Qiu Ling's heart finally began to tremble. He finally understood what the Queen meant. Wasn't this just sending a hostage to let her escape? As a mother, how cruel! No wonder the Emperor was on guard against her. This person could even use and abandon her own son, and she still talked about seeking help from the royal court. What nonsense!
Perhaps the Emperor hadn't anticipated her abandoning her own child, which is why he ordered her not to be killed. Otherwise, he would have eliminated this vicious woman as soon as possible. How could she be worthy of being the Queen Mother? And there was also talk of the child in the carriage being a miracle doctor, and that he must be allowed to take care of the little prince?
Nonsense!
Upon his return, Qiu Ling began interrogating the child, but no matter how he was questioned, he insisted that he was a doctor, hired at a high price to look after the child. Qiu Ling had no choice but to throw him into the dungeon and have someone watch over him, awaiting the emperor's final instructions.
The "vicious woman" in Qiu Ling's eyes was now riding a maroon wild horse and galloping wildly in the still dark Gobi Desert. In front of her was a masked figure who was also riding a horse.
Xu Yixing hadn't expected the Shadow Guard's plan for escape to be so elaborate. After she connected Bai Yuan with her grandfather, she immediately realized it was a naked test. Lu Anyuan had placed her in the garden to see if the Shadow Guard would leave if they rescued her.
But... this assumes he's still alive, right? Lu Anyuan couldn't possibly have designed a plan to spread the news of his death, testing whether or not I would remain a widow for him. That would be meaningless. So, what had happened to cause me to receive the news of his death? No matter what, I had to see it with my own eyes at the royal court. Only then would I feel at ease!
So Xu Yixing figured it all out and decided to abandon the car and leave, leaving Xiaobao and Ying Si behind. He thought that when the pursuers saw the little prince, they would know that he was not running away, but just had something to do.
Yingyi had planned their escape in detail, even somehow managing to find a herd of wild horses. But a closer look revealed that some of the horses weren't quite so "wild." These were the horses the two were riding. Fortunately, Yingyi had prepared well, otherwise she wouldn't have been able to find a suitable mount.
Xu Yixing kept chasing the location of the royal court according to what Yingba had told him before, day and night. He felt uneasy. After all, the royal court was not like a house and it was fixed. If it had been moved away, he would have no direction to move forward.
"Whoa!" It was noon. Xu Yixing had been galloping with Yingyi for a full twelve hours, her eyes swollen like walnuts from the wind. Unfortunately, she didn't care about the horse's twitching or her own discomfort, because the scene ahead was enough to terrify her.
"This..." Xu Yixing jumped off his horse and took a few steps forward, half crouching. After a night of heavy snow, the withered grass before him was not only covered with snow, but also with corpses lying on the ground. Judging from their clothing, they were the Miaozhou garrison troops who had left ten days ago.
Ying Yi jumped off his horse, stretched his arms and legs, squatted on the ground to inspect, and shook his head: "Master, these should be our Great Xia's border troops. There must have been a fierce battle here."
He didn't need to say anything, just looking at these corpses one could imagine how tragic the war was.
"There are at least two thousand people here. Could they be the vanguard we sent out?" There were corpses everywhere but no horses. It was obvious that these were not cavalrymen who were going to fight the Western Hu people, but a group of people who were exploring the way or carrying out encirclement and ambush missions.
"Perhaps this is what Yingba meant by the news. The emperor personally led people to investigate, but they were ambushed by Wang Ting Khan." Yingyi stood up and looked into the distance, deducing a possibility that fits the current situation.
Xu Yixing did not give up. He carefully examined the wounds of these people. Indeed, most of them were hacked to death by swords, and there were also traces of being trampled by horses' hooves, which was consistent with the weapons and combat methods of the Hu people.
"But if it was really the emperor leading people on a mission, there would definitely be support and people coming to look for them. Why would he just let these corpses stay here?" The snow was deep, and Xu Yixing couldn't find any specific people among the pile of corpses for a while, so he could only reluctantly express his guess.
Ying Yi did not respond. It was indeed a bit strange. The ground was littered with corpses of the Daxia army, but there were no casualties among the Hu people. This battlefield was indeed very strange.
"Master, come and see!" Ying Yi suddenly shouted, scaring Xu Yixing so much that he staggered. He hurriedly chose a place to stand and rushed to his side with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
Ying Yi was staring at a somewhat different corpse. Although that person was also buried in the snow, a hint of bright yellow was revealed under his armor, a color that only the emperor could wear.
"This..." Xu Yixing couldn't hold on any longer and fell to the ground with a thud. He used both hands to scrape the snow off the body, trying to get a better look. Unfortunately, even after brushing off the snow, the face was still a bit shattered. The ice and blood had frozen it into a barely recognizable lump of ice, not to mention the knife wounds all over the body. It was impossible to distinguish the features.
"Master, please look carefully, is it our one?" Ying Yiben should not have doubted it. As soon as he saw the stature and skeleton, he could tell that it was the emperor. However, there are too many things in the world that can be faked, not to mention such a strange battlefield.
Xu Yixing struggled to pry open the armor that had become one with her robe, and looked at the chest of the corpse. The small mole jumped out at her eyes, which instantly broke her emotions and made her burst into tears.
Sometimes, when I felt like being naughty, I would bite the small mark on his chest. Lu Anyuan would just laugh at the tickle. Occasionally, when I really hurt him, he would reach out and push my head away, then press his lips against mine even more fiercely. It was truly a boudoir pleasure. But we'll see each other again today... Xu Yixing's head was buzzing, and he felt like his heart was being pounded several times, almost fainting.
Fortunately, Yingyi pried open her jaw and stuffed two pills into her, which took her a long time to recover from falling down.
"Yingyi, this isn't right, it's not right. Unless it was an ambush, the Hu people would have suffered heavy losses if they wanted to wipe out so many of our soldiers. But look, there's not a single Hu corpse here, and this place is completely flat, with no place to hide. How could they have ambushed us here? This isn't right..."
Xu Yixing took off the scarf on her face and gulped down cold air into her lungs. Only then did she feel a little more awake. However, her chest began to cough violently due to the stimulation, which made her feel even more uncomfortable.
Yingyi quickly covered her face with the scarf again, took out a small kumquat and stuffed it into her mouth to stop her coughing.
"What you said makes sense, but is this man the emperor?"
"It doesn't matter. You strange people are used to lying and covering up all the truth. Maybe you can tell the truth from the false?"
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