The attacker also reacted very quickly. After his sword attack failed, he slapped Zhou Chen hard, sending him flying and crashing into the room.

This happened in just a moment, and no one in the private room reacted in time. The first person to react was Yan Yujin who was standing behind Zhou Chen.

"Brother Yu!"

The next moment, he ignored the danger and slapped the assassin with his palm, but the assassin was very skilled in martial arts and dodged Yan Yujin's attack by slightly turning sideways, then lowered his shoulder and hit Yan Yujin's chest.

Yan Yujin only felt a powerful force coming at him. He had no time to use his internal energy to resist. He was knocked away like a broken puppet and even spurted out a large mouthful of blood.

"what……"

The women screamed loudly, and the private room was instantly in chaos. They ran out desperately, screaming as they ran.

"Murder, murder!" "There's an assassin!"

Zhou Chen and Yan Yujin were attacked so quickly that Mu Qing, who was at the innermost, only reacted at this time. He was not scared, nor did he run away. Instead, he roared in anger.

"Brother Yu, Yujin, I will kill you."

But because he came here without any weapons, he could only grab the wine jug on the table and smash it hard at the assassin.

His attack did not hit the assassin, but instead attracted the assassin's attention. The assassin, dressed in black, turned his cold gaze to Mu Qing. The next moment, the long sword in the black-clad assassin's hand turned into a cold light and attacked Mu Qing directly.

Although Mu Qing had practiced martial arts, his skills were just mediocre compared to those of real masters. When he saw the black-clad assassin approaching, he felt the hairs on his body stand on end. He could clearly move, but he felt his whole body stiff. The terrifying murderous aura made him unable to move.

"My life is over!"

Just when he thought he was doomed, a figure suddenly appeared and knocked him to the ground. He narrowly avoided the sword and was so frightened that he almost couldn't breathe.

"Brother Yu!"

A shrill roar came out of his mouth. It turned out that the person who had just bumped into him and saved his life was Zhou Chen.

The injured Zhou Chen was seen fighting with the black-clad assassin. However, because Zhou Chen was seriously injured, had drunk a lot of alcohol, and had no weapons in his hands, he could not exert his full strength at all. He could only barely resist and dodge, and was in danger all around.

Such a big commotion happened in the private room, and the screams of the women naturally attracted the attention of the people around. Soon the whole Hongxiuzhao became chaotic, especially for those who saw the situation in the private room, who screamed in shock.

The assassin's swordsmanship was very sharp. Zhou Chen was injured and could only barely resist. Mu Qing wanted to help, but he simply didn't have the ability to do so.

Yan Yujin, who had just been knocked away, also recovered at this time. He kicked over the table, bumped into the assassin, and then rushed up after him.

After more than ten breaths, Yan Yujin was knocked down again, and Zhou Chen also had another sword wound on his body, and his situation was precarious.

But at this moment, suddenly a lot of hurried footsteps were heard. The black-clad assassin didn't bother to continue his attack. He leaped up, broke through the roof, and quickly disappeared in a few leaps.

Until the black-clad assassin left, Zhou Chen covered his wound and slowly sat down on the ground.

"Brother Yu!" "Brother Yu!"

Mu Qing and Yan Yujin both ran to Zhou Chen eagerly.

"Brother Yu, you are seriously injured. I will go find a doctor for you now."

Mu Qing hurried to the door, ignoring the chaotic scene outside, and shouted, "Doctor, hurry up and call the doctor over, or I will tear down this place."

Yan Yujin was next to Zhou Chen. Seeing the blood gushing out from the wound on Zhou Chen's abdomen, he immediately tore off his clothes and first helped Zhou Chen bandage the wound on his right hand, and then helped Zhou Chen cover the wound as well.

"Yu Jin, are you okay?" Zhou Chen asked with concern, taking a breath.

Yan Yujin shook his head repeatedly: "I'm fine, my injuries are not serious, but your injuries are serious."

Zhou Chen smiled calmly and said, "It's okay. It won't kill me. I've been in the martial arts world for a few years and have been injured a lot. This injury is nothing to me."

"Brother Yu, you still have the nerve to laugh. I was so scared just now. Where did that assassin come from? Who is he? Why did he want to assassinate us? If it weren't for you, the little prince and I would have been killed."

The situation just now was really dangerous. The assassin was too sharp. If he had opened the door, he would definitely be a corpse now, because he could not have the same fast reaction speed as Zhou Chen to accurately grab the sword.

And Mu Qing, if Zhou Chen hadn't rescued him, he would have been killed as well.

But he couldn't figure out where this assassin came from and why he came to assassinate them. Who among the three of them was the real target, or were all three of them targets? Then what was the purpose of his assassination?

I thought of many possibilities in an instant, but I couldn't figure out the reason.

Under Mu Qing's roar, the person in charge of Hongxiuzhao quickly brought a doctor over. The person in charge of Hongxiuzhao was Qin Banruo, but she usually did not show up to manage the situation. She left the management to her subordinates.

But at this moment, as the person in charge behind the scenes, she had to show up, because this matter was too big, and almost someone died. Moreover, Mu Qing was yelling outside and was recognized as King Mu of the Mu Mansion in Yunnan.

King Mu was assassinated at Hongxiuzhao. This was a major event that shocked the entire capital. Even Qin Prajna, as King Yu's adviser, was terrified at this moment.

When she brought people to the private room, she was secretly relieved to see that Mu Qing was fine. However, when she saw Yan Yujin and Zhou Chen, she was shocked again.

She knew Yan Yujin, the son of Marquis Yan's mansion. Although she had never seen the other man, he was obviously not an ordinary person since he was with Mu Qing and Yan Yujin. Now that he was injured, she was very nervous and quickly asked the doctor to help Zhou Chen.

But as soon as the doctor approached Zhou Chen, he was stopped by Zhou Chen.

"No, I don't trust you, Yujin, let them out."

When Yan Yujin heard Zhou Chen's words, he reacted immediately. Yes, they were attacked in Hong Xiu Zhao. Who knows if there are any problems with the people in Hong Xiu Zhao? Let them receive treatment. What if something happens?

So he immediately said to Qin Prajna: "I'm sorry, please go out first."

Qin Prajna was very unwilling and wanted to say something, but at this time Mu Qing shouted arrogantly: "I told you to get out, don't you understand? Get out now."

Qin Banruo then led her people away with a grim expression. Afterwards, she gave a few instructions to her subordinates and quietly left Hongxiuzhao, preparing to go to Prince Yu's Mansion to report the situation there to Prince Yu.

She had a premonition that today's assassination might put her Red Sleeves in danger, so she had to make preparations as soon as possible.

After everyone left, there were only three of them left in the private room. Zhou Chen spoke again: "Mu Qing, go call more people first, in case the assassin appears again."

Mu Qing immediately replied: "Okay, I'll ask someone to go back and arrange it now." With that, he left the private room first.

Zhou Chen took out a small package from his arms and asked Yan Yujin to open it, revealing several small bottles and jars, and pointed at one of them.

"Yujin, open it and apply it to my wound. It will stop the bleeding."

Yan Yujin didn't dare to delay, opened it quickly, and then fell on the wound on Zhou Chen's abdomen.

After he took his hand away, he could see Zhou Chen's wound clearly. The wound was very deep, which made him frown.

"Yujin, don't worry too much. Fortunately, I managed to grab the sword in the end. I don't think my internal organs were injured."

Although medicine was applied, the wound was still bleeding. Zhou Chen could only hold it down again. Yan Yujin applied medicine to the wound on Zhou Chen's back.

The wound on the back is not that bad. Although it is long, it is mostly flesh wounds and not serious.

"I don't have a place to stay in the capital, and I can't let Gong Yu know about my injury. I'm afraid she will worry. So we'll go to Jing Rui's place later, and I'll go to Brother Su's Xuelu to rest for a while."

"it is good."

Yan Yujin's eyes were red, and he felt very guilty. If he wasn't so weak, how could Brother Yu be injured so badly?

Hong Xiuzhao's chaos naturally attracted the attention of Miaoyinfang across the street, especially after seeing the patrol camp and others surrounding Hong Xiuzhao, many people on the street ran to watch the fun.

On the rooftop of Hongxiuzhao, Mr. Shisan and Gong Yu gathered together and looked in the direction of Hongxiuzhao next door.

"Mr. Thirteen, what happened to Hongxiuzhao?"

Mr. Thirteen said, "I don't know the details, but I know that the guest inside was assassinated. It seems that the identity of the person assassinated is not ordinary. Don't worry, our people should pass the information back as soon as possible."

Then he looked worried. As the contact point of the Jiangzuo League, their Miaoyinfang was responsible for keeping an eye on Hongxiuzhao, which was also one of their goals. Now that Hongxiuzhao was in trouble, they were confused and more or less worried.

Gong Yu sighed, "The capital has been in a very eventful time recently. I wonder if this will affect the plans of the young master and the clan leader."

"Unless we receive any orders, we will remain in place," said Mr. Thirteen.

Since the matter concerned Prince Mu's Mansion and Marquis Yan's Mansion, the patrol camp acted quickly, and after the people from the Three Departments Office received the news, they also sent people over. The entire Hongxiuzhao was surrounded tightly, and no matter whether it was the people from Hongxiuzhao or the guests who did not have time to leave, they were all blocked off.

The private room where Zhou Chen and his friends were was surrounded by people, and no one was allowed to enter or leave.

When Qin Prajna arrived at Prince Yu's mansion, Prince Yu was already resting. However, when he heard Qin Prajna say that there was an extremely urgent matter, he still stood up to meet Qin Prajna.

"What? You said Mu Qing and Yan Yujin were assassinated in your Red Sleeves Movement?"

Prince Yu was also frightened after hearing what Qin Prajna said. Qin Prajna was his adviser and Red Sleeves were Qin Prajna's strength. Now that he encountered such a thing, he was of course nervous.

Qin Prajna said: "Mu Qing and Yan Yujin are fine, they were only slightly injured, but there was another person who was traveling with them, who was seriously injured. I asked someone to treat him, but he refused and drove us away, so I came to find you, Your Highness."

Prince Yu felt something was wrong and asked, "Then do you know who is with them?"

"I don't know him, but I heard Young Prince Mu call him Brother Yu and Young Master Yan call him Brother Yu, so he must be of an important status."

Prince Yu was shocked and looked nervous. "I know who he is. He is Gongzi Yu. Now we are in trouble. Today, my father asked him to go to the palace for a banquet tomorrow to help deal with Baili Qi, but he was assassinated in the evening. This is definitely a conspiracy. Could it be the work of the crown prince?"

Qin Prajna asked: "Your Highness, how do you know that the assassin's target is that Gongzi Yu, and not Prince Mu and Master Yan?"

"You do not understand."

Prince Yu paced back and forth anxiously, and then told Qin Banruo what happened in the palace today.

He didn't care about Zhou Chen's life or death. What he cared more about was whether such an incident would have an impact or be beneficial to him.

Qin Prajna analyzed, "If it was done by the prince, what good would it do him? And according to what you said, this Gongzi Yu is very powerful, so the assassin who assassinated him must be a top master, otherwise it would be impossible to seriously injure Gongzi Yu, and injure Master Yan and Prince Mu. Does the prince have such a powerful master under his command?"

Prince Yu frowned, "What you said makes sense, but if it wasn't the Crown Prince, who could it be? Was the assassin's target Gongzi Yu?"

But no matter how hard he thought, he couldn't figure it out. This matter was too confusing.

Xie Mansion, Xuelu!

A dark shadow sneaked into Mei Changsu's room without alerting any of the Xie Mansion's guards and knocked gently.

"Fei Liu!"

When the door opened, Fei Liu saw the masked man, but was not surprised and let him in. After he came in, the man in black took off his mask and it turned out to be the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Guards, Meng Zhi.

"Brother Meng, you're back. Is everything going well?"

Mei Changsu had been waiting for a long time. When he saw Meng Zhi coming back, he immediately asked.

Meng Zhi nodded and said, "It went smoothly. He injured Gongzi Yu, but it was not fatal. But what exactly happened?"

In fact, he was also very confused, because tonight, Fei Liu found him and asked him to meet Mei Changsu, and then Mei Changsu gave him a very strange task, which was to ask him to assassinate Gongzi Yu.

He was completely confused at the time, but Mei Changsu did not explain much to him. He just reminded him to remember that he could only injure but not really kill Gongzi Yu, because Gongzi Yu was also their man.

Finally, with a lot of doubts in his mind, he went to Hongxiuzhao to assassinate Zhou Chen. Things went very smoothly because Gongzi Yu cooperated very well, as if he had known the plan for a long time.

Mei Changsu breathed a sigh of relief. He still believed in Meng Zhi, and Zhou Chen was very strong. As long as his injuries were not serious, he would recover quickly.

This plan was actually not proposed by him, but by Zhou Chen himself. He strongly opposed it at the time, but Zhou Chen said that if they did not do so, their next plan would be difficult to implement.

He knew that Zhou Chen was not just thinking about their plan, but also did not want to hurt him because of Princess Nihuang's matter. He also wanted to help him rescue Tingsheng, so he proposed this very risky plan.

Zhou Chen's attitude was so stubborn that he couldn't persuade him at all. In the end, he had no choice but to agree, because Zhou Chen's plan was actually very good.

By doing so, not only can they avoid mistakes in the next plan, but they can also take this opportunity to use official power to crack down on Hong Xiuzhao and Qin Banruo's Hua clan spies, which is very beneficial to their plan.

"In fact, Gongzi Yu is also a member of the Jiangzuo League."

"Young Master Yu is also from the Jiangzuo League?"

Meng Zhi was shocked. Although he had some guesses, he was still shocked by what Mei Changsu said in person.

By this calculation, among the top ten masters on the Langya Master List alone, three are from the Jiangzuo League, Luosha, Gongzi Yu and the great hero Ji Bu. This is really scary.

"Since Gongzi Yu is your man, why are you asking me to assassinate him?"

Mei Changsu said: "It is to prevent him from attending the palace banquet tomorrow."

"Why is this?" Meng Zhi was still confused.

Mei Changsu patiently explained: "Your Majesty asked him to go to the palace banquet tomorrow in order to deal with Baili Qi, but in fact, Baili Qi is also a member of the Jiangzuo League. I arranged for him to attend the son-in-law selection conference for two purposes. One is to provide a backup and help Nihuang; the other purpose is to take this opportunity to enter the sight of His Majesty, and then enter the sight of everyone, so as to prepare for my next plan."

At first, Baili Qi was allowed to participate just to help Mu Nihuang, but after he met Xiao Tingsheng and took charge of the literary examination, the plan changed and Tingsheng had to be rescued.

"what?"

Meng Zhi was completely stunned after hearing this. After a long while, he said bitterly, "Why didn't you tell me earlier? It was me who recommended Master Yu to His Majesty."

Mei Changsu sighed: "I already have some guesses, otherwise, why would His Majesty suddenly give such an order."

Meng Zhi regretted, "It's all my fault. I was so smart that I ruined your plan. If it weren't for me, there wouldn't be so many things. I also caused Gongzi Yu to be injured and have to escape. Xiaoshu, I'm sorry for you."

"Brother Meng, how can this be blamed on you? We can only blame our poor planning. However, this incident also helped us accomplish another task, so it is a mixed blessing."

Mei Changsu certainly wouldn't blame Meng Zhi. Ignorance is not a crime. Who could have thought that things would turn out like this.

"Brother Meng, His Majesty will definitely ask you to check on Gongzi Yu's injury. When the time comes, you must let His Majesty know that he is seriously injured and cannot take action in the short term, so that His Majesty will give up the idea."

"Okay, leave this to me."

"Then you should hurry back now. Such a big event has happened in the capital, and it also involves Prince Mu's Mansion and Marquis Yan's Mansion. It will definitely cause a big commotion, and His Majesty will definitely call you over. You should return home immediately and wait."

"By the way, no one should realize you're an assassin, right?"

Meng Zhi said confidently: "Don't worry, the swordsmanship I used at that time was very diverse, and with Gongzi Yu's cooperation, no one could see the clues. As for Yu Jin and Mu Qing, they have limited knowledge and will not recognize me."

"That's good."

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