Zhu Wanqing and her entourage soon embarked on the way back. Due to the rush of time, they did not have time to prepare enough food. But the old smoke pot said that they would not starve to death inside, because it was not difficult for him to beg for food in the old woods.

What worries Lao Yanguo the most is not the problem of eating, but the ability of Jin Da. Last time, Xiaohu killed more than 20 of his subordinates, this time he will definitely be prepared, or invite a master, or play a trick, in short, the way back is more difficult than when he came.

In order to avoid Jin Da Neng, the old smoke pot took the three of them on a long detour.

The old forest in the warm spring is now full of all kinds of rare flowers, and all kinds of mushrooms are also emerging from the dead wood after the rain. There are a few to a dozen eggs lying in the nests that can be seen everywhere. No wonder the old smoke pot dared to go into the forest without dry food, it seems that it is really difficult for ordinary people to starve to death here.

Zhu Wanqing and Ling'er were worried about Wang Qi, and they didn't talk much along the way.

Zhang Xiaohu and Lao Yanguo have been looking around vigilantly, and they will sound the alarm whenever there is any other movement.

After walking for three days, they had come to the place where they had encountered a flash flood when they came.

If you go on like this, you'll be out of the woods in another night.

At this time, the old smoke pot estimated that Jin Da Neng's gang would not be able to follow, so he relaxed his vigilance slightly.

He and Xiaohu went to the tree to dig out birds' eggs, leaving Zhu Wanqing and Ling'er to rest at the foot of a mountain.

Zhang Xiaohu's ability to climb trees is a must, and he will go up like a monkey in three or two steps, and he did this when he was a child in Zhongnan Mountain.

"You kid take it easy, take two out of each nest, don't dig it out." Although the old smoke pot does not know that there is a word for environmental protection, the ancestors who have been begging for food from the old forest for generations have passed on this awe of nature.

Xiaohu answered, carefully put the bird's egg into his arms, and just as he was about to go down, he vaguely found a few black shadows not far away, and after a while, they jumped into the bushes.

He quickly climbed higher to see more clearly, but the leaves in the old forest were too dense in the spring to make his vision difficult.

"What's wrong?" The old smoker seemed to sense his abnormality.

Zhang Xiaohu slipped down and said to him: "I seem to have seen a few shadows just now, and I don't know if it's a human or an animal." ”

The old smoker looked in that direction, sighed, and said, "Be careful." ”

Back at the foot of the mountain, in view of the special situation that Zhang Xiaohu discovered just now, they didn't dare to make a fire, and the old smoke pot was stunned and let everyone swallow the bird's eggs alive.

Zhang Xiaohu is nothing, it's not that he hasn't eaten like this before, and he still thinks it's enjoyable.

Zhu Wanqing and Ling'er couldn't accept it, first, they were afraid of being fishy, and second, they couldn't get over it psychologically, it was too barbaric.

The old smoke pot was out of order, and in order to prevent the two girls from going hungry, they could only chew the last of the dried meat used for emergencies.

And it came to pass, as night approached, that they all slept. The old smoke pot and Zhang Xiaohu took turns on duty, after all, if there was no fire, the beast would follow the human taste.

After the old smoke pot is worth the first half of the night, let the little tiger be on duty in the second half of the night. Zhang Xiaohu stared at Ling'er from time to time, and he fell into a trance.

He is constantly thinking about how to change himself these days to make Ling'er really like him.

He even felt that Ling'er was better to the little eunuch Huang Xie than to himself.

The two of them have known each other for almost half a year, and Ling'er has neither sent anything to herself nor accepted anything from him.

Although she made some mistakes at the beginning, but that was all in the past, and she also cut off a finger Mingzhi, so she didn't necessarily hold on to a stain on herself for the rest of her life.

Thinking of this, Zhang Xiaohu sighed silently, he was very envious of Wang Qi, and he didn't know where Wang Qi had such a great charm that could make the women around him fall in love with him at first sight. What's more, he was a crazy man with his tongue cut out before, dirty and smelly. It's unreasonable that she can still do it like this.

But think about it the other way, people are also scholars, and they have been officials in Jinshi. And what about himself? It's just a mountain and no martial artist, and the little Taoism that is read by a real person with three feet is natural, and books like Yin and Yang are not on the table.

Zhang Xiaohu thought that he had guessed the minds of these women, and secretly vowed that he would follow Shen Hao in the future, and strive to be the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and take over his old man's class in the future.

The next morning, they were about to walk out of the old forest.

The old smoke pot is relieved now, Jin Da Nengnai will not appear like last time.

But he was wrong, Jin Da Nengnai really appeared just when they were about to go out.

In the past, in order not to injure people by mistake, the nearby hunters would make obvious symbols next to the trap mechanism to warn passers-by.

This Jin Da was very resistant to virtue, and knew that the old smoke pot would take different ways to avoid his arrest, so he simply blocked him on the way to the exit, and also gave the mark of the nearby trap mechanism.

Zhang Xiaohu was unlucky first, stepped into the trap with one foot, and his leg was caught in the trap of the beast.

The force of this trap was very strong, and it tore the flesh on his leg at once, and the blood continued to gush out, and the injury was very terrifying.

Zhang Xiaohu screamed in pain, and the old smoke pot and Zhu Wanqing stepped forward to appease.

"Kid, don't scream, bite this if it hurts." As he spoke, the old smoker shoved a strip of cloth into his mouth.

It is estimated that the bones are also broken, Zhang Xiaohu is in severe pain, and he is struggling on the ground like crazy, and the old smoke pot and Zhu Wanqing can't hold him down.

Ling'er was frightened when she saw Xiaohu's tragic situation, she didn't know what to do, but when she thought that Xiaohu would rather risk drowning in order to save herself, she couldn't watch it at this time.

Thinking of this, Ling'er hurriedly went up and hugged Xiaohu and comforted him softly.

Zhang Xiaohu saw that it was Ling'er, and finally calmed down.

The old smoke pot instructed Zhu Wanqing to prepare bandages to stop bleeding and fixed branches.

"I'll break the clamp in a while, and you'll immediately bandage him to stop the bleeding, do you understand?" The old smoke pot and Zhu Wanqing made eye contact, indicating that they were ready.

After counting down to three, the old casserole violently broke open the clamp, and the barbs on the clamp were still connected to the broken bones and pieces of meat on the little tiger's legs.

Xiaohu fainted in pain all of a sudden.

Zhu Wanqing helped him bandage his wound and fix his foot with a branch, and then several people carried him onto the sleigh.

"You must pay attention to your feet, the organ marks around here have been erased, and they must have been done by Jin Da Neng's gang." As soon as the old smoke pot finished instructing, the powerful people behind him caught up.

"Stop, don't let them out of the woods!" Jin Da Nengnai has been hiding in the shadows, and seeing that Zhang Xiaohu, who can fight the most, is disabled, they set out collectively to capture Zhu Wanqing and others alive.

"Let's go!" The old smoke pot pulled up the sled and ran, Ling'er was unwilling to give up Xiaohu, and also dragged a tow rope to pull with the old smoke pot.

Zhu Wanqing ran in front to lead the way, and she could already see the entrance of the forest from here.

But the old smoke pot and Ling'er were really walking too slowly with the sled, and Zhu Wanqing turned around and found that they were about to be overtaken.

"Female shopkeeper, you take your people out of the forest, and I will stop them." The old smoke pot motioned to Zhu Wanqing to take over.

Zhu Wanqing hesitated, she looked at the exit of the forest, and then looked back at the exhausted two.

If you run away like this, you may be able to save your life, and if you go back, you may not be able to live.

"Come on, I'll stop them." The old smoker said as he pulled out his flintlock pistol and began to load ammunition.

Zhu Wanqing gritted her teeth and turned back.

She and Ling'er picked up the rope on their backs, and without taking two steps, she turned around and asked, "I don't know what your real name is?" ”

"Cui Dongguo, Dan County, Liaodong, a member of the dynasty. Princess, you must handle the case of the Hua family well! With that, the old smoke pot raised his gun and aimed it at Jin Da Nengnai and the others, who were less than a hundred paces away.

Zhu Wanqing only glanced back at Lao Cui's back, the dirty sheepskin jacket, the polished gun, everything stayed in that picture.

The three of them finally walked out of the woods.

Boom!

At the same time, the sound of gunfire was heard behind them, startling the surrounding birds.

"Lao Cui, don't worry, I will definitely give justice to the people of Tongling County."

Saying that, Zhu Wanqing shed tears, and it wasn't until the last moment that he knew that the old guy's name was Cui Dongguo, and he was a member of the dynasty. When the case is completed in the coming day, I will definitely build a good tombstone for you, which will engrave your righteousness today.