Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

Chapter 342 Separated

"It's a person, it's a person..." Ji Annie looked at the black shadow intently. The black shadow was motionless, as if it was unconscious.

"Empress, could it be... could it be..." Lai De rubbed his eyes. The bright yellow color not far away made him naturally think of a person who could not possibly appear here.

Seeing Lai De stuttering, Ji Anni finished the following words for him in one breath: "Could it be the emperor?"

The faint yellow color under the moonlight is exactly the same as the color of the dragon robe.

"My queen, I'll carry you over to take a look." They were about ten steps away from the figure. Lai De was worried about leaving Ji Annie alone by the stream, so he carried Ji Annie back on his back and ran towards the direction of the figure.

Although Lai De looked thin and weak, his movements when running with Ji Anni on his back were powerful and agile, just like a trained special forces soldier. Ji Anni looked at him with admiration again.

The two came closer, squatted down and took a closer look. Ji Anni screamed in fear: "Your Majesty?"

The unconscious man with mud all over his face had a face that Ji Anni was very familiar with, that was Long Mohan's face.

There were two rows of messy horse hoof prints on the soft soil by the stream. It must have been that Long Mohan fell off his horse while trying to escape here.

Although he was lying on the river bank, his hair and clothes were all wet. It was probably because he fell off his horse and used up his last bit of strength to struggle back to the shore from the water, and then he fainted due to exhaustion.

Ji Anni rolled down from Lai De's back, patted Long Mohan's cheek, and called softly, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, wake up..."

Long Mohan let out a "hmm..." sound in response. It seemed that his consciousness had not yet completely fallen into a coma, but his exhausted body was temporarily unable to move.

"Your Majesty, are you okay? Are you hurt?" Ji Anni helped up his upper body, which was frozen stiff.

"Your Majesty, the emperor's clothes are too conspicuous. Please help him take them off first and let him wear mine." Lai De said as he took off his coat.

Long Mohan's dragon robe was usually shiny enough, and today, in order to match the grand ceremony of Princess Tianning's wedding, he specially wore more gorgeous clothes. The bright color, even if covered with mud and sand, still reflected the bright moonlight like gold, and it could be seen from a long distance. Otherwise, Ji Anni and Lai De, who were fetching water from the stream just now, would not have discovered him lying on the river bank.

Just as Ji Annie was helping Long Mohan change his clothes, Long Mohan gradually woke up, opened his weak eyes, and glanced at the person next to him.

"Zhao...Ji..." The moment he recognized Zhao Ji, Long Mohan thought he was hallucinating.

When Ji Anni heard Long Mohan's call, she opened her eyes wide with excitement and shouted loudly, "Your Majesty, are you awake?"

Her response made Long Mohan more sober. The person in front of him was not an illusion, but Zhao Ji. No... to be more precise, the person in front of him was not Zhao Ji, but a shell of Zhao Ji, whose soul had long been replaced by someone else. If the person in front of him was really Zhao Ji, he would never make such a loud scream.

She is not Zhao Ji, Zhao Ji has long been missing...

The disappointment at this moment made Long Mohan close his eyes again.

"Lai De, please carry the emperor to a safe place first." Ji Anni pushed the weak Long Mohan into Lai De's arms.

Long Mohan's gorgeous and dazzling dragon robe had been stripped off, and his crown had long been lost. Now, judging from his appearance, he was no different from an ordinary person except that he was very handsome. Fortunately, Ji Anni and Lai De found Long Mohan first, otherwise if he had been found by the rebels first, he might have been in danger of his life.

"Empress, what will happen to you if I carry the emperor away on my back?" Lai De was weak and could only save one person at a time. If he could carry Ji Annie, he couldn't carry the emperor; if he could carry the emperor, he couldn't carry Ji Annie. Unfortunately, Ji Annie's right foot was injured and the emperor was unconscious. Neither of them was able to walk alone and needed help to move.

In this dark place where one might encounter rebels or wild beasts at any time, Lai De really couldn't feel at ease leaving either Ji Anni or the emperor behind.

"It's okay, Lai De, take the emperor to a safe place first, then come pick me up." Ji Anni said as she took off her luxurious coat. This way, even if she accidentally ran into the rebels, she could just lie and get away with it. If it was known that she was the queen in the palace, she would be in big trouble after becoming a hostage.

"Your Highness, this is my first time here in the woods. I'm afraid that after I settle the Emperor, I won't be able to find my way back to your place." Lai De scratched his head anxiously. He had a weak sense of direction since he was a child and often got lost. If he left this place now, he would definitely not be able to find his way back.

"What should I do?" Ji Anni frowned and subconsciously looked around. She happened to see a tall tree not far from her. A branch of the tree stretched out at hand height. The branch was just the right size to be made into a walking stick. So she asked Lai De to break off the branch and use it as a walking stick. With the help of the branch, she finally stood up on her own.

"My queen, doesn't your foot hurt?" Lai De looked at the injured ankle of Ji Annie worriedly.

"It's okay, it doesn't hurt at all. Lai De, you carry the emperor on your back, and I will follow behind you, so that you won't get separated." Ji Anni forced a confident smile to comfort Lai De.

In this dangerous situation, Ji Anni could only let him down. Lai De carried Long Mohan on his back and turned to Ji Anni and said, "My queen, let's walk for a while and then take a break. If you can't hold on any longer, call me and we'll stop and rest, okay?"

"Alright, alright, go ahead." Ji Anni pushed Lai De's shoulder. At her feet were the discarded court clothes that she and Long Mohan had just taken off. The sooner they got away from here, the safer they would be.

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In the dark woods, Lai De carried the groggy Long Mohan on his back and walked forward step by step with difficulty. As he walked, he asked Ji Anni behind him with concern: "Madam, are you tired? Do you want to stop and rest? ...Madam, I saw a shadow that looks like a house in front of us. It seems that there is a house. Madam, let's go over and knock on the door."

Lai De saw the shadow of the house in the darkness as if he saw hope. His exhausted body was filled with energy again, and he ran forward with Long Mohan on his back. As he ran, he subconsciously looked back at Ji Anni.

The moment he turned his head, his body suddenly couldn't move, because he found that there was only a mess of tree trunks behind him, and there was no sign of Ji Annie at all.

"My queen..." Lai De's mind went blank. When did Ji Annie disappear? Lai De had no idea.

It was impossible to carry the emperor to find Ji Anni, so Lai De had to choose to place Long Mohan in the house in front first, and then return to find Ji Anni. Gathering the last bit of strength in his body, he carried Long Mohan on his back and ran to the shadow of the house in front, only to find that it was not a family, but a small wooden house for woodcutters or hunters to rest temporarily.

The room had probably not been used for a long time. As soon as the door was opened, a thick cloud of dust blew in his face, choking Lai De and making him cough.

Lai De pushed aside the spider webs blocking his view and carried Long Mohan to the left corner of the cabin. This place was close to the window, so the light and air were better than other places. Lai De took off his coat, swept the dust on the floor and walls, and then put Long Mohan in the corner.

At this time, Long Mohan let out an unconscious whimper from deep in his throat. Lai De thought he had woken up, but when he looked closely, he found that he still had his eyes closed and did not show any signs of waking up. Perhaps the whimper just now was just an unconscious reaction after being choked by the dust.

After Lai De hurriedly put Long Mohan down, he rushed out to look for Ji Annie.

In the darkness, he couldn't tell the directions and could only follow his intuition to search forward. He didn't dare shout for fear of attracting criminals, which made the search more difficult.

In fact, Lai De had gone in the wrong direction. Ji Anni was walking in the opposite direction of him, leaning on a cane and walking with difficulty.

About half a quarter of an hour ago, she was so tired that she could not see straight. She stopped to rest for a while. When she opened her eyes again, she found that Lai De was gone.

It was impossible for Ji Anni to say she wasn't scared when she was left behind in a strange forest late at night. The strange thing was that she was so tired that she couldn't even feel scared. She felt nothing except tiredness and pain. Her body leaned forward slightly, and with a "crack", the branch that served as a crutch was broken by her.

Ji Anni fell to the ground with her whole body stiff. When she landed, her face was facing downwards, and her nose was almost flattened. After falling, she no longer had the strength to get up, so she had to turn over and lie on her back. Looking at the dense branches above her head and the faint moonlight shining through the branches, she suddenly felt much clearer in her mind.

What should I do now? I left the palace, my right leg was injured, and I got separated from Lai De. It seemed as if all the bad things happened at the same time.

It has been ten days since he was taken out of the palace by Yan Niang and accidentally entered the Ghost King's seal.

On the first day after returning to the palace from the Ghost King Cave, Ji Anni slept for the entire day in Wenhua Courtyard.

The next day, she suddenly heard that Prince Ming was not eating, so she went to the West Palace with the Emperor to visit the sick Prince Ming. Unexpectedly, she learned that Concubine An had been secretly in love with Long Mohan since she was a child. This was really unexpected. In addition, on this day, the news that Princess Tianning had granted Kang Xiaorong a marriage spread rapidly in the palace at a speed faster than the speed of light.