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"Have you heard? Lin'an was captured by the rebels!"

"The rebels took Chuzhou, Taozhou, and Liuzhou one after another, and soon this Shuangzhou will not be able to hold on."

"I'm afraid it's not true. Didn't General Hanxi Guanyan take the order to retreat to Huaiyang? With him and Princess Chushan joining forces, Shuangzhou will definitely be able to hold on."

"It's difficult. Without Yan Qian in Hanxiguan, the entire Xizhou has belonged to Jin people these days. I'm afraid this Shuangzhou will be isolated soon. At that time, there will be Jin in the west and rebels in the east. How can we defend it?" ah?"

"Our people here are alright, at most it's another day, as long as we live with our heads down, we can still save our lives after all."

"Oh, the poor ones are those concubines and concubines after all. One by one, they were given to Jin people as gifts by the rebels."

"A few days ago, didn't the third prince lead his troops to raid the group of rebels escorting the women's family in the harem, didn't they save any of them?"

"How many can be saved? They are all weak women. After this chaos, I'm afraid they were killed or injured. There are also several princesses who were sent to Hanxi Pass by fast horses."

"I heard that the one who died the worst was Ning Cai, who was taken into the barracks by the rebel general and became a camp prostitute that night. When our third prince went in, he had already passed away."

"Shh... the Yan family army is here, everyone stop talking about it."

In the capital of Shuangzhou, outside Huaiyang City, and in a small inn in the wild suburbs, a few scholars discussing current affairs quickly shut up, not daring to say more.

Bailiyong has heard these arguments a long time ago, and has long been used to them. Now that the land of Dayun and the five states, Xizhou has belonged to Dajin, and the remaining three states are in the hands of the rebels. What about this little Shuangzhou? Get through this fierce battle?This problem is not only a headache for him, but now Princess Chushan and the third prince in Huaiyang governor's mansion also have headaches.

Whether the king of Shu died in the chaos of the Jin Dynasty or in the hands of Emperor Yunhui, Princess Chushan had no way to prove the truth she knew, so she could only watch the king of Shu grandly in the name of revenge for the king of Shu Step into the big cloud realm.

"Princess Chushan, Princess Chushan is here!"

Suddenly, the small inn became lively, several scholars watched Dayun's most beautiful princess riding a horse past the wild inn, and the horse galloped along the official road straight into Huaiyang.

"Princess Chushan is really beautiful..."

"It's a pity that the beauty will eventually get old. Look, she has gray hair on her temples."

Hearing this sentence, the woman in white who was sitting silently in the corner of the small inn looked at the fleeting princess on the horse and let out a low sigh.

Sensing the strangeness of the woman in white, Baili Yong pressed his sword and walked over, cupped his fists and said: "Girl, the world is not good, it is really dangerous for you to walk alone."

The woman in white raised her face and smiled slightly, "I'm used to walking in the rivers and lakes, I'm fine, thank you Lord Jun for your concern."

These eyebrows...

Baili Yong seemed to have seen this person's portrait somewhere, but he couldn't remember it for a while.

"Xiaoer, I'll put the tea money here first." The woman in white put down a few copper coins, stood up, suddenly thought of something, took out a portrait from her bosom, unfolded it for Bailiyong, and asked, "Mr. Have you ever seen this girl?"

Bai Liyong looked at the portrait carefully. The woman in the portrait was cold and threatening, but he had never seen it before.

The woman in white looked at him and shook her head, sighed again in disappointment, bowed to Baili Yong, picked up the long sword on the table, turned and left.

Baili Yong watched her walk away, thinking over and over who this person is?

"General, the rebels are sending out arrest warrants everywhere again. Look, they still want to arrest the princess and Captain Qi." The deputy general came over with a few pieces of drawing paper in his hand.

Baili Yong flipped through the portraits, and suddenly his eyes stopped on Qi Ziyuan's portrait, he shook his head violently, and exclaimed, "Why does Captain Qi look so similar to that woman?" Thinking of this, Bai Liyong Hastily waved his hands and said, "Catch up with that woman!"

"promise!"

But Ziyuan had already disappeared in the deep forest, and the soldiers searched for half a day, but finally lost their traces.

As night approached, fog rose everywhere in Shuangzhou, and it was even more hazy in the deep forest.

Ziyuan built a fire in the forest, leaned against the tree trunk, and stretched out her hands close to the flame to keep warm. The early autumn had just arrived, and the night in Shuangzhou was already a bit chilly.

After roasting for a while, Ziyuan felt her body warmer, and suddenly thought of something, she folded a branch sideways, drew a few times by the fire, and murmured to herself: "According to the pace, even if Ah Ling wants to go back to the big Jin, you should go this way, how come no one has seen her?" After thinking again and again, Zi Yuan suddenly said, "Yes! Ah Ling has always been smart, so how can she not be easy to travel? Alas, in this way, It will be even harder to find her!"

"Ayejie is in Lin'an, did she go back to settle accounts with Ayejie?" Ziyuan suddenly thought of this possible conjecture, but immediately rejected the result, "If it is said that she caused trouble for Ayejie, then Lin'an There will definitely be news from there, and it will definitely not be so peaceful... Then... Ah Ling, Ah Ling, where have you been?"

"After Dajin won Xizhou, it seems that Emperor Jin Yong also came to the front line, and Ah Ling didn't have a longevity cup in her hand. How could she go back with empty hands like this?"

Ziyuan thought about it again, but still couldn't figure it out.

Suddenly, there were rustling sounds in the deep forest, and Ziyuan jumped up to the top of the tree vigilantly, leaning over to watch the surrounding changes carefully.

"There seems to be someone over there!"

"Don't disturb the people over there, His Highness is important!"

Several men in black saw the flames from Ziyuan's side, and quickly disappeared into the mist after saying a few words.

"call--"

Ziyuan fell from the treetops, carefully recollecting what those people said, "Your Highness? Which Highness could it be?" After thinking about it, she simply didn't go into it, and just quietly followed the footprints on the shallow grass, carefully chasing after them.

It turned out that there were still a few people staying in the deep forest, and I saw those men dressed in witch clothes sitting around the firepit, talking with foreign accents.

On the other side of the fire pond, a woman in purple sat silently, as lonely and cold as an ice lotus in the cold night.

"careful!"

Suddenly, a man dressed in witch clothes exclaimed, and the woman in purple stood up vigilantly, and uttered a familiar voice, "Sure enough, they are here!"

"It's Ling!"

Ziyuan let out a cry of joy from the bottom of her heart, and stepped on her toes, bringing herself closer to the firelight over there.

"Hand over the Longevity Cup, and spare your lives."

Six men in black suddenly jumped out from the forest and surrounded the people by the firepit.

"What a joke, did you give the Longevity Cup as soon as you asked for it?! How can I say it, it's still Princess Huangling of the Great Jin Dynasty, so don't be presumptuous!"

"Since that's the case, the princess blames you for not knowing how to flatter!"

"Protect the princess! Princess go!"

"kill!"

All of a sudden, a scuffle broke out in the fire pond, the woman in purple turned around to protect her arms, and ran quickly towards the deep forest.

"call out!"

There was a sound of a dark arrow in the deep forest, and Ziyuan felt a heart hang in her throat instantly.

"what!"

The woman in purple screamed in pain, and fell to the ground, already hit by an arrow.

"put……"

Just as Ziyuan was about to step forward, she suddenly felt a stone hit hard at the bend of her foot. She couldn't help but staggered and fell to the ground. Just as she was about to get up, the big hole on her back was hit by the man in black behind her, and her whole body ached instantly. It was so numb that she couldn't use any more strength. She wanted to open her mouth to shout, but found that not only the numb point was hit, but also the dumb point.

"what!"

Several screams were heard, and the man in witch clothes and the woman in purple were killed by the knife of the man in black.

"search!"

Among the gaps in the grass, Zi Yuan could only watch helplessly as the front of the purple-clothed woman was slashed open. After the six men in black tore her clothes, they finally shook out a light blue jade cup, which was thrown in the firelight. Under the reflection, it faintly glows like a dragon pattern.

"Haha, brother, come down, this time we will definitely be praised by His Highness!"

"Okay! Brother!"

From the top of the tree, a man in black jumped down. He picked up his pistol and patted the shoulder of the man who spoke just now, "Let's go quickly! I just saw a figure running towards here, and suddenly disappeared. , I always feel that there seems to be someone around here."

"Shuangzhou is foggy and hazy, I'm afraid you misread it." The other person finished speaking lightly, but the excitement in his tone could not be concealed at all, "This longevity cup is a sacred object. Wine, you can live forever if you drink it, why don't we brothers enjoy it first?"

"Okay! Let's go, let's go back and have a few drinks first, and then bring this thing back to Xizhou and present it to His Highness?"

"Okay! Let's go!"

Seeing the seven men in black walk away, Ziyuan's heart throbbed with pain. She finally found Ah Ling. Could it be that she had to meet again like her sister?

Only when tears came to her eyes, Ziyuan felt that the man on her body quickly untied her acupuncture points, and she turned around in a panic, but the man was gone.

Ziyuan quickly jumped up from the ground, rushed to the purple-clothed woman, and embraced her in her arms in amazement, but the tears in her eyes were held back abruptly the moment she saw the purple-clothed woman's face clearly. .

"This... this is not... not Ah Ling..."

Ziyuan pulled her clothes up, stood up quickly, looked around, recalling the voice she heard just now, if it wasn't Ah Ling's or whose?

"What...what's going on here?" Ziyuan thought about it, and suddenly thought of what she had said to Ah Ling that day on the streets of Lin'an——

"We can make fake ones and let those who want to take the longevity cup take it away. This kind of thing that will lose their heads is naturally given to fools to do it. We just have to wait for the opportunity. If the Emperor Jin still hasn't given birth in the past three years Son, now that King Shu is imprisoned in Dayun, King Qi is the person closest to the dragon chair, we just need to pull him down, and you will have a chance to sit on that dragon chair, right?"

A burst of relief came to mind, and Ziyuan smiled through tears, and said to the surrounding deep forest: "A Ling, I know you are nearby, if you don't want to come out to see me, then that's fine, but I want to tell you, my sister wants me Take care of you, I will be obedient and take good care of you, no matter where you go, I will always follow you until the day you are really safe, do you hear me?"

"Smelly girl!" There was a low voice in the deep forest, and a lonely shadow finally disappeared into the night mist.

Mo Luo, who was hiding in the deep forest, quickly followed Ah Ling, and couldn't help asking: "Why didn't you let that girl follow us? It's always good to have one more helper."

"Your clansmen have sacrificed enough for me today, and I won't let you sacrifice one more person." As she spoke, A Ling raised her eyes and looked at the vast mist ahead, "I have nothing to do except her. It's a sacrifice, so I don't want her to enter the final game."

"Actually, if there is help from the Xue family..."

"I'll say it again, enough people have died, Mo Luo, our hands shouldn't be stained with blood, it's enough!" The last four words sounded from Ah Ling's voice, with a strong tinge. cry.