Chapter 392 Against the Heavens
The cold winter night wind blew the tarpaulin covering the carriage, making a rustling sound.
Shen Yuexi walked forward step by step, feeling her heart beating violently.
She was worried about her two sisters meeting with an unexpected accident, and she was afraid to see them lying in a pool of blood, dying silently like those soldiers. If such a thing really happened, she would definitely not be able to bear it.
No matter how many storms you have experienced or how strong you have become, everyone's initial reaction is the same when faced with sudden changes.
Mei Dai and Shen Lan were not much stronger than her. The soldiers who protected them were all dead, and they had no ability to resist when facing the enemy.
What happened to the convoy? Was it a riot?
She looked to the left front of her, where a carriage was loaded with firewood and food under its tarpaulin. If a rebel army had truly intercepted the convoy, they would surely have looted the food and supplies.
Just as she was doubting it, the wind blew up a corner of the tarpaulin, and suddenly something inside lit up, dazzling her eyes.
Firewood and food cannot reflect the firelight, it is clearly the reflection of metal.
"Be careful of the carriage next to us!" she shouted, turned around, grabbed Su Mo's hand and ran away from the carriage.
Xiao Beiheng was already on full alert. When he heard Shen Yuexi's cry, he drew out the Yanque Sword without hesitation. The sword flashed and he slashed at the carriage beside him.
Bang!
The firewood was pushed up, scattering into the air as if it had exploded. A shadowy figure rose from the carriage and leaped backward. The Yanque sword slashed down in front of the shadowy figure, severing the carriage board in half. The horses pulling the carriage were startled and neighed.
Xiao Beiheng stepped onto the overturned car board without hesitation, jumped into the air, caught up with the figure in the air and slashed with his sword again.
The man leaped into the air and drew out a shining scimitar. Seeing the Yanque sword coming at him, he was unable to dodge in the air, so he raised the scimitar to block the Yanque sword.
When Xiao Beiheng saw the other party using a knife to block, he thought that he was overestimating himself. If this sword hit him hard, he would be injured if not killed.
There was a loud noise, sparks flew, and the scimitar unexpectedly blocked the Yanque sword. The two men fell to either side of the carriage using the force of the weapons' collision.
Xiao Beiheng fell to the ground and looked down at the Yanque sword in his hand in disbelief.
This was the first time he encountered a weapon that the Yanque Sword could not cut.
Behind him, Shen Yuexi was also stunned. That mid-air slash had clearly hit the man's sword, but the sword had actually blocked it. This was too outrageous. What was the other party's sword made of?
The panicked horses pulled the broken half of the car away, and the firewood and food were scattered all over the ground, revealing the figures on the opposite side.
The figure looked like a woman, dressed in a navy blue outfit, with her head and face also wrapped in navy blue cloth, revealing only her gleaming eyes.
She inserted the scimitar into the scabbard on her back, chuckled, and bowed to Xiao Beiheng, saying, "Young Master, you have excellent skills."
As soon as these words came out, Xiao Beiheng, Shen Yuexi, and Su Mo behind him were all stunned. This masked woman actually called Xiao Beiheng "Young Master".
Shen Yuexi reacted the fastest. She immediately guessed the other person's identity and said, "You are the Queen Mother's man!"
"Chen Yuexi truly has remarkable foresight. I admire her." The masked woman turned to her and said, "I'm Long, a member of the organization 'Against Heaven' under the master's command. I was planning to assassinate you when you passed by the carriage, but I didn't expect you to be so alert."
Xiao Beiheng said slowly: "Are you my mother's private army?"
Long said, "Of course. Master has always been a foresighted person. Young Master, you wouldn't think that Master, after twenty years of planning and strategizing, would only amass such a small fortune as the Tiger Crouching Cannon and the Iron Pagoda, would you?"
"What are you doing here?" Su Mo asked.
Shen Yuexi also asked at the same time: "Where are my two sisters?"
Long said, "We came here to assassinate Shen Yuexi, but these soldiers were very alert and discovered us... As for the two women, our master requested that we take them away, so we took them away for the time being."
Hearing Long say this, Shen Yuexi finally breathed a sigh of relief. Since the other party hadn't killed Mei Dai and Shen Lan, there was still hope.
Just like Su Mo, as long as people survive, there is a chance to save everything.
Xiao Beiheng asked: "How many of you are here?"
Long folded his arms and said, "We didn't expect the young master to show up here, so we only sent three people. The other two sisters took the two women and left first... Ah, young master, you stopped here, it seems you don't intend to let Shen Yuexi die?"
Shen Yuexi was secretly surprised. Three people killed nearly a hundred soldiers, and it sounded like they were all women. Are these three people monsters?
Xiao Beiheng knew that the woman before him, Long, was exceptionally skilled. Most importantly, her scimitar was unaffected by the Yanque Sword. If he rashly engaged in a fight with her, her companions would arrive, and he would be unable to split his attention. Shen Yuexi and Su Mo would undoubtedly be in danger. He had to protect them first and not act rashly.
He raised his head and said, "That's right, you can't touch the people behind me."
Long shook his head and said, "Young Master, it's no wonder the Master is so disappointed in you. She even gave you the Iron Pagoda, and you still can't win. We thought you couldn't win, but it turns out you don't want Shen Yuexi to die at all."
Xiao Beiheng said: "Go tell mother that I will no longer do things according to her ideas."
Long smiled and said, "Young Master, you are truly willful, but I will definitely convey your message."
After she finished speaking, she whistled, and the sound of hooves could be heard in the distance. Soon, a nimble black warhorse emerged from the darkness. Long Fei mounted the horse and said,
"Since the young master is here, I will spare Shen Yuexi's life today. But you must understand that the master's will cannot be changed. She wants everything about that bitch to disappear. If you cannot accomplish this task yourself, we will take action until you die."
After saying that, Long turned his horse around, shouted "Go!", and rode away.
Xiao Beiheng snorted coldly, took off the precious carved bow behind him, and shot an arrow at Long's back.
Shen Yuexi thought Xiao Beiheng's actions were despicable, as he had actually shot Long in the back. But then she thought about how he had taken Mei Dai and Shen Lan away, and who knew where they were. It seemed right to shoot her off her horse and interrogate her.
At this time, Long's horse had rushed into the darkness, and the golden arrow flashed and whooshed into the darkness.
Su Mo clenched her fists nervously and asked, "Bei Heng, did you hit it?"
Xiao Beiheng held up the precious carved bow, staring at the place where Long disappeared, without saying a word.
No sound of someone falling off a horse was heard, but instead a faint laugh echoed from the depths of the darkness: "Young Master, this unique skill of shooting an arrow through a hundred steps is something that anyone who doesn't understand would definitely not be able to dodge. See you later."
Shen Yuexi and Su Mo looked at each other.
Su Mo was still a little bewildered. After all, Xiao Beiheng had kept everything secret from her. Shen Yuexi knew Xiao Beiheng's prowess with the bow and arrow, having experienced it shortly after arriving in this world. That mysterious woman named Long had actually managed to dodge Xiao Beiheng's arrows; it was truly incredible.
And the most terrifying thing is that she is just one of Pei Jingyun's assassins.
When the hoofbeats completely disappeared, Su Mo said, "Bei Heng, what should we do next?"
Xiao Beiheng lowered his precious carved bow and said blankly, "I don't know either. I didn't want anything anymore. I just wanted to spend the last moments with you..."
Su Mo asked, "Why did mother insist on killing my eldest brother and sister-in-law?"
Shen Yuexi said to the two of them, "I know this matter best. Let's go to the car first, and I'll explain the whole thing to you."
The three of them got into the car. Shen Yuexi fanned the charcoal fire and said to Xiao Beiheng, "Your mother has been hiding something from you. In fact, she is not Wen Yi, she is Pei Jingyun."
Hearing this, both Xiao Beiheng and Su Mo opened their eyes wide in surprise.
"My mother is Pei Jingyun," Xiao Beiheng asked, "Then who was Empress Pei who died in the palace that year?"
"That's Wen Yi, Pei Jingyun's stand-in."
Shen Yuexi then told Xiao Beiheng everything she had seen in Daliang Village. Pei Jingyun, in order to choose a suitable stand-in, selected several girls who looked similar to her, but ultimately only Wen Yi, the daughter of a poor family in Yuzhou, looked like her.
All of this was done to get Wen Yi to enter the palace and marry the Emperor Yongde, whom she disliked. She had been planning for years just to marry her beloved Xiao Ming. However, she never expected that marrying Xiao Ming would become the starting point of her hatred.
"No wonder mother's hair turned white and she always hated big brother so much," Xiao Beiheng finally understood. "She always thought Wen Yi had taken away father's true love. The better father treated her, the angrier she became... She thought she had become Wen Yi's substitute."
Shen Yuexi touched her belly and said, "Now I am pregnant, so your mother wants to kill me too. Because the child has Wen Yi's blood."
Su Mo said, "Bei Heng, we must not let Mother do that. Let's go see her together and persuade her to give up."
"But how are we going to get there..." Xiao Beiheng said in confusion, "We don't know anything. Even I don't know where Mother is now."
Just as Shen Yuexi was about to speak, the faint sound of horse hooves was heard outside the car, getting closer and closer.
"Could it be that Long is back again?" Su Mo held Shen Yuexi's hand tightly, "She said they would not give up on killing my sister-in-law."
Xiao Beiheng stood up, holding the Yanque Sword, and said, "Don't panic, you two stay in the car, I'll go out and take a look."
He was about to get out of the car when he heard a nervous shout from outside.
"Yuexi, where are you?"
"It's my husband," Shen Yuexi jumped up in surprise when she heard the familiar call, jumped out of the car in two steps, and ran towards Xiao Zhuo, who was riding alone not far away and looking around in a daze.
"Husband, I'm here." She waved as she ran.
Xiao Zhuo was overjoyed when he saw her. He jumped off his horse and ran to her. His usually calm face was covered in sweat and blood. He asked, "Are you okay? Are you not hurt?"
Only then did Shen Yuexi notice that Xiao Zhuo's body was covered with blood spots, and his clothes on his arms were torn in two places, but fortunately no blood was seen seeping out.
She touched Xiao Zhuo's arm distressedly: "I'm fine. But what's wrong with you, my husband?"
"Several female assassins attacked us on the road, and Governor Su was also captured," Xiao Zhuo said. "They said they had sent people to kill you, too, so I came here to look for you. Fortunately... I was really scared."
Only then did Shen Yuexi realize that Xiao Zhuo had also been attacked by an assassin. He knew that he only had three weak women and soldiers here, and that they could not withstand the assassin's attack at all, so he rushed here in such a hurry.
At this time, Xiao Beiheng and Su Mo also came out. Xiao Zhuo stopped talking, took Shen Yuexi into his arms, looked at Xiao Beiheng and said, "I didn't expect you to be here."
Xiao Beiheng handed the Yanque Sword to Su Mo and said, "Brother, mother just sent assassins to kill my sister-in-law."
Shen Yuexi said, "My husband, it was my brother who saved me. But my two sisters were captured by assassins."
Su Mo also said: "Brother, the assassin said before leaving that they would continue to hunt down my sister-in-law. We must find a way."
Xiao Zhuo understood what had happened, took a deep breath, and said to Xiao Beiheng, "Brother, thank you. If it weren't for you, Yue Xi would definitely not have escaped this disaster."
"Then what should we do next?" Su Mo looked at Xiao Zhuo.
Shen Yuexi and Xiao Beiheng also looked at Xiao Zhuo. Everyone knew that Xiao Zhuo was the smartest person present, and they all placed their hopes on him.
Xiao Zhuo pondered for a moment and said, "From now on, I will not leave Yuexi. If an assassin has set his sights on Yuexi, it's useless to just wait passively. There's always a loophole. We must take the initiative and find the assassin's base."
Xiao Beiheng said, "Brother is right, but I don't know where these assassins came from. Mother never mentioned the Black Cavalry or these assassins to me. If Father were still alive..."
When he mentioned Emperor Ming of Qi, his voice suddenly lowered.
Xiao Zhuo said: "It doesn't matter. There is someone who might know. We can just go find him and ask him."
The three asked in unison, "Who is it?"
"Jiao Yong."
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