Traveling through the ancient times

The people have food and no longer make trouble. Who doesn’t want to live a peaceful life at home?

As the food was distributed, the uprisings in various places gradually subsided. The people were grateful to General Qilin and shouted "Long live King Qilin" three times!

Except for the Third Prince's followers, all the other civil and military officials in the court supported General Qilin as king, while the people from the Third Prince's faction were directly dragged out and beheaded.

General Qilin did not immediately agree to ascend the throne and become emperor, claiming that the King of Xiliang had not been captured yet, and it would not be too late to discuss the matter after the King of Xiliang and the third prince were captured and dealt with.

Naturally, others have no objection!

The King of Xiliang was weak and fell into a coma after traveling for several days. The Third Prince and the Queen were unwilling to leave, so they had to go into the city and find an inn to stay in and invite a doctor to treat the King of Xiliang.

"Doctor, how is my father?"

"This old man has a weak pulse. He must have been ill for a long time. He also looks like he has been poisoned. He needs to be detoxified and then recuperated. Otherwise, his life span may be over."

The third prince and the queen looked at each other. The poison they had used was so secretive that even the royal doctors in the palace hadn't detected it. How could this doctor know it just by taking the prince's pulse?

"Can the doctor cure the poison my father has been poisoned with?"

The doctor shook his head. "I know very little about poisons. The master has been poisoned by several kinds of poisons. Now the poisons have entered his internal organs. I can only prescribe some medicine to suppress the spread of the poisons. Young master, you should find another expert in detoxification."

How come there are several kinds of poison? Who poisoned them?

The doctor wrote them two prescriptions and told them how to take the two medicines. "It's best not to move him in the next few days. Wait for him to wake up and observe him for a day or two. It won't be too late to continue your journey."

"Thank you, doctor!"

The third prince ordered his attendants to follow the doctor back to get medicine, closed the door, and discussed matters with the queen.

"Mother, how can there be several kinds of poison? Who else could have it besides Old Five?"

"I don't know either. Don't worry about it. The result will be the same anyway. It's better this way. He won't suspect us."

"But when should we set off now? The longer we stay here, the more dangerous it will be." The queen was very anxious. They were not far from the imperial city. If General Qilin and his men really caught up with them, they would only die.

"I wonder if your grandfather received the letter I wrote to him." Before leaving, the queen asked someone to send a letter to General Xiong, asking him to send someone to pick them up.

"You have heard what the doctor said. We can only discuss it after our father wakes up." The third prince was also very anxious.

After the King of Xiliang fainted, the Third Prince and the Queen searched his body thoroughly but did not find the token that could command the personal guards.

"Otherwise we don't need the token. With those two things, you can still sit on it legitimately." The queen just wanted to leave here as soon as possible.

"But we have already left the imperial city. If we want to go back, we must have enough troops." The third prince did not want to bring the King of Xiliang with him as a burden, but he needed the strength of his personal guards.

The two were silent for a while...

What the Third Prince and his companions had not expected was that on the afternoon of the next day, before the King of Xiliang woke up, General Tie Niu and his men had already caught up with them.

"Queen, the Third Prince is in trouble. General Tie Niu is catching up with us!"

"What? Where are they now?"

"They've been searching everywhere in the city for us." The guards were also extremely anxious. They didn't expect them to come so quickly. They had been on the run for several days. They only stopped for one night before they were caught up.

"Quick, load the king onto the carriage and set off immediately."

Now I can’t care whether the condition will get worse or not, the most important thing is to save my life.

"If we go together, we will be too conspicuous. Let's go out of the city separately and meet again outside the city." After entering the city, they all bought clothes and disguised themselves. Now they looked like an ordinary family.

The guards took the King of Xiliang away in a carriage. The queen took two maids and pretended to be mother and daughter. The third prince went out alone.

Fortunately, there were no people sent by Tie Niu at the city gate, so they left the city smoothly. The queen and the third prince immediately got on the carriage and galloped towards the path.

Even with so many people on board, the carriage was still not as fast as riding horses, and they were soon caught up by Tie Niu and his men.

"Your Majesty, where are you going?" The group was stopped by Tie Niu's men in a bamboo forest.

The King of Xiliang was unconscious and naturally would not respond to him. The Third Prince and the Queen did not say anything. Tie Niu continued to shout outside.

"This is not like your style, Your Majesty. Or have you been kidnapped by the Third Prince? Then the general will come late to rescue you. I will rescue you now." Tie Niu patted his horse's back and flew towards the carriage with his gun. A gun pierced into the carriage, and the Third Prince flew out of the carriage and fought Tie Niu equally.

The other guards drew their swords and fought against the soldiers brought by Tie Niu. For the soldiers who came out of the barracks, it was a piece of cake to deal with these guards who had lived in the palace for a long time. The people brought by the third prince were quickly subdued, and the third prince was also knocked to the ground and slid several meters away by Tie Niu's roundhouse kick.

Just when Tie Niu was about to step forward and invite the King of Xiliang out of the carriage, a rhythmic whistle sounded and several arrows were shot out from the darkness of the bamboo forest, catching Tie Niu and his fellow soldiers off guard. They quickly raised their hands to block the arrows and retreated to the side.

Then more than twenty men in black rushed out and surrounded Tie Niu and others. A fight was inevitable. This group of people who suddenly rushed out were all well-trained and had great martial arts skills.

Tie Niu and his men were beaten back step by step. While they were not paying attention to the battle, the queen asked her maid to help the third prince onto the carriage, and the guards immediately rode away.

Tie Niu and his companions were no match for these people, and they quickly mounted their horses and retreated. The men in black saw them escaping and did not chase them, but turned around and hid in the bamboo forest.

In the carriage, the King of Xiliang opened his cloudy eyes with some difficulty, and seeing the injured Third Prince, he said soothingly, "Thank you for your hard work!"

The Third Prince did not know who those men in black were, but the Queen was in the carriage and she saw it clearly. After the King of Xiliang woke up, he took out a whistle from his waist, put it to his mouth and blew it, and those men in black appeared.

So it wasn't a token that summoned the guards, but this whistle? No wonder they searched all over the King of Xiliang and couldn't find the legendary token.

"It doesn't matter. I wonder if those men in black were sent by my grandfather to pick us up."

The third prince endured the pain and tore open his clothes, revealing the shocking wound inside. The queen held back a cry of surprise and hurriedly took out the golden wound medicine she had bought in the city from her bag and gently sprinkled it on the third prince's wound.

"Be patient for now. Since those people have been repelled by the men in black, they will definitely not catch up with us for a while. Wait until we reach the next town and then find a clinic for disinfection and bandaging."

The third prince also knew that now was not the time to be pretentious, and it was already good enough if he could keep his life and not be captured.

Along the way, Tie Niu and his companions did not catch up with them, and they did not see the men in black anymore. They traveled for a whole day and a night before they saw a city in the distance.

The third prince's wound needed treatment, and the King of Xiliang could not withstand the bumpy ride for a day and a night and fell into a coma again, so they entered the city again.