Well, she admitted.

Helian Che did tell her to protect the emperor.

News of the Assassin attack that night was well sealed. The purpose is to use the "bait" that escapes to lure the snake out of the hole.

However, in order to avoid extraneous branches, it is better not to let Li Yuanlin know about this matter for the time being.

So when Li Yuanlin stared at her and his eyes gradually became condensed, Ye Lingyi suddenly smiled and said, "The emperor is too worried, it is the slave maid who feels that the road is not very smooth, and it is not about Helian's guards!" ”

"Really?"

Li Yuanlin is also a shrewd person, obviously not believing what she said.

Ye Lingyi had no choice but to divert the topic, and instead asked for warmth: "Your Majesty, are you thirsty?" Hungry? ”

Li Yuanlin didn't answer her, just watched quietly, his eyes locked on her face as if he could penetrate people's hearts.

Ye Lingyi was really weak-hearted, and he was afraid that he would shake out the assassin's matter if his mouth was not strict, so he immediately said: "Your Majesty, the slave maid will go get some water and get some food by the way!" ”

The carriage slowly stopped, and Ye Lingyi couldn't wait to open the curtain and jump down.

The team stopped to rest temporarily, Ye Lingyi walked to the river with a water bladder and filled a bag of water, and then took a few sips of water and washed his face by the way.

Just when he was feeling comfortable, Wu Yuanzhou came over, still playing with a dog's tail grass in his hand.

"Kites!"

Ye Lingyi only raised his eyes to look at him, lowered his head and gently flicked the clear water with his fingers.

Wu Yuanzhou saw that she didn't care about herself, smiled helplessly, took the dog tail grass in his hand into his mouth, and simply sat down beside her.

"What are you thinking?"

Wu Yuanzhou asked her, but a pair of eyes looked at the vast blue sky.

The fingertips stopped on the flowing water and caused a trace of waves, Ye Lingyi withdrew his fingers, hugged his knees and asked rhetorically: "General Wu, can I ask, what are you thinking?" ”

"I'm thinking about you!"

Wu Yuanzhou immediately said, his eyes moved from the sky to her face, with a joking smile.

"Really? Then you go ahead! ”

If you don't speculate, you don't plan to continue chatting, Ye Lingyi glanced at him, picked up the water bladder and got up to leave.

"Hey!"

Wu Yuanzhou admitted defeat, hurriedly grabbed her sleeve, and said, "I'm just joking, why are you so funny?" ”

"Major General Wu said that he laughed!" She pulled his hand off the sleeve of his coat, held the water bladder in her arms, looked down at him and said, "The status of the slave and maid is low, General Wu should not make fun of the slave and maid!" ”

The implication is: put away your unserious face.

Wu Yuanzhou pursed his lips boringly, and his tone softened: "Okay, I'm not kidding!" But seriously, can you not take a bite out of a young general? It gives me goosebumps on my back! ”

"What's that calling you? Young Master Wu? Master Wu? ”

"Call me Yuanzhou or Ah Zhou!"

"That's not going to work! I'm just a slave, you are the son of the general, if others hear me call me that, you should say that I am trespassing, and I am guilty of the following. Young Master Wu, you can't harm me! ”

Wu Yuanzhou was choked by her words, and his smile froze on his face, but he regained his smile after a moment: "I didn't know you were so sharp and sharp!" ”

"It's not too late to know!" Ye Lingyi smiled but didn't smile.

"I won't hurt you, so be it! In the future, when no one is around, you can call me whatever you want, just don't call me any Young Master Wu Gongzi Wu Shaojun, I don't like to listen to that high-sounding guest talk, you are tired of screaming. How is it? ”

Ye Lingyi looked at him and thought for a while: "Young Master Wu, why is this?" ”

"We're friends!"

Friend?

This word inadvertently crossed his heart, and Ye Lingyi instantly remembered the dead boy, Danqing......

Once upon a time, he was also her friend, but he burned him alive in Tianxinju for the sake of protecting the lord.

People in this era are very sad, even if you put your blood and even your life to protect someone you think is worthy, it may not be cherished, and they will not even remember who you are years later.

Danqing has been with Helian Che for many years, not to mention her and Wu Yuanzhou, will there be a real friendship between the two with disparate identities?

The answer was no, and a frost gradually froze on her face.

Seeing that he hadn't reacted for a long time, Wu Yuanzhou felt strange and called: "Kite? ”

"The emperor is still waiting for me!"

Ye Lingyi's face was expressionless, and she hugged the water bladder in her arms and turned around to leave.

But he didn't take two steps, and suddenly a loud shout suddenly sounded in his ears: "Be careful! ”

Someone pounced behind her, and the sound of a sharp weapon piercing through her body was particularly clear.

Ye Lingyi was stunned, and when she turned around, something immediately swept past the side of her face, and a burning stinging sensation suddenly burned up from her cheeks.

Ye Lingyi turned around without caring about her injured cheek, only to see Wu Yuanzhou standing behind her with a frown covering her bleeding shoulder: "Be careful, the person who comes is not good!" ”

Wu Yuanzhou only said one word, and a pair of knees lost strength and fell to the ground.

"Wu Yuanzhou!"

Ye Lingyi let out a loud cry and helped him up, his eyes swept around the empty surroundings vigilantly, and helped Wu Yuanzhou behind a small mound, the height was just enough to cover one person.

Wu Yuanzhou was stabbed in the right shoulder by a flying knife in order to protect her, although the flying knife was not very long, but the blade completely submerged into Wu Yuanzhou's shoulder, which shows that the internal strength of the person who made the knife is deep.

Ye Lingyi looked at Wu Yuanzhou, whose face was gradually pale, with a solemn expression, and suddenly felt drowsy on the top of his head for no reason.

Shaking his head and forcibly exercising his mind and clarity, Ye Lingyi said to the injured Wu Yuanzhou: "You bear with it first, I'll go out and have a look!" ”

Then she got up.

At this moment, Wu Yuanzhou gasped and pressed her hand: "Don't act rashly, judging by the hidden weapon that just flew out, I'm afraid there is more than one person on the other side and none of them are under you and me, at this time, there is no movement, maybe they are waiting for us to take the initiative to send it to the door!" We're far away from them, and it's no good for us to confront them head-on! ”

Wu Yuanzhou said that he was also behind the gate, and he still had some ability to distinguish the strength of the enemy and his own.

Ye Lingyi frowned: "Then what should we do now?" ”

The shoulder hurt so badly, the forehead was covered with a layer of cold sweat, and the top of the head was faint......

Wu Yuanzhou guessed in his heart that this flying knife was probably quenched with poison, and it had to be resolved quickly to have a glimmer of life, so he raised his eyes and looked into the distance and said, "I'll go and lure them away!" Take the opportunity to report back! ”

"No way!" Ye Lingyi immediately rejected his proposal: "You are injured, if you want to go, it should be me!" ”

"What are you kidding! Is this a joke? Wu Yuanzhou was obviously also angry, a pair of dark eyes suddenly widened, looking at her injured cheeks, her throat rolled slightly, her tone softened again, and she said helplessly: "Qing Kite, you listen well, no matter how you say that I am a man, how can I let you let a little girl take risks alone in order to survive?" You just stay here obediently, and it's not too late to go back and bring in the rescuers to save me when everyone is gone! ”

Ye Lingyi didn't plan to fight with him anymore, so she only kept her face calm and kept silent.

Wu Yuanzhou thought she had acquiesced, Xiaoxiao barely stood up, and was about to stand up when he was hit in the back of the neck with a fierce and precise force, and then fell to the ground unconscious.

Without the slightest hesitation, Ye Lingyi moved to rip off the clothes on his body, and ran out as soon as he pulled his legs on himself.

The people hiding in the shadows took a look, and sure enough, they all chased after her.

Turning his head to look, seeing that Wu Yuanzhou in a coma was safe, Ye Lingyi breathed a sigh of relief.

Glancing at the people who were chasing after him, there were probably only three or four, all of them were wearing plain clothes, judging by the strength of the feet and the killing intent exuded by the chasing over, although there were only three or four people on the other side, they were definitely stronger than the shrimp soldiers and crabs who were weak in the past.

Who are these people?

The current situation is not optimistic, Ye Lingyi is very unfamiliar with the shape of the road in this place, so he can only keep running forward with his head covered.

The principle of being outnumbered is well understood, and she originally planned to get rid of them as much as possible and not to do it.

But obviously, her idea was really unrealistic, although she had run as fast as a lightning speed, those three or four people were like shadows that could not be shaken off, and they could always follow one after another.

In this way, it seems that running blindly forward is just a waste of energy.

Ye Lingyi had to stop and confront it head-on.

Three or four people immediately surrounded her, and they did not use a cold weapon like a knife in their hands, but the intention of killing was obvious.

"Who are you?"

It's very stupid to ask such a question at this stall. Ye Lingyi had cold sweat sliding down her forehead, knowing that they wouldn't answer, but she still thought that she could delay it for a while.

The Xuanyi people glanced left and right, as if they had found that they had chased the wrong target, and one of them was about to evacuate with a wave of his hand.

Ye Lingyi saw that the situation was not good, of course, it was impossible for them to have a chance to turn around and go back to chase Wu Yuanzhou, so he took out the knife on his waist and attacked a few people.

It turned out that the Xuanyi people were not easy to deal with, Ye Lingyi's knife didn't even touch the corners of their clothes, so they were dodged sideways, and snatched away along with the knife in her hand.

Its actions were so fast that Ye Lingyi lost her body's center of gravity before she even had time to see clearly, and fell to the ground, and when she reacted, the knife had already landed on her neck.

"I advise you not to dig your own grave!"

The Xuanyi man stared at her, his eyes as sharp as knives.

Ye Lingyi also looked at him, his throat rolled up and down, and he said boldly: "It's okay if you want to kill me today, but you have to let me die!" Who are you? ”

"Are you worthy to negotiate terms with me?" The knife grabbed in the hand of the Xuanyi man and approached her neck a little more, and the blade even grazed the skin on her neck.

Ye Lingyi had to raise her head and avoid it slightly.

The Xuanyi man's nose let out a disdainful snort: "But don't worry, I won't kill you!" ”

They were chasing the big officials around the emperor, and now they were just targeting Wu Yuanzhou.

Ye Lingyi could guess a little, her eyes were clear, and she asked directly: "Are you the Queen Mother?" ”

Xuanyiren's eyes suddenly sharpened, the knife in his hand was raised high, and he slashed at her arm, and her voice was as cold as ice: "Didn't you learn not to ask what you shouldn't ask?" ”

"Sure enough!"

Ye Lingyi smiled and covered her injured and bleeding arm, but she didn't even frown, as if it wasn't her arm that was scratched.

"Since you are the Queen Mother, you must know my identity, you don't dare to kill me!"

Ye Lingyi confidently raised the corners of her mouth, stared directly at the Xuanyi man holding the knife, and slowly stood up.

The knife pointed at her did not put down, and the sharp light in the eyes of the Xuanyi man was even stronger: "Hmph, little girl, don't think too highly of yourself, you are just a defective product, the most insignificant thing, I want to kill it, why do you need the consent of others?" ”

Defective products? There is a comparison to highlight the inferior side.

Ye Lingyi's eyes sank, and for some reason he suddenly thought of Cangzhi Mountain and the Wolf King......

The Xuanyi man who raised the knife did not move, but another Xuanyi person next to her walked straight over and punched her lower abdomen.

Ye Lingyi was in pain and curled up.

The Xuanyi man took advantage of this gap to stuff something into her mouth, pinched her throat and forced her to swallow.

Ye Lingyi was startled, and hurriedly stuffed his fingers into his mouth and picked them, trying to vomit out the swallowed things again.

The devil knows if it was poison or not, and she didn't want to die again.

"Don't worry! It's not poison, it's just a little bit of weakness, so you can't spoil our business for the time being. ”

"You ......"

The stomach was burning like a river, and as soon as he said two words, Ye Lingyi's whole body immediately became weak and collapsed to the ground.

"Let's go!"

Xuanyi's eyes were disdainful, he put away his knife and led the rest of the people away.

"It's not that easy to leave!"

A deep male voice descended from the sky.