Muqi Town is remote, and the locals have always lived by themselves, and it is rare to see outsiders, and there are a lot of them popping up for some reason recently. The boss of the inn Qian has recently made a small fortune, happily counting the copper plates around the stove, not wanting to suddenly break into a team of officers and soldiers and outflank the inn. Frightened, the money shopkeeper's hands and feet weakened, and he hurriedly asked why.

The leader of the team replied in a stern tone: "You have hidden assassins in your shop, and the magistrate has ordered a thorough investigation, and please ask everyone to go back to the yamen with us to explain clearly."

A few hours earlier, several ornate carriages had appeared on a remote road, and from time to time the cry of a baby could be heard. The accompanying guards were all riding tall horses, and the young man led by him was the most eye-catching, looking around with eagle-like eyes as he walked forward.

It was surprisingly quiet, except for the sound of the north wind howling through the forest. Suddenly, there was a commotion on the hillside next to it, and a dark arrow caught the convoy off guard.

"Protect Your Majesty!" After giving the order, Chu Zikai hurriedly drew his sword and retreated in front of the rear carriage to resist. And he saw many men with swords rushing down from the hillside. Looking at most of the guards who had just been injured by the secret arrow, Chu Zikai scolded in a low voice, and he didn't dare to get too far away from the carriage, so he resisted the approaching people in place.

Those outlaws knew that this time they were unsuccessful, and they became benevolent, and they killed them one by one. The ladies of the carriage in the rear were crying, and the remaining guards were only surrounding the first carriage, and they could barely resist the attack.

Seeing that a villain's knife was slashing towards Chu Zikai, he didn't have time to stop it, and in the chaos, something knocked the person away, pressed him to the ground and bit it. Chu Zikai fixed his eyes and saw that it was actually a wolf.

No, more than that. I saw a girl walking down the hillside, and the wolves behind her rushed towards the group of people on the road like her soldiers, staring only at the assassin bite. Chu Zikai was secretly shocked in his heart, but he didn't have time to think about who she was, and threw himself into the fight.

Several of the strongest assassins in martial arts only pestered Chu Zikai and forced him away from the carriage, the knife had already pierced into the car, and he didn't want the thin girl to reach the front of the car like a flat ground in the shadow of the sword. The wolf who had been guarding her pounced on her, pinned the throat of the assassin and bit it, killing one by one, extremely ferocious and amazingly strong.

In the carriage behind was an old woman in gorgeous clothes, with a baby in her arms, stumbling to avoid the front. Who knew that he did not escape, and died under the knife. But the person who cut her in the next second was immediately bitten by the wolf, fell to the ground and lost his breath after a few convulsions, Yu Zhao walked over and picked up the baby under the old woman.

Incredibly, when the child saw her, he stopped crying instantly, and tentatively reached out to wipe the blood splashed on her face.

After a few moments, the assassin was finally dead, all with bloodied knives, now pointing at Yu Zhao and the gray wolves behind her. Chu Zikai stepped forward and helped the people in the car to get down. "Father, this little girl can actually train wolves to fight."

The gray wolf tasted blood, his eyes were red, he licked his mouth, and bared his teeth to demonstrate to the guards who pointed at Yu Zhao with knives. Yu Zhao was also afraid that they would hurt the wolves, so he lowered his head and touched the head of the wolf king, pointed to the mountain, and motioned for him to take the wolves back. Sure enough, one by one, the wolves obediently went into the mountains and forests.

"In winter, you don't have enough food, so keep a few corpses for them as payment."

As if she didn't think she said this, Chu Zikai was slightly stunned, and then bowed and said, "Can you ask the girl to return my brother to me."

Yu Zhao looked at the meat ball he was holding, who was still smirking at himself in the sea of corpse forest and blood, and walked over and handed him to Chu Zikai, but the moment he fought each other, the child howled and cried.

"Your brother?" Yu Zhao's undisguised suspicion made Chu Zikai a little helpless.

"Bold Diaomin, do you know who the person in front of you is?" The female officer who had escaped death tidied up her appearance, and reprimanded her in a sonorous and powerful tone, which was extremely majestic.

Yu Zhao took out a coarse cloth and carefully wiped the blood on his hands, and replied casually: "I know, bright yellow clothes, Your Majesty the Emperor."

"Then why not worship?"

Yu Zhao still wiped his hands: "Meet Your Majesty."

The female official said angrily: "No one will salute Your Majesty like this!"

"This is the first time I have met His Majesty, and no one has taught me how to salute." Yu Zhao's eyes blinked, full of doubt and innocence.

Another female officer said in disgust: "You can always kneel."

"Alright, alright." Emperor Yuan, who was relieved, interrupted the argument between the two sides. "She is my savior and your benefactor, so don't let it be." turned around and wanted to get into the car, and ordered Chu Zikai: "It's important to go to the town in front to meet the people and horses, take her with you."

Yu Zhao was invited into the carriage. No matter who hugged the female official and mother in the car, the little prince cried. went around and around, but returned to Yu Zhao's hand, played with her for a while, and then slept peacefully.

The carriage was tightly sealed, and it was much warmer than the dilapidated house of Yu Lu's mother and daughter, so that when he got off the carriage, Yu Zhao was not so adaptable to the cold for the first time, and was shivered by the cold wind.

"The girl's clothes are too thin, so let's put them on first." Chu Zikai took off his cloak and handed it to her.

After hesitating for a moment, he took it: "Thank you."

Suddenly glimpsing a hollow bell on her outstretched wrist, Chu Zikai couldn't help but look at it twice, Yu Zhao noticed it, and hid his hand back.

The men who had gone to do the work brought a group of people back, and respectfully welcomed the bloodied people into a luxurious mansion.

"Hurry up and change it out." A grandmother took her to a room, groomed her roughly, and threw her a suit of clothes.

Yu Zhao picked up the clothes and looked at them, although they were plain, the materials were good. Satisfied, he tore off the rag on his body and put it on, and came out to meet someone.

Chu Zikai was even more sure of the conjecture in his heart, this girl was wild. But this heavenly appearance is by no means something that can be born by people in this barren mountain and wild mountains. "Are you a relative of Yu Cheng, the secretary of the ministry?"

Yu Zhao glanced at him and didn't speak.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince asked, answer quickly." The local official who bowed to the side urged.

"I said I am, but people don't recognize me." Yu Zhao lowered his head and touched the bell in his hand. "This is fake, it can't be compared with his young lady's golden bell, my mother doesn't give up, she has to get me a fake one to wear."

"Your Majesty, the slave maid has heard of this," explained a female official who poured tea and water for Emperor Yuan, "I heard that Lord Yu originally bought a beautiful woman as a flower to be the sixth aunt, and later gave birth to a daughter. Unexpectedly, he was caught having a private meeting with a foreign man, and he was driven to his hometown with his daughter. In the end, I realized that the eldest lady had wronged the wrong person, but the eldest lady had a strong family background, so she only suppressed the matter and never mentioned it again. ”

"This is Yu Cheng's family matter, and I can't manage it." After Emperor Yuan finished speaking, he took a sip of tea, and then looked at Yu Zhao again: "Tell me, what is your name." How old are you? ”

"With my mother's surname Yu, a single name is a Zhao character, about fifteen." This didn't sound like much at first glance, but after thinking about it, it was not difficult to find that she had clearly divided her relationship with Yu Cheng.

"Gray wolves are wild and difficult to train, how do you rely on them to keep them with you?" Chu Zikai asked curiously.

"It's not difficult, just don't think of yourself as a human being."

The crowd didn't understand what she meant, and looked at it suspiciously.

Yu Zhao went on to explain: "Wolves are vicious and cruel animals, but they never hide their greedy desires. In fact, most people are the same, but they rely on the side skin to cover up and dare not be honest. That's why wolves look down on such hypocritical people. If you don't think of yourself as a human being, it will look up to it. ”

Hearing these words, everyone disagreed, but Emperor Yuan did not laugh angrily. "It's a straightforward kid." Then he asked, "You have done a great job in saving the driver, what reward do you want me to give you?"

Ordinary people will say in this situation: The grass people are already fortunate to see the holy face, and they dare not take credit and ask for any reward. Then the emperor will reward this spirit of neither humility nor arrogance, nor arrogance, nor rashness, and then reward it. In the end, the man couldn't refuse, so he had to thank Dade for accepting it.

Yu Zhao is a troublesome person. "Money."

I just want to leave quickly, and she still has to ask her mother for a doctor.

Emperor Yuan was accustomed to asking people for rewards and was ready to receive a few words of praise, but at this moment he was all gagged in his mouth. "Besides, I can help you get back to Shangshufu."

"The people beg Your Majesty not to take revenge."

These words made Emperor Yuan laugh loudly, Chu Zikai couldn't help but bow his head and suppress his laughter, and the officials on the side wanted to reprimand him, but seeing that Emperor Yuan and the crown prince had no anger at all, they could give up.

"Give it to her, give it to her." Emperor Yuan waved his hand and commanded with a smile, and asked the people next to him to help him up. "Prince, I'm a little tired, you can arrange it."

Chu Zikai replied yes, wait for Emperor Yuan to come out of the house and look at Yu Zhao again. Command them to fetch money. "Miss Yu is loyal and courageous, and this reward is a little light."

"I don't dare to bear the name of loyalty," Yu Zhao said truthfully, "I came here for reward in the beginning." My mother is seriously ill and has no money to renew the decoction, so if there is no way out, I can only devote myself to being the girl on the flower boat. Seeing that the opportunity has come, the worst is to die, pure. If you do, you don't have to be a girl.

Chu Zi Cage said: "Since ancient times, women have the most important name, and many people would rather die than buy their bodies when they are cornered, but you are not afraid of either."

"Since ancient times, people still laugh at poverty and prostitution," Yu Zhao turned his head and snorted softly, with disdain in his tone: "Only nobles like you who are rich in fine clothes and food can laugh together with poor prostitutes." If I am alone, what if I die? It's just that my mother is alive, and she gave her body, so what if I bought it for her. I look down on those who disregard their parents' old and weak and die in exchange for the name of chastity. ”

The worldliness of these words made the old woman standing next to her disgusted. Seeing this, Yu Zhao said to her: "You don't have to think that prostitutes are dirty, if you are not driven to a dead end, who doesn't want to be a girl from a white family." If you buy a body and don't buy your conscience, you can still give me food when I'm dying of hunger. I think these prostitutes are better than my father, who everyone touts and flatters. ”

Hearing this, Chu Zikai pondered for a moment, turned his head sideways, and the two guards stepped forward and approached Yu Zhaolai. Yu Zhao was instantly vigilant, his body was uncontrollably tense, his hands were clenched and he wanted to retreat, although the panic in his eyes was well hidden, he was inevitably caught by Chu Zikai.

I thought it was as decisive as words, but in fact, it was just a powerful mouth. Chu Zikai hurriedly stopped, and motioned to the old lady next to him to step forward. restrained her a few times, lifted her sleeves to check and verify, and replied: "Your Highness, the sand of the palace is still there." Yu Zhao got rid of her hand and glanced at Chu Zikai unkindly.

In order to confirm further, Chu Zikai dismissed the man in the house and retired to the front hall with himself to wait. In a moment there was the sound of a porcelain table falling to the ground and the wailing of a group of old women.

After a while, the old ladies with chicken feathers rushed out, and replied without tears: "Your Highness Qiqi, it has been verified, it is indeed a virgin."

Yu Zhao came out after him, his cheeks were slightly red, no one looked at him, and he was slightly angry: "His Royal Highness the Prince, give me the money, and take my leave."

Chu Zikai beckoned, and one person presented a box of gold, silver and jewelry, all of which were priceless objects.

"I don't need to get out." Yu Zhao refused: "Gold is rare in the town, and no one knows the goods."

Chu Zikai promised: "You and your mother can go to the county seat to settle down, and I will instruct the county order to arrange a house for you."

After pondering for a moment, Yu Zhao took the box and staggered for a moment. I also heard Chu Zikai's instructions: "Send someone to escort Miss Yu back."

Looking at Yu Zhao again, she stretched out her hand again. Chu Zikai looked at her puzzled.

"I'm penniless, so I have to ask my mother for a doctor first." After another pause, "And I don't have the money to go to the county seat." ”

Chu Zikai shook his head with a smile, and reluctantly took off the money bag on his waist and handed it to her, Yu Zhao took it and thanked him, turned around and left.

Wealth is sought in danger, but fortunately, after the danger, it is also sought. Yu Zhao sat in the carriage on the way back with some palpitations, opened the box in his hand, and felt relieved to look at the gold and silver inside. The north wind is still cold, and there is no longer a worry about the clothing list.