Death Princess

Late at night, Xueming Valley.

Zhao Lu didn't fall asleep, but for some reason, together with the bird, she cracked melon seeds on the eaves.Every time Chao Lu finished eating one, she would peel the other one with her bare hands and put it on the bricks and tiles aside. When the birds saw it, they would cooperate and swallow the melon seeds without any gaps.

But this time, Chao played a trick and stuffed the part that was planned to be given to the bird into his mouth, and then waited for the bird's reaction with a malicious expression on his face.Sure enough, even though there were no melon seeds, the birds still pecked at the bricks and tiles.There was a slap, and it sounded like a pain in the mouth.

"Xiao Huihui, is Wa delicious?"

"..." Qin Hui, who was possessed by the bird, wanted to roll his eyes, but the eyes on both sides rolled up, not so much to express his inner grievances, but rather to pretend to be a ghost.

"Have you found Yi'er's whereabouts?" Before Qin Hui could answer, Zhao Lu said to herself, "Look at your distraught appearance, did you not find it? Hey—this time really exceeded our expectations. King Ping, the crown prince, and even His Majesty don't seem to be the ones who would kidnap Yi'er like this. That is to say..."

"There is a force that we have never noticed." The silver light from the bird turned into a human figure, and sat beside Zhao Lu, but avoided Zhao Lu's gaze.

"Nothing." Even knowing her elder brother's thorn in his heart, Zhao Lu still picked up which pot did not open, "Is he really trustworthy?"

"If you had asked me this question half a month ago, my answer would have been yes," Qin Hui replied with a sigh, unable to resist his sister's scrutiny, "but now, I don't dare to say anything. He is one of the few friends I made in the palace, although he doesn’t talk much, he hides his head and shows his tail, but he is extremely simple, pure like a stone that has not been weathered.”

"I know that he sneaked into the prince's secret guard, not simply to make a living, but has an ulterior purpose, and may even have some blood feud with someone in the capital. And he also vaguely understands that I entered the court as an official Over the years, we have cooperated without interfering with each other. But..." Rubbing my forehead and shaking my head, "Keeping him by Yi'er's side was my biggest mistake."

"Do you think," Zhao Lu looked away from Qin Hui, licked the melon seeds again, and said absent-mindedly, "Kidnapping Yi'er is for nothing?"

"The person who kidnapped Yi'er should not be him, but he knew about it." Qin Hui didn't finish.

"Time difference?" Zhao Lu understood.

"That's right, the time difference. Yi'er's disappearance should be earlier than what everyone thinks, and in this gap, the 'Yi'er' walking among the imperial envoys should be wearing nothing." Qin Hui nodded wearily. Nodded, "As for the disappearance of the princess in his later role, he also tricked King Ping by the way..."

"Discovered by conscience? Or... compelled by the situation?" A mosquito appeared from nowhere in the winter, swayed in front of the two brothers and sisters, flicked the skin of the melon seeds at Luyan, and flew straight towards the mosquito.The direction was right and the timing was right, but the melon seed rind fell down due to lack of strength just before it touched the mosquito.A trace of disappointment flashed in Zhao Lu's eyes, but he suppressed it quickly, and said solemnly: "The original plan was to replace Yi'er with Wu You, but later I realized that this method would not work, because even if Wu You pretended to be successful, it would not be able to deceive you. Eye."

"If this is the reason, he shouldn't have to think about it for a few days, but he should have denied the plan when it was born." Qin Hui objected.

"So," Zhao Lu licked the melon seeds again, "Wuyou didn't know about the kidnapping plan, but was forced to join in the middle, and then defected because of conscience discovery?"

"Maybe..." Qin Hui nodded and shook his head again, "But no matter what the reason is, it's not what you should be concerned about right now."

Chao Lu half opened her mouth and was about to answer something, but she saw Han Shuangxue running over panting not far away, and while running, she shouted loudly, fearing that the two of them would not hear her: "Yi, Sister Yi, I found Sister Yi!"

"What?" With a snap, Qin Hui stood up.

"She should have been rescued by Leng Tong." After that, Zhao Lu couldn't hear clearly, because the appearance of this unexpected name occupied all the space in her mind.

But Han Shuangxue continued, "Earlier tonight, I suddenly felt that the spirit beads I left for Jing Yu began to be used in large quantities. I thought it might be that Jing Yu was in danger, but I thought there would be something like Leng Tong. An ancestor who sees the gods and kills the gods is by his side, so there will be no mistakes, so he doesn't care anymore. But just now, Yanzhu suddenly encountered a weak and familiar phantom spiritual force, it must be Yi'er's fault She presumably swallowed the flame beads in her stomach after successfully escaping to keep warm."

Then, Han Shuangxue described the time and approximate location when the Lingzhu was used. Every time she spit out a little information, Qin Hui's eyes, which were made of silver light, lit up a little.As soon as Han Shuangxue finished speaking, the silver light returned to the bird's body, and when it disappeared, she still pointed at Chao Lu and left a sentence: "Little Lulu, is the skin of melon seeds so delicious?"

Zhao Lu belatedly looked at the melon seeds she was picking up and was about to crack, but found that it was a piece of melon seeds that had already been eaten and thrown aside...

Leng Tong, Leng Tong saved Yi'er.

. . .

At the same time, the two cousins ​​who were discussed by the brother-sister trio far away in Lingzhou were curled up in a cave that was not too big.Due to the fear of chasing soldiers, there was no fire in the cave, so even though the snow outside had stopped for a while, the two men in thin clothes, especially He Yi who had just been fished out of the water, were still shivering from the cold.

Leng Tong searched all over her body, but found that she, a killer who was used to wearing only one layer of single clothes for the convenience of tasks, couldn't remove half of the cloth that could keep He Yi warm.And the other party is the royal princess, so I can't say that I leaned over to warm her up with my body.If you do that, even if you saved her life just now, from the perspective of the eight-year dispute between the two, Leng Tong really can't guarantee that Her Royal Highness will treat her in the future to "take advantage of the princess" Sin comes.

Besides...

A figure flashed in his mind, but Leng Tong didn't catch it in time.

Just when Mount Tai was in front of him and Leng Tong was in a dilemma, He Yi himself, who was cold and white, pointed at the flame beads that Leng Tong had collected from Yao Jingyu with trembling hands. , came up with the idea of ​​eating a flame bead to keep warm, which is not a very good idea.Swallowing a flame ball that can melt the thick iron chains of a fist into his stomach...

But when Leng Tong took the lead in testing the poison, she didn't dare to question this "bad" idea.

After swallowing the flame beads, not only did the expected spontaneous combustion not happen, but Leng Tong felt a warm current pouring into the meridians of his body.The advance of the warm current was very gentle, but it quickly warmed Leng Tong's somewhat frozen limbs, making her feel hot even in this snowy night wearing only a single piece of clothing.

Swallowing the flame beads for He Yi, and after the cold-pale complexion of the other party had turned rosy, Leng Tong began to tiptoe out a few medicine bottles at the bottom of the package, and treated He Yi's wound.

Steel pinholes, branding iron marks, blunt knife wounds, joint dislocations, these are not big or small injuries that can be fully recovered in about a month as long as they use the medicine of Xueminggu. If they appear on Lengtong herself, she will only He raised his eyelids indifferently, but when he saw the pampered Princess, Leng Tong was astonished.

Fifty or sixty criminal injuries, the criminal injuries that Leng Tong is all too familiar with, the dark cabinet torture injuries that can't hurt the root, but can bring people to death.Leng Tong still vaguely remembers how long ago she and Xuemu talked nonsense, Xuemu said so at that time, she said that she would rather be tied to a pillar and have a good meal than suffer the torture of these ants gnawing her heart , because this kind of punishment is quick to wake up, but there are many tricks, and there will never be an end.

But now, these punishments have appeared on a princess.How did she, a princess, survive this torture that could pry open the mouths of countless assassins?

Ruoruo, Ruoruo himself didn't know about this from Wumian, didn't happen to know that the shadow gate was far away in a dark spot near the capital, or knew but didn't go there, and went there without the help of spirit beads to infiltrate the guards , what will happen to Princess Changping?

Leng Tong was more or less aware of Jiang Tang's behavior style. Since he used this kind of punishment, it meant that he would not take the life of Her Royal Highness easily.And in the same way, he used this kind of punishment that could quickly return to its original condition, which also meant that he cared about the victim's skin.

In the filthy place of Shadow Gate, what else could a man care about a woman's skin?What's more, she is a princess, who has been clothed in rich clothes and fine food since she was a child, and she is the only princess under the current emperor's knee.

"The taste of the princess must be different, right?"

Leng Tong was sure that this idea must have flashed in Jiang Tang's mind more than once.

Ruoruo, if he hadn't rescued her today, and Jiang Tang had...to her, what would she...how?In such a water prison where even suicide is impossible.

Subconsciously, Leng Tong looked at He Yi's face: at this very moment, Her Royal Highness the Golden Spoon Princess was closing her eyes tightly, clenching her teeth, desperately holding back the pain that was about to overflow from her mouth, until Both temples were beaded with sweat.

No wonder, even though he has tried his best to be gentle, how can an assassin who grew up from the tip of a knife treat the wound with "light hands and feet"?

Thinking of this, Leng Tong was a little at a loss.

This place is one hundred and eight thousand miles away from Xueming Valley, besides, it is impossible for me to take Her Royal Highness to seek medical treatment...

"Let..." Seemingly feeling Leng Tong's sudden stop, He Yi tiredly opened one eye with his head covered in cold sweat, "Let my sister... I'm laughing at you. Sister... sister don't want to... I..." He Yi thought for a long time but couldn't find a suitable word, but Leng Tong clearly withdrew his gaze, took a deep breath, and continued the action just now.