[Two hundred and sixty-seven] Night return to the palace
Jiang Chengjia endured the pain on his arm and pointed at Liao Yuncheng to Nian Qian.
Liao Yuncheng was frightened and said guiltily: "Miss Axiu is injured. Doctor Nian should take a look for you first. After a long battle, this pain can still be endured... I didn't come to save Junhou and Miss Axiu in time, but I blame myself for how dare I..."
He said several words, and Ning Nanyou interrupted directly: "Liao Yuncheng, don't talk nonsense. You have to deal with your injuries quickly, just listen to A Xiu's."
Liao Yuncheng choked up and looked at Lang Jun's face. A trace of deepness and gratitude appeared in his eyes, and he no longer refused. Nian Qian walked towards Liao Yuncheng with the medical box.
"The killers at night have stronger martial arts skills than the two teams in the daytime. The three waves of people wear different clothes and different levels of martial arts skills. It seems that they were not sent by the same person. I guess the three of Junhou's father and brother took action."
Jiang Chengjia whispered in a low voice: "I just don't know... what's the significance of such as an assassination? They all know that you have a guard around you, and you will protect each other when you encounter danger. Why do you have to waste your energy doing such a thing?"
"Of course, my father tried to test me, and wanted to see if I had cultivated my own power in the army and whether I had colluded with my uncle's Lin Song army in private. As for Ning Nankun and Ning Nanqing, they hated me and were very concerned about the seal of the Jingshuwei in my hands. Such assassination has never stopped for decades. Even if I can't take my life, it can disturb me. I force me to give up the control of the Jingshuwei step by step, which will be considered as achieving the goal."
Jiang Chengjia sneered: "They are really doing everything."
Ning Nanyou turned his lips and turned the topic away: "This assassination interrupted your travel plan. I will accompany you later."
"It's such a night. If you travel, what if there is an ambush around you? I'll just go by myself."
Jiang Chengjia did not agree, but Ning Nanyou insisted on saying: "After the matter tonight, all three teams of troops have been eliminated by the Jingshu Guard. In such a miserable defeat, it is not easy to allocate personnel, so they will not continue to order people to attack the camp tonight. Therefore, it is safe for me to accompany you, so you can rest assured."
Jiang Chengjia couldn't resist him, so he had to say, "Well, if you want to accompany him, please accompany him."
Liao Yuncheng was listening beside them, and actually wanted to ask where A Xiu's wife was going. But when he saw the appearance of Junhou and the girl silently, he felt that he could not interfere, so he could only endure the doubts. While hiding his mind, he sighed at the passing of time. Unexpectedly, after just a few months, the lord was no longer the queen, but this girl named A Xiu. I wonder what the Huaiyin Marquis Mansion would be like when the lord returns to the capital.
He sighed and looked at his lord and Axiu's wife intimately, and he couldn't help but feel aggrieved for the Jiang girl waiting in the capital.
Jiang Chengjia covered her wounds and quietly mediated her breathing, but she felt a chill on her back inexplicably. She frowned, slowly turned her eyes, looked at the chill, but turned her head to look over, but found that it was Liao Yuncheng looking at her. She was stunned for a moment, as if she saw a hint of repulsion in the eyes of the young man.
She muttered in her heart, a little confused. After thinking about it carefully, she finally shook her head and laughed, afraid that Liao Yuncheng would misunderstand her like Cao Yong.
After Nian Qian treated Liao Yuncheng's injuries, he rebanded the wound on his arm for the girl.
After everything was done, Jiang Chengjia didn't want to waste any more time, so he pulled Ning Nanyou and stood up and said, "Judge, please put on your cloak, let's go and go back quickly."
Ning Nanyou nodded, stood up immediately, held her side, and said gently: "Be careful, although the wound is not serious, you still have to pay attention."
He protected her in his arms, took off the ink-green cloak from his clothes, draped it on the two people, and then took her towards the outsider.
Liao Yuncheng wanted to ask, but the boy and girl disappeared in a flash and did not give him a chance at all.
It was quiet at first, and people were asleep. A layer of white and transparent curtain was laid in a quiet and peaceful scenery.
Time flies, flying like clouds and mist, and it passes in a flash. The days pass by bit by bit in the repeated back and forth of day and night.
It was the new night again. In Luoyang City, thousands of miles away, a shadow was rushing on the dark and languid path, running towards Pingleyuan, the royal palace. The Huai Palace, which is comparable to the palace, is located in this Guo District.
At this moment, the candlelights above and below the palace had been extinguished, and only a bookstore hidden between the courtyard and the corridor was still lit with a faint fire.
The rushing shadows walked around the soldiers guarding outside the door, flashed like phantoms, climbed over the high wall, avoided the servants and maids holding lanterns in the corridor, and ran towards the library.
"King Dai!"
"How is it? How is my rebellious son performing in Liangzhou?"
The door of the bookstore was covered in a faint shadow, and the shadow slipped in silently. Under the dim candlelight, a slender and tall middle-aged man stood with his back to the door. When he heard the shadow call him, he asked softly.
The shadow half-kneeled down, bowed his fists and said, "Reporting to the King of Dai, the Marquis of Huaiyin did not collude with Cao He, the eldest son of the King of Punishment, as Deng Qing said. On the contrary, his subordinates found that Cao Fu had met with Dou Xiaosanlang of the Zuo Fengyi Dou family and an envoy from Ye Kongge in private.
According to his subordinates' observations and judgments over the past few days... The Marquis of Huaiyin has nothing to do with the many things that happened in the border town of northern China. The Cao He mentioned in Deng Qing was also very likely to be pretended by Cao Fu, and his subordinates found the regular clothes that Cao He wore in his tent.
This is very likely to be a plan made by Your Majesty in conjunction with Xiaosanlang of the Dou family, Cao Fu and the people of Ye Kong Pavilion. The purpose is to provoke your already unstable cooperative relationship with the King of Pingding... and make you have doubts about the Marquis of Huaiyin."
"Is this really the case?"
"Yes, my subordinates dare not hide it. We will tell you everything based on the truth."
"So...what about Shen Youzhi? How did he? Did he do anything unusual?"
"Master Shen has been by the side of Changshan Hou, and there is nothing strange about it. But... the subordinates found that it was not only the two teams of troops sent by Dai Wang that were privately attacking Huaiyin Hou. For two consecutive days, in addition to the dead soldiers sent by Dai Wang, there were five waves of assassins who wanted to take the life of Huaiyin Hou."
"What?"
The middle-aged man standing in the shadow of candlelight was slightly shocked, with his eyebrows closed, his eyes filled with some concern, and he asked restrainedly: "How is he? Are he injured?"
"Please rest assured, King Dai. The Marquis of Huaiyin is very skilled in martial arts. Although he was injured on the battlefield, he seemed to have recovered a lot. Beside him, the Supervisor Liao Yuncheng appeared in time to protect him. The assassin was unable to get close to him, so it was fine."
"I have to know the other five teams..."
"Reported to the King of Dai, my subordinates specially asked someone to check it out. All four of the assassins were from the Marquis of Changshan, and the remaining team was sent by Chenliu County."
"As soon as it happened? Chen Youzhi, Chen Youzhi... you just want to kill my son? This way of provoking the relationship between Mingyuan and Zhaoyuan... it is obvious that I want to be unable to get along with my Prince Huai Mansion."
Ning Zheng pondered for a moment and coldly told the shadow behind him: "I now suspect that some days ago, Boyuan and Mingyuan were sued by unknown people one after another, and caused trouble in the court, so that both of them were driven out of the capital by the emperor's children were related to Chen Youzhi. You should check the whole story carefully. In addition, select four people to go to Changshan overnight. Be sure to keep a close eye on Chen Youzhi and report his every move to me."
The shadow answered repeatedly: "Yes, I follow the order."
"The subordinates have something to report. Recently, a mysterious woman appeared beside the Marquis of Huaiyin. This woman was called A Xiu by Liao Yuncheng and his subordinates around Junhou... Strangely, her subordinates could not find out any of her origins, and found that the Marquis of Huaiyin treated this woman with a very different attitude, and seemed to cherish her very much. This woman also treated Junhou very well, and... called him Erlang."
Ning Zheng said suspiciously: "A woman? Have you never seen her by Zhaoyuan?"
Shadow said: "I don't know this woman. It's my first time meeting at the post station. My face is very unfamiliar. I also went to listen to it. It is said that when the Marquis of Huaiyin was seriously injured and unconscious in the border town of Northland, the woman was taking care of her tirelessly day and night."
"That's true...that's Zhaoyuan's life-savior. If you report this to me, except that you can't find out the origin of this person, what's strange about this woman?"
The shadow replied: "This woman... knows martial arts and has extremely high martial arts skills."
"You can do martial arts? Are you sure?"
The shadow cuts the railway line: "It's true, I saw it with my own eyes that this woman had fought with the assassin to protect the Marquis of Huaiyin."
Ning Zheng felt strange in his heart, and his eyes were a little cold: "A martial woman appears next to Zhaoyuan? Could it be... a girl from Jiang?"
"I will ask the people in the mansion to investigate this matter. You can hurry back to Liangzhou while you are fast, continue to stare at Zhaoyuan, pay attention to the every move of the woman beside him, and don't worry about anything else."
"Here, I understand."
Shadow lowered her head, saluted to the middle-aged man's back, and said, "If the King of Dai has no other instructions... I will take my leave first."
Before Ning Zheng could reply, the shadow quietly left the door and disappeared into the night.
The huge palace fell into silence again. Ning Zheng turned off the lights in the bookstore, opened the window and stared at the Yinshuang in the yard, Leng Sen reached his eyes. He closed his eyes silently, recalling the many past events of his youth, and when his mood was surging, there was a knock on the door outside the house.
"King Dai... It's late at night, the queen sent a servant to ask, aren't you resting?"
Outside, there was the maid whom Queen Huai was serving her intimately. She asked in a low and gentle manner, with a sense of caution.
Ning Zheng was shocked, his thoughts were forcibly interrupted, and he came back to his senses and said, "Tell the queen, let her rest. Today I will not go back to the main house to sleep."
Cao Xiu's stubborn and unwilling face appeared in his mind, and was discomfortable by her eyes full of hatred and hatred in his memory.
A crow sounded outside the window, desolate and sad.
Chapter completed!