The Dark and Foolish King: The Fierce and Crazy Concubine Has Infinite Strength

Du Wenjie was swept far away by the river. Only after he confirmed several times that he had shaken off the pursuers did he look towards both banks in panic, trying to find an opportunity to get ashore.

However, the river was too wide and the water was too fierce and fast. He could not stop his body from being washed away, so how could he easily return to the shore?

Judging from the speed of the river, there might be a waterfall ahead. If we are washed down there, the consequences would be disastrous.

Is it still impossible to escape death?

Just when Du Wenjie was at a loss, a light in front of him on the right caught his attention.

Looking closer, I found that it was a kerosene lamp hanging on a tree by the river.

Under the kerosene lamp, a middle-aged man was carrying a large net and throwing it into the water, obviously fishing.

Du Wenjie was overjoyed. He quickly spat out the reed in his mouth and desperately splashed in the water, shouting, "Help! Help!"

The man was startled when he heard the sound, and then he looked in the direction of the sound.

"Help! Help me, man! Pull me up!" Du Wenjie waved his hands vigorously and swam towards the man.

How could someone fall into the water in the middle of the night? The man muttered in surprise, looked around, picked up a long branch that was broken by the wind under the tree, held one end himself, and threw the other end in the direction of the grain officer.

When the current carried him to the position closest to the man, Du Wenjie used up his last bit of strength to grab the stick that the man handed to him, and only then did he stop his drifting body.

"Hold on tight." The man warned, pulling the branch hard and pulling Du Wenjie from the river to the shore.

Du Wenjie got ashore and sat down on the ground exhausted, gasping for breath, his chest heaving like a small drum.

It was so thrilling and he was really exhausted!

The man dropped the branch and squatted beside him. He looked him up and asked, "Who are you? How did you end up in the water in the middle of the night? And why are you covered in wounds..."

Du Wenjie took a few deep breaths, thought for a while, and found an excuse to answer: "I was a businessman passing through here, but unfortunately I was captured by robbers. In order to force me to tell them where the treasure is, they tortured me severely.

"Tonight I took advantage of their unpreparedness to escape, but was discovered and chased. I ran to the river and jumped into the river in desperation. Fortunately, my friends rescued me."

"So that's how it is." The man nodded in understanding.

Du Wenjie looked at him and asked curiously: "Friend, how do you fish at night?"

The man looked at the river and replied, "It's been hot lately, and the fish hide under the water during the day to avoid the heat, making them hard to catch. At night, the weather is cool and quiet, so fish of all sizes come out to look for food, so I come here to fish at night."

"So that's it." Du Wenjie suddenly realized and looked at his fish basket full of fish, feeling nothing unusual.

"Hey, what are you going to do next?" the man asked him.

Du Wenjie looked anxious and replied, "I have something urgent to do. I must rush home immediately."

He wanted to rush back to the emperor as quickly as possible so that the emperor could clean up the mess in no time!

The man looked him up and down and said, "Why are you in such a hurry? But I see you are only wearing a shirt, and you don't even have a pocket. Where are you going to find the money to go home?"

Du Wenjie was stunned and immediately in trouble.

Indeed, he had no money, even his clothes were ragged, how could he afford to buy a horse and dry food? Without a horse, by the time he could get back on his own, the country would probably have changed hands.

Seeing his difficulty, the man rolled his eyes and said to him, "Well, I think you are a poor man, so why don't I help you.

"I can lend you the money you need to go home, but you must have someone pay me back three times the money when you get home. How about that? You're a businessman, you have plenty of money, so you shouldn't mind me charging you some interest, right?"

When Du Wenjie heard this, he was overjoyed!

As long as he could get back to the palace quickly, he would be willing to pay ten or a hundred times the interest, let alone three times the interest.

Anyway, he didn't plan to return it after he returned.

"Okay, okay! As long as you are willing to lend me the fare for going home, I will pay you back tenfold!" Du Wenjie promised excitedly.

After that, the man took out a few silver bills from his pocket and handed them to Du Wenjie, "Here, this money is enough for you to buy a fast horse and dry food. You must remember to pay me three times the money when you go back. I live in Zhujiazhuang, more than ten miles away. My name is Zhu Li."

"Okay, I will pay you back ten times the money!" Du Wenjie said proudly, took the banknote, said goodbye to Zhu Li in a hurry, and limped away.

It was not until his back disappeared into the night that Xia Younan and his companions came out from the depths of the woods.

"Hey, Boss, did I act like a fisherman realistically?" Zhu Li proudly asked Xia Younan for credit.

Xia Younan gave him an admiring look, and then instructed Xiong Fei: "Xiong Fei, take the best thousand-mile horse quickly and stop him on the road to Zhujing State in the south. Be sure to sell the horse to him."

"Okay." Xiong Fei agreed immediately and went to do it with great interest.

"Xiaoyou, Master Sun," Xia Younan looked at Qu Xiaoyou and Sun Shijiao again, and arranged with a smile, "You go to guard outside Yanggu City after dawn. In a few days, someone will take the head of the general guarding Yanggu City out of the city. You just need to stop them then."

"Okay!" Qu Xiaoyou and Sun Shijiao agreed.

With things having developed to this point, Xia Younan felt that he no longer needed to worry about the affairs of Yanggu City, so he rode a fast horse to Yuhua City early the next morning.

After three days and three nights of fast riding, Xia Younan finally arrived outside Yuhua City.

Just as imagined, Yuhua City had already realized that a storm was coming, the city gates were closed, and soldiers stood outside the gates in three layers.

They all held swords in their hands, their expressions were tense, and their sharp eyes scanned everywhere, unwilling to miss any clues.

Xia Younan was in a dilemma. It was definitely impossible to break in by force, but their guard was so tight that she couldn't get in even if she turned into a mouse!

This is how to do?

In this way, Xia Younan wandered outside the city for two whole days at a loss, but could not think of a good way to enter the city.

It was another night. Xia Younan, exhausted both physically and mentally, was hiding in the woods not far from the city gate to sleep. Suddenly, a panicked shout broke through the air, instantly waking her up from sleepiness.

Xia Younan lay on the tree trunk and did not get down easily, but turned his head to look towards the source of the sound.

I saw a girl in a pink dress stumbling towards me, crying as she ran, her tearful face full of despair and panic.

In the moonlight, one could tell the girl was about seventeen or eighteen years old, with a face so beautiful that it could outshine the moon and shame the flowers.

"Bai Ling, don't run away!"

Seven or eight men, women, old and young followed closely behind the girl, all with sad faces, and they all looked like they were about to cry.