Xie Lin traveled day and night, and finally arrived at Qingyang City before dawn today. Qingyang City has not yet been rebuilt, and there are ruins everywhere. The smell of rotting dead people permeates the air above Qingyang City.

The sky is gloomy and it looks like it's going to rain.

The spy hurried up to him and said, "Sir, there is good news. The Princess of Cheng'an County was rescued from the ruins at some point. Her life is not in danger."

Xie Lin's whole body trembled and he stood there in a daze. Suddenly, the smile rushed to his throat and made him cough violently.

She didn't die, she was rescued!

Xie Lin found that his back and palms were covered with sweat.

This was the best news he had heard in recent days.

The spy added: "The County Lord of Cheng'an has stored a lot of food and hid it in the village. She started loading it onto trucks in the middle of the night and should have already left the village for Qingyang City."

Xie Lin's hands were trembling slightly under his sleeves, and he blurted out: "Which village? Take me there now."

If she wanted to escort food to Qingyang City, he would pick her up halfway.

When he came, he imagined all kinds of scenes, such as her lying on the ruins with wounds all over her body, or her falling into an eternal sleep, and Baihua and the others couldn't wake her up no matter how hard they tried... He even imagined the scene where Chu Heyi was still buried under the ruins, waiting for him to rescue her.

He had thought of many terrible scenarios, but he never expected such a good result now. He couldn't wait to go in the direction she came from at this moment.

She must have a lot of people around her, and everything may have been arranged by her. He may not be able to give her any help this time, but he still wants to go.

I can't help wanting to go, so I'll go now.

It would be good even if I could see her a moment earlier.

……

At the fork of the mountain, the girl was wearing a red cloak, a red hood, and even her face was covered with a red veil. No one could see her true appearance. They only knew that she was the leader.

In addition to the coachmen who were responsible for driving the carts, she also arranged twenty guards to protect the eight ox carts.

After the ox cart climbed up the hill, there was a flat road about twenty meters in front, which crossed the mountain. There was a towering cliff on the right and a cliff on the left. Under the cliff, there were bushes and thorns, and the valley below was a barren land.

Twenty guards were actually quite a lot, but the other side had more people, as many as fifty.

Although they look like bandits in costume, they are actually powerful killers who kill people with every blow of their swords and knives.

The woman in red, with twenty guards, blocked eight ox carts and fought with them.

In the misty forest, someone's blood spurted out, spraying in the mist and the forest, making everything wet.

"We will stop these people. You quickly drive the ox cart to Qingyang City. Someone will meet you there!" said the woman in red.

She held a long sword in her hand and stood in front of fifty assassins with twenty guards. Some of them might have been injured, but no one took a step back.

The drivers were in a hurry to drive the ox cart away.

But the murderer leaped up and, using the force of the cliff halfway up the mountain, caught up with him.

The two sides fought again, and no ox carts could move forward. They were always caught up and surrounded.

More and more people are injured.

The face and body of the woman in red were splattered with blood. The opponent's blood stained on the long sword was still dripping down. She said: "You are robbers, and you just want to steal our food. I will give it to you!"

The killers gradually stopped, not because they wanted food, but because they wanted to see what the woman in red was trying to do and whether they could find another opportunity to kill her in one fell swoop.

She was really hard to deal with.

If we kill her, the leader, the people behind her will naturally be defeated.

Nearly a hundred people from both sides stopped and confronted each other.

The assassin leader said, "Okay, if you give us the food, we will let you live."

This was of course a lie, it was just to make the red-dressed lady and the others relax their vigilance so that they could kill them by surprise.

There were drops of blood on the eyelids of the woman in red, but her eyes were extremely firm. She looked at the killers in front of her with clear eyes.

"Brothers, are you ready?" she asked in a loud and clear voice.

The twenty guards and eight drivers looked at each other and took a deep breath, "All ready!"

The voices echoed in the mountains.

The assassin leader felt something was wrong. Wasn't he supposed to give them food? Why did they look so ready to die?

It was this thought that made him stunned for a short moment. It was really just a short moment, and the eight drivers had already unloaded the cart loaded with grain from the oxen's backs.

"What are you going to do!" The leader of the assassins suddenly came to his senses, and he and the assassins behind him were instantly filled with murderous intent and were ready to attack.

However, torches suddenly appeared in the hands of the coachmen, which completely ignited the sacks of grain, and the fire quickly spread.

The guards immediately rushed to them, in groups of two or three, pushing the burning cart and rushing towards the killers. The killers were unable to dodge and were in great chaos.

Xie Lin was on the other side of the flat road. When he heard the echo and rushed over with his men, this was the scene he saw.

——The girl, dressed in red, was fighting in the fire with twenty guards. The wind blew her skirt and blew blood onto her body, but she did not dodge and fought with all her might.

Xie Lin said in a clear voice: "Go up and take them all down!"

The killers had already been scattered by the burning ox cart and were in a panic. They had to avoid the fire while dealing with the girl in red and others. It was really difficult to cope. Now another wave of helpers came. If they continued fighting, they would definitely be caught.

As soon as he thought about it, the assassin leader turned around and retreated. Seeing this, his men also retreated.

Xie Lin's eyes were filled with coldness, and he ordered his men to chase after them: "Catch them, don't let any of them go!"

The secret guards chased after them!

Xie Lin strode forward to the red-dressed woman. The girl took off her veil and bowed: "Thank you for your help, sir. Baihua is grateful."

Xie Lin froze and blurted out: "Why is it you?"

"My daughter guessed that someone would not let her transport the grain to Qingyang City smoothly, so she asked me to dress up as her and pretend to transport the grain."

Xie Lin looked at the sack that was still burning next to him. The sack was covered by flames and he couldn't see what was inside, but he knew at this moment that there was definitely no food in the sack.

A faint smile appeared on his lips. This was a solution that Chu Heyi could think of.

He asked, "If I hadn't arrived just now, how would you have escaped? You are no match for those fifty people."

Baihua pointed to the bottom of the cliff and said, "Let's get ready to jump off the cliff. This cliff is only two meters high. There is flat ground after we jump down, which is blocked by trees. We only found out about this in advance. After we jump down, we will quietly leave the forest and go to the girl."

Xie Lin took a deep breath. Fortunately, he arrived in time. If he had been a little later and saw them jumping down, he would have jumped down as well.

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