Chapter 70 There is an assassin! Guard the driver!

After an unknown amount of time, Shen Chaoyan was accidentally hit by someone's teeth.

She was in a trance, and when she came to her senses, she realized that they were still on the territory of Yuhua Temple, and she couldn't help but recite the meditation mantra in her heart.

[Buddha, Buddha, our behavior should not be considered obscene. It is completely out of emotion. I hope you will forgive us.]

Sikong Yan listened to her inner words and couldn't help but laugh.

However, when he was about to let go of Shen Chaoyan, his ears suddenly moved, and he heard a noise coming from behind the rocks next to him.

Immediately afterwards, more than a dozen burly men rushed out from behind the rocks.

Holding huge axes and with ferocious expressions, this group of people rushed towards the two of them.

Sikong Yan's eyes froze, and he decisively pulled Shen Chaoyan behind him.

"There's an assassin! Protect him!"

Before Shen Chaoyan could stand firmly, he looked up and saw several guards hiding in the dark leap up and kick the big man who was in the front to the ground.

The guards were in plain clothes, and the strong men didn't know his identity. When they saw their companions being beaten, they swung the axes in their hands at the guards without saying a word.

The guards didn't even draw their swords, and they knocked the strong men down with just three punches and two kicks.

"No... We are not assassins..."

Seeing these strong men fall to the ground, they couldn't even get up.

Shen Chaoyan looked at them without any ability to fight back, and suddenly realized something. Her pupils shrank, and she blurted out, "Stop it! They are not assassins! Don't kill them!"

These strong men were tall and strong, holding axes, and they looked scary.

However, when they just walked over, the sharp axe blades were not aimed at them, but at the ground.

Besides, how could an assassin not be able to withstand a single move from a guard?

Obviously, they only had brute force, and no kung fu at all.

More importantly, if they were coming for herself and Sikong Yan, the Book of Heaven would remind her at the first moment of danger.

Sikong Yan also saw the clues and ordered the guards, "Catch them alive and bring them here."

"Yes!"

The guard twisted the strong man's arm and asked in a deep voice, "Tell me! Who sent you here?"

"Sir, it's unjust! We are not assassins, we are just here to cut down trees..."

While the guards were interrogating these strong men, Shen Chaoyan was not idle either. He had already learned about the origins of these people from the heavenly book.

They were indeed villagers from the foot of the mountain.

There were two couples in their village who were going to get married, and everyone was busy building a new house for the newlyweds these days.

Someone told them that the trees on the mountain behind Yuhua Temple were straight and thick, and they were the best material for making beams.

So, the village chief summoned more than a dozen people who worked the fastest and strongest in the village to come and cut down trees. As a

result, they ran into them by chance.

Sure enough, a strong man pointed at Shen Chaoyan and Sikong Xian with a face full of grievance under the interrogation of the guards.

"We originally wanted to wait until they finished kissing before leaving, but who knew they would keep kissing. Our axes are used to chop trees, not people! I wanted to tell them when I went there just now that there is a cave in the woods over there. It's very hidden, and no one will see us kissing in it!"

Damn it!

Listening to the strong man's honest and simple explanation, Shen Chaoyan wanted to dig a hole in the ground and crawl into it.

Damn it!

It's so damn embarrassing!

Now everyone knows that they were kissing in the wild!

The guard glanced at Sikong Yan, coughed lightly, and tried to maintain a cold expression, "Your Majesty, what these people said may not be true! I will take them back and interrogate them strictly, and I will definitely be able to get useful information from them!"

If Shen Chaoyan was not there, the guards would definitely regard these strong men as assassins and kill them on the spot.

It can be seen that the person who arranged for the villagers to cut trees today had expected this scene to happen.

The guards who accompanied and protected Sikong Yan were all well-trained soldiers of the Yulin Army.

They faced the villagers with weapons, and their instinctive reaction was -

someone was going to assassinate them!

As long as the Yulin Army took action, these villagers would be dead without a doubt.

And the other party wanted to use the death of the villagers to make a fuss in the royal temple.

As long as the word gets out that Sikong Yan brutally killed innocent villagers in the royal temple, his reputation as a tyrant will be confirmed!

Once Sikong Yan's reputation is completely ruined, when the third prince wants to overthrow the tyrant in the future, that will be what everyone expects!

Shen Chaoyan only realized at this moment that the cartoonist gave Sikong Yan this cruel and violent character just to prepare for the male protagonist!

It is easy to win the world, but difficult to keep it.

Sikong Yan was not the eldest son. After his elder brother, the eldest prince, died on the battlefield, the late emperor's move to make him the crown prince also pushed him to the forefront.

There were even rumors in the court that the eldest prince's death was related to him.

It was also very difficult for Sikong Yan to succeed to the throne smoothly and to get to where he is today step by step.

Unfortunately, there is no mention of this in the comics.

Sikong Yu was able to arrange such a scene in Yuhua Temple, which was a good sign that he, as the male protagonist of the comic, had been planning for a long time.

In his previous life, he relied on Shen Qingwan to make plans in the harem and dealt a fatal blow to the tyrant.

Now that he saw that Shen Qingwan had not even slept with him, he knew that the way of using the women in the harem to seduce Sikong Yan was not feasible.

So, he quickly began to make new plans.

These forces, both overt and covert, were all plug-ins given to the male protagonist by the comic author.

But it doesn't matter, with her around, she can destroy Shen Qingwan's halo as the heroine, so what does Sikong Yu have to fear?

Sikong Yan glanced at the dozen or so strong men who were kneeling and trembling on the ground, and said slowly, "No need to torture them, just let them go."

The guards were shocked to hear that the emperor was going to let the assassin go, "Your Majesty..."

To be honest, if it wasn't for Concubine Hua stopping them, they would have killed the thieves on the spot.

When the strong men heard Yu Linjun calling Sikong Yan, their faces turned pale.

It's over!

This young man who looked so noble and imposing was actually the emperor of the current dynasty!

They had lived for twenty or thirty years, and the highest official they had ever seen was the village chief. How could they be so worthy to see a living emperor?

Thinking back to the scene just now when they raised axes at the emperor, they were extremely scared!

"Your Majesty, please spare our lives! We are just ordinary people living in the mountains and have never done anything bad! We are not assassins, but good citizens!" "Your Majesty, please have mercy!

We didn't know you were here, otherwise we would not dare to go up the mountain even if we had ten guts!"

Sikong Huang glanced at the strong men kneeling in a row on the ground. Their frightened and terrified expressions did not seem fake.

He pondered for a moment and turned his gaze back to the guards standing in front of him, "As soldiers of the Yu Lin Army, don't you realize that these people are ordinary people?"

Yu Lin Army knelt on one knee, "Your Majesty, they are armed and disturbing the Holy Chariot, which is an unforgivable crime!"

When the villagers heard that the Yu Lin Army was going to kill them, they were so scared that they kowtowed repeatedly, "Spare our lives! Your Majesty, spare our lives!"

How could Sikong Yan not see that this was a big trap set by Sikong Yu?

"Yuhua Temple is a sacred place for Buddhism, and it cannot stand the sight of bloodshed. Since you did not mean to do it, you are not guilty."

The group of people were almost scared to death, and they felt relieved when they heard this. "Thank you, Your Majesty! We will never dare to cut down trees indiscriminately again!"

"Your Majesty is merciful and spared our lives. Why don't you leave quickly?"

"Yes, yes, yes! We will leave immediately!"

After these strong men kowtowed, they took a few steps back, then turned around and ran away.

They were afraid that if they were a second late, the Yu Lin army would change their minds.