Chapter 204
Before she could be afraid, she took off running towards Xiao Shenxi and Xiao Yanqing, who were still happily flying kites.
Shen Qingnian's heart pounded wildly, and she shouted at the two of them with all her might, "Run!"
Upon hearing this, Xiao Shenxi and Xiao Yanqing looked over, their expressions changing from happy to terrified.
Shen Qingnian heard footsteps getting closer and closer behind her. The next moment, she felt a sharp pain in the back of her head and then fainted.
Before she fainted, she vaguely heard Yan Qing's childish voice, which he tried to keep calm: "I am the Crown Prince of this dynasty, who dares to touch me!"
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Meanwhile, Song Xuan went to the yamen today. He has been investigating Shen Zheng's henchmen recently. Jin Yi went with him. When he took a break to return to the inn, two seriously injured guards also rushed back.
The two men had been drugged beforehand. One had a stab wound to the lower back, the other's thigh was crippled, his right eye was a bloody mess, and he had injuries to other parts of his body. Their black clothes were soaked in blood. The two men returned solely by willpower; an ordinary person would probably have already died.
The bandits assumed the two were unlikely to wake up, so they ignored them and waited for them to die on their own. They didn't know that the palace guards were specially trained and much more resilient than ordinary martial artists.
Upon seeing that the two guards were seriously injured, Jin was startled and quickly asked, "What happened? Where is Master Shen? Where are the young prince and the princess?"
One of the guards coughed up blood before weakly replying, "Commander, Master Shen and the others have been captured. Those bandits are highly skilled in martial arts; we couldn't defeat them..."
Jin Yi was startled and immediately ran towards the yamen.
His heart was pounding. If anything happened to the Empress and the others, he wouldn't have enough heads to chop off!
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The crescent moon hangs high, and night blankets the earth.
When Shen Qingnian opened her eyes again, she was in a room. Her hands and feet were tied up, and she felt a sharp pain in the back of her head.
The room was simply furnished with a bed, a table, and four chairs. The door was closed, and you could faintly hear voices coming from outside the courtyard.
The sounds suggest there are many people.
Shen Qingnian shook her head. She had been thrown to the ground and tried to stand up, but found that she couldn't muster any strength at all; the ropes binding her were too tight.
Just as she gritted her teeth, trying to slowly move to the door, the door was pushed open with a bang.
There were three people who came in. The one in the lead was a fierce-looking man with a scar on his face, which made him look somewhat ferocious. Behind the scarred man were two ordinary-looking men, one tall and one thin.
All three men had injuries of varying degrees, especially the scarred man whose left arm was wrapped in gauze.
Scarface walked up to Shen Qingnian, took out the scroll he had brought, and unfurled it. The woman in the painting looked exactly like Shen Qingnian.
After confirming that he hadn't arrested the wrong person, the scarred man smiled, a cold glint in his eyes: "Miss Chen, I apologize for any offense."
"Who are you?" Shen Qingnian asked, frowning.
The three men moved nimbly, all dressed in black with identical styles, suggesting they were part of an organized group. Furthermore, their accents did not sound like those of locals from Jiangnan; instead, they resembled those of people from Beijing.
If it were the capital, she could only think of Shen Zheng...
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