Xie Hanyi once made several comments about his apprentices, among which Shen Yuxuan was "a wise man as foolish as a fool". Although Shen Yuxuan nominally participated in Xie Hanyi's plan, he followed Xie Hanyi's instructions and entered the Sixth Gate to take up a post, but since then he has basically been paddling without making much effort. Just like this time, although he agreed to persuade Jiang Yunguang, he actually didn't say a few words.
A few days later, Yao Pei couldn't hold himself any longer. He grabbed Shen Yuxuan's collar and lifted him up from the couch.
"Are you going to break your promise?"
Shen Yuxuan opened his hazy drunken eyes, glanced at Yao Pei, and patted his hand: "Don't, don't be anxious!"
"How could you not be in a hurry!"
"There is no need to return to Daqi. Wuji is no longer the emperor of Daqi."
"What did you say?" Yao Pei was startled, let go of his hand, and Shen Yuxuan fell back on the couch.
He groped under his pillow for a while and pulled out a letter. Shen Yuxuan read ten lines at a glance, and murmured: "How could this happen? Didn't Master make all the arrangements?"
Shen Yuxuan smiled, with a strange meaning in his laughter.
"Yao Pei, do you think Master is really dead?"
Ye Wuji came out of the secret passage, and the exit turned out to be the Breakfast Alley at the base of the outer wall of the palace. Ordinary families lived in this alley, and they made a living by selling steamed buns and other items. Ye Wuji broke into a house and stole that family's mule, leaving behind a piece of silver. The city gate was heavily guarded. When Ye Wuji saw it from a distance, he knew that it was impossible to get out like this, so he knocked out a soldier, put on soldier's clothes, and infiltrated into the army defending the city.
"Who are you?" After Ye Wuji approached the city gate, the soldiers guarding the city recognized that her face was not that of his brother who was guarding the city with him, so he muttered.
Ye Wuji hit him on the back of the neck with a knife, snatched his saber, swung the knife with one hand to repel the soldiers who attacked her, and pushed up the heavy door bolt with the other hand.
"Stop her! Don't throw her away!" A guard came over on horseback.
Ye Wuji had already pushed open the city gate. She jumped up high and knocked the guard off his horse with a single blow. She grabbed the reins and rode out of the city on horseback. After leaving the capital, the sky is high and the sea is vast outside, and it is beyond the control of Ye Ying and King Rui.
After running day and night for two whole days, Ye Wuji finally got rid of his pursuers. Two consecutive days of running for his life had left Ye Wuji in a state of despair. At this time, there was a rice field on the side of the road. A shirtless old man was plowing the land slowly while holding a plow. Ye Wuji tied the horse to a half-dead poplar tree and stepped forward.
"Old man, can you give me a bowl of water?" Ye Wuji took out a broken piece of silver and opened his hand to the old man.
It took a long time for the old man's cloudy and yellow eyes to turn around, and he stared blankly at Ye Wuji for a while before he realized what she had said.
"Oh, water!" The old man stretched out a hand as thin as the bark of an old tree, pushed Ye Wuji's hand away, and walked slowly towards the field ridge.
Ye Wuji followed him, not urging him because his throat was so dry that it was almost smoking.
There was a small bamboo basket on the ridge of the field. There was a bamboo tube in the basket. The old man took out the bamboo tube and handed it to Ye Wuji.
"Drink!"
In the past, Ye Wuji would never have been willing to share drinking utensils with others, but at this time she didn't care much anymore. She took the bamboo tube and drank all the water in it.
"Old man, where is the river here?"
The old man shook his head: "It's a drought. It hasn't rained for four months. The water in the river has dried up. Only the well at the head of the village can still get water."
"Where is the well?"
The old man pointed in the direction: "Go straight there, it's under the big locust tree."
The big locust tree can be seen from a distance, but Ye Wuji didn't really feel the hugeness of the tree until he walked under it. Its crown stretches in four directions, each side stretching out more than ten feet. Its trunk can only be embraced by five strong men holding hands. The bottom of this tree is quite strange. It is actually in the shape of a three-legged tripod with a hollow between the three legs. Seeing no wells on all sides, Ye Wuji walked into the tree hole.