This girl with unexpected words and actions is still useful to the prince. Although she cannot be killed, she must be stopped as soon as possible!
He attacked from the side, and just as the poison dart in his hand was about to reach the girl's arm, the girl seemed to have noticed it, and pulled his son back suddenly to avoid it. At the same time, she raised the hand that was pulling the son's arm and pressed down on his shoulder instead.
The moment she pressed down on the young master's shoulder, the girl used the force to lift herself up from the water, creating a curtain of rain. She then turned sideways, with her skirt emitting icy water droplets in the air, and she kicked him heavily on the side of his jaw.
Fan Ou felt pain and spat out a mouthful of blood foam. His body lost balance and he fell sideways into the water.
"Cough, cough, cough..." Li Lu, who had been pushed into the water by Chang Suining, surfaced with his head and face. He started coughing due to choking on the water, and while he was grabbing with his hands in panic, Chang Suining grabbed the back collar of his robe in time to prevent him from drowning.
"Prince!" Fan Ou struggled to regain his balance in the water and pounced on Chang Suining again, trying to save Li Lu.
"What are you afraid of? I've already said I have no intention of making an enemy. How can I kill him?" While speaking, Chang Suining pushed Li Lu forward towards the two guards from Prince Rong's Mansion who had just swam over.
Seeing that she actually returned the man, Fan Ou was still confused, and heard the girl even told the two guards: "Take the man back and make him a bowl of ginger soup."
The two guards quickly pulled Li Lu over, holding up his arms, and they thought this was ridiculous - should they thank him on behalf of the prince? But since the other party had no intention of holding the prince hostage, why did they drag him into the lake? This question also appeared in Fan Ou's mind, and he soon had the answer.
Just as they were chasing in the water, a small boat that appeared out of nowhere was approaching here quickly.
The other party was well prepared, with someone waiting on this section of the waterway in advance. The girl calculated the exact time before taking action!
"You guys protect the prince back to the boat first, quickly!" Unable to figure out Chang Suining's intention, Fan Ou was afraid that Li Lu would make a mistake, so he urged him hurriedly and punched Chang Suining again.
She knew the secret, and she couldn't let her go like this no matter what! "No..." Li Lu struggled, as if he was worried about leaving. He coughed up water and made a weak voice: "Can't kill her..."
As it turns out, this statement is totally unnecessary.
Just as Fan Ou's fist was about to reach the girl's face, he saw the man suddenly sink into the water and disappear.
Fan Ou became alert and looked around immediately. The next moment, with the sound of water splashing, a hand suddenly grabbed his neck from behind.
Fan Ou was startled and was about to stab the opponent with his hidden weapon, but the opponent grabbed his shoulder and arm with his other hand. With a light "click" sound, his shoulder and arm were dislocated, and the hidden weapon in his hand fell into the water.
Fan Ou, who was completely controlled by the other party, groaned in pain and asked through gritted teeth: "What is your purpose!"
Chang Suining looked at Li Lu, who was being carried a little further away by the two guards, and said, "Prince, please go back with them. I will take the witness away."
"From now on, if my father makes the slightest mistake, I will write an article that is no less powerful than Luo Guanlin's, and tell the world what the Rong Palace did."
"From now on, my lord, please be careful in what you do, and I will be careful in what I say. You and I will each follow our own path."
Fan Ou finally understood her intentions and who she really wanted to hold hostage. His face darkened for a moment, "You..."
"It's not the time for you to speak yet." Chang Suining raised his elbow and knocked the man unconscious.
At this moment, the boat had come behind her, and Adian on the boat stretched out his big hand to her: "Little Ali, come on up quickly!"
Chang Suining first pushed Fan Ou up and handed him to Adian, then he grabbed the edge of the board and jumped onto the boat.
"Is the girl injured?" Chang Ren, who was rowing the boat, asked immediately.
"Uncle Ren, don't worry. I didn't." Chang Suining instructed Ah Dian: "Drag the man into the cabin and tie him up."
"Um!"
Adian pulled the man into the cabin with just one hand. With a click, Fan Ou's other arm was dislocated.
Chang Suining stood up and watched the two guards quickly bring Li Lu onto the pleasure boat.
"Hurry and bring the prince into the boat to change his clothes!"
Li Lu sat at the bow and stopped the two guards from helping him into the cabin. He said weakly, "Wait a minute..."
One of them patted his back and helped him spit out the water, while the other took out a thick fox fur and wrapped it around him.
After another bout of coughing, Li Lu's breathing became smoother and he looked steadily in the direction of the boat.
So this was her compromise... to blackmail him in return.
It's not that he hadn't thought about it, she had other intentions in agreeing to go on a boat trip with him today, but he only thought that she wanted to take the opportunity to find out some secrets and test him and the Rong Palace, and in fact, she did so.
But he thought he had measured things properly and didn't reveal anything that shouldn't be revealed.
However, at this moment he realized that all of the above were illusions...
She had planned to take Fan Ou away from him from the beginning! She must have suspected that the death of Prince Huainan was related to Prince Rong's Mansion, so when she heard him suggest that Fan Ou come to answer, she agreed to have a secret talk with him on the boat...
Looking at the figure standing on the deck from afar, Li Lu suddenly laughed.
Who could have thought that just by drinking a pot of tea, the positions of the two of them would be completely reversed, and now he suddenly became the passive one.
What a good compromise.
It's because his skills are not as good as others.
"Prince, do you want to give a secret signal and send people to chase them?" the guard asked.
Although there were only three of them and Fan Ou on the boat, there were still people from their group on the shore.
"Chase? Will she surrender?" Li Lu sneered, "...The palace is always keeping an eye on my whereabouts. If I let them show up again and cause an unnecessary commotion, do you think I can still return to Yizhou?"
By then, the Holy Book Emperor would only need to accuse him of raising private soldiers with the intention of causing trouble to completely arrest him.
Losing Fan Ou today is already a trouble, and we must not cause any bigger trouble.
"It's my fault for not thinking it through..." The guard frowned, looking at the boat that was slowly leaving, and suddenly realized something was wrong.
Chang Suining kidnapped people from the Prince Rong's Mansion. How could they be so confident that they would not be able to get them back? Afterwards, they could just go to the General's Mansion in Xingningfang to ask for them back!
Li Lu laughed coldly again: "So that's how it is..."
It turns out that kidnapping Fan Ou was just one of her plans. She was using the excuse of going on a boat trip with him tonight to actually leave the capital...
Therefore, pretending to agree to his proposal was probably just a diversion.
Who was he trying to show off to? Of course, it was to that saint.
It seems that she must have leaked the conversation between the two in Dayun Temple to the palace today.
She deliberately let the saint think that she would leave the capital under the pretext of their marriage, so that he would relax his guard for the short time. But in fact, she would leave the capital at this very moment tonight, at a time and in an unexpected way.
With the help of a guard, Li Lu stood up tremblingly.
There were no lights on the other party's boat. She came to the appointment today, wearing a very light green skirt and a cloak that was the color of the moon in the night sky.
This light color has just been washed in the water. Now standing under the moon, it is surrounded by a layer of faint light even without any lights to reflect it.
The rippling water on the lake in the night made the owner of the light color look like a fairy under the moon or a monster in the lake, bright and strange, having completely lost the aura of a mortal.
However, his behavior is truly annoying.
At this moment, she picked up the bow hanging on the cabin door, put an arrow on it, and aimed at his pleasure boat.
"Prince, be careful!"
The guard was about to escort Li Lu away, but he heard Li Lu's cold voice: "Don't bother."
The sound of breaking through the air was heard along with the moisture of the lake, and the arrow hit the deck two steps away from Li Lu's feet.
Li Lu lowered his eyes and saw that what was hanging on the arrow was the letter of appointment that he had just handed to her.
He couldn't help but laugh, or rather, he laughed out of anger.
He rarely gets angry.
When he raised his eyes again, the girl had put her bow hand behind her back. She raised her other hand and waved at him twice with a slight smile.
"Tsk." Li Lu laughed again.
As the two ships gradually distanced themselves from each other, the disturbed surface of the lake gradually returned to calm.
As the boat moved forward, Chang Suining became tired of standing, so he sat down on the deck. When he became tired of sitting too, he simply lay down with one leg bent.
In the night sky, the bright moon and numerous stars are reflected in the eyes, and the gentle breeze blows past the ears. The green hills on both sides of the lake shore are sleeping in the night, but are disturbed by the accidental passing of a small boat, and there are faint sounds of insects and birds singing.
Chang Suining relaxedly lay on the boat deck, exhaled slowly, and whispered to himself: "The boat has passed through thousands of mountains..."
After passing this mountain, the future direction will be determined by her.
The further they went, the brighter the stars seemed to become. Just as Chang Suining was letting her thoughts run wild, a pair of eyes brighter than the stars suddenly appeared above her head.
"You'll get sick if you do this!"
Adian took off his coat and covered her with it.
His coat was warm on his body, like a quilt that had been exposed to the sun, and had a sweet smell from tea and snacks. Chang Suining simply put one hand behind her head and invited him, "Do you want to watch the stars together?"
Ah Dian blinked at her, and then he also lay down like her, and asked curiously, "Will the stars be brighter if we look at them like this?"
Chang Suining curled the corners of his mouth: "I think so."
Ah Dian opened his eyes wide and looked at it, and said in surprise: "It seems to be true!"
The smile on Chang Suining's lips became even more intense.
"Little Ah Li, will they catch up with us?" Ah Dian asked, and then hurriedly said, "Don't be afraid if they catch up with us, I will chase them all away!"
Chang Suining smiled and said, "Don't worry, he won't chase after us."
He is Li Lu.
"As for her...it's too late to catch up with her." She said in a relaxed tone.
At this moment, the Queen should be thinking about stopping her from marrying Li Lu.
If the other party wanted to keep her, they would need to stop her in advance before they noticed her intention to leave Beijing. Once she left, there would be no chance to keep her, so her original plan was to leave unexpectedly when they were caught off guard.
The children of officials did not need the emperor's permission to leave the capital, so it was reasonable for her to "execute first and report later".
She wanted to take her brother to find a doctor. Didn't the emperor allow people to treat illnesses? Even if someone secretly chased her, she had plenty of ways to get rid of him.
That’s why we say, the light boat has passed through thousands of mountains.
…
The sky gradually brightens, and the stars and the moon return to their nests and disappear.
After the morning court session, the news was delivered to the Holy Ce Emperor.
There was a flash of surprise in the eyes of the Holy Ceremonial Emperor: "Gone?"
"yes……"
The trusted eunuch then explained the news reported from outside the city one by one.
The Holy Ce Emperor's expression changed several times: "What about the people in Dayun Temple?"
"The monks in the temple said that Chang Langjun left at dawn, saying that he was going to seek medical treatment, and they also explained where he went."
The eunuch handed over a piece of letter with a destination: "This is from the lady of the Chang family. She said that she heard from a lady yesterday that there is a doctor who is good at treating bone injuries a hundred miles outside the city, so she accompanied her brother to see him..."
The Emperor of the Holy Ceremonies took the piece of letter and saw the handwriting on it that "looked very much like" Li Shang's, and seemed to be distracted for a moment.
After a moment, the emperor said slowly: "She used Li Lu to confuse my sight..."
It turned out that Li Lu was not chosen, but used.
Should she be glad? She should be glad that the girl was not going to side with King Rong.
"Your Majesty, do you want to pursue him?" The trusted eunuch asked, looking at the piece of letter paper.
"She will not stay here and wait for me to catch up with her." The Holy Ce Emperor looked at the handwriting and said, "They can't find the doctor, so she will take Chang Sui'an to a farther place to seek medical treatment."
The trusted eunuch could not understand the emperor's intention for the time being, so he just said: "I think there will be clues along the way..."
After a moment, the Emperor of the Holy Ce said, "Then try to find him. I heard about this and was worried that the young master of the Chang family had not recovered from his injuries, so I sent someone to accompany you to find a doctor..."
"Yes, I will do it right away."
The eunuch lowered his head and took a few steps back, but then he heard the voice of the Holy Emperor again.
"That's all."
The Holy Ceremonial Emperor said slowly, "There is no need to do anything in vain."
Faintly, she thought of the word "let go" that National Master Tianjing asked her to comprehend.
"Then let her go."
She said, "No need to chase her...but you need to pass on my secret order, and have everyone outside the capital keep an eye on her whereabouts. If you find anything, no matter how big or small, report it to me immediately."
"Yes, I obey your command."
The eunuch left the palace, and the Emperor of Holy Ceremonies' gaze slowly fell on the incense burner.
Could it be the word "let go"? "But it wasn't me who let her go..." the emperor whispered, "It was she who escaped from me."
After escaping, where will she go?
If I were A Shang, I would definitely go to the place where there is injustice.
The incense burner is filled with fragrant mist, exuding a sense of tranquility and loneliness.
…
Soon, many people in Beijing heard that the Chang brothers and sisters had gone out to seek medical treatment.
Wei Miaoqing is always particularly well-informed about news concerning Chang Suining.
"A hundred miles outside the city... isn't that far. When the people come back, mother can invite Madam Chang to come to the mansion to appreciate the plum blossoms, right?"
The Wei family built a mansion in the garden, so there were always endless flowers to enjoy all year round, and the seasonal flowers always bloomed earlier than those elsewhere.
Duan didn't say anything for a moment, and subconsciously looked at her son who came to pay his respects.
Wei Shuyi sat in the chair and drank a sip of tea, then smiled and said, "I wonder how many times the plum blossoms in the mansion will bloom before she comes back."
Wei Miaoqing looked at his brother in confusion.
At this time, the eunuch who came to convey the imperial edict had arrived outside the gate of Duke Zheng's mansion.
Soon, everyone in the Wei family rushed to the front hall to receive the order.
…
After the eunuch who announced the decree was sent out of the palace, Wei Miaoqing held the imperial decree granting marriage in her hands, unable to come back to her senses for a long time.
This unlucky thing really happened to her?! The boat has passed through thousands of mountains, and the Beijing volume is over~ Thank you all for your monthly tickets. It is reasonable to ask for tickets on Children's Day, right?
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