Queen Flower

Jiang Lan felt a pair of slender and pale hands, picked her up, and put her in a narrow space, and then it was dark before her eyes, and her body swayed again. She felt a lot of pain on her body, probably she was still alive, and if she died, there would be no pain.

She didn't know whether to be glad she was still alive, or to complain about not dying soon, so as to get rid of this broken body completely. But this is no longer something she can decide, and she can only leave it to her fate.

*************

While Jiang Lan and Lan Sheng were still struggling to escape on the slope, a carriage was slowly moving down the mountain road.

Pulling the cart were two tall horses with smooth, fat and sturdy fur, and their vigorous and powerful limbs landed with sound. The horse is good, but the carriage is very ordinary, with blue-gray cloth curtains, and there is no decoration around it, but it looks a little wider than ordinary carriages. The driver was a handsome young man in a gray shirt, sitting in front of the carriage with the reins in his hands.

Xia Henqiu was sitting in the car with the scroll in hand. Su Cheng's routine inspections had ended, and it was probably time to prepare to return to Beijing.

The mountain road was very quiet, only the sound of horses’ hooves and ruts. Suddenly there was a commotion on the side of the hillside, people shouted the sound of horses neighing and weapons, and it was a mess, and then it seemed that something rolled down from the top of the **** and just rolled to the side of the mountain road in front of the carriage. It stopped moving. The boy in gray hurriedly reined in the reins and stopped the horse's hooves that were about to leap.

"What's the matter?" Xia Henqiu didn't move, just asked the boy.

The teenager stood up, looked at it, and then replied, "It seems that two people were seriously injured and rolled down the hillside."

"Go around." Xia Henqiu said lightly, without any hesitation.

The carriage continued to move forward, bypassing the two people on the side of the road, and the mountain wind suddenly blew away the blue curtain while walking. Xia Henqiu turned his head and glanced outside.

"parking."

The boy hurriedly stopped the carriage.

The curtain was opened, Xia Henqiu got out of the car, and jumped directly without stopping, and the boy quickly followed and got out of the car.

There were two people lying on the side of the road, a man and a woman. They were covered in blood and seemed to be seriously injured. The man in particular had a broken arrow on his back. Most of the blood was oozing from his body. The woman seems to be carefully protected. There are no obvious big scars on her body, but the exposed skin is also full of fine wounds of different depths, and blood is slowly flowing out. The man was dressed in blue clothes, his clothes were broken and stained with blood, lying prone on the ground, with no face in sight, while the woman was half-sideways, revealing a half-round face, her eyes were closed, and there was a shallow wound on her forehead.

He had seen this woman, the little girl beside Chu Qingcheng. Xia Henqiu saw this half of his face just now, and made him stop the carriage.

He squatted down, took her pulse, frowned, and then leaned over to pick her up, while here, the boy in gray turned over the man's body and exclaimed, "Master, this is Lan Sheng."

What happened?

Xia Henqiu looked up at the top of the slope, and it seemed that someone was about to come down. He didn't speak any more, and after a little treatment, he carefully took Jiang Lan and Lan Sheng into the carriage, then turned over the seat to reveal the hidden compartment inside, put the two in, and then erased all traces, everything Back to normal.

The carriage did not gallop, but continued to walk unhurriedly.

After a while, a group of officers and soldiers with weapons came down from the mountain and stopped the carriage.

The young man pulled the reins, his face ashen, "Whoever doesn't have eyes, dare to stop Lord Xia's carriage."

One of the officers and soldiers walked out, probably a small leader. "What are you going to do? I don't know. You dare to hide the fugitives. I will let you go."

The young man was furious, and the wise and wise man he thought was actually insulted by such a person, and the reins in his hand were about to be pulled over the man's head.

The curtain was suddenly pulled away, revealing the face of a young man, but he was in his twenties, with fair complexion, fair complexion, slightly warped mouth, with a full smile, "What's the matter?" Stop being rude.

The boy said loudly, "My lord, they say we are harboring fugitives."

Xia Henqiu said with a smile: "It's okay, if you want to check it, you can check it." He opened the curtain so that everyone could see everything inside, and then said lightly: "I, Xia Henqiu, have never been framed for harboring a fugitive. , can you see clearly?"

The officer and soldier wanted to get into the car to search, but suddenly someone next to him stepped forward and grabbed the man's sleeve. The man who came after lowered his head and said with a little panic, "I don't know that Master Xia is here, I didn't want to be abrupt. It's all a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding."

Xia Henqiu lowered the curtain, blocking everyone's sight, "Are you sure it's a misunderstanding?"

"Yes, yes." The man firmly grabbed the first person's clothes and repeatedly said yes.

"In that case, let's go."

The young man raised his head, waved the reins and threw it on the horse, and the carriage galloped away immediately.

The carriage was far away, and the little leader angrily shook off the man's hand, "It's definitely because they harbored the fugitive, why did they stop me?"

The soldier then said: "Boss, this is Xia Henqiu, Xia Henqiu, the Prime Minister of our Celestial Dynasty, the first favorite of the emperor's side."

The little leader was extremely surprised, "This is Xia Xiang, that Xia Henqiu who is known as a courtier?"

Xiao Bing hurriedly covered his mouth, "Boss, there are ears on the wall, don't kill people by talking nonsense, Xia Xiang is a person who will pay revenge, whoever offends him will not end well."

The little head rolled his eyes, "Bah, what's there to be afraid of? I hate this kind of person the most. It's this person who can't get along with General Yan. But isn't he demoted to an inspector? What's there to be afraid of?"

"You are stupid, although he is an inspector now, he is also a first-rank inspector. Who knows what the Holy Master sent him out to do, maybe he was demoted on the surface, but he was actually an unannounced visit to the imperial commissioner. He returned to the capital and changed himself. It's the prime minister again. This person is the emperor's close minister. Even if the emperor is annoyed at him for a while, it will be fine soon. Do you want to offend him and harm the whole family?"

The little boss was afraid after he said it. It makes sense. They are such little people, what is the point of competing with high-ranking officials? I would rather offend a gentleman than a villain.

"Then what about the escaped prisoner? How do you communicate?" the little boss asked.

Xiao Bing smiled and said, "What's so difficult about this, let's just say that they resisted arrest and stubbornly resisted arrest, and fell off the cliff themselves, leaving no bones left."

The little boss patted his thigh, "Good idea, that's it."

The two immediately began to warn their subordinates. Anyway, they are brothers, and they are of one mind. If something happens to everyone on the same boat, no one will fall. .

At this time, Xia Henqiu was sitting in the Benz carriage thinking, Lan Sheng was seriously injured, something must have happened to Chu Qingcheng, because Lan Sheng was his personal bodyguard and would never leave him. It was officers and soldiers who searched for these two people and called them fugitives, so Chu Qingcheng should be in a lot of trouble.

The most urgent task now is to treat these two people first, and then we can know the end of the matter. They are seriously injured, and it will be too late if it is too late.

"Go back to Su City." He ordered.

The carriage went out of the mountain road and then turned the horse's head and headed towards Sioux City.