The carriage walked for a few more days one after another, and I don't know when it began, the mandarin duck gradually felt that his breathing seemed to be becoming more and more unsmooth, and the air along the way became thinner and thinner for some reason, his chest was so stuffy that he couldn't breathe, and his head was a little heavy, even if he took a big breath hard, it was useless, and it couldn't be relieved at all.

"Master, why do I feel more and more uncomfortable?"

The mandarin duck's face was frighteningly pale, and the original pink lips were now so pale that there was almost no blood, and there was a fine cold sweat on his forehead, which was extremely tormenting every moment. And Chu Huai, who was sitting opposite her, was still looking out of the window calmly as always, and didn't seem to feel any discomfort.

"Probably because I'm in the swamp."

"Swamp?" Just after saying a few words, the mandarin duck was already panting.

"If you're uncomfortable, don't talk much."

"......" The mandarin duck closed his mouth obediently, frowned tightly, lowered his head, and didn't know what he was thinking.

Chu Huai kept sweeping towards the mandarin duck with his afterglow, but he finally couldn't stand it, sighed softly, and pulled the curtain down.

"Here's for you." He took out a small medicine bottle from his arms and handed it to the mandarin duck.

"What is this?"

Chu Huai met the mandarin duck's puzzled eyes, he didn't make much introduction, just opened the cap of the small medicine bottle, pulled the mandarin duck's hand, and poured the pills in the medicine bottle into her palm: "Eating it can make you less uncomfortable." ”

"Thank you, Master." After listening to Chu Huai's words, the mandarin duck swallowed the black pill in his hand without hesitation.

After a few moments, she could clearly feel that the feeling of imminent suffocation had dissipated considerably, and the air she had inhaled into her nose was no longer as stuffy.

It's really not that uncomfortable.

"Master, you're too powerful, aren't you?"

"What's so great about this, anyone who studies medicine knows this medicine."

"It's not like that, Master, it seems to me that you really know a lot of things that I have never heard of, and you have taught me a lot, you are really a very powerful person." Mandarin Duck said it very sincerely.

"I don't understand what you're talking about." Chu Huai pulled the curtain again, turned his head and continued to look out of the car, but the corners of his mouth curved an almost imperceptible arc.

"Master, how long will it be before we get to the Western Regions?" The mandarin duck felt a little bored, and he didn't have anything to do in the carriage, so he could only sit in a daze, praying that he could reach the Western Regions soon.

I should have brought a few books out of that room to pass the time.

"Maybe it's over the swamp." Chu Huai looked at the swamp that was still bubbling with mud bubbles outside the window, and replied nonchalantly.

"Really?"

The next thing she answered was the silence around her.

For some reason, Mandarin Duck always felt that today's Chu Huai seemed a little strange, he looked indifferent to everything, and he didn't know what attracted him to the window he was looking at, or what was thinking about these things.

Looking left and right, the mandarin duck estimated that Chu Huai should continue to look like this for a whole day, so he stopped talking to him, followed his example, and looked out the window.

......

"Your Majesty, you can be regarded as back, the county magistrate has been looking for you for a long time." Xia Yuan had just stepped into the mansion when the little eunuch hurriedly walked towards him, and his tone sounded very anxious, "Where have you been?" ”

"I just went to see an old friend, what's going on, so panicked?"

"This ...... This slave can't say it clearly, so you might as well listen to the county magistrate tell you personally. ”

The little eunuch didn't take Xia Yuan much way inside, and then he saw the county commander stumbling towards this side, knelt straight in front of Xia Yuan, and said with a handful of snot and tears: "Your Majesty, you can save the little one, the little one doesn't want to die yet!" ”

Xia Yuan was curious: "Oh? What do you mean by that? ”

"Your Majesty, just last night, a cold arrow passed through the closed window, shot into the small bedroom, and was firmly nailed into the pillar of the house, and there was a note on this arrow, and the little one took a lot of effort to pull the arrow off the pillar." The county commander trembled and took out a crumpled piece from his sleeve, and handed it to Xia Yuan with both hands, "This is the piece of paper on the arrow." ”

Xia Yuan picked up the note and spread it out, only to see that it was written crookedly:

[Dog officer, come and take your dog's life tomorrow night.] ]

"Do you see who did this?"

"The little ones didn't. Even the guards patrolling the courtyard had never seen any suspicious person near the bedroom. ”

"It's funny, I want to see who dares to bully me." Xia Yuan hooked the corners of his mouth, smiled and tore up the note in his hand, and threw it into the bushes on the side.

"Your Majesty, you must save the little one, the little one doesn't want to die so soon." The county order kept kowtowing on the ground, and blood flowed down his head and on his face, but he didn't care at all, and continued to kowtow to the stone ground, just begging the emperor to save his life.

"Lord County Commander, don't worry, I won't let you have anything to do, I want to meet this thief in person."

"Thank you for the emperor's life-saving grace, thank you for the emperor's life-saving grace."

"You can stay in my mansion first, and when it is night, I will go back to the county mansion with you. Now you step aside, I still have some important business to attend to. ”

After speaking, Xia Yuan bypassed the body of the county order and walked in the direction of the study.

The little eunuch ran a few steps quickly and left behind Xia Yuan.

"Long live my emperor." The county order turned to the direction where Xia Yuan left, and finally kowtowed, before getting up and walking to the guest room that had been arranged for him.

In the study, Qin Han was already waiting inside, and after hearing Xia Yuan's voice, he hurriedly greeted him and saluted Xia Yuan.

"How?" Xia Yuan sat down at the desk and looked at Qin Han who was standing beside him.

"It seems that this theft was also committed by pirates."

"Pirates again? They're too arrogant, aren't they? Could it be that he wants to become a country of his own and proclaim himself king? ”

"But these pirates don't seem to be the same as the first ones."

"What's different about pirates?"

"I've heard them say that there are many different factions among their pirates, and before that, there seemed to be constant friction between their different pirates, and they would fight every now and then."

Xia Yuan chuckled: "Then just let them kill each other." ”

"It's just that this phenomenon has diminished a lot lately." Qin Han paused before continuing, "By the way, Your Majesty, I also overheard several pirates from different factions gathering together today to establish their common goal, saying that they want to get rid of you and divide up the entire Xia Dynasty. ”

"Hahaha, this little pirate is really loud, since this is the case, then let my Xia Dynasty reluctantly destroy them."

Xia Yuan smiled and narrowed his eyes, and played with the brush in his hand for a while, looking confident.

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