The prince is no longer a man

Qingyun Temple is the most famous Taoist temple in the capital, within a few days, the news of Taoist Qingjing's ascension spread.

When Pei Rong learned about this, he was stunned for a moment, and asked in disbelief: "Daoist Qingjing has become a fairy?"

Sixi said: "Yes, I heard that Qingyun Temple is already preparing for the ceremony, and many people have come to express their condolences in the past few days."

After Pei Rong heard this, the shock in his heart did not disappear.

When I saw Taoist Qingjing last time, although Taoist Qingjing had a gray beard and a long age, he looked like a child with white hair. Why did he suddenly become a fairy after a while?

Besides, Taoist Qingjing was also the only one who knew about Pei Rong's dream, he seemed to have shown him a way, and after seeing him, Pei Rong's heart was indeed much calmer.

For such a godly person to go just like this, Pei Rong's mood at this moment is really very complicated.

Seeing that Pei Rong's expression looked a little off, Sixi couldn't help being a little worried: "Little son, what's wrong with you?"

Pei Rong sat blankly for a while, and then gave instructions after a while: "Sixi, get ready, I'm going to Qingyun temple to offer incense to the Taoist."

Jiang Lingxi looked at Sixi who was busy outside the door, and asked, "Cousin Rong, where are you going?"

Pei Rong sighed and said, "I'm going to Qingyun Temple."

Jiang Lingxi blinked, with an expression of wanting to follow.

The rare thing is that perhaps Jiang Lingxi could see that Pei Rong was in a bad mood at this time, and she wasn't as noisy as usual, but softened her voice and asked, "Cousin Rong, can I go with you? "

As for Jiang Lingxi, the cousin, Jiang Lingxi is charming and smart, and she can often make Princess Shun very happy. Pei Rong sees it and naturally likes it.

And today he was so well-behaved and well-behaved, Pei Rong's heart softened, and he agreed.

Before going out, Pei Rong asked Sixi to stay in the mansion.

Sixi cares about her and Pei Rong knows it, but both he and Jiang Lingxi belong to the category of talking too much, Pei Rong has already brought Jiang Lingxi with her, if she brings Sixi with her, I'm afraid the journey will be quiet down.

So Sixi watched helplessly as Pei Rong and Jiang Lingxi got into the carriage, looking pitiful and a little funny.

Pei Rong waved his hand helplessly, and said: "Okay, you stay in the mansion, and tell my mother when she comes back, and I will go back to Qingyun Temple to burn incense sticks."

In the carriage, it was rare to see Pei Rong look so dignified, Jiang Lingxi asked curiously: "Brother Rong, who are you going to burn incense for?"

Pei Rong thought for a while, then said softly: "He is highly respected and famous, and to me, it is even more unusual, so when we get to the place, don't make noise and disturb his quietness."

Jiang Lingxi nodded, and was about to say something, when suddenly the carriage shook violently, Jiang Lingxi screamed in fright, and said in surprise: "What happened!"

Pei Rong supported Jiang Lingxi, thinking to himself, did the carriage fall into the pit again this time?

But after the carriage stopped, the driver never said a word, Pei Rong felt a little strange, and was about to go down to have a look, but turned back to Jiang Lingxi and said, "Sit here, I'll go outside and have a look."

Jiang Lingxi is also a person who is not afraid of anything, and immediately said: "Cousin Rong, I will go with you!"

Pei Rong took out his cousin's identity in a rare way, held Jiang Lingxi down, and said seriously: "It's fine if you don't make trouble, I'll go alone."

As soon as Pei Rong got off the carriage, the gleaming long knife was on his neck. Pei Rong was startled and stood stiffly on the spot. Only then did he realize that they were surrounded by a group of burly men, and the coachman had collapsed on the ground. I don't know life or death.

The leader wore a black eyepatch, covering his left eye, with thick eyebrows and glaring eyes. His figure was like a mountain, tall and strong, with dark skin, bare arms, and only a piece of tiger skin half wrapped around his body. .

At first glance, he is a vicious person.

"Yo, I didn't expect to hit a little fat sheep." After the leader said this, the rest of the people also let out bursts of laughter.

Pei Rong had never seen such a fight before, his face turned pale, and he asked in a trembling voice: "You... what are you going to do?"

The leader sized Pei Rong up, patted Pei Rong's face with the back of his knife, and said maliciously: "It's more beautiful than any woman I've ever seen, but it's a pity that it's a man."

"Brothers, money is a bit tight. If you are sensible, just go with us honestly and write a letter asking your family to come and redeem someone, so that you will not suffer a little bit of flesh and blood."

Hearing that they were only doing it for money, Pei Rong couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief.

But these people spoke so obscenely, and Jiang Lingxi was still in the car, so these thieves must not find out.

Pei Rong forced himself to calm down, and said in a deep voice: "I'll go back with you, but how can you guarantee that you won't break your promise?"

"Ah--"

The leader sneered, swiped the sharp and cold blade heavily on Pei Rong, and said viciously: "Just because of this, I might be able to let you go back if I'm in a good mood, and you still bargain with me? Brothers, take him away." Walk!"

In the carriage, Jiang Lingxi's sweet voice suddenly came: "Cousin Rong, what happened outside?"

When the big men heard the woman's voice from the carriage, their eyes lit up.

Jiang Lingxi lifted the curtain of the car and looked out, which attracted the salivating and disgusting eyes of these big men.

"What are you doing to my cousin! Let him go!"

"Damn it!" Seeing Jiang Lingxi's beauty, the leader kicked Pei Rong's body: "There is a little beauty in the car, do you still want to hide it?"

If Jiang Lingxi fell into the hands of this group of people, Pei Rong couldn't even imagine what would happen.

Holding back the pain in his body, he shouted loudly to Jiang Lingxi: "Cousin! Get back in the car!"

Then Pei Rong exhausted all his strength, took advantage of the leader's slackness, and snatched the knife from the opponent's hand, raised his hand and swung the knife at the horse.

The horse ate the pain, neighed, raised its front hooves, and then ran forward like a madman.

Seeing the beauty in her hand fly away like this, all the anger of the leader was directed at Pei Rong, even if Pei Rong had a knife in his hand, he easily snatched it away.

Pei Rong touched the blood overflowing from his lips, and he was still in the mood to think about what the Daoist priest said when he unwrapped the sign. The Taoist priest said that he had a bloody disaster, and he was really right.

In Prince Shun's mansion, Jiang Lingxi cried so that Lihua rushed in with rain, and out of breath, told Princess Shun what happened today.

Princess Shun swayed, her face was pale, if the servant girl hadn't helped her up in time, she might faint on the ground.

But after all, she is Prince Shun's wife. After a brief panic, Princess Shun immediately ordered all the guards in the mansion to rescue Pei Rong.

After finishing the order, Concubine Shun walked out without stopping, without the usual gentleness on her face, she said sharply: "Prepare the horse, I want to enter the palace!"

After Princess Shun entered the palace, regardless of Eunuch Zhao's obstruction, she forced her way in.

"I beg the emperor to send people to search the mountain and save Pei Rong's life!"

Duan Jingxun, who came to look for the emperor, just happened to listen to Princess Shun's word for word. He was no longer as noble and arrogant as usual. What he heard just now made him feel as cold as ice, and his pupils froze violently. trembling.

When Pei Rong woke up, he was in pain all over his body. He tried his best to sit up and found himself thrown in the firewood room. There was a small window in the room. Through the window, one could see the moon had risen, emitting a faint cold light.

Pei Rong was about to take a closer look, when a series of heavy footsteps sounded outside the door, Pei Rong immediately lay down on the ground again and pretended to be unconscious.

Then someone opened the door and walked in, looked at the unconscious Pei Rong, spat impatiently, and kicked Pei Rong.

"I haven't woken up for so long, there really is him."

Pei Rong bit his lower lip tightly so as not to let out a cry of pain, and then another man's voice sounded: "This young man is delicate and fleshy, your foot has been added for a few more hours."

"A beautiful woman ran away, and it's nothing if I kicked him."

After a while, those two people went out, Pei Rong lay down for a long time, making sure that they would not come in again in a short time, and opened his eyes again.

Hearing what those two said just now, Pei Rong knew that Jiang Lingxi was safe.

Now that Jiang Lingxi is safe, the people in the mansion must know that something happened to him. Pei Rong couldn't help but hope that his mother would send someone to rescue him.

What I have to do now is to procrastinate as much as possible. If someone finds out that he is awake, those people don't know what they will do to him.

It's just that even though Pei Rong secretly encouraged himself in his heart, fear and panic still drowned him like a tide.

Pei Rong blinked his eyes, and the water mist came up.

But he didn't dare to let himself make the slightest movement, so he could only tightly cover his lips, holding back the sour tears with all his strength.

Pei Rong didn't regret doing this at all, but when he fell into a dangerous and unfamiliar situation alone, surrounded by vicious thieves, he trembled with fear.

When he woke up from the dream, Pei Rong was panic about the future, but now he is facing a knife hanging above his head, he is a fish on the chopping board, ready to be slaughtered.

But the one-year period has not yet come, and he will definitely not die now.

Pei Rong subconsciously comforted himself with the dream that made him terrified.

A small beam of light came in from the moonlight through the window, Pei Rong hugged his knees and curled up with his whole body, only in this way would he not be chilled to the bone.

After an unknown amount of time, there was another series of hurried footsteps outside the door.

"There are officers and soldiers coming up from the bottom of the mountain!"

"What? Are you here to find this kid?"

"Boss ordered us to bring this kid with us, at worst, we will fight him to death!"

With a sound of "bang", the wooden door was roughly kicked open from the outside, and it shattered into pieces. The visitor approached Pei Rong with strides, full of gangster aura, and Pei Rong, who was pretending to be unconscious, could no longer hide back uncontrollably. But it made people even more furious.

"Damn it! This kid is just pretending! So he has been waiting for rescue!"

The thief roared and raised his hand to give Pei Rong a slap. A black figure rushed in like a gust of wind outside the door. The moment the black figure saw the thief, his pupils locked instantly, with a fierce aura, and his long sword was fast and ruthless. It pierced the thief's chest hard, and then pulled out mercilessly, bringing out a stream of warm and bright red blood.

All these changes happened in the blink of an eye, Pei Rongzheng looked at the man in black who fell from the sky in front of him, "You..."

The man in black pulled Pei Rong vigorously, and said in a deep voice, "Let's go!"

This person clearly came to save him, but he covered his face, and his voice was deliberately lowered a bit. While Pei Rong survived the catastrophe, he couldn't help guessing in his heart, who is this person?

Pei Rong let the man in black lead him to run wildly all the way. He fixedly looked at the man in black in front of him, the figure and posture of the other party, and the hands that were firmly clenched to him, all gave Pei Rong a sense of familiarity.

"You... who are you?" Pei Rong asked tremblingly with a feeling that he didn't understand.

The man in black kept moving, holding his hand for a while, which obviously touched him, but he never stopped, never opened his mouth to speak, and never looked back at Pei Rong.

Pei Rong couldn't help asking: "Did my mother send you here?"

The man in black still didn't answer, suddenly a bandit jumped out in front of him, and swung his knife at the man in black.

The man in black subconsciously wanted to dodge, but for some reason, he stopped abruptly, raised his hand to block, resisted the blow, raised his foot and kicked the opponent's chest.

Pei Rong behind him saw clearly the actions of the man in black just now, and a faint smell of blood wafted out, he couldn't help worrying: "Are you injured?"

This time the man in black finally answered his question, but his voice sounded hoarse, as if trying to endure something: "It's okay."

Then the man in black took Pei Rong all the way down the mountain. There were officers and soldiers waiting with torches at the foot of the mountain. The man in black let go of his hands, turned around, and looked deeply at Pei Rong.

His clothes were dirty and messy, his hair was messy, and there were a few weeds. There was a dark red mark on his left face, and there was dried blood at the corner of his mouth, which was extremely glaring.

After confirming Pei Rong's situation, the man in black didn't stay any longer, turned around for a few moments, and disappeared into the night before Pei Rong could call him.

Pei Rong lowered her eyes and looked at the other person's hand that was tightly clenched. She placed her fingertips on the tip of her nose and gently probed, a very faint, very light scent of aloes lingered around her fingertips.

The man in black leaped lightly and turned into the backyard of the Hou's mansion. His injury was too eye-catching and he had to be treated outside first.

Huo Qin was on guard when he saw the man in black, and then suddenly remembered something, and shouted uncertainly: "Prince?"

Duan Jingxun pulled the mask on his face, and replied in a deep voice, "I need your help with something."

In the room, the wound on Duan Jingxun's arm had already been bandaged. Duan Jingxun lost a lot of blood, and rushed to the waiting mansion in a short time, his blood was severely injured, his face and lips were as pale as paper.

"This time the bandits are going to be caught alive. If you catch them, hand them over to me for interrogation." Duan Jingxun changed into his clothes expressionlessly, and said in a cold voice.

Huo Qin nodded, indicating that he understood.

Duan Jingxun didn't stay any longer, and when he turned to leave, Huo Qin stopped him from behind.

"Prince—"

"I know you are worried about Rong Shizi, and I am too, but why do you take the risk yourself? If you ask, I will definitely bring Pei Rong back."

Duan Jingxun's hand froze on the door frame, as if touched, he didn't look back, he just looked up at the cold moon in the sky, his eyes were as bright as cold stars, clear and firm.

"I know that with your martial arts, these bandits are nothing, but Pei Rong was captured, how could I wait for the news in the East Palace and remain indifferent?"

"I can't, Huo Qin, I must see his safety with my own eyes."

"Even if I have to risk myself."

"Then why are you hiding it from him? Why don't you want everyone, especially him, to find out about this?"