A group of people were walking through the mountains and forests, and most of them were young men with sharp skills and sturdy.

Yan Qingge looked a little out of place in this group of men with steady steps.

Because she was too obese before she was reborn, she was obsessed with her figure in this life, and she always controlled the amount of food when eating, deliberately not letting herself eat too much. After following everyone to walk a little faster in the mountains and forests, Yan Qingge was vaguely unable to support it.

She couldn't help but secretly regret that she hadn't eaten more food in the morning, and was even a little jealous of Yuan Qianqian, who was tied to the horse after being knocked unconscious.

The padded jacket and skirt on her back were soaked with sweat, and she gritted her teeth desperately to keep herself from making an indecent panting sound.

Yan Xiuyu noticed Yan Qingge's staggering steps, time was of the essence, and it was impossible to stop and wait for Yan Qingge. He immediately said, "Qingge, you also sit down and go right away." ”

"Good!" She really couldn't walk, but there was a fire at the bottom of the mountain, and she had little chance of surviving when she broke away from the main army.

Fortunately, Yan Qingge and Yuan Qianqian are not fat people, and the horse's footsteps have not slowed down. After walking for about a quarter of an hour, the guard who was exploring the way ahead came with a panicked face: "Many hound corpses have been found in front. ”

In addition to him and the crown prince, there were also a few scattered children of other nobles who came to hunt in the mountains today, all with guards and hounds.

Yan Xiuyu followed the guard over, and saw that there was a big deep pit not far in front of him, in which more than a dozen dog corpses were thrown, all of them died miserably, and there were even many of them whose heads were separated.

Yan Xiuyu glanced at it twice, shook his head and said, "It's not the prince's dog." I've seen his dogs in the morning. ”

Since it is not the prince's hound, it proves that there is another group of people on this mountain who are also in danger.

Today, this matter is no longer so simple.

The woods were on fire, and it was hard to extinguish them, but the spread was not too fast, and everyone still had some time to plan.

Yan Xiuyu gritted his teeth, climbed to the top of the tree, and looked down, only to see that the fire had burned to two-thirds of the mountain, and I was afraid that in less than half an hour, it would be time to burn to where they were.

Yan Xiuyu gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go to the top of the mountain." ”

He had been here several times, and knew that the hill was near the top of the cliff, and because of the rocks and few trees, it was probably the only place where he could escape the fire.

At the foot of the mountain, a fire broke out inexplicably in the mountains and forests, causing a huge tremor.

In the emperor's golden tent, there were people kneeling on the ground, most of whom grabbed the ground with their heads, not daring to look at the angry Son of Heaven.

Prince Zhao was about fifty years old, much older than the emperor who was forty years old, and he was crying with a handful of snot and tears: "Your Majesty, my poor daughter is still on the mountain and has not come down!" ”

As Prince Zhao cried, several men in the house dressed in official clothes couldn't stop their eyes from reddening, because their children had also gone up the mountain today, and there was no news yet.

It's just that they don't have a close relationship like Prince Zhao and the emperor, so even if they have great sadness, they don't dare to say it, so they can only hold it in their hearts.

For a while, there was no sound in the tent except for Prince Zhao's crying.

The silence was suffocating.

Beside the emperor, the crown prince sat quietly, his dark riding uniform had not yet been changed, and his clothes were stained with some light and fluttering dark black dust, and if you looked closely, you could see that it was the charcoal embers that fell on it.

A man with gray hair and sagging eyelids came out of the crowd and said, "If the old minister is not mistaken, the prince should have gone to the mountains to hunt today, or let the prince tell me what happened on the mountain." ”

"King Jing, what are these words, are you saying that this fire was put by the prince?" Prince Zhao turned around and angrily scolded the man who spoke.

"That's not what the old minister said, what is Prince Zhao excited about?" King Jing, who drooped his eyelids, pursed his catfish-like mouth and stroked his beard.

"Silence!" The most helpless thing for the emperor is the two people in front of him. One of them is his only elder brother, Prince Zhao, and the other is Prince Jing, the younger brother of the Queen Mother, and the daughter of Prince Jing is Concubine Hou, who gave birth to two healthy princes, and her face is a little bigger than that of other relatives.

These two people often go toe-to-toe, and it's not right for him to punish either.

He turned his head, looked at the crown prince, and asked, "Xun'er, tell me what is going on on the mountain today." ”

Yuan Xun received the emperor's order, and then he spoke, with a slight pain in his voice: "Before the start of this year's spring hunting, Yan Xiaowang asked Gu to compete with Gu to hunt, and Gu should come down." Not long after going up the mountain, Lone met two cousins of the Yuan family. With a female dependent, Lone really can't show his hands and feet, so he can only hunt near the foot of the mountain. It didn't take long for Lone's guards to discover the fire, and Lone took his cousin down the mountain, leaving a dozen guards behind and telling them to go up the mountain to inform the rest of the children of the families who were also hunting. ”

The patriarch replied fluently, and there were no loopholes in his words.

King Jing Hou Ce widened a pair of dizzy old eyes and said, "Prince, since you said that you took your cousin down the mountain, then Prince Zhao's daughter should be fine, why is he still crying here?" ”

"Well." The crown prince looked at Prince Zhao in embarrassment, shook his head and sighed: "The two cousins had a quarrel, one of them took the first step, and it was only one of the cousins who took the mountain alone. After seeing his uncle, Gu learned that the cousin who left first was still on the mountain. ”

"Oh? Why the two young ladies are arguing? Although there are only a few children trapped in the mountain this time, they are all children of serious families, and there is also Yan Xiaowang in it, whose life is at stake, and I ask the prince not to hide it, and tell it in detail. ”

Prince Zhao's face was very displeased, his two daughters did everything to marry the prince, and the whole capital knew that the old fox of Prince Jing knew this, and he wanted to let the prince tell the details here, and he really slapped him in the face in front of all the ministers.

Before Prince Jing's words fell, Prince Zhao stood up and pounced on Prince Jing, and said angrily: "You old thing, you have to listen to the words of two girls arguing, obscene!" Zhang fangs and claws grabbed King Jing's collar.

Hou Ceren was not old, unwilling to give the wind, and also grabbed Prince Zhao's collar. The two scuffled like two angry quails.

This kind of deceit in front of the king, only the two of them can make it.

The emperor gave them a headache and said angrily: "Pull the two Aiqing away!" ”

These two people saw that the emperor was angry, and they didn't wait for the guards to come over, they stared at me and I glared at you, and let go of each other.

At this time, a guard walked in, knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "Your Majesty, the people in the Lingzhu Mansion sent someone to report the news, and the eldest lady of the Yan family also did not come down on the mountain." ”

"Which Yan family is it?" Many people in the tent are secretly wondering in their hearts, there is no Yan family in the court who can be said to have a name, where did this Miss Yan family pop up.

But the prince's eyes darkened suddenly.

In this battle, only he knew who this eldest lady of the Yan family was.

Even the emperor was only reminded of who the eldest lady of the Yan family belonged to under the whispered prompts of the attendants beside him.

He knew who the eldest lady of the Yan family was, so he naturally looked at the prince lightly. This time, the eldest lady of the Yan family was invited to participate in the spring hunt, but I am afraid that it was the handiwork of his son. He didn't plan to take care of this kind of trivial matter, but who knew that this Miss Yan family's life was so bad, trapped in the burning mountain forest.

This incident was just a small episode, and it was soon forgotten by everyone, except for the prince who seemed to sit there quietly, already panicked and shocked to the extreme.

Almost instantly, he figured out why Yan Qingge was also on the mountain.

According to the information he had, Yan Qingge is the niece of Yan Xiaowangye's mentor, and the two have known each other since they were children, and they have an excellent relationship. Yan Qingge is not the kind of lively girl who likes to ride and hunt, this time she went up the mountain, and she was taken by Yan Xiaowangye.

Could it be that his life is really that bad? I have to repeat the mistakes of my ancestors, and I can't stay with the people I like.

The prince is not obvious on the surface, but the anger in his heart is rising higher and higher!

This time, don't say that Yan Qingge has three long and two short, even if he burns out a single hair, he will not spare those people.

His gaze faintly crossed over everyone and fell on the body of Prince Jing Hou Ce.

There was a lot of noise in the tent for a long time, and from time to time people came to report the situation of the forest fires on the mountain. There are hundreds of guards who go to fight the fire, but once the forest fire spreads, wanting to extinguish it is tantamount to a fantasy, and the role that these guards can play is more just psychological comfort.

At this time, Yan Qingge and Yan Xiuyu had already come to the top of the mountain, and behind them was an unfathomable knife-like cliff.

Yan Xiuyu looked at the surrounding environment, and couldn't help but be very desperate in his heart.

He had been to the top of the mountain a few times before, and he had the impression that the trees were very sparse, but when he saw it again, he realized that this was not the case. These trees are only relatively sparse, and one of the five steps must be one, and the canopy is so great that there is still nowhere to hide from the fire.

The mountain wind rushed up from under the cliff, and the faces of the people who blew hurt it. Occasionally kicking down a pebble or two, I can't even hear the echo of the slightest touch. Yan Xiuyu walked around the edge of the cliff, feeling extremely anxious.

In such a desperate situation, Yan Qingge slowly stabilized his mind.

She walked up to one of the guards and whispered, "This big brother, your sword looks like a broadsword, is it sharp enough?" ”

The guard's heart was like a mess, but he still replied politely: "Miss Hui Yan, this sword is my family's heirloom, although it can't be sharpened like clay, but it can be sharp." ”

Yan Qingge walked a few steps, pointed to a tree not far away, and said, "How long will it take to cut down this tree with your sword?" ”

The guard was stunned for a moment, looked at a tree more than a dozen steps away that Yan Qingge pointed to, and said, "About half a cup of tea." ”

This tree is the thickest and tallest one in the vicinity, it is the thickness of one person and hug, and the crown is also very large, and the few smaller trees that grow next to it are blocked by it, and they are not half the size of it.

The temperature in the woods had risen a lot compared to before, and Yan Qingge knew that there was no room for delay, and said, "Then there is Brother Lao, please hurry up and cut down the tree." ”

Yan Xiuyu saw what Yan Qingge wanted to do, shook his head and said, "Qingge, it's useless." The fire burned so fast that it would not work to cut down just one tree. ”

Yan Qingge said: "Of course you can't cut one. But we have more than one sword. As long as you cut out a clearing, you will have a way to live. ”

"It's not that easy." Yan Xiuyu's face was grim, but he still ordered the guards: "Take out all your swords and listen to Miss Yan's orders to cut down trees." ”