Chapter 19: Dark Arrows

The drum beat loudly, Yu Zhao kicked off, and then circled a little with Liu Wanrou and lost first. instructed the girl who led the blue team to entangle her, and she only chased after Yu Yao.

Seeing her move, Yu Yao was a little flustered and desperately wanted to get rid of her. But he couldn't pull the distance, and suddenly heard the guards standing on a high place vigilantly patrolling shouted: "Niangniang, be careful!"

Yu Zhao immediately leaned down, and a crossbow arrow flew by, grazing Yu Zhao's clothes and piercing straight into Yu Yao's shoulder. The crowd suddenly became chaotic, and immediately a large number of guards poured in, as if they had been prepared, and rushed straight to take down the people who were hiding in the crowd and shooting crossbow arrows.

Everyone was shocked when they saw Yu Yao, who fell off the horse after being hit by an arrow, and hurriedly anxiously called their daughter back on the field.

"My Yao'er." Mrs. Yu immediately crawled to the field, helped her up from the ground, and cried and shouted for the unconscious Yu Yao.

Here, Zhuo Yao just led someone to protect Yu Zhao, and heard the shouting over there: "The assassin committed suicide!" ”

Hearing this, Yu Zhao hurriedly rushed over to take a look, scolded carelessly, and ordered everyone on the field: "There are assassins in the field, everyone disperse first, go back to your camp and stay well." ”

When this happened, they were all scared, listened to her words, and quickly dispersed. Concubine Liu was afraid of implicating Liu Wanrou, who proposed the competition. also hurriedly pulled her who was curious and watched, and hurried away.

After everyone dispersed, Yu Zhao walked in front of Mrs. Yu and Yu Yao. I saw that the eldest lady's eyes were red and she looked at her with hatred. Yu Zhao was not afraid to look at her, and ordered in a cold voice: "Take it and watch it, don't let people die."

The two of them were dragged away like rags, and the eldest lady shouted some unbearable curses. Yu Zhao opened the creed passed to him by the maid of the Yu Mansion and handed it to Zhuo Yao. "You take someone to the trial, and show it to Your Majesty later, and ask how to decide."

In the evening, Yu Zhao worked very hard to treat the wound on her back, although it was only a shallow scratch, it still hurt her and gasped.

Before the coat was closed, Chu Zikai hurriedly broke in, and Yu Zhao was so frightened that he was about to get angry. But seeing the eagerness in Chu Zikai's eyes, he hurriedly came over and asked, "Are you injured?"

"Nope." Yu Zhao replied and got up. "Let's go to Your Majesty and take counsel together.

Chu Zikai glanced around, and found the bedroom clothes hidden by her in the corner of the wall, and immediately stepped forward to look, and sure enough, with blood stains, it was brought to her. "Why are you hiding it from me?"

"It's no big deal, I've been medicated." Yu Zhao wanted to go out after speaking, but was pulled by him.

"I'm talking about the fact that the eldest lady of the Yu family and the assassins want to kill you."

"Your Highness also knows that the people who are united with her may have something to do with Qi Xing and are hiding in the shadows. If you want to find out, you have to do what they planned, so as not to startle the snake. He sighed regretfully. It's a pity that I didn't look at the assassin. ”

Chu Zikai said: "You shouldn't be so reckless, you can say it and think with me and my father, but Zhuo Yao didn't know until we left." ”

"I'm measured." Yu Zhao knew that if Zhuo Yao knew in advance, Emperor Yuan would not be able to hide it, and Chu Zikai would naturally know it. I'm afraid this risky plan will not go smoothly.

Seeing her stubborn appearance, Chu Zikai was angry and helpless, and he couldn't bear to talk about her anymore, so he pulled her and let her sit down. Hesitantly said: "With so much blood, the wound is long even if it is not deep, if it is not treated well...... You...... Can you not?"

Yu Zhao picked up Chu Ziyi's rag tiger doll on the table.

"Can you just tear the wound and let me see." As soon as Chu Zikai spoke, he was exhaled by the tiger.

"You get me out." Yu Zhao pointed to the door.

Chu Zikai sighed helplessly, sat down in front of her, and informed: "Zhuo Yao has been interrogating people for a day, and Mrs. Yu has bitten her words and said that it was just that she hated you and invited the assassin to murder her, and Miss Yu and the maid who was bought by you also said the same. ”

Yu Zhao shook his head: "It won't be so simple, she should be afraid of being implicated too much, so she didn't fully inform Yu Yao and others of the plan." ”

The most critical gap in this matter is that the assassin has died, and it is too tricky to continue investigating without clues. Yu Zhao frowned slightly, turned his head and asked Chu Zikai, "What are your majesty's plans?" ”

"My father and I also know that things will not be so simple, he only said that he is not in Jingzhou now, and it is really not appropriate to startle the snake." After a pause, his tone was full of apologies: "Again, punishment is necessary, but Yu Cheng is useful for the time being, and he needs to be stabilized." ”

"Yes." I had expected it a long time ago, but in order to protect Yu Cheng, Yu Yao's mother and daughter were not much better. "Then I'll go see Yu Cheng."

Hurriedly holding her down, Chu Zikai said: "Don't be in such a hurry, wait for Zhuo Yao to come back, let her take a good look at your injuries." ”

The wound was indeed painful, and hearing him say this, Yu Zhao should go down, invite Chu Zikai out of his tent on the grounds of rest, close his eyes and continue to think.

The paddock was still lively tonight, and several people didn't want to make a big deal about it, so the event went on as usual, and people were sharing the wild animals of the day around a bonfire. Yu Cheng came out of Emperor Yuan's tent and was scolded to the point of dejection. I wanted to go back and clean up the two stupid women, but I stopped and turned around to Yu Zhao's camp next to me.

Hearing Zhuo Yao's report, Yu Zhao only calmly ordered him to come in.

"Father, sit down, no need to be polite."

Yu Cheng sat down, first greeted a few words with a concerned face, and then pretended to be serious: "It's really wrong for that slut to plot against you today, but Niangniang shouldn't be so reckless, she should discuss with the minister first, and we don't need to let Your Majesty know about our own affairs." ”

The words were said lightly, but the meaning of the blame in it was still not difficult to detect, Yu Zhao said to him: "I naturally know, but my father knows that the eldest lady probably doesn't regard the Yu Mansion as her own family, including my father." ”

Hearing this, Yu Cheng looked at Yu Zhao in astonishment. "What do you mean by that?"

Yu Zhao replied slowly: "Yun Zhaorong poisoned His Royal Highness that day, it was a hasty move after getting the content of the conversation I had when I met with my father, and the difference between the two things was only two hours. Who in the house has the ability to spread the news so quickly? ”

Since Yu Zhao got face in front of Emperor Yuan, he later said that Yu Yao was unreverent and unsaintly, in order to show friendship with Yu Zhao. Since then, he has disdained the power of the eldest lady's mother, and he has indeed treated her and Yu Yao as close as usual, and sometimes even inferior to Yu Zhu, who is valued by Yu Zhao. It is true that the eldest lady has been complaining for a while, but for some reason she has quieted down again.

I remembered that the eldest lady personally came up to serve tea that day, and retreated, who knows if she was eavesdropping in the dark. When Yu Zhao was sent away, he disappeared. After such an analysis, he immediately gritted his teeth in anger. "This slut who eats inside and out!"

"I don't dare to confirm it, I wanted to wait for His Majesty to leave today to catch a shape, but I didn't think it was still unsuccessful." Instead, it changed to a tone of deliberation with him. "Father, don't be quiet, if Your Majesty knows, Bao Buqi will also suspect that my father also has a relationship with the party. Following their words, let's secretly interrogate us, we must protect the top and bottom of the Yu Mansion. ”

These words touched Yu Cheng's heart, as if he understood Yu Zhao's painstaking efforts. After a few words of concern for her in a good voice, he said goodbye and walked angrily to the place where Yu Yao's mother and son were held.

After staying with Emperor Chu Zikai for a few days, he seems to have been assimilated by them, how can he become more and more good at singing? Looking at the back of Yu Cheng leaving, Yu Zhao thought of it.

In the middle of the night, news came that the eldest lady was punished with a hundred rods, and refuted the dignity of the command, but she still swallowed carbon and didn't say anything. was sent back to Yufu overnight for solitary confinement. Yu Yao was fined 30 rods and sent back to solitary confinement.

The rod blamed a hundred, and Yu Zhao was happy to hear it, maybe he couldn't die, but the parts below the waist were abolished. It can be regarded as avenging Yu Lu's broken leg back then. Yu Yao may be lame if she is unlucky, and if she is lucky, the crossbow arrow also hurt her shoulder muscles and bones, and her right hand is also an ornament from now on, coupled with the accusations, she can't make any splash in this life.

However, in response to Emperor Yuan's words, in order to stabilize Yu Cheng, Yu Zhao pretended to intercede and saved the errand of Yu Feng, the eldest lady's son.

This incident was talked about for two days, and it was quickly forgotten, but the hunt continued, and some Fanghua daughters were added to the team, which added even more fun. But Yu Zhao was injured and couldn't participate, so he had to take care of it and follow him for a few days.

Some people were worried that she couldn't go, so they always got some strange creatures to send her. Deer, hares, roe deer, I don't know how Chu Zikai caught them alive. Yu Zhao excused himself because he didn't like it, and at this moment he took Yu Zhao to see the newly caught things. "You must like this big cat, it's very cunning, I took a dozen people to block it......"

I listened to his introduction all the way, and finally arrived.

"You...... Call this a cat? Yu Zhao looked at the paw-licking lynx in the cage with some consternation, not knowing what to say.

Chu Zikai replied: "Almost, it's beautiful, do you like it?" ”

When the lynx saw the approaching man, he immediately exploded his hair and shrank in the corner of the cage and bared his teeth and roared. Only then did Yu Zhao see that it was only a cub, and stopped to look at it from a distance. The coat is bright, energetic, and indeed beautiful.

Seeing her staring straight at her, knowing that she liked it, Chu Zikai said: "There are still several days to hunt, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to escape the arrows if you put it back." You can't kill it with a cub, so it's better to keep it? ”

was about to open his mouth to respond, but he saw that Chu Ziyi was very curious, Mama didn't pay attention to it, and walked to the cage with a rabbit in her arms to watch, Yu Zhao hurriedly went over and pulled him down. Chu Ziyi accidentally let go of his hand, and the rabbit in his arms took the opportunity to jump hard and jumped into the cage.

Frightened, the lynx bit the rabbit to death.

Yu Zhao felt that it was not good, so he covered Chu Ziyi's eyes, but before he could do it, tears seeped out of Yu Zhao's fingers in an instant, and the cry followed.

Chu Zikai felt wronged, and for some reason, he would inadvertently hurt Chu Ziyi every time, so he had to squat down and coax Yu Zhao together.

Seeing that he couldn't stop crying for a long time, Yu Zhao didn't care about the lynx anymore and wanted to take him out of this sad place. Chu Zikai knew that the big cat was afraid that he wouldn't be able to send it away, so he sighed and followed. The child was so deceived that he took an identical rabbit and told him that he had rescued it, Chu Ziyi believed it and hugged it over to show Yu Zhao. "Mother...... Catch a rabbit...... Play. ”

It turned out that just now the old grandmother coaxed Chu Ziyi to tell him that his mother and concubine would also go hunting tomorrow, and she would catch another one for him. Chu Ziyi remembered it, so he came over and pestered him.

Yu Zhao saw that the tears on his face were not wiped away, and he promised again and again, coaxing him to laugh before taking him out. There was laughter outside, Emperor Yuan and others were also sitting around the bonfire talking and laughing, Chu Ziyi staggered out with small steps, and hugged him. Yu Zhao took the bow and arrow and went to the side to find the feel, and saw that the wound did not affect the archery and wanted to return.