The blood of the hot apes splashed on Bai Ziche's face like rain, and he was blocked by the frightened Yulin guards, watching one corpse after another fall. Bai Ziche felt that the blood on his body was also getting cold a little bit.

Sun Yan, who rushed to the front, broke into the cabin with a sailor, and then the ship under his feet shook heavily. Bai Ziche grabbed the side of the boat, and the two Yu Linwei who put down the boat were thrown directly into the river by this shake.

As soon as Bai Ziche raised his head, the uncontrolled boat seemed to be a wild horse, and it crashed towards the mountain wall on the shore without looking back.

"Leave me alone, run!" Bai Ziche's pupils shrank suddenly.

The next moment, the mountains came like a falling cloud. The whole ship was torn apart with a bang, from the deck to the keel, like a fish that had been cut open whole. Bai Ziche's feet suddenly emptied, and the last thing he saw was Sun Yan who rushed towards him.

The icy river water rushed from his nostrils into his lungs, and Bai Ziche felt the pain of suffocation. The blue water of the river tightly wrapped Bai Ziche, but the more he struggled, the more he sank.

At that moment, an arm came from behind him, wrapped around his neck, and forcefully carried him into the water. The moment Bai Ziche came out of the water, he choked and coughed, and lay on the man's arm and gasped.

Chu Zhixia tightly wrapped Bai Ziche with one hand, and swam to the shore with the other.

——

The East is bright.

A fire was lit on the shore, and Bai Ziche, who was soaking wet, sat by the bonfire and shivered. Yu Linwei, who fell into the water, was rescued one after another, and as soon as he got ashore, he lay on the ground and spit water frantically. There were also several people floating around on the water with planks.

Xue Cheng swam up from the water and paced the shore leisurely.

Sun Yan knelt on the ground with a "plop", Chu Zhixia twisted a handful of wet long hair, raised his eyelids and glanced at him. Sun Yan took off his armor, the deep and shallow scars on his body were exposed, and he lowered his head and didn't dare to look directly at Chu Zhixia.

Chu Zhixia flung his long hair to the back of his neck, scooped up his horsewhip and fell it in the air, and the explosion echoed in the silent air on the shore.

"The subordinates are guilty!" Sun Yan slammed to the ground.

"What did you do wrong?" Chu Zhixia raised his foot and stepped on his shoulder, and the rough horsewhip slashed through the wound on Sun Yan's back.

"The subordinates failed to protect His Highness......"

Chu Zhixia whipped Sun Yan on the back, and almost immediately tore out a bleeding wound. Sun Yan's body trembled, tensed his muscles, and was silent.

"You also know that you didn't protect Your Highness well." Chu Zhixia said coldly, "You are Yu Linwei, and you are also the companion of His Highness's martial arts hall, and you are also a personal guard, so you should take the safety of Your Highness first and far better than others." I asked you to change ships with His Highness, can't you tell the priorities, and it's your turn to fight bravely? ”

Sun Yan took a cold breath and said in a low voice: "Leave it to the eldest lady." ”

"I am not qualified to deal with you, so let you go and ask His Highness for guilt later." Chu Shixia said coldly, "Go and help them save people." ”

Sun Yan took the order, and Yu Linwei, who was almost resting on the shore, contacted the nearby government and borrowed a small boat to save people.

Chu Zhixia walked to the bonfire, threw down the blood-stained horsewhip, and stripped his clothes layer by layer. She stripped off only one or two of her underwear, and sat by the fire to dry her clothes. Bai Zi's clear and thin face was even paler in the firelight, as if it was about to break if he rubbed it.

"You made another arrangement for the medicinal herbs, silver taels and the doctor, not to take the first step, but to expect Chen Boyan to start?" Bai Ziche asked.

"Your Majesty is so partial to you, so the fool will not do it." Chu Zhixia felt the warmth of the firelight, his face looked a little better, and he said casually, "This time I went south, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, shipwrecks, plagues, mountain bandits and bandits, any of them can be called natural disasters and man-made disasters." Even if there is evidence that cannot be handled cleanly, it will not be able to enter the gate of the imperial capital. ”

Chu Zhixia had a bad stomach of killing people and setting fires, she saved others with herself, and she expected Chen Boyan to have such a trick. The medicinal herbs will be invalidated if they are soaked in water, and the salvage of silver is also laborious. It's a blessing or a curse, it's a disaster that can't be avoided, Chu Zhixia deliberately narrowed the target for Chen Boyan in order to minimize the loss. The ships that transported important supplies were strictly supervised, but the ships they went ahead of were lax and lazy.

Chen Boyan's original plan was to let the boat sink in the turbulent and steep terrain of the Ape Gorge, and the person who fell into the water had no way to live. Chu Shixia found out that there was a problem with the keel early in the morning, and he planned to make the ship sink faster.

"The water is gentle and there is no danger." Chu Zhixia explained, "I just didn't expect Sun Yan to leave your side, I'm sorry." ”

Bai Ziche shook his head and handed the dried cloak to Chu Zhixia. Chu Shixia naturally took it over and shrouded himself in the biting cold wind. Bai Ziche glanced up at Chu Zhixia at this time, her white earlobes were frozen red, like a grain of red coral.

The cloak concealed the curves of her figure, leaving only a flexible neck, like white jade with cold tentacles. Chu Zhixia picked a handful of wild fruits, and Xue Cong lowered her head and picked up the wild fruits in her palm to eat. Chu Zhixia smiled and touched its mane, lowered her head and burned the fire even more, the rose-colored fire light covered her face, there was a kind of dreamlike beauty.

White horse, a girl like white jade.

The cries for saving people in the distance are ethereal and distant, like another world.

In this place, it seems that there are only two of them.

Bai Ziche breathed lightly, as if he couldn't bear to break the fragile time at this moment.

"For the next step, we'll take the official road." Chu Shixia suddenly said, "Within six days, we will be able to enter the territory of Yangzhou." ”

——

Before the Qincha and his entourage arrived in Yangzhou, the mission was in distress when the shipwreck was in distress, and the ship's owner and sailors intended to assassinate and murder the ship's father and the sailors arrived in the imperial capital as soon as possible.

Qin Wang's Mansion.

Bai Huan threw a piece of paper on Chen Boyan's face, pointed at him and said, "I have a seamless plan for you, now it's okay, people are not dead, but they stepped on the tail of the group of poor scholars in the Guozijian." They are all about to point at my nose and call me a murderer! ”

Bai Huan had never taken that group of scholars seriously, and when he heard that Bai Ziche helped a few poor scholars from time to time, he also scoffed. It is useless to buy these people lightly, and it is useless to have scholars who don't know if they have a bright future. Bai Huan privately ridiculed Bai Ziche for being from a low background, and he couldn't do anything on the stage.

Unexpectedly, the scholar was angry and almost hit him on the head and bled out.

More than 200 students from Guozijian jointly signed a letter questioning that the mission was sinking, and strongly demanded a thorough investigation. A group of scholars in green shirts knelt outside the noon gate for several days, and the emperor, who was kneeling anxiously, was even more angry, and he couldn't just cut people at this juncture.

"Your Highness, don't worry." Chen Boyan slowly and methodically removed the page from his face, "Why is King Qi in danger, it must have been done by you?" ”

"Pretending to be stupid," Bai Huan sneered, "Do you think Your Majesty really believes in that drama of our brothers, friends and brothers?" ”

Moreover, since Huo Wenqing's incident, many scholars have poked Bai Huan's backbone behind his back.

"Your Majesty's preference for King Qi is true, but you are not the only one who regards him as a thorn in the flesh, so why do you say that you did it?" Chen Boyan smiled, "Don't forget, the Cao County Order in Binzhou who died violently in the Xuanzheng Hall was told by Xu Delu." ”

After Bai Huan thought about it, he stared at Chen Boyan's triumphant face, and remained silent, "Woe to the east, this is what your ancestor taught you, right?" Even if this happens, this black cauldron will be deducted from Xu Delu's head, you have already calculated it, haven't you? ”

Chen Boyan did not deny it.

"What I'm more curious about is that if Bai Ziche and Chu Shixia die, who are you going to let to quell the rebellion and provide disaster relief?" Bai Huan slapped the tea in Chen Boyan's hand, and said coldly, "Look at me and answer the question." ”

"The Ye family of the Zhenguo General's Mansion is also brave." Chen Boyan said truthfully.

"The head of the Ye family is nearly sixty years old, and none of the men of the Ye family have fought on the battlefield. Are you going to put an old man in his old age into a rebellion? ”

"Why not?"

"Ridiculous." Bai Huan frowned.

"If Bai Ziche returns victoriously, have you thought about your situation, His Royal Highness King Qin?" Chen Boyan smiled and said, "Anyone can receive this credit, but he Bai Ziche can't do it, and he doesn't deserve it." Do you say, cousin? ”

Bai Huan's facial features were slightly distorted.

——

Yangzhou is the richest state in the south of the Yangtze River, extending in all directions, prosperous trade, and gathering the world's expensive and gorgeous. Guangling is the brightest jewel on this crown, and Guangling pays high taxes every year, making Guangling a source of paradise for many officials in the imperial capital.

"I heard that the eldest lady and their ship sank?" Jiang Qiao covered up the accounts and asked with a worried expression.

Cheng Yuan nodded and said, "But the person is fine, don't worry." ”

Jiang Qiao took a deep breath and walked to the window to look at the bright moonlight in the court. After she left the Scarlet Jade Pavilion, she dressed simply and elegantly, rarely drawing eyebrows and eyes, and even less jewels and jade ornaments, and often only accompanied by a string of Buddhist beads.

"I've already figured out where to go, and since the eldest lady is safe, I'll take the first step." Jiang Qiaomo held the Buddha beads on his wrist, as if he had made up some kind of determination, and suddenly said.

Cheng Yuan was stunned, "Aren't you saying goodbye to the eldest lady?" ”

Jiang Qiao smiled like a dewy white camellia, full of frost white, "We will meet again one day." Thank you to the eldest lady for me, and when we meet again, Jiang Qiao will definitely live up to the trust. ”

Jiang Qiao thanked Cheng Yuan, and Cheng Yuan also responded solemnly. Jiang Qiao only took away a box containing money, the account seal, and the personal guard sent to her by Chu Zhixia. She declined Cheng Yuan's offer, picked up her hood and left through the side door of the post house.

She turned around and walked into the bustling and lively night of Yangzhou City, like a handful of cold snow from the Tianshan Mountains falling into the lights of the world.

——

Yangzhou City, Thorn History Mansion.

"Qin Cha and his entourage are going to transit from Yangzhou, what do you think?"

Yangzhou Thorn Shi is a middle-aged and elderly man with a simple appearance, with two slender beards, thin eyebrows, thin eyes, and a very amiable smile.

"Qincha sent this trip, one is the Gyeongju rebellion, and the other is the Binzhou plague, what does it matter to our Yangzhou?" Yangzhou joined the army as a five-year-old martial artist, frowning and disapproving.

Thorn Shi and Changshi looked at each other, and showed a helpless smile to each other.

"Joining the army, since ancient times, how many officials have walked through Yangzhou and returned empty-handed?" Thorn Shi smiled and shook his head, "What's more, it's such a thing as disaster relief." His Royal Highness King Qi and Miss Chu are both young and vigorous, and they hold great power, so it is inevitable that something will go wrong. We're old, I'm afraid we won't be able to resist. ”

The army slapped on the table and sneered: "You are all afraid, I am not afraid." I would like to know what the roles of these two are, and it is reasonable for Qin Cha to come and join the army to protect him. ”

"Qiaoqiao is going offline for a while (waving a small handkerchief .jpg)"