Later, I became the prince of the group

After talking, Chu Yan and Liu Qi finally had a peaceful night's sleep.

Seeing that they were fast asleep, the people around them secretly looked at the two of them. Now that they knew the truth, they felt a little strange-it turned out that there was such a big person beside them!

A night of rejuvenation is enough for them to cheer up the next day.

Maybe it was a rainy season, and they had their first experience. After a few days, they looked at the sky and thought that when it rained, they found a good place in advance, collected the dry firewood, and then cooked the rice at one time, so that they could be picked up later. They eat and sometimes hunt some prey by chance.

Relying on food storage and hunting, they stayed in the mountains for more than ten days.

Just because there was not enough medicine, most of the injured people lost their lives. In addition, when fleeing, there were more than 200 people in this team, but only a hundred or so were left when they approached the mountain. .

The foot of the mountain is no longer in Huainan territory, but Chu Yan still cautiously sent two people to explore the road before going down the mountain. Sure enough, they found that there were soldiers on the road leading to the town at the foot of the mountain. They could not find any traces of Chu Yan and others in the mountain, so they Sitting at the foot of the mountain and waiting for a rabbit.

It must be impossible for so many people to go down the mountain with too much noise, so Chu Yan left the large army in the mountain, took only ten people and a small amount of food, and went down the mountain from the wilderness without guards.

These people would patrol the side of the mountain road once at night. Chu Yan killed a team of ten people, changed into their clothes, and successfully entered the small town at the foot of the mountain by pretending to be disguised.

Wu Zhuang followed behind him and said worriedly: "Boss, what should we do now, keep pretending to be soldiers?"

Chu Yan shook his head: "It's only temporary to be able to sneak in. If you keep pretending, it will definitely reveal your secrets. Let's change our clothes first, and then go get some dry food."

The matter of preparing dry food was handed over to Wu Zhuang. After Chu Yan changed into a civilian husband's attire, he acted alone and went to the notice board near the city gate to look.

He thought he could see his arrest warrant, but he didn't expect it at all.After careful observation, although there are many soldiers in the city, the soldiers guarding the city gate and the soldiers patrolling everywhere are obviously not the same people, and even the attire is slightly different.

It's as if the imperial court didn't know about the fact that King An of Northern Qi was in the Southern Jin Dynasty, but Prince Huaibei found a reason to send someone to arrest him.

This is strange, ten days is supposed to be enough time for the prince of Huaibei to pass the letter to his father. If the king of Huaibei knew of his existence, wouldn't he play it?

Unless King Huaibei really wanted to discuss cooperation with him, or...the letter was not sent to King Huaibei at all?

Back at the agreed meeting point, the person who went to inquire about the information has already returned, and he opened his mouth and said: "Boss, everyone in the city said that the team of Yujia's personal conquest had just arrived in Ezhou two days ago and suffered a battle. The dog emperor is nowhere to be seen now." .”

Speaking of which, before Chu Yan set off for Huaibei, he got the news that the emperor was preparing for the imperial conquest. It stands to reason that the imperial conquest should be well-prepared. Chu Yan did not expect that within half a month after they fled for their lives, the Southern Jin emperor not only He had already arrived at the front line, and even disappeared directly.

Missing on the battlefield, either fell into the hands of the enemy, or was shrouded in horse leather. It is impossible for people with the identity of the emperor not to recognize the corpse, but Chu Yan didn't think it was the former.

In name, it was said that the imperial conquest was a personal expedition, but the emperor of the Southern Jin Dynasty obviously played the role of a mascot to stabilize the morale of the army, and there was no need for him to lead the army to charge on horseback.

There is probably someone behind this matter...

Chu Yan thought carefully for a while, and said: "In this way, the mountain is not a place to wait for a long time. Let's divert some of the chasing soldiers so that the people on the mountain can find a way to go down the mountain. Since the Qi army has reached Ezhou, it means that we are far away from the mountain." They are not too far away, the closer they are to the front line, the fewer the chasing soldiers will be, and it will be easier to get away at that time."

Wu Zhuang was still very convinced by him, nodded and asked, "How to attract?"

Chu Yan: "Let's go with the flow, let's run first, and they will find that they have lost their companions in a short time, and they will definitely search the whole city at that time. You will go to crowded places later to get some information from shop assistants or hawkers. Then pretend to ask which way is the best way to go to Ezhou, then they will naturally catch up."

So it didn't take long for the people on the mountain to find that the number of soldiers at the foot of the mountain had decreased by more than half.

Liu Qi pondered for a while, then called everyone up and said, "Your Highness, they should have lured the people away. There are not many people left at the foot of the mountain, and they are scattered. If we have a chance, we will directly kill people and seize horses, and then go to the suburbs and enter the village." Replenish food, and then flee to Ezhou!"

They plan rough, but the enemy is rougher than them.

The people under King Huaibei probably didn't expect that this group of people had been hiding for more than ten days during the pursuit, and that so many people could gather together, and they were all able to raise their knives, and were ambushed by surprise. Naturally, it was the result of the annihilation of the entire army .

It was the first time Liu Qi got blood on his hands, and he couldn't calm down for a long time, but he met so many eyes that made him calm down on the surface. He kept thinking about Chu Yan's appearance in his mind, imitating his Appearance: "Get on the horse!"

Then turned over and jumped on the horse, and rushed out first.

He is still very good at equestrian skills, and he is very good at bluffing people. When others are infected by his aura, they also cheer up.

Liu Qi's hand holding the rein trembled a little, and he was glad that he rushed to the front at this time, and no one would catch up and find his abnormal state.

He secretly said in his heart: Your father is a famous general of the Northern Qi Dynasty, the famous Marquis of Renting, who has not suffered defeat in the past ten years, you are the son of a famous general, you should have the demeanor of a father.

Thinking of this, he gradually calmed down, and even had the energy to think about Chu Yan's affairs.

A dozen of them led away so many pursuers, it was much more dangerous than his side, what should he do...

By the way, they still have many separated brothers who are trapped on the mountain, and the people who delivered food to them in Huaibei did not know what happened, and Chang Le Xiaoning lingered on them. Did they go back smoothly?After His Royal Highness and his identities were exposed, what happened to the situation in the Southern Jin Dynasty?

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Five days later, hundreds of soldiers searched house to house along several main roads in the small county town.

Chu Yan led people into the backyard of a private house. The house was quite big, but there were not many people walking around.

Wu Zhuang looked around and pointed in a certain direction: "Boss, does it look like a woodshed?"

The person next to him said: "It's not safe to hide in the firewood room. If someone searches for such a small place, we won't be able to use it."

"Come on, how many people are there? How many are we? Do you still want to be tough?"

They took the advantage of being one step ahead, but they couldn't stand the crowd of pursuers. Chu Yan saw that his companions and horses were extremely exhausted, so he abandoned his horse on the side road and pretended to be a civilian and chose a road at random to enter the city.

It is said that no matter how powerful the pursuers are, they would not know which path they chose, but not long after Chu Yan entered the city, the city gate was blocked, and the pursuers searched as if they were sure that they must be in this city. stand up.

There are no trees in the courtyard, and there seems to be nowhere to hide except for the firewood room and the wing room.

Seeing that the firewood room was not padlocked, Chu Yan went in to check it out. There was a lot of firewood in the firewood room, but because of this, there was almost no place for people to hide.

Chu Yan was about to turn around and tell everyone that this place is not safe, so he spotted something with his sharp eyes, squatted down to touch it, and said, "Here... there is an iron plate, open it and have a look."

The small pile of firewood was quickly cleared out, and there was a tunnel under the iron plate.

Wu Zhuang went down to explore, and came back soon: "There is no danger down there. This tunnel is sealed and there is no other exit."

Chu Yan made a decisive decision: "Go down, and I will guard from above."

Wu Zhuang was a little worried: "Boss, why don't you go down and hide, I'll watch from above."

Chu Yan pushed back his head that was about to pop out: "Go down."

Everyone jumped down, Chu Yan closed the iron plate, moved firewood to block it tightly, then stepped on the pile of firewood to borrow strength, and jumped onto the beam.

The woodshed was dim, and even if someone looked up, they couldn't see anyone on the beam.

The tiles in the firewood house were not very tightly laid, and there was a gap between the wall and the tiles, which was simply blocked with linen.Chu Yan took off the dusty sackcloth, and saw a rather large stable behind the wall.

There were no horses in the stables, and Chu Yan thought that this house probably once belonged to a horse dealer who made a lot of money.

Horses are often owned by officials and wealthy families, and people are not allowed to sell horses on the surface. However, the laws of the Southern Jin Dynasty were not strict, which led to frequent horse dealers in private. Close one eye.

However, ordinary horse dealers hide in the ravines to raise horses, or bandits, corrupt officials, and official households who do business part-time horse dealers, which are rare in the town, unless... the owner of this house and the local magistrate The relationship with her is very close, so she has no worries.

Chu Yan was about to look away, when suddenly there was a voice, and several people walked around the woodshed and entered the stable at the same time, and began to clean.

One of them pulled out a small tuft of hay from a trough that Chu Yan just couldn't see, as if it was left over from eating, the hay was obviously very fresh!

The yard with the big stable, fresh hay, suddenly came in to clean... no, more like a servant cleaning up the traces.

Chu Yan frowned, they randomly chose a house to hide in, but they seemed to be in even bigger trouble.

Not long after the servants left, officers and soldiers came in to search, and Chu Yan heard someone say: "My lord, you can check it out, but this matter of raising horses..."

"Don't worry, we only have our own job in our eyes, and we can't see the rest."

"Hey, that's good, that's good, thank you sir."

While speaking, the door of the firewood room was opened, those people were not serious enough to even move the firewood to have a look, and they wanted to leave when they saw no one inside.

Before leaving, the only person in a rough cloth shirt stayed at the end, suddenly raised his head before closing the door, and cast his eyes straight on the beam where Chu Yan was hiding.

The door lock fell from the outside, and Chu Yan realized that his heart was beating faster than he thought.

The house quickly calmed down, Chu Yan moved and then stopped.

His gaze fell on the wooden door of the firewood room, wondering whether the lock was locked or just hung up, the tunnel had no exit, and if the door was locked, they would have become the things in the urn.

As soon as I thought about it, the door of the firewood room opened, and the person who came in was the coarse cloth shirt just now.

At this time, he completely lost the flattering and flattering appearance when he entertained the soldiers. Instead, his back was straight and his tone was calm: "Your Excellency, everyone has left, why don't you come out and see?"

There was silence.

The rough cloth shirt said again: "Your Excellency broke into the firewood house uninvited and borrowed the tunnel. Now that the master invites you, won't you even talk about a cup of tea?"

There was another moment of silence, until the coarse cloth began to doubt whether the person had left, and finally there was a voice from the beam: "Wait a moment."

The rough cloth shirt is puzzled: "What are you waiting for?"

"Legs are numb, take it easy."

Coarse cloth shirt: "..."

Chu Yan: "Excuse me, my brothers are still underground, can you help move the firewood?"

The rough cloth shirt was speechless for a moment, and clapped its hands outside, and immediately several people came in to move the firewood away.

At this moment, Chu Yan jumped off the beam and landed firmly. The man in the rough cloth looked him up and said, "Please follow me."

After speaking, he led the people ahead, not at all afraid that Chu Yan would just run away.

Seeing that the boss did not refuse, the people who came out of the cellar obediently followed behind. Wu Zhuang lowered his voice and asked puzzledly, "Boss, do you know who they are?"

Chu Yan: "Not an enemy for the time being."

Wu Zhuang immediately became vigilant after hearing the word "for the time being".

The coarse cloth shirt led them to a side room with the door ajar, stood at the door and said, "Master, the guests have arrived."

After a while, someone came out and opened the door.

Wu Zhuang was taken aback for a moment, and after a pause, he called out uncertainly: "Xing...Master Xing?"

The person who came was Xing Yi, who was released back to the mountain that day. He changed into a long gown, and changed from a simple carpenter to a refined gentleman, making it almost unrecognizable.

Xing Yi nodded slightly, and bowed to Chu Yan again: "I didn't expect it to be you, King An, I knew I should go to meet you in person."

Chu Yan straightened his robe, there was no surprise in his expression, but a faint smile: "I accidentally caused a mess, I'm laughing at you."

Xing Yi said again: "My master wants to see you alone."

Wu Zhuang immediately wanted to refute, but Chu Yan made a stop gesture and said, "Just wait outside."

Xing Yi said again: "My lord, please unload the knife."

Wu Zhuang and others couldn't bear it anymore, but Chu Yan calmly untied the knife from his waist and walked in.

As expected, there was only one figure in the room. Chu Yan opened the curtain and saw that there were several dishes on the table in front of the man. They were clearly the most common and simple dishes. Very satisfying.

He took a sip of the wine, slowly raised his eyes, and looked at Chu Yan with his head on his head.

Seeing that he didn't greet her, Chu Yan decided to be self-sufficient, fetched bowls and chopsticks for herself, and sat down to pour wine without going out at all.

The man said unceremoniously: "It's the first time I've seen a prince dressed so shabby."

Chu Yan filled up the wine steadily, and replied bluntly: "Thank you, it's also the first time I've seen an emperor who eats so poorly."

The two looked at each other, and the man suddenly smiled: "It can be regarded as sympathy."

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Happy New Year everyone~