Cannon fodder beauty master awakens

Pei Xiangyun paused for a moment, as if he was hesitating whether to chase after him or not.

He tentatively took another step closer to the teacher, but met Jiang Yi's warning eyes.

Behind him, Emperor Hong Wen carefully supported Concubine Xuan Gui, and said in a low voice, "May I ask who is the hero?"

Pei Xiangyun's body froze suddenly, he didn't want Emperor Hong Wen to see his face clearly, he was still hesitating just now, but now he immediately pulled away and ran to the outside of the hall, actively chasing the Pipa girl who ran away.

All the officials in the hall were completely panicked just now, and now they help each other to get up from the ground, staring at each other.

Even though he had the idea of ​​disappearing from here quickly, he was afraid of the Imperial Forest Army guarding every exit.

Jiang Yi's face sank like water, and he walked slowly towards Emperor Hong Wen: "Your Majesty, I'm late."

Emperor Hongwen covered his lips and coughed a few times, and waved his hands: "How can you say such a thing, if Aiqing didn't arrive with the imperial army, I'm afraid I would have become a dead soul under the sword."

Jiang Yi looked at Concubine Xuan, who was standing beside him, and his eyes lingered on her sleeve for a moment.

Concubine Xuan Gui should use the best quality embroidery workshop fabrics for her clothes. The cotton is elastic and not easy to snag. It can be used to keep out the cold in winter, and it can protect against sun and heat in summer. It is not so easy to be torn.

It's just that there is a gap in the high-quality Juyi sleeve of the concubine right now.

Jiang Yi's brows twitched slightly, he took note of this abnormality, and looked back at the Imperial Forest Army who had cleaned up the mess.

Several of the officials who were of a similar rank to Jiang Yi barely managed to panic in the chaos just now. Now that they had recovered, they began to criticize Jiang Yi's words: "Why aren't we allowed to leave the palace? What if the group of assassins How to make a comeback?"

Jiang Yi didn't even pay them a glance, and turned to look at Emperor Hong Wen.

"I listen to Jiang Aiqing..." Hong Wendi sat back on the main seat with the support of his servant, his face still pale, "No one is allowed to act rashly."

The emperor's words are still very deterrent.

Even though there was still dissatisfaction in the eyes of those provocative thorns, they still sat back angrily according to Jiang Yi's order.

Part of the Royal Forest Army went to search the various exits and secret passages of the Qingping Palace, while the rest searched for the officials who had survived the catastrophe, and as expected, they found several assassins mixed in with the crowd.

There are male and female assassins, but they are all "dancing girls" who have just performed singing and dancing.They were wearing lotus-colored clothes on the outside, but black night clothes on the inside.At this time, I changed the prepared clothes, and set up the officials' "family members" and "little servants" like dogs.

If the exit doors hadn't been sealed just now, these people might have escaped in troubled waters.

Five or six people were pushed and knelt in the hall. In order to prevent them from committing suicide, the Imperial Forest Army even removed their jaws.

Jiang Yi calmly swept over the hundreds of people whispering in the hall, but was patted on the shoulder.

"Jiang Ziming..." Lu Yifeng touched it at some point, his brows and eyes were full of worry, "Have you seen Yan Ran?"

Jiang Yi froze for a moment, then slowly shook his head.

"There was chaos in the palace just now, and I got separated from her without paying attention..." Lu Yifeng's voice was full of remorse, "I just searched around and didn't see her, where can she... go?"

A somewhat ominous premonition passed through Jiang Yi's heart inexplicably.

He calmed down, comforted Lu Yifeng and said, "Qingping Palace and the courtyard behind it are sealed, and you should not be able to get out of this hall. Don't worry, look for it carefully."

Emperor Hongwen sat on the main seat for a while, and then he calmed down the fright he received: "Jiang Aiqing, just now there is a little brother who rescued me from danger, and he left before I thanked him for rewarding him. I see you seem to be Talked to him, but you recognize him?"

Being able to call Pei Xiangyun his "little brother", it can be seen that Emperor Hong Wen was terrified of this surprise attack, and he must have been really frightened.

Jiang Yi frowned slightly, and after thinking for a while, he bowed to Emperor Hong Wen: "He is a student of my humble minister."

"student?"

Emperor Hongwen nodded thoughtfully: "Then where is he now?"

Jiang Yi lowered his eyes: "Just now, the minister asked him to go after the remnants of the rebellious party, and he should be back in a while."

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As the main hall for banquets in the palace, Qingping Palace does not have a complex structure like other palaces in order to prevent assassins from hiding. There is only one passage leading from the curtain to the outside.

When Pei Xiangyun saw the pipa girl for the last time, she should have fled to this passage.

The passage was pitch-black, only a candle lamp far away on the wall barely illuminated it.

Fortunately, his ability to see things in the dark was better than that of others, and his speed was much faster. When he was still a little distance from the exit of the passage, he finally saw the woman's back.

When the pipa girl heard the footsteps behind her, she suddenly turned her head, a few silver threads popped out from her fingertips, and shot towards his face.Pei Xiangyun leaned back to dodge, somewhat regretting that he hadn't drawn out the Emperor's Sword just now.

Although it doesn't feel very good, it is still the only weapon that can be used right now.

The pipa girl didn't seem to be surprised that he hid the strings, and pulled back the water sleeve with her backhand.

The passage is narrow, and the Pipa Girl's two weapons are very long. Even if Pei Xiangyun is skilled, it is difficult to dodge every attack of hers under such a disadvantage.

Two or three of the strings scraped against his arm, making the already injured place even more painful.

Pei Xiangyun's forehead was covered with cold sweat, and his gaze suddenly fell on the red candle on the wall not far from the two of them fighting.

A flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he jumped towards the red candle.The strings of the pipa girl followed closely behind, and the strong wind directly extinguished the candle.

The passage suddenly plunged into darkness.The pipa girl couldn't see with her eyes, and she staggered back a few steps, carefully listening to the sound to distinguish her position, and the strings in her hands were tense.

Rapid breathing suddenly sounded in her right ear, and she was just about to raise her hand to fight back, but a large acupoint on her wrist suddenly went numb.

She grunted in pain, uncontrollably let go of the strings, and fell to the ground with a "jingle".

The weapon was snatched away, and it was pitch black. She couldn't be bothered to fight any more, so she pulled away and ran forward.

Pei Xiangyun picked up the strings on the ground and tied them tightly behind her. When she could faintly see the light outside, the woman suddenly turned her head, flicked her five fingers, and a few balls came towards Pei Xiangyun's face.

Suspecting it was some kind of hidden weapon, Pei Xiangyun quickly rolled over to avoid it, but saw a thick cloud of smoke exploding in front of him.When the smoke dissipated, there was only a silent winter night outside, and there was no figure of the Pipa girl anymore.

He slowly walked out of the passage, and found that he seemed to have come to the back garden of Qingping Hall.

It seems that in order not to let the dead branches spoil people's interest, most of the flowers and trees planted in the back garden are holly and red plum, which look very festive in the white snow.

Where did the pipa girl go?

Pei Xiangyun stood at the entrance of the passage, frowning slightly, thinking something was wrong.

In fact, he didn't want to protect Emperor Hongwen that much, nor did he want to capture Pipa girl back so much.

As long as Jiang Yi is fine, everyone else is the same in his heart, no one is worth his trouble.

But the teacher didn't want to protect by himself, but to protect unrelated people by himself, which made Pei Xiangyun feel a little uncomfortable.

The wound on the arm was scabbed, but it was still stinging in the cold wind.He sighed softly, stepping on the snow with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and walked towards the back garden.

The snow on this road is as smooth as new, and it seems that no one has ever been there.

Where did she escape from?

Pei Xiangyun pushed aside the branches of wintersweet and looked forward, and saw a frozen pond.

There are many rockeries beside the pond, and they are also covered with white snow.Pei Xiangyun held his breath and listened intently for a long while, but he didn't hear any sound from the pond. Just as he was about to put down his hand to push away the wintersweet branches, his eyes suddenly froze.

If he read correctly, there seemed to be a piece of clothing on the rockery.

The clothes are the color of a concubine Xiang, very light, if it weren't for his good eyesight, he probably wouldn't be able to tell it in this dim night.

Someone in the pond?

Pei Xiangyun licked his lips, slightly tightened the strings from the pipa girl's hand, and walked lightly towards the pond.

Still no footprints.

A thin layer of ice floated in the pond, reflecting the lights not far away.Pei Xiangyun looked intently into the pool water, as if he saw a floating shadow.

is... what?

He straightened up and looked around, groping for a wooden stick to stick into the water to probe the floating objects, just as he turned around, he met a surprised little eunuch.

The little eunuch's gray-blue tunic robe was covered with snow that fell from the branches of wintersweet. He didn't expect to meet someone at this time, so he took a few steps back with his eyes wide open.

He glanced at the snow field, then at the clothes hanging on the rockery next to him, pointed at Pei Xiangyun with trembling fingers, and couldn't say a word for a while.

Pei Xiangyun was inexplicably stared at by him, and he took a few steps forward: "You are..."

"Kill, kill!"

The little eunuch suddenly let out a howl, and the originally soft voice almost broke: "Someone killed someone, and then pushed him into the pond!"

Pei Xiangyun's heart sank suddenly: "I didn't kill anyone."

He lowered his eyes and suddenly discovered something he hadn't noticed before.

A string of ferocious bloodstains spread from the holly bush to the edge of the pool, especially conspicuous on the snow.And the strings in his hand were slowly dripping blood, it looked like he really killed someone.

Pei Xiangyun didn't know what to justify for a while, so he just stood there in a daze until the imperial forest army who came to investigate the assassin arrived, and two long halberds pressed his neck and made him kneel on the snow.

"I didn't kill anyone..." Pei Xiangyun struggled to stand up, but the two halberds around his neck became more and more forceful, slowly drawing two bloodstains, "I just came here, how could..."

But the soldiers of the Royal Forest Army did not listen to his explanation.

The person in charge of picking up the corpses pushed aside the thin ice on the pond water, lifted the corpses from the bottom of the pond together, and laid them flat on the snow in front of Pei Xiangyun.

Pei Xiangyun raised his head slowly, originally prepared to speak, but when he saw the face of the corpse, he suddenly froze.

A buzzing suddenly exploded in his ears, as if the world was spinning in front of his eyes, he deliberately refused to believe what he saw with his own eyes.

The person who died in the pond was actually Mei Yanran.

The author says:

Saori, I forgot the timing qwq