Chapter 260: Life hangs by a thread
In the next few hours, the Zhu family's army, who had just been withdrawn from the battlefield, began to look for people everywhere in the nearby mountains, and found no one until the sun rose to the middle.
Mei Xiaoren disappeared on the battlefield, Zhu Xiaozhen almost became an ant on a hot pot, who knew that the house leak happened to rain overnight, and the person here was not found, but there was an official errand who reported the news.
When Zhu Xiaozhen heard the official report, she was so shocked that she almost fell off her horse. She held the reins and sighed in a daze: "My dear mother, ......"
The sun was dazzling, and Mei Xiaoren was exhausted and lying on horseback, not knowing where he was taken by the wind.
Not long after she had taken refuge in the woods last night, the enemy army arrived, and when the two sides were fighting, a dozen or so enemies went straight into the woods, found her, and began to chase after her.
She fled on horseback, running as hard as she could, before she gradually shook off her pursuers.
This run, I don't know which deep mountain and old forest I ran to.
Yesterday, there was no drop of water, and after another day's journey, Mei Xiaoren was already tired, and after escaping for her life, the strength on her body was wiped clean, so she could only lie on the back of the horse, and the wind carried her forward.
From dawn to noon, Mei Xiaoren was still in a not dense forest, and the sparse trees could not block the sun, and the sun made people's mouths dry.
After a while, she heard the sound of a mountain spring nearby, like a cat smelling fish, and this excitement allowed her to regain her short-lived spirit.
She sat up slowly and rode her horse in the direction from which the sound of the water had come.
It was a narrow stream, and the spring water fell from the top of the stone wall, like crystal clear beads smashing into the ditch, and the sound was clear.
Mei Xiaoren dismounted, ran over and lay on the edge of the stream, picked up a few puffs of spring water and drank it clean.
She leaned against the big rock by the stream to rest, called Chafeng to come and drink water, and when Chafeng lowered her head, she stroked her horsehair and smiled, "Your master asked me to take care of you, and if there is mine, you will have you." ”
Mei Xiaoren felt that she was living in the mountains and forests, and it was not lonely to be accompanied by the wind, but I don't know if God would let her have the same good luck as before this time.
She rested well and walked downstream along the stream, and at dusk the front gradually opened up.
The sunset reflects the grass, trees, mountains and rivers, there is no trace of war everywhere, and the green mountains and streams and even the villages seem to be extremely peaceful and peaceful.
She walked into a nearby village and saw the smoke curling from every house, where the people lived a poor and simple life of men and women weaving.
When the villagers saw a stranger coming to the village, they all looked panicked and took their children to hide in their homes.
Mei Xiaoren knew that she had disturbed them, and she didn't plan to stay for a long time, she found an old man at the entrance of the village who was not afraid of her and asked for directions, and learned that this place was called Liuzhuang, Liuzhuang in Xia Guo'an City.
God knows, she ran for her life non-stop last night, and rushed into the Xia Kingdom like a headless fly.
As soon as Mei Xiaoren left the village with the wind, a group of Xia soldiers came from the other direction, and they were searching along the road, not even letting go of the half-human-high grass.
She subconsciously hid in the woods next to the village, where she could see the group of Xia soldiers entering the village, kicking the bamboo baskets and wooden boxes that they thought they could hide people, stirring up the whole village.
The villagers were frightened and stood in front of their houses, afraid to speak.
A soldier looked at the people on the left and right, and asked slowly, "Did you see a young man on horseback?" ”
The villagers remained silent, and when the soldiers walked past them, they took their children behind them.
"No one said? He is a spy of Ningguo, if you dare to shield a spy, you will have to be guilty of the same crime as the spy! ”
The soldier's tone increased, and many of the villagers were stunned, but none of them were willing to stand up and speak.
The soldiers, thinking that they did not know, were about to leave with their people, when suddenly they saw that the ground in front of a house was wet, and someone had just poured water on it, and the soil was so soft that the horses' hooves had to leave a mark on it.
A few deep and shallow horseshoe prints caught the soldier's eye, and the soldier pointed to the mud and asked, "What is this?" ”
The villagers looked at each other, but no one dared to answer.
The soldier was suddenly annoyed, rushed to the door of a house, dragged a little boy, kicked the boy to the ground, stepped on the boy's chest, and said fiercely: "I ask you again, where is the spy?" ”
The boy's mother weakened her legs and fell to her knees begging for mercy. Many villagers did not dare to come forward to resist.
Mei Xiaoren looked at the scene in the village, and he had already clenched his fists. She had heard of Xia Jun's tyranny, and the officers and soldiers under him oppressed the people, and they didn't treat the people as human beings, but could bully and kill at will.
The people of Xia have become numb and timid under such power, and they are willing to help her hide it because they still have kindness in their hearts.
The boy's mother finally couldn't bear it anymore, and raised her hand to the mountain forest where Mei Xiaoren was.
The soldier turned his eyes to the mountains and forests, and shouted, "Chase!" ”
Mei Xiaoren got on his horse and fled into the woods with a whip.
The old man said that the road next to the village could lead to Daning, but the Xia army had just been defeated, and at this time, if you took the main road, I was afraid that you would encounter the enemy, and you could get to the border by crossing the mountains in front of you, but it would take more time.
Before long, the sound of horses' hooves came from behind her...... The pursuers are here again.
The mountains and forests of Xia Kingdom are sparsely populated, the mountain roads are rugged, it is extremely difficult to walk, although it runs fast in the wind, it is in the hands of Chu Yu when it is small, and it follows Chu Yu to be pampered in the capital, and has never walked such a mountain road, and now it is impossible to take her to escape for her life.
Someone shouted: "The princess has an order, if she can keep her mouth alive, she will keep her mouth alive, and if she can't keep it, she will kill people and keep horses!" ”
As the words fell, a Xia soldier raised his hand and pointed the bow and crossbow in his hand at the figure's vest.
Mei Xiaoren only cared about riding the horse to escape for her life, not daring to turn back, suddenly, there was a piercing pain in her back, she threw herself on the horse, and beads of sweat soon oozed from her forehead.
Still holding on to the reins, she rode forward, the pain in her back continuing to torment her as the ride bumped.
She felt that she was getting more and more tired, her eyelids were heavy, and the hand holding the reins was gradually losing her strength.
The chase wind also carried her in the direction of Daning. The wind was blowing, Mei Xiaoren felt a little cold in her back, she reached out to touch it, and felt an arrow a few inches long and pierced her back. The clothes around him were wet and clinging to the skin...... Cold......
She withdrew her hand and looked at her fingertips through the light of the sky that had not yet fully sunk, and it was stained with red blood.
After Mei Xiaoren saw it, he grabbed the reins with all his might. She was thinking that even if she died, she would have to die on the border of Daning, and she couldn't be a wandering ghost in the enemy country.
At night, the forest was dark, almost out of sight, and Mei Xiaoren could only hear the sound of horses' hooves getting closer and closer.
She lay weakly on her horse, staggering, and after a violent jolt she fell off her horse and into a ravine beside her.
Chasing the wind non-stop, leading the pursuers to run away......