"Young master, are you tired? Come on, Aunt Zhu will carry you." Beside her, Zhu Juan held Gu Xiaoran's small wrist tightly the whole time, afraid that if she didn't pay attention, the young master would run away.
Zhu Juan's hair was dirty and messy, and her face was covered in dust.
She looked exactly like a refugee fleeing famine.
"No need, Aunt Zhu is tired too." Gu Xiaoran sobbed twice, "Aunt Zhu, I want my mother."
"Young Master, from now on, you absolutely mustn't run around like that anymore." Xuanming said weakly.
Along the way, they were busy playing hide-and-seek with Gu Xiaoran.
As he spoke, he pulled Gu Xiaoran into his arms.
He couldn't imagine what His Majesty was feeling right now. "Let's hurry up and try to get home as soon as possible, to see your father and mother again sooner."
Xuan Ying stared helplessly at the endless desert before her. "Go back? Haven't we been heading home the whole way?"
If Zhu Juan and Gu Xiaoran are like refugees, aren't these two just as much?
The group had been walking through the vast desert for over a month, yet they could never see the end of it.
"I'm so hungry." Gu Xiaoran rubbed her empty stomach, looking aggrieved.
Lightning barked softly, its body limping and somewhat unsteady.
It had been following Gu Xiaoran closely the whole way, and now it was also skin and bones from hunger.
Xuanming: "Now that you know you're hungry, let's see if you'll still run around aimlessly in the future?" He complained bitterly.
Xuan Ying looked at the birds flying in the sky and said, "If only we had bows and arrows."
It's too high; he can't fly up there.
Zhu Juan took out a fruit from her bosom that she didn't know the name of.
This fruit has a purplish-red skin, resembles a pear in shape, and tastes soft, sweet, and fragrant.
They picked it from a tree while they were passing by an orchard.
Xuanming took a bite, then picked more.
Unexpectedly, they were chased and bitten by local fruit farmers who released their dogs.
Fortunately, Xuanming and Xuanying were extremely skilled; otherwise, the four people and the dog would have been in serious trouble.
However, they still brought a lot of fruit with them when they escaped from the orchard.
And so, their current journey through the desert is entirely dependent on these fruits.
Now, there aren't many left.
"Go home, I want to go home." Gu Xiaoran had never missed home as much as she did now.
He felt that his mother must have come home.
Xuanming: "Going home, young master, you still know to go home. Who insisted on not going home all the way here?" His voice was deep and muffled.
Xuan Ying chimed in, "That's right, young master. Tell me, how many times have you gotten lost along the way?"
If he could, he really wanted to keep Gu Xiaoran on his belt.
"Xuanming and Xuanying, the young master is already so upset, you two shouldn't say anything more to him." Zhu Juan said, hugging Gu Xiaoran's small body and comforting her.
“Young master, once we cross this desert, we will be able to go home.”
By this time, her stomach was growling loudly, and it seemed that every step she took was a drain on all her strength.
Xuanming Xuanying sighed, complaining all the way, but what was the use?
They had a feeling that they must have done something wrong to be assigned by His Majesty to follow the young prince.
They were His Majesty's personal guards; they had never been so disheveled as they were now.
If their other bodyguard comrades saw them like this, they would probably laugh their heads off.
At this moment, the two of them were so hungry that they were seeing stars.
Now, if they were to encounter ordinary villagers who are powerless to even kill a chicken, they would probably be no match for them.
I'm so hungry.
They went out and ran out of money; they were in dire straits the whole way.
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