The phoenix pattern is surging

As the night was getting dark, Yan Wenbin came to report with the black iron helmet in his hand: "Commander, the three armies have assembled."

"Has the news been released?"

"The subordinates have complied with the command of the commander-in-chief, and only said to the outside world that they will leave at midnight tonight."

Before the hour came, Li Ran stood on the top of the city tower, took a look through the binoculars, and put a charming smile on his mouth.

The monkey cub stood behind him, with a wicked smile on his face: "I can't think of you, who is usually serious, to play with people like this."

"Play? I never play. No one will play with their own lives. Don't stand around stupidly, go and stare at people."

"Why be so serious. I will naturally find out the person and give it to you."

Li Ran didn't count on him too much. After thinking about it, he said, "I've already sent someone out to look for Qu Lie. Although there is no news yet."

The monkey cub was uncharacteristically calm, and smiled consolingly: "I believe that the old man, Master, can turn bad luck into good fortune. Sometimes no news is good news. I'm not worried, so what are you worried about?"

Li Ran put his arms around his chest, a little disbelieving: "You really think so?"

"What are you doing to lie to you? My master is so talented, how could he be easily killed by those thieves?"

Li Ran stared at him, shook his head, and wondered who was crying like a woman.

The monkey boy didn't think it was pestering, he just grinned: "I was entrusted by the emperor to protect you, and I also bear the title of little white dragon in Luocheng. If I can't even protect one person, how will I gain a foothold in Luocheng in the future?"

"Whether you can gain a foothold has nothing to do with me." Li Ran raised his eyebrows, "I don't need your protection. Take care of yourself, even if you don't cause trouble for me."

"Go! Who am I? Little White Dragon in Luocheng! How can you make trouble so easily?"

Little Six was snickering while holding his handkerchief, Li Ran shook his head with a broken smile, took back the binoculars and continued to look, and sure enough, he saw a small group of people moving towards Linxi.

The monkey boy snatched his binoculars out of curiosity, took a look at it, and exclaimed repeatedly: "Oh! People from Xiping! Why is it so close to your eyes? This thing is really evil!" The monkey boy went up and down with the binoculars After taking a closer look, I was amazed, "What is this thing called?"

"telescope."

"Telescope? Interesting. Who made it?"

"Why do you ask so much? Come, give it to me!"

The monkey boy refused to give it to him, and he looked at it with relish: "Don't tell me, this thing is really good, and it looks real. I'm afraid only that old monster Yuan can make such a strange thing. That old man is really weird." It’s a bit slow, but it’s also somewhat capable. That lover of yours has a good eye, no wonder my brother Huang cares so much.”

Li Ran snorted coldly, ignored the monkey cub's nonsense, and took over the binoculars to continue watching.

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At midnight, Li Ran led more than [-] people out of Linyang City without further delay.

It took him a hundred miles to walk, and when the sky was about to dawn, he arrived at a place only two days away from Xinglin City.

Li Ran took a look through the binoculars, and suddenly saw three people and three riders two to three hundred feet away. The leader was Fengshen Langlang, who seemed to be Qu Lie and his two guards who had been missing for four days.

Seeing his strange expression, the monkey cub took the binoculars and followed his line of sight, couldn't help being overjoyed, and then ran over with a pull on his horse's belly.

"master!"

Qu Lie jumped off the horse, approached Li Ran, and said, "Your Highness, please come and be safe."

Li Ran shook his arm with a smile: "Very good. How did you escape?"

"We'll talk about this later." Qu Lie looked at the long line behind him, and said, "Since the soldiers and horses are still there, Your Highness will go first, and the minister will arrive later."

"Aren't you going?"

"I have seen the speed of the Xiping iron cavalry. If this continues, our army will definitely be overtaken. I must stay in the rear."

"No! We have too few people, and there is not even a barrier here. We will definitely not be able to beat the more than [-] horses in Xiping."

Qu Lie smiled lightly: "Don't worry, Your Highness. I have received news that Marshal Li has gotten rid of Qingyuan's army and is stepping back to help. Chen Pei... is also on the way back."

Li Ran was stunned for a moment, and then he understood: "Jiang Jue Rang ordered Chen Pei to retreat?"

"Your Highness can understand."

Li Ran thought for a while and said, "Alright, I'll stay with you."

Qu Lie shook his head resolutely: "I will stay here alone, Your Highness will go first." Qu Lie glanced at the monkey boy, and said in a deep voice, "You go back with Your Highness."

"I--"

Qu Lie glanced at him, and the monkey boy pouted reluctantly, and said, "I know! I just listen to you!"

Li Ran retreated with [-] hussars and more than [-] secret guards, and traveled day and night, it was miserable.

It's a pity that his current physical condition is not suitable for riding a horse, and sitting in a carriage is even more painful. Xiao Liuzi wiped the sweat from his forehead and said: "Your Highness, bear with it, and you will be home soon."

He looked anxious, his brows and eyes were wrinkled, and he seemed to be in more pain than Li Ran.

Li Ran glanced at him, and said, "Liu'er, you're not flustering well. My home is too far away from here."

Seeing his disappointed expression, Little Six asked curiously, "Isn't His Highness's home the Phoenix Palace?"

Li Ran laughed: "That's right."

"After you go back, the servant will cook your favorite blood swallow porridge, okay?"

Li Ran rubbed his eyebrows, a little helpless, but with a touch of warmth, he reached out and knocked on Xiao Liuzi's head: "You kid knows that I'm dizzy now, and you still say this is not my appetite?"

Xiao Liuzi was a little confused, and continued to ask: "Your Highness doesn't like blood swallow porridge anymore?"

The blue veins on Li Ran's forehead twitched, he suppressed the surge in his chest, and waved to Little Six, who leaned halfway over with an innocent expression on his face: "Your Highness?"

Li Ran suddenly felt a little frustrated with his expression of ignorance. Wouldn't it be lowering his style to reason with such a person?

He rubbed his temples and said, "Liu'er, come and listen to something else. Brother, I don't want to hear about the food, understand?"

Little Six nodded "obediently", and asked with a flattering expression, "What does Your Highness want to hear?"

"whatever."

"casual?"

Li Ran saw that this kid was getting into trouble again, he sighed helplessly, and was convinced in defeat: "You have been following me?"

Little Six nodded: "This servant has been with His Highness since I was a child, and it has been nineteen years and three months."

Li Ran smiled: "Do you even remember fractions?"

"Naturally! The slave was poor since he was a child, but thanks to His Royal Highness's favor, he was able to be transferred to the uterus to serve His Highness. Your Highness's kindness to the slave is deeply reborn. The slave will never forget it!"

"Okay. It's not a big deal. Don't take it too seriously."

Little Six has always been the most obedient, but this time he didn't follow Li Ran's words, and retorted: "Your Highness is kind to my slave, how can I forget it? If it wasn't for His Highness's favor, my slave would have died in the knife room long ago. Where is it?" How can I still be by your side like now?"

He looked solemn, and even faintly stubborn.Li Ran almost had an illusion for a moment, as if the person in front of him was his good brother and six sons from his previous life.

After being stunned for four or five seconds, Li Ran came back to his senses, patted Xiao Liuzi's pink face, and said with a smile, "Since you are so grateful to me, then follow me to pay off the debt in this life."

Li Ran laughed loudly, with endless relief in his laughter.

Seeing him happy, Little Six also smirked. His simple and honest appearance was not really cute, but it made people feel warm for no reason.

"Hehe, if His Royal Highness sees you, how happy will he be?"

"Yes. I wonder if that kid has grown taller?"

"Hey~ This servant thinks our Crown Prince is really pitiful."

"Why are you sad? Don't remember how that kid made fun of you?"

"That's His Highness the Crown Prince joking with the slave. What's more, if our little Highness doesn't like someone, we don't want to look at them one more time. The slave can be favored by the little Highness. It's the blessing of Sansheng Xiu. Hehe .”

Li Ran was a little moved. The last thing he saw was this face before he died, and the first thing he saw after he came back from the dead was this face.

The owner of this face, no matter in the past or now, made him feel warm inexplicably.

Seeing that Li Ran was deep in thought and silent, Little Six thought he had said something wrong again, so he asked cautiously, "Your Highness, did the slave say something wrong again?"

Li Ran smiled: "You, everything is fine. But the tone of this speech needs to be changed."

"What's wrong with the slave's accent?"

Li Ran felt more and more helpless as Little Six looked innocent and ignorant, and finally surrendered completely.

Sure enough, existence is justified, these words are too fucking reasonable.

The two of them were chatting sentence by sentence, most of which were about the past, and it was naturally not interesting to talk about it from the mouth of Xiaoliuzi. It can be seen that his face was full of memories, and Li Ran became more and more excited.

At this moment, there was a sound of clenched horseshoes from behind, and there were quite a few of them.

After a while, the sound of horseshoes was getting closer and closer. Li Ran opened the window curtain on the carriage and looked out, and sat up straight in shock.

The monkey cub's voice came from outside the carriage: "There are too many pursuers. I will lead 1000 people to stop them."

"no!"

The monkey boy didn't panic at all, and even whistled smartly: "Don't forget, I am the little white dragon of Luocheng, how could this group of mob be my opponents? Don't worry, I still want to save my life and teach my nephew How do you climb a tree and dig out a bird's nest?"

After speaking, he blinked at Li Ran.

Pull the reins of the horse and lead 1000 people to break the rear.

Li Ran was about to order Luo Feng, who was driving, to turn the car around, but the little six reached out his hand to stop him, and shook his head: "Even if His Highness goes back, it won't help, it's better to let the little prince feel at ease, don't you think?"

It was the first time for Li Ran to see him talking to him in such a disregard of respect. Little Six soon realized how presumptuous his actions were, and immediately shrank his hands and feet and dared not speak too much.

Li Ran took a deep look at him, and suddenly realized that he didn't know the people around him well enough.

"Luo Feng, leave half of the shadow guards behind. Don't let anything happen to Jiang Ming!"

Luo Feng naturally knew that there was a strong relationship between them, he responded with a deep voice, and rushed forward with a sound of "drive".

The carriage moved forward at full speed, and the clanging of swords and swords was quickly left behind.

Just as everyone wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, there was a sound of arrows piercing the wind in the air, accompanied by the sound of arrows piercing into flesh and blood, and the smell of blood immediately permeated the air.

Yi Rongcheng's dark guards were already fighting with the men in black clothes, Luo Feng made a decisive decision and drove straight forward in the carriage.

A moment later, there was a muffled hum from the front of the car, followed by the sound of swords colliding.

Li Ran had already seen Luo Feng entangled with two black-clothed dead men in the gap between the curtains of the car. Luo Feng first came to drive, and secondly, he had to deal with two formidable enemies. He was gradually losing, and he held the hand of the horse's rein Once loose, the whole person fell down.

Li Ran grabbed the rein in a forward posture, and Little Six stretched out an arm almost instantly, laying it across Li Ran's body.

There was only a click, and an arm was actually broken in order to support Li Ran.