Chapter 174: Praying Mantis Catches Cicadas
Shangguan Kongyue asked people to follow Bailiqing's carriage, and the result was reached at dusk, and Bailiqing didn't go anywhere after returning home.
But what did he do with the talisman he threw at him?
At this time, the prince and his entourage were almost in Tingzhou, and in the past few days, all they saw on the road were emaciated displaced people, and the closer they got to Tingzhou, the more victims they saw. Those people stared at them with wolf-like eyes in their eyes, wondering if they had been hungry for a long time.
In order to show his benevolence along the way, the prince will give things to the victims when he meets them on the road, and then leave the way down in their gratitude to Dade, he feels that he has saved a lot of people, and every time he gives those people food and clothes, he will have a sense of accomplishment in his heart, but this is not enough, he is the prince, the future emperor, to govern a country.
Now about to enter Tingzhou, the prince wanted to reach out and open the window of the carriage, but was blocked by a white hand, the prince looked at the people around him with a smile: "How to block the main hall." ”
"Your Highness, Tingzhou is in the midst of a plague, many of the people I saw along the way are sick people, Your Highness should not open the window, Ruo'er is worried about His Highness's body. Xue Ruo'er said as soon as her body went weak and fell towards him.
The prince hugged her tightly and said: "If you are still intimate, everything is for the sake of the palace, you also need to be more careful when you bring you here, and don't have contact with infected people." This time the main hall is just going through the motions, even if the main hall has powerful means, it can't solve the plague in Tingzhou, this is known to everyone. So even if the main hall didn't do anything, the people in the court wouldn't say anything. ”
"Your Highness is wise, the gentleman does not erect a dangerous wall, this time His Highness went out and was also persecuted by those ministers in the court, and when His Highness went back, how could they still have the face to say that His Highness did not do well. Xue Ruo'er was dressed as a pink maid.
Because the prince went to Tingzhou for disaster relief, he naturally couldn't bring women openly, but the maids could still bring a few, and the prince simply brought Xue Ruo'er alone, and there was no one else to wait.
This practice has also won the praise of some ministers in the DPRK and China, saying that the crown prince has reduced the amount of maids and served the country and the people.
The prince listened to Xue Ruo'er's words and was silent for a moment and said, "Those ministers will not jointly write a letter to let the main hall go to Tingzhou for no reason, someone must be manipulating this matter." ”
Xue Ruo'er's eyes flickered, and her voice was worried but soft: "Then who will let His Royal Highness the Crown Prince leave Kyoto for Tingzhou?
"The people behind the scenes want the life of this temple!"
Xue Ruo'er covered her mouth in surprise, and said after a while, "Your Highness, this ...... Don't you scare Ruo'er, if that person wants to be unfavorable to you, why did he want you to leave Kyoto, wouldn't it be too much to do in Kyoto?"
"Ruo'er doesn't understand, if the main hall stays in Kyoto, under the nose of his father, those people don't dare to do it. ”
"Your Highness, what's going on?"
"Ruo'er rest assured, my father sent a master to guard the palace, and it will be fine. ”
"Really?" Xue Ruo'er looked at him with a smile, and the charm flashed in her eyes.
"It's nature. After saying that, he kissed Xue Ruo'er on the lips, and the figures of the two were stacked on top of each other.
The convoy moved forward slowly, and there were many people guarding the front and back of the luxurious frame, so to speak, that not even a fly could fly in.
After a while, I heard a female voice from inside the carriage: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has ordered a temporary rest." ”
As soon as these words came out, all the carriages and horses stopped, and they all knew that this was the only maid by the prince's side, and it must have been the prince's order, because it was the maid who passed the word every time before.
When everyone stopped to trim, Xue Ruoer calmly got out of the carriage, and then walked slowly into the distance.
She had only walked a few steps before someone shouted, "Where is the female officer going?"
Xue Ruo'er turned around and said: "Don't dare to be called a female official, if you go back to the general, the slave maid wants to look around to see if there is a water source, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wants to know the situation around here." ”
The general looked at her, nodded and said, "Leave this matter to us, you still go and wait for the prince, don't go around." ”
"General, the slave must go to this matter, otherwise he will be punished by the prince, the prince has always said yes, since the slave and maid are allowed to do this, if the slave and maid do not go, they will be punished, and please don't help the general, the slave and maid tutorial is good, and it will not be delayed for a long time." Xue Ruo'er said softly.
"Okay, okay, you go quickly, you must return before the sun sets, otherwise it won't wait for you. As he spoke, the general pointed to a few soldiers and ordered, "You follow her, don't meet the homeless on the road." ”
"Ruo'er has thanked the general, thank you big brothers. Xue Ruo'er saluted again, and walked into the distance with five soldiers.
The general looked at her back and always felt that something was not right.
In the distance, the old man saw the scene here clearly, and followed in the direction of Xue Ruo'er, following them for a long time is too boring, today is finally a little different, this woman is not ordinary.
Xue Ruo'er walked forward without saying a word, the five soldiers had been following her, at first they could follow closely, but when they came to the back, they found that no matter how much they sped up, they couldn't keep up with her, and she could always turn around and look at them when they wanted to tell her to stop, telling them to hurry up, the strange thing was that every time she looked at her, she would listen to her and do it, and follow her all the time.
After a while, Xue Ruo'er stopped, and the soldiers behind also stopped.
"Thank you for sending you off, it's time for me to send you to meet your wise and martial Highness the Crown Prince. Xue Ruo'er said and turned around slowly, holding a blade as thin as a cicada's wing.
"What do you want to do!" they looked at the woman in front of them in horror, they had sensed something was wrong before, but they couldn't help but follow her.
"Of course I'm sending you on your way. As the words fell, a white light flashed in their eyes.
It was Xue Ruo'er who shot so fast, so fast that they hadn't reacted yet, so fast that they could only catch a pale white light with their eyes, so fast that they heard her say before they felt pain: "It's easy to walk all the way." ”
Only then did they look down at the neck that was slowly oozing blood because of the pain, a very narrow knife mark on the neck, and the knife was in the woman's hand, she was slowly wiping the bloodless knife.
The five men tried to speak, shouting, but a mouthful of blood spurted out of an opening, and then the blood on their necks flowed faster, and they all fell to the ground, not dead, but definitely not alive.