Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Prince is in Trouble

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Chu Shenxia looked for him for a long time but didn't find him, but he didn't expect him to run to the eaves. Liu Yan turned his back to him, looking at the cities in the distance, not knowing what he was thinking.

"His Royal Highness the Prince."

Chu Shenxia shouted again, there is a kind of meaning that if you don't say anything, I won't talk about business.

Liu Yan still didn't reply, Chu Shenxia didn't call for the third time, I don't know how long it was, but when Chu Shenxia was about to leave, Liu Yan spoke.

"I really regret being born in the family of the emperor."

Chu Shenxia lowered his eyes and looked at the instep of his feet, the corners of his mouth slightly hooked a sneer, and said with mockery: "Does Your Highness think that being born in the Emperor's House is the culprit that makes Your Highness unhappy?" ”

"Isn't it? I'd rather be an ordinary person than intrigue with people in the court, fight with people on the battlefield, and behead people. Liu Yan turned his head to look at him.

Chu Shenxia sat down next to him, looked at the countless eaves in the distance, and said softly: "The general trend of the world, if you join for a long time, you will divide for a long time, and you will join for a long time, and this Kyushu continent will soon set off a battle for deer." Since Your Highness can't bear to suffer from this pond of fish, why don't you do your duty? In the future, he will ascend to the throne of the Son of Heaven, clear the officials, punish the rebels, and seek the blessings of the common people in the world. ”

Liu Yan turned to look at his face, slowly turned back, lowered his eyes to his knees, and said with some frustration: "What you said, how easy is it to talk about?" Now, I'm about to be crushed by all these intrigues and battlefield battles, you know? The number of people I have killed in this year alone is a hundred times that of the previous years when I fought on the battlefield, and I often dream that I am crawling out of the pile of dead people, and the pile of dead people is made up of thousands of people, and no matter how much I climb, I can't climb out, and it is very terrible to think about. ”

"Since you can't climb out, don't climb it." Chu Shenxia answered.

Liu Yan frowned, looked at him sideways, he was rubbing the patterns on his robe, ignoring Liu Yan's gaze, and said in a misty voice: "Your Royal Highness only ascends to the throne, and he will dominate the country one day, and the people of Li will be truly liberated, and they will no longer be poisoned by the fire." Fleeing alone won't change anything, does Your Highness know? The situation in the court is changing overnight, and if His Highness continues like this, those who support His Highness will definitely find someone else, and other princes will also be eager to try, and a battle for the heir will start from the beginning, and the brothers will turn against each other, and there will only be more people who will die at that time. ”

Chu Shenxia suddenly got up, squinted slightly at the sunset and said, "How can Your Highness let go of the power in your hands because of a little discomfort in your heart, and want to retreat, take a step back and say, is it possible for Your Highness to withdraw from this troubled world?" Since His Royal Highness has a heart for the people and cannot see the suffering of the people, he should do everything he can to bring peace to the people in this troubled world. ”

After Chu Shenxia finished speaking, he looked down at Liu Yan, and when he saw that his face was stunned, and he didn't know if he listened or not, a trace of anger arose in his heart, and after he pressed it down, he said in a deep voice: "I hope His Highness understands what I said, so I will retreat first." ”

Chu Shenxia jumped off the eaves, but he didn't see the slowly raised eyes of the person behind him, there seemed to be a fire burning in his eyes, shining brightly, making it impossible to look at directly.

Liu Yan clenched his fists and jumped down, his eyes touched a white back not far away, and he couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

Footsteps suddenly came from the side, Liu Yan saw that it was Pei Shudong, saw that he looked a little bad, took two steps towards him, and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"The emperor ordered you to return to Jiankang quickly." Pei Shudong handed him a letter.

The letter said that Concubine Gao Xian was seriously ill and wanted to see him, Liu Yan's heart jumped suddenly, called the concubine, and ran out, ran to the gate of the palace, and saw Zuo Zhen galloping from the horse, only to realize that he was in a hurry and didn't even lead the horse.

Zuo Zhen dismounted, but was stopped by Liu Yan when he wanted to salute, Liu Yan said concisely: "Tell Chu Shenxia that I have returned to Jiankang on the orders of my father, and let him take care of all the affairs in the city." ”

Before Zuo Zhen could react, he saw a flash of the figure in front of him, turned over his horse and ran into the distance, seeing that he was alone, he hurriedly beckoned a few of his own personal soldiers, and advised: "Listen to your highness, catch up with Your Highness, you must protect Your Highness, if something happens to Your Highness, come back to see me spare you?" ”

"Yes." Several people neatly turned over their horses and chased in the direction of Liu Yan.

Only then did he feel relieved to go to find Chu Shenxia, and met Pei Shudong halfway, so he went together.

Chu Shenxia was very surprised when he heard this, pinched his fingers and counted for a while before exclaiming, "No! The distance between Jiankang and Huangling is far away, since this is not an urgent letter, it was naturally sent earlier than King Qing before he left the city, why didn't King Qing mention Liu Yan and say nothing? The more I think about it, the more wrong it becomes, who gave you this letter? ”

When Pei Shudong heard him say this, he also felt that the situation was a little serious, and after thinking for a while, he said, "Just ...... It's just an ordinary soldier, I can't even see his face clearly. ”

"No, I can't worry, I'll catch up and take a look." Chu Shenxia said and walked out.

Zuo Zhen hurriedly stopped him, packed the ticket and said: "It's okay, I sent my own soldiers to go with His Highness, my soldiers are well-trained and extremely reliable, and nothing will go wrong." ”

The tension between Chu Shenxia's eyebrows did not relax for half a minute, and he shook his head and said, "No, I have to go and see it myself, I'll ......let it go."

Zuo Zhen patted him on the shoulder and interrupted him: "Your Highness said, let you handle all the affairs in the city, you are gone, what should we do?" If you want to go, it should be me, don't worry about it, you should rest assured that I go, don't say that you can't even trust me? ”

Seeing that Chu Shenxia's eyebrows didn't mean to stretch, Zuo Zhen sighed and continued: "That's it, how about I bring three hundred elite soldiers?" ”

Pei Shudong received Zuo Zhen's eyes, and hurriedly nodded and agreed: "I think this is already foolproof, bring two hundred more elite soldiers, so be it, you go quickly, don't delay." ”

Zuo Zhen responded, and before Chu Shenxia could move, a puff of smoke ran out, Chu Shenxia looked at his distant back, still uneasy: "I always feel that something is wrong, and I feel a little uneasy in my heart." ”

Pei Shudong took two steps towards him disappreciatively, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't think about it, it'll be fine, King Qing's men and horses are under our surveillance, and there is no movement." ”

Chu Shenxia's eyes tightened, and he seemed to have an answer in his mind, but he couldn't say it, and in a daze, Pei Shudong had already strode out of the room.

Something is wrong, this is not right, it must be wrong.

Helplessly, in the past few days, all kinds of affairs have been pestering, Chu Shenxia has been so busy that he can't make a sound at all, and the news from Liu Yan's side has not come, he is happy on the one hand, and very worried on the other hand, is no news really good news?

Slightly distracted, he buried his head in various documents and letters, and his two eyebrows were furrowed.

A man covered in blood fell from his horse, and the soldiers next to him surrounded him at once, only to see the man slowly raise his right hand and squeeze a few words out of his mouth with great difficulty.

"Your Highness is in trouble, send someone to rescue him."

As soon as he finished speaking, his head sank, and he drooped, and the sharp-eyed soldier in the crowd recognized him and shouted, "It's General Zuo!" General Zuo! ”

Pei Shudong kept pacing in front of his bed, sighing in annoyance from time to time, and when Dr. Xu retreated, he hurriedly stopped him and asked, "How is it?" When will he wake up? ”

Doctor Xu glanced at Zuo Zhen with some embarrassment, and said helplessly: "It's hard to say, it's two or three days, and half a month, it's ......."

Before he finished speaking, he was grabbed by Pei Shudong's shirt, met his frightened face, and threatened: "Find a way to wake him up, do you know that His Highness is still waiting for us to save him, if it is delayed, are you responsible?" ”

Chu Shenxia suddenly grabbed his hand and reassured: "His medical skills are limited, why bother him?" The situation is urgent, I will lead the troops along the road to find His Highness first, you wait for General Zuo to wake up, get where His Highness is, and bring troops to help us, how about it? ”

"That's all it can be." Pei Shudong gritted his teeth, let go of his hand angrily, and at the end, he didn't forget to add, "Compared with Dr. Sun, your medical skills are really insignificant." ”

Chu Shenxia picked a few cavalrymen with superb horsemanship and chased them all the way towards Liu Yan's path.

When encountering forks in the road and making decisions is difficult, Chu Shenxia often turns over and dismounts, carefully observing the footprints on the ground and whether the grass has fallen.

Among these traces, Chu Shenxia found an astonishing problem, most of these footprints were human footprints, and he knew that the five hundred elite soldiers led by Zuo Zhen were cavalry, and they were all on horseback.

So where are these footprints that look new and numerous? Look at this footprint actually came from the direction of Huangling Dongxiang, could it be King Qing's people?

No, under Pei Shudong's supervision, it is impossible for King Qing's people to have such abnormal movements, and the footprints are shallow and messy, not like the footprints of well-trained soldiers who are wearing armor and armor.

Chu Shenxia only thought of one possibility, that is, King Qing slaughtered the city, leaving out some people, who secretly hid and waited for an opportunity to retaliate, and wanted to kill Liu Yan.

Thinking of this, Chu Shenxia only felt that his heartbeat was getting faster and faster, and the horse whip in his hand was waved hard, just hoping to catch up with Liu Yan as soon as possible, if Liu Yan died, the difficult situation that he had managed to maintain would get out of control.

In this world, there is no second benevolent monarch.

The blood-colored remnant sun shone on the group, and the sound of hooves rolled, raising thousands of dust.

Walking to a lake in front of Xiuwen County, everyone involuntarily reined in their horses, only to see the corpses of many soldiers floating on the lake, and it seemed that they had been dead for at least a day.

Chu Shenxia lightly kicked the horse's belly, driving the horse to move forward slowly, his eyes kept looking in the lake, and finally caught a few corpses caught in it.

It's the clothes of the people of Lu State, all of them are men, most of them have been for three years, but why are so many soldiers' corpses in the lake, is it the unarmed people of Lu who have driven them all away?

If this is the case, then this group of people must be very human, with such a large number of killing rates, if it is not a trained killer organization, who can kill elite soldiers?

Chu Shenxia whipped his horse, rushed along the shore of the lake, and rushed into the distance, I don't know if Liu Yan can hold up to save him?