Chapter 21: The Hunt
The unfinished mission of Sha Tao, who was previously dispatched, was to infiltrate Jiang and assassinate the protector general Fang Baozhang.
During the lunch break, Ding Ruoyu saw that Xue Tong was looking for an inch, and the two sat together and didn't know what to talk about.
"When did they get along like this?" Chen Lan suddenly squeezed between her and Yu Feiqiong.
"Can't you see that Cunxin is different from others?" Yu Feiqiong glanced at her with disdain.
"Among the men, he is the only one from Jiang Guo?" Chen Lan smiled stupidly.
Yu Feiqiong said coldly: "He has a sense of nobility. ”
"Extravagant? What extravagance? Chen Lan asked, "Why can't I see it at all?" ”
Ding Ruoyu sighed helplessly, he was so loud that he couldn't do it, and said expressionlessly: "Xue Tong must be asking him about General Fang." ”
After all, that task fell to him, and he knew that the other side could not be defeated. But how did he realize that his life was not ordinary?
"This Xue Tong is not simple." Yu Feiqiong groaned.
"The two of you are not simple, and none of us are simple." Ding Ruoyu rarely had the leisure to tease, but the two of them changed their faces together.
She saw it in her eyes and silently wrote it down in her heart. A momentary gaffe made her discover something interesting.
Soon after, the three of them were also sent on their respective missions. Yu Feiqiong assassinated a Wenchen who had dissent to the current crown prince Yan Qi, and she and Chen Lan protected the little princess Yanxi during a royal hunt two days later.
"This Yan Xi, like her sister, is obsessed with the great teacher to the point of being sick......" As soon as she received the task and was heading to the accommodation, Chen Lan couldn't stop talking about the obvious characteristics of this little princess.
"Princess Qizhu died of illness many years ago." Ding Ruoyu knew something.
At that time, Qi Zhu Tong's engagement banquet was huge and sensational throughout the country, but it didn't take long for this noble princess who was as beautiful as a flower to get out of bed and couldn't get out of bed. There are different opinions in the market, and in the end, it is widely spread in the streets and alleys that it is because of the posture of leaving Hong Tianren, Qi Zhu feels that he is not worthy, and he is worried and depressed...... These claims were also discussed as nonsense by the teenagers of the Dead Soldiers' Camp, but few people knew the inside story.
"You don't know what's really going on, do you?" Chen Lan looked around, leaned into her ear, and said mysteriously, "Qi Zhu was poisoned to death by this Yan Xi!" ”
"But the great master's medical skills are superb...... Ding Ruoyu said half a sentence, and suddenly reacted, and said in surprise, "Could it be that the great master instructed her to do this?" ”
"Even if you don't give it to you, let her go." Chen Lan said.
Ding Ruoyu returned to the lodging with a heavy heart. Chen Lan's words undoubtedly reminded her once again that she could stand by so cold-blooded and ruthlessly to her engaged sweetheart, and the good treatment of her by Lihong was just an illusion.
She stepped into the earthen hut and looked up to see sleeplessness.
Sleepless is quite tall, standing by the door, with a hearty voice, talking to Youlan: "I ran errands before, after Dongye Taijing, Dongping Hou took the city of Jiang Guo, Ye Mingde Longyan Dayue, and made his daughter Ding Ruoling the crown princess......"
Ding Ruoyu stood on the threshold.
She couldn't remember how long it had been since she heard anything about the Ding family, and she had almost forgotten that she still had the blood of the Ding family in her body.
Seeing Sleepless looking at her in surprise, she woke up like a dream and disguised: "Sister, you're finally back." ”
Sleepless patted her on the back: "It's just an escort." Then again, the daughter of the Ding family is really expensive, but the Beiyu Ma family has declined. The only concubine of their family's small generation only married a cousin who was five clothes away. ”
"The Ma family naturally can't be compared with the Ding family." Youlan also joked, "I heard that the Ding family ancestral hall is dedicated to a nine-headed divine beast, which has ......been prosperous for hundreds of years."
Ding Ruoyu listened, and silently lay down on his bunk.
Ye Mingde is the emperor of Dongye, and she has never seen it. I just heard my mother say that not long after she was born, the mother and son were invited to the East Palace to meet her aunt Empress Yuan. Empress Yuan also said that she wanted Ding Ruoyu to marry into the palace when she grew up and be her daughter-in-law......
Who knows, a few years later, it was her sister-in-law who entered the East Palace.
She raised an arm to cover her eyes. Ding Ruoling entered the palace, and her biological mother, Aunt Chen, must have been corrected.
If she escapes death and returns to Ding's house in the future, what position will be left for her? Her head hurt when she thought about it.
The next day, Chen Lan found her and brought another news, saying that the county lord of Duanrong had also returned to Agni City.
As soon as Ding Ruoyu heard these four words, he knew that something was wrong. This county lord's mother, like a mortal enemy with Yan Xi, is famous for hating each other, which can be said to be known to the world.
"It's troublesome!" Chen Lan shouted and complained beside her all day.
The sun is shining brightly, and the sky is shining. The dead soldiers followed the road all the way, hiding in the middle of nowhere, becoming a veritable shadow.
A large forest was enclosed on the western outskirts of the city and served as a place for the royal family to hunt on horseback.
Unlike other countries, the women of the Yan Kingdom have grown on horseback almost since birth, so they are extremely good at riding and archery. Not long after the hunt began, Yan Xi rushed to the first place with all his strength, throwing the rest of the people far away, and rushed into the depths of the forest without looking back.
Ding Ruoyu stepped on the thin branches, like a thin leaf. Although the horse was fast, it was still within her control for a while.
After a while, Yan Xi hunted a sika deer. With a wave of her hand, the guards who followed her stepped forward, snatched the prey, and made a note in the book.
Not long after, she saw a hare again.
Yan Xi is fifteen years old, and he is still a child. When he saw that the hare was all white, he threw his bow and arrows, jumped off his horse, and tiptoed into the jungle to catch it.
Ding Ruoyu leaned on a thick branch and looked at the innocent appearance of the little princess, and for a moment she couldn't believe that she could poison her sister at the age of ten.
Yan Xi held her breath and stared, gradually getting closer, and the hare seemed to be unaware.
She spread her hands.
Even the guards accompanying her in the distance couldn't help but be nervous for her, staring intently for fear of missing something.
Tremble in the balance!
The white rabbit jumped away with lightning speed, and the prey was freed.
And on the back side, Ding Ruoyu also moved, and quickly swept up another tree, grabbing her prey.
It was a young man, especially in his hand, but his arm hung limply at his side, and the blood flowed profusely.
Ding Ruoyu put a dagger against his neck, jumped off the tree, and handed it over to the guards. Yan Xi, who didn't catch the rabbit, picked up the bow and arrow again, and angrily shot in the direction of the rabbit's escape.
Far away, Chen Lan rushed over with a long list of gunpowder, his face was dirty like a cat, and he shouted: "What a ghost, this kid has buried explosives, and plans to die with us!" Luckily, I dug it up......"
When the boy heard this, his face was full of devastation, and he was about to kill himself, when the guard quickly pinched his jaw and pulled out a tooth from his mouth that contained poison.
The hunt continued, but Yan Xi was furious and went back early. Ding Ruoyu and Chen Lan sat on the steps outside the palace hall and waited for news.
One of the guards approached them, and the two of them hurriedly stood up and asked. The assassin was originally assigned to Princess Qizhu's personal guard, and he insisted that Yan Xi had killed his master, and he would avenge his master no matter what. When the witch cult was interrogated, he initially claimed to be a subordinate of the Duanrong County Lord, in a vain attempt to drag another person into the water. But in the end, he couldn't stand the torture, so he still recruited.
"Then he ...... now," Chen Lan asked curiously.
"Dead. The Dharma Protector skinned him, and then he was brought to the Great Ding, put him in a low heat, and boiled it slowly,......" the guard explained step by step.
Chen Lansheng shuddered, and saw a cold man in a red cloak walking out of the main hall, with no expression on his face, so insensitive, it was Mu Huo.
A month later, Xue Tong, who had gone to Jiang Country, came back, wearing a woman's dress, and was stunned by the dead soldiers in the Obsidian Palace.
"Fang Baozhang is not only a good man, but also likes to let his male pet wear women's clothes......" Cunxin explained for him.
"Entered the Obsidian Palace, but it is still the style of the fourth group." Yu Feiqiong opened his mouth coldly.
This method of using the body to confuse the target of the assassination is also mainly reflected in the members of the Red Lotus Hall. The Obsidian Temple does not require appearance, even if they want to take this shortcut, they don't have the capital.
Ding Ruoyu smiled: "You don't want to see him like this?" ”
"By means, there is nothing to be seen." Yu Feiqiong said.
"The Xue family...... Which country has a famous family surnamed Xue? Ding Ruoyu muttered again.
Yu Feiqiong shook her head.
She saw that Chen Lan also leaned over, and as soon as she got close to Xue Tong, she suddenly lifted his skirt to look.
She couldn't help but smile.
Yu Feiqiong looked at her in a daze. She has a gentle smile and smart eyes, revealing a strange beauty.
Even when he smiled, she still gave him a sense of detachment, and he could never guess what was hidden behind the seemingly transparent mirror under her eyes.
Half-hidden outside the giant door, Shi Shiran walked a beautiful and lazy woman.
Weak Water called Chen Lan and said to her with a smile: "Senior Brother Muhuo admires you very much, and assigned you to personally protect Princess Yanxi until the Duanrong County Lord leaves the imperial city. ”
She turned to Yu Feiqiong again and said that Prince Yanqi was going to personally give him a task and let him leave immediately.
Ding Ruoyu was still idle alone, so he had to continue to practice witchcraft. Witchcraft is divided into four systems, water, fire, and earth. Ordinary wizards can only learn one series of spells, but she can have the telekinesis of both water and fire from the beginning, which she has not figured out for a long time.
At this time, she rubbed a fireball, and was trying to find a way to envelop a layer of mist outside the flames, and Xue Tong, who was originally the focus of everyone, sat over quietly.
Failed again, but was scalded by boiling water, Ding Ruoyu finally snuffed out the small fireball and glanced at him lightly.
"I want to ask, you were born so ordinary, how can you let Feiqiong chase after you and die for you?" He smiled brightly, but the words that came out of his mouth were quite vulgar, "This flattery, I hope to be able to give you some advice." ”
Ding Ruoyu was not ashamed or angry when he heard this, but laughed and said generously: "First of all, we are just very good friends; Besides, I'm not as capable as you say. ”
"Why did you want to be friends with him?" Xue Tong raised his eyebrows.
"He's good-looking." Ding Ruoyu said in his heart that this is a nonsense, and his answer was perfunctory.
"Am I not good-looking?" He leaned in and hung an arm around her neck.
Ding Ruoyu jumped up like a frightened rabbit, and retreated several steps in a row: "I can't appreciate it." ”
She retreated, but the other party reversed, and whispered with a meaningful smile: "What about Lord Lihong?" He is recognized as a beautiful man in the world. ”
"Are you ......" Ding Ruoyu was stunned, and his plain eyes burst out with sharpness.
"No, I'm neither a Flowing Flame nor a Lihong." Xue Tong had an innocent and bright smile, and his eyes were clear and innocent.
Ding Ruoyu was stunned again.
His eyes, from a distance, look like the most common brown, but up close they are dark green.
"Who is your master?" She greeted the two jade springs and took a small step forward.
"Master, master, master, you think I can't be my own master?" Xue Tong seemed to have been poked in the foot, and he spoke impatiently.
Ding Ruoyu sneered back at him: "Let me know this, aren't you afraid that I will tell others that you are a fine worker?" ”
"You won't." Xue Tong quickly regained his composure and swept around the dead soldiers practicing on the field, "Even if you want to say it, it's nothing more than telling Lihong." And I was inserted by him himself. ”
"So he's not your master." Ding Ruoyu said casually.
"Nothing like that!" The young man in women's clothes was so anxious that he ripped off a large skirt, "I only listen to my senior brother, but my senior brother wants me to follow Lihong into the net......"
"What do you want to do when you come in?" Ding Ruoyu said, she has become an interrogator.
"After coming in......" Xue Tong reacted, immediately stopped, glared at her fiercely, and deliberately put on a vicious posture, "Anyway, my goal has been achieved, there is no need to tell you so much." ”
"For what purpose?" This will be Ding Ruoyu not letting him go.
Xue Tong thought about it again and again, but still spoke: "Verify something...... But now I'm sure you're not the one my brother is looking for. ”
Ding Ruoyu looked at him with a resolute look, knowing that he couldn't ask who that person was, and he didn't bother to say much, so he continued to walk back to the corner to control his telepathy.
Green-eyed, senior brother......
There was so little information she could get that she couldn't figure it out. Do you really want to find Lihong? She had a chill down her spine, such a thing, could she go to that terrible person?
Is it really as simple as they recognize the wrong person?