The prince was traveling in the starry night, when he was more than two hundred li away from the battlefield, he unexpectedly saw a familiar face, galloped towards him, and then passed him by.

"Xue Yao?" The prince pulled the reins, turned around in surprise, and saw the figure of Xue Yao's back, like a fallen leaf about to wither, lying on the horse, bumping and shaking.

"Xue Yao!" The prince shouted towards the back.

Instead of reining in the horse, the back figure propped up his body in horror, speeding up the horse and galloping, trying to escape his sight.

"Stop!" The prince was eager to understand the situation on the front line, so he turned around and chased after him without hesitation.

He was better at riding than Xue Yao, and he kept pace with him effortlessly. He turned his head and shouted: "Xue Yao! I order you to rein in your horse immediately!"

Xue Yao, who had been on the road for a day and a night without a drop of water, was in a trance at the moment, only feeling that someone called his name again and told him to stop.

Xue Yao thought that there were pursuers chasing him, so he was frightened and frantically hit the horse, trying to escape, and went back to Beijing to find the second prince to transfer troops.

The prince frowned and shouted anxiously: "Did you hear that?"

After he yelled this, he saw Xue Yao dangling his head, almost unconscious, and about to fall off the horse.

"Xue Yao!" In desperation, the prince braced his horse, stepped on his body, and landed behind Xue Yao, wrapped his arms around his body that was about to fall off the horse, pulled the rein and reined in the horse, and immediately whistled, calling for a stop own horse.

"What's the matter with you?" The prince dragged Xue Yao off the horse.

Xue Yao looked crazy, struggling desperately, drew his knife and slashed, but was pressed by the prince's wrist and pressed to the ground: "Xue Yao! Can't you recognize Gu?!"

Xue Yao was pressed to the ground and could not move, only his chest heaved violently.

Such a close look at each other allowed him to see the outline of the prince clearly with his blurred eyes.

The prince found that the cruel and crazy expression on Xue Yao's face suddenly turned into extreme sadness, and Xue Yao just stared at him with a grin, and hoarse sobs came out of his throat.

"Okay, it's all right." The prince let go of his wrist and helped him up: "Where are you going? Why is your face so ugly?"

"His Royal Highness... where have you been? Why did you come back now? Why did you come back now!"

The prince pulled Xue Yao down the official road first, and asked Xue Yao to drink some water before explaining the situation.

Knowing that his father's life was in danger, the fifth brother became a hostage, the seventh brother's life and death were uncertain, and the prince froze into a clay sculpture.

Xue Yao knew that he needed some time to accept such a big change, but time was running out, so he reminded in a low voice: "Your Highness, you can't just go back like this. Now that the three armies are under the control of the third prince, you'd better call in other soldiers and horses. .”

The prince didn't speak, closed his eyes and waited for a long time, then said in a hoarse voice: "Gu Wan is to blame for his death."

"Your Highness, it was an accident that the emperor was caught by the emperor. Whether you stay behind will not change the result. The problem now is the ambition of the third prince. If you die, the fifth and seventh princes are really hopeless!" Xue Yao said After he finished, he coughed for a while, quickly drank a sip of water to suppress the cough, and continued: "We have to go back to deploy troops, you can't just rush to the front line like this!"

The prince opened his eyes and said in a low voice: "You don't have to hurry, go off the official road and find a tavern to have a good rest, and go to the front line alone."

"Your Highness! How can you deal with the three armies alone!" Xue Yao was terrified.

The prince raised his hand to tell him not to worry, "Father changed the crown prince temporarily, but he did not abolish the orphan. The second younger brother has urgently notified the governor of Huguang to bring troops to help. The front-line forbidden army was ordered by the orphan. The only one who can be relied on by the third child is his uncle Tong Ningzhao. There are seven governors rushing to help outside the orphanage, and there are forbidden troops inside to cooperate with the outside, and the governor of the Northwest has eaten up the guts of a leopard, and dare not continue to help the tyrant."

The Seventh Prince signed a contract with five merchants.

The merchants sent him back to Beijing and asked his family to give 500 taels of silver as labor expenses.

Two thousand five hundred taels of silver is not a lot in the eyes of the seventh prince, and the royal father bestows more than this price on the concubine mother.

The merchants "send charcoal in the snow" to His Highness, which is worth a reward of 500 taels of silver.

Among the five people, Goatee was the most talkative, and he kept asking the Seventh Prince all the way: "Young master, are you still hungry? I still have bacon here, how about I only charge you two taels of silver per catty? It's more filling than grass carp." !"

The Seventh Prince was a little moved.

The man who was about to beat the Seventh Prince just now had the worst temper. Everyone called him Liu Sanhu.

He couldn't bear the leader and the goatee calling the boy "little master", and felt that there was no need to be so polite to the troubled young master.

Looking at this young master's delicate skin and tender flesh, the family must be a treasure, and will naturally spend money to redeem him, so why should you be humble to him?

Don't rich people always boss them around?

Now that it's their territory, why do they have to be inferior to these rich people?

Liu Sanhu asked the seventh prince angrily: "Boy, what's your name?"

The Seventh Prince was used to his rude attitude, and felt that the way people get along with each other might just be so informal.

Father said that being in the royal family, one must also know how to have fun with the people, so the seventh prince suppressed his temper and reluctantly replied kindly: "Old Seven."

"Who the hell asked you about your ranking!" Liu Sanhu laughed aloud: "I asked you what your name is, do you understand?"

The Seventh Prince turned his head and looked at him deeply.

Liu Sanhu felt chilled all over by the child's gaze, and inexplicably stopped the ridicule, cleared his throat in embarrassment, regained his senses, and was worried that other brothers would find that he was shocked by the child, and suddenly became furious, and even more rudely He scolded: "What are you looking at! What's your name!"

"Lu Qian." The Seventh Prince replied in a low voice.

"Lu Qian? What a good name! You live up to your name!" Goat Hu cheerfully put his arms around the boy's shoulders: "Your family must be a rich family in the capital, right? Your father isn't an official, is he?"

"No."

"That's okay." The goatee said with a smile: "If you are an official, my brothers wouldn't dare to let your father ask for money, haha!"

This group of businessmen took the waterway and mountain road, although it was a bit more detour than the official road, but they would not be caught by the third prince's chasing soldiers.

The Seventh Prince calculated the time it would take to get out of the Zealand desert, and decided to buy bacon and water from Goatee every three days. As long as he got out of the desert, he could feed himself with hunting and wild fruits.

The next day, the group spent the night in the cave.

In the middle of the night, the Seventh Prince felt that someone beside him sat up, crawled to his side, and stared at him.

The Seventh Prince was not too wary, and didn't feel that the other party would hurt him, but because he was not used to greeting people proactively, he remained motionless, waiting for the other party to speak first.

The other party thought that he was fast asleep, and immediately issued a "hiss" signal to the brothers.

"How much money is left in his pocket?" This was Liu Sanhu's voice.

"There are at least seven or eight more, and it's not 50 taels. I saw with my own eyes that there was a 100 taels of silver bill!" the voice of the goatee.

"I'll touch it and count it!" Liu Sanhu said.

"Wait a minute." The leader said: "He has no more than a few hundred taels on him, don't worry about it, we can't annoy this kid, the two thousand five hundred taels is the big deal."

Liu Sanhu said urgently: "So what if you annoy him! How can his parents not want him? If you annoy him, you still have to send money to redeem him!"

The leader said: "It's kindness for us to send someone back, and it won't sound good if we break up. There are so many dignified people in the capital, and God knows what his parents are. They annoyed this little baby, and they will sue us in the government later, aren't they?" Are you causing trouble for nothing?"

The goatee said: "Master Tiger, don't worry, otherwise, let's take a detour and take him to stay in the desert for a few more days, earn all his money, and then take him to the inn, where he will eat and drink. It depends on our supply, and no one forces him, and he still owes us kindness!"

The other two men immediately laughed strangely in a low voice: "Old Ke's brain is still good!"

The seventh prince's gloomy little face was hidden in the silent night.

That night, he suddenly didn't like the common people at all.

Early the next morning, five businessmen took their trucks and prepared to trek across the desert as planned.

The Seventh Prince took out a silver ticket, took 250 taels, and handed it to the goatee: "Buy ten catties of bacon and three bags of water."

The goatee's eyes lit up, and he thought that he would have to walk a few more steps so that the young master couldn't help being hungry, but he didn't expect a big deal to start early in the morning!

He couldn't help unloading a package from his truck, and handed ten catties of bacon to the seventh prince, not forgetting to sigh: "Hey, I only have this little meat left. Actually, I don't want to sell it, and I can't be hungry." With your little doll."

The Seventh Prince didn't say anything, but when he mentioned the bacon, he clasped his fists at the five merchants and said, "Everyone, just leave now."

The five men were stunned for a moment, and when they came back to their senses, the young master was already carrying the meat and the water bag, walking towards the east.

It's amazing!This furry child actually knows the direction!

"Stop!" Liu Sanhu jumped like a thunder, striding to catch up.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished yelling, the child turned around blankly and stared at him with "fart!" eyes.

The leader behind hurriedly caught up to stop Liu Sanhu, and smiled at the child, "Why did you suddenly want to leave by yourself, little brother? We have already agreed to escort you back to Beijing."

"No need." Lu Qian raised his hand and showed the bacon and water bag: "I have them escorting me."

Just as Liu Sanhu was about to explode, he was stopped by the leader, who still had a kind expression on his face and said, "This is turning your face and denying you, little brother, dry food and water are life-saving things in the desert, and we are willing to sell them to you because of you." Signed a contract with us, now you have to leave after taking food and drink, the contract doesn’t count?”

Lu Qian said with a blank expression: "I'll see you at the gate of the capital, money is indispensable to you."

The goatee chased after him and said anxiously: "Empty talk is useless! You slapped your ass like this and left, the capital is so big, where can we find you! No way! Give me back the bacon and water! I won't sell it!"

With a muffled sound of "dong", Lu Qian threw the food in his hand at his feet, stared at the five people in front of him, and slowly untied the long knife at the side of his waist.

Liu Sanhu suddenly sneered: "What? You want to do something, kid? Damn, a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers! You don't have to drink a toast! If you don't beat me today, you are called Grandpa, and my surname is not Liu."

"Stop!" The leader still didn't want to make a fuss, so he asked Liu Sanhu to be pulled away, and he still approached the boy gently to negotiate: "Little brother, don't get angry, we really have good intentions, to put it bluntly, if it weren't for us yesterday I’ll give you a sip of water and a fish, you’re dying of thirst and starvation in this desert now! We met by chance, and we saved your life, since you’re so generous with us, we can’t turn against each other, right?”

Lu Qian didn't answer, but stared at the leader coldly.

He is born without emotional logic, and all his actions are purpose-oriented, but the companion who grew up with him is emotionally oriented.

So over the years, Lu Qian has consciously or unintentionally tried to memorize the emotional logic of others, so that his behavior can be praised by his companions. When the companions are happy, they will breastfeed with their own hands.

Lu Qian likes that feeling, but it doesn't mean he can understand and execute certain things from an emotional level.

In his world, without considering the logic of human feelings, he found these five people yesterday. If they refused to trade fish and water with him at that time, he would have snatched them instead of dying of thirst and starvation in the desert.

What the chief said, in his case, was an illogical assumption.

The leader always felt that the child's behavior was different from ordinary people. At first he thought that the child might be a bit stupid, but at this moment he realized that the bacon and water the child bought were almost enough for him to walk out of this desert.

Moreover, this child's sense of direction is surprisingly accurate, unlike frontier merchants like them, who only mastered experience after two or thirty years of experience.

The child's sense of direction is more similar to the wolves in the desert, as if it came from the instinct of hunting wild animals.

This kind of weird and unusual layers made the leader secretly afraid of the child, and he discussed with a smile: "Little brother, I can see that you are not a perfidy. Since you have signed the contract, let's go together. peace of mind."

Lu Qian stared at him silently for a moment, then suddenly hung the long knife back to his waist, bent over to pick up the meat and water, turned around and continued walking in the direction he chose, leaving only one sentence for the leader——

"Come on, I don't have time to delay you."

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