for a while, she got up and walked away, and asked instead, "What about that, what's that called?"

"That's mallow. ”

"Where's this?"

"It seems to be Bai Qitang. ”

"And this, and that?" she was dazzled.

Xuan Ming saw it, and said to her with a helpless smile: "Princess, where can Xuan Ming know so much, you should bring a bachelor who knows flowers and plants well." ”

"You're not my 'bachelor'. Li Ni pouted, suddenly attracted by a bright color, pointed ahead, lowered his voice and said, "Xuan Ming, look there!"

Xuan Ming looked carefully in the direction of her finger, and in the distance of the flowers and grass, a fluffy bright red was hidden in the middle.

Jin Tianni lifted her skirt and approached cautiously, but after only a few steps, the little red thing turned its head vigilantly.

It turned out to be a young spirit fox with a red body. The spirit fox didn't leave, but stopped in place and raised his head, his black eyes staring at Li Ni.

Li Ni saw that it didn't move, and wanted to get closer to it again, and when he raised his steps, he heard Xuan Ming reminding behind him: "Be careful, princess, this red spirit fox can bite people." ”

Before the words fell, the spirit fox turned around vigilantly and suddenly ran out.

Li Ni couldn't help but let out a "ah" and wanted to chase, and at the same time, there was a light and sharp sound of "whoosh" in the distance.

In the flowers and grass in the distance, the red spirit fox suddenly screamed, jumped high, and fell down heavily.

"Princess, be careful!" Xuan Ming immediately exclaimed, but Li Ni had already run forward nervously.

I saw that the little beast, which had just been well-behaved and agile, had been shot through the head by a short arrow carved with bronze feathers, its black eyes were wide open, and the bloody head and blood flowed out of the arrow holes, and the blood made its fur messy and sticky, and the flowers and plants under it were also dyed red.

Li Ni was so frightened that she screamed and threw herself into the arms of Xuan Ming behind her, not daring to look at it again.

Xuan Ming hurriedly patted her on the shoulder to reassure, and the hidden dagger had reached out in his other hand. She seemed to have seen this feather arrow. She scanned her surroundings alertly, her body tensing at the touch of a button.

I saw two young people coming towards them from the flowers and grass in the distance, one in a gray and white cloth shirt trotting in front, carrying some birds and beasts that had been shot in his hands, and the other in a navy blue robe walking briskly behind, holding a moon-white bow in his hand and carrying an arrow bag behind him.

The two teenagers were about thirteen or fourteen years old. When the cloth-clothed young man saw them standing here, he retreated behind the green-shirted young man in a witty manner, and the two stopped about ten paces away from them. But seeing that Buyi was an ordinary servant, and although the green shirt was still young, the sword eyebrows on Junlang's face did not look like the calmness he could have at his age.

The cloth-clothed young man couldn't hide his excitement and poked his head and said, "Childe, you really shot, Red Spirit Fox!"

Li Ni was still frightened by Shicai's accident and didn't come back to his senses, and when he turned his head, he saw the corpses of birds and beasts carried by the young man in white, and he couldn't help but turn his head and shrink back to Xuan Ming's body, not even daring to look at it.

Xuan Ming asked angrily, "Who are you?"

The young man in the green shirt then said to his young servant: "Brother Parrot, don't be rude, you quickly stand back." Then he bowed humbly and politely and said: "In Xia Nangong Jingyan, I met Her Royal Highness the eldest princess, disturbed Your Highness, and asked Your Highness for forgiveness." ”

In fact, the young man has an extraordinary appearance and temperament, a green robe, embroidered with Qingluan in front of him, and the moon white bow is also a Luan pattern, at a glance, he knows that he is a member of the Nangong family, and now when he says this, he is sure that it is a son of the Nangong clan who is hunting, and he knows that it is okay, and the dagger that Xuan Ming hid in his hand has also been withdrawn, but he still said to them sharply: "Since you know that your Royal Highness the eldest princess has been alarmed, don't retreat quickly!"

At this time, Li Ni smelled the bloody smell from the corpses of birds and beasts with their heads hanging down and blurred flesh and blood, and couldn't stand it, so he twisted his head and said, "Mingming, don't care, let's go." ”

"Good. Xuan Ming helped Li Ni turn around and walk back, walked two steps and then turned back and asked, "Your archery skills are good, is this arrow your habitual use?"

"Well, it's my arrows. The boy nodded in reply.

Xuan Ming ignored the two of them and helped Li Ni walk away.

After walking for a while, Li Ni subconsciously looked back and saw that the two people were still standing in place, Nangong Jingyan with a bow looked at her, and Yan Yan arched his hand to her with a smile.

After Hua Tian met the young man from Nangong, Li Ni and Xuan Ming met the maid on the way back, saying that the emperor and the princess were in a hurry, and quickened their pace and walked straight to the outside of the big tent guarded by two columns of guards with swords. Li Ni was thinking about asking Uncle Wang about Yuexiu, bowed his head all the way and walked quickly, and when he was about to enter the camp tent, he almost bumped into Nangong Ming who stepped out of the tent.

She hurriedly lowered her eyes and stepped aside.

Nangong Ming, who was standing in front of him, didn't make a sound, Li Ni couldn't help but look up, but saw that the strange man on the opposite side who was so cold that people couldn't help but feel a chill was staring at her, with a significant hesitation on his face.

She thought it was strange, but after a momentary pause between the two, he quickly bowed down and called her Her Royal Highness the eldest princess, and then turned away.

Li Ni tilted her head and didn't think much about it, and the two of them entered the tent with Xuan Ming, only to see that Emperor Li Yu, Uncle Wang Li Yao and the princess were already in the tent.

The emperor in front of the case, Yu'er, was angry and flushed at this time, and when he saw her, his eyes were still a little moist.

"Eldest Princess, my Ni'er, please sit down first. Li Xuan sighed lightly, and gently asked Li Ni to sit down in front of her counterpart's case, and to continue to speak, she looked at Xuan Ming behind Li Ni and stopped, and turned to look at Li Yao.

Li Yao shook his head at her to show that he was okay.

"My Ni'er, before my emperor drives the northern expedition, he will pass down a decree to give you a marriage contract with my grandson of Huanxiang, you stay in Chaohuang, wait for them to win the battle, and then take you back to Dijun, okay?"

When Li Ni heard this, she was shocked, and immediately turned her head to look at Li Yu and Li Yao, but saw that one of them was lamenting and crying, and the other was looking at her with soft but firm eyes, and they didn't speak.

"Ni'er is still young...... I want to go back with Yu'er and Uncle Wang......" She could only hang her head and resist softly, she understood that although she and Yu Shuhuanxiang were still young, there must be a marriage contract between them according to the ancestral system, but this came too suddenly, she was only twelve years old, she didn't want to think about it at all, and she didn't want to stay alone in this prosperous foreign land without close relatives.

"Alas, Uncle Wang, old lady, do you have to be the reinforcement of Nangong in command of Chunyue, if this is the case, what if we don't have reinforcements, can't we recover Emperor Jun ourselves! I want Ni'er to go with us!" Li Yu cried and cried.

"Ni'er," Li Yao finally spoke, and said to her in a soft tone, "The current situation in the land of Chunyue is not good for us, and the old lady is also in a difficult situation. But if we want to return to Dijun, our capital city really needs Chunyue's 100,000 reinforcements to fight to the death. If you stay for the time being, you can appease the hearts of the army, settle the people with bad intentions, and make the reinforcements willing to march north. Although you are still young and have just left your parents, you have to bear such a heavy responsibility, Uncle Wang can't bear it, but whether you stay or not is very important, Uncle Wang still begs you to stay for the time being, and when we triumph, we will definitely take you back. ”

"Woo......" Li Yu couldn't help crying.

"Ni'er," Li Xuan's voice trembled slightly, "It's all to blame for grandmother's incompetence, but don't worry, stay in Chaohuang, I will definitely protect you and won't let you suffer any more grievances......

In Li Ni's eyes, tears had long been swirling, but she always hung her head slightly, opened her eyes wide, and did not let the tears fall, she bit her lower lip, nodded vigorously and said, "Well, I'll stay." Please Yu'er, Princess Tai and Uncle Wang don't worry. After speaking, the tears of indisputability fell.