bastard returns

The sword-wielding man who appeared suddenly was naturally Ning Yuan. Facing Lao Chi's questioning, he just smiled indifferently, then his eyes passed him, and unexpectedly fell on the middle-aged man opposite him. He took a sword flower and put the sword away When he got behind him, he said politely: "Eunuch Qi, it's really been a long time."

That's right, this mysterious master who forced Lao Chi, who boasted of his high martial arts skills, to look like a stray dog ​​is the eunuch who is next to the eldest princess, Eunuch Qi.

"So it's you kid." Eunuch Qi frowned slightly, looked at Ning Yuan, then at Lao Chi, "What's going on here?"

"Senior, don't be fooled by this kid!" Lao Chi originally thought that the middle-aged man behind him was with Ning Yuan, and was almost scared out of his wits, but now seeing the middle-aged man seemed a little confused, he immediately After realizing it, he yelled: "This is a game this kid set up to plot against me. Seniors, please keep your eyes open, and don't be someone else's pawn!"

"I'm plotting against you? I'm afraid Commander Lao made a mistake." Facing Lao Chi's scolding, Ning Yuan not only didn't panic at all, but laughed, "Did I force Commander Lao to rob you halfway, or did I force Lao Chi? Commander, you are killing people and taking money, I can't bear such a big hat to be put on my head."

Lao Chi was speechless for a while, and Ning Yuan was right, he wasn't there before, and he had the evil intention to rob him, but he kicked the iron board.But Lao Chi couldn't see it. Since Ning Yuan knew the middle-aged man behind him, he also knew the other party's ability. Maybe all of this was a game that Ning Yuan had arranged in advance to cause conflicts between himself and the middle-aged man. .

He gritted his teeth and stared at Ning Yuan and said, "Get out of the way now, and I can let the past go, otherwise I will report this to the princess in the future, and I will definitely let you go around!"

Eunuch Qi frowned, it seemed that this person did not fake his identity, he was really the leader of the Xia people.

"Don't blame the past? If I let the commander leave, I really dug a hole and jumped into it myself." Ning Yuan sneered, and regained his posture, it seemed that he didn't intend to let Lao Chi leave, "I don't believe the commander will let the past go , If Princess Jinyu finds me in trouble at that time, the villain will not be able to contend with the princess, so I can only wrong the commander and shut up."

Lao Chi smiled instead of anger, "You boy, do you want to keep the commander's life? Just rely on you?"

"Only the dead can't speak. Of course, I know that Commander Lao has great martial arts skills. I will definitely not be an opponent, but don't forget that I am not the only one here." Ning Yuan said calmly.

The corner of Eunuch Qi's eyes twitched, obviously Ning Yuan included him, he couldn't help frowning and said, "Boy Ning, I don't have me, I want to help you through this muddy water."

Lao Chi was still a little nervous at first, but when he heard Eunuch Qi say this, he immediately felt relieved. As long as the person behind him doesn't interfere, it's easy to clean up Ning Yuan by himself. When the time comes, just tell Princess Jinyu about it, and the princess will naturally take care of him In his early days, no matter what the identities of the two people in front of them are, if they dare to offend Lao Chi, they will definitely let them go!

"Eunuch Qi, this is the end of the matter, don't you still want to stay out of it?" Ning Yuan's eyes fell on Lao Chi's limp hand, and he said calmly: "Although you have lived with the eldest princess in the palace for a long time, you rarely The floor outside, but I don't believe you have never heard of the reputation of the princess Jinyu. This person has already suffered serious injuries in your hands. If you let him go back, if you think about it, Eunuch Qi will be protected by the eldest princess. If you do, you will cause unnecessary trouble for nothing."

Eunuch Qi's expression froze, Ning Yuan was right, he hadn't thought of this just now.

As Ning Yuan said, he was with the eldest princess and seldom walked outside, but this did not mean that he was unaware of the turmoil outside. Princess Jinyu and his group came to Huajing. Although he had never seen it, he He also knows, and he also understands Princess Jinyu's temperament very well.

Unruly, cold-blooded, and extremely unreasonable... The princess's reputation has long been spread far and wide, but he cut off one of Lao Chi's hands. If Lao Chi really went back to find Jin Yu's princess for support, he would definitely get into big trouble upper body.

Although he is with the princess and his status is not low, but in the end he is nothing more than a slave. In terms of status, he is far behind Lao Chi. When Princess Jinyu enters the palace to question him, even the emperor will not be able to be considerate. It is also impossible for the eldest princess to tear herself apart with a visitor who is involved in the diplomatic relations between the two countries in order to protect a slave like herself. When the time comes...

Thinking of this, Eunuch Qi's face became even more gloomy.

"Elder-in-law has figured it out, as long as you and I work together to keep this person, and then deal with it without anyone noticing, no third person will know what happened today, and since I have also participated in this matter , and will not betray Eunuch no matter what." Ning Yuan saw Eunuch Qi's unshakable expression, and immediately took advantage of the victory to pursue.

After a while, Eunuch Qi seemed to have made up his mind, and without saying a word, he twisted his heels and rushed straight towards Lao Chi. Although this is a quiet and deserted alley, there are unavoidable problems, so it is better to fight quickly.

"How dare you!" Lao Chi turned pale with shock. He really didn't expect that the person in front of him would dare to attack him after he had revealed his identity. Ning Yuan would have done it, but Eunuch Qi said that his kung fu was unpredictable. He asked himself that he was not an opponent. With one arm broken, how could he dare to love to fight? He immediately started his lightness kung fu, and wanted to jump onto the roof to escape.

"That's a good idea!" In the end, he just jumped up, and then he heard Ning Yuan's sneer, and then there was a sound of twisting and twisting from behind. , a crossbow arrow grazed his shoulder in a thrilling way, and went through the air with a bloodstain.

Lao Chi's face was pale, he fell down in embarrassment, turned around and stared at the crossbow in Ning Yuan's hand.

The other party actually has this kind of thing, it seems that today can't be good, otherwise as long as you turn your back to the other party, you will be shot in the back in all likelihood.

No matter how confident Lao Chi was in his external skills, he would not have the guts to challenge the power of the bow and crossbow with his body. If this thing is used on the battlefield, it can penetrate even ordinary leather shields.

Eunuch Qi also looked at the bow and crossbow in Ning Yuan's hand in surprise, but he didn't think too much about it. Seeing Lao Chi stop, he immediately caught up with him. Lao Chi could barely raise his only hand to deal with it. , the two fought together again.

It's a pity that when he picked up his martial arts, Lao Chi missed Eunuch Qi by a margin, and now he was crippled with another hand. He was completely pressed and beaten by the opponent. After two or three moves, he was hit by three palms in the chest, and a mouthful of blood spewed out. out, almost fainted.

Seeing that Eunuch Qi was slapping him with a palm full of inner strength, Lao Chi gritted his teeth tightly at such a critical moment of life and death, and could only hold his heart, instead of dodging or dodging, he puffed out his chest and let Eunuch Qi's palm hit him again.

There was a trace of surprise in Eunuch Qi's eyes, but he didn't give up at all when he shot. Lao Chi was shocked, and felt that the external energy he had lifted up was about to be completely shaken away, and an overwhelming internal energy rushed into the opponent's palm. In the chest cavity, his heart was almost crushed, he endured the severe pain, and spurted out a mouthful of blood again, but with the strength of Eunuch Qi's palm, he flew away and swept towards the high place, while protecting his hands with both hands. In front of his chest, guard against the sneak attack of Ning Yuan's crossbow.

There was another sound of machine gun next to his ear, and Lao Chi sneered. This time he was fully prepared, as long as he blocked the arrow, he could get away. We are ready to fight.

But when he saw that there was only a small bow and crossbow standing there in that direction, but there was no one, he felt a chill in his heart, and thought to himself that he was not good, so he was about to turn around.

"It's too late!" A voice that seemed to come from Jiuyou resounded beside Lao Chi, a cold light flashed in front of his eyes, circled around his neck, his eyes were wide open, as if he still didn't understand Something happened, and the huge head rolled down from the neck, and then the little three-like body lost its center of gravity and hit the ground, stirring up a circle of dust.

Ning Yuan shook off the blood on the sword. Only then did he relax and looked at Lao Chi's corpse with some lingering fear.

He hadn't thought of taking this man's life at first, but everything today was really different from what he had expected, but in the end it turned into this step, Lao Chi's death, but it was like lifting a serious trouble in his heart.

"You actually have a secret crossbow that is only available in the army. You are quite courageous. You know that if this matter is spread, anyone can take you down and punish you." Eunuch Qi stepped forward and said in a somewhat hostile tone.

"My father-in-law is serious. The villain believes that my father-in-law is not a person with a broken mouth." Ning Yuan bowed obediently. He had suffered from the old eunuch, so he naturally had to be more rigorous. The secret is that he asked Zhao Mo to come to prevent accidents I needed it, but I didn't expect it to come in handy.

"I want to ask you, but you dare to take advantage of me, you are quite courageous." Eunuch Qi did not put on a good face for Ning Yuan, "I don't care what grievances you have with this Lao Chi, but you dare to use me Also calculate it together, let me be your thug for a while, do you think this matter can be settled like this?"

Eunuch Qi has been by the eldest princess's side for many years, and he has already become a human being. He naturally understood from the few words between Lao Chi and Ning Yuan that he was purely regarded by Ning Yuan as a pawn to deal with Lao Chi.

Ning Yuan lowered his eyebrows and said pleasantly: "Eunuch, don't get angry, what happened today is indeed a villain's fault. Although this Lao Chi is dead, he still has several hundred taels of silver bills with him. It's compensation, the villain doesn't want a penny."

"A bank note?" Eunuch Qi laughed, "The well-known guard of Princess Daxia died in my hands. This is not a small matter, and you are not afraid that I will also slap you in order to keep a secret."

"My father-in-law has never been a person who cares about human life, why do you say such a thing." Ning Yuan didn't seem worried at all, and said calmly: "Besides, the villain also said it just now, and the villain is also involved in this matter, even if it is for self-protection , and I won’t leak the slightest bit of information, I will also clean up this man’s body, don’t worry, father-in-law.”

"I'm not someone who cares about human life? Didn't you forget that you almost died in my hands back then." Eunuch Qi showed a strange expression.

"My father-in-law's words are wrong. Although I was very poisonous and unconscious, I still vaguely remember what happened at that time. It was my father-in-law who gave me an antidote so that I could survive. The princess's order to kill should also be done, and it can be regarded as a kindness to the villain, and the villain will always remember it in his heart." Ning Yuan spoke out the thoughts in his heart.

"...Forget it, if it weren't for the fact that your practice has some connection with this father-in-law, this father-in-law would not have risked his life to save you. The purpose of killing this person today is to avoid trouble in the future. If it wasn't for the fact that I acted harder , broke his arm, knowing that this matter can’t be resolved, so I won’t mess with the grievances between you and others. Now you just deal with this place. Remember, if there is any news about today’s matter, you will be punished. I understand." Eunuch Qi flicked his sleeves, as if he had no intention of talking to Ning Yuan, after checking his hands, he threw aside the small wooden box containing the Linglong Tower, and nodded when he saw that the contents inside were intact. Turned around and left.

Ning Yuan's eyes fell on Lao Chi's corpse again, and only then did he really calm down. In fact, from the very beginning, he never thought of ending Lao Chi's life. He knew early on that Eunuch Qi liked to collect Rare things also fell in love with the Linglong Pagoda, so they set up this game. The purpose was to cause Princess Jinyu and the others to have some disputes with Eunuch Qi who was next to the eldest princess. The eldest princess and Princess Jinyu were completely different For those who have a temper all the way, once the two sides fight, it will naturally give Ning Yuan and the others an opportunity to get rid of Huyan Yuanchen's predicament.

It's just unexpected that this Lao Chi was too domineering, and in the end he had the idea of ​​murdering and stealing goods, which made Eunuch Qi frightened and fought back, and shocked Ning Yuan who was following behind, but seeing that things turned out like this, And Lao Chi is obviously not the opponent of Eunuch Qi, Ning Yuan simply does not do anything, it is better to take this opportunity to kill Lao Chi, without the suppression of this fierce general, Huyan Yuanchen's dilemma can naturally be solved.

Without thinking about it, Ning Yuan immediately contacted Zhou Shi who was waiting nearby with a secret method, and quickly cleaned up the scene. When the sun rose, the alley returned to its former appearance, even if someone Passing by, how would you know that on that night, the famous Commander Lao of Daxia would capsize in the gutter and lose his life inexplicably here.

The disappearance of Lao Chi, the bodyguard of Princess Jinyu, caused quite a disturbance in Huajing.

Hearing that His Royal Highness the princess was furious because of this, and even entered the palace to ask the emperor for someone. Obviously, the emperor of Da Zhou would not let this little girl mess around, and he didn't even see him, but he also understood that it is not good to keep this matter in the past. An oral order was issued, and Jing Zhaoyin was assigned to cooperate with the Ministry of Criminal Justice to thoroughly investigate the matter.

A large living person disappeared inexplicably, which made Jing Zhaoyin quite troublesome, but he had to investigate, so in order not to post notices in the city to find people, he sent people to investigate, but after many investigations, Ning Yuan was finally found .

Because according to what Princess Jinyu said, the Nalao guard beside him disappeared after being led by Ning Yuan to go shopping.Facing Jing Zhaoyin's questioning, Ning Yuan only said that after he brought Lao Chi to buy things that night, they parted ways because it was too dark. Regarding such a confession, even if Jing Zhaoyin doubted it, he could not make a mistake. They even wanted to interrogate the shopkeeper of the store where they bought things, but unfortunately when the shopkeeper was found, the shop named Qiwu had already closed and the shopkeeper was missing.

The clues were originally cut off like this. Just when Jing Zhaoyin was worried about how to deal with the matter, suddenly another witness appeared, saying that he had seen a big man like the one on the portrait haunting around the fourth prince's mansion. After Jing Zhaoyin heard about it, he immediately went to the four A search was carried out around the Prince's Mansion, and sure enough, in a dry well not far from the Prince's Mansion, the body of Lao Chi's head was found.

This time the matter broke out, and all the spearheads immediately pointed to the fourth prince's mansion, and the fourth prince sent someone to kill the guards around Princess Jinyu, and then the gossip about throwing the dead body into the dry well was also discussed among some officials, saying There must be a nose and eyes, as if it is real.

After all, he is not good. Others would think so. The fourth prince, Sikong Xu, would be imprisoned in the mansion by the emperor's decree for such a long time, and there has been no pardon.The emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, who is talented in heaven, actually doesn't believe in this kind of fate theory. He ordered Sikong Xu to think about it at the beginning, but it was just because there were too many gossips in the palace and among the people. After the execution, a not-so-big but definitely not-so-small incident broke out, which made the emperor's original idea of ​​letting Sikong Xu out after the limelight had passed, immediately shattered.

Jing Zhaoyin, who was in charge of confiscating the house, found many letters in Pangsong's mansion that he had secretly communicated with the Daxia Palace. Among them, the fourth prince, Sikong Xu, was mentioned several times, and even the hall that happened when Prince Yongyi came to court. The whole story of the assassination incident, the emperor was furious when he saw these things, but Pang Song had already executed him, and there was no other evidence to prove that Sikong Xu was really involved in the incident. So, he is not allowed to come out and walk around.

As a result, Lao Chi, who came from the Xia Dynasty, suddenly died near the prince's mansion, so he had to attract people to connect the two things together, and even some people with rich imaginations made up a rough idea of ​​the whole thing, saying Sikong Xu had colluded with Da Xia long ago and conspired to rebel. As a result, the matter was exposed with Pang Song's death, so Si Kong Xu was asked to rest. As a result, Lao Chi, the commander of Da Xia, came to lobby again and encouraged Si Kong Xu to continue to work with him. They cooperated, even threatening to expose Sikong Xu's long-standing relationship with the Great Xia royal family. In order to seal Lao Chi's mouth, Sikong Xu could only kill him, and then threw the body in the dry well.

The whole story was told in an unobtrusive manner, which made many people believe it to be true, including the Princess Jinyu.

Seeing that Lao Chi was dead, although he died next to the fourth prince's mansion, it could not prove that Sikong Xu did it, and there was no other evidence to find the murderer, so he let Jing Zhaoyin close the case hastily, but Murong But Yu didn't want to let it go. Lao Chi was his bodyguard, and now he died inexplicably. It was her, Princess Jinyu, who slapped her in the face. Besides, Lao Chi was also his elder sister and one of the Queen Mother's cronies. He who was so confused There is no way to explain to Queen Mother Xia when I go back.

Of course, given Murong Yu ten courages, she would not dare to seek the emperor's bad luck, so she could only seek trouble from Sikong Xu.

"Your Highness, Princess Jinyu is here again." In the lifeless fourth prince's mansion, a servant spoke to a man in white shirt in the room with fear.

The man originally had a handsome face, but now his face is as white as a ghost. Not to mention that he has lost a lot of weight, the bloodshot eyes and the large black bruises under the eyelids can fully indicate the mental state of this man very bad.

"Your Highness..." the servant said again, thinking that if the Fourth Prince didn't respond to him, he would leave immediately, so as not to become a punching bag for the Highness in front of him for no reason.

At the same time, he was still muttering in his heart that since the death of Pang Da and the fourth highness was under house arrest in the mansion, his mental state has deteriorated day by day, and his temper has become moody. Before him, there were three servants who served Sikong Xu, In the end, all of them died because of Sikong Xu's violence, that's why he was so trembling, for fear of making Sikong Xu unhappy and causing disaster for himself.

Today's Fourth Prince's Mansion looks magnificent, but it looks like an old man. Although it will collapse, the original pavilions and pavilions have grown a lot of weeds, and no one has cleaned them. The huge yard is even more invisible. What kind of servants, since the accident, they can't serve the fourth prince's temper, many people have been driven away, and the newcomers dare not come in, now there are only a few of them except Si Kongxu's personal guards This servant takes care of the food and daily life of the whole house.

He even believed that he would not be surprised if the Fourth Prince's Mansion suddenly collapsed one day.

"Let her go." Sikong Xu who was originally sitting silently said these words out of nowhere.

"This won't work, Your Highness." The servant said with a weeping face, "If the emperor knows that you treat the princess of Daxia like this, the emperor will be angry, not to mention that it is not the first time that Princess Jinyu has come here, he Even if we want to force our way in, we can't stop it..."

"Is my Sikong Xu's mansion so out of power that even cats and dogs can break into it?" Sikong Xu suddenly yelled, which really startled the people. He was afraid that Sikong Xu would blame him, so he immediately responded with a vino With a cry, he left without looking back.

"It's really presumptuous, I am a majestic prince of a country, why did I fall to such a state..." Obviously the servant had already left, Sikong Xu seemed to be talking to others, and also seemed to be talking to himself, and seemed a little delirious.

"Your Highness, it's time to eat." There was another sound of footsteps, and Gao Feng walked in without saying a word, carrying a box of food.