Yeyang City

The storyteller asked the shopkeeper to borrow a pen and paper, wrote a string of addresses, and handed it to Zhu Luoyun, "What is written on this is the woman's current residence, and the location may be a little remote." Mr. Storyteller couldn't help but glance at Zhu Luoyun more, and doubted in his heart that such a fine-skinned and tender-fleshed boy didn't know if he could get used to the bumpy mountain road.

Zhu Luoyun took the piece of paper with the address written on it, folded it carefully, and pinched it in his sleeve, looking a little hesitant and cramped. “...... Thanks a lot. ”

When did he say a lot of thanks to people when he was in the imperial city, but now that he was not the crown prince, he was a little embarrassed to say these ceremonial things. When the guards saw the prince in such an embarrassed state, they only smiled slightly. The storyteller did not say anything more to the prince, packed up his things and left the teahouse. The prince watched his back disappear before turning his head and handing the paper in his hand to the guard.

The guard just opened it and glanced at it, and there was a look of embarrassment on his face, "Your Highness, you ......"

Zhu Luoyun glanced over, and he immediately changed his words, "Childe, do you really want to visit that place in person?" In my opinion, you should go home first...... You've been out for hours, if anyone finds out. ”

The guards didn't finish the rest of the words, and Zhu Luoyun also understood what he meant, originally he ran out secretly, and his father and the guards didn't know about it, so he only brought a squire who usually took him with him. If you let your father know that he ran out so impulsively and willfully, not to mention that he would inevitably be blamed, I am afraid that he will also affect the group of guards.

"I won't let people find out! Go back now, next time I can find a chance to come out, and I don't know when, I will choose my relatives soon, and I have to come out to see it in person. Zhu Luoyun's eyes flashed with the brilliance of listening to the storyteller's story, "Let's hurry up and get on the road now?" He just said that the people in Yeyang City, it would be good if I could sneak back to the palace before I went to ask my mother for peace tomorrow morning. ”

The guard still wanted to open his mouth to say something, but seeing that Zhu Luoyun didn't have the heart to listen to his words at all, he could only sigh helplessly. After all, the identity is there, although he knows that Zhu Luoyun is not acting well like this, he is just a guard who is ordered, and he can't disobey the prince's decision at all.

Zhu Luoyun had already walked out of the teahouse first, and the guards paid the money and followed closely out. The ugly hour was just over, the sun was hanging overhead, the clouds that were blocked by it had all dissipated, the pedestrians on the street were sparse a lot, sporadically passing by the street corners, and the guards looked around vigilantly, only the groom who was still eating, drinking, and laughing in the teahouse, and did not see any suspicious characters, so he was a little relieved.

"Woman" is located in a small town at the corner of Yeyang City, bypassing the bustling area, there is a long section of rugged dirt road bumps, and then climb up the mountain, Mr. Storyteller drew a simple picture on the paper, although he still doesn't fully understand, but since the woman is so famous, presumably ask people along the road, you should be able to know a rough idea.

He had never done anything like this at such an age, and the young prince couldn't hold back his excitement at the thought that he could have contact with the "rivers and lakes".

The two of them walked a distance one after the other, and the street seemed to have no end, and the prince glanced at the drawings, "Where are we going?"

The guard glanced around at the surrounding buildings, shook his head, and clicked a little on the drawing, it seemed that it was very close to the departure position, Zhu Luoyun obviously showed a little disappointed, if it goes on like this, it will be difficult to cross the dirt road tomorrow and reach the door of the woman.

Thinking like this, Zhu Luoyun's pace also became a little heavy and sluggish. The entourage was thinking about how to persuade the prince to return to the palace now, lest the sky be dark and cause trouble.

Before he thought of a good way, he heard Zhu Luoyun say, "We still have some money in our hands, so it is better to buy two good horses and walk on foot like this, I don't know when we will see that woman." The prince suddenly smiled and turned to the guards, "There is a market around here, and there should be merchants selling horses. ”

The guard was stunned, he didn't expect the prince to think of this, so he could only nod his head stiffly, it seemed that he didn't want to give up if he didn't see the woman.

The location of the market was not far away, and in less than half an hour, the two of them found a stall selling horses, which happened to be red and brown, and the hair was oily and slippery. The guard's eyes lit up, he was familiar with this, and just by looking at the appearance, he knew that the two horses should have good foot strength.

negotiated the price with the stall owner, the guard paid the bill very happily, and most of the broken silver brought out by the two went to the prince, although the prince did not know martial arts, but the art of horseback archery was still learned since childhood, and he turned over the horse very skillfully, "Let's go." ”

The guard hesitated slightly, and then followed the other horse, thinking that if the saint was to blame, he would also take the initiative to take some responsibility and share some of the blame for the prince.

The horse suddenly roared in fright, and shook violently, and the prince was frightened, his eyes widened, and he tightened the reins to calm it, but the horse became more and more disobedient, and jumped and ran on the road, and one twisted and fell heavily to the ground, and the prince was thrown aside, covered in dust, but fortunately he did not fall anywhere, but watched in horror as the horse rushed away like madness.

"Your Highness!"

The guard also forgot to change his words in a hurry, and called out in a lost voice, immediately stopped the horse, turned over and came down to check on the prince, "How are you?"

Zhu Luoyun waved his hand, there was a faint pain in the place where he was fallen......, a trace of cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and he wondered in his heart, the horse would not be so frightened for no reason, and quickly calmed down, "What happened just now?

Before the words landed, the guard's horses suddenly screamed, and went crazy like Fang Cai, rushing straight at the two of them!

"Your Highness, be careful!"

The guard's face changed drastically, and he didn't care about understanding, so he quickly grabbed Zhu Luoyun and dragged him to the side, only to avoid the crazy horse, which pounced into the air, and its front hooves suddenly folded, and it fell to the ground with a bang, scattering a burst of yellow dust. The guards suddenly tensed their nerves, and a little chill ran down their spines: the symptoms of the horse's fright were obviously not caused by themselves, but by someone deliberately......

It seems that someone has been eyeing them for a long time. The man was observing the movement somewhere. Cold sweat broke out from his forehead, the prince really only took him with him today, and he had no power to protect himself in front of the enemy. The crown prince also seemed to have recovered from the fear just now, and his face was grim.

"Wait here for a moment, I'll check what the cause of the horse's sudden madness, and if there's any movement around it, you can call me directly." The guard observed the surroundings for a while, but did not move, and decided to go a few dozen paces away to see the horses that had fallen to the ground, twitching and roaring.

Zhu Luoyun nodded, watched the guards gallop towards the horses, and came back with a calm face after a while.

"Look, Prince. ”

The guard spread out his palm, and it was a silver dart with a little blood on it.

"When we examined the horses, we found blood stained on their hair, and found that the silver dart had somehow been embedded in its flesh, and that it was probably someone who had followed us on the road and cast it on the horse. ”

Zhu Luoyun's face changed when he thought about it, in order not to attract attention, he only brought his entourage, and originally thought that he would go back in a few hours, and there should be nothing wrong, but he didn't expect it......

"Don't hide! come out!" the guard shouted loudly to the surroundings, leaving only the rustle of dust and leaves rubbing against the wind, and no one answered.

The guard frowned, this silver dart would never run into the flesh of the horse for no reason, if it weren't for someone deliberately disadvantageous to the prince......

In the grass not far away, two people dressed in green were silent, looking at the two people on guard on the dirt road, and talked in a low voice.

"I also heard the guard call His Highness, it should be the crown prince. ”

The other person just nodded, his face was solemn, and he didn't react, "Wait a minute, I have already reported to the palace master, and the palace master ordered me to mobilize some dead soldiers, and I must take down the crown prince." Even though there was only one guard at the moment, I always felt that it wouldn't be so simple—maybe the guards were still watching the move in the dark. ”

Thinking of the possibility of the praying mantis catching cicadas and yellow finches behind, the person who spoke first also shrunk his neck and was silent, anyway, it was the dead man who would do it for a while, not the two of them.

"The silver dart was just a test just now, and no secret guards came out, so did you really bring only one person?" muttered the man in green, who was obviously more able to make up his mind, and bit his lip as if he had finally made up his mind, "Call someone out to try first." ”

Behind the grass and trees on all sides, there have long been more than a dozen scattered dead soldiers, although the number is not large, but the dead soldiers are all elites who have been cultivated and eliminated layer by layer, if the prince only brought a guard that he saw, no matter how strong the guards were, it could not compare to the siege of these dozen dead soldiers, and the prince was not obediently captured?

Seeing that no one around answered, the guards had just lowered their frowning brows, and a salute flower suddenly rose in the grass, like a signal, and suddenly the grass around them rang out, and more than a dozen figures dressed in green appeared in an instant, rushing towards the prince and the guards.

"Who are you?"

The guards were taken aback, and a dozen of them ...... I don't know the strength of the other party, and I have it on both sides, so I can't protect the prince at all, "Your Highness, follow closely behind me!"

Zhu Luoyun nodded hurriedly, and the sudden surprise made him speechless, but he looked at the current situation with trepidation, and the guards rushed up to fight with one of them, and his expression changed suddenly.

The strength of the other party is not much worse than his own! Not to mention that the other party still doesn't know how many people are hiding in the shadows, is it really ...... today Can't keep the prince safe?

The green-clothed man on the other side also quickly grabbed Zhu Luoyun, and the guards turned around to resist, and the sonorous sound of weapons colliding was endless, and finally he showed his flaws, and was slashed on the shoulder, and the blood flowed like a torrent.