However, Song Che and the eleven guards accompanying him did not panic, and still maintained a diamond-shaped queue formation of three fronts, five middles, and four tails, advancing forward on one side, and counterattacking on the other, front and back, left and right! It wasn't until the horse's speed gradually became controllable that they dismounted again and fought against the comer with the ground fighting method they were best at!

Song Che grabbed the arm of the guard carrying the burden and shouted, "Protect our things!" There was only a chill in his eyes, but there was no panic.

Xu Ying was roasting the fire in the backyard of the post house, and when she saw the sparks exploding in the fire, her eyes also fell into darkness after an instant of shining.

More than a dozen knives had already surrounded Song Che and them in a circle.

This is a wilderness about ten miles from the city gate and about five or six miles from the guard station.

The nearest home is also two miles away.

Even if there is no wind and snow tonight, killing a few people here on a big winter night will not necessarily alarm anyone.

The guards who often followed Shang Hu to gag beside Song Che on weekdays were all calm at the moment.

Song Che was not necessarily easy. But because he had been stabbed by mistake last time and wounded, the shame made him fearless.

Through this moment of stiff confrontation, his mind also flew like lightning. There are twelve people here, and the other party is also twelve. They are equal in number, but even if they are highly skilled and the guards are trained to the most refined level, they are by no means weaker than them. It can be said that they can't do it if they want to take his life.

Moreover, since they have bigger plans, they will not be stupid enough to kill him, the prince, to cause trouble for themselves.

But they still came, and from the look in their eyes, they were all calm and determined, which showed that they were confident about the situation in front of them.

You can't kill people, that's for these things!

"They didn't come to take my life, try to break through the siege and rush back to the guard!"

Since they are not taking their lives, then he can't be guilty of entanglement with them.

The guards did not have to open their mouths when they received the order, and immediately they were very tacitly arranged in various positions and shot out in all directions at the same time.

More than two dozen men immediately fought in one place.

In this fight, I knew that the other party was not weak. But it is not weak.

Song Che originally felt that the guards had enough shots, and later had to join the battle circle.

Several people quickly pestered him. Beckoning to his cuffs! It was as if he knew what was hidden in his sleeve.

He was so engrossed that he didn't dare to be distracted in the slightest.

But even so, two fists are no match for four hands! At the same time, a sword struck at the end of his right sleeve, and the cloth and portrait contained in it immediately floated in the air!

He hurriedly rushed over to snatch it. A cold light hit the lining and the portrait, and he stretched out two fingers to grab them and pull them back! The guards next to him had already caught up, and they circled towards each other in a roller hurry, and finally tore open and fell down two!

The guards continued to fight with great courage.

At this time, there was a sudden fire in the distance, and it quickly swam from the side of the guard. With the sound of horses' hooves like a tide, the people in black were also stunned, and then some of them immediately made a gesture, shouted "go", and then retreated as quickly as possible like a nest of hornets that had found a new target.

Shang Hu rushed to Song Che with a torch, and flew over like an arrow from his horse: "It's too late, please forgive me!" ”

Song Che glanced at the crumpled lining and tattered portrait in his hand, then looked at him and said, "Why are you here?" ”

Shang Hu wiped his face. Still gritted his teeth and looked at the direction that the officers and soldiers were chasing: "The little one wanted to come out alone to answer, but it was the princess who let the little one come out with the people for the sake of safety. ”

Rabbits, pheasants, and so on have been made fragrant.

In order to entertain this distinguished guest, the post house specially spent money to invite the best local chef who makes game, but fortunately, Chen Yan was clever, and privately deducted two of them and went back to get them himself.

Xu Ying is hungry, she has already eaten half a chicken, Su Jin and they have all eaten, they are not rigid in doing things, and it is their duty to protect the safety of Song Che and his wife. They have to make sure that they are full of energy at all times.

"The prince is back!" was salivating over the sauce-scented rabbit on the shelf, Luo Quan suddenly hurriedly walked in to say goodbye.

Immediately after that, a group of footsteps came in from outside the door.

Shang Hu entered the door first, and when he reached the threshold, he stood with his sword, and then Song Che and his party with a disheveled face and a solemn expression.

Xu Ying hurriedly greeted him. He looked up and down, and finally his fingers hooked his sleeve that was only half broken, and he sighed and put it down.

Sure enough, something happened.

But as long as the person is okay, the rest is fine. The other party has been able to hide for more than ten years without appearing, which shows that he is unwilling to make extraneous branches, and he does not know the critical time. Even killing him and her will not do them any good. Not only is it not beneficial, but it will only attract the wrath of the emperor and Prince Duan, so it is conceivable that the other party still has some brains.

Here while eating, talk about the situation along the way.

The portrait can't be restored, but the footprints on the interlining are still there. Although it was useless to keep it, it didn't let the other party succeed.

"My lord, the officers and soldiers who were sent just now found food and water in the haystack, as well as some filth residues. The little ones went to see it, and judging from the footprints on all sides, these people must have been hidden in it a long time ago, so the snow on the haystack was intact, and we didn't find anything unusual when we passed there. ”

The guards came in and said.

Xu Ying put down the lining cloth and said, "They came for the things that Fan Cheng handed over, if they have been ambushed there for a long time, it means that they also know that the Fan family has this thing." Then why didn't they go directly to Fan's house and ask? ”

The guards were stunned and looked at Song Che.

Song Che thought back to what he had just now and said, "The person who carried these documents on his back was Chen Qi, but Chen Qi didn't seem to be besieged. ”

"Yes." Chen Qi paused slightly, stood up from the crowd and said, "That's true. Originally, everyone listened to the orders of the lord and gathered around the small one to protect these deeds, but they did not expect that they came to the prince of the world, so that we missed the opportunity to take the initiative to attack, so we failed to find their flaws in the shortest possible time. ”

"Is it a sound that strikes the west?" Another guard speculated.

Xu Ying pondered and said, "You have to find out their true purpose before you can determine whether they are making a noise." There are only two things on the son's body, one is the interlining cloth with footprints, and the other is the portrait. And the portrait is with the deed, if this is what they care about, then they should also go to Fan's house in advance. ”

Song Che paused: "You mean they will come for this footprint?" ”

Xu Ying shrugged.

She also thinks it's incredible, just a footprint, what can it say? But they didn't do it for Song Che's life, nor for what Fan Cheng handed in, so why did they point to Song Che's sleeves?

She spread the lining to the light, and the footprints outlined by the pine oil looked huge in the light.

"But if they are coming with this footprint, then how do they know that you have this footprint?" Song Che said suddenly.

Xu Ying also suddenly retracted the lining and looked at him.

That's right, if it's for the footprints, then how do they know?

At that time, the people who followed her were in addition to the four guards sent to her by Prince Duan and the people in the camp, and after coming back, only Song Che and the guards around her knew about it......

A room of people fell silent.

Su Jin clenched his fists, took out the dagger from his sleeve and put it on the table, and said, "The little one guarantees with his life, if he is the slightest bit disloyal, he will die under this dagger in the future." ”

With him in the lead, everyone in the room unarmed their weapons and swore a poisonous oath.

Xu Ying didn't think it would be them. These people are all from the palace and Jinyiwei, their families are innocent, and their whereabouts are strictly monitored. Moreover, their time in the palace is much longer than the time that this case has happened, and the other party has to work much better to buy such a person than to buy the guards in the palace, and with this energy, it is better to buy the people in the East Palace or the Qianqing Palace.

She glanced at Song Che: "Then it seems that it is undoubtedly the people in the camp!" ”

"Prince! Fan Cheng has just been poisoned in prison! ”

At this moment, Pang Sheng's anxious voice sounded outside the door again, and he stood there panting outside the half-open door, wiping the sweat from his forehead alternately with his hands.

There was another gasp in the room!

Fan Cheng is dead?!

Before anyone could make a sound, there was a sudden scream in the courtyard downstairs!

Everyone rushed to the door, only to see the shopkeeper in the snow downstairs holding her head and pointing to the firewood room and screaming: "There are dead people!" ”

Shang Hu and Chen Yan were the first to rush over, and Xu Ying also went downstairs behind Song Che accompanied by Su Jin!

I saw that in the wide open firewood room, the centurion who led Xu Ying up the mountain was lying on his back in the firewood pile bleeding, and he was still holding a small porcelain bottle that was an inch long!

The noisy inn suddenly fell silent again......

It has been snowing in the capital for days, and the red plums in the small garden in the East Palace are very lively.

As soon as the Lianghu rice grain case was sorted out, the atmosphere in the imperial court gradually improved.

The crown prince accompanied the princess to talk under the window.

Here, Xu Ying and Song Che were already on their way back to Beijing.

Song Che originally wanted to stay and investigate, but Xu Ying advised him to stop.

The head of the hundred households who died last night was obviously the eyeliner that the enemy had placed in the camp, but it was still a little surprising that the target was exposed so quickly. Because it is too easy to kill a person to make a scapegoat, if the head of the hundred households is a substitute for death, then what about the real enemy? Where exactly is he hiding?

It's clearly worth looking into.

But in any case, this is not a mystery that she and Song Che can uncover.

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I'm sorry, it's too late~ (To be continued.) )