Mountains and rivers are waiting for you to return

Chapter 300: Be Her Daughter

Their bodies cast shadows in the blue mist, so they were discovered.

Pei Nai watched as they lit the torches on the stone wall. Three lines of fire burned all the way down, accompanied by the sound of mechanisms, forming vertical fire lamps that illuminated the area below.

The soldiers guarding the mine, wearing protective masks and holding weapons, jumped onto the lifting ladder.

The mechanical ladder, which was exactly the same as the one in the underground mine of the Valley Kingdom, started to work, slowly sending the soldiers down.

Yu Min was a little flustered, "Let's run, they are coming!"

Perhaps because the poisonous gas here was too strong, the blood that Yu Min fed her lost its effectiveness, and Pei Nai was poisoned at this moment.

Her hands and feet felt weak, hallucinations appeared before her eyes, and she felt nauseous and vomiting. Her fingers were so numb that she could hardly make a fist.

She knew that without the antidote, she wouldn't even be able to make it back to the cave.

"Go get the last medicine, prepare the antidote and give it to me." Pei Nai said to Min.

Pei Nai actually didn't have much hope. She wanted to get Yu Min away and help him deal with these soldiers, so that at least she could go back alive.

"Okay!" Yu Min obeyed, turned around and ran to the end.

Pei Nai forced himself to stand up straight, took the Lingyue Spear with his backhand, and faced the soldiers rushing towards him in a daze.

She slashed with her spear, cutting through the enemy's armor, taking life after life, and breaking through countless attacks.

The number of enemies dropped sharply, and soon another batch of soldiers was sent down.

Pei Nai killed the people in the front row again, but then his strength became weaker and weaker, and he couldn't even perform his moves properly, and a strong feeling of nausea appeared again.

She almost doubled over in pain.

The soldiers surrounded her, their blades reflecting the firelight, and advanced towards her.

With her life hanging by a thread, Yu Min strode back, roasted the freshly picked medicinal plants over the fire lamp, and put them into the small stone pot in her hand.

While shaking the stone pot, he ran towards Pei Nai.

Finally, she threw the stone pot to Pei Nai and shouted, "Catch it!"

Pei Nai reached out to take the stone pot, unscrewed the wooden stopper, and poured the antidote made by Yu Min into his mouth.

The antidote went down the throat and into the body. After a few breaths, the symptoms of the poison gradually eased, and Pei Nai's consciousness slowly became clear.

She used the Palm of Compassion to stop the enemy who was rushing forward, while retreating and waiting for her body to recover.

When Pei Nai's right hand was able to clench its fingers tightly, she couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh: "Mian Min, you are such a genius!"

The spear was no longer an obstacle, and he chopped and then attacked.

The sharp light drew thin golden arcs, tearing through the evil fog, and hitting metal, stone and iron armor, causing flesh and blood to be torn apart.

It seemed like in just a few blinks of an eye, Pei Nai cleared out the enemies.

She looked up at the top of the canyon. Although she couldn't see any human figures, she was sure that there were still enemies alive there.

Pei Nai squatted down, "Mian Min, come up, I'll carry you, and we'll leave from here."

Yu Min never asked any questions. She climbed up sensibly and hugged Pei Nai's neck.

Pei Nai jumped onto the rock wall with his light Kung Fu skills, grabbed the rope of the ladder, and then used the force to continue climbing and jumping.

The enemies above noticed her intention and began cutting the ropes.

Pei Nai threw away the broken special thick rope in his hand in time, jumped sideways in the air, grabbed another rope, and jumped again before the opponent could continue to attack.

In this way, she carried Yu Min on her back and jumped onto the flat ground at the top with the help of the protrusions on the rock wall and the uncut rope.

After leaving the poisonous fog, the view before our eyes became clear with the help of the torches around us.

Yu Min jumped off her back, and Pei Nai once again faced the garrisoned enemy.

The spear was swung open and closed.

The tip of the spear blasted out a shocking white wave, and the fierce light was filled with murderous intent. It swept forward diagonally, unhindered in its path.

The enemy's bodies fell to the ground.

There was no remaining scream, only the twitching of the limbs, telling everyone that this was an unsolvable crushing battle.

Three people who had been watching from a distance survived. They rode fast horses and fled into the distance.

"They ran away, shouldn't we chase them?" Yu Min asked a rare question.

Pei Nai shook his head, "We are going to catch a big fish. We learned this from your uncle Da Xi. He loves fishing the most."

Yu Min's little face was full of confusion. She didn't understand, but she was still obedient and didn't ask any more questions.

After waiting for a while, Pei Nai picked a fast horse and took Yu Min to catch up with the three fleeing people.

They traveled along the mountain roads and left the uninhabited area at dawn.

Following the hoof prints, we finally arrived at a county town.

Pei Nai did not stop, but passed through the half-closed city gate, knocked out the guards on duty, and chased all the way to the county government office. Pei Nai stopped his horse outside the county government office, dismounted and commented: "It is indeed protected by the local county, and it is also a complex industrial network."

A few minor officials alone could not mobilize their own soldiers, so she had not yet lit the fireworks for help. She wanted to use them to catch the real mastermind behind the scenes.

Yu Min stood beside her silently, looking around curiously but not saying a word for fear of causing trouble for her.

Before entering the county government office, Pei Nai asked Yu Min seriously, "Mian Min, you saved my life, and I like you very much. I want to ask you, are you willing to be my daughter?"

Because Mingzhi's body frame was too small, Pei Nai suffered heavy bleeding when giving birth to Gu Yuli. She survived that time, but after that, Gu Jinheng no longer allowed her to have more children.

Therefore they never had a daughter.

When Yu Min heard this, his mouth slightly opened and he stood there in a daze. Then the shock in his eyes was covered by joy.

She nodded sharply.

Pei Nai still found it funny, and Yu Min agreed to her request without even knowing who she was.

Perhaps for Min, the person who saved her from the abyss is worthy of all her trust.

Pei Nai carried Yu Min on his back and climbed over the wall and entered the county government office.

She followed the sound, bypassed the patrolling soldiers, and arrived at the side window of the main hall.

In the main hall of the county government office, a group of people were kneeling on the ground.

The three soldiers who had escaped were among them, reporting the attack on the mine to the two men in the first seat.

"Long spear?!" A man in the first seat swept all the tea sets to the ground, "Whatever you fear will come true!"

Another man angrily yelled at the people below: “Didn’t I tell you to evacuate first?!”

"Mining has been stopped for the past two days and the evidence has been destroyed. We went down because we saw some movement down there," a soldier explained tremblingly.

Several county officials stood nearby, and one of them asked in confusion, "What's wrong with the spear? Why are you so panicked?"

The man on the first seat answered him, "Why do you think we came here overnight?! The Western Border Army of Qilu, the army of Duke Duan Ding, and part of the Pei family army were all dispatched two days ago to search for someone near the mountain area. How many people in the world can cause such a big commotion?!"

"You mean, the person who attacked the mine was Pei Nai?" asked the county magistrate.

The other person in the first seat forced himself to calm down and asked the person who just got angry: "What should we do now?"

"I hope Pei Nai has left. Go and destroy the bodies and armor of the soldiers quickly to make sure they cannot be identified, and then withdraw. As long as there is no evidence left, even if Pei Nai points to the armor, we can say that the army lost its equipment and cover it up to get away with it."

Pei Nai poked Yu Min and asked her to help translate.

Yu Min lay on her back and asked through the window in Qilu language: "What if Pei Nai didn't leave?"

Everyone inside was horrified.

Someone shouted, "Where did this child come from?!"

Pei Nai put Yu Min down, took her hand, and walked around to the main entrance of the hall.

An official shouted outside, and countless guards rushed into the yard and surrounded Pei Nai and the others.

One of the men on the first seat knelt down the moment he saw her, his lips trembling and a look of resignation on his face.

Although Pei Nai had already returned the Hu Huan to Da Xian, even in front of the Qilu army, Da Xian did not admit to taking back the Hu Huan.

He was a dishonest person to the end, so after he ascended the throne, every time Pei Nai went to Qilu, all the royal family members and ministers would kneel down and kowtow to her.

Every time Gu Jinheng was around, he looked very bad.

So Pei Nai was not surprised to see the person in front of him kneeling down.

"Kezhu Hun, why are you kneeling when Emperor Ming is not here?!" another man in the first seat said gritting his teeth.

Pei Nai had also seen the two people sitting on the first seat. The one who spoke was a vassal king of Qilu, but Pei Nai could not remember his name.

But Pei Nai remembered the kneeling middle-aged man clearly, because he was the fourth brother of Da Xian's mother, Ke Zhu Hun.

"Isn't it just in time that Pei Nai came?! We just need to kill her and get rid of all the traces. There won't be any handle left, and we can even cover up He Sui's location!" The prince was so excited that his face was ferocious, and he stared at Pei Nai sinisterly.

He waved his hand and ordered the guards to move.

Pei Nai said "Oh", turned to Min and said, "Where are the fireworks I taught you to use to ask for help?"

Yu Min took out a firework stick from the small bag he made of branches: "Here!"

"You can let it go now."

Yu Min did as he was told, rotating the stick toward the sky and lighting the fuse with a flint.

The prince's eyes widened with anger, and he shouted, "Stop her now!!"

But it was too late.

Blue and purple distress fireworks exploded in the sky, meaning: there is an enemy attack, but the situation is controllable, reporting location and requesting emergency support.

(End of this chapter)