Ye Han realized the danger at the same moment.

The keen instincts he had cultivated over the years of battlefield battles told him that the danger was behind him, and it was too late to dodge.

Then don't hide.

Ye Han did not retreat, but forcibly gathered his body's instinctive vigilance and defense, and concentrated all his energy on the sword in his hand.

The long sword stabbed down with the strength of his whole body, and the light in the eyes of the bandit leader on the ground recovered from smugness to horror, and the smile on the corner of his lips was too bright to contain for a while, and finally froze on his face.

His chest was pierced by a sword, and he was dead.

But at the same time, Ye Han's heart was also invaded by a sharp pain, and it was dark in front of his eyes, and then it returned to normal little by little, leaving only a sharp pain throughout his body.

It's a spear.

Ye Han felt that the shot hadn't stabbed him in the heart, so he should have a little strength to fight back. But the fact is that his head, neck and limbs were already too heavy to drag at the moment of injury, and he relied on the long sword held in his right hand to pierce the chest of the bandit leader and hit the ground, barely supporting him from falling.

This is not right.

In fact, the fact that he was stabbed is not right in itself. It is instinct that the officers of the Northwest Army must form a formation when they move, and when he swings his sword, it is reasonable that there should be at least one soldier beside him to help him defend his back.

What's wrong?!

Ye Han turned around with difficulty, only to find that seven or eight soldiers had fallen behind him. There were more than a dozen people from the Northwest Army standing or sitting around the trap, all of them were overwhelmed at this time, as if they had exhausted all their strength just by raising their heads.

This is not an injury, it is poisoning.

At the moment, the air around the trap is a little stagnant. The Northwest Army had little combat effectiveness, and there were still many wounded or slow-moving soldiers who remained in the trap and could not climb up; The bandits also seem to be a little chaotic, presumably the one killed by Ye Han is their real family, and the rest of the bandits are leaderless at the moment.

Of course, the bandit leader also had loyal subordinates who tried to take revenge, but those people seemed to be a little afraid of this trap, and only turned around a foot away, staring at each other, and refused to step forward.

Ye Han glanced back at the huge pit, remembering the snow particles and dust that had filled his nose, eyes, and mouth when he fell.

He sat down slowly on the ground with his sword, but refused to fall, but tentatively grabbed the bandit leader's shoulders and dragged him a foot or two closer in the direction of the trap.

Seeing this, the thieves and bandits immediately scolded angrily, but none of them stepped forward, only two young ones covered their mouths and noses with one hand and pointed at Ye Han with spears in the other, but they were always a little bit short of distance and couldn't hurt him.

This contrived further confirmed Ye Han's guess, but it also made him doubly difficult.

There was poison in the trap, and he and his soldiers stayed here, and the poison only got deeper. And outside this dangerous circle, I don't know how many thieves and bandits are eyeing them.

The Northwest Army in peacetime is naturally fearless of rushing and killing, but at this moment, they are poisoned and can't get up, once they fall into the hands of bandits, they can only be slaughtered.

This is still on the premise that the other party does not think of setting arrows or fire. When they remembered, the soldiers were still dead if they stayed here.

Just as I was thinking of this, a sharp female voice on the hillside next to me was already shouting: "The poison is spreading!" Don't come closer! Come back! Let's shoot the arrows! ”

The woman seemed to be very prestigious. Before she finished shouting, the bandits really ignored the corpse of the leader, and each carried his own weapons and ran up the hillside.

It's really going to be an arrow!

Ye Han dropped the bandit leader and struggled to get up a little bit of strength to try to stand up.

A soldier behind him said with a crying voice: "Master, we have lost more than ten people, and there is no movement at all in those who did not climb out of the trap." I don't know if it's dead! ”

"There is no way to go." Ye Han gritted his teeth.

He didn't believe this sentence himself.

There are so many times when the heavens are about to kill him, and every time he grits his teeth and crawls out of the desperate situation, he doesn't believe in the sky anymore.

Chu Weiyang believed in heaven very much, lying on the ground humming and chirping the little girl crying: "I'm about to die...... I knew that Ling Laosan, you were unreliable, and you would have to die sooner or later...... Don't you have the ability, aren't you brave and invincible, don't you say that your life can be changed...... You also said that you married a fairy girl, I think you are bragging! Your life is a fate that will die on the battlefield, and whoever follows you will be unlucky......"

"Shut up!" Ye Han held his sword and scolded him crooked on the ground: "Nonsense disturbs the morale of the army, you should be beheaded!" ”

Chu Weiyang was not afraid of him at all, "When you are killed, you will be killed!" I don't think you have the strength to cut me! ”

Of course, Ye Han has no strength, let alone mood. He struggled to move on the ground, looking at the fallen soldiers one by one, and his mood became heavier and heavier.

Some died, and some were seriously wounded, and fell to the ground.

Of course, there were also wounded or dead bandits who fell to the ground, and a few thieves who didn't know that the poisonous fog of the trap was spreading and didn't have time to escape.

Ye Han didn't bother to pay attention to any enemies or me, turned his head to look at the trap again, frowning and thinking about countermeasures.

At this time, Chu Weiyang was still humming, endlessly: "Ling Laosan, do you say that you are at a loss, ah?" A dignified prince, who has worked hard at the border for so many years, it is easy to go back to Beijing and make trouble again...... This time you were taken by that little girl, I thought you could finally eat soft rice when you came to work, but who knew that you would come out to suppress the bandits in a blink of an eye...... Now it's okay, the bandits haven't been suppressed yet, you have to explain here first! Your delicate little daughter-in-law hasn't been around for a few days, and I don't know which grandson will be cheaper in the future......"

"Shut up!" The night was cold enough, "If you want to die by yourself, I won't accompany you!" ”

When he said the word "accompany", he suddenly laughed again. Thinking that the little girl at home has always been full of strange thoughts, now if she knows that he died with Chu Weiyang, she doesn't know how to arrange him!

No, he can't die!

Ye Han secretly woke himself up in his heart, and heard Chu Weiyang muttering: "If you don't want to die with me, hurry up and find a way to live!" Isn't your little daughter-in-law a miracle doctor, and when you come out to die, didn't she prepare some magic medicine for you to bring the dead back to life? I said Ling Laosan, does your little daughter-in-law really love you? ”

I don't like to hear this when it's cold.

Of course his little daughter-in-law loves him, otherwise would she love a fool like Chu Weiyang? The surname Chu has no chance to be the emperor!

Thinking of this, the night cold was a little frustrated, and I was about to get angry, when the sound of sharp weapons breaking through the air came from the hillside next to me.

Sure enough, it was an arrow.

Not only arrows, but also the kind that was tied with linoleum and lit on fire.

These bandits are not only good at fighting, but they can be said to be very good at it. At this moment, these people in the Northwest Army are all on the ground, even if they shoot arrows down from the hillside, they can't hurt them much, but the fire on the arrows is different.

Even if you miss, you can burn them.

"Not good!" Wu Lin roared, "It's windy in the mountains, we can't resist it!" ”

As he spoke, the bodies of the two bandits were already on fire, and the flames rose little by little, and they were blown around by the wind.

The officers and men of the Northwest Army were wearing armor, and the fire burned more slowly, but if this trend continued, it would be a matter of time before it burned.

"Master, what should I do?!" The young boat had just narrowly escaped an arrow, and he was so frightened that he was about to cry.

Ye Han glanced back at the hillside and gritted his teeth: "Jump!" ”

He's talking about the trap.

The soldiers did not hesitate. As soon as his words fell, the soldiers who were already dying immediately struggled, pulled up the dead and the lightly injured alive and grabbed the seriously injured, moved to the trap with difficulty inch by inch, closed their eyes and fell.

There were a few "ouch" sounds at the bottom of the pit, and I don't know if it was the person who fell down or the person who was smashed was crying bitterly.

When everyone returned to the bottom of the pit, counted the number of people, and found that the casualties had not increased, it was a sigh of relief.

The fiery arrows were still flying above their heads, but the trap was so cleverly constructed that it was extremely difficult for the arrows to fall unless they were shot with extreme precision at a few specific holes.

Even one or two fish that slipped through the net had been extinguished by the remnants of snow at the entrance of the cave and had become ordinary arrows.

In this way, the soldiers barely have a corner of shelter, but no one is happy.

There was too much poison precipitated under this trap, and everyone felt dizzy as soon as they fell in, and their bodies, which had little strength, became heavier, and their arms and legs seemed to weigh a thousand pounds.

Some people tried to take off their armor to lighten the load, but it was useless, because they no longer even had the strength to unbuckle their belts.

Outside, he was burned to death by fire, and jumping in was just slowly being fascinated by the medicine, and he died left and right.

The officers and men of the Northwest Army, who have never been afraid of death, feel a little aggrieved: they have not died in the past against the Northern Yan thieves so many times, but they don't want to die in the hands of the little thieves!

They knew that these thieves must have a way to come, but they had nowhere to inquire at this time, and after they died, they didn't know who to sue when they went to the palace of Hades to complain.

No, this can still be known.

Lao Cheng and the others suddenly remembered that when they fell down before, they also carried two thieves on their backs, and the two thieves seemed to have squeaked twice at that time, maybe they were alive.

So several soldiers struggled to get up and turned under their bodies, and finally pulled out a living thief from the gap between the two horses, and gestured in front of him with a sharp knife: "Say! Who are you?! ”

The little thief was already so frightened that his face turned green, and he trembled: "The little and the villain are thieves, they are thieves!" Damn the villain! Damn the villain! ”

"Thief!" The sharp knife in Lao Cheng's hand was softly placed on the thief's neck, "Where can the bandit afford to use a heavy crossbow?" Where do the bandits know the military formation? Where are the bandits tens of thousands at every turn, and no one dares to take care of the city? ”

He asked and stabbed the thief in the neck, although he didn't have much strength and didn't hurt, but the thief was still frightened, and shouted: "I said, I said, the hero spares his life......

Lao Cheng was so angry that he almost threw the sharp knife.

Only bandits are called "heroes", and officers and soldiers are called "military masters". This eyeless thief called him "a good man", did he want to change his identity with him!

What the fuck is this called!

The most annoying thing is that it's not time to get angry. Lao Cheng had to endure his anger and shouted angrily: "Say! ”

At this moment, the officers and men of the Northwest Army still had the breath to sit up on the side wall or on horseback. The thief looked at the shining eyes in the darkness, shuddered, and stammered: "We are not bandits, we are the ...... of the real martial army."

……

Upper Beijing.

After the fifth watch, the night was slowly revealed, but instead of bright daylight, it was an annoying gray.

Outside the window, the wind was blowing and the branches were whining, and it was another bad day.

Ruan Qingzhi slowly got up to freshen up, drank hot porridge and ate a basket of steamed dumplings before daring to go out, and as soon as he arrived at the porch, he was immediately shivered by the wind.

The weather was worse than she had expected. Not only is it windy, it's also cold.

It didn't snow, and there was occasionally something cool and wet in the air, and I didn't know if it was rain or snow or ice beads falling from the sky.

In this kind of weather, a fool will go out.

But Ruan Qingzhi had to be that fool. The errand ordered by the emperor, even if she pretended, she had to pretend to be very attentive, but she couldn't be lazy.

When I got out of the gate, there was not a single pedestrian on the street. Ruan Qingzhi's carriage walked alone in this gray place, which was really miserable and miserable.

Ruan Qingzhi didn't bring Yun Banyue out as usual, first, she felt that the two of them couldn't help with the affairs of the hospital, so there was no need to go out with her to get cold, and secondly, she deliberately made herself miserable, so as not to let the emperor pick on her thorns.

Anyway, with Cheng Hu and Li San following, she can't be wronged.

Just as he was thinking this, the carriage suddenly clattered, and then the exclamation of the coachman sounded: "What man! ”

Ruan Qingzhi was taken aback and hurriedly asked what was going on.

After a few clicks of horses' hooves, Cheng Hu's voice said outside: "It's nothing." Suspicious people disturbed the carriage and fled. ”

Ruan Qingzhi became more and more puzzled when he heard this: "Disturb the carriage? How to disturb? ”

Cheng Hu replied: "It was a masked man who shot an arrow at the carriage and nailed it to the window, but did not hurt people or animals. The subordinates had already checked it, and it was an ordinary bamboo arrow, leaving no marks or news. ”

Neither killing nor delivering letters, he ran away with an arrow and specially masked his face, and he was really a "suspicious person".

Ruan Qingzhi frowned and thought for a moment, and did not ask again.

Even if the man has a great conspiracy, he must wait until he gets to the front of him to solve it, and there is no reason to chase a suspicious person out stupidly, and be carried away like a dog.

Cheng Hu and Li San obviously mean the same thing. The rules of the Northwest Army: If there is no military order, the thief will be killed when he comes, and the thief will not chase after him.

So the carriage entered the hospital unhurriedly. Ruan Qingzhi entered the door tightly wrapped and saw Imperial Physician Du leaning in front of the stove studying the pharmacopoeia. A few doctors and medicine boys next to them were busy with their own work, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.

Ruan Qingzhi smiled: "Imperial Doctor Chu didn't come today?" ”

When Imperial Physician Du saw her, he was stunned for a moment, and then laughed: "The county lord is wrong, there is no Imperial Physician Chu in the Tai Hospital now." ”

Ruan Qingzhi also laughed when he heard this, walked to the fireside and rubbed his hands, and heard Imperial Doctor Du laugh and said, "The county lord came so early. It's so windy today, and those little lazy bugs are betting that you're not coming. ”

"If you don't come, you can't do it," Ruan Qingzhi said with emotion, "The emperor's order is here!" ”

Imperial Physician Du echoed with a smile, and asked again: "The county lord is still going to read those classics today?" ”

Ruan Qingzhi nodded: "I saw several booklets yesterday that were very useful, I want to read them for a while, maybe I can remember useful information from the beginning." ”

Imperial Physician Du did not question it, and hurriedly instructed the child to lead the way to Ruan Qingzhi in front of him to open the door, and by the way, he sent tea and snacks.

As for cushions, stoves, incense and other things, they have been prepared early, which can also be seen that Ruan Qingzhi is now as comfortable in Tai Hospital as he is at home.

After the medicine boy retreated, Cheng Hu and Li San also retreated quietly, guarding a small stove and squatting under the porch.

The people in the Tai Hospital all knew that these two door gods were left by King Li to the county lord of Qingyang, and no one dared to say anything, so they could only try to take a detour, as if they could get more holes in their bodies if they looked at them one more time.

Ruan Qingzhi sat comfortably in the room alone.

The room was still the same as yesterday, the smoke left no trace of it, and the books on the shelves were exactly the same as yesterday.

Ruan Qingzhi got up and turned around to take the box and reopened the dark compartment, seeing that the blackened porcelain bottle inside was cold, and there was nothing else.

It seems that no one really has been here, and no one has noticed the anomaly-

Wrong!

Ruan Qingzhi was stunned for a moment, subconsciously picked up the porcelain vase, and put it back in its place.

My fingertips repeated the action of picking up and putting it down a few times, but I was still not sure.

She vaguely remembered that she was holding the letterhead in her right hand yesterday, so she should have used her left hand to check the vase. In this way, the porcelain vase should be close to the left side when it is put back, which is her habit.

But when she opened the compartment just now, the porcelain vase was dumped on the right side at the bottom of the compartment, with the mouth to the left.

Ruan Qingzhi thought about it several times, and finally came to the conclusion that it was still wrong.

Either she remembered it wrong, or someone opened it.

Isn't Chu Shen no longer in the hospital? Is there still someone else in the hospital? Is it possible for people to come and go in a place where many secrets are hidden?

Ruan Qingzhi couldn't figure it out for a while, so he had to close the dark compartment, pick up the box and put it away, and turned around.

I was still thinking about things in a daze, but I had caught a glimpse of a dark shadow out of the corner of my eye.

Ruan Qingzhi secretly screamed "not good", and instinctively retreated to run, but found that there was a wall behind him and bookshelves on both sides, and there was nowhere to escape.

At this time, the black shadow had fallen in front of her eyes, and it was indeed a black-clothed and masked person.

Ruan Qingzhi shouted "Cheng Hu" in his throat without any backbone, and then reached his waist with his backhand to pull out the knife, but he gritted his teeth and held back the moment before touching the hilt, and stumbled and fell to the ground in embarrassment.

It's true that she knows kung fu, but she's really not a master. She can't beat the person in front of her, so there's no need to expose her hole cards too early.

As long as Cheng Hu and the others come in, it will be easy to do.

This was Ruan Qingzhi's idea, but she still underestimated the ability of this man in black.

It was true that Cheng Hu and Li San heard the sound and broke in, but when they slammed open the door, the man in black had already pounced, grabbed the back of Ruan Qingzhi's neck like a chicken, lifted it and jumped up.

Ruan Qingzhi only felt that the hand on the back of her neck was as cold and hard as an iron tong, and her body was so soft and fluttering like a ball of cotton that she couldn't lift her strength at all, and she could only helplessly see the hasty faces of Cheng Hu and Li San from the gaps in the bookshelves that flashed by, as well as the windowsills, roofs, white stone roads, and snow on the side of the road.

Ruan Qingzhi's hood was thrown in that room, the thick cotton clothes on his body were cold to the bone, his face was also blown like a knife, and the scattered hair was stabbed on his face.

It's fucking cold.

Ruan Qingzhi was dazed, and in his heart he learned the tone of those vulgar soldiers and cursed a foul word, and simply closed his eyes.

The eyelids are all cold.

The whirring wind in her ears continued, and although Ruan Qingzhi didn't open her eyes, she could still feel the direction in which the thief was taking her away.

Cheng.

It was a place where many princes and grandsons built mansions and lived, and most of the people in the vicinity were scholars, so it stands to reason that there should not be strongmen and gangsters.

Of course, that's just "according to reason".

Ruan Qingzhi knew that the people who came out of the scholarly eunuch's house may not be able to be thieves, and the prince and grandson could also be thieves at the same time, so before she saw the true face of the enemy, everything could not be guessed.

The thief carried Ruan Qingzhi around, and finally jumped from the wall into a seemingly ordinary courtyard.

This routine, Ruan Qingzhi is simply suspicious that this thief and Ye Han were taught by a master.

Thankfully not.

In the small courtyard where the group of people lived in the cold night, except for the stakes for practicing and the dungeon in the backyard, it was like an ordinary courtyard inside and out; And the courtyard she saw at the moment, the outside is black tiles and white walls, which are extremely simple, but the inside is a small bridge, flowing water, flowers and trees, supporting sparse carved beams and paintings, and I can't wait for each carved flower on the bridge to be engraved with the word "valuable".

So Ruan Qingzhi knew: The person who captured her must be royal, and others can't collect so much money, and they won't spend so much money if they do.

The man in black carried Ruan Qingzhi into a dark room in the backyard, threw it on the ground, closed the door and left.

Ruan Qingzhi looked up at the small window that was almost half a foot square against the roof, and then looked down at the empty ground that did not even have a single plank, and directly gave up the idea of escaping, shrank into the corner and began to rub his frozen face.

There was a sound of footsteps kicking and tapping outside, and Ruan Qingzhi stopped moving, closed his eyes and tilted into the corner, making a half-dead appearance.

Someone opened the door, paused for a moment, and asked in a deep voice, "Why don't you cry?" ”

Ruan Qingzhi: "Huh." ”

The man at the door laughed loudly: "Lord Qingyang, if you don't know how to fake crying, don't pretend to be hard, it's much easier to pretend to be dead and faint than this." ”

Ruan Qingzhi was as good as a stream, and sure enough, he immediately stopped crying, tilted his head, and stopped moving.

"Hahaha......" The man at the door burst into laughter, holding on to a door and laughing so hard that he couldn't stand up straight: "Lord Qingyang, you are really a wonderful person!" ”

Ruan Qingzhi, who was "half-dead", immediately raised his head when he heard this, and said seriously: "His Royal Highness the King of Jin is a wonderful person, and the ambition of the wolf is hidden deeply. ”