Chapter 1: The Assassins
"Someone! There are assassins! ”
An exclamation woke up the sleeping Su Xiangfu and the others, followed by a clamor of swords coming from each other, thinking that the guards in the Xiangfu heard the call in the courtyard and responded quickly, and had already begun to confront the assassin head-on.
On this quiet night, the moon was obscured by dark clouds, as if it was foreseen that it would be an unquiet night.
"Baiji." There was a soft call from the boudoir of the eldest lady in the inner courtyard of the Prime Minister's Mansion, thinking that the eldest lady Su Peiyi was also awakened by the noise coming from the front yard, so she called Bai Qi, one of the four major maids around her, to come over and ask: "You go to see if your father is okay, if the assassin has not been caught, you have to be careful." ”
"Yes, miss." Bai Qi took the order and left.
Su Peiyi, the eldest lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion, is the only child of Su Xiang. According to legend, Su Xiang and his wife were deeply in love, and there was no concubine, such as a lady or a concubine in the prime minister's mansion, but Mrs. Su was weak and died early after giving birth to a daughter of Su Peiyi. makes this eldest lady more precious in Su Xiang's heart, and she has always held it in the palm of her hand as a baby-like parenting.
The four maidens around the eldest lady are specially selected among the children of the house with good appearance and good character from an early age, because the eldest lady loves flowers, so she is given the name of Baiji, tansy, green and cloves. This Bai Qi is valued by the eldest lady because of her calm personality and reliable work, and she is basically handed over to deal with any major things.
Bai Qi had just come out of the lady's boudoir, and met Bao Lu, who was on duty today, and had no choice but to explain quickly, so Bao Lu went to the second gate to call some nurses to pay attention to the safety of the young lady, and then hurried to the main room where Su Xiang was.
Although it is necessary to wait outside the young lady's boudoir all night without sleep, Su Peiyi has always been generous and usually lets them rest on the couch outside. Baolu, who was woken up, was still in a fog Baolu listened to the eldest sister's instructions, and walked outside the courtyard without reporting to the young lady in a daze.
Frightened, Bao Lu struggled desperately, but the movement of her small body was extremely futile under the strong strength of the man, and she was soon dragged behind the rockery shaded by green trees, and she couldn't make a sound.
Seeing that a dagger of cold light Ling Ling was about to stab at Baolu's heart, a group of guards holding fires and big knives arrived in a loud voice, and the head of the guard, Su Limen, quickly ordered the guards to scatter around to find the whereabouts of the assassin, and they were about to look for this side when they saw the situation. The assassin saw that if the killer was too late to escape, he shook his hand and threw Bao Lu to the ground and was about to flee to the backyard.
Hearing the sound, the fire scout from the government soldiers who rushed over hurriedly was imprinted on the body of Bao Lu who fell to the ground, and he stared at the assassin with wide eyes with a frightened face for the rest of his life, and the mask that was originally hanging on the face of the assassin who was about to flee had already fallen off in the previous fight, and he looked back at Bao Lu's face at this moment with a look of surprise, and he never thought that he would meet again at such a moment in such a situation.
However, the situation was urgent, and there was no time to make a statement, so the Assassin turned over and hid on the rockery, handing over his fortune and life to the man he had wanted to kill with a single sword. If Bao Lu called out to the guards to search the rockery or move his finger to point out the Assassin's hiding place, then his life would be accounted for here.
But for some reason, the sluggish Bao Lu seemed to be too frightened to move, so he didn't do anything, and got up with the help of Su Liemon and only saluted and went back to the young lady's backyard.
The frightened Bao Lu hurriedly returned to the side room where the maids were resting, and his mind was full of trouble, and the most profound thing was the assassin's face, which was clearly Hu Yidao! But how could he become an assassin and come to Su Xiang's mansion, is he going to assassinate Su Xiang...... Immersed in a mess of unclear thoughts, Bao Lu took out the fire fold from his arms and was about to light the fire candle, when suddenly a figure flashed in from the window, and Bao Lu looked at the person under the faint moonlight - damn egg! Isn't this exactly Hu Yidao, who has escaped before? Why did you follow her and hide here?
"What are you doing here?" Baolu, whose mouth is faster than his heart, blurted out.
"Help me hide, little sister, save me again!" Hu Yi's eyes were pleading, and his right hand pressed his left arm, as if he had not benefited from this assassination, although he was wearing a black night suit, but from the clothes that had become deeper by the blood, the injuries were not easy.
Bao Lu looked at the person in front of him, he seemed to have changed back to the helpless child he used to know him again, his heart suddenly softened, and he lowered his voice and replied: "How can I help you hide?" This is the room where the maids rest, and Sister Bai Qi will come over in a while. "I finally remembered Hu Yidao in the past, and I didn't call the guards in the house to catch him, but I couldn't find any hiding place for him, I just thought about sending him away, and whether he lived or died depended on his own creation.
"I can't leave, the three brothers who came are dead. Now there are soldiers in the Prime Minister's Mansion, all of them are searching for the remnants, I am seriously injured, I no longer have the strength to hold a knife, and there is only one way to die when I meet someone. Hu Yidao looked at Baolu without the idea of reaching out to help, and his expression couldn't help but bring sadness, "Little sister, I just ask you to help me bring a message to my little brother, so that he can live well." After speaking, he turned around and wanted to open the door and go out to take the blame and wait for death.
"Wait!" Bao Lu is not a hard-hearted person after all, and he can't watch him die, so he got up and rummaged in the cage, and after a while, he found a men's dress worn by a small servant, which was still left here by the subordinates who used to serve the young lady, and hurriedly took it to Hu Yidao and asked him to put it on. "Put this on, and I'll sneak you out through the side door."
After a while, Bao Lu took him to the side door, and on the way, he also met several columns of patrolling guards, but they all knew Bao Lu's identity as a young lady and a big girl, and they didn't ask much, and Bao Lu made an excuse to avoid it.
Opening the side door, Hu Yidao looked at Baolu, as if he had a lot to say, but after all, he didn't say anything when time was pressing, so he turned around and ran into the darkness.
Bao Lu, who secretly closed the side door, was in no mood to stand in the dark and look at Hu Yidao's back, and secretly thought in his heart: My mother is a good person this time, and I don't know if God can make a note in my merit book, and in the next life, I will be reincarnated as a good family like my own Miss Su Peiyi.....
Secretly poked and poked to praise his behavior of "helping others", Bao Lu hid from the people in the house and finally touched the door of the backyard, but inevitably ran into Su Men Lie, who reported back to the young lady.
"Where did Sister Baolu come from?"
In fact, Su Menglie asked kindly, and the weak-hearted Bao Lu blinked and could only lie again: "Just now, Sister Bai Qi told me to go to the outer courtyard to find you and arrange a few nursing homes to come over to protect the young lady, who knew that you ran over by yourself, causing me to run in vain." ”
"Sister, don't blame, I forgot to confess negligently," Su Menlie hugged his fists, "Go back to the courtyard quickly, there is still an assassin who has not been caught, don't run away in the outer courtyard." ”
"Got it." Bao Lu nodded solemnly, saluted and turned back into the backyard, but his mouth was quietly muttering - he definitely didn't catch it, didn't he just let me go?