Madam, she always wants to run away

Chapter 40 Reunion

Li Ying held Cao Wenxian tightly in her arms, she didn't dare to look up, for fear that a big knife would fly over and make her head move.

Cao Wenxian cried in fright in Li Ying's arms, even the always strong Li Ying showed despair at this moment.They survived the wind, food and sleep in the past few days, and they are about to reach Nanhe City. Is it true that they are really going to die here today?How willing she is!
However, fighting hundreds of bandits with dozens of guards is no different from mantising a cart.The protective circle around Li Ying shrinks and shrinks, until the chief guard turns around and shouts at the risk of his life: "Young Master Duan, let's take cover, you take them away!"

While speaking, dozens of guards exerted their strength at the same time, fighting a bloody path under the siege of these bandits, and the three of them got up and ran at the right time!

Behind them was the "ping-pong" sound of cold weapons colliding, mixed with the screams of someone who was stabbed in the chest and abdomen from time to time, and the cry for help from someone falling off the cliff...

The guards didn't last long, and the sound of bandits chasing after them soon came from behind the three of them.

"Let's run separately!" After Duan Yanlin finished speaking, he dragged Cao Wenxian to turn left at a fork in a mountain road, while Li Ying turned right alone.

Li Ying exhausted all her strength, ran forward and ran, ran and ran, until there was no more chasing sound behind her, until her feet were covered with blood blisters, until she really had no strength at all, she Finally stopped.

Panting heavily, she looked around. There were towering trees covering the sky, so she couldn't tell whether it was day or night.

With what little consciousness she had left, she found a tree hole and hid in it.

Where did Duan Yanlin and Xian'er go? Are they still alive?What should she do next?Should I wait, or run away?
Just thinking wildly like this, probably too frightened and too tired, not long after, Li Ying fell asleep in the tree hole.

In the groggy state, Li Ying vaguely heard someone talking.

"Where did you say those two girls escaped to?"

"How did I know, grandma's, like a rabbit, escapes pretty fast."

Li Ying suddenly opened her eyes from her sleep.

It's bandits!
"If we can catch it, hey, brothers, enjoy it first, and then give it to the boss to be Mrs. Yazhai, wouldn't it kill two birds with one stone?"

"You can pull it down, the boss has lost so many subordinates, how can you be in the mood right now?"

"What do you know, right now you need a beauty in your arms to comfort the boss, hehehe."

"Hush—" The conversation between the two suddenly stopped.

Li Ying pricked up his ears, and heard one of them whispering, "Why do you think there are footprints on the ground?"

Li Ying's heart immediately rose to her throat!

What to do, she is about to be discovered!

Those two people stopped talking, but Li Ying heard clearly that they were walking towards her hiding place, step by step.

When two pairs of men's boots appeared in front of the tree hole, Li Ying fell into complete despair.

A tall bandit leaned down, looked at Li Ying who was hiding inside with a wretched face, and said with a chuckle, "Let me tell you, so this bitch is hiding here."

Another short bandit said, "Why is there only one, and another one?"

"Never mind him, let's talk about it first." The tall bandit smiled lewdly and said, "Brother, will you go first or should I go first?"

The short bandit unbuttoned his waistband while talking: "You come first, my good brothers are of course going together, hehehe."

The tall bandit smiled wretchedly at Li Ying who was huddled in the tree hole: "Little lady, do you like to be inside or outside?"

Li Ying was terrified, she kept trying to retreat, but the tree hole was only so big, where was her escape route?
"It seems that you like to be inside, so I'll come in." Seeing Li Ying's shrinking appearance, the tall bandit felt even more itchy, so he burrowed into the tree hole.

The stinky bandit burrowed into the tree hole bit by bit, seeing that his dirty hands were about to touch her, Li Ying closed her eyes in despair.

"Whoosh-"

Accompanied by the sound of a sharp arrow piercing the sky, Li Ying watched helplessly as the head of the bandit who was only a short distance away from her was pierced from the back to the front with a "chih".

Viscous blood flowed from his forehead, and before he died, he reached out to touch the arrow on his head, and finally fell down in front of Li Ying with a "bang".

Li Ying blinked, staring blankly at the scene in front of her.

She looked at the short bandit outside the tree hole again, and saw that there was also a big black hole in his head, blood was flowing out, and the expression on his face was exactly the same as that of the tall bandit before he died , full of shock and disbelief.

"Who's in there?" A tall man on a horse came out from the shadow of the bushes, like a magic soldier descended from the sky.

"Count to three, come out." An extremely familiar voice came from far to near, and stopped in front of the tree hole. He was still holding a bow and arrow in his hand, and was pointing exactly at Li Ying in the tree hole.

Li Ying staggered out of the tree hole, she patted the dust on her body vigorously, brushed away the messy hair with her hands, her face was full of tears at some point.

She reached out and wiped away her tears, revealing a piece of fair skin.

Just like that, she appeared in front of him in the most embarrassing posture.

The man on the horse was a little confused at first, but when he watched the unkempt woman approaching him a little bit, he suddenly felt a sense of familiarity.

Could it be... Impossible, absolutely impossible!

The woman got closer and closer, and when he finally saw who she was, the bow and arrow in Xiao Lian's hand fell to the ground with a "slap".

"Yingying!" Xiao Lian almost rolled off his horse.

Before he finished speaking, the person in front of him lost his legs and passed out.

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When Li Ying opened her eyes again, she found herself lying on a wooden bed.

"Cough cough cough...Yingying, are you awake?" When she opened her eyes, Xiao Lian, who was guarding beside her, immediately came up to her.

"Where am I?"

"We're in Nanhe City, this is the county magistrate's mansion, ahem..."

Li Ying's whole body was in pain, she "hissed", Xiao Lian immediately asked nervously: "What's wrong, what's wrong?"

"I'm fine." Li Ying asked, resisting the pain in her feet, "Where's Xian'er, and the imperial doctor Duan who came with us, and those guards?"

"Your cousin and Imperial Physician Duan are fine, don't worry, ahem...they are recuperating in the guest room now."

"Then, what about those guards?"

Xiao Lian said with a heavy heart: "None of them will survive..."

"What?! All of them..."

Xiao Lian nodded silently, and after a while he said: "Fortunately, you all survived, and they know and feel at ease."

These words were not so much comforting Li Ying, but rather comforting himself.

The floods in Nanhe City displaced many people. In order to survive, some people either took the initiative or had no choice but to go up the mountain to become bandits, burning, killing and looting passers-by.

Originally, it was not Xiao Lian's responsibility to suppress bandits, but Nanhe city was troubled by external troubles, and the county magistrate was also in a state of distress.Xiao Lian agreed to the county magistrate's request to suppress the bandits with the hope that he could go back as soon as possible after the matter here was settled.

He is very glad that he made this decision, and even more glad that he chose to go up the mountain to suppress the bandits today despite his illness.

If not, I'm afraid he will never see her again in this life...

For these bandits, Xiao Lian didn't want to kill them at first.

But when he found the corpses of dozens of guards on the top of the mountain, Xiao Lian, a big man, couldn't help but have red eyes.Some of these people were the secret guards he had trained for many years, and some were the right-hand men of the emperor's grandmother, but they all died under the swords of these bandits.

How could Xiao Lian remain calm when he thought of Li Ying who would be wiped out if he arrived a little later?He immediately ordered to execute the remaining [-] bandits!

For a moment, the hilltop was stained dark red by countless blood, and Xiao Lian stood under the bloody setting sun with a sword in his hand.

This scene is extremely weird.

"What are you thinking?" Li Ying pulled Xiao Lian out of the cold memories.

"Cough cough cough...it's nothing."

"Those guards, we have to bury them properly..."

"Well, I brought back their remains."

Li Ying noticed that Xiao Lian was a little depressed, she stretched out her hand to squeeze his big hand, but Xiao Lian turned her back and held her small hand in his palm.

He spread Li Ying's hand, looked inside and out, and then said with distress: "Yingying, you have suffered."

Li Ying knew that her hands had become unsightly, so she wanted to withdraw them embarrassingly, but Xiao Lian held them firmly.

"Don't be shy, no matter what you become, you will look the best in my heart."

Li Ying blushed and gave up struggling.

"By the way, Yingying, you haven't told me why you came to Nanhe City?"

Li Ying almost forgot about this most important matter, she quickly asked: "Is there anything unusual in the city recently?"

"Where are you referring?"

"Like, a lot of people get sick together?"

"You mean, like me?" Xiao Lian pointed at himself jokingly.

Xiao Lian was laughing, but Li Ying's heart tightened suddenly, and he hurriedly asked, "Husband, what's wrong with you?" Li Ying realized that Xiao Lian had been coughing uncontrollably when he spoke just now.

"It's okay, it's just an ordinary wind and cold."

Li Ying stretched out his hand to touch Xiao Lian's forehead, it was hot!

"You're still running a fever!" Li Ying's hands and feet were sore, she hurried, but she was still a step late...

"This little fight is nothing, it's okay, don't worry."

"What do you know!" Li Ying's tone was full of anxiety: "Hurry up and gather all the doctors in the city."

Although Xiao Lian was at a loss, he was very happy in his heart. She had a cough and a fever, and she was so nervous.

"Wait." Li Ying stopped Xiao Lian who was about to step out, "I almost forgot, you can't go out now."

"Why?"

"You may... suffer from the plague." Although he was unwilling to admit it in his heart, these symptoms were similar to the great plague that Li Ying knew about in his previous life.

Xiao Lian took back the raised foot hesitantly: "Ma'am, what are you talking about?"

In order to convince Xiao Lian, she had to lie: "Since ancient times, plagues have often occurred after floods. There are imperial physicians in the palace who predicted this, so I came to you regardless of the danger of my life. But it seems that I am still too late." step."

Xiao Lian didn't make a sound, he was thinking about Li Ying's words.

"Think about it carefully, have many people suffered from the same illness as you in recent days?"

Xiao Lian's face became more and more ugly, and it took a long time before he said: "Yingying, if what you said is true, will I also infect you?"

Li Ying realized that he was worried about this, she smiled lightly, and said: "I don't know if I have been infected, but I know, I will live and die with you, my husband."

Li Ying said it lightly, but Xiao Lian's heart was hit hard.

He stood several feet away from Li Ying, Li Ying stretched out his hand to him, signaling that he would get off the bed.Xiao Lian didn't dare to move, let alone approach.

Li Ying sighed, and made a gesture to get out of bed by herself, but she shrank in pain as soon as her feet touched the ground, and she lost her center of gravity and fell to the ground.

"Yingying!" Xiao Lian couldn't bear to look any further, and hurriedly stepped forward to support her: "What are you doing?"

"Even if it is late, it doesn't mean there is no room for recovery. Xiao Lian, now we are racing against God to see whether the plague is running faster or we are stopping it faster. This is my desperate effort." The reason for coming to Nanhe City!"

Xiao Lian couldn't bear it, but seeing the determination in Li Ying's eyebrows, he had no choice but to swallow the words on his lips.

"Okay, I'll accompany you, but you wait here first."

After a while, there was a "gurgling" sound outside the door, and Li Ying looked around curiously.

When Xiao Lian opened the door, Li Ying saw the wheelchair parked outside the door at a glance, and almost rolled her eyes.

"Husband, you don't have to mobilize people like this..."

Unexpectedly, Xiao Lian didn't listen to Li Ying's words at all, picked her up from the bed without any explanation, and gently put her in the wheelchair at the door.

"Either sit obediently in this wheelchair and do what you want to do, or lie on the bed and recuperate."

Okay, we've come to this point, does Li Ying have any other choice?

Xiao Lian stood behind the wheelchair very consciously and said, "Where are you going now?"

"Put this on first." Li Ying handed him a cloth strip, and both of them covered their mouths and noses.

Li Ying said in a muffled voice through the cloth strip: "Go to Duan Yanlin first."

Xiao Lian then turned the wheelchair around and headed towards the guest room where Duan Yanlin was.

"Dong dong dong." Li Ying knocked on the door.

The door was quickly opened with a "squeak". Duan Yanlin first saw the loyal prince Xiao Lian covering his mouth and nose with a cloth strip, with a puzzled expression on his face, and then looked down to find the princess who was sitting in a wheelchair. Cover your mouth and nose.

"Prince, princess, what are you doing?"

"Duan Yanlin." Li Ying said solemnly: "We suspect that the plague has spread in a large area in Nanhe City, and the loyal prince Xiao Lian standing in front of you may have been infected with the plague.

Now, in the name of the princess, I order you to stop this plague at any cost.

I put our lives in your hands. No matter what kind of medicine you develop, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, we are willing to try with our lives. "

　Xiao Lian: I almost shot my daughter-in-law through with an arrow, but I can do it.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)