Crown Jewels

Chapter 45 The Awe-inspiring Sacrifice

In this assassination, you don't need to think about who the real target is!

Thinking of this, Gu Baozhu exhaled without hesitation.

The woman's calm voice comes out, the tone is like a delicate pu willow, but it is tenacious and flutters in the wind, trying to protect others.

"aunt--"

Seeing Gu Jun looking at her, Gu Baozhu smiled lightly.

"Give me your cloak!"

Song Yan held the long knife tightly, and looked at Gu Baozhu who was resolutely coming forward, holding his breath showing tension, his tightly pursed lips stretched out a stern jawline.

"Bullshit!"

Empress Gu Jun's light reprimand finally made the tense young man relax a bit.

"Auntie, why are you so nervous?"

"The Zangshu Pavilion should be safe. Baozhu's doing this is nothing more than making complete preparations!"

"and……"

Gu Baozhu smiled, "Although it's impossible, Dayan absolutely cannot live without her aunt."

The woman pretended to be relaxed, but the atmosphere in the room was even more stalemate.

"Baozhu has been protected by her ancestors since she was a child, and she has always avoided danger. You don't believe me, are you doubting your niece's luck?"

Gu Jun quietly looked at the girl in front of her, her eyes slightly darkened.

The sound of fighting outside the pavilion was accompanied by the swaying window lattice and the breeze trembled slightly, no one spoke.

"Let me do it!"

After a while, Shen Lanqing broke the awkward silence.

But Gu Baozhu's attitude was tough.

"Lanqing, don't make trouble!"

"I'm of the same family as my aunt, and others can't imitate my body shape and demeanor. This matter, I can only do it."

Amidst Gu Baozhu's urging, Gu Jun closed her eyes and took off her cloak with trembling hands.

She watched Gu Baozhu loosen the girl's bun, her voice sounded weak, but she stepped forward to help the girl's black hair into a woman's bun.

The woman's immature eyebrows and eyes did not match the dark and solemn imperial robe, but she turned her back, but her gait and demeanor were similar to each other.

"Baozhu, come, Auntie will help you wear the crown!"

After helping Gu Baozhu put on the dragon head crown, Gu Jun supported her shoulders, as if promising.

"Auntie won't let anything happen to you."

Song Yan looked at the maturely dressed Gu Baozhu, the veins on the back of the hand holding the long knife twitched.

The next moment, he resolutely came to the woman, took out the dagger from his sleeve and handed it to her, with an indifferent expression but a firm tone.

"I won't let His Majesty have an accident with everyone! And you."

Gu Baozhu smiled lightly.

The young man in front of him had solemn eyebrows, as if he was making a thousand gold promises to her.

If he said so, then she should be safe.

Suddenly, Song Yan's ears twitched, and he quickly made a silent gesture to everyone in the room.

Everyone held their breath.

Leaving only the breeze outside the window, there was a slight creaking sound from the floating wooden window.

The atmosphere is like the stagnant air suddenly opening a gate, infinitely magnifying the details hidden in the darkness.

Nothing fell into the ears of several people, and their breathing became heavier instantly.

Finally, outside the corridor on the top floor, there was a sudden sound of breaking the door.

At the same time, the faintly suppressed footsteps, furtively looking for something,
Of course it won't be a friendly army!
Hearing the movement in the corridor, Song Yan clenched the knife and dagger in his hand, his face covered with frost and protected everyone behind him.

Gu Baozhu's breathing was stagnant, but she reacted very quickly.

With her fingers flying, she flexibly braided Gu Jun's girlish bun and hid her behind Lu Jiuxi.

Then she turned around resolutely, and hid behind the bookshelf with her back facing the door.

Song Yan took a deep look at the woman's slender back, squinted to listen to the movement outside the house, and the arm holding the long knife was ready to strike.

The deliberately forbearable footsteps were getting closer and closer, and finally stopped at the door of their house, and several people in the house held their breath at the same time.

Just before the sound of breaking the door!
Song Yan picked up the long table at hand and threw it directly outside the door.

Caught off guard, the unprepared assassin was suddenly overturned to the ground.

Song Yan seized the opportunity, raised his long knife again, and slashed at the fish that slipped through the net at the door.

However, the whereabouts of several people were also exposed. At this moment, the black clothes had completely figured out the positions of the few people, and a steady stream of black-clothed assassins broke in.

At this time, Song Yan had no time to think about why there were so many black-clothed assassins when they were guarding Lu Yi and Fu Sinian outside the Zangshu Pavilion.

The long sword pierced into the body of the man in black, blood splashed when he drew the knife, Song Yan obviously felt something was wrong.

This group of assassins didn't seem to know the pain, they went on the rampage like this, they didn't flinch and didn't fear life and death, they looked like dead soldiers.

Seeing that the leader in black was about to rush into the house, Song Yan quickly turned around to stop him.

Then, both of them were invincible, and suddenly there was a strong force from behind, and the pain came, Song Yan's body slowed down for a moment, and the leader in black also took the opportunity to pass Song Yan, looking for the mission target of this trip.

Just when the black-clothed leader searched around and finally saw the court uniform embroidered with a five-clawed golden dragon behind the bookshelf, he didn't hesitate and ran in that direction with a knife.

Song Yan's lips turned blue, and when he saw the leader in black approaching Gu Baozhu, he stepped on a broken corner of the table, and kicked the leader in black with all his strength, just enough to hold him back.

Gu Baozhu pinched the hem of his robe, and saw the black-clothed man approaching him, suddenly knelt down in front of him, his eyes were full of pain and unwillingness, but when he saw him, they suddenly shone with a frightening brilliance.

Without hesitation, she directly picked up the thick classics on the bookshelf, and smashed them head and face, without mercy.

But when the black-clothed leader didn't recover, the blood from the tip of his nose accompanied the bruises on his face, dyeing the yellowed book in Gu Baozhu's hand red, and the air was filled with a disgusting smell of iron rust.

Gu Baozhu held her nose, she always felt that in addition to the blood-colored rust smell, there was also an inexplicable fishy smell in the air.

Although it was very faint as if it had been covered by some kind of medicinal material, but she was very close to this man, and the smell should come from the man's mouth and nose.

Gu Baozhu resisted the disgusting impulse, and slammed the person all over the face again, and then, like a slippery fish, he staggered and hid behind the bookshelf in the back.

Seeing the long knife slashing at the man in black who was blocking him, and seeing Gu Baozhu hiding behind the library, Song Yan felt a little relieved, but the movements of his hands became more and more fierce, revealing a bit of ruthlessness that he was not at this age.

Like a wolf cub, fierce and ruthless.

The black-clothed leader touched the blood from his nose, looked at Gu Baozhu's escape direction with cold eyes, raised his body with a long knife and chased after him.

After all, men's physical strength is different from women's, but the dragon robe on Gu Baozhu's body is the biggest drag, heavy and dazzling, it is like a walking target.

Sure enough, even though the struggle lasted a few breaths, Gu Baozhu still did not break away from the control of the black-clothed leader.

Gu Baozhu only felt that the hand pinching her throat tightened, and the eyes that met her gaze burst out with a cold joy.

Just as the breath in her throat gradually decreased, she even thought that when she was about to confess to being here today, the tightness in her hands relaxed.

Panting heavily, Gu Baozhu waited for a long while before opening her eyes to look at the black-clothed leader. She saw this man squinting at her with an unpredictable expression as if he was thinking about something.

(End of this chapter)