After a moment of shock, Ling Ran calmly closed his eyes.

However, she did not feel the pain she had imagined......

She opened her eyes again, and saw that there were arrows in the air.

As soon as she looked down, she found that there were two arrows lying at her right foot, the tip of one was coated with an unknown liquid, and the other was quite exquisite, and there were even a few small words carved on the arrows.

Only then did she think of the little girl who was being wrapped around her arms, only to see that the girl was still in horror and buried her head in Ling Ran's arms and sobbed quietly, the placket in front of her abdomen had been wet by her crying, she was busy stroking the child's hair and said:

"Don't be afraid, Xiaolin, my sister is here, you see that the rescue ships are coming, Xiaolin will be safe...... Wait for the boat, go back to a safe place, and my sister will ask someone to help you find your mother......"

But the little girl did not answer her, but cried even louder.

——————

Seven small boats are getting closer and closer to the boat.

Chu Yijun was standing straight on the bow of the ship at the front at this time, his long clothes fluttering in the wind, and his face was outlined like a knife by the setting sun, but his hand holding the bow and crossbow was trembling slightly, and his palms were sweating.

But then he quickly drew an arrow from the quiver at his feet, aimed it at the abdomen of the brown-clothed man on the top floor of the painting boat, and pulled the bow sharply.

The brown-clothed man on the top floor saw that the arrow he shot at Ling Ran was shot down by another arrow, so he immediately looked at the archer, and was about to put a bow and arrow at that person, but when he saw that person's face, he couldn't help but widen his eyes, and immediately stopped what he was doing,—— how dare he shoot an arrow at him!? I don't dare to borrow 10,000 guts from him!

Immediately, the man in brown noticed that the man had shot an arrow at him, so he quickly squatted down with his head in his hands, and the arrow plunged deep into the ground half a meter behind him.

Then another flurry of arrows flew, and he clinged to the railing on the top floor of the boat, crawling towards the staircase.

However, just when he thought he could get out of the way, the whole boat suddenly slammed!

Then he heard countless footsteps in the stairwell rushing towards the top floor, he turned and ran towards the railing, and just as he wanted to jump into the lake to escape, he heard a loud shout from behind him:

"Raise your hands, this king will spare your life."

His body was stunned for a moment, and he slowly turned his head, and when he met Chu Yijun's eyes, both of them were stunned.

The man in brown looked at the bow and arrow in his hand that had not yet been put down, and suddenly his legs weakened, his knees bent, he knelt down, kowtowed, and repeated:

"Prince Qiu Xuan saw that General Xiao had spared the lives of the grass people! Prince Qiu Xuan spared the lives of the grass people in the face of General Xiao! ”

Chu Yijun snorted coldly:

"It's really a shame for the general! As a killer, that's your backbone? ”

The man in white shook his whole body and lowered his head.

"Say, Who commanded you?" Chu Yijun took a step towards him, and the two guards behind him hurriedly stepped forward to clasp the brown-clothed man with his backhand and press his shoulder.

“…… A woman. The man in brown was silent for a long time before speaking.

Chu Yijun nodded:

"That's it?"

Hearing this, the brown-clothed man glanced up at Chu Yijun, and immediately lowered his head:

"One...... The woman in the prince's mansion. But the grass people have forgotten her full name, please punish the prince. ”

"Escort him home."

"Yes!"

——————

The killer should have fled, the captured were caught, the deck was full of pools of blood and the corpses of men with arrows, and a bloody smell permeated the painting boat.

The turmoil had subsided, but the rest of the survivors on board were still in a panic, still scrambling to board the boats and escape from the once glorious boat.

In a short time, the seven boats were filled with six, and at this time there were only a few people left on the boat.

Among them, there is Ling Ran.

I saw that Ling Ran was trying to persuade the little girl to board the boat, but the girl never said a word, stubbornly kneeling beside her father's body, holding her father's hand, which had lost its temperature, and wiping her tears vigorously.

Her father was killed by random arrows, and her mother was thrown out of the boat and fell to her death in the lake, and she lost both her parents in this brief chaos.

Ling Ran looked at the little girl distressedly, squatted down and took her into his arms, the girl did not refuse, she stroked the girl's hair.

Ten meters away from them, Chu Yijun leaned on the railing, crossed his arms and watched this scene with interest.

Seeing that Ling Ran whispered something again, the girl suddenly stopped crying and asked, "Really?!" He obediently followed Ling Ran onto the boat.

At this time, Chu Yijun's personal guard Ye Xun walked over and reported to him:

"Lord Wang, the entire painting boat has been cleared, and it's time to go."

Chu Yijun let out a soft "um" and walked towards Ling Ran's small boat.

Ling Ran was amusing the girl happily, but when she raised her eyes, she suddenly met a gaze, and her smile couldn't help but stiffen slightly, but she still reacted quickly and made a vacant seat for the prince:

"The prince is here?"

Chu Yijun looked at her suddenly stiff look, a handsome face instantly pulled down, and said a cold "um", but instead of sitting on the seat that Ling Ran had specially vacated for him, he went straight to a position opposite Ling Ran and sat down.

As soon as the rest of the people on the boat heard the word "prince", combined with the previous scene where Chu Yijun walked in the last clearance, they suddenly understood, and couldn't help but show admiration and gratitude to Chu Yijun:

"Thank you for coming to rescue our cloth people today!"

"Yes, thank you for saving your life!"

“……”

Chu Yijun's face softened a lot, but those black eyes always glanced at Ling Ran.

Seeing that everyone was so grateful to him, but except for this woman,—— this woman whom he saved with his own arrows, but at this moment he pursed his lips and did not say a word, and he didn't even look at him from the time he sat down, his heart was on fire.

The ship finally came to shore.

Chu Yijun, who was sitting on the very edge, immediately got up, helped another guard fix the anchor, and then pulled out a long board from under the seat and put it on the bow of the boat.

Then, he stepped onto the board with one foot and stretched out his hand towards Ling Ran.

Ling Ran was slightly stunned when he saw this, and smiled gratefully at Chu Yijun, but he hugged the little girl behind him on the board first, and Chu Yijun answered on the other end.

When the girl went ashore, Chu Yijun's hand reached out again, Ling Ran held his big hand tightly, boarded the bow of the boat hard, and then let go of his hand and jumped onto the shore, then took the girl's hand and stood quietly on the shore.

She silently looked at this man who had "done all kinds of evil" to her in the past, and at this moment he was putting down the prince's shelf, smiling kindly, and helping the people to the shore one by one, with some indescribable mixed tastes in her heart.

After a while, when all the people on the boat had come down to the shore, Chu Yijun walked out of the boat, but as if he didn't see Ling Ran, he walked straight to his jet-black steed and turned over on the horse.

Ling Ran took the little girl's hand and walked towards Chu Yijun:

"Lord Wang?"

When Chu Yijun heard this, he turned his horse around and looked at Ling Ran condescendingly, but his face did not have the smile that he had just helped the people get off the boat.