Yuxin Palace.

"Madam, Guard Xu is here!" Huang Li walked into the hall as he spoke, followed by Xu Tianming, who was expressionless with his hands behind his back, "My subordinates have seen Madame!" ”

"Guards Xu don't have to be polite!" Qu Wurong was sitting at the table with breakfast at this moment, when he heard the words, he raised his head and glanced at him and asked, "Have you had breakfast?" ”

Xu Tianming nodded, "My subordinates have already used it." ”

"Then please wait for me outside for a while, and I'll be fine in a moment." After Qu Wurong finished speaking, he lowered his head again and continued to eat breakfast concentratingly.

She hadn't been out of the palace for several days, and she planned to go out of the palace to see it today, so she asked Huang Li to go and inform Xiao Nansheng, originally she didn't plan to let Xu Tianming go out of the palace with her to protect herself, after all, she didn't encounter any danger when she went out of the palace a few times before, maybe they thought too much and said it wasn't necessarily.

But now it seems that Xiao Nansheng still doesn't seem to be at ease with letting her slip out of the palace alone, so she insists on sending Xu Tianming to come, since everyone has already come, then she will no longer waste her tongue to excuse herself.

After breakfast, the group of four people left the palace.

Qu Wurong didn't have any clear purpose when he left the palace today, so he asked the coachman to take them around Xiao City at will, and when he saw something of interest, he would stop the carriage, so it didn't look like he was out of the palace to do serious things, but more like he came out to play.

Just as the carriage passed through a less crowded street, it suddenly went berserk for some unknown reason, and rushed forward with all its might, no matter how much the coachman flicked his whip and asked it to stop.

Seeing this, Xu Tianming immediately jumped out of the carriage with the three people in the car, and before they could stabilize their figures, they heard a sound of breaking the air coming into their ears from far and near, Xu Tianming subconsciously looked in the direction of the sound, and saw a long sword emitting a cold light being towards them, to be exact, it was stabbing at Qu Wurong behind him.

Xu Tianming almost instinctively completely blocked the person behind him, but the long sword suddenly changed its direction when it was about to stab him, and even he didn't see clearly what kind of move the owner of the long sword used, so he only had time to pull Qu Wurong violently.

The "stab" sound of the blade cutting through the sleeve of the sword clearly came into his ears, Xu Tianming's heart shook suddenly, but he didn't have time to take care of the injuries of the people around him, because the assassin quickly handed over the second sword after the first sword stabbed, and at this time Xu Tianming had completely recovered from the shock, and immediately pulled out the saber on his waist to meet it, and the two quickly got entangled together.

"Ma'am, are you alright?" Because after getting out of the car, Huang Li fell not far away without standing firmly, so he didn't have time to protect his master at the first time, and saw Qu Wurong being stabbed at this time, and he didn't care about his hurt leg and buttocks, so he quickly stood up and rushed forward to check what was going on.

Seeing that Qu Wurong's right arm was cut by the long sword with an inch-long wound, although she was pressed with her intact left hand at this moment, there was still gurgling blood gushing out, Huang Li saw this, so he took out the handkerchief he was carrying, and trembled his hands and prepared to tie it to the wound for her.

"Don't tie it here, tie it up!" Qu Wurong's voice sounded very calm, but because of the bloodshed, her face was a little unpleasant.

Huang Li did as she said, tied the handkerchief in her hand to the top of the wound, and said worriedly: "Madam, this place is very dangerous, let's leave quickly." ”

"I'm afraid it's even more dangerous to leave!" Qu Wurong shook his head disapprovingly, although there was only one assassin in front of him, no one could guarantee that there were no assassins in ambush in other places, and there was Xu Tianming here to protect them, in case they were ambushed by the enemy after leaving, then they could only wait for death!

Hearing her say this, although Huang Li was still worried about the situation in front of her, she didn't mention this topic anymore, and the two people who were nervous didn't notice it, and Huang Ying didn't know when she was gone.

Xu Tianming's fight with the black-clothed assassin was very fierce, and he still failed to win after nearly a hundred moves, and Xu Tianming still remembered Qu Wurong's injury in his heart, and he was almost stabbed by the long sword in the black-clothed assassin's hand several times, but fortunately, he had practiced martial arts for many years, and his body was very sensitive to the perception of danger, and he avoided the vital point, but he was also cut in several places on his body.

Just when he felt that he was gradually unable to support himself because of blood loss, there was a sudden sound of uniform steps in the distance, this kind of neat sound could only be made by well-trained officers and soldiers, and before Xu Tianming could react to who it was, the black-clothed assassin in front of him suddenly collected his sword move, and disappeared from in front of him in a very fast way in the blink of an eye.

Xu Tianming, who finally breathed a sigh of relief, withdrew the saber into the scabbard, and then hurriedly ran to Qu Wurong's side to check her injury, only to see that after tying the veil, the blood in her wound had slowly stopped, that is, the entire sleeve of her shirt had been stained with blood, which looked a little shocking.

"Oops, it's too late!"

At this time, a fiery sound came into everyone's ears, Qu Wurong and the three of them looked in the direction of the sound, and saw a middle-aged man in a crimson official robe who was hurrying towards them, and he was accompanied by Huang Ying, who didn't know when to leave, and they were followed by more than a hundred soldiers.

The middle-aged man who ran at the front, after arriving in front of several people, first saluted, and then said tremblingly: "The lower official is a step late, which frightened Mrs., and I ask Mrs. for forgiveness!" ”

"Get up." Qu Wurong let go of his left hand covering the wound and waved at him, "This incident happened too suddenly, you can't blame the adult." After speaking, she moved her gaze to Huang Ying, who was standing beside the middle-aged man.

Without waiting for her to ask, Huang Ying took the initiative to explain: "Madam, this is Lord Liu from the City Defense Yamen, he is specifically responsible for the safety of the entire Xiao City, and the slave is worried that the man in black will be unfavorable to Madame, so she took the opportunity to call Lord Liu over." ”

"Well, well done!" Her words were very consistent with what Qu Wurong thought in her heart, she nodded appreciatively, and looked at Liu Zhengqing again, "Thank you for your hard work, Lord Liu!" ”

"Whereever, this is the duty of the lower official, and it is really embarrassing for the lower official to say this!" Hearing her say this, the cold sweat on the middle-aged man's face flowed faster, and he quietly wiped his forehead with his sleeve, and he asked again with trepidation: "I don't know if Madame can see the thief's appearance clearly?" The lower official asked people to draw a portrait of that person, and the whole process was apprehended and the perpetrator caused people. ”

Qu Wurong shook her head gently, since the man in black appeared, she had been protected by Xu Tianming, and then that person was entangled with Xu Tianming, she couldn't even see the person's figure clearly, let alone his appearance!

It was Xu Tianming who answered, and he frowned slightly and said: "That person's appearance is very ordinary, and he has no characteristics that can be used to identify, but his skills are very good, and he should be a master." ”

When he was fighting with the black-clothed assassin just now, he paid special attention to the appearance of that person, it was really a very featureless facial features, the kind that he couldn't recognize at all when thrown in the pile, but this kind of person was the most suitable candidate for training to be a killer.

After listening to his words, Liu Zhengqing's face showed a look of embarrassment, "If that's the case, then it's really difficult to get off the job!" "He didn't see the murderer, where should he go to arrest him?

Qu Wurong also understood that this murderer was afraid that it would not be so easy to catch, and when he heard him say this, he didn't think he was deliberately shirking, so he waved his hand and said, "Lord Liu doesn't have to be embarrassed, the palace has its own plans for arresting the murderer." ”

"Since Madame has said so, then it is better for the lower official to be respectful and obey his fate." Hearing her say this, Liu Zhengqing secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but he didn't show it on his face, and said diligently: "That thief doesn't know if he has gone far, so it's better to let the lower official escort his wife back to the palace." ”

"Let's go to the infirmary first." Without waiting for Qu Wurong to speak, Xu Tianming next to him said, although the wound on Qu Wurong's arm has stopped bleeding, but the wound still needs to be bandaged, he has already been charged with the crime of failing to protect the master, and if Xiao Nansheng sees this, he probably won't be able to see the sun tomorrow!

"Yes, yes!" Hearing this, Huang Li hurriedly echoed, just now he was afraid that there were assassins ambushing in other places, so he didn't dare to leave lightly, now that there are so many officers and soldiers to protect them, of course, they don't have to be afraid of those assassins who don't know where to come out, so bandaging Qu Wurong's wounds has become a top priority.

Qu Wurong thought for a moment and nodded, "Okay, let's go." ”

Not far from this street is a medical center, sitting in the hall is an old doctor in his fifties, after checking the wound on Qu Wurong's arm, he stretched out his hand and twisted his beard, "Although the wound is a little deep, but fortunately it didn't hurt the muscles and bones, I will prescribe you a few pairs of medicines, and go back to the good place to raise it for four or five days, and it will be fine." ”

Hearing his words, the hearts of several people present finally fell back to their original place.

At first, there were sleeves in front of everyone who hadn't noticed it, and when the old doctor used scissors to cut off the sleeves around Qu Wurong's wound, everyone saw clearly that the wound was very deep, and the surrounding skin and flesh were turned out, so scared that Huang Li and Huang Ying almost shed tears.

"Then there's Dr. Lao!"

After the old doctor finished prescribing the prescription and grabbed the day's medicine in the shop, Qu Wurong and his party returned to the palace under the escort of Liu Zhengqing and the soldiers.

In fact, this matter is not Xu Tianming's responsibility, on the contrary, if he didn't work hard to protect himself, then she wouldn't just hurt her arm, I'm afraid a little life will have to be confessed!

However, Xu Tianming didn't think so, and after getting along with each other a few times, Qu Wurong also knew a little about his character, and knew that he couldn't stop him, so he could only let him go.

The three of them returned to Yuxin Palace, along the way, Huang Li and Huang Ying were both whispering about what happened today, although Qu Wurong did not join their discussion, but he also secretly thought to himself in his heart, the black-clothed assassin was clearly coming at her today, who actually wanted her life?