Volume 1 Chapter 33 Assassination

After Wei Yu finished explaining the matter, he saw that he had nothing to do, so he put on the carriage and prepared to go home.

As soon as I stepped out of the gate of the princess's mansion, I saw that the pedestrians on the road were in a hurry, all rushing in one direction, as if there was something important.

Wei Yu turned his head in confusion and asked the two round-faced palace people who accompanied him: "What are these people going to do?" ”

The palace man bowed down and said with a smile: "Back to Your Highness, today is the water and land puja of the White Horse Temple, it is said that the abbot of Yuankong is returning from a tour and wants to ascend to the throne in the hall, and these people are going to see Master Yuankong." ”

Yuankong monk?

When Wei Yu heard this name, he was slightly stunned.

The gray-brown Buddha beads were still wrapped around her snow-white wrists, one black and one white, highlighting a serene Zen, mysterious and simple.

She had just been reborn when she accidentally violated the taboo, it was thanks to this person who rescued her, and left her this string of soul-calming Buddha beads and a golden body of Jizo Bodhisattva, he seemed to know a lot about her reincarnation, but it was a pity that this person Shenlong saw the head and did not see the end, and when Wei Yu wanted to be clear, he had already left Beijing to go to Yunyou.

Monk Yuankong's whereabouts are uncertain, he missed this time, and he doesn't know when he will have to wait for the next time.

Wei Yu looked up at the sky, and saw that it was too early, so he changed his mind, "Forget it, don't go back to the palace first, go to the White Horse Temple." ”

The White Horse Temple is located on the outskirts of the city, built on the mountainside, and it takes more than two hours to go back and forth.

Xiaoxiao had some scruples, but when she saw Qiu Ling and Ren Xuan, who came out with Wei Yu, she calmed down again and responded with a "yes".

The carriage was rolling and going, and Wei Yu leaned back on the car, closing his eyes and recuperating, thinking about the current situation.

Now that she has the Qilin Guard in her hand, she is no longer the commander of the light pole.

She has Xiang Siyuan to deal with the affairs of the court, and she can also indirectly borrow the power of Mengfu and Jinyiwei, and there is her Qilin Wei outside the court, although there are not many people in two hundred, but many things can be done in a place like the capital.

Now Jiang Pei and Concubine Shu have been removed, but it is too early to say that Jiang Song will be brought down in the next step, after all, it is an official of the two dynasties and has been deeply favored by the emperor.

But she is only a princess, unless Jiang Song commits a big crime, and she still wants unforgivable capital crimes such as collaborating with the enemy and treason, raising private soldiers, and attempting to rebel, and can be caught with real evidence, otherwise it is tantamount to a fantasy for her to deal with Jiang Song alone.

Her suspicions were not groundless, and the most obvious clue was that he was greedy for a huge amount of money.

In fact, after Gu Jiaqing raided Jiang's mansion in his previous life, many people had already raised objections, indeed with Jiang Song's powerful position, money had little help for him, what did he need so much money for?

Put it in the treasury to hit the emperor's eyes? Or is it to provide a lever for political opponents?

The most important thing is that although it is difficult for the vassal kings of the court to become a climate under Emperor Cheng, King Huai is not only weak but also sickly, and it is not the turn of the rebellion to support him, why did Jiang Song just pick him? What's the intention?

If it doesn't make sense to say that he wants to support the new lord, but if he wants to simply seek to usurp the throne and become the emperor himself, then everything makes sense.

Collecting money is to prepare for raising soldiers to rebel; Supporting King Huai is to pave the way for his later actions.

It's a pity that in his previous life, he may not have expected that a Gu Jiaqing would be inserted in the middle, sinister and cunning, with heavy troops in his hands, and he was more trusted by King Huai than him, so he was forced to fold in Gu Jiaqing's hands.

As for collaborating with the enemy and treason...... Wei Yu is only guessing now, what the truth is, it depends on how he reacts when the next sixteen troops are dispatched.

It's just that Wei Yu still has no clue how to obtain the evidence of these crimes, although she has a direction, and the secret guard has already reached her hands, but she can't get her hands free for a while.

I don't know how long it took, the carriage gradually became bumpy, the air brought the fragrance of flowers and plants, and the hustle and bustle of the city was replaced by crisp birdsong, Wei Yu guessed whether he was out of the city, and lifted the curtain to take a look.

Sure enough, everywhere you can see is a refreshing green, the carriage wheels past a peach grove, the fragrance comes to the face, the crimson flowers are like a piece of clouds, and the green grass under the forest is knee-high, swaying gently with the scattered fallen flowers.

The flowers are gradually charming to the eye, and the asakusa can have no horseshoe, which is like a fairyland.

However, in such an intoxicating beauty, Wei Yu was terrified.

This is not the direction to Hakuba-ji Temple.

Only then did she realize that the surroundings seemed to be a little too quiet, and the guards who were following outside the car had stopped making a sound for some time, and Qiu Ling and Ren Xuan were gone.

"Park!!" She shouted.

The carriage slowly stopped before it walked to the peach forest.

However, it was too late, and the sheep intestine path winded up and extended to the forest, like a snake's tail across the grass, and there was no trace of the road.

Outside the carriage, the coachman pressed down the brim of his hat to hide the cold light in his eyes.

Wei Yu's heart jumped, and he suddenly felt bad, and his eyes quickly searched for the objects in the car, but unfortunately he didn't see anything that could be used as self-defense.

She quickly took off a sharp golden tired phoenix hairpin at the back of her head and hid it in her sleeve, glanced at the dawn, and approached the car door lightly.

Dawn also understood, gritted his teeth, Wei Yu silently counted one, two, three in his heart, and the two of them used all their strength at the same time to kick the car door hard.

The coachman didn't expect that the two delicate and weak women had such great strength, and they didn't notice it for a while, but they were attached to the force and the car door opened, Wei Yu pinched the hairpin in his hand, looked at his fragile neck, and stabbed it hard.

Blood gushed out, staining her bright pretty face red, her eyes were cold, and she poked her hairpin two inches hard.

The coachman covered the wound and struggled hard, although Wei Yu said that he had learned to ride and shoot with fists and feet, but after all, he was not proficient, and he did not withstand the huge force and fell backwards, fortunately, the hairpin was pierced deep enough, and the coachman slipped down from the rut, convulsed twice, and stopped moving.

Blood flowed through most of the carriage, and Wei Yu hurriedly pulled up the dawn, which was already pale with fright, and jumped out of the car.

At this time, the sound of gold and iron colliding came for a long time, and Qiu Ling and Ren Xuan rushed out of the peach forest quickly and slowly, the long knife in their hands and the clothes on their bodies were full of blood.

"Ten thousand subordinates are dead, and they have fallen into the assassin's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, please atone for your sins!" The two said in unison.

Wei Yu asked with a calm face, "How many people are there?" Do you know who it is? Can you deal with it? ”

The Queen Mother's secret guard may not be able to block one hundred, but it is not a big problem to be able to dominate one as ten.

Ren Xuan's beautiful face was a little bloodstained, and he didn't care about surprise and etiquette, and said quickly in a slightly sharp voice: "There are about 100 people, and I can't see which side of the people, but all of them are good hands, and the two minions can escape, and they can't be beaten if they really fight." ”

As he spoke, he waved his knife to split the rope of the horse in front of the carriage, held the reins of the horse with one hand, and handed it to Wei Yu, his eyes looked at the black shadow faintly moving in the forest, and said urgently: "Your Highness and the dawn girl will go first, and the two of us will break off!" ”

Wei Yu knew that any further delay would get in the way, so he stopped talking nonsense, took the reins and turned over on his horse, and said quickly: "Save your life, and look for me on Tongque Street in front of the city gate after the matter is completed!" ”

The two of them worked together to push the weak-legged dawn onto the horse, and nodded in unison: "Yes!" ”

Dawn covered her mouth and tried her best to overcome the fear in her heart, after all, she was a woman in the deep palace of her old residence, she had never seen such a real fight, and it was not easy to hold on until now.

Wei Yu asked her to sit down tightly, flicked her horsewhip, and galloped away in the opposite direction.

The early spring wind galloped across her cheeks, and the branches and vines in the field were slanted, and the fast horse accidentally hung her sideburns, pulling out two strands of green silk.

Wei Yu "hissed" in pain, felt in the way, and said loudly: "Dawn, take everything from my head!" ”

"Yes...... Be! Dawn eased up a little this time, and quickly removed the beaded flowers from her head, and tied the rest of her hair into a bunch.

The spring breeze was slightly cold, with a slight morning after the rain, Wei Yu smelled the fragrance of plants, trees and flowers, and ran forward desperately, thanks to her previous preferences for traveling around, knowing roughly which direction to go.

For a moment, she even thought that she was back in Gu Jiaqing's cat-and-mouse game, and behind her was not an assassin who didn't know where he came from, but the omnipresent Yongjun.

Hurry up! Hurry up!!

She flicked her whip again, but the horses under her were trained by the Imperial Horse Warden, and they cared more about meekness and stability than speed, and no matter how much they pushed, the speed was the same.

She galloped to a spot, grabbed the reins sharply, quickly turned the horse's head, and sped away in a different direction.

Not far away, in the forest, another group of black-clad masked assassins heard the sound, turned around in unison, and quickly chased after the two with knives.

As Ren Crepe said, this group of people is really good, they have some kung fu under their feet, and they can run faster than ordinary people.

Wei Yu felt a burst of anxiety in his heart, and with another whip, the horse under him struggled to take a few steps forward, and then slowed down again.

Wei Yu scolded secretly.

Damn, how many people are in ambush around here!

Who the hell wants to kill her, you have to be so thoughtful!

Behind him, there was a small and forbearant cry of dawn, "Your Highness...... Put the slave and maid down, Your Highness is faster. ”

Wei Yu's anger jumped up and scolded: "What nonsense! ”

She remembered the scene when she saw Dawn's corpse in the Qianyuan Hall in her previous life, four arrows passed through her chest, blood flowed everywhere, and those water-like eyes stared at her deadly, and there seemed to be concern in her eyes.

Those four arrows should have passed through her chest, she owed her a life, but she never had a chance to pay it back in her life, she died for her, there were many people who died for her, but she couldn't do anything, she couldn't do anything......

But this life is different......

She's not going to let that happen again! She won't let anyone else die for her again!

Even if she risked her life, she would not let the people she cherished suffer any more damage!

She grabbed the reins and stepped over a crowd of low bushes, her sideburns blown to pieces, mixed with the dried blood spots on her face, "If you have time to say this, let's see if they catch up!" ”

……

If the people behind him were close or far away, Wei Yu ran all the way to the official road.

Now they have only one way to live, which is to take the official road to run in the direction of the White Horse Temple, and the more lively the place, the safer.

There were many pedestrians on the official road, and since this group of people deliberately brought her to a place as deep as the forest, they must not want to alarm others, and they must have some scruples in front of everyone.

And she remembered that there was a government office on the road near Beijing, and today was the White Horse Temple Festival, and the believers were like clouds, and the government would inevitably send troops to maintain order.

It's almost there.

With her memory, she ran her horse up a path, with a gentle slope on one side and a steep cliff on the other, and she was overjoyed, which was a famous dangerous road next to the White Horse Temple.

The official road is not far away!

She only focused on the road in front of her, but flawlessly noticed that in the forest more than a hundred paces away behind her, someone raised a longbow and bent the bow to shoot all over.

The "Zheng" arrow broke through the air——

"Your Highness!!"

When Wei Yu fell off the cliff, he heard the frightened cry of dawn.