After the rebirth, I was picked up by the prince

The people who decided to go back considered the urgency of the situation, Song Yaoxu immediately ordered people to prepare enough dry food, handed the tiger charm in his hand to Tang Leyuan, and officially transferred to the post of coach.

That night, after confirming that all affairs were handed over and everything that should be packed was also packed, the group of three people took advantage of the darkness and started on their way without stopping.

It was inevitable that Qi Zizhen couldn't keep up physically, so he rode with Song Yaoxu at night, and rode alone to follow during the day.

Wei Lingshen had frequent contacts with his friends from the rivers and lakes on weekdays, and he was very familiar with the small road back to the capital. He rode at the front and led the way along the way, and rushed back day and night along the shortest path and the fastest way.

It's just that there is still a distance between the northwestern border and the capital. Qi Zizhen and Song Yaoxu have no experience of traveling like this. Coupled with the bad weather, it still took them four and a half days to finally approach the capital.

Before they set off, Wei Lingshen asked another Jiang Hu friend to help deliver the news that they were going back. His Jiang Hu friend was very familiar with this kind of itinerary, and he arrived in the capital a day earlier to bring the news to Ning Qing. guard.

Therefore, when Qi Zizhen and the others rushed to the outer suburbs of the capital, they immediately saw Cui Liang who had come to meet him.

"Your Highness!"

When Cui Liang saw someone, he drove over from a distance, sat on the horse and saluted as a sign.

Song Yaoxu nodded his head, full of bewilderment and dust.But he didn't care too much about the image, and asked him quickly: "How is the situation now?"

Cui Liang frowned and shook his head: "It's very bad. Yesterday the imperial physician said... Your Majesty may not be able to last until tomorrow morning. And since this morning, the imperial palace has been almost blocked by Qi Yuan's control of the Imperial Forest Army, and he wants to enter without being noticed." I'm afraid it will be difficult."

Song Yaoxu's hand holding the rein tightened slightly, almost unable to restrain the surging emotions in his heart.

Qi Zizhen at the side came over upon seeing this, and said decisively: "There is a secret passage set up by the Imperial Palace and outside the palace. Before today, only His Highness, the Imperial Advisor and I knew about it. Let's go in there."

Before today, he really couldn't guess that one day this magical secret passage would be useful in such a way.

Cui Liang relaxed his brows a little after hearing about the secret passage, nodded and said: "Master Guoshi is already waiting near the palace, let's go directly to meet him."

The other three nodded and rode to the direction of the palace.

However, when they passed by a bamboo forest, there was a strange sound of piercing the air from all directions, and then three arrows shot straight at Song Yaoxu's gate of life!

"careful!"

Qi Zizhen was the first to notice something was wrong, without a word, he drew his sword out of its sheath, rushed to Song Yaoxu and cut off two of the arrows with a sword, and the remaining one brushed against his arm, and inserted it with a "poof". into the dirt not far away.

"Call-"

"Zizhen!"

The others stopped their horses after Qi Zizhen rushed up, and Song Yaoxu stepped forward a short distance worriedly when he saw this.

Fortunately, Qi Zizhen was wearing more clothes due to the cold weather. He shook his head to indicate that he was fine, and stared at the six or seven men in black riding out in front of them with a long sword in his hand.

This place is the only and the shortest way to get to the palace from the outer suburbs, they are likely to ambush them here under the name of Qi Yuan or Song Ping.

And looking at the arrows just shot, their intention was to take Song Yaoxu's life!

There was a hint of coldness in Qi Zizhen's eyes, he clenched the hilt of the sword in his hand to make a decision, and said in a low voice: "Your Highness, you and Cui Liang will meet up first, and leave this place to me and my cousin. After we finish, we will go to the guard The government is looking for my uncle and second cousin."

Now that the situation in the palace is critical, Song Yaoxu can no longer delay on the road for too long, and this group of men in black will take over the task of assassinating the prince. It will only be more dangerous.

However, after a long period of hard work, Qi Zizhen's originally slightly rosy face was now pale and tired, and his straight body could not hide the thinness under the fox fur.

Song Yaoxu held the rein tightly with both hands, and after hesitating for a while, he forced himself to make a choice.

"……it is good."

He could clearly distinguish the current situation. Too much hesitation and worry at this time would be more likely to contribute to the deterioration of the situation.

This is the wisest thing to do when the rules are set.

The four of them glanced at each other, and finally the other three drew out their sabers at the same time and rushed towards the assassins in front!

In an instant, swords collided and blood spattered.

Qi Zizhen, together with Wei Lingshen, tried their best to restrain all the assassins, turned around and shouted to Song Yaoxu at the right time: "Your Highness, go!"

Song Yaoxu's hand holding the sword was slightly tight, and then he put the sword back into its sheath, and took a last look at Qi Zizhen, with firm eyes: "Wait for me."

Immediately afterwards, he waved the rein without hesitation, turned around and rushed to join Ning Qingwei.

"drive--!"

Qi Zizhen glanced at his black figure that was gradually walking away, completely withdrew his mind, and concentrated on solving the remaining five assassins in front of him.

Sword lights and sword shadows flew in the small bamboo forest, white snow mixed with fresh blood, like countless bloody red plums blooming in the white paper.

Qi Zizhen pierced the chest of the last assassin with a sword, and his pale complexion made his black pupils stand out even more, and only the messy corpses were reflected in his eyes.The horse he was riding was stabbed to death by an assassin in the fight just now, and the snow-white fox fur he was wearing was also cut several times, stained with countless bloodstains, dirty and messy.

He stood alone on the dirty snow, the long sword in his hand was still bleeding, his face was pale and indifferent, like a white flower blooming in the mud, seemingly weak and weak, but in fact he was firm and indomitable.

Wei Lingshen came over on horseback, and the situation was not much better than that of Qi Zizhen.

He got off his horse, walked to Qi Zizhen's side and asked worriedly, "How is it? Where is it hurt?"

Qi Zizhen turned to look at him with clear eyes.

Then at the next moment, he seemed to let go of the breath he was holding on to suddenly, and his body softened suddenly, allowing himself to fall into the icy ground.

"Xiao Zhen? Xiao Zhen!"

Wei Lingshen's anxious voice suddenly raised and drifted away, Qi Zizhen wanted to respond but found that he had no strength left.

He slowly closed his eyes, and his consciousness was swallowed by the cold wind in the icy world.

An overwhelming sense of exhaustion swept over him, and he felt his consciousness floating and sinking in the void of ice in a trance.

so cold...

Qi Zizhen let out a breath, and when he opened his eyes, he seemed to be floating in the air.

Under his feet was the bamboo forest that had experienced a fierce battle just now.

There was some confusion in his eyes.

...What is this all about?

Before Qi Zizhen had time to be confused for a long time, he heard the sound of horseshoes coming from the grove below——

It was "Qi Zizhen", "Song Yaoxu" and "Cui Liang" who were on their way on horseback, and in front of "them" were several assassins squatting on guard.

How is this going?

Before Qi Zizhen could figure it out, the situation below suddenly changed.

An assassin squatting in the bamboo forest shot three arrows at the gate of "Song Yaoxu"!

"clang--"

"Wow—!"

"Qi Zizhen" quickly blocked in front of "Song Yaoxu" and "Cui Liang" at the same time the arrow was shot, and the long sword in his hand reflected a white light, reflecting the three severed arrows in front of him.

"How dare you engage in a sneak attack at this level?" Qi Zizhen sneered, his pale face could not conceal his aggressive aura.

Song Yaoxu followed closely to his side, drew his sword out of its sheath, his eyes darkened.

Seeing this, the assassins stopped hiding and rode their horses out of the bamboo forest. A dozen or so assassins completely blocked their way forward.

Qi Zizhen and Song Yaoxu didn't show any timidity at all, at the same time as the assassins came out, they took the initiative to launch an attack together with Cui Liang!

"Qiangqiang-"

The sound of sharp and fierce clashes of swords and swords came one after another. Even though they were facing dozens of assassins, Qi Zizhen and Song Yaoxu were able to handle them with ease.

Where the sword points, there is blood of the assassin!

However, at this moment, another assassin who has been lurking in the bamboo forest saw Song Yaoxu's unprepared opportunity, and rushed out to face Song Yaoxu!

"Be careful, Your Highness!"

Qi Zizhen was the first to notice the change in the situation behind Song Yaoxu, and it was almost too late to kill the assassin who was entangled with him in front of him with one sword!

In the blink of an eye, he didn't even have time to think, he galloped over with his horse, and stood firmly behind Song Yaoxu.

"puff--"

The long sword sank into his shoulder, and Qi Zizhen's complexion became even worse in an instant.

He held on with strength, clenched the blade of the sword in his hand and pierced the assassin's chest before the assassin could react!

Two streams of blood gushed out one after another, splashing Qi Zizhen all over.

"Zizhen!"

Song Yaoxu also dealt with the last assassin in front of him, and hurriedly turned around to catch Qi Zizhen who was about to fall.

Qi Zizhen showed pain on his face, panting lightly, he wanted to push him away: "Don't...don't mind me, go back to the palace...quickly!...uh..."

He couldn't help crying out in pain almost as soon as he finished speaking.

Cui Liang, who was on the side, also hurried over, stretched out his hand to support Qi Zizhen, who was about to fall, and said, "This place is not far from the Wei Mansion, Mr. Qi will be handed over to the subordinates first, and the subordinates will take him to the Wei Mansion. Your Highness should hurry up." Go to the palace to preside over the overall situation!"

Song Yaoxu understood what Cui Liang and Qi Zizhen said. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. When he opened his eyes again, his eyes were still firm: "Okay, I got it. Please take good care of Zizhen, and wait for me to stabilize the situation." Come down and I'll find you."

"Cui Liang" nodded, and with the help of "Song Yaoxu", brought "Qi Zizhen" to his horse, and drove the horse towards the direction of Weifu.

"Song Yaoxu" watched their figures disappear into the bamboo forest, then turned around and rushed in the opposite direction.

At the same time, the flying frost and white snow gradually covered all the scenes in front of him, and Qi Zizhen was floating in the midair, but he felt a little bit more immersive in the haze, and even felt his left shoulder began to ache.

What happened to the scene just now?

It is obviously the same as what they experienced just now, but it feels very different...

"Well……"

The left shoulder and head started to ache at the same time, Qi Zizhen squatted in the air with his head in his arms, his face full of pain.

He could tell that this place should be his dream again, but why would there be pain in the dream?

Qi Zizhen could hardly suppress the pain from his lips, and felt a gust of wind and frost blowing towards him. When he opened his eyes again, he saw a crystal clear ice coffin amidst the snow all over the sky.

The person lying in the ice coffin is "Qi Zizhen".

He remembered this scene and the ice coffin, he had seen it once in a previous dream, and it was in that dream that he and "Qi Zizhen" completely merged into one person.

But why did he come back here again?

Qi Zizhen wanted to stand up and walk over, but the sudden severe pain in his left shoulder almost engulfed him, and the large swaths of darkness shattered the whole picture in front of him.

A few groans escaped from his lips, and then a few hazy voices were heard.

"Xiaozhen? Are you awake, Xiaozhen? But what else is uncomfortable?"

The clear voice echoed in his ears, he opened his eyes in a daze, and saw someone sitting by his bed looking at him worriedly.

He turned his eyes slightly, and saw that the person was his second cousin Wei Lingyin, and the place where he was lying was the room of Weifu Guest House.

Seeing that he finally woke up, Wei Lingyin heaved a sigh of relief, and asked with a smile, "How is it? Do you feel uncomfortable?"

On weekdays, Wei Lingyin also likes to study medical skills, presumably Wei Lingshen took him back to the Wei Mansion after he fainted, and then handed him over to Wei Lingyin to help take care of him.

After waking up, Qi Zizhen didn't quite remember the scene he saw in the dream just now. After hearing Wei Lingyin's concern and inquiry, he thought about it and said truthfully, "I feel my left shoulder hurts."

Hearing him talking about the left shoulder, Wei Lingyin let out an "ah" and replied: "Just now I put medicine on your left shoulder, it may be that the medicine powder is taking effect so it hurts more."

After he finished speaking, he paused, and there was more concern in his eyes: "Xiao Zhen, you too, I heard that my elder brother said that if he didn't see you fainted, he wouldn't know that your left shoulder was still injured. You are injured and not in good health. , don’t be too pushy, you understand?”

After Qi Zizhen listened to Wei Lingyin's words in a daze, his mind hadn't turned around yet.

Injured left shoulder...?

But he clearly remembered that he only suffered a little skin trauma on his arm?

The author has something to say: Thank you [An Arctic Rabbit] and [Huaisu] for their nutrient solution mua~