Qi Wang didn't say much, and quickly put on his clothes.
He came out late, Qi Shengkun's men were well-trained, they had already put up everything in the tent, and the leader of the guards handed out coir raincoats to the big guys one by one for them to wear.
Qi Shengkun meant to ask Qi Wang to sit in the carriage. He is young and his health is not very good. If he catches cold, it will be bad.
"Wan, you go take the carriage, if you are sick, it will delay your trip."
Qi Shengkun had good intentions, but Qi Wang didn't refuse, he nodded and agreed.
They ate a very simple breakfast, just hot water and dry food. After they were full, they immediately set off from camp.
It is already bright tomorrow, but because of the overcast clouds in the sky, the sky still looks gloomy. There is a lot of goods on the carriage that Qi Huang is sitting on, and there is not much space, so it looks very crowded when he sits on it. , but it was much more comfortable than riding a horse outside. He stretched his legs, adjusted a comfortable sitting position, and then opened the window of the carriage and looked outside.
There are more than 50 people in their group, which is quite a large team. There are five carriages in charge of transporting the goods, and the guards surround the carriages in groups of eight, and the rest lead the way in front. The head of the house also rode at the forefront with others.
There is no doubt about Qi Shengkun's ability to develop the Qi family to its present size, but the original owner has never seen Qi Shengkun who is riding on a steed like this and looks heroic.
In fact, from Qi Wang's point of view, although the couple Qi Shengkun and Liu Xiyu love their children very much, Qi Wang feels that they are not responsible for educating their children.
After all, although the two of them thought that they could let their children spend a happy childhood easily, they never thought that it is impossible for a person to have a smooth sailing all his life. Yes, things may happen at any time beyond human control.
And the brothers and sisters of the Qi family who were too silly and sweet didn't know how to deal with danger because they were not well taught before.
So even if the original owner returned to the Qi family, the death of Qi Feng caused a great blow to the Qi family and his wife. Qi Shengkun and Liu Xiyu were even seriously ill.
When people are sick, they are always much more fragile than when they are usually. In addition, the original owner did not really understand Sun Ziyun and his siblings. Liu Xiyu viewed Sun Ziyun and his siblings through her son's knowledge Therefore, there are more misunderstandings.
If it was Qi Shengkun and Liu Xiyu in this state, they would definitely discover Sun Ziyun's evil intentions, but if the two of them were on guard against Sun Ziyun, the Qi family would not end up ruined.
Ancient society is different from modern society. Many children from aristocratic families need to be carefully raised since childhood. Do the elders of aristocratic families not know that children need to be happy in childhood? In fact, this may not be the case, because they are very clear that as the heirs of a big family, their every move affects the prosperity of a family, and they bear the future of countless people, so they have no capital to make mistakes.
As long as Qi Shengkun and Liu Xiyu in the past paid more attention to the education of the two children, so that they can be more careful, there will be no follow-up things.
After all, it is impossible for parents to protect their children from wind and rain forever, and there is a big difference in strength between the heirs who have been raised since childhood and the heirs who have been raised halfway.
Qi Wang felt that Qi Shengkun probably realized this, so he was a little eager when teaching him.
Qi Wang let out a sigh of relief, closed the windows of the carriage, and leaned on the gifts in the carriage with his eyes closed to rest himself.
After a while, big raindrops fell from the sky, and the rain hit the wooden carriage, making a crackling sound. After a while, the sound of the rain became louder and louder , Qi Wang opened the window and looked outside, and found that the rainwater between the sky and the earth had become one piece. Looking around, the surrounding area was covered with mist, and the visibility became extremely low. Even the guards beside the carriage could not I can't see clearly.
It is not easy to drive on a rainy day, but everyone is well-trained, but they have slowed down a little, and they are still moving along the official road in an orderly manner.
In the original plot, the original owner had never been to the capital with Qi Shengkun, even if he later took over the Qi family's business, he had never been to the capital.
Not all people in this world are patiently waiting for their children to grow up like parents. It is not so easy for the original owner who has not received systematic education to support the Qi family. The Qi family for a while soon fell into decline.
The original owner had many, many regrets. He wanted to keep the Qi family and his sister. He didn't want the Qi family to end up in ruins. Take revenge on King Qinghe.
After all, the downfall of the Qi family had something to do with Sun Ziyun, but King Qinghe's handwriting was indispensable in it. If King Qinghe was willing to investigate patiently, he would definitely know what was going on with his marriage with Sun Ziyun.
However, King Qinghe used his power to destroy the Qi family. In the end, he just told himself lightly that he didn't do it intentionally, and left with Sun Ziyun, leaving him as a joke in Jizhou City.
It's just that the original owner is a very gentle person in his heart. He may be afraid of any danger to the tasker, so he resisted the idea of revenge on Qinghe Wang, and just let the original owner keep the Qi family.
However, such a gentle person did not end well in the end, which is undoubtedly a great irony.
The rain outside was getting heavier, the official road was muddy, the road became difficult to walk, and the speed of the team had to be relaxed.
Qi Wang felt bumpy and uncomfortable sitting in the carriage, and those riding horses outside must have felt more uncomfortable than him—this body is too fragile, even with the blessing of Qi Wang's strength, restricted by the rules of the world, he can't help it all at once. Improve your physical fitness.
After an unknown amount of time, the carriage suddenly bumped violently, and the carriage turned sideways. Qi Wang helped the carriage to stabilize his figure, then opened the door and looked outside.
"what happened?"
The guards next to him told Qi Wang that the carriage had sunk into the mud, and now they need to push it out.
"Second Young Master, you don't have to come out, just stay in the carriage, we can push the carriage out."
The guards saw that Qi Wang was about to get out of the carriage in his coir raincoat and bamboo hat, and hurriedly stopped him, but Qi Wang shook his head and said.
"It's okay, I can do it, the carriage will be easier to push after I get off."
With Qi Wang's personality, he really couldn't do that while other people were pushing the cart below, but he himself stayed on the carriage and let them push the cart.
His skin is really not so thick.
When he was in the carriage, he didn't feel much, but when he left the warm carriage, he was blown by the cold wind outside, coupled with the cold air brought by the rain, Qi Wang stood there for a while, and felt that his body was very cold.
The weight of the carriage is not light, and the puddle where the wheels are stuck is a bit deep. The wheels are stuck in the puddle, and it is not so easy to get it out. Qi Wang knows that his current little I couldn't use much strength in my body, so I didn't move forward, but stood quietly and watched them make moves.
This rain came quickly and quickly, obviously no one expected it, the noisy rain covered up many voices, as if there was no other sound in the world except the rain, but Qi Huang With extraordinary hearing, he could hear some strange sounds coming from a distance—the sounds were like the sound of weapons being handed over, or someone screaming, even mixed with some people's shouts.
"His Royal Highness, leave us alone, run away quickly."
"His Royal Highness, it's dangerous over there, be careful of the cliff."
"His Royal Highness..."
Quite a few voices were drowned in the sound of the rain, making it unreal, but the words His Royal Highness the Crown Prince clearly passed into Qi Wang's ears, and he could hear the words in the voices of those people. anxious meaning.
Some memory fragments about the original plot flooded into Qi Wang's mind at this time, and he remembered that in the original plot, at about this time, something that shocked the government and the public happened, and that was the return of the inspector of the dam in the south of the Yangtze River. When His Royal Highness returned to the city, he was attacked by bandits.
Those bandits were extremely fierce and almost killed all the guards around His Highness the Crown Prince, and His Highness the Crown Prince accidentally fell off the cliff. Although he managed to save his life, His Highness the Crown Prince failed to save his legs.
No matter how much the current emperor attaches importance to His Highness the Crown Prince, one thing he cannot ignore is that no prince with a physical disability has been able to ascend to the throne throughout the ages, not even His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who is loved all the time.
After the leg was broken, His Highness the Crown Prince's personality changed drastically. The originally gentle and jade-like His Highness the Crown Prince became extremely cruel. The servants in the East Palace were killed and injured countless times. If they didn't speak the way the Crown Prince wanted, they would be killed with sticks. , even a few concubine sons of His Royal Highness angered His Royal Highness because of their careless words, and almost let him order them to be beaten to death.
At the beginning, the emperor still felt pity for the son of the prince who hurt his leg, but because he became more and more cruel, and finally even his own son was killed with a stick, which made the emperor more and more disappointed with him, especially After the imperial physician confirmed that His Highness the Crown Prince would never be able to stand up, the emperor finally gave up on him completely and chose to raise other children.
After all, the emperor is old, and the next heir is the prince, but now it is impossible for the prince to ascend the throne, so naturally the emperor can't either. For a crippled son, he gave up the entire Great Yan Kingdom.
However, it is obvious that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince cannot accept this cruel fact. After all, he has known since he can remember that he will be the next emperor of Dayan Kingdom, but now he has lost the possibility of inheriting the throne because of his lameness. He became more irritable, and finally after His Royal Highness accidentally killed his only son-in-law, the disappointed emperor personally ordered to behead his beloved prince.
His Royal Highness is actually a very good heir. Before his legs were disabled, he had done many great things that benefited the country and the people. Many people sincerely supported His Royal Highness, but no matter how many things he did As soon as the unconscionable thing of killing the son-in-law came out, everyone soon knew what His Highness the Crown Prince had done, and no one could accept that His Highness the Crown Prince they once loved had become like this. How popular was he originally? Gao, how despised by people now.
Before the death of the original owner, the reputation of His Highness the Crown Prince had fallen to the bottom. Even if he was beheaded by the current emperor later, he was still hung high on the pillar of shame.
After receiving all the memories of the original owner, Qi Wang combined everything together. He felt that those things were too coincidental, so coincidental that it seemed that someone had deliberately done them, especially the injury of His Royal Highness, and the subsequent incident. Many things seemed to have been carefully designed by someone, step by step to drag His Royal Highness into the abyss, and the reason why His Royal Highness, who was originally the proud son of heaven, ended up like that was because he became crippled. , and now is the turning point of fate.
Qi Wang just thought about it for a while, then looked at the stalled horse, and then he quickly stepped forward, turned on the horse, waved his whip, and ran towards the place where the sound came from.
At this time, most of the people in the team were focusing on the carriage stuck in the pit, and almost no one noticed that Qi Wang had disappeared.
…
In the dense forest not far away, those extremely fierce bandits had already slaughtered more than half of His Royal Highness's guards. In order to protect His Highness, those guards rushed towards the bandits fearlessly one by one, trying to stop their footsteps.
However, the number of their guards was simply incomparable with those thugs. They protected His Highness the Crown Prince and fought against each other, while the number of guards was slowly decreasing.
These thugs obviously came prepared, no matter what the guards said, even if the identity of His Royal Highness was exposed, their attacks did not decrease but increased. It looked like they were determined to kill His Royal Highness.
Originally, the guards around His Royal Highness were all good players, but even so, it is said that ants kill elephants, even if they are all good players, they can't resist the offensive of these people.
In fact, there should not be only such a few guards around His Royal Highness, but because His Royal Highness was anxious to return to the capital to celebrate the emperor's birthday, he left the main force and rushed to the capital with a few guards, but he didn't know Who leaked their news, they were targeted by these gangsters.
"His Royal Highness, run away quickly, we will hold these people back for you."
The head of the guard was covered in blood and looked extremely hideous. He couldn't care about anything else now, he just wanted to let His Royal Highness escape from here, as long as they encountered a caravan, they would be able to escape and ascend to heaven.
However, there are too many bandits, even if His Royal Highness wants to escape, those bandits are pressing on every step of the way, and there is a cliff not far behind them. It looks like they are going to force His Royal Highness off the cliff. .
Even under the current situation, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince still remained calm. Holding the long sword in his hand, he faced the bandits together with the guards, and did not leave his guards to escape.
There were fewer and fewer guards around, and in the end there were only a few people around His Royal Highness, and there were at least 20 people on the other side. The strength gap between the two sides was too great. It seemed that they had no way to escape and ascend to heaven.
Even at this moment, the other party didn't say anything, but attacked them viciously.
The prince and his guards retreated step by step, the cliff was getting closer and closer to them, and after a while, they would be forced to fall off the cliff.
"It is my honor to be able to live and die with you all."
Even though it was a critical moment of life and death, the expression of the Prince's Highness remained unchanged.