At three o'clock in the morning, Chen Chaocai woke up from his sleep quietly, it was already bright outside, the bright sunlight was shining through the gap in the door curtain, and tiny dust was floating randomly in the tent.

"On the news, it didn't say that Xiangye likes to sleep lazy, it seems that I have been deceived again."

On the chair in the distance, Ning Baizhi was cross-legged and peeling eggs to eat.

There were only a few empty dishes left on the table messily placed on the plates, and the originally hearty breakfast was now only a small half bowl of porridge left over from Ning Baizhi's drinking.

The white and tender egg took a small bite, Ning Baizhi squinted her eyes, touched her slightly bulging lower abdomen, and swayed her legs, looking really good.

"Why don't you come over and serve your own clothes?" Chen Chao was a little angry. Looking at her appearance, she seems to have regarded herself as the master here, although she doesn't care about this, and she doesn't care that Ning Baizhi steals the breakfast that Song Qingwan carefully prepared for herself every day under the guise of a maid.

However, it can't be like this every day, and she doesn't feel guilty.

Sighing helplessly in his heart, Chen Chao lifted the quilt and was about to get up, Ning Baizhi hurriedly said "oh", stuffed the eggs into her mouth in three or two bites, her cheeks were round and round, her little hands wiped her skirt at will, and trotted to her to serve.

But she was clumsy, and her good clothes were torn crookedly by her.

Chen Chao stood in place, heartache from anger.

After wasting a lot of effort and getting dressed, Chen Chao took the towel handed over by Ning Baizhi and wiped his face casually.

"Ask you something."

"Wait a minute." Ning Baizhi trotted to the table, picked up the bowl of rice porridge on the table with both hands, raised her head, snorted and drank a fine drink, and wiped her mouth casually after drinking, "Okay, Xiangye, please ask, I will definitely know everything." ”

It's okay to find yourself angry every day, is this raising a pig? How can you eat so much....

Chen Chao was full of slander in his heart.

"What Benxiang wants to ask is, who are you instructed to come and assassinate Benxiang?"

"Of course, it's the father of the former crown princess, Mrs. Dong."

Ning Baizhi put her hands behind her back and smiled lightly, with a harmless smile on her face.

After hearing this, Chen Chao shook his head silently:

"If you don't want to say it, forget it, the true picture will be found out one day."

"Xiangye, how can you not believe what I say? What I said is true, it is really Master Dong, he brought me into the palace that day, asked me to disguise myself as a little eunuch, and assassinated you. Ning Baizhi twisted her eyebrows and replied solemnly.

Chen Chao rubbed his forehead, he really didn't want to expose this little girl's lies.

At the beginning, Chen Chao also thought that Ning Baizhi was arranged by Taishi Dong to enter the palace to assassinate him.

But later, after Yan Song's investigation.

It was discovered that Ning Baizhi was not Dong Taishi's person at all.

Dong Taishi was a foreign minister, although he was the father of the crown princess at that time, he was extremely noble.

But he couldn't take people directly into the palace and hide them in the palace.

The only people who can bring people into the palace and hide them are those who often enter the palace.

For example, the princes.....

Or, Ning Baizhi was directly arranged by the prince, and did not communicate with Dong Taishi in advance.

After the assassination, the Chen Dynasty has always arranged for someone to secretly investigate the matter.

But the news I got was unexpected.

Ning Baizhi seemed to suddenly appear in the palace.

She's not the Prince's person!

The eyeliner buried in the palace stared at the prince almost every day, and no one saw that the prince and Ning Baizhi had contact.

In other words, that night, in fact, two groups of people who did not know each other happened to assassinate Chen Chao at the same time.

One is the prince Dong and those ministers wearing soft armor, all of whom have been ambushed, and the mastermind behind the scenes is the prince.

The other group is Ning Baizhi, but as for who instructed her, it has not yet been found.

Combining various news: there is an enemy hidden in the shadows that is more difficult to deal with than the crown prince.

"Who else but you would want to assassinate him? Are these people still in Beijing? Chen Chao asked tentatively.

"How do I know? I arrived in the capital from Yunzhou, and during this time in the capital, I was always alone, until I was brought into the palace that day, as for who else wants to assassinate you? Ning Baizhi suddenly shrugged her shoulders and said something rebellious, she said, "Xiangye, you don't seem to have a clear understanding of yourself, there are too many people who want to kill you, and you can line up from the gate of the capital to Yunzhou, and you can't count them." ”

Chen Chao laughed angrily, rubbed his forehead, and slowed down for a long time before returning to normal.

After thinking about it, he still didn't understand, so Chen Chao selectively skipped this topic and didn't ask any more.

Ning Baizhi stood in the big tent, lowered her head, bored playing around her fingers, and looked at Chen Chao's smile with a little more unclear emotion.

It's not that she doesn't want to say it, but she really doesn't know who the person behind the scenes is, and the only person who connects is now estimated to have been thrown into the mass grave to feed the dogs.

"You go out and ask Han Lao to come over." Chen Chao waved his hand to Ning Baizhi.

"Han Lao is not in the camp, it is estimated that he will not be able to come back until noon."

"Huh? Where did Han Lao go? ”

"Xiangye, you forgot, today is the day to blow up the mountain and open the mine. Han Lao took Tianlei to the mine outside the city early in the morning. ”

"There are so many things that I forgot about it." Chen Chao muttered, looked at the sky outside, and on a whim, he took Ning Baizhi out of the big tent, not knowing what to do.

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"A few of you, and you, you, you..... The last one, it's up to you, Monkey Hurry. ”

"Follow this commander and be responsible for guarding the safety of Xiangye's trip."

Hou Ji, who was named by name, was a little surprised, at this moment, he was squatting on a big rock, in front of him were several vegetable baskets, some were freshly picked and cleaned, and some were mixed with soil, and they were frozen and wilted.

As a dead soldier, there are also high and low nobles, he is a C-character dead soldier in the Prime Minister's Mansion.

The C-word dead soldier, although he is also a dead man, but he has no chance, or is not qualified to protect the prime minister, which is a privilege only for the first or second word.

Usually, Hou Ji is responsible for squatting on the fork of the tree at night, keeping a sentry, freezing like a dog, and during the day, he is temporarily asked by the kitchen to help wash vegetables or something.

He felt that this dead man was so boring, and he felt a little unwilling in his heart.

He is obviously strong in martial arts, even some A-character dead soldiers dare not guarantee that they can bargain in his hands, but why can those people participate in important tasks, such as making heavenly thunder, and he sometimes has to be scolded by the cook lady for drinking five or six, splitting his head and covering his face.

It's not fair.

He is a native of Qin, born in an ordinary Orion family, his father was a hundred battles elite soldier of Qin, shooting a good arrow, piercing Yang in a hundred steps, and hitting a hundred shots. He grew up with his father's cat in the mountains, hunting for a living, and in his father's hand-in-hand teaching, he could shoot a copper coin hole from a hundred steps away.

He thought that by relying on his archery skills, he could establish meritorious service in the army and lead his family to a good life, but before he could show his strength on the battlefield, a local nobleman took a fancy to his sister and insulted his sister while his father was hunting in the mountains with him, and the old mother also hanged herself.

The father went to ask for an explanation, but his legs were broken and thrown back, and in a fit of rage, he took his proud bow and arrow, and ambushed the nobleman's son, one arrow hit the nobleman's lifeline, and the second arrow shot the nobleman's eye.

He didn't shoot him directly, he wanted to let the noble kid live in pain forever for the rest of his life.

After that, he was wanted, hunted down, and fled.

Until he fled to the territory of Daji, he was selected by Han Lao and was elected as a dead soldier in the Prime Minister's Mansion.

He always believed that one day, he would take his men and horses back to the territory of Qin to avenge the death of his family!

But several years have passed, and he is still just a C-character dead man, and he doesn't even have a chance to say a word to Xiangye, and revenge is far away.

When he heard Scarface Commander shouting his name, Hou Ji was stunned for a moment.

His hands were still dipped in cold water, and the leaves were floating everywhere.

"Me?"

Hou Ji stretched out his hand and pointed at himself, a little unsure.

"It's you, aren't you usually in a hurry, hurry up and keep up, don't fall behind." Scarface waved his hand, and with a few subordinates who had a good relationship, he took the lead in following behind Xiangye.

“..... Ha ha. Hou Ji suddenly laughed dumbly, licked his lips, and his eyes suddenly lit up, "The opportunity is here, the monkey is in a hurry, the monkey is in a hurry, your chance has come." ”

After speaking, Hou Ji wiped the water droplets on his hands, trotted back to get his pocket crossbow arrows, put them on his bracers, and hurriedly chased them in the direction of the large army.