Chapter 111: Kill
There were more and more quarrels between Qi Rui and Yan Dong, and the mutual confrontation between the two in terms of political views became more and more intense, but after more than ten days, the news came out that the eldest prince was mainly reconciled with the concubine.
Qi Zhao came to Xi Yunzhi's small courtyard as usual and told them about the situation.
"They want to reconcile, Qi Rui actually slapped Yan Dong on the spot, ouch hey, almost suffocated me from internal injuries."
He peeled a grape and stuffed it into Xiao An's mouth, and his eyebrows fluttered as he spoke.
Xiao An didn't expect to eat grapes at this time, and he couldn't wait to eat several in one bite, Xi Yunzhi saw that he didn't spit out the core, so he hurriedly ran over and spread his palm under his small mouth, and said:
"Spit out the pits, or the grape seeds will sprout in your belly."
Xiao An looked sad and cried: "I ate it...... Mother, will my stomach break? ”
"......" Xi Yunzhi sighed, glanced at Qi Zhao, who could only feed things, and hugged Xiao An to his lap, who knew that Xiao An's butt was not stable, so he was hugged by Bu Tan again and put on himself.
"Yan Dong's face turned green on the spot, and I felt sorry for him."
Qi Zhao also peeled a grape for himself, and after eating it, he said to Xi Yunzhi: "By the way, I want to eat Sixi Balls today, you make more, I will go to the palace to watch the night at night." ”
Xi Yunzhi nodded, and then went to the kitchen, and the two brothers-in-law got together again and talked for a while.
In the evening, Bu Qin put his arm around Xi Yunzhi and said:
"Brother Lu has news again, Lu Heng and Brother Qin have been rescued, and they will be waiting for me in Liaoyang half a month later."
Xi Yunzhi raised his head from his arms: "Half a month? ”
"Hmm." Bu Qin saw that her expression was different, and couldn't help but say again: "I have already explained the key points of the future deployment to my brother-in-law today, you don't have to worry about them." ”
Xi Yunzhi slowly shrank himself down again, leaned on Bu Tan's chest, listened to his steady heartbeat, nodded, and said, "Okay." ”
***
Early the next morning, before dawn, Bu Qin arranged everything, and after Xi Yunzhi got up, he saw two carriages parked outside the courtyard.
Bu Qin didn't let her do anything, and directly let her get into the car, and then the people in the courtyard were busy for a while, and then they all got into the carriage.
Xiao An was told by Bu Qin not to sit on Xi Yunzhi, although he himself was very dissatisfied with this request, but he did not dare to challenge his father's authority, Xi Yunzhi saw him sitting pitifully on the soft bunk, so he touched the top of his head, and took out pastries from the baggage to satisfy his hunger, Xiao An was in a better mood.
Xi Yunzhi looked at Bu Tan, who had been lifting the curtain and looking out, and couldn't help but ask worriedly:
"Shall we just go out like this?"
Bu Qin looked at the empty street in the morning for a while, and took a deep breath: "Even if you go out, you will be chased in less than half a day." ”
Xi Yunzhi couldn't help but worry when he heard this: "I was chased, what should I do?" ”
Bu Qin gave her a comforting look and said, "Don't worry." ”
Because of Xi Yunzhi's embarrassing identity, they are not wanted in Qi after all, so it is relatively simple to get out of the city, but, as Bu Qin said, they have not completely walked out of Youzhou City, and they were chased by a team of chasing soldiers ten miles outside the city.
"Bu Qin, you and my account, let's end it today."
Dressed in a strong suit, he led a hundred cavalry to stop in front of their two carriages.
Zhao Yi and Han Feng jumped down from the position of the car, stood side by side in front of the carriage to make a defensive gesture, Bu Qin lifted the curtain from the carriage in front of him, and saw Yan Dong with a murderous face, and couldn't help but give him a sarcastic smile.
Yan Dong didn't want to talk nonsense with him, and with a wave of his hand, more than a hundred cavalrymen turned over and dismounted, drew their swords, and rushed up to the carriage.
But at this moment, a rain of arrows shot through the clouds, killing all the cavalry around the carriage.
Qi Zhao galloped from a distance, holding a bow in his left hand and an arrow in his right hand, and shot a fierce arrow at Yan Dong, but he was separated by Yan Dong's struggle, although he didn't shoot, but he successfully lifted Yan Dong off his horse.
After this delay, Qi Zhao rode his horse to them, and instead of Yan Dong's men and horses, he surrounded the two carriages to protect the people in the carriage from danger.
"Do the three princes know who they are protecting? He is the general of Xiao State, how many soldiers of our Qi State died in his hands, if you want to protect him, are you not afraid that the soldiers of Qi State will say that you are in a foreign country? Seeing that it was Qi Zhao, Yan Dong didn't dare to do anything directly against him, but decided to attack him with words first.
Qi Zhao stared indifferently at Yan Dong under the horse, and after a long time, he put down his bow and arrows and said to him:
"Everyone knows that Bu Tan, the general of Xiao State, has long been dead, and what I am protecting now is my sister and brother-in-law of the same father and mother, how can I talk about foreign countries?"
Yan Dong had already learned about the relationship between Xi Yunzhi and the third prince Qi Zhao from Qi Rui, and at this time, hearing him confirm it like this, he had nothing to say, and he didn't want to argue with him meaninglessly, so he hugged his fists at Qi Zhao and said:
"The three princes forgive their sins, and on the orders of the eldest princess, they came to eradicate the traitors, if the three princes deliberately stop them, then don't blame Yan for not distinguishing between dignity and inferiority."
Qi Zhao hooked his lips and smiled: "Hmph, arrest the traitor?" I think the eldest princess is letting you capture the thief alive, everyone knows that you were a defeated general under Bu Qin, and you want to get rid of it quickly, the eldest princess knows the identity of my sister, although she is not a close relative, but it will not kill her sister without humanity, it is clear that you misinterpreted the meaning of the eldest princess, isn't it? As long as I am here, you will not succeed! ”
Yan Dong's eyes were ruthless, and he didn't talk much to Qi Zhao, so that the cavalry could start to compete with Qi Zhao's art of war again, Qi Zhao asked his subordinates to drag Yan Dong and them, he pointed at Zhao Yi and Han Feng and they hurriedly said:
"Hurry up, I'll send you out myself!"
Zhao Yi and Han Feng immediately got on the front pedal of the car, picked up the whip, and rushed out of the encirclement after Qi Zhao's ten-man escort.
Bu Qin lowered the curtain and said to Xi Yunzhi: "Your younger brother, it's very good. ”
Xi Yunzhi was naturally very relieved of Qi Zhao's character, but now she was worried that Qi Zhao would cause him unnecessary trouble if she did this, and when the carriage passed by Qi Zhao's side, Xi Yunzhi shouted to Qi Zhao uneasily:
"You go back first, we'll go by ourselves."
Qi Zhao ignored Xi Yunzhi for a long time, and only said after a long while:
"My father left you behind, but I won't! If you don't want to stay by my side, then I will die, and I will send you to a safe place! ”
“……”
Xi Yunzhi sat in the carriage, only feeling that her nose was sour, Bu Qin took her in his arms and stroked her lower abdomen a few times, telling her to pay attention to her emotions. Xi Yunzhi nodded, cleaned up his mood, and sat in Bu Qin's arms.
***
After following Qi Zhao's convoy for most of the day, Qi Zhao ordered to stop resting.
As soon as the carriage stopped, Xi Yunzhi rushed down, holding on to a tree on the side of the road and vomiting wildly, startling Qi Zhao and hurriedly getting out of the car to see her situation.
After Xi Yunzhi retched a few times, he felt that the stuffiness in his chest was a little better, Bu Qin stepped out of the carriage and walked behind her to give her a smooth breath, Qi Zhao asked a little nervously:
"It's not that the carriage is too bumpy."
Xi Yunzhi tucked the corners of his mouth with a handkerchief, shook his head and said, "It's not in the way, but the reaction is a bit big." ”
Qi Zhao still didn't understand: "What reaction?" ”
Bu Qin glanced at him and didn't speak, then sat on a stone in the forest with Xi Yunzhi in his arms, Zhao Yi received the order, hurriedly brought water to Xi Yunzhi, glanced at Qi Zhao complainingly, and said:
"Third Highness, you can't see this, our lady has it."
“……”
Qi Zhao's expression was blank for a while, and when he understood what Zhao Yi meant, his body moved suddenly, and he trotted in the direction of Xi Yunzhi, pointing at her stomach and shouting:
"Another little Ann?"
Seeing that he was shocked, Xi Yunzhi lowered his head and acquiesced, Qi Zhao immediately knocked Bu Qin away from her, sat down next to Xi Yunzhi himself, looked at her stomach and smirked, and began to speak incoherently:
"This ...... It's not going to be another kid. Do you want a girl or a boy? In case you want a girl, but you give birth to a boy, then give me this boy, and I will raise it. ”
Xi Yunzhi looked at him and frowned slightly, and Qi Zhao realized that he had said the wrong thing: "Eh, no, no, I mean, I want to ...... Well, it's not right or right...... Hey, when the hell is it, why don't you tell me? I, as an uncle, didn't have time to prepare a greeting gift for him or something. ”
"Don't be too excited...... Xi Yunzhi was speechless at this younger brother, this person who didn't know thought he was the child's father.
"How can I not be excited?" Qi Zhao immediately refuted Xi Yunzhi's words: "As long as I think that there will be another meaty baby like Xiao An who will come out and call me uncle, I can't help it." ”
Xi Yunzhi and Bu Qin glanced at each other and spread their hands helplessly.
I saw that Qi Zhaowu was immersed in his own excitement, and even gave an outrageous order to let the accompanying guards go to the mountains to hunt two pheasants and come back to stew soup for Xi Yunzhi.
"Don't fix that, Qi Rui's side will definitely not give up, you better hurry up and send us to a safe place, and then hurry back." Who knows if you are not in the capital, Qi Rui will be unfavorable to the emperor. ”
Xi Yunzhi's words made Qi Zhao calm down a little, looked at her stomach and said worriedly:
"That's why I said let you go back to the capital with me, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, I have the ability to protect you, but outside, to be honest, I still don't know the bottom in my heart."
Xi Yunzhi looked at Qi Zhao and shook his head: "I know that there is no danger by your side, but after all, we are all from Xiao State, and we always stay in Qi State, so it is not a problem." ”
Qi Zhao sighed: "However, Emperor Xiao treated you like that, I am afraid that you will not have a foothold in Xiao State, plus my brother-in-law is ...... now."
Qi Zhao glanced at Bu Tan, as if he was a little concerned about his face, but thinking that if he could persuade them to go back, he still said it directly:
"Brother-in-law's martial arts are all useless now, he just wants to protect you, and he doesn't have the ability to protect, you stay in Qi Country in peace and stability, and I will propose to my father that my brother-in-law be a civil official, it must involve your relationship, and my father will definitely agree, so won't it be all solved?"
Xi Yunzhi stood up from the stone, stood still in front of Qi Zhao, and after sorting out his crown belt, he said with a smile:
"Sometimes, people live just for a breath, you know? No matter what Emperor Xiao does to us, it is his problem alone, and we can't give up the entire Xiao State because of his own problem, right? ”
Qi Zhao took a deep breath and asked again, "Is it really decided?" ”
Xi Yunzhi nodded firmly: "It's decided." This path is chosen by your brother-in-law, he will finish this road even if he kneels, and I am his wife, and his choice is also my choice, no matter what he does, I will bear it with him. ”
“……”
Qi Zhao listened to Xi Yunzhi's words, and finally didn't want to say anything more, because he saw infinite firmness in Xi Yunzhi's eyes, at this time, he just said anything to no avail, and now all he can do is to do well, do everything possible, and give them a safe ride.
***
It was getting dark, and at the end of the hidden woods, two teams of men and horses were hurrying towards them, and when they passed a fork in the road, they stopped.
"My lord, is it really okay for us to do this? That's His Royal Highness the Third Prince, if the emperor knows about it, how many of our heads are not enough for the emperor to cut off? ”
One of the men in black said to the one next to him.
"Phew, we are going to assassinate the three princes, not to kill them openly, as long as we do it cleanly, who will know that we did it? The eldest princess has always regarded the third prince as a thorn in her eye, as long as we can help her eradicate this thorn in her eye, wouldn't it be easy to be promoted to a knighthood in the future? ”
"But the emperor is there......"
"Don't. Her Royal Highness the eldest princess has an order, let us take advantage of the third prince's departure from Beijing and kill him halfway, whether it is successful or not, she will also take this opportunity to make a final fight with the emperor in the capital, and who will kill the deer is the key here. Don't drop the chain, it affects the eldest princess's plan, and we really have to die. ”
“……”
The two teams of men and horses separated and ran to the two sides of the branch, startling the birds in the forest to fly to the sky, and the black oppression flew across the night sky, causing people to feel a little chill in vain.
The author has something to say: the first more ~~~~
Today, the first day of work after the holiday, there are a lot of things. Haha, it's too late to update. There should be more, but it is estimated that it will be very late, so you can go to bed early and get up tomorrow morning to watch.