In the territory of Dafu, there is such a custom. The eighth day of the Lunar New Year is the day of the lower realm of the stars, and the small lamp is lit and sacrificed, which is called Shunxing, also known as "sacrificing the star" and "receiving the star". In the evening, Yang Yun also conformed to the custom, took Yanqin and Liu Yue, to the bank of the Fujiang River, the largest river in the capital, and put the Kong Ming lantern he made in the air to "pick up the stars", and at the same time made a New Year's wish.

At this time, on the bank of the Fujiang River, there are many times more people than usual, most of the residents in Xijing City have gone out, or make small lamps in their hands, or put Kong Ming lanterns in the sky, at this time, the river is above the sky, countless lights are dotted, it is very beautiful.

While everyone was admiring the beautiful night sky, there was a sudden commotion in the distance, faintly "Catch the assassin!" Catch the assassins! The shouts came. When the people watching the lights by the river heard the shouting, their eyes were all focused on the direction from which the sound came. After a while, I saw more than a dozen masked black-clothed men with swords hurriedly running towards the river, and a large group of blue-clothed guards were chasing after them.

At this moment, the frightened onlookers hurriedly scattered and fled. Yan Qin and Liu Yue hurriedly escorted Yang Yun to stand in a corner, looking at the two groups of people from a distance.

Seeing that the blue-clothed guards were chasing closely, the black-clothed men had to turn around and fight with the blue-clothed guards, this group of black-clothed people were obviously martial arts masters on the rivers and lakes, and they didn't fall behind when they fought with the blue-clothed guards. Especially a short and thin man in black, with a long sword in his hand flying up and down, he actually stood up and down against two or three blue-clothed guards by himself, and did not fall behind at all.

But this blue-clothed guard is the most elite team in Dafu after all, and it has a numerical advantage, although the masked man is extremely brave, but after a while, he still loses the upper hand, and there are casualties.

The short, thin masked man was obviously the leader of the group, and when he saw that the situation was not good, he immediately shouted: "Separate and retreat!" ”

The black-clothed men hurriedly threw away their opponents and fled in all directions, some fled into the roadside alleys, some climbed over the roadside fence to escape, and some of the watery ones simply jumped into the Fujiang River at once.

These blue-clad guards were obviously also experienced, and immediately sent out a part of them to catch up. The rest of the people quickly formed a circle and surrounded the few men in black who still had no time to escape.

Seeing that there was no chance to escape, these black-clothed men who were surrounded by black were obviously all outlaws, and when they saw that they had no chance to escape, they looked at each other, and actually stabbed themselves with the weapons in their hands at the same time. For the masked man's move, the blue-clothed guard was caught off guard, and actually let these masked people kill themselves, not even leaving a single living mouth.

Seeing this, the blue-clothed guards were very angry, except for some people who were left to deal with the black-clothed men who fell to the ground, the rest of the people immediately divided into several teams and chased after the black-clothed men who fled in several directions.

After such an accident, how could these people by the river dare to stay and hurriedly leave this place. Yan Qin and Liu Yue also hurriedly took Yang Yun back to the sedan chair that stopped at the bend in front of them, preparing to return to the prince's mansion.

Yang Yun lifted the sedan curtain and sat in, as soon as the sedan curtain was lowered, a long sword was placed on his neck. At the same time, a low voice came from his ear: "Don't make a sound, or I'll kill you." ”

Yang Yun turned his head and couldn't help but be startled, only to see a black-clothed man and masked man, sitting in his sedan chair at some point. His sedan chair has been guarded by eight sedan chair drivers, and I don't know how this person didn't know, and he unknowingly arrived in his sedan chair.

With the help of the afterglow, Yang Yun found that this was actually the short and thin man in black who was the leader. In order to avoid accidents, he chose to cooperate with the man in black, and sat in the sedan chair without making a sound or moving.

The two sat quietly in the sedan chair, waiting for the sedan chair to move forward smoothly, and walked for about a tea time, and the front seemed to be downhill, and the sedan chair suddenly swayed. The long sword in the black-clothed man's hand suddenly tilted to the side, and a soft groan came from his mouth.

"Your Highness, is there something wrong?" Although the voice was very soft, Yanqin outside the sedan car seemed to hear a little noise, so she asked softly beside the sedan chair.

"It's okay, let's keep going!" After listening to Yan Qin's words, Yang Yun immediately replied.

The sedan chair continued to move forward, and only then did Yang Yun have a chance to look at the black-clothed masked man, only to see that there was a wound on his right arm, which was obviously injured in the fight just now. Because he held the sword for a long time and pulled his wound, he couldn't help but moan softly.

Due to the change in angle, Yang Yun can now see the appearance of the masked face clearly. Just a long distance, Yang Yun didn't notice it, only to find that the black-clothed masked man had a bulging chest and pierced ears on his earlobes. At the same time, there was a faint, jasmine-like fragrance on his body, and Yang Yun realized that the leading man in black was actually a woman. Looking at the figure and bare skin, it can be judged that this is a young woman.

Yang Yun pointed to a small box beside him with his finger, and then pointed to the woman in black, signaling her to open the small box. The woman in black was stunned for a moment, but she still held a sword in one hand, opened the box with the other, and reached out to take out a small porcelain bottle.

Yang Yun hurriedly waved his hands again, finally convincing the woman that he had no malicious intent. Then he took the porcelain bottle from the woman's hand, uncorked it, and handed it back to the woman in black.

The woman in black was obviously an experienced person, and when she took the porcelain bottle, she didn't look at it at all, but only sniffed it with her nose, and knew that the bottle contained it was a good medicine for healing knife wounds. So she held the porcelain bottle in her left hand, poured the medicine powder in the bottle on the wound, and immediately felt a trace of coolness, and the pain of the wound was reduced a lot.

Yang Yun's behavior obviously made the woman in black less hostile to him a lot, she put down the long sword in her hand from Yang Yun's neck, but she still paid close attention to Yang Yun's movements, believing that if Yang Yun made any changes at this time, she would not hesitate to kill the killer.

"Who's sitting in the sedan chair, we're going to search for the assassin!" There was a sudden shout outside the sedan chair, and the sedan chair also stopped, apparently the blue-clothed guard stopped them.

"In the sedan chair is the Thirteenth Highness, you dare not make a time!" This is Liu Yue's voice. After waiting for a while, the sedan chair did not go forward, but fell into the sedan chair.

It seemed that the blue-clothed guard was still not at ease, Yang Yun had to stand up and prepare to open the sedan curtain, the woman in black was startled when she saw this, and hurriedly picked up the long sword and prepared to put it on Yang Yun's neck.

Yang Yun turned around and waved his hand to the woman in black, telling her not to worry, and then motioned for her to pay attention to hiding her figure. Then he opened the window and stuck his head out.

Several blue-clothed guards were about to open the sedan curtain to search, but they saw that it was really His Highness Thirteen sitting in the sedan chair, and hurriedly bowed to him.

"Something's wrong!" Yang Yun looked at a blue-clothed guard who looked like a leader and asked.

"Report to His Highness the Thirteenth, Master Guanglu Xian Yu Sheng Xian was assassinated by a group of masked assassins, and we are arresting the murderer." The little leader of the blue-clothed guard saluted Yang Yun and said in a low voice.

This is rarely known to Sheng Yangyun that he was originally an official of the previous dynasty (Great Jin). When the former emperor Sima Quanchan was located in the Taizu Emperor Yang Yuan of this dynasty, several officials loyal to the previous dynasty conspired to rebel, but they were reported by Xian Yusheng, and as a result, all these officials were killed. And Xian Yusheng reported that he was meritorious, and his official position rose all the way, and now he has been promoted to Guanglu Doctor from the second grade.

"There is such a thing, these assassins are so rampant, you guys go, you must catch these guys." Yang Yun pretended to be angry and said, but he was a little happy in his heart, because he hated these people who betrayed the glory of the people.

The person sitting in the sedan chair is really the thirteenth prince, of course, there is no need to search again. These blue-clothed guards hurriedly bowed and saluted, letting Yang Yun and his party leave.

Yang Yun lowered the sedan curtain, looked at the masked woman, smiled while pointing at the long sword placed on his waist, and motioned for her to remove the sword. This time, the masked woman was a little embarrassed, and quickly put away the long sword.

"Stop, get off the sedan chair!" After about a pillar of incense, it was already a long distance away from the place where the blue guards were searching. Yang Yun instructed the palanquin drivers to stop the sedan chair, although the palanquin drivers were a little strange, but they didn't dare to ask about the prince.

Yang Yun casually found another reason and asked a few sedan chair drivers to stop temporarily, leaving only Yanqin and Liu Yue, who he trusted the most. The two were wondering why His Highness stopped halfway, but they saw Yang Yun and a black-clothed masked man holding a long sword walking out of the sedan chair, and hurriedly rushed over, blocking between Yang Yun and the woman in black.

"Hehe, don't worry, she would have done it a long time ago if she wanted to kill me." Yang Yun smiled and stopped Yan Qin and Liu Yue, who were about to make a move, and said to the woman in black: "It should be safe here, you can go!" ”

The woman in black didn't speak, looked at Yang Yun, arched her hand at him, then quickly turned around, and quickly disappeared into the vast night.