Chapter 58 Chapter 57 The hand of manipulation

A few days later.

Princess Jiarou entered Mingzhou Prefectural City in a procession of honor, and a banquet was hosted by the imperial edict at Wangnan Tower in the city to welcome "Wei Huai'en".

However, as early as breakfast time, Shui Jing came over to remind Wei Huaien to prepare to leave the city and return to the princess motorcade. Wei Huaien, whose eyes were bloodshot after staying up all night, ran out in confusion, grabbing the secret report submitted by Shifang last night.

She grabbed Shui Jing's clothes and shouted:

"Quick, prepare a fast horse for me, it's too late!"

Shui Jing was so frightened that she nodded repeatedly. Just as she was about to call someone, Wei Huai'en simply pulled out the hairpin and tore half of the hem of her skirt, pushed her away and ran towards the stable.

"master!"

Shui Jing hurriedly followed up. When he saw a guard on the road, he immediately pulled him up to chase Wei Huai'en. Seeing Wei Huai'en leap onto a white horse, he was so anxious that he opened his hands to stop her.

"Go away! I'm going to save Xiao Qi!"

Wei Huai'en hurriedly tightened the reins of the horse, causing the white horse to raise its hoof and neigh. Such a big movement finally alerted everyone in the world. But only her back was seen as she walked around Shui Jing Jue Chen.

"If you don't hurry up and chase me, you must not let the master make any mistakes!"

Shui Jing reacted quickly and ordered the guards present to follow Wei Huaien immediately.

Xiao Qi flew a pigeon to send a message last night and expected to arrive at Leishan at noon today. Shui Jing didn't know what Wei Huaien had discovered, but he could only repeat his old tricks to prop up the illusion that Wei Huaien was still in Mingzhou City.

Wei Huai'en had memorized the map of Leishan and headed straight for the main road.

The strong wind blew her hair into a mess, and she burst into tears before she knew it. She didn't know whether it was the strong wind that hurt her eyes, or the worry in her heart that almost pushed her into the fire and burned her.

Wrong, completely wrong. Leishan is not the power of King Duan at all, but the direct descendants of Nanlin who were adopted by Emperor Yonghe and raised in Mingzhou. The Mingzhou Prefecture is basically the eye planted by Emperor Yonghe under King Duan's family.

The chess pieces he used to control Mingzhou.

Everything that she, Prince Duan, and Prince Rong thought they owned were controlled by the people he secretly instructed. They thought they were the forces they cultivated on their own, but in fact they were really just false.

Their struggle never harmed those who were loyal to Emperor Yonghe. Instead, they were blinded and cut off each other's true loyalists.

The emperor could not tolerate those who were loyal to a second master.

So this time, King Duan in the north will lose a real arm around him, and will put this account on Wei Huaien's head.

Xiao Qi will also die at the hands of bandits in Mingzhou, leaving her no longer available in the Xuanyu Division.

Last night, when they sent someone to blackmail Li Kong using Meng Keshu as an excuse, Li Kong sent her people away without hesitation. However, a secret message was secretly sent to her, reminding her to be careful about the people around her, and telling her about Lei Shan and Yan Weiguang.

The origin of a family.

Li Kong was also a person who received the instructions from Emperor Yonghe. Leishan is the burial place of Yan Weiguang's clan. After Yan Weiguang's death, he gathered his direct descendants from the Nanlin Army to serve Emperor Yonghe. That's why he was able to become Sijun in a white body so quickly.

position.

King Duan thought that the credit was his, but in fact it was Emperor Yonghe who acquiesced in the matter and asked Eunuch Le to carry it out. Such imperial power made Wei Huaien feel as cold as a bone when he saw the truth.

If Li Kongnian hadn't supported Xiao Qi back then, she wouldn't have known that it was Emperor Yonghe who killed her true descendant until Xiao Qi's death.

But he still deliberately delayed the time, making it difficult for Wei Huai'en to stop Xiao Qi and his party before they entered Leishan.

Using the old Nanlin Army troops to avenge Yan Weiguang as a reason, Wei Huai'en was unable to pursue King Duan.

Xiao Qi had arranged for Wei Huai'en in the north, so that King Duan would not settle accounts with Wei Hua'en because of Xiao Qi's death.

After both sides suffered losses, Emperor Yonghe was able to tightly confine their ambitions and fights in the Colosseum he built, sitting there and watching with gusto.

The white horse was already foaming at the mouth, but Wei Huai'en kept urging her not fast enough. The guards from all directions were left far behind her, and they even had to distinguish the horse's hoofprints at the fork in the road to ensure that they were walking in the same direction as her.

Finally, when the sun rose to noon, Wei Huai'en heard the noise in the dense forest in front of him. Without thinking, he clamped his horse's belly and faced the man in the center of the fight who was wearing black clothes and silver shoulder armor, shaking his long sword like a swimming dragon.

The one who besieged.

She caught up!

"I am Princess Jiarou, the Nanlin army retreats quickly!"

She stared in his direction and rushed over. The so-called bandit hesitated for a moment when he heard her call, but did not dare to block her way. The sound of killing stopped, and Jiang Hong led the soldiers who were only slightly injured.

Protected Wei Huai'en who came riding alone.

Xiao Qi was injured in several places on his body. After the surrounding Nanlin troops retreated, he stabbed his long sword into the soil to support his shaky body.

Fortunately, there was no blood in the black clothes. He met her eager eyes with a reassuring smile and shook his head to indicate that he was fine.

Seeing that the Nanlin Army was still concerned about her identity, Wei Huai'en simply stepped in front of Xiao Qi and showed off the gold medal symbolizing Princess Jiarou's identity.

"Who is your boss? Let him come to see me!"

There was a commotion among the Nanlin Army, and they separated a road to let out a middle-aged man, who was the former Mingzhou Prefecture Commander.

"The villain Song Yingshi has met His Highness Jiarou, General Jiang, and Deputy Ambassador Xiao."

Xiao Qi stared at this man in disbelief. He clearly remembered that this man was executed because he surrendered to Yan Weiguang, but Wei Huai'en was already prepared and accepted his gift without any trouble.

"I don't care what orders you have received, but since I have discovered your true identity, you must retreat quickly, otherwise I will sweep away this mountain and leave you with no place to stay."

Wei Huai'en was waiting attentively for the Nanlin Army's answer. She believed that threatening the Yan family's burial ground would force the Nanlin Army to give up the idea of ​​revenge.

If she didn't come in person, the Nanlin Army would be able to put aside Yan Weiguang's death by killing Xiao Qi. But she was the one who really had a grudge against Yan Weiguang. The Nanlin Army didn't dare to kill her, and they had no confidence in killing Xiao Qi. They had to

Just give up.

How to explain to Emperor Yonghe later is a matter for later, even if he gives up the authority of the regent, it doesn't matter.

When she ran all the way in fear and saw Xiao Qi being surrounded and killed, she was already able to distinguish the importance of power and Xiao Qi in her heart.

She supported and supported her all the way, and raised her direct descendants bit by bit. How could the lovers she hugged, kissed, and even had joy with become her stepping stones to gain the emperor's trust? How could she die in this wilderness without any explanation?

The road ahead is so long, she wants him to live, and she wants him to stay with her.

She can suspect him, take advantage of him, even bully him, humiliate him. She knows that she is so selfish that she is unwilling to share her power with anyone, and she also knows that she is so greedy that she wants everything.

But if all of this had to be paid for by his death, then she would rather have nothing.

Xiao Qi relaxed after she appeared, because as long as her red figure was in front of him, he knew that he had received all the protection he had prayed for.

The Nanlin Army was coming in force, with the clear purpose of harvesting his life, but when he discovered this, he was not desperate at the first moment, but regretful that he would not be able to see Wei Huaien again before his death.

He is not afraid of death. Really, a walking zombie has his heart and soul tied to his only master. His body is just an extension of her consciousness, relying on love to maintain vitality. She is here, so he

He won't die.

It’s just that the former Mingzhou Prefecture Commander became the chief officer of the Nanlin Army, so who is the true identity of the old housekeeper he once contacted? Where is that person now? Xiao Qi scanned the Nanlin Army who was eyeing him from far and near, looking for

With that face.

"Your Highness Jiarou must save the gelding's life?"

Song Yingshi's eyes wandered for a moment, and he asked Wei Huai'en in a neither humble nor arrogant manner.

The old housekeeper took advantage of the fact that Jiang Hong and others' attention was focused on Wei Huaien, secretly handed a repeating crossbow to Baal, and pointed at the back of Wei Huaien and Xiao Qi.

Song Yingshi saw it, but pretended to attract everyone's attention naturally.

"Bold! Who are you to dare to question me like this? Take your people and leave quickly, otherwise don't blame me for letting the Northwest Army take action!"

So what if this sentence reaches the ears of Emperor Yonghe? She has been on guard for so many years anyway. Even if she really has never intervened in the army, can she make others believe that the Northwest Army does not have her power?

"Your Highness, calm down, I don't dare."

Song Yingshi bowed deeply. Just when Wei Huai'en and others breathed a sigh of relief, Xiao Qi looked around to no avail and turned around intuitively.

At the same time, Baer fired two arrows in a row, one aimed at Xiao Qi's heart and the other straight at the back of Wei Huai'en's heart.

Kill that evil spirit! Kill that woman! He and his prince can take advantage of the chaos and escape!

"Uh-huh!"

Wei Huaien suddenly heard a muffled groan from behind him, and his back seemed to have been lightly bumped. Song Yingshi raised his head and stared at her face that turned pale in an instant, and told her softly: "The grudge is over."

She heard the voices of Jiang Hong and the soldiers, and the inarticulate sounds of Monan Yu laughing, but when she turned her head stiffly, she could not hear Xiao Qi's voice.

He was lying on his side on the ground, with one arrow in his thigh and one in his left chest. The blood was not concealed by the black clothes this time and fell into the soil beneath him.

"No……"

His distance suddenly became much closer, and she saw a pair of trembling hands reaching under his nose to test, and when she realized that she felt his breath on her fingertips, she realized that those were her own hands.

"He's still alive, he's still alive!"

She lay on top of him and covered his two wounds tightly. Her cold hands that were holding the reins were gradually warmed by his blood, but why couldn't she stop his bleeding!

"Hey, get out of the way! I have medicine in the car, I can definitely save him!"

Jiang Hong's voice shouted in her ear, and she realized that her vision was shaking because he was pushing her.

There is medicine, she only understood this sentence, so she stepped aside and watched blankly as Jiang Hong carried Xiao Qi away who was still bleeding.

The Nanlin Army had retreated, and Baal and Monan Proton were under guard again by the soldiers of the Northwest Army. Her gaze blankly swept over Baal who was pinned to the ground, and she looked at Jiang Hong's carriage without stopping.

Wei Huai'en put her hands on the ground and tried to stand up, but her knees seemed to have lost control. The excruciating pain made her hold on to the stirrups behind her to stand still.

It turned out that she had just fallen directly from the horse and fell next to Xiao Qi.

The blood on his hands turned cold and sticky after a while. Shifang finally arrived with his guards. Seeing her look like this, he almost thought Wei Huai'en had been injured, so he hurriedly dismounted and ran to her to check on her condition.
To be continued...