Traveling through troubled times: Princess disguises herself as a man and becomes a soldier to earn

Everyone couldn't help but look at her, the surprise in their eyes was obvious. As the hot air balloon continued to rise, everyone looked down and felt a scorching heat wave coming towards them.

He shrank back, immediately retracted his head, and looked at his curled hair in silence.

Jiang Li wrapped his hair up and stretched his neck to look down. There was gushing magma, burning flames, and wild beasts howling and fleeing madly. The entire forest was shrouded in death.

Everyone was silent, no one spoke, their eyes fell on Jiang Li from time to time, and they felt secretly fortunate in their hearts. If she was not there today, they would really not be able to survive.

The hot air balloon flew higher and higher, flying in the direction of the wind.

Jiang Li closed his eyes, feeling the air becoming more and more humid, and breathed a sigh of relief. Finally... he survived. He was almost turned into a roasted chicken. No, it was a charcoal chicken without even a bone left.

As soon as he relaxed, his stomach growled. Jiang Li reached out and touched his stomach. He opened his eyes and looked at Mo Yuan, a little aggrieved: "A Yuan, I'm hungry. I'm almost starving to death."

Mo Yuan opened the bag and took out a steamed bun that was bigger than his face and handed it to her. Seeing her take it, he opened the water bag and waited on the side, his eyes full of doting: "Eat slowly, don't choke."

"Well, I got it."

He ate with big mouthfuls, and soon, a big bun was gone. He stretched out his hand and looked at Mo Yuan: "Not enough, do you have more?"

"Yes, I'll get it for you."

Seeing how much she ate, Su Xuemei held her chin and stared at her: "Sister, you are so strong, is it because you can eat so much? This really broadens my horizons. You are small but your appetite is not small at all."

Jiang Li gulped down the water, wiped it with his sleeve, exhaled, and said with a smile: "Sister Su, you are joking. I have great strength, so I must be able to eat, otherwise where would I get the strength from?"

"We are all safe now. You can eat something. Wait until the hot air balloon leaves the volcano, and then we will find a way to get down."

"Hmm? Sister, you mean that you can only go up and not down? Then we are getting higher and higher. If we can't go down, we will be trapped to death."

Su Xuemei looked a little puzzled. She lowered her head and saw that she was getting farther and farther away from the ground. Could it be that she was really going up to the sky? She... was not ready yet. What if she really couldn't come down?

Jiang Li waved his hands, looking nonchalant: "Not really, don't worry, if you can come up, you can definitely come down, it's better than facing the gushing magma, don't you think?"

"If it doesn't work, I'll make the fire smaller. If the heat is insufficient, it will surely decrease slowly. As long as we are willing to use our brains, we will all survive. There are always more solutions than problems."

"...Yes, reducing the fire is also a solution."

As time went by, everyone became a little bored.

Jiang Li took out a storybook from his bag and threw it to them: "This is for you. This hot air balloon floats very slowly. Since you are bored, you might as well read the storybook to kill time."

Su Xuemei opened it, took a look, and subconsciously closed the book, her face blushing: "Sister, you have too many notebooks. You didn't spread them everywhere along the way, otherwise why would those monks stare at you."

Jiang Li spread his hands, looking helpless: "I don't know about this either. Anyway, it wasn't me. I'm not that bored. Besides, I can't read. Even if I want to target them, there's no way."

"Oh, and there's also a picture of the monk's birthmark on this storybook. Sister Su, think about it, if he was really innocent, how could his body be seen by others? I guess he is... a homosexual. It's too messy."

"That's right. I didn't expect that a monk who is supposed to be pure in mind would actually have lustful thoughts. If it was for a woman, it would be fine, but it was for a fellow disciple. This is too, too shocking."

After Su Xuemei adjusted her mood, she opened the storybook and read it with relish.

Others held the notebooks, not knowing whether to put them down or not.

Wen Ruosheng handed over the notebook: "Princess, I don't need this. You don't have to give it to me. Just give it to someone else."

"Ah, you don't want to. I thought you and little brother could develop a relationship. Make sure you don't take a look in advance to gain more experience. Otherwise, who will be on top and who will be on the bottom with little brother Su Yan in the future."

"...!!"

When Su Yan heard that he was mentioned, he became flustered, blushed, and his eyes turned red with anxiety. He looked like he was about to cry. He waved his hands quickly: "No, it's not like that. The Holy Son is my savior. I dare not offend him."

Jiang Li looked at him with gossipy eyes: "Oh, I understand, he is the benefactor and cannot be at the bottom, so you are the one being pressed down. Little brother, you are so brave to sacrifice so much for love."

"I, I didn't, Princess, please don't talk nonsense like that."

Seeing the man's face full of shame and anger, he wanted to jump down to prove his innocence, Jiang Li hurriedly said: "Okay, I won't say anything. Don't jump down, my gold is all with you."

Su Yan snorted lightly upon hearing this and shrank into the corner, not wanting to pay any more attention to that person. This eldest princess of Qi State was really going too far. How could anyone joke like that? She had no lady's modesty at all.

Wen Ruosheng's face was about to freeze, and he glared at her: "Princess, if you are humiliating me, don't blame me for not abiding by the contract. I don't want to get involved in your affairs with those monks, but don't involve others."

Jiang Li raised his hand to make a gesture to seal his mouth, indicating that he would not talk nonsense anymore, and changed the subject: "This Death Forest is really huge, and it's almost dark. After this night, we don't know where we will drift to."

"Don't look at me. I can't see clearly if it's dark."

"This hot air balloon floats with the wind. I don't know where it will float to. I can't control the direction. Si Ling, this is Yu Country. You should know where we will float to."

Si Ling stood up, looked over in the afterglow of the setting sun, determined the wind direction, and said in a deep voice: "We will probably reach Jiuyou City, which is not far from Kyoto, only two or three days' walk. We will go down when we reach Jiuyou City."

"Then we can change carriages and arrive in the capital soon."

Jiang Li leaned on Mo Yuan's arm, looking at the sunset, and sighed: "It's so beautiful, but the sunset is infinitely beautiful, but it's a pity that it's dusk."

"...!!"

Mo Yuan pursed his lips and smiled, and said softly: "Princess, when we go back, I will teach you how to read and write poetry, okay?"

"No, I'm not interested in that. I can write poems. If you don't believe me, I'll recite one for you. I can also write characters, but they're not very pretty. Anyway, it's good enough to be able to recognize them. Don't set too high a standard."

"Sister, as a princess, why can't you read?"