A whistling sound was heard from behind, and then Ding Jiu shouted in a voice that was obviously enduring pain: "I am Dragon Guard Ding Jiu! I am under the imperial order to protect the county lady! Whose subordinates are you? Don't..." He suddenly groaned, obviously injured.

The carriage rushed forward at a rapid speed, and suddenly the carriage body collided violently. The carriage, which was pierced like a hedgehog, made a cracking sound, and the roof and a small piece of the wall broke off directly. In Tang Shiyue's eyes, countless men in black flashed by, and at a glance there were dozens of them!

Tang Shiyue gritted her teeth and finally with a snap, her sleeve pulled the arrow tip off. Then she pulled out the long whip from her waist and attacked the driver!

The man in black cried out, and leaped forward, almost riding on the horse's back, to avoid the whip. At the same time, there was a whistle, and soon, two men in black jumped up and took on her moves.

Tang Shiyue was extremely anxious.

She had been practicing martial arts for nearly a year, and practiced for an hour every day without fail. But when it came to fighting, how could she be a match for these shadow guards who had practiced martial arts since childhood? She could not help but retreat again and again, and soon, three bloody marks appeared on her body.

At the same time, the fighting was still going on behind. The man driving the car suddenly pulled out a dagger and stabbed the horse in the butt.

The horse neighed loudly and ran forward like crazy.

With a snap, Tang Shiyue's long whip was knocked to the ground, and the opponent's sharp sword was already pointing at her neck.

Damn, where is God’s promise to love his daughter?

...

...

Dad, don't you love me anymore?

Tang Shiyue tried her best to jump backwards and avoided the tip of the sword, but she stepped on empty air and rolled down. The last memory left in her mind was the two men in black jumping up together and rushing towards her!

In the Sifang Restaurant, Ding Xiaoyan was standing behind Xia Yuhui, but was suddenly startled.

He rushed to the window and said quickly: "Ding Jiu, emergency warning! Something has happened to the county lady!" He turned over and disappeared.

Xia Yuhui was stunned.

But the face of the restaurant owner who had always been kind and gentle suddenly turned cold, and he turned and left, also sending out a signal. In less than half a cup of tea, countless figures turned over and entered, and then quickly disappeared, leaving only a confused and helpless scholar Xia Yuhui.

When they arrived, the men in black had already left, leaving only traces of a fight.

The person in charge of the escort agency was called Hu Ge. He followed the trail all the way until he reached the bottom of the road and found Ding Jiu lying unconscious on the side of the road.

Hu Ge had already recognized all the members of the Dragon Guard. When he saw them, his heart sank.

He hurriedly asked someone to drag Ding Jiu down for treatment, and then continued to rush forward. When he reached the small slope, he saw Ding Xiaoyan interrogating a man in black.

The scene was truly tragic.

But it's also extremely weird.

Half of the carriage fell to the ground, pinning the two men in black under the carriage, breaking their spines. They all lay on the ground, deader than dead. The only remaining man in black had both legs broken for some reason and was leaning against a tree.

Ding Xiaoyan asked angrily, and he only said: "It is indeed Lady Fu..."

He smiled sadly and pointed at the Black River rushing below: "What else can we do? She fell in. No one knows whether she is alive or dead... I only know that the car flipped over somehow and crushed them to death."

Hu Ge didn't wait for him to finish, and hurriedly ordered people to look for him downstream, and also told people to notify Qing Wei. When Ding Xiaoyan saw them disperse, he asked, "Whose master are you from?"

The man looked at him, then suddenly tilted his head back with a bang. He died with his head tilted to one side.

Qing Weiliao heard the news and rushed over with Ren Donghunan.

His face looked extremely bad, and he walked downstream with his men in silence.

It soon became dark, and countless torches flickered on the river bank. Hundreds of people searched for the entire night but found nothing.

At this time, in Chang'an City.

Emperor Ming Yan, who had just finished his morning court session, received the secret report.

He was instinctively happy, thinking that the medicine for the rheumatism must have worked.

But when he took the bamboo tube, he was slightly surprised. Looking at the mark, he realized that this bamboo tube was not sent by Ding Jiu, but by Ding Jiu's subordinates.

Did something happen to Ding Jiu?

When he opened it again, Emperor Ming Yan became furious.

What does it mean that Tang Shiyue was being hunted? She fell into the river and disappeared? What does it mean that Ding Jiu was seriously injured and unconscious, and there were dozens of attackers, who were suspected to be the shadow guards of the palace?

The Dragon Guards would not mistake the Shadow Guards' kung fu skills, but in the palace, apart from the Emperor and the Crown Prince, only the princes over twelve years old would have Shadow Guards! But they were only a handful!

Emperor Ming Yan's face turned red with anger, and he shouted, "Call that beast, the Third Brother, over to me!"

Gu Jiuxing's legs went limp after hearing this.

What is this all for? Why are they even calling them beasts?

The third prince rushed over, knelt down and called out "Father", then a teacup was thrown in his face.

Emperor Mingyan said angrily, "What on earth did Enfu County Lady do to you? I really don't know how narrow-minded you are. You can't even tolerate a little girl! And you are so ignorant of the big picture and unjust. Enfu County Lady provided the smallpox vaccination method, saved thousands of lives, and made contributions to the country, but you want to kill her?"

The Third Prince turned pale with fright. He had clearly set up everything to put the blame on Doctor Zhu, so why would his father come directly to him?

He knelt down and shouted, "Father, I am innocent! I don't even know Lady Enfu, so how could I kill her!"

"You still dare to deny it!" Emperor Mingyan was furious: "I mobilized dozens of shadow guards, with swords and arrows, and the dragon guards did not stop even after they revealed their identities. Are you coming for me?"

The Third Prince kept kowtowing: "Father! I dare not! I am innocent! I am not the only one with shadow guards! I would never dare to do such an unlawful thing!"

"You still know how to be lawless!" Emperor Ming Yan said angrily: "At this point, who else do you want to blame?"

The third prince cried, "Father, you didn't ask anything and just assumed it was your son. I don't accept it!"

Emperor Mingyan was extremely angry, but calmed down. He said coldly: "Since you say it's not you... I remember that I gave you a hundred shadow guards. Now you only need to call half of them to show me, and I will believe you!"

The third prince trembled all over.

Of course, he has more than a hundred shadow guards now, but he sent nearly a hundred of them to Qinzhou alone, and now he only has twenty or thirty of them around him.

The third prince murmured, "My son sent them out because of something..."

Emperor Ming Yan directly called Gu Jiuxing over: "The third prince Yan Zhaoti was so bold and reckless that he lost his manners in front of the emperor. He is ordered to reflect on his mistakes behind closed doors and is not allowed to leave without permission!"

The Third Prince's face turned pale in an instant: "Father! Father! My son, I know I have done something wrong, but, but...but she was just an ordinary civilian girl. Even if she is really dead..."

When Emperor Ming Yan heard that he still didn't feel he was wrong until this point, he couldn't even get angry anymore and just waved his hands. Gu Jiuxing didn't dare to persuade him and hurriedly called the eunuch to help the third prince down.

Emperor Ming Yan originally wanted to send a few more tutors over, but now he no longer has the mood to do so.

The news that the third prince had angered the emperor and was punished to reflect on his mistakes in seclusion soon spread throughout the country.

This time, the rule for him to reflect on his mistakes was "not to leave without the emperor's order", which means that as long as the emperor didn't call him out, he could never step out of the palace again.

Emperor Mingyan was a benevolent monarch and had always been lenient towards his subjects. Moreover, this was his own son, so the punishment was really too severe.

Moreover, the most crucial thing is that Emperor Ming Yandi neither asked him to copy books nor assigned him to be a reader and lecturer. He completely let him do whatever he wanted.

For a biological son, what he fears is not scolding, but not caring. If the father really doesn't even want to care about him, then this son is almost finished.

The Third Prince has always been favored, but what on earth did he do this time to make His Majesty so angry?

Since the Third Prince came to the court, Empress Su has always maintained a proper attitude and never interfered with the relationship between father and son. But this time, she really could not sit still and came to the imperial study to see the Emperor. Emperor Ming Yan said he was busy, so she waited outside.

It took more than an hour to wait.