Chapter 63 He cried
His heart could not calm down, and his thoughts became more and more confused.
Xie Anci turned over and looked at Gu Lingyu on the ground.
The faint light shone through the window onto Gu Lingyu, who was lying there quietly, not knowing whether he was asleep or not.
Xie Anci sighed softly, and the sigh dissipated in the quiet room.
"Why aren't you sleeping yet? Are you feeling unwell?" Gu Lingyu turned over and spoke in a low voice.
"No." Xie Anci coughed softly, and the sound seemed ethereal in the dark room.
"You actually know everything about what Li Jinchen did in the capital."
"I'm afraid I'll be in trouble if I go back."
"No, does he not want me to go back?"
Xie Anci has always been strong, but he rarely shows a trace of weakness on this cold and quiet winter night.
"Impossible, don't let your imagination run wild, the emperor can't do such a mean thing." Gu Lingyu froze, and denied Xie Anci without thinking.
Gu Lingyu knew that Xie Anci was talking about being poisoned today, but he didn't think it was Li Jinchen's handiwork.
Li Jinchen didn't need to do this.
"Hehe..." Xie Anci smiled bitterly, he didn't believe that Li Jinchen sent someone to poison him.
Xie Anci remembered the winter nights in the past, sometimes Li Jinchen would come to the palace to play with him, and stay at the palace at night.
At that time, his parents were still alive, and Li Jinchen was still a simple and lovely child.
He would always crawl into Xie Anci's quilt to warm his feet, just because Xie Anci's feet would be as cold as a stone in winter.
As he fell asleep with memories, Xie Anci couldn't help but smile.
Gu Lingyu turned over and looked at Xie Anci's curled up back, guilt and heartache flooded his heart.
Who wanted to harm Xie Anci? What was the purpose?
After a night passed, it was just dawn, and both of them came out of the room in a depressed mood.
Leaving the inn and continuing on the road back to Beijing, the atmosphere was more solemn than before.
Before, Zuo Sikong was there to regulate the atmosphere, but now he stayed in the South City to control the flood, and there was no one left who could regulate the atmosphere.
Xie Anci and Gu Lingyu had their own thoughts.
Not long after they walked away, they saw two corpses lying in the woods beside the road.
Xie Anci dismounted to check and found that they were two of the four sneaky people in the inn yesterday.
"Why are there corpses here? Someone! Go report to the authorities!" Gu Lingyu frowned, it was really unlucky.
"No need." Xie Anci turned over the bodies of the two people, "These two should be the ones who poisoned last night."
Gu Lingyu looked at Xie Anci in shock, "How do you know?"
"There is no wound on their bodies, and they are bleeding all over, it looks like they are poisoned." Xie Anci remembered that he vomited blood last night, and the symptoms were very similar to these two people.
These two people probably didn't know that the smoke was poisonous, and they inhaled a little, and when they ran here, they died of poisoning.
"Send someone to check the identities of these two people, they don't look like people from the underworld, but like rogues." Xie Anci said coldly.
"Okay." Gu Lingyu believed what Xie Anci said and sent two people to investigate.
"There should be two more people. It will take about five days to get back to Beijing. Be careful these days."
"Forget it, you go first, and we will go back to Beijing separately." Xie Anci shook his head and raised his hand to pinch his eyebrows.
He had no idea about this matter.
"No! It's more important to go together when there is danger. It's too dangerous for you to be alone." Gu Lingyu grabbed Xie Anci and pushed him into the carriage.
"Gu Lingyu!" Xie Anci struggled, "If we go together, I'm afraid neither of us will be able to go back alive."
"You take the soldiers and go first."
"I won't go. If we have to go, we go together. Why do you want to handle things alone every time you encounter something?" Gu Lingyu grabbed Xie Anci's wrist angrily.
"Can't you trust us? Rely on us?" Gu Lingyu's eyes were red, and he was angry.
He knew that Xie Anci was always arrogant, and he was a few years older than them, and he had always taken care of them.
But now he didn't want Xie Anci to be like this.
"You..."
Bang, bang, bang...
a rain of arrows fell from above and hit the carriage.
Xie Anci quickly pulled Gu Lingyu onto the carriage.
The rain of arrows brushed past Gu Lingyu's body.
"Who is it?" Gu Lingyu looked up outside, only to see a group of men in black fighting with the people they brought.
"It seems that the man is really eager to kill me." Xie Anci's face was as cold as ice, he drew out the Yilan sword and jumped out.
Gu Lingyu hurriedly followed, picking up his spear.
Unlike the two men before who didn't know martial arts, this group of black-clothed men were well-trained and coordinated. They were
obviously specially trained warriors.
Xie Anci and Gu Lingyu were surrounded, but they were not afraid at all. Their moves were powerful and they were not at a disadvantage for a while.
However, most of those people attacked Xie Anci, and it was obvious that they were mainly targeting Xie Anci.
Xie Anci was dealing with several people alone, and someone accidentally took advantage of his back. The long sword was about to pierce Xie Anci's heart.
"Watch out behind you!" Gu Lingyu shouted, and with a swing of the long spear, he pierced the man directly, blocking the sneak attack from behind for Xie Anci.
Xie Anci looked at him gratefully, and the Yilan Sword in his hand became more and more powerful, and the sword was deadly.
Fortunately, there were not many people in this group, about 20 to 30 people.
Xie Anci and Gu Lingyu gradually found it difficult to deal with them, but they didn't get any benefits.
"Catch the thief alive and get a reward of a thousand gold!" Xie Anci shouted.
Suddenly, those soldiers were like chickens with blood, and their movements were even more fierce than before.
The men in black gradually lost the upper hand, and only two or three people were left.
"Who sent you?" Xie Anci asked coldly, looking at the people who were surrounded.
Several people looked at each other and bit off the poison hidden in their mouths.
"Oh no! They want to commit suicide!" Xie Anci and Gu Lingyu rushed forward but were still a step too late. Several people fell to the ground one after another.
The strong smell of blood filled the entire official road.
"Search them and see if there is any useful information." Xie Anci wiped the sweat from his forehead and ordered.
"Yes!"
"How are you? Are you not injured?" Gu Lingyu walked over and asked concernedly.
Xie Anci shook his head and stood up, "It's okay, just superficial injuries."
"Where are you injured? Let me see." Gu Lingyu said as he was about to pull Xie Anci's clothes, but Xie Anci dodged to the side.
"Nothing serious." Xie Anci looked at Gu Lingyu's hand hanging in the air, his eyes flickering.
"Prince Regent, they all have red fire patterns on their bodies, and this was found on one person." Someone ran over and handed a piece of yellow brocade to Xie Anci.
Xie Anci took it with a pale face, and when he saw the words inside, his whole body was unstable and he almost fell down.
"What's written on it?" Gu Lingyu looked puzzled and hurriedly supported Xie Anci.
Xie Anci looked at the direction of the capital with a frustrated look on his face, and tears as big as beans burst out of his eyes and dripped onto his trembling hands.