Chapter 111： rain

"Can you stand up?" Bai Qingyang asked with a normal expression, "We can't stay in this place for long, we should go."

Li Zichou was helped up by her: "Well... let's go."

After a while of tossing, the sky was completely dark, and the sound of insects and the rustling of the forest made the deep mountain more quiet and strange.

There seemed to be some dissonant movement, Bai Qingyang listened carefully, extremely vigilant.

"You know where to go..." Before Li Zichou finished asking, Bai Qingyang covered her mouth.

"Don't make a sound." Bai Qingyang said in a breathless voice, her eyes fixed on the dark surroundings, she was trying to adapt to the night vision.

Li Zichou calmed down cooperatively, and also paid attention to the disturbances around him.

Covered by the sound of the wind, some sloppy footsteps were almost approaching, and there seemed to be someone whispering in a low voice.

"Very close."

"Then what to do?"

Bai Qingyang thought for a while, looked at Da Wanma at the side, and had an idea.

//

The killers searched all the way here from the ambush site, just because the superiors issued the death order "to see people when alive, and to see corpses when dead".

After dark, without lighting, it will be more difficult to search only by hearing. There are already many of them, and searching for people in the mountains with torches will definitely alarm the people in the court.

Bai Qingyang took this into consideration, so he decisively abandoned his mount.

The horse's neighing sound suddenly sounded in the forest, and the hooves all the way to the south, startling the resident birds in the mountains.

"there!"

"Hurry up!"

The people who were chasing and intercepting him were attracted away, while Bai Qingyang took Li Zishou to the opposite direction.

"Their target is me, you don't have to escape with me."

Perhaps it was because Li Zichou felt a little guilty for causing Bai Qingyang a lot of trouble.

"..."

"I can do it by myself."

"Don't make me angry again, Li Zichou." Bai Qingyang's voice became colder, and he held Li Zichou's arm even tighter.

"..." Li Zichou was silent for a while, and then said, "Maybe it will be faster if you go back to the monastery to find rescuers."

"It's also possible that you died sooner," Bai Qingyang dismissed bluntly, "and they saw that I rescued you, do you think they will let me go?"

"…sorry."

"Stop talking, you bleed a lot, you need to find a place to bandage it." Bai Qingyang didn't want to talk about this topic any more.

"I bleed a lot and they will follow the blood."

"They've been drawn away."

"They will come back again."

"It was very dark at night, and there was no trace of blood."

"It smells like blood."

"..."

"I'll drag you down..."

"You want to push me away that much?" Bai Qingyang stopped in her tracks.

Li Zichou couldn't see her expression, and his arm was still held by someone. From this distance, it was difficult to speak the truth seriously.

"I do not…"

"I might as well say it again, no matter what happens, I will be by your side." Bai Qingyang reiterated, "You also saved my life, everything must be reported is my life principle, I can't leave you alone. "

Li Zichou didn't know what to say, but Bai Qingyang was determined to clean up his mess.

She had never felt the weight of herself in Bai Qingyang's heart so deeply as now.

To tell the truth, she was happy, really.

Li Zichou's eyes were slightly hot, and she subconsciously raised her right hand to wipe her eyes, but accidentally touched the wound, causing her to gasp in pain.

"Hey!" Bai Qingyang said nervously for a moment, "I just don't want you to go alone. As for hurting yourself like this?"

"I didn't... I accidentally hissed..."

"No, I have to find a safe place quickly and treat the wound."

After Bai Qingyang finished speaking, he was about to continue walking when he suddenly felt water dripping on his face.

Li Zichou was also taken aback, and looked up at the sky, but the leaves were covering him and he couldn't see anything, but the sound of hitting leaves through the forest became louder and louder.

"It's raining…"

//

It was the end of the unitary hour when Yang Dejin returned to the monastery, and a bonfire had already been set up near the tent.

The chef took over the big carp weighing eight catties, and Xie Zhi ordered them to prepare it and send it to Chengguang Palace.

"What's going on? The one surnamed Li hasn't come back yet?" Yang Dejin muttered.

Xie Zhi heard the words and looked, the main tent was not lit, and looked towards the second tent not far away, it was also pitch black.

Bai Qingyang didn't come back either?

Is it possible...

"It's raining in the mountains, probably walking slowly." Xie Zhi could only say this to Yang Dejin.

"Hmm..." Yang Dejin frowned and thought about it, but didn't say anything else.

"Your Highness, thank you servant." The two were walking towards the prince's tent when they heard someone calling them.

Meng Shike was not wearing official uniform, but was wearing a simple dark suit, which was clinging to his body, as if he had just been exposed to rain.

"Oh, little follower."

Meng Shike was choked by Yang Dejin, but he saluted respectfully, and then said: "The next official has something to do with Mr. Xie. Mr. Xie, can you take a step to speak?"

Xie Zhi pursed his lips, feeling something bad in his heart.

Bai Qingyang and the Empress hadn't come back yet, and Meng Shike came looking for him at this time, maybe something happened.

Xie Zhi hesitated for a moment, and said to Yang Dejin: "Your Highness, I'm sorry, you go back to the tent and change your clothes."

Yang Dejin's body is dirty, and there is a big smell of fish, she is going to dislike herself, she can't wait to go back to Chengguang Palace to take a bath, she has to change out the dirty clothes now!

So Yang Dejin didn't have any objections, and left after saying yes.

Only then did Meng Shike take Xie Zhi to find a place with few people to talk to.

Xie Zhi: "What happened?"

Meng Shike said succinctly: "The little lord is missing, and the queen has no news."

"What? Both of them disappeared at the same time?!"

"Hmm..." Meng Shike said this, looked around, and took out something from his arms, "Just now I took a few people into the mountain and found it at the Wolong Pass."

It's a piece of broken porcelain and an arrowhead.

Xie Zhi picked up the broken porcelain and looked at it, the black surface seemed to have been baked by fire.

Xie Zhi didn't have a clue, he picked up the arrowhead and looked at it carefully, it was made of fine iron, not worn much, it was still very brand new.

"This is..." Xie Zhi seemed to remember something.

"There are traces of fighting on the mountain pass, but the scene has been cleaned up. Except for a small amount of blood, we only found these two things." Meng Shike said, "How about it, can you see anything?"

Xie Zhi returned the things to him, did not express his conjecture, but said affirmatively: "Assassination."

Meng Shike naturally also guessed this possibility, but he was not sure: "But haven't you been with Prince Yu all the time?"

"Yeah..." Xie Zhi pondered, "I kept looking at Yang Dejin, but she didn't make any moves."

"real?"

"I don't hide anything about this kind of thing."

After hearing this, Meng Shike was troubled: "Then...is there someone else who organized the assassination?"

"It's hard to say, is Bai Qingyang's mission for you to find the Shuobei people hiding in the paddock?"

"Yes." Meng Shike nodded, "But Shanglin Garden is too big, we don't have enough manpower, so we can't find it at all. And..."

Meng Shike paused, and then continued: "Do you really think there are prairie people in the paddock?"

"have."

Meng Shike hesitated to speak, not knowing why she was so sure.

Xie Zhi: "What are your people doing now?"

Meng Shike: "Of course I'm looking for the emperor and empress. What if something happens to them?"

But Xie Zhi said: "To be able to clean up the assassination scene so quickly, I'm afraid there are quite a few of them. If they are determined to hunt down and kill the Queen, you will not be able to do much."

"Then what to do?"

"Go to Zhou Huaijin, he can dispatch several times as many troops as you. Don't say anything about the disappearance of the empress, he knows what to do."

Meng Shike: "I see, what about your side?"

Xie Zhi: "Assassins sneaked into the paddock. The Ministry of War, the City Defense Battalion, and the Superintendent of Shanglin Garden are all involved. I have to find someone to discuss it."

Meng Shike: "Okay, let's split up."

"Ok."

//

Xie and Meng were discussing countermeasures in this room, and Yang Dejin was not idle in that room.

It had been dark for a while, and Li Zishou hadn't come back yet, she was really afraid of something unexpected, so after some consideration, she called Yinniang.

"Your Highness, please give me instructions." Yinniang was dressed in nighttime attire and carried a long sword on her back.

Yang Dejin: "Go and gather the government soldiers and let them stand by near Shanglin Garden."

"All of them?"

"all."

She is in Shanglinyuan, if there are not enough people to control her, she will be very passive.

"Here's the order, let's go."

Yinniang took the prince's order and immediately went to do it.

After she left, Yang Dejin began to change clothes slowly, thinking about things while changing.

"Who?!" Yang Dejin suddenly said.

In the closed big tent, she was the only one. The servants and hidden guards were ordered not to approach here, but she always felt that she was being watched by someone.

Yang Dejin picked up the individual crossbow that was placed aside, and with a "click", the barb hung up automatically.

There is only a layer of felt cloth separating the inside of the tent from the outside, and there seems to be only the sound of wind blowing outside.

I don't know what kind of shadow flashed by, Yang Dejin was startled, and accidentally pulled the sensitive wooden trigger. With a sound of "咻", the short arrow pierced the felt cloth and disappeared.

The next moment, someone suddenly lifted the felt curtain, and Yang Dejin immediately pointed a crossbow arrow at the person coming.

Xie Zhi came over, saw Yang Dejin's crossbow pointing at him for the first time, subconsciously raised his hand to block in front of him: "Wait, it's me!"

Yang Dejin blinked, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief: "...It was you just now?"

Xie Zhi lowered his arms, only to realize that Yang Dejin's crossbow had no arrow point: "That's right, when I came here, I heard strange noises from the prince's tent, and thought something happened to you."

"Oh..." Yang Dejin rubbed her temples and put away the crossbow, "I always feel like someone is staring at me, and I thought someone was hiding outside."

It's probably an illusion. I've been thinking too much recently, and I'm a little nervous.

Xie Zhi: "Don't worry, it's just raining outside."

Yang Dejin: "Really..."

"Go back to Chengguang Palace later, you are tired too."

"Yeah." Yang Dejin nodded, then pointed to the felt that she had shot through and said, "I accidentally made it just now."

Xie Zhi looked at it: "I'll go and pick up the crossbow bolts for you, and just find someone to repair the felt."

"Row."

The author has something to say:

Bai Qingyang: What should I do if the person I like always wants to push me away?

Yang Dejin: Since you can't keep her heart, then keep her people.

Li Zichou: What are you teaching her? ! (lift neckline)