Chapter 14: Tribulation
The sky had come to an end, and a few wolf howls could be heard faintly in the forest. Xiao Siyu's body shook violently, and her breathing became a little short. Although he is the pride of the sky, he is not afraid of anything. An experience in his childhood cast a shadow on the beast's call.
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The sound outside the cave made him instantly alert, and while his black eyes were staring at the entrance of the cave, he had already clenched the dagger, and his nervous knuckles turned white. As soon as the black shadow cat came in, the dagger in his hand flew over.
With a ding, the dagger was inserted into the stone bi, three fingers away from Jiang Xi's face. She looked at the cold light and the blade of the knife, and her hairs stood on end in fright.
If she hadn't fallen in the air, the dagger would have been stuck in her head.
"Your Highness."
Jiang Xi called cautiously, lest he fly over with some hidden weapon.
Xiao Siyu was a little surprised by her appearance, but she returned to the same state in a few seconds, but there was no tension on her body, and she leaned on the stone bi and asked, "Why did you go for so long?" β
"Hey, hey."
She didn't answer directly, and smiled and dragged a long piece of something over. When he got closer, Xiao Siyu saw that it was a raft made of hemp grass and rattan from tree trunks. Jiang Xi had a treasure on his face, and said: "This is a raft specially made by the slave for His Highness, there are too many beasts in the forest in the middle of the night, and your injuries can't be delayed, with it, the slave can take His Highness out of here." β
He couldn't help but pursed his lips, but his tone was as mocking as ever: "What kind of ugly thing, just to make it, to hang the master in the cave for so long?" β
"Of course not!"
Jiang Xi guessed that he would find fault, and hurriedly took out a handful of wild fruits hidden in his arms and handed them to Xiao Siyu, "The slave is worried that you will be hungry, so I specially picked the fruit." β
She squatted down and approached the wild fruit in her palm, and Xiao Siyu found that her mouth and chin were bruised and swollen, and there was blood flowing from her lips when she spoke.
He said, "You're bleeding. β
Jiang Xi wiped the blood on the side of his mouth with his sleeve, swallowed his fishy saliva, and said with a smile: "Those bandits are too difficult, the minions ran for a long time to get rid of people, and knocked out a tooth." β
"Does it hurt?"
He took a bite of the fruit and asked casually. Jiang Xi was stunned for a while, then rolled his eyes and took the opportunity to pat himself: "It is an honor for a slave to go to the soup for His Highness, besides, when I see His Highness's servant, I don't feel pain at all." β
She thought that as long as she coaxed him to her satisfaction, she would be fine. In fact, it had nothing to do with the gang of thieves who lost her teeth, but she was greedy for her own food, and she climbed too high to pick wild fruits and fell down.
Xiao Siyu laughed, took the initiative to sit on the ugly raft, threw two wild fruits to Jiang Xi, and said, "Little minion, you take me out of here and go back to the East Palace to get a reward." β
Her eyes lit up: "Big ingots? β
"Not only ingots, but also silk and satin, beads and jade."
"Your Highness is wise!"
In an instant, she had the same fighting spirit as if she had taken a strong pill, and after eating the wild fruit, she grabbed the raft pole and dragged it out of the cave. Jiang Xi took his younger brother to Jingyang back then, and once walked more than ten miles on his younger brother's back alone when his physical strength was exhausted. He is used to doing farm work in the village, and his brute strength is quite strong.
But Rao is like this, Xiao Siyu, who dragged her height and weight, walked in the rugged forest for half an hour, not only did she use up her strength, but the palms of her two hands were also blistered by the raft of rough wood and vine.
It hurts, it hurts.
To make matters worse, she stopped to rest and found a pair of green eyes staring at them in the depths of the dark forest.