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King Jing and the princess traveled with great spectacles. Even though the Shangshu Mansion was in the capital, they would arrive in an hour, and there were still a large number of servants and maids, leading the way in front of them and accompanying them behind them, mighty and mighty.

Since it is a painting appreciation, it is necessary to bring the painter along.Yin Qingyu and several other painters accompanied behind the sedan chair.

The capital is lively, although there are guards clearing the way to escort them, there are still many people watching the excitement gathered around the roadside, talking a lot.Yin Qingyu was not used to this kind of hustle and bustle, so she just carefully looked down at the road, and didn't notice at all that a swaying figure among the people in front of her was approaching.

Passing by the people around him one by one, Yin Qingyu didn't notice that after a figure passed by him, he was suddenly shocked, staggered to a stop, and turned to look back at the team going away.

Zhang Tong, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, had been waiting for a long time. With a smile on his face, he welcomed the princess and King Jing into the hall, stroked his beards and said, "His Royal Highness King Jing came to the humble house just after returning to Beijing. It's a great honor. I haven't seen you for a long time, and I will see her more elegant! Princess——"

Princess Ruiyang smiled sweetly: "You and I only met last month, so you don't need to praise me."

Zhang Tong agrees. "The two Highnesses must go straight to see what kind of treasure this humble minister has acquired so dare to boast so much... Please take a seat and come right away."

The princess laughed and said, "If Master Zhang exaggerates the truth, so what?"

Zhang Tong said "hehe" twice: "Accept the punishment and accept the punishment, and listen to Your Highness."

"Oh?" It was King Jing who spoke this time, "Master Zhang is getting old, how can we be embarrassed, when the time comes, Ruiyang and I will pick two of the collections in the mansion."

Zhang Tong knew that these two young men were not limited to jokes, so he stroked his beard and laughed: "I obey my orders. But I also asked, if I didn't boast, should the two Highnesses deserve a reward?"

The princess said: "You say."

Zhang Tong murmured, glanced at the audience, and said with a smile: "No need to trouble, isn't there some famous people from His Highness's house? How about asking one to stay in the humble house?"

The princess thought for a moment. "Adults are highly respected, well-educated, and they also have admiration for adults. It's just that people are different from things. I have to ask myself before I can give up love."

"Your Highness is sympathetic, that's natural." Zhang Tong clapped his hands, and two people held up the scroll covered with silk satin respectfully.Everyone was waiting to see the true face of Mount Lu. Suddenly, King Jing heard the faint sound of fighting outside, which was not like the routine practice of the guards. He raised his eyebrows slightly and said, "Slow down!"

Zhang Tong was puzzled and was wondering, at this time a servant hurriedly ran in to report: "Master, it's not good, someone broke into the mansion, and it's menacing!"

Zhang Tong was surprised, and asked in a deep voice, "Who is it!"

"I don't know... I don't know... looking at the ordinary clothes, I seem to be drunk..."

Shangshu's mansion is the home of important ministers, with extremely strict guards, how can ordinary people break in casually, and make the servants panic and report the news regardless of the presence of the distinguished guests?A thought flashed through the princess' mind.

Zhang Tong frowned, turned around and pleaded guilty to King Jing and the princess, "Forgive me, Your Highness, there are chores to spoil the fun in the humble house, Rong Chen will come as soon as he goes." Then he strode out of the hall.

King Jing and the princess glanced at each other, got up and followed them out.Everyone followed.

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Walking through the corridor and walking the long stone road, Zhang Tong was shocked by the scene at the gate of the mansion, and then stopped in his tracks.

——Born in a noble family of Shili Zanying, although he has seen a lot, he has never witnessed such a fierce and cruel scene with his own eyes, let alone it happened in his own family...

There were bloodstains all over the floor.From the gate to the stone road, to the flowers and plants beside the road.There is an autumn hibiscus whose snow-white flowers have been splashed red, which is very shocking.

Four or five guards from the palace fell to the ground, struggling and moaning; the rest were still struggling.

There was only one person surrounded by them.Because of the fight, he couldn't see the man's face clearly, but Zhang Tong felt an obvious evil spirit coming towards him.He shouted, "Who are you?"

The man turned a deaf ear, and in a blink of an eye another guard lost his weapon and fell to the ground.

Zhang Tong couldn't help being startled and angry. "Take it down for me and interrogate it carefully!"

Several guards joined behind Zhang Tong, and the battle became more intense for a while.The sound of swordsmen and muffled sounds of human bodies sounded extremely depressing.King Jing watched the battle, and found that the man who broke into the mansion not only fought against the crowd with one man, but also had no weapons in his hands, and he had to deal with the swords on all sides until now.In front of the master and distinguished guests, the guards were unable to take the person for a long time. They were under a lot of pressure and their faces were dripping with sweat.The besieged people also seemed to be injured, but they were still extremely tenacious.

Suddenly, a flash of light flashed.It turned out that the man pinched the point of the guard's knife during the fight, then broke his hand and swung it out, but unexpectedly the point of the knife went straight in the direction of the princess!

The princess' guards were shocked.They were accompanying the princess, when the incident happened suddenly, the tip of the knife was moving at a frightening speed under the strong force, and there was absolutely no time to stop it.Seeing that the tip of the knife was in front of the princess, it suddenly bumped into a force of energy, turned its direction, and fell to the grass two feet away.

"Bold!" King Jing shouted with a sullen face after waving the tip of the knife with his sleeve robe.

The two guards behind the princess also jumped out protecting the lord and joined the siege, trying to take this person down as soon as possible.

The guards of the Shangshu Mansion are already one of the best in thousands of miles, and the princess guards are even more carefully selected masters. The pressure on the man suddenly increased, and there were several more injuries on his body, his arms were shaking, and his clothes were even worse. It was shattered by the sword wind and sword energy.

Perhaps the extremely difficult situation aroused his fighting spirit even more. He originally used a knife he had snatched, but now he threw the knife away, grabbed someone's steel whip and used his strength to spin horizontally in mid-air, as if rushing violently. Four or five guards were hit by him in the middle, and they all took a step back.

King Jing ordered: "Bow and crossbow!"

The four crossbowmen immediately held their bows and set their arrows, aiming at the stubborn man in the encirclement.The muscles at the corners of Shang Shu Zhang Tong's mouth twitched involuntarily.The four crossbowmen in King Jing's Mansion are the famous "God's Flying Arrows". The step outside was passed straight through the tree trunk, and the arrow continued to fly through the tree trunk.

King Jing said: "It's alive."

"Yes!" Responding in unison, at the same time four steel arrows made a sharp sound of breaking the wind, and shot straight at the uninvited guest who had just driven back the besieging crowd.

Hearing the wind, the man instinctively turned his body to the side.This steel arrow is no small matter, it is extremely heavy and extremely fast, and there is no room for anyone to dodge it.

There was only a muffled sound, one arrow hit his left shoulder, and the other flew past his right arm, his sleeve was torn, leaving a deep groove of blood.He avoided one of the other two arrows and kicked one away!

The four archers were surprised at first, and then showed a trace of embarrassment on their faces.It is unprecedented to be able to avoid their arrows... Missing in public today is really disappointing the master.

Besides, the man was hit by an arrow, and his body was stunned. Everyone could see clearly—a young man covered in blood.The man only paused for a moment, and then started fighting with the surrounding guards again.

This brief glance made Yin Qingyu in the crowd froze in shock, unable to believe her eyes... He, he was...

——Although half of his face was covered by hair, he could still recognize this person he had known for more than twenty years!

Seeing the four crossbowmen nodding their arrows and drawing their bows for the second round, he stepped forward and knelt down beside the princess before he could think of anything else, "Your Highness! Please spare him...he is my younger brother!"

The princess couldn't help being surprised and glanced at him.

"Your Highness! I beg you to spare him...Your Highness..." Yin Qingyu only begged.

The princess frowned slightly, looked up at the fierce battle ahead, and said, "Stop!"

The bows and arrows drawn by the four crossbowmen immediately stopped firing, and the besieging guards immediately stopped.

The man struggled to hold on with one breath, at this moment the siege stopped, suddenly relaxed, he was unable to support anymore, and passed out.

"Feng..." Yin Qingyu hurriedly got up and ran up despite the fact that the princess hadn't spoken yet.With just one glance, he froze—I saw that he was covered in blood, and his clothes were almost ragged; the arrow was nailed to his shoulder, and the gurgling blood kept flowing... not only his shoulder, but also his chest, abdomen, arms, legs, everywhere. It was wounds, all oozing blood, soaking through the clothes.

His face was also bloodstained, and his eyes were closed tightly, as if he had lost all life.

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"You have a younger brother, why have you never mentioned it?" The princess's tone was as usual, but the faint words already showed her annoyance.

Yin Qingyu bowed her head, and said in a low voice with some guilt: "Because... because Xiaomin didn't get along with his family, and he was alone after leaving home, so..."

"Who else is in the family, and how do they make a living?"

"... There is also a mistress. The family members are common people."

"His skill is not ordinary." The princess said, "To tell the truth."

Yin Qingyu knew that, unlike the previous forbearance, he had caused such a big disaster, this time the princess wanted to ask him about his origin. "Xiaomin came from a family of martial arts practitioners, so my younger brother practiced martial arts since childhood... It's just that Xiaomin is not talented enough, so he never practiced martial arts, and he didn't want to stay at home..."

King Jing asked, "Are you from Jianghu?"

"……Yes."

The royal children were not familiar with the warriors of the Rachel sect who wielded knives and swords, but they were quite displeased with this trend of using martial arts to violate the ban.The princess said: "You are so brave, you dare to go straight to Shang Shu's mansion in broad daylight. You are his elder brother, I'm afraid you can't get rid of it."

Yin Qingyu immediately knelt down. "Xiaomin is at fault, let him deal with it... But, Xiaomin's younger brother, he..." His tone trembled slightly.

"He trespassed on the mansion of the imperial court official and injured many people, the emperor is so lawless!" The voice of the princess listened very seriously, "Fortunately, no one was killed, but the crime is enough to punish hundreds of people, exile far away! "

Yin Qingyu lowered her head, not daring to speak any more.Everything the princess said is true, and it would be considered shameless to argue.Even so, my heart was like a raging fire, and I didn't know what to do.

Shang Shu Zhang Tong suddenly said: "What is he intending to do when he barged in?" He broke into the mansion in broad daylight, injured many guards, and even offended the honored guests seated there. , Conservation is extraordinary.

"He..." Yin Qingyu lowered her head, her voice hesitated, "About, about... came to look for Xiaomin..." As soon as the words came out, she felt a shock in her heart, and she froze.

Did he come to find himself?Why?Why do I think so!Obviously——

He stood there in a daze, distracted, and didn't even hear Zhang Shangshu's next question.

It was King Jing who smoothed things over: "Looking at him, he didn't know, so he was frightened. Just wait until his younger brother wakes up, and then interrogate him."

The princess glanced at Zhang Tong.

Zhang Tong knew that when the incident happened in his house, the owner of the damage was himself, so the princess waited for him.Although the assassin who broke into the mansion was hateful, he had something to do with the princess, and if he didn't understand the matter, he would be punished if it wasn't good.He said: "What Your Highness said is, you go down first."

Yin Qingyu didn't move, she was still kneeling on the ground, hesitating, and spoke with great difficulty: "Xiaomin...can you... see my brother again?"

Zhang Tong couldn't help laughing, his tone seemed to be meeting someone who was about to be executed. "Since you are brothers, it is inevitable that you will take care of brotherhood. Although this person is guilty, filial piety and righteousness cannot be broken. Just go and visit him."