love palace

Three fast horses galloped along a deserted ancient road.The young man in the lead, with a crown of silk tassels and jewels on his head, is all over his body!The bright brass armor, the white jade sword on the waist, the longbow on the back, the horse and the whip, are very majestic.

And the two people behind him, one big and one small, were obviously guards and servants.The young boy servant in blue was driving a tall horse with two big iron arrow pots on his back, without any difficulty at all.

"Over there! Bows and arrows!" At the end of the ancient road is a steep cliff. There used to be a post station, but it was abandoned because of the rugged mountain road, high wind and strong waves.

Today, you can still see a dilapidated tile house standing on the edge of the cliff. Over time, it has become a habitat for wild animals.

A group of crows circled on the top of the cliff, quacking and screaming endlessly.They are eating tigers!The leftover animal remains, despite the strong wind, can still smell the bloody smell that fills the air.

Huang Ye has been sending people around to inquire, Hu!A common haunt, according to a local fisherman, there is a big tiger living on the top of the ancient road cliff! , very ferocious, killed many domestic animals, and even passed children in their mouths, fishermen did not dare to approach this place.

The news is indeed reliable, their horses had just climbed the cliff, and they saw the tiger!The leaping figure was the two tigers that Bihuang Ye had captured!Must be much stronger.

Fortunately, Huang Ye had been prepared early on. The hundreds of arrows he let Wei Qing carry on his back were made of specially made fine iron three feet seven inches long.

Wei Qing's riding skills were excellent, he was very stable on the horseback, without having to stop the horse, he turned around and hugged the quiver, and handed the long arrow inside to Huang Ye.

Huang Ye holds the bow in one hand and catches the arrow in the other. He is as stable as Mount Tai. He puts the long arrow on the bow and slowly releases the bow.

Tiger!It seemed to be aware of the danger, and it was running around among the rocks. Huang Ye was about two hundred steps away from it, and it was running very fast!

Success or failure depends on one move, Huang Ye understands that the bow is like a full moon, the eyes are as black as midnight, and the prey is locked tightly like the eyes of an eagle.

"Middle!" Huang Ye yelled softly in his mouth, only the bowstring could be heard!With a flick of the ground, the iron arrow flew out, and the chirping sound was as exciting as being on fire!

Tiger!With a sudden jump, the iron arrow just hit its right leg, piercing through it deeply!

"──Aw!" Tiger!The howling echoed on the cliff, making people tremble with fear, but Huang Ye calmly took two more arrows, drew the bow and shot them, this time, the tiger with the arrow in his chest!Finally rolling down the rocky slope, he stretched his tongue and swallowed his breath.

"Great! Your Highness! Another one!" Luo De said excitedly.a tiger!But exchange one hundred prey with the emperor, if this goes on, within two days, His Highness Ninth Prince's tent will be full!

"Tie it up and take it back." Huang Ye held the bow and said to Luo De.

"I'll help too." Wei Qing jumped off the horse, and followed Luo De to tie up this huge tiger! , A horse may not be able to hunch down.

At this joyous moment, Huang Ye's mount, Xueying, raised her head and neighed for a while, her horse's hoof pawed the ground restlessly.

Huang Ye looked up vigilantly, and found a few black figures faintly looming on the rocky slope not far ahead, and immediately shouted, "No! Get on the horse!"

Before Huang Ye finished speaking, those people who were hiding behind the rocks rushed out. They were all masked and dressed in black, but judging from the neatly lined up bows and taking turns to shoot arrows, they should be well-trained Killers, and all royal men!

Hundreds of silver and white arrows fell one after another like a violent storm, that tiger!Instantly turned into a hedgehog!

Huang Ye drew out his sword with a clang, and blocked the rain of arrows, while Luo De roared, "Slay the tiger!"He picked it up and used it as a shield to stand in front of him and Wei Qing.

It was too late to get on the horse now, because the two horses fell one after another, covered in arrows, with blood oozing from their mouths and noses, it was so miserable!

Xueying, driven by Huang Ye, was also shot by an arrow in the horse's belly, bleeding profusely, but she still tenaciously supported her master and resisted the enemy's attack!

After the rain of arrows was over, the ten masked men drew their sharp knives and rushed down the rocky slope shouting "Kill!"

"I'll kill you first!" Luo De threw the tiger away! , swung a knife and went forward to fight.

Huang Ye fired several arrows in a row, rolling down the four of them at once, and Luo De was so red-eyed that he split a masked guest in half with a knife!

Wei Qing has been staying in Hu!On the side, he doesn't know martial arts, let alone resist these assassins, but he remembers what Huang Ye said, let him take care of his mount Xueying.

Wei Qing ran back to Huang Ye's side, took out a dagger, cut off the long arrow in Xueying's lower abdomen, took out the medicine powder, and quickly stopped the bleeding.

When Huang Ye saw Wei Qing, he didn't let him leave, but instead stretched out his hand, picked him up on the horse, and sat on his chest.

"Follow me, be careful of hidden weapons." Huang Ye said in a low voice.

At this time, a masked man saw that something was wrong, so he took out a smoke bomb from his arms, and with a bang, it exploded on the spot!

Taking advantage of this blinding black mist, three masked men besieged, hacked and killed Luo De with knives, and stabbed straight towards Huang Ye!

Huang Ye smashed one person's head with a bow, and the other took the opportunity to slash Xueying's horse's neck with a knife, intending to make Huang Ye and Wei Qing fall off.

Wei Qing immediately crawled forward, wanting to protect Xueying, but Huang Ye moved faster and stabbed the man to death with a single sword!

There was only the last assassin left, and he used his companion's corpse as a cover to slash at Wei Qing with his sword, intending to pierce Huang Ye's body together with Wei Qing.

Unexpectedly, without hesitation, Huang Ye stretched out his arms to protect Wei Qing inside. At the same time, with a sharp flash of sword light, the man's chest was opened and he fell to the ground dead!

Xueying is struggling hard, it is covered with bruises, but it still moves forward.

"Your Highness!" Wei Qing looked at the outside of Huang Ye's arm, where blood was bubbling, and cried out in panic.

Huang Ye was about to speak when he heard the sound of horseshoes. He turned his head and saw that there were no less than ten masked assassins. Unexpectedly, the eldest prince was very careful in his work and did not forget to call for replacements.

Huang Ye kicked the horse's belly, Xueying raised her head to the sky and screamed, and then ran wildly, flying straight towards the cliff!

"Quick! Stop them!" No matter how the people behind chased and fired bows and arrows, they couldn't touch them at all.

In this way, Xueying carried the injured master and Wei Qing, plunged headlong into the turbulent Zhuque River, and soon disappeared...

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Tick ​​tock!

The crystal water droplets seeping from the grotto wall fell into a stone pit on the ground, sending out crisp echoes.

Wei Qing raised his head and saw the water reflected on the rock wall, sparkling, almost at noon when the sun was most dazzling.

"Your Highness, hold on!"

Wei Qing carried Huang Ye on his back, or in other words, carried it with all his strength, and moved to the open space on the side of the cave.

… After jumping off the cliff, Xueying died, and her body sank to the bottom of the river. Wei Qing was thrown a few feet away by a wave, struggled a few times, and then sank into the muddy water.

Huang Ye swam over, dived into the turbulent river, reached out and touched Wei Qing's wrist a few times, and pulled him out of the water with all his strength.

"Inhale! Lift your head up, don't panic!" Huang Ye clamped Wei Qing's shoulder with his left arm, splashed the water with one hand, and swam to the distant shallows.

Due to the ruggedness of the rocks, people on the cliff can't see clearly what's going on below, but if they fall from such a high height, they will drown if they don't fall to their death.

Therefore, no one ventured down to inspect it, they just squatted on the top and waited for the corpse to float up by itself before going back to report to the First Prince.

When Wei Qing heard the neighing of the war horse, he knew that the assassin was still guarding the top of the cliff, so when he was ups and downs in the water, he resolutely didn't call for help, for fear of dragging Huang Ye down.

But Huang Ye was clearly out of danger, yet he still turned back to save him, which made Wei Qing so moved that he couldn't speak.

When the two fell on the shallows, Wei Qing pushed Huang Ye, only to find that his face was pale, his eyes were closed, and he had already passed out!

"Your Highness!" Wei Qing was in a panic. Many crows were circling above the river beach, which would reveal their positions. He looked around and saw a hole not far away. He immediately carried Huang Ye on his back and walked towards the cave.

The cave was very narrow, like a hole left by a rock collapse, barely allowing two people to hide. When the Zhuque River was high tide, it might be submerged, but fortunately, there was clear spring water flowing on the rock wall.

After Wei Qing helped Huang Ye lie down, he took off his coat, wrung it dry, and wiped Huang Ye's face and hair.His bloodless cheeks were as cold as white jade. Wei Qing saw that this was not an option, so he boldly removed his armor, pulled off his torn sleeve robe and obscene clothes, and exposed his injured right arm.The wound was deep, and blood could be seen continuously flowing from the flesh.

Wei Qing immediately wet his eyes, sucking his nose hard to keep the tears from falling, the most urgent thing is not to cry, but to heal Huang Ye.

Wei Qing has never studied medicine, but he has been taking care of horses, especially frail and injured old horses. After a long time, he naturally learned to identify which kinds of weeds can heal wounds and stop bleeding.

Wei Qing tore off a whole sleeve, twisted it into a rope and tied it above Huang Ye's wound to stop the bleeding.Then he was busy digging herbs. Fortunately, the area was fertile and densely forested. Wei Qing went around from the other side of the cave, fearing that the assassins would find him, and got into the low thorn forest.

Although his hands and feet were broken and his forehead was bruised, he finally found all the herbs he needed, and Wei Qing ran back down the cliff without touching his feet.

Huang Ye was still unconscious, Wei Qing found two stones, put Agrimony, Puhuang and other medicinal herbs together, crushed them back and forth, and pounded them carefully, maybe he was too anxious, while he was crushing the medicine, he was crying, tears I can't stop it.

"Woooo..." Wei Qing had been beaten a lot before, but he could hold back without shedding a single tear, but now he was crying so hard that his voice became hoarse.

When the herb finally turned into a thick green juice, he wiped his wet face with the back of his hand, crawled to Huang Ye's side, and applied medicine to his wound.

"Hmm...!" Maybe it was pain, Huang Ye snorted unconsciously, Wei Qing approached, carefully blowing on the wound, applied all the herbs in his heart, then tore off a sleeve, layer by layer Wrap well and tie tightly tightly.

Wei Qing's upper body was naked, with blood, silt and grass clippings all over his body, like a puppy who had been through hardships and was abandoned by someone, lying worriedly beside Huang Ye.After applying medicine to the wound, Huang Ye's complexion began to improve, and his breathing became steady, but why didn't he wake up?

"His Highness Ninth Prince..." Wei Qing stretched out his hand and touched Huang Ye's face tremblingly. It was already autumn, the river was very cold, and Huang Ye's body was always icy cold.

And the sky was getting darker, and the turbulent Suzaku River could engulf them in the blink of an eye.

Wei Qing stretched out his thin and scarred arms, hugged Huang Ye, and put all the heat of his body on Huang Ye's body. The sound of a steady and powerful heartbeat came from under that solid chest, which gave Wei Qing some comfort.

He took a deep breath and hugged Huang Ye tightly, but he didn't dare to relax his vigilance. He kept staring at the position of the tide at the entrance of the cave, for fear that it would rush up in the next moment.

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On the other side, the great prince Yaozu led nearly a thousand cavalrymen, and went on a killing spree in the hunting grounds. Anyone who could run and jump, no matter whether it was a young deer or a female bear, was included in the bag.Seeing this scene, the other princes stepped aside one after another, lest the rain of arrows formed by thousands of archers would shoot their own troops into a hornet's nest!

Before the sunset, the First Prince's convoy was filled with prey of various sizes, there were about a hundred of them.He abandoned his car for a horse, sat on a bloody horse, and led a mighty hunting team back to the camp.

Today is the fifth day of hunting, and in the evening there will be a special bonfire banquet. A huge sheepskin blanket is laid out on the lawn early, and barrels of fine wine are placed on the table.

The eldest prince knew that his chance to show off was coming, so he immediately ordered people to unload the newly captured stag and make a feast of whole deer, and in the evening, he would show his filial piety to his father in front of all civil and military officials.

Everyone in the world knows that deer blood is sweet and warm, can nourish weakness, regulate blood vessels, and relieve pain. Just the day before yesterday, the emperor sprained his wrist while drawing a bow.Fine wine paired with wild venison, presumably the days of the gods are just like this.

Just as the soldiers were slaughtering the stag neatly, Eunuch Zhang came and stuck it to the ears of the eldest prince, whispering something.

"He really fell?" The eldest prince asked in disbelief.

"It's absolutely true, the old slave dares to guarantee it with his head!"

"Okay! That's great! God help me!" The eldest prince looked up to the sky and laughed.Originally, the assassination of the prince would definitely lead to the investigation of the emperor, and it would take a lot of trouble. Now that Huang Ye jumped off the cliff and died, it can be said that he was not good at riding and fell into the river to die!

"Those knights..." The First Prince suddenly stopped his smile, and said with gloomy eyes, "You have to keep their mouths shut."

"Old slave understands, let's do it now." Eunuch Zhang bowed hurriedly and said.

The archers sent by the First Prince to assassinate Huang Ye were all his loyal subordinates, so they dared to do such treasonous things as assassinate the Ninth Prince.

But the eldest prince was still worried, the torture in the harem was very harsh, only the dead would not reveal the secret, so he asked Eunuch Zhang to send some other troops to kill those shooters.

At this moment, there was nothing to worry about. The eldest prince was in a great mood, and asked the maid to prepare hot spring water for him, change his clothes and take a bath, and waited for the singing and dancing dinner to arrive...

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Ping, bang!

The sound of sharp and short clashes of swords woke Huang Ye up abruptly. He instinctively reached out to touch his waist, trying to pull out his sword, but unexpectedly bumped into a soft object.

"Huh?" Huang Ye lowered his head in surprise, only to realize that he touched Wei Qing's arm.

Wei Qing curled up her knees, her upper body was lying on his chest, her hands were still hugging his waist... It seemed that she was asleep?

But there was only the sound of the river flowing around, and there was no sound of fighting.

Huang Ye didn't know how to deal with it for a while. Surprisingly, he didn't feel angry when the servant touched his body without authorization.

Wei Qing is very thin, and he can hardly feel his weight, but the warm body temperature is very comfortable, just like holding a brass hand stove in the twelfth lunar month of winter, it makes people extremely comfortable.

"Woo!" The tingling pain in his right arm made Huang Ye frowned.At this time, Wei Qing woke up, blinking a pair of dark, but somewhat red and swollen eyes, "Ah!" and cried out.

"Your Highness! You're awake!" Wei Qing sat up straight, a chill immediately replaced the warmth on his chest, Huang Ye felt a little pity.

"Where is this place?" Huang Ye also sat up and looked around. Waves of water were surging up, and the low places in the cave were submerged. The whole cave was wet and cold.

"The cave by the river, not far from where we fell." Wei Qing said, his eyes became moist again, "Xueying... it sank to the bottom of the river."

"Xueying is the horse my father gave me. It is a loyal and good horse." Huang Ye said sadly.Taking it out of the palace this time, I wanted to make meritorious service, but let it suffer such a disaster, and the loyal Luo De, he must avenge this revenge!

"Your Highness, the river is coming up, let's go quickly." Wei Qing worriedly stood up as the river was getting closer and closer, and helped Huang Ye up.

"Where are your clothes?" Huang Ye noticed that Wei Qing's upper body was naked, and there were wounds cut by thorns on his arms, chest and back.

"Uh..." Wei Qing looked at Huang Ye's injured arm, his cloth was torn into strips and tied on it.

"I see." Huang Ye understood and nodded.

"You don't have to worry about me. I'm a servant. I'm used to being naked for a long time. I'm not afraid of the cold." Wei Qing raised his head and said with a smile.

Huang Ye stared at him, although there were many wounds on his body, Wei Qing's skin was still fair, from the neck to the waist was white and delicate, like silk.

The coarse cloth belt around his slender body gave him an even more frail look, probably like all children.

Huang Ye thought to himself, Wei Qing looks handsome and handsome, even his belly button is so beautiful, presumably in a few years, the woman who has a crush on him will break through the threshold of his family.

"Your Highness, are we going to swim out?" Wei Qing opened his eyes wide, exuding an innocent demeanor.

"Yeah." Huang Ye retracted his gaze and looked at the rushing river that had already reached his heels. The river beach was completely submerged. If he wanted to get to the shore, he had to swim out first.

"You go first." Wei Qing said, letting go of Huang Ye, "I can't swim, it will drag you down, I can climb these rocks and slowly climb up."

"No need, instead of letting you dawdle here, I'd rather take you out." Huang Ye held his hand and said without hesitation, "We have to go back as soon as possible."

There was an important banquet in Xu Dynasty, all civil and military officials and foreign envoys would attend, Huang Ye knew that the eldest prince could not be allowed to take full advantage of it!

"Yes..." Wei Qing nodded timidly.

Huang Ye hugged Wei Qing's waist with his uninjured left arm, and led him into the water. Wei Qing shrank back a little afraid of the water, and Huang Ye hugged him even tighter.

It is said that the child is full of Yuanyang and has a high body temperature, which seems to be true. When the finger touches the skin of the abdomen, it feels very hot, like a fire burning the finger.

"Let's go, don't move around." Huang Ye took a deep breath, and led Wei Qing to swim silently into the icy and fast Zhuque River. As expected, the river swelled very high, and the low-lying rocks and weeds on both sides of the river were swallowed up.

Huang Ye was injured, and brought an attendant who didn't know how to swim, but none of these could prevent him from swimming to a place where the current was stable. Wei Qing once again saw the tenacity and courage of the Ninth Prince.

Because Wei Qing reminded that there might be assassins on the cliff, Huang Ye carefully climbed up a steep mountain wall, but what he saw shocked him!

Blood and corpses were everywhere on the cliff, and squawking crows were pecking at the severed heads and torsos. Judging from the black clothes on the corpses, they were the assassins sent by the First Prince.

It seemed that Brother Elder Emperor had resorted to the trick of murdering and silencing people again. Huang Ye stopped at the top of the cliff, buried Luo De with Wei Qing, and then found a single horse beside the stone house.

After the two rode on, Huang Ye lashed out with a whip, and the steed let out a long neigh, spread its hooves and galloped in the air, shooting towards the royal camp in the north like an arrow.