However, it was said that Shang Rang and Huang He escorted Mrs. Huang and Zhou Yuanzhi and other female dependents, and were about to walk through the woods, when a group of black-clothed people suddenly flashed out from the depths of the woods, and the black-clothed people led by them were the same General Zhou who fought with Xu Zhi in Baiting that day.

The black-clothed man at the head did not speak, but waved his hand lightly, and the other black-clothed men nodded and quickly surrounded the convoy of Shang Rang, Huang He, Zhou Yuanzhi and others.

Shang Rang was shocked when he saw this, and hurriedly asked Huang He to lead dozens of soldiers to hold long contradictory cards, protect the carriage of the lady and the young lady, and let them not get out of the carriage first, and then ordered the other soldiers to take out their bows and arrows and aim and shoot at the man in black. How do you know that these black-clothed men all have special skills, and when they saw the first wave of arrows coming, they jumped on the high branches and dodged the shooting of the soldiers.

The men in black didn't wait for the soldiers to shoot again, they jumped from the trees to the front of the soldiers, and fought the soldiers at close range, killing dozens of soldiers in an instant with stunts such as chopping, holding, hooking, mixing, and hitting.

Shang Rang watched his soldiers fall to the ground one by one, fewer and fewer, while the enemy was unidentified, and the more he fought, the more courageous he became. He had no choice but to hold the sword in his hand and retreat to Zhou Yuanzhi's carriage, Zhou Yuanzhi had already heard that the scene outside the car was wrong, and shouted to Shang Rang through the curtain: "General Shang, what is going on outside?" After speaking, he jumped out of the car.

The black-clothed man led by him saw a beautiful girl jumping out of the car, and thought: According to Neiying's description, she must be the daughter of Huang Chao, so he laughed and said: "There is no place to find the iron shoes, it really takes no effort to get it, as long as we take Huang Chao's daughter and family members, and use them to blackmail the traitor Huang Chao, why worry that these grass thieves can't be pacified?"

After the man in black finished speaking, he raised his big knife and slashed at Zhou Yuanzhi. Shang Rang saw that the whip was out of reach, and shouted: "Princess, be careful!", and after speaking, he threw the long sword in his hand at the man in black.

The man in black slowed down a little, and hurriedly used his broadsword to block the attack of the long sword. Zhou Yuanzhi dodged his knife sideways, picked up a spear from the soldier next to him, and stabbed the man in black in the chest, the man in black didn't expect Zhou Yuanzhi to also have some martial arts, so he quickly withdrew the big knife, protected his heart with the back of the knife, and blocked the head of the spear stabbed by Zhou Yuanzhi, and the spear was bounced back.

Zhou Yuanzhi only felt that the strength of the spear's rebound was huge, and the tiger in his hand was numb, and the spear almost fell to the ground.

The man in black didn't wait for Zhou Yuanzhi to react, and with a move "Kunpeng spreads his wings", he jumped up, followed by a move "Knife Splitting Huashan", and swooped down from the air.

A guard beside Zhou Yuanzhi hurriedly blocked with a shield, but was split in half by the man in black with a knife.

Seeing that Zhou Yuanzhi was about to be in danger, Xu Zhi just arrived in time, he didn't have time to think not far away, picked up a small stone from the ground, and hit the wrist of the man in black with all his strength.

The man in black screamed, threw down the big knife, and quickly covered the wound on his right hand with his left hand, but he still couldn't stop the blood flowing from his wrist.

The man in black was about to wave his hand, let his subordinates rush up, and took advantage of the chaos to kidnap Zhou Yuanzhi, Shang Rang and others, when suddenly a cold arrow shot from behind, killing half of the man in black. Seeing that the situation was not good, the man in black at the head hurriedly issued a long whistle, and several people behind him turned over as a harrier, jumped into the grass one after another, and disappeared without a trace.

It turned out that after Huang Chao led the army to Liuxiang Village, he saw that the officers and soldiers had no intention of fighting, and retreated without a fight, thinking that it was not good, and he fell into the enemy's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, he could not rest assured that his wife and daughter could not be relieved, and led the team back.

After this long-distance travel, the Huangchao army was very tired, and the soldiers saw that it was getting late, and sat on the ground one after another, lit a bonfire, took out dry food, and devoured and chewed it.

When Xu Zhi saw the sudden return of the Huangchao army, he didn't dare to approach Zhou Yuanzhi's convoy easily, so he had to look at her from a distance in the depths of the dense forest.

Huang Chao saw that the soldiers were so embarrassed when they set out for the first time, and he also regretted that he didn't listen to Xu Zhi's advice not to go south. However, his own order has been issued, and all the soldiers have already set off, and this decision to go south cannot be reversed. Huang Chao saw that all the soldiers were depressed after eating, so he stood up and said loudly to everyone:

"Ladies and gentlemen, tonight is the moon in the sky, and it is the annual Zhongyuan Festival, although we come from all over the world, but we are all born to our parents, and there are brothers and sisters in the family. So we raised the banner of the uprising, is to save the world's thousands of suffering brothers and sisters, we have been fighting Ruzhou and Caizhou all the way since the Yunzhou Uprising, and it has been nearly five years, over the years, we have sacrificed many heroes and heroes for justice, hot-blooded men!"

After listening to Huang Chao's words, all the soldiers looked up at the sky and silently thought of their dead family members. Huang Chao continued: "Today is the first battle we fought south of the Yangtze River, and we have sacrificed a lot of soldiers, in order to remember our dead family members and comrades-in-arms, I propose to set up a shrine on the outskirts of Caizhou City tonight to pay tribute to them." ”

Huang Chao's proposal was quickly approved by all the soldiers in unison. With the remembrance of the dead relatives and friends, the soldiers cut down the towering trees, built a high altar, placed a few large marching pots on the altar, lit a raging fire, Huang Chao and the soldiers took off their battle robes, only wore white robes, everyone replaced the wine with water, raised the bowl in their hands, bowed to the sky and the earth a few times, and sprinkled the water in the bowl around, after paying tribute to the martyrs, and then raised their heads to drink the remaining water, they smashed the bowl in their hands, expressing their determination to die and go south.

Xu Zhi secretly saw that the soldiers were angry and their morale was high at this time, but after that, they fought in the south of the Yangtze River, and they didn't know who survived and who died.

Xu Zhi saw that there were many soldiers' corpses lying not far away, he changed into a soldier's attire, dressed himself as a soldier who had just been separated, took the opportunity to blend into the Huangchao army, and walked straight to Zhou Yuanzhi's carriage.

The guard next to the carriage saw that Xu Zhi was very angry, and asked, "Little brother, which battalion and which general are you under the command, why did you sneakily come from the depths of the dense forest?"

Xu Zhi pretended to be panicked, and said in a trembling voice: "I am a recruit who has just joined the army, and I was very nervous when I saw the army fighting with the man in black just now, and I was separated from the army for a while, and I am under the command of General Shang." ”

The soldier still wanted to interrogate something, but Zhou Yuanzhi in the car had already recognized Xu Zhi's voice, and hurriedly relieved Xu Zhi and said, "You don't need to interrogate him anymore, I have seen this recruit, and he also blocked a sword for me just now?"

After Zhou Yuanzhi finished speaking, she stepped out of the carriage, jumped in front of Xu Zhi, and deliberately said: "When I was fighting with the man in black just now, I lost a sachet that I was carrying, did you find it for me?"

Zhou Yuanzhi pretended to be angry and said: "It's really a wine bag and rice bag, you lead the way in front, I'll look for it with you, if you can't find it again, you will be punished heavily!", after speaking, seeing Xu Zhi kneeling on the ground and looking terrified, he couldn't help laughing, but when he saw that the guards around him looked at him in surprise, he immediately put away his smile.

The guard hurriedly said, "Princess, let your subordinates escort you over!"

Zhou Yuanzhi hurriedly stopped: "It's not very far over there, I'll also have some punches and kicks, just let him accompany me, and then you have to continue to protect Madame!"

When the guard saw Zhou Yuanzhi say this, he knew that he was a little inconvenient by her side, but he couldn't lose the guard's responsibility, so he had to say: "Then the princess should be more careful!

Zhou Yuanzhi had no choice but to agree, she saw that no one was paying attention around, and quietly led Xu Zhi to the depths of the dense forest, but she didn't prevent all this from being seen clearly by Ye Luchun who was not far away.

It turned out that Ye Luchun had always been in love with Zhou Yuanzhi in his heart, in order to get her, he had been slandering Xu Zhi around Huang Chao and Zhu Wen, and later he heard that Xu Zhi was burned to death in the White Pavilion, and thought that without Xu Zhi such a competitor, this princess was ultimately his own, and since then he has paid special attention to Zhou Yuanzhi, and Zhou Yuanzhi's every move has never left his eyes.

Seeing that there was no one around, Xu Zhi held Zhou Yuanzhi's little hand tightly, and said distressedly: "Yuanzhi, I haven't seen you for a few days, you are much haggard!"

Zhou Yuanzhi looked at Xu Zhi affectionately, and said softly: "Brother Xu, you are haggard for you! The parting of the past few days can torture the little sister!" After speaking, he fell into Xu Zhi's broad chest and cried.

Zhou Yuanzhi finished lying in Xu Zhi's arms, and asked again: "Little sister released the letter with the everlasting lantern a few days ago, has Brother Xu ever received it?"

Xu Zhi deliberately sighed and said, "What letter, I didn't receive it?"

Zhou Yuanzhi was very disappointed and said: "That's it, Brother Xu, you are so stupid, there is a little sister's infinite longing for the eldest brother hidden in the ever-bright lamp!", and her face was full of shyness after speaking.

Xu Zhi saw that Zhou Yuanzhi was very melancholy, and said with a smile: "Yuanzhi, the eldest brother lied to you just now." After speaking, he took out the letter from his bosom that he didn't know how many times he had read, and said: "That night, I saw you release a red Kong Ming lantern in the window, and I knew that there must be something strange in it, so I kept tracking it, but fortunately the letter was intact, otherwise I would never be able to forgive myself for the rest of my life!", Xu Zhi hugged Zhou Yuanzhi tightly in his arms after speaking.

Zhou Yuanzhi buried her head in Xu Zhi's arms, gently beat Xu Zhi's chest with her hand, pursed her small mouth, and said, "Brother Xu, you are so bad, you are still making fun of your little sister at this time, and Yuan Zhi ignores you." ”

Ye Luchun also entered the black forest at this time, hiding in the dark to see Zhou Yuanzhi and a personal soldier Qing and me, very angry, thinking that the behavior of the girl this week was too inappropriate, but he didn't dare to stop it loudly, on the one hand, he was afraid that Zhou Yuanzhi's reputation would be ruined, and then offend Huang Chao; on the other hand, Zhou Yuanzhi was his beloved, in case the matter was exposed, Zhou Yuanzhi would be angry with himself because of this matter. Therefore, he had to continue to swallow his anger and lie in ambush not far away to eavesdrop.

Zhou Yuanzhi snuggled in Xu Zhi's arms, very happy, she suddenly said to Xu Zhi: "Little sister send a personal souvenir to the eldest brother, if the little sister is not by the eldest brother's side in the future, I hope that the eldest brother will see it as if he saw Yuan Zhi, and he will stay by his side forever!" After speaking, he took out a purse with a gold lock from the placket, cut off a few strands of his long hair with a sword, put it in the purse, and handed it to Xu Zhi with both hands.

Xu Zhi took Zhou Yuanzhi's purse, put it in his arms, and heard Zhou Yuanzhi say: "Big brother, I gave you something close to yourself, you should also give me a personal thing!"

Xu Zhi smiled and said: "Yuan Zhi, it's not that you don't know that the eldest brother is penniless and has nothing now!"

Zhou Yuanzhi smiled and said, "Big brother, you are deceiving, I don't believe you? Don't you have any family heirlooms to wear with you?"

Xu Zhi suddenly remembered that Uncle Luo had given him a family heirloom phoenix pattern jade when he was dying, so he took out this jade pendant from his arms and handed it to Zhou Yuanzhi and said: "There are indeed no valuable items around the eldest brother, only this jade pendant remains, it is still Su Ying's relic, and it is now handed over to Sister Yuan Zhi for safekeeping." ”

Zhou Yuanzhi hesitated for a moment, but still took the jade pendant from Xu Zhi's hand, only to see that the jade pendant glowed faintly in the bright moonlight, Zhou Yuanzhi knew that this was a family heirloom, she wrapped it in Luopa, slowly put it into her arms, and suddenly asked: "In the future, Brother Xu will find Sister Suying, so do you want Yuan Zhi?"

Xu Zhi didn't know how to answer such a question, looked at Zhou Yuanzhi in his arms, but thought in his heart: I don't know if Sister Suying is dead or alive at this time, and where is she?

Zhou Yuanzhi saw that Xu Zhi didn't answer for a long time, and asked: "Brother Xu, I know that you still remember Sister Suying in your heart, but you give me her beloved things, if she knows in the future, do you think she will be angry with me?"

Xu Zhi saw Zhou Yuanzhi's face full of doubts, and hurriedly comforted: "No, this jade pendant is related to a big family secret, and it is not safe to put it next to me, your heart is more careful, even if Su Ying is still alive, she will agree to let you keep it." ”

Zhou Yuanzhi listened, and the sadness on her face slowly relaxed, and asked, "Could it be that this phoenix-patterned jade pendant of the Luo family is also related to that long-rumored strange book?"

Xu Zhi muttered and replied, "I just vaguely feel that there is a certain connection between the two!"

Zhou Yuanzhi said excitedly: "Brother Xu, what have you thought of, and what kind of connection will there be between the two?"

Xu Zhi said: "This family heirloom jade pendant is engraved with two words, it seems that someone carved it in advance, I think the two will have some connection!"

Zhou Yuanzhi asked, "What kind of two words?", and took out the jade pendant from his arms, only to see that there were indeed two vague words engraved on it.

Yelu Chun saw that he couldn't hear the conversation between Zhou Yuanzhi and Xu Zhi clearly, and took a few steps closer, and suddenly heard that the jade pendant in Zhou Yuanzhi's hand might be related to the strange book, so he quickly pricked up his ears, but he didn't see Zhou Yuanzhi say the words engraved on the jade pendant. He wanted to come forward and peek again, but he was afraid of being discovered by Zhou Yuanzhi, so he had to hold his breath and continue to eavesdrop on Xu Zhi and Zhou Yuanzhi.

Seeing that Zhou Yuanzhi had not returned for a long time, the guards were about to approach to warn him, but suddenly found Ye Luchun hiding in the grass, and shouted: "Be careful, princess, there are assassins hidden in the grass!"

This sound was extremely loud in the silent night, attracting the attention of everyone in the distance, Huang Chao led the soldiers to follow, Yelu Chun in the grass saw that the scene was not right, and did not want to be discovered by Huang Chao and Zhou Yuanzhi, in desperation, he jumped up from the grass, shot a dark dart from his sleeve, shot the soldier who called to kill, quickly jumped on a big tree, and then turned over and jumped to another big tree, jumped back and forth several times, and disappeared from everyone's sight.

Zhou Yuanzhi saw that the guards were shot and killed, so she hurriedly packed up the jade pendant, and saw that Xu Zhi was still standing there in a daze, clenched her hands and didn't let go, and hurriedly said: "Brother Xu, you leave quickly, if you don't leave, even if your father can forgive you, Zhu Wen and that group of soldiers will not let you go, and then the two of us will never see each other again! Remember the agreement in our letter, you go north to Shaolin first, and then I will find a way to get out and try to meet you!"

Zhou Yuanzhi saw that Xu Zhi was still a little reluctant, so she had to ruthlessly push him into the depths of the grass, and hurriedly ran in the direction of the Huangchao army, shouting: "Father, that assassin disguised himself as our army and tried to hold his daughter hostage, but unfortunately his martial arts are low, he is not his daughter's opponent, and he was killed by his daughter!" After speaking, he pointed to the guard who was shot on the ground.

Huang Chao looked at the bloodstained corpse on the ground, and saw Yeluchun rushing over sweating profusely, and reproached: "Yelu Shaoxia, what did you do just now?"

Yeluchun said hesitantly: "King Huang, my subordinates ...... just now , it was convenient to go to the bushes just now!"

Huang Chao didn't wait for Ye Luchun to finish answering, and then shouted: "Huang He and Ye Lu Chun listen to the order, you must not leave Yuan Zhi in the process of marching in the future, if she has three long and two short, I will ask you!"

Huang He and Ye Luchun hurriedly bowed down and called "Nuo", Ye Luchun was even more overjoyed, on the one hand, he could take this opportunity to get close to Zhou Yuanzhi, and on the other hand, he could also get a jade pendant from her hand and learn the whereabouts of Qishu.

Huang Chao glanced at several generals around him and said: "This forest is too gloomy and not very safe, so I will send an order to let the army march overnight, march south, and rush to the city of Connecticut tomorrow." ”

Zhou Yuanzhi glanced in the direction of Xu Zhi when she left, deliberately pointed at the guard's corpse, and said loudly: "It's really in Cao Ying's heart in Han!"

Zhou Yuanzhi saw Huang He coming to urge her to leave, and sighed: "The green mountains do not change, the green water flows forever, goodbye! Caizhou City! When Nanyan flies north, Yuan Zhi will definitely come back again!" After speaking, she had to follow the Huangchao army to the south with her infinite longing for Xu Zhi.

Xu Zhi saw that the Huangchao army was gradually moving away, and sighed, so he had to go all the way north.