Chapter 381: Desert Chase.

Yelu Xuan, the national teacher of Western Hu?
That grand master who has just been promoted to the top of the world?

But how could National Master Ku He die at his hands, and in the territory of Xihu!
Zhan Doudou and the Queen Mother listened to the news from the eunuch with bated breath, their eyes wide open, still with an expression of disbelief.

Could it be?

When National Master Ku He returned to the country with Li An, he turned around and went directly to Xihu to assassinate Grand Master Yelu Xuan!
Why doesn’t Ang Lee try to persuade Master Ku He?

We in the Great Qi Dynasty have lost such a great figure!
Zhan Doudou's legs went weak and he was about to fall backwards, but luckily the eunuch was quick-witted and caught the little emperor, preventing him from falling.

"Your Majesty! Don't worry, we have to find out everything before we can draw a conclusion!" The Queen Mother looked calm, but her trembling voice still revealed her inner panic. "Master Ku He is a great master. Even if Yelu Xuan, who is also a master, is his enemy, he will not die so easily!"

“All this may be a misunderstanding!”

The more the empress dowager spoke, the more certain her tone became, as if this was how it should be.

"The Empress Dowager is right. Your Majesty, please stay calm and don't worry about damaging your health!" The eunuch said this when he saw that the little emperor had calmed down.

But just as the little emperor stood firm, the empress dowager's legs and feet became weak and she sat down on the ground.

The eunuch quickly pulled him and shouted to both sides: "Come over and help His Majesty and the Queen Mother!"

After a flurry of activity, the hall finally quieted down.

"How many people know about this matter? " Zhan Doudou came to his senses, grabbed the eunuch's sleeve and asked anxiously.

"This"

The eunuch recalled briefly and confirmed: "Apart from me, there were only the spy who received the carrier pigeon and the eunuch who delivered the message to the palace."

"Lock up everyone who passed on the message, go!"

"His Majesty?"

"Expand the scope a little bit, and detain and guard everyone, regardless of whether they have read the news or not." Zhan Doudou seemed to have thought of something, and his face turned a little ugly. "Don't let the news spread out. Pay attention to whether there are any rumors in Shangjing City these days. If there are any, arrest the people who spread the news!"

"Yes!" The eunuch walked to the door, said something softly to the two guards, and left without looking back.

Judging from its direction, it is heading towards the Black Ice Platform.

After the eunuch left, two guards walked into the hall and arrested several maids and eunuchs. After Zhan Doudou gave orders, a new group of servants entered the hall and waited.

"Your Majesty has done a great job. We cannot let the country fall into chaos now." The Queen Mother was in a bad state when she heard the bad news, but she still kept comforting Zhan Doudou, "We still have Li An, the Imperial Master. The Great Qi will not fall into chaos."

The country is already at war with Dongyi City and Nanqing, and there may be another war with Xihu later. This is a critical period. If Northern Qi becomes chaotic first, the consequences will be unimaginable!
Zhan Doudou gritted his teeth and said, "I understand what my mother said, but I will write to Li An and get an explanation!"

"inappropriate!"

The Queen Mother shook her head. "We can wait for Li An to write to us and explain everything, but we can't write to ask questions. There is already a great battle going on on the front line. Wouldn't it distract the Imperial Master if we write to him?"

What the Queen Mother didn’t say was that this move was also extremely inappropriate.

Li An is the only Grand Master in Northern Qi now, and he must be given due respect. Moreover, he and Doudou will be married soon after the battle, so there must be no coercion. How could Doudou not understand what the Queen Mother said?

But now she just wanted to act according to her own temper. She grabbed Li An in front of her and asked him loudly, is this true? When Li An invited Ku He to come out of the mountain, he promised her that the two of them would not be hurt on this trip. Why did he let Master Ku He stay alone in a foreign country?

When another group of maids and eunuchs took over their duties and walked into the hall, they only saw the scene of His Majesty and the Queen Mother holding hands and sitting on the chairs.
Xihu, prairie.

It is called a grassland, so it should be all green. However, everyone who has actually been to the grassland knows that there is not only green grass on the grassland, but also desert Gobi.

Not to mention that the weather has been weird in the past two years, and the climate has been abnormal, hotter than in previous years, resulting in a shortage of water and grass in the Western Hu Kingdom, showing a bit of a disaster. Although it is winter now and the temperature has dropped, the cattle, sheep and horses have not stored too much fat, so people can expect that this winter may be a bit difficult.

If not for this, some tribes of the Northern Barbarians would not have risked great disapproval to join the Western Hu.

Ku He and Yan Xiaoyi rode on their horses, galloping across the desert, stirring up a cloud of dust.

The horses he was riding had been replaced. The two previous horses could not bear the weight and had long been killed by Yan Xiaoyi for their meat to satisfy his hunger.

This time, they were not as lucky as before to encounter a small tribe, so there was a force behind them chasing them. In order to take care of Ku He, Yan Xiaoyi sometimes had to stop and fight with them.

They have been wandering in the territory of Xihu for more than ten days. The news should have reached Yelu Xuan's ears, but he has never shown up. Perhaps he has been avoiding them.

Yelu Xuan understood that the two men's target was him, so he just planned to consume the two of them and did not show up. At the same time, he was also using these people to test Ku He's condition. His intentions were extremely vicious.

Unlike Southern Qing and Northern Qi, Western Hu did not have many fixed buildings or cities.

Except for the royal court and border military towns, most of the people were in the form of tribal nomadic migration, which also brought great trouble to the two.

This went on for several days. After seven days and seven nights of chasing and running, Yan Xiaoyi fought and retreated. However, today, he was still caught up by the pursuers and surrounded here.
There seemed to be several masters in the opposing camp, and the leader had a martial arts skill level above the eighth rank!

Although the Western Hu Kingdom was swept by Yelu Xuan, the damage to the martial arts world was not too great. Although it is not as prosperous as the Northern Qi and Nanqing countries in terms of geography and martial arts, it still has many masters. Perhaps this person was recruited by the court for this reason.

Yan Xiaoyi's arrows were all empty at this time, and he had no choice but to fight the enemy with the curved blade on his black gold bow. However, Ku He had no intention of taking action from beginning to end.

Several masters jumped up, and the eighth-rank master sat calmly on the horse's back, looking for Yan Xiaoyi's flaws.

Several scimitars are sharp and ferocious, and every move leaves no room for maneuver, fully demonstrating the brutal style of Western men!

Yan Xiaoyi had a grim expression. Although he was injured and exhausted, and almost at the point of being exhausted, he still killed two people in a row, forcing the others to fight desperately!
The fierce battle reached a life-and-death moment, and in an instant, a huge sandstorm suddenly hit.

Yan Xiaoyi's eyes flashed with enlightenment, as if he understood something from this storm, "So, is this how we exposed our whereabouts?"

"They have learned our news and intelligence. General Yan has also discovered it. They have been chasing us for a long time without using bows and arrows. They are worried that you will have replenished your arrows and become a huge threat again."

Ku He's face was calm, as if there were only a few wind and waves blowing against it.

He had a feeling.

Perhaps, the meeting with Yelu Xuan will not be too far away.

(End of this chapter)