Just after the hour, the sun was not strong, and the bluestone slab at the entrance of the village was a miserable white, reflecting the sticky blood, which was even more shocking.

There was a faint smell of blood wafting through the air, and the corpses that fell to the ground and the corpses scattered all showed what a fierce scene had happened here.

Dark One picked up the fallen Dark Thirteen, and his hand reached into his neck, and there was a faint beat.

"Wake him up and ask what the hell is going on." Xiao Yue looked at the dark guard on the ground without saying a word, and his tone contained an almost irrepressible anger, making his voice speak a little slower than usual, and a little lower, but as soon as his words came out, the three princes who came out behind him couldn't help but shudder.

The Third Prince felt that he was not standing in the sun, but in the ice cellar, and even felt that even the air had become viscous.

The third prince's body, which obviously felt that he was not strong enough, began to tremble slightly, and his breathing was obviously not smooth, he mustered up the courage to walk to Xiao Yue's side, "Xiao Jiu, what happened?" ”

Xiao Yue didn't say a word, and the space fell into a suffocating silence for a while.

Xiao Yue's eyes narrowed, he knew Astragalus very well, not to mention that he had arranged four secret guards around Nian Nian, even if it was such a surprise attack, the combination of the dark guards and Astragalus would not be able to let people kidnap Gu Nian for life.

He picked up a lost feathered arrow, a few points lighter than a normal one, and stuck mostly into the shallow wall of the carriage, barely penetrating the carriage.

This shows that the other party is only trying to capture him alive, not to take his life.

He turned around and looked at the other village of the Four Princes' Mansion, and there was no joy or anger on his face. If Gu Nian was captured alive to deal with himself, it would be fine, but if it was for other purposes......

The Four Princes have finally made a move! It's just that this hand is making people angry.

As if to set off the atmosphere at this time, there was a sudden thunder in the sky, and the dark clouds gathered from all directions rolled at a very fast speed, like the hand of the gods, just now the sun was shining, and it instantly dimmed.

The wind was mixed with water vapor, brushing the skin of the third prince who was in a cold sweat, and a layer of goosebumps suddenly appeared all over his body.

"Dark One, take him with you, and follow the mark." Xiao Yue's deep voice sounded halfway through, and his calm tone made people feel chills in their hearts.

There was another thunderclap in the sky, and then there was a muffled rumble in the sky as if a great wheel were rolling by, and the sky grew darker and darker.

The fourth prince also came out of the village at this time, and when he saw such a scene, he hurriedly stepped forward.

"Lin Xi, I hope today's events have nothing to do with you." Xiao Yue sat on the horse and looked at him, his voice was as calm as before, but the people on the side sounded as if it was a voice from hell.

The fourth prince looked at Xiao Yue and said with a smile, "Xiao Jiu, I just came out, what happened?" ”

"There are many things in the world that are more terrible than death." Xiao Yue sneered and looked at the four princes and rode away.

Dark One put the injured Dark Thirteen on his horse and caught up with Xiao Yue.

A lightning bolt slashed down from the sky in front of him, and the person who was shining couldn't open his eyes in an instant, and when the light faded, a thunderclap immediately remembered.

The sky seemed to be torn apart, dark clouds rolled, lightning and thunder roared, and a downpour of rain poured down!

Xiao Yue followed the marked direction all the way, but lost his trace at the three-way intersection, and secretly chased after him, and the rain on his body kept dripping.

"Lord, this is a three-way intersection, the rain is so heavy, the marks made by the brothers have probably been washed away, otherwise, let's go back to the palace first, and find a doctor for Thirteen to treat his injuries, and only then will we know what happened."

Xiao Yue sat on the horse and looked at the dense forest at the end of the three-way intersection, the rain was getting heavier and heavier, and it was almost impossible to see people ten meters away, his hand holding the reins, the bone joints gradually turned white, and the green tendons on his arms burst out.

He turned his horse's head and went toward the city.

As soon as he returned to the palace, Xiao Yue met Zhang Changshi, and also knew what kind of suffering Gu Nian experienced last night, at this moment, no words can describe the chagrin in his heart, he hated himself to death.

It was because of his own negligence that he would let Nian Nian fall into that situation.

He asked Dark One to find Zhang Chunzi to show Thirteen the injuries, but was told that Zhang Chunzi was not in the house, so he asked Dark One to send someone to invite the doctor on the street, and immediately called the people around him to come in and explain what he had to do next.

After the order, he said word by word, "Send someone to keep an eye on the Four Princes' Mansion for twelve hours without slackening for a moment." ”

He stood at the window, listening to the thunder that came from time to time outside, thinking that Gu Nian didn't know what the situation was at the moment, he wanted to destroy the world.

*

Xiao Yue's worries were not wrong at all, and Gu Nian was indeed not at all upset. At that time, after listening to the coachman's report, she did not get out of the carriage, but she did not expect that something would happen, and an overwhelming rain of arrows shot towards the carriage, and at the same time more than a dozen black-clothed people jumped out, and with the rain of arrows, lightning struck the carriage.

"Princess." In addition to the astragalus who protected Gu Nian, four secret guards jumped out of nowhere at the same time, protecting Gu Nian with astragalus.

The coachman who had just reported the news outside had fallen in the rain of arrows, and the carriage had been shot by the rain of arrows and could not be used, and one of the guards said to Astragalus,

"You and the princess rush through the woods over there, don't fight."

Astragalus took Gu Nian's arm and ran desperately towards the woods, Gu Nian followed behind, running desperately, she understood that the terrain in that area just now was open, and staying there could only be controlled by the other party, and there was no way to avoid the enemy in other places, only by entering the dense forest, could she avoid the enemy.

Two dark guards resisted the attacks of more than a dozen enemies, and the other two dark guards and astragalus escorted Gu Nian into the dense forest.

Not only these dozen or so men in black, but when they saw Gu Nian walking towards the forest, a few more men in black rushed out and killed them.

"You escort the princess forward." The two dark guards who followed said to Astragalus.

Without too much explanation, there was only eye contact between the two dark guards and Astragalus, and everyone knew that they were resisting in front like this, and there was almost no chance of survival, and what they won might only be a moment, and life and death were as simple as that.

One of the guards rushed forward, and there was the sound of swords clashing, and the screams of pain before death, so terrible, like an invisible arrow hidden in the air, and the sound shot straight into people's hearts.

Another secret guard was still in front of her, and Huang Qi had already pulled out the two daggers hidden on her body, and when she heard the words, she held the daggers in her hand, pulled Gu Nian, and ran towards the depths of the woods with her.

Gu Nian looked back, and another secret guard also joined the battle after they ran away.

And there are more and more enemies.

In the face of this earth-shattering assassination mixed with countless conspiracies, as small as her, maybe she was just caught up in it, but she had no choice, she could only escape...... fled, hoping that Xiao Yue could find out that she was missing as soon as possible.

I don't know how long I ran, Gu Nian felt that his throat was tight and hot, as if he would spit out a mouthful of blood at any time, and his heart was about to jump out of his chest and jump out of his throat.

She couldn't run anymore, and behind her, she could still hear shouts of killing.

Gu Nian thought that although those people shot a rain of arrows just now, they didn't hurt her, perhaps, they just wanted to capture her alive!

She gasped and said to Astragalus, "You hurry up, they just want to capture me alive, maybe it's to deal with the prince, you escape, let the prince come and save me." ”

Huang Qi looked at Gu Nian, grabbed her without saying a word, squatted down, put Gu Nian on his back, and continued to run forward.

Astragalus kept carrying her forward, "Let me down...... Let me down......" Gu Nian shouted desperately, wanting Astragalus to let her down, seeing that she ran forward desperately as if she hadn't heard, she knew that she couldn't add any more chaos.

She stopped moving, she didn't shout, she closed her eyes and thought she was dead.

Suddenly, a person with a fierce face stopped in front of Gu Huangqi, and the stench from his mouth had already sprayed on Gu Nian's face, and then he fell in front of them.

Gu Nian was holding a dagger given to her by Astragalus in her hand, and the blood on the blade was still flowing.

"Astragalus, you let me down, it's not a way for us to escape like this, we don't know how many people there are on the other side." It was a premeditated assassination, or rather a kidnapping, perhaps, to kidnap her.

Yesterday, maybe Xiao Yue sent someone back to report the news, but for some reason he was blocked, and Daddy was probably also stumped by someone.

All this is just to let her go to the suburbs!

The light in the woods was dim, but thunder had already sounded at this moment, and then there was a downpour, the rain came too suddenly, Gu Nian was placed under a big tree, the tree behind her was very thick, and the rough bark could be felt through her clothes, and the rain passed through the dense forest, washing her and the astragalus.

Gu Nian frowned tightly, his stomach was twisted and uncomfortable, he had been running wildly all the way before, and now he felt that his internal organs had not returned to his place, and he had spit out a few mouthfuls of sour water just now.

The clothes on her body had been wet by the rain, and the stench in the mouth of the big man just now was still lingering on the tip of her nose, coupled with the heavy rotting behavior in the dense forest, mixed with miscellaneous smells, Gu Nian only felt that her acid water suddenly rose to her throat.

She turned her face to the side, vomited, and spat several times in a row.

Huang Qi's face changed, he stepped forward to pat Gu Nian on the back, and asked anxiously, "Princess, what's wrong?" ”

She wanted to check Gu Nian's pulse, but Gu Nian refused, "I ran too fast just now, it's a little uncomfortable, it's okay." ”

After Gu Nian spit out a few mouthfuls, she finally felt better, wiped the corners of her mouth with her sleeve, and when she raised her hand, she saw the gilded bracelet with ruby on her wrist.

Ignoring the roughness of the bark, she leaned against the trunk, wiped the rain from her face, and asked Astragalus, "Have you learned to ambush these?" ”

Huang Qi nodded, she has been rolling in the secret guard camp since she was a child, and she knows everything, Gu Nian nodded, she touched the bracelet in her hand, which she and Xiao Yue gave her to make together.

One of the rubies on the bracelet was lower than the others, and it could shoot poisonous needles, and it was smeared with poison that sealed the throat with blood.

There are also two pieces of jewelry on his body that also have this mechanism.

Before the two of them had set up their organs, a man in black rushed up, and when he saw Gu Nian, he warned, "Princess Jin, we don't want to hurt you, let's go with us honestly, otherwise we will let you see some blood." ”

Astragalus protected Gu Nian, Gu Nian shrunk his shoulders, looked at him with a frightened face and asked, "Who are you and what are you going to do?" Where are you going to take us? ”

The man in black glanced at her, looked at the astragalus with disdain, and stepped forward to take care of them.

It's just that as soon as his feet moved, his eyes suddenly widened, his pupils constricted, and he looked down and saw that there were three silver needles inserted in his abdomen!

When the man subconsciously lowered his head and looked at his abdomen, Astragalus immediately stepped forward, grabbed his hand holding the dagger with one hand, and slammed his elbow on his hand joint, taking advantage of the numbness of the opponent's arm, the dagger in his hand wiped on his neck, and blood spurted out instantly.

The astragalus quickly pulled the prince past him, dodging the blood that spurted out.

The man's throat was cut, he could no longer make a sound, stared at the two women across from him in disbelief, and then collapsed.

After Gu Nian smelled the smell of blood, he endured the suffocation in his chest, pale face, looked at the astragalus, and said, "It's just one solution now, but we don't know how many of them there are in total, but these are not good stubble, we must live." ”

Astragalus bit her lip and nodded, she looked at Gu Nian's slightly thinner body than her, she was raised by Miss Jiao on weekdays, but this time, on her slightly pale face, the expression was very calm, only her dark eyes showed a bit of determination.

The poisonous needle on Gu Nian's bracelet can only be used three times, and she has already used it once just now, and she and Astragalus made some traps on the road while escaping.

This dense forest is too big, and I don't know where the end is.

The rain never stopped, the thunder was gusting, and people kept catching up and falling into the trap of the two.

There was no sun on a rainy day, and they didn't know the time, so the two walked hand in hand for a long, long time, and in front of them was a small pine forest, sparse and sparse, and they could see through the trees the empty field opposite.

The pursuers behind had probably noticed that something was wrong, although the speed of coming up was slow, but there were more and more people.

Both of them are extremely tired, how can they not be tired? The rain made his eyes open, and the two of them almost didn't sleep all night, and experienced assassination, escape, and long journeys, and at the same time had to bury traps and pay attention to the surrounding situation in case of emergencies.

Not to mention Gu Nian. But Gu Nian had a thought in her heart, she couldn't fall, if she fell, she would die!

Finally arrived at the small pine forest in front, Gu Nian looked up at the pine tree standing proudly, vigorous and powerful.

As soon as the astragalus stepped into the pine forest, it felt that something was wrong, there was a murderous aura hidden in the air, and the pores of the whole body seemed to be conditioned, and they contracted suddenly.

She whispered to Gu Nian, "Princess, be careful. ”

*

The news of Gu Nian's disappearance was kept secret by Xiao Yue, Xiao Yue sat in the study, and in front of him was Gu Nian's unfinished words, he picked up the pen and wrote it one by one, slowly copying Gu Nian's font.

He was deceived into going to the fourth prince's village, the little guy who came back to report the news was killed, Gu Shi'an was sent by the emperor to Beijing to do secret things, and he thought about it so that he would go to the suburbs in a hurry.

All of this, designed step by step, is to kidnap Niannian, and now Niannian has escaped, or has he been arrested?

The men he had scattered had already gone to the other side of the dense forest, and the Dark Thirteen had not yet woken up, and he still didn't know what had happened at the beginning.

He opened the secret compartment under the bookcase, took out the contents and went to the palace.

In the imperial study, Emperor Yongping sat behind the desk, looking at Xiao Yue's soaked clothes and the puddle of water under his feet.

I didn't speak for a while.

Halfway through, he said, "You, get up." ”

Xiao Yue didn't get up, still kneeling on the ground.

"Xiao Jiu, how did you expect that the fourth child had captured your daughter-in-law?"

"Lift up your head and answer me."

Emperor Yongping's voice was stern, vaguely questioning.

Xiao Yue raised his head and looked at Emperor Yongping, his expression was calm, but the forbearance behind him was unknown.

"Your Majesty, this was not allowed to be said by the minister before, but today, the minister has to say it."

"Without him, the minister has long known about the disobedience of the four princes, and has been on guard, but this time, it was the minister's negligence."

The Imperial Study fell silent, and after a moment, Emperor Yongping asked again, "How do you think so?" Fourth, he will attack you? Although you are on the side of the crown prince, I have always taught you that I am a brother and sister to you, and I wish you ......."

His voice darkened, and his gaze was gloomy.

Xiao Yue slowly kowtowed to the ground, "The minister is guilty, he failed to fulfill his duty as a minister, so that the four princes have a knot in their hearts for the minister, and let Your Majesty down." ”

He whispered.

Xiao Yue took out a royal dress from a burden beside him, which was a women's underwear, and the sleeves on one side were already colored, and it looked like it had been some time.

Emperor Yongping sat up straight and asked, "Is this ......?"

"Your Majesty, do you remember what happened on the winter solstice last year? At that time, the four princesses went crazy in public. On that day, the four princesses must pull Nian Nian to sit beside her, and the four princesses asked the palace people to pour wine for the ladies at the same table, but when it was Nian Nian's turn, because of her alertness, she found that the palace people poured wine in a strange posture......"

At that time, she did not dare to drink, so she quietly poured the wine into her sleeve. After coming back, she felt strange, so she told Yu Chen about the matter. Your Majesty should know that the minister led His Majesty's secret agents, and there were many talents inside, and when the minister became suspicious, he took the residual juice on his clothes to the capable people inside to identify. ”

"Unexpectedly, in the end, I found out that it was Baiyue's drug, 'pulling the machine', after taking it, it looked like drunk, but it was extremely crazy, talking nonsense, just like the situation of the four princesses that day."

Emperor Yongping's back was tense and tense as he sat upright, and his face was even more gloomy than the sky outside.

He found that since entering the hall today, Xiao Yue has been calling 'Your Majesty' instead of the former 'Imperial Uncle', he pursed his lips and stared at Xiao Yue who was kneeling in front of him.

Xiao Yue raised his head and looked directly at Emperor Yongping, "On that day, the assassination of the Four Princes' Mansion was a temptation for him, or a move he made for today." Ring by ring, walk down. ”

"Your Majesty, think about it, why did you send Gu Shi'an out of Beijing secretly?"

Emperor Yongping pursed his lips, he sent Gu Shi'an out of Beijing secretly, in order to assassinate the Four Princes' Mansion that day, the assassin who was cut by Xiao Yue's arm finally woke up and told the people behind the scenes, Emperor Yongping would send Gu Shi'an out of Beijing secretly, which caused a situation where Gu Nian had no one to ask for help.

"Your Majesty, because of the minister's negligence, Nian Nian is in danger, the minister doesn't blame anyone, only himself, but the minister told you about the four princes, just a little selfishness of the minister for self-preservation, and also for the princess of the minister."

After Xiao Yue finished speaking, his head hung down.

Cabinet women, the most important thing is reputation, he is afraid that the emperor will give up Niannian after he knows that Niannian is missing, and he is afraid that even if Niannian is really found, he will still be abandoned.

Then, at the beginning, it is better to push everything on the four princes.

"Xiao Jiu, I don't blame you, I also know why you do this, I won't let you give up your daughter-in-law, I should reflect, at that time, I encircled the four princes, and later let him out, of course, it was to balance the court, but I didn't expect him to be so mad."

"I sit in the world, and there is no one around me ......"

Emperor Yongping's hands under the imperial case were clenched tightly, his voice suddenly became trembling, and before he finished speaking, he stopped abruptly and looked at Xiao Yue fixedly.

He paused for a moment and said, "I have sent a team of Imperial Guards to call you, what do you want to do to command them, and the shadow guards around me, who have not been on duty, will be transferred to you." ”

"Don't be afraid, I will help you find your daughter-in-law."

"Xiao Jiu, when you came to me at the age of five, I believe in you, I think of the happiness of your life, and I will not deprive you of your beloved, but once something happens, I hope you can live the hurdle in your heart."

"Although the world is mine, I will not treat you badly, can you remember?"

Emperor Yongping was on top of the Danqi, looked down at Xiao Yue, and said word by word.

Xiao Yue didn't have these thoughts at the moment, he was all about Gu Nian, and when he heard Emperor Yongping say that he would not let him give up Gu Nian, he breathed a sigh of relief, and he kowtowed to Emperor Yongping again.

Emperor Yongping told him to get up, "I know the temperament of the four princes, and I will call on the dark chess by his side to find out everything." You wait for news from me. ”

"He really disappointed me this time, the fourth princess thought she was virtuous and virtuous back then, but I didn't expect it to be so unbearable, but now I can't startle the snake, after this incident, I will definitely give you an explanation, okay?"

Xiao Yue said, "The minister believes that His Majesty must be fair. ”

Emperor Yongping bowed, "I'm a little tired, you take my men to retire." ”

Xiao Yue retreated, and Emperor Yongping stared at his back and disappeared outside the hall, sighing.

*

It was getting darker and darker, and the rain had no intention of stopping, and as soon as they entered the pine forest, the men in black caught up, and there were several, and they searched all the way, and found the bodies of their accomplices along the way, and they knew that they had met the veteran.

Moreover, the two of them must have a highly poisonous secret weapon on them, and they are still ruthless.

After entering the pine forest, he found no trace of Gu Nian, but he knew that Gu Nian and her maid were hiding in the forest.

He didn't expect Xiao Yue to put a secret guard beside Gu Nian, now the rain has been non-stop, Gu Nian will definitely be drenched in the rain on the way to escape, what if he gets sick?

He motioned for his men to take their steps lightly, and his voice was soft, "Niannian!" You can't hide, you don't come out, and when I find you, I'll be rude to you......"