Although Chen Xiangxiang's gaffe once again pushed Gu Ci to the forefront, when she heard that the first version of the Jiukangtang centrifuge was in place, she still took the guard of honor to Tiemei Temple, and tossed for several days to put forward a bunch of revisions before coming down the mountain. As a result, they still encountered a situation at the Buddha level - the Ma Jiaqi sisters who came to Tiemei Temple to participate in Zen, the carriage was broken, and a maid was sent to the temple for help, so they could only stop on the side of the road and wait for rescue.

Gu Ci called his four maids from the back car to Luan to sit, and asked them to take one of the maids to sit in the car behind, and the coachman guarded the Ma family's car in place. As soon as Gan Tang, who went down to help the Ma sisters, came back, he whispered that the wheel seemed to be artificially broken, not an accident.

Gu Ci had a bad premonition, "Get our weapons ready." For the rest, you can discuss with chamomile what to do. ”

Gan Tang sent a guard to watch the coachman, and if something was wrong, he knocked out and took him to Tiemei Temple for help. Ah Yue went to explore the way first, and then the guard of honor slowly activated. Ahead is a zigzag notch, on the right is the rapids of the Yuzhuan River, and on the left is a steep mountain wall. Chamomile thinks it's a good place to ambush, and Ah Yue also leaves a 'to be checked' mark, but she has already gone in herself. Gu Ci asked everyone to be quiet, wanting to listen carefully to the nearby sounds, but unfortunately the sound of water covered up a lot, and he could only feel that there were indeed people.

"How many of us are there?"

"Forty-nine guards plus four of us."

"Where's the weapon?"

"One box of incendiary bombs, two crossbows, and about ten long-arm bows."

"What do you recommend?" This is really not Gu Ci's forte.

"The subordinates feel that they should send someone to contact Ah Yue, or take the waterway to go around to see the situation."

"You can also go backwards."

"I'm afraid it's too late." Chamomile and the others heard footsteps outside. He didn't act rashly, just gently opened a periscope-like telescope in the compartment and looked out.

"There are about 40 people on the mountain, and about 30 people on the back road, all of them are dressed in black and masked."

"No one on horseback?" Gu Ci felt weird.

"There seem to be a dozen or so horses on the top of the mountain." Chamomile takes a closer look.

"The only way down from the top of the mountain is across this valley." Gan Tang said.

"Can a man on the mountain shoot?" Gu Ci asked.

"The longarm bow is fine."

"Where's the incendiary bomb?"

"The county lord means shooting it with an arrow?"

"yes, you can't throw this distance, can you?"

Gantang and chamomile glanced at each other, "You can try." ”

"That's what I'm suggesting, don't fall down and burn ourselves."

"We're in a passive position." Chamomile explains, "It's not easy to defend when you meet an enemy on three sides. ”

"Can you go over by water and throw the incendiary bomb on the place where you are going down the mountain and force them to the cliff, I don't think they want the life of the county lord." Gan Tang proposed.

Chamomile agreed, "Then ride your horse and rush over, and if that doesn't work, swim halfway into the water." Be careful not to get the incendiary bomb wet. ”

Gu Ci made a bold decision, "Just do it!" Go and talk to the Ma sisters. ”

Chamomile, who had been patrolling, suddenly spoke, "County Lord, the thirty people behind us have retreated. But another group of people came to the valley ahead. ”

Gu Ci put on a veil and lifted the curtain to look out, and more than two dozen ruffian-like people in shabby clothes rushed forward and looked at them in surprise with knives.

A rampant laugh sounded: "Damn! Brothers! We are developed, and we have met so many beautiful little ladies! And so many watery horses! As he spoke, his eyes were lustful, and his mouth was unclean and rushed towards them.

Gu Ci was stupid, not a sophisticated assassination, not a bargaining negotiation, those people wanted this group of wild dogs to pop up suddenly to ruin her reputation? Looking at the appearance of these rabble, they will beat the female guards around her?! A few horses can trample them to death in a few horses!

However, the black-clothed men just now are gone, which means that they are waiting for these 'wild men'!

Gu Ci pursed his lips, his heart was horizontal, and he ordered, "Just keep the leader one." Then duck back in the car.

When Chamomile saw that thistles were faintly visible in the place where the gangsters had come, she ordered thirty female guards to dismount, remove the door panels as shields, and protect the horses, and prepare to meet the enemy in groups of three, while the others prepared longbows and incendiary grenades, and guarded the men in black on the hill and behind them.

The sound of the killing lasted not long, and a quarter of an hour later, chamomile came to report, and all but the leader who had just spoken was annihilated. Gu Ci asked Gan Ming to record the confession, in triplicate. Then chamomile sent five people into the water to lurk over, one person went to a safe place and sent a signal flare to see if anyone came to the rescue, and the four people burned the mountain. They stabbed their mounts in the buttocks, and watched as five horses dove through the trap and into the recess. The man in black on the mountain began to approach the cliff, drawing his bow and arrows. Suddenly the two carriages were all flanked by baffles, completely protecting everyone, and chamomile ordered all the horses pulling the carriage to be unloaded, so that the chariot would not be beaten for a while, and the chariot would be run away by the frightened horse. The black-clothed people on the mountain were waiting for the signal, and the black-clothed people behind them gradually surrounded them, and the two assembled repeating crossbows were already aimed at them. Gan Wei was using binoculars instead of chamomile to observe the situation on the mountain, and a dozen or so people on horseback were also approaching the edge of the cliff, and they never gave the order to attack. Chamomile is also patiently waiting for the fire in the mountain pass.

The two sides were at a stalemate.

Ma Jiayi and the maid's frightened cries were particularly prominent in this silence, and Gu Ci said impatiently, "Let Sister Jiaqi take care of her, if she doesn't stop, she will be knocked out." ”

Fortunately, Ma Jiaqi was very powerful, and before the messenger guard arrived in the car, Ma Jiayi quieted down.

The flames rising in the distance seemed to give a signal to both sides to attack.

The rain of arrows on the mountain did not fall as expected, but the thirty black-clothed men behind them approached in a line, the first row holding knives and wooden shields, and the second row drawing bows. Chamomile only divided ten people to protect the crossbow, and when these people were in range, they didn't want to leave alive. When the mountaineers discovered the fire, five fast horses galloped to the place where the fire started, and the other five approached the cliff, not knowing whether they were preparing to descend the mountain or shoot arrows, or whether they were disrupting their formation with thirty people on the ground. Gu Ci couldn't see who the person riding the horse was, but judging from his body shape, there was a person who was relatively old and asked chamomile to leave this person alive. The mountainmen were also within range of the long-arm bow, and chamomile had ten of the best archers carefully put on incendiary bullets and fire a volley at once.

Gu Ci's worried about the incendiary bomb falling down and smoking his own oolong did not happen, mainly because the vegetation was lush, the fire rose quickly and fiercely, and after the explosion of three incendiary bombs in a row, the crossbow aimed at the back road was also fired out in a volley. The black-clothed man with the wooden shield couldn't stop the power of the armor-piercing crossbow at this distance, and in the second wave, the shield was no longer visible on the scene, and thirty people were shot like leeks, and the wailing screams broke through the sky. The mountains were no better, the men did not run as fast as they could, and the female guard with the best strength shot at the horses, and five or six horses were either so frightened by the fire that they burned, or they died directly from the arrows, and no one on the horse could see them. At this time, Chamomile asked Gantang to lead the horses to the valley with thirty people in three teams, and after clearing the obstacles, he encircled and suppressed at a speed, except for the middle-aged people, there was no other way to live.

The rest of the people were ten people in the car, and ten people were in the car, and ten people were examining the bodies.

After a while, Gu Ci couldn't hear the shouts, only the fire hunting on the mountain, but the wind was blowing from the mountain pass to the cliff, so there was no need to worry about causing a mountain fire. Gan Ming handed her the confession, she looked at it, this person was actually a dart master of a dart bureau near the old capital of Changjing, in fact, he was a mountain bandit, this time someone paid them to run a business and transported a batch of goods, and after the incident, someone contacted them, let them come here and wait, take advantage. They didn't know who Gu Ci was, nor did they recognize the sign of the car, and they didn't know what the origin of this group of female guards on horseback was, thinking that it was an ornament brought out by a little noble girl riding a horse to support her face, so they were very excited and thought that they could rob a group of daughters-in-law to go back.

As for the connector, of course, it was the masked man in black.

Gu Ci pursed her lips, she didn't know it anymore, and she also knew that the thirty people who outflanked them just now and were completely annihilated were soldiers in the army, otherwise how could they be so skilled in formation. At this time, the fire on the cliff was smaller, and Gan Wei could see the female guards harvesting 'rice', and looked at Gu Ci's pale face, only saying that there was a signal on the mountain, and it was her own people who went up. Half an hour later, Ah Yue and Gan Tang brought people back, and the two of them immediately carried a tightly tied and black-scorched person.

Chamomile took people to clean up the scene and clean up the corpses, and Gu Ci got out of the car and watched the two captives behind the barrier. The middle-aged woman directly ordered to stuff the bottom of the car in the dark box, anyway, with her ability, she couldn't get any useful information from the mouth of this old fritter. Another boy of about seventeen or eighteen years old may have been quite ornately dressed, so he burned badly.

"Can he still speak?" Gu Ci asked Ah Yue.

"Back to the county lord, he claims to be the son of General Jingxi, so we are left alive."

Gu Ci frowned slightly, "Chen Wanli? ”

The black man raised his head with great difficulty, and roared in indignation and exasperation, "The county lord is really prestigious. ”

"It's you who are too weak." Gu Ci hit the person mercilessly, and then asked, "Why?" ”

"Heh, I just want to be a hero to save the beauty and save the county lord from marrying the soon-to-be-dead prince and widow."

"Chamomile, send someone back immediately to report the news. Qianqing Palace, East Palace, Cining Palace and the family must all say a word. ”

Chen Wanli stared at him anxiously, "Do you need to kill them all?!" My sister's reputation has been ruined, and I just want to take revenge because you are rude to her! ”

Gan Ming also wrote this meaning into the confession.

"I apologize to you, I came to the door to ask for the guilt, the county lord, you have a lot, let me go? After all, I just admire you. ”

"Are you afraid that the emperor will know that your family has private soldiers?"

Chen Wanli was speechless, dodging her eyes.

"It seems that there is more than that, although it is quite useless, but there are a lot of them. Gan Ming remembered to write it. ”

Gu Ci ignored his angry glare, looked at him carefully for a while, and then asked Chamomile to take a good look at the mountain bandit leader and Chen Wanli, and walked towards Ma Jiaqi's car.

When the female guard lifted the curtain, Ma Jiaqi was startled, and when she saw that it was Gu Ci who came to ask for it, she calmed down, and hurriedly jumped out of the car to greet Gu Ci.

"How is Miss Ma Er?"

Ma Jiaqi said a little embarrassed, "...... I knocked my sister and her maid unconscious, lest they ......"

"And now?"

"Still dizzy. Guarantee not to wake up within an hour. ”

Gu Ci sneered, "Sister Jia Ji is still in the mood to laugh?" ”

"I probably know that it was because of our calculations that we affected the county lord, but I don't know what I need to do in this matter?"

Gu Ci looked at her appreciatively, and then told her about the situation.

Ma Jiaqi's expression remained unchanged, but he looked at her with some concern, "There are so many dead and injured in this matter, even if it can be confirmed afterwards that General Chen harbors evil intentions...... County Lord, I'm afraid it won't be easy to explain later. ”

"It's fine. I just don't want to let go of Chen Wanli, he not only wants to ruin my reputation, I'm afraid he also wants to use this to blackmail my family, so he is willing to send so many people. ”

"I mean, I don't know which side of the person will come first......"

“…… Sister Jiaji, please speak up, I won't make it difficult for you. ”

"I'm not afraid of this, forgive me, don't blame me for being ruthless, Chen Wanli really can't let it go, one has to be in case the person who picks him up will arrive first, and the other is that he will inevitably make a big deal about this matter, which will be detrimental to your reputation. At present, the best way is to let the mountain bandit leader accidentally injure Chen Wanli, and then the two of them died of excessive blood loss. With the testimony in hand, whether there is a witness or not is secondary. ”

Gu Ci asked Gan Ming to provide Ma Jiaqi to read it, and then Ma Jiaqi polished it, and Gan Ming copied three copies again and took them to the two of them to draw.

Gu Ci frowned and said, "If he refuses to admit it, he will ......."

Ma Jiaqi interrupted her with a light cough, "You don't need to live to draw a book." ”

Gan Ming had no objection to Gu Ci, and took the order with a smile. Chamomile dragged the hand of the mountain bandit leader and gave Chen Wanli a few knives, and then stabbed the mountain bandit leader to death, pressed the bloody handprints of the two on the confession, bandaged the wound with a simple smear, and left him to fend for himself.

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Less than an hour later, the sound of rumbling horses' hooves came from the valley, and chamomile gave an order, and everyone was on alert.

The first to ride was the prince who descended from heaven like a god, with armor like silver and a blazing cloak, and behind him was the sergeant of the Five Rates Mansion. Gu Ci saw his figure from the telescope, and immediately got out of the curtain, stood on the wheel, and watched with joy.

The other maids got out of the car one after another to escort them.

Yuan Yi waved his hand to stop the Wushufu and spread his guard, looked at her tightly, rode over alone, and carried her into the car.

The Ma family sisters in the back lifted the curtain slightly and saw this scene, Ma Jiaqi breathed a sigh of relief, and Ma Jiayi's eyes were full of admiration and admiration, and said sourly, "Isn't the prince in poor health, why did he rush to pick up the county lord." ”

Ma Jiaqi glanced coldly, "Do you want to be the second Chen Xiangxiang?" ”

Ma Jiayi's face turned pale and she couldn't speak.

As soon as Gu Ci arrived in Yuan Yi's arms, his tears fell uncontrollably, and he kissed him despite his dust.

Yuan Yi was trembling with her hand, and embedding her hard into her body while kissing, "Fortunately, you're fine!" ”

He couldn't describe the horror and rage he felt when he first heard the words 'the county lord was ambushed', but fortunately his treasure was safe and sound, otherwise he would have let everyone bury her!

"Brother, a lot of people have died......" Gu Ci said with a trembling voice.

"Shhh You've done a great job, and Luan is the best. Yuan Yi looked at her frightened appearance, suppressed the anger in her heart, and softened her voice to comfort her. Thinking of the feeling of killing someone with his own hands for the first time, he sighed secretly and comforted the little girl even more distressed.

After all, Gu Ci didn't really face the scene of the dead, he only felt that he had made many people die with an order, and he was also 'his own people', and those soldiers did not die on the battlefield, but died so unclearly, it is a pity. She said this meaning intermittently, and under Yuan Yi's kiss and caressing, she relaxed her spirit and collected her tears, calmed down, and then asked Gan Ming to show him and tell him that there was a prisoner under the carriage.

Yuan Yi asked Gan Ming to redress her, and when she got out of the car, she saw that the Xicheng Praetorian Guards were coming, and ordered the Wushu Mansion to get out of the way.

The first one was Gu Yao, his face was full of frost, and all the evil qi that he had fought on the battlefield was released. Yuan Yi blocked his way to Gu Ciluan, first handed him the confession, and then whispered, "Ah Luan is frightened. My uncle waited before he went to see her. ”

Gu Yao waved his hand, and a second lieutenant of the Praetorian Guard behind him stepped forward to help the two prisoners up and let him look at them, and saw that one was angry, but the wound on his body had been bandaged, and the other was already rolling his eyes, and ordered someone to take him down directly.

Suddenly, the curtain of the car opened, and Gu Ci knelt down at the door and shouted, "Brother? As soon as he raised his eyes and saw Gu Yao, he exclaimed in surprise, "yes! Then tears rolled out.

Gu Yao's momentum was retracted, and he hurried over to comfort his daughter in a warm voice.

The second lieutenant was about to follow, but was coldly glanced at by the prince, and he touched his nose and paused.

Gu Ci, who had only cried once, quickly quieted down and returned to the car to wait. After a while, the female guards who were with the coachman of the Ma family, as well as the maids of Ma Jiaqi, accompanied by Steward Xiao and others, also returned, and the Wurate Mansion and the Praetorian Guards escorted Gu Ci's guard of honor back to Beijing.