Chapter 152 How could it be you!
suddenly.
Xie Chen, who was sleeping soundly in the darkness, suddenly opened his sharp eyes.
He grabbed the black shadow's wrist and quickly put the sword he had prepared in advance against the other's neck.
Jie Chen shouted, “Who the hell are you?”
The guards hiding nearby heard the noise and came in to light the candles.
However, when Jie Chen saw the other person's face, he was slightly stunned.
"Why is it you?"
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Xiangying slept until dawn.
I was woken up by the faint crying outside the door again.
Ever since they knew she was dying, the seven princesses and the others took turns bringing people to cry.
The three children acted very hard, which made the Seventh Princess burst into tears, and her eyes were swollen like walnuts.
Now, the Seventh Princess is kneeling outside Xiangying's room and kowtowing and swearing an oath.
"Big sister, I know you can hear me, so just rest assured and recover. No matter what happens in the future, I will raise and take care of Yuan Xiao and the others as if they were my own children."
"From now on, if I have a sip of soup, they will definitely have a bite of meat, big sister... woo woo."
"Seventh Aunt!" The three little ones also cried loudly and hugged the Seventh Princess together.
Inside the house, Xiangying was chewing a soup dumpling with an expressionless face.
Didn't she say that the three children were acting too skilled?
If Xiangying hadn't known that this was her plan, she would have doubted whether she was really going to die.
Xiang Qianqian came over with a pale face: "Have you seen my mother?"
The seventh princess Xiang Rongrong was crying sadly, and upon hearing this, she raised her cold eyes and stared at her like a flying knife.
"You came to Big Sister's place to look for Concubine Shu? You've come to the wrong place!"
Xiang Yuanxiao said in a dissatisfied voice, "That's right! My bad mother needs to rest and recuperate now. If we see anyone we hate, we will just drive them away!"
Xiang Qianqian's eyes were red: "What should I do? My mother said she was going to the bathroom in the middle of the night, but she never came back."
Hearing this, the prisoners nearby couldn't help but talk about it -
"When I was collecting porridge in the morning, I heard from the soldiers that they found footprints of wild animals near the village. One of the footprints was as big as a human head."
"How big of a beast would that be? Could it be a snow leopard or a tiger? If that's the case, the concubine might have been taken away!"
When talking about wild beasts, Xiang Qianqian's face turned pale and everyone was a little scared.
"Will the wild beasts eat us all? When can we leave? We have to leave here!"
"It's snowing so heavily now that even if we set out on the road, we won't be able to find the right direction and won't be able to move forward at all."
Inside the house, Xiangying coughed a few times.
Three longs and two shorts, this is the secret code for her to contact the children.
The children looked at each other. Xiang Xiuxiu was responsible for holding the seventh princess, while Xiang Yuanxiao and Xiang Yuanlang walked into the house side by side.
After the door was closed, the matches burning inside the house created warmth, completely isolating the cold outside.
Xiangying no longer felt the pain. She stood up, walked to the fire, and used a knife to pick out a few pieces of roasted sweet potatoes.
It was too hot to hold in her hands, so she blew on it while peeling the skin.
Xiang Yuanlang saw her red fingertips and couldn't help but stretched out his little hand, pretending to be indifferent: "You are so stupid, let me help you."
However, Xiangying put the peeled sweet potato in his hand.
She rubbed his head with a smile and said, "What if you burn your little hand? Mommy has peeled it for you. Come and eat it."
Xiang Yuanlang looked at her gentle smile and was stunned for a moment.
He had imagined countless times what it would feel like to have a gentle and considerate mother.
Although Xiangying cannot be said to be gentle and considerate, he did his duty conscientiously during his exile.
To the extent that, in Xiang Yuanlang's little mind, she gradually became more and more like the image of his imagined mother.
Xiang Yuanlang blushed slightly and turned away awkwardly: "Don't treat me like a child."
Xiangying laughed: "Three and a half years old, what else can he be but a child?"
Xiang Yuanxiao stretched out his chubby little hand and showed four fingers.
"Four years old, we are four years old! You unreliable bad mother!" He widened his big black eyes and said in an accusatory tone.
Xiangying coughed lightly: "Half a year doesn't count."
As she spoke, she dragged out a sack from under the wooden bed, making a clanging sound.
The two children wondered: "What is this?"
When I opened the cloth bag, I found it was full of animal traps.
Xiangying gave each of them a packet of medicine powder and placed it in their little hands.
"Animal traps and animal-repellent powder, just in case."
"Give the traps to Jie Chen, he knows how to use them. As for the powder, you and your sister can share some with Tao Xue and the others. Make sure everyone carries some with them."
"If you encounter a ferocious beast, grab this and sprinkle it behind you, or sprinkle it in its eyes."
Xiangying heard it all while lying in the room just now.
The unknown snow beast that looked like a bear but was not a bear in the mountain records appeared.
In such cold weather, if it was really a bear, it would have gone into hibernation long ago.
The wild animals that can still be hunted now are mostly snow leopards and tigers.
No matter which one you encounter, it can easily be fatal.
Xiang Yuanlang said, "I have been looking for an opportunity to practice my abilities these days, but I haven't found any animals, not even birds."
It's too cold here. There are no people in the mountains and not even any animals can be seen.
Xiangying smiled and said, "Whether there is medicine or not, you must prepare the powder. I can't go out, so I will leave my sister to you two to take care of her."
Xiang Yuanxiao and Xiang Yuanlang nodded solemnly.
When talking about Jie Chen, Xiangying was still wondering: "He didn't come to see me this morning. What was he doing?"
Xiang Yuanxiao bit the sweet potato, his mouth greasy: "Well, I heard that he caught a traitor and is interrogating him."
At the same time, outside the village, in the snowy pine forest.
Xie Chen and Skinny Monkey and the others tied a man who was beaten all over and dying to a tree.
The person he caught was the dark shadow from last night.
He is also one of the new military supervisors of the entire exile team, and his elder brother Li Fenghai, who is known as the Black and White Impermanence.
"Who instructed you to steal things? Will you tell me or not?" Jie Chen pressed the hilt of the sword against Li Fenghai's chin.
However, he said nothing, only smiled mockingly and sadly, with a kind of fearless arrogance of accepting his fate.
"Deputy General, I've told you many times, but you just don't believe me. I'm worried that the things Xiangying gave you are fake, so I want to confirm it, but you insist on treating me as a thief."
"I am your subordinate. How can I harm you?"
Xie Chen said coldly: "I thought it was someone else, but I never thought it was you. Since you don't want to tell me, then just stay here."
He waved his hand and left with Skinny Monkey and others.
Li Fenghai struggled and roared: "Jie Chen! You knew that the emperor was searching everywhere for the imperial seal, but you got it but didn't hand it over quickly. You held it in your own hands. Once the emperor finds out, what crime will you be charged with!"
Xie Chen didn't even turn back and walked away.
The sour scholar had already searched Li Fenghai's belongings.
From it, we can find the short arrow that was discovered by Chen before and was used to send messages in the Western Zhou Dynasty.
"Deputy General, could it be that he really betrayed us and left letters for the Western Zhou people along the way?"
"Whether it is true or not, he must have had other intentions when he visited my room at night."
As Xie Chen was talking and preparing to go to Xiangying's room, he unexpectedly saw Shufei coming out of a captain's room with her clothes gathered.
After seeing him, Concubine Shu was startled and quickly ran away with her head down.
The skinny monkey frowned: "Deputy General, I saw that Concubine Shu's cheek seemed to be half swollen, as if she was beaten. This is Fatty Cow's house, right? Could it be that he was greedy for beauty and..."
The captain who lived in the house was nearly 40 years old, nicknamed Fat Bull. He was a stupid thief with small, focused eyes.
He had just come out of the house, touching his belt, when he was pressed into the snow by the people around Jie Chen, who screamed like a pig being slaughtered.
Jie Chen placed the hilt of his sword directly above his eyes: "Did I say that forcing female prisoners is not allowed in this team?"
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