Chapter 13: Jungle Pursuit
The overnight escape made the Dongou army and ministers sleepy and lacking horses, and Ou Zhenfu walked in the mountains and forests on foot. The wide royal robe had been scraped by the branches of the tree and torn to shreds like a cloth. His ornate carriage had been thrown on the side of the road yesterday.
A palace man sits on the side of the road and weeps, and it is a contest of bodies. Naturally, the weaker woman was the first to be abandoned. Ladies first does not apply to refugees, where the first concern is whether they will survive.
Ou Zhenfu looked at this palace familiar to him, and he may have been lucky. The palace people who can be brought out again are all beautiful people, how could the Dongou King with a normal sexual orientation let go of such a beauty.
Reluctantly, let the waiter leave two rice balls for her, and the only thing she can do is leave it to fate. The baggage has been discarded, and now both the Dongou King and the ordinary soldiers only have rice balls to eat.
A strand of long hair was on her face, and she was out of shape despite the exhaustion of the day. But she still couldn't hide her beauty, and at this time she no longer had any body. The clothes were loose, and the two jade rabbits on his chest were exposed and he couldn't pay attention to them.
"Help me!" The pale lips squirmed slightly, and the sound was so light that it was not as loud as the "buzz" and "buzz" of flies.
Ou Zhenfu lowered his head, covered his face with his sleeve, and hurriedly walked forward. He understood the mouth, but he couldn't save it. He, the king, could only march on foot, and the only one in the whole army who enjoyed the treatment of a stretcher was Ou Zhenming, the rugged general of Yiniao.
What he didn't know was that he had just walked a short time. A few hungry wolf-like soldiers rushed over, and they didn't lay their hands on the half-naked beauty. Instead, they frantically scramble for the two rice balls, roaring like beasts coming out of their mouths.
The baggage has been discarded, and the food for all is rationed. Except, of course, Ou Zhenfu, who is the king of Donou. But many of these soldiers were already hungry, and they wiped their mouths after grabbing the food and leaving the beauty. At this time, no one is willing to waste their bodies on a woman who is going to die, and it is only right to walk out of this forest and reach the country of Yelang.
The beautiful woman's face showed a miserable smile. She knew she didn't have long to live. I saw a lot along the way, and a palace man like her who was overdrawn leaned weakly on the side of the road.
After a few hours, the people behind will fall apart as soon as they hold it. Countless locusts with fat brains fell out of the body, and the ants of the brigade carried human flesh back to the nest in triumph. The grasshoppers ate as thick as their fingers, and the ants carried human flesh the size of a grain of rice. And the sister who was as beautiful as a flower just now is now a pair of dry bones. Only the long jet-black hair. Landing on a road full of muddy water.
This will be her own destiny, and her delicate face has given her wealth and glory. The red face is thin, and the same delicate beauty finally brought her a tragic death. Without this look, Dongou King would not have brought himself, not his own ......
A pair of beautiful eyes slowly became heavy, and the beautiful double eyelids seemed to have two pieces of lead falling. Getting heavier and heavier, she struggled to open her eyes to see the world again, and eventually darkness enveloped her.
Life was being pumped out of the body in a way that could be felt, and every bone and muscle was beginning to lose strength. The brain in the darkness gradually ethereal, as if something was about to rush out of its body. She wanted to catch. But there is nothing that can be done.
The soul is ethereal, maybe it is your soul that you have lost!
A clear spring slowly poured into his mouth, and his limbs were indescribably comfortable. The heavy eyelids became no longer heavy, and a burst of calling voices came. The voice seemed to be listening to the people on the shore under the water, and Ulu Ulu couldn't hear it clearly, no matter how hard he tried.
"Lord Eagle, this little girl's skin is alive. looks quite smart, and can still have this appearance at this time. If you go back for two days, she must be a delicate beauty. A Yun family guard said to the goshawk while gently slapping the woman's mouth.
"Take it with you. They are all miserable people. Anyway, we have horses, fill them with some water and feed them some food. Take it with you if you can. If you can't go, you can't complain about us. We have died too many people along the way, and we may not go to hell if we do good deeds. ”
"You old thing, I'm afraid you killed more people than the people who rushed to the market. What are you doing if you don't go to hell, you have acquaintances elsewhere in the underworld? ”
"Say no more, save her. Let her tell her about the current situation of the Dongou Army, this ghost place of my mother. The goshawk waved its arms in annoyance, and the torso "buzzed" and "buzzed" the mosquitoes. Interrupt the teasing of the two old guards. For this, the goshawk is really tired of it.
The farther south you go, the more unpredictable the weather becomes. It's winter, but it's getting fucking hot. Until now, there are small insects such as flies and mosquitoes. What the is this place? Even the soldiers who have lived in Jiangnan for a long time can't say why, and some people say that they have arrived in Shu. Some people say that it is not like it, and you have to climb the mountain to enter Shu. I didn't climb any big mountains this way.
All kinds of chaotic information almost drove the goshawk crazy, and the map was there, but I didn't know where it was now. Occasionally, I met a hunter or herb picker, who talked for a long time about chickens and ducks and talking about donkey lips and horses' mouths. I couldn't understand what the other party was saying at all, so angry that the goshawk cut off the guy's head with a single knife.
All the people I encountered along the way were corpses, and it was rare to have such a living person. What Goshawk wanted was to wake her up and know where Ou Zhenfu was going. Could it be that this bastard can't make it to the sky?
Five hundred light horsemen chased Ou Zhenfu for half a month. Chase from the plains to the mountains, from the road to the roadless. From the beginning, only ruts could be seen, and occasionally some Dongou soldiers swore to block them. By entering the mountains, there are abandoned baggage everywhere.
Along the way, the guards collected things that were discarded by the Dongou people, pearls, agate, gold, silver, gemstones, and jade. These bells and whistlers injected a boost into the seemingly tired soldiers, and they frantically gathered their possessions. Until they saw more and more corpses, all of them became skeletons. Start with one or two, then three or five.
Until yesterday, more than thirty people gathered in a heap. There are traces of a bonfire in the middle, and they still have a sleeping posture with blades in their hands. It seems that they are really sleeping, but when they push it, they will fall, and they are already zombies.
There are no living people, and now it is a pleasure to meet a goshawk. Maybe from this woman's mouth, you can ask Ou Zhenfu's bastard to come out in the end. The goshawk had a sense of foreboding, chasing it like this. Maybe he can catch up with Ou Zhenfu in the end, but he will also die in this nasty place.
It was surrounded by green patches, and the air smelled of decay. The air seemed to be pressing down, and it was so muffocating to take a breath. Goshawk felt that he was also well-informed, and it was the first time he had seen such a place that was not suitable for human habitation. Just after a few days here, the goshawk feels like it's been years.
With a sigh, the woman finally woke up. When he saw the goshawk and the others, his eyes immediately showed horror.
As soon as the goshawk gave his eyes, a Jiangnan soldier immediately asked, "Where did Ou Zhenfu go?" ”
"Slave family...... The slave family doesn't know! The beauty stammered in reply. It looked like he was scared, and his weak body was shaking.
Seeing this situation, the goshawk couldn't help it, so he took out two biscuits from his arms and handed them to the woman.
"Ask her what's her name?" Goshawk spoke in an authentic Guanzhong dialect, and the woman couldn't understand it at all.
"The slave family is called Mei Niang." Contrary to Goshawk's expectations, this woman actually understood Guanzhong's words. This took the goshawk by surprise.
"Are you Han?" The goshawk's eyes widened, looking left and right to try to find out where this woman called Mei Niang fit the characteristics of the Han people.
"The slave family was in Weiyang Palace since childhood, and was later sent to Wu Wang's Palace. King Wu did a bad thing, and followed King Wu to Dongou City. Later, King Wu was assassinated, and the slave family stayed in Donou. Mei Niang spoke Guanzhong dialect that she was not very proficient in.
It turned out to be a small palace person in Weiyang Palace, no wonder he could understand Guanzhong dialect. It must have been a long time since he left Guanzhong, so Guanzhong's words were stumbling. But the goshawk can still understand, since it is a fellow countryman, it is much easier to do.
"You, this woman, are also miserable, tell me where the king of Dongou is going. I'll send you back to Chang'an, the Yun family also has an industry in Chang'an. If you have a family member, you can also be reunited with your family. ”
"The slave family heard that they were going to some Yelang country, and I heard that it was a country deep in the mountains. The slave family has never been there, and I don't know where the country of Yelang is. ”
"Yoro Country ......! How is Ou Zhenfu's team now? ”
"Hey! Those people were miserable, they could only eat dumplings, and people in the team died every day and began to be buried. Now they are thrown on the side of the road and let the tigers and wolves gnaw at them, and there are not many sisters brought out of Shangsha City. The slave family can carry it, and they died one after another along the way. Presumably, there are not a few left. ”
Hearing that the goshawk was going to send her back to her hometown, Mei Niang was naturally happy. As long as the goshawk asked, she would say it without concealment.
"Is there a disease circulating?" Goshawk suddenly remembered the dozens of guys who died together, if there was an epidemic. The pursuit must be stopped immediately, or the whole team will be in danger.
"I didn't see any epidemics, but there were often groups of people camping together at night. The next morning, they all died. I've seen those people die overnight for some reason. There are no scars on his body. ”
Goshawk's face changed, and things were beyond his comprehension. The place is not waiting, the roads are not ripe and the supplies are not enough. The Yun family has biscuits and beef jerky, but the humid and muggy weather here makes it difficult to preserve the food. There are already biscuits and dried meat with long hair, and due to the lack of water, the noodles cannot be cooked, and they will have to run out of food in a few days.
"Lord Eagle, this place is very tight. Why don't we withdraw first, we don't know what country Yelang is. I haven't heard of it at all, ask Hou Ye maybe Hou Ye will know. ”
The guards next to him are also very patient with this place, and they can't wait to leave this ghost place as soon as possible. Many of them were stinky, and their skin was bitten by insects and ants that had burrowed into them. Yan zhòng's has begun to fester. (To be continued......)