Chapter 513 What's the reaction?

Xie Siheng didn't know what was going on. Seeing her face change, he frowned and rode his horse to catch up with her.

"What's wrong?"

Ji Changying pointed at the black dog and said, "I don't know what it discovered, it's running over there like crazy. Let's go up and take a look."

When the dog saw the two people running away, he anxiously pulled Wuyouzi who was sleeping soundly.

Wuyouzi, who was sleeping soundly, pulled his sleeve and muttered, "What are you arguing about? They will be back soon."

The black dog ran wildly all the way until it came to a thick tree, then stopped.

It stood in front of the tree, pointing at the trunk and chirping.

Ji Changying used his special ability to explore and found that the tree was hollow inside, with a deep hole underneath!

She held out her hand: "Let me lend you my sword."

Xie Siheng understood immediately. He jumped up with a tap of his foot, and the tree trunk was broken horizontally, revealing a black hole inside.

"Empty?"

He sheathed his sword neatly: "There's a hole underneath."

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the black dog jump down without hesitation.

"Shall we go down and take a look too?"

Ji Changying said this in a questioning tone, but he had already jumped down.

Xie Siheng followed without hesitation.

When the two got down there, they found it was a dark and damp cave. Not long after they walked in, they heard the fierce sound of a black dog baring its teeth. The two quickened their pace and quickly got inside.

They saw a huge snake as thick as a bowl coiled on top of a pile of boxes, hissing and sticking out its tongue, its pupils turning into vertical lines as it looked coldly at the black dog, confronting it.

Ji Changying looked at the boxes and felt that they looked familiar. After taking a closer look, she immediately understood.

How similar it is to the boxes she collected at the place where she found the black dog!

Another treasure from the previous dynasty?!

Xie Siheng had already moved. The moment he saw the big snake, the long sword in his hand was unsheathed and he stabbed at the big snake at an extremely fast speed.

In just a few seconds, the big snake was cut into pieces of flesh and blood, and the bloody smell made people feel nauseous.

Ji Changying felt a little nauseous and couldn't help frowning: "Next time, can you kill it more beautifully?"

Xie Siheng: "...try your best?"

When the box was opened, the contents inside were indeed gold, silver and treasures. When the black dog smelled the scent, he got excited and held on to the treasures tightly.

"Write a letter back and ask Zhonglizhou to send someone to pick it up?"

"Um!"

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Ji Changying was not there, and Zuo Zhengxian was in charge of the entire convoy. When Ji Changying returned, she saw him anxiously preparing to send someone to look for them.

Seeing them come back, he breathed a sigh of relief: "Master Ji!"

"I'm fine. I discovered something. I'm going to rest here while I write a letter to the emperor's grandson."

Ji Changying quickly wrote a letter explaining the situation and asked Bai Bi to send the letter back.

They waited here for only three days before the people sent by Zhonglizhou arrived.

Ji Changying thought about it, wrote a new letter and asked someone to take it to Zhonglizhou, and also asked someone to take the black dog back with him.

The black dog was reluctant to part with the box or Ji Changying. He held the box tightly and snarled at the people who came to move things.

Ji Changying looked at it and said, "Behave well. If you can continue to find boxes like the one I found today, I'll come back and pick you up."

After saying that, she threw the box and the monkey together to the person who came to pick up the things.

Wuyouzi looked at it with a smile: "What a good deed! What a good deed!"

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After walking for more than a month, they finally arrived in the territory of Northern Yan.

Along the way, they saw customs and practices that were different from those in the Dali period.

Passing by the worst-hit areas in Beiyan.

The land there was cracked and dry, and the people's eyes were dim. Although they were holding on to their breath, they didn't know when this breath would be lost.

The reason they still persisted was because the local government provided them with disaster relief grain.

But the fundamental problem still cannot be solved.

You can often see people smashing their heads over a piece of bread or a sip of water on street corners.

When passing by farmland, you can often see people kneeling on the ground crying, and people pointing to the sky and cursing the earth.

There were also people who ran barefoot with a load on their shoulders to fetch some water five kilometers away to water the fields, but the dry land was like a bottomless pit, and half a bucket of water disappeared immediately after it was poured in.

Ji Changying and the others were all silent. Even Wuyouzi, who hadn't behaved properly since leaving the capital, sighed repeatedly: "Now they are just alive, but they may die at any time. What the princess wants to save is not only a life, but also the hope of life."

"If we allow this to continue, the day will come when people eat their own children, corpses are scattered everywhere, and humanity is lost. That will be a real disaster."

Ji Changying thought of the people he met during the previous flood and couldn't help but fall silent.

Although the positions are different, the people are the same.

Xie Siheng said coldly: "This is the responsibility of a king, not just one person. It is too heavy for the Taoist priest to put all these on an unrelated person. It is kidnapping others."

Wuyouzi sighed: "With great power comes great responsibility."

Xie Siheng sneered: "Nonsense! If it wasn't imposed by the Taoist priest, who would be responsible?"

Wuyouzi snorted: "You don't understand."

They continued to move forward, and after walking for more than half a month, they finally arrived at the imperial capital of Northern Yan - Yuncheng.

They took off more and more thick clothes, and when they arrived in Yuncheng they were only wearing a thin summer dress.

The situation in Yuncheng is better. Although not as serious as the disaster area, it is still dry and stuffy.

The pedestrians on the street no longer look as carefree as before.

Wuyouzi rubbed the soles of his feet and said, "Someone is waiting for us up ahead. Let's go!"

Yuncheng is not as grand and majestic as the capital, but rather more complex and gorgeous.

Whether it is the streets or the roadside shops, complex and gorgeous carvings can be seen everywhere.

When they arrived at the city gate, Gongye Hong was already waiting there.

Seeing the group led by Ji Changying, his eyes lit up and he quickly came forward to greet them: "Long time no see! I didn't expect that we would meet again so soon."

Ji Changying smiled and said, "I didn't expect that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince would be waiting here."

Gong Yehong opened his fan quickly and said, "To be honest, I came here today on the orders of His Majesty. Besides picking up the princess, I also came here to—"

He pointed at Xie Siheng standing aside: "Him."

Gong Yehong looked Xie Siheng up and down: "I didn't expect to meet Master Xie again in such an awkward position."

Xie Siheng stood there motionless, letting him look at him: "I came here just to confirm one thing, I have no interest in your Beiyan affairs."

He just wanted to see who his biological father was and make sure of it.

He doesn't care whether others are hostile or curious about him.

Gong Yehong looked at him with a smile: "Really? Actually, I don't really care. I'm just a little curious."

He was still a little surprised.

I didn’t expect that Xie Siheng is actually His Majesty’s biological son!

Not to mention, the two of them actually have somewhat similar temperaments.

It's hard to tell if you don't look closely, but I guess this person looks like the mother, right?

I just don’t know how His Majesty would react when he saw it.