Chapter 283: Assassination
The low-key and simple carriage walked slowly on the official road, and a pair of more than a dozen guards followed on horseback, surrounding the carriage in a protective posture.
A sound of horses' hooves came from behind the carriage, and Wei Xiao rode a horse to catch up, "Childe, we have already left Linzhou Mansion, if we speed up today, we can rush to the next town to stay." ”
The group of people on the official road were Yun Suiyue, the little prince who had not yet ascended the throne of the dynasty, and General Wei Xiaowei, who escorted him back to Beijing.
As soon as Wei Xiao's words fell, the curtain of the carriage was lifted, and Yun Suiyue in the carriage was holding a book, poking her head out to look at the sky: "It's still early, go slowly, don't be tired of the soldiers." ”
Wei Xiao shrugged indifferently, but also thanked Yun Suiyue for the soldiers.
Yun Suiyue is indeed not in a hurry to return to Beijing, for him, returning to Beijing means that he will never have such a quiet and leisurely day in the future, he will face countless twists and turns every day, and there are those ministers who don't know what to call every day.
Yun Suiyue opened the drawer embedded in the wall of the car and took out a small food box from inside. There are many food boxes in the small drawer, and they are all filled with snacks specially made for him by Hua Qingyan. Yun Suiyue can't say what he likes to eat, but Hua Qingyan has nothing he doesn't like.
Yun Suiyue opened the food box and twisted out a small piece of dim sum and took a bite, the familiar fragrant and glutinous chestnut flavor made Yun Suiyue sigh with emotion. There weren't many snacks in the drawer, and they couldn't last him Yongjing. I don't know when he will be able to eat the dim sum made by the imperial aunt after eating this dim sum. Hey, if only Uncle Huang could marry the imperial aunt into the door earlier, then he could come to the door from time to time to eat.
The slender but still immature hand tapped on the thick book in his hand, and a hint of contemplation flashed across his face.
Uncle Huang asked himself to find out about Hua Yaozong's defection to the enemy, but he still had no clue. Hua Yaozong's case involves a wide range of cases, and if you want to investigate, I am afraid that many people in the court will oppose it. Yun Suiyue lowered his head and smiled self-deprecatingly, he, the emperor who had not yet ascended the throne, was afraid that the difficulties he would face were not just a few stars!
Wei Xiao ran from the back of the carriage to the front of the carriage, then from the front to the back, and then ran around the carriage in circles, looking idle.
Suddenly, Wei Xiao grabbed the reins and stopped, frowning: "Alert!" ”
As soon as Wei Xiao's words fell, the sound of sharp arrows piercing the sky was accompanied by the whistling of sharp arrows. After Wei Xiao's reminder, the already well-trained soldiers immediately drew their weapons to meet the enemy, and at the same time surrounded the carriage to protect Yun Suiyue in it.
Wei Xiao jumped onto the carriage and swung his sword to block the arrows that shot straight at the carriage. Although this arrow came quickly and fiercely, Wei Xiao was still able to block it with ease. Yun Suiyue in the carriage naturally heard the movement, he didn't panic, and reached out to grab the carriage to stabilize his body. He knew the danger outside, so he didn't move, and stayed obediently in the carriage so as not to cause trouble to Wei Xiao and the soldiers.
However, Yun Suiyue still had something to say: "General Wei, is it him?" ”
Wei Xiao took the time to smile: "Maybe, I didn't see anyone, and I didn't dare to confirm it." ”
Hearing this, Yun Suiyue did not relax at all, but felt a little more lost in her heart. In fact, he has already acquiesced in his heart. Yun Suiyue smiled self-deprecatingly again, feeling that it was very hypocritical to seek a peace of mind for herself.
These soldiers were all brought out by Wei Xiao personally, and they were also soldiers under King Rui, although this wave of arrows came suddenly, but with Wei Xiao's reminder, they didn't mess up, so they quickly blocked all the arrows.
Wei Xiao raised his eyes to look at the arrows that had stopped, and smiled but did not jump out of the carriage, and whistled directly.
A long whistle sounded, accompanied by black-clothed people who emerged from the darkness, holding swords and shining with cold light. The group of black-clothed people saw that they were not good, and they went straight to Yun Suiyue in the carriage with a clear goal. The sword in the black-clothed man's hand was extremely sharp, and when it slashed, it was like a bolt of lightning that pierced the night sky.
Looking at this posture, Wei Xiao smiled, and in the next second, he had already jumped up, and the sword in his hand just crossed over, blocking the sharp blade of the man in black stabbing at the carriage: "The appetizers are finished, and now it's finally time to eat, did your master say that you will stay alive today?" ”
The man in black who was fighting with Wei Xiao sneered: "Alive? Oh, don't let any of you leave alive today! ”
"What a big breath! Ha ha! ”
Wei Xiao looked up to the sky and laughed a few times, and the sword in his hand became sharper and sharper. The face of the man in black covered by a black cloth towel could not show his emotions, but his eagle-like eyes were extremely gloomy. After a few times, he had already learned that Wei Xiao was not easy to deal with, and he couldn't take him out for a while.
The man in black had a calm face, thinking about how to find a breakthrough. Yu Guang glanced around, but found that his companions had basically been tripped by their opponents, and they couldn't pull out at all. Seeing this posture, the man in black was surprised. He knew his own strength, and he also knew the strength of his companions, but he didn't expect that he wouldn't be able to solve even a few guards today! Who is this group of people?
Because the opponent's origin is unknown, and the man in black gradually felt the pressure in Wei Xiao's hands, he didn't hurt Wei Xiao, but there were more and more wounds on his body. This Wei Xiao is like a mouse, scratching him from time to time, so that he is injured but not fatal,
He actually had the idea of retreating. But as soon as the thought arose, he was even more surprised.
He is a professional killer, and he has done the job of killing countless times, and every time he succeeds or not, he can't retreat halfway! This is a big no-no for killers! But today's situation is obviously impossible to take!
The man in black gritted his teeth, turned around and pulled out away from Wei Xiao.
This man in black is obviously the leader of this group of killers, as soon as the leader retreats, the other men in black naturally don't want to stay and look for abuse, those soldiers are not Wei Xiao with a playful mentality, in their eyes these are enemies, and the enemy is naturally to be eliminated on the battlefield. That's why the soldiers have a dead hand every time! After a while, quite a few people died.
The rest of the men in black, who had managed to get out, retreated to the leader's side, and the sword in his hand was lying in front of him, not daring to relax at all.
"Chief, seven dead." One of the ways.
"See." The man in black frowned, looked at Wei Xiao, who was idle and stopped the guards from attacking, and said sharply, "Go!" As he spoke, he jumped towards the woods and quickly disappeared into the dense woods, and the other killers looked at each other for a moment and quickly left.
For a while, the atmosphere that was still infinitely murderous calmed down, Yun Suiyue jumped out of the carriage and looked at Wei Xiao, and then at the guards: "Deal with the injured, apply medicine and bandage, and then we will go on the road." ”
Yun Suiyue walked forward, and her footsteps landed beside the corpses left by those killers. Wei Xiao followed behind him and said with a smile: "Childe, let's go back to the carriage, this corpse is so scary!" ”
Yun Suiyue didn't hear Wei Xiao's ridicule, and said straightforwardly: "There is no obvious identification on these corpses, it seems that he is also quite cautious." ”
Wei Xiao kicked the corpse and smiled: "Shots are all killer moves, these are professional killers." At this time, he naturally has to be careful, otherwise he won't be able to kill you and be caught, wouldn't it be worth the loss. ”
Yun Suiyue looked into the woods and said helplessly: "Go and deal with these corpses, let's go on the road." ”
The soldiers were well-trained and very experienced, and dragged the corpse to the woods and dug a pit and buried it. Soon after, the carriage was back on the road in a beautiful way. Neither Yun Suiyue nor Wei Xiao noticed that on the high ground deep in the woods, Yun Suiyue slammed his fist on the trunk of the tree.
"Who are you looking for? Is this a killer? Why didn't you leave without completing the mission? What kind of killer is this! Yun Suiyang's hand was already oozing blood, but he didn't feel the pain, and scolded the strategist beside him with a hideous face, "There is more than enough success and more failure!" Miss this opportunity, I don't know how long I will have to wait for the next time! You useless things, what use do I want from you! ”
There were several people standing behind Yun Suiyang, all like quails at the moment, they were scolded so much that they didn't dare to make a sound, and even shrank their heads and didn't dare to look up at the angry master, for them, Yun Suiyang controlled their life and death, as long as he was not satisfied, they would all die. Although Yun Suiyang was not a violent master, at this moment, Yun Suiyang's emotions and expressions fully told them the danger.
didn't get a response, Yun Suiyang scolded a few words and gradually stopped. He glanced coldly at the direction in which the carriage was leaving, turned to the side and said, "Let's go, we don't have much chance, if we don't kill Yun Suiyue before he enters Beijing, then we will have no chance." ”
The woods are dense and the grass grows knee-high because few people come. Yun Suiyang tied their horses to the other end of the woods, and they had to cross the woods to ride back to the city. Yun Suiyang was bowing his head all the way, and the dew on the grass had soaked the hem of his clothes, he frowned, and his heart was even more irritable.
"Yun Suiyang."
The cold voice sounded, and it was particularly abrupt in this quiet woods. Yun Suiyang was stunned for a moment, he was too familiar with this voice! His heart tightened and he was inexplicably worried.
"Why, you don't dare to see this king?" Yun Shumo laughed lowly, but then his words changed, "Yun Suiyang, do you still have the face to see this king?" ”
Yun Suiyang shuddered, he raised his head tremblingly, and what caught his eye was the person who made him awe from the bottom of his heart.
King Rui's face was as cold as ever, but the eyes that locked him were sharp and cold. At this moment, Yun Suiyang felt that he had been seen through, and all the disguises in those eyes had come to naught.
"Uncle Huang!"
Yun Suiyang was extremely surprised, why did Yun Shumo appear here? As the regent, shouldn't he be sitting in Yongjing, how could he suddenly appear here!
So their plan just now, what they said, wasn't it all known to Yun Shumo!
Yun Shumo looked at Yun Suiyang's fear and surprise with a cold face: "Yun Suiyang, do you remember what this king said to you before leaving Yongjing?" ”