## #城郊, Lake Koshizawa

Jiu'anle stopped the carriage and bowed to the curtain behind him. "The second prince, the imperial concubine, has arrived at the place."

"Okay." Nangong Xuanyi responded.

Jiu'an and Gu Qiqiao jumped out of the carriage one after another, and after Jiu'an set up the footstool, the curtain of the carriage was lifted from the inside.

Nangong Xuanyi fell to the ground first, turned around and half-supported Gu Yanran's small hand. "Watch your step."

Gu Yanran stepped down from the footstool in three or two steps, looking left and right at the wide lake. "Are we here to visit the lake today?"

"Swimming in the lake is by the way." Nangong Xuanyi took the shawl from Gu Qiqiao's hand and put it on for Gu Yanran. "There is a flower field ten miles downstream, with hundreds of flowers blooming, the air is fragrant, the scenery is beautiful, I guess you should like it, so I will take you to see it."

"A hundred kinds of flowers, fragrant air, beautiful scenery...... It's fantastic just to think about! Let's go! Let's go! Gu Yanran couldn't hide her excitement, and she grabbed Nangong Xuanyi's hand and shook it straight.

Nangong Xuanyi smiled. "Don't move, let me tie your cloak first."

"Oh, good." Gu Yanran really didn't move, and the whole person looked like a wooden man.

Nangong Xuanyi had just tied a cloak for Gu Yanran, and Qi Yuan also came over with a cloak.

"Master, your cloak." Qi Yuan presented his cloak with both hands.

Gu Yanran stretched out her hand. "Give it to me." Etiquette is still exchanged, is the fine traditional virtue of Yeyu country.

"Yes." Qi Yuan didn't hesitate, stepped forward and hung the cloak in Gu Yanran's outstretched palm.

Gu Yanran shook off the cloak with both hands and draped it on Nangong Xuanyi's shoulders. "You also put it on, don't catch a cold, although I am good at medicine, I don't want to use it on my own family." It is of course best to be able to be disease-free and pain-free and healthy and happy for a lifetime.

Nangong Xuanyi was silent on the surface, but he laughed stupidly in his heart. ...... "Hehe, my own family, Yan'er said that I am my own family!"

On the shore of Lake Koshizawa, a bamboo raft is leaning.

Gu Yanran stood a few feet away from the bamboo raft, a little frightened. "Do you have to take a bamboo raft? Can't we just take the carriage downstream? ”

"Don't be afraid, I'm here." Nangong Xuanyi half-hugged Gu Yanran's waist.

Gu Yanran could only suppress the fear in her heart. "Then you must protect me."

Qi Yuan got on the bamboo raft first, picked up the pole on the bamboo raft on his toes and held it in his hand, and then inserted the end of the pole to the bottom of the lake to stabilize the bamboo raft.

"Let's go up." Nangong Xuanyi pushed Gu Yanran onto the bamboo raft.

Gu Yanran stepped on the bamboo raft, and immediately felt a wave under her feet, and her body was unstable. "This, this ......"

"Yan'er, take it easy, don't be afraid, don't be nervous." Nangong Xuanyi gently kneaded Gu Yanran's shoulder bone, which was already obviously stiffened, with both hands. "The more scared you are, the more nervous you will be, and the more nervous you are, the more scared you will be, and if you continue to do so repeatedly, let alone overcome, you will only be more afraid of water sources in the future than you are now."

Gu Yanran. “…… I try my best. "Try not to be scared, try not to be nervous.

After Gu Qiqiao also stepped on the bamboo raft, Qi Yuan used the dagger drawn from the side of his boot to cut the rope of the bamboo raft.

The bamboo raft was unfettered and moved in the direction of the lake's flow.

For about half a burnt incense, the bamboo raft slowly and straightly drifted with the tide under Qi Yuan's control.

Gu Yanran leaned close to Nangong Xuanyi's arms to comfort the fear in her heart.

Nangong Xuanyi couldn't stop coaxing. "Look, there is only a slight wave on the lake, and this bamboo raft is also moving steadily, and besides, with me by your side, there is nothing to be afraid of, right?"

Gu Qiqiao half-squatted at the end of the bamboo raft, holding his chin and looking at the surrounding yellow woods.

Just look at it......

"Huh?" Gu Qiqiao blinked, sure that he was not mistaken, and then reached out and dragged Qi Yuan, who was concentrating on paddling. "Qi Yuan, Qi Yuan."

Qi Yuan bowed his head. "How?"

Gu Qiqiao pointed in one direction. "Just now, I saw several dark shadows, and they flashed over."

"Dark Shadow?" Qi Yuan looked in the direction Gu Qiqiao was pointing and didn't see anything.

"It's not accurate to just use 'dark shadow' to describe it." Gu Qiqiao tilted his head and thought for a while, and then said. "It's a dark figure, masked, like the outfits of the killers of the Netherworld."

Qi Yuan's expression froze. "Are you sure?"

"Sure." Gu Qiqiao said. "When the first figure passed, I thought I was wrong, but it was impossible to see the wrong number of times in a row."

"Do you see which way they're going?"

"That's the ...... we're going to"

Before Gu Qiqiao's words were finished, several black shadows flew up from the shore one after another, surging towards the bamboo raft.

"Master, be careful!" Qi Yuan pulled out the saber at his waist and jumped up directly.

Gu Qiqiao saw Qi Yuan disappear in place, and then with a 'clang', a dagger fell in front of her eyes.

“…… Dagger! Gu Qiqiao remembered that this was the dagger that Qi Yuan used to cut the rope on the shore, and quickly grabbed it.

On the other side, Nangong Xuanyi also found that someone was attacking at the first time, but he didn't immediately face it, just stroked the hidden buckle around his waist, and pulled out a sharp soft sword and held it in his hand.

Because when a few black shadows jumped on the shore, there were already several secret guards rushing over from different directions.

"Emperor, Imperial Princess!" Gu Qiqiao ran to Gu Yan in a panic, and then Fang grabbed the dagger with both hands, turned his back, and protected the two of them. "Slave and maid guard this side, you two be careful."

Gu Yanran was blocked by Nangong Xuanyi in front of her, and Gu Qiqiao behind her, but she was still confused. "What, what to do?"

"Squat." Nangong Xuanyi pressed Gu Yanran with one hand, and Gu Qiqiao with the other. "The sword has no eyes, don't get up."

As soon as the words fell, a black shadow slashed over with a big knife, and Nangong Xuanyi couldn't care about Gu Yanran and Gu Qiqiao, so he had to fly up.

"Ahh Gu Qiqiao was startled by the intersecting blades nearby, and opened his hands to protect Gu Yanran in his arms.

Gu Yanran seemed to be stunned, and her eyes only followed Nangong Xuanyi closely. “……”

Seeing that Nangong Xuanyi's side was about to gain the upper hand, a few black-clothed people flew in from nowhere to join the battle.

The few black-clothed people who had just arrived were in a group with the black-clothed people who had just arrived, and after joining the battle, they ruthlessly attacked Nangong Xuanyi and others.

Gradually, Nangong Xuanyi's side began to feel struggling, and he invariably suffered several bloody wounds on his body.

"Xuanyi!" Gu Yanran looked at Nangong Xuanyi covered in blood, suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly took out the jade whistle in her arms and blew it.

Gu Qiqiao looked at the jade whistle in Gu Yanran's mouth, and her heart relaxed slightly. "......" This jade whistle is a gift from the national teacher, and it can call the nearest Netherworld killer, as long as the people from the Netherworld come, it will be fine.

But this time, their expectations were destined to be disappointed.

The people of Netherworld...... Didn't come.

Didn't come in the end.