Volume 1 Chapter 27 Three Thousand Miles of Mountains and Rivers

Yun Shu was unexpected, and was about to make amends, only to see Zhu Meng immediately pay a salute to the lord of the country, Gao Tan, and ask for sin: "Erchen lost his honor in front of the palace, please let Erchen go to change his clothes first and come to make amends." Then, pulling Yun Shu and striding outside the hall.

The incident happened suddenly, the dancing queen was still dancing, and before the others could react, several princes in the middle of the seat couldn't hold it back, stood up from their seats, and said, "Brother Wang, please stay!"

Gao Tanli recovered from his stunned and just wanted to order Zhu Meng to stay, when Xiong Qu, the commander of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion (the Guards of the Lord of Buyeo State), hurriedly came in and knelt down at His Majesty Dan and said: "Your Majesty, the minister has something important to ask for a separate report!" Gao Tanli motioned for Xiong Qu to come closer, so Xiong Qu walked to Gao Tanli and whispered a few words, and Gao Tanli got up and entered the apse with Xiong Qu.

But said that on the corridor in the backyard, there was a palace maid walking back and forth on the corridor, looking forward to it, and after seeing Zhu Meng and Yun Shu coming, she immediately came to Zhu Meng, pressed her left hand with her right hand, pressed her left hand on her left hip bone, put her legs together, lowered her head, and bent her knees slightly: "The princess has been waiting for a long time, please come with me."

The princess in the mouth of the palace maid is Zhu Meng's biological mother Liu Guifei, who is beautiful and lovely, with a blue heart and a better skin than snow, and was set up as the mother of the West Palace, although she was the first to give birth to a prince, but because she was born in an ordinary fisherman's family, she was forced to marry back to the palace after being seen by Gao Tan on a hunting trip, because there is no strong foreign aid, so although Zhu Meng is the eldest prince, his position has been unstable, and all the brothers are eyeing him.

Because he was an outsider, after Zhu Meng entered the inner room of the concubine's dormitory, Yun Shu could only wait anxiously outside, occasionally hearing the sound of drums and singing floating from the main hall, knowing that the banquet in the main hall was still going on as always.

When Zhu Meng came out, he had changed his outfit, and one of Liu Guifei's female officials also sent out with a burden in his hand, and when Zhu Meng saw Yun Shu, he threw the burden to Yun Shu, and Yun Shu had to follow Zhu Meng honestly and continue to move forward. Unexpectedly, Zhu Meng took Yun Shu out of the palace wall compound directly from the side door, and saw that there was already a prince and two generals, with more than a dozen entourages leading horses and waiting for a long time.

Zhu Meng asked Yun Shu to get on the horse and leave quickly, Yun Shu felt different, so he wanted to go back, and said: "Please forgive His Royal Highness the Prince, the prince is still waiting for the villain in the main hall, please allow the villain to go back."

Zhu Meng smiled softly and said, "Don't get in the way, you and I will go back quickly." Buyeo national customs, less than the middle of the night, not drunk and homeless. ”

Yun Shu also knew that the royal banquet had just started and it was impossible to end it immediately, so he followed Yun Shu on the horse.

Jumon led his group to the southeast and rode quickly, and soon entered a canyon, and within an hour, he had come to a large river. I saw that the river was wide and the water was clear and waveless, but there were no boats to cross nearby.

So Jumeng led the crowd up for a while, and finally saw a family. Although the family lived in a riverside canyon, they had a small yard, in which some prey skins were dried, and the oil lamp in the house had not yet been extinguished. Suddenly, a hunting dog heard the sound and ran to the door of the chai and barked non-stop, and then an uncle dressed as a fifty-year-old hunter opened the door and appeared in the yard, and saw more than 20 strange young men standing outside the door of the chaimen, some of them were still wearing military uniforms, the uncle hesitated, poofed and knelt down in front of everyone, and begged for mercy: "A good man spares his life!" I am a good citizen of Buyeo and have always obeyed the law, please do not kill my whole family. ”

Zhu Meng went in, helped the uncle, and knelt down in front of the uncle and said, "Ask the old man for help!" To tell you the truth, I am Zhu Meng, the prince of Fuyu Kingdom, my father is going to poison me tonight, and the injuries I suffered before are also due to the princes and brothers, and if I don't leave now, my life will be in danger. Is there a boat near the old man? ”

After hearing this, although the old man was surprised, but the news of the discord between the lord of Buyeo and the prince had already spread throughout the Buyeo country, it is said that it was because Jumeng was born prematurely, and was born with divine power, proficient in riding and archery, and won the hearts of the people, the lord of the country has always been on guard against him, but he still did not expect that the father would deliberately want to kill his child with poison. It's just that there are no boats nearby, so I have to ask for sin: "Please forgive His Royal Highness the Prince, this is the border of Buyeo country, this river is called Hunshui, there have never been civilian boats, grass people have lived here for decades, if there is no official release document, there has never been an official or commercial ship can pass." If the prince does not give up, the grass people are willing to sacrifice 300 pieces of prey fur for the prince to practice. "Buyeo customs, in the middle of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, and the time of the autumn grain harvest, people in order to thank the gods for their protection, will hold a series of ceremonies and celebrations, called "autumn newspaper", so, the old man has accumulated a long time of fur is to prepare for the autumn harvest days, hoping to sell at a good price, a good harvest year.

Zhu Meng came out in a hurry, and it was too late to go back to transfer the official ship at this moment, and he was deeply moved when he saw the old man's sincerity, but he couldn't cross the river without a boat, so what was the use of asking for this fur? After listening to the conversation between the two sides, Yun Shu already understood eight or nine points, so he said to the old man: "Thank you, uncle!" Then he turned to Zhu Meng, who was still worried, and said: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, there is a story in our country, more than 200 years ago, there was a group of people, who were also chased and persecuted, and crossed the sea with cow and sheep skins and furs, and there has been no news since then.

The skin is also called "muddy". It is an inflatable float made of sheepskin. The whole sheepskin is processed and sewn into a bag, which is then inflated into a leather bag, and then arranged vertically and horizontally in a dozen or hundreds of leather bags, and tied with a hard wooden frame. It can carry hundreds of kilograms to tens of tons. Lightweight, not afraid of collision, suitable for rapids, reefs, shallow rivers.

Yun Shu grew up in the Prime Minister's Mansion since he was a child, before Yun Tianxiao died, he had heard him tell many rumors and anecdotes, and later, seeing that he was very clever, when he was eighteen years old, he was given by Yunlong to the eight-year-old Prince Zhao as a personal guard. Therefore, this allusion was also written down when he listened to Yun Tianxiao's story when he was a child.

Now, there is no other way, Zhu Meng had to take the fur, and wanted to thank the old man with a lot of money, but the old man refused to accept it, but he said that his surname was Tang Kuo, and there was only one wife and one daughter in the family. Jumon agreed one by one. Then everyone began to make a big leather bag according to the method Yun Shu said.

At this time, only the sound of hurried horses' hooves was heard, and at the same time, there were many jumping fires in the canyon, Zhu Meng knew that the pursuers had arrived, so everyone carried the skin bag down the riverbank, Yun Shu wanted to say goodbye to Zhu Meng at this moment, after all, it was his mission to take care of Wang Zizhao, the two were in a stalemate, and a general beside Zhu Meng couldn't help but push Yun Shu directly into the skin, and the others pushed the skin to the center of the river together.

By this time the pursuers had reached the river, and the torches lit up the woods on the bank, led by Xiongqu, the commander of the Guards. Xiong Qu shouted to Zhu Meng: "The emperor has issued an order to ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to go back quickly!"

When they heard this, they slid their skins even harder, and because it was autumn, the north-east wind began to prevail, and it was also a coincidence that a strong gust of wind blew through, blowing the calm surface of the river, and also blowing the animal skins hanging on the mast that stood on the skins, and the skins were suddenly like divine help, and galloped across the river, and sailed to the opposite bank.

Xiong Qu hurriedly ordered people to shoot arrows with bows, but there was a strong wind, and the direction of the arrows was unstable, and they fell from the sky one after another. Looking at Jumeng and them again, I don't know what kind of monster they are riding, one by one, their bulging bodies are floating under the wooden rafts, and they are even more mysterious in the dark......