twin moon

Chapter 88, Scene [-], Breaking the Prison IV

"Hey, have you heard? It seems that something happened in the palace again! This time I heard that the youngest son of the king was thrown into prison on the day he returned to the palace."

"Could it be the young master who traveled with the boat master to Peng Kingdom a while ago? Why?"

"Who knows exactly, but haven't you seen that the gates of the palace are closed? It must have been charged with a defeat or something. What kind of demon is the lord of the country? He just cut off the crown of the prince during the Moon Festival. One arm, and now the youngest son is going to be beheaded in the street. If this toss continues, it will be a question of whether our country of Ye can have a complete prince to inherit the throne."

"Hush—you don't want to live? If the officials listen to this, it will be a crime of beheading!"

"It's really caught up with the troubled times! It's hard for us to settle down a little bit. It's good luck for the few of us to be able to sit here, eat and drink. Don't talk about state affairs, don't talk about state affairs, that's not what I and other small people should worry about."

In Jiayun Zhai, several diners at the wine table were discussing in low voices.Although their voices were not loud, to Leng Jiayun, the sound was like the ringing of a bell.Before the army set off, she had a vague premonition in her heart, but it was not until the fleet left the port that she realized that Ning Yue had disappeared.

Fortunately, the girl didn't forget to send a message back, saying that she secretly followed Jiang Yan and Qi Ziyin to the sea, which made Leng Jiayun's anxious mood slightly eased.But her hanging heart was still hard to let go, and she was desperately looking forward to the early return of the three children all day long.

Now that she suddenly heard the rumor that Qi Ziyin was about to be executed in the street, the purple-clothed woman's heart was pulled again in an instant.If Ziyin had already returned to the city, what about Jiang Yan and Ning Yue who were with him?And where is Xiang Baili, who is leading the Lu division at the moment?Does he know the big bad news?
Thinking of this, Leng Jiayun's cold hands, which were picking up the leftovers, suddenly stopped, and he felt a buzzing in his head.Accidentally, the dish full of soup slipped to the ground and fell to pieces with a "dang", and the greasy soup splashed all over her gorgeous purple skirt.

The sudden sound attracted the diners in the store to look sideways, but the woman couldn't care less about her reserve.She took three steps in parallel, rushed out of the door as if she lost her soul, and stopped a passing carriage in the street:

"Hurry up and take me to Zheliu Xuan in Dongshi!"

The wind stopped, the trees were still, and the birds and birds were silent.Xiuyefang was originally a rare quiet place in Mulu City, and there are few people around Zheliuxuan deep in the pine forest.The only sound in the silence is the creaking sound of the woman stepping on the thick layer of withered yellow needles that fell on the bluestone road.

Leng Jiayun climbed up the Songgang in one breath, fine beads of sweat oozing from the tip of her nose.She didn't know why she came here at the first time, but she just instinctively felt that maybe the shoulder she could rely on might have returned with Qi Ziyin.

The begonias in Zheliuxuan are in full bloom, and several branches covered with flowers protrude from the wall, making them beautiful.And the woman also clearly saw that the heavy copper lock that was originally hanging on the courtyard door was indeed opened by someone.

She was suddenly excited, she stretched out her hand and pushed the door to rush in, and shouted loudly:

"Xiang Baili! Why don't you tell me when you come back? What crime did that child Ziyin commit? Why was he sent to prison by the king? What happened in the palace?!"

However, to Leng Jiayun's surprise, it was not the general in Tsing Yi who made him a mature man who came out of the room in response, but the waist-length, bright red-haired girl.Seeing the angry look of the visitor, the girl couldn't help being taken aback, and then asked nervously:
"Sister Jia, why did you come here? Just now you said that Ziyin was thrown into a big prison?"

"Xiaoyue, please answer me first, how long have you guys been back to the city? Why did you hide here quietly and didn't tell me immediately? Where is Baili now?"

The woman from Dongli rushed forward and grabbed the girl by the shoulder.Ning Yue had never seen the other party so panic-stricken, and whispered falteringly:
"Uncle Baili said that he wanted to take Xiaojieba to change his wound medicine, and he left early in the morning. We entered the city yesterday evening, but Uncle Baili ordered not to tell you the news for the time being, and he did not allow Xiaojieba and me to go out without authorization. After leaving Zheliu Xuan, I didn't go to Jiayun Zhai to see you..."

"What did you little ghosts meet on the sea? How did you meet Baili? Why didn't he let me know that you have returned to the city?"

Leng Jiayun faintly felt that the situation seemed to have exceeded her imagination, so she persisted in asking.Ning Yue had no choice but to tell the other party everything about the thick fog she encountered after going out to sea, how she was captured in Shanghai Lingyu, and how the Marquis of Jinghai wanted to usurp the throne.

"Baili, this bastard, has such a big incident happened, does he still plan to handle it by himself?! Did he say where he planned to take Jiang Yan to change his medicine, and when would he come back? I'm going to be executed in the street tomorrow!"

Hearing what the woman said, Ning Yue was terrified on the spot.At first, she thought that since the sloppy-looking uncle had saved herself and her companions once, she would surely be able to win back a victory, but at this moment, she suddenly heard that Qi Ziyin was about to be executed in the street, and the tears in her eyes instantly disappeared. poured out.

However, before the two people in the courtyard continued to discuss the countermeasures, they heard the clanging of metal impacts from the woods outside the courtyard.After hearing the sound of Suosuo's footsteps from far to near, many people came and surrounded the whole Zheliu Pavilion!
"The visitor is not good, let's get in the house quickly!"

The Dongli woman's complexion changed, and she immediately pushed Ning Yue to hide in the room behind her.After entering the door, she turned around and overturned a desk on the ground.It was too late to say it, and then it was too late, the two of them had just lowered their bodies behind the desk, when they heard the sound of bowstrings snapping outside the courtyard wall!

Countless feathered arrows drew long arcs in the air, flew into the courtyard like raindrops, and then shot through the old paper and entered the house.The opponent fired a total of three rounds of volleys, as if he did not intend to leave a life alive.The iron arrows were nailed to the desk that Leng Jiayun had overturned earlier, and the sound of the iron arrows made people tremble with fear!
Although the salvo was only for a short moment, it was an extremely long period of suffering for Leng Jiayun and Ning Yue.After the Feather Arrow finally stopped falling, the red-haired girl poked her head out and boldly looked at the situation outside.

"Xiaoyue, don't move! They are planning to enter the door!"

The woman from Dongli hastily stretched out her hand and dragged the girl back.As soon as the words fell, there was a muffled bang, and the team outside the courtyard really broke open the gate, rushing in with weapons in hand.It can be seen from the hole in the scrap paper that the arrival is a group of elite boat masters in black armor.

"...Seven, eight, nine, ten—eleven people! They will definitely disperse and search each room to see if there are any survivors left. We are very close to the gate of the courtyard, and we will not escape until the other party enters the house The best time for danger, Xiaoyue, you must listen to my arrangements when the time comes, and don't act rashly!"

The one-room hut where the two were hiding faced south, and it was originally used as a greenhouse for Xiang Baili to cut flowers and plants on weekdays.At this time, the bottles and pots of various colors placed in the house had been shattered all over the ground in the dense arrow rain, making them a mess.However, the tall and short flower stands are full of feather arrows, forming a maze that can be used to deal with the opponent.

Sure enough, as Leng Jiayun expected, the chief who led the team into Zheliu Xuan quickly ordered his subordinates to disperse.And walking straight towards the room where the two were hiding were two soldiers holding long knives.

The woman's face regained her usual composure, and she reached out and pulled out a soft and curved sword that was only as thick as a willow leaf from her waist.He asked the girl to hide under a table in the corner, and after a few whispered instructions, he lowered himself and hid behind some disused flower stands by the door, and covered the whole place with a muddy sackcloth. The shelves are covered.Through the gaps in the linen, she was always watching the movement outside, holding her breath and concentrating, planning to wait for the opportunity to move.

Soon, the two soldiers had already reached the front of the house, but they were poking around outside the door, not daring to come in rashly.One of them pushed the other man's shoulder hard, urging: "What are you stopping for?!"

"Brother Luo, this is a greenhouse, so there should be no hiding people, right?" The other person just smiled and shook his head, refusing to continue walking.

"Although the words are true, what if someone is really there? You have to go in and have a look, but Shi Chang gave an order to see people alive and corpses!"

"But everyone else has gone to the main building at the east end. They obviously think that there are more people hiding there. You see, the whole house has been shot into this virtue by arrows, and there are not even potted flowers left, only intact Yes, if there is anyone, they must have been dressed as hedgehogs long ago. Why don't we just take a look at this door, and if there is no movement, we will be done!"

"That's fine, but you have to watch carefully. It is said that General Yu, who is in charge of arresting the rebels in the whole city this time, is ruthless and merciless towards his own people. If he finds out afterwards that we are not doing well, he will definitely not let him off easily! "

Hearing what the other party said, Leng Jiayun, who was tense and ready to strike at any time, finally breathed a sigh of relief.But just as the two soldiers looked inside the door for a moment, and were about to turn around and leave, there were a few slight nasal sounds suddenly sounded from the corner of the room, which sounded like a kitten snoring.

The woman in purple immediately realized that Ning Yue, who was hiding under the table, inhaled the pollen dispersed in the air, and couldn't help sneezing.She secretly thought that something was wrong, and when she looked at the two soldiers again in a blink of an eye, she saw that they were also alerted by these unusual noises, one of them was holding a crossbow, the other was holding a knife and stepped into the door, one in front and one behind Touched in the direction of the sound!
In this way, hiding whereabouts is no longer meaningful.Unavoidable, Leng Jiayun did not hesitate to lift off the sackcloth covering her body, and covered the two soldiers.

The visitor was staring intently at the table where Ning Yue was hiding, how could he think that another person would come out of the oblique stab, and he panicked.The man holding the crossbow was closer to the woman at the moment, and immediately moved the crossbow to fight back.But the sackcloth covered his head in an instant, and the feathered arrow shot in the air completely missed its aim.When he tore off the cover on his head and wanted to take a new arrow, he saw a cold light attacking in front of him!

The woman from Dongli flicked the soft sword vigorously, and the thin sword wrapped around the opponent's arm like a silver whip.The soldier holding the crossbow finally saw clearly that the person attacking him was actually a weak woman, and confidently reached out to snatch the weapon from the opponent's hand.

However, after he grasped it hard, he realized that this soft sword, which looked like only a piece of kraft paper, could cut iron like mud and destroy gold and jade.Leng Jiayun only pulled the hilt of the sword in her hand hard, and the tightened edge easily cut into the thick black armor on her body!
The whole process was so fast that even the soldier didn't have time to howl, and he was horrified to see the muscles on his arms turned into circles of neatly cut pieces like butter that had been sliced ​​by a hot knife. .

The woman in purple didn't give him any chance to speak out.After taking back the soft sword, she swung it quickly, wrapping the sharp blade around the opponent's unprotected neck.She was quiet and lazy on weekdays, she seemed to be weak, but in the blink of an eye she turned into a killer who took people's lives, easily wringing off the entire head of that soldier!
The other soldier with a knife was terrified by the blood flying in front of him, and he didn't dare to make any more resistance before fleeing.But Leng Jiayun didn't intend to let anyone live.Right now, wearing soft-soled cloth shoes, she is like a civet cat catching birds, silently dragging a soft sword and chasing after him.Just when the soldier had rushed to the door and opened his mouth wide to call for reinforcements in the main building, the soft sword pierced through the back of his neck like a poisonous snake, and stabbed from under his throat. out.

The soldier's trachea and vocal cords were cut off in an instant, so he could only lean back with his tongue stretched out, and fell heavily on the ground.The blood gushing from the wound poured into his lungs, causing him to writhe on the ground in pain.

And before the opponent was choked to death by his own blood, Leng Jiayun pierced the temple on the side of his forehead with a soft sword, ending his pain in advance.The woman didn't have time to think about it too much, she turned around and went back to the house, pulled Ning Yue who was shaking like a sieve from under the table, and went straight to the courtyard door without looking back.

After all, this is an escape opportunity that was obtained with great difficulty, and no more mistakes are allowed!
After about a stick of incense, there was another sharp whistle from Zheliu Xuan, as if the soldiers who broke into the courtyard finally found the corpse of their companion.However, it was getting late and the forest above Songgang was quite luxuriant. Even if they immediately chased Leng Jiayun and Ning Yue who had run away earlier, it was impossible for them to catch up.

Along the way, the purple-clothed woman didn't dare to slow down at all, she just held the girl's hand firmly and went straight into the bustling Zitong Street, and then stopped.

Ning Yue glanced behind her with lingering fear, and asked out of breath, "Have we got rid of those soldiers? Sister Jia, what are you going to do next?"

"I have to find Jiang Yan and Baili as soon as possible. But it's too ostentatious for the two of us to walk on the street like this. I have to disguise myself and go back to Jiayunzhai to make a long-term plan."

As the woman said, she casually tore out a piece from the waste discarded by the roadside in the cloth shop, folded it into a square scarf and handed it to Ning Yue to cover it up.Ning Yue also knew that her red hair was too obvious, so she took it immediately, and wrapped the cloth around her head while turning around and continuing to rush in the direction of Jiayunzhai.

However, at this moment, the woman walking behind the red-haired girl suddenly covered her mouth and nose with a big hand stretched out from the slanting stab.She immediately struggled vigorously, but she was no match at all, and was dragged into a secluded narrow alley by the opponent. She saw the girl who didn't know about it go farther and farther, and completely disappeared in the crowd...

(End of this chapter)