reborn princess

Chapter 519
"My lord, dozens of shops and homes on South Street caught fire at the same time, and the fire brigade's fire engines are not enough. My lord, what should I do?"

"My lord, it's the same on West Street. Someone is driving a carriage and throwing burning oil bottles around."

The prince couldn't help being surprised when he heard the words, he glanced at Bailichen instinctively, and immediately made a decision, "Bailihui, go to the general's mansion immediately and tell General Baili to send someone to help the people put out the fire. The team guards will investigate the clues!"

"Yes!" Bailihui was dressed as an officer at this time, upon hearing this, he immediately clapped his hands in response, and led a team of about seven or eight officers out of the lobby.

Although the prince was worried about the fact that someone deliberately set fire in the city, human life was at stake. At this time, someone came to complain, and he couldn't leave the complainant to patrol the streets, so he restrained himself and got up and came to the corpse, ordering someone to take The white cloth covering the corpse was removed, and at the same time, someone was ordered to invite him to do it.

But no one expected that the moment he bent down to examine the corpse, the corpse lying on the door suddenly exploded, and a short dagger with blue light stabbed at the prince's heart.

If it were another person, this fate might be directly explained here, but what the assassin pretending to be a corpse did not expect was that the prince would know martial arts.

Realizing that something was wrong with this "corpse", the prince hurriedly backed away. Thanks to his quick reaction, his heart was punctured a little by the assassin.

The woman who was kneeling weakly on the ground just now also burst into shape at this moment, and shot a sleeve arrow at the back of the prince.

Seeing that the crown prince could not take care of the future, the Taifu Bailichen who was acting as the master at the side tightened his eyes, shook his hand and threw the brush in his hand, knocking down the sleeve arrow.

The woman didn't seem to expect that he, a master, could know martial arts, and immediately turned her face to look at him.

In this instant, Bailichen had come to her, she was startled, and she showed a dagger from her sleeve, but before she could make a move, Bailichen grabbed her by the throat, With a strong pinch, her hand holding the short dagger fell limply, and the short dagger in her hand fell to the ground with a "clang".

There were two expressions of horror and disbelief intertwined on her pretty face, as if she didn't believe that she just died in the hands of a master playing with a pen.

Those who brought in the "corpse" saw that they had missed, and one of them died as soon as they met each other, and they all drew soft swords from their waists.

At this moment, the guards also realized that they were all assassins. These guards were pretended to be the personal bodyguards brought by the prince to the capital, and all of them stood in a fan shape holding the water and fire ruthless sticks in their hands to protect the prince behind him.

But these assassins carrying the "corpse" and the assassin pretending to be the "corpse" didn't go forward to fight, but turned around and ran away.

Seeing that these assassins had weapons in their hands, the people who watched the excitement at the gate ran away in fright.

The guards chased after the assassins without hesitation.

Bailichen flew to the Prince's side, and asked in a deep voice, "How are you, my lord? Are you injured?"

The prince's face was livid, and he raised his hand to cover the injured part of his chest, then glanced at Bailichen, and said in a low voice, "It hurt a little, but the assassin's knife seems to be poisonous!"

"What?" Bailichen heard the words, regardless of the distinction between superiority and inferiority, he hurriedly pulled down the prince's hand, and saw that the prince's hand was pitch black, and the blood flowing from the prince's wound had turned black. The short dagger is poisonous.

His face changed suddenly, he immediately supported the crown prince, and yelled, "Signal flare! Go to Chenjiazhuang to invite Wang courtiers!"

Fortunately, not all the guards went out to chase the assassin just now. There are eight guards with the highest martial arts who are in charge of protecting the prince. No matter what happens, these eight guards will not leave the prince. The matter of chasing people is not their responsibility.

These guards all had flares on their bodies. Hearing Bailichen's order, one of the guards took out the flare from his pocket.

This kind of signal flare is made of a thin bamboo tube with a spring on it. When the spring is pressed, fireworks will be shot out, but this kind of fireworks is different from the fireworks that people set off during the Chinese New Year. After the explosion, the smoke will form a skull shape in mid-air, which will not disperse for a long time, so as to send a message to the nearby people for help.

Hearing this, a guard rushed out of the lobby immediately, shaking his hands to set off a signal flare, but at this moment, those people who had gathered at the gate of the yamen to watch the excitement suddenly gathered back, and several sleeve arrows were nailed to the place. On the body of a guard.

It turned out that these people were all assassins. They dressed up as ordinary people, and on the surface they gathered here to watch the fun, but in fact they waited for the plan to divert the tiger away from the mountain to assassinate the magistrate of Liaocheng.

The weapons and hidden weapons carried by these people were all poisonous. With so many sleeve arrows nailed to his body, the guard immediately fell to the ground with a black face.

This is a series of schemes drawn up by Yan Xingchen, the Ninth Prince of Beichen Kingdom. First, let people set fire to the street to attract some servants, and then use the litigants to assassinate the county magistrate.

It would be great if it could be successful, but if it was not successful, they would take advantage of the lack of people in the yamen to kill the magistrate, which would be regarded as revenge for the gold mine being seized.

The Ninth Prince's strategy can be said to be exhaustive. If it were another magistrate, today's knife would definitely be unavoidable.

But his luck was bad, he didn't know that the county magistrate of Liaocheng was His Highness the Crown Prince of the Canglan Dynasty, and that His Highness followed Taifu Bailichen, besides studying, he was also learning martial arts, and his kung fu was not bad, so he couldn't beat him to death. kill.

He didn't even figure out that an unremarkable teacher in the Liaocheng county government office turned out to be a master of martial arts.

Bailichen couldn't see it well, so he said in a deep voice, "Stop them! Send out the signal no matter what!"

The remaining seven guards rushed to the door immediately after hearing the news, guarded the door, and fought with those assassins disguised as ordinary people, buying a little time for Bailichen and the prince.

Bailichen supported the prince to sit on the ground, and quickly tore a red rope from the prince's neck. The bottom end of the red rope was a ball-shaped pendant, and the sapphires inlaid on it formed a "cross" shape. , very bright and delicate.

He pressed hard on the largest sapphire in the middle, and there was an exquisitely designed mechanism inside, and the pendant split in two. It turned out that the pendant was hollow, and inside was a jet-black pill.

He took out this pill and stuffed it into the prince's mouth. This pill is an antidote for the prince to carry with him. It can cure all kinds of poisons, but no one knows whether it can just cure the poison on these assassin's daggers. Because he is not proficient in medicine, it is only used to temporarily suppress the toxicity on the prince.

"My lord, hold on!" Bailichen looked at the prince with a flash of determination, and finally picked up a water and fire ruthless stick from the wall, and rushed out of the hall.

He was good at wielding a deadly gun, but at this time because he was going to the court for trial, he didn't bring his gun with him, so he had to use a stick for the time being.

Between opening and closing, he swept away those assassins with the momentum of one man guarding the gate and ten thousand men not opening, and then said in a deep voice to the guards behind him: "I will hold them back, you take the antidote first, then release the signal flare, put Your Excellency, take it away and go to the Baili General's Mansion!"

Bailixiao's general's mansion is not far from the yamen. Although today is the day when Bailixiao regularly goes to the military camp outside the city to patrol, but there are guards in his mansion. When they see the signal, they will definitely come to the rescue. They want to run there, just right Those who come to the rescue can be greeted.

The guards did not dare to be negligent, and obeyed his instructions. Each of them drew a red thread from their necks, and there was a pendant under the red thread. The gorgeous one is inlaid with ordinary black crystals.

After they took the antidote, several people raised their hands together, and several signal flares were shot into the air at the same time, and after a bright explosion, several skull-shaped thick smoke intertwined and filled the air.

After the signal flare was successfully released, three guards fought side by side with Bailichen to block the assassins. Five guards went into the lobby, two supported the prince, and three guards retreated to the second hall from the back door.

One of the assassins was the head. Seeing this situation, they immediately had a calculation in their minds. An ordinary magistrate would never have a master like Bailichen around him. It would be rare to have a few servants with average martial arts skills. However, there are such masters around this magistrate, so he guessed that the identity of the magistrate of Liaocheng must be unusual.

If he could kill an important person in the Canglan Dynasty, then his contribution must be extraordinary.

Thinking of this, he knew that the magistrate's reinforcements would arrive soon, but he still shouted loudly: "Brothers, chase after me and kill this dog officer. While there are few of them, kill them all! The master said Yes, for completing this work, each person will be rewarded with 500 taels of silver!"

When the assassins heard this, they screamed excitedly. Under the leadership of this leader, half of the assassins bypassed Bailichen and the others, and chased in the direction of Ertang from both sides of the courtyard.

The rest of these people relied on their large numbers to bully the few, and after a while, the three guards who fought side by side with Bailichen fell down.

It's not that their martial arts are not good, but that the opponent's weapons are all poisoned, as long as they touch a little flesh, they will immediately appear symptoms of palpitation, shortness of breath, and numbness of hands and feet.

Even if they take the antidote in advance, they cannot avoid such symptoms. One is that the antidote has just been taken and it has not yet taken effect. The other is that the antidote is not quite right. Although it can slow down the onset of toxicity, it does not Not against this poison.

All things in this world are inter-generated and restrained by each other, and no antidote can cure all the poisons in this world.

(End of this chapter)