Evil Doctor Princess - Chapter 260
Chapter 260 Legend of the Water Ghost River
Yin Xun asked, “Royal Brother, are we separated from the army here?”
Yin Mu nodded. He turned his horse around and said to Ye Cheng, “Ye Qing, I have told you before that you will bring your army from the dry road to Chaisang. We will go by water with the other generals and meet up with the Fourth Prince first.”
Ye Cheng cupped his fists and said, “The last general’s decree.”
Yin Mu instructed, “You have to pay attention, you are leading an army, you are not expensive, you must be stable, you absolutely must ensure that all the soldiers reach Chai Sang safely.”
Ye Cheng said, “Your Majesty’s words will be engraved in my heart. I will definitely not let the bandits have an opportunity to take advantage of it.”
Only then did Yin Mu feel relieved and left by water with a few people.
When Bai Junzhuo heard their conversation just now, he was puzzled. How could hundreds of thousands of soldiers be afraid of bandits? Which gangster didn’t go around them when he saw them.
After thinking about it carefully, he suddenly had a guess and quietly asked Yin Xun, “Is Yin Ji still alive?”
Yin Xun nodded.
“No wonder. So it’s to prevent Yin Ji from attacking the army.” Bai Junzhuo murmured and asked Yin Xun, “Why hasn’t Yin Ji died? A person like Yin Mu shouldn’t have the benevolence of a woman and should have done something like letting a tiger go back to the mountains.”
“Because he is my brother after all,” Yin Mu suddenly stopped his horse and turned to Bai Junzhuo. “I’m not the kind of person who has the heart of a snake and scorpion. After all, Big Royal Brother has the bloodline of the Yin Family with me. Of course, I won’t kill them all.”
Bai Junzhuo curled his lips. This person was as ubiquitous as a ghost.
Yin Xun smiled and said, “Don’t blame me, Royal Brother. Jun Zhuo is just curious and has no other intentions.”
“Of course I know that she has no other intentions.” Yin Mu said to Yin Xun, then looked at Bai Junzhuo and said, “It’s just that it’s a bit rude for the Ninth Princess to call me by my name behind her back, isn’t it?”
Bai Junzhuo wanted to say something to him, but he remembered what happened last night, so he said to him in an estranged tone, “This official woman knows her crime. She will definitely not offend His Majesty again in the future.”
After Yin Mu heard this, he laughed loudly and said, “I am not such a stingy person. I was just joking with the Ninth Princess.”
Bai Junzhuo smiled and said, “It’s good that His Majesty is happy.”
This conversation seemed to have ended unhappily. Yin Mu didn’t care. He went to talk to Yin Xun again and said, “Ninth Brother, do you remember how you were able to dump me a few miles every time I raced with you when I was a child?”
Yin Xun said, “I know that Brother Huang deliberately pretended to be inferior to others in order to express his weakness to Empress Dowager Fu. I also know that Brother Huang’s true strength has never been revealed.”
“Let me show you today.” Yin Mu laughed arrogantly and said to him, “Let’s compete with each other to get to the ship that I have prepared. If I arrive first, all expenses incurred by us on our way to Chaisang by water will be yours. If you arrive first, all expenses will be mine.”
When Bai Junzhuo heard this, he silently despised Yin Mu in his heart. The expenses incurred in this march were originally counted as Yin Mu’s. Therefore, if he lost this match, he would not suffer a loss. If he won, he would earn a lot.
If it wasn’t for the fact that she didn’t want to talk to him, she would have argued with him so that she wouldn’t have watched Yin Xun do this business at a loss.
Yin Xun was very confident and said to Yin Mu, “Alright.”
As the two of them spoke, they simultaneously dismounted from their horses and began to run.
Bai Junzhuo sighed helplessly. Fu Mingyue, who was beside him, heard the horse approaching her and said to her, “This is the first time I’ve seen His Majesty so spirited, like a young man with unrewarded ambitions.”
“I saw it last night. Your Majesty is truly a multi-faceted person. Sometimes he is calm and dark, sometimes he is light and bright, making it hard for others to see through him …” This was truly terrifying.
However, Fu Mingyue misunderstood what she really wanted to say. She stared at her side face for a long time and said, “Yes, everyone in this world is the same. The more fascinating things are, the more attractive they are. Isn’t His Majesty treating you exactly like this?”
Just now, Bai Junzhuo was cursing Yin Mu in his heart. He didn’t hear what Fu Mingyue said, so he turned around and said, “What did you say? I was distracted just now, but I didn’t hear you.”
Fu Mingyue shook her head and said, “I didn’t say anything.”
“Really?” Bai Junzhuo blinked his eyes. Seeing that Fu Mingyue had moved her face away from her, he guessed that Fu Mingyue was angry. He asked her, “Mingyue, I was wrong. I won’t be absent-minded when I talk to you in the future.”
Fu Mingyue helplessly smiled and said, “What are you apologizing for? How could I be angry with you for this?”
When Bai Junzhuo heard what she said, he hurriedly nodded and said, “Yes, yes, you and I have known each other for a long time and are my best friends. How can you be angry because of such a small matter?”
Fu Mingyue only chuckled and did not say anything.
Bai Junzhuo looked to the roadside and pointed at the flower on the roadside. “Mingyue, look at that flower. Is it the flower that bloomed on the ground and slowly returned?”
Fu Mingyue looked in the direction of her fingers and nodded, “It should be. However, I have never liked such flowers.”
Bai Junzhuo asked curiously, “Why don’t you like it? How beautiful the flowers are.”
“Because of the name ‘Mo Shang’, I always think of strangers.” Fu Mingyue’s eyes were slightly absent-minded. She sighed and said, “Back then, she was young and charming, and her love was stronger than gold. However, in the end, she had to look like strangers and even harm each other because of some things. How could I like flowers like this?”
Bai Junzhuo said helplessly, “Mingyue, you think too much. Leave your sadness to autumn. Now is the right time for spring. Let’s enjoy it. Don’t worry about anything else.”
Fu Mingyue pulled out a smile and said, “You’re right.”
The two of them chatted and laughed. Soon, they caught up with Yin Xun and Yin Mu. Seeing the two of them drinking tea in the teahouse by the river, everyone dismounted from their horses and walked over. In an instant, they surrounded the teahouse. At the center were Yin Mu and Yin Xun. They didn’t let anyone near them, so it was convenient for them to talk.
Fu Mingyue smiled and asked the two, “May I know who won this match, Your Majesty and Ninth Prince?”
Yin Mu replied, “Who knew that when I and ninth brother rode their horses to the shore, the people here said that they wouldn’t be able to board the boat until noon, so I and ninth brother had no choice but to cancel this competition.”
Fu Mingyue was puzzled, “Why did you have to wait until noon before boarding the ship?”
Yin Mu shook his head and said, “I don’t know either. It seems to be a custom in Hanzhong.”
Hearing his words, Bai Junzhuo went outside to find an old fisherman who was squatting at the door drinking tea and asked, “Master, are you here to catch fish?”
The old man raised his head and looked at Bai Junzhuo. Seeing that she did not look like a bad person, he nodded.
Bai Junzhuo asked again, “I heard from the people here that you can only sail at noon. Then you must be able to fish at noon, right?”
The old man nodded again.
“Why?” Bai Junzhuo asked, puzzled.
The old man stared at her for a while, then approached her and said, “Are you from another place?”
“Yes,” Bai Junzhuo nodded.
The old man pointed at the surface of the lake and said, “There are ghosts in this lake. At noon, the sun energy is the heaviest. We can catch fish and sail for two hours. If we do these things at other times, the ghosts in the lake will drag us in and eat them!”
Bai Junzhuo thought to himself that the Li Kingdom’s education was really uncivilized. Other than the rare superstitious people in Chang’an, all the other places were filled with these completely unbelievable legends of ghosts and gods. Especially her scroll. What else could she say about summoning Yin Weapons? Who would believe such nonsense?
However, Bai Junzhuo was not worthy of breaking the rules of Hanzhong because of this. This time, they secretly took the waterway to Chaisang, so they shouldn’t be too high-profile on the way.
He thought that there was still some time left and right until noon, so he chatted with the old man and said, “Master, you said there was a ghost in the river. What kind of ghost is it? Have you seen it jump out and eat people with your own eyes?”
The old man sat down on the threshold and said to her, “Girl, I told you not to believe me. Half a year ago, there were many people who jumped into the river and sailed without a return. At that time, no one in Hanzhong realized that it was the ghosts and gods.” When I went fishing that day, I accidentally walked far away, and almost reached Shen Shi without turning around. At that time, a large boat suddenly appeared in the middle of the river. The few of us fishermen saw that the boat looked particularly gorgeous. There were probably a lot of gold, silver, and jewelry inside. Seeing that there was no one outside the boat, we boarded the boat together. And guess what? ”
Bai Junzhuo thought to himself, “Did you see a sea monkey or a forbidden woman?” Going graveyard robbery?
The old man continued, “The cabin is dripping with blood, but there is no one inside! Think about it, if the original people in the boat were killed, then there should be a corpse, right? But we haven’t seen a corpse either! So, it’s obvious that they were eaten by the water ghost!”
When Bai Junzhuo saw that the old man’s words were vivid and vivid, and did not seem to be fabricated, he thought carefully for a moment and asked, “When you boarded the ship, did you go check to see if the blood was hot?”
The old man shook his head and said, “Who would find blood? However, we found some food on the boat that they didn’t eat. Those food are all hot!”
“Ah!” A scream suddenly came from behind Bai Junzhuo. She was not frightened by the old man’s story, but was rather frightened by the scream. Turning around, she saw that it was Fang Yi, the maidservant beside Fu Mingyue.
Seeing that Xingzi Ju’an and the others were surrounding him and listening attentively to the old man’s nonsense, Bai Jun Zhuo stood up and said, “Alright, alright, alright, there’s no ghost in this world. It’s almost noon. We’re ready to board the ship.”
The old man also stood up and said to Bai Junzhuo discontentedly, “You are being disrespectful to the water ghost. Be careful of getting retribution!”
Even if Bai Junzhuo did not believe this, he would still be unhappy to be cursed by an old man. He said to him, “Alright, I know I was wrong. I apologize to the water ghost.”
Only then did the old man feel satisfied and said, “It’s best for you to find a local to bring along the boat, because the lake is often filled with fog. Without the local people on the boat, it would be very difficult for you to get out of Hanzhong alive.”
Yin Mu seemed to have already found a local to lead the way. Other than that, the people who sailed the ship and the boatmen were all locals. Bai Junzhuo said to him, “Thank you for reminding us, sir. We’ve already found a local.”
The old man nodded and put on his bamboo hat, as if he was an expert from another world. He picked up the fishing net and said, “It’s noon. I’m going fishing!”
Yin Mu and the others also stood up. It’s noon, so it’s time for us to go on our way.
