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There are four doors in Prince Qi's Mansion. In addition to the front, back and two side doors, there is also a small side door dedicated to transporting garbage outside the mansion.

Outside the five gates, there are soldiers guarding them day and night. The gate on the right is guarded by the Ximen Office at night. The long street at the side gate is always deserted, with few vehicles or people passing by, and it is even more deserted at night.

It was another night, and after dark, Wang Fu from the Ximen Department led more than a dozen Wu Jingwei from the Ximen Department to take turns at the side door. After a guard came to check, he gave a few words of advice and then left.

Those in charge of guarding Wang Fu are mainly the two captains of Wu Jingwei, one during the day and one at night, and they take turns to be on duty. The Qi Palace occupies a large area, and it will take half a day to go around the Qi Palace. , when Du Si is in a good mood, he will turn around a couple of times to inspect the guard work, otherwise he will send his own guard school to inspect for a week.

No one knows when the guard school will come to check. The soldiers guarding around the palace can only last their time on duty. Recently, the Wujing Guard has carried out some rectification work, and the discipline has begun to be stricter. All the departments in the capital have also carried out Not a small transfer, but this kind of personnel change did not affect the Ximen Department.

The long street at the side door is under the responsibility of the Ximen Office, not only the side door, but also the entire long street must be guarded. As long as there is any suspicious situation, the police will be alerted immediately, and someone will come to reinforce it.

It was late at night, and it was freezing cold. Although a few torches were lit, the whole street was still very dark.

Wang Fu bowed slightly, followed behind a guard, and walked along the long street to the side door. The Ximen Office saw Wu Jingwei in the armor of the guard, and knew that it was the guard who came to inspect, so he immediately straightened up and kept his eyes fixed. .

It was freezing cold, the guard school lord not only wore armor, but also wore a cloak to wrap himself tightly, and the black iron battle helmet also wrapped the guard school lord's head in it.

Seeing the guard school approaching, the three Ximen soldiers guarding the gate immediately knelt down on one knee, Wang Fu had already stepped forward, waved his hand and said, "You guys take a look in the alleys on both sides. When you came here just now, Master Guard School I saw the shadow, and I don’t know if someone trespassed here, so don’t disturb others, go and look for it.”

On weekdays, a few people would have to joke with Wang Fu. Although Wang Fu is the head of the Ximen Department, the soldiers under him are not too afraid. The head is one level higher, and there are capital divisions and general banners on it, but the official level crushes people to death.

After the three of them left, the guard school looked left and right, and the closest Wujing guards were also some distance away, and they stood upright like green pines, without looking sideways.

"Wang Shutou, I'll go in now." The health school lowered his voice, "I'll leave this place to you for the time being."

Wang Fu's eyes flickered, his eyes were full of nervousness, and he said softly: "You have to hurry up, the real health school doesn't know when it will come, so don't let him find out."

The guard nodded, and suddenly stuck to the wall, looked left and right, stretched out a hand, holding an iron hook in his hand, hooked it on the wall, and then his body jumped up like a bat. The high wall of Prince Qi's Mansion immediately floated into the courtyard.

Wang Fu held the handle of the knife with a tense expression, and muttered to himself: "Amitabha, please don't make any mistakes."

The health school turned into the palace, looked around, all the servants of the palace had left, the mansion was dead silent, the guard took out a silk from his bosom, opened it for a closer look, then raised his head, Putting the silk into his bosom, within a few ups and downs, he was already hidden in the darkness of the palace.

King Qi sat on the chair, depressed and powerless, his legs were placed in the wooden barrel, and the water in the wooden barrel was steaming, Ling Shuang asked softly beside him: "My lord, is the water hot?"

King Qi shook his head and said, "It's just right, Ling Shuang, are there medicinal materials in it?"

Ling Shuang said: "Put the wormwood, it can activate the blood."

"It's very late, you should go and rest first." Seeing that Ling Shuang's pretty face was a little pale, King Qi forced a smile and said, "I'll soak for a while."

Ling Shuang said: "Don't worry, I'll wait here. After soaking, I'll clean it up for you."

King Qi sighed softly, hesitated for a while, and finally asked: "Ling Shuang, I still want to ask you why you don't want to leave? Is it... because you sympathize with me?"

Ling Shuang was stunned for a moment, lowered her head, and said quietly: "My lord, if I leave, who else can serve you by your side? And at this time, Ling Shuang stays by my lord's side, so my lord won't be too lonely."

"Ling Shuang, you...you are so kind." King Qi stared at Ling Shuang who was waiting for him. These days, Ling Shuang had obviously lost weight again. King Qi knew very well that although this girl didn't speak much on weekdays, she She knew better than anyone else that Ling Shuang was watching everything that happened in the palace. She didn't say much, but it didn't mean she wasn't worried.

When Ling Shuang heard what King Qi said, her cheeks flushed slightly.

Of course she knew King Qi's intentions, if she could not be sure of King Qi's intentions before entering the palace, but King Qi made great efforts to get her into the palace, Ling Shuang already understood King Qi's intentions.

She didn't know why King Qi was so fond of her, but she also knew that the relationship between a man and a woman sometimes really didn't need any reason.

The prince of the dignified empire fell in love with this girl who was born in the world. Logically speaking, it is a blessing that has been cultivated in ten lifetimes. However, since the first day of entering the palace, Ling Shuang has not had any excitement. All along, I feel quite depressed.

In all honesty, she doesn't dislike King Qi. Although in her opinion, King Qi is sometimes too young and frivolous, lacks composure, and is even cowardly at times, but King Qi is sincere and kind in his bones. There are many shortcomings in King Qi. Human beings exist, but as a royal nobleman, his merits are invaluable.

And Ling Shuang had to admit that it was King Qi who saved her from being able to escape from the dust.

She is grateful to Qi Wang Cun in her heart, but her gratitude is not equal to the love between a man and a woman. In the dead of night, she did not think about some things, but she always felt that she seemed to treat this prince as a younger brother, although It is absolutely impossible for her to explain this to King Qi.

It was as if King Qi was in a predicament this time, and Ling Shuang only felt that her family was in danger, so of course she couldn't leave at this time.

She didn't know what would happen in the future, and whenever she thought about the future, her heart was in a mess.

King Qi naturally didn't know what she was thinking, but seeing Ling Shuang's beautiful appearance under the lights, he couldn't help but his heart throbbed again.

At this moment, he suddenly heard a knock on the door, the knock was not loud, King Qi frowned slightly, besides himself and Ling Shuang, only Lu Haosheng and Ma Zhongheng were left in the palace, so late at night, come and knock Naturally, it can only be one of them.

But coming to look for her so late, there must be some urgent matter, Ling Shuang glanced at King Qi, saw King Qi nodded, then left the inner room and went to open the door.

Soon, he heard the sound of the door being opened, and then heard Ling Shuang's soft cry of "Ah", the voice was full of panic, King Qi knew something had happened when he heard the sound, he didn't care about his feet still soaking in the water, Standing up with bare feet, he took the long sword next to him in his hand, turned around and rushed out of the inner room.

The lamp was lit in the outer hall, but King Qi saw Ling Shuang covering his mouth, standing aside, a warrior in armor and cloak was facing away from him, and closed the door.

King Qi was taken aback, but rushed over quickly, pulled Ling Shuang behind him, and pointed his long sword forward, aiming at the person coming.

The man closed the door and turned around. When King Qi saw the man's attire, he recognized Wu Jingwei at a glance, and his pupils contracted immediately.

Of course he knows that Wu Jingwei is now under the control of the prince, and those guarding around the palace are Wu Jingwei's people.

In the middle of the night, a Wu Jingwei sneaked into his bedroom with a knife on his waist. There is no doubt that the person who came was not kind.

In an instant, he thought, could it be that the prince couldn't wait any longer, and sent someone over to take his life in the middle of the night?

Thinking of this, his heart was filled with anger and nervousness. Since the crown prince sent someone over, this person's martial arts are naturally extraordinary, and his own martial arts are definitely not up to par. Up to now, he has never thought that he will have any good results, but if Therefore, Ling Shuang was also killed, which is absolutely unacceptable, but in an instant, I made up my mind, I will fight with the other party no matter what I say, and buy time for Ling Shuang to escape first.

Although the entire capital is under the prince's control, if the prince really wants to deal with Ling Shuang, even if Ling Shuang escapes from this room, he will not be able to escape from the palace, even if he escapes from the palace, he will not be able to escape from the capital, but at this time At this moment, King Qi didn't care about thinking so much, at least he couldn't let Ling Shuang be killed by the other party in front of his own eyes.

The man was dressed in the uniform of the Wujing Guard School. When he turned around, he saw that King Qi was barefoot, holding a long sword and protecting Ling Shuang behind him. He frowned, but he still took two steps forward. King Qi held the sword in one hand. , with one hand crossed, the opponent moved forward, he couldn't help taking two steps back, and said coldly: "You...you want to kill...you want to kill this king? You...you come here and try...try...!"

Even he could tell that his voice trembled a little. He tried hard to control his nervousness and fear, but the hand holding the sword was already trembling slightly.

The guard school didn't move forward anymore, knelt down on one knee, lowered its head, and said respectfully: "See you, my lord!"

"Don't put on a show." King Qi gritted his teeth, "Did the crown prince send you here?"

The guard raised his head, shook his head, stretched out a hand, spread out his palm, and suddenly there was something in the palm of his hand. King Qi leaned forward slightly. He didn't know what the hell this man was doing. When he saw the thing in the man's hand, His expression changed drastically, and he lost his voice and said, "It's... the blood jade finger?"

"My lord, my hatred is like blood. On the order of Governor Chu Huan Chu, I went to Beijing to meet my lord." The guard stared at King Qi. It can be proved that I am a member of Chu Du."

"choke!"

The long sword in King Qi's hand fell to the ground, and he felt as if he had collapsed. He stepped forward two steps, grabbed the blood jade finger, and saw that the blood jade finger was indeed a token of his connection with Chu Huan. Going to the northwest to see Chu Huan's token, I was both surprised and happy. At this moment, I felt that all my grievances disappeared, and I grabbed Qiu Ruxue's hand, "You... you are finally here!"