Reincarnation of the powerful minister

Zhu Helin, escorted by more than 200 Donggong guards and [-] Jinyi guards, galloped towards Linqing in the northwest direction.

As a very prosperous state city along the Caohe River, Linqing has enough waterboats to carry their seven or eight hundred people.

The road was slippery after the rain, and the horses ran for two hours in a row. When they were tired, the group simply stopped to take a breath, and drank and ate in the ruined temple by the roadside.

After more than ten days, the wound on Su Yan's hand has basically healed, so it's not easy to ride with Shen Qi anymore, and ride alone on a docile mare.Shen Qi was always a little worried, so she asked Shi Yanshuang to follow him and take care of her more.

In the ruined temple, the Crown Prince, Shen Qi, Su Yan, Wei Liangzi, the commander of the guards of the Eastern Palace, and Shi Yanshuang, who was in charge of the Qianhu, sat around the bonfire.Su Yan took the water bag from Shen Qi, gnawed dry food with cold water, frowned and said: "I always feel that something is wrong..."

Shi Yanshuang knew that this young minister was the favorite of his family's Shangguan, so he asked attentively, "What's wrong, the bread is too salty? Too hard? There are also 'chess pieces' here, you can boil them and eat them."

Su Yan thanked him with a smile, then turned to the prince and said, "The Wang brothers attacked the hall at night, not just running around and making trouble, but Xiang Zhuang's sword dance was aimed at Peigong and aimed at the young master. What I'm worried about right now Yes, has the previously planned route back to Beijing been leaked? If not, it means that the other party has a tip from an expert and can deduce the following route from the places we have passed."

The prince frowned and nodded slightly.

Shen Qi said: "The batch of brocade guards I brought are reliable."

"The guards of the Eastern Palace are more reliable." Wei Liangzi couldn't believe it, and asked, "Is there really such a powerful master?"

Su Yan said casually: "Did you forget Mr. He?"

"No matter who the other party is, if we go to Caohe next, will the other party be right?" He drew a curved line on the ground with a branch to indicate Caohe, and marked the locations of Linqing and Tangyi, " With such a short distance, it is not difficult to guess that after we escape from Tangyi, we will most likely embark from Linqing, because this is the optimal solution."

"Optimal solution?"

"It's the best policy."

Su Yan poked the point representing Linqing with the tip of a branch: "Taking the Caohe River is the fastest, but the risk is also high. If the enemy arranges for water ghosts to sneak into the river at night and cut through the bottom of the boat, we may all die in our sleep." Feed the fish."

This is indeed a big problem.

"Then let's not take the tank boat and continue to travel by land?" Wei Liangzi suggested.

"It's too obvious." Su Yan shook his head, "My suggestion is to build plank roads openly, and keep warehouses in secret. You need to sit on the tank boat, and let the other party believe that the prince is also on the boat."

Wei Liangzi thought for a while and said, "I will take the guards of the East Palace on the boat. Everyone knows that we are my personal bodyguards. I will find another guard who is similar in stature to my master and pretend to be able to attract their attention. ?”

Su Yan sized him up and nodded: "I think it's okay. What does the young master mean?"

Zhu Helin looked at the commander of the guards who had been with him day and night.

Before his worried eyes fell on him, Wei Liangzi said, "Don't worry, young master, I'm a very good swimmer. Even if the boat capsizes, I can swim back to the shore with my brothers."

Zhu Helin considered it again and again, and finally agreed to the proposal, and the troops were divided into two groups.

Guessing that the fleet was going away, Shen Qi, Su Yan and Zhu Helin waited in the dark for another hour before embarking on the journey back north again.

For the next two or three days, the weather was not very good, and it rained from time to time, but fortunately there were no more attacks.Perhaps the opponent mistakenly thought that Wei Liangzi's team belonged to the prince, and went after the tank boat.

Seeing that they are about to enter the boundary of the capital, and then pass Hejian Mansion and Baoding Mansion, they will be able to enter the capital.

An extremely sharp, sinister, and gangrene-like assassination came in the dark hour before dawn.

Nearly a thousand black-clothed assassins who had been fed the secret medicine and stimulated their blood pupils surrounded and attacked their temporary camp at night.

The brocade guards fought vigorously, but faced with such a large number of blood-eyed assassins who were as crazy as beasts, it was inevitable that it would be difficult to deal with them. In addition, if they were not careful, their minds would be affected by the nightmare technique, resulting in heavy casualties.

This time almost ran out of ammunition and food, and even Zhu Helin himself joined the battle.

Shen Qi was distracted to care about Suyan's safety.Su Yan shouted to him: "Leave me alone! Go help the prince! I still have Shi Qianhu here!"

Shi Yanshuang accepted Shangguan's death order before the battle, and ignored everything else. The team under his banner followed Su Yan closely throughout the entire process, making sure to ensure his safety.

The royal guards were covering the prince and the others, retreating while fighting.

Su Yan leaned forward on the horse's back, avoiding the flying broken blade, and at the same time put the small scorpion crossbow held in his right hand on his left arm, and pulled the trigger.

The iron arrow was sent out in response to the string, shooting a blood pupil assassin off the horse's back.

——This small scorpion crossbow for body protection was given by King Yu.After being improved by King Yu himself, the body of the crossbow is smaller and more accurate. Although a part of the shooting range is sacrificed, it is really a deadly weapon in the short range.Su Yan took it with him when he went to Shaanxi for the second time last year, but it turned out to be useless.Fortunately, I brought it with me when I came back to Nanjing, and it came in handy here.

Relying on this weapon, even if Su Yan doesn't know martial arts and can't control the recoil of the electric gun, he can still shoot and kill several blood pupil assassins one after another with his extraordinary accuracy, which greatly relieves the pressure on Shi Yanshuang to protect him.

"You can't be entangled by blood pupils, they are all monsters who don't know pain and fatigue, you have to find a way to rush out!" Shen Qi shouted to Zhu Helin.

Zhu Helin slashed the blood-eyed assassin's throat with a sword, then turned to Shen Qi and said: "There are too many enemies... Where can we break out from?"

Shen Qi kicked away an assassin, jumped to the top of a tree with lightness kung fu, looked around and then fell back to the ground, and replied: "To the east!"

Under the cover of Jin Yiwei Tiqi, they finally got rid of the entanglement of the blood pupil assassin. Not long after they broke through, three forks appeared in the road ahead.

Left, right, or center?Before Zhu Helin had time to make a decision, Su Yan stretched out his fingers and pointed at the intersections in turn: "Prince, come down the mountain to order troops—the one on the right!"

Zhu Helin was a little astonished: "This is... what are you talking about?"

Su Yan pulled him to the right fork in the road, and said, "Xuanxue!"

This time luck did not favor Su Yan.Probably just fulfilled the sentence-Xuan does not change his fate.They didn't run very far on the forked road on the right, when the mare Su Yan was riding accidentally got its hooves stuck in the pothole and broke.

Both Shen Qi and Zhu Helin flew over to save him from the horse, and because Shen Qi was closer, they almost caught him.

"Did you fall?" The two asked at the same time.

Su Yan moved his hands and feet, panting and said: "No... Young master, lend me your Chi Xiafei. I feel sorry for you to ride with Shen Qi."

Zhu Helin immediately replied: "Okay!"

Su Yan said again: "Master, I'm soaked and very cold, please lend me my cloak."

Without further ado, Zhu Helin began to take off his cloak, taking off the half body armor and the six-petal domed iron helmet with red tassels, and put it on for him: "This set of armor is light and strong, and it was specially ordered by my father to be made for me by a craftsman. Forged, the heart-guard can block arrows ten steps away, so it is safer for you to wear it."

Su Yan smiled.

The rain started to fall again, he got up and approached Chi Xiafei, got on his horse, wiped the rainwater from his face, and shouted loudly: "Jin Yiwei, protect the young master and I will rush out!"

"You—" Zhu Helin grabbed the stirrup, startled and annoyed, "Get off the horse and give me back what's on you!"

Shen Qi stretched out her hand to grab him on the horse's back.Su Yan grabbed the reins vigorously, but was still pulled off the horse by Shen Qi.Shen Qi gritted her teeth fiercely, tearing off his cloak and armor.

Su Yan tightly guarded the equipment on his body and did not let go.

Shen Qi: "Give it to me, I'll lure the assassin away! You follow the prince!"

Su Yan: "Both Commander Wei and Shi Qianhu led the troops behind us to resist the enemy. I will go with the crown prince. The crown prince protects me. Who will protect him? Qilang, listen to me—"

Shen Qi said to him with an unprecedented stern tone: "I don't want to hear it! I will never accept it! There is no room for negotiation!"

Zhu Helin was also full of annoyance, stepped forward and clasped Su Yan's shoulder forcefully: "Su Qinghe, do you think I will accept your favor and promise to let you act as a substitute to lure away the pursuers? I wish I could beat you to death!"

Su Yan yelled: "—Shut up the fuck!"

This explosion shocked both Zhu Helin and Shen Qi.

Su Yan took a deep breath, and said to Zhu Helin: "You are acting emotionally at the moment, you just want to let me out of danger. But what I'm thinking about is how to let everyone survive! If the young master breaks here today, even Shen Qi and I are lucky So what if we survived? Leaving aside the end of our official career, we are afraid that the entire Great Ming will not have a foothold for us! So, young master, we can live better if you are alive. You have to fight me here, do you want to hug and die together?"

Zhu Helin understands the truth, but he can't let him watch Su Yan take risks for him.

Su Yan didn't give him a chance to speak, and said again: "Master, what you have to do now is to rush back to the capital within three days, stabilize the situation as the prince, and then send troops to the south to meet me and Xiaolingwei .

"I regret my life very much. I dared to make this decision because I asked the local villagers before. This fork road leads to a mountain forest. Because of the intricate terrain, it is called the 'Misty Forest'. According to the abilities and skills of the Jinyi Guards, It is not a problem to use the terrain to mediate for a few days.

"Okay, that's all for now, if either of you is crying and acting like a child, it will only make me, Su Qinghe, look down on you - let's go! Hurry up!"

Zhu Helin was at a loss for words for a while.

Shen Qi's face was gloomy and cold, and she said in a serious voice: "I'm not the prince, and I have no responsibility to save the common people. I don't care whether my official career is over or whether I will live or die in the future, I just don't want you to be in danger alone. If you really want to hug each other to death , then die!"

Su Yan was very helpless, stepped forward with a sigh, and held Shen Qi's face with both hands.

The rain lashed the cheeks and temple hair of the two of them, Su Yan kissed Shen Qi's lips forcefully in front of the prince.

Zhu Helin's eyes widened, and the shock on his face turned into anger, but he didn't immediately step forward to pull the two of them away—maybe it was because of the sadness and nostalgia, the silent trust and the desperate determination revealed in this kiss, which were extremely rich. And the gushing emotions sucked his hands and feet like a vortex, making him forget to move.

"Listen to me, Qilang..." Su Yan parted his lips slightly, gasped, and said softly, "I have never begged you for anything. Today I beg you, not for the crown prince, but for all of us... Please You escorted the crown prince to Beijing safely, and I beg you to save your own life.

"You and I have a heart-to-heart relationship. You don't need to say much about what I want and wish in my heart. You know it better than anyone else. Qilang, if even you can't fulfill me, who else can?"

Shen Qi's face was covered with rain, and she couldn't see her expression clearly at this moment.

He moved his stiff fingers, pressed Su Yan's shoulder, then leaned over and lowered his head, pressing his forehead against Su Yan's eyebrows.

"...I will fulfill you. I will fulfill your request, as you wish." Shen Qi said hoarsely, "After I come back, if the world cannot find you, I will chase you. You have to wait for me, don't Promise to walk alone."

As the rain streamed down the corners of his brows and eyes, a faint smile appeared on Su Yan's lips, and he nodded, "Okay, I promise you."

Shen Qi took a deep look at him, resolutely let go and turned around, supported Zhu Helin and pushed him onto the horse's back: "Go!"

The clinging vortex was broken, Zhu Helin gritted his teeth and shouted: "Shen Qi, you are crazy! This is called fulfillment? This is called connivance! If he dies, no matter how many wishes he asks, who will see them come true?! "

Shen Qi forcibly pulled him onto the horse's back, and then got on the horse herself, sat behind the prince, and lashed the horse's buttocks with a whip.

The horse was in pain, and Xi Xi rushed forward with a sound.

Zhu Helin struggled to jump off the horse.

Shen Qi cut the Prince's wrist backwards with one hand, tried her best to suppress it, and said in a deep voice: "He wants you to arrive in Beijing within three days, and if it takes an extra hour, I, Shen Qi, will be considered incompetent!"

The gust of wind and the cold rain lashed his face, Zhu Helin hated him extremely, and shouted: "If something happens to Qinghe...Shen Qi, I will delay you by [-] knives!"

Shen Qi said coldly: "If it's not your turn to act, I will delay myself."

Zhu Helin no longer struggled, his fingers gripped the rein tightly - hurry up, hurry up!With wings on his back, he flew to the capital—and then brought the army back to pick him up!

Just after a fierce fight ended, Shen Qi had several deep wounds on her body.He got off his horse and stood in the middle of the road, holding the Xiuchun knife in his almost exhausted hand, and the tip of the knife slanted against the ground.

The assassins who blocked them turned into corpses all over the ground, but there were still many blood eyes that had not faded from the medicine and rushed towards them in an endless stream.

Shen Qi killed another one, and said to Zhu Helin who was on the horse without looking back: "Let's go, Prince! A hundred li ahead is Gyeonggi, and you will be completely safe after passing the boundary marker!"

Zhu Helin glanced at his back, with hesitation, resentment, and more profound and complicated emotions hidden deep in his eyes.

"—Let's go!" Shen Qi roared while fighting, "Go to power! Go to send troops! Go to respond!"

Zhu Helin took a deep breath, shook the reins, and rode his horse galloping towards the capital.

Shen Qi gritted her teeth and killed four or five people in a row, the blood-stained Xiuchun Knife finally fell to the ground, even the muscles of her legs began to tremble violently.

Exhausted, he leaned back and sat on the wet mud with his legs spread apart, arrogant and contemptuous.

The Xiuchun Knife that fell to the ground was held back in his hand. He put the blade across his knees, coughed up a mouthful of blood, and hissed towards the few remaining blood-eyed assassins, "Next."

The wind of the sword hit his face, Shen Qi's pupils contracted, and the Xiuchun knife in his hand was as heavy as a thousand jun, pressing down on him like a mountain.

A sharp arrow suddenly shot from behind him.Shen Qi didn't dodge, the arrow grazed his hair, piercing through the blood pupil assassin who rushed forward.

Zhu Helin drew the bow and strung the string, and shot the last assassin to death on the spot with several consecutive arrows.

The horse's hooves stopped beside Shen Qi, Zhu Helin said in a deep voice, "...get on the horse."

Shen Qi turned her head, looked at him from bottom to top, but did not respond.

Zhu Helin could see that the leader of Jin Yiwei, who had been fighting endlessly for three days and two nights without sleep, had exhausted the last bit of his physical strength.

After a brief hesitation, the prince on horseback stretched out a hand to his courtiers whom he had always feared, hated, and envied——

"Get on the horse!"

Shen Qi looked at the prince expressionlessly, and moved her chapped lips: "If you want to kill me, now is the best chance. If you say that I died at the hands of the blood pupil assassin, even Qing He won't doubt it."

Zhu Helin suddenly became furious: "You think the young master really doesn't want to kill you?"

Shen Qi closed her eyes, and said coldly: "Hurry up! Don't delay his business."

The sword in Zhu Helin's hand raised and then fell, fell and raised again.Finally, gritting his teeth, he put the sword back into its sheath, reached out and grabbed his wrist, and dragged him onto the horse behind him.

The weight on the back suddenly increased, and the horse flicked its tail and mane in dissatisfaction, and ran resignedly.

There was still surprise in Shen Qi's eyes, she frowned and asked: "You obviously hate me, why didn't you kill me instead of saving me?"

The corners of Zhu Helin's mouth were tightly pursed, and after a while, he squeezed out a sentence: "It's none of your business what my young master thinks and does! How dare you control me?"

Shen Qi didn't say anything for a while.

The city gate of the capital appears at the end of the official road.

The galloping horses did not slow down, and the gatekeepers were alarmed, and came forward with weapons in hand.One of the leaders yelled loudly: "Who is so presumptuous, he doesn't get off his horse and lead him when he is near the city gate!"

Zhu Helin raised his voice and said, "It's your young master!"

The defenders saw the two men with disheveled faces on horseback, they couldn't see their faces clearly, and there wasn't even a guard around them.Besides, who doesn't know that His Royal Highness is guarding the mausoleum in Nanjing, where did the "young master" come from?Immediately gathered around, confronted each other with swords, and shouted: "Who dares to pretend to be the prince! Take it for me!"

With one hand, Shen Qi held down Zhu Helin who wanted to make trouble, and with the other hand, she threw the ivory badge from a distance, and it landed in front of the defenders.

"Beizhen Fusi, Jin Yiwei Tongzhi——Shen Qi!"

Destroying Qilang's life, he has a fierce reputation in the capital, which can stop children from crying at night.The defender who picked up the waist badge gave a weak leg and held onto the barrel of the spear.