Xu Xiling asked with concern: "Your Majesty's wound is too painful?"
Liu Xiu shook his head and said feebly: "I'm fine, I'm just a little tired." After the strenuous exercise, fatigue swept over him. Liu Xiu felt as if his body was filled with lead, and it was difficult to move.
Xu Xiling looked around and saw a depression behind a tree not far away. She said, "Your Majesty, let's go over there and hide!"
Liu Xiu glanced up and nodded, but at this point, he didn't even have the strength to stand up. Xu Xiling took Liu Xiu's arm and lifted him up from the ground, then helped Liu Xiu and walked to the depression.
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The depression was not very deep, only about half a meter, so it was not suitable for the two of them to be discovered while sitting in it.
He lay flat on the ground, his eyes getting darker and darker, and he said slowly: "Xiling, I'm going to rest for a while, I'll be fine in a while." As he spoke, he closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep.
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The several wounds on Liu Xiu's body were not serious, but they were not treated in time, and after strenuous exercise, he lost too much blood. In addition, the kick from the tube baby caused him internal injuries. Now Liu Xiu really couldn't hold on.
Fell asleep.
Xu Xiling looked at the sleeping Liu Xiu and covered him with the clothes he had just taken off. Then she lay down next to Liu Xiu and looked at him closely.
I don't know how much time passed, maybe an hour, maybe half an hour, when the sound of rustling footsteps suddenly came from the woods outside the depression.
Hearing the movement, Xu Xiling's body suddenly shook. She immediately opened her eyes and got up from the ground. She slowly poked her head out of the depression and looked outside.
I saw a dozen soldiers of the Red Eyebrow Army walking through the woods on the side, some carrying spears and some carrying swords, looking around as they walked.
One of them complained angrily: "To find a few people in such a large forest is like finding a needle in a haystack!"
"Oh, don't complain. It's useless to complain. Who makes our lives miserable? We can only do these hard and tiring jobs!" Another soldier said he was trying to persuade his companions, but in fact he was also complaining.
Seeing that the other party was coming towards the depression, Xu Xiling hurriedly retracted his head, carefully climbed to Liu Xiu's side, and gently pushed his arm.
Liu Xiu woke up from his sleep. The moment he opened his eyes, two rays of light suddenly appeared in his eyes.
If it were someone else who had endured the torment Liu Xiu had just endured, he would probably have been unable to recover for ten days and a half. However, Liu Xiu's body recovered very quickly. After only such a short rest, his body recovered.
The eyes regained their charm and brilliance.
Although his face is still pale and his body still feels weak, his energy and energy are much fuller than before.
Xu Xiling put her index finger in front of her lips, first signaling Liu Xiu not to speak, then she pointed outward, lowered her voice, and whispered in Liu Xiu's ear: "The Red Eyebrow Army is here to search!"
Liu Xiu's eyes flashed, and she turned her head and asked, "How many people are there?"
"I only saw a dozen people."
After Liu Xiu heard this, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief. If only a dozen people came, it meant that the Red Eyebrow Army had not discovered their whereabouts. They were not specifically following them, but the Red Eyebrow Army spread the people out like a net.
, I found it by chance.
He slowly sat up and took a look at the small depression where he and Xu Xiling were. It was not big or deep, and there was no room to hide.
He squinted his eyes, held the hilt of the Scarlet Sky Sword, and gradually pulled the Scarlet Sky Sword out of its scabbard.
Seeing this, Xu Xiling immediately understood what Liu Xiu meant. Since he couldn't avoid it, he had no choice but to kill them all, leaving no one alive.
She nodded to Liu Xiu, indicating that she knew what to do. The two of them squatted in a small depression, ready to go.
The dozen or so red-browed troops outside were getting closer and closer to the small depression, and both Liu Xiu and Xu Xiling could clearly hear each other's breathing.
"If you ask me, Liu Xiu has run away a long time ago. How can he still stay in the woods, waiting for us to hunt him down?"
"The man from Chang'an said that he has arranged for dead soldiers on the way out of the mountain. Liu Xiu cannot escape no matter what. He must be hiding in this forest now!"
"He said it quite easily. Why didn't he come find it himself?"
The soldiers of the Red Eyebrow Army also seemed to have some complaints against Guan Ying. As they walked, they muttered dissatisfiedly and were quite resentful.
One of them walked up to the depression and complained that the tube infant was not considerate of the soldiers. At the same time, he lifted up his clothes, untied his belt, and wanted to relieve himself in the depression.
What he didn't see was that right under his feet, close to the earth wall of the depression, there were two people squatting, Liu Xiu and Xu Xiling.
This red-browed soldier had already untied his belt, took off his pants, and was about to urinate. Liu Xiu, who had been squatting in a small depression, suddenly stood up. At the same time, he struck out with a sword from bottom to top.
Pierce out.
The edge of the Red Sky Sword penetrated the chin of the Red Eyebrow Soldier accurately, and the tip of the sword about four inches did not penetrate the opponent's head. The Red Eyebrow Army soldier did not say a word and was killed on the spot. He stood straight towards the little boy.
Fell down in the depression.
Plop!
Looking at the corpse of the red-browed army soldier lying naked in the depression, Xu Xiling's face turned red and he hurriedly turned his head to look away. Liu Xiu squinted his eyes and listened to what was going on outside.
Seeing that their companion who had gone to relieve himself actually fell into the pit, a dozen other Red Eyebrow soldiers burst out laughing in unison. Someone said with a smile: "Damn you, you can fall into the pit even if you relieve yourself!"
Everyone came over one after another, trying to pull up the companion who had fallen to the bottom of the pit. However, when they came closer and looked carefully, everyone's expressions changed greatly. They saw that the companion was lying in the pit, motionless, and his jaw was bleeding.
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"Ah——" People couldn't help but exclaimed in surprise. At the moment they screamed, Liu Xiu jumped out from the bottom of the pit, and the Red Sky Sword swept out.
sand!
The sword edge flashed past the throats of the two red-browed soldiers, and the sharp edge tore their necks open. The two took two steps back and fell to the ground one after another. When the others saw this, they subconsciously screamed: "Liu Xiu!
It’s Liu Xiu hiding here!”
Liu Xiu didn't say anything. He charged at a red-browed soldier with his sword and thrust the sword forward. The soldier was so frightened that he rolled to the side. The windlass went far away and missed with one sword. Liu Xiu did not pursue him and swung his sword.
The sword slashed at another red-browed soldier on the side.
The man also raised the spear in his hand to parry, but the shaft of the spear was cut in two by the Chixiao Sword. The sword's edge continued unabated and sliced through the opponent's chest. As soon as Liu Xiu took action, he killed several people in a row.
, which shocked everyone in the Red Eyebrow Army.
The remaining eight red eyebrow soldiers roared and rushed towards Liu Xiu. Liu Xiu swung his sword and fought with them. After only a few encounters, four more red eyebrow soldiers died tragically under his sword.
The remaining four people felt that they could not kill Liu Xiu no matter what, so they gave up the fight and turned around and ran away.
Liu Xiu was not willing to let them go. He took two consecutive steps and chased after a red-browed soldier, and then stabbed the opponent's back with his sword.
The red-browed soldier screamed and fell forward. Liu Xiu drew his sword, waved his arm outward, and the Red Sky Sword flew out, spinning in the air.
The spinning and flying Red Sky Sword was really like a propeller. It flashed past the neck of a Red Eyebrow Soldier, and then with a trembling sound, the Red Sky Sword cut across the trunk of a big tree and was nailed to it.
Looking at the soldier again, he was still running forward, but as he ran, the head fell off his shoulders in an incredible way. The headless body was still running forward, but the huge severed head had already rolled on the ground.
The remaining two red-browed soldiers did not dare to look back at all. At this moment, they suddenly heard a woman's exclamation from the side. The two turned around and saw a man not far away from them.
A young and beautiful woman was sitting on her knees under a tree.
The two of them had the same thought, this woman must be Liu Xiu's concubine! They seemed to have found a chance of survival, and ran straight towards the beautiful woman without saying a word.
The two came to the beautiful woman, grabbed her clothes, pulled her up from the ground, turned back and glared at Liu Xiu, and shouted sternly: "Don't move! If you pursue me one step further, I will kill her first..."
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He stopped abruptly in the middle of his words, and saw a shocking dagger stuck in his neck, the dagger in the hand of a beautiful woman.
Another red-browed soldier was shocked and exclaimed: "You..."
The beautiful woman pulled out the dagger from the opponent's neck and slashed at the other red-browed soldier with a wave of her hand.
The man was so frightened that he hurriedly bent down to avoid the sharp edge of the dagger. He straightened up again, raised the sword in his hand high, and aimed it at the top of the beautiful woman's head, intending to chop it down.
Unfortunately, his sword could never cut it down.
There was just a pop sound, and a sword tip suddenly poked out from his chest. It pierced him from behind and poked out the sword tip in front of his chest. Liu Xiu didn't know when he was standing behind him, Chi Xiao
The sword stabbed him to the core.
In the end, none of the dozen or so red-browed soldiers ran away. One of them died under Xu Xiling's dagger, and the others were all killed by Liu Xiu.
After killing these enemies, Liu Xiu sheathed his sword, leaned on the tree trunk, sat down, and breathed heavily.
Finding blood seeping under the bandage, Xu Xiling said nervously: "Your Majesty's wound has opened again. I will help your Majesty apply the medicine again!"
Liu Xiu looked at the anxious Xu Xiling, smiled apologetically at her, and said, "If Xiling hadn't come to accompany me, she wouldn't have been in such danger this time!"
Xu Xiling skillfully reapplied Liu Xiu's medicine, and at the same time whispered: "Xiling is willing to accompany you at your side."
Her words were so straightforward. If Liu Xiu still couldn't understand, then he wasn't pretending to be stupid, but he was really stupid.
Liu Xiu looked at her intently and said meaningfully: "Xiling, there are many people who are better than me. With your life experience, you deserve to be entrusted to a better person."
Xu Xiling was originally a daughter-in-law who came from a wealthy family. She was one of the best in talent and beauty. And although she was not granted a title, she was actually a founding hero of the country. With her current status, no matter which prince she married,
They are all worthy of being the first wife.
But if she followed him, Xu Xiling would not be able to be a queen (she would be taken over by Guo Shengtong) or a nobleman (she would be taken over by Yin Lihua). At best, she would just be a beauty in the harem.
In Liu Xiu's opinion, this was too unfair to her, and she felt that it was not worth it.
The levels of Liu Xiu's harem are very simple. There are five levels: queen, nobles, beauties, palace servants, and maidens. Among them, queens and nobles can get titles. As for beauties, palace maids, and maidens, there are no titles.
Xu Xiling lowered his head and bandaged the wound with a serious expression. At the same time, he said quietly: "Xiling has already reached the end of her life. Xi Ling can make her own decisions on many things."
The implication is, Your Majesty, please don’t treat me like a little girl who doesn’t understand anything. I can make the decision on my own matters!
