Tangled

"How is the girl?"

After a long silence, Eleven suppressed his heart that seemed to be jumping out of his chest, and asked in a hoarse voice.

"Since my lord has received the news, I must know where my cousin is missing. Shen Qi begs my lord to take Shen Qi to find my cousin."

"Girl, this subordinate can't..."

"Even if Cousin wants to blame Your Excellency, he has to come back with his life."

Seeing that Eleven was still hesitating, Shen Qiqi didn't hesitate, she lifted her skirt and knelt down.

"Shen Qi knows that she will act recklessly, but I hope my lord will accept Shen Qi this time for the sake of saving people. If my cousin comes back to blame, Shen Qi will bear it alone."

Eleven avoided her kneeling, and seeing that Mammy and the others were all in a daze, she quickly asked them to help Shen Qiqi up, "What are you still doing in a daze, why don't you help the girl up quickly."

"If your lord does not agree, Shen Qi will never get up."

Shen Qiqi brushed away Nanny's hand, her face was determined, her back was straight, and she made her attitude clear.

Jin Bao flew back from the eaves and saw Shen Qiqi kneeling on the ground, slipped and fell directly from the eaves.

But she didn't have time to check herself, so she turned over and rushed over.

"Why is the girl kneeling on the ground, get up quickly."

Shen Qiqi turned her head to look at Jin Bao, tears were in her blood-red eyes, falling down like broken beads with her trembling.

"Jinbao, I want to find my cousin."

Originally, the girl I felt pity for, now that she was crying like this, she was so fragile that it was as if a knife had been stabbed out of her heart.

Jin Bao didn't know what was going on, but he nodded without hesitation, "Okay, let's go find Lord Hou."

"Yinbao, hurry up and prepare the horse, let's set off immediately."

Eleven, who was still hesitating at first, couldn't stand still, so he quickly stopped Yinbao who was going out.

Seeing them all looking over, Eleven lowered his raised hand, took a deep breath before speaking:
"The miasma forest where Master Hou is trapped is hundreds of miles away, and it would take three days for ordinary horses to get there."

"The iron cavalry battalion guarding the palace has a thousand-mile horse, but without a token, they won't let us take the horse away."

Lord Hou and the crown prince had an accident together. In order to stabilize the court, His Majesty could not send troops to look for it with great fanfare. The iron cavalry had already gone to look for it in private.

Although he had some connections with the iron cavalry commander, under such circumstances, he was determined not to be able to borrow it.

"Can the prince's token be used?" Shen Qiqi raised her head and asked Xiang Shishi.

Eleven nodded, "In today's world, apart from Your Majesty, only the Crown Prince and Lord Hou can command cavalry."

Holding the token of the prince is like the prince coming in person. Although you can't completely lead the army out, it is not a problem to borrow a few horses.

"Go and take out the token from my box."

"Please trouble your lord to take the token and go to the cavalry camp to borrow a horse, and Shen Qi to change into clothes, let's set off immediately."

Shen Qiqi stood up as she said that, seeing that Mammy wanted to persuade her again, she raised her hand to stop her, "Don't persuade Mammy, Qinqi has decided to go."

Eleven never thought that the prince would actually give her his token, and when he took it, he checked it repeatedly, and after confirming it was sure, he cupped his fists and saluted into the room, before running away from the wall.

The clothes that Mammy made were all sent according to the ladies' style, and they were not suitable for going out at all, so Shen Qiqi picked and chose, and finally put on the clothes that Jin Bao had before entering the mansion.

The specially selected clothes were dusty, even the horse boy dressed better than this, He Nanny looked disgusted, but Shen Qiqi put it on without any hesitation.

All the hairpins were untied, and only the rope was coiled behind her head. Although her face was still so charming, from behind, except for the extremely fair and delicate long neck, the rest was no different from that of ordinary maids.

After changing their outfits, the three of them went out the back door, and Eleven was already waiting outside with his horse.

Jin Baofei got on the horse and stretched out his hand towards Shen Qiqi, "Come on, girl, I will ride with you."

He had never ridden a horse before, let alone rode fast all the way after leaving the city gate.

Not to mention the wind that hurt her face and the sand that hit her face so hard to open her eyes, but the saddle underneath made her cry.

After walking less than three miles, the heel of the leg was worn out and the pain was gone, and I could only feel a burst of numbness.

"The girl is precious, and she has never ridden a horse before. Let's walk slowly."

Although she was anxious in her heart, but seeing Shen Qiqi's pale complexion, Shi Shi still slowed down.

"I'm fine, hurry up and go."

A second later, the cousin is more dangerous. Although her leg hurts, it's just worn out. It's nothing like life and death.

Before Jin Bao could answer, she spoke first. Eleven glanced at her, saw that she pursed her lips and stopped talking, so she could only follow her wishes.

"Girl, go to the rest station ahead to change horses."

Although I was riding a thousand-mile horse, the horse had to rest. If I didn't change trains halfway, the horse would run all the way there, and it would take two or three months to raise it back.

After changing three horses along the way, the four finally arrived outside the dense forest in the middle of the night.

The dense forest, which was originally inaccessible, has been trampled out of the path, and the further you go, the stronger the smell of blood.

Along the way, when they came across corpses lying on the ground, Shidu looked through them one by one, for fear of missing Gu Tingshu.

Shen Qiqi walked in the middle, holding Yinbao tightly with both hands to support herself from falling.

There are not only corpses in the dense forest, but also the corpses of various ferocious beasts. The people who fell around the ferocious beasts were all scarred, and people could see at a glance what kind of struggle they had experienced during their lifetime.

"Girl, there is miasma blown by the wind in this dense forest, you should take the antidote pill quickly."

The miasma produced by the decay of various poisons was extremely stinky, even though his mouth and nose had been blocked, Shen Qiqi was still exhausted from the fumes.

The Jiedu Pill can also detoxify the miasma poison, but it can't dilute its stench. Before entering the miasma forest, Shen Qiqi has already been fumigated and vomited twice.

"Girl, it's late at night and the poisonous gas is thickening. Let's find a place to rest in the wind."

Although many beasts in this forest have been killed, it is unknown how many more there will be.

Furthermore, there are a lot of poisons in this forest, and if they go further in, they may not even be able to protect their own lives, let alone save others.

Although anxious, Shen Qiqi couldn't disregard their safety, so she nodded and asked them to find a place.

Eleven went to the leeward side and found a cave, in which an unknown animal lived. Although the smell was unpleasant, it was not unbearable.

I don't know how deep the cave is, and the few people didn't dare to go too deep. They just stayed at the entrance of the cave and lit a few piles of torches to drive away the insects.

Eleven Shou stayed outside the cave and did not come in, Shen Qiqi wanted to speak, but was stopped by Jin Bao.

"Girl, take the medicine first, and then let him in after taking the medicine."

"Yin Bao goes to guard the entrance of the cave."

There were bursts of stinging pain from the heel of the leg worn out by riding a horse, and it was stabbed a lot by herbs when he came in. The person who was originally good is now a broken doll.

Jin Bao felt distressed when he saw it, and he was very careful when applying the medicine, as if the injury was on his own body.

"The girl is injured so badly, don't go in tomorrow, stay here to recuperate well, I swear to God, I will bring Lord Hou out safely."

I have already come here, and I have suffered so many injuries, there is no reason to stop.

Shen Qiqi shook her head and refused, "It's already reached this point, I have to go by myself to be at ease."