The prince is seriously ill

Xun Yu looked at the open cage door and crawled out expressionlessly.

Just about to stand up, the short bandit stepped on Xun Yu's right hand, and then crushed it hard with his toe. He moved his foot away in satisfaction after seeing his twisted expression.

Xun Yu refrained from making a sound from the beginning to the end, and there was continuous and severe pain. His fingertips were numb and painful, as if they had been pierced by countless steel needles, leaving only burning pain.He gritted his teeth and raised his red and swollen hand. The dark red blood was mixed with the deep black soil, and he tried to bend his fingers again, his brows furrowed immediately.

"Stretch out both hands!" The short bandit ordered, the cripple should be a lot more honest after a lesson!Sure enough, Xun Yu stretched out his hands cooperatively.

The short bandit tied his wrists and tied a knot again. He took one end of the rope and pulled Xun Yu out of the gang's room.

Halfway, Xun Yu looked at his back and said, "How will you eat me?"

"It depends on the mood of the cook," the short bandit said in a good mood, "but according to previous experience, it's probably time to chop it into meat sauce and cook porridge."

Xun Yu resisted the tumbling in his stomach, "Where's the bone?"

"Bones," the short bandit smiled strangely, "first boil the soup, then scoop it up, and then smashed the feeder's house."

Xun Yu was taken aback for a moment, yes, after staying in the guy's room for so many days, every time he ate the paste, there were horse bones that couldn't be chewed.Now it seems that he is lucky. If it weren't for the dead horses tied up with him on the mountain, these bandits would probably have started eating the living.

The cold wind hit his face with moisture, Xun Yu shrank his neck subconsciously, and took another deep breath, allowing the fresh air that he hadn't smelled for a long time to stay in his chest for as long as possible, and exhaled a long breath of foul air, bringing There was a faint white cloud.Are you really going to die here?Such a way of death is really clean.

"You look very familiar. When our group passed by Qingyun Mountain, were you among those who robbed you?" Xun Yu asked suddenly after being absent-minded for a long time.

"Of course! When the spies reported that there was a large group of people coming to Qingyun Mountain, the head of the family gathered all the brothers and waited there." The short bandit said proudly.

"You guys are so courageous, you even dare to rob people in the palace!" Xun Yu said casually.

"What's the matter with the people in the palace? Even if the king of heaven and my father cross this mountain, we will not let it go! People leave their voices, and swallows leave their hair!" The short man said with his nostrils turned to the sky.

Xun Yu sighed and said: "It seems that there is no game."

"What's up?" the short bandit asked puzzled.

"I originally wanted to persuade you not to have trouble with a prince, but now it seems that you are not even afraid of the king of heaven, how can you be afraid of me, a lame prince? I guess even if I am not a prince but an emperor, you will Will you still eat me?" Xun Yu said.

"As long as you know!" The short bandit snorted coldly.

"I'm about to die, what should I do with my treasures?" Xun Yu pretended to be distressed.

The short bandit's eyes lit up when he heard the words, and he stopped and walked in front of him, "What treasures do you have? There should be a lot of treasures for a prince, right?"

"They are all tributes from foreign countries. It is said that they are of some value. If it is a commoner, it is no problem to rely on them for several lifetimes." Xun Yu said lightly.

The short bandit's eyes flashed, "Are you really a prince?"

"Of course, if I'm not the prince, how can I be escorted by guards? If you don't believe me, you can ask your wife. When I was young, I went to the Imperial College with her son. If you don't want to ask your wife, you can also send someone Go to the capital to inquire and see if there is a lame prince among the current emperors." Xun Yu said.

The short man suddenly stared at him closely for a long while, then narrowed his eyes dangerously and said, "Why are you telling me this?"

Xun Yu looked at him and smiled, without changing his face, he said: "Of course it is for survival. If I give you all my treasures, can you let me go?"

"You kid, don't try to lie to me. You were searched all over your body when you came in, and there was nothing valuable at all." The short man looked at him vigilantly, showing a ferocious expression.

"Since it is a treasure, how can it be possible to keep it on yourself?" Xun Yu said.

"So you hid it?" The short man said with a sinister smile, "How dare you play tricks in front of your grandpa? You are still very young, and you don't have time to hide it at all."

"I don't need to hide it at all, it's always there, but no one knows how to find it except me." Xun Yu said without changing his expression.

The short man thought for a while, and seemed to think it made sense, and leaned closer and said: "You mean that as long as I let you go, you will tell me where the treasure is hidden?"

"Of course! If I die, what's the use of having more treasures? I want to live more than treasures." Xun Yu said truthfully.

A cunning flashed in the short man's eyes, "Don't you want me to let you go? I promise you, just tell me where the treasure is hidden and I will let you go right away!"

"What if I tell you everything, but you kill me? How about this, you untie the rope from my hand first, and I'll tell you where I hide it, what do you think?" Xun Yu said.

"Do you think I'm an idiot? Untie the rope? Huh, untie the rope and run away!" The short man glared.

"Are you overestimating me, or underestimating yourself? I'm just a lame teenager, can I fool you?" Xun Yu said.

The short man laughed loudly, "If I let you go now, wouldn't all the tied ducks fly away? When I get the treasure, I will let you go naturally."

"To show my sincerity, I can tell you half of it first. You should know that someone among you found an iron box from that smashed carriage? I guess none of you can open it until now! That box It took the craftsmen of the palace several years to invent it, and it must be opened with a special key, otherwise even the sharpest steel knife can't damage it." Xun Yu said.

The short man thought about it for a long time, and there was indeed such an iron box that could not be opened, so he immediately believed his words, "You mean to say that there are treasures in it?"

"If it's not a treasure, what else is worthy of my treasure?" Xun Yu said.

"Is it true that the iron box can only be opened with a key?" the short man asked suspiciously.

"If you don't believe it, you can go and see if it is opened now." Xun Yu said.

"You have the key? Where did you hide it?" the short man said close to his ear, "Tell me and I'll let you go!"

"You help me untie the rope first before I tell you! You can lie to me just because I'm a lame boy, I know you will kill me as soon as you get the key, since I told you it was death, If I don’t tell you, I’m dead, so why should I tell you? It’s dead anyway, if you force me, I’d rather bite my tongue and kill myself than tell where it’s hidden!” Xun Yu looked at him solemnly , eyes full of seriousness.

The short man looked at him for a while, and it seemed that this boy was not as easy to deceive as he imagined, "Okay, I'll untie it for you!" He was crippled without any hair, and I was afraid of him?

"Can you tell me where the key is now?" the short man said.

"In Niu Dabing's room!" Xun Yu said, shaking his stiff wrist.

The short man gritted his teeth and raised his stubby eyebrows, "Are you kidding me?"

"If I dare to trick you, am I still alive? After listening to me, the key is hidden in my crutch, and my crutch fell into Niu Dabing's room again, so I said the key is in his " As he said, Xun Yu took another deep look at him and said, "My crutch looks very ordinary on the surface, and the reason why it is made like that is to deceive people, but there is actually a very clever mechanism hidden in it. If you don't know the mechanism, but you have to forcefully take out the key, what you get in the end is just a broken scrap iron."

The short man was about to kill him, but he had no choice but to change his mind when he heard the words. He smiled and said, "Let's go get the key now, and I'll let you go when we get the key."

Xun Yu nodded, looking at the figures on the road, "You can't take the big road, you have to take a small road with no one."

"Why?" The short man frowned.

"You may not know that I joined the dinner because my wife wanted to kill me. If you take me on the road, if you are seen and told to your wife, you are openly disobeying your wife's order. I heard To disobey the wife is to disobey the master, and if you disobey the master, you will be locked up in the firehouse." Xun Yu was very cautious.

The short man thought for a while, and seemed to think it made sense, and lowered his voice, "Come with me."

Xun Yu followed him into a north-south path, walked for about half a stick of incense, turned right again, and then walked through the bushes and weeds half the height of a person.After walking for a short time, I saw several independent houses.

"The grass is so deep, can there be snakes in it?" Xun Yu asked absently.

"Idiot, the snakes are hibernating in this weather, how could they still hide here?" the short man laughed and said with a look of disdain.

Xun Yu indifferently pointed to the wooden house not far away, "That room is where Niu Dabing lives?" Seeing that the short man nodded, he hesitated and said, "I have known Niu Dabing since we were young. Do you want me to ask him for a cane later?"

"You think I'm a fool?" The short man looked back at him.

Xun Yu gave up, "Then you tie me up, I'll wait for you in the grass, you go get the crutches, and I'll tell you how to get the key out after I get it."

"You still need to teach me?" The short man shouted suddenly, "Squat down!"

Seeing his wife just coming out of the wooden house, Xun Yu immediately squatted down as promised, his face was normal, but his heart was about to jump out.Knowing that the opportunity had finally come, he slowly touched the short-bladed dagger on the inside of his calf, squatted down and walked to the side of the short man, while holding back the handle of the knife, he suppressed his excitement and said, "Madam is coming out? Are you leaving soon?" ?”

The short man stretched his neck and took a peek, "Not yet..." No.

Before he finished speaking, he felt a chill in his neck, and he couldn't make a sound for the next two words. He turned his head with difficulty, and unexpectedly saw the cripple looking at him with a smile on his face. In his hand was a dagger dripping with blood.He opened his eyes wide in horror, he couldn't believe that death came so silently, he finally uttered an indistinct sound, and fell straight into the weeds.

Xun Yu squatted in front of the corpse, "By the way, I forgot to tell you one thing. The iron box contained no rare treasures at all, it was just the imperial edict that ordered me to become a monk! The key was not in the crutch at all. , and on the body of guard Yang who is running away!" The smile on his face deepened, and he paused every word, "Now, you should rest in peace!"

Xun Yu stretched out his numb legs, wiped all the blood left on the dagger on the dead man, hid it in the trousers again, straightened his waist and raised his head, staring at the wooden house in front of him motionlessly, thinking to himself: It seems, If you want to escape from this bandit den, you have to take a gamble!