Chapter 20
Aunt Jiaoxi answered, and walked ahead to guide me. On the winding corridor, I was a few steps away from her. Concubine Xiao Guifei governs the six palaces, and this stereotypical aunt is her person nine times out of ten. I exchanged a look with Jinglan, and she quietly picked up a piece of masonry on the side of the road and lightly followed Aunt Jiaoxi.
"Princess, I have already ordered someone to ......" Aunt Jiaoxi had just turned around, and before she finished speaking, her face suddenly changed, and she immediately rolled her eyes and fell to the ground.
I stared at Jinglan with wide eyes in horror, and Jinglan looked down in disbelief at the masonry still in her hands. "Gong ...... Princess, look...... Blood!" With a low cry from Jinglan, I looked down and a dark liquid flowed like a thin stream of water through the soles of my feet, and a stream of blood spread through the air. I took two steps back, and in the dim moonlight, I saw Aunt Jiaoxi's eyes widen and a silver arrow pierced deep into her back.
I pulled Jinglan and pricked up my ears, not letting go of every move around me, suddenly there was a slight sound behind me, I immediately turned around, and a black shadow fell in front of my eyes, "Princess, it's me." Changsheng, dressed in a black night robe, walked over and whispered to me, "Princess, there are assassins in the Jinyun Mansion!"
My eyelids jumped, and I subconsciously looked around, and there was a dead silence in the darkness. I stared at Aunt Jiaoxi, who was lying in a pool of blood, and asked Changsheng, "You didn't kill her?"
Changsheng shook his head and said in a low voice, "I just looked around and found this. As he spoke, Changsheng took out a silver arrow that had broken half of its side, and the white arrow feathers were exactly the same as the dark arrow that killed Aunt Xi.
"Princess, will the assassins come at you? Let's run away!" Jinglan had never seen such a battle when she left the palace for the first time, and she was already pale with fright.
A light breeze blew, and the blood mixed in the air drifted away, and it was surprisingly quiet in all directions, and Princess Jinyun's mansion was shrouded in dim moonlight, hiding countless unknown dangers.
"If it comes for me, then I'll wait here. I straightened the hem of my clothes, stepped straight over the corpse of my aunt, turned to Jinglan and said lightly, "The Turkic greeting team will come tomorrow, so let's rest early." β
Changsheng and Jinglan looked at each other, and Jinglan followed me in two steps, but she still looked around with anxiety. Changsheng followed us closely and didn't stop until the door of the dormitory, "Princess, I'm staying outside the door tonight, you can rest assured." β
I nodded, and when I was done, I lay on the bed but couldn't sleep, as soon as I closed my eyes, my eyes were full of scarlet, it seemed like a fire and it seemed to be a pool of blood, and there were countless terrible whimpering and screaming in my ears, I desperately tried to open my eyes but found that I couldn't do anything.
As I struggled, a black figure emerged from the flames, blood stained on his face and shirt. He trampled over millions of rotting corpses under his feet, and held a blood-dripping sword in his hand, as if he had descended from the purgatory of the asura, and walked towards me.
- "Blackie, I'm back. β
"Jiuro!" I sat up from the bed abruptly, my heart beating violently in my chest, panting for breath for a long time. Jinglan, who was lying in the outhouse, was awakened by the noise in the room, lit a candle and walked in. It was not yet dawn, and the cold sweat on my forehead almost soaked through my long hair.
"Go and call someone to prepare the bath soup, and I can make up after I have bathed." I got up and put on my blouse and said to Jinglan. Sitting alone at the dresser and waiting, I carefully looked at the woman in the bronze mirror, and the cunning brilliance that once flowed in my eyes was gone, leaving only a cold.
Youzhou Thorn Shi thought to be a person of interest, even my dresser was arranged by him on the splendid vase, the fragrance of the flowers, I couldn't help but reach out to stroke one of the peach blossoms, but I didn't want my hand to touch the petals as soon as they fell. Looking at the few remnants of flowers on the sandalwood dressing table, I suddenly felt a little depressed.
"Princess, something is wrong! all the minions and maids in the mansion have been killed!" Jinglan rushed in in a panic, knocking down countless vases, tables and chairs along the way, making a messy sound of ping-pong.
"Where did Changsheng go?" I asked, picking up a few petals in one hand.
Jinglan shook her head, her expression changed, and she exclaimed: "Changsheng won't be killed too!"
I smiled indifferently, but my hand clenched into a fist, "Naturally not." The hour is coming, so wait for me to bathe and change my clothes. "Let go of my hand, and the petals that I had already crushed fell to the ground alone.
Jinglan added some soothing herbs to the bath soup for me, and the white smoke was in front of me, and the straight people were groggy. "Princess......" Jinglan called me uneasily, "are we in danger?"
"How can you not be worried and afraid?" I said lazily, and asked rhetorically, "The enemy is dark and I am clear, and I can't even figure out how the other party is coming. β
My words were very calm, but Jinglan was scared a lot, seeing her uneasy look, I tried to joke: "Right now, I know that I have suffered a crime by following my master, I have no other skills, it is still okay to protect you as a girl, otherwise I will be sorry for you to call me a princess for more than ten years." β
When Jinglan heard this, her eyes turned red, and she said: "The princess is really willful, this has nothing to do with you, why did you come to take this risk? β
Through the hazy mist, I looked at Jinglan quietly, and after a while, said, "I'm only here for one person this time." Others see me as a pawn to fight, and I just want to know what I am to him. β
"Princess ......"
"Acacia Jun is known to be long, and the exquisite dice are long. The most infatuated Chang'an guest, you should know the meaning of this thing lovesickness...... "I muttered this poem to myself, Jinglan had nothing to say, she was silent, and said to me, "Princess, the slave maid or go out to find immortality." β
I waved my hand at her and ignored her. As the sky gets brighter, the bath gradually cools. I soaked in the water but I felt so weak that I couldn't stand up. A large, rough hand caressed my exposed back, scribbling all the way, causing countless goosebumps on my body.
"Who?" I asked, but my voice was inexplicably weak. I turned my head to see who it was, but I was blindfolded by his other hand. I was wrapped in a thin shirt, almost transparent in the water, and the situation was very dangerous, and I tried to break free but I couldn't use all my strength, and just as I was about to open my mouth to call for help, an evil voice sounded in my earsβ"Princess, we meet again." β