"Stop the ship!"
When Xue Yao heard an unfamiliar voice from behind him, he quickly raised his eyes and asked the Khitan boy, "Are they wearing the armor of the Forbidden Army or that of the Tong Family's army?"
The teenager whispered back, "What's the difference?"
The ships behind them were already approaching, and Xue Yao didn't have time to explain.
The Khitan boy spoke in a low voice, "Lend me your long sword."
This yellow-faced teenager who had been tortured by the desert even wanted to fight one against one, Xue Yao refused, "No need to do it, I can handle it."
After saying that, Xue Yao turned around with a calm demeanor and looked towards the approaching ship.
There were five soldiers on that ship, wearing the leather armor of the Northwest Army.
"Didn't you guys return to the capital?" Xue Yao put on his officer's air and shouted at the boat of soldiers.
As the boat approached, the leader of the soldiers stared coldly at Xue Yao: "Who are you people? What are you doing here?"
Xue Yao replied in an unassuming manner, "I've been ordered to cross the river to negotiate with the enemy, so I'm not at liberty to disclose the details."
The soldier asked, "On whose orders? What is the proof?"
Xue Yao pulled out the pass token from his sleeve and showed it to several people.
The soldier reached out to receive the token, looked down to check the engraving on the token, and looked up coldly at Xue Yao: "This is the Seventh Prince's token!"
"That's right." Xue Yao reached out to retrieve his own token, and calmly replied, "I was ordered by the Crown Prince to cross the river to negotiate."
"The Seventh Prince was nowhere to be found a few days ago, how could he give you orders?" The soldier at the head bellowed behind him, "Take him away!"
Two soldiers immediately jumped onto Xue Yao's boat and drew their swords against his neck.
"How dare you!" Xue Yao boldly threatened the soldiers, "If you dare to touch me, the Seventh Prince will never forgive you lightly!"
The soldier beside him sneered, "Your seventh prince has already fled back to the capital, so what if I move you?"
Xue Yao squinted and glared at the soldier.
The soldier sneered and raised his hand to give him a shove on the shoulder, provoking, "So what if I move you?"
"Master will never forgive you lightly."
Hearing this familiar voice, Xue Yao's body stiffened, and he thought he was hastily hallucinating!
The two soldiers beside him looked up into the sky at the same time - how could this sound come from the sky?
"Whoosh, whoosh," two invisible air currents passed by, and the two soldiers beside Xue Yao were pushed into the water by the air currents before they could cry out!
The soldier on the other boat looked up in horror - the white-haired figure in mid-air came flying in!
They had no time to draw their swords to fend them off before they were knocked into the water by a swimming dragon like cane.
When Xue Yao looked back, he saw Lu Qian being held by the arm of a man in white and leaping into the boat together.
The man in white landed without a sound, and the seventh prince shook the ship when he landed.
Xue Yao couldn't tell if what was in front of him was real or not, and he couldn't even speak as he looked motionlessly at the little fat kid a few steps away.
Lu Qian couldn't wait for the little companion to rush over for a hug, so he took the initiative to walk over, taking one step with the boat shaking, until he reached the little companion, "Yao Yao, how come you haven't returned to the capital?"
After only a few days of separation, Xue Yao felt that the Lu Qian in front of him was no longer the ignorant child he once was, not just because he had lost weight, but a certain quality had appeared on him that was not there before, yet could not be described.
This indescribably huge difference made Xue Yao afraid to reach out and embrace the cub in front of him.
The original milky aura that Xue Yao was familiar with in Lu Qian's body was so faint that he found it difficult to capture, and the addition of a certain stern aura made him feel rusty.
Lu Dive cocked his head and stared at his young companion.
As a rule, the logical sequence of actions for a young companion would be to hug His Highness, choke on his sobs, and ask His Highness if he's hungry.
But Xue Yao did nothing, just staring stupidly at His Highness.
His Highness couldn't wait and opened his arms toward the young companion.
This gesture of wanting a hug caused Xue Yao to subconsciously take a step closer towards the Seventh Prince, wanting to reach out but hesitating.
This little hesitation on the part of the young companion spawned confusion and irritation in Lu Qian's eyes.
His Highness scanned the area, looking for the cause of his young companion's antics.
The young Chetan boy with the small sheepskin water bag and dessert just jumped into His Highness's view.
At the same time, Xue Yao heard a system warning: [Lu Qian's sense of security -6]
The Khitan prince felt bad, and in the next moment, he saw the teenager turn on his toes and walk towards him.
The prince of the qidan once had three brothers, one after another died in battle, over the years, only he and the elderly qidan king east and west, have seen a variety of terrible opponents, but for the first time to meet such a nearly beast-like indifference to the murderous gaze.
The Khitan prince swallowed and forced himself to calmly meet the teenager's eyes.
"Your Highness ......" Xue Yao wanted to explain, but he saw the Seventh Prince coldly raise his hand to stop him from speaking.
The Khitan prince straightened his back and stood at attention.
Lu Qian stopped, very close, and struck out like lightning, snatching the milk and dessert from the other's hand!
The Khitan Prince Who Suddenly Lost His Food: "......"
The next moment, Lu Qian lifted the dessert and milk bag to his "rival's" eyes, and slowly and ferociously crushed it.
Prince of Khitan: "????"
This stupid demonstrative action finally allowed Xue Yao to retrieve the shadow of the little fat cub!
The little companion immediately rushed up to hug His Highness, rubbing his skinny little fat face for a while, "Your Highness! I've searched so hard for you!"
[System Alert: Lu Qian's sense of security +2]
Lu Qian didn't answer.
Xue Yao raised his eyes and saw that His Highness was still petty and slanting his eyes, staring at the Khitan teenager sitting on the side.
"He is the Khitan hostage." Xue Yao explained, "A few days ago he was almost assassinated by the Third Prince, he managed to escape with great difficulty and was met by me, I was planning to send him to the enemy camp to exchange for the Fifth Prince to come back, seeing as he didn't have anything to eat or drink along the way, that's why I rewarded his Highness with a mouthful of his milk and snacks."
[System Alert: Lu Qian's sense of security +2]
"What to do with these people?" Old man Xu stood on the other boat, tapping the soldiers who grabbed the edge of the boat after falling into the water with his cane.
Xue Yao didn't recognize the old man and turned his head to tell Lu Qian, "The Northwest Army has returned to the capital, these soldiers might be the Third Prince's men, we can't let them go back so soon."
When Old Man Xu heard him, he took the oars and flew and jumped to the Xue Yao boat, letting the group of soldiers hold the boat and float.
There were three more people on the tiny boat all of a sudden, and Xue Yao immediately instructed the boatman to continue sailing towards the opposite shore.
Having just reunited with the little chubby cub, Xue Yao could no longer see anyone else in his eyes, wrapping his arms around the little chubby cub like an octopus and taking out food from his traveling bag, feeding him while asking His Highness about what had happened to him over the past few days.
Hearing that His Highness had encountered a group of treacherous merchants selling overpriced water and grain in the desert, Xue Yao instead thanked the heavens and excitedly wrapped his arms tightly around His Highness.
Her Highness, however, drew her arms away from him.
Xue Yao glanced at the little chubby cub in wonder, and then looked down at his arm, only to realize that there were torn holes in his sleeves, and the fabric around the holes was even darker in color, and upon closer inspection, the inner layer of his middle garment seemed to be tinted with dark vermilion as well.
Xue Yao's heart thumped as he raised his hand to slowly uncover the ragged hole in his clothes, and actually found a hideous bloody scab across His Highness's arm!
For a moment, Xue Yao seems to have returned to that black night without end, watching the little fat cub lure away the pursuers, watching the torches surging the ground soldiers in which someone drew a bow and arrow, and hearing the buzzing sound of sharp arrows tearing through the night sky ......
That moment of heart-breaking despair instantly dominated Xue Yao's brain, and the happiness of finding the little chubby boy was all gone.
He stiffly looked up at Lu Qian and asked numbly, "Are you hurt?"
Lu Qian looked down at his arm, "It's grown."
Xue Yao lowered his head, ruffled the seams of his clothes, and asked softly, "Is the wound deep? Does it hurt?"
Lu Qian to the small companion read a hook of the lips: "This little injury, manly man ......"
Xue Yao reached out to check the scabbed condition of the wound.
His Highness the Man: "Don't pinch, don't pinch!"
"If there is a next time." Xue Yao raised his eyes and stared at the chubby cub, "I will not listen to your highness' orders."
Lu Qian looked at him blankly.
Xue Yao solemnly threatened, "If there is a next time when Your Highness disregards your safety and draws away the danger for me, if we meet again, Your Highness will see my dead body."
He understood the little fat cub's principle of doing things - maximizing profit.
It was Lu Qian's goal for the two to survive together, which was why he took the risk of luring away the pursuers for Xue Yao.
If this arrow missed a bit, it would probably take the little fat cub's life, so Xue Yao wanted the little fat cub to know that: when he encountered danger again, abandoning him to escape alone was the only favorable option.
"There will be no danger." Old man Xu, who was sitting on the opposite side of the table, finally couldn't help but interject, "Lu Qian is now the closed disciple of Old Qiu and I. Anyone who wants to threaten our disciple will have to go through us first."
Xue Yao, who was preoccupied with the little fat cub, finally realized that there were other people on this ship.
As if waking from a dream, she turned her head to look at the two strange men sitting across from her.
These two men were imposing and not bad looking, one of them had a head full of white hair, could it be the old man with crane hair that the villagers were talking about? The face doesn't look old ah?
Lu Qian raised his hand to introduce the young companion to two old men--
Pointing to Master first, "Sword Saint Senior."
He also pointed to Master Xu, "And a grandpa."
"Hey!" Sect Master Xu stormed out, "I am the ninth generation Sect Master of the Green Dragon Sect, Xu Qingzhao! What a grand master!"
"Senior is the famous Sword Saint?!" Xue Yao looked at the immortal man in surprise, he really had the aura of an expert!
Infinitely ignored Sect Leader Xu: "Our Qinglong Sect is also renowned in the Jianghu! Have you only heard of the Sword Saint?"
"The name of the Sword Saint is as good as thunder." The Qidan prince who pretended to be dead for half a day on the side, couldn't help but look at the Sword Saint with surprise: "My father had begged for a copy of the Qingyuan mind method, I don't know if it is the real work of the senior, the late student has practiced this mind method since he was young, and he also relied on the Qingyuan mind method to regulate his breathing, and only then was he able to survive from that desert."
As if he were a transparent person, Sect Master Xu looked at the sky speechlessly.
These insular little brats!
It seemed like it had been too long since he, the Green Dragon Faction, had stirred up a bloody storm!
"Can you resist hunger and thirst by practicing Qingyuan Heart Technique?" Xue Yao looked enviously at the Khitan teenager, "Our Seventh Prince has only practiced the Taiji Heart Technique, it's not that powerful, so it's fortunate that he encountered the caravan in the desert."
[Warning: Land dive security -3.]
"???" Xue Yao turned his head to look at the "not that great" fat pup with the careful eyes.
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