The jailer had already seen the prince's methods. The dignified governor was beaten half to death. Killing him as a low-class little jailer was not a problem. In order to save his life, he raised his head hard and identified the people in front of him one by one. Waiting for
When he saw a person standing behind him, he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, it's him, the man in gray clothes behind, he is the one who took the person away!"
Upon hearing this, Hong Zhou immediately walked over. The leader clearly heard the conversation between the jailer and Hong Zhou. His already solemn expression became more and more ugly. He stretched out his hand to stop Hong Zhou and asked cautiously: "What are you going to do?"
"Go away!" Hong Zhou waved his hand away, grabbed the man in gray before he could stop him again, and said coldly: "Tell me, where are they now?"
The man avoided Hong Zhou's devouring gaze and said with a trembling voice, "I don't know what you are talking about."
Hong Zhou gritted his teeth and said, "I have no patience. If you don't say anything anymore, I will cut off your nose, then cut off your ears, and gouge out your eyes."
The man turned pale with horror and quickly turned around and shouted: "Help me, leader! Help me!"
The leader endured the panic in his heart and walked over and said: "Who are you?!"
Hongli didn't say anything. Wang Jiu came over and said, "This is the younger brother of the present emperor. He is the king and the prince. Why don't you kneel down?!"
Although he already knew it in his heart, when he actually heard it, there was still a trace of fear in the leader's eyes, and he hurriedly clapped his sleeves and knelt down on one knee, "See you, Your Majesty, may you be blessed!"
As soon as he knelt down, the rest of the people also knelt down in panic. Hong Zhou didn't look at these people, only stared at the man in gray, and said sternly: "Answer what I said!"
"I...I don't know!" As soon as the man finished speaking, Hong Zhou said loudly: "Bring me the knife!"
Wang Jiu immediately took out his long knife and placed it in Hong Zhou's outstretched palm. Before anyone could react, he picked up the knife and dropped it, and his bloody nose fell to the ground.
Hong Zhou moved so quickly that the man in gray didn't notice the pain at first. It wasn't until blood spurted out that he came to his senses and screamed miserably. His face was covered with blood, showing unspeakable horror.
Seeing this, the leader hurriedly said: "My lord, how could you hurt someone without any explanation? Please stop!"
Hong Zhou ignored him, just put the blood-stained steel knife on the man's left ear and said again: "Do you want to tell me?"
"Please, Your Majesty, stop!" Seeing his arrogant look, the leader felt angry and wanted to stop him. As soon as he moved, a strong hand pressed his shoulder, "I advise you not to move!
"
It was Wang Jiu who spoke. Following his words, the dozens of people who came with Hong Zhou all pulled out the steel knives in their hands. The blades shone with a cold and oppressive light, shocking every desire.
A strange person.
"Don't you say yes?" With these four words, Hong Zhou raised the steel knife again. If it fell, another thing would be missing from this person's head.
The man in gray clothes was frightened to death by Hong Zhou's decisive and cruel hand-cutting, and he hurriedly endured the pain and said: "No! I say! I say!"
"Speak!" Under Hong Zhou's intense gaze, he tremblingly pointed at the flaming lonely mountain and said in a trembling voice: "They... they are on the mountain!"
"Damn it!" Hong Zhou cursed angrily, without bothering to ask any more questions, and said urgently: "The Emperor and the Queen are on this mountain. Find a source of water immediately to put out the fire. We must not let the fire spread to the entire mountain! Go quickly!"
Hearing these words, the leader almost collapsed to the ground. What did he hear? The Emperor...the Queen? So, those trapped on the mountain are really the current Emperor and Queen? They actually plotted to murder the current Emperor and Empress. No wonder that woman
He opened his mouth and said that they would be executed by the nine tribes!
Not only him, but the rest of the people were also paralyzed and unable to move. As for the people Hong Zhou brought, as soon as Hong Zhou gave the order, they immediately rode their horses to find water sources to put out the fire.
Hong Zhou looked worriedly at the fire that filled the entire mountain forest and murmured: "Fourth brother, Queen, you have to hold on, I will definitely save you!"
After a while, the people who left began to come back one after another. Some of them filled the water with broken earthen jars they picked up from unknown places. Some of them couldn't find it, so they took off their clothes to fill the water. But when they arrived, their clothes were gone.
The water inside has almost leaked out.
The water poured into the fire that had spread was undoubtedly a drop in the bucket and of no use at all, but this was the only thing they could do. They carried water again and again, and several horses were vomiting because of the continuous running.
Mo fell to the ground.
Wang Jiu frowned and said: "My lord, this is not the way to go. The water we brought cannot put out the fire at all. Unless it rains heavily, the emperor and the queen will be in danger..."
"No!" Hong Zhou interrupted him sternly and said with a ferocious expression: "The emperor and the empress are as blessed as heaven, they will be fine, they will be!"
Wang Jiu looked at the sky without any hint of rain and sighed. Although Hong Zhou insisted that nothing would happen, the situation in front of him was really difficult to be optimistic about. Sitting on the entire mountain, only one fifth of it had not been swallowed up by the fire, but it was still.
He couldn't wait much longer. When he was about to look back, his expression suddenly changed and he said hurriedly: "Your Majesty, look above!"
Hong Zhou looked in the direction of his finger and saw a few figures standing on the top of the mountain. Although they were far apart and could not see clearly, he knew that they must be Hong Li and Xianyue.
Hong Zhou felt a sense of joy in his heart, they were indeed alive, alive!
"Hiss!" Another horse fell to the ground exhausted. Hong Zhou's eyes flashed with a look of cruelty. He took the water-soaked clothes from the guard who struggled to get up and put them on his body. He immediately ran towards the mountain. Wang
Jiu saw his intention and was shocked. He hurriedly grabbed him and said, "My lord, you must not do this!"
"Let go!" Faced with Hong Zhou's scolding, Wang Jiu still held him tightly, "The fire is so big, and there is such a long way from here to the top of the mountain, you can't get through it!"
Hong Zhou said sternly: "You have to try even if you can't get through. Do you want me to just watch something happen to the emperor and the queen?"
"I know that you are concerned about the safety of the Emperor and the Queen, but if you rush in like this, not only will you not be able to save anyone, but you will also take your life!"
"I can't control that much anymore. Let me go!" Hong Zhou struggled hard, but Wang Jiu gritted his teeth and said: "Unless you kill your subordinate, I will never let go!"
Hong Zhou stared at Wang Jiu with a livid face, suddenly raised the blood-stained steel knife in his hand and put it on Wang Jiu's neck, gritted his teeth and said: "Do you think I won't kill you?"
Wang Jiu did not flinch and said: "My subordinates dare not. In short, if the prince wants to go up the mountain, he must kill his subordinates first!"