Everyone had been walking for a day and a half, and they were all exhausted, so they closed their eyes and lay down on the branches to sleep.
Even Wang Yixian gave up keeping watch and began to rest with his eyes closed. When the family was sleeping soundly, in a place only a few dozen miles away from them, two people in ragged clothes were running forward with a child in their arms, and behind them were people chasing them.
Originally, the two of them were walking with a child in the group of refugees, and they were actually not conspicuous, but somehow, their whereabouts were suddenly revealed.
No less than three groups of people have come and want to kill them, forcing them to retreat and go into the mountains to look for a chance of survival.
This ten-mile mountain range is the place they least want to enter, because they know that there are ferocious wild beasts in it. The beasts in the deep mountains seem to have mutated. Not only are they tall and big, but their combat power is also amazing.
So when they passed through the ten-mile mountain range, they had to take their little master and pretend to be refugees, walking on the official road. At the beginning, no one knew each other, so it was quite safe.
But after walking for only four days, on the fifth day they began to be hunted. No matter how they hid, they could not escape the pursuit, as if someone was showing them the way.
There were seven people in the group, and five of them were killed while entering, leaving only two people who entered the Ten-Li Mountain.
Both of them were deadpools trained by the Zhang family, so it was impossible for them to betray their young master. So they reasonably suspected that someone had recognized them, or that a portrait of their young master had been posted.
Two people walking in the forest with a child were still at a disadvantage, so they used lightness skills to escape.
Because they were traveling light, they didn't bring much food and water, and now they only had enough food to last for two days.
Finally, another secret guard took out a set of clean clothes for the little master from the bag, then picked up some branches, wrapped them with the clothes, and said something to the secret guard who was holding the little master.
"Brother, I'll go and distract them. If I can come back alive, I'll wait for you in Spring City ahead. If I don't wait for you in Spring City, don't wait for me."
"Xiao Qi, what are you going to do?"
The person who was called the second brother, didn't he know that Xiaoqi wanted to use his own life to exchange for him and the young master, so that they could have a chance to leave here alive?
There were seven secret guards in their group, and now only two of them are left. The rest of them are no longer alive. They have been chased and killed all the way. Even with help, several people have been killed.
Furthermore, the brothers who went to lead the enemy elsewhere have not returned. Now there are only two of them to protect the young master. If Xiaoqi leaves again, he will be left alone.
He himself did not dare to confirm whether he could deliver the young master safely to the hands of the Zhang family. They seemed to have figured out some patterns in the hunt these days. It seemed that a group of people from the Crown Princess's family were hunting them down, and the Second Prince seemed to have sent people to hunt them down as well.
As the Zhang family didn't know what had happened to their daughter, they didn't send anyone to protect her. The Zhang family members lurking in Jinling didn't have very well-informed channels of information, so they didn't know that something had happened to Concubine Zhang.
The Zhang family still has quite a few secret guards. Even though they have been exiled, they have never thought of leaving the exile team directly. After all, they are loyal and brave people and will never let the world leave any stigma on them. Once they leave the exile team, they can only become bandits.
Zhang Tao doesn't want to stay in a mountain for the rest of his life and make a living by robbing and looting. He has made up his mind that he must reach Qiong Island and make a comeback with his own abilities.
Even Zhang Tao no longer has any thoughts of loyalty to the emperor or patriotism. Now he just wants to protect his granddaughter and her child.
Why should the Zhang family pay so much for the Zhou family's empire?
My sister married into the royal palace, but I was kicked out of the house. I was even not allowed to use the surname Zhou anymore, so I had to change it to Wang.
Just because his brother-in-law is the younger brother of the current emperor, they had to swallow their anger. Even his sister did not dare to ask for help from her family easily, because the Zhang family is a loyal and patriotic family.
Zhang Tao and his companions stopped by the roadside to rest. They still had plenty of food because they had been frugal along the way. They even poured the water in the buckets into water bags and hid it all away.
Zhang Tao looked at the woods behind him. He had been walking at the edge of the woods for about five days, but had not yet reached the end. So he suspected that Wang Huan and the others were still in the dense forest and not far away from them. If any big signal happened here, he might come out to help.
When Wang Huan left, he gave Zhang Tao two flares. If anything happened, just send them out and he would come as quickly as possible.
Zhang Tao and the mayor of Mocheng were old acquaintances, but after their house was searched, he wrote a letter directly, hoping that he could help the Zhang family and sent him money. However, when they came, they did not receive any help, which made him very angry.
After walking for a few days, he understood why the Lord of Mo City did not help him. Now even Mo City is in trouble, and the things that the Lord of Mo City gave him were probably saved from his own pennies by living frugally.
An Jingyu, the mayor of Mocheng, is also a good official who serves the country and the people, because he never embezzles anything from the people. He will always take everything from the people and use it for the people, and will never embezzle it for himself.
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