Don't go back to hometown

"Master!!!"

"Master is here!"

The appearance of Jiang Xianyu brightened the eyes of Lao Zheng and the bodyguards, and instantly gained confidence, and the swords in their hands were a little faster.

The assassin dressed as a bandit saw that he was shot down by an arrow, and there were hundreds of forbidden soldiers coming down the mountain on horseback. The sound of hooves resounded through the valley, and he panicked.

Seeing that the situation was unfavorable, the leading man yelled: "Withdraw!"

The remaining assassins immediately ran up the mountain with him.

Jiang Xianyu, who rode his horse towards the hillside, raised his bow and wanted to shoot, but when he saw the strange shape on the top of the mountain, his face changed drastically, "Don't chase! Get back into the cave!"

At the same time, he reined in his horse and turned around to stop the imperial army behind him: "Stop! All retreat to the east!"

On the mountainside, Lao Zheng and Escort Xu, who were about to catch up with them, stopped and looked up at the top of the mountain, only to see a huge snow mass on the top of the mountain collapsing and rolling in.

Lao Zheng immediately turned around and rushed to Li Yi, pushing him into the cave.

Escort Xu and Escort Zhou also dragged Qian You and others into the cave.

The forbidden army at the foot of the mountain finally reacted, and followed Jiang Xianyu to retreat on a gentle slope to the east.

The snow rolls like a huge wave, rolling down the mountain to the south, with the momentum of destroying the sky and the earth, engulfing the assassins who fled to the top of the mountain, flooding the caves on the mountainside, destroying the dense forest at the foot of the mountain, surging and rushing. go.

Jiang Xianyu reined in his horse and stood on the gentle slope to the east, hurriedly looking for Jiang Baizhou's figure, seeing that the other party was not far behind him, he breathed a sigh of relief.

He was careless!Seeing that the Nine Kings were besieged just now, he rode his horse forward in a hurry, and the forbidden army behind him also followed. The movement of the horses galloping shook the valley, which could easily cause an avalanche in a snow-thawing day.

The old bodyguard told this point, and they kept it in mind along the way, not daring to rush.But just now, at the moment when they finally found the Nine Kings, they were so overjoyed that they almost...almost died here!Fall short!

Jiang Xianyu looked at the tumbling snow waves below, his back was covered in cold sweat, and his face was as pale as snow.

Xie Cheng's face flashed in front of his eyes, thinking of him repeatedly telling himself "don't take risks, don't get hurt", Jiang Xianyu felt lingering fear, his throat was choked and tightened, and it took him a long time to find his own voice, looking at the imperial army behind him, his voice trembled: " Click, click the number of people."

The people who escaped from the dead gradually regained their senses and looked at Jiang Xianyu together.

Twice, the boy in front of him saved them both times.

Jiang Baizhou came to Jiang Xianyu's side on horseback, and he also had lingering fears: "Are you all right?"

Jiang Xianyu shook his head, subconsciously stretched out his hand to him: "It's my fault... I shouldn't push it too hard, I—"

"Xiao Yu," Jiang Baizhou held his hand, "You have done a good job, and your decision is also very correct. Without your vigilance and decisiveness, we would have been buried in a river valley or a sea of ​​snow."

He paused and patted Jiang Xianyu on the head: "You saved all of us, brother is proud of you."

Jiang Xianyu was stunned for a moment, his eye sockets couldn't help getting hot, and there was a layer of watery light in his eyes.

"Master, everyone is here, not one is missing!"

Jiang Xianyu's pupils trembled, and he turned his head to look at the crowd in surprise, tears streaming down his face.He hastily turned his head to face Jiang Baizhou, raised his hand behind everyone's back and wiped his eyes.

Jiang Baizhou smiled slightly and patted him on the shoulder.

Some bodyguards and imperial guards behind him saw him cry, some didn't, but at this moment they all showed the expression of the survivors, looking at him with approval or admiration.

Jiang Xianyu didn't have time to pay attention to their eyes, wiped away his tears and looked up the mountain. The original cave was buried by snow, so he could only judge the approximate location.

He got off his horse and ordered: "Dig the cave, the prince is still inside."

"Yes!"

……

Fortunately, they were "many and powerful", and with their concerted efforts, they finally rescued Nine King Li Yi after an hour.

The outside of the cave was low and the inside was high, and the collapsed snow could not be completely poured into the cave, which gave Li Yi and others breathing space. They were still awake when they were rescued. There were some minor injuries during the fight just now, but overall nothing serious.

Everyone went back to the gentle slope on the east side to repair, and Jiang Xianyu watched the old bodyguard bandage the sword wound on Li Yi's arm.

The wound was a little torn, and the healing was not very good. Fortunately, they brought a complete set of medicinal materials. While applying the trauma medicine, they lit a fire on the spot and boiled him a decoction to dispel cold and reduce inflammation.

But during the bandaging process, Li Yi kept staring at Jiang Xianyu, and it was hard for the latter not to care.

He looked up at Li Yi, and Li Yi smiled at him: "Thank you for saving me."

Jiang Xianyu didn't intend to take credit for it all, and said truthfully: "I was only entrusted by the governor to find someone, and the one who saved you was the imperial army brought by His Royal Highness Cheng."

Li Yi nodded, as if agreeing with him, and asked, "Is your surname Jiang right?"

Jiang Xianyu nodded and said emphatically, "Sheep girl Jiang."

Li Yi was stunned for a moment, and then understood, the smile on his face became more gentle: "I see."

"You look a lot like him," he added.

Jiang Xianyu remembered that Xie Chengtong said to him that the Nine Kings in the previous life said that if the late emperor grew up smoothly, he would be as handsome and dashing as him.

But at the moment he pretended not to understand, tilted his head and asked, "Who?"

Li Yi thought that he really didn't know, or that the longing and guilt accumulated for 20 years was finally overwhelmed at this moment, and he couldn't wait to find someone to confide in, and said, "My little emperor—hiss!"

The face of the old bodyguard who bandaged Li Yi changed slightly, and the movements of his hands unconsciously became heavier. He quickly bowed his head and apologized: "I'm sorry, my lord, I'm so stupid, please bear with me."

Li Yi nodded slightly, no longer mentioned the previous words, but still looked at Jiang Xianyu.

Jiang Xianyu also looked at him.He had never met the Nine Kings in his previous life, but he only knew that Jiang Baizhou was the same age as Jiang Baizhou, two years older than his cousin who died young, and he was born well, with sword eyebrows and star eyes, Yushu Lanzhi, and an upright appearance.

But still a little worse than Xie Cheng.

Thinking of this, Jiang Xianyu suddenly got up: "My lord, take a rest, we will return in two quarters of an hour."

Qian You, who was also bandaging the wound at the side, looked at him in surprise. He never thought that he knew the identity of the prince, but he dared to issue orders to the prince so boldly.Looking at the imperial guards around him, they seemed to be used to listening to the young boy in front of him make decisions.

"My lord——" Qian You wanted to say something, to buy more time for his lord to rest, but Li Yi glanced at him with a hint of warning, and after looking away, he nodded to Jiang Xianyu: "Okay."

Jiang Xianyu saw that Qian You objected, and explained: "We don't have much food and grass left, and it might snow again in the mountains. The prince is injured and needs to recuperate, so he must go out of the mountain as soon as possible."

After finishing speaking, Jiang Xianyu ignored them and went directly to Jiang Baizhou's side, concerned about how much food and grass they had left.

Qian You stared blankly at him walking away, turned his head and met Li Yi's glance at him, and lowered his head in shame: "This subordinate has exceeded the norm."

Li Yi looked at the back of Jiang Xianyu and Jiang Baizhou talking, and said lightly: "He can lead people into the mountains to find me, and he can make the imperial army obey his orders. There must be something special about him. Although I am a prince, my fate It was saved by others, so what right do you have to boss around with your identity?"

"...The subordinate knows his mistake."

The escort over there who was in charge of cooking took out a frozen fresh fish out of nowhere and showed it to Jiang Xianyu, Jiang Xianyu smiled with crooked eyes.

Li Yi felt that the curve of his lips was unfamiliar and familiar, and murmured in a low voice: "According to seniority, I want to call him uncle, and I should listen to him."

Qian You was startled, and looked at Li Yi in surprise.He is Li Yi's confidant, so he naturally knows who Li Yi's uncles are. It can't be those old emperor uncles who can make his prince say that. It seems... It seems that it can only be the Jiang family related to the late emperor!

No wonder, it turned out to be the Jiang family.

……

Afterwards, the return journey was peaceful and there were no accidents.

Three days later, when the food and grass were about to run out, they met King Cheng who was transporting supplies into the mountain, and the Jiangnan army brought by Shen Zhui, the commander of the Tianxin Mansion.

Jiang Xianyu was stunned when he saw the cloak embroidered with Jin Di Tingwen on Shen Zhui's body, turned his head to look at Jiang Baizhou, and led the escorts back to the side.

After Jiang Baizhou came to Huai'an to find Jiang Xianyu, he told him about Shen chasing and entering Jiang's mansion that night.It was also because of Shen Zhui's inexplicable warning that he disagreed with Jiang Xianyu's request to intervene in the nine kings' distress in agreeing to Governor Fang's request.

But Jiang Xianyu's decision to rescue the Nine Kings at that time was not completely unreasonable, so Jiang Baizhou decided to stand by Jiang Xianyu's side and fight for the Jiang family after weighing it up.

Now that I meet Shen Zhui again, I'm afraid it won't be good... I can only adapt to the situation.

Several old bodyguards recognized Shen Zhui, and some recognized the ornamentation on his cloak, silently guarding the sides of Jiang Baizhou and brother, in a defensive posture.

Shen Zhui also noticed them, frowning without anger, he looked at the two brothers Jiang Xianyu.

Jiang Xianyu didn't hide, he straightened his waist and looked over.

On the other side, King Cheng breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Li Yi, stepped forward and asked concerned: "Ninth Brother! Are you okay?"

Li Yi's face was still a little pale, and he raised his arms and smiled reluctantly: "I was injured a little bit, thanks to the help of myna and Jiang's brothers, who helped me escape."

King Cheng patted him on the shoulder: "As long as you are safe, as long as you are safe. This disaster relief matter is still waiting for you to handle it. It's not my brother who I refuse, it's because I really can't handle it, so I can only help you."

King Cheng is expressing his position that he has no intention of taking credit for disaster relief, and that he is willing to assist Li Yi in continuing disaster relief in the future.

Li Yi smiled and said to him: "Brother is joking, brother, I will help you."

"No, no, no! I can't."

This topic will be endless if you keep humbly. King Cheng turned his head to look at Shen Zhui, and said to Li Yi: "This is Shen Zhui, the commander of the Tianxin Mansion, Master Shen. My father just sent Master Shen to Jiangnan to handle errands. Master Shen heard that the ninth brother In danger, the envoy Wu Jiedu refused to send troops, so he immediately reported to the father, who then sent Mr. Shen to lead the troops to the rescue."

Li Yi heard a lot of information from it, but his face remained calm, and he chased after Shen; "Thank you, Mr. Shen."

Shen Zhui looked back at Jiang Xianyu and his brothers, and said to Li Yi: "His Royal Highness Yi Wang is serious, I am late to save you, please forgive me, Your Highness."

Li Yi hurriedly said: "Master Shen is too modest. If you hadn't sent a letter to the capital, this king might be trapped to death in the mountain. And most of the villains who killed this king were buried in the mountain. I am afraid that Lord Shen will have to worry about it." Let’s find out. The next step is to control the disaster situation in the south of the Yangtze River, and Master Shen will still need to lead troops to sit in the town. It’s too late for me to thank Master Shen, so how dare I ask the crime?”

Shen Zhui smiled, received Li Yi's thanks, and also received Li Yi's hint, and understood that the other party wanted to find out who wanted his life, and lead troops to sit in the south of the Yangtze River, so as not to cause riots among the victims, or someone to take the opportunity to do evil.

This is the same as His Majesty's will for him, Shen Zhui was happy to sell Li Yi's favor, and said with a smile: "I am ordered to assist the prince, and I dare not take credit for it."

Jiang Xianyu and Jiang Baizhou had no intention of listening to their mutual compliments, and kept following at the end of the team, discussing their next plans in low voices.

The two teams came out of the mountain mightily.

Li Yi was invited into the prefect's mansion in Huai'an, and a famous doctor in Huai'an treated his injuries.While changing the medicine, Li Yi asked the prefect of Huai'an to report the disaster situation.

Although he had seen several heavy snowfalls in the more than a month trapped in the mountains, he still did not expect to see so many victims in ragged clothes when he entered Huai'an City.

The magistrate of Huai'an hurriedly pleaded guilty: "It's the lower officials' dereliction of duty. There are several states in the south of the Yangtze River. It is true that Huai'an has the worst disaster... This is because Huai'an has the longest and most snowstorms, and the second is because the people of Huai'an are not vigilant enough to the disaster. ..."

Jiang Xianyu and Jiang Baizhou naturally had no chance to hear such secrets, they sent Li Yi to Huai'an City and then returned to the Escort sub-helm.

After soaking in a hot bath, changing into clean and comfortable clothes, and eating a warm meal, Jiang Xianyu and Jiang Baizhou read the letters sent from Jinling these days together, written by Jiang's father and Jiang's mother, and also by Xie Cheng .

At first, there was a letter every few days. Later, the road was blocked by heavy snow, and the letter was later than the letter. The latest letter was delivered half a month ago, but the letter was sent more than 20 days ago.

The letter was written by Xie Cheng, asking him if he was safe and advising him not to take any risks, and to protect himself no matter what.Perhaps because he was afraid that others would see it, he didn't write any private words, but only left a sentence: "Master and mother brought Su He back to the escort agency. He and Qi Xuan have always missed you very much, and hope that you are safe every day."

Xie Cheng didn't say a word about lovesickness, but Jiang Xianyu could read his miss, and his heart ached, his eyes burned, and his heart was even more frightened, not daring to recall the scene of the two accidents in the mountains.

Because of Jiang Baizhou's presence, Jiang Xianyu did not dare to lose his composure, and tried his best to suppress the turbulent emotions.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Baizhou noticed his strangeness and asked concerned.

Jiang Xianyu sniffed: "It's nothing, I want to go home."

Jiang Baizhou patted him on the shoulder to express comfort, "Now my parents are in Jinling, but the canal is blocked and the road is not easy to travel. I wonder if we can go back to reunite a year ago."

It's the end of the twelfth lunar month now, and it will be the new year in a few days, I'm afraid I won't be able to make it in time...

Just as he was thinking, there were hurried footsteps outside the door.

"Master, Shen Zhui is here!"