Chapter 55 Ye Zhishen escapes death

Ye Zhishen stood at the edge of the pit, not knowing what to feel.

When Yun Bailian shouted "There's a deer", he had already seen clearly that it was just a bush that was swaying a few times in the wind.

He also warned them at the time, but the others might not have caught anything for most of the day, and when they heard about the large prey, they were too excited to pay attention to his words and rushed forward in a swarm following the prince.

As a result, he was left alone outside the pit.

Ye Zhishen sighed and was about to ask how everyone was doing when he heard a scream.

Yun Bailian's exclamation also rang out:

"I'm too hurt! Help me!"

Everyone in the pit was in a commotion and finally dragged Xiao Zirui out from under a fallen horse. They were shocked when they saw his injuries.

Xiao Zirui's leg was broken.

"Wow, my prince is so badly injured, what should I do..." Yun Bailian cried in fear.

"Shut up!" Xiao Zirui was sweating profusely from the pain, and he felt even more uncomfortable when he heard the crying.

"Hurry up and lift His Royal Highness the Crown Prince up. We need to find a doctor to set his leg immediately, otherwise there will be sequelae!" someone suggested urgently.

"But you see, this pit is deep and steep. We can barely climb up by ourselves, but I'm afraid we can't climb up with the prince!"

At this moment, Ye Zhishen threw down the vine he had just cut:

"Quick, come up first, and someone else will carry the prince on his back and tie him up with a rope, and then we can pull him up together."

Everyone quickly did as they were told, and after a lot of trouble, everyone was finally out of the pit.

The few remaining intact horses had to be dragged up, but unfortunately more than half of them had broken their legs.

Fortunately, everyone else only had some scratches, and the prince was the only one who broke his leg.

But no one dared to say this "fortunately" out loud.

After most people got out of the pit, they surrounded the prince. Only Ye Zhishen and two or three colleagues were left. They worked together to drag the remaining intact horses up.

Finally finished, Ye Zhishen handed the horse to a few other people to take away, sat down by the pit and wiped the sweat off his face.

Suddenly someone kicked him hard from behind, and he fell into the pit without any preparation, with a sharp broken log just below him.

With a "puff" sound, the wooden stake pierced into Ye Zhishen's heart fiercely, and he was in so much pain that he couldn't make a sound!

He gritted his teeth and looked back.

At the edge of the pit, a trace of fear appeared on Chen Rong's gloomy face, which then turned into viciousness.

He originally just wanted to take revenge on Ye Zhishen out of hatred, but he didn't expect that he would be so unlucky and actually fell directly on the sharp wooden stakes, and it seemed that he would not survive!

Chen Rong glanced around and found that everyone was surrounding the prince and no one was paying attention to this side. It was a godsend opportunity.

He sneered, turned around and left as if nothing had happened.

Ye Zhishen saw the change in Chen Rong's facial expression clearly. He was so angry that his eyes went dark. He struggled to get up, but was stunned again.

He looked down at himself and found that his clothes on his chest were torn, but he was unharmed, as if everything that had just happened was just an illusion!

He looked at the wooden stake on the ground in shock, only to see that its tip had pierced through a piece of talisman paper.

It was the talisman given by Yun Qingqing that saved his life!

She said that he was going to die suddenly, and that he must never leave the talisman, and her words came true.

Ye Zhishen felt like he had escaped death. He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and his face darkened.

He picked up the talisman paper, took a deep breath and jumped out from the bottom of the pit. He saw Chen Rong who was caring about Xiao Zirui, and rushed over and kicked him to the ground!

"You are a piece of shit, Mr. Chen! You actually plotted against me and wanted to kill me!"

Everyone quickly grabbed him and tried to persuade him while asking what was wrong.

Chen Rong was shocked at first, staring at his chest for a few seconds, and when he found that there was no injury at all, he immediately looked innocent.

He covered his abdomen and said angrily:

"Brother Ye, what are you doing? How have I ever done anything wrong to you? Why did you suddenly attack me?"

"You're still pretending!" Ye Zhishen gnashed his teeth, "You pushed me into the pit when I was not paying attention, and I almost died watching with my own eyes, and you still want to pretend that you don't know?"

Everyone was surprised to hear his words, and seeing him so angry, they looked at Chen Rong with a more inquiring look.

Chen Rong said loudly:

"It's easy to find a pretext to accuse someone of something! I think you're just holding a grudge against me because of what happened yesterday! You said I pushed you into a pit, but did anyone see it? Do you have any evidence? You said I almost killed you, but aren't you standing here now?"

Ye Zhishen didn't expect him to be so shameless. He took out the talisman and gritted his teeth:

"If Master Yun hadn't given me this life-saving talisman, I would have been killed by you now! The hole on the talisman is the evidence!"

"Master Yun? Ha, are you talking about the Regent Princess?" Chen Rong narrowed his eyes and suddenly sneered.

He stood up, dusted off the dirt, and said loudly:

"No wonder! Our team has the Crown Princess, a phoenix, but we have had such a rough journey. I have long felt that something is wrong! It turns out that you, Ye, have bad intentions and deliberately carry the Regent Princess's talisman with you! From what I have seen along the way, it is clearly this talisman that is causing all the trouble!"

"Just say that again if you dare!" Ye Zhishen was so furious that he suddenly broke free from the person holding him, rushed forward and knocked Chen Rong to the ground with a punch.

Chen Rong covered his face and spat out a mouthful of blood, but laughed even more arrogantly:

"Did I say something wrong? Otherwise, why did everyone fall into that pit, but you were the only one who was fine! It turns out that you and the Regent teamed up to ruin our team's fortune!"

Ye Zhishen raised his fist again, Chen Rong immediately dodged backwards, and the people around him grabbed Ye Zhishen.

"Stop!" Xiao Zirui's stern shout suddenly rang out, and everyone stopped moving.

"Ye Zhishen, I have treated you well, why do you want to harm me like this!" Xiao Zirui looked at him with a hint of coldness in his eyes.

"Your Highness! He was the one who harmed me first. This talisman is only used to save my life! How could you believe his lies?" Ye Zhishen looked at his old friend in disbelief.

"What did Master Chen say wrong?" Yun Bailian suddenly asked, "I also find it strange. I have tried so hard to lead everyone to find prey, why is it still this result? Not only that, but the prince was also seriously injured..."

She sounded aggrieved and almost in tears, but she felt greatly relieved in her heart.

As expected, how could it be the fault of a Phoenix like me that I couldn't catch any prey? It must be because someone was playing tricks on me!

Xiao Zirui's face had turned completely cold.

"I just want to ask you one question: was the talisman in your hand given to you by Yun Qingqing?"

"…So what!" Ye Zhishen also got angry, "If this talisman wasn't effective, I would have been killed by Chen by now! This talisman is not what he said…"

Bang!

Xiao Zirui suddenly raised the whip and whipped Ye Zhishen in the face.

Ye Zhishen looked at his old friend in disbelief, too shocked to speak, and couldn't even blink at the burning bloodstains on his face.

The scene suddenly became dead silent.

Xiao Zirui secretly tightened his whip, feeling that he had indeed hit too hard.

After all, Ye Zhishen is the eldest son of the Loyal and Brave Marquisate. Falling out with him would be a great loss for himself.

He closed his eyes and said tiredly:

"Brother Ye, you may not have done it on purpose, but Yun Qingqing is a sinister and cunning woman. She may have given you this talisman with some ulterior motive. I believe Brother Chen reminded you of this for your own good. You shouldn't bear a grudge against him just because someone instigated you to do so."

"You and I are brothers. I will not bother about what happened today. You can apologize to Brother Chen and let this matter go."