"That's right." The princess nodded in agreement.

However, he said to Ji Ling: "You go and help me ask Ji Qiao secretly, let him think of some way, and we will practice secretly in the palace." ”

Ji Ling nodded in agreement.

After the three of them talked for a while, the princess left.

Although Ji Ling was reluctant, he had no choice but to leave.

Mrs. Chen silently watched Ji Ling go, but thinking that her daughter would often come to the palace to see herself in the future, she was very satisfied!

......

In the evening, Ji Ling came to Ji Qiao's room and told him about meeting Mrs. Chen.

Ji Qiao thought that this method would work, but still told Ji Ling to be cautious and not to show his feet.

As for the princess raised the question of how to quickly turn her complexion into a bronzer.

Ji Qiao directly refused, and asked Ji Ling to go back to the princess: It's winter now, there's no way, wait for summer.

However, Ji Ling was ready to think of some way to turn black by herself, and deceived the princess first, so that she could continue to get close to her mother.

......

Now, there are more than 200 people in the Anbang Marquis Mansion, not counting the 500 soldiers.

For safety, when Lin Yan went to court, he brought more than 20 people each time.

Ji Qiao went out, taking Lin Shi and more than a dozen family members with him every time.

But Dongfang Jiao was still very worried: "Gongzi Qiao, we are so strong in provoking Xuanwu Hou, are we not afraid that it will directly retaliate by force?" ”

Ji Qiao replied: "It's just that I'm afraid, so I provoked him in advance!" Xuanwu Hou will definitely find a reason to bring people to destroy us. But we don't have much strength now, and Xuanwu Hou will take it lightly, and he will definitely not send many people, so we can deal with it better. ”

Dongfang Jiao asked again: "Will the master be in danger?" ”

Ji Qiao comforted: "Xuanwu Hou only wants to kill me, and he won't deal with the master." After all, the lord is also a marquis, if Xuanwu Hou kills him, the king will have an excuse to directly lead troops to suppress Xuanwu Houfu. ”

Dongfang Jiao breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this: "Then I'm a little relieved, Shi'er will definitely follow Qiao Gongzi every step in the future!" ”

Lin Shi smiled: "Mother, you can rest assured!" If I can't see Ji Qiao for a moment now, I feel uncomfortable. ”

In fact, since Ji Qiao came to the Hou Mansion not long ago, Lin Shi has not left Ji Qiao except for taking a bath and going to the toilet, except for not following him when he takes a bath and goes to the toilet.

......

A few days later, silk traders from other countries arrived in Linzi.

Ji Qiao immediately took more than 200 people and swaggered out the silk.

All 250,000 zhang of silk were sold, and a lot of cocoons were exchanged.

......

That night, in the middle of the night.

Xuanwu Hou is going to make a prelude, kill Ji Qiao directly, and then charge him with a crime.

The crime is that Ji Qiao disrupted the people's livelihood, collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country, and resold the benefits that the people should enjoy to other countries through improper means to make huge profits.

Xuanwu Hou knew that it would definitely not work to act openly on this matter, because the reason was a bit far-fetched.

In the middle of the night, Xuanwu Hou asked his henchman Xuan Neng to secretly take five hundred soldiers to set off, and ordered that Ji Qiao must be killed.

After Xuan Neng took people to the Anbang Marquis's Mansion, he found that there was a wall on the periphery, although it was only more than seven feet high, but it was relatively thick.

Xuan Neng ordered the soldiers to climb over the wall and enter, and first let a few people tentatively turn over, but found that there was no movement inside. Then a large number of soldiers rummaged inside, and in a short time, more than 200 people had entered the courtyard.

Xuan Neng believes that Ji Qiao and they have no precautions at all, and now the entire Anbang Hou Mansion has been controlled by their own side. He directly asked the people inside to open the gate of the courtyard wall, and the rest of the people all entered through the gate, and now five hundred soldiers have surrounded the Anbang Marquis Mansion.

Since Xuanwu Hou has an explanation, don't kill An Banghou, then the nature of the matter will change, and it will be difficult to explain to the king.

So Xuan Neng didn't let the soldiers kill him, but prepared to call An Banghou's family out, and then directly arrested Ji Qiao.

Xuan Jean made the soldiers light torches.

But the torches had just been lit when suddenly the sound of long arrows breaking through the air was heard.

The soldiers in the front row fell one after another, and let out a scream.

I saw that these fallen soldiers had an extra arrow crossbow on their bodies, and this arrow crossbow was much thicker than ordinary arrows.

It turned out that Ji Qiao had made preparations in order to prevent Xuanwu Wait, and there were three shifts a day, with 100 people in each shift taking turns on duty, and each person carried a crossbow.

This kind of crossbow has a long range, can be aimed, and is equipped with a trigger, the most important thing is that it does not use many bronze resources, and the disadvantage is that it takes more time to load the arrow crossbow, and it takes more than ten seconds.

Therefore, a hundred people were fired in two rounds, and after one round of shooting, the opposing side fell about forty people. After the first round of shooting, immediately go to the back to load the crossbow, and the second round of people will move forward, and wait for the first round of people to put on the arrows before starting to shoot.

But in just over a minute, Ji Qiao's men had already shot four rounds of arrows and crossbows, and the other party had suffered more than 160 casualties.

Xuan Neng found that something was wrong, and hurriedly ordered a retreat, but who knew that the gate of the wall had been blocked horizontally with a few large logs.

In this way, the soldiers could only climb out of the wood, but the soldiers who had just climbed the wood were shot to death with crossbows by the men outside the wall.

However, there are not many people in Ji Qiao's ambush outside, only forty, and he is afraid that there will be too many people, and it will be easy to be discovered by the Xuanwu soldiers.

As a result, the gate of the wall immediately became crowded, and many soldiers fled directly over the wall. Therefore, a lot of time was delayed, and in just over three minutes, Ji Qiao's people had already shot more than ten rounds of arrows and crossbows.

Less than 80 people escaped from the other side, but more than 40 were shot dead by people outside.

Ji Qiao ordered to stop shooting at this time.

Dongfang Jiao, Lin Shi, and Lin Qing immediately took more than 50 people and chased them out on horseback.

Since this was a sneak attack, Xuanwu Hou's soldiers were all on foot, and only a few generals such as Xuanneng rode horses.

So the soldiers who were on foot were caught up in a few moments and all were killed.

After Ji Qiao's men killed these infantrymen, they directly dragged the corpses back and did not continue the pursuit.

Dongfang Jiao, Lin Shi, and Lin Qing were the three of them, but they had been chasing after the generals who had fled on horseback in front of them.

Because Xuan Neng and the others were not familiar with the terrain, they ran a few miles before they were caught up by Dongfang Jiao.

Xuan Neng saw that there were only three people chasing after him, and he simply asked everyone to stop. Although I knew that Lin Qing and Lin Shi's martial arts were very powerful, they could only fight hard!

So he shouted directly: "Kill me." ”

The nine of them rushed together.

Unexpectedly, only one person was faced, and six out of nine people were picked.

The other three didn't expect each other to be so powerful! In addition, it was night, and the moonlight was not very bright, so he didn't see how the other party made his hand at all, so he turned the horse's head and fled.

Dongfang Jiao, Lin Shi, and Lin Qing used spears, and they didn't give them a chance to escape at all, so they threw the spears directly.

The other three were immediately stabbed to death and fell off their horses.

Lin Shi said happily at this time: "Mother, I didn't expect the five hundred soldiers of Xuanwu Hou to be so vulnerable. ”

Dongfang Jiao replied: "Although these people are soldiers, they are private soldiers of Xuanwu Houfu, they have not fought much, and they have very little combat experience. was designed by Qiao Gongzi again, and was shot behind closed doors with advanced weapons, and he didn't return the phone at all. This is not the case with real war! ”

Lin Shi asked again: "Mother, why does Ji Qiao know so much?" ”

Dongfang Jiao shook her head and said: "This mother doesn't know, maybe her brain suddenly opened up!" It's like my mother's grandfather, who suddenly realized peerless martial arts! ”