"Prince Yu, sika deer don't live in this remote area. What are you doing following me? Don't you want His Majesty's reward and prize?"
Nangong Chiyu's face remained expressionless, his attention focused on the vicinity of him and Su Luo, checking for any potential dangers.
"I'll protect you."
He rode up to Su Luo and said firmly.
"No need, I can protect myself."
With that thought in mind, Su Luo walked deeper into the mountains.
Nangong Chiyu didn't say anything, but still followed behind her.
There are hardly any large animals on the outer layer, with only occasional small birds and squirrels appearing.
It wasn't until they had gone about a kilometer in that Su Luo encountered a gray rabbit.
With the crossbow aimed and a gentle press, an arrow pierced straight through the little rabbit.
"You've won."
Although it wasn't a big catch, Su Luo was still very happy to have hit it.
Nangong Chiyu raised an eyebrow, shouted "Giddy up!" and rode over. With a bend of his waist, he grabbed the arrow that had hit the rabbit.
Turn the horse around and hand the rabbit that Su Luo had shot back to her.
"Excellent archery skills!"
Su Luo finished with her prey, her eyes full of smiles.
"There's still room for improvement!"
Su Luo's archery skills would be considered excellent by ordinary people, but compared to the person in front of her, she was slightly inferior.
Perhaps because there were too many people, they disturbed the animals. The two walked for a while longer but still didn't see any prey.
"Su Luo, we're starting to go deep into the forest ahead. Do you want to go in?"
Almost everyone else went inside, but she and Nangong Chiyu remained on the outer floor.
"Go in. No matter where I am, what's meant to happen can't be avoided."
Su Luo suspected that Ye Beihan wanted to kill her. Since he had this plan, whether she was on the outskirts or deep in the forest, the target was still her.
"Alright! Chi Yi and the Imperial Guards are patrolling nearby, and I won't let anything happen to you."
Su Luo and her group were the last to enter the depths of the forest. The prey had already been frightened away, so she put away her crossbow.
She looked at Nangong Chiyu with a puzzled expression, and suddenly seemed to discover something she had never paid attention to before.
“Prince Yu, your official rank is higher than mine, so why don’t you refer to yourself as ‘this prince’ instead of ‘I’? Don’t people in your dynasty value status and position the most?”
Su Luo was simply reminding him that such a form of address could easily cause misunderstandings.
"I...you're different from them!"
Nangong Chiyu couldn't tell Su Luo about regaining his memories yet, and he didn't know if Su Luo would accept him.
"What's the difference? We're all the same."
No, you are different.
Sensing the change in his tone and gaze towards gentleness, Su Luo got goosebumps all over.
What's wrong with this person?
Why would she look at me like that? She's a married woman, a mother of two.
"Nangong Chiyu, I'm warning you, stay away from me."
No man had ever spoken to Su Luo like that before. She felt very uncomfortable and instinctively wanted to shake off Nangong Chiyu.
Nangong Chiyu simply smiled knowingly, unaware of Su Luo's expression and reaction when she finally learned that he was Chen Huaixu.
Su Luo rode her horse faster and faster, and every time she looked back, she could still see Nangong Chiyu behind her.
Seven or eight people were lying in ambush on the route Su Luo had to take to get deeper into the forest.
Shuangshuo awaits his master's final instructions.
“Master, the arrow is on the string and must be released, why hesitate?”
Shuang Shuo sent assassins, unaware that Su Luo was the Deputy Minister of Agriculture.
"The Deputy Minister of Agriculture is Su Luo; she cured me."
Ye Beihan wanted to kill the Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Nanning, but he didn't want to kill Su Luo, so his subordinates hesitated to make a move.
"Master, the assassins are ready. Retreat or not, you will die. Please consider this carefully."
Yes, his men were already prepared to die if they entered the hunting grounds. Once they retreated, the Imperial Guards would discover them immediately, and they wouldn't be able to leave alive. It would be better to kill the Deputy Minister of Agriculture.
"Shuangshuo! Let's get started."
"Yes, Master."
Shuangshuo made a gesture toward the person in the tree, and the leaves, as if stirred by a gentle breeze, quickly returned to calm.
Nangong Chiyu followed closely behind Su Luo. Suddenly, the two eagles he had been training approached and circled low in the sky. He frowned and thought to himself that something was wrong.
"Su Luo, be careful..."
No sooner had he finished speaking than he saw an arrow aimed straight at Su Luo's back. Just as Su Luo was about to be hit, he drew his bow to its full extent and used his own arrow to deflect the arrow.
Hearing the arrow whistling through the wind, Su Luo knew someone was attacking her. She leaped off her horse; she was better suited to fighting on the ground.
Nangong Chiyu also fired an arrow in the direction from which the arrow had been fired, and suddenly a person fell down from the tree.
"Su Luo, they're all in the tree."
Su Luo looked up and immediately saw several masked men in the tree, three holding bows and arrows and four holding long swords.
Nangong Chiyu dismounted and protected Su Luo. Four people jumped down from the tree.
The swords all aimed at Su Luo, but Su Luo dodged to the side. Nangong Chiyu was no pushover; he kicked one of them away and, with a flick of his wrist, aimed an arrow straight at the masked man's heart.
In close combat, Su Luo took out her most frequently used dagger from her spatial storage. When someone got close to her, she used the dagger to slash across the other person's arm and snatch the longsword from his hand.
"Your Highness, take this!"
Swords and knives are not allowed in the hunting grounds; only bows and arrows are permitted. The only possibility for those who were able to bring some in is that they were mixed in with the patrolling Imperial Guards.
Seeing that she was more comfortable using the dagger, Nangong Chiyu took the longsword from her hand.
Of the four, only one died. The other three were highly skilled in martial arts and were the kind who wouldn't give up even when injured. They had only one goal: to kill Su Luo no matter what.
"Watch out for people in the trees."
The assassins below were just enough for them to handle, and there were three more in the tree, their bows drawn taut, ready to fire at her and Nangong Chiyu in the next moment.
Shuang Shuo's eyes flashed with cold killing intent. He was really lucky today; the two people he wanted to kill were together, and they didn't even have any guards.
Once these two are killed, who in Nanning can resist them? In the entire court, only Nangong Chiyu can fight them.
The Deputy Minister of Agriculture was in charge of Nanning's development. With these two men dead, Nanning was like a deflated balloon, completely at their mercy.
With a wave of his hand, the three people in the tree simultaneously shot down their arrows.
Despite the relentless attacks of these three, Su Luo was able to protect herself, but only Nangong Chiyu had a longsword, which he used to knock down all the incoming arrows.
The people in the tree formed a triangular position, and the arrows came from three different angles each time, which increased the difficulty for Nangong Chiyu to block the arrows.
Su Luo didn't tolerate them. She attacked the three below at close range, throwing her dagger and stabbing one of them in the neck, killing him once again.
She aimed her hidden arrow at the people in the tree. In the gap as she dodged the assassins, she clearly hit two of them, but the two were not paralyzed and could still move freely.
At that moment, Su Luo knew that they must have taken some kind of medicine from Ye Beihan, which had created an antidote to her paralysis drug. Ye Beihan was capable of using poison.
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