The flames were blazing, and blood stained the floor of the palace red.

"A few of you go here to search, a few of you go over there, and over there, Your Royal Highness has an order, and no one is allowed to let go!" It was a centurion who shouted.

The team was divided into three groups, each heading to a different palace.

A handsome young soldier flipped through the books on the shelf, looking at the palace furnishings here, it should be a female dependent, maybe a princess or princess or something, but the book pavilion of the dormitory was placed "Qiu He Law", "Da Yu Law", "Records of Clearing Grievances" and the history books of various dynasties, which made people curious about their owners.

"Don't look at it, if you like to sneak a few books back and read them, now search for people first, and you go to the back garden to have a look." An older soldier came over and commanded.

The young soldier put down his book and went to the garden, where there were many low trees and flowers, and there was no place to hide from them...... Except that there is a well.

The young soldier walked up to the well and looked down, facing a pair of eyes in the upper well. It was a girl of eleven or twelve, she was gorgeously dressed, her hair was stained with blood, and most of her face was red, and when she was found by a stranger, she did not scream in panic, but stared at the person in silence.

"How? Do you have someone over there? Not far away, someone shouted at the young soldier.

The young soldier turned around and said calmly, "No." ”

……

Mu Changan opened his eyes and looked at the gauze tent above his head, and after a few breaths, his mind gradually cleared.

Xu has been looking for Princess Yuxin for the past few days, thinking about it day by day, and only at night will he dream of the scene when the two first met.

Hearing Mu Changan's coughing voice, Wei Ba, who was in charge of the night, hurriedly came over to visit.

"What time is it?" Mu Changan sat up and rubbed his eyebrows, he slept very unsteadily this night, dreaming one dream after another, and he still felt very tired when he woke up.

"When you first arrived in Yin, will Your Highness sleep again?"

Mu Changan waved his hand, got up and wanted to drink water, Wei Ba went out to ask for hot water, poured it and handed it to him.

"Haven't they come back yet?" Two days have passed since the day Mu Changan received Wei Jiu's news, and this is the second night.

"Nope." Wei Ba saw Mu Changan's sad face, and comforted: "Xu is already on the way." ”

Mu Changan got off the bed and put on his coat: "Call everyone else, you can't wait any longer." ”

Wei Ba was also worried about Wei Jiu in his heart, and when he heard Mu Changan say this, he went to the next room to call someone over.

"Go and prepare the carriage. Wei Er immediately went back and asked Mr. Gao to prepare reinforcements, and Wei Yi stayed here to respond. The Dragon Commander and Guardian were ready to follow me into the mountains. ”

"This ...... Your Highness, is it too dangerous for you to go in person? Brother Long and I will go and find it, Your Highness, you should stay here. Wei Ba hesitated.

"You are not familiar with the terrain there, the mountains are densely wooded, and the fog is thick, no matter how high you work, you will be blind if you enter."

If we are not familiar with it, is it familiar to His Highness? Wei Ba was strange in his heart, but what was even more strange was that Long Zhi and Wei Yi didn't even question it. Could it be that His Highness has really been here?

Among the current Wei Shi Wei, Wei Qi to Wei Shi were all selected a year before Mu Changan was enthroned in the fiefdom, and it is not clear what happened to Mu Changan in his early years. This time, Mu Changan personally came to Peiling County to find Princess Yuxin, and Wei Ba was still Wei Yi and Wei Er, and they found out what news. If this is not the case, could it be that His Royal Highness took Princess Yuxin from Qiu He over Si Myanmar Mountain to escape to Dayu back then?

Wei Ba gasped, and faintly realized that he seemed to know something terrible.

If Mu Changan is familiar with the terrain, this is indeed the best arrangement. Everyone had no objections, and they each acted according to Mu Changan's instructions.

When they arrived at the foot of Si Burma Mountain, it was already dawn, and Hai Dongqing led them to the place where Wei Jiu delivered the message.

"It's here, Your Highness, look at this mark." Wei Ba pointed to the mark on a tree and said, this mark is a special mark for Wei Shiwei's secret contact, and it should not be wrong.

Mu Changan and the three of them followed the mark for a while, but soon discovered something strange.

"Why is there a ...... here," Wei Ba was dumbfounded at the trees in front of him, and the mark appeared on the two trees in the opposite direction.

Different from Pei Xia's simple notching, Wei Jiu's mark is a code specially designed by Suiyuan Palace, which changes once a year, and there are several different icon styles, each with only a few strokes for easy portrayal, and the meaning of different icons is also different.

"Look around, don't go far." Mu Changan ordered, Long Zhi and Wei Ba went to check separately, and soon saw the clues.

"Someone is following them." Long Zhi reported, "This person is very familiar with this place, the marks are everywhere, and he can still follow Xiao Jiu and them in the thick fog, and he hasn't lost them." ”

Fortunately, the man obviously didn't quite understand the meaning of the different styles of marks engraved by Wei Jiu, and only remembered a few of them that were imitated randomly, and the meanings were messy and there were many contradictions. Mu Changan, it took them a little time to sort out Wei Jiu's one from this pile of marks.

Following the direction pointed by Wei Jiu, the three of them advanced a little further, and here, Wei Jiu also found the stalker, and the sign showed that he and Pei Xia were chasing the stalker.

After that, the stalker was in a hurry to get rid of them, and there was no time to make random marks to confuse the public, and Mu Chang'an's tracking was much smoother, and after walking for about two hours, a dilapidated log cabin appeared in front of them.

There had been a clear fight, and several large openings had been made in the walls of the hut, and in some places several small arrows could be seen, one of which was still stained with blood.

Long Zhi pulled out the small arrow and took a closer look, while Wei Ba went into the house to investigate. The room was so small that it was easy to see the head at a glance, and in order to prevent a cellar or other secret passage, Wei Ba knocked around.

Mu Changan didn't enter the house, he found a big pit near the hut, the branches of several trees next to it were newly cut off, and some traces of dragging could be seen on the ground.

"Your Highness!"

"This way." Mu Changan responded loudly, and Long and Wei quickly found it.

"How?" Mu Changan asked.

"There's no one in the house." Wei Hachi replied.

Long Zhi took out the arrow: "This arrow is poisoned." ”

Wei Ba became nervous, this arrow is not Wei Jiu's, most likely it is the person who has been following him, there is blood on the arrow, doesn't it mean that at least one of Pei Xia and Wei Jiu has an accident!

Mu Changan took the small arrow, this small arrow was very thin, not like the arrows used in ordinary bows and arrows, but like homemade blow arrows.

"Fortunately, the poison applied to it seems to have been left for a long time, and it has lost some of its medicinal properties, so it should not be fatal immediately, but it is difficult to say if it drags on for a long time, we have to find them as soon as possible." Long Zhi said worriedly.

"It's Wei Jiu who was injured." If the person who cut the branches to make the trailer was Wei Jiu, he had no reason not to leave a mark, it could only be that Wei Jiu was seriously injured and fell into a coma, and the person who dragged him was Pei Xia.

Mu Changan returned the poisoned arrow to Long Zhi and asked him to put it away so that he could go out to dispense the antidote. Compared to Pei Xia's injury, Wei Jiu's injury is worse news, they no longer have a meaningful and clear code, and can only rely on the drag marks on the ground to find it.

The vegetation in the mountains and forests is vigorous, and the drag marks are not very clear. Following the traces, the three of them returned to Pei Xia where they found being followed.

Pei Xia mostly followed Wei Jiu's mark to find it, but when she got here, there were too many interference marks around, and she didn't know the secret code of the palace, so she finally got lost and went farther and farther.

Mu Changan and the three found that it was almost dark, and finally found Pei Xia, who was almost semi-unconscious, behind a big rock, and next to her lay the unconscious Wei Jiu.

"Miss Pei? Miss Pei? Mu Changan squatted down and called softly.

Pei Xia's eyes were scattered, and it took half a day to focus on the arrival.

"Your Highness?" Her voice was very weak, and her face was unusually red. Mu Changan didn't care about the etiquette of men and women, and reached out to touch her forehead, which was really hot.

Pei Xia actually started a fever last night, deep in the mountains and wild forests, there are many unknown dangers, Pei Xia didn't dare to close his eyes for a moment, carried Wei Jiu on his back, and dragged the simple tow board with the bones for a long time. She sprained her foot when she fell into the big pit behind the hut, and the pain was so bad that she didn't even know when she fell to the ground, and she managed to hold on without fainting.

Now that she saw Mu Changan, she was not sure if she was hallucinating because she was burned, and she raised her hand with difficulty to touch the person in front of her.

Sensing Pei Xia's intentions, Mu Changan held Pei Xia's hand: "It's me, it's okay." ”

The touch that comes from the hand is warm, dry, and calm. As soon as Pei Xia's heart was at peace, he lost consciousness.

The moment she saw someone appear at the mouth of the well, the girl at the bottom of the well was calm in her heart.

"I'm going to die too." She thought, "I don't know if I will be able to reunite with my father, mother, and sister after I die." ”

Someone outside asked, and she waited for the young soldier on the well to confess to her, but she didn't expect the man to help her hide it.

"Shhhh So said the boy.

At night, it was very cold in the well, and she waited until midnight, when the boy really came. He pulled her out of the well and found her a soldier's clothes to change into.

The palace had just undergone a great upheaval, and everywhere was in chaos, and the young man took her to evade the soldiers patrolling several places and slipped out of the palace.

What happened after that? Pei Xia thought in a daze.

Yes, after that, she also started a high fever like now, and the young man wanted to send her out and go back, but when he saw that she had a bad fever, he took off his clothes for her to wear, and kept carrying her on his back...... Walked a long way.

"What's your name?" Probably afraid that she would die like this, the boy kept talking to her, trying to keep her awake.

It's noisy. She was so sick that she was so sad that she didn't want to speak, so the boy babbled behind her back and talked to himself.

"My name is Youzhi, my home is in the north, there are a lot of delicious and fun there, don't sleep, I'll take you there in the future......"

"Youzhi ......" Pei Xia murmured softly, feeling that the back of the young man who was carrying her seemed to have become much wider, but it seemed to be a little less meaty, thin, and a little panicked.

In a high fever, Pei Xia couldn't distinguish between memories and reality, and he didn't know what he said, and he didn't know that the people under him stiffened after hearing that name.