"Wow..." The sleeping baby in Little Cherry's arms suddenly burst into tears.
The cry is so sad that people can't help but cry after hearing it.
From the time he was born to now, he has not even had a sip of milk from his mother, who is no longer here.
Years from now, how painful will it be to wait for your children to grow up and know what happened today?
"Don't cry, don't cry, everything will be fine, everything will be fine." Little Cherry kissed the child's forehead, held back her tears, and covered Concubine Lian's body with the quilt, covering her increasingly withered face.
The child in her arms was still crying, but suddenly there was some strange movement outside, as if someone had broken into the courtyard of the courtyard.
It sounds like the footsteps are meticulous, and there are actually a lot of people!
Little Cherry's heart tightened, and she immediately walked to the door with her child in her arms. Unexpectedly, she saw a group of Yanhe soldiers breaking in from the yard.
The news that they are here has leaked out!
Little Cherry looked back at Concubine Lian's body on the bed, and then looked at the baby in her arms. The baby was still crying. It hadn't even had a sip of milk since it was born. It would be strange not to cry.
Looking at the soldiers outside, they all looked fierce, and it was clear that they were coming with bad intentions.
We can't let the child fall into their hands. These people are probably the prince's people!
Little Cherry took a deep look at the bedside. She had no choice but to hold the child and walk to the window. Suddenly she jumped up and rushed out.
"The thieves have escaped!" The Yanhe soldier who broke in first saw someone escaping from the window and immediately shouted: "The thieves escaped from the back door, hurry up!"
"Sir, this...this is Concubine Lian!" Someone found the woman dead on the bed.
The officer strode over and lifted the quilt covering Concubine Lian.
The corpse under the quilt was a bit too horrible to look at. The body was in a mess and was so bloody that it made one's scalp numb just looking at it.
But, her belly... her belly is flat!
"The child was born!" The officer glared at the window angrily, took him away and chased him: "Hurry up and chase! We must take the child back!"
"yes!"
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Xing Zizhou's heart ached, and he didn't know what was wrong. An unconcealable sadness seemed to surge up in his chest, but it soon disappeared.
"What's going on?" Xue Gu looked back at him. The guy's footsteps suddenly stopped, which made her think there was something wrong, but she didn't notice it.
"It's nothing, I just feel...suddenly uneasy." Xing Zizhou himself couldn't explain what this was.
However, he doesn't feel much now. He smiled and said: "It's okay. Maybe I ate something wrong tonight and I felt a little uncomfortable. I'm fine now."
Xue Gu glanced at him and then looked around, but she still didn't feel anything was wrong around her.
Then he nodded and continued walking forward.
The strange thing is that there is really nothing along the way, there are no so-called checkpoints, not even a guard.
"You're not looking for the wrong place, are you?" Xue Gu stopped. It's not easy to find the footprints left by people who passed by at night.
This place is overgrown with weeds. Even if someone has walked through it before, with the tenacious vitality of the grass, the footprints left by the past people can be completely destroyed in a few hours.
It is now a mystery to them whether no one has been here at all, or whether people have been here and their traces have disappeared.
"Perhaps Jiu'er and the others are taking the right path." Xue Gu was a little worried. If Jiu'er and the others met those people, they might be in danger.
Xing Zizhou was also a little worried. The uneasy feeling was always lingering in his heart.
There is still a dense forest ahead, which seems to lead to another high mountain. If it is not going to the bottom of the cliff, then... maybe it is really the wrong way.
"Senior Xue, how about we go find Jiu'er and the others?" Xing Zizhou didn't know where his uneasiness came from, but in short, if he continued like this, his uneasiness would get bigger and bigger.
"Okay." Xue Gu said nothing, turned around and headed back to the original route.
Unexpectedly, the two of them had just walked dozens of steps when Xue Gu suddenly stopped and her face darkened: "Be careful!"
"What?" Xing Zizhou's skills were far inferior to Xue Gu's. When Xue Gu first discovered something was wrong, he hadn't noticed anything yet.
"Ahead," Xue Gu frowned and clenched her fingers: "We have been fooled, there is an ambush ahead!"
"How could it be?" If there was not an ambush on the way ahead, but an ambush on the way back, then it means that the other party had already known about their coming here tonight.
Could it be that you really fell into a trap? So, is the matter of forging weapons also a lie?
"We can't wait any longer, Xing Zizhou, let's break through." Xue Gu was concerned about Feng Jiu'er's safety. Even though she knew there was an ambush ahead, there was only one way back, so she still had to break through.
"Wait a minute, you walk behind me, don't separate the two of us, don't worry, I will definitely send you back to Jiu'er safely."
Xing Zizhou is very important to Feng Jiuer. If Jiuer wants to start a career in the future, he must have someone like Xing Zizhou around him.
Rather than saying that Xue Gu is a bit cold-hearted, it would be better to say that she cares too much about Feng Jiu'er.
Of course Xing Zizhou also knew that Xue Gu protected him in this way only for Jiu'er.
But no matter who it is for, if you protect it, you protect it. This is a kind of kindness.
"I will follow you closely, I can protect myself, Xue Gu, you have to be careful!"
With a swipe sound, Xing Zizhou pulled out the long sword he carried and walked closely behind her.
After walking about ten steps, there was a sudden whoosh, and a ray of green light cut through the tranquility in the air under the increasingly weak moonlight.
"The arrows are highly poisonous, be careful!" Xue Gu put away her dagger and swung her long arm. With a clang, the cold arrow was blocked by her.
There was another whooshing sound, and in the darkness, a dozen cold arrows were shot out at the same time.
Xing Zizhou did not dare to be careless at all, and followed closely behind Xue Gu. Although most of the cold arrows were blocked by Xue Gu, he himself had been treating every cold arrow that came with caution.
"Xing Zizhou, there is a gap ahead, follow me!"
"good!"
The two figures seemed to be stuck together, flying past in the rain of arrows.
The people who were ambush probably didn't expect that there would be such a powerful master here.
Seeing that the array of poisonous arrows could not stop them, dozens of people who were ambushing on the hilltop simultaneously drew out their poisonous swords and swarmed down.
"Remember to stay close behind me and don't leave even a step!" Xue Gu shouted sharply.
"Yes!" Xing Zizhou was absolutely obedient and followed her closely, never leaving her!
