Chapter 420 Hu Shanxiang 11
By this time, Hu Shanxiang had withdrawn and stepped aside, quietly watching her teammates perform. Sun Ruowei, worthy of her skills learned in Mount Zhongnan, was undeniably skilled in archery. Whether her skills were good or not was hard to say, but she was resolute in her attack, firing four arrows in quick succession, each one grazing Zhu Zhanji's body.
Well, at least the outline is good.
Seeing that one of them was shooting arrows while the other was dodging, Hu Shanxiang tacitly moved further away from her and did not get closer. She even turned her head and picked up an arrow from the long table in front of her, and began to study it carefully as if there was some secret of the universe hidden in it.
Over there, Sun Ruowei, standing behind him, had already exposed Zhu Zhanji's identity as the Crown Prince. Zhu Zhanji had no intention of continuing the act and shouted to the people in the dark, "Catch the two traitors and take them down."
Hu Shanxiang turned her head and looked at the four tall and strong Jinyiwei in front of her. She waved her hand to indicate that she would not resist, but she still refused to suffer any loss:
"I just couldn't stand seeing you, a grown man, bullying a little girl, so I came to your aid. I know nothing about the twists and turns between you two. I can't bear the blame for this female traitor assassinating the Crown Prince."
As he spoke, he flicked his wrist, and with a swish, he casually held the folding fan with the words "Xuanhu Jiwo" written on it across his face, revealing only his eyebrows and eyes as he looked at them with a hint of smile. He stood there tall and slender in plain white casual clothes, with an indescribable elegance and grace.
Zhu Zhanji was about to ignore her, but her eyes, which usually looked affectionate enough to look at a dog, now hovered in front of the two of them, with only three big words written on them: "Watch the show."
It was like a brother watching his friend being affectionate with his beloved. He felt increasingly uncomfortable, but he still spoke in his usual slick way:
"This is not up to you. Even if you're not the principal offender, you can't escape as an accomplice. Who can blame you, Brother Hu, for being such a playboy who can't bear to see a beautiful woman suffer injustice? But dying beneath the peony flowers makes me a romantic ghost. Isn't that what I mean, Brother Hu?"
"What a tragedy! If I could win the heart of this girl today, I wouldn't have wasted your words. But it's a pity that the flower has feelings but the water is not."
Hu Shanxiang followed his words and slapped her palms with her folding fan in annoyance, which made Zhu Zhanji so angry that he fell backwards. He walked forward and grabbed her wrist through her sleeve and said, "Go, go, go!"
As he spoke, he stuffed her into the carriage.
As soon as Hu Shanxiang entered, she sat down next to Sun Ruowei and calmly looked at Zhu Zhanji, who was sitting on the other side. "I told you before that for such a big sedan, you should at least prepare some tea, cakes, etc. I've been playing with you for half a day and I'm really thirsty."
"You are so troublesome and hard to please."
Zhu Zhanji angrily reached out and fiddled with the side for a few times, and sure enough, he found a small table that could be placed in front of them. On it was a set of heavy tea sets, which were fixed in place by some unknown means, but one had to use some skill to lift the teapot.
He picked up the teapot and poured two cups of tea to the two people in front of him. The clear tea was still steaming.
“It’s really good tea.”
Compared to Sun Ruowei's hesitation, Hu Shanxiang seemed particularly foolish and bold. She took the cup from the man and drank it all in one gulp. She didn't forget to say to Sun Ruowei beside her: "Miss Sun, don't you want a cup to quench your thirst?"
"No, I'm afraid he'll drug me."
Sun Ruowei glared at the man, without even looking at the teacup in his hand, and simply closed her eyes as if to rest.
"Well, you're out of luck then."
Zhu Zhanji didn't care. He poured the unfinished cup out of the car, took the empty cup from Hu Shanxiang and said with a smile, "Brother Hu, would you like another cup?"
"Another one, then."
Hu Shanxiang took the cup but did not rush to drink it. She just held it in her hand and silently felt the temperature of the teacup. She lowered her eyes and looked at something in the void as if she was in a trance, with a faint smile still on the corner of her mouth.
There's something inexplicably cute about her.
Zhu Zhanji had seen enough before turning around and smiling at Sun Ruowei, who was resting with her eyes closed, "Ah, are you desperate and just giving up on yourself?"
"I have a way out." Sun Ruowei opened her eyes and looked at him, pretending to be stubborn and said, "Even if you capture me and put me in prison, don't expect to get any information from me. No matter how powerful you are, I can always control my own life and death."
"You are naive. Even the King of Hell wouldn't dare take away the people captured by the Jinyiwei. But don't worry, as long as you come back with me obediently and resolve the knot in my grandfather's heart, not only will I not punish you, I will also reward you handsomely."
"By the way, the poem you wrote for me before really helped our family a lot, so don't worry, I will get you to a safe place this time."
Sun Ruowei sneered, "Safe? For people like us, there's no such thing as a safe place in the world."
"That's a bit too arbitrary. There are absolutely safe places in the natural world. If you don't know about it, it only shows that you are ignorant." Zhu Zhanji said as he looked at Hu Shanxiang. "What do you think, Brother Hu?"
"...Although I know the Crown Prince wants to talk about the palace, do I really need to go with him? I'm actually safe anywhere."
The Crown Prince said there was no way: "Who told you to help her just now? Just come home with me honestly, Miss Hu."
The smug look on his face made Sun Ruowei, who was standing opposite him, itch with hatred. Shanxiang was speechless for a moment. "Alright, alright, when you're under someone's roof, you have to bow your head. You have the final say, okay?"
"That's more like it. Don't worry, considering our friendship, I definitely won't treat you the same way I treated that traitor. When we get home, I'll take you to meet my parents. They'll definitely like you."
"Master Huang, we're here."
Zhu Zhanji then stood up, lifted the curtain, and was the first to stick his head out.
A dozen burly men surrounded his carriage. The leader, dressed like a scholar, stepped forward calmly and saluted, "Sir Huang, the Crown Prince, please come in."
Looking around again, this was not the gate of the palace, but clearly a remote courtyard.
Zhu Zhanji's face changed and he quickly turned around and got into the carriage, but it was too late. Sun Ruowei had already taken his sword and stood in front of him.
"puff--"
Looking at Sun Ruowei's smug little expression, and then at Zhu Zhanji's exaggerated acting of pretending to be annoyed, Hu Shanxiang covered the smile on her face with her fist.
"Are you so happy to see me in trouble? I advise you not to get too excited. We have entered a den of rebels. Be careful, or we may never come back."
Zhu Zhanji glared at her, half in pretense and half genuinely, only to see her blink at him. "With you here, what do I have to worry about? Don't forget to protect me when we get into the rebels' den. I'm a poor, powerless itinerant doctor and I can't stand up to your harassment."
He knew that Shanxiang had seen through his pretense, and he felt a mixture of emotions: joy at meeting a close friend, shame at having someone see through him, fear and suspicion, but also a strange sense of pride and satisfaction.
Especially this dishonest heart, which started beating wildly for no apparent reason, causing the Crown Prince to suddenly hold his chest and wonder why he, a young and strong man, had become sick in such an important occasion.
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