I am a ruler in troubled times

"Miss!"

Hongqin rushed towards the queen mother who was suddenly tired on the bed.

With Hongqin's exclamation, the door was also pushed open from the outside, and two female officials wearing blue and green brocade clothes who looked bigger than Hongqin quickly approached the Empress Dowager's bed, and unceremoniously overturned Hongqin on the ground.

The female officer in the blue brocade robe hugged the queen mother who was twitching and rolling her eyes tightly, and the female officer in the green brocade robe took out a small porcelain bottle, poured out a pill from it, melted it in warm water, and carefully poured it into the queen mother's mouth. down.

Ever since the third prince passed away, the Empress Dowager has fallen into the root cause of hysteria when she is too emotional.

After a long time, the Empress Dowager stopped the convulsions, and even her eyes became clear. Her eyes were full of embarrassment and exhaustion, and her eyelids were half-downcast, unwilling to see anyone.

The female officer Lan Yu, who was wearing a blue brocade robe, gently laid the Queen Mother flat on the bed, and after getting off the bed, she immediately raised her hand and slapped Hong Qin hard on the face.

Just now the Empress Dowager also slapped Hongqin when she was in a hurry, but it was far inferior to Lan Yu's strength.

When Hongqin got up from the ground with tears all over her face, the two sides of her face were obviously not at the same height, one side was only reddish, but the other half was swollen at least half a finger high.

"Black-hearted little hoof, what are you doing to stimulate the empress's emotions?" Lan Yu was still angry after beating someone, holding Hongqin's ear to force Hongqin to look up at her, "You have been serving by the empress's side for several years, Don't you know the empress's taboo?"

Lu Yun covered the Empress Dowager with a thin quilt, and looked back at Lan Yu's forced questioning of Hong Qin, her eyes flashed with joy.

Both she and Lan Yu were sent by Chen Guo to be with the empress, and it took several years to gain the trust of the empress, and became the most respectable female officials around the empress.

Hongqin has only been here for three years and she is on an equal footing with them.

While still talking to the empress, he deliberately kicked them out.

Why?

No matter how Lan Yu scolded her, Hong Qin didn't refute or answer, just held the handkerchief against her face and sobbed lightly.

Because no useful information was obtained from Hongqin's mouth, Lan Yu found that she couldn't continue cursing over time.

Lan Yu also used Hong Qin to make mistakes, which made the queen mother hysterical in shock, so she dared to treat Hong Qin like this.

If she couldn't catch more of Hongqin's mistakes, she couldn't continue.

An unwillingness flashed across Lan Yu's face, and she looked back at the queen mother who was lying on the bed, "Madam, Hongqin disturbed you, it can be seen that the rules have not been learned well, why not let..."

"Okay!" The queen mother slapped the bed heavily, "put away your little thoughts."

The anger on Lan Yu's face suddenly became rigid.

She lowered her head deeply, and said in a low voice, "I don't dare to think carefully, I just feel sorry for your mother's suffering for no reason."

In the past, the Queen Mother was keen to watch the maids around her fight for favor, but now she didn't care about Lan Yu at all.

She sat up from the bed and said to Hongqin, "Go and call the person who saw Ruixiang, the Ai family has something to ask her."

Hongqin kowtowed silently, stood up with difficulty with the support of Luyun, covered her red and swollen face with a handkerchief and retreated.

Seeing this, the Queen Mother pointed at Lan Yu and cursed, "You still say she is ignorant, look at the good deeds you have done!"

Lan Yu immediately knelt on the ground, not daring to say a word of rebuttal.

When the Empress Dowager punished ordinary palace people, she didn't like to let the palace people have wounds on their faces.

Just now she slapped Hongqin with all her strength, in order to make the Queen Mother completely dislike Hongqin.

Unexpectedly, the Queen Mother would indulge that little hoof so much.

That night, the lights of the Anning Palace were lit all night.

Even the concubine Xianfei from Jinyuan Palace, who is the birth mother of the fifth prince who is about to become the crown prince, also stayed up all night.

When the female official came to exchange hot tea for Concubine Xian, Concubine Xian asked again, "Is there any news from the Anning Palace?"

The female officer shook her head and persuaded in a low voice, "Why should you care about the Queen Mother? Your Majesty has already promised you that you will be made the successor, so that His Highness can change his name and become a prince. After all, the Queen Mother is not His Majesty's biological mother. Waiting for you to become a queen , and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. Even if the Empress Dowager still dislikes you in every possible way, she will not dare to embarrass you anymore, it would be good if you don’t embarrass her."

Concubine Xian listened quietly to the female officer's words of comfort, and suddenly gave a fleeting wry smile.

She shook her head, but her voice was silent, even the female officer next to her couldn't hear clearly, "You don't understand..."

Seeing that Concubine Xian didn't listen to persuasion, the female official didn't say anything more.

Although she persuaded Concubine Xian, her heart was also towards Concubine Xian.

I don't know what evil I did, since the empress moved into the palace, the queen mother has been keen to find trouble for the empress, and even caused the empress to have a little princess.

The empress obviously hated the Queen Mother deeply, but because of His Majesty's protection of the Queen Mother, she had to hold back her anger for the time being.

Fortunately, His Royal Highness strives for success, mothers are more expensive than children, and good days are yet to come.

Sooner or later, the Empress Dowager of the Anning Palace will pay in blood.

After King Gong got the imperial edict and jade seal, the time he spent every day in Qingshan Palace to "boil eagles" suddenly shortened. Whenever he appeared in Qingshan Palace, the eight characters of "absent mind" and "passive sabotage" were engraved on his face.

On the contrary, Chong Yi felt that it was more pleasing to the eyes of Prince Gong who no longer tried to talk to him.

Anyway, when he was playing Jiulianhuan and reading the script, he didn't care if there were other people in the room.

Song Peiyu was impatient to waste time with Prince Gong, she only showed up when Prince Gong came to Qingshan Palace and when he left, most of the time in between was not in the flower hall.

Although far away in Luoyang, Yan Country, Song Peiyu's news is still very well informed.

The Song family had carefully managed Luoyang for hundreds of years, and it has only been less than 20 years since they left.

Moreover, after the Song family moved to Xianyang, not only did they not decline, but they went up to a higher level. Most of the previous relationship networks are still usable.

In just half a month, Song Peiyu collected a lot of information. He had to compare the information to sort out the true and false. This was a brain-consuming and energy-consuming job.

Song Peiyu's daily storage of paperwork is in the middle of the ten rate cavalry's residence.

If you want to go to Song Peiyu's temporary study, you must first pass by the strong men of Zhao Jun's cavalry.

After arriving at the study, Song Peiyu looked at the documents sent from Zhao Guo as usual.

The first letter is about Xiliang.

Since Dang Xiang got down to earth and gradually became accustomed to making a living by farming, herding cattle and sheep and selling them to Zhao Guo, King Liang suddenly became idle.

After discovering this, King Liang decided to go to Zhao Guo to meet his pen pal Yonghe Emperor, and personally choose a good place for his future palace.

The second letter is about the state of Chu.

After the state of Chu 'bought' the formula of gold leaf paper from the state of Zhao, as expected, after adjusting the price several times, it chose to sell the gold leaf paper at a price of ten taels of silver.

While earning a lot of money, it also firmly attracted the hatred of Chen Guo.

During this period, Chu State did not hesitate, whether to offend Chen State for the benefits that the gold leaf paper could bring.

In the end, Chu State chose Yinzi between Chen Guo and Yinzi.

After making a choice, Chu State's attitude towards Zhao State became more ardent.

After hearing that Chongyi and Song Peiyu were going to the Yan Kingdom for a banquet, the Emperor Chu immediately wrote to Emperor Yonghe, hoping that Emperor Yonghe would allow the royal family of Zhao Kingdom to attend his birthday banquet.

Emperor Yonghe meant that one of King Su and Chongyi must be in Xianyang, and the kings of the small counties could not go anywhere until they were 12 years old, but could only be in Xianyang.

If Chong Yi and Song Peiyu can return to Xianyang before the birthday of Emperor Chu, they will consider letting King Su or Chong Yi go to Chu as a guest.

Song Peiyu read the letter from beginning to end and couldn't help laughing.

There was still more than a month before Emperor Xiao's birthday, and Emperor Yonghe began to tactfully urge them to go back, which was too impatient.

Song Peiyu put the letter on the other side, and took it back to Chong Yi to read at night, or let Chong Yi read it when Chong Yi came to look for him.

The third letter is about Li Guo.

Li Huang suddenly became critically ill, and half a month passed, his health deteriorated day by day, and time seemed to be running out.

Although Li Huang's critical illness was very sudden, and the atmosphere in Li's country became tense because of Li Huang's critical illness, Li Guo has a crown prince who has been canonized for many years.

Li Huang's critical illness at most caused Li Guo some small twists and turns, and there was no big trouble.

No one expected that the Crown Prince of Li Kingdom, who was in his prime, died faster than Emperor Li, and the cause of death was extremely disgraceful.

The crown prince of Li Guo died on the bed because he took the secret medicine, and the night royal number... More than a woman.

Li Guo's tense but orderly atmosphere collapsed in an instant.

No one dared to tell the critically ill Emperor Li about the death of the crown prince, because all forces had their own agendas, and there were princes who wanted to be on the throne.

Tell Li Huang about the death of the crown prince, Li Huang's reaction will become the biggest uncontrollable factor.

It would be best to be able to kill people with a knife and directly drive Li Huang to death, and it would be best to get rid of those who are a threat to one's own side, and there is also the possibility of self-defeating chickens flying eggs.

No one wants to take risks.

The major aristocratic families of the Li Kingdom tacitly waited for the death of the Li Emperor, and then competed against each other.

Song Peiyu put this letter, which was as rare as the script, no, the script did not dare to write like this, and put it on the letter about Zhao Guo, and saved it for Chong Yi to pass the time.

Ever since Princess Huiyang learned that the country of Li was the first to fall apart among the nine kingdoms, Song Peiyu not only tried every means to empty out the dry goods in Princess Huiyang's head, but also put a lot of effort into the country of Li.

Li Guo and Zhao Guo are like two extremes.

Zhao Guoyonghedi holds absolute military power. Because of his health, he is not suitable to go to the battlefield again. It happens that Chong Yi can slowly take over the military power of Yonghe Emperor.

The courtier with the greatest military power is Murong Jing. He has long since broken up with the Mu family, and has repeatedly expressed his sincerity to the East Palace.

What's more, the former Mu family has dissipated long ago, and now only Mu Qing and Mu He are left in Xianyang. One is a close friend who grew up with Emperor Yonghe, and the other can be regarded as Emperor Yonghe's nephew and son-in-law.

The rest of the aristocratic families have almost no military power, only the private soldiers raised by themselves can be used as guards, and they will not pose a threat to Emperor Yonghe at all.

Among the kingdoms of Kyushu, Zhao Kingdom, which was established the latest, is the country with the most prosperous imperial power.

Another extreme is Li Guo.

Long ago, the Li Kingdom was famous for its aristocratic families and emperors co-managing political affairs.

The Li family not only controls a large number of mine veins, salt wells and land, but also has its own private soldiers, and even local troops.

It is no exaggeration to say that if Li's family is on the opposite side of Li Huang, Li Huang may only be able to mobilize Li Jing's army, but may not be able to get all of Li Jing's troops to respond.

In the Li country, the royal family is like a mascot, and the main power is divided among several big families.

In order to gain the upper hand in the game with other families, these families inevitably exchange interests with the surrounding countries in order to gain support.

After getting to know Li Guo deeply, Song Peiyu found that Li Guo is like a colorful platter.

On the surface, it is still a country, but in fact, the hearts of the people have long been scattered.

Whenever there is an external or internal force that breaks the delicate balance that Li Guo barely maintains, Li Guo will undergo turbulent changes.

Emperor Li was critically ill, and the Crown Prince of Li Kingdom died suddenly.

It has reached the level of internal force that can break the balance of the Li country.

As for external forces...

The result of the consensus reached between the domestic family of Lebanon and other national forces is made into a disc.

The State of Chen monopolizes three-fifths, and the State of Chu and the State of Yan together account for one-fifth.

The time Zhao Guo dedicated to studying Li Guo was too short, even if he tried his best, it only accounted for one-fifth of it.

The rest, such as Yanzhou, Qingzhou, Liangzhou, etc., either had no intentions, or were more late than Zhao Guo, and had not had time to participate in the division of Li Guo's fat.

But Li Country is located in the very center of Kyushu, and when Li Country really becomes chaotic, those who have not had time to participate in it will immediately join in.

No one can resist the temptation of fat on the lips.

When Song Peiyu slowly turned the wooden beads on her wrist and fell into deep thought, Jin Bao suddenly came in from outside lightly.

Jin Bao stood at the door for a while before walking in front of Song Peiyu, and said in a low voice, "There is a message from the palace, and someone will go to arrest Lord Xiang tonight at the latest. The Empress Dowager Yangong contacted her natal family and made plans I want to keep you in the country of Yan."

Song Peiyu nodded slightly.

He took the initiative to disclose the whereabouts of Eunuch Ruixiang to the Empress Dowager in order to let the Empress Dowager get the news from Eunuch Xiang that Prince Gong had obtained the imperial edict and jade seal of Emperor Qing.

As for the empress dowager's malice towards him...

A long time ago, Song Peiyu learned from someone who he wanted to arrange to go to the Qingshan Palace, but accidentally became the Empress Dowager's confidant, how strong the Empress Dowager's hatred for the Song family was.

It was mentioned in the book "The King's Landing" that when the Empress Dowager Yan was not married, she had a very good relationship with Xue Lin, who was still a pitiful emperor's grandson.

Therefore, after Xue Lin unified the sixteen countries, he also repaid the queen mother of Yan, and avenged the murder of her son for the queen mother of Yan, and slaughtered the whole family of the Song family.

The sudden pain in his hand brought Song Peiyu back to his senses.

The string of wooden beads was torn off by him.

Fortunately, the rope was only broken and the wooden beads did not fall to the ground.

Song Peiyu put the wooden bead string into the wooden box that Jin Bao found, and a flash of light suddenly flashed in his mind.

Why did he think that the Empress Dowager Yan and Xue Lin only started contacting after Xue Lin unified the sixteen kingdoms?

Song Peiyu looked at Jinbao with burning eyes, and said in a soft and quick voice, "Take a long wooden box inlaid with gems under my bed and send it to Eunuch Xiang, and ask him to hand it to Queen Mother Yan."

Jin Bao waited in silence for a while before asking in a low voice, "The one with the mark, or the one without the mark?"

Song Peiyu raised the corner of her mouth, "There is no mark."

Before putting Qing Emperor's edict and jade seal back to their original positions, Song Peiyu took Qing Emperor's jade seal and stamped two of the blank jade seals.

The remaining blank imperial decree without the jade seal was specially reserved by Song Peiyu, waiting to be used by Prince Gong to find allies.

Even if Prince Gong didn't know from his allies that the other party had a blank edict, at least the allies knew that Prince Gong had something she had to get.

Allies can also easily play with Prince Gong in their palms through the blank imperial decree that Prince Gong does not know about.

Only in this way, with Prince Gong's brain, will he not be eliminated before the chaos is complete.

Song Peiyu originally planned to let Eunuch Xiang and the Queen Mother of Yan deal with each other for a while, at least after getting the evidence that could drive the Queen Mother into the abyss, and then hand over the blank imperial decree to the Queen Mother of Yan.

Now he has thought of something more intolerable to Yan's courtiers than the empress dowager of Yan conspiring with Emperor Xiao to poison Emperor Qing.

Moreover, the chaos in the Li country is already in sight.

The state of Yan must be in chaos before the state of Li.

Only in this way, Chen Guo can't take care of both.

If Chen Guo was allowed to obtain part of Li State's territory first, Chen State would border on Yan State, and could send troops northward at any time to go straight to Yan State.

After making the arrangements, Song Peiyu didn't even have to wait for the news from the Luoyang Palace, she could tell from the tangle between Prince Gong's brows that the Empress Dowager had found Prince Gong.

Over the years, Emperor Yonghe has found out many people from Chen country through investigation of Wei Zhong, most of them are in Zhao country, but there are also a small number of people lurking in Yan country.

Ever since the desire to try in Prince Gong's eyes turned dull and tangled, Chen Guoren, who had been lurking in Yan for a long time, suddenly became active.

On the sixth night when Prince Gong was found by the Queen Mother, Song Peiyu ate pot with Chong Yi while listening to Jin Bao tell how Prince Gong was being played around by the Queen Mother.

From the beginning to the end, Prince Gong didn't know that the queen mother had a blank imperial decree without a jade seal.

When Prince Gong saw Eunuch Xiang at the Empress Dowager's place, he thought that what the Empress Dowager was telling was the truth. She learned about the existence of Emperor Qing's edict and jade seal from Eunuch Xiang, and sent people to the Sixing Hall of Qingshan Palace, but found that Emperor Qing The imperial edict and jade seal had already been taken away by Prince Gong, so he went to find Prince Gong.

The Queen Mother first cried a lot in front of King Gong, claiming that she always dreamed about Emperor Qing in recent years, and could not sleep day and night because she felt sorry for Emperor Qing.

She didn't ask Emperor Qing to forgive her, she just wanted to fulfill Emperor Qing's last wish to set things right and help King Gong ascend to the throne that belonged to him.

Soong Peiyu didn't know how many lies Prince Gong believed in the queen mother, but he knew the whole process of the queen mother and Prince Gong reaching a consensus.

After the Empress Dowager wept and confessed her repentance, Prince Gong's attitude eased, and the two sat down to discuss conditions calmly.

At the beginning, the Empress Dowager always emphasized that she had nothing to ask for except for Prince Gong to ascend the throne to fulfill Emperor Qing's last wish, even if Prince Gong wanted to avenge the murder of his father, she would have nothing to say.

Prince Gong is still clever, knowing that at this time, he should try his best to reassure the queen mother, he has been comforting the queen mother all the time, and even made an oath to God that after he ascends the throne, he will definitely respect the queen mother like his own mother.

After finishing all the polite words, the Queen Mother just wanted to see her.

She asked King Gong to arrest Song Peiyu and hand her over to her after he ascended the throne. Song Peiyu must not be allowed to return to Zhao.

King Gong immediately agreed to the Queen Mother's request, as if he had forgotten that not long ago he promised Song Peiyu that he would kill Emperor Xiao and the Queen Mother immediately after ascending the throne, and he also wrote a letter of guarantee in black and white.

The queen mother was very satisfied with Prince Gong's attitude, and then offered a bigger bargaining chip.

She is willing to give the evidence of Emperor Xiao's poisonous killing of Emperor Qing to Prince Gong, but Prince Gong wants to hand over the jade seal of Emperor Qing to her for safekeeping, in case Prince Gong does not fulfill the current promise after overthrowing Emperor Xiao and ascending the throne.

Prince Gong hesitated for two days, and had already agreed to the Queen Mother's request during the day, and handed over the Emperor Qing's jade seal to the Queen Mother while getting the physical evidence of Emperor Xiao's poisoning of Emperor Qing.

Hongqin only knew that the blank imperial decree in the Queen Mother's hand had already been stamped with a jade seal, but she didn't know what would be written on the imperial decree.

Chong Yi fished all the freshly blanched meat to Song Peiyu, and said in a low voice, "Idiot"

"If he wasn't an idiot, how could he let the Queen Mother take the bait so easily?" Song Peiyu counted how many fish were caught on his hook, and immediately smiled with eyebrows and eyes crooked.

If Prince Gong hadn't been stupid, he wouldn't have been able to become the first fish on the hook and the bait in the mouth of the big fish behind.

Song Peiyu couldn't wait to see what kind of attitude and expression the Prince Gong and the Queen Mother would have when they came to Qingshan Palace tomorrow.

The next day, the person who came to Qingshan Palace was not Prince Gong but the Fifth Prince Xiaodi.

Nearly a month after Zhao Guo's envoys settled down in the Qingshan Palace, Emperor Xiao finally remembered them and wanted to clean up Chongyi in the Luoyang Palace.

This was the first time Song Peiyu saw Emperor Xiao, she was tall and thin and looked very unassuming, when she looked at Chong Yi with kind eyes and asked about his health, it was really like facing her own nephew.

It's a pity that Emperor Xiao kept saying "how is the general Jianwei" and "how about the general Jianwei"... The narrow-mindedness shown by him is very inconsistent with his amiable face.

Chong Yi will not go out of his way to correct Emperor Xiao, he should call his father Emperor Yonghe, let alone accommodate Emperor Xiao, but always start with 'Father Emperor' when he replies.

The two talked about their own things, but they were able to keep talking.

The faces of the courtiers became more and more strange.

Song Peiyu also held up the teacup to hide the smile on the corner of her mouth.

Those who don't know may think that Emperor Xiao and Chong Yi are father and son, and General Jianwei is just a passerby.

Because Chong Yi insisted on taking his cavalry with him wherever he went, Emperor Xiao, who had promised to entertain Chong Yi in the palace for a few days at the request of the courtiers, did not hesitate to send Chong Yi to him after the welcome banquet. Sent back to Qingshan Palace.

In order to deal with the courtiers, Emperor Xiao also sent the fifth prince to Qingshan Palace.

The fifth prince's attitude towards Chong Yi was much more positive than that of Prince Gong.

Not only would he keep hinting to Chongyi that "Yanzhao is originally a family" during the chat with Chongyi, but he would also remind Chongyi not to forget his origin in a much more tactful way than his father.

In addition, the fifth prince will rack his brains to find ways to make Chong Yi happy.

After discovering that Chong Yi liked Jiu Lianhuan and Huabenzi, the fifth prince immediately collected several large boxes of Huabenzi from Luoyang, and also brought many singers and dancers to the palace.

Because of the fifth prince's arrival, the Qingshan Palace, which was as quiet as a cemetery, finally looked like a palace.

After realizing that Chong Yi gradually lost interest in Yan Guo's script, the fifth prince specially invited Chong Yi and Song Peiyu to go hunting.

Song Peiyu has no interest in hunting, but Chongyi is, and Song Peiyu is willing to give the fifth prince this face.

At least the fifth prince found a lot of scripts for Chong Yi, no matter what the purpose is, it is considered intentional.

The hunting place is not far from Qingshan Palace, and it only takes half an hour for Kuaima to arrive.

Chong Yi did not take all the cavalry with him like he went to the Xianyang Palace, only 50 people.

The hunting ground chosen by the fifth prince was originally a hunting ground for the royal family, and there were all kinds of rare beasts that one could want, and there were all kinds of wild beasts in the depths.

Chong Yi is not very interested in beasts, he is more interested in teaching Song Peiyu how to draw a bow and shoot arrows.

With Chong Yi as a close-fitting plug-in, Song Peiyu, who has never gained anything in the hunting ground, had a good harvest for the first time, and even 'hands-on' shot a red fox with red fur.

Song Peiyu reached out and touched the soft and smooth fur of the red fox, then turned to look at Chong Yi and said excitedly, "How about making you a fox hat?"

Chong Yi saw Song Peiyu smiling, and there was a small smile in his eyes, "I still need a cloak."

Song Peiyu immediately thought of the furs he treasured in Xianyang, and almost blurted out, "When I return to Xianyang, I will make you a cloak with the snow wolf skins in the warehouse".

Fortunately, Song Peiyu was happy, not to the point of losing her mind.

He raised his chin proudly, "It's not easy, wait until I hunt you a good fur to make a cloak."

The fifth prince followed Chong Yi and Song Peiyu all the way, hardly found a chance to speak, and always felt that something was wrong.

Zhao Guo's prince, few words?

Song Peiyu, thoughtful and gentle?

Why these two people can't stop talking, so that he can't even find a chance to interject.

Could it be that he has a problem with him, so he is excluded?

In order to make a cloak for Chong Yi, the group unknowingly went deeper and deeper.

Following the fifth prince's guards, he suddenly rode his horse to the front of the crowd, and said to the fifth prince, "There are tigers, bears and other ferocious beasts in front of us, and there are not many people we brought in..."

Song Peiyu blinked at Chong Yi beside him.

Mere tigers and bears, after the two sides meet, Chong Yi will definitely not be the one to be afraid of.

Chong Yi will not be afraid, but the Fifth Prince will.

After hearing what his entourage said, he looked back at the hundred people behind him, and looked at Chong Yi with a troubled expression, "Brother Chong, look..."

"Go back." Chong Yi was easy to talk to, he didn't want to expect Song Peiyu to make him a cloak from hunting furs.

When holding Song Peiyu's hand and bowing just now, Chong Yi has already seen the reddishness of Song Peiyu's knuckles, if it continues, Song Peiyu may have sore knuckles at night.

Chong Yi agreed so happily, but instead made the fifth prince who had already made up his mind to retreat began to hesitate.

Ever since the news came from Zhao Guo that Prince Zhao would come to Yan Guo in person, the fifth prince has heard a lot about Chong Yi's deeds, and more than once he has been compared with Chong Yi.

Facing the threat of a beast, he retreated immediately. Will he show his timidity in front of the Prince Zhao?

While the fifth prince was hesitating, Chong Yi's gaze suddenly became sharp. He immediately pulled Song Peiyu onto his horse, then looked at the fifth prince, and said in a cold and calm tone, "I advise you to run for your life immediately."

After all, Chong Yi had already clamped the horse's belly heavily with his legs, and by the way, suddenly lost his master, he whipped the maroon horse with his head against his legs in a righteous way.

The maroon horse was in pain, snorted and ran after it.

In order not to have an inexplicable feeling of fullness, Pingzhang always followed Chongyi and Song Peiyu with people from a distance, and only after seeing the fifth prince's entourage approached to speak, Pingzhang rode his horse closer.

When he heard Chong Yi urging the fifth prince to run for his life, Ping Zhang even forgot why he rode a horse close.

He never thought that one day he would hear the words of escape from Chong Yi's mouth.

Before Ping Zhang could fully recover from the daze, Chong Yi who passed by him had already slapped his horse's ass by the way.

Ping Zhang was covered in white sweat when the horse suddenly started to run under him. Fortunately, he was very skilled and had an extraordinary tacit understanding with the horse under him, so he was able to turn the horse's head in time and not gallop in the opposite direction.

"Go!" Pingzhang roared, and waved to Zhao Jun who was waiting for them.

Even His Highness said he wanted to run for his life, who knows what the hell is behind him.

The Fifth Prince and the people behind him stared dumbfounded at Zhao Jun's retreating figure, not knowing how to react.

After a long time, the guard who persuaded the fifth prince not to go any further on the grounds that there were ferocious beasts ahead twitched the corner of his mouth stiffly, "I never thought that Prince Zhao would be so life-threatening."

The fifth prince covered his face silently, resisting the feeling of wanting to laugh, and said solemnly, "Brother Chong has already gone ahead, and we will catch up soon."

The people around the fifth prince suddenly let out small laughs. Seeing that the fifth prince didn't stop him, they laughed more wantonly, even Zhao Jun who had gone away could hear it.

Pingzhang glanced back, and spat fiercely, "A group of short-lived ghosts, what are you laughing at!"

After that, he slapped the horse again.

Chong Yi, who rode first and ran at the front, suddenly stuffed the whip into Song Peiyu's arms, "Close your eyes, hold me tight, don't be afraid."

Song Peiyu hugged Chongyi's waist obediently, buried his head below Chongyi's neck as much as possible, and paid special attention not to make Chongyi unable to move, his posture was extremely twisted but he didn't care about the discomfort.

The sound of Yujian leaving the string was endless, but Chong Yi galloped towards Yujian without even blinking his eyes.

Chong Yi held the rein with one hand and raised the cloak behind him with the other hand until all the arrows were densely packed in his sight.

Song Peiyu smelled blood, but he didn't know whether it was the horse or Chongyi who was injured. He held Chongyi's waist even tighter, wishing he was a dummy who could be manipulated casually.

Chong Yi threw aside the cloak full of feathers and arrows, and said sharply, "Don't stop, rush over!"

Then the free hand immediately stuck to Song Peiyu's waist, forcing Song Peiyu to change from the abnormally twisted posture back to normal.

Song Peiyu's heart was touched suddenly, and she honestly readjusted her posture according to Chong Yi's strength.

Unexpectedly, at this time, Chong Yi could still notice such details.

Zhao Jun, who had already pulled out his saber behind Chong Yi, immediately pulled his sword back when he heard Chong Yi's words, and continued to charge forward with Chong Yi even though he was injured.

Emperor Yonghe usually likes to show his various preferences for Chongyi without hesitation. After Dangxiang sent many pure-blooded horses, Emperor Yonghe picked the best part and sent them to the East Palace immediately, and the remaining horses were distributed to other horses. General.

Under Zhao Jun's strenuous sprint, those who had been ambushing for a long time only had time to shoot two rounds of feather arrows before being rushed to the face by Zhao Jun.

These assassins had already made preparations after hearing that Chong Yi would bring his cavalry with him wherever he went.

Following the people who suddenly rushed out from the woods and grass, one after another of the tripping ropes suddenly appeared on the ground, densely packed and stacked irregularly.

Chong Yi grabbed the reins fiercely, and wrapped his left hand around Song Peiyu's waist, making Song Peiyu stick close to him.

The hand on the waist was just touching, and Song Peiyu heard Chong Yi's voice again, "Hold tight"

Song Peiyu gritted her teeth under the feeling of weightlessness, trying not to let her own weight hit Chongyi.

He didn't know whether his own efforts had paid off, or Chong Yi's physical fitness had reached an abnormal level.

After the horse stood up, Chong Yi remained motionless, as if nailed to the saddle.

From an emotional point of view, Song Peiyu felt that his efforts had paid off.

But from a rational point of view, Song Peiyu knew that after the horse stood upright, judging from the fact that he did not fly out while holding Chong Yi, it was impossible for him to have a second focus besides Chong Yi.

Chong Yi took out the dart from his waist and threw it towards the tripping rope.

All fifteen darts were used up, just enough to cut off all the tripping ropes.

"Shoot to kill, rush over!"

Listening to the voice in his ears, Song Peiyu became more and more nervous. What was behind him would make Chong Yi so afraid, and repeatedly emphasized not to stop, but to rush over.

Chong Yi let the cavalry behind him rush over, but he himself was no longer in a hurry, and touched the ears of the steed below him, causing the steed, whose neck was still hurting, to snort in dissatisfaction.

Ping Zhang's reining horse stopped beside Chong Yi.

Although they didn't know what was behind them, the cavalry could clearly see the swords in the hands of the people in front, the feathered arrows that came towards them just now, and the bridle ropes densely piled up on the ground.

If His Royal Highness hadn't dealt with most of the feather arrows first, and cut off the bridle rope in time, they might have lost their lives.

Zhao Jun was full of aggrieved resentment, and rushed towards the person blocking their way without hesitation.

There were nearly a thousand people blocking the way, but they were helpless under the charge of fifty cavalry.

Sensing that Song Peiyu wanted to look up, Chong Yi reached out and grabbed the back of Song Peiyu's head, but his tone was not very firm, "Don't look at it"

The battlefield where the cavalry was located was a bit too much for a civil servant like Song Peiyu who felt bloody even when he saw a chicken being killed.

Song Peiyu's hand firmly pressed against Chong Yi's waist and abdomen, but when she raised her head, she didn't look at the increasingly thick smell of blood behind her, but carefully checked whether there was any wound on Chong Yi's body.

On the side of Chong Yi's face along the cheekbones, there is a thin and long bloodstain.

Using Song Peiyu's eyes as a mirror, Chong Yi reached out to wipe off the blood on his face, "It's just scratching the skin, it won't leave a scar."

If Song Peiyu hadn't insisted on applying medicine to the scars on his back for several years, Chong Yi would not have cared whether there would be scars on his face.

Song Peiyu immediately noticed that Chong Yi's palm was covered with bloodstains, and a large piece of bloodshot skin fell on Chong Yi's hand.

Song Peiyu's heart skipped a beat, she clearly stretched out her hand, but she dared not touch Chong Yi's hand.

Chong Yi suddenly reached out and tapped Song Peiyu's nose.

The moment Song Peiyu closed his eyes, Chong Yi immediately tore off all the skin on his hands, and took out a handkerchief from Song Peiyu's arms to wrap his hands, "It doesn't hurt."

Song Peiyu glanced across the bloodstain on Chongyi's cheekbones, and looked up at the unusually bright sun in the sky.

It's all because the sun is too harsh.

After Zhao Jun's cavalry charged five rounds, only half of the assassins could still stand.

It wasn't until this time that the Fifth Prince and the people behind him arrived late.

This is why they arrived so quickly after they smelled the smell of blood and heard the sound of killing.

The fifth prince had never seen the scene of the cavalry charging with severed limbs flying around. Without saying a word, he lay on the horse's back, clutching his chest, retching non-stop.