Lady Zhao

Chapter 34

In the middle of the night, the wind was getting cooler, and there was a fig tree in the corner of the courtyard, its branches and leaves were fluffy like an umbrella, and it was pressed heavily on the fence. The shadows between the branches and leaves had already produced a lot of fruits.

The open windows are facing each other, and bright candles are lit in the room, making the room bright.On one side of the study room, one person sits against the light and shadow on a crabapple wooden chair. The young man in black has a slender figure, with black hair tied in a jade crown.

"Hey, let me tell you, do you really want to stay here for ten and a half months? This place is nice, but it's too boring!" Feng Yuxiu looked at the man, raising his eyebrows in disbelief.

Why accompany the princess to the palace to recuperate? It is clear that the old lady made a message to let him avoid the limelight. The incident that this person revealed a while ago is not small, but the strange thing is that this person can be obedient and obedient. Come and take a look, who would have noticed something different.

Gu Jingxing raised his eyes, glanced at the playful expression on someone's face indifferently, and knew what he was thinking at the moment, inexplicably lost his temper and said, "Are you afraid of the dark here, why don't you go to bed, and want me to accompany you? "

Feng Yuxiu, who was used to being choked, didn't care. Thinking of Gu Jingxing's death-faced sleeping with him, he immediately got goosebumps all over his body, and changed the subject unbearably, "Seriously, Prime Minister Du did something disgraceful. , but your attack is also a bit dark, no wonder the dog jumps over the wall and bites you like a mad dog."

"Don't insult the dog, the dog is very good." Gu Jingxing said lightly.

"..." Feng Yuxiu, who was talking to people seriously, was exhausted physically and mentally, and angrily left him and ran away.

In the room, Gu Jingxing's eyes gradually narrowed, and there seemed to be a pair of abysses in those pupils, which made it difficult for people to see clearly and were dark.If someone has too long hands and insists on reaching into other people's bowls, coveting what they don't deserve, don't blame him for being rude.

After the sound of footsteps outside the house, a beautiful female voice sounded, "My little girl saw that the Sixth Prince's place was still on, so she made some soup to soothe the nerves and help sleep."

"Miss Lao, please worry about it. The lord ordered that no one should bother you tonight. Miss, you should go back." Gu Jingxing's personal entourage, Zuo Ling, responded. Not long ago, even the princess was coaxed back when she came, let alone the young lady from the Zhao family.

Gu Jingxing was stunned for a moment, realizing that the voice belonged to Zhao Wenwan, his eyes darkened, and he didn't make a sound in time.

Zhao Wenwan breathed a sigh of relief when she heard the words, and she didn't really want to see that person, but she still showed an expression of reluctance to leave, looking towards the brightly lit room.

Zuo Ling persuaded again, "The lord is working inside, so it's inconvenient to see guests. It's getting late, so I'd better take the young lady back."

"Then don't bother, I'm the one who bothered you. But please give the soup and the note to the lord, it's my daughter's kindness." Zhao Wenwan didn't bother, and said generously.

I don't know if I was thinking too much, but Zhao Wenwan somehow felt that there would be no peace tonight, if the assassins attacked, they would definitely go straight to this place, so she wanted to remind Gu Jingxing earlier to prevent this from happening.According to her analysis, it was here that Gu Jingxing and Zhao Wenxi had an unusual emotional intersection. It was fine to say that she was planning for a rainy day and being nervous, but in short, she must never let things develop as scripted.

She expected that Gu Jingxing might not see her, so she wrote a note, disclosing that she saw someone suspicious, hoping that the sixth prince would be more vigilant. Zhao Wenwan loves Gu Jingxing, and everyone knows that there is nothing wrong with such concern. , even if it is Zhao Wenwan's "cup bow snake shadow", so what?
"This..." Zuo Ling was embarrassed.

Suddenly, there was a cough in the room, and an order came from inside, "This king is just thirsty, Zuo Ling, bring in the soup."

Zuo Ling felt that Miss Zhao's family was a little different from the rumors, but what surprised her even more was that the prince would want to drink this soup, "... yes." She smiled apologetically at Zhao Wenwan, and sent it to the master first.

Zhao Wenwan was also in a daze, hearing the rumors, that person avoided him like a snake and scorpion, and now he was drinking soup, wouldn't he be afraid of putting medicine in it?But soup is not the point, seeing the note is the real thing, just thinking wildly, I didn't realize that this person's voice sounded familiar.

The crescent-shaped lake in the courtyard quietly reflects the starlight in the sky, and the water surface shakes slightly, shattering the beautiful stream of light in the pool.The woman stood still and lost her mind, her body was dyed with a layer of silver light, as bright as a fairy, but she didn't know that this scene happened to catch the eyes of the people in the room, and there was a trace of strangeness in the usually calm eyes, the note was still pressed under the porcelain bowl, Because I was fascinated by watching, I haven't opened it yet.

He closed his eyes and just pulled out the note, when a sound of sharp blades piercing through the night sky suddenly disturbed the calm.Almost at the same time, the people in the room got up and raised their swords to greet them.

The swords intersected, making harsh noises.Zhao Wenwan suddenly came back to his senses, only to see a man with black hair and black hair standing with his back facing her, with a cold sword light, standing in front of her like a protector.

Even if he couldn't see the front clearly, Zhao Wenwan could still feel the sternness on his face at the moment, but it was aimed at her originally, but now he was facing the seven men in black in front of him.Those seven people were tall and vigorous, with bamboo hats on their heads and coir raincoats on their bodies. They did not know when they lurked up the mountain. What's more, they all held a long sword in their hands.

Zhao Wenwan, who obviously didn't want to be the hind legs, calmed down quickly, and retreated to the hiding place at the right time, observing secretly.

The identity of the visitor is clearly revealed, he is an assassin.

There were seven assassins in total, all dressed uniformly and cooperated tacitly with each other. Five of them entangled Zuo Ling and other men who came to protect him one after another, and the two of them jumped over him and rushed towards Gu Jingxing.

The sharp sword edge approached, and the air instantly became cold and chilling.

Gu Jingxing only swung his sword casually, and when the two swords intersected, the latter flicked his wrist, and slashed his arms sharply and accurately, forcing the man back a step, and the man's companion came up to catch Gu Jingxing's sword force, so that he could not see the blood disaster.

The two assassins were surprised that the Sixth Prince's swordsmanship was so superb, they looked at each other, swung their swords again, but this time they did not dare to underestimate the enemy.

Naturally, the defense of the palace was inferior to that of the palace, and this time the sixth prince was traveling in secret, naturally low-key, with a small number of manpower, which gave these assassins an opportunity to take advantage of it.Zhao Wenwan paid close attention, the shadows of swords and swords and the hazy night, not to mention the moves, even people couldn't see clearly, Zhao Wenwan felt sorry but at the same time suddenly thought of Zhao Wenxi's arrow wound, and then looked at the assassins, all of them were long swords, no bows and crossbows, An ominous premonition welled up in my heart, there must be an ambush somewhere.

Probably because there was too much movement here, and Princess Yongping, who was closest, also arrived here at some point. The guards were obviously persuading something nervously, but the princess was unmoved, and she was determined to look at Gu Jingxing's direction. Ken left with the guards.

Zhao Wenwan lamented the deep love between the two brothers and sisters, and at the same time, he caught a glimpse of a familiar figure. Why doesn't this person stay in the room and join in the fun?Little did they know that Mu Lanyan was also very regretful at this moment, but she just wanted to sneak here again at night to have a look at the Sixth Prince, and skipped the nanny to give a lot of silver taels to the nanny and nephew who was on duty in the morning. Inside, no one expected that there would be an assassin, even if she wanted to escape, it would be too late.

In the chaos, the guards took Mu Lanyan as Zhao Wenwan and guarded behind them together, making the situation even more chaotic.

Gu Jingxing was distracted to see it, and suddenly felt dizzy, and his men's moves became more and more fierce, intending to make a quick decision.The assassin noticed something, and the two of them understood, so they ran away to the princess. Gu Jingxing naturally couldn't let it go, and moved his sword with him, rushing to fight against the two before the two, and firmly guarding her.

The situation that had originally gained the upper hand was turned upside down.

Zhao Wenwan looked at the two oil bottles behind Gu Jingxing, um, one of them was produced by their family, which gave him a headache.Because Gu Jingxing had to protect the two of them, he was restrained everywhere, and his body was cut a few times. When he saw blood, Mu Lanyan's frightened and pale face at first was even less bloody now, probably because the scene scared him , tightly clutching one of Gu Jingxing's sleeves, it was sticky like he was afraid that he would die if he let go.

Looking at it from a distance, Zhao Wenwan saw that she was worse than the princess Jingui next to her. If she asked this sister to hold her hand again, wouldn't Gu Jingxing not have to beat her and wait for her to be chopped off.

Not far away, the palace guards who were knocked down lay in disorder, not knowing whether they were dead or alive. Zhao Wenwan gave up on the idea of ​​foreign aid, and secretly wanted them to die together, but this thought just crossed his mind. It was snuffed out, and the scourge would last for thousands of years, how could it be so easy.

Thinking that I was also a good sandbag thrower in the past, now I was looking for a stone on the ground, and when I lowered my head, a silver light flashed in my eyes, I straightened up immediately, and looked along.Sure enough, the archers were ambushed!
At the moment, Zhao Wenwan didn't care too much, he was caught off guard by smashing the two stones in his hand first, and took the opportunity to run over and drag Gu Jingxing past him before rolling to the ground.Almost at the same moment, Mu Lanyan, who had been sticking close to Gu Jingxing, also made a move, but for some reason, she stumbled, and after Zhao Wenwan pulled Gu Jingxing to avoid the cold arrow, she stood in Gu Jingxing's position and suffered an arrow.

Two muffled groans sounded at the same time, Zhao Wenwan felt that he was about to be crushed by a big rock, and when he was annoyed to make people get up, a black shadow appeared in front of his eyes. Pulled to stand up, while pulling off the scarf, the back of the neck hurt and lost consciousness.

The moment before he fainted, he caught a glimpse of Mu Lanyan's limply fallen figure with an arrow stuck in his shoulder blade, accompanied by panicked shouts, the whole yard was once again in chaos.

Gu Jingxing quickly hugged the fainted person, and held her tightly in his arms. He plucked the wet hair from her forehead and wrapped it behind her ears, revealing a trace of slack. This subconscious behavior made people rush to her Feng Yuxiu raised his eyebrows, but didn't say anything, and quickly wiped out the assassins and the others, including the archers who were ambushing on the wall, waiting for the prince to deal with him.

Mu Lanyan, who was wounded by the arrow, was quickly carried down for treatment, but Gu Jingxing was still holding Zhao Wenwan and did not move.Princess Yongping, who had recovered from her fright, was staring at people curiously at this moment, looking at Zhao Wenwan for a while, and then at her brother for a while.

After a while, if she realized something, "Miss Zhao really has a deep affection for her brother!"

Gu Jingxing lowered his head and glanced at Zhao Wenwan, who had a peaceful sleeping face. When he closed his eyes, the lines at the end of his eyes became more elongated, like a stroke of thick ink slanting upwards, with an indescribable lingering meaning, just like his usual appearance There is a slight difference.

It's hard to tell where the difference is, this difference is not obvious, but Gu Jingxing knows that this subtle difference does exist, but this feeling is not bad.

"...Well." The night was cool, and Gu Jingxing felt that the movements of the person in his arms who were instinctively looking for heat sources were slightly stiff, and as soon as he paused, he strode away with the person in his arms.

Hearing someone's cheeky reply, Feng Yuxiu stared at that person's back, and smiled undisguisedly, making it seem like he didn't know how much the girl disliked him when she bought a painting for the first time. Face!

(End of this chapter)