Gui Ning and Fu Boyuan took half a month to rush back to Huangsha Town, a border town in Xuanwu. When they passed Feilong Pass, a border town in the north, from Huangsha Town, Ren Da found Gui Ning.
"This is the letter that the girl asked me to give you," Ren Da handed a letter to Gui Ning.
When I returned home and opened the letter, I thought it would be a long letter, but I didn't expect that there were only four words written on the white paper. Mission accomplished.
Fu Boyuan glanced at the letter in Gui Ning's hand and asked Ren Da, "What happened in the capital?"
Ren Da looked around and lowered his voice and said, "Many adults died. They died inexplicably and no one saw the murderer."
Gui Ning crumpled the letter with only four words written on it into a ball, held it in his hand, and said to Fu Boyuan: "Go and gather the old subordinates. I want to become the emperor."
Ren Da was originally sitting with his hands on the table, but when he heard Gui Ning's words, he was so scared that his hand slipped and he fell on the table.
Gui Ning looked at Ren Da and asked, "Are you scared just because of this?"
Ren Da was a little confused, and always felt that there was something different about the Fifth Prince.
Gu Xinglang was still on his way to the Eternal Life Temple at this time. The government's arrest notices for him were posted all over the streets and alleys of all the cities in Fengjing. The reward was a thousand gold coins and a ten thousand households. Catching Gu Xinglang would be a great success. Such rewards undoubtedly stimulated all the people of Fengtian, but also made Gu Xinglang's journey difficult.
Seeing that they had reached the border of Wangxiang Pass, Di Ling rang the copper bell and ordered Gu Xinglang to go north. He had taken two men to Wangxiang Pass before. They had to go and see if Wangxiang Pass could still allow them to pass smoothly. Di Ling also wanted to try to find a doctor to check his injuries.
Gu Xinglang didn't dare to take the official road. After Di Ling and the other two drove the carriage away, he turned around and took the small path in the mountains, hoping to go around the mountains to Wangxiang Pass. Although he deliberately avoided the crowd, Gu Xinglang was still seen on the small path in the mountains by a group of mountain people who had just returned from Wangxiang Pass after selling their prey.
"He is Gu Xinglang!" A villager pointed at Gu Xinglang and shouted, "I have seen him in the army. He is Gu Xinglang!"
Gu Xinglang had no impression of this mountain villager. At this time, the only choice for Gu Sanshao was to escape.
The mountain man who had retired from the village cavalry due to injury shouted: "Catch him, the court will reward him with a thousand gold coins and a ten thousand households, and the Gu family will be rewarded with ten thousand gold coins!"
There will always be brave men when there is a big reward. The mountain people had never seen Gu Xinglang killing people, so they were inspired by his shouting and chased after him.
Gu Xinglang ran back, but he didn't expect that another group of mountain people would soon come from in front of him. This group of mountain people were shouted by their companions and blocked Gu Xinglang's way. Several mountain people rushed forward and surrounded Gu Xinglang.
Looking at the people surrounding him, Gu Xinglang suddenly felt murderous.
"You even killed your own mother!" A villager cursed Gu Xinglang, "You beast!"
"Hit him—"
"Catch him and hand him over to the authorities!"
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More than twenty mountain people rushed forward from all directions, some holding hunting weapons and some holding sticks, and attacked Gu Xinglang.
Gu Xinglang raised his hand and broke a stick that a mountain villager was using to hit him on the head.
The mountain people were stunned.
The world before his eyes was filled with blood. Gu Xinglang didn't dare to go on like this. The pain caused by the Heart Purification Mantra made him fall to the ground, curling up into a ball.
"Beat him!" some mountain people shouted.
Under the attack of sticks, Gu Xinglang could only protect his head, bend his legs to protect his abdomen, and curl his back to protect his heart.
“Don’t beat him to death!” The mountain villager who first recognized Gu Xinglang shouted again shortly afterwards. Such a person who killed the king and the mother must be handed over to the second young master Gu to be dealt with personally. He is a brother, so isn’t this also the enemy who killed his mother?
Gu Xinglang didn't feel any pain, but when the mountain people stopped beating him, Young Master Gu felt a sweetness in his mouth and blood flowed out from the corners of his mouth.
"Pah!" A mountain villager spat on Gu Xinglang's face.
"He looks like a human being, but I didn't expect him to be a beast," a mountain villager cursed as he stepped on Gu Xinglang's hands that were protecting his head.
"I used to think he was a good guy like the eldest and second young masters," an elderly villager sighed and shook his head.
The Gu family of Xiangguan Marshal's Mansion, who in the Wangxiangguan area doesn't know? The Gu family has a good reputation and is loved by people, so at this moment, the mountain people looked at Gu Xinglang lying on the ground, thinking that it was because of this little beast that the eldest son Gu lost his position and the Gu family was almost executed. The more the mountain people looked at Gu Xinglang, the angrier they became, so they beat Gu Xinglang again.
Being beaten and listening to curses against himself, such scenes happened frequently along the way. Gu Xinglang was already numb. He lay there, trying to curl himself up as much as possible. This was all he could do.
"Don't beat him to death, take him to Wangxiangguan." The wounded soldier who retreated from the Xiangguan Iron Cavalry stopped the angry villagers and shouted, "Let the Second Young Master deal with him!"
People stopped and when they looked at Gu Xinglang again, they were all stunned. Gu Xinglang was lying on the ground facing left, and his right leg was broken by someone. His flesh was torn, and broken bones were sticking out in the torn skin. The white part mixed with flesh and blood was horrifying.
"He can't leave like this, right?" asked a mountain villager.
"Tie him up and drag him away," said another mountain dweller, "Can we carry a man like this away?"
"He doesn't deserve it!" Another mouthful of saliva was spat on Gu Xinglang's face.
The mountain people tied up Gu Xinglang and dragged him on the ground. His broken bones were rubbed by the sand and stones on the ground, and a section of the mountain road was immediately dyed red by the blood of Young Master Gu.
"Will he die like this?" An elderly mountain dweller stopped the young people and shook his head, saying, "He won't live to see Wangxiangguan like this."
"He doesn't seem to be in pain," the mountain villager who walked to Gu Xinglang's broken leg asked in confusion, "Is he pretending?"
Gu Xinglang looked around himself. After enduring the pain caused by the Purifying Mantra, his body was able to move again. Gu Xinglang suddenly jumped up from the ground, broke the thick rope that tied him, pushed away the mountain people who were blocking his way, and rolled down the hillside in front of him.
"Chase!"
After the mountain people came to their senses, they hurriedly ran down the hillside.
Gu Xinglang stood on one leg at the foot of the hillside, his eyes bloodshot, and glanced at the villagers on the hillside with a totem looming on his face, then leaped into the dense forest beside him.
The mountain people chased into the dense forest, following the bloodstains on the ground. When they got out of the forest, the bloodstains disappeared, but Gu Xinglang was still nowhere to be seen.
"Where can this beast run to?" The mountain people stood outside the dense forest angrily.
"Go to the Xiangguan Commandery," a mountain villager said, "We need to tell the Second Young Master about this."
"Yes," several mountain people nodded in agreement.
Gu Xinglang was sitting on the top of a big tree in the forest. He pressed the broken bone sticking out of the skin with his hands, and pressed it back to its original position. He then used two branches to fix the broken part. He didn't feel any pain, but his thin clothes were still soaked with cold sweat. His body was honestly telling Gu Xinglang that he was in pain from the broken bone.
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