"Let's go! Take Your Highness first! ”

"Childe, be careful!"

"Don't bother, take the alley at the back, you can get out of that way."

"The subordinates stay with you."

"Your Highness, go quickly, the Prime Minister will be fine, you and your subordinates will leave first and go to a safe place."

"Cen Xi, get out of here!"

"You go with me."

I brushed away Cen Xi's hand that was holding my arm, and said to Lu Ding, who was begging Cen Xi to go first, with a cold face, "Drag him away!" After that, he said to Sun Hu, who was protecting me, "Your Highness's life is more important than the appearance, you escort him away, and the appearance can handle it here." ”

Sun Hu swung his sword to split the dark arrow of the comer, and refused to leave a single step.

Anger rushed to my heart, and I flipped the long sword, and the hilt of the sword stabbed directly into the waist of Sun Hu's body.

Sun Hu was pushed out of the battle circle by the strength and rolled on the ground several times before stopping.

The pain instantly spread throughout his body, Sun Hu gasped, gritted his teeth and stood up.

"Let's go!" I yelled and rushed into the masked man with my sword in hand.

Sun Hu didn't dare to disobey my orders again, and he and Lu Ding worked together to knock Cen Xi unconscious, and Lu Ding carried him and ran into the alley.

"Green Branches......

The faint murmur was drowned out in the sound of swords in an instant, and no one heard it.

With my backhand, I stabbed the sword into the body of the masked man behind me, and I turned around and kicked the man to the ground, the sword drawn and blood splattered.

"The prince has run away, go and chase it!" Someone in the masked man called the shots.

With a sharp gaze, I raised my sword, and in the blink of an eye, I was at the side of the giver.

"Say, why do you know the prince? Who sent you? The blade was close to the man's neck, and I squinted.

The man didn't pay any attention to my questioning, and tried to separate me with his arm back, and I saw the situation, which directly ended in his life.

The leader was dead, but instead of panicking, the masked men attacked me with even more momentum.

I retreated, trying to make a breakthrough, but they were not only well-trained, but they were all agile, and I could hardly find any flaws.

Who are these people? Why did you suddenly attack us? And why do you know so much about who we are?

And......

I stared at the masks on their faces, and I always felt like I had seen this pattern somewhere.

The stabbing cold sword flashed sideways, and the momentum in my hand sank, and the sword body struck, and the stabbing sword was cut in two by me.

"I have no intention of fighting with you, so if you know each other, leave quickly." I spoke coldly.

I thought that they had lost their leader, that is, the formation was not chaotic, and their hearts should be chaotic, but I thought wrong.

They are here to kill Cen Xi, and they are also here to kill me.

Step by step, leaving no room for survival.

Grasp the sword in my hand, I know that this time I may not be able to escape so easily.

The night was spreading little by little, and my physical strength was constantly being consumed, looking at the masked people in front of me, I was ruthless, and I was going to rush out with serious injuries, but at this moment, a sword light flashed in front of my eyes, and before I could react, the masked people closest to me were all killed.

"Silly? Get out of your sword!"

With a low shout, I immediately recovered from the shock and fought with my sword.

Probably expecting that he would not be able to kill me tonight, the masked man tacitly carried the corpses on the ground and gathered together with more than half of the dead and wounded, and then retreated and left collectively.

I leaned against the wall on one side with a pale face, but I didn't dare to let go of the sword in my hand.

"So afraid of Ben Shao?" Gu Yuancheng looked at me and smiled vigilantly, and bright red blood beads fell from the tip of the sword he was holding, and they immediately shattered.

"What are you going to do?" I didn't relax at all because of Gu Yuancheng's words, and my eyes were firmly fixed on his movements.

"Ben Shao?" Gu Yuancheng approached me, "Ben Shao will settle the account." ”

I pointed my sword at him, which indirectly separated the distance between us.

"Reckoning? Joke, what does this owe you to you? "I think it's ridiculous.

Gu Yuancheng grabbed my sword with his left hand, and as soon as he used force, the blade of my sword was broken by him, and he took advantage of the situation to get close to me, and the half of the sword was just on my neck.

"Nine years ago, you smashed Benshao with walnuts in Chengguan Temple; Yesterday, you turned a blind eye to Ben Shao in public, and you dare to say that you didn't owe Ben Shao anything? Gu Yuancheng looked at me viciously, and the blade of the sword pierced into my skin, causing pain.

"Ben rarely holds grudges, but he never cares about men and women."

My eyes lit up, and my mind became a little confused.

Yes, I almost forgot about the nine years of open and secret fighting, and when we first met each other, he knew that I was a woman.

Speaking of the original encounter, it was really a bit of a glimpse of the feeling, at that time, I painted eyebrows, the silk skirt was delicate, his jade belt tied his hair, like a jade tree, I saw him sneaking out of the peach blossoms at first sight, and he also saw me standing on the steps and nibbling peaches.

If I hadn't thrown the peach pit at his head later, maybe we wouldn't have had to fight so much today.

"The people behind those masked men are the ones you want to investigate, right?" I threw the hilt of my sword away, looked at him and said, "How about we work together for the time being?" I'll help you find that person, and you help me find out what is wrong with Jiangnan. ”

Gu Yuancheng disdainful, "Why?" ”

"Just ......," I took the initiative to approach him, "I am the only person you can trust in Qinguo." ”

His eyes froze for a moment, and Gu Yuancheng instinctively stabbed the broken sword into my neck again, and the stinging pain spread from the nerves to my limbs in an instant, and my whole body fell directly to the ground.

A trace of blood soaked through the wrist I had been holding, I frowned, dense cold sweat broke out from my forehead, and the night breeze blew, cooling my bone marrow.

"You're hurt?" Gu Yuancheng was stunned.

I took a deep breath and stood up again against the wall.

"Nothing."

It was indeed okay, because of the bronze coin, the masked man's sword did not damage the veins in my wrist when it slashed through it.

Gu Yuancheng looked at me, and finally threw away his half-truncated sword, along with another long sword.

I glanced at the glittering sword and asked suspiciously, "That sword is worth a lot of money, what are you ...... Don't want it? ”

Gu Yuancheng refused to even sweep the corners of his eyes in disgust.

"The sword is dirty, I don't want it."

I...... Can I either?

"Today, we will have a temporary truce." I wiped the cold sweat with the clean place of my sleeve, "During this time, if you want to find me, just go to the teahouse where you stared at me yesterday, and I'll go first." ”

"Hey." Gu Yuancheng stopped me.

"Anything else?" I wondered.

Gu Yuancheng snorted coldly, disdainful of explanation.

"Then I'm leaving." I bypassed him and was going to leave.

Gu Yuancheng was angry with me, and said hatefully, "Ben Shao saved your life!" Didn't you even say thank you? ”

"Oh, that's what you're for!" I understood, so I made a solemn gesture to him, "Today, Lord Gu Xiang is willing to be merciful and rescued, and I am grateful." ”

After speaking, I looked up at Gu Yuancheng, "Gu Xiang, do you want to think about it, what else do you have to do to leave?" ”

Gu Yuancheng squinted his eyes and warned, "Shen Qingzhi, don't challenge my bottom line again and again. After that, he flicked his sleeves and left.

Seeing him walk away, I leaned against the wall at once.

The masked man suddenly attacked me and Cen Xi, how did they know where Cen Xi and I were? Gu Yuancheng appeared in such a timely manner, I am afraid that he either deliberately took the opportunity to kill me, or took the opportunity to force me to compromise with him, but if there is no chaos, it must be Gu Yuancheng who secretly used means to lure them over.

It's so dangerous, if I hadn't taken the initiative to show weakness, it is estimated that Gu Yuancheng would really have used that broken sword to cut my throat.

Determined, I stood against the wall, and when the dizziness in my brain was over, I walked along the night road to where I lived.

As I walked, I recalled all the things that happened today, and I searched for clues between them, but the more I thought about it, the more mysterious it became.

Originally, early this morning, Sun Hu took me to see the doctor as usual, but I didn't expect Cen Xi to be bored in the courtyard by himself, so he insisted on taking Lu Ding with him. Let's go together, but Sun Hu said, 'Yesterday's noodles are really good', this Cen Xi's curiosity came up, and we only had to sit obediently in front of yesterday's noodle stall and eat noodles.

And then? Nothing then! Then we sat there from evening to night, and then we were inexplicably surrounded by a group of masked assassins, and then there was the scene where I had to protect Cen Xi at all costs.

Is all this really a coincidence?

I do not know.

After walking for a long time, I finally arrived at the west courtyard, at the gate of the courtyard, as soon as Sun Hu saw my figure, he immediately stepped forward to support me.

"Childe, are you alright?" Sun Hu asked anxiously.

I shook my head, "It's been slashed, it's fine." ”

Needless to say, Sun Hu also saw my cuffs that were stained dark with blood. He helped me into the house, and when I sat down, he immediately went out to find the royal doctor who had come with him.

I felt thirsty, so I got up and poured water, but because of the wrist injury, I didn't hold it steady, and the kettle fell from my hand and broke into pieces.

"What's wrong? Childe, what's wrong with you? As soon as he pulled the doctor to the door, Sun Hu heard "Bah!" inside! rushed in in a hurry.

I rubbed my eyebrows, sat down and said, "It's okay, the teapot accidentally fell." ”

Sun Hu looked left and right, and it was indeed just a teapot falling to the ground, and he exhaled.

"Childe, don't move, these subordinates will deal with it, and this job of pouring tea and water will be done in the future. Childe is annoying, so it's up to me. Saying that, Sun Hu said to the imperial doctor outside the door, "Come in, let's see how Childe's injuries are." ”

I showed my injured wrist to the Imperial Doctor, who looked at it, took out the medicine powder and gauze from the medicine box he was carrying, and prepared to bandage me.

"How?" Sun Hu asked.

The imperial doctor said, "It's okay, it's just a little skin injury, and this copper coin covers the fatal place." ”

Listening to the words of the imperial doctor, Sun Hu was finally in the mood to say something else, and he smiled and said, "Imperial doctor, don't you know where this copper coin comes from, this is another auspicious person." ”