As expected, Chunyu Ruoxian brought four confidants with strong martial arts skills and waited for Qinglong's arrival at the inn outside the city early. After waiting for a day, he finally saw the four of them passing by and just bought something at the inn.
After eating some dry food and a bowl of tea, we set off again on our way back to Loulan.│| │
They didn't realize at all that Chunyu Ruoxian was following him closely. After two days, they had arrived at the border of Dongou, and they would be able to enter the territory of Loulan tomorrow.
"Junior sister, let's rest in this open space tonight. It's getting late today and there are too many ferocious beasts in the woods. It may be dangerous. It's safer to rush on the road early tomorrow morning!" Looking at the lush woods in front of us, we just need to walk through it.
In this forest, you can enter Loulan after passing a mountain.
"Yes, I agree!" Suzaku nodded and asked the other two guards to dismount and rest together. They will sleep in this open space tonight.
The sky is getting darker and darker, and there will definitely be wolves and wild beasts in such barren mountains and woods. Tonight, the four of them take turns guarding, not daring to relax for a moment.
"Aww-aww-" Suddenly the sound of wolves howling sounded in the woods, and Qinglong immediately woke up from his sleep. It seemed that he had to be especially careful tonight.
There were only four of them, so they could easily become a meal for the wolves.
Suddenly, a commotion caught his attention. Qinglong ### mounted his horse and rushed towards somewhere in the woods. The sword in his waist was also unsheathed. When Suzaku saw this, he immediately followed.
"Ah——" Qinglong rushed straight into the woods and sent his sword straight behind the trees with one palm.
"How dare you assassinate the princess!" A voice asked from behind the bushes, and in an instant the bushes were split open with the power of someone's palm.
Qinglong and Suzaku caught the faint moonlight and saw clearly that the person hiding behind the bushes turned out to be "Chun Yu Ruoxian", the third princess of Dongou Kingdom!
"Princess, how could it be you?" Zhuque stepped forward to help the frightened Ruoxian up. Qinglong's sword was just a few inches away from piercing Chunyu Ruoxian's chest. Fortunately, the guards around her responded in time.
, this tragedy was avoided.
"me……"
Chunyu Ruoxian was obviously frightened just now. At this moment, several more wolf howls were heard from deep in the woods - ow - ow -
"There is a wolf, what should we do?" Chunyu Ruoxian was frightened by the wolf just now, so he kept trembling and made a sound that Qinglong noticed.
The place where they slept in the past two nights had an inn, but tonight they were sleeping in the wilderness, and there happened to be a wolf, which scared her a lot.
"Princess, don't worry, there are a few subordinates to protect the princess, she will be unscathed!" The four guards stood in a row, waiting for her orders at any time.
Chunyu Ruoxian glanced at them uneasily, then looked at Qinglong and Suzaku. Now that she had been discovered, she didn't need to hide, she could just follow him back to Loulan Kingdom openly.
"Aww-aww-" The sound of the wolf howling seemed to be getting closer and closer, which made Ruoxian beside Suzaku become more and more uneasy.
Suzaku, who is also a woman, took the initiative to protect Ruoxian and whispered beside her: "Princess, don't be afraid. With senior brother here, no matter how many wolves there are, they are no match for senior brother!"
After listening to Suzaku's words, Ruoxian couldn't help but look at Qinglong again, but he had already turned around and returned to the horse, immediately returning to the forest and back to the open space.
Zhuque looked at the way the third princess looked at her senior brother, and seemed to guess that she must have fallen in love with her senior brother at first glance in the study that day, so she followed them all the way.
"This person dared to offend the princess. It is an unforgivable crime!" Seeing Qinglong's refusal to accept the princess's fault, the guards around him took the initiative to defend the princess.
Chunyu Ruoxian waved her hand to shut them up. She just likes him like this, arrogant and withdrawn. This is the masculinity she admires. What the hell do they know!
Suzaku helped her get on the horse, and together they came to the open space. The sound of the wolf howling did not seem to weaken, and seemed to continue to approach them.
Qinglong ordered the guards to light more fires around them so that even if the wolves came, they would not dare to approach them easily, and kept the horses beside them in case of emergencies.
There were five more people in the group of four. The more people there were, the wolves would not dare to approach easily. They lit a few fires and asked the horses to stay with them. Several men took turns to keep watch, and they could not relax at all.
Chunyu Ruoxian was lying next to Zhuque, sleeping close to her. This was the first time she had run away from home and slept in the wilderness for the first time since she had grown up. This inevitably made her a little excited and scared. The excitement was because of this courage.
They were afraid because there would be wild beasts and wolves attacking them at any time in the woods.
"Princess, don't be afraid, Suzaku will protect you!" Suzaku was several years older than her and coaxed her to sleep like a big sister.
Maybe it was because of the protection of Suzaku, and there was Qinglong not far away, so she fell asleep soon...
At dawn the next morning, Qinglong woke everyone up and prepared to set off.
"Third Princess, we are leaving to return to Loulan. Goodbye." Qinglong said goodbye to her politely. He didn't ask her where she was going last night, and he had no interest in knowing.
Ruoxian was so anxious now. What should he do? He didn't even ask himself.