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Help!
Help, help, help!
The soil on top of him was not compacted and became soft and thin after being watered by rain.
Du Yaoyao moved her fingers.
For a moment, she wanted to die just as Shen Jie wished.
But she was so unwilling!
She despised women who gave up themselves for a man.
But I just wasn't loved anymore.
Has she lived on love since she was a child?
Parents gave birth to you, but no parents raised you. Although he has many relatives, he relies on strangers to support his studies and living.
This is the case even for blood relatives, let alone a nominal husband who only maintains the relationship through sexual intercourse between men and women.
In feudal society, women were weak, so he appeared sincere but actually gave up hypocritically.
Why, why should she die? !
Du Yaoyao, relying on the anger in her heart, raised her sleeves to pull her arms out of the mud, and then bit by bit removed the mud pressing on her chest.
When she was able to breathe again, she stretched her wrist out of the pit and called for help in the wind and rain.
She had no strength, and after holding on for a while, she became weak, and then she held on again...
She didn't know how long it had been before she heard the sound of footsteps on the mud. She raised her sore wrists and shook them vigorously.
"Ah——" a man exclaimed, "Brother, look!"
The man called "Big Brother" looked in the direction of the situation and saw a pale hand emerging from the weeds and soil, hanging limply.
The five fingers are slender, similar to those of a woman.
"Are we encountering a ghost?" the man who spoke first said in horror.
"When you go out hunting, you are not afraid of fierce tigers and wild beasts, so why are you afraid of a female ghost?" the eldest brother scolded.
He walked over quietly and pushed away the weeds from a distance with a spear in hand.
There was an equally pale face in the mud pit, with eyes closed and lips moving, beautiful and delicate, like a mountain spirit.
"This female ghost is so beautiful!" the second brother exclaimed in amazement.
The elder brother used the lightning to observe the woman's lips. She seemed to be saying "Save me, save me..."
He lowered his hand to feel her breath, which was weak and warm.
"It's a living person!"
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Yan Jin and his group, wearing clothes woven from wild grass, avoided the bandits and sneaked into the village temple.
Chen Jie's face was pale, he covered the hole under his abdomen, blood gushed out from between his fingers.
In the dim night, he saw Yan Jin and was surprised and asked, "Where is Yao Yao?"
Yan Jin pursed his lips and said nothing.
Chen Jie forced himself to stand up and stepped forward to question him. Yan Jin strode to help him up and slashed at the back of his neck with a knife.
Shen Jie fainted.
Yan Jin said to his left and right: "The situation is urgent, so I can only offend you first."
He winked behind him, and a guard quickly took off his clothes and exchanged clothes with Shen Jie.
This was the countermeasure Lai Lu had thought of. He chose a man with a similar figure to Shen Jie, lured the bandits away, and he led Shen Jie to escape from the dark.
The barbarians on the border were initially deceived by the sleight of hand, but later turned around and gave chase. Yan Jin and Shen Jie dodged left and right, fighting hard.
In order to protect him and Shen Jie, more than ten people were killed by the bandits' swords.
Yan Jin was exhausted from carrying Chen Jie on his back. Just when he felt that he was going to be killed, two rows of black-armored soldiers came with arrows in hand.
"Swish, swish, swish--" clusters of sharp arrows shot at the bandits. The soldiers were well-trained and their arrows could hit the target from a hundred steps away. The bandits were suddenly attacked and were defeated in an instant, screaming in pain.
A general with a square face and thick eyebrows came in a carriage. When he saw Yan Jin, he bowed and greeted him, "Are you a subordinate of Lord Shen Jie?"
"Who are you?" Yan Jing hesitated.
The general said respectfully, "I am here on the orders of the prince to rescue Lord Shen."
"Prince? Crown Prince..." Yan Jin guessed that the crown prince had received the news and sent someone over.
The general said, "It is the Crown Prince's uncle - the King of Liangchuan Zhenbei."
Yan Jin and Shen Jie took a carriage to the prefectural government in Jindu City.
When reinforcements from Liangchuan arrived, the governor of Jindu was frightened and told the truth, then committed suicide out of fear of punishment.
It was three days later when Chen Jie woke up.
"Where is Yaoyao?" he asked as soon as he opened his eyes.
The last memory I have is seeing Yan Jin in the dilapidated temple, and then he fell down and lost consciousness.
The maidservant asked happily, "Sir, are you awake?"
Chen Jie glanced at the ornate decorations of the wing room and asked warily, "Where is this?"
The maid replied, "The Jindu Prefecture is now under the management of our prince." Fearing that the nobleman didn't know who he was, she specified, "The Prince of Liangchuan Zhenbei."
Chen Jie nodded and felt relieved. The Prince of Zhenbei had not participated in the political struggle for succession since the emperor's generation, and had devoted himself to managing his territory. He was a well-known upright and idle prince.
Chu Zheng must have received a message from a carrier pigeon and ordered Liangchuan, who was closest, to come to the rescue.
"My lord, you haven't had anything to eat or drink for several days. Could you please ask someone to send you some porridge and side dishes?" the maid asked with concern.
"How many days?" Shen Jie was surprised.
"Yes." The maid had a round face that looked particularly pleasing. She said in a sweet and innocent voice, "The master had a sword stuck in his stomach, and the sword was poisoned. Fortunately, our prince came in time. If it was later, the imperial physician would not be able to save him."
Shen Jie was anxious about Du Yaoyao and didn't care much about it. He described, "Did you see a very thin, pale, sick and unconscious girl?"
The maid shook her head in confusion. "We picked you up from the prince's carriage, but we didn't see any girls. There were only two men with you."
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