I started as an exile, and I relied on space to support my family of loyal heroes.

The palace guards who were lying on the ground all looked up at Du Tianli.

These days they have been chasing the Xiao family and the wild beasts have been chasing them.

There is no shortage of food. There are so many wild animals that it is enough to kill a few.

The key is that there is no salt, so I don’t have the energy to eat it.

There is also a lack of water.

There was still water in the previous two hills, but this hill is so dry. I didn’t find any water for two days. I was really dying of thirst.

Du Tianli raised his head and took a deep breath. The hot breath passed through his swollen and painful throat, and his whole body trembled in pain.

He looked like he was about to break down, and he wanted to cry after chasing all the way.

Why can't I catch up with that person? That person suddenly disappears without any trace of life.

Du Tianli looked back dejectedly, but the team behind him didn't send any signal.

To ensure everything went smoothly, he divided the team into two small teams.

He led one team to set off a day in advance, and the other team stayed there for a day before setting off again.

In this way, no matter whether the Xiao family is in front or behind, they cannot escape from his grasp.

(Lin Yiran: Haha, you didn’t expect that, did you? We stayed in the Royal Cemetery for three or four days. Even if you were one day slower, you were still one hill faster than us, slightly…)

Du Tianli looked at everyone's faces with a tired look on his face and said in a hoarse voice,

"How could a wild beast eat a person so cleanly? No clothes were left behind. If you report this to the emperor, will the emperor believe it?"

"Rest for a while and continue chasing. Maybe they didn't walk on the ground, but walked through the trees to avoid wild animals."

"Xiao Yunzhan's Qinggong is so good, and the Xiao family's private soldiers' Qinggong is not much worse. It should be easy for them to carry someone flying from a tree."

"Keep your eyes open. Even if we can't find the Xiao family, we must at least find their clothes. At least we have something to hand in."

Du Tianli raised his head and squinted his eyes to look forward, and continued,

"Even if the Xiao family has already escaped from these mountains, with Commander Zhao guarding the foot of the mountain, they can't escape even if they have wings..."

When Jiang Xu heard this, his shoulders collapsed instantly, and he seemed to have lost all his energy.

He would rather believe that all the Xiao family members were eaten by wild beasts than believe that the Xiao family could walk out of the mountains so easily.

If this is true, then the Xiao family's private soldiers are too powerful and they have no chance of winning at all.

Jiang Xu sat down on the ground with his eyelids drooping tiredly.

Glancing at his colleagues who had full beards and disheveled hair and looked like savages, he suddenly felt very sad.

If they return to the capital like this, they might not even be able to enter the city gate and will be blocked outside the city as refugees.

Hey ~

What is this?

The other palace guards had long lost the ferocity they had when they first caught up with them. After traveling at their maximum speed for five or six days, any ferocity they had would have long been worn out.

"set off!"

Du Tianli looked up at the scorching sun and shouted in a hoarse voice.

He couldn't stay in this place. He was so thirsty that he had to move on to find some water to drink.

Even if his legs weighed a thousand pounds, he would continue to chase forward.

If he fails to capture the Xiao family, Emperor Wu of Liang will definitely execute him.

He and the Xiao family are at war until death and cannot reconcile!

"Ah~"

"Hey~"

.l......

The palace guards wailed and had no choice but to open their eyes, which were about to close.

They used the chopped curled-edge swords as crutches, propped up their almost falling apart bodies, exerted all their strength, and took heavy steps.

Du Tianli smoothed his tangled and smelly hair and stood up with difficulty.

He was not much better than everyone else. He had to grit his teeth and keep chasing because his head was hanging on his neck.

...........

"There is a cave here. Let's spend the night here."

Xiao Yunzhan glanced at the scorching sun, thought for a moment, and decided not to hurry on.

It may not be possible to find such a cave suitable for spending the night ahead.

After all, there are too many wild animals in the deep mountains, and it is too dangerous to spend the night without a cave.

Lin Yiran glanced at the time on her phone. It was 4:30 in the afternoon.

The trees near the cave are not very tall, and the leaves are drooping, so the light is relatively bright.

The atmosphere of drought enveloped the mountains madly, and they traveled all day without seeing any water.

Several mountain spring pools have long dried up, and the air is so dry that it makes people feel uneasy.

Fortunately, Lin Yiran still had a jar of water in the large clay jar she was holding.

Every time she drank water, she would quietly add some water to it.

"That's fine. Let's dig some wild vegetables nearby while it's still early."

She wanted to eat baked sweet potatoes again, but last time both of them were burnt.

Later, she was so busy grilling the meat that she forgot there was a sweet potato roasting by the fire.

By the time she finished her meal and remembered it, it had already turned into charcoal.

She secretly opened it and took a look, and was chilled to the bone.

She didn't dare to say a word and quietly stuffed two charcoal-like sweet potatoes into the fire.

As soon as Lin Yiran finished speaking, Old Madam Xiao turned her head and looked at her nervously.

"How do you plan to eat the wild boar tonight? We have all the seasonings. You can grill it and eat it."

You greedy girl, do you understand what your mother means?

We already have wild boar meat, so there’s no need to come up with anything else.

It's such a hot day and the meat can't be kept. Two wild boar trotters weighing thirty or forty kilograms are enough to eat.

The weather was extremely hot, and there was not a breath of wind. My second sister-in-law wiped the sweat from her forehead and opened her sticky mouth.

"Okay, I'll go find some wild vegetables with my fourth brother's wife. We'll stew pork with wild vegetables. I've never eaten this before, so let's try it and see how it goes."

If my fourth brother’s wife wants to eat wild vegetables, just find some. It’s not a big deal.

Whatever her fourth brother's wife wants to do, she is the first to support her.

Old Madam Xiao glanced at Yao Wenhong speechlessly.

This guy is also stupid. Why is he making a fuss at this time?

If you don't finish all the food and make more, it will be so tiring for the greedy girl to carry it.

This girl didn't let anyone else take anything. She was the one carrying the two extremely heavy pottery jars all the way.

Even if you are strong, it is tiring to hold it in such a hot day.

The sister-in-law's eyes flickered slightly and she smiled.

My fourth brother’s wife is in really good spirits.

I don’t know what my fourth sister-in-law wants to eat now, she is quite curious.

The third sister-in-law squinted her eyes and looked around. She looked at the wilted grass on the ground and frowned slightly.

If the mountains are in such a state, one can imagine what it's like in places with fewer trees.

I guess the wild vegetables don’t grow very well, so go look for them, at least there are some good ones.

Xiao Yunzhan paused slightly, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

He placed the two wild boar trotters at the entrance of the cave and turned around to take the large pottery jar from Lin Yiran's hand.

Xiao Yunzhan held the pottery jar filled with water, his eyebrows slightly raised.

When he put down the pottery jar, he lifted the lid and took a look.

After drinking water for a whole day, the water in the pottery jar was not much less.

Xiao Yunzhan's eyes flickered slightly, and he closed the lid with a faint smile, pretending not to notice.

After Xiao Yunzhan took away the two clay pots in Lin Yiran's hand one by one, she turned around and looked at her second sister-in-law with a smile.

"Okay, sister-in-law, let's each take a sword, it will be more convenient to dig wild vegetables and save some effort."