Late at night, Xiong Gongzizhong and Gongsun Chao sat next to a fire and roasted it.

They had been sleeping like this for several days in a row, but fortunately, although Jingchu was humid in the past few days, it had not rained.

Kumanaka looked at the dry cake in his hand, sighed, and then threw it viciously into the fire.

"Childe, don't waste it!" Gongsun Chao hurriedly picked up the dry cake from the fire and blew the ash on it.

"I've had enough of eating this weedy cake for 10 days. ”

"It's a wild vegetable, not a weed. Gongsun Chao corrected, "What can be eaten is wild vegetables, and what cannot be eaten is wild grass." ”

"It's all the same. Xiong Zhong retorted, "What is delicious is the vegetable, and what is not delicious is the grass." ”

In the face of Xiongzhong's willfulness, Gongsun Chao didn't care, he took out a clay bowl filled with water and soaked the cake in it.

"You can't spoil the grain like this, this wild vegetable cake, a little salt is a salty cake, a little sugar is a sweet cake, there is nothing richer than this. ”

Xiong Zhong got up, stretched his waist, and said in a somewhat crying and laughing tone: "I really don't know if you are optimistic or what." ”

"What can I do, be quietly led by my own monarch, run to Shouchun a hundred miles away, if I can't find some fun for myself, I will be driven crazy sooner or later. ”

Gongsun Chao's tone carried a hint of resentment.

"You actually know that we are heading to Shouchun City?" Xiong Zhong was a little surprised.

"Of course, no matter how stupid I am, I can guess that I am heading towards Shouchun all the way east. ”

Gongsun Chao said, took a bite of the cake soaked in hot water, and immediately showed a somewhat disgusting expression.

It can be seen that this cake is indeed not as delicious as he said.

"Hahahahaha, looking at your expression, you really look disgusting, right?" Xiong Zhong laughed twice, and then proposed, "Why don't we go hunting and improve our food." ”

"Don't do it, Yingdu has definitely sent people to hunt you down, we just need to do what we need to do as soon as possible. Gongsun Chao looked at the bubble cake in the bowl, closed his eyes, and drank it directly into his stomach with hot water.

What a good man.

Xiong Zhong couldn't help frowning, feeling a little sick to his stomach in his heart, and immediately thought of a topic to alleviate his psychological effects.

"Zichao, do you think it is possible for Qu Yanji to give birth to a son?"

Gongsun Chao hammered his chest, drank another sip of hot water, let the food just now, and then said: "How do I know this, I am not an immortal." ”

"If it's a son, I have a brother who is sixteen years younger than me. Xiong Zhong suddenly laughed, "Hey, if you go out, you can pretend to be a father and son." In the future, my son may not be a few years younger than him, and he will call a man who is only three or four years older uncle, and that scene must be interesting. ”

Gongsun Chao looked at Xiong Zhong a little strangely: "Are you a little stupid because of too much pressure recently? If you can't become the king of Chu, then you will definitely be executed directly, and you won't even have time to have a wife, where is your son?"

"I will definitely become the king of Chu. Xiong Zhong looked at Gongsun Chao and showed a confident smile, "I will definitely do it." ”

Gongsun Chao was a little uncomfortable by him, kept blinking his eyes, drank a sip of water, and said, "After you become the king of Chu, will you still let Qu Yanji's son grow up?"

"Hmm......" Xiong Zhong pondered for a moment, and suddenly asked rhetorically, "Zichao, do you have a younger brother?"

"Well, yes. Gongsun Chao nodded.

"And what's your relationship with your brother?"

"It's the kind in the average family, it's pretty good. ”

"Yes, in an ordinary family, there is usually a younger brother. Xiong Zhong looked at the deep starry sky and said, "When I was very young, my father told me that I was the future king of Chu.

With such a vast territory of the Chu State, it will be my home in the future. It is also my responsibility to let more than 8 million people live and work in peace and contentment. When I was a child, I thought how nice it would be if I had a younger brother who helped me run the country, just like my father's brothers.

If there is a younger brother, maybe the family can be more lively, go to the palace school together, sneak out to play together, and be punished by the father together. So I kept thinking about how nice it would be if I had a younger brother. ”

"If it's your brother, that's fine. Gongsun Chao persuaded him, "But this is the child of the Danyang Qu family, the child of Qu Yanji, Qu Yanji is about the same age as you, ......."

"So what? This time the prisoner of Yingdu is just a mess between Qu and Bai Gongsheng, what does it have to do with Qu Yanji and the child in her belly?"

Xiong Sheng kept stirring the bonfire and said, "Since Qu Yanji has joined the royal family, she is the woman of my Xiong royal family, and the child in her belly is even more innocent. If my heart can't even accommodate just women and children, how can I accommodate the whole world?"

Xiong Sheng threw the branch in his hand into the fire: "It's a big deal, Qu Yanji will be put under house arrest, and I will personally raise my younger brother as an adult." ”

"Childe ......" Gongsun Chao immediately knelt down, "Childe is benevolent and kind, and he must revitalize Jingchu!"

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In the early morning of the next day, Gongsun Chao and Gongzizhong were riding horses in the woods while looking for Lou Yi.

In ancient times, there was no GPS positioning system, and there was no intelligent navigation, so you could only judge where you were based on the general terrain and crude maps around you.

Lou Yi, a city of a thousand households, is not big, but not small.

In fact, the quickest way is to find Shouchun City, which is connected to the official roads that extend in all directions, and Lou Yi is not far from Shouchun.

But Xiong Zhong and Gongsun Chao are now wanted, and can only take small roads to detour. The trail is a road that passes through the mountains and forests, and although it is a bit detouring and dangerous, it is difficult to be discovered.

"Is this the right path?" asked Kumanaka in a strange tone.

"The woodcutter said that if you bypass this old crane mountain, you can see the ten-mile plain of Yanlouyi. ”

"Then why haven't we bypassed it yet? "Some of the bears were unable to maintain their shape, and they lay limply on their horses.

The Jingchu Mountains and Forests were damp and stuffy, and his clothes were already wet with sweat, heavy and sticky.

"Wangshan ran a dead horse, but it was coming soon. Gongsun Chao wiped the sweat on his face with his sleeve and took a sip of water, "It is said that there were many timber wolves and big black bears on this road before, but there is a strange person in Louyi, who will kill several black bear wolf kings here every day, which makes this forest so safe." ”

"Kill every day?!Are you kidding?"

As soon as this strange thing was mentioned, Xiong Zhong became energetic, sat up and asked, "And there are several wolf kings, how can the wolf king be killed so easily." ”

"This thing is quite famous, I've heard it several times when I asked for directions before. ”

Compared with the extravagant Xiongzhong, Gongsun Chao is more "down-to-earth", so it is up to Gongsun Chao to ask for directions or something.

Gongsun Chao explained, "That strange man is said to be a small nobleman of the Shouchun Mi clan, who would go out hunting every day, and then return to the city every day with several animal skins, as well as the carcasses of one or two black bears and timberwolves. The wolf skins and wolf corpses are in good condition, and they are very large, even if they are not the wolf kings, they are amazing enough. ”

"Such a strange person is really a hero. ”

In Xiongzhong's eyes, he was unusually yearning for this kind of force, which was already extremely strong.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, due to frequent wars, almost everyone was martial. Because only strong force is the most reliable guarantee in times of war.

"Yes, it is indeed a hero. Gongsun Chao nodded, "But in comparison, the mayor of Lou Yi and this one are simply worlds apart." ”

"Who's that?"

"Qu Tian of the Danyang Qu Clan, you should have heard of the loss of a thousand officers and soldiers to the Fifty Mountain Bandits, right?" Gongsun Chao said as he let out a cold snort of disdain, "This waste almost defeated them Qu Clan to give him a hundred Danyang soldiers, and it turned out to be ......"

"Shhhh

"Childe?"

Xiong Zhong frowned and said, "Don't you think it's strange?"

"Eh?" Gongsun Chao was a little confused, "Isn't it strange that the big Qu clan has one or two wastes?"

"No, it's so quiet here, I haven't heard even a little insect or birdsong since just now. After Kumanaka finished speaking, he closed his eyes, and could only hear the rustle of leaves in the wind.

Although the mountains and forests of Jingchu are quiet, they will definitely not be the scene of "all the silence" now.

"Childe, look, there's a family there, and the yard is not small. ”

After the two saw the house, they immediately sped up their horsepower, but when they walked in and took a closer look, they found that the courtyard was extremely weird.

It is a courtyard of very considerable size, and it looks like a large family or a small and medium-sized nobleman.

The courtyard has stone walls two and a half meters high with some simple herbal decorations on the walls.

"Childe......" Gongsun Chao looked at his monarch with a slight hesitation.

"Don't worry. Xiong Zhong frowned, telling Gongsun Chao to calm down.

It was as if the courtyard had been through a war—not because it was riddled with holes and ruined, but because it had a large number of sharp spears sharpened from bamboo.

The door of the courtyard was nailed with iron nails, and there were some small carts at the door, blocking the door rigidly.

"Is there an invasion?" asked Gongsun Chao.

"No, if it's an invasion, you should block the inside, not the outside. Xiong Zhong retorted.

"Childe, I'll go up to the wall and have a look. ”

"Be careful in everything, especially on the ground, beware of traps. Xiong Zhong reminded.

"Understood. Gongsun Chao nodded, picked up a bamboo pole scattered next to him, and climbed over the wall in a few clicks.

"Childe, there's also a cart blocking behind the door, I'll move it out!"

"Be careful!" Xiong Zhong shouted, but Gongsun Chao had already jumped down with a bamboo pole, and he didn't know if he heard it.

The bear waited for a moment, only to find that there was no sound behind the door.

"Hoo ——!"

A gust of wind blew, and the sweat-soaked clothes on his body were even colder, making him shiver.

"Zichao?"

He tried to call out to the wall, but there was no response but the sound of the wind.

"Zichao?"

“......”

"Zichao?!"

“......”

"Zichao !!"

"Bang Dang ——!"