"Whoa!" Zhou Tong reined in his horse and looked at the two forks in front of him, then turned back to shout at Shang Mingjie: "Which way do we go?"

  Shang Mingjie was blown dizzy by the wind. He steadied himself, swayed left and right, and finally pointed to the road on the right: "This way!"

  Zhou Tong rode his horse and headed down the road on the left, while Shang Mingjie reluctantly followed behind him, with the two young servants silently following behind.

  The four horses galloped towards Suzhou, they made a clean choice, but the people chasing behind let out a sigh of despair when they saw the fork in the road, and got off their horses to study the footprints, wondering where they had run to.

  They certainly knew that each other would definitely go to Suzhou, but after being deceived so many times, they really didn't know if the other party would take the road that everyone knows.

  These two roads are official roads, and there are many people walking on them at ordinary times. There are carriage tracks, hoof prints, footprints, and various other marks. After they analyzed them, Shang Mingjie and the others opened up a distance again. Along the way, they relied on such skills to shake off the people behind them, which even made Zhou Tong feel extremely surprised.

  The sky was getting darker, and their horses were also tired and started to tremble. The four of them dared not ride again, got off the horse, pulled the horse and walked into the woods by the side of the road to hide their tracks.

  Xianyuan and Yinquan worked hard to break off a branch, erase the footprints leading into the forest, and then sneak back deep into the woods.

  The four of them huddled together pitifully, the horse hanging its head and panting, the people weren't much better off either. Shang Mingjie and the others had been running for three days, their legs were so tired that they could hardly lift them up now, and their buttocks were already numb.

  Xian Yu took out a cloth package from his bosom, pulled out a dry pancake and divided it into four pieces. The two larger pieces were given to Shang Ming Jie and Zhou Tong, while the remaining two pieces, each about the width of a finger, were shared between himself and Yin Quan.

  Zhou Tong held a pancake and stared blankly at the collar of Ya Ba's clothes while he was washing his inkstone.

  Xianzhen turned around and blocked his line of sight, saying: "Young Master Zhou, our dry rations are running low, we need to save some for tomorrow. If we can't find the village, we'll go hungry."

  Zhou Tong glared at Shang Mingjie in anger, "It's all your fault, what kind of road did you lead us on? We've been lost for three days now."

  Shang Ming silently lowered his head.

  Xian Yu was indignant, "Young Master Zhou, if it weren't for our young master taking a wrong turn, who knows, we might have been caught by now."

  "Hmm," Zhou Tong grunted, his face stubborn. "It seems we should be grateful that he took the wrong road. If it were correct, we would have returned to Suzhou by now. But instead, we still don't know where we are."

  Shang Mingjie lowered his head and took a bite of the biscuit, saying: "Anyway, walking in the southeast direction won't be wrong."

  What else can Zhou Tong say?

  He lowered his head and took a big bite of the biscuit, almost cracking his teeth.

  He made a great effort to swallow, and the Silver Spring immediately handed him the water bottle. Zhou Tong drank water while silently crying: "I just got engaged, God must bless me to return safely to Suzhou."

  Shang Ming said quietly: "I haven't engaged yet."

  "Shut up," Zhou Tong glared at him, "It's all because of your meddling, otherwise we wouldn't have gotten into this kind of trouble."

  Shang Ming Jie furrowed his brow, somewhat disapprovingly saying: "So we're just going to watch as the Zhong family's army falls into a desperate situation and do nothing? Brother Zhou, isn't our studying and learning for the sake of the country and its people? When we see injustice, can we really just stand by and do nothing about such a major event that concerns national security?"

  Zhou Tong's face turned red as he shouted, "I didn't say I wanted to stand by and watch, but you're being too reckless! If we hadn't been careless, how would we have been discovered before even leaving Ezhou?"

  Xianyuan and Yinquan hurriedly covered his mouth, now even Yinquan was not standing on the side of Young Master anymore. "Young Master, please keep your voice down, we are escaping for our lives."

  Zhou Tong pulled down their hands and continued in a low voice, "Besides, if you hadn't gotten us lost, we wouldn't have ended up fleeing for our lives like this. Originally, it would've taken only three days to rush to Suzhou on horseback, but you said we ran for three days, and now where are we?"

  Shang Mingjie retorted in a low voice, "Then don't you also not know the way?"

  "You're the one who gave directions!"

  "Two young masters, stop quarreling. Now our top priority is to work together and hurry back to Suzhou. As long as we enter Suzhou, we won't be afraid of those villains behind us." Yinquan didn't want the two young masters, Shang Mingjie and his own master, to fall out with each other. Two people are not as safe as four people after all.

  Moreover, being overtaken by the person behind him, it was actually more infuriating for Shang Ming Jie. Although the other party's kung fu was also mediocre, it was still kung fu after all.

  Unlike the young master of his family, he is good at riding horses but really bad at fighting.

  Zhou Tong and Shang Ming Jie exchanged a glance, both let out a hum of discontent in unison, then turned their backs to go to sleep.

  Yin Quan and Xi Zhen exchanged a helpless glance, then quietly lay down next to their master.

  They just didn't dare to sleep soundly, and as soon as there was a slight movement, they would wake up with a start. Moreover, although it was summer, the temperature at night was still quite low, and most importantly, there were many mosquitoes in the forest.

  But they didn't dare start a fire and even swatting mosquitoes had to be done quietly.

  Fortunately, Shang Mingjie had some mosquito repellent with him, which was very effective. He applied some to his exposed skin and sprinkled some around him. Although one or two stubborn mosquitoes still flew over to bite him, it was much better than being surrounded by a swarm of them.

  Ke Shangming Jie was heartbroken, "This is a gift from my cousin, I didn't expect to use it up so soon."

  Zhou Tong rolled his eyes and spent another night, he was even more disheveled. The water was for drinking, so of course he couldn't wash his face, so he simply wiped his face with a towel and pulled the horse out, "Take advantage of the sun not being too big to hurry on the road, if we encounter a relay station we'll change horses."

  Shang Ming Jie quietly followed up.

  The four of them urged their horses on and continued on their journey at a rapid pace.

  Zhou Tong firmly believed that if Shang Mingjie went left, then going right must be correct. If it was a three-way fork in the road, he would take the southernmost one. In this way, they randomly chose their route and only asked for directions when they encountered people. On the third day, they finally saw a swaying canvas by the side of the road with "Qingfeng Teahouse" written on it in large letters.

  Shang Mingjie and Zhou Tong were almost in tears, Zhou Tong wiped his face and looked at Shang Mingjie with anticipation, "There's only one Qingfeng Teahouse in this world, right?"

  "Even if it's not the only one, there is only one teahouse on the official road."

  Yin Quan and Xi Zhen twitched the corners of their mouths, pointing to the high mountain on the other side: "Young master, why don't you look at Qingfeng Mountain? Isn't that mountain more remarkable? You won't even recognize your own school, will you?"

  Zhou Tong and Shang Ming Jie turned their heads to look, finally silently turning around to hug each other, sobbing: "It's really Qingfeng Mountain! We've finally come back!"

  The two of them were consoling each other, but they didn't even notice Qingfeng Mountain!

  Yin Quan twitched the corner of his mouth, just about to speak, when he suddenly heard the sound of horseshoes. They hastily turned their heads to look and immediately let out a shrill cry, "Young Master, run quickly! They're after us!"

  Zhou Tong and Shang Mingjie had developed a conditioned reflex, without even turning their heads, they whipped up the horses and ran.

  Shang Mingjie fell behind Zhou Tong by a step, and the wind and sand were all pouring into his mouth, but he still shouted loudly: "Run to Lin's aunt's place——"

  Zhou Tong heard it and rode his horse desperately towards Lin's family villa.