step by step

Chapter 296
As soon as the words fell, several footsteps came from far to near, and several black-clothed guards had come to Lu Wenyuan's side, and respectfully shouted, "My lord."

Ye Zhaoyan squinted his eyes. These people should not be ordinary guards, but well-trained secret guards.

Her heart trembled, could it be that he came for her?
Among them, the leading guard clasped his fists and whispered a few words in his ear, and Ye Zhaoyan vaguely heard the words "I'm urging".

"Let's go." Lu Wenyuan nodded, then turned to look at Ye Zhaoyan's arm, "Miss Ye is injured, why don't you go on the same road with us, so we can take care of you."

Ye Zhaoyan wanted to refuse at first, but when she looked up, she realized that several guards in black had fixed their gazes on her, with their hands resting on the swords beside them, ready to go.

From the looks of it, we have to go on the same road or different roads.

Ye Zhaoyan simply nodded in agreement, and followed the crowd to the other side of the hunting ground. When they passed a small lake, they saw Kunyu and her maid.

The group seemed to have been waiting here for a long time.

Many doubts in Ye Zhaoyan's heart became clear at once, and he greeted the ceremony appropriately, "His Royal Highness."

Kunyu saw that her arm was stained with a lot of blood, and asked someone to come forward to check, "What's wrong with Ms. Ye?"

Ye Zhaoyan shook his head, "It was just stabbed by a branch, nothing serious."

A maid took out a veil and clean water to wipe her wound, Ye Zhaoyan quickly took it, and looked carefully, the veil was as clean as new, and the place where her hands touched was also smooth.

She wiped the blood spilled from the edge a few times, being careful not to let the veil touch the wound.

"Princess." The servant girl was a little embarrassed.

Kunyu stared at the oozing cloth covering the wound, "What are you doing?"

"The wound has not been treated with medicine, so it cannot touch water." She replied briefly.

Kun Yu frowned, "The water here is very clean."

Ye Zhaoyan smiled faintly, "I believe the spring water here is clean, but the wound is prone to ulceration without medicine. I'm just trying to ensure that the wound does not become inflamed."

Kunyu stared at her deeply for a moment, and finally waved her hand: "Since Miss Ye's injury cannot be delayed, let's go back by water. There is a boat here that can take a shortcut, and the forest path is safe, and there is no need to be bumped by horses."

waterway?Ye Zhaoyan looked towards the lake, and he saw a boat floating quietly by the lake. The boat was not big and could only accommodate about ten people.

Everything seemed normal, but Ye Zhaoyan was keenly aware of the abnormality. She didn't board the boat immediately and asked instead: "Princess, are you sure this waterway can lead to the hunting ground?"

"This waterway goes directly from the western suburbs to the outskirts of Jindu, and it only takes an hour to reach the entrance of the hunting ground halfway," Kunyu explained patiently, "Could it be that Ms. Ye is unwilling to go with me?"

It was actually a colleague, Ye Zhaoyan pondered for a moment, then nodded, "Okay, please trouble the princess to lead the way."

A group of people left the shore, and the lake gradually became silent.

The boat sailed smoothly through the center of the lake, bypassed the mountain stream, and followed a winding path towards the exit of the hunting ground.

Along the way, Ye Zhaoyan observed the surrounding environment carefully, and found that the waterway was not stable. Occasionally, there were waves hitting the board of the boat, and the sound of the oars churning made people flustered. There were even a few times when the hull almost tilted over.

"This should be a branch of the Jinjiang River. The north of the Jinjiang River flows into Hengyuan Lake, and Hengyuan Lake exits from the west gate of Jindu City, and you will arrive east along Hengyuan Lake."

Ye Zhaoyan silently remembered it in his heart.

Going northward along the river for an unknown amount of time, there was a muffled sound ahead, followed by screams. Ye Zhaoyan opened the curtain and looked out, only to find that a maid accidentally slipped the oar into the river Fortunately, the oars hadn't completely sank, and the maid hurriedly reached out to pick them up. Who knew that the river was so fast that she couldn't hold them steady at all. She watched herself being sucked into the water and struggled.

Seeing this, Ye Zhaoyan hurriedly reached out to grab the servant girl's arm. The servant girl choked on a few sips of water and coughed violently, but she still couldn't reach out her hand.

Ye Zhaoyan frowned, feeling a little uneasy in her heart, she stretched out her arms even more, quickly grabbed the servant girl's hand, and pulled her to the bow with all her strength, suddenly, a strong force came from behind Ye Zhaoyan, she dodged suddenly, and then Letting go, seeing the maid struggled a few times and then was swept away by the water for half a foot.

Ye Zhaoyan looked back and saw a guard dressed in ordinary clothes. He had knelt down on the ground and yelled: "I heard the shout and wanted to help, but I accidentally ran into Miss Ye. Please forgive me."

Ye Zhaoyan had no time to talk to him, she turned her head and continued to look in the direction of the servant girl's sinking water, she was just a little bit close to saving that person.

When she picked up the other intact oar and was about to rescue her again, a slender hand held her wrist, which was Kunyu.

"Miss Ye, this is just a servant girl serving by Bengong's side, so don't worry about it." There was an eagerness in Kunyu's eyes that Ye Zhaoyan couldn't understand, "If Miss Ye makes a mistake on this boat, I can't afford it. Someone, drag that guard down."

At this time, the maid surfaced again, her face was a little more desperate than before, obviously she heard Kun Yu's words.She opened and closed her mouth a few times, and looked at Kunyu as if asking for help, but unfortunately the other party ignored her and let the maid slowly submerge in the water.

Ye Zhaoyan frowned and looked at Kunyu, "What's the meaning of the princess?" She really didn't like the feeling of playing with other people's lives in the applause.

Kunyu said with a half-smile, "Miss Ye is asking a strange question. I just think that Miss Ye is too stubborn, and I want to help Miss Ye."

Not long after, as the hull gradually moved away, a blue and green dot floated up from a distance.

Ye Zhaoyan looked at the corpse from a distance, feeling cold.

The maidservant's death came without warning.

Right in front of her eyes, one second she was still struggling to survive, and the next second she seemed to be drowning suddenly, with no power to resist.

The river bank became narrower and steeper. She held the stern rope tightly with her hand, and stared intently at a place downstream. The lake was turbulent and murderous, and the boat was passing a narrow lake channel. Tens of meters is the turbulence.

While concentrating on it, a huge boulder rolled down from the mountain on the shore and hit the water heavily, splashing a violent splash, and the two guards who were at the bow disappeared in an instant.

Ye Zhaoyan's face changed suddenly, all this happened very quickly, before she had time to react, several people in the cabin had jumped out and fled outside, only to hear the sound of weapons clashing, accompanied by mournful wailing.

Then someone shouted: "Quick retreat, there are assassins!"

Ye Zhaoyan looked at the black-clothed men in strong attire, holding long knives and slashing fiercely at the guards in front of them. They were all strong and strong, their moves were sharp and fast, and they were well-trained, obviously extraordinary.

She could feel that those people were not forbidden soldiers in the palace, and more importantly, they were not like the people of Tianlu.

　There will be more tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)