"Huai'an, where is this?" Su Muling's fear slowly faded and she returned to her mind.

Wei Huai'an looked around and replied, "This is a dark river, there should be an exit ahead." Let's go! ”

Wei Huai'an picked up Su Muling and walked towards the bright place.

They walked through a meadow and into a forest, and just as they were about to walk out of the woods, Wei Huai'an suddenly took Su Muling in his arms and lowered his body, and warned her in a hurry and softly in her ear: "Don't make a sound." ”

Su Muling's heart beat faster, curled up beside him, and looked ahead.

I saw a lot of people in the clearing outside the woods. Some were running exercises, some were boxing, and some were training for assassination, and although these people were dressed in cloth clothes, their eyes were blazing, and they were obviously well-trained soldiers.

Su Muling secretly counted them, and there were thousands of them.

"Who are these people?" Su Muling frowned.

"It seems to be a private soldier." Wei Huai'an lowered his voice with a serious expression.

"Private soldiers? Didn't King Ping have been caught a long time ago? How can there still be private soldiers? Su Muling was puzzled. Could it be that these are the fish that slipped through the net?

She had heard the word "King Ping" rebelled a year ago. But later, the world was peaceful and prosperous, and the word gradually left her, but she didn't expect that here today, there were private soldiers in this strange realm, and Su Muling's heart couldn't help but tighten.

"Maybe it's not King Ping's, it's also possible for the second prince and the third prince. Although they were cut and imprisoned, they are still royal people in the end, and maybe one day the emperor will restore their identities on a whim and make a comeback......"

Wei Huai'an stopped talking when he said this, because he saw several young men in strong suits coming over from another place with a middle-aged man in their arms.

Su Muling followed Wei Huai'an's gaze towards the man, and was so shocked that he almost screamed, but Wei Huai'an covered his mouth.

She has seen that man, not only has she seen it, but she is also very familiar with it, it is Xiao Wenxuan's master Nangong Yi.

Wei Huai'an also recognized Nangong Yi, and his eyes were firmly fixed on the front. Su Muling took Wei Huai'an's hand off her mouth, her eyes widened, she didn't dare to associate Nangong Yi with these private soldiers.

Nangong Yi stood on a high place, inspected the group of well-trained private soldiers in front of him for a while, and then invited the people around him to lean over and whisper a few words, and then led them away.

Wei Huai'an pressed Su Muling until the soldiers finished training and left, and then they dared to show up.

"What now?" Su Muling patted the soil on his body and looked sideways at Wei Huai'an.

"Let's find a way to get out of here first, and then send a message to the capital."

After Wei Huai'an finished speaking, he pulled Su Muling out of the woods. Looking around, they found that they were at the bottom of a valley, surrounded by a meandering river, surrounded by lofty mountains, facing a waterfall on the mountain, tumbling white waves into the valley bottom of the river.

Wei Huai'an couldn't help frowning, this is surrounded by mountains, where did he find the intersection?

"Where to go?" Su Muling was also stunned.

"I don't know, the capital is in the east, let's go east." After Wei Huai'an finished speaking, he pulled her towards the mountain to the east.

On the way, they were cautious and cautious, looking around from time to time, Su Muling's stomach was so hungry that she didn't dare to stop and have the idea of eating.

After walking for nearly half an hour, Su Muling was so tired that she couldn't walk, bent down to support her legs, and gasped.

"It's dangerous here, you can't stay, come, I'll carry you." Wei Huai'an squatted down, let Su Muling lie on his back, and then exerted force under his feet, and soon came to the foot of the mountain.

"Up the mountain, with the cover of the woods, we are safe."

"I don't think so."

A man's mocking voice came from his side.

Wei Huai'an was stunned, and dozens of private soldiers with bows and arrows flashed out from behind the big trees in the woods, and then there was a chaotic sound of footsteps behind them, Su Muling hurriedly turned around, and dozens of private soldiers with sharp swords behind him blocked their retreat.

"What do you want to do?" Wei Huai'an put down Su Muling and touched his waist with one hand.

"Our master invites you to come over."

With a wave of the leader's hand, everyone rushed up.

Seeing this, Su Muling replied in a solemn voice: "We are just the people who strayed into here, and we just want to leave here as soon as possible." We are at odds with your master, and we are not bothered. ”

After speaking, he pulled Wei Huaian and was about to leave.

The leader didn't want to let them go at all, and he didn't bother with them, and just waved his knife.

The sword on Wei Huai'an's waist rushed out, and he saw blood in a few moments when he got close.

Su Muling hid behind Wei Huai'an with a dagger in his hand, moving nervously with him.

When the leader saw that they were desperately resisting, he shouted, and the archers made preparations: "Lay down your weapons and follow us, or let you shoot arrows through your hearts." ”

Wei Huai'an casually put down a private soldier, and then sneered: "I want to see your skills." ”

"Archer, release the arrow!"

At the sound of an order, the private soldiers scattered in all directions, and a row of arrow feathers roared towards Wei Huai'an and Su Muling.

Wei Huai'an wrapped one hand around Su Muling's waist, and danced the sword in his hand like a shield with the other. After a rain of arrows, Wei Huai'an and Su Muling were still standing.

"Let us go. Otherwise, don't blame me for bloodbathing the valley......"

"Whoosh!"

Wei Huai'an's shoulders shook, and a dark arrow hit his shoulder blade, Wei Huai'an was numb on half of his body, and the sword in his hand fell to the ground.

"Ling'er......" Wei Huai'an's voice did not fall, but he fell to the ground unconscious.

"Huai'an? Wyan? ”

Su Muling fell on Wei Huai'an's body, shaking, and the arrow feathers on Wei Huai'an's shoulders trembled slightly.

"Take it away."

"Yes."

……

Su Muling was blindfolded and taken to a huge cave, through which an underground river passed. On the wall of the cave there is a stone stalactite shaped like a large green dragon.

Under the Qinglong Stone, Nangong Yi was sitting on a chair covered with animal skins, and two rows of guards stood at the bottom, which was extremely majestic.

"Long time no see, how is Miss Su?"

Nangong Yi looked at Su Muling, smiling rather than smiling.

Su Muling only knew that Nangong Yi was Xiao Wenxuan's master, and his whereabouts were uncertain. Now that I see him here, I know that his identity is not just as simple as Master Xiao Wenxuan. Su Muling looked around, trying to stabilize his emotions.

"I'm fine." Su Muling's voice stared at Nangong Yi coldly.

"I heard that Miss Su and Xiao Wenxuan broke off their marriage contract and regained their freedom, why don't you go back to Songjiang and come here?" Nangong Yi's eyes narrowed slightly, looking at Su Muling.

"I went to Yaohu Village to stay, and today I accidentally stepped on the air and fell here. I didn't mean to come. Wei Shizi was injured and unconscious, I hope you can let him go, and whether I stay dead or alive is up to you. ”

Su Muling is not afraid of death, but she can't let Wei Huai'an accompany her with her life.

"Want to get out of here? Haha, I've been here and there's no return. If you have any wishes, I think I can fulfill you once for the sake of your friendship with You'an. Nangong Yi's eyes flashed with disdain.

"Who the hell are you?" Su Muling asked.

Even if she can't get out alive, she has to figure it out.

"Who am I? Haha, are you sure you want to know? I warn you that knowing who I am will only hasten your death. Nangong Yi laughed.

"I know we won't be able to get out alive, I just want to know who the master that Xiao Wenxuan respects in his eyes is." Su Muling was not afraid at all.

"Okay, it is worthy of the former Prince Ning and Princess."

Nangong Yi waved his hand and retreated left and right. He got up and walked down the steps to Su Muling.

"Do you remember the courtyard where you were imprisoned when you were in the Pingwang Mansion in Qizhou?"

Of course Su Muling remembered, she pursed her lips and nodded.

"It was the mansion of the vassal king Yuan Ye. In the year when the emperor ascended the throne, he was bewitched by traitorous ministers and wronged Yuan Ye for trying to rebel. The emperor ordered the vassal king to be taken down in the name of rebellion, so nearly 1,000 masters and servants of the Yuan family were all imprisoned. Only one toddler escaped through the secret passage in the courtyard. This young child is Yuan Shijie, the eldest grandson of the Yuan family. He was only five years old. ”

After Yuan Shijie escaped from the palace, he wandered around, and that winter, he fainted from hunger in the suburbs and went to the temple. Just when he was about to freeze to death, he met a passing doctor, who saw that he was pitiful, so he took him back to his house and took him as an apprentice. A year later, the Yuan family was beheaded. It is said that the sun was blood-red on the day of the beheading......"

Nangong Yi closed his eyes painfully when he said this, and when he opened his eyes for a while, his eyes were full of bloodshots, as if he had crawled out of hell.

Yuan Shijie heard the news, and after hiding in a no-man's land and crying bitterly for three days, he secretly made an oath: He will pay for the emperor's blood debt!

Nangong Yi slapped the stalactites beside him with a palm, and the huge stalactites were smashed in an instant.

After a while, Yuan Shijie patted the dust on his palm, flicked the stone chips on the placket and continued:

Three years later, the traitor who framed the Yuan family was removed from his post by the emperor for greed for ink, and his subordinates confessed to him for framing the vassal king in order to save their lives. The emperor rehabilitated the vassal king, posthumously crowned Yuan Ye as the prince, and repaired the cemetery for him again. But people are dead after all, even if they give up the throne, what's the use? ”

After the old doctor brought Yuan Shijie home, he was pleasantly surprised to find that he had an amazing talent in medical skills, so he taught what he had learned. The old doctor had already guessed Yuan Shijie's life experience before he died, and he advised Yuan Shijie to forget the past and be a new person. But the grievances of nearly 1,000 members of the Yuan family are reflected in his mind every day, and he can't linger or forget them. ”

Su Muling secretly took a step back, stared at his eyes and asked suspiciously:

"You are Yuan Shijie, the eldest grandson of the vassal king?" Otherwise, how would he have known that there was an entrance to a secret passage under the bed in that room.

Nangong Yi sneered: "Miss Su is really smart. ”

"But I don't understand, since you have such a deep hatred with the royal family, why do you have to save Xiao Wenxuan's life several times?"

"Saving Xiao Wenxuan is part of my plan, if you want to get close to the emperor, you must first gain his trust. Originally, I had a few chances to kill the emperor to avenge my ancestors, but several princes of the emperor stared at the throne, so I had to wait patiently. Now the emperor's princes have lost the emperor's trust one by one, and Xiao Wenxuan has been named the crown prince again. If I want to get rid of the two of them, I'll have it at my fingertips. ”

The blood red in Nangong Yi's eyes dissipated, and all that flashed was the excitement and excitement of the great cause that was about to be completed.