Chapter 8: Meeting in This Life (5)
Groups of people who fled the scene ran through the streets, many of them still wearing race costumes, everyone with panicked eyes, and kept shouting: "There ......are monsters! Run, Run, Run......"
Meng Xuan was happily rushing to the competition venue, seeing that he was about to arrive, he suddenly saw such an abnormal behavior of these people, and had a premonition that something bad was happening on the competition field, so he immediately stopped a young man and asked, "What happened, where are the monsters?"
"Anaconda...... What a big one...... Black...... Black python! good ...... It's terrifying!" He finished speaking tremblingly and then left in a hurry.
After listening to this young man's intermittent words, Meng Xuan immediately thought that it must be the python demon who came out to make trouble, and it must be that there must be a black python in the competition venue. Then she immediately began to worry that Fang Zhong and Long Yi were in danger, so she hurriedly rushed towards the competition venue in a hurry.
The surviving people on the playing field almost fled, but the steward eunuch and Xiao Wu were still arguing, and the steward eunuch said: "Anyway, the prince should also go back to the palace with me, he is seriously injured, if you don't immediately ask the imperial doctor for treatment, if something happens, neither of us will be able to protect our heads." ”
Xiao Wu insisted: "No, the little prince must go back to the palace with us, the palace is relatively close, and there are doctors in the palace, you should go back to the palace first to receive medical treatment, if the treatment is delayed, even if you have a hundred heads, it will not be enough to cut off." ”
"Then if you say so, the lord in front of you is the little prince of your family, and it is the prince who was taken away by the black python! Don't say that your head is on the ground, I'm afraid your entire palace will not be protected!" The steward eunuch said sternly, "You still pray that this lord is the prince." ”
"The prince and the little prince are equally important, anyway, now I am dead now, but I want our little prince to be safe. Xiao Wu argued.
“......”
Fang Zhong probably knew what happened from the argument between the eunuch and Xiao Wu, and knew that Long Yi was taken away by the cruel black python, and he was afraid that there would be more than one luck, but he was powerless, and he was very sad in his heart. Suddenly there was a strange idea, that is, not to return to the palace to be the prince.
He thought: "As the crown prince, I have not protected the people, nor my brother, I am ashamed of the trust of all the people, I am ashamed of the attention of my father and mother, and I am ashamed of the love of King Jingnan and Princess Min for me on weekdays. If I go back to the palace to be my crown prince, I really don't have the face to face everyone, and the civil and military officials will definitely force my father to abolish me, if I am abolished, it would be good, if my father and the emperor oppose the civil and military officials in order to protect me, wouldn't I be even more self-ashamed. Now that I have encountered the attack of the black python, after returning to the palace, my father and mother will definitely guard me strictly and not let me leave the palace, but Long Yi was captured by the black python and his life and death are uncertain, I must find him back, so I can't go back to the palace......" Thinking about it, Fang Zhong was even more sure that he couldn't go back to the palace.
At this moment, Meng Xuan arrived, she hurriedly ran over, through the crowd she saw Fang Zhong at a glance, seeing the familiar and long-lost face, she should have been happy, but she caught up with the python demon to make trouble, turning all happy things into sadness.
Meng Xuan saw Fang Chong sitting on the chair alone in frustration, the steward eunuch and a servant next to him were arguing around him, and after making a round, she didn't see Long Yi present, she knew that she was late, and she couldn't say a word of remorse.
She hurriedly squeezed through the crowd and walked in front of Fang Chong, seeing that Fang Chong's face was covered with bruises, the corners of his mouth were white, there were black blood stains, his hair was messy, and his clothes were tattered, she hurriedly cast a spell to freeze everyone, including Fang Chong. Then he looked at the other injuries on Fang Chong's body in distress, and when he saw the deep scar on Fang Chong's back, Meng Xuan's tears couldn't help but welled up. The wound deeply stabbed Meng Xuan's eyes, deeply stabbed Meng Xuan's heart, and the clothes were all broken and stuck to the flesh, and the flesh and blood were mixed together, because of the demonic poison, they all turned black.
Meng Xuan was heartbroken and wanted to use her mana to heal Fang Chong immediately, she slowly lost her mana to Fang Chong, and gradually saw that his face had improved before she stopped transporting.
Then Meng Xuan withdrew the "Fixation Technique" again, looking at the injured Fang Chong, he just wanted to stand quietly aside and look at Fang Chong silently, accompanying his broken heart.
Everyone didn't notice her, and the eunuch in charge continued: "The prince must go back to the palace with us, the little prince has been taken away by the black python, you should hurry back to the palace and inform King Jingnan to find someone!"
Xiao Wu continued to argue: "The little prince must go back to the house with us, the crown prince was taken away by the black python is a national event, you should hurry back to the palace to tell the emperor!"
"Xiao Wu, let's go home. Fang Zhong suddenly said something weakly, and then helped Xiao Wu to leave.
After this sentence was said, Xiao Wu and the others were a little happy, and the eunuchs immediately panicked, so frightened that the eunuch in charge sat directly on the ground, and the eunuch in charge asked tremblingly: "You are the little prince, what ...... The one who was taken away by the black python was ...... Be...... Too...... Prince?ah...... The prince ...... "said with excitement, and fainted before he came up.
The other eunuchs just hurriedly went to support him, and then they all shouted anxiously: "Gonggong Chen! Gonggong Chen ......"
Meng Xuan saw that Fang Zhong was lying, and wondered in her heart: "He is obviously Fang Chong, why is he pretending to be Long Yi?", but she did not demolish him, but continued to stand aside silently.
With Mengxuan's mana, Fang Zheng's injuries improved, there was no black blood flowing out of his back, and it didn't hurt so much, he stood up and wanted to leave, but when he saw the messy scene, the corpses lying in a pool of blood one by one, and bursts of heart-rending cries made him feel very uncomfortable, his brows were tightened, and his eyes were red. However, he did not bask in grief and wanted to do something more for these victims, so he decided to stay and clean up the mess at the scene.
Fang Zhong pointed to a eunuch and said calmly: "You hurry back to the palace and report to the emperor that the prince was taken away by the black python." ”
"Wow!" the eunuch left immediately after receiving the order.
After several calls from the eunuchs, he finally woke up Gonggong Chen, but as soon as he opened his eyes, he cried: "Prince...... His Royal Highness the Crown Prince...... How am I going to live if you let the minions!"
Fang Zhong immediately said to the other eunuchs, "You hurry up and help Gonggong Chen back to the palace." So Gonggong Chen, supported by the other eunuchs, left crying.
Fang Zhong casually ordered a servant and said, "You hurry back to the house, tell the prince about today's events, and ask the prince to quickly arrange for people to find the prince." ”
"Yes!" the servant took the order and galloped away.
Fang Zhong casually pointed to another servant and said, "You go and inform the government, come and clean up the scene." ”
"Yes!" the servant received the order and quickly left.
Fang Chong led the other servants to inspect the scene, and Meng Xuan had been silently following Fang Chong's side, following him to inspect the scene, and like him, he checked whether the corpses still had the breath of life.
They comfort the bereaved and tie up the wounds of the wounded. Meng Xuan secretly fed pills to the seriously injured people.
Yechen and Rushuang, who were playing in the street, also heard the crowd shouting, "The monster is coming! The monster is coming...... Run, run......."
Rushuang said to Yechen with some worry: "Yechen, these people are frantically shouting that there are monsters coming, I'm a little scared, let's go find the master, I feel like something is wrong." ”
Yechen saw that people were running frantically for their lives, and Rushuang was so scared, so he put away his playfulness, agreed to go to Mengxuan, and replied: "Okay, let's go to the competition field to find the master first." ”
Mu Feng and Bi Qian searched in the palace for a long time without clues, and suddenly heard the palace maids and eunuchs in the palace whispering: "A huge black python appeared on the playing field, killed many people, and kidnapped the prince......"
"Yes, the prince has been taken captive, and now something is wrong......"
Mu Feng and Bi Qian were immediately startled after hearing this, and said nervously at the same time: "It's not good, something happened." Then he quickly left the palace.
After Mu Feng and Bi Qian left the palace, they looked at the "Seven Spirit Beast Map", and then followed the guidance on the map, and hurried to the competition venue where Meng Xuan was, and happened to see Yechen and Rushuang looking for Meng Xuan on the street.
Bi Qian stepped forward to greet her and said, "Aren't you two with your master?"
"There were so many people on the street, and we got separated as soon as we got out of the palace. Yechen replied.
Yechen and Rushuang were relieved when they saw Mu Feng and Bi Qian, and Rushuang said anxiously: "I heard that a monster appeared, we were about to go to find Master, and we didn't know where to find it, but fortunately I met you." ”
"It should be the python demon who is doing the trick, the prince has been taken captive, we have to hurry over to see the situation. Mu Feng said as he hurried away.
Finally, Mu Feng and the others rushed to the competition venue, and saw the exhausted Meng Xuan sitting on a chair resting, and they hurriedly ran over.
"Master, what's going on?" Yechen asked curiously.
"A lot of people on the street were shouting that there were monsters, what the hell is going on?" Rushuang said.
Mu Feng also asked anxiously: "What happened? I heard that the prince was taken away by a huge black python? Is it that the two python demons Chihei and Jiaoxia are doing trouble?"
Meng Xuan said very sadly: "I was also a step late, and when I arrived, the black python had already taken ...... I don't know what happened at the time, but I guess it should be the python demon. ”
"It must be a python demon!" Bi Qian said angrily, "I just don't know what they are doing with Fang Chong, what is the purpose?"
"I don't know. Meng Xuan seemed very tired, and replied uncertainly.
"So what should we do next?" asked Bi Qian worriedly.
Mu Feng thought for a while and said: "The python demon must have some purpose in kidnapping Fang Chong, they should not hurt him for the time being, and may continue to come back to find Long Yi, I think we should protect Long Yi first, and then find a way to find Fang Chong." ”
"Hmm. Bi Qian nodded.
Meng Xuan said tiredly: "That's all there is to it at the moment. ”
"Little Wangye, the scene is almost done, and the sky is over, let's go home!"
"Little Wangye, you didn't heal your injuries, and you didn't bandage your wounds, Xiao Wu looked distressed. ”
"And you haven't eaten all day! Xiao Wu persuaded hard, "The prince has sent people to urge him a few times, you can go back to the house, if you don't go back, the prince will come to pick you up in person." ”
Fang Zhong looked around and saw that the scene had been almost cleaned up, the wounded had been treated, and the people from the government had almost transferred the wounded, so he replied, "Okay! ”
"Okay, the sedan chair is ready, over there. Xiao Wu happily responded.
Fang looked at Xiao Wu again, thinking that Long Yi never took a sedan chair when he traveled on weekdays, and he rode a horse wherever he went, so he said: "I never sit in a sedan chair, and you don't know." Then he hurriedly asked, "Where is my horse?"
Xiao Wu grimaced his face bitterly and said embarrassedly: "Little Prince, Xiao Wu knows that you love horseback riding, but the prince knows that you are injured, and if you have to go back in a sedan chair, Xiao Wu has no choice." Xiao Wu continued to plead, "Little Wangye, Xiao Wu beg, you can sit in a sedan chair! If the prince knows that Xiao Wu has not taken care of you, he must beat Xiao Wu's board." ”
Hearing Xiao Wu talking, Fang Zhong missed Long Yi very much, his mind was full of practicing martial arts with Long Yi, talking and laughing together, and suddenly wanted to go to the market they often visited, so he said to Xiao Wu: "Forget it, I still want to go around, you go back first." ”
"Hey...... Xiao Wang Ye ......" Xiao Wu hurriedly followed behind Fang Chong, "Little Wang Ye, you are injured, or take a sedan chair back to heal your injuries, okay?" Xiao Wu wanted to persuade Fang Chong to take a sedan chair back to his house.
"You don't need to say it, don't follow me, go back first, and tell the prince and Princess Min that everything is okay with me. Fang Zhong said coldly.
Xiao Wu is used to the stubborn temperament of the little prince, he has always been the same, so he didn't dare to persuade again, so he said helplessly: "Okay, little prince, you have to go back early." ”
Fang Zhong walked on the street with a heavy heart, before it was dark, the street was deserted, there were not a few people in sight, there was no noise this morning, there was no prosperity in the past, and even the usual rainy days were more lively than today. The small vendors on the roadside also closed their stalls early, and the shops along the street were all closed, sparsely sparse with a few panicked pedestrians, and the ground was littered with things that people fled in a panic, all of which had been trampled on dirty and rotten, including turbans, shoes, sugar gourds, and oranges...... This was the most deserted bazaar Fang Chong had ever seen.
Fang Zhong walked and looked left and right, while thinking back to the scene of walking in this market with Long Yi in the past, and compared with the deserted market now, his mood was even heavier.
Mengxuan and everyone also followed him with a heavy heart, and even Yechen, who loved to talk the most, quietly hid in Mengxuan's sleeve with Rushuang in a daze.
Soon arrived at the palace, Fang Chong had just gone up the steps, and Mengxuan, who was following behind, was also about to go in, but they were stopped by the guards, and a few guards standing in front of the door raised their swords to block them, not allowing them to move forward, and asked solemnly: "Who are you?"
Fang Chong noticed that there was someone behind him, and when he looked back, he saw Meng Xuan looking at him affectionately, his melancholy eyes, and his prosperous face, which suddenly made Fang Chong's heart feel a strange feeling. Although they have never met, there is an indescribable sense of familiarity, an urge to get close to her and protect her, and an indescribable sadness, as if they have a sad story with her......
Fang Zhong hurriedly said to the guards, "Put down the sword first." Then he walked towards Mengxuan.
The guards listened to Fang Zhong's order, neatly withdrew their swords and inserted them into their scabbards.
Fang Zhong looked at Meng Xuan and the others again, and felt that their aura was extraordinary, and their whole bodies exuded the aura of immortals, so he said, "Who are you looking for, what's the matter?"
As soon as Bi Qian was about to reply, Meng Xuan approached Fang Chong's ear and said softly: "Fang Chong, I know you are not Long Yi." ”
Fang Chong looked at Meng Xuan in surprise, and from Meng Xuan's affectionate and tearful eyes, Fang Zhong seemed to hear her say, "My love, don't you remember me?"
Although Fang Zhong was puzzled by Meng Xuan's abnormal behavior, he felt that Meng Xuan was friendly, so he said to the doorman: "They are my friends, let them in." As he spoke, he brought Meng Xuan and the others into the palace.