Li Yuanlin's face was solemn.

Cheng Wei, who lowered his body, was just about to open his mouth to reprimand, but Li Yuanlin raised his hand to stop him.

"Someone! Send troops into the forest to investigate thoroughly, and no one is allowed to stay away from here! ”

"Your Majesty, you don't really believe the words of this little minion, do you?"

Cheng Wei was incredible, but Li Yuanlin didn't answer him, turned over and dismounted.

Followed by Helian Che, Wu Yuanzhou, and Yin Chong also dismounted, and Cheng Wei felt bored and dismounted.

"Get up!"

Li Yuanlin helped Ye Lingyi up from the ground, looked at the girl's red cheeks, and the light in his eyes gradually softened.

Helian Che walked over and quietly separated the two: "Your Majesty, if you really follow what this servant said, I'm afraid this is not a safe place, for the sake of the emperor's safety, please don't stay away from the ministers!" ”

Li Yuanlin's eyes were stunned, and with a slight "um", he pulled Ye Lingyi from behind Helian Che to his side and said, "There are so many men here, you are not a woman who is good at dancing knives and guns, so you should protect me closely!" ”

Between the light and darkness of the two, Ye Lingyi naturally couldn't see anything wrong, but felt that the light in Helian Che's eyes instantly became colder.

"Hey, don't worry! With so many of us in the woods, plus the defenders in and out of the forest, how can a few reckless thieves tolerate us? You'd better protect me! ”

Wu Yuanzhou didn't know whether he was really smart or fake, so he pulled the stiff back of the person with a grin.

Silverchong leaned in to joke, and the three stinkers didn't worry about the assassins in the slightest.

Li Yuanlin looked at the thin girl, frowned slightly, raised his hand to untie the big straps on his body and covered her shoulders.

Everyone present was stunned, opening their mouths wide and looking surprised.

The flames behind him were scorching, Li Yuanlin smiled suddenly, and said to her as if explaining: "You little girl doesn't know how to take care of herself like my naughty sister Kant. ”

Princess Kant is the younger sister of Li Yuanlin's compatriot, but she is far less fortunate than Li Yuanlin, but she died early due to illness at the age of eight.

"The emperor has tormented the slave, how can the slave be compared with the princess if he is just a low-level person?"

Ye Lingyi is a decent person.

Li Yuanlin smiled and didn't care very much. It's just that when the slender hands wanted to return the big hand to him, his eyes were sharp, and the big hand took the first step to press on her shoulder.

The sight behind the silver mask suddenly became cold, and it was as cold as a knife.

For a moment, the atmosphere was eerily quiet.

Only Wu Yuanzhou joked with Yin Chong heartlessly, and from time to time he talked about Helian Che, who was not on the same channel at all. And behind Wu Yuanzhou, a delicate sleeve arrow quietly passed through the back of his head and aimed at Li Yuanlin, who was looking at Ye Lingyi. See 1 yarn 3 Chinese net

With a "whoosh", a strong wind burst out, and the snow covered by the half-human-tall bushes fell a few times.

"Be careful!"

The instinct in the face of danger made her shout first, and the big girl fell on the white snow, and the girl's figure rushed over like a ghost and pushed Wu Yuanzhou, who was completely unconscious in the face of danger, to the ground.

And at this moment, she is holding a short arrow in her hand! The precision and speed of her movements made her break out in a cold sweat.

Wu Yuanzhou sat on his back on the ground, his hands propped up in the snow, his face was confused, but he didn't know that he had already walked away from the ghost gate, if she hadn't pushed him away or caught the arrow just now, then his head must have blossomed at this time.

"Escort!" Helian Che raised his eyebrows coldly, and drew his sword to block Ye Lingyi behind him.

Immediately afterwards, everyone surrounded Li Yuanlin.

The defenders, who had been ordered to search, arrived and attacked the Assassins hiding in the woods.

The Assassin Lao and the defenders, who were outnumbered, simply gambled their lives in the direction of Li Yuanlin.

Helian Che alone was currently swinging his sword and cutting down a few hidden arrows, and almost effortlessly cut down a few reckless people who rushed up in front of his horse.

As a result, when the defenders arrived, they saw only a few corpses lying on the ground.

"Who is so bold and dares to assassinate the emperor! It's so tired! ”

Cheng Wei, who shrank his head and was next to Li Yuanlin, was a hero at this time, and kicked at the corpse of the assassin on the ground.

Helian Che didn't take him seriously, and as soon as the hilt of his sword blocked, Cheng Wei staggered back irrepressibly, almost falling.

"Helian Che, you!" No matter how angry he is, Helian Che just ignores him.

A jade chopstick-like finger ripped off the face covering the face of the assassin dressed as a palace maid, frowning.

Yin Chong on the side was shocked: "These are men!" ”

For a while, everyone's eyes fell on Ye Lingyi.

"I said, someone is pretending to be a palace maid!"

Ye Lingyi shrugged his shoulders and walked over to carefully examine a few assassins, and immediately felt that something was wrong.

She had met with the outlaws, and as far as she could recall, there were about ten Assassins, including two women, and all of them were men.

That is, there are at least two more women......

The girl's thoughtful gaze inadvertently fell on the two slightly thin defenders who walked over with their heads bowed. As they passed her, out of the corner of their eye, they caught a look of déjà vu.

"Not good! It's ...... them."

Ye Lingyi didn't have time to finish speaking, and the two female assassins actually raised their hands and threw a flying knife over.

She could only dodge first.

When she came back to her senses, the female assassin actually attacked Li Yuanlin directly.

"Your Majesty, be careful!"

Li Yuanlin didn't hide and stood opposite the assassin, the man had a feminine and beautiful face, and Qing Shui Wubo's eyes looked at the knife that was chopping over, and gradually surging and condensing the coldness into a thousand feet of ice.

"Your Majesty!"

Some people shouted in fear, but the distance between the assassin and Li Yuanlin was too close at that time, and no one dared to step forward easily.

Ye Lingyi's eyes were sharp, and the sleeve arrow in his hand was thrown out violently, hitting the back of the assassin's neck.

Two terrible screams rang out almost simultaneously.

One of the two female assassins was stabbed in the back of the neck and fell to the ground with blood splattered on the spot, while the other was killed by a flying sword that cut the ligaments of his heel with unmistakable precision, and fell into a pool of blood.

"Say, Who sent you?"

Helian Che picked up the blood-stained sword from the snow and pointed indifferently at the female assassin on the ground with a face as white as paper.

Cheng Wei, who was a fox and a tiger, followed behind him, and was about to take the opportunity to make a fortune, but the female assassin glared at them angrily, and actually took off the delicately made hairpin from the top of her head and stabbed it into the chest.

The blood sprayed, and the snow soon spread the color of blood, and the female assassin was bleeding from the corners of her mouth, with hatred in her eyes, and pointed at Li Yuanlin with a breath and cursed viciously: "The most damned thing in the world is you, the incompetent emperor, who has been the emperor for nearly ten years, and has allowed traitors to be in power, and it is your fault that corrupt officials and people have caused trouble among the people, and the wives of the people have been scattered, and people have died and have not eaten enough!" You're damned! I, the Heavenly God of Baimian Mountain, will definitely set foot on your golden palace, and thousands of troops and horses will step on your corpse, I curse you, and I curse you, and after you die, your soul will live forever and wander outside the Three Realms and Six Realms, and you will never rest in peace......"

The more the female assassin spoke, the more excited she became, and her hateful eyes had gradually faded, but she was still staring at Li Yuanlin's direction.

As if someone could no longer listen to those vicious words, the long sword slammed through her body.

The woman snorted, and fell to the ground and died, without the slightest pain or horror, only hatred that went deep into the bone marrow.

The Assassins have been completely eliminated.

However, everyone's expressions did not become lighter. Especially Li Yuanlin, the expression on that face was no longer cold, but white, blue and gray.

"Your Majesty."

Helian Che presented a small brown rectangular plaque from the assassin's body to Li Yuanlin: "I wonder if the emperor still remembers this plaque?" ”

Li Yuanlin was pulled back into his senses, his eyes focused on the brand in Helian Che's hand, and he was stunned: "This is not ......"

"This is the Gu Qikun domino paid tribute by the Heishui Ministry, which is made of yak bones, the yak is the symbol of the Hercules God of Baimian Mountain, when the two states were at war, the Heishui Department was defeated by the Western Dynasty, so the tribe was almost wiped out, and the Heishui Khan Wanyan Yilib asked for peace with my Western Dynasty with this thing."

"How could something so important end up in the hands of an assassin?"

Silver is puzzled.

The eyes behind the mask looked at the blood-stained brown brand: "The emperor should still remember the black water beauty sent into the Western Dynasty with the dominoes, right?" Back then, Heishui sent a total of ten beauties, and the queen mother accepted two beautiful concubines for the emperor. The remaining eight were given to the ministers, and as for the dominoes, the Queen Mother felt that the bones of the animals were filthy and sinful, so she gave the dominoes to one of the women in the black water, and the woman was later assigned to the Jiedu Ling Shi Huoda as a concubine. ”

"Huoda ......" Yinchong only felt that the name was familiar, frowned and thought about it, and suddenly realized: "It's the one who was demoted to be the county guard of Zhenhe two years ago for offending the Queen Mother, right?" Didn't he die of illness in Zhenhe County? ”

A word out of the alarm around.

Helian Che sneered: "Sick to death? Do you know why this woman stabbed? ”

Cheng Wei waited to find fault with him, and immediately said, "What? None of us knows, but what does Helian Guard know? Could it be a gang? ”

"Xiao Chen has heard that Lord Huoda once kindly gave porridge to help refugees on the way to Zhenhe County. Unexpectedly, there were a large number of refugees, and all the food stored with Lord Huoda was a drop in the bucket, and the hungry refugees who had not been hungry for a long time were red-eyed, so they rushed up to rob Huoda and his party, and all the food and property were looted, and even the child born to Huoda and his concubine, who had just learned to walk and was less than two years old, was trampled to death in that chaos. Huoda, who was extremely embarrassed, learned from the pain and made up his mind to change the situation after arriving in Zhenhe County after a lot of hardship, but he died of illness for no reason half a year after taking office. ”

When he said this, Helian Che looked at Li Yuanlin fixedly, his eyes were too sharp, and he poked his heart like a sharp knife, as if he was asking with his eyes: "In the final analysis, whose fault do you think all this is?" ”

Li Yuanlin has never felt as painful as he does now, and the dignified Ninety-Five is at a loss, and his face is red with shame like a child who has done something wrong.

"Enough! Stop it! ”

A slender figure rushed over at some point, and pushed Helian Che away fiercely: "What's the point of turning over these old accounts now?" What if this woman used to be Hoda's concubine? What happened to her has nothing to do with the emperor! Besides, isn't the most important thing now to find out how these Assassins got in? ”

The cold air in Helian Che's eyes suddenly rolled into a whirlpool, forcing him to look at the girl, as if he was going to include her in the whirlpool.

Li Yuanlin stood behind Ye Lingyi with his head down, stretched out his hand and pulled her behind him.

"Your Majesty ......" Ye Lingyi wanted to say something, but he never continued.

Li Yuanlin looked directly at Helian Che for a long time, and said calmly: "Go back to the palace!" ”

In fact, Li Yuanlin knows better than anyone that everything is going on today, including the long-term arbitrary dictatorship of Empress Liang, is because he is incompetent and easy to bully. But at present, he is weak and weak, he has the title of emperor, and Liang Hou will not let go of power for a day, and he will not be convinced at all without any actual achievements, let alone anyone willingly surrender to him.

As long as Li Yuanlin thought of this, his whole heart was like being pierced by thousands of arrows and thrown into an ice cellar, but what could he do? If you want to completely uproot the power of the Queen Mother's mother, the only way to do this is to endure, and accumulation is the best policy.