Use a substitute on your wedding night to scatter the ashes of your entire family

The leader of the men in black pointed his sword forward and said, "Fire all the poisonous arrows in your hands, and kill one! Whoever can kill Gu Xingyan, the master said he will reward him with a thousand taels of gold!"

Suddenly, he pointed his spear at Liang Tianyou and ordered, "Shoot!"

A barrage of arrows suddenly rushed towards Liang Tianyou alone.

Even if Liang Tianyou had three heads and six arms, he would not be able to dodge the hundreds of arrows flying towards him alone.

Gu Xingyan's pupils suddenly shrank. After ten years of secret guard training, he, Shu Wenbo and Liang Tianyou had already become friends for life and death.

They were more than just his subordinates.

In his previous life, he didn't know his own identity and was brought back to Daliang by Uncle Ou. Later he learned that both of them died at the hands of Ling Yao shortly after he left.

In this life, he must keep them both safe!

Gu Xingyan leaped over and split the arrow flying towards Liang Tianyou, but at the same time, an arrow shot straight towards him.

Ou Jianglin and Liang Tianyou shouted at the same time: "Be careful!"

The voices of the two people seemed like gongs and drums that had been broken and changed.

Gu Xingyan stepped back suddenly and used his sword to block. The weapons collided, sparks flew, and at the same time the arrow was blocked, there was a "puff" sound.

The sharp arrow pierced through the skin and flesh and went straight into Gu Xingyan's chest.

It turned out that when he blocked the arrow, no one expected that there was a man hiding on a tall tree in front of them on the right. The man had been looking for an opportunity. If Gu Xingyan hadn't blocked it just now, the arrow would have pierced his heart directly.

Gu Xingyan fell to the ground with a bang.

Liang Tianyou's eyes were bloodshot, he shouted angrily, and threw the sword in his hand with all his strength. The sword seemed to have grown wings and flew towards the man on the tree. The next moment, the man fell down from the tree with a thud.

Blood kept gushing out of his mouth. He lay on the ground, looking at Gu Xingyan who had his eyes closed, with a weird smile on the corner of his mouth.

When the remaining guards saw their master fall, no one retreated, but instead rushed towards the men in black. Even if they were going to die in the next moment, they had to kill all of them.

In fact, the master could have found a substitute to divert the assassinations along the way, and he could have secretly returned to the Sijiu City with Lord Ou and Master Liang.

But the master did not do so. They knew that the master treated them as human beings, not tools to risk his life for him.

Following such a master, they would be willing to die even if they really did.

When the leader of the men in black saw that he had finally succeeded, he brandished his sword and shouted, "Gu Xingyan is dead, retreat!"

Whoosh, the people in black no longer stopped and fled in all directions.

The gate guard's eyes were red, he dared not let them leave, and immediately chased them.

"Come back here!" Liang Tianyoulin yelled, and the remaining guards stopped chasing him.

Ou Jianglin's eyes went dark and his whole body began to tremble. The arrow was stuck in his heart and was poisonous.

He rushed over and saw Gu Xingyan's eyes closed. He wanted to hug him but didn't dare.

He didn't know whether his heart was injured or not, and he didn't dare to move.

"Someone, come quickly, find a doctor, find a doctor!"

"Liang Tianyou, you better hurry up and go into the city and the palace to find the imperial physician. Even if you knock one out, bring another one over for me!"

Seeing the guards still standing there with grief on their faces, Ou Jianglin shouted angrily: "What are you all standing there for! Go with Liang Tianyou!"

Tears rolled down Ou Jianglin's weathered face.

Liang Tianyou jumped on his horse and galloped towards the century-old city, Sijiu City, in the distance.

The other guards followed him quickly.

Ou Jianglin was at a loss as he was the number one scholar in the imperial examination in Daliang that year.

Moreover, he was not only good at learning, but also had martial arts skills. He was a rare person in Daliang who was both civil and military, and was highly valued by the Emperor of Daliang.

At that time, the queen was still in the boudoir. The two families were old friends, and she treated him like her own brother.

When she was seventeen years old, the previous emperor passed away and the new emperor ascended the throne. She married the new emperor, who was only nineteen years old at that time.

A year later, she gave birth to the eldest prince. Unfortunately, Concubine Chen poisoned her during her pregnancy. The eldest prince was sick in the womb and was dying when he was born.

In the following years, the queen took care of the sick child day and night. When the eldest prince was three years old, he became her disciple.

He didn't know how much suffering and hardship this girl with two deep dimples and eyes that curved into a line when she smiled had endured in the deep palace to make the emperor decree to make the sickly eldest prince the crown prince when he was only six years old.

Three years later, the eldest prince finally secured the throne of crown prince. The queen breathed a sigh of relief, but at this time she found out that she was pregnant again.

Seeing that the eldest prince drank more medicine than he ate every day and was in excruciating pain when his illness flared up, she said that no matter whether the child was a boy or a girl, no matter what the price she had to pay, she would ensure his safety for the rest of his life.

During the ten months of pregnancy, every step she took seemed like walking on the edge of a knife. Concubine Chen was arrogant and domineering. She relied on the emperor's favor and her father and brother who had 200,000 troops under their command. They used many tricks to harm the queen, both openly and covertly.

This strong woman survived and successfully gave birth to the ninth prince.

However, God does not want people to live a reckless life. When the ninth prince was just three months old, the crown prince fell ill again and often coughed up blood. The imperial physician determined that the crown prince would not live past the age of thirty-five.

The queen looked at the baby in the cradle, then at the pale, unconscious prince, and asked the nanny beside her to call him over.

That was twenty-one years ago, when he was only twenty-eight years old.

She was very strong, her face was full of tears, but she swallowed them hard and said to him, "Jiang Lin, I'm very tired, really very tired, and every day I feel like I can't hold on any longer. But they are both my children, and I don't want anything to happen to either of them."

He knelt on the ground and listened to her finish her words.

She wiped away her tears and helped him up from the ground: "But now, in order to protect Xiao Jiu'er's safety, I have to send him away."

He was shocked and cried out: "Empress..."

Tears streamed down her cheeks, but she still finished her words: "When I first became pregnant with Jiuer, I had already thought of this day, so I sent people to Northern Jin and found a farmer. You take Jiuer to them. As long as he is safe, even if he lives his life as an ordinary citizen, it is worth it."

"Your Highness, His Highness the Ninth Prince is a prince. He has such a noble status. How can he be raised in another country, or in the hands of farmers?"

She looked at the child in her arms blowing bubbles at her, and tears fell again: "Prince? Oh, a prince who lives like the crown prince? I would rather he never know his identity."

"I also arranged for General Liang and my brother's son, and sent them over two months ago."

"Three secret guards were also sent along. Jiang Lin, Northern Jin has our Daliang intelligence network, and His Majesty has agreed to appoint you as the person in charge there. This is a secret decree. On the surface, you are traveling to find a miracle doctor for the crown prince."

"My lady..."