In the early morning of August 12, at the northern end of the Yizhou Sea, the bright moon was hanging in the west, the starlight was dim, and the thin waves were undulating to the horizon.

The old monk Jing ordered the sail master to lower the sails, and the thirty-six sailors desperately rocked the oars, and the three sails were all lowered, and the ship did not decrease, and at the same time, the big ship turned its rudder slightly to the north, trying to get closer to the coast of Changxi County.

Look at everything ready, Seng Jingquan waved his hand, a password was quickly conveyed to the cabin, thirty-six sailors stopped together, and the fifteen-zhang sea boat still rushed forward out of the small half a mile, which slowly stopped, a three-zhang wooden boat quickly went down to the sea, Seng Jingquan and four Wu Ben took the lead to go down to the wooden boat, followed by three rough and powerful servants holding Princess Qingle and the three of them down to the boat in a hanging basket, Princess Qingle was afraid that these wicked people from the Eight Kingdoms of Zhongtian would hurt Fangcha and cumin, so she did not dare to resist.

The boat, with six sailors, rowed together and quickly left the ship and headed for the northern coast, which was about ten miles offshore.

At this time, it was the darkest time of the night, and the wooden boat sailed twenty feet, and it was difficult to distinguish the shadow of the big ship, but the sound of the sail master on the big ship could be heard.

Princess Qingle was tightly tied by a servant woman with her arms and body, and said angrily: "Let go of me, what will you do with me?" Am I going to jump into the sea? ”

The servant woman looked at the national teacher, the old monk Jingquan nodded, the servant woman let go of her arms, and the other two servant women also let go of Fangcha and cumin, and the two girls immediately snuggled up to Princess Qingle, and the three servant women stared at them vigilantly, their eyes for a moment.

Princess Qingle was deeply frightened of the uncertain future, and she had been worried since she left Jinling, but she was accompanied by Cousin Xuan before, painting portraits, dancing and dancing, but she also forgot her worries, and now, Cousin Xuan is not around. These people forcibly kidnapped her to go to the Eight Kingdoms of Zhongtian, what do you want Zhang Sheng to be the princess, what should she do?

The mid-autumn sea breeze was quite cool, Fang Cha shrank to the side of the princess, and asked quietly, "Your Highness, what should we do?" ”

"Shut up, don't talk!" One of the servants immediately scolded viciously.

Princess Qingle hugged Fangcha's waist and said angrily: "Can't even speak? Tell me. What is your name? I'll keep it in mind. ”

When the servant woman heard this, she was uneasy, this is the future princess, and asking her name now is definitely not to reward her in the future, but to retaliate. "Princess, no, Her Royal Highness the princess can naturally speak, but the two of them, no." ”

When Princess Qingle saw that this servant woman was timid, her momentum suddenly rose, and she said angrily: "Don't let them speak." So who am I talking to? Do you want to talk to you stupid people? ”

Several of the servants were speechless. They all turned their heads to look at the national teacher.

Monk Jingquan smiled: "Her Royal Highness the princess can talk to people at will, but don't expect someone to come to the rescue if you shout!" And also. After going ashore is the boundary of Wu Yue Kingdom, Wu Yue Kingdom and Tang Kingdom are mortal enemies, if the princess falls into their hands, I am afraid that there is no old man to treat him so politely. ”

Princess Qingle ignored the old bald donkey, holding Fangcha in her left hand and cumin in her right hand, and comforted: "Don't be afraid, just say whatever you want." ”

Cumin whispered in Princess Qingle's ear, "Princess." Our boat followed. Now that we are ashore, my aunt will certainly not know. It's too bad to chase that big ship! ”

Princess Qingle asked, "Cumin, did you say that General Qi and they have already found Zhou Xuan?" ”

Cumin nodded and said, "I must have found it, my aunt will never die in the sea, my uncle has long said that he will live to be eighty years old and have many children-"

The old monk Jing is over sixty years old all year round, but he is deaf and clear-sighted, although the cumin voice is soft, the old monk Jingquan still hears it, and he said with a smile: "Is Her Royal Highness the princess talking about Zhou Xuanzhou, the first celebrity in the Tang Dynasty recently?" ”

Princess Qingle said: "Yes, it's my cousin Zhou Xuan, he has a lot of capable people, and he will definitely come to save me." ”

The old monk Jingquan said: "Expect Zhou Xuan to come to the rescue? Hehe, the wedding envoy Zhou Qicha has already fed the sea fish with the prince of the Southern Han Dynasty, which makes people not as good as the sky, if it weren't for this sea god wind, the old man would have to go through a lot of trouble if he wanted to meet the princess. ”

"You talk nonsense!" Princess Qingle was so angry that her face turned red: "Cousin Xuan will definitely come to save me." ”

The cumin looked out into the sea on the right, the night was so thick that there was no sign of the "Lingfei Treasure Boat", and the boat carrying them was rowing quickly towards the coast of Changxi County.

"What to do? How can I get my uncle to show up on this boat? Shouting and shouting is definitely not good, not to mention that you can't hear it from a distance, and you will be killed immediately, these people are so fierce! So what else can be done? ”

Xiao Cumin thought like this, she firmly believed that her uncle was on the boat, she groped in the small silk bag around her waist, suddenly touched something, her heart was ecstatic, she quickly took it out and pinched it in the palm of her hand, thought about it, quietly tore off a skirt, and stuffed the thing in her hand into the hand of Princess Qingle.

Princess Qingle asked in a low voice, "What?" ”

Cumin drew two words in the palm of Princess Qingle's hand, Princess Qingle's eyes lit up, nodded, took the strip of cloth torn off by cumin, plucked up her courage, and suddenly stroked an object in her hand on the side of the ship.

The three servants were stunned when they saw this, and they didn't know how to deal with it?

Monk Jingquan shouted angrily: "Extinguish the fire!" ”

Before the three servants pounced, Princess Qingle threw the burning strip of cloth in her hand into the sea, and the strip of cloth drew an arc of flames, drifting down into the sea, and quickly annihilated.

Monk Jingquan rushed over angrily, staring fiercely at Princess Qingle, the big red monk's robe swaying in the sea breeze, like a fierce god of esoteric religion.

Princess Qingle's heart was pounding with fright, and she didn't know how the old bald donkey would punish her?

The old monk Jingquan shouted: "Search, take all the things on her three bodies!" ”

The three servant women only listened to the national teacher, no matter what princess was not a princess, they stepped forward and searched all the things on Princess Qingle except for clothes, necklaces and bracelets.

The old monk Jingquan said: "Search in the skirt too, don't hide any knives or anything like that." ”

A servant woman reached into Princess Qingle's skirt and touched it, Princess Qingle hit the servant woman's head hard, and the servant woman let her beat, and searched correctly, touched a few times and didn't touch anything, and suddenly touched Princess Qingle's little underwear. This is the style of Zhou Xuan's painting, which was just sewn the day before yesterday, and Princess Qingle wore it.

The servant woman felt strange, pulled it with her hand, and muttered, "What is this?" ”

The old monk Jingquan thought he had touched some weapon, and hurriedly asked, "What, hand it over and take a look." ”

Princess Qingle was ashamed and angry, and cried.

The servant woman hurriedly withdrew her hand and came out. said to the old monk Jing Quan: "National teacher, it's nothing, it's just a strange style of profane clothes." ”

The old monk Jingquan saw Princess Qingle crying, and snorted coldly: "Your Royal Highness the princess, please respect yourself, don't humiliate yourself." Although the king of our country is willing to marry the Tang Kingdom, but if someone obstructs him, so that the old monk cannot calmly take Her Royal Highness the princess to the Eight Kingdoms of Zhongtian, the old monk has to kill His Royal Highness, Amitabha, the old monk will never speak. He said to the six sailors: "Hurry up the rowing, I'm afraid that the fire just now has been seen by the big boat behind!" ”

The big ship "Lingfei", which was six miles away, really showed this brief firelight. The sentry who had been watching shouted, "Your Excellency. My lord, there is a fire in the front right! There is a fire in the front right! ”

Zhou Xuan set up a short couch on the bow. Covered with a thin blanket, curled up and lying on his side, the four idiots were meditating cross-legged beside him, when he heard the shouting of the sentry site, he woke up, and quickly got up and looked to the right front, but saw nothing. Ask the sentry. The sentinel said: "Yu Jungong, the fire will be extinguished in the blink of an eye." But the ground was indeed a fire, and the villain could not be mistaken, and the fire was about six miles away in front of him. ”

Zhou Xuan wiped his face a few times with his hands to sober himself up, and muttered: "Why did Monk Jingquan make a fire?" Right front, do they want to land? This is Wu Yue's realm! ”

General Qi said: "County Prince, the thief Bald Jingquan is scheming, but he is afraid of deception, trying in vain to lure us to the shore and delay our time to catch up." ”

Zhou Xuan said: "This is difficult to do, the old monk is false and real, so we don't know whether to go ashore or continue to be in the sea!" ”

Lin Ji said: "Wu Yue and the Eight Kingdoms of Zhongtian are separated by Qingyuan, there is no contact, it is impossible for Seng Jingquan to take the princess ashore in this place, and the long journey from here to Chaozhou is much more difficult than the sea route, the county prince, don't pay attention to their suspicious tactics, we will chase forward with all our might, and we can catch up with their ship after dawn and recapture the princess." ”

Zhou Xuan said: "The most dangerous place is the safest, and the most impossible thing to do is to do it, if they really kidnap the princess ashore, then won't we rush to the air?" This has to be guarded against, and both sides must be taken into account. ”

General Qi hurriedly said: "Jungong, we can't afford to delay, it will take at least one or two hours to dock, at that time, the thief's ship has already gone far, and the sea route to Chaozhou is a hundred times more convenient than Route 6!" ”

Zhou Xuan said: "Let me think about it, what is the best way to see it?" - Let the big ship sail to the right and get closer to the coast. ”

Zhou Xuan got off the bow tower and paced on the right side of the deck, and the four idiots and Lin Ji followed silently behind him, not daring to disturb Zhou Xuan's thinking.

At this time, the servant named Lihu Di Jian that Wang Shizhang gave to Zhou Xuan led the golden retriever Lulu from the stern, came to Zhou Xuan and bowed down and shouted: "Master." ”

Zhou Xuan looked at the golden retriever Lulu's green eyes, his heart moved, and asked, "Lihu, I have smeared the spice that Wang Weng gave me, and see if Lulu can find me?" ”

Zhou Xuan hid in the princess's study in the cabin on the second floor, and after a while, Lu Lu followed the Lihu to the door and barked twice.

Zhou Xuan came out laughing and said, "Yes, prepare the boat immediately, I will go ashore to investigate." ”

The four idiots asked, "The princess also smeared this spice?" ”

Zhou Xuan said: "Yes, it's a pity that the bottle of spices and the secret medicine I fed to the insects fell into the sea." ”

The four idiots said: "The secret medicine for feeding insects can be rematched." ”

Zhou Xuan asked: "Fourth, Tang Xiaosan knows the recipe of my secret medicine, did he tell you?" ”

The four idiots "snorted" and said, "Tang Xiaosan's mouth is very tight and he refuses to speak." ”

Zhou Xuan laughed: "At the beginning, Tang Xiaosan was afraid that you would arrest him and ask for the prescription, and he swore to me that he would rather die than say it, fourth, you were very domineering at that time." ”

While talking, the two went up to the deck, where the "Lingfei" had turned its rudder and sailed in a northwesterly direction, and the two small boats were also hanging on the starboard side, ready to launch at any time. Zhou Xuan said: "There is a boat, I and the fourth, and Lihu took Lulu ashore to investigate, the big boat is going as usual, if it is found that Princess Qingle did not go ashore, then a few of us will rush to the front to re-board the big boat, which should not delay much time." ”

Lin Ji said: "The county prince, go with the county prince." ”

Half an hour later, the "Lingfei" was already very close to the coast, and you could see a large area of black and gloomy land.

Zhou Xuan, the four idiots, Lin Ji, Lihu, and the golden retriever Lulu went down to the boat, Lin Ji rowed with the four idiots, and abandoned the boat to land when the sky was bright, it was really a coincidence, and the coast only searched for three or four times, and the three-zhang wooden boat that Seng Jingquan abandoned on the ground appeared.

The golden retriever Lulu barked dozens of feet away from the wooden boat, and Lihu could know Lulu's meaning, and said to Zhou: "Master, Lulu smelled that fragrance." ”

The golden retriever Lulu became restless and barked wildly towards the north, indicating that the scent had gone in that direction.

The "Lingfei" sailed on the sea less than five miles offshore, and when it saw the shore Zhou Xuan's gesture, it hurriedly closed its sails and turned its rudder, and sailed towards the shore.

General Qi was carried down by two government soldiers, and Prince Snow Pig also went ashore under the escort of Chen Yanshou and Fei Qing.

Zhou Xuan said: "The princess was really taken ashore by Seng Jingquan, and she must chase it immediately, go to the cabin stable to bring my crane in the clouds, and the princess's maple dew purple, simply take down the jade flower that shines in the night, it is the queen's birthday gift to the princess, and it was originally planned to be brought out on the princess's birthday on August 15 to surprise the princess, but now we are in short supply of mounts, so we will temporarily bring it to ride." ”

General Qi asked, "Let's bring more people with the county prince." ”

Zhou Xuan said: "There is no need to have many people, this is the boundary of Wu Yue Kingdom, it is not good to have more people, and there is one thing that has to be guarded again, that is, I am afraid that Seng Jingquan will use a suspicious plan again, and take the princess ashore here, run to the front and get on the boat again, which requires General Qi to continue to chase the ship, whether the princess is on the ship or not, intercept it for me-" After a pause, he said in his ear: "You don't have to go to Xingwangfu, just intercept the ship, and if there is no princess on the ship, you will immediately return to the Tang Kingdom, and this Lingfei must belong to us." ”

General Qi nodded solemnly: "The humble duty understands, the humble duty hurts his leg, and he can't follow the county prince for the time being, and the county prince must be careful." ”