Chapter 124: Assassination
As the night grew darker, Lin Zhuohua sat on a chair and glanced outside.
"You rest, I'll go back."
Li Zeyi got up, touched her head, and watched her lie down before leaving.
Bai Yu came in and put out the lights, then exited the house and went to the other side of the room to rest.
Lin Zhuohua was lying on the bed, but he couldn't sleep.
In the dark room, only the shallow moonlight shines through the windows, but it cannot illuminate the room.
She slowly closed her eyes and slowly released her spiritual power. Now that her spiritual power has broken through, she can cover an area about the size of the entire Guogong Mansion. So for this little inn, she didn't have much effort to look at it.
Who is hidden in the shadows, she knows now. I couldn't help but marvel at the fact that there were so many people guarding this inn. It's a pity that she can't tell how much friend or foe she is.
As the minutes ticked by, her eyelids gradually sank. As soon as I was about to go to sleep, I heard a very soft noise outside, which was much clearer in the silence of the night.
She opened her eyes, and her ears moved. A small thin tube came through the window paper, and a faint smell of medicine filled the air.
The corners of Lin Zhuohua's mouth hooked, this drug is also too low-level. It's okay to stun ordinary people, but it's not much use to stun people with deep internal strength.
She put a pill in her mouth and continued to close her eyes.
The movement outside was getting louder and louder, but she breathed steadily as if she hadn't heard it.
Li Zeyi looked at the group of dead soldiers who appeared, and a cold glint flashed in his eyes.
Suifeng and the others gathered around him and made a gesture of protector. These dead soldiers were different from the group of men in black last time, they didn't have the slightest anger on them, only a cold murderous aura.
They didn't even say a word, they attacked directly, and their moves were fast and accurate. As if it was a tool for killing, it didn't give them any chance to ease at all.
Li Zeyi frowned slightly, always feeling that something was wrong with this group of people. Their strength is very strong, and their movements are very agile.
"Master, let all the people hiding in the shadows come out, these people are much more powerful than we estimated."
With the wind frowning, if they continue, they will gradually be at a disadvantage.
Li Zeyi nodded, and then thought of the little girl in the room next to him, his eyes darkened.
"Cover me out."
The target of these people is him, and he lures these people away, so that the little girl will be completely safe.
Sui Feng nodded, and the few people who stayed by Li Zeyi's side immediately covered him to leave, and those dead soldiers immediately chased him out.
The sound of fighting in the next room disappeared, and the night was silent again.
Lin Zhuohua opened his eyes, released his spiritual power again, and found that there were many fewer people in the dark places of this inn, and there were probably only one-fifth of the people left.
She got up from the bed, walked to the window, pushed a gap slightly, and looked out through the gap, but saw nothing.
Xiu's eyebrows furrowed, where did those dead soldiers and Li Zeyi go?
"Winter."
She called out Winterwinter and asked, "What about them?" ”
"The prince was afraid of disturbing your rest, so he lured those people away. Miss, rest assured, the prince has made all the preparations, and it will be fine. ”
Lin Zhuohua nodded when he heard this, and waved his hand to let him go back to the dark place to guard.
She stood in front of the window, but there was always some apprehension in her heart. I don't know what it is, but there is a feeling of uneasiness spreading in the bottom of my heart.
After a long time, Li Zeyi did not come back. She went back to the bed, closed her eyes and tried to fall asleep. But she still couldn't sleep, and was just about to get up and quietly go to them, when a little noise at the door made her eyes light up.
She closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep, waiting for someone outside the door to come in.
The door was opened from the outside, and several black figures cautiously walked in.
"Wait, I'm suddenly on the way first. The employer can say that this woman is good at drugs, and I don't know if the drugs she took before will be useful to her. ”
It was a man with a sharp beak who grabbed his burly companion beside him, his sharp eyes shining with shrewdness.
"So what do you say?"
The burly man frowned and asked a little angrily.
The sharp-beaked monkey-cheeked man took out a dagger and shot it at the bed.
Lin Zhuohua sighed in his heart that this person was cautious, and used his spiritual power to move the dagger to the side, just on the side of her arm, just a drop away from piercing into her arm.
"Looks like she's really unconscious."
The two of them approached the bed, but they hadn't moved yet. The cold winter and cold rain hidden in the shadows appeared.
There were many people around her who were secretly protecting, and the two were quickly subdued and tied up by the cold winter and cold rain.
Bitter Winter lit the candles in the house and stood aside.
Lin Zhuohua got up from the bed and looked condescendingly at the two people who were tied up and thrown on the ground.
"Tell me, who sent you?"
These two people are not very powerful masters at first glance, and there must be martial arts, but they are not very powerful.
The two glanced at each other, and there was a bit of hesitation between their eyebrows. At this time, they also knew that they were cheated by someone, but when they remembered the people who hired them, they didn't dare to talk nonsense.
"We don't know who the other person is, we just let us kill you. He came to us with a mask, but it was a woman. ”
They didn't lie about this, but the conditions given by the other party were too tempting. And the two brothers are used to doing this kind of thing, and they have received various employers. Although the employer didn't see the face this time, the people she brought were not easy to mess with one by one, which is why they hesitated just now. If the other party knew that they had told these things, they didn't know what would have happened to the two brothers.
Lin Zhuohua held his chin with one hand, and it didn't look like he was lying.
If the employer was a woman, she had a rough guess in her mind. The women who have an enmity with her are Fu Mingxuan and Ni Yuan, but Fu Mingxuan does not have such confidence and ability. Then only Lord Ni Yuan is left, but it cannot be ruled out that it is not Li Zeyi's other admirers.
She always felt that Li Zeyi's admirers must be different in their identities, but she didn't know if it was another admirer or the lord of Ni Yuan this time.
She was not in a hurry about this, looked at the two of them, and said with a slight smile.
"Let's eat this."
She took out two pills and asked Handong to feed them to the two of them.
Han Dong unceremoniously broke the mouths of the two of them and fed the pills into them.
"What did you give us to eat?" The man with the monkey cheeks asked in horror.
The pill melted in their mouths, and it didn't give them a chance to spit it out at all. Thinking on your toes, you know that this pill is definitely not a life-saving medicine.
"Didn't the people who hired you tell you that I'm good at making drugs?"
"I told you." After the burly man finished speaking, he immediately covered his mouth. I really want to slap myself in the mouth, why did I say it?
Lin Zhuohua's eyes narrowed, and the corners of his mouth hooked up a sneer, sure enough, it was the county lord of Ni Yuan. If Li Zeyi's other admirers were them, they wouldn't know that she was good at making drugs.
The sharp-beaked monkey-cheeked man was really speechless for his younger brother, and then turned his head to look at Lin Zhuohua, suppressing the horror in his heart, and trying not to look so scared.
"What are you trying to make us do when you give us poison?"
The employer was betrayed anyway, and they had no chance of turning back at all. Now it's important to save your life, so you can only follow the orders of the girl in front of you.
"Nature is to treat others the way they do, you ...... like this"
She gave the two of them the potion she had configured, and asked them to tell them what to do. Looking at their wide eyes, he hooked the corners of his mouth: "As long as you get this done, then you can come and get the antidote, remember that this poison attacks every three days, and each time it is more powerful than the other." If you want to recruit people to detoxify, rest assured that I am the only one in this world who can detoxify this poison. ”
The two brothers glanced at each other, and could only nod tremblingly. Looking at the little girl's appearance, it doesn't look like she is lying to scare them.
After letting the person go, Lin Zhuohua pursed his lips. Looking at the cold winter and cold rain, he ordered: "You take the people who are guarding the dark place to take a look, no matter how powerful those dead soldiers are, this time will almost be solved." ”
She always felt a little uneasy, and gave all the poison in her hand to the cold winter.
"Miss, let your subordinates stay and protect you. Who knows if there will be people like that just now. Hearing this, Han Yu frowned and said, they all went to support Miss Wang Yeliu alone, and they were not at ease.
When Lin Zhuohua heard this, he thought about it and agreed, let Han Yu stay, and Han Dong took others to support.
When the cold winter took people away, Lin Zhuohua sat on the bed and waited for the news.
Li Zeyi's side led people to a relatively remote place, which made everyone in the shadows come out. The number of people on both sides was about the same, and there was no difference between them for a while.
The more Li Zeyi frowned, the deeper he wrinkled, these people are really not normal.
"Master, could these people have taken the pill you said?"
Hearing Suifeng's words, Li Zeyi's eyes flashed. After carefully observing it for a while, I had already affirmed his statement in my heart.
I didn't expect the prince to be so ruthless that he would let the dead man take that kind of pill with serious sequelae, but it was also. If these dead soldiers fail to complete their mission, I am afraid that there will only be one death. Since they were sent, I'm afraid they don't mean to continue to use them.
"These people should be used for you to practice, and you can solve the problem quickly."
He wasn't going to do it, and it was a rare opportunity. Suifeng and a few people have been following him all the time, and they have rarely been thrown into the Purgatory Valley for special training.
The corners of Suifeng's mouth twitched, knowing that his master would not make a move. After glancing at the others, their momentum changed violently, and they fought with this group of dead soldiers as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.
Li Zeyi found a hidden position and leisurely leaned on the trunk of the tree and watched. As early as when he lured people over, he gave them all the poison that the little girl gave him, which was the confidence that he dared to stand idly by.
When the cold winter came, I saw the dead wallowing in pain all over the ground, looking very hideous.
Looking at Suifeng and the others, they were all panting for breath at this time, as if they were very tired.
"Why are you here? Didn't you let you guard the scorching flowers? ”
Li Zeyi's face sank when he saw a few people in the cold winter, and he asked in a cold voice.
"Miss only let Hanyu stay, and others will come to support." Han Dong hurriedly opened his mouth to explain, although he was now considered a young lady, he instinctively replied when he saw the prince's calm face.
Li Zeyi's brows furrowed tightly, and he waved his hand: "Let's go, go back." ”
He left Suifeng and a few others to clean up the pieces, and then quickly swept in the direction of the inn. He didn't worry that the little girl would only be left alone, what if it was a plan to divert the tiger from the mountain?
The prince was very sensitive, and he must have guessed that the little girl was very important to him. I'm afraid that he will be too shameless, so he will catch the little girl and use it to threaten him.
At this time, the prince, who was suspected, was sitting in the study looking at the secret letter sent by his subordinates. His brow furrowed tightly, and his eyes were tinged with anger.
"They are really leisurely along the way, and they are still in the mood to go to the night market."
The letter in his hand was exactly what Lin Zhuohua and Li Zeyi did together during this time, and everything was written in it. When he saw Lin Zhuohua fighting for a hairpin with a woman, and saw the identity of the woman found above, the corners of his mouth hooked up with a calculating smile.
Burning the letter in his hand, he tapped his fingers lightly on the tabletop, his brow heavy.
"Contact Gu Lin and ask him to come over tomorrow, and he will be told to do something."
Huang Zhong, who was guarding the side, nodded when he heard this: "Yes, Your Highness." What if Gu Lin is not in Shangjing? ”
Hearing this, the prince pondered for a moment and ordered: "If you are not in Shangjing, let him rush back as soon as possible." ”
Huang Zhong took the order, and then exited the study.
The prince looked at the dark night sky, today is the time to do it, I don't know if those people can succeed. It's just that he didn't have much hope, and these dead soldiers were the first people to test the medicine. Most of them were death row prisoners, and he used some methods to get them out and take them for his own use.
This time I did it, just to test the details of his third brother.
"Your Highness, it's getting late. Are you going to Concubine Mu or ......?"
The big eunuch came in from outside and asked respectfully and in a low voice.
The prince retracted his thoughts and got up: "Go to the side concubine." ”
After returning from the palace, because of the imperial doctor staying in the East Palace and the care of Mama Fu, Mu Wanyu's baby has been stabilized. It's just that she has severe morning sickness now, and her whole person has lost weight.
When he came to Mu Wanyu's residence, he saw that there was still light inside. Let people be silent and walk over by themselves. When I walked to the door, I heard Mu Wanyu's delicate voice.
"Rich Mama, when will my morning sickness get better? This little guy is so good at tossing people. ”
Mu Wanyu's whole person was much haggard, and her face was sallow. She put her hand on her stomach and gently touched it back and forth.
Mama Fu took out the handkerchief soaked in warm water and gently covered her hand.
"This morning sickness can only be held up, eat something to relieve it. As for when it will be better, this is not necessarily, a few days, a few months or even vomiting to death, but most of them will be fine after three months. ”
Seeing Mu Wanyu so uncomfortable, Mama Fu was also a little distressed. She took off the veil and continued: "Concubine Fang should relax now, just take care of the fetus, you always love to be cranky these days, and it is not good for you and the child." ”
"I don't know if it's the cause of pregnancy, but I didn't pay attention to those concubines before. As long as His Highness has me in his heart, but I don't know how lately, I get irritated when I see the fancy clothes they wear. ”
Mu Wanyu also knows that it's wrong to think like this, but sometimes she just can't control herself, maybe she is always a little hypocritical when she is pregnant.
"If you really love a man, you will naturally be jealous. In the past, the concubine endured it, but now that you are pregnant, you are the most vulnerable and sensitive time, so you naturally can't help it. Let's take a walk in our yard from tomorrow. ”
Fu Mama said, this is also a way to do it, since you can't control yourself, then try to minimize the chance of meeting. Those concubines can't help but let the family go out, and there is no reason for this.
Mu Wanyu rubbed her eyebrows and nodded lightly: "That's the only way." ”
"Don't think too much about it, it's not early, go to sleep." Mama Fu opened her mouth with some distress.
"Your Highness is still in the study, if you are in the study, let someone send some food. These days, His Highness seems to have lost some weight. ”
The prince stood outside, listening to the delicate and weak voice, and his heart was very comforted. It's still his Wanyu who cares about him the most, and it's just different from others.
Lifting the curtain, he stepped inside.
Mama Fu was just about to speak, but when she saw the prince who came in, she immediately knelt on the ground and said goodbye.
"His Royal Highness the Prince."
The prince waved his hand to get up, and then Mu Wanyu, who was about to get up, pressed back. With a bit of tenderness between his eyebrows, he said softly: "If you are not feeling well, these gifts will be waived." ”
Mu Wanyu held those cold hands, frowned, and said, "It's cold on winter nights, why don't you take a hand stove." The prince can have dinner, if there is no need to let people go to the kitchenette to eat. ”
The prince smiled when he heard this: "Lone has already eaten, and I will come to accompany you if I have nothing to do today." It's not early, I'll rest with you. ”
Mu Wanyu moved the corners of her mouth, and finally didn't say anything, nodding. When the prince came up, he naturally nestled into his arms. Childlike attachment, clinging to the hem of his clothes.
A touch of distress flashed in the prince's eyes, and he looked at the little face that was only the size of a palm, and hugged her tightly with a sigh.
Mu Wanyu buried her head in his arms, and there was still a trace of clarity in her nostalgic eyes. She already had a tacit understanding with the people around her, and the prince would make a secret signal when he came.
The words she said to the rich grandmother were all for the prince.
After the palace returned, she felt that Na Lin Youran was too much of a threat to her. But now she doesn't want to make a move on her, so she can only increase her status in the prince's heart.
Thinking of the child in her belly, her eyebrows were dyed with a little gentle love.
After she became pregnant, she became more and more sleepy, and she fell asleep after leaning on the prince's arms for a while.
At this time, Lin Zhuohua also waited for Li Zeyi and his party to come back, and when she heard the movement, she immediately opened the door of the house. It was a relief to see that he was not injured.
Li Zeyi saw the little girl at the door, and met her worried eyes, and his heart warmed.