(Recommended reading: Zhao Gongzi seems to be interested in gambling money, nodding after leaving the gambling hall, walking to the front yard while thinking about his thoughts, as if he wants to leave the casino and has no intention of staying overnight, like this kind of high-end casino naturally has a place to stay.

Li Hongyu followed from a distance, his brows furrowed slightly, he knew that this Zhao Gongzi was in a bad mood, but he couldn't guess what happened and it didn't look like a business trouble, could it be a private matter at home?

Obviously, this mysterious Zhao Gongzi has a lot of secrets, which makes Li Hongyu more and more suspicious that she has something to do with the smuggling forces, after all, not everyone can have a close relationship with the children of salt merchants like the third prince.

After turning a rockery in the backyard, Li Hongyu, who had been keeping an eye on Zhao Gongzi, suddenly found that Zhao Gongzi and his party walking in front had disappeared, and there was no half of a figure on the road in front of him.

"Oops!" Subsequently, Li Hongyu realized something and secretly said bad in his heart.

The next moment, several figures flashed from behind the nearby rockery, surrounding Li Hongyu and several accompanying guards, staring at them fiercely, it was Zhao Gongzi's entourage.

"Who are you, why do you want to follow Ben Gongzi?" Under Li Hongyu's gaze, Zhao Gongzi walked out from behind the rockery, looked at Li Hongyu with a cold expression and asked.

"Joke, the road is on one side, why do you say that this son follows you?" Li Hongyu secretly smiled bitterly, it seems that Zhao Gongzi's subordinates were very vigilant and found out that they were being followed, of course he would not admit it, so he deliberately opened his mouth and asked.

"Hmph, you leave the gambling room and you leave, that's fine, but the front is the exit of the backyard, what are you doing in the backyard and going to the front yard?" Zhao Gongzi sneered when he heard this, and glared at Li Hongyu coldly and asked, she didn't believe Li Hongyu's explanation.

"My son's boat stopped on Xiao Qinhuai, so naturally I took the beautiful woman back to spend the night together." Li Hongyu had already prepared, stretched out his hand to grab the red-clothed maid beside him, and explained in an orderly manner.

Li Hongyu's mouth of the "little Qinhuai" refers to an inner city river in Yangzhou city, originating from the Qinhuai River in the south of the city, through the city and then flowing into the canal, so it is called "little Qinhuai", there are painting boats cruising in the river, both sides are the richest area in Yangzhou city.

"Humph! If you follow Ben Gongzi again, Ben Gongzi will be unkind to you! ”

Zhao Gongzi sneered when he heard this, Li Hongyu's explanation was reasonable, and she couldn't refute it for a while, so she coldly warned Li Hongyu and led his entourage away.

"Childe has a crush on that girl?" Glancing at Zhao Gongzi's back, the red-clothed maid asked Li Hongyu with a smile.

"Yes, my son fell in love with her at first sight." Li Hongyu was a little surprised when he heard this, and then realized that the maid in red must have seen through the matter of Zhao Gong's daughter pretending to be a man, so he nodded after a deep sigh, thinking that this excuse was quite good.

"Childe, the slave family advises you to stay away from that girl, the salt merchant is not easy to provoke, and even the people in the yamen are in awe of them.

After receiving Li Hongyu's affirmative answer, the maid in red turned pale and warned Li Hongyu seriously, she knew very well how powerful the salt merchant was.

"Thank you Jiyan, the girl accompanied me all night, these are the thanks of my son, take the money and go back to a small business." Li Hongyu laughed when he heard this, asked the guards to take two thousand taels of chips and gave them to the maid in red, and then quickly chased after Zhao Gongzi, the clue he finally discovered didn't want to lose so easily.

The maid in red looked at the chips in her hand with some surprise, and then looked at Li Hongyu's back with excitement, with this money, she could redeem herself and live with the man she liked.

Li Hongyu has already made up his mind in his heart, and is ready to find out the identity of Zhao Gongzi, if he has enough time, he will definitely not be so reckless, but what he lacks most now is time, once the matter of overseas trade quotas is over, he will rush back to the capital, so where is there time to spend with Zhao Gongzi.

Therefore, after leaving the casino, Li Hongyu followed Zhao Gongzi and his party from a distance.

The night was quiet and the streets were empty, and although Li Hongyu kept a distance from Zhao Gongzi, Zhao Gongzi soon discovered them.

"Miss, those people are coming up, it seems that they have bad intentions." A strong man approached Zhao Gongzi and whispered, "Let the little ones teach them a lesson." ”

"Find a secluded place to do it!" Zhao Gongzi frowned, nodded to the strong man, she also felt a little annoyed in her heart, she didn't expect Li Hongyu to follow her like a dog skin plaster, maybe the person who came was not good.

Therefore, when an alley appeared in front of him, Zhao Gongzi's eyes flashed with a cold light, and he strode in, ready to let people do it in the alley.

Whoosh ......

Unexpectedly, before Zhao Gongzi approached the alley, a low whistling sound suddenly came from the roof next to the street, and under the bright starlight, more than a dozen cold rays with cold light flew towards Zhao Gongzi, and it could be vaguely seen that it was an arrow.

"Miss be careful!" said that it was too late, it was too fast, and the strong man who had asked Zhao Gongzi for instructions before threw Zhao Gongzi to the ground.

Almost at the same time, several arrows pierced the strong man's body, causing the strong man to open his mouth and spit out a mouthful of blood, and several big men behind Zhao Gongzi were not the slightest defenseless, and they also fell to the ground with arrows.

"Kill her!" At this time, a masked man walked out of the shadow of the street not far away, pointed the knife in his hand at Zhao Gongzi, and coldly gave an order.

Immediately, more than a dozen figures rushed out from the shadows on both sides of the street, and more than a dozen people jumped down from the roof, all masked, carrying knives and killing Zhao Gongzi and the others violently.

"Quick, take the eldest lady away!" The strong man who protected Zhao Gongzi under him witnessed the scene in front of him, and used the last trace of strength in his body to shout.

Zhao Gongzi's entourage was not much, and after being attacked by that bow and arrow, only two people were not affected, and when they heard the words, they didn't have time to think about it, so they picked up Zhao Gongzi from the ground and ran back.

In order to buy time for Zhao Gongzi, the entourage who had been hit by the arrow stood up with great pain, pulled out their knives and gritted their teeth and rushed towards the masked man who came again.

Unfortunately, their injuries prevented them from performing their proper skills, and they were soon slashed by masked men and fell in a pool of blood.

Zhao Gongzi turned his head to see this scene, and his face suddenly showed a painful look, these entourages were her henchmen, and they died here without thinking about it.

Because of the speed of the two entourages with Zhao Gongzi, where can they outrun the masked people behind them.

"Miss, you go quickly, let's break off." Therefore, the two attendants exchanged glances, and at the same time let go of Zhao Gongzi, pulled out their knives and ran towards the masked man who was chasing, wanting to buy Zhao Gongzi a little time.

Zhao Gongzi knew that the two attendants wanted to use their lives to buy her time, so he bit his lip and limped forward, and the strong man injured her foot when he threw her to the ground just now.

Due to the large number of masked people, the two attendants did not stop their progress, and after several masked men were separated to beat the two entourages, the rest continued to chase Zhao Gongzi.

Zhao Gongzi used all the strength of her body and ran forward desperately, she knew that now she had no choice, once she stopped or was caught up, she would be dead.

Because she was running too fast, she suddenly stumbled on her injured foot, plopped, and fell to the ground in one fell instantly.

"She's down, quick, kill her, whoever can kill her will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver." Seeing this, the masked man in the lead pointed his knife at Zhao Gongzi and shouted, which made those masked people suddenly perk up and rushed to Zhao Gongzi, everyone wanted to get the reward of one thousand taels of silver.

Zhao Gongzi wanted to stand up, but she couldn't stand up for a while because she fell too badly, so she could only pull out a dagger on her waist, gritted her teeth, and half-squatted there to fight back.

"Die!" Soon, the masked man who was running in front rushed to Zhao Gongzi, picked up the knife in his hand and slashed at Zhao Gongzi's head with a cruel smile.

There was a snort, and before Zhao Gongzi could get up and fight back, she saw a black shadow with a slight whistling sound flying over her head, piercing the chest of the big man who wanted to kill him.

Immediately, the big man's body stumbled and fell to the ground, lying in front of Zhao Gongzi and convulsing non-stop, blood slowly overflowing from his mouth.

Zhao Gongzi was startled when he saw this, and hurriedly turned his head to look, under the starlight, on the street in the distance, Li Hongyu was standing there with a bow in his hand, and from his posture, it seemed that the arrow just now was shot by him.

Not only Li Hongyu, but also the subordinates beside Li Hongyu also held bows and shot the arrows in their hands under the gaze of Zhao Gongzi.

As those arrows shot out, several more masked men who rushed towards Zhao Gongzi screamed and fell into a pool of blood.

Li Hongyu and his subordinates next to him marched forward while shooting arrows, which made the masked people on the opposite side fall one after another, and his guards were all elites selected from the Liaodong battlefield, and they were naturally good at archery, and the arrows were not missing.

As the governor of Liaodong and the training envoy of the New Army, Li Hongyu also practiced a good hand of archery skills during the training of Liaodong and the New Army.

"Withdraw!" The masked man in the lead never expected that he would kill a Cheng Biting Jin on the way, and he met a group of people with such powerful archery skills, so he didn't dare to be negligent and hurriedly gave an order, otherwise those masked people under him would become live targets.

After listening to the order of the leading masked man, the masked man, who was already panicked, suddenly ran backwards like a tide, hiding far away from the range of the bow and arrow.

"How are you?" Li Hongyu ran to Zhao Gongzi, leaned over and asked, and the guards on the side drew their arrows and bows vigilantly observing the surrounding movements.

"My leg hurts a little." Zhao Gongzi subconsciously touched his left leg, and blood appeared on his knee, which looked like it had been broken just now.

Seeing this, Li Hongyu knew that Zhao Gongzi couldn't go, so he didn't have time to think about it, so he reached out and picked up Zhao Gongzi's legs and ran back, they just caught those masked people off guard, in case the other party came back to his senses and brought a bow and arrow, then the situation would not be good.

As Li Hongyu said, the masked man in the lead asked his men to get bows and arrows to shoot at Li Hongyu, but unfortunately Li Hongyu didn't give him this opportunity, and Li Hongyu and his party had already run away after the bow and arrows were brought.

"Alas!" Looking at Li Hongyu and his party who disappeared into the night, the masked man in the lead couldn't help but beat his thigh in annoyance, and the duck flew away in vain, God knows where those guys who can shoot so accurately at night came from.

In fact, the masked man in the lead fortunately did not let the archers shoot against Li Hongyu's guards, and they were a lot worse than those guards in range alone, and they were also targets when they went.

"Big brother, can we chase after it?" Seeing that the masked man in the lead did not give the order to pursue, he couldn't help but ask for instructions.

"Lord Qincha is in the city, this matter should not be too big, otherwise it will not be good for us."

The masked man in the lead shook his head after thinking for a while, he knew that he had missed the best opportunity to kill Zhao Gongzi, so he waved his hand and led his men to leave in a hurry, such a big movement here would definitely alarm the soldiers patrolling the streets, in case he met those soldiers, it would be troublesome.

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