The chief guard tightened his reins and stopped, shouting to the team behind, "It's safe here for the time being, everyone rest in place for a while!" The coachman gets out of the car and checks the carriage to see if the wheels are functioning properly. The others are resting in place and can't go far! ”

After that, he ordered the guards around him: "Xiao Zuo, you take someone to check the casualties." ”

"Whew, I finally ran out, and this life was almost confessed." Li Chengyi slid off the horse, and even though his legs were weak, he did not forget to run to his carriage and get on the car to check on his wife and children and Aunt Wang.

Xia Jing rode forward at a trot and stopped beside the captain's horse, "Captain, do you know where we are now?" ”

In the melee, they rushed left and right, and they really didn't know which direction they ran from in the end.

The chief of the guard was responsible for the personal safety of King Qian and the guards of the palace, although he often followed King Qian out, but most of the time he was nested in the capital.

The area south of Yuzhou has really never been to this area in his lifetime.

The darkness before dawn could not be seen far by the light of the torches.

He scratched his head, "Back to the princess, my subordinates don't know where this is?" We'll wait until dawn to talk about the specific situation around. ”

Xia Jing nodded, "Those who stay on guard, the others rest in place and eat dry food to replenish their strength." ”

"Yes!"

The chief of the guard should respond, but in fact, he was wondering in his heart, and the princess, a woman in the house, still knew that she had to keep someone on guard?

"Mother, come over and sit down and rest for a while, Hongmei has already prepared the dry food."

As soon as Xia Jing jumped off the horse, Li Chengmu and Bai Mei trotted over, her son supported her, the maid held a torch to light her, and the three of them walked to the back carriage together.

After walking a few steps, Xia Jing shook off his hand, and laughed in her heart: "This concubine is not seventy or eighty years old, I don't need your help, and this road is full of potholes, I am afraid that you will fall together." ”

"How could it be ......?"

Before he finished speaking, Li Chengmu was unsteady on his feet, stumbled a few steps and almost fell, causing the other people next to him to laugh.

Bai Mei also laughed, "Fifth master, the slave maid sees that you should go steadily on your own." ”

Li Chengmu glanced back at his mother aggrievedly, and the roots of his ears were red.

Xia Jing didn't open her mouth to alleviate her son's predicament, returned to the carriage, and ate dry food to fill her stomach, but before she could lie down for a while, the sky outside slowly brightened.

"Since it's dawn and it doesn't affect your vision, let's continue to hurry, and it's better to leave this place as soon as possible."

Xia Jing yawned and sent Hongmei to inform the head of the guard to continue on her way.

It didn't take long for Hongmei to go and return, "Princess, the prince has asked you to go to his carriage, and the chief of the guard is there, saying that there is something to discuss." ”

"Something to discuss?" Xia Jing sat up from the couch in the carriage and patted her cheek to sober herself up, "Oh, I know, I'll go over right away." ”

On the king's ride, King Qian and the guards looked at each other speechlessly, and their brows were tightly frowned.

Xia Jing lifted the curtain and saw their appearance, "Look at the sad faces of the two of you, have you encountered something?" ”

Hearing this, King Qian looked at her with a little surprise, the two were having an awkward quarrel, he didn't expect Xia to come over and speak calmly.

Xia Jing went in to look at this royal car, it was more spacious than other carriages, and she didn't have to lower her head when she stood in the carriage, except for the very tall like the chief of the guard, of course.

She found a place near the car door and sat down, glancing at the two of them, "Concubine Ben has already come, just talk about something." ”

Seeing that she had come in and had not greeted her, King Qian glared at her secretly angrily, and finally, motioned for his chief guard to speak and explain the situation.

The chief guard cleared his throat, stood up and saluted her, "Greetings to the princess." ”

Xia Jing raised her hand, "Don't care about these false courtesies when you go out, let's talk about something." ”

"Yes." The chief of the guard sat back again, "The person who heard the news just now has returned, after a night of scuffle last night, the current situation is that the emperor's imperial chariot has disappeared, I don't know which way the Praetorian Guard and the soldiers and horses of the Gyeonggi battalion escorted him?" ”

The most important point is that they don't know where they are at the moment.

It's just that I know it's in the northwest direction where I was stationed last night.

Xia Jing looked at them: "What do you two mean now?" Do you want to find the emperor, or do you want to find a place to settle down first? ”

"And ......" Xia Jing pointed to the outside of the carriage and said to King Qian: "Such a big matter, should you call a few sons over to discuss it together?" ”

After all, the matter they discussed here determined their future, and the man in charge of the family should have learned to participate in the decision-making of the family.

King Qian felt that he was not in a safe situation and did not want to waste his time arguing with his sons, so he did not approve of calling his sons over.

"This king is the head of this house, and the opinion of this king is their opinion, and if they are called, and each of them has his own opinion, then what do you say? Listen to whom? ”

Xia Jing just gave a suggestion, it was not up to her whether King Qian listened or not, since King Qian didn't want her sons to participate, she waved her hand, "Listen to you, do you like to scream or not, now you talk about your plans." ”

This impatient attitude towards him made King Qian hold his breath in his heart, and he couldn't get it out, which was really uncomfortable.

The chief of the guard quietly wiped the cold sweat on his forehead while people were not paying attention, the prince and princess got along like this, and he got a glimpse of it, will his life be guaranteed?

King Qian decided not to bother with the woman, and he took a few deep breaths before he spit out the breath in his heart.

"What this king means is that no matter which direction the emperor's royal car goes, the destination of our team is still Jiankang. Once we figured out where it was, we continued our journey towards Jiankang City. ”

Xia Jing looked at the chief of the guard.

The chief of the guard hurriedly spoke: "I have the same opinion as the prince. ”

Xia Jing pursed her lips and was silent for a long time, and when King Qian was impatient, she shook her head: "I don't approve of continuing to go to Jiankang, as far as the current situation is concerned, going to Jiankang is to jump into the pit, if you want to jump into the pit and be buried, I have no objection." But I'll leave with Xiao Wu. ”

"You dare!" King Qian slapped the table angrily, "Xiao Wu is the son of this king, and he is the heir of my Li family, no matter what, he has to go with me." ”

Even if he died, he had to be buried in the tomb of the Li family, which he didn't dare to say, for fear that the woman opposite would go crazy with him.

King Qian didn't know when it started, and he was afraid in his heart that she didn't care about his face.

Xia Jing was unusual, she didn't choke with him, but grinned at him: "My son is my master, you see if I dare." ”

"Ahem!"

The head of the guard was really afraid that the couple would quarrel, so he hurriedly came out to find a sense of existence.

"Then according to the princess, what should we do?"

"Look for a different path." Xia Jing spit out four words lightly.

Jiankang City is a big pit, knowing that it is a pit and jumping in, when she is stupid, of course she is looking for another way out and living her own comfortable life!

"Going off the beaten track?" King Qian never expected these four words to come out of Xia's mouth, and he had to make him think deeply for a while.