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Chapter 23 Time is running out

"Third Master, what should we do now?"

In the hall, Yuchi Hong quickly gathered everyone to discuss the current situation.

If it was just the imperial army coming, then what the Yuchi family could do now was just as the Third Master said just now, quietly send the qualified children in the family out, and then wait for death. But now there is a new situation. Chen Xiao, who was sent out to find external aid, came back at this time!
Mr. Luo San frowned when he heard this. If it wasn't for the last resort, he naturally didn't want to give up, but now the enemy was at the gates of the city, and the time to control was probably limited.

"We can only take a gamble," Third Master Luo thought for a moment and said, "I will go to the dock with Second Master to try to stop Li Yu and delay time, and then have someone send Chen Xiao and Master Tian to the prince immediately. At this juncture, we can only hope that Master Tian has some real skills, and not be like Lu Yuan before, who is good-looking but useless."

"It can only be like this." Yuchi Hong sighed. The lives of Yuchi's entire family now depend on a sorcerer whom he has never seen before. This is really helpless. But now, they have no other choice. If they had known this, perhaps they should have listened to the Third Master and sent the prince back early.——
"How come the imperial army is faster than us?"

Outside Beihai City, when Zhang Rui and others docked, they saw a tense situation at the dock. The Beihai Navy that blocked the dock and the imperial army on a ship were confronting each other, and who else could be at the bow of the ship if not Li Yu?

The faces of Chen Xiao and the others also changed. In fact, on the way here, they had thought that the Third Prince might cause trouble. He was a thoughtful person, so it should not be difficult for him to guess that something had happened to the Crown Prince in the North Sea, and that he would report to the Emperor and send troops to forcibly close the North Sea. Chen Xiao had actually anticipated this kind of thing, but he never expected it to come so soon!

He and his friends just arrived!

"We came out of Huashi and were near Heishui County. We took the same speedboat that we used before and reached Beihai in less than two days. Even if Li Yu went to Xinjing immediately after we parted, he shouldn't have arrived so quickly!" the guards were puzzled.

It is estimated that it will take at least three to five days.

Chen Xiao sighed when he heard this: "It seems that His Majesty makes decisions very quickly."

"Youzhou has a flying eagle envoy who can send a letter to the capital in one hour. As long as there is no delay, Your Majesty can authorize Li Yu to send troops from Youzhou to Chishui within three hours. It is closer to the North Sea than the dock in Heishui County. And don't forget who has the fastest ship in the world."

"Silver Dragon." A group of guards from the Prince's Mansion gnashed their teeth when they realized what was happening.

The third prince Li Yu's mother's family is extraordinary. It is the Qin family, the first family in the East China Sea. It is an ancient family with a much longer history than the Yuchi family. They have business businesses all over the world and are rich enough to rival a country. Half of the business of the Sihai Chamber of Commerce is handled by the Qin family, and the Qin family's shipbuilding level is unparalleled today.

The Silver Dragon was a coming-of-age gift from the Qin family to Li Yu after he came of age. It is said that it can travel thousands of nautical miles a day. Not only that, the ship has a huge capacity and can accommodate tens of thousands of people crossing the sea. It is recognized as the world's number one treasure ship.

If Li Yu had stopped the boat near Youzhou at the beginning, he would have been able to arrive so quickly!
"Let's send a signal first to let the people from the Yuchi family come to support us." Chen Xiao had a serious look on his face. Now that the Third Prince was pressing on step by step, the time left for them was getting less and less!

The people of the Yuchi family were indeed efficient. In less than half a quarter of an hour, someone met them and quickly brought them in from the other side of the dock, where they met the current head of the Yuchi family first.

"Second Master, how is His Highness?" Chen Xiao asked hurriedly when he saw the person coming.

"What took you so long?"

Zhang Rui looked over and saw that the Second Master that Chen Xiao mentioned was tall and mighty, nine feet tall, comparable to the ancient version of Yao Ming, and even more sturdy and solid, with angular features, and the style of a tough soldier. At first glance, he looked like a tough man, completely different from the yellow man who grew up by the sea in his imagination.

“Something happened on the road”

Chen Xiao was about to explain when Yuchi Hong interrupted him with a wave of his hand: "Where are the Tian Ye people?"

Yuchi Hong was paying attention when Chen Xiao and others came, but he didn't see any trace of Master Tian Ye at all.

"Master Tian is dead"

"Cough" Yuchi Hong almost choked to death.

He and his men had just deployed their forces for half an hour in order to delay the Third Prince Li Yu's troops, in order to buy some time for the so-called Master Tian to find some clues to save the situation. However, this guy turned all his efforts into a joke with just one sentence!
"A bunch of rubbish, how can even one of them be a problem? Why did you come back when everyone is dead?"

Yuchi Hong lowered his voice and roared like a lion. If he was not afraid of disturbing Li Yu's people who were not far away, he would have wanted to slap this guy with kidney deficiency to death right now.

"A lot of things happened, and I don't have time to explain in detail. How is the Crown Prince doing now? Is it convenient for him to see people?"

"You still have the nerve to see the prince now?" Yuchi Hong suddenly laughed in anger. What did this guy want to do by seeing the prince? Tell the prince that things went wrong?
"General, calm down!" Chen Xiao was also afraid that the other party would kill him with a knife, so he hurriedly said, "We met a noble man on the road, maybe he can save the prince from danger!"

"Noble?" Yuchi Hong was stunned, then frowned, and the first thing he showed was not surprise but suspicion: "Who is he? How can you say that he can solve the prince's crisis?"

"Someone who knows the origin of this plague!"

"Oh? Where is he?"

"He was stopped by the guards outside." Upon hearing this, Yuchi Hong immediately ordered the guards to bring the person in. To be honest, he did not trust Chen Xiao very much. This guy was not a direct descendant of the Prince's Mansion, and he did not know why his cousin the Prince would give him such an important task. Now that the other party went out and said that he brought back someone who knew the origin of the epidemic, it sounded suspicious no matter how he heard it.

After a while, the guards brought the person in. When Yuchi Hong saw the other person, he was still a little surprised. The other person was actually wearing official uniform. He thought he was some otherworldly being dressed as a hermit.

"Your humble servant Zhang Rui greets General Yuchi."

"What is your position?"

"General, I am the magistrate of Fuchun County."

"County magistrate." Yuchi Hong looked at the other person. This guy looked to be in his early twenties and should have been in office not long ago. Fuchun County was not a good place and no family was willing to arrange their young men to live here unless it was premeditated.

"The Zhang family in Lingnan or the Zhang family in the capital?"

My Lord, I was born in Luzhu County, Jiangnan. My ancestors have been farmers for three generations, so I am not from a big family. "

"Three generations of farmers?" Yuchi Hong sneered, "How can a scholar from a farming family know the origin of this epidemic?"

"by chance."

"What a coincidence!" Yuchi Hong's smile turned ferocious, and he took a step forward: "Are you guys kidding me?"

But just as he finished speaking, his originally aggressive expression froze. A tiny figure appeared in front of the county magistrate of suspicious origin. She looked like a little girl of only seven or eight years old. However, it was this little girl that made him dare not take even one step forward.

For a moment, he even doubted whether he had seen it wrong. If outsiders knew that the second master of the Yuchi family was frightened by a baby, they would probably laugh their heads off.

But a warrior's intuition is not wrong, this little kid is very dangerous!

"Chen Xiao. You!!" Yuchi Hong gritted his teeth.

He actually brought in a master of this level without reporting it at all. The girl who looked like a little girl was not on guard at all. She was really the perfect assassin.
"General, don't be nervous." Chen Xiao smiled bitterly. He knew at a glance that General Yuchi had misunderstood. But it was true that anyone who encountered this situation would probably suspect that he had defected to the enemy.

"General." Zhang Rui stepped forward and said, "Mr. Chen has already told me about the situation here. In fact, General, there is no need to be so nervous. In your current situation, if I really have bad intentions, you won't be able to hold on even if I don't do anything, right?"

Yuchi Hong: “.”

"That's true." Yuchi Hong didn't say anything. Master Luo, who had been observing the situation behind Yuchi Hong, finally spoke up: "If Mr. Chen was turned, he could just kill Tian Ye and then retire. There's no need to come back and take risks. And even with the current situation, you can't stop that little girl, right? Master Er..."

Yuchi Hong's face turned pale and blue in an instant. He still found this kind of thing unbelievable. He had trained hard for many years in the cold winter and hot summer, and he felt that he was a leader among warriors of the same age. But today he had no confidence at all when facing a kid!
"She is so light and graceful, like an immortal." Third Master Luo looked at Murong Yunji in surprise. "I have lived for so long, but this is the first time I have seen a girl like this. Second Master, don't bother. Not to mention you, even if I were in my prime, I might not be able to lift this girl."

The people around him gasped. Was Mr. Luo San getting senile? His master was at the pinnacle of a half-step grandmaster, and even he couldn't do it. How could such a little girl be a grandmaster?

Yuchi Hong was also very surprised, but he did not doubt what Master Luo said. Master Luo was a person whom his father respected very much, so he would not speak nonsense. This could only mean that the county magistrate in front of him really had an extraordinary background.

Thinking of this, he stopped being so reserved and instead cupped his hands and said, "Sir, do you really have a way to save the prince?"

"You are too polite, General." Zhang Rui quickly returned the greeting: "General is your superior, there is no need to be so polite. I need to take a look at the situation of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince first."

Upon hearing this, Yuchi Hong looked at Master Luo San, who nodded slightly.

The current situation can't get any worse.

"Take the gentleman to see the prince immediately."

"Yes!"

"Second Master isn't coming with us?" Chen Xiao was stunned upon seeing this.

"No, we have to deal with that guy outside." Yuchi Hong pointed at Li Yu, who was dressed in white, at the dock and said, "Whatever you have to do, hurry up. Time is running out."

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