"It should be that you think too much, since you care so much about this prince, then this prince has not been out for a few days, is it okay to accompany you here? Wait for the opening of the office to open the marketing day before going out! ”

Cheng Chen is still thinking about things... Ignore him.

'Acting officer? By the way, the Salt Industry Department is also Xia Yiyu's subordinate and can represent his position. ’

Cheng Chen figured it out, looked at Xia Yiyu meaningfully and said:

"Your Highness, I know who it is, Zeng Gong! It was also he who led people to Yangzhou! From beginning to end, it was a game set up to bring down the Eternal King! ”

Xia Yiyu was not surprised when he heard this, and said with a look of agreement: "It's like this!" No wonder Zeng Gong mentioned twice yesterday to check the accounts. They have long known that Uncle Yonghuang is the second emperor's brother, so they understand that Yonghuang Uncle is the second emperor's brother's money bag. has been looking for an opportunity to deal with Uncle Yongwang. ”

Today is the day when the Yamen of the Salt Industry Department opens to sell salt tickets.

Three days have passed since the day the Salt Industry Department was burned, and Xia Yiyu didn't go out for the past three days, pestering Cheng Chen to sing to him every day. Single-handedly a song. How can Cheng Chen sing?

Xia Yiyu went out a little late today, and only after everything was arranged did he lead two delicate-looking maids out, surrounded by hundreds of soldiers, and among the soldiers, there were ten secret guards in disguise hidden in various directions.

The new site of the Salt Industry Department is a house near the state office. At the gate of the Salt Industry Department, the plaque hanging on the plaque directly above the door is also covered with a red silk cloth.

The opening ceremony was very grand, and a few lion dance classes were invited, as well as the dancing girl who straddled the basket, and occasionally threw out a handful of copper coins to attract the lively people to rob.

At this time, the door was crowded with dozens of salt merchants who came from all over the country, and the imperial decree had already been issued throughout the country, and they already knew about it, so they rushed over early.

The first director of the salt industry was standing at the door and looking around, why didn't the three princes come? This auspicious time has been set, and it is not good to miss the time.

"It's coming! The drummer is playing fast! ”

Everyone at the door heard the rumbling sound of horses' hooves getting closer and closer, and they stood on tiptoe to look into the distance, hundreds of cavalry formed two long dragons left and right to escort a carriage gradually appeared in everyone's sight, and there were hundreds of soldiers holding shields in front of and behind the carriage.

The carriage stopped, Xia Yiyu got out of the carriage, followed by two maids, and the soldiers held their shields to guard the three of them and walked forward.

Just when Xia Yiyu was about to walk to the door of the office...

The sound of "whoosh" suddenly became loud...

"Crossbow! There are assassins! Protect Your Highness! ”

A rain of arrows galloped towards Xia Yiyu, and the soldiers quickly raised their shields to protect Xia Yiyu and block the flying arrow rain. More than a dozen people were shot to death, and the rest of the people and the salt merchants reacted and burst into screams, scattering and fleeing, and the scene was chaotic.

"Shh~"

The whistle sounded, and a moment later, a group of hundreds of black-clothed people surged from all around, killing Xia Yiyu, their appearance immediately disturbed the calm shield soldiers, and the sword light and sword shadow flashed with the cold of death in the Lang Lang day.

Eight guards posing as soldiers are entangled with the men in black...

Six hundred infantry formed an encirclement, and more than 100 people on the other side were all strong assassins, and ordinary soldiers could only rely on their numbers to entangle them.

Riding on horseback, General Zuo Zhonglang also led the cavalry to dismount and join the battle group.

In this crowded melee, when the soldiers in the melee all focused their eyes on the man in black, a dancing girl who sprinkled copper coins took out her hand into the flower basket, but what she took out was three flying knives, and the flying knives shot straight at Xia Yiyu's front door, and at the same time, the drummer who was beating the big drum suddenly lifted the drum surface like lifting the lid, took out a long sword, and also galloped towards Xia Yiyu.

At the last moment, the remaining two secret guards pretending to be soldiers blocked Xia Yiyu in front one after another, waving the long knife in their hands, swinging three flying blades, the dark guard fought with the dancing girl and the sword-wielding assassin, and the two shield players who had been guarding by his side protected Xia Yiyu again.

At the same time that Xia Yiyu breathed a sigh of relief, the two soldiers around Xia Yiyu who were fighting with the black-clothed assassin suddenly turned their guns and killed Xia Yiyu, hurry! It's just too fast!

The two assassins pretending to be soldiers were obviously masters, one on the left and one on the right, their bodies were like sharp arrows in front of Xia Yiyu in an instant, the cruel tip of the knife glowed with an eerie cold light, less than a foot away from Xia Yiyu, and the eyes of the two assassins flashed with excitement.

Lihong and Cheng Chen moved, one left and one right, and greeted them with their bare hands.

The two assassins were definitely masters, and the sudden sneak attack, neither of them panicked, and their reaction was extremely fast, avoiding the sneak attack of the second girl, seeing that they couldn't do anything, they turned around and fled with the long knife.

Cheng Chen was willing to give up and directly entangled them to stop them from escaping.

This should be the third wave of assassins, and they are also the killers, hidden among the soldiers, and they won't shoot if they don't have a chance, just let them see the right time, but unfortunately miscalculated the two beautiful and delicate maids.

The two women who entangled the assassins suffered a lot without weapons in their hands, and they killed the two with knives and retreated, so that the two assassins saw the opportunity to fly away, although Li Hong wanted to chase them, they were afraid that they would have a backhand, so they didn't dare to go too far from Xia Yiyu.

Cheng Chen pulled Lihong's sleeve because he was afraid that she would want to chase her, seeing that she couldn't chase her, her face showed indignation, Cheng Chen approached her ear and said: "Don't worry, you can't go, the assassin and the second prince's steward secretly arranged a lot of masters around, just waiting for them to escape, let them hunters become prey!" ”

Seeing that some of his accomplices had fled, the already vulnerable Assassins had no intention of fighting, and they wanted to flee one after another, exposing their backs to the enemy, but they failed to do so, and were either killed or killed by biting themselves while being besieged. Only one or two cunning ones saw that things were not good, and moved to the periphery early to see the opportunity to escape.

Cheng Chen walked back to Xia Yiyu's side and asked with concern, "Your Highness!" Are you okay? ”

Xia Yiyu pulled up a smile and said, "How can I have anything, don't I still wear protective soft armor?" They expected to catch us off guard, but they didn't expect to be caught off guard by us! Hahahaha! Walk! Enter the office. ”

"Your Highness! It's great that you're okay! ”

All the civil officials and salt merchants who were hiding in the office saw Xia Yiyu come in and greeted him.

Xia Yiyu joked: "This prince looks at you and seems surprised to see that this prince is not dead?" ”

Li Tingshi and other civil officials all blushed, Zeng Gong was embarrassed, and said, "Your Highness has misunderstood!" Xiaguan and the others can be described as powerless scholars in front of those strongmen, and staying behind will not help but hinder them, so Xiaguan and the others left first! I hope Your Highness forgives your sins! ”

The voice of your lords is: Although the target of the assassin is not us, staying will definitely hurt the pond fish, this stay will hurt the old arms and legs, how to eat, if you are not careful, the old life has been explained, the dead friends do not die poor, after the death of His Royal Highness, it is better for us to go up and ask for guilt than to die on the spot!

Xia Yiyu didn't understand the little Jiujiu in the hearts of these people, he just couldn't care about it, so he smiled and said, "Hehe! This prince understands, isn't this not to blame? Cui Tingshi left the rest of the adults to disperse, and the salt industry secretary was Zeng Gong, and the head of the department Liu Xingliang led the household officials to preside over the sale of salt tickets! ”

"Retire!"

The civil servants all bowed and retired.