Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

Chapter 341 Three People in Trouble

Is the emperor okay? Is the princess okay? Seeing the most expensive carriages shattered into pieces in the frequent explosions, Ji Anni's heart tightened.

Will they be injured in the explosion? Will they be hit by the frightened horses? Will they die under the swords of the rebels?

The more she thought about it, the more frightened she became. She wanted to rush back to help immediately. But she had no control over the fierce horse under her crotch, and could only let the fierce horse carry her forward.

Seeing that she was getting further and further away from the right path, a familiar voice suddenly sounded behind her: "My Lady!"

Ji Anni turned around and saw only a small shadow rushing towards her. Because she was too far away, she couldn't see the face of the person clearly. She could vaguely see that the person chasing her was wearing the clothes of the imperial guards, so he should be one of them. But how could a person's feet be stronger than a horse's hooves? In the blink of an eye, the small shadow disappeared from Ji Anni's sight.

As the horse galloped fiercely, Ji Anni's cheeks were almost cracked by the strong wind, and her eyes were filled with tears stimulated by the strong wind.

Horse, horse, please stop, please stop...

Ji Anni pulled the reins almost to the point of breaking, but the horse refused to obey and threw its head back, causing the reins in Ji Anni's hand to slip. After losing the reins, Ji Anni could only hold the horse's neck tighter. Although it was several hundred meters away from the explosion site, the frightened horse still showed no signs of stopping and ran forward at a speed faster than a rocket.

Suddenly, Ji Anni felt her body tilt to the side, and somehow she was thrown off the horse. At the moment she fell off the horse, her mind went blank, and she only saw the galloping scene in front of her suddenly turned upside down. After rolling on the ground for several times, she rolled under the trunk of a big tree and lost consciousness.

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“Your Majesty…Your Majesty…”

A distant and ethereal voice came to my ears, and suddenly a ray of light appeared in the dark world where Ji Anni was.

She slowly opened her eyes tentatively, but did not feel the glaring light squeezed in through the slits of her eyes because it was already evening.

She vaguely remembered that she had fallen off her horse, and an indescribable pain came from her back. She tried to move her body, but found that her body was as heavy as a pile of stones and she couldn't move at all.

"My queen, are you okay?" The person waiting beside Ji Anni asked happily and excitedly when he saw Ji Anni finally opened her eyes.

Ji Anni opened her eyes, adjusted the focus, looked towards the person who was speaking, and saw Lai De's familiar face.

"Lai De, why is it you..." Ji Anni was a little surprised, but because she was too exhausted, she couldn't express her surprise in a perfect tone.

When she heard someone calling "Empress" in a daze just now, she vaguely guessed that the owner of the voice was probably the familiar guard Lai De, but she couldn't believe that she and Lai De were so destined to meet each other at any time. Slowly recalling, the man dressed as a guard who was chasing her before falling off the horse was probably Lai De.

"My queen, are you okay? Does the wound still hurt?" Lai De said as he moved his gaze to Ji Annie's ankle.

Ji Anni followed his gaze and looked at her ankle. She found that her ankle was wrapped with a piece of green cloth. Then she saw that the hem of Lai De's clothes was missing. She immediately guessed that it was Lai De who tore his clothes to bandage her ankle wound.

The wound no longer hurts. It’s closer to no pain at all than not feeling it at all.

Ji Anni clenched her fist and hit her right calf, but still felt nothing. Suddenly, she seemed to have a premonition of something, so she increased her strength and hit her right calf again with greater force, but still felt nothing this time.

"My queen..." Lai De saw that Ji Anni looked a little panicked, and asked worriedly, "What's wrong..."

"Legs, legs...why can't I feel them?"

Ji Anni hit her right leg a few more times, but still felt no pain. She hit her left leg again, and this time, she finally felt the pain of being hit by a hammer. It seemed that only her right leg was numb, and her left leg was still normal.

"My queen, don't worry. Maybe you were too frightened that your legs can't move freely. You just need to rest for a while. My queen, it's dangerous here at night. I'll carry you to a safe place." Lai De said as he squatted next to Ji Anni. He waited for Ji Anni to nod and then carried her on his back.

"Lai De, tell me first, how are the princess and the emperor? Who are those people who suddenly jumped out of the woods today, and why did they do such evil? Is anyone injured?" Ji Annie could not forget the shattered canopies she saw when she looked back when she was carried out of the crowd by the crazy horse.

That was the imperial sedan chair of the emperor, the queen mother and many other dignitaries in the palace. If anything happened to them, wouldn't the whole world be in chaos? The blame should be on the fact that the preparations for the wedding trip were too hasty. The imperial guards didn't have enough time to do a good job of security, so that group of lunatics had the opportunity to take advantage of it.

"Your Majesty, I have been chasing you all the way here, how could I know what is going on behind you?" Lai De patted his head and said in distress.

"Then carry me back immediately to have a look." Ji Anni held Lai De's arm tightly. Instead of carrying her to a safe place, it would be better to carry her to the scene of the incident to see the remains of the battlefield.

"My queen, we can't go back now. It's very dangerous." Lai De scratched his hair.

"Dangerous? How could it be dangerous? Haven't those rebels been dispersed yet?" Ji Anni swallowed.

"Your Majesty, that group of rebels might be the anti-imperialist society that has been causing chaos in the south in recent years. They are very powerful, and several of their leaders have already proclaimed themselves kings, and almost established their own imperial palace in the southern capital."

Ji Anni was not quite sure what Nandu was. It was probably similar to the Dongdu that the princess and her husband were going to. Both were small secondary capitals.

Just as Ji Anni was thinking, Lai De's voice rang out again: "I never thought that the Anti-Imperial Society's power had penetrated deep into the imperial city, and they even dared to cause chaos near the palace and disrupt the princess' wedding. They really can't be underestimated."

When talking about the Anti-Imperialist Association, Lai De's speech speed could not help but speed up.

"Not to be underestimated?" Ji Anni felt that this word was a bit strange. It would boost others' morale and undermine her own prestige.

Lai De's excited expression seemed to be a great admirer of the Anti-Imperialist Association. Or more precisely, it should be said that Lai De admired powerful people and martial arts masters. I still remember that in Renhe Hall, Lai De took the initiative to talk to her because she had a bit of the demeanor of a female martial artist. Although Lai De was in the palace, her heart flew outside the palace, yearning for the life of a martial arts hero. If he was born in modern times, he would definitely be a fanatic of martial arts novels.

"Your Majesty, listen to me. The Anti-Imperialist Society is coming with great force this time. They have probably already cut off the road to the palace and surrounded it. We should find a place to hide temporarily and not go back to die." Lai De said as he turned his back and made a gesture for Ji Anni to quickly lie on his back.

"You just said you didn't know the battle situation, so why did you say the rebels have surrounded the palace?" Ji Anni pointed out the inconsistency in Lai De's words, but she just asked casually, without any doubt about Lai De. She trusted Lai De very much, and didn't think much about it at all, and softly lay on Lai De's back.

The scratches she had gotten from falling off her horse had not yet healed, and the slightest movement of her body would cause a burst of pain. Ji Anni gritted her teeth and endured it, but after she lay on Lai De, she was in so much pain that she had no strength left. She felt like a piece of chewing gum, firmly stuck to Lai De's back without moving.

Lai De carried Ji Annie on his back, looked around the woods, and chose a path that looked like it should have been traversed by people.

It was already dark at this time. Ji Anni, who was hungry and exhausted, closed her eyes and was about to fall asleep.

"My queen, please hold on a little longer. There may be people living there soon. We can ask them to take us in for the night." Lai De was afraid that Ji Anni would faint again, so he quickened his pace and moved through the woods.

"Laide..." Ji Anni's weak voice came from behind Lai De, "I, I want to drink some water..."

Ji Anni hadn't had any water all day, and now she was so thirsty that she could hardly speak.

"Water?..." Lai De then realized that Ji Annie's voice sounded very dry, like a sponge that had been squeezed dry and then exposed to the sun for three days and three nights.

"Your Majesty, don't worry. I will take you to find water right away." Lai De stopped, stood among the bushes with his mind calm, and listened carefully with his ears pricked up.

"Lai De, what's wrong?" When Ji Anni saw that Lai De suddenly stopped leaving, she opened her eyes with some worry.

Lai De closed his eyes and said, "My Lady, listen, can you hear the sound of flowing water?"

After hearing this, Ji Anni realized that Lai De suddenly stopped because he wanted to find the source of water by the sound of water. So Ji Anni also followed Lai De's example, closed her eyes, and listened quietly.

In the darkness, there was indeed a faint sound of water coming from somewhere.

"It's this way, my queen." Lai De said as he carried Ji Anni on his back and rushed towards the water source.

Soon, a clear stream appeared before their eyes. The water in the stream shone with silver ripples under the moonlight, which was both beautiful and mysterious.

After quickening his pace and running to the stream, Lai De put Ji Anni down from his back and said, "My lady, be careful."

Ji Anni's lower body was still somewhat paralyzed, unable to move. She lay half prone by the stream and scooped up a handful of cool water. As soon as the cold temperature touched her fingertips, her chaotic consciousness suddenly became clear as if awakened by the cold. Just as she leaned over to drink water, she suddenly found a strange object floating in the river.

"Lai De, look, what is this?" Ji Anni pointed to a piece of cloth in the river.

The scrap of cloth was yellow, a color that could only be used on the emperor's clothes.

"My queen, look over there!" Lai De looked upstream along the stream and saw a figure lying on the bank of the stream in the darkness.