My old husband who can read minds

Chapter 263 Rainforest Distress
The concubines in the harem gritted their teeth about this, but they were helpless.

Qing Guiren has the support of the Queen, so it is not easy to move her.

Moreover, the queen changed from her usual low-key and forbearing style, and became sharp and forceful in her methods, and the concubines were not willing to touch her for a while.

We can only watch helplessly as the newcomer "Qing Guiren" comes forward.

When Emperor Qianyuan fell into the gentle countryside, hundreds of kilometers away in a mountain forest in the North, Qin He and his party were experiencing a narrow escape.

This was already the fifth wave of assassinations they encountered on their way back to Beijing. It seemed that the other party would not stop until they wiped them out.

The three hundred Xiao Yiwei who accompanied them out of Beijing were all middle-class masters. Now there are only more than 180 left, and nearly half of them have been lost.

Qin He's face was as gloomy as ice. If he continued like this, he might not be able to make it to the day of arriving in Beijing.

As for why there is a steady stream of pursuing troops, it all depends on the governor of Northern Xinjiang who is currently in office.

This child governor is inextricably linked to the case of reselling weapons. It should be said that the new weapons transferred by the Ministry of War from the capital to northern Xinjiang were immediately stolen and turned into phoenixes when they got into the hands of this child governor.

He passed off the old weapons as inferior and distributed them to the Northern Army, and then secretly resold the new weapons to the Northern Territory Royal Court, making a lot of money from them.

Naturally, there are people from the Ministry of War who are cooperating with him. This group of royal worms are bold and arrogant, harming the public and enriching themselves, and have no regard for the life and death of the soldiers on the battlefield.

It was precisely because Qin He and others found out what the child governor was doing that they were pursued for thousands of miles.

As a high-ranking official in the border area, Governor Tong commanded [-] troops. If he were not afraid that too much noise would alert everyone, he would have wanted to come out in force and kill Qin He and others in one fell swoop.

But even so, he only needs to send two to three thousand elite troops to chase and intercept, which is enough for Qin He and others to drink a pot.

If it weren't for Shen Yuan's specially made thunder bullets to help them escape from trouble every time, Qin He and others might have been buried in a foreign land by now.However, their situation is not much better at the moment. They are being chased and driven away like a lost dog, hiding here and there.

As he was exhausted along the way, it was not that Qin He had not asked for help from the officials along the way, but the territory of Northern Xinjiang was the territory of Governor Tong. Those people were either in cahoots with Tong, or they did not dare to help because of the other party's power.

In the meantime, those who dared to lend a helping hand were sent by Governor Tong to scare the monkeys.His methods were extremely cruel, and he directly sent troops disguised as bandits, broke into the local county government office, and killed the whole family of the county magistrate who wanted to help Qin He return to Beijing and resume his life.

So far, no one dared to disobey the orders of Governor Tong, the "Emperor of the Earth", and they all chose to watch with cold eyes what happened to Qin He and his party.

If not, Qin He's situation would be so bad.Governor Tong has obviously built the entire northern Xinjiang into his "private kingdom". He also knows very well that if Qin He and others are allowed to return to the capital to see the emperor, what awaits him will be the catastrophe of confiscating his family and exterminating his family.

So now he is like a mad dog, biting Qin He and the others.

In the endless mountains and dense forests, Qin He looked at the owl-clad guards swaying around him and pinched his brows in exhaustion.

After hiding and escaping for more than half a month, they have now crossed the border of Jingzhou and finally left the northern territory and are no longer within the sphere of influence of Governor Tong.

I don't know if the few vanguard scouts who broke out and escaped sent out the distress letter. As long as they can wait for the reinforcements to come, the pursuers sent by the old thief Tong Guan will definitely retreat.

Qin He leaned against a tree trunk without any image, silently calculating the possible arrival date of reinforcements in his heart.

Yi Renzhong, the garrison of Jingzhou, was a truly loyal and benevolent person. He had an old relationship with Qin He's father Qin Yan in the early years. They were both public and private. As long as the other party received his secret message, he would definitely send people to support him.

In non-war times, the maximum number of troops that can be mobilized for a state's defense is five thousand. As long as half of Yi Renzhong's troops are sent to help, they can help them resolve this life-and-death crisis.

Of course, Qin He did not dare to completely leave his life in the hands of others. In addition to waiting for reinforcements, he had to find other ways to save himself. He could not let the remaining 100 or so Xiaoyi guards be lost in the wilderness.

Qin He asked someone to count the remaining weapons and thunderbolts. There were really very few left, and they could at most cope with two more assassinations of this scale.And once the opponent ignores sending additional troops, it is likely that they will not be able to resist them even once.

The key is that everyone's physical strength and morale are now very low. Under such circumstances, there is really no chance of winning in the face of numerous killing opportunities.

There is a saying that "when the house leaks, it rains all night." Not long after Qin He and the others rested, the deafening sound of horse hooves came from outside the dense forest. Listening to the sound, there were definitely not a few people who came.

Qin He's bloodshot eyes flashed with a trace of violence. Tong Guan, he would definitely let the other person die miserably.

"The pursuers have arrived. Please join me in fighting them. If nothing unexpected happens, reinforcements will arrive soon. If you hold on for a while longer, you will have to fight them to the death even if it is to save your own life."

Qin He stood up, was the first to pick up the weapon at hand, and cheered for everyone.

He had no idea when the reinforcements would arrive. He said this just to let everyone see hope and try their best to find a way out.

(End of this chapter)