From outside the door came the cries of children and the screams of women in fear.

Xiao Ruyu looked carefully!

The assassins dragged the children out of the house and tried to find Xiao Ruyu and the others.

The chief assassin took several portraits and compared them one by one.

The more he looked, the more disappointed he became, and he scolded harshly.

"Next! Next next!"

Xiao Ruyu took a deep breath. If they continued searching like this, it would only take a moment to find the house where they were.

She quickly thought of a countermeasure, her eyes fixed on the portrait.

There is a way!

Xiao Ruyu suddenly had an idea, turned around and entered the space, pulling out a few spiritual herbs.

[Eleven, Master, please take this elixir quickly.]

Looking at the brightly colored elixir in front of them, although they didn't know what it was, the two swallowed it without hesitation.

Xiao Ruyu also put one in her mouth.

In the blink of an eye, the faces of the three people changed.

Doctor Yang's face gradually aged, half of it was unrecognizable, with a long scar running from his ear to his eye.

Eleven pointed at the change in Doctor Yang's appearance and was so shocked that he was speechless.

"Why... did it become like this?"

He turned his head to look at Xiao Ruyu, and her childish little face also changed.

Realizing something, he touched his cheek and felt the uneven texture.

Xiao Ruyu looked at the disfigured faces of several people and explained with satisfaction.

[This herb is the Disfigurement Herb, which can transform a person's face into a disfigured one within a few hours.]

She pointed at the assassin outside, confident.

【In this way, their portraits will not work. 】

Not long after he finished speaking, the door of the thatched hut where the three of them were was kicked open.

An assassin rushed in and was horrified when he saw the faces of several people, thinking they had seen a ghost in broad daylight.

Doctor Yang lowered his voice and pretended to be old and frail.

"Little brother, is there anything I can do for you?"

The assassin looked at the three men with a little suspicion, but still pulled them out.

Xiao Ruyu kept his head down and blended in with the villagers.

After the leader assassin checked them one by one, he simply skipped over the three of them.

[Master, I knew that this face would be able to get away with it.]

“Damn it!”

The chief assassin slapped the assassin who had just reported the news hard on the head, furious.

"Didn't you say you sneaked into this village?"

"Besides this bunch of country bumpkins, tell me where they are?!"

The assassin was knocked dizzy and pointed in another direction with quick thinking.

"Maybe he escaped in that direction. Let's chase him as soon as possible!"

The assassins ran towards the southwest, and the frightened child huddled in his mother's arms, sobbing softly.

Xiao Ruyu laughed out loud in her heart.

[This group of assassins are even dumber than the little Fukuko in the palace, and they still want to capture this princess. ]

【dream!】

Doctor Yang picked her up and stuffed her into the carriage.

"There is no time to lose. We must rush in the opposite direction as quickly as possible and try to distance ourselves from them."

Several people galloped towards the northeast.

After a few more hours, the carriage seemed to have left the group of assassins behind, and it began to slow down.

Xiao Ruyu opened the curtain with a heavy heart, and looked at Doctor Yang who was doing the same.

[Master, why did this group of assassins follow us right after we left? ]

Doctor Yang thought for a moment, frowning.

"Master guessed that this might be the work of Prime Minister Lu again."

[It's that bad guy again! ]

Xiao Ruyu gritted her teeth, thinking about Eleven's injury, and took Prime Minister Lu seriously.

[But hasn't Prime Minister Lu disappeared? How did he know what was going on in the palace? ]

"When he stepped down, the emperor cleared out most of his remaining followers."

"But there is still a part that has not been dealt with because there are too many forces behind it."

Doctor Yang answered slowly, having already figured out the answer in his mind.

[Master means that it is because there are remnants of Prime Minister Lu in the court that they know our whereabouts! ]

Xiao Ruyu suddenly understood.

"Prime Minister Lu probably bears a deep hatred for the little princess, so naturally his remaining followers also know about this."

"Their goal is clear, to kill us!"

Doctor Yang clenched his hands slightly and spoke the last sentence almost through gritted teeth.

[If that's the case, then our whereabouts are undoubtedly under their noses. They are in the dark, and we are in the light.]

"Master has a plan!"

Doctor Yang pulled the reins to stop the carriage, then returned to the carriage and took out writing brush, ink, paper and inkstone.

Xiao Ruyu came over curiously, wanting to see what the trick was.

"We were originally going to go west according to the map." Doctor Yang gestured on the map.

"Send a message back now and tell the emperor that we have heard that there is an extremely magical Gu Master in the east who can cure all the Gu in the world."

[In other words, we forged a false route to make the people in the palace mistakenly think that we went east? ]

Xiao Ruyu blinked his eyes and his mind was working rapidly.

"That's right. This way, even if they want to continue hunting us, they won't be able to find us at all!"

As Doctor Yang spoke, he wrote down the false route in a very eloquent manner on the letter.

Then he stuffed it into a mailbox and had a carrier pigeon deliver it back to Beijing immediately.

After everything was dealt with, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"In this case, we can't go back the same way."

Doctor Yang opened the map and drew a new route with a pen.

"Originally, if we kept going west, we would reach the Miao area."

"But now, we have to avoid the main road and go around here...

Xiao Ruyu looked at the route on the map and nodded.

【I always listen to Master.】

Doctor Yang raised his whip and rode in another direction.

To be on the safe side, they had no choice but to take a detour.

Xiao Ruyu went back into the curtain, looked at the unconscious Eleven, and took out a handkerchief to wipe the sweat off his face.

The wound on Eleven's body seemed to have split open again when he was pushed and pulled just now.

The place that was originally bandaged was stained with blood, which looked a bit shocking.

Xiao Ruyu quickly leaned out and grabbed Doctor Yang's sleeve.

[Master, please go check on Eleven. His wound seems to have opened again.]

Doctor Yang stopped his horse, returned to the carriage, examined Eleven's wound, and prepared to re-bandage it.

"hiss--"

Eleven was awakened by the pain of the wound and tightly grasped the object in his hand.

Xiao Ruyu felt so distressed that she wiped the sweat from his forehead and spoke to him in a gentle voice to comfort him.

[Eleven, bear with it for a moment. Master is changing the bandage for you.]

Hearing Xiao Ruyu speaking so softly, Doctor Yang smacked his lips and shook his head repeatedly.

“Tsk tsk tsk…”

"I've never seen you be so gentle to Master before."

He pressed Xiao Ruyu's eyebrows, with a smile on his face.

"It's true that girls can't be kept when they grow up."

“Master!!!”