Five days later.
Outside the palace, there are peaceful corridors.
Because there were so many victims, Zhou Beichen and Zhou Zhaonuan turned back just after they left Langhe and the border a few days ago. Today, they finally made up their minds to go to another place to have a look.
As they walked across the wide meadow, a sudden gust of wind blew, and the horse raised its hooves. Deshun frowned, sensing something was amiss. He shouted inside, "Master, the horse is startled. Is this place unsafe? Please protect yourself. I'll speed up and see what's going on."
Quickly, a faint sound came from inside.
"good!"
Deshun jumped on his horse and whipped it, "Gee!" The horse was hit by the whip, roared, and rushed forward. At this moment, about twenty masked men in black rushed out from the woods on both sides of the road and surrounded the carriage.
Deshun tightened his clothes. He was a senior eunuch beside the emperor and had followed him since childhood. So, once upon a time, the late emperor fed him a pill and asked him to promise that he would have no other feelings for Zhou Beichen in this life. He also asked him to learn kung fu from Zhou Beichen for several years, so that he could protect the emperor when there was danger.
There were people all around him. Deshun's eyelids drooped. He stopped the carriage and shouted loudly.
"Who are you? Don't you know the identity of the people inside? Why are you seeking death?"
Deshun's aura was fully revealed, and he looked at the men in black with a domineering look on his face.
The men in black snorted coldly, saying that he was just a eunuch, why was he pretending? They were not afraid of him. The leader of the men in black drew his sword directly.
"Looking for death? I don't care who the person inside is. Today, I want to see if you, a rootless thing, are the first soul to die under my sword."
After saying that, the man in black drew his sword and stabbed directly at Deshun. Deshun narrowed his eyes and took out a long sword from his body to resist the attack of one of the men in black.
He kept shouting into the carriage, "Master, there are too many people outside. I'll hold them, so you better be careful."
His favorite daughter and wife were both in the carriage. It would be a lie to say that he wasn't worried. Just now, he had vaguely sensed that something was wrong. Zhou Beichen responded to the outside.
"Nothing, don't be distracted, just hit me hard, don't worry about me."
After saying that, Zhou Beichen looked at Shen Nian'an with a dark look in his eyes. Before doing that thing once, he was surprised to find that Shen Nian'an was extremely strong, which was completely unlike the physical strength of a weak woman. He had expected that Shen Nian'an might have learned martial arts.
After that, he discovered the trick many times, until that time, when he saw with his own eyes that Shen Nian'an got up from the bed and secretly went to practice martial arts in the middle of the night when no one was around, he was completely sure.
Zhou Beichen has never been an ignorant person. He is even more happy to see women practicing martial arts. However, as for his daughter, he really doesn't know what happened to Shen Nian'an a few days ago.
Deshun: “…”
The emperor really believed him. Next, after De Shun blocked the sword of the man in black, he quickly jumped off the carriage and fought with several men in black, intercepting one man in black after another who rushed towards the carriage.
In the carriage, Zhou Beichen looked at his daughter worriedly, then suddenly grabbed Shen Nian’an’s hand, his expression serious.
"An'an, there are a lot of assassins outside. I know you have martial arts skills, and so does Nuannuan. You must protect yourself and Nuannuan at the same time. There are too many people outside. Deshun, Wang Da, and Yuqin may only be able to hold them off for a while. I have to go outside and check. This is a signal flare. I'll find a chance to lure the assassins away later. You take Nuannuan off the carriage and fire the signal flare."
His expression was stern, and Shen Nian'an nodded without hesitation.
"Don't worry, go ahead."
Zhou Beichen turned and left. Shen Nian'an looked at his back, a trace of reluctance appeared. She hurriedly said, "Beichen."
Zhou Beichen turned around and only heard a sentence full of emotion, "Be careful."
As he nodded, Zhou Beichen revealed a rare smile. He flicked his sleeves, jumped off the carriage, drew his Emperor's Sword, and directly beheaded an assassin who was running towards him. The assassin's head fell to the ground, and blood dripped onto the ground, stretching endlessly...
Seeing that half of their comrades died in a short while, the men in black became blood-thirsty. One of the men in black blew a whistle, and in less than a moment, another group of men in black came.
Zhou Beichen's eyes became fierce, and he nodded to Deshun, Wang Da and others. They faced each other with their backs, fighting against the enemy, determined to carve out a bloody path in this vast wilderness.
The carriage was shaking, and before he knew it, a man in black had jumped onto the carriage and started driving.
Shen Nian'an took Zhou Zhaonuan's hand, held her daughter tightly, and asked her, "Are you afraid? If you are afraid, you should stay close to your mother in a while."
Zhou Zhaonuan looked at her mother, her eyes burning with flames. She raised her head proudly and said, "Don't be afraid. Daddy said that the princesses of our Zhou family should shed blood but not tears."
Shen Nian’an: “…”
This was a life-threatening operation. After this incident, she would definitely have a good talk with Zhou Beichen.
The mother and daughter looked at each other, and Shen Nian'an took out a silver needle from the top of her head, and with a "swoosh", she inserted it directly into the neck of the man in black. The man in black was driving the carriage comfortably, thinking about good things, but unexpectedly, his neck hurt, and then he kept slapping his neck with both hands, his pupils kept dilating, and finally, he fell off the carriage with his eyes open.
Shen Nian'an and Zhou Zhaonuan poked their heads out and quickly jumped off the carriage. During this time, several men in black came. Shen Nian'an picked up the sword and chopped one off with one hand. Nuannuan stared at her mother intently, with stars in her eyes.
Wow, why didn’t she know before that her mother actually knew kung fu? No wonder she brought a beautiful sword this time.
Having learned martial arts for five or six years, Zhou Zhaonuan was naturally not jealous. Looking at the eunuchs coming over sparsely, the mother and daughter faced each other back to back and killed them with bloodthirsty eyes. Finally, after killing the tenth assassin, the mother and daughter flew to an open place.
Looking back, he saw that there were many assassins around Zhou Beichen, like a school of fish. Sure enough, the main purpose of the assassins' visit this time was Zhou Beichen.
She didn't have time to think and directly released the flare into the sky. The shadow guards were about three miles away from them and would surely arrive soon.
Over there, Zhou Beichen and his companions were surrounded by assassins. After all, they had two children, and Shen Nian'an was always worried. She wanted to go and help, but looking at her daughter beside her, her heart was shaken.
No, in her heart, no one is more important than her daughter.
Zhou Zhaonuan's forehead was covered with sweat, and she grabbed Shen Nian'an's sleeve, anxiously.
"Mother, what should we do? There are too many people. Otherwise, let's go and help Dad."
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