In the early morning of the second day after the sacrifice, they set off for the capital.

On the way back, I encountered the first blizzard of the year. My vision was blurred and I couldn’t see the road ahead. Even the frost-resistant horses were unwilling to move forward, kicking their feet tremblingly.

"Your Highness, the snow is getting heavier and heavier, and the horses are too tired to run."

Feng Ya tightened the reins to prevent the horse from jumping wildly, and squinted his eyes to look around in the cold wind. He remembered seeing a dilapidated bamboo house on the way here.

But it seems that there is still some distance from the bamboo house, and it is not nearby.

Shen Haoran raised the curtain, looked at the snow-covered road ahead, frowned and said.

"Find a place to rest for the night, and return to the city after the blizzard is over."

It's too dangerous to go on like this. The return journey is all mountain roads. If one is not good, it may slip and overturn and fall off the cliff.

There is no house nearby, after all, it is near the imperial mausoleum, and no one dares to settle down.

The accompanying team looked around and finally found an abandoned temple not far away. Shen Haoran asked everyone to rest in it, and the horses were also driven into the stable.

This abandoned temple is dilapidated, empty inside, with nothing but dry firewood all over the floor, fortunately, a fire can be lit for warmth.

The flames burned brightly.

Looking at the snowstorm outside, Li Yu couldn't help wrapping his sleeves tightly, "When will the snow stop?"

"Look at it for a while, it won't be able to stop." Yue Ting spoke up.

Feng Ya squatted on the ground casually, broke off the dead branches in his hands, and stuffed them into the firewood, "More than that, after the snow stops, the snowy road will be slippery, and the mountain road will be more difficult to walk. It is still half a day away from the imperial city. It will take another day to go down.”

Yue Ting stared at his movements, leaning casually against the wall, the cold wind was howling outside, the wind was too loud, he couldn't hear the abnormal noises around him, and didn't know what was going to happen.

Seeing that Yue Ting was still vigilant about the movements around him, Feng Ya couldn't help but teased, "Let's rest first, there will be no shadows in such a heavy snowstorm."

These words are indeed reasonable... Yue Ting thought for a while before sitting next to him to warm himself by the fire.

The surrounding wind and snow are so heavy, even if there are shadows, it is impossible to sneak attack at this time.

After all, just dealing with this blizzard is already very difficult. It is impossible for Shadow to be so stupid and choose to appear at such a moment, but... it is not sure whether there will be in the future.

"It's better to divide the vigil into two groups as usual. You lead the team to guard first, and then exchange with me at night."

Yue Ting said, holding the scabbard and hugging her chest, leaning on Feng Ya's back, closing her eyes to rest.

He was really too tired these few days, the carriage was traveling on the road, guarding day and night, basically he didn't sleep much, and after finally resting for a while, he soon fell into a deep sleep.

Hearing the sound of steady breathing coming from behind, Feng Ya threw the dead branch in his hand into the fire, his movements were much lighter than before, so as not to wake up the person.

His eyes signaled other people to scatter around Shen Haoran and Li Yu, pay attention to the movements around them, so as not to be attacked by shadows.

It wasn't until late at night that the blizzard finally stopped, and everyone was soundly asleep. Even if they didn't listen carefully, they could still hear the slight snoring of the followers.

Feng Ya yawned sleepily, in fact, it was already past the shift change time, but seeing that the person next to him was sleeping soundly, he didn't wake him up.

Seeing how tired he is recently, let him sleep for a while.

He rubbed his eyes and continued to cheer up. After a long time, he suddenly heard the sound of a foot stepping into a dead branch buried in the snow outside.

Yue Ting opened his eyes for a moment and looked towards the sound.

Feng Ya obviously also noticed that he exchanged a glance with Yue Ting behind him, and slowly clenched the sword in his hand.

A bamboo pipe was quietly inserted into the window, blowing out misty smoke.

Yueting rushed up first, pushed the window open, turned over and jumped out to fight with the shadow.

"There are assassins!"

Yue Ting knocked down one of them with a knife, and the blood splashed out stained the white snow underneath.

There was already a group of shadows surrounding the outside, and it was really hard to understand why they came here to assassinate them in such a heavy snowstorm.

The sound awakened everyone in their sleep, and the attendants reacted instantly, some of them rushed out to fight with the shadow, while some stayed in place to guard.

Li Yu fell into a deep sleep, but was suddenly awakened by this cry, and looked at the scene of noisy fighting outside with some astonishment.

...for a moment he thought he was dreaming.

But upon closer inspection, there is indeed a shadow.

Actually came to sneak attack at midnight after the blizzard?The shadows are so big-hearted, how long have you followed them along the way?

Li Yu didn't know, but fortunately it was the sudden blizzard, otherwise the shadow would have attacked on the way.

Shen Haoran frowned and stared at the movement outside, tightly wrapping Li Yu in his arms.

The sound of blades colliding, the sound of blood gushing, muffled.

Yue Ting quickly put down the shadows in front of him, seeing that they were not his opponents, they all withdrew and disappeared into the night.

Seeing Yueting's voice getting farther and farther away, Feng Ya hurriedly stopped him from chasing, "Stop chasing!"

I don't know if these shadows want to lure them away, and then attack the Highnesses.

Only then did Yueting stop, return to the house, and count the number of people.

Their people were not injured, and the opponent's people only lost three.

Strange... what are those shadows for?Didn't kill him, didn't even resist desperately after being discovered, but chose to escape?

Yue Ting searched for Ying Ying's body and found a token inside. Mo Mou couldn't help but froze the moment he saw the token.

Feng Ya also found the same token on another shadow.

The two looked at each other, full of doubts in their hearts.

Seeing that their expressions were not right, Li Yu hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?"

"Yes." Feng Ya stepped forward and handed the token to Shen Haoran, "This is the shadow token of the third prince."

Li Yu was startled, and took the token in Feng Ya's hand with some astonishment, on which the word "Xuan" was engraved impressively.

I thought it was the shadow sent by Empress Li, but how could it be Shen Yixuan's...

"The subordinates said that the third prince had malicious intentions, and he must have wanted to eradicate His Highness while he was on his way back to the city."

After all, for Shen Yixuan, the prince is not difficult to deal with, but it is Empress Li and Shen Haoran who are difficult to deal with.

Shen Haoran took the token from Li Yu, looked at it for a while, and asked Li Yu softly, "What do you think?"

Li Yu shook his head, seemingly unbelievable.

In the original novel, Shen Yixuan really wanted the throne, but he never made a move against Shen Haoran.

"Those people don't look like the third prince."

What's more, those people didn't seem to come to assassinate at all, but they seemed to send tokens on purpose.

"Create blame." Shen Haoran said lightly, "It's hard for Empress Li to think of such a boring little trick."

"But Your Highness..."

"It's okay, check to see if the horses are safe. The snow has stopped and the sky is gray. It's time to set off."

Only then did Feng Ya stop, "Yes."

Everyone packed up and continued to drive the carriage back to the city.

The snow was much thicker than before, and the speed of the carriage also slowed down. The attendants were afraid that the wheels would slip, so they could only drive the carriage forward slowly.

The team moved forward all the way, passing through a section of rugged mountain road, suddenly there was a strange noise from the surrounding forest.

It was the sound of flying arrows, hidden weapons attacking, and the rain of arrows piercing down the sky.

The carriage was frightened and thumped restlessly.

Unexpectedly, the second ambush in the meeting, the number of enemies is too large, the followers speed up the carriage, trying to escape from the rain of arrows.

Feng Ya and Yue Ting stood on the carriage, their sword blades swept across to block the arrow rain's attack.

The five carriages gradually dispersed, and suddenly, a cold arrow hit the horse's ass, and the horse galloped in pain, leading Li Yu and Shen Haoran's carriages to break through the encirclement.

Feng Ya who was standing on top suddenly lost his footing, and fell hard from the carriage into the snow.

Yue Ting stretched out his hand in an instant, wanting to grab Feng Ya's hand, but he missed it, the inertia of his body made him fall sideways, and hit Yue Ting heavily.

"Hiss—" the two groaned, and looked at each other in astonishment before looking at the carriage that ran away without a trace, "Oops! Your Highness!"

Li Yu, who was in the carriage, quickly stabilized his body, lifted the curtain, and the servant who helped them drive the carriage fell to nowhere. No one was pulling the rein, only the frightened horse galloped wildly on the rough path.

If this continues, if the wheels slip, they don't know where they will be thrown.

Li Yu stretched out his hand, trying to grab the rein wrapped around the horse, but he couldn't do it no matter what.

"Li Yu!"

Shen Haoran stretched out his hand and pulled Li Yu back, letting him grab the pillar of the carriage, while he stretched out half of his body, grabbed the reins, and tried to stop the horse.

However, the horse had no intention of stopping at all, and accidentally stepped on a stone, slipped heavily and fell to the ground, the rope tied to the horse broke, and the carriage fell apart.

Under inertia, Li Yu fell heavily to the side, almost hitting the pillar and being thrown out of the carriage, but at the moment before hitting, Li Yu was hugged into his arms.

As always, the warm and reassuring embrace, before the two could react, the out-of-control car slammed into the side path and rolled down the slope.

Blocked by branches, he fell hard into the thick snow.

Because of the tumbling and impact, the feeling of dizziness hit the brain heavily.

Li Yu only felt that he was being protected in that person's arms, and then, a dim sense of fainting eroded his consciousness, and he couldn't see whether the person was safe or not, so he passed out.

Yue Ting stayed with some attendants to fight against the shadows, while Feng Ya organized the rest of the team, followed the traces of the carriage wheels, and found the two people who fell in the snow.

Li Yu was completely unharmed, but passed out from the fall.

However, Shen Haoran, who was protecting him in his arms, was covered in tree thorns, bumping his head against the tree trunk, and the bright red blood dripped on the snow, making it extra coquettish.

"Your Highness! Your Highness!"

Feng Ya flusteredly checked the breathing of the two of them, but fortunately they were breathing very calmly, so he hurriedly asked someone to carry the two Highnesses into the carriage, and told Yue Ting not to continue fighting.

Although the injury was not serious, after all, the injury was to the head, so he had to go back to the city as soon as possible and find a doctor to check the injury.

The attendant helped the fainted Shen Haoran into the carriage and leveled it, a piece of jade pendant that was crushed by the impact slowly slipped from his arms, and fell into the carriage with a bang.

Only one word "Yu" can be barely recognized.

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