It was almost noon, and Na Sheng was sitting on the bank, with no emotion on his face. Behind him, a group of palace maids and eunuchs held umbrellas and handed him tea.
Soon a guard from the Eagle Division came up to report, "Your Majesty, my subordinates have commandeered all the fishermen and boats to salvage together. It is estimated that it will take at least two days to drain all the inner and outer rivers of Star City."
Na Sheng took a sip of tea and said expressionlessly: "One day!"
"I'll give you one more day."
"At this time tomorrow, if you can't drain the river, please come to see us all!"
He's been putting up with this crap for a long time.
He did promise Ye Chuyan not to kill anyone because of her escape. Killing these people now is not a violation of his promise, but because of the incompetence of these losers.
The Guardsmen lowered their heads. After hearing Na Sheng's words, they paused and said, "I obey your orders."
Na Sheng looked at the sparkling river, narrowed his eyes slightly, and suddenly said: "Open the city gate!"
It was impossible for Ye Chuyan to hide in the river.
Now she can't swim out, she doesn't know kung fu, and she doesn't have the ability to climb over walls and walls. She has no relatives and friends in Star City. If she wants to escape, she can only disguise herself and sneak out through the city gate.
He has to wait and see!
Even if he couldn't catch anything in the water, he would still send one person to guard the riverside and one person to guard the city gate.
He wants to trap Ye Chuyan to death in Star City, so he has a lot of time to play cat and mouse games with her.
He wanted to wait until Ye Chuyan was desperate and return to the palace to become the queen.
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After Wu Mu had something to eat with Ye Chuyan in the morning, he went out to find out the news.
One came back at the end of noon, with a serious expression.
Seeing Wu Mu's serious expression, Ye Chuyan knew that something big must have happened outside, and asked hurriedly: "How is it?"
Wu Mu led her to sit at the table and told her what she had heard when she went out to find out.
"Na Shengyi sat on the bank of the river and personally supervised the officers and soldiers searching the river. He demanded that the bottom of the river be emptied before noon tomorrow, otherwise all the officers and soldiers would be killed."
"He also ordered that people be stationed on both sides of the river until you are found."
"He now ordered people to open the city gate, but he checked very carefully. Anyone who is around sixteen years old, regardless of gender, will be detained."
"Anything similar to your height, body shape, walking posture, and movement posture, regardless of age or gender, will be buttoned down."
"By doing this, he almost eliminated all possibilities for you to disguise yourself and leave the city."
Ye Chuyan's heart felt cold after hearing this.
Na Sheng was trying to force her into desperation and show up on her own initiative.
Seeing Ye Chuyan's sad expression, Wu Mu took her hand and comforted her: "Ayan, we still have a way, which is what I call flying in the wind."
He had seen the engineering drawings drawn by Xiahou Huai. It looked like a huge kite, with a tic-shaped iron object underneath, so that people could lie on top of it.
There are many things added to the top of the "kite" to control the wind.
Ye Chuyan's eyes lit up for a moment, then dimmed quickly.
"How high can you fly by flying with the wind? Na Sheng's lightness skills are enough to jump from a height of a hundred feet without any harm."
Wu Mu chuckled lightly.
"Ayan, when you lose your inner strength, you become stupid. Na Sheng can jump from a height of one hundred feet, but he can't jump up to a height of one hundred feet without something to borrow strength from."
Ye Chuyan looked at Wu Mu in disbelief.
"A hundred feet high?"
She thought that wind-flying objects just relied on internal strength and wind power to fly slightly higher than the light skill of jumping.
She couldn't believe that something in this world could fly hundreds of feet high.
Wu Mu nodded.
"It can indeed fly a hundred feet high."
"However, what Xiahou Huai made was not successful. He fell from the sky and broke his hands and feet."
"Last time, you said there was a better way, so I gave up the idea."
"At this point, we have no other choice but to escape from the sky."
"Currently, only I, Xiahou Huai and his eldest brother Xia Houxiao know about this. Afterwards, Na Sheng was unable to trace Shanhailou."
"I'll try to find a way to ask Xiahou Huai for advice and try to make this thing better."
"With the protection of my skills, there shouldn't be much of a problem if it falls."
"Ayan, don't worry, as long as I am alive and breathing, I will never let you lose your hands or feet."
Ye Chuyan looked at Wu Mu's firm eyes, pursed her lips and smiled.
"Husband, you are wrong. With you, I am willing to be broken into pieces, so why should I be afraid of losing my hands and feet?"
Wu Mu choked and hugged Ye Chuyan, her eyes a little melancholy.
"Madam, I have nothing now and can't give you anything."
"I can't give you supreme power, nor can I give you glory and wealth. Being with me is a injustice to you."
Ye Chuyan looked up at Wu Mu and said softly: "But what you gave me cannot be exchanged for anything."
Wu Mu's love for her surpassed life and death and everything else. It was a kind of loyalty that could not be exchanged for anything in the world.
Wu Mu was a little moved, held Ye Chuyan's face, and slowly tasted her delicate lips.
The feelings between them no longer need anything to prove.
Their breaths intertwined.
After a long time, both of them were out of breath, and then they let go of each other.
Ye Chuyan's face seemed to be stained with rouge. The sickly young boy with a sallow complexion turned into a blushing boy.
Wu Mu's throat was so tight that she took several deep breaths to regain her composure.
After he let go of Ye Chuyan, he immediately went out to find Xia Houhuai.
Xiahou Huai has his own dedicated room on the seventh floor. At this time, he had just returned to the room after practicing.
Hearing the knock on the door, Xiahou Huai opened the door before he could change his clothes. He was a little confused when he saw a simple-looking man.
"Who are you?"
Wu Mu did not answer, but quickly ducked into the house.
"It's me, Wu Mu."
Xiahou Huai said in surprise: "Brother Wu, why are you here? Aren't you afraid of being recognized by others?"
Wu Mu held Xiahou Huai's shoulders with both hands and looked at him seriously.
"Xiahou Huai, I need your help now."
Xiahou Huai's eyes sparkled, "What are you busy with?"
Thinking about stabbing his brother at both sides made his blood boil.
"I want to ask you, do you know any pirates in Shanhailou?"
Xiahou Huai opened his mouth in surprise.
"Hai... pirates?"
"Yes! Pirates!"
"The East China Sea connects Beirong and Dafeng. The situation at sea is complicated and there are all kinds of pirates and Japanese pirates. I know that your Shanhai Tower knows many heroes of all kinds in the rivers and lakes. You must know the pirates in the East China Sea, right?"
Xiahou Huai really didn't understand what Wu Mu meant and was confused.
"Why are you looking for pirates?"
"Star City has been unsealed. I want to take my wife on a long trip to the sea to see the vast East China Sea. As a Dafeng native, I want to go to sea at the border of Beirong. The most convenient way is to take a pirate ship to avoid being attacked by officers and soldiers. Find out."
Xiahou Huai choked for a moment, feeling a little sore in his nose and heart.
How could there be such an infatuated man like Brother Wu in this world?
I couldn't take my sweetheart to see thousands of lanterns rising into the sky, so I took the risk to take my sweetheart to see the sea.
"I don't know him, but my fifth brother knows him. He is an old acquaintance with Dibu, the largest pirate on the Beirong Sea. I asked him to write a letter to you. When Dibu sees the letter, he will naturally help you."
Wu Mu felt happy and patted Xiahou Huai's shoulder heavily.
"Thank you, Brother Xiahou."
When Xiahou Huai heard Wu Mu calling him Brother Xiahou, he suddenly felt that he was an upright man.
He straightened his shoulders and looked at Wu Mu seriously.
"Brother Wu, leave this matter to me, don't worry."
"My fifth brother has been wandering around the West all year round with no fixed address. I asked the people from Shanhai Tower to send him a signal. As soon as he sees the signal, he will reply immediately. If everything goes well, he can reach here in three days at most by flying pigeons. ”
Wu Muchui calculated it first and realized that it would take three days to make the wind-controlling flying object according to Xiahou Huai's drawings, which was just the right time.
This was the solution he came up with after not sleeping all night.
If Ye Chuyan cannot be found, Na Sheng will definitely lay a dragnet in Beirong. It will be too difficult to go by land.
Once they leave Star City, they only need to find a way to the East China Sea and leave on a pirate ship. This way they will not harm innocent people and avoid Na Sheng's minions.
Sea route is also the fastest way to leave Beirong.
As long as they leave Beirong, he and Ye Chuyan can wander around the west as they like, and the world is as big as they want.
Thinking of this, he felt extremely happy.
He raised his face to Xiahou Huai and said, "Brother Xiahou, to express my gratitude, I will come and drink with you tonight."
Xiahou Huai suddenly smiled.
"That's great. It just so happens that my eldest brother is not here these two days. Let's challenge each other until we get drunk."
Wu Mu said goodbye to Xiahou Huai, returned to his room, and told Ye Chuyan what happened just now. Ye Chuyan felt his heart tremble after hearing this.
She never dared to think that her childhood wish would be realized in this way.
As long as she can leave Beirong on the pirate ship, she will be free from now on.
You can travel to the West Sea with your loved one and see thousands of mountains and rivers.
Just thinking about it brings tears to my eyes.
The two of them carefully considered in the room how to fly out of Star City while avoiding the search in the city, and how to reach the East China Sea smoothly after leaving the city.
When the lanterns came on, Wu Mu had dinner with Ye Chuyan, and then he leisurely went upstairs to find Xia Houhuai.
When Xiahou Huai saw Wu Mu coming, he danced excitedly.
He had already ordered someone to prepare a table of meals in the house, and also prepared six jars of mulberry wine.
He held Wu Mu down on the chair and insisted on drinking from the altar with him.
The two opened the wine jar and started drinking heavily.
Wu Mu has high internal energy and a good drinking capacity. After drinking two cups, his complexion does not change much.
Xiahou Huai can't.
He was young, and was strictly controlled by his father and seven brothers. He didn't have many opportunities to drink. He drank too much, his face was red, and his eyes were a little wandering.
Wu Mu joked: "With your drinking capacity, you still want to get drunk with me before you stop, and you won't come back until you're drunk?"
"Xiahou Huai, you really can't do anything. You drank two cups and fell into the sky and broke your foot."
When Xiahou Huai heard this, he screamed like a cat that had been stepped on.
"Brother Wu, you can say that I don't drink well, but you can't say that I can't fly..."
"Brother Wu, listen to me. I have thought about it for a long time and finally found the reason why the last flight failed..."
"Let me tell you...last time it was because I didn't control the strength when flying. Now I know that when flying, you must keep changing directions according to the direction of the wind..."
"Although I used a double layer of grass cloth last time, it still broke in the end. I plan to use fire cloth next time. This thing is fire-proof and oil-proof. It will not break easily when exposed to wind..."
Xiahou Huai burped and continued to pour out all his reflections on his failed flight.
"Also, and...when flying, if you encounter strong winds, you must lower your altitude..."
"Oh, by the way, the shelf underneath also needs to be replaced. It can't be made of black iron, it must be made of brass..."
"Brass is lighter and flies higher..."
"That's about it. I have to try it again to see if it can succeed..."
"When I succeed, you can't laugh at me anymore..."
Xiahou Huai frowned, took Wu Mu's hand, and continued to talk non-stop.
While Wu Mu continued to pour wine for Xiahou Huai, he carefully remembered what he said in his heart.
In the end, Xia Houhuai was so drunk that he fell asleep on the table.
Wu Mu carefully helped him clean up his face, dragged him to the bed and settled him down.
Looking at the sleeping Xiahou Huai, Wu Mu said silently in his heart: I'm sorry, brother Xiahou, I didn't mean to take advantage of you. I will never forget your kindness. If I have a chance in the future, I will definitely tie a grass ring.
When Wu Mu returned to the house, Ye Chuyan was already lying on the bed and almost fell asleep.
Wu Mu held her breath, entered the room quietly, lay on the bed, and hugged her from behind.
"Madam, I'm back."
As soon as Ye Chuyan turned his head, his lips were sealed, and the fragrance of mulberry wine overflowed between his lips and teeth.
She heard the shouts of vendors on the street outside, the quarrels of the residents downstairs, and... Wu Mu's violent heartbeat.
