Chapter 144
Dark clouds temporarily blocked the moonlight, and the moonlight shone over the hills, sometimes bright and sometimes dim.
Zhou Li ran to the place where the previous group of people had searched, just like fighting guerrilla warfare with the enemy, and found a cave. Finally, it was not so cold anymore.
She judged that no one would come over in the short term. Zhou Li got angry and finally stopped hugging his arms and shivering.
Gong Yinai bit his lower lip imperceptibly as he watched Zhou Li skillfully make a fire.
She couldn't understand why the figures of those deceased friends would reappear on Zhou Li one by one.
Perhaps someone wanted to use Zhou Li to seduce her and let Zhou Li learn Liu Yingzi's behavior. After all, everyone knew that the prince had a beloved.
But why does Zhou Li still have the shadow of Gong Yi Fu?
She had investigated Zhou Li's life and it was impossible for her to have had contact with Gong Yi Fu.
Although the two people are not separated by tens of thousands of miles, the distance between them is still tens of thousands of kilometers. One is in the south and the other is in the north. How can they communicate?
Gong Yinai couldn't understand.
Moreover, Zhou Li, as a beautiful lady, is actually proficient in riding and shooting. Now she even knows how to survive in the wild and counter-reconnaissance. She will not be surprised at anything else Zhou Li can do.
Zhou Li sat by the fire and warmed herself up. Seeing Gong Yinai still sitting at the entrance of the cave, she casually called out, "Gong Yinai, come and warm yourself by the fire."
Gong Yinai was silent for a moment, then looked at Zhou Li and asked, "What did you call me?"
"Prince... uh..." Zhou Li really wanted to slap herself. She thought she was the same as before, but now the person sitting in front of her was the prince!
She smiled awkwardly and said, "Prince, the cave entrance is cold. Come in and warm yourself by the fire."
"You have no respect for your superiors." Gong Yinai said this, but he still came in and sat down obediently.
The flickering flames made the firewood crackle. With the heat source, my body suddenly felt much more comfortable. It felt like even my stiff body became soft and my stagnant thoughts were lubricated.
Zhou Li asked, "Prince, do you have any doubts about the people who want to kill you?"
Gong Yinai frowned and said, "Yes."
"He can mobilize the imperial guards and release tigers into the imperial farm. This person must have a high status," Zhou Li analyzed.
"And it's very likely that he's from the royal family."
"It's not easy for ordinary people to command the guards."
The Imperial Guards were all selected from among the nobles, and ordinary court ministers could not easily command this group of children from aristocratic families.
Gong Yinai said calmly, "Who else has this right besides Your Majesty himself?"
Zhou Li almost jumped up, and she looked at Gong Yinai in fear.
Gong Yinai sneered: "Why are you scared?"
"You should go and call those people over now. I think the emperor will reward you."
"I'm not that kind of person." Zhou Li muttered. She picked up a piece of wild grass and played with it. The wild grass changed into different shapes flexibly in her hand, and soon she had made a praying mantis. Zhou Li handed it to Gong Yinai to play with.
"I don't think it's Your Majesty." She raised her hand and said seriously, "Your Majesty chose you as the Crown Prince and wouldn't easily overturn his decision. You haven't done anything disrespectful. Even if Your Majesty wanted to depose you as the Crown Prince, he would have issued an imperial decree openly. Why act like a mean person? That wouldn't be Your Majesty."
Gong Yinai looked at the grass mantis in her hand. Zhou Li raised it towards her again. Gong Yinai had the illusion that Zhou Li was coaxing her like a child. Was she, Gong Yinai, the kind of person who could be coaxed by a straw animal?
Gong Yinai was really curious about what he looked like in Zhou Li's eyes.
She took it in her hand, looked at the straw and said calmly, "You are right. If it wasn't His Majesty, who would want to kill me?"
Zhou Li fell into deep thought.
Gong Yinai played with the straw and thought lightly in his heart.
What Zhou Li said was based on a premise, that is, whether the sage knew that she was a girl. If he knew, the sage would be ashamed of her, so he would ask someone to release a tiger to eat her. If he really succeeded, he could just say that the prince died at the hands of the tiger to stop the gossip of the world.
However, Zhou Li was right. If His Majesty wanted to kill her, there was no need to make it so complicated.
The two of them fell into reverie together.
Zhou Li was wondering who benefited the most from this incident.
If the crown prince were to die, the four princes would be able to ascend to the throne. It would not be surprising if they wanted to kill Gong Yinai, but how could they mobilize the imperial guards?
It is also possible that it is Lord Wen. After all, he knows that the prince does not like him, and he has always refuted Gong Yinai's actions in the court. The relationship between the two is not good. If the prince wants to take the throne, it will probably not be easy for Lord Wen. The best way is to replace the prince, but he is far away in the capital, and it is out of reach here. How can he mobilize the imperial guards to take action?
Zhou Li couldn't figure it out. She subconsciously pulled out a piece of grass, bit it in her mouth and mumbled, "Prince, why are all the enemies around you?"
Zhou Li thought about it and thought that anyone could be the case. He could only blame Gong Yinai for having too many enemies and too few friends.
Zhou Li pondered this, nudged Gong Yinai with his elbow, and asked, "Prince, do you have any friends?"
Gong Yinai's face froze at the question. She looked at Zhou Li unkindly and said, "Zhou Liangdi, do you recognize your identity? Who are you talking to?"
Zhou Li had long known that Gong Yinai, who was now staying in the cave with her, was a paper tiger. She said nonchalantly, "I know, I know. I'm the Crown Prince's Consort. Does the Crown Prince have any friends?"
She asked again, and Gong Yinai fell silent. After a long moment, he whispered, "I have only one close friend in my life, and that is the Prince of Nanliang, Gong Yifu."
Now it was Zhou Li's turn to be silent. She spat out the grass root in her mouth, stood up to get some hay and said, "No one should be here tonight. I'll make the bed and we can go to sleep."
Gong Yinai looked at Zhou Li's busy back and fell into memories.
Gong Yi Fu and Liu Yingzi were both her benefactors. One of them tolerated her without limits and always encouraged her because he knew her situation. The other one trusted her despite having a deep blood feud. She had let down the trust of these two people.
She always thought that she had enough time to realize her ambitions, and then she could have a drink and chat with them, but time waits for no one, and they will not wait for her either.
She was left alone in the world.
"Prince, the bed is ready, let's go to sleep!" Zhou Li smiled happily as she looked at the bed she made with hay. It turned out that she had not lost her previous survival skills.
"Zhou Li." Gong Yinai's voice suddenly came from behind her. Zhou Li turned around in shock and was almost frightened to death by Gong Yinai who floated silently behind her. Gong Yinai's face was gloomy, and she asked in a depressed mood: "Will you stay with me?"
"Of course." Zhou Li was puzzled. She had just made the bed. Instead of staying with Gong Yinai, was she going out to suffer the cold?
Gong Yinai laughed softly, with a strange expression on her face: "Keep your word, you must stay with me forever, and you are not allowed to run away."
Zhou Li felt a cool breeze on her back. Looking at Gong Yinai, her expression had returned to normal. She said calmly, "Rest."
Zhou Li looked at the flames that were shaking constantly in the wind. She slapped her chest and thought, it must have been an illusion. It was the wind that blew the flames, so the light hitting Gong Yinai's face was weird.
Gong Yinai walked to the bed piled high with hay. She pressed it with her hand. It was not soft but at least it was comfortable for lying down. She was tired, so she lay down on it. Zhou Li added some firewood to the fire and went to sleep too. However, the place where she lay was as far away from Gong Yinai as a galaxy.
The sun gradually rose in the east, driving away the darkness. The stars disappeared and the moon was hidden behind the white clouds. Zhou Li felt her eyelids itchy. She was so tired that she didn't even want to get up.
The body she was using now was, after all, that of an ordinary person who had never undergone any exercise. Yesterday she had been riding a horse, shooting arrows, and dodging pursuit. As soon as she had no time to rest, her whole body ached. The next day, her arms and legs felt especially heavy, and she could hardly lift them.
The soft touch gradually squeezed the living space between Zhou Li's nostrils. She murmured, "Xiao Liu, stop making trouble. Let me sleep a little longer. The master hasn't come yet."
When Zhou Li dreamed that she was Gong Yifu, she secretly slept in the school. Every time she was woken up by Gong Yinai helplessly, while the fourth and fifth princes around her were laughing secretly, because the tutor had walked behind her, waiting for Gong Yifu to wake up and punish her with the teaching stick.
Seeing the stick about to fall on her, Zhou Li screamed: "Xiao Liu, ah, help me!!!"
Zhou Li ran around frantically in his dream, and finally woke up with a start.
She suddenly opened her eyes and saw a wolfhound rubbing against her.
"Liu'er?" Zhou Li called out excitedly. The wolfdog barked twice. Zhou Li stroked its head and smiled happily, "Why are you here..."
Zhou Li's smile froze in place. She saw Gong Yinai standing not far away, looking at her expressionlessly.
Liu'er is the hunting dog Zhou Li adopted in the northern border as Gong Yifu. After she returned to the capital, she gave it to Gong Yinai to guard the house because she was afraid that Gong Yinai would be bullied. For fun, when Gong Yinai asked her what the dog's name was, Zhou Li lightly changed the name of the hunting dog, originally named Zhuifeng, to Liu'er.
Zhou Li pushed away the enthusiastic wolfhound. The wolfhound smelled the familiar scent on Zhou Li and kept rubbing against Zhou Li. Zhou Li stood up with a look of panic on his face and quietly pushed Liu'er away with his legs. Liu'er thought that his master was playing with him and made an S-bend around Zhou Li's legs.
Zhou Li just wanted to cover her face. What a stupid dog! It has been replaced by someone else! How could it still recognize her?
And how was she going to explain to Gong Yinai that she knew this dog?
Zhou Li racked his brains to think, but Gong Yinai turned around and said, "My people are here, let's go."
Found it?
Zhou Li suddenly understood.
They disappeared for such a long time that they were not found until Gong Yinai's men brought Liu'er to find them.
Zhou Li resisted the urge to reward Liu'er and followed Gong Yinai with a drooping brow, praying in his heart: She didn't recognize me! She didn't recognize me! She didn't recognize me! ...
After repeating it several times in his mind, Zhou Li finally forced himself to remain calm.
No one would believe the theory of reincarnation, and Gong Yinai would not believe that she was Gong Yifu. He would only suspect that she was sent by someone and deliberately imitated an old friend to confuse Gong Yinai's mind.
Before Zhou Li mounted his horse, he glanced at Gong Yinai secretly. Gong Yinai said expressionlessly, "Hoo! Let's go!"
She flicked the reins and walked ahead, Zhou Li quickly followed, Liu'er barked twice and ran in front to lead the way, and the group rode their horses at full speed towards the camp!
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