Cypress Boat Floating

"What did you say? The Eighth Prince is missing! How could he be missing? Where is he? Go find him for me." Lu Zhixing angrily scolded the messenger. He had just left the court when he received urgent intelligence from Nancheng, telling him that Lu Ciqiu was missing.

Lu Ci Qiu was missing. This was something no one had expected. He had clearly written to him happily two days ago, saying that Nanlin was extremely cooperative and that he believed the issue in Nancheng would be resolved soon and he could go back. In the letter, he had also said that he was fine and safe, but then he received a message telling him that Lu Ci Qiu was missing.

When he received the news, he was almost scared to death. He didn't know the situation over there and had no way to go there in person, so he had to urgently notify the people in the Dark Guard Camp to send a few people with high martial arts skills to the South City to check the situation.

The news of Lu Ci Qiu's disappearance was not only received by Lu Zhixing, but the prince naturally also received it.

"Is Old Eight really missing?" The prince was drinking tea. When he heard the news, he was so shocked that he almost burned himself and quickly put down the scalding hot teacup.

He frowned, puzzled: "The people we sent out before all reported failure. How come Lao Ba is missing?"

"Your Highness, it is said that the Eighth Prince was attacked on the mountain when he was traveling to Sannan Mountain with the Crown Prince of Nanlin, and he went missing. Now we don't know whether he is dead or alive. The people sent by Nanlin have been looking for him for several days, but have not found him yet." A man replied respectfully.

The prince leaned back in his chair and stroked his chin. Lu Ci Qiu’s disappearance was certainly a good thing for him, but if his disappearance was not caused by his own people, then who was responsible?

"Your Highness, this..." Seeing the Crown Prince's puzzled look, the man spoke carefully, "Isn't it a good thing that the Eighth Prince is missing? Why are you so worried?"

"Stupid." The prince rolled his eyes at him and continued, "Do you think that the disappearance of the Eighth Prince is a good thing? Hurry up and check for me, find out who caused the disappearance of the Eighth Prince. If the other party came for Gongyang Junyu and thus implicated the Eighth Prince, then it's okay. If someone deliberately wanted the Eighth Prince to disappear with Gongyang Junyu, I'm afraid there will be a battle between Da'an and Nanlin."

He could sacrifice his brothers for the throne, but he would not allow anyone else to covet the throne he had seized, nor would he allow the throne he had seized to be filled with war.

"Yes." Seeing the prince's serious look, the man quickly stepped back to find out information for the prince.

"Stop." Just as the man was about to reach the door, he was stopped by the prince, "Remember, if he's alive, I want to see him. If he's dead, I want to see his body. Even if he's dead, I want to find out how he died."

The man nodded repeatedly and then quickly retreated. He didn't dare to provoke the prince at this time.

The disappearance of Lu Ci Qiu and Gongyang Junyu involved two countries, especially Nanlin, where the prince was the only one. On the other hand, in Da'an, it was mainly because King Qin Lu Zhixing was worried about Lu Ci Qiu, so both sides sent a large number of people to Sannan Mountain to look for them, but there was no news.

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Even though he had made all the mental preparations to jump into the water, when he actually stood on the edge of the cliff and looked at the emerald green river water below, he still felt uneasy.

When Ye Jianqing really counted from three to one, he already had the idea of ​​giving up. He would rather fight the assassin to the death than face his fear.

He wanted to hold on, but when he saw the water, a feeling of suffocation filled his entire head, making it impossible for him to breathe; he wanted to retreat, but his hands were held tightly by the two of them, preventing him from escaping.

The moment he jumped, he felt that his life had come to an end. When the endless water poured into his mouth from his nasal cavity, the incident of falling into the water at the age of eight came to his mind again.

The terrible feeling of suffocation oppressed him. Because of fear, he had no way of holding his breath in the river as Ye Jianqing said. He wanted to breathe through his mouth, but he found that what entered his mouth was not air, but endless river water.

The river water wrapped around him, making him unable to move. He struggled desperately to move upwards. He wanted to escape from this place. As long as he swam upstream as Ye Jianqing said, he would be fine. But it was as if someone was holding his feet tightly under the water, preventing him from moving upwards. He wanted to struggle and swim upstream, but he just couldn't move. At this moment, he felt like he was going to die here.

Just when his eyes turned white and he lost hope and was about to stop struggling, he saw a fairy.

The woman swam towards him from above against the light, her scattered hair floating in the water, her eyes clear and bright, as if the river was no obstacle to her at all. She seemed to be born in the water, so free, so light. She was like a fairy, rushing towards him. She stretched out her hand to him, and unknowingly he also stretched out his hand and held her hand.

He believed that the fairy had come to save him.

He was reborn, he could breathe, air began to flow into his lungs frantically, his lungs were like a dry desert that had suddenly received a heavy rain, and the originally lifeless lungs suddenly became full of spring, but the rain came too fast and too heavily, and his dry lungs could not take it all in at once, so he could only cough frantically to cough out the air that could not be absorbed.

"Are you okay?" A gentle voice sounded beside my ears, and a pair of soft hands were patting my back gently.

Lu Ci Qiu coughed for a long time before he raised his head and saw Ye Jianqing. The Ye Jianqing in front of him gradually merged with the fairy in the water who saved him.

It's you again who saved me.

Lu Ci Qiu smiled at her and shook his head to indicate that he was fine.

Seeing that he was fine, Ye Jianqing turned around to look at the other one.

Following her figure with his eyes, Lu Ci Qiu saw Gong Yang Junyu lying on the other side with his arms and legs spread out, his eyelids rolled up, his mouth pouting, and he was spitting out water unconsciously.

Lu Ci Qiu covered his eyes, expressing that he couldn't bear to watch. He was the Crown Prince of Nanlin, and the crown prince of a country with the strongest navy, but he was actually messed up like this by a mere river water. It was really embarrassing.

But he forgot who was choking on the river water and coughing constantly, and even almost drowned in the water.

Ye Jianqing first checked Gong Yang Junyu's mouth and found that there was no mud or sand in it. Then he turned him over, made him lower his head and lie prone. He used his right hand to pat his back quickly and forcefully to drain the water in his trachea.

With the help of Ye Jianqing, Gong Yang Junyu lay on her thighs and vomited water.

After he vomited all the water, he was fine, so Ye Jianqing simply let him lie down and rest.

After confirming that the two distinguished people were fine, Ye Jianqing finally breathed a sigh of relief and lay on the ground motionless due to exhaustion.

Seeing her like this, Lu Ci Qiu quickly came over and sat next to her, asking with concern, "Are you okay?"

Ye Jianqing lay there, motionless, not even wanting to shake his head, "It's okay."

"Where is this?" Lu Ci Qiu looked around and found that they were in a cave with a river next to it. There was just a relatively large stone here, and various large and small stones were scattered around it.

Ye Jianqing looked around and said, "This should be the bottom of Sannan Mountain. Because of the impact of the river water over the years, there is a cave at the bottom of the river. We were washed in here."

During their conversation, Gong Yang Junyu gradually woke up, sat up with difficulty, looked around, covered his head and asked, "Where are we?"

Ye Jianqing raised her head and glanced at him slightly. She didn't want to explain what she had just said again. She had stayed awake all the way and it had taken a lot of effort to drag the two of them here. She really didn't have the energy to say anything more.

Ye Jianqing didn't say anything, so Lu Ciqiu took the initiative to help Gongyang Junyu answer: "This is the cave under Sannan Mountain."

Gongyang Junyu asked again: "Then why are we here?" He really had no idea what happened after he fell into the water.

After falling into the water, he only felt a suction force sucking him and preventing him from leaving. During the struggle, he accidentally opened his mouth, causing the air in his body to be instantly occupied by the river water. He had no extra air and suffocated and fainted, so he had no idea what happened next.

Lu Ci Qiu had no idea why they came here. He only knew that Ye Jianqing pulled him up when he was in a daze. Apart from that, he knew nothing, so he looked at Ye Jianqing in confusion.

Seeing that the two knew nothing and just kept looking at him, Ye Jianqing had no choice but to sit up and answer the two distinguished princes: "After falling into the water, did you feel a suction force?"

The two nodded.

Ye Jianqing continued, "That's right. This cave must have been formed by the impact of the Sannan River over the years. The place where we jumped was exactly the entrance of the cave. The pressure inside the cave is different from that outside, so it sucked us in. After we came in, it was actually very peaceful inside. I saw that there were still many dry stones nearby, so I pulled you all up."

Gong Yang Junyu pointed at himself and said to Lu Ci Qiu: "So it was you who saved us?"

Ye Jianqing wanted to roll her eyes and asked him if it was necessary to ask such an obvious question. However, her good character made her hold back. After all, he was the prince, and she was just a little maid. She had to control her emotions and know her identity clearly.

If you can endure for a while, the sky will be wide and the sea will be vast. If you take a step back, you will fall into the abyss. If you can't endure it anymore, you don't need to endure it anymore. Ye Jianqing couldn't help it and spoke in a slightly angry tone: "There are only three of us here. Didn't I save you, or the water ghost?"

Gongyang Junyu scratched his head and dared not speak.

He was fortunate enough to witness Ye Jianqing killing the assassin in seconds before falling into the water. Now there were only three of them here, and he didn't dare to provoke her again. A real man should be able to bend and stretch, and be fearless.

"There is only river water here. What should we do? Can we only wait for someone to rescue us?" Lu Ci Qiu stood up and looked around. Noticing his current situation, he felt a little helpless.

Gongyang Junyu also stood up and followed Lu Ci Qiu to observe the surroundings for a way out. Ye Jianqing had just put in so much effort and was almost exhausted. He had no strength to continue following them and observed, so he had to let them go and lay down to rest.

But she was not completely asleep when she was lying down. She was just trying to recover her physical strength as quickly as possible, but her mind was never stopping.

The sea is connected to the Sannan River, which means that their plan to dig the mountain will definitely work. And when she entered here just now, she also saw a few small fish, so their eating problem is not a problem. The focus now is how the three of them are going to get out?

The entrance to the cave is at the bottom of the Sannan River, which means that unless the water of the Sannan River is drained, no one will discover that there is a cave underneath, and no one will discover that they are inside.

The other part of the cave is the exit to the sea, but they have never been there. The sea itself is full of mysteries and there are many unknown creatures in it. Even the inland sea cannot be underestimated. So if they go through the other side, Ye Jianqing is really not sure that he can bring them both out safely.

Moreover, to go out from the exit at the other end of the sea, one must at least ensure his breath-holding ability. Ye Jianqing glanced at the two people who were investigating around and shook his head silently.

One is afraid of water, and the other can't hold his breath for less than a minute.

What can I do???

"Let's do this." Suddenly, Ye Jianqing sat up, startling the other two. They looked at Ye Jianqing, walked silently to sit beside her and listen to her.

Seeing that they were all seated, Ye Jianqing continued, "There are two openings here now," she pointed to the place where they came in, "This is the entrance. It is currently known that this entrance is under Sannan Mountain, but because of the different pressures inside and outside, it will create a suction force that will suck people into the cave. But we know the situation outside, and there is no danger. It's just that it may take a lot of effort to get out."

Then she pointed to the other side and said, "Over there is the exit. According to what we checked before, there is the sea over there, so it is very likely that if we go out from here we will go directly into the sea. It should be easy to get out. But the sea is dangerous, and no one knows what's in there." Ye Jianqing told them the advantages and disadvantages of the two entrances and exits.

Ye Jianqing put away his hands, crossed them in front of his chest, looked at the two of them seriously, and said, "Now, you choose whether to go back through the entrance or go out through the exit."

Lu Ci Qiu and Gong Yang Junyu looked at each other.

Lu Ci Qiu said that he had no say at all. He couldn't swim and was even afraid of water. If he was asked to choose, he felt that either way would be fine. Of course, if possible, he would prefer to be able to get out smoothly. Going back through the entrance would require a lot of effort, and considering that he couldn't swim, he would most likely fail.

But it was different for Gongyang Junyu. He had some confidence in his swimming ability, and he also knew what kind of dangers the sea was that Ye Jianqing was talking about.

But at the same time, going out from the entrance is also dangerous for him, that is, there is a risk that the group of assassins will be waiting there. Going out from the sea, although there is the danger of unknown creatures, but with their Nanlin navy on the other side of the sea, it will be much safer.

He hesitated for a moment, but still chose to go out from the sea.

Ye Jianqing raised her eyebrows when she heard his choice. This was something she had not expected.

"There are Nanlin's navy on the other side of the sea. I don't think it will be that dangerous." Gongyang Junyu said.

Ye Jianqing nodded. That was true. Since both of them had made their choice, she had no objection. So the three of them chose to go out from the sea. However, it was a bit unrealistic to go out rashly given their current situation.

There happened to be a flood some time ago, and the water in the cave had probably reached its peak at that time. A lot of firewood was stranded on the rocks in the cave. The three of them packed up and prepared to make a fire and catch some fish to fill their stomachs.

Now they just need to rest well and maintain their strength. The most important thing is that they have to let Lu Ci Qiu learn to accept water and not be afraid of water, otherwise it will be very dangerous for him to go out.

And the most important point is that the fifteenth day will be in two days, and the tide will ebb on that day. Of course, the tide will high before that. The most important thing for them is to wait for the tide to ebb on the fifteenth day before going out, which will be safer.

So the three of them decided to stay in the cave for two days and then take action on the fifteenth day of the second month.