0p0 Chapter 261 Fu Yiming secretly sabotages
Chapter 261 Fu Yiming secretly sabotages
This time, Lian'er didn't think about running away again and obediently sat to the side.
A water pouch was handed to Zhai Yun. When Zhai Yun looked up, she saw Lou Yexue, whose face was as white as jade. Lou Yexue was so beautiful that it was hard to look away.
He glanced at Lian'er, his expression remaining largely unchanged: "She's lying!"
Zhai Yun had just handed the water pouch to Lou Yexue when she asked, "Huh? What is this?"
Zhai Yun carefully recalled what Lian'er had said. There didn't seem to be any major loopholes in her words. Lou Yexue said she was lying, and Zhai Yun was a little confused. "Where did she lie?"
Lou Yexue shook her head. "I don't know either, but she did lie."
After Lou Yexue finished speaking, she ignored the bewildered Zhai Yun and sat down on a rock, leaving Zhai Yun alone standing there racking her brains.
Lian'er said that there was more than one group of people chasing Consort Chen, and she even mentioned Zhi Rou's name, so it should be correct.
She is indeed on duty in the Empress's palace, and she is indeed the Empress's person! Could it be that Lou Yexue herself made a mistake?
Qinuo and Yan Nanheng returned almost at the same time, bringing back not only food but also horses.
Qi Nuo distributed the food he had to everyone. Yan Nanheng also brought back a message: "All the yamen runners in Yanping County have been mobilized to search for prisoners. They say a prisoner has gone missing from the jail, and the entire county is under martial law!"
Zhai Yun frowned: "How could that be? Didn't you say the puppet technique could last for three days?"
Yan Nanheng looked completely innocent. "Yeah! I don't know why either! My puppetry never fails!" Yan Nanheng said, his face showing an unpleasant expression.
Zhai Yun returned Lou Yexue's water pouch to him and instructed, "This place is still too close to Yanping County. Let's set off immediately!"
Lian'er was still very weak, so Zhai Yun arranged for her to sit on the deck of the carriage. Yan Nanheng drove the carriage, while Qi Nuo and the other women rode horses. There weren't enough horses, so some women shared one horse with another woman.
Inside the carriage sat Zhai Yun and Lou Yexue, while Xiao Nian hung on the roof like an inanimate object.
The road was very bumpy, and Zhai Yun was so sleepy that she could barely keep her eyes open. She couldn't sleep soundly and her head kept hitting the side of the car, causing her a lot of pain.
Upon seeing this scene, Lou Yexue gradually condensed a white light in her palm. After the light entered the carriage wall, the hard carriage wall turned into soft clouds.
Without the pain of being bumped or bruised, Zhai Yun gradually fell into a deep sleep.
When Zhai Yun woke up again, she heard the sound of swords clashing outside the carriage. She suddenly opened her eyes and saw Lou Yexue calmly looking at her, motionless.
Zhai Yun thought she had misheard, but a moment later she heard the sound of swords clashing again. Without thinking, Zhai Yun jumped out of the carriage, while Lian'er huddled on the deck, trembling.
Outside the carriage, chaos reigned. A group of men in black were locked in combat with Qi Nuo and Yan Nanheng, while Ruan Ziyan and the other women surrounded the carriage, desperately trying to evade the attacks.
Zhai Yun had previously assumed they were martial artists because of their graceful movements, but seeing them now, dodging in such a disheveled manner, was truly unexpected.
Seeing a knife slash open Ruan Ziyan's arm, Zhai Yun leaped over and kicked the assailant away. Zhai Yun turned around and saw a group of sisters beside Ruan Ziyan, showing concern for her.
Fully immersed in the battle, Zhai Yun discovered that these men in black were quite skilled; they were well-trained, and their moves were ruthless and deadly, much like assassins.
Zhai Yun was unarmed at the moment, so she decided to find a way to capture them. Once she subdued one of them, she would ask, "Who sent you?"
These people are moving far too fast. But who exactly cracked Yan Nanheng's puppetry technique? Could there be other talented individuals in the capital? Or was the Xuanyuan Kingdom involved in Consort Chen's death?
"Achoo!" Fu Yiming, who was on his way back to China, suddenly sneezed.
A triumphant smile appeared in his eyes. Before leaving Yanping County, he went to the county jail and cracked Yan Nanheng's puppetry. Just thinking about how Zhai Yun's journey back to the capital was not peaceful, he felt a sense of satisfaction at wiping away his humiliation.
There weren't many men in black this time. Zhai Yun stepped on the last man in black, pressing her toes against his cheek to prevent him from smuggling poison into his mouth and committing suicide.
Zhai Yun rubbed her toe against his cheek. "Tell me, who sent you?"
The man in black grabbed Zhai Yun's ankles with both hands, freeing her feet. After rolling around once, he became completely still. By the time Qi Nuo and Yan Nanheng caught up, it was too late.
Looking at the dozen or so corpses of men in black, Qi Nuo searched them one by one. Zhai Yun remembered that Ruan Ziyan had been injured earlier, so she turned around to check on Ruan Ziyan's injuries.
Just as he turned around, Lou Yexue appeared in front of Zhai Yun. Behind him, several women were helping Ruan Ziyan walk out. Zhai Yun wanted to step forward, but Lou Yexue grabbed his arm. His voice rippled: "I told them to take Miss Ruan to find a doctor. It's not safe for them to follow us."
Zhai Yun was quite skilled at bandaging wounds, but Lou Yexue was right. None of them knew martial arts, and the number of people blocking their way back to the capital would only increase.
Zhai Yun took out several silver notes from her bosom, pushed Lou Yexue aside, caught up with the woman behind her, and stuffed the silver notes into her hand: "Take these for self-defense."
The woman was clearly surprised that Zhai Yun would give her so much silver. She froze for a moment, then glanced at Lou Yexue behind Zhai Yun, thanked her, and left with the silver notes in her hand.
After searching the area, Qi Nuo found nothing on them. When he reported to Zhai Yun, he said, "They were too cautious; they left nothing behind."
Zhai Yun gave an indifferent smirk. The people in the palace were all shrewd; it was no wonder they couldn't leave any evidence against her.
The journey was indeed far from peaceful. After dealing with several groups of men in black, even Zhai Yun felt somewhat overwhelmed. Strangely, these men in black had different objectives.
One group of men in black wanted to kill them all, while the other group only wanted to kill Lian'er.
After dealing with several groups of men in black, the observant Qi Nuo noticed something amiss: among the men in black who were trying to assassinate them, one or two groups of killers had identical sword patterns on the back of their hands.
These people with patterns on the back of their hands are here to exterminate everyone.
When Qi Nuo pointed out the pattern to Zhai Yun, Zhai Yun recalled something: when Feng Chenyi returned to the capital in triumph, this group of assassins was among those who tried to kill them.
Zhai Yun asked Qi Nuo to draw the pattern so that they could examine it carefully when they returned to the capital.
After being assassinated so many times, Zhai Yun and her group stopped entering the city and camped out in the mountains at night. Along the way, Zhai Yun noticed that Lou Yexue was different from when she first met him.
Thinking back to the time when he and Feng Chenyi single-handedly stormed into the bandit's den to rescue Zhai Yun, he recalled how the Star Formation he taught Feng Chenyi to use carried a powerful aura from the moment it appeared.
Anyone under the Star Array would be unable to stand up straight due to the immense pressure, their entire body feeling as if layers of lead and iron were pressing down on them one after another.