Cao Yuqing saw Qin Yining's face covered with tears, her nervous face turned pale, and her slender hands held one of the arms of the Duchess of Dingguo, but because the cold blade was on the side of her neck, it seemed that as long as she moved forward a little bit, she would immediately splatter blood on the spot, making Qin Yining not dare to move, and her face was already cold to the extreme.

As early as when Qin Yining refused to kill her, she concluded that Qin Yining was not the Duchess of Dingguo's person.

Now that she looks at the ruthlessness of the Duchess of Dingguo to her, she doesn't care about her ancestors and grandchildren, and Cao Yuqing is even more sure that Qin Yining has nothing to do with the Qingtian League.

If it was any other girl from the Qin family who was held hostage at this time, Cao Yuqing would not care about her life or death, and directly ordered someone to rush up and kill the rebels.

But this hostage is Qin Huaiyuan's favorite daughter.

Qin Huai is far from having a child, and it is obvious that this concubine hurts her into eyeballs.

She is wholeheartedly devoted to Qin Huaiyuan, if Qin Yining is killed at this moment, even if she is not the killer, Qin Huaiyuan will hate her, then won't a gap that can never be crossed between her and Qin Huaiyuan?

"A loyal and righteous person like the Duchess of Dingguo will turn his face ruthlessly, I don't know if you have involved innocent people for your own selfishness, and you have to kill your granddaughter, if the Duke of Dingguo has knowledge, how will he feel?" Cao Yuqing's hand holding the sword was already white.

"You people from the Cao family are the most unqualified to say this." The Duchess of Dingguo gritted her teeth, hating to pounce on it and eat her flesh raw.

The knife in his hand moved to Qin Yining's neck a little more: "You get out of the way and let us out, otherwise I will kill her, it's a big deal that more than a thousand daughters will bury us with us, and it won't be a loss for our Qingtian Alliance!" ”

Qin Yining raised his neck in cooperation and screamed, sobbing: "Save me, save me, I don't want to die here!" ”

Cao Yuqing looked at the Duchess of Dingguo coldly, slowly raised her left hand, and stepped back step by step, and the silver-faced spy behind her also retreated, making way in front of the courtyard gate.

Qin Yining secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Grabbing the hand of the Duchess of Dingguo a little harder, he motioned for her to leave quickly.

The Duchess of Dingguo immediately escorted Qin Yining and ran out with the remaining six members of the Qingtian Alliance.

Seeing this, Cao Yuqing hurriedly led people to chase after her, but when she saw that the Duchess of Dingguo was pulling Qin Yining to run, the knife was still on the girl's slender neck, and the blood stains were already faintly visible, so Cao Yuqing became more and more afraid to chase after her, for fear that the Duchess of Dingguo would really kill Qin Yining.

Along the path lined with wooden fences, I ran around a corner and saw five horses hidden behind the haystacks. That was what the Duchess of Dingguo had already ordered someone to hide here.

"Get on the horse, quick!" The Duchess of Dingguo urged loudly.

The man immediately obeyed the order, either one person and one horse, or two people in combination.

At this time, Cao Yuqing had already led people to chase him.

The Duchess of Dingguo reprimanded: "Don't come here! The knife in his hand tightened again.

Cao Yuqing could see the madness and determination in the eyes of the Duchess of Dingguo, and after hesitating, she did not order anyone to step forward.

That is, the kung fu of breathing, the Duchess of Dingguo pushed Qin Yining to the ground, turned around and took a person's hand and jumped on the horse's back, and the five horses immediately galloped towards the official road.

"Chase!" Cao Yuqing waved his hand, and the person behind him immediately chased after him quickly.

Qin Yining was lying on the ground, his palms and elbows were broken, and he was trembling from crying.

Cao Yuqing came to her in a few steps, and saw that her sideburns were loose and late, embarrassed, and the crying pear blossom with rain was really pitiful, so she put the sword into the sheath, helped her up with both hands, and asked softly: "How are you?" ”

Qin Yining looked at Cao Yuqing with tears in her eyes, her red eyes and nose were even more pitiful against the backdrop of the white and tender skin of the new snow.

Cao Yuqing lifted her chin to examine the wound.

Her snow-white collar was stained red with blood, and there were two cuts on her jade neck, obviously because she had just cut her skin under nervousness, and there was no more blood at this time.

"Luckily, nothing serious." Cao Yuqing sighed, hugged Qin Yining's shoulder and patted it.

Don't look at her as Qin Huaiyuan's favorite daughter, just looking at Qin Yining's face that is very similar to Qin Huaiyuan when she was young, Cao Yuqing is already ruthless, she only feels that this girl was brought out by her own design, and she is really innocent after going through this.

"Aunt Cao, you ......" Qin Yining snorted before saying, "Your martial arts are so good." Are you really the emperor's spy that my grandmother said? ”

Cao Yuqing nodded.

Qin Yining asked again: "The last time the assassin assassinated the Holy Driver and my father, I saw a silver-faced man rushing to the rescue, and there was a woman with excellent skills inside, is that you?" ”

"Yes." Cao Yuqing nodded calmly again.

Qin Yining's senses for Cao Yuqing became extremely complicated, and finally said, "Then your identity, my father knew from the beginning?" ”

Cao Yuqing raised her eyebrows and said with a smile on her face: "Why do you say that?" ”

"Because you have not concealed your identity from me today."

Qin Yining lowered his head and wiped his tears with his sleeve, "I really didn't expect that my grandmother would be like this." The tears could not be wiped away, and they fell again.

Seeing her crying so pitifully, Cao Yuqing no longer had any doubts in her heart, but instead hugged Qin Yining's shoulders and comforted her.

After a while, I saw more than ten black-clothed silver-faced people rushing back.

Cao Yuqing didn't wait for a few people to speak, and said, "Let them run away?" ”

"Yes." The head of the man bowed his head.

"I know, I will explain this matter to the emperor, and you will step down."

"Yes."

The men bowed and quickly retreated.

Cao Yuqing hugged Qin Yining's shoulders and walked all the way back to the courtyard.

A carriage had been prepared, and a coachman was waiting outside.

Bingtang and Mama Lu were both beside the carriage, anxiously looking around. Seeing Cao Yuqing and Qin Yining walking back so close with their shoulders around their shoulders, and Qin Yining's eyes were red and swollen from crying, both of them chuckled in their hearts.

They were all knocked unconscious and didn't know what was going on.

But the masters of the carriage are two beauties, who fall into the hands of bandits, and even if someone rescues them, they will inevitably suffer some hardships.

Bingtang's face turned pale with fright, but he still had to force his composure, stepped forward to help Qin Yining and said, "Girl, you are injured!" ”

Qin Yining shook his head: "I'm fine." ”

Seeing that Qin Yining's hands and elbows were broken, and there were blood stains on his neck, Bingtang's face became even more ugly, but Cao Yuqing was there, and he didn't ask any more questions in the end.

Several people got into the carriage, and Cao Yuqing instructed the coachman to leave for the Anping Marquis Mansion, and leaned on the pillow to close his eyes and recuperate. That lazy and delicate appearance was the same as when he came, and even Qin Yining didn't know where Cao Yuqing put the sword.

Qin Yining knew that people who practiced martial arts had keen senses, and if he was a master like Cao Yuqing, if he looked at it a few more times, it would definitely cause unnecessary trouble, so he just hung his head and didn't say anything, as if he had been greatly wronged and frightened, but he was still strong.

Bingtang treated the wounds on his hands and elbows for Qin Yining, and his heart sank to the bottom, and there were several bad guesses in his heart, but he couldn't get to the bottom of it, for fear of sprinkling salt on Qin Yining's wounds, and he could only whisper some dry words to comfort her.

In the evening, the carriage stopped in front of the Anping Marquis's Mansion.

Qin Yining and Cao Yuqing got out of the carriage, and Cao Yuqing said with a smile: "Fourth Miss, the carriage and horses are tired, the concubine will go back to rest first, and the fourth miss will also rest earlier." "It's no different than usual.

Qin Yining knew that Cao Yuqing hoped that today's matter could be kept secret.

She deliberately cried and swollen her eyes, and then forced a strong smile, "Auntie go slowly, I still have to go to my father's study to borrow a book to read, I don't have a different way, so I won't go with my aunt." ”

Cao Yuqing raised her eyebrows, she didn't expect that Qin Yining would directly tell her that she was going to see Qin Huaiyuan, "Yes, the four girls are please." ”

Qin Yining smiled and bowed, and after greeting Cao Yuqing, they parted ways.

After entering the mansion, Qin Yining went straight to the study in the outer courtyard, asked the little maid, and made sure that Qin Huaiyuan was inside, so he said: "I'm tired of you passing it on for me, just say that I want to borrow a book from my father to read, I don't know if it's convenient for my father at this time." ”

The little guy smiled when he heard this, and happily went to reply.

Qin Huaiyuan was sitting cross-legged on the Luohan bed by the window reading a book at this time, and when he heard the reply from his subordinates, he felt a little strange.

Shuorenzhai has a rich collection of books, and if Qin Yining wants to read any books, he has enough in Shuorenzhai. Today, Qin Yining and Cao Yuqing went to Xianguguan to fight Jiao, I am afraid that they have just come back, and I am afraid that something happened on the way.

"Miss Four, please come in."

The little guy immediately went and respectfully invited Qin Yining to enter the door.

It was only when he arrived at the bright place under the corridor that he saw Qin Yining's embarrassed appearance clearly by the light, and the little servant's heart sank, for fear that he would snoop on the master's secret and cause trouble, so he hurriedly lowered his head and retreated.

Qin Yining left rock candy outside and entered the house by himself.

Bypassing the screen of the four gentlemen of Meilan, Zhuju, as soon as Qin Yining arrived in the side room, he met Qin Huai's eyes from afar.

Qin Huaiyuan saw that Qin Yining's eyes were red and swollen when he was crying, and he was stunned: "Sister Yi'er, but you have been wronged?" His first reaction was that Aunt Cao had bullied his daughter.

Qin Yining took off his cloak and hung it aside, revealing his dirty skirt and bandaged hands, and said, "When I go out today and encounter something, is it convenient for my father to talk here?" ”

Qin Huaiyuan nodded, looked at Qin Yining with long eyebrows, and saw that her hands and elbows had been simply bandaged, in addition to the red and swollen eyes, there were blood stains on the snow-white collar!

Qin Huaiyuan dropped the book and strode over before he had time to put on his shoes, lifting Qin Yining's chin to look at her neck carefully.

"Are you hurt? Who hurt you? Cao's? ”

"It seems that my father has known the true identity of the Cao family for a long time."

Qin Yining's words made Qin Huaiyuan look at her in surprise, and said after a while: "You know?" ”

"Yes."

Qin Huaiyuan twisted his eyebrows and said, "Your injuries are not tight, right?" Do you want to get a doctor first? But there are still injuries elsewhere? ”

"My daughter is fine, Miss Tang has already dealt with it on the way back."

Qin Huaiyuan nodded and said, "Sit down and tell your father what is going on today." ”