Sanzhuyi is a station between Lingshan Fairy Township and Jinhua City, thirty miles away from Jinhua City.

This is one of the most important transit points for correspondence and personnel exchanges between the two places.

The post station is located in a vast bamboo forest, with the road in front of the door and surrounded by tall and towering green bamboo forests. The scenery is very good. Legend has it that there were no large bamboo forests here at first, only three phoebe bamboos. Later, after thousands of years,

Only then did it grow to this size.

Therefore, when this post was built, it was named Sanzhu Post.

We set off in the morning and arrived here just in time at noon. Then a guard entered the post station and asked the post officer to prepare lunch.

This was a custom. Every time Jin Ling went to the palace to cure Shang Zhen, he would have lunch here.

"Lao Hu, you have already received the news that you are going to settle here. What delicious food have you prepared for us today?" the young man said to the post officer who greeted him at the door.

The post station is jointly managed by the military and the local immortal government. The post officer here is surnamed Hu. He is in his fifties and looks very ordinary, like an old farmer in the countryside. Although the place is small and the people are inconspicuous, he is a real seventeenth grader.

The rank is higher than Jin Ling's current official position.

"I received the news the day before yesterday." The post officer Lao Hu said with a grin, "Yesterday morning, I asked those incompetent cubs to hunt a few wild pheasants in the bamboo forest. They had them scalded and plucked early this morning, and then released them.

It has been stewed in a stone pot, and is as rotten as crisp mud. It has an attractive aroma and melts in your mouth. I am sure it will not disappoint His Highness and Your Majesty."

Lao Hu took the people to prepare lunch.

Jin Ling and Shang Ran were invited to rest inside the inn, while other entourage guards were waiting outside the door.

For some reason, Jin Ling felt a little uneasy from the moment he entered this station area and the border of the bamboo forest. This feeling was inexplicable, and he didn't know the reason or direction.

Shang Ran also frowned slightly and kept looking at the bamboo forest around him, his expression becoming more and more solemn.

"Your Highness, do you also feel that something is wrong?" Jin Ling asked.

"Quiet, *quiet." Shang Ran looked into the depths of the bamboo forest. "I have been marching and fighting for many years, and I have learned a truth. If you encounter a very quiet forest without even the roar of animals and birds, there is probably something hidden in it.

It’s a huge risk.”

"Yes, I feel the same way." Jin Ling said with a serious face.

"You mean, someone will come against us?" Shang Ran asked.

"If I were the enemy of your great brother, or the enemy of King Shang, I would definitely make a desperate move and send people to intercept and kill him. Only if I die, your father's poison will not be cured.

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As he spoke, Jin Ling slowly pulled out the Ant Sword from behind, gathered his thoughts, and carefully sensed the abnormalities around him.

But soon after, he gradually relaxed and waved to Shang Ran: "Your Highness, let's go, the chicken is ready."

...

Deep in the bamboo forest outside the inn, there was a group of hunched-over men in black, about twenty of them, wearing black scarves and covering their faces, carrying various immortal weapons on their backs. They held their breath and hid under the shadow of a huge clump of bamboo.

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The leader of the man in black had a pair of sharp eyes. He kept looking intently into the sky. From his angle, he could just see the chimney of the inn through a bamboo trunk.

I don't know how long it took, but smoke began to rise from the chimney.

Seeing the smoke, the men in black immediately became energetic. The leader waved his hand, and then rushed towards the inn. Everyone followed closely without saying a word. When they were less than a hundred feet away from the inn, the leader raised his hand again.

Everyone stopped again and half-crouched on the ground.

...

In the restaurant of the inn, the aroma of overcooked wild pheasant meat is so fragrant that it makes people's index fingers itch.

"It's delicious." Jin Ling held a huge chicken leg in his hands, his mouth full of oil and his hands full of oil.

"Have you always been so careless about your manners when eating?" Opposite her, Shang Ran frowned. The pheasant meat in front of her was cut into strips with her personal knife and placed neatly on the plate.

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Then, she used chopsticks to pick them up into her mouth one by one.

"I was born in the countryside, and I grew up as a wild beast, so I don't have any manners." Jin Ling said with a smile, "It's not like you were born into a royal family and learned so many rules since you were a child. But..."

He changed his tone and said, "I'm very surprised. It's not easy for you to eat in this way and live in the military camp for so long without starving to death."

In that dream world, he joined the army, and when the brothers in the Eagle Soul Team were eating, they all looked like starving ghosts reincarnated. When the food came into their mouths, they almost didn't need to chew it, and they went straight to the stomach.

Intense training has turned them into hungry wolves whose eyes glow green when they see food.

Shang Ran choked.

In the city defense army camp, who dares to starve her majestic princess?

Suddenly, both of them stared at the same time and stood up.

They felt the auras of some immortals approaching the inn quickly, and there were quite a few of them.

After swallowing the remaining chicken leg meat in three mouthfuls and spitting out the bones, Jin Ling jumped out of the door, holding the Ant Sword in his hand again.

Shang Ran followed closely with his war gun in hand.

"Your Highness, what's wrong?" the guards eating outside the inn courtyard asked.

"Don't eat any more!" Shang Ran shouted sternly, "Something's wrong!"

There were about twenty guards. Upon hearing this, they all put down their jobs and formed a vigilant formation, guarding Jin Ling and Shang Ran in the middle, facing the bamboo forest.

The perceived aura of the immortals is getting closer and closer.

In fact, it will soon be no longer necessary to use the perception of immortality. There are layers of footsteps in the bamboo forest, the sound of the body rubbing the bamboo stems and leaves, and the sound of human breathing, getting closer and closer.

At the end, more than twenty men in black rushed out of the bamboo forest and stood out in front of them. Lights of immortal power flashed on each of them, and a cold light flashed on the immortal weapons in their hands.

"Who are you!" Shang Ran shouted sternly, "I didn't know this was a post station for the Kingdom's military, or that we were members of the royal family! How dare you come to disturb us!"

The leading man in black did not answer, but just waved his hand. Then, all the men in black raised their left hands. On their wrists, they were equipped with exquisite iron sleeve arrow mechanisms, each with three arrows.

Sharp iron short arrows.

"Let it go!" the leading man in black ordered.

The people in black pressed the sleeve arrow mechanism at the same time, only to hear bursts of "whoosh" sound piercing the air, and dozens of sleeve arrows rained down quickly on the royal guards.

Something happened suddenly. The men in black came well prepared, but the royal guards did not expect that they would suddenly release arrows from their sleeves. They immediately screamed in agony, and seven or eight people were hit by arrows.

Jin Ling waved his ant sword, and an airtight sword rain danced in front of himself and Shang Ran, knocking away many sleeve arrows in a row.

Shang Ran's weapon was a spear. It was inconvenient to defend against such small arrows, so he took on the responsibility of protection.

"Thank you." The girl nodded to him.

"Kill!" After casting a round of arrow rain, the men in black untied their sleeve arrow traps in unison, threw them on the ground, and then charged forward with their immortal weapons.

The few royal guards at the front who were hit by arrows were attacked by men in black with swords before they could retreat, and died tragically on the spot.

"I have long thought that such a day would come." Jin Ling sighed, stepped forward, and received the attack from a man in black.
Chapter completed!