Chapter 294

294 adversity

Shen Qingru took the clothes and put them on her. The dry clothes had a warm feeling, which made her feel a lot warmer. With a face, Qianhu Mu found a cloth from the broken temple and blocked it on the window, trying to block the mountain wind as much as possible. He went out for a while. When he came back, he held some small potatoes the size of a palm with mud in his hand and threw them into the fire with their skins.

The fire crackled a few times. Thousands of households poked small potatoes with branches and turned them slowly. After a while, a smell of food filled the air, and the small potatoes were roasted.

Shen Qingru tried not to see it, but there was still a grunt in his stomach. Thousands of households laughed and threw the small potatoes beside Shen Qingru: "eat, it doesn't matter if you're hungry, don't be hungry, the general's child."

Small potatoes that are not much bigger than fingers have no meat after peeling. A thousand families found four small potatoes, which can't fill a person's stomach at all. Shen Qingru picked up two, peeled them and chewed them slowly in her mouth. She gently pushed the other two and rolled back to Qianhu.

"I'll just have two," she whispered.

Qianhu pursed his lips, but did not refuse. He picked up the remaining two small potatoes from the ground, tore the skin casually and swallowed them one by one, like pig Bajie eating ginseng fruit. Before he tasted the taste, Qianhu swallowed them. Qianhu reluctantly licked the zero star mashed potatoes on the skin with his tongue.

There is nothing to eat in this broken place. These four small potatoes are really rare.

I thought it would be better to eat this, but the two small potatoes went down. Shen Qingru felt more hungry than when she didn't eat just now.

It is obviously difficult to find food in the wilderness. Thousands of households looked at Shen Qingru and comforted him: "I'll go out when the rain is a little smaller. I'm sure I can find some other food in the." Shen Qingru nodded and leaned against the column with his eyes closed.

A burst of horse hoofs came, mixed with noisy voices, which was particularly obvious in this quiet rainy night.

"The rain is too heavy. Let's find a place to hide and search again“

"There seems to be a broken Temple ahead. Let's go there to avoid it."

"Those two people can't run far in this weather."

Qianhu and Shen Qingru looked at each other and guessed that nine times out of ten the soldiers coming were the pursuers sent by Xiao Qiyu.

"The temporary kindness of women and people attracted these jackals." Qianhu pulled the corners of his mouth and showed a bitter smile. Since the other party knew that it was two people who escaped, it was the pregnant woman in the house who said it. He knew that he should have killed them all and didn't leave a living mouth.

Listening to the sound of horses' hoofs, I'm afraid there are still many people coming. What worries thousands of families most is Xiao Qiyu himself. He knows that there is a close guard team with amazing combat effectiveness around Xiao Qiyu. Although there are only more than 100 people, all of them are brave and good at fighting. When they come together, even if they have three heads and six arms, they can't take Shen Qingru out with them.

Even if it wasn't the bodyguard with amazing combat effectiveness, he couldn't leave alone with a pregnant woman. After thinking about it, thousands of families pointed to a small path outside the broken temple and whispered, "you hide there first. Later, I'll kill a few people first and grab a batch of horses, and you'll run away on horses. With Xiao Qiyu's order, they certainly don't dare to shoot arrows at you."

Shen Qingru nodded. Now she couldn't help hesitating. She didn't want to fall into the abnormal hands of Xiao Qiyu. She had to fight for her baby.

The first cavalry stood outside the broken temple with a suspicious look on his face: "I just saw the light in the temple. I think someone is here. Why is there no light at the moment."

"Chief, go in and have a look." the horse beside him was cold and hungry. He was eager to go in and bake the fire.

Qianhu hid in a corner of the broken temple and looked out quietly from the gap in the window. There were dozens of people coming. Fortunately, it didn't seem that Xiao Qiyu's bodyguard came. Qianhu shook the sleeve arrow in his hand and turned back to Shen Qingru to make a color. The sleeve arrow "Zheng" shot out, and happened to nail the person who was in a hurry to bake on the ground.

The pursuers outside made a noise. The soldier had a small sleeve arrow in his throat. The sleeve arrow penetrated his trachea. He died without making any sound.

While the pursuers outside were in a mess, thousands of households jumped up lightly and rushed out of the broken temple like a gust of wind. Shen Qingru carefully moved two steps and observed thousands of households' every move.

Shoot the horse first, catch the thief and catch the king first. Qianhu targeted the leader on the horse from the beginning, and didn't fight with other soldiers at all. The leader was caught off guard, kicked off his horse by a corner of Qianhu, and fell in all directions in the mud. He was very embarrassed. Before he got up, a cold and glittering dagger was stuck to his neck.

"Who are you?" the leader was calm: "let go of me. Let's take the woman back and reply to his highness seven. His highness seven will be very happy to see this woman. Then we will share prosperity..."

A thousand households smiled coldly: "I don't believe it. When I let go of you, you will certainly let them shoot me indiscriminately. I won't do such a loss business."

"Don't worry, I'm a man of my word. As long as you promise to let me go, we..." the leader's voice was very sincere and tried to persuade thousands of families to join the partnership.

Shen Qingru quietly moved his steps and rushed out with an arrow. The pursuers watched their targets gradually ride away, but they didn't dare to chase because the leader was kidnapped. Thousands of households threw out the sleeve arrows hidden in their sleeves and shot them at the pursuers like bullets.

With Shen Qingru's equestrian skills, it is obviously impossible to pass the pursuers quickly. A fierce smile appeared on Qianhu's face. With a slight stroke of the dagger in his hand, a blood spattered. In the exclamation of the pursuers, the leader died without even humming.

He had to kill the leader. Although the other party pretended not to know, he recognized his identity from the beginning. Killing him can also make these pursuers headless and panic for a while.

Shen Qingru walked forward with a hard Royal horse for a while. There seemed to be a sound of unrest behind her. She was not very stable on her horse, and she couldn't see how the thousands of households behind her were. Although she is not a friend, Qianhu saved her in the end. She doesn't want Qianhu to be killed by the pursuers sent by Xiao Qiyu.

The horse trembled slightly, as if something had fallen on its back. Thousands of families jumped onto the horse with light movements, skillfully took the reins from Shen Qingru's hands, and drank: "drive!"

"You escaped!" there was a little surprise in Shen Qingru's voice, but Qianhu couldn't answer her. He suddenly tightened the reins of the horse and tried his best to keep the horse galloping. The pursuers behind him raised torches and countless bright arrows aimed at them.

"Hold the horse's head, bend down and sit steadily." Qianhu whispered in Shen Qingru's ear. He whipped the whip fiercely, and the horse's hooves stood up and ran towards the dark night.

Shen Qingru stretched out his hand and tightly hugged the horse's neck. Feather arrows kept flying around him. I don't know if they were stimulated by the killing of the leader. These people also ignored Xiao Qiyu's command to "catch alive" and kept shooting feather arrows at them.

After Shen Qingru bowed down, Qianhu also bent down as much as possible and protected Shen Qingru with his back. I don't know how long Shen Qingru galloped on the horse. Shen Qingru's legs were bumped and lost consciousness until there was no movement behind him. The horse also gave a tired neighing, and his four hoofs suddenly knelt down, almost throwing Shen Qingru and Qianhu off the horse.

Shen Qingru held the horse's head firmly, jumped gently at the moment when the horse knelt down, and reluctantly landed on the ground. Behind him, Shen Qingru suddenly emptied. When she looked back, thousands of families were thrown off their horses in embarrassment, showing a painful color on her face.

"Hey, are you okay? Shen Qingru asked with slight worry, glancing over the horse kneeling on the ground just now. The horse's hooves twitched and foamed in his mouth. It was obvious that he could not live. Shen Qingru silently looked at the horse lying on the ground waiting to die, and a trace of pity flashed through his eyes.

"Can you lend me your dagger?" Shen Qingru asked softly.

Qianhu raised his hand hard, touched it in his arms, took out a small dagger and threw it over. Shen Qingru took the dagger, gently closed the horse's eyes, and with a fierce force of his right hand, he inserted it straight into the horse's neck.

Thousands of households silently looked at her every move and grinned: "benevolence of women." his face was full of cold sweat. His voice seemed to be trying to bear the pain. Thousands of households looked around. There seemed to be no trace of soldiers. They were safe for the time being.

"How are you?" Shen Qingru hesitated and slipped the dagger into his sleeve. Qianhu's face was full of cold sweat. He reluctantly smiled and said, "it's OK. I just got hit by a few arrows. I'd like to borrow your dagger for me."

He stood up with a strong support. There was a heart piercing pain in his right leg. Qianhu stretched out his hand and broke the arrow on his leg: "go in this direction, and the pursuer may come along the hoof print." Shen Qingru looked down at the injury on his leg and said slowly: "take out the arrow quickly. It will be troublesome to stay in the meat for a long time."

"The horses are dead. Do you want me to run for my life with an arrow?" Qianhu didn't care much about his injury and whispered, "we haven't escaped at present. If we are chased by those people, it's not as simple as one arrow and two arrows one by one."

Shen Qingru silently walked ahead according to the route he pointed out. Qianhu just took a step and stumbled under his feet. Fortunately, Shen Qingru responded quickly and helped him, so he didn't fall to the ground.

"Don't try hard." Shen Qingru hesitated a little: "I'll help you go. Just lean on me."

Thousands of households were stunned. Finally, they put most of their weight on Shen Qingru. They supported each other for a while. This direction became more and more remote. All the way was deserted. From time to time, there were several wolf howls.