After the rebirth, I became the darling of the tyrant

While waiting for the sky to clear up, Gu Chen went to the backyard.

Yan Sheng put a shelf of medicinal materials in the backyard, because he lives alone in the mountains and would store some medicinal materials for emergencies.The mountain is humid, so he will also use some sulfur to fumigate medicinal materials, usually to kill insects.

Gu Chen searched around, and finally found the bag of sulfur in the house.He picked it up and stuffed it into the package, and Yan Sheng was taken aback for a moment: "I can understand if you bring more water or dry food, why are you bringing that thing?"

Gu Chen smiled: "It's more conspicuous when it burns, I plan to use it to attract attention."

Yan Sheng thought for a while: He really hadn't noticed what this light yellow, stone-like thing would look like when it burned, so he couldn't help showing a look of surprise: "Gu's iron cavalry has a well-deserved reputation, and even this know all kinds of things."

Gu Chen laughed: "This has nothing to do with Yan Beijun, it's just me..."

He paused at this point, remembering how he knew about this matter—if he wanted to talk about it, it still had something to do with Xiao Tingshen.

When they were teenagers, they often played together after class, usually wandering around Shenjing City, and sometimes walking casually in the palace.Gu Chen was studying calligraphy and painting with his mother at that time, and he preferred places with good scenery such as the Imperial Garden. Xiao Tingshen naturally followed him, so the two of them often went to the Imperial Garden during that time.

At that time, the first emperor built a new scene in the imperial garden, with scattered rockeries, green willows hanging down the banks, and clear ponds.The two of them wandered here one day and saw a cave in the middle of the rockery. They were also teenagers, so they got into the cave to make a fire and play.

They picked up a lot of branches around, and then Gu Chen touched something nearby and threw it into the fire. Unexpectedly, almost the next moment, the fire suddenly burst into light blue flames, and at the same time emitted light blue flames. There was a choking smell of smoke.

"Cough cough...!"

The two were so smoked that tears came out, and the cave suddenly seemed to have a water and land fireworks display. The smoke was billowing and the fire was scorching, not only dazzling but also pungent. In a panic, they had to rush out of the cave and escape in embarrassment.

Of course, they were caught in the end.

At that time, what Gu Chen accidentally threw in was sulfur stones, which not only almost caused a fire, but also smoked away a bird that the late emperor raised on the rockery. It is said that later the late emperor sent people to fill the palace. I searched for the bird for three whole days but couldn't find it.

That bird is the emperor's favorite pet, so it's okay to be smoked and run away?The late emperor was furious, and immediately took Xiao Tingshen to the Ganquan Palace... Originally, he also went to the Gu Mansion to find Gu Chen, but Xiao Tingshen took all the charges and admitted that he lit the sulfur in the rockery cave for fun, which caused such a big commotion. The movement also scared away the late emperor's favorite pet.

The first emperor didn't like this son at all, and this time it was even more smoke from the seven orifices, Xiao Ting was severely beaten, and after the beating, he was thrown back to the bedroom, ordered not to come out without an edict, and closed his feet to think about his mistakes.

The beating was really hard, Xiao Tingshen lay on the bed for half a month before he could get off the ground.During this period, Concubine Xian begged bitterly, and finally released Xiao Tingshen's restraint.It was almost a month before he saw Gu Chen again.

Gu Chen came back to his senses from the memory, thinking of the disaster he had with Xiao Tingshen that time, he wanted to laugh and felt sad at the same time—if there hadn’t been the subsequent struggle for the heir apparent...

Maybe Xiao Tingshen will be an idle prince, and he is still drinking bars with him now.

Gu Chen couldn't help but fell silent.After a long time, he took out one of those pale yellow stones, smiled at Yan Sheng, and said solemnly: "I used it to get into trouble, but fortunately a friend of mine protected me, so I was not killed. "

"friend?"

"Yes." Gu Chen nodded, "Used to be my best friend when I was young."

Seeing that his expression was different, Yan Sheng couldn't help but startled: "...Is he... all right?"

"He's fine." Gu Chen put the sulfur block back into the package and smiled lightly, "It will be better in the future."

Sure enough, as Gu Chen expected, an hour later, the sky cleared.

Yan Sheng said "Take care" to Gu Chen, then picked up the package and left the house. Gu Chen stared at the direction he was leaving for a moment, picked up the things, and walked in the opposite direction.

After walking a certain distance, Gu Chen stood on a small hillside. From here, he could vaguely see the armored soldiers who began to search the mountain.Gu Chen took out a piece of sulfur and lit it, then threw it out.There was an unusually conspicuous blue flame from the thing, and an even more pungent smoke downwind.

"Someone!"

I don't know who shouted, and a soldier pointed in Gu Chen's direction.They quickly gathered in this direction, and searched for Gu Chen step by step.

Gu Chen immediately turned around and ran forward for a while.The mountain road after the rain was very muddy. He ran with one foot deep and one foot shallow, throwing a piece of ignited sulfur from time to time.This thing really irritated both the eyeballs and the nasal cavity. Even Gu Chen himself was so smoked that his eyes hurt, and he coughed a few times from time to time.

As he hurried forward, he estimated in the bottom of his heart—he had been walking for almost an hour, and he had already planned his retreat before he set off.There is a peak on the left of the direction he is heading now, and there should be a suspension bridge on the right, hanging above the rushing river.If he moved quickly, he would be able to reach the suspension bridge in an hour, and he would reach the opposite mountain through the suspension bridge.

As long as he jumped into the opposite mountain, he was half out of danger——Wang Xinfang probably didn't have so many people in his hands, allowing him to surround the opposite mountain.At that time, Gu Chen only needs to find a way down the mountain, and he should be able to get rid of the pursuers smoothly.

While making such calculations, he threw another piece of brimstone out.Then he quickened his pace, and when it was just getting dark, he rushed to the suspension bridge.

However the bridge collapsed.

Gu Chen was blocked at this end, staring blankly at the suspension bridge completely broken from the middle, and his final retreat was just like this suspension bridge, which was washed away in the heavy rain and fell into the fast-flowing river below.He gritted his teeth, looked down, and found that the place was too high. Even if he wanted to jump into the river to escape, he would fall on the raised stones in the middle, and be smashed to pieces.

In desperation, Gu Chen had no choice but to cast his gaze to his left side - there was a high and steep mountain.

He turned around and dragged the pursuers behind him towards the direction of the mountain.

Half an hour later, Gu Chen came to a dead end with his pursuers relentlessly chasing him.

In front of you is a cliff as steep as a sword, surrounded by clouds, and you can't see the bottom at a glance.The pursuers hadn't come up yet, but Gu Chen knew that within a quarter of an hour, he would have to fight them hand to hand.

He smiled wryly -- he never thought that the place of his death in this life would be on a desolate cliff in southern Hubei.

He took out the dagger from the package. In order to travel lightly, he didn't bring a sword when he came out, and he didn't bring anything that was too heavy. He only had this self-defense dagger on his body.Now he wears it at his waist, his last weapon.

Then he looked around, found a fairly flat place, and walked over to look at a big tree in front of him.He drew out his dagger and carved two lines on it, one horizontal and one vertical, making a mark.

He dug up the soil under the tree, and then took out a token made of bronze from his pocket—this was the Xuanhu Token that Xiao Tingshen gave him before, and it was the only one that he hadn't lost after running around for so long s things.He used to hang it on his waist before, but this time he changed clothes too often to save Concubine Xian, so he put it in his arms for fear of losing it.

...It will not be used in the future.

He put the Xuanhu Ling in the dug earth pit, and then buried it.

He dropped everything he was carrying, only clenched his dagger, and stood on the edge of the cliff.The wind blew his white robe, like a crane about to fly, stretching out its white wings.

I would rather die in battle than live.

Wang Xinfang led the armored soldiers and appeared in his line of sight. Gu Chen smiled slightly, and without fear, he drew his knife to meet him!

He couldn't remember how many people he had killed.

I don't even remember how many swords I got hit.

Everywhere he could see was full of armored soldiers, wave after wave, attacking him continuously.The end of the nose can only smell the thick and viscous bloody smell, like a cocoon, slowly wrapping him in it.

Gu Chen gritted his teeth, grabbed the spear from the person next to him, and knocked the other person into the air with force, but then he felt a pain in his back, probably from being hit by a sword.As if he didn't realize it, he turned around and knocked another person away with his spear, and took two steps forward, but suddenly felt his feet go soft——

He may be reaching his limit.

Gu Chen raised his hand to wipe off the blood on his face, and heard a gust of wind coming from the right rear, it should be someone trying to sneak attack him.Gu Chen wanted to raise his hand to parry, but the spear in his hand seemed to weigh a thousand catties, and he couldn't lift it up for a while.He gritted his teeth and evaded to the left, thinking that he would try his best to receive a sword, and then counterattack with his backhand——

However, there was a sound of gold and iron on the ground, and someone held the sword for him.

The familiar aura came over the sky, and the surrounding armored soldiers all showed expressions of extreme fear, and retreated in all directions like a tide.Gu Chen froze in place. He hesitated and wanted to turn around, but for some reason, he didn't dare to look back.

The next moment, a black cloak fell on Gu Chen's shoulders, still carrying the body temperature of the previous person.The man took two steps forward and stood side by side with Gu Chen.

"Yunting," Xiao Ting said in a deep voice, "It's all right."