Chapter 216 Found
The large army left on the official road.
Su Qingqing's tense nerves as she lay on the horse's back suddenly relaxed.
After she relaxed, she realized the burning pain in her back. This was not terrible. What was terrible was that she began to have difficulty seeing the road ahead. She had double vision, and the forests were so dense and intertwined that she could not even recognize .
The arrow was poisoned and the poison was quite strong.
Su Qingqing knew that Rong Que would definitely come to find her. In order to try her best to stay conscious, Su Qingqing began to use her hands and feet to rub the ropes on her hands and feet. The sharp pain did not make her faint immediately.
Relying on her remaining consciousness and intuition, she drove the horse back onto the official road.
The sky was clear just a moment ago, but it was covered with dark clouds in a moment, and then the north wind blew heavy snowflakes down.
Lying on the horse's back, Su Qingqing smiled bitterly.
She didn't live in vain, at least she turned the Great Yan Dynasty upside down and made the dynasty be buried with her Su family army.
Unfortunately...
In the end, I let that person down.
On a snowy night.
Rong Que was riding a warhorse, his eyes bloodshot, and he called Su Qingqing's name again and again in a hoarse voice.
Jixiang cried so hard that he couldn't catch his breath. He wiped away his tears again and again.
The snow fell heavier and heavier, and suddenly, Wang Yu screamed.
"Footprints! Horse hoof prints, they are horse hoof prints, horses hoof prints that have not been completely covered by the snow!"
Some of Su Qingqing's subordinates are all-rounders, proficient in reconnaissance, tracking and attack, and Wang Yu happens to be one of them.
In such bad weather, the meaning of leaving such a lonely horseshoe print on this official road is self-evident.
Even if we can't be sure that this person is Su Qingqing, there is at least a 50% chance.
Rong Que almost fell off his horse.
When King Yu left with his men, Rong Que did not pursue them immediately, but Wang Yu sent out scouts.
The scouts did not catch up with King Yu's main force, but found traces of the main force stopping on the official road and bloodstains in the woods.
Unfortunately, the snow fell suddenly and covered all the traces.
Rong Que held on to that one in ten thousand hope, and like a devout ascetic monk, he searched here inch by inch.
The scout said that there was a lot of blood in the woods, and judging from the color of the blood, it must be poisoned.
In such a situation, Rong Que didn't even dare to think about it a bit. Even the slightest thought would make his heart tighten and he would be unable to breathe.
Rong Que fell off his horse, and Jixiang was not much better off, he tumbled off the horse and rushed over to ask, "Where is it? Keep looking, hurry up and look!"
The snow was falling heavily and it was night time.
Wang Yu squatted on the ground with his face almost touching the snow. He rubbed the snow for several meters and pointed to the southeast, saying, "Chase in that direction!"
Jixiang mounted the horse tremblingly.
Wang Yu rode his horse in the front, his hands trembling so much that he could hardly hold the reins. He kept telling himself to calm down and not panic. Here, he was the only one who could find the footprints in this environment. If he was delayed...
There must be no delay.
Wiping the sweat mixed with snow from his face, Wang Yu said, "The general's horse is a warhorse from Liaodong. This kind of horse has a characteristic: it is extremely alert."
There are many wolves in Liaodong.
War horses often encounter wolf packs. After countless encounters, these horses have long forgotten their fearful nature. They are not afraid of encountering wolves and will even rush forward to fight.
"At least the general won't encounter wild wolves."
However, Wang Yu's words did not comfort Rong Que and Jixiang at all.
He himself was not comforted.
Walking in the snowy night, the north wind was so strong that people could hardly open their eyes. Jixiang's heart suddenly skipped a beat, "What is that!"
As she spoke, she spurred her horse forward.
Rong Que also saw it.
There was a boot lying on the snow in front of me.
The moment he saw the combat boots , Rong Que almost cried, and Jixiang's tears flowed like a river, "Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!"
She wanted to say that these were Su Qingqing's shoes.
However, the huge emotional impact in her heart made her unable to utter a word. When she opened her mouth to make a sound, she could only make a low, hoarse sound.
Wang Yu immediately ordered, "Search around here, the general must have left something else behind!"
The other soldiers who followed immediately launched a carpet search.
"The general must have left his boots behind because he was afraid that the heavy snow would cover the mark and we wouldn't be able to find it."
Jixiang held on to the boots tightly.
In such a cold day, if Su Qingqing wanted to leave a mark, she would definitely leave more clothes behind.
Rong Que didn't dare to think about it. He just prayed to God to let him find the person quickly. He couldn't bear this kind of torment for a moment.
He would rather pay off his life by decades or even decades.
"Here's the rope."
'"There's a rope over here, too."
“Here are the boots.”
"Here is ..."
Exclamations rang out one after another, but the last exclamation was blocked in the soldier's throat.
Rong Que rode over and saw an outer robe.
Su Qingqing took off her outer robe.
Not far away, another soldier was holding an inner garment.
boom!
The blood instantly rushed to the top of his head and then solidified there.
"ah!!!!!!"
Rong Que fell to his knees and roared towards the sky.
The endless fear in his heart was vented out in this trembling roar.
"Search! If you can find the clothes, the person will be nearby. Keep looking!" After shouting, Rong Que stood up with the support of a sword.
You will definitely find it.
Of course you can!
“There’s someone ahead!”
They didn't know how long they had been walking in the snowy night. Their legs were almost frozen numb when suddenly someone shouted.
Rong Que pounced forward like a mad wolf.
A horse knelt on the ground, and Su Qingqing curled up motionlessly beside the horse's belly. She hugged herself tightly, with not much clothes left on her body.
It is said that men don't shed tears easily.
The tears that Rong Que had been holding back all the way turned into an ocean at this moment.
Although he could rush over in one step, he stumbled because his legs were weak and almost crawled to get closer.
He reached out and pulled this person, whose body temperature was burning hot in the snow, into his arms.
Pulling the person into his arms, Rong Que truly felt that he had found this person.
All the empty rationality returned to its place at this moment.
He wrapped Su Qingqing in his cloak and jumped on the horse while holding her.
They couldn't go back to Kyoto, but Kyoto was in chaos at the moment and had no time to take care of the outside world. Rong Que arranged for the rest of the people to join the main force, and he only took Jixiang and Wang Yu to rush to Zhending, the closest place.
Originally Xuanfu was closer.
But with such a mess happening, he was not sure whether the Xuanfu General and Xuanfu Prefect's thoughts were with the Queen Mother, him, or King Yu.
The only thing he can be sure of is truth.
The magistrate of Zhending County would never turn Su Qingqing away no matter what.
"Qingqing, hold on, hold on!"
Wang Yu fished out a medicine bottle from his pocket, poured out a brown pill and threw it to Rong Que, "Your Highness, this is a family heirloom of our Su family army. It can cure all kinds of poisons. Give it to the general first."
Su Qingqing leaned in Rong Que's arms. Rong Que held the reins in one hand and caught the pill in the air with the other.
Su Qingqing was in no condition to take such a large pill, so without a second thought, he put the pill into his own mouth, chewed it, and then pinched Su Qingqing's mouth to pass the pill into her mouth.
