Huo Jingcheng listened, looked at him and smiled.

Du Yan was half admiring and half sighing: "The world is really the strongest of the strong, and Du Yan can be used by His Royal Highness, not hostile, it is really a blessing." ”

The three laughed in unison. Next, they were no longer in a hurry to chase the deer, and the three of them only enjoyed the scenery and chatted about fun.

After a few people walked for a while, they suddenly met a few courtiers watching the battle, Huo Jingcheng greeted with a smile: "Why didn't the adults follow King Cheng?" If you want to see the style of deer hunting, you still have to follow King Cheng. ”

A courtier smiled and saluted: "Your Highness, in this year's battle for deer, the winner will never be His Royal Highness King Cheng." ”

"Oh? Why? Huo Jingcheng asked.

The courtier said: "Back to His Royal Highness, His Royal Highness has given up the war and gone hunting in the forest under the mountain with His Royal Highness King You." ”

Huo Jingcheng listened, he didn't know what he thought of, and his face suddenly changed slightly: "Do you know why he gave up the war?" ”

"I don't know this Weichen."

"Alright, let's all step down." After a few courtiers left, Huo Jingcheng's face was suddenly full of frost, his handsome eyes were full of solemnity and anxiety, and he said sharply: "There is a change under the mountain!" Hurry down the mountain! ”

He said this urgently, and then he whipped his horse fiercely, and galloped down the hill first.

After Qiao Fengzhi and Du Yan reacted, they hurriedly rode their horses to follow. The two looked at Huo Jingcheng's back, and they couldn't help but feel nervous and solemn. It must be a trivial thing to make Huo Jingcheng so urgent, and maybe even the royal family will be shocked by it.

……

The dense forest under the mountain is quiet, and the towering trees are like a cover, covering the dense forest without seeing the sun.

Yao Dui's horse skills were rusty, and he gradually fell behind people, and rode his horse slowly. There was no sound around, and sometimes there were owls whistling from the top of their heads, adding to the gloom. Yao Duran felt remorse in his heart, and he knew that this was the case, so he called the green man to go into the forest as a companion. After walking for a while, she finally decided to go back, so she turned around.

At this moment, she heard a strange sound of "whoosh", and suddenly a flower appeared in front of her eyes, and when she looked again, she saw that a long arrow had passed by her face and shot into the trunk of the tree behind her.

Yao Duran's complexion changed drastically, and before she could react, she saw several figures already dodging out of the bushes, and those people were dressed as guards, and they began to shoot arrows at her without saying a word.

In an instant, several arrows were fired in unison, carrying a strong wind through the air. Seeing the danger, Yao Duran screamed, threw himself off the horse, and hid behind the horse to escape. In the next moment, however, several arrows were fired into the horse, and the horse was frightened and in pain, and immediately raised its head to the sky and neighed, and then spread its hooves and galloped away. Yao Duran was once again exposed to the Assassin's sight, and shouted in horror, "Someone! Help me! ”

Before the words fell, an arrow came to her chest and shot into her shoulder blade, a sharp pain struck in an instant, almost making her faint, Yao Dui was trembling in pain, she had lost the strength to escape, lying in the grass and unable to move, the heat was rolling at her shoulder, and the blood soaked a large area of grass.

Several of the Assassins again pointed their arrows and bows at her......

"No—" Yao Duran exclaimed, her eyes full of despair. It turned out that her death was here, on this day. So, who was so determined to take her life?

Just as she was thinking desperately, suddenly the figure in front of her flashed, and a white-clothed figure stopped in front of her, protecting her behind her. Immediately afterward, there was a jumble of footsteps in the woods, and many guards rushed over and fought the Assassins.

Yao Duran looked at the hem of the white clothes in front of her, and struggled to look up to see it clearly, but the light in front of her was flickering, she finally couldn't hang her head, and said with a weak breath: "Fengzhi ......"

"Shut up! Who is your family? You're a woman, and I don't know what Feng Zhi likes about you. The man in white grumbled. When Yao Duran heard this, he recognized that the person in front of him was Huo Jingyao. She really didn't expect that the person who saved her would be him.

She struggled and said, "Thank you, Your Highness......"

While observing the battle situation, Huo Jingyao said in a cold voice: "Come on, it's better to have this strength to speak, and it is better to save and shed less blood." ”

Yao Duran was silent, and slowly looked at her shoulder blade, even she could see that the arrow was deep into the flesh, and the loss was the shoulder, if it was a nest in her heart, I was afraid that she would be dead.

After a while, Huo Jingxiao and several courtiers came again, and said, "What's the matter?" Where did the sound of the fight come from? ”

When Huo Jingyao saw him coming, he hurriedly pointed in the direction of the fight and shouted, "Starling! There are assassins who assassinate official wives! Already surrounded by my people! You should be able to take it! ”

"What? Who would dare to assassinate an official's wife in a mountain garden? Huo Jingxiao said, looked up, and when he looked at it, he saw Yao Duran lying in the grass and was seriously injured and unconscious. He looked in the direction of the fight again, but saw that the men and horses on both sides were dressed as guards, and at first glance it looked like the guards were practicing martial arts. Huo Jingxiao ordered in a deep voice: "Don't kill it!" Be sure to leave a living mouth for the main hall! Dare to commit murder in my royal mountain garden, this hall wants you to walk around without eating! ”

The guards were given the order and did not hurt the killer, and after some pursuit and fighting, they finally captured three people alive and escorted them back to the team. Huo Jingxiao looked at Yao Duran, who had passed out in the grass again, and said, "Come on, escort Mrs. Qiao back to the garden!" Then tie up the assassin and go with the main hall to meet his father! ”

"Wait!" A majestic voice suddenly came, and everyone followed the sound to see that Huo Jingcheng had already galloped on horseback. He rushed to the crowd and stopped, looked around quickly with cold eyes, and when he saw Yao Duran in the grass, his heart instantly sank into the abyss, and a voice sounded in his heart: It's too late, it's too late after all.

"Dye!" When Qiao Fengzhi saw the figure in the grass clearly, his face was cold, and he dismounted and galloped over.

"Dye! Wake up! Qiao Fengzhi half picked her up, but saw that her face was pale and her breath was weak. He panicked: "What's the matter?" What's going on? ”

Huo Jingyao hurriedly explained: "Fengzhi, don't worry, I rescued her in time, she didn't hurt the vital point, but she was injured and lost too much blood and fainted." ”

"No, you have to pull out the arrow as soon as possible to stop the bleeding!" After saying that, Qiao Fengzhi immediately picked her up and got on the horse and galloped away

Here, Huo Jingxiao saw Huo Jingcheng coming in a hurry, and made a courtesy report: "Sixth brother, there is an assassin assassinating an official's wife in the dense forest, which has been taken down by Jing Yao, and we are about to escort it to our father." ”

Huo Jingcheng's handsome eyes that were hidden in the cold blade stared at him deeply, and said, "No need. The injured person is only a fourth-grade official wife, so there is no need to bother the father and emperor for such a trivial matter, and the palace will come to try it. Hand over the assassin to the main hall, and wait for the results of the main hall to report to his father. ”

Huo Jingxiao said: "Sixth brother! Although the injured person was a fourth-rank official wife, he was assassinated in my royal garden, and this matter also involved the two thousand guards accompanying the escort, but they committed this omission in their duties, which of them is clear? Therefore, it is really difficult to find out without the hands of my father. Brother Shu could not hand over the Assassin to the Sixth Brother. ”

"Take it away!" Huo Jingxiao said that, and led the guards to escort the assassin out of the forest.

"Eighth!" Huo Jingcheng squeezed out two words from between his lips and teeth.

Huo Jingxiao looked back at him: "Sixth brother, it is reasonable for my brother to hand over this matter to his father, why is the sixth brother so anxious?" ”

Huo Jingcheng said: "As the prince of this palace, it is reasonable for the assassin to share the worries of his father and the emperor in person!" ”

Huo Jingxiao saluted again and said, "Please forgive my brother for not being able to obey orders." The sixth brother is noble, and some things naturally dare to go beyond his father and dispose of them by himself, but the brothers dare not go beyond them, and they must personally explain to their father and be dealt with by their father. ”

The eyes of the two intertwined in the air and touched each other for a long time. The atmosphere in the forest was frozen as if it were frozen. Probably only the two of them know what lies in this one eye of sight.

However, Huo Jingcheng was speechless in the end, more precisely, he couldn't speak anymore. could only watch as Huo Jingxiao and Huo Jingyao escorted the assassin away......

Huo Jingcheng looked at the empty forest for a long time and was speechless for a while. No one knows what he is doing in his heart at this time.

Du Yan rode his horse to his side and said, "Your Highness, what are you worried about?" ”

Huo Jingcheng sighed at the empty forest: "Du Yan, a catastrophe is coming. ”

……

The harvest year is in the middle.

Emperor Qian sat on the upper seat with a gloomy face, and next to her, there was the queen who came back in a hurry, she looked at the people under the seat, and wondered: "What's the matter?" How could there be an assassin who would assassinate Madame Joe? ”

Huo Jingyao said: "Father, mother, and son-in-law are also confused, hunting in the forest in a good manner, and suddenly heard a woman shouting for help, and when Erchen rushed over with the guards, Mrs. Qiao had already been hit by an arrow. Well, these three assassins are the only ones left alive. ”

After hearing this, Emperor Qian's cold eyes swept over the three black-clothed assassins and asked, "You were originally a guard to protect you, but why did you assassinate the official wife?" Say! ”

The three Assassins knelt on the ground, captured by Long Wei, all of them like chaff, but they hung their heads silently.

Emperor Qian snorted coldly: "It seems that if you don't suffer a little, you won't be recruited." In this Lintian Mountain Garden, the most indispensable thing is the torture room, those sinners who are unwilling to work hard when they first come here, and some of them still want to escape, and finally go to the torture room, and can be obedient for a lifetime. Come on, send them to the torture room, as long as they don't die, serve them well, and be sure to tell me the truth. ”

When the Assassins heard this, they begged for mercy. As soon as he was dragged out of the door by the guards, he heard an assassin shout, "Your Majesty, spare your life!" I'm recruiting! I'm recruiting! ”

The guards had to drag them back again, but at this moment, the scene was not too elegant, and one of the assassins was already scared and urinated, and the ground was wet.

Emperor Qiandi frowned and said, "Say!" Give me a clear explanation! ”

The assassin swallowed nervously, as if making up his mind. Everyone's hearts followed his movements.

However, at this moment, an announcement suddenly came from outside the door: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has arrived-"

After a while, Huo Jingcheng walked into Fengnian Ju in front of everyone's eyes, knelt down and said: "After the son-in-law knocked on his father and mother, the son-in-law came to hear the trial. ”

Emperor Qian looked at him and said lightly: "Get up." ”

"Thank you, Father." Huo Jingcheng stood up, retreated to the side, and stood opposite Huo Jingxiao. As soon as the eyes of the two made contact, there was a burst of lightning and thunder in the dark.

"Say! Why did you stab an official's wife? Emperor Qiandi asked in a deep voice again.

The assassin finally made up his mind and said, "Your Majesty, we ...... We're just doing what we're told! I beg your majesty to spare your life! ”

"Acting on orders? Who's on whose orders? Emperor Qiandi asked.