Chapter 146 Wei Changtian’s Choice
Something happened in the palace.
Upon hearing these words, Wei Changtian's eyes suddenly brightened. He glanced at Ning Yuke who had a confused look on her face, then slowly stood up from the bluestone.
"Princess, I have some urgent matters to arrange. Please wait for a moment."
"Well, sir, you don't need to worry about me." Ning Yuke nodded slightly.
"I'm sorry."
Wei Changtian smiled and bowed. After walking a distance from Zhang San, his expression gradually became gloomy:
"What happened? Did they find Ning Yuke missing?"
"no."
Zhang San lowered his voice and answered, "Sir, the brothers who were monitoring the palace just reported that they saw dozens of men in black sneaking into the palace. As soon as they noticed this, they immediately sent people to Yanyun Mountain. Now half an hour has passed."
"The man in black? He entered the palace?"
Wei Changtian's tone stagnated, and his pupils suddenly contracted: "What else? Bring the spy here!"
"yes!"
Zhang San waved his hand, and the thin man waiting on the side came forward immediately and narrated the events of the palace in detail.
The man in black, carrying a knife, was very skilled. He remained silent after entering the palace. Wei Changtian listened while his brain was working rapidly.
Judging from the spy's description, there are only two possibilities for the origins of this group of people.
One is Ning Qingyu’s man, and the other is Ning Yongnian’s man.
Wei Changtian felt that the former was more likely.
After all, the "Joint Investigation Team" is still in Shuzhou City, and the case of assassinating the prince is still under investigation. Ning Yongnian should not take action again at this critical juncture. But this is hard to say.
What if they were assassins? Wei Changtian was too lazy to meddle in other people's business. If those people were assassins sent by Ning Yongnian, he would never run to save Ning Qingyu again.
But what should we do with Ning Yuke? Send her back and throw her into the tiger's mouth? Keep her and protect her?
Or should we just ignore her and let her fend for herself? "Take Ning Yuke with you and prepare a car to return to the city."
After a moment, Wei Changtian had made up his mind.
"yes."
Zhang San nodded, and then confirmed: "Sir, should we go back home, or..."
"Let's go to Prince Shun's Mansion first."
"Sir, what happened?"
After a stick of incense, the black carriage drove away from the foot of Yanyun Mountain and sped along the official road towards Shuzhou City.
Ning Yuke looked at Wei Changtian who was silent, and said softly with some concern: "I see that you don't look very well."
"Thank you for your concern, Princess."
Wei Changtian shook his head: "It's nothing serious, I was just thinking about something just now."
"oh"
Seeing that Wei Changtian was unwilling to talk, Ning Yuke stopped asking and just turned her head slightly to look at the night outside the car window.
She didn't know why, but she had been feeling a sense of inexplicable panic and uneasiness in her heart since the beginning.
Dark clouds covered the moon, and my heartbeat became increasingly rapid.
“Who?!”
At the south gate of Shuzhou City, several soldiers guarding the city waved to stop Wei Changtian's carriage and prepared to conduct a routine inspection before entering the city.
Zhang San turned over and got out of the car, and put his hand on his chest while walking towards the soldier.
He always carries the tokens of the Xuan Jing Division and the Qing Pao Army with him. He can basically move freely throughout the entire Shuzhou City by showing any one of them.
However, this time, what he took out was not a token, but a few ingots of silver.
"My dear officers, my master has fallen asleep in the car. Can you please be flexible and not wake him up?"
"Um?"
A few soldiers looked around, then took the silver with a smile and quietly put it into their sleeves.
"It's late at night and people are tired, so it's understandable."
"You don't look like a bad person, so we won't investigate. Just go in now."
"Thank you, General, for your leniency!"
Zhang San bowed and thanked him, and the black carriage entered the city smoothly and drove towards the palace at a moderate speed.
It was already the Yin hour, and dawn would be here in about two hours.
Although Daning does not have a curfew, few people would wander around the streets at three or four in the middle of the night.
The streets were empty, doors and windows of every house were closed, except for a few beggars and drunkards lying on the roadside and snoring.
Everything indicated that tonight seemed no different from any other night.
Am I overthinking? Wei Changtian looked at the night scene through the car curtain and breathed a sigh of relief.
It has been more than an hour since the group of men in black entered the palace. If they were really assassins, the whole city would have been in chaos by now. How could it be so quiet?
"call"
That's best.
"Princess, I will park the carriage near the palace and ask Zhang San to take you in."
Retracting his gaze, Wei Changtian said softly to Ning Yuke, who was frowning and wondering what was going on: "Please don't tell anyone about what happened tonight."
"ah"
Ning Yuke came back to her senses after hearing this, and quickly nodded and assured: "Don't worry, sir, I will definitely not tell anyone else."
"That's good."
Wei Changtian hesitated for a moment, then reached into his sleeve pocket and took something out.
"Princess, please take this back as well."
"This is."
Ning Yuke looked closely in the candlelight inside the sedan, and the next moment her whole body trembled.
The sachet has a white background with gold patterns and the word "peace" is embroidered on it.
"Prince Wei"
He forced a smile on his face, but his tone was pleading.
"You, you don't like the style of this sachet?"
"How about I embroider another one for you?"
"No need."
Wei Changtian shook his head gently and placed the sachet next to Ning Yuke.
He wanted to say more, but in the end it ended up being just one sentence.
"Take care, Princess."
“.”
The sound of horse hooves became slower and slower, and then stopped.
Ning Yuke bit her lips tightly, holding tightly in her hand the sachet that she had sewn stitch by stitch, her eyes filled with painful struggle.
"Sir, we have arrived at the palace."
Zhang San's voice came from outside the sedan. Wei Changtian glanced at Ning Yuke and asked through the curtain:
"Is there anything unusual?"
“Everything is as usual.”
"Okay then."
Wei Changtian turned around and said calmly, "Princess, it's time for you to go."
“.”
A gust of night wind blew into the carriage, and with the humming sound, the black hair beside Ning Yuke's ear swayed slightly twice.
Ning Yuke did not refuse, but she gave Wei Changtian another deep look at him.
Maybe she knew that she would probably not be able to meet Wei Changtian again after tonight, so she wanted to remember the appearance of this man firmly in her mind.
"Sir, you have to take care of yourself too."
A few gusts of west wind came at night, and hurriedly changed the world.
Ning Yuke suddenly turned her head away, holding back the tears that were about to fall from the corners of her eyes, bent down and prepared to get off the car.
But at this moment.
“Bang!”
A big hand suddenly grabbed her arm from behind without any warning, and then exerted force and dragged her back into the carriage.
"ah!"
Ning Yuke screamed subconsciously and wanted to turn around to look at Wei Changtian.
But before she turned around, a low roar suddenly exploded in her ears.
"Zhang San, let's go!!"
(End of this chapter)
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