After the replacement marriage, I was forced to fight at home

Zhou Yu recalled that he once made fun of Meng Wan for making ugly loops. Meng Wan was not convinced and said that his loops were not pretty but he was good at braiding ropes and tying knots.

Zhou Yu teased her and asked how she did it. Meng Wan asked the maid to bring a rope and beat him with it to show him. This surprised Zhou Yu so much that he quickly asked Meng Wan to teach him.

Unexpectedly, there would actually be a day when it would come in handy. However, Meng Wan taught him several methods, but he only remembered the one called the Fisherman's Knot.

"Meng Wan?" King Rui asked.

Zhou Yu nodded with a proud expression on his face.

King Rui did not ask any more questions. He lowered his head and said softly, "Both sisters are interesting people."

"My Lord, how is your injury? Does it hurt a lot?"

King Rui looked at the blood-stained sleeve of Zhou Yu tied to his leg and shook his head. "I'm fine. I just don't dare to raise my hand. My back hurts a lot at this time. How do you feel now?"

"It's okay, I don't think any bones were broken. It's a good thing we fell in a good place. The prince fell on the thick moss, and I was blocked by the tree several times."

King Rui nodded, thinking that the man who frightened the horse must have been affected by the horse's force and fell too hard. As for his own driver, he was probably stuck somewhere in the carriage.

"Now we can only wait. I think that by now, Brother Chu should be looking for a way down the mountain."

King Rui nodded, then shook his head. "If it was really a man-made arrangement, he couldn't have gotten ahead of that person. Even if they came down to look for us together, as long as they are more in number, we can't rashly ask for help."

Zhou Yu nodded somewhat disappointedly. Prince Rui was right. Today's incident was premeditated. There were many people on the mountain road, including the prince's people, Prince Jing's people, Prince Rui's people, and people from Prince Shen's mansion, and even people from the palace. So, no matter who set up the situation, they would pretend to be nervous and organize people to search and rescue.

But if they go down the mountain, whoever has more people will have the final say. Zhou Yu thought that the people in Rui Wangfu and the few people he brought with him were not even half of the people of Jing Wang, and he was more certain that all this was a trap set by Jing Wang.

I just don't know what kind of hatred made King Jing kill King Rui in such an extreme way. Zhou Yu believed that although King Jing's arrangement for King Rui was arranged in advance, it would not be too early. It must have been a spur-of-the-moment decision, otherwise King Jing could have adopted other safer and more effective methods instead of giving King Rui a chance.

Zhou Yu looked at the bloodstained face and stared at Prince Rui in the distance. Prince Rui was a very smart man and he would not have failed to think of the twists and turns. Perhaps at this time he had already guessed Prince Jing's intentions.

However, given the current situation between himself and King Rui, it might be okay if they could only sleep for a day or two. If it lasts longer, not to mention the wounds, even going without food would be unbearable.

"Your Highness means that if Brother Chu really comes, we can't signal him as long as there are other people following him?" Zhou Yu's tone was filled with disappointment.

"But it doesn't matter. I'll try to summon the raindrops."

"Raindrops?" Zhou Yu was puzzled.

King Rui nodded, "It's a carrier pigeon I raised. It has been following me all the time, just in case."

Zhou Yu was very surprised. He had never heard of it, let alone seen it. But at this moment, he admired King Rui very much for having such preparations.

After King Rui finished speaking, he slowly walked to the entrance of the cave, picked up a leaf, rolled it up, and after trying it, he blew it twice in a row, but the sound was very small at first.

Zhou Yu quickly handed the water bag to the prince, "This is mine, please don't despise it, Prince."

Prince Rui took a big sip and said, "Usually Chu Yong is the one who gives orders. I don't know if he listens to me or not." There was self-mockery in his voice.

Then he exhaled again, put the leaf to his mouth again and blew hard.

Zhou Yu just felt like a whistle, sometimes long, sometimes short, repeated three times.

"Just wait. If the raindrops are nearby, you should be able to hear them."

"How long have you been training? Aren't carrier pigeons only capable of delivering messages? Can they also listen to this?"

King Rui laughed, "As for training, everything has a soul. Just like humans, it is impossible for them to master only one talent."

Zhou Yu nodded and watched King Rui walk to the entrance of the cave and use branches to block the bottom.

Just as Zhou Yu was looking at the cliff and wondering if it was possible to climb up, he heard a fluttering sound, and a blue-gray pigeon cooed and flew in.

Zhou Yu was so happy that he didn't care about the pain in his legs. He stood up and watched King Rui stretch out his hand, and the pigeon flew obediently into his palm.

"Okay, write it down. Write down our approximate location." King Rui glanced at the cave entrance and said after thinking for a while, "It should be to the right rear of the carriage, near the water source. According to the time we just came up, it's probably about ten feet away."

Zhou Yu also looked up and down. This cave was in the middle of the cliff. From this perspective, if there was a fulcrum for climbing and his body allowed it, he could pull a rope and climb up.

But now, not to mention that his own and King Rui's physical conditions do not allow it, even based on the analysis just now, who knows what the situation is like up there? Without being sure that it is completely safe, he dare not call for help.

Zhou Yu felt a little regretful at this time. He should have exchanged the clothes of the two men with Prince Rui and himself, disguised the scene, and disrupted their rhythm. At least it would buy some time for the people in Prince Rui's mansion to go back and call for reinforcements.

Zhou Yu quickly tore off his inner clothes, looked around, used water to wipe off the blood on the half sleeve tied to his leg, picked up a branch and dipped it in water, and just after writing the two words "we", he stopped.

"What's wrong?" asked King Rui.

"Your Highness, we can't guarantee that Yudian can deliver this to the palace. What if someone who wants to harm you intercepts it and finds you all the way here?"

King Rui was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly, "There is no other way. I can't help but send the message out. If it really falls into their hands, it will be God's will for me."

Then he took two steps. Today's incident should be the work of King Jing, but he didn't know why he did this. What was so serious that he would put himself to death?

Zhou Yu thought for a moment and said, "I have a plan. Even if the raindrops are intercepted by them, they won't be able to find our hiding place for a while."

Without waiting for King Rui to ask again, Zhou Yu tore off another piece of cloth and quickly wrote on it. King Rui frowned and said, "What did you write? It's like a ghost's painting."

"This is what my wife taught me, and only we understand its meaning. The princess knows about this matter, so if Yudian can successfully bring this out, the princess will know what is going on at a glance and will definitely go find my wife."

"Oh? You've written it clearly with these crooked lines?"

Zhou Yu bragged about the English he had written and nodded, thinking to himself, Meng Wan was so far-sighted that he forced himself to learn this damn English. He never expected that it would save his life one day.

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"Your Highness, we have found the way down." The chief historian of the palace stepped forward and said respectfully.

King Jing sat in the carriage, looking at the chaotic scene, and nodded, "Hold them back, and hurry up to find them."

Just as King Jing was about to dismount, he saw the chief guard of the Eastern Palace coming hurriedly. "Your Highness, I have sent someone back to the capital to ask the Crown Prince for instructions. But this section of the road is dangerous and narrow. I just asked the people and they said that if we go to the bottom of the cliff, we have to go a long way around."

King Jing came out of the carriage with a gloomy face, "We have to go and look for him no matter how far he is. Why did he scare the horse? Did anyone see what happened just now?"

A guard from Prince Jing's mansion came forward in a hurry and said, "Your Highness, I saw that the horse's butt was hit by a rock falling from the mountain, and it started bleeding. The horse was startled, and Brother Hu wanted to pull the reins, but it was too late. The horse rushed towards the edge of the cliff, and the second young master of the Prince's mansion happened to be in front of him, so he was dragged down the cliff together. But the driver of Prince Rui wanted to pull the horse of Young Master Zhou Er, but he was also pulled down with him."

King Jing raised his leg and kicked him, "Fool, since you saw it, why didn't you stop it? If something happens to King Rui, you should go and serve him."

The nurse knelt there, kowtowed and whimpered.

King Jing looked around and didn't see anyone from the Rui Palace. "Where's the guy called Chu Yong?"

"Your Highness, when the accident just happened, he asked the people from the Rui Palace to go down and rescue them. After seeing that it was impossible to go down here, he led the people forward, probably to find a way to get down to the bottom of the cliff."

King Jing walked towards the place where King Rui's carriage had just overturned. The low bushes on the roadside were trampled into a mess, and objects from the carriage were scattered around.

King Jing kicked among the objects but did not find the box that the crown prince had given to King Rui.

He squinted his eyes and looked towards the bottom of the cliff. From this angle, he couldn't see the bottom of the cliff clearly. It was very steep and dangerous. There was almost nothing on the cliff to buffer it except a few small trees.

Looking at the terrain and the force of the frightened horse carrying them down quickly, I'm sure that at this point, even if Lao Liu and his car were not smashed to pieces, they would be seriously injured, right?

You can't blame yourself for this. It's your fault that you bumped into me. Regardless of whether you looked at the box or not, I had to assume that you did.

Although, in my plan, it's a little early to target you, but it doesn't matter. The prince is now increasingly favored by the emperor, which is not a good sign. I have to give him some eye drops and cut off his most powerful arm first. Therefore, you must not come up again.

Thinking that Chu Yong was going to look for Lao Liu, he was not worried. First, the way down was not easy to find, and it would take some time to find it. Second, Lao Liu did not bring many people with him, so even if they were found, his people would still have the advantage. When the time came, they could just catch him in one fell swoop.

"Remember, if it's what we want, then leave someone alive as a witness. If it's not what we want, then let's go together." King Jing narrowed his eyes and looked into the distance, "Send someone to the Crown Prince in two quarters of an hour. As for the people who go back to Ruiwang Mansion and Shenjunwang Mansion to report the news, you know what to do."