Yu Xiao would be back before dark. Now it was dusk, and Gu Xinglang asked the head master standing outside the house, "Is the princess back?"

The boss shook his head.

Gu Xinglang immediately became nervous and said to the boss, "Go get ready, we're going to find the princess."

"Yes," the boss replied and turned to run.

At this moment, raindrops fell on Gu Xinglang's face.

The boss was obviously also drenched in the rain and stood up to look at the sky.

The setting sun dyed half of the sky golden red. It’s raining in such good weather?

After a few raindrops fell, the sky suddenly turned dark and heavy rain poured down.

"Damn it," the eldest boss ran to the eaves and cursed the sky: "What kind of horrible weather is this? It rains as soon as it's said to! Is it still possible to live in this damn place?!"

Gu Xinglang said: "Stop scolding and go get ready."

The boss nodded, covered his head with his hands and tried to run again.

"Wait a minute," Jiang Zhuojun came out of the house and called out to the head master, "What are you preparing for?"

Gu Xinglang said: "I'll go pick up the princess."

Jiang Zhuojun looked at the heavy rain in front of him and said, "It's raining so hard that the road in the forest will definitely be flooded. Let's wait until the rain stops before we go."

Gu Xinglang frowned.

Jiang Zhuojun said, "Listen to me. It's raining so hard that you can't see the direction clearly when walking in the dense forest. How are you going to pick up the princess? Even if the princess is on the road now, she has to find a place to shelter from the rain."

After a big fire, there were only a few wooden buildings left in the village. The charred wood was sizzling under the cold rain and emitted clear smoke, but it soon disappeared in the rain.

Gu Xinglang shook his head and said, "The princess said she would be back before dark, I have to go pick her up."

Jiang Zhuojun held Gu Xinglang's shoulder and whispered, "No matter what, we have to wait until the rain stops. Qinghui, don't take risks at this time. Let's wait a little longer. The princess won't meet an enemy in the seedling field."

The eldest boss said nervously, "What if my princess met Mo Wen?"

After the boss said this, how could Gu Xinglang wait any longer? He said to Jiang Zhuojun: "I'll go and take a look. If I can't leave, I'll come back later."

Jiang Zhuojun looked at Gu Xinglang with a sullen face.

Gu Xinglang said earnestly: "I won't take any risks."

It's a risk for you to go into the dense forest now, Jiang Zhuojun sighed in his heart, but General Jiang still took back his hand that was holding Gu Xinglang and warned him: "You can't go on the road in the forest, you must come back."

Gu Xinglang nodded.

Jiang Zhuojun turned around and called Brother Tang out, asking him to follow Gu Xinglang.

The eldest boss ran into the rain and said to Gu Xinglang, "Then, Prince Consort, let's go quickly."

Looking at the three people running away in the rain, Jiang Zhuojun punched the wall behind him.

The captain who had been standing nearby ran over and said, "General, it's too risky for them to go out like this!"

Jiang Zhuojun said helplessly: "How can they give up unless they hit the wall?"

The captain looked at the heavy rain, tying his hands, and was at a loss as to what to do.

Jiang Zhuojun walked back to the humble room. The elite cavalrymen who stayed in the room and understood some Miao dialect shook their heads at him and whispered, "This barbarian slave refuses to say anything."

Jiang Zhuojun sat down, looked at the leader and said, "You are sure I dare not touch you, right?"

After listening to the translation of the elite cavalry, the chief remained unmoved and sat on the ground calmly.

The elite cavalry said: "Don't really think we dare not torture you!"

The chief looked up at Jiang Zhuojun and said, "You are going to the hinterland, right? Then you'd better not hurt anyone in my village, otherwise you won't be able to leave the Miao land."

The people of Miao land will kill each other, but if an outsider kills a Miao person, then this person will become the enemy of all the people of Miao land.

"What did he say?" Jiang Zhuojun asked his subordinate.

After the elite cavalryman told Jiang Zhuojun what his leader had said, he gritted his teeth and said, "General, does this barbarian really think he can defeat us?"

The sound of heavy rain came into the shabby room, making the atmosphere in the room where no one was talking even more depressing.

After a long silence, Jiang Zhuojun ordered the captain, "Lock up the person in charge of this village together with the two monks from the Eternal Life Temple."

The captain whispered, "No more trial?"

Jiang Zhuojun shook his head and said, "You won't get anything out of this trial."

"I understand," the captain said, and walked up to the leader. Without saying a word, he dragged the leader out of the house.

Watching the captain dragging the leader away, Jiang Zhuojun ordered his elite cavalry, "Go and listen to what these people will say when they get together."

The elite cavalryman said, "General, I am afraid they will not speak."

"Give it a try," Jiang Zhuojun said, "If it doesn't work, I'll think of another way."

"Yes," the elite cavalrymen took the order and left the shabby room.

Soon, another captain from the elite cavalry came in and reported to Jiang Zhuojun: "General, we didn't find anything related to Buddhism in this village."

Jiang Zhuojun said: "Nothing was found?

The captain said, "General, even if there were any, they were all burned."

Jiang Zhuojun raised his eyebrows. He found a reason for the two monks to set fire to the village.

"General," the captain said, "how long are we going to stay in this stockade?"

"At least three days," Jiang Zhuojun said, "ask them to boil some hot water."

Jiang Zhuojun expected that in such heavy rain, Gu Xinglang and his companions would not be able to go far before having to turn back. After being caught in the rain in winter, if they did not take a shower and change into dry clothes, Jiang Zhuojun was really afraid that Gu Xinglang and his companions would get an acute illness.

The captain took the order and retreated.

Jiang Zhuojun sat alone in the shabby room, stroking his forehead from time to time. He sorted out what happened today in his mind and found that it was fortunate that Yu Xiaoxiao accidentally let them fight with the people of Chiyan Village. Otherwise, given the secret dealings between the people of this village and Yongsheng Temple, even if they succeeded in borrowing the road, this road would probably be a dead end.

Gu Xinglang and his group did not ride horses, but walked out of the village. The unpaved ground outside the village was muddy.

"This land can be used to grow rice!" the boss complained as he walked.

The former pirates habitually cursed the heavens and the earth and complained bitterly.

Gu Xinglang ignored these people and just walked forward with his head down.

Brother Tang is really curious, do these people have any hierarchy?

After the group finally left the open space in front of Chiyan Village and walked into the dense forest, they found after a few steps that the ground in the dense forest had become a big quagmire. When it rained, it was hard to breathe when walking in the forest.

Brother Tang and Gu Xinglang shouted, "Prince Consort, we can't go any further!"

Gu Xinglang stood in the rain. He was wearing a straw raincoat, but the heavy rain still soaked him. The rain hit his face, making it difficult for Young Master Gu to even open his eyes.

Brother Tang said: "Prince Consort, the road has been washed away. We can't move forward!"

A note to readers:

The first update is here.

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