Taming beasts starts with understanding bird language

Nanxing Kuang ignored Xuanyuan Lie's muttering.

He ordered a soldier to bring an incense burner to the shore, lit a long stick of incense and said, "Second Prince, watch carefully. The time limit is one stick of incense. If you catch them all within this time, I will spare them. But if you can't catch them, it's none of my business."

"Okay, I'll fight, come on!" Xuanyuan Lie said gritting his teeth.

Nan Xing Kuang waved his hand and gave an order, and several palace guards were immediately kicked into the water by the soldiers.

As they were tied up tightly, when they fell into the water, they were just like fish. They could only twist their bodies to barely keep themselves from sinking into the water.

Xuanyuan Lie stood on the shore, looking extremely anxious, and quickly swung the fishing rod in his hand to try to hook them.

Yan Xishan and Guo Huai were also busy helping out.

After working for a while, the three men finally caught a eunuch on the hook. Then they tried their best to pull it up. However, since they had never fished before, they had no idea that when fishing, they could not use brute force to bring the fish ashore. They could only use cleverness and slowly drag the fish to the shore while sliding through the water.

In this way, the three people pulled him hard.

"Snapped!"

Not long after, the hemp rope on the fishing rod was snapped by them.

The eunuch guard who had just been pulled to the shore suddenly sank into the water. After taking a few gulps of water, he desperately twisted his body and swam up.

Xuanyuan Lie and the other two fell backwards to the ground, grimacing in pain.

"Hahaha……"

All the people standing on the shore were laughing.

Bai Jingtian couldn't bear it any longer and wanted to rush over to help, but Gu Chan quickly reached out and grabbed him, shaking her head at him and said, "Don't go over there."

"But if I don't go to help, they will all drown." Bai Jingtian said anxiously.

"You have to understand that a wise bird chooses the right tree to rest in. Since these people have chosen the Second Prince as their master, they should bear the consequences brought to them by their master. I am not here to kill them today, but to let their master personally save them. But if their master himself is unable to save them, who can they count on?" Gu Chan said with a cold face.

Bai Jingtian clenched his fists tightly, stared at Gu Chan, and refused to take another step forward.

He understood that what Gu Chan said made sense. This was the way the world was. If you chose the right master, rapid success would be a matter of time. But if you chose the wrong master, you would end up dying in vain.

In the battle last night, it was obvious that Xuanyuan Lie and the other two made a mistake in judgment, which led to the consequences today.

If Xuanyuan Lie can't do it now, to rescue these palace guards in such a simple situation, then he is not qualified to be a master!

After figuring this out, Bai Jingtian finally turned around and turned his back to the several eunuchs who were swimming desperately on the surface of the river.

At this moment, tears welled up in his eyes. With his strength, it would be easy for him to rescue these people, but he couldn't do anything. This was the most painful thing for him.

As for Xuanyuan Lie and the other two.

After the hemp rope on the fishing rod broke, they all looked panicked and stood on the shore, at a loss as to what to do.

Nan Xing Kuang, who was standing not far away, couldn't bear to watch any longer and quickly shouted, "Someone, give the Second Prince and his men a new fishing rod."

"Yes, General." A soldier responded and quickly handed over a new fishing rod.

After Xuanyuan Lie got the second fishing rod, he tried desperately to hook someone like before, and hooked a palace guard. He did not learn from the first lesson, and called Yan Xishan and Guo Huai to pull them hard.

As expected, the hemp rope on the second fishing rod was quickly broken by them.

This time, Nan Xing Kuang did not choose to help them again. He just urged them, "Second Prince, the incense stick is almost burned out. You have to speed up. Otherwise, they will not be able to hold on and sink into the water before the incense is burned out."

"General, the rope is broken again. Can you give me another fishing rod?" Xuanyuan Lie said anxiously.

"No more. We only prepared two fishing rods. You guys figure it out yourself!" Nan Xingkuang shook his head.

Xuanyuan Lie shouted anxiously at Yan Xishan and Guo Huai, "Think of a solution! Hurry up!"

"Master, the hemp ropes on the two fishing rods are broken, and the fish hooks are hooked on the two guards. We have no hooks!" Yan Xishan said with his hands spread out.

"How can we fish them out without a hook? We're doomed now." Guo Huai said anxiously, stamping his feet.

Gu Chan said coldly, "You two pig-heads, just tie the hemp ropes from the two broken fishing rods to one fishing rod, and then tie the rope to a person, and let this person go into the water to fish them out. The general said that we just need to fish them out, but he didn't say that you must use a fishhook to fish them out."

"Yes, yes, yes. Yan Xishan, you go into the water and fish. Mr. Guo and I will pull you on the shore with fishing rods." Xuanyuan Lie said with his eyes lighting up.

"Ah? Master, I... I'm not good at swimming!" Yan Xishan said with a pale face.

Guo Huai didn't care about him at all. He untied the broken hemp rope on the other fishing rod and connected it to the hemp rope of the fishing rod in Xuanyuan Lie's hand. Then he tied one end of the connected hemp rope to the belt behind Yan Xishan.

"Master, I... I really can't do it... The water is too deep... I..." Yan Xishan waved his hands and retreated, not daring to go down at all.

Xuanyuan Lie raised his foot angrily and kicked him in the stomach, cursing, "You bastard, get off me!"

"Pfft!"

Yan Xishan was immediately kicked into the water by Xuanyuan Lie with a splash.

Xuanyuan Lie and Guo Huai were on the shore, holding the fishing rods and pulling him to prevent him from sinking into the water.

However, after Yan Xishan got into the water, he could only flap around in the water like a duck that couldn't swim, and there was no way he could rescue anyone!

Xuanyuan Lie cursed angrily, "You useless thing, you always show off in front of me, saying how great you are. Now I ask you to go into the water to rescue someone, but you can't even do it, and you still have the nerve to brag about how great you are! What use do I have for you?"

“Master… Gulp… I… I’m really not a good swimmer… Gulp…” Yan Xishan shouted while struggling, the water gurgling into his mouth.

Even with Xuanyuan Lie and Guo Huai pulling him with fishing rods on the shore, they could not stop him from sinking.

Over the years, he had been eating a lot of greasy food in the Jiangnan area, and his body was fat and bloated. It was already very hard for him to keep himself from sinking. It was simply impossible for him to rescue those palace guards!