Go to Qingqiu together

Two days later, the person Shen Xubai sent to Prince Ning's Mansion to investigate the matter sent an urgent letter.

There was also a letter written by Butler Liu.

Shen Xubai suppressed the emotions in his heart and read the two letters one by one.

It was almost the same as what he had guessed, it was precisely because Steward Liu took Nian Nian out that Xia Chen succeeded.

Xia Chen threatened him with Steward Liu's son and asked him to take Niannian out. In order to save his son, Butler Liu finally took Niannian out to Xia Chen.

And when he sent someone back to investigate, Steward Liu had already committed suicide because of guilt.

Shen Xubai digested the result with an ugly face, and then let the man back down.

He let out a long breath, reached out and rubbed his aching head, feeling a little flustered for no reason.

Xu Qingjian has been at Xia Chen's side for two days, and there has been no movement so far. He is always worried about Xu Qingjian's safety.

And the other side.

After Xu Qingjian was taken as a hostage, Xia Chen didn't do anything to him, but he locked him in the room and didn't see him. He was locked up for two days, and Xu Qingjian didn't know what he was selling in his gourd. medicine.

Until the third day, Xia Chen finally came to see him.

The moment the door was pushed open, Xu Qingjian became vigilant.

"Long time no see, Qingjian." Xia Chen leaned against the door frame and looked at Xu Qingjian with a half-smile.

Hearing the other party's intimate address, Xu Qingjian's whole body was a little hairy, and his breathing was inexplicably short of breath because of nervousness.

"What are you going to do?" Xu Qingjian asked coldly.

"It's only been a few short years, have you forgotten who your real master is?" Xia Chen stared at Xu Qingjian with black eyes, and said word by word.

Xu Qingjian froze for a moment, then looked at Xia Chen blankly.

Xia Chen just laughed lightly, and then he took out a small box made of white jade, and when he opened it, there was a pure black Gu worm lying inside.

When Xu Qingjian saw the Gu worm, Xu Qingjian's heart skipped a beat for no reason, and a strong sense of uneasiness soon spread.

"It's okay if you forgot, I will help you remember." Xia Chen said with a light smile.

As he spoke, he took out a long and thin silver needle from his waist with his other hand.

"You have taken a kind of poison, called Gui He Chu, and it has been poisoned twice. If I let this poison happen again, it will be the third time." Xia Chen's voice was very low, But with a warning.

Xu Qingjian didn't speak, but just stared at the Gu worm in Xia Chen's hand, as if he didn't know what it was.

"I forgot to tell you, this poison is used in conjunction with Gu worms, the one in my hand is just a female worm, and there is a larva in your body." Xia Chen said slowly: "That is to say, I don't If I need to get close to you, I can poison you at any time, and of course...it can also remind you of everything in the past."

As Xia Chen's words fell, the silver needle in his hand pierced a certain part of the Gu worm in the jade box.

At the same time, Xu Qingjian felt a sharp pain all over his body.

His legs went limp, and he fell to his knees on the ground.

"Don't worry, it won't take long, you will remember everything soon." Xia Chen walked up to Xu Qingjian and looked down at him.

Xu Qingjian gritted his teeth hard, staring at Xia Chen fiercely.

But Xia Chen was not angry, he just smiled lightly, and sat down at the side, looking down at Xu Qingjian's painful appearance.

Xu Qingjian curled up, only feeling a splitting headache, and his eyes went black for a while.

A lot of memories flooded back.

The first is childhood memories.

In a small, dark courtyard, he practiced martial arts every day, learned various methods of killing, and tried hard to be a qualified killer.

There are many others besides him.

The one who played best with him was a girl a few years older than him, her name was Bai Hong, and she was the most powerful of them all.

Every time Xu Qingjian was injured in practice, he would run to the corner alone to wipe his tears.

At this time, Bai Hong would come over and pat her on the shoulder: "Don't cry, the pavilion master urged us to continue practicing."

All of them are secondly afraid of the pavilion master, and firstly afraid of Xia Chen.

The pavilion master usually supervises their martial arts practice and punishes them at every turn, while Xia Chen is a more terrifying existence than the pavilion master. It is said that he is the emperor, as long as he is not happy, he will kill anyone among them have to die.

Moreover, Xia Chen still had a lot of bugs in his hand, every time someone was disobedient, Xia Chen would prick a certain bug with a needle, and then that person would be in pain.

Xu Qingjian was most afraid of this.

"Sister Bai Hong, I can't use the new hidden weapon well, and I will be punished later." Xu Qingjian cried.

Bai Hong sighed, and reached out to him: "Get up, I'll teach you."

Xu Qingjian wiped away tears, quickly took Bai Hong's hand, and got up from the ground.

At that time, he always liked to ask Bai Hong the same questions over and over again.

"Where do we all come from?"

"Do we have a family, a father and a mother?"

"Where will we go in the future?"

Every time, Bai Hong answered him with a straight face: "Don't ask if you shouldn't ask, you just need to remember that your master is the emperor."

"Why?" Xu Qingjian asked in a daze.

"Because of living."

A few years later, Xu Qingjian was taken away by Xia Chen, and he received his first mission as an assassin.

Before that, his name was only Qingjian, but Xia Chen gave him a surname, and since then his name has been changed to Xu Qingjian.

Prince Xia Yun would go out of the city every year to worship on the anniversary of the death of his mother and concubine. This time, he picked up Xu Qingjian who was covered in injuries on the mountain.

The other party was several years younger than him, and he begged Xia Yun to save him in a pleading tone.

That day was the death day of Xia Yun's mother and concubine. In order to do good deeds for her mother and concubine, Xia Yun brought Xu Qingjian back to the mansion and rescued him.

But soon he found out that Xu Qingjian knew martial arts. He vigilantly sent someone to investigate Xu Qingjian's life experience, and soon found out that Xu Qingjian was a descendant of a general.

And that general was ransacked and beheaded on the day he rescued Xu Qingjian, and no one was left alive. It seems that Xu Qingjian escaped.

At that time Xia Yun was still young, he had no idea that Xu Qingjian's identity was actually arranged by Xia Chen for him, just to let him fall into this trap.

In fact, several of Xia Yun's loyal servants were placed by Xia Chen.

Xia Yun believed in Xu Qingjian's life experience, just at this time Xu Qingjian begged him again, begging him to keep himself by his side.

"Your Highness saved my life, and I would like to serve His Highness for the rest of my life." Xu Qingjian knelt in front of Xia Yun and said loyally.

Although Xia Yun was the prince at that time, he was still in a helpless state.

He was able to be the prince only because the queen mother chose him to be the prince. His mother concubine was framed and died by the queen mother. Everyone in his mother clan avoided him, and no one else was willing to help him. rely on.

Now finally there is a person kneeling in front of him, saying that he is willing to be loyal to him, and this person is a military commander, with high military strength, he is about the same age as him, and in time, he will definitely become the sharpest knife in his hand.

So Xia Yun exhausted all the connections he could use, changed Xu Qingjian's identity, and let him stay by her side from now on.

And Xu Qingjian did a lot of things for him as entrusted, and almost never failed.

But he didn't know that Xu Qingjian was just Xia Chen's eyes placed beside him.

The second task Xu Qingjian received was to get close to Shen Xubai and obtain information about Shen Xubai.

This was a turning point in Xu Qingjian's life.

He really fell in love with Shen Xubai.

So that when Xia Chen asked him to kill Shen Xubai, Xu Qingjian refused for the first time.

At that time, he was already married to Shen Xubai, but in Xia Yun's eyes, Xu Qingjian was acting as an undercover agent for him in Prince Ning's Mansion. Until then, Xia Yun thought that Xu Qingjian was working for him.

Xia Chen called Xu Qingjian out again and asked him to get rid of Xia Yun.

Xia Yun is the next puppet cultivated by the Empress Dowager, but he has already threatened Xia Chen's throne, so Xia Chen wants to get rid of him.

It's just that Xia Chen has great ambitions. Not only does he want to get rid of Xia Yun, he also wants to kill two birds with one stone. He also wants to get rid of Shen Xubai at the same time.

As soon as he heard that Shen Xubai was going to be killed, Xu Qingjian rejected Xia Chen without saying a word. He bluntly said that he didn't want to work for Xia Chen anymore.

An excellent assassin whom he had cultivated for so many years actually said such words, Xia Chen was so angry that he grabbed his neck and pushed him against the pillar.

"Do you know that you are a dead man, you have no other choice, your life is in my hands." Xia Chen said through gritted teeth.

Xu Qingjian gritted her teeth hard: "I know that the poison you gave me is just to lose my memory. Anyway, the poison has already been administered once, and there are two more times. You should use it together!"

The Empress Dowager used to be from a family of medicine, and her master was a famous Gu master in southern Xinjiang. This poison was commonly used by the Empress Dowager, and Xia Chen learned it from the Empress Dowager.

He secretly learned many of the queen mother's housekeeping skills. He has excellent medical skills, and he is even more proficient in using poison and Gu than the queen mother.

Hearing Xu Qingjian's stubborn tone, Xia Chen couldn't help but sneer.

"A dead man who is out of control, don't worry, I will help you." Xia Chen glared at Xu Qingjian fiercely.

As he spoke, he threw Xu Qingjian to the ground.

Xu Qingjian propped his hands on the ground without any movement, let alone trying to escape.

He knew that he couldn't run away at all, as Xia Chen said, his life was in the hands of the other party.

Xia Chen lowered his eyes and looked at Xu Qingjian quietly, as if he suddenly realized something, he slowly squatted down, grabbed Xu Qingjian's wrist, and felt for his pulse.

After a while, Xia Chen said in a gloomy tone, "Are you pregnant?"

When Xu Qingjian heard this, he was stunned.

His face became extremely pale, almost subconsciously, he stretched out his hand to cover his abdomen, his face was full of bewilderment and panic.

Seeing his performance, Xia Chen laughed: "It seems that you just found out."

Xu Qingjian's fingers trembled, he clenched his teeth tightly, and did not speak.

"It's really unexpected." Xia Chen sneered, reached out and gently pressed Xu Qingjian's lower abdomen: "I asked you to get close to Shen Xubai, but you were with him every day, and now you even have a child, you really let me What a pleasant surprise, Xu Qingjian."