Chapter 60: The Assassins
The prince rushed into the depths of the forest, and at this moment there was already chaos in the hunting camp, and the emperor also looked at the busy people with a pale face, and did not say a word.
After a while, Liu Qicai came back with the prince with a frustrated face, but the prince was covered in blood, and a wound on his leg was being exposed.
When Ming Xiu was brought back, he was so weak that he was almost unconscious, but he also read "County Lord, County Lord-", and for a while, everyone knew about the prince's heart about Chu Nian, but Wang Zixuan's people and the Imperial Forest Army all returned in vain, and the crazy horse and the people on the horse seemed to evaporate out of thin air.
However, everyone no longer cares about Chu Nian, compared to a mere county lord, it is obvious that the prince's injury is more worrying.
Liu Qi sent the prince to the accompanying imperial doctor, and then went to find Wang Zixuan to restore his life, at this moment Wang Zixuan was in the queen mother's account, Liu Qi saved a little effort, and went directly to the queen mother to report.
Wang Zixuan stood beside the Queen Mother with an unkind face, and the Queen Mother looked at Liu Qi who was kneeling on the ground with a majestic face, "Why is the prince injured?" ”
Liu Qi straightened his face, and then frowned and said: "It's Weichen's dereliction of duty, when I met His Royal Highness the Crown Prince on the periphery, His Royal Highness was already covered with scars, and according to His Highness's wounds, it is very likely that it was done by an assassin." ”
As soon as his words fell, he saw Wang Zixuan's face change, "Assassin? What assassin? ”
Liu Qi opened his mouth, took out a waist card from his arms, hung his head and handed it to Wang Zixuan.
"This is what Wechen found from His Highness, and at that time this waist card was tightly held by His Highness, so Wechen took it out and looked at it."
The Queen Mother's old eyes were dizzy, and she couldn't see what it was, but Wang Zixuan had already seen it, and the waist card with the word "Wang" had just been put into his hand, so he frowned, "Who wants to blame my Wang family?" ”
Wang Zixuan is not a fool, at such a close distance, although the Queen Mother can't see clearly what is going on with this waist card, but he can't put away the "evidence" in front of the Queen Mother, isn't this just a suspicion of the Queen Mother? It's better to put it all on the bright side, so as not to make another big fuss about the Queen Mother.
After taking the waist card handed over by Wang Zixuan, the Queen Mother narrowed her eyes slightly, she looked at Liu Qi, "You go down first." ”
Liu Qi always hung his head and retreated, and the Queen Mother turned her eyes to look at Wang Zixuan, the deeper the doubts in her heart, but she was not angry and arrogant, "Wang Zixuan, you'd better find out what is going on." ”
Wang Zixuan straightened his expression, leaned over and said, "Yes, aunt." ”
After leaving the camp, Wang Zixuan clenched the waist card tightly, and frowned, this clearly showed that someone had framed him, and the guards of the Wang family were all loyal, how could he hurt the prince without his order?
That stupid prince is really, it's not good to catch something, just catch this thing!
With a cold snort, Wang Zixuan turned around and left, not noticing that a pair of phoenix eyes behind him were staring at him tightly.
When Wang Zixuan walked away, the figure walked out from the shelter of the camp, it was Concubine Liang, I saw her looking at Wang Zixuan's back, her brows furrowed slightly, and she turned around and left for a long time.
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At that time, in Jishitang, Chu Nian was lying in the backyard room, a group of children were worrying around the couch, and Rong'er was also holding Chu Nian's hand tightly with a small hand, "Sister, you have nothing to do......"
At this time, Ah Wu walked in with a bowl of soup and medicine, and said, "Go out and play, don't make a noise and rest." ”
A kind of little doll spread out to make way for Grandma, Rong'er turned around, a pair of big eyes moist and ready to come out, "Sister Grandma, will my sister be okay?" ”
Seeing Rong'er like this, Auntie was even more distressed, so she had to put the decoction aside and touched Rong'er's head, "Good Rong'er, with Sister Auntie here, the lady will be fine, you go play first, my sister wants to feed the lady to drink medicine, and promise to give you a lively lady?" Rong'er don't cry, if you cry, the lady will be unhappy. ”
When Auntie's voice fell, Rong'er wiped her tears and obediently withdrew from the door with the children.
Ah Wu closed the door, only then turned around and approached Chu Nian with the decoction, and sighed helplessly: "Lady, the children are gone." ”
At this time, Chu Nian opened her eyes weakly, she only injured one arm and shed a little more blood, Auntie's medical skills are superb, she lay on the bed for another day and a night, in addition to the wound, there was still some pain, and her body had already recovered.
Auntie sat down on the edge of the couch, gently helped Chu Nian to sit up, and then scooped a tablespoon of medicinal soup and carefully sent it to Chu Nian's mouth, "Lady, what's the trouble, as long as the lady smiles at the children, won't the children make trouble." ”
Chu Nian frowned and swallowed the bitter medicinal juice, pursed his white lips, and said, "If they ask me why I was injured, how should I answer?" If you tell the truth, won't it make the children think that people's hearts are too sinister. ”
Auntie sent another spoonful of medicine before frowning: "The lady treats the prince the same way?" ”
For Chu Nian, in addition to Mei Xiang, Grandma is the most powerful assistant by her side, therefore, Jishitang can be handed over to Grandma to take care of, and the children can also be taken care of by Grandma, so the relationship between her and Ming Xiu has already been told to Grandma.
Chu Nian frowned, took the medicine bowl in Ah Wu's hand, poured the medicine in the bowl into his throat in one go, and then swallowed a candied fruit, and waited for the sweetness to spread in his mouth, and then said slowly: "Good and evil are not separated, if I want the people of Li to live in peace and rest in peace, I must do some evil things, the prince must be a generation of Ming Jun in the hearts of his subjects in the future, and there must be no stain on him." ”
"So the lady doesn't say anything to the prince, and would rather the prince be so worried that he gets angry every time?"
Chu Nian lowered his eyes and smiled lightly, "He will get used to it in the future, how can a person who has achieved great things stick to small sections?" ”
Auntie shook her head helplessly, "It's not like the lady doesn't understand the prince's intentions, if the prince is sincere, why doesn't the lady try to accept it?" ”
This time, Chu Nian didn't speak, she looked into the distance through the curtain beside the couch, stunned.
After a few moments, she sat up, "Auntie, help me change my clothes, I should be on my way." ”
"Lady?" Auntie's eyes widened suddenly, "You can't move your arm yet!" ”
Chu Nian lifted her injured shoulder slightly, fine beads of sweat oozed from her forehead, but she said with a smile: "Change the dressing on the road, you can't delay the business, otherwise you will have lost all your efforts so far." ”
Seeing Chu Nian's insistence, Ah Nian didn't dare to disobey, so she reluctantly helped Chu Nian stand up and change her clothes, packed up a bunch of salutes, prepared a large bag of medicinal materials, and the secret guards were already waiting at the door.
The five of them went out in disguise and went out with the instructions of the grandmother, and went straight to the city gate.
Because of the assassin on the hunting ground, the city gate was heavily guarded, and several people finally passed through the city gate, and when they left the city, they went straight to the west path, and at this time, the dark Er, who had been silent, spoke for the first time: "Sanniang, my subordinates have heard that His Royal Highness is injured." ”
Hei Yan under his crotch let out a sigh of relief, Chu Nian patted its horse's head lightly, and frowned at Dark Er, who had been masked, "What's the matter?" Do you hear me? ”
Dark Er nodded, "Among the secret guards, the subordinates have the best hearing, and they will never hear it wrong, it is said that the palace is in chaos, precisely because there are 'assassins' who stabbed His Highness." ”
Hearing this, not only the horses, but even the secret guards became agitated, Chu Nian was also panicked, Ming Xiu was fine in the face of the wolves alone, how could he be injured? Besides, the "assassin" was just a cover that the two of them came up with after discussion, could it be that Ming Xiu had met a real assassin?
Someone wants to attack Ming Xiu?
At this time, the dark third frowned and analyzed: "Don't worry, the third lady, maybe it was deliberately pretended by His Highness for our plan." ”
Dark One seemed to have figured it out, nodded and agreed: "Your Highness has other secret guards around you besides the four of us, and they are hidden in the hunting grounds, and besides, my subordinates have never seen anyone who can really beat His Highness, if there are many people, how can they be caught by the Prime Minister's people, and it is impossible for such a big target to escape." ”
Chu Nian frowned slightly, and didn't say much, indeed, in comparison, the secret guards have been with Ming Xiu for so long, they should know Ming Xiu better than her, and if Ming Xiu is injured, the game they have carefully laid out is more realistic.
At this moment, Heiyan gradually settled down and rushed honestly.
Touching Heiyan's soft horsemane, Chu Nian said as if he remembered something: "Heiyan, is it His Highness's horse?" ”
The dark guards glanced at each other, nodded and said, "Heiyan was raised by His Highness himself, because it was inconvenient in the palace, so he was always placed next to the trainer, and the trainer was also our person. ”
This explains why Hei Yan is so obedient under him, but he really deserves to be a Ming Xiu, and the people under him have their own strengths, even the horses are so spiritual.
Chu Nian smiled, touching Heiyan's horsehair more and more fondly, "How many good things are there for Your Highness that you haven't taken out?" ”
Dark San raised his eyebrows, "The third lady doesn't know, before I met you, His Royal Highness has always been a calm and calm person, but after meeting the third lady...... Uh-huh......"
Without waiting for him to continue, Dark Si rode a few steps forward, covered his mouth, and smiled secretly, "You idiot, don't the third lady know anything?" Don't talk too much, be careful to go back to His Highness and cut you. ”
Dark Three slapped the hand of Dark Four, and Dark Four let go of him, rubbed the hand that had touched him in disgust, and then hid away.
Dark San didn't dare to say more, so the atmosphere fell silent again, and several dark guards hurried forward while guarding Chu Nian's side, while carefully observing Chu Nian's complexion, for fear that Dark San would tell him that something was wrong.
But there was only a faint smile on that delicate little face, and there was no emotion.
It was dusk when they came out of the city, and after the horses struggled to hurry, they finally arrived at Qianxi Town, which was twenty miles away from Kyoto, and was a barren town.
I don't know if it was because of his injury, Chu Nian lay on the couch of the inn for a full hour, but he couldn't sleep, just staring at the faint moonlight outside the window.
At this time, a voice sounded suddenly, and Chu Nian suddenly sat up straight, "Third lady, but you miss too much, causing you to be unable to sleep at night?" ”