Glory all the way

Chapter 311 Assassination
After coming out of the Prince's Courtyard, it was already dark, and I could only vaguely see some lights in the distance, probably the lights on the city gate.

Seeing Bai Jinyuan with bright eyes and messy footsteps, Du Xuan shook his head slightly, turned his head to look at Suiyuan and said: "Let the coachman drive the carriage and follow the carriage of the Jing'an Hou Mansion, and send the son back to the Jing'an Hou Mansion, and we will go back. "

Suiyuan nodded and said yes, turned around and told the coachman, Fang and Du Xuan helped Bai Jinyuan into the carriage together.

The moonlight was dim and the stars were lonely. On the empty path, only the sound of galloping horseshoes could be heard. Beside him, Bai Jinyuan leaned against the corner of the carriage with a blushing face, sleeping soundly, and occasionally murmured a few words.

After all this tossing, the carriage had come to the end, and the road that was muddy due to the melting snow was even more difficult. From time to time, one could feel the carriage stop, and then there was the sound of the driver vigorously waving his whip to drive away the horses.

Du Xuan raised the curtain of the car and took a look, feeling even more anxious in his heart. He seemed to have seen Bai Yingluo pacing back and forth in the house with a restless expression.

Even so, Du Xuan still ordered the driver of the Jing'an Hou Mansion: "Don't worry, drive the carriage more steadily."

After the words were finished, Du Xuan heard an unusual sound, that sound seemed like an arrow shot from a distant place, and it hit a corner of the carriage with a "boom".

Probe out to look, but there is nothing unusual, even when Du Xuan thought he was having auditory hallucinations, there was a rustling sound in the distance.

In the night, there are several black shadows overlapping back and forth in the distance, like solitary birds startled by the sound.

But how could there be a lone bird at this time?Even if there is, it will not hover in the middle of the road where there is no food at all.

Du Xuan's eyes gradually deepened.

But in the next moment, Du Xuan saw those people holding scimitars behind their backs.

The crescent-shaped scimitar was illuminated by the looming moonlight, giving off a cold light, while the eyes of those masked men were colder than the night and the blade.

Assassination!

In Du Xuan's heart, such a thought floated up.

The prince is still staying in the other courtyard, and has no plans to return to the palace tonight, but these people are still lying in ambush on the way, and the carriage of the Jing'an Marquis Mansion has a clear sign, but these people are following behind, could it be that they are coming for Bai Jinyuan ?
Doubts came one after another in my heart, and before Du Xuan could react, the clash of swords and swords sounded not far away.

Bai Jinyuan is now the leader of the fifth-rank guard battalion forward, and he is also the heir of the Jing'an Marquis Mansion. When he came out to the banquet, he was naturally accompanied by his relatives. At this moment, he started fighting with those people. After a short while, he heard screams, and then the The sound of pursuit came again.

Those people in the guard battalion seemed to be taken down after only one meeting.

With a huge shock in his heart, Du Xuan looked down, and Bai Jinyuan, who was a little drunk, woke up at some point, with suspicious thinking in his eyes.

"Who have you offended these days?"

Accompanied by the sound of rushing wheels, Bai Jinyuan looked up at Du Xuan and asked.

Du Xuan was stunned for a moment.

Those people, are they here for themselves?

Du Xuan shook his head.

Bai Jinyuan analyzed in a stern voice: "If I'm not mistaken, the members of the Loulan Messenger Group should know what's going on."

Loulan envoys have been in Beijing for more than a month. Rumors that Du Xuan and the Lord of Loulan look similar have been circulating in the capital for more than a month. People often say that three people become tigers. Du Xuan and the Lord of Loulan are twin brothers. Because of the secrets about the royal family more than 20 years ago, Du Xuan wandered to Song Dynasty.Now, the Lord of Loulan is finally in power, so the Empress Dowager Loulan is thinking of finding another son.

What everyone doesn't know is that the current Lord of Loulan is a woman.

Bai Jinyuan's words made Du Xuan, who was originally anxious, calm down for a moment.

He never thought that he would have anything to do with Loulan. Even if someone saw him exclaiming "Your Majesty" on the day Loulan's envoy entered Beijing, he thought they did it on purpose. It's all about using him.

But for more than a month after that, Du Xuan didn't see anything unusual except that Mr. Sudol showed extraordinary enthusiasm for him.

Now, the Loulan envoys were planning to go back, but there was an assassination incident. No matter how you look at it, they were the most suspected.

Du Xuan quickly glanced at the people coming from behind, and said to Bai Jinyuan with a wry smile: "If we are destined to return to the capital, we will naturally go and talk to them."

Seemingly disapproving of Du Xuan's depression, Bai Jinyuan raised the curtain of the car and glanced behind him, bursting out with boundless self-confidence instantly, "If I can't even deal with such a small problem, it's useless for me to practice in the guard camp for so long Don't worry, I'll keep you safe, otherwise, not to mention grandparents, even Sixth Sister would not spare me."

At this time, Bai Jinyuan was still in the mood to joke. It can be seen that he was really not worried. Du Xuan's heart that had been on his mind fell back a little.

In the ears, those people were getting closer and closer, and in an instant, a carriage behind had been stopped by those people.

Not finding the target from the carriage, those people's eyes turned to the carriage that Du Xuan and Bai Jinyuan were riding in.

The footsteps behind became more and more rapid, Bai Jinyuan narrowed his eyes slightly, patted Du Xuan on the shoulder, lifted the curtain and jumped down, the next moment, the horse neighed, and the carriage seemed to be galloping faster than before.

Worried about Bai Jinyuan, Du Xuan lifted the curtain beside him to look back, but saw a galloping horse passing by, and then, the driver was shot and fell off the carriage.

Pupils shrank, Du Xuan had already guessed what that man wanted to do.

Without caring much, Du Xuan turned around and lifted the small charcoal stove in the corner of the carriage.

The curtain of the car was lifted, and first saw a shining scimitar, when the masked man appeared in sight, Du Xuan was heartbroken, and threw the charcoal stove in his hand at the man.

The charcoal fire splattered, the man screamed, as if he had been scalded, his body shrank back subconsciously, the hand holding the scimitar could no longer be cut out, and Du Xuan stepped forward to grab the rein with sharp eyesight and quick hands, Continue to drive the carriage.

The sound of swords and swords behind him became more and more intense, while the front seemed to be a city gate.

He had already noticed the abnormality on the road, and officers and soldiers at the city gate had already lit up lanterns and torches to look at each other. Du Xuan shouted loudly, which attracted the attention of the officers and soldiers.

As early as after Du Xuan entered the Hanlin Academy with his title on the Gold List, everyone in the capital knew him well. In the past six months, since the envoy from Xili entered Beijing, Du Xuan, as the young secretary of Honglu Temple, would go out of the city to meet the envoy every time. It was the fourth time for the envoys to enter Beijing and Loulan. Even if the officers and soldiers guarding the city gate had never spoken to Du Xuan, they were familiar with each other.

After Du Xuan told the whole story in a few words, the city gate officer immediately issued an order and sent two teams of soldiers to welcome them out of the city gate.

Maybe they were outnumbered, or maybe they didn't want to reveal their true identities. The moment the city gate opened, the masked men who followed all the way retreated in unison.

Du Xuan climbed up to the city gate, seeing the backs of those masked men jumping on their horses neatly, a feeling of deja vu flashed in his heart.

He lowered his head and thought hard for a long time, but Du Xuan couldn't remember where he had seen him before, and went down the tower in a daze.

After waiting for a stick of incense, he saw Bai Jinyuan coming back dripping with sweat, and seeing that he was not injured, Du Xuan felt relieved.

"Can you find any clues from them?"

Du Xuan asked.

Bai Jinyuan shook his head, frowned and said, "Except for the iconic scimitar in his hand, there is almost no clue. Those people are ruthless, and their advances and retreats are quite methodical. The whole process did not make a sound, and they retreated." At the same time, he was not procrastinating at all, I guess, it was either a well-trained dead soldier in someone else's family, or a hidden guard in the barracks."

In this way, even a scimitar is nothing.

The nomads at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains, and Mongolia, which is adjacent to the Song Dynasty, are said to use machetes as their usual weapons.

He bowed his head and pondered for a while, but still had no idea at all. Looking at Bai Jinyuan, who was a bit disheveled, Du Xuan smiled gratefully: "No matter who those people are after, if it wasn't for you today, I would have been caught by them right now." So, Du Xuan has kept the big brother's life-saving grace in mind, and will definitely repay it in the future. Now, let's go back as soon as possible, so that sister-in-law and Luo Niang will not worry."

Bai Jinyuan hit Du Xuan affectionately, "You are my brother-in-law, shouldn't you? If you say something like this in the future, I won't ask you to drink and play chess together..."

Knowing that he intentionally told the story and didn't want to make himself feel sorry, Du Xuan complied graciously, and Bai Jinyuan and Bai Jinyuan took the two horses sent by the city gate officer, and each rode back home on one of them.

In Yixin Garden, Bai Yingluo was doing embroidery work in her hand, but the eyelid of her left eye kept twitching.

They sent a clever servant out to inquire, and said that the princes who went out to the banquet and the adults who were invited did not return to the residence. Although Bai Yingluo was a little relieved, there was always a feeling of uneasiness deep in her heart.

When Du Xuan came back, he saw that his robe was covered with mottled charcoal ashes, two places were even burnt out, and the palms of his hands had been worn out in several places, with blood oozing slightly. My heart suddenly picked up.

Du Xuan calmly talked about what happened outside the city gate, but Bai Yingluo was terrified. She couldn't imagine that if Bai Jinyuan was not drunk today and Du Xuan was sitting in his own carriage, what would happen at this moment? situation.

"Brother, are you not injured?"

Hearing that Bai Jinyuan went up to him without fear, Bai Yingluo asked with concern.

Du Xuan finished explaining with a smile, threw the handkerchief for cleaning his hands on the table, took Bai Yingluo's hand to hold it and said, "Luo Niang, don't worry, we are all fine, look, I am not standing in front of you in a good manner. ?"

Looking at his eyes that were pretending to be relaxed with a smile, Bai Yingluo said in a low voice, "Those people made it clear that they came after you. If they didn't succeed this time, what about next time?"

Bai Yingluo was relieved to see through his pretense, and seeing her worried face again, Du Xuan's heart tightened.

(End of this chapter)