chance world

Fu Ruqing's caravan stayed for another five days under the warm invitation of the Xuanmo merchant king. Everyone had a hearty experience of the exotic customs of the Xuanmo country. Half a month after arriving in Wulan City, they finally embarked on their return journey. .

After entering the Dagan border, Fu Ruqing had to inspect the local business operations in the towns along the way, so the progress of the caravan’s return journey was slower than when it came. The caravan traveled for six days and still It is not far from the Daganxi border.On the contrary, Ding Qiyu, who was eagerly looking forward to returning to Yinzhou to marry Qing'er, was a little anxious.

That day and night, the caravan stayed overnight at a post station under Fu Ruqing's men whose itinerary had already been arranged.

Fu Ruqing may have been easily sleepy due to the exhaustion of traveling and traveling recently, so of course Ding Qiyu had to accompany her to go to bed earlier.In the middle of his sleep, he was suddenly awakened by the sound of fighting with swords. Ding Qiyu regained consciousness instantly, and Ruqing in his arms also woke up. Covering Qing'er tightly, the wide hood and long hair barely covered the wound on her face.Although Ding Qiyu's own middle clothes seemed casual, how could he care so much when he was in a hurry?

At this moment, someone knocked on the door of the room, and heard Yinsu's voice: "Miss!" Ding Qiyu grabbed the Wuchang sword on the table, and opened the door in two steps. When the well-dressed female guard walked into the room, Yin Su had a very serious expression on her face, and this guard Ding Qiyu had never seen before. He was the leader of Fu Ruqing's shadow guards.

The leader of the shadow guard stepped forward, knelt down and cupped his hands and reported to Fu Ruqing: "Miss, someone attacked at night."

"How's the situation?" Fu Ruqing was always cold in front of his subordinates, his calm and steady aura was fully displayed, and he would not lose his footing at a critical moment.

"There are a lot of people on the other side. And it was premeditated, ambushing in the dark of the post station, and some of them are foreigners. They will use a long pipe to blow out a strange poisonous smoke. The little half-bright guard is unprepared, because the poisonous smoke is gone. Combat strength, the number of shadow guards is still full!" The leader of the shadow guards reported truthfully.

"Miss, Mr. Ding." Yinsu took two steps forward, and presented a bottle of pills and two wet cloths to the two of them, "This is the Baicao Dan and the handkerchief soaked in the medicine solution from Ying Liu, which can serve as some precautions." .”

Ding Qiyu and Fu Ruqing took the wet handkerchiefs and ate the Baicao Pill. Fu Ruqing was about to give instructions to the leader of the shadow guards, but with a loud bang, the wooden window of the room was shattered, and someone knocked it from the outside. The son jumped into several assassins in night clothes, holding machetes in their hands, and a brass pipe half an arm's length pinned to their waists. There was no black cloth covering their faces, and strange patterns were painted on their faces.

Ding Qiyu did not hesitate to protect Fu Ruqing behind him, and the several personal guards lurking in the dark followed him like a shadow, and quickly rushed into the house, protecting Fu Ruqing, Ding Qiyu and Yinsu beside them in the center, and the assassin who broke into the room fight together.

The room was narrow, and most of the bright guards and shadow guards were fighting outside the room, but there was a continuous influx of assassins in the room. Mingwei and Yingwei from the brigade outside joined together.

After leaving the room, the yard of the inn was in chaos. The lights of the entire inn were lit up. Fu Ruqing's men fought with the menacing assassins. There were quite a few opponents, even though they all had the same pattern painted on their faces. , Under the bright lights, it is still easy to see that some of the assassins have dark skin and sunken eye sockets, and they are not Dagan people at all.

The shadow guards under Fu Ruqing and the Ming Wei who were not harmed by the poisonous smoke were not weak. Although the assassins who came to attack at night used very strange sword techniques, they couldn't resist the well-trained and tacit cooperation of Fu Ruqing's men. Guards, there are already many corpses lying on the ground, but it is obvious that the corpses of foreign assassins account for the majority.

The other party was obviously aiming at Qing'er, Ding Qiyu didn't dare to leave the people around him to help, so he could only protect Qing'er's side, holding Qing'er's hand tightly, his shoulders blocked her line of sight, not letting her Seeing the bloody scene in the courtyard, holding the impermanent sword that has been unsheathed as a long sword in one hand, resisting the fear of killing, tense nerves, and always vigilant about the surrounding situation.

During the fighting, the assassins who attacked at night were already in decline, but when the leader of the assassins gave a whistle, the assassins suddenly changed their strategy, leaving some men with machetes to fight with the guards, while the other part escaped from the battle at all costs and pulled out The brass pipe at the waist, lift the brass pipe to blow.

"It's poisonous smoke!" Seeing the assassin raising his long pipe, several shadow guards reminded loudly at the same time, and most of them covered their mouths and noses with wet cloths used to prevent poisonous smoke.

However, Ding Qiyu was dazzled by the cold light flashing from the long pipe. He felt that there was something wrong with the poisonous smoke pipe and the person who used the poisonous smoke. The long pipe was completely different from the long pipe on the machete assassin's waist. Ding Qiyu was startled in the direction he was facing, his body reacted one step earlier than his brain, turned around and threw himself on Ruqing who was beside him, only to feel sharp stabbing pains from several places on his back, Ding Qiyu groaned With a sound, he gritted his teeth and said, "It's not poisonous smoke...it's a blow dart!"

Fu Ruqing was rushed up by her, and hit his back against the wooden wall behind him, only then did he hear her muffled groans and words, and said anxiously: "Yu!" Fear came to his heart instantly, his eyes were moist, and he wanted to check Ding Qiyu's body. Her injuries were covered tightly by this person, and she couldn't resist with her strength.

The blowers are all desperadoes, and they were ordered to kill Fu Ruqing with poison. The poisonous smoke is just a cover-up, and blowing arrows is their trump card. The flesh and blood blocked all the poisonous arrows for Fu Ruqing.At this moment when the blowguns were exposed, Fu Ruqing's shadow guards had already reacted. In just a short moment, more than half of the blowers had been damaged. All the arrows were blown in the direction of Fu Ruqing——

Ding Qiyu tried his best to protect Qing'er in his arms, and fed the poisonous short arrows, all of which pierced into her body. The toxin attacked very quickly, and the uncontrollable dizziness and suffocation rushed to the brain. Ding Qiyu already felt that he could not breathe. When she came up, she was about to be unable to support the weight of her body. The Wuchang sword had already been taken off her hand, but she was unwilling to let go of the person in her arms. At this moment, she only had one thought in her heart - to protect Qing'er and not let her get hurt.

This scene is so similar. More than ten years ago, my mother did the same thing. She blocked the dagger stabbed by the robber for herself... Fu Ruqing lost her composure and supported Ding Qiyu's body that was gradually losing strength. "Yu, how are you?" Crying, can't, can't lose Yu...

Ding Qiyu knew how restless the person in his arms was, and wanted to comfort and respond to her, but he opened his mouth but could not make a sound, only the last trace of breathing was left, and he tried hard for a long time, but he only coughed up a mouthful of black and red blood, which stained the blood. Qing Er's shoulders.

All this happened in an instant, when Yinsu beside them realized that the uncle had blocked the poisoned arrow for the young lady, Yinsu stepped forward anxiously to help Fu Ruqing to support the exhausted Ding Qiyu.

The blower's desperate blow still failed to complete the assassination mission. Fu Ruqing's guards saw that Mr. Ding gave up his life to protect the eldest lady, and they were all annoyed at their lack of protection. , suddenly the momentum was like a bamboo, and soon the assassins were scattered all over the place.

Seeing that the situation was over, the last remaining assassins were about to take poison and commit suicide, but the shadow guards immediately saw through their actions, quickly shot out the poison pills they were mouthing, and captured the three assassins alive.

"Miss, the assassins have all been dealt with..." the leader of the shadow guards came here to report, but he couldn't relax at all. The person that the lady cared about the most was injured, and they couldn't absolve themselves of the responsibility.Seeing that the eldest lady didn't respond to her at all, but just called Mr. Ding's name earnestly, the leader of the shadow guard sighed, and could only dispatch people to clean up the mess in the station, and personally interrogate the assassin who was captured alive.

Ding Qiyu, who was about to lose his consciousness, heard the words of the leader of the shadow guards, which sounded like a distant echo, and a big stone fell from his heart. All the power in his body was released at this moment, and he fell into endless darkness.

"Yu——" Fu Ruqing supported her suddenly loose body, her voice trembled until it was unbearably hoarse, fear and panic mixed with fragments of nightmares tormented her, and her face was already covered with tears before she knew it.

Fu Ruqing had no time to take care of the assassin's affairs at all, all she knew was that Yu should not be allowed to do anything, she didn't know where the strength came from, she stubbornly supported Ding Qiyu's weight, and carefully helped her who was completely unconscious to lie on the bed.Yinsu beside him didn't help, and rushed to the leader of the shadow guard anxiously.

Fu Ruqing dismissed everyone, leaving Ying Liu, who is good at medicine, alone in the room. He didn't care who saw the scar on his face, and watched with red eyes as Ying Liu cut off the black blood on Ding Qiyu's back. His clothes were covered with poisonous arrows, revealing his already devastated back, and he felt that those short arrows were pierced in his heart, and the oozing out was clearly his own heart blood.

There were thirteen arrow wounds on Ding Qiyu's back, and the shooting power of the blowing arrows was not strong, so the arrows did not penetrate deeply. Ying Liu quickly pulled out the short arrows on Ding Qiyu's back, and carefully cleaned the wounds for her , apply some hemostatic powder that can restrain the spread of toxicity.It was only then that he began to diagnose the pulse and deal with curare, which was more dangerous than trauma.

Feeling the weak beating pulse under his fingers, Ying Liu frowned, hesitated for a while, then turned to look at the eldest lady beside her.Fu Ruqing knew what Yingliu was wondering about, her red eyes met Yingliu's without hesitation, and she didn't say anything. She only cared about Yu's safety now, and everything else was unimportant.

Ying Liu immediately settled down, turned around and did not dare to look at Master again, some things, it is better to pretend to be ignorant, and if Mr. Ding is a woman, how could he have such a body?He didn't dare to inquire about his master's private affairs anymore, so he concentrated on treating Ding Qiyu.

At this time, Yinsu also came in from the outside, with a sad face, seeing the young lady turned her head to look at herself, with undisguised expectation in her tearful eyes, she hesitated for a moment before reporting: "The captured assassin said that there is no antidote." ...on me, I didn't find it either..."