Chapter 32: The Dead Forest
On the side of the Fuze Palace, the Queen Mother was ceremoniously buried in the ancestral tomb of the Wang family after the first seven years. Xuanyuan Hui solemnly kowtowed six times in front of the Queen Mother's mausoleum, three times for himself and three times for brothers.
On this day, Xuanyuan Hui had nothing to do in the palace, so he looked through the books on Fuze's situation. Fuze is in the southeast, northwest and central five borders, the east is fishing, the south is melons and fruits, the west is salt and oil, the north is grain, and the middle is vegetables. These thousands of vegetables, fruits, grains and oils are not only transported daily for internal consumption on the five continents, but also part of them are used for world trade to meet the needs of other countries outside the five continents.
For example, Fukuzawa provides giant fruits and vegetables to the giant country where everyone is more than four or five meters tall every year in exchange for labor for large-scale construction; small vegetables and fruits are provided to the country of flowers in exchange for the convenience of pollination of fruits, vegetables and flowers; and grain is sold to other countries on the five continents in exchange for gold and silver objects, and then the gold and silver objects are exchanged with the lake people and the sea people in exchange for the convenience of fishing and animal husbandry from the lakes and seas. In addition, there are Lilliputian Kingdom, Diren Kingdom, Shuren Country, Glacier Country, etc., all of which are more or less traded with Fukuzawa.
To a greater or lesser extent, there are traders, laborers, or displaced people living in the five continents, but they do not belong to the five continents and do not participate in the politics of the five continents.
At present, the agricultural industry in the southeast, northwest, and northwest is dominated by private merchants, who recruit farmers every year, produce agricultural products, and then sell them to the government at a certain price. Although the government allowed many companies to compete, the agricultural market in the south, east, and west had long been controlled by the five major families that had joined together, and small merchants could not squeeze into the market at all. These five families are the Sun family in the east, the Li family in Nanjing, the Qian family in the west, the Wang family in the north, and the Liu family in the middle.
Xuanyuan Hui pinched his fingers and calculated, now Ming should have almost passed the territory of the Liu family in the middle realm, and was about to reach the junction of the middle realm and the northern realm.
"Your Royal Highness, the Queen has asked you to go to Cining Palace to speak. "The handmaid has come to report.
"Got it. ”
Xuanyuan Hui put away the book, got up from the table and went to the queen. Entering the queen's palace, the queen was sitting in danger and waiting in the palace.
After the queen gave Xuanyuan Hui a seat, she went straight to the topic, "The war in the north is in full swing, and King Yue intends to send you over to experience, this may be the last test before you ascend to the crown prince's throne." Set off in a few days, and the carriages and horses will be ready for you after eating the mother. ”
"Erchen also wanted to go to the north to explore. ”
"Well, be careful, and make sure you get back safely. The queen advised.
"Yes, Queen Mother, the sons will be careful. ”
"I heard that you sent a team of men and horses to secretly escort Xuanyuan Ming?" the queen suddenly changed her words.
"After all, he is a son's son, a brother. Xuanyuan Hui calmed.
"Thou too much of a woman's kindness, he will miss a great matter one day!" said the queen, angrily. "Stand down, I'm tired. ”
Xuanyuan Hui stood up and took his leave respectfully.
At this moment, what the queen thinks in her heart is that her son is too emotional, and he does not have the ruthlessness, ruthlessness and ruthlessness that an emperor should have. Right now, only herself, the mother, is the one who paves the way for him to eradicate dissent. The queen of the guards who escorted Xuanyuan Ming has been spotted, and Xuanyuan Ming will not be able to reach the north alive. Even if they are lucky enough to reach the northern border, there will be another group of guards with strong martial arts waiting there, eradicating the group of guards sent by Xuanyuan Ming and even the benevolence of the Hui woman in one fell swoop.
Let me bear the people of the world, and not the people of the world bear me, this is what the queen has learned in the deep palace for many years. And as a mother, she puts her son first, and everything that prevents her son from ascending to the throne must be uprooted by her one by one!
On Xuanyuan Ming's side, the carriage and horse are almost at the junction of the central and northern borders. In order to get rid of Xuanyuan Ming as soon as possible and return to his life, the leader of the escort guards thought of breaking into the death forest at the junction of the north and the middle.
The forest was very eerie, and there was often fog inside, and there were countless beasts and swamps, and those who entered it were often frightened and looked for a way out, but in confusion they were eaten by the beasts, or fell into some swamp. The people trapped in the forest of death, no matter how they struggle to call for help, they can't wait for a response until they die. Because there are no living people in the Death Forest, most of the people who come in here are dead.
So One-Eyed led his men with a horsewhip and tended to move the team forward quickly. In the distance, Bai Feng and his party were originally squatting under the tree to rest and eat, and the pots and bowls had just been laid out, but they didn't expect that the team in front of them was suddenly about to run away with a horsewhip. So Bai Feng and his entourage also quickly got on the horse to chase after him. You can chase a mile ahead, and suddenly see a fork in the road in front of you, all the way to the north, all the way to an unknown wood.
"You five, hurry up to the north! You five follow me here!" Bai Feng commanded on horseback with a leather whip.
To the left, this is the Death Forest leading to the junction of the northern border of the Middle Realm, this forest is extremely evil, and those who enter it will not come back alive. Bai Feng's subordinates reported.
"Don't come if you're afraid of death!" Bai Feng clamped the horse's belly and galloped forward, with three or four guards riding horses to follow. The guard who proposed the "Death Forest" hesitated for a moment, and then chased after him quickly.
Walking to the edge of the Dead Forest, there was a whistling wind in the forest. If there is no wind today, where does the wind come from? and I heard a strange howl of some species, which startled the horse, and the horse refused to go forward. So Bai Feng lost his horse and continued to walk forward. Before I knew it, I had walked into the forest of death, but the more I walked, the more strange it became.
It was filled with fog, and the smoke enveloped all kinds of strangely and scary-growing trees. The woods were silent, except for the long cries of unknown creatures from within.
"Look, General, it's this crooked neck tree again! We've been to this tree before!"
Bai Feng looked at it fixedly. Sure enough, from the moment they approached the forest, they seemed to be in a labyrinth, and no matter which direction they went, they all returned to the same place!
And Bai Feng is even more responsible at this time, Xuanyuan Ming doesn't know where he is at this time, whether he is in danger!
Xuanyuan Ming was naturally still alive at this time, and he was being held hostage by one-eyed and other guards, walking on the other side of the Death Forest.
"Boss, Prince Hui's people are gone!"
"Great! Then we're going to kill the sinner!"
The One-Eyed team first walked around the edge of the Dead Forest, and then saw a path that led in. According to One-Eye's childhood memories, if you walk a mile along this path, you will see a canyon, and then you will be able to walk along the canyon until you can safely get out of the forest.
But today is also weird, first there was fog, and the few who followed behind the team were lost inexplicably. But it doesn't matter, One-Eye just needs to shake off the white wind. Now, they only need to learn about Xuanyuan Ming here, and then they will take the trail and return to Fukuzawa Kyoto to report to their master.
One-eyed drew the long knife at his waist and headed for Xuanyuanming's carriage. He lifted the curtain, and it was empty, and Xuanyuan Ming didn't know when he was no longer inside.
"Damn, this kid ran away!"
"Boss, it should be nearby, he couldn't have jumped into the carriage when he was in a hurry just now, he must have stopped and talked for a moment and ran away. He can't run too far after eating the Lost Soul!"
"Find!"
So the One-Eyed men raised their knives and slashed at the grass.
Xuanyuan Ming was indeed hiding behind a tree outside the grass behind the carriage at this time, and only then did he take advantage of the gap between one-eyed's words, he forced his body to roll off the carriage, and climbed forward five meters desperately, and then hid behind a low tree.
"Ahh
Suddenly, I heard One-Eye and his subordinates crying wolf, and there seemed to be a mess behind them. The light and shadow were projected on the pool in front of Xuanyuan Ming's right, and I saw that the one-eye was thrown into the air, as if a strange force was tearing it, and the one-eye was solved in mid-air. I also saw that the bodies of several other guards were also thrown into the air in the same way and disposed of.
Could it really be a terrible ghost? The terrible ghosts that I had heard from the star master and others in the Fukuzawa Palace really exist?
Xuanyuan thought and turned his head to look. But I saw a terrifying and distorted grimace looking at him face to face from behind a tree.
Frightened, he fell backwards and slid down the hill.