Chapter 172 Cfv Ch.172 Trap (4)

Her horse paced around uncomfortably as it neighed softly.

Turns out that she was just scared silly! The square-faced guard sneered in disdain, thinking to himself: She’s still way too close to the empress. If they accidentally make noises or sudden movements, it’ll ruin the plan, it’ll be better to knock her out later.

The square-faced guard said calmly, “Don’t worry, Third Lady Qin, everything will be fine.”

He smiled, and then lowered his head to pull on the rein. At that moment, Qin Jiu moved, she abruptly drew the long whip from her waist, and slammed it at him.

This whip was given to her by Gu Zezhi. The tip of the whip was covered with barbs. As it slammed down on him, the barbs on the whip hooked onto his back collar, and created a long opening, red blood started to seep out.

The square-faced guard almost fell off his horse, he then cursed, and furiously grabbed onto her.

Qin Jiu gave him another whip with her backhand, the whip slashed down horizontally like a snake, accompanied with a crisp crackling sound.

However, faster than her whip was a long arrow.

Accompanied by the “swish” sound, a long arrow hit the square-faced guard’s left shoulder like lightning, and he screamed in pain. He was knocked out of balance by the thrust of the arrow and staggered as he fell off the horse.

Emperor: “I won’t falsely accuse you.”

“Jiu,” Empress Wei rode up to Qin Jiu’s side, grabbed her hand, and asked with lingering fear, “Are you okay?”

Empress Wei was worried: It was too chaotic just now, and she thought that Qin Jiu was by her side this whole time.

Qin Jiu shook his head and said with a smile: “Aunt, I’m fine.” I’m not going to be the one to suffer.

“Boom!”

At this moment, the black bear in front of them fell heavily to the ground. Its huge body shook the ground beneath it, which swept the leaves off the ground. The air was filled with a bloody stench, and the night breeze made it even stronger.

“Hey, is the bear dead?” Qin Jui’s gaze returned to the black bear. The poor black bear was already pierced all over with arrows, scimitars and daggers.

Next to the black bear’s corpse, Gu Zezhi had somehow rode on his white horse again. With his long bow in hand, he looked towards Qin Jiu’s direction, and they met each other’s gaze.

He smiled slightly, his smile was both dashing and gentle, and the bowstring in his hand seemed to be trembling slightly.

Empress Wei also looked at Gu Zezhi and smiled, “Jiu, Zezhi was the one who shot that arrow just now.”

The emperor watched Gu Zezhi shoot that arrow at Zheng Feng with his own eyes, and because of this, the emperor did not even hesitate to take Zheng Feng down.

Although the emperor still didn’t know what was going on, Gu Zezhi was not someone who would just act hashly. He for sure had his reasons.