Chapter 48 Carried Down
Zhao Mingyue stood on the stage, looking at the people who enthusiastically applied, and felt genuine joy and pride in her heart. They all came for her.
She suddenly understood why Xue Qi asked her to develop her own power.
Being able to convince others, make them follow you, and even die for you is a rare strength.
At this moment, she only felt her blood boiling, and she couldn't even feel the pain of the wound on her arm.
It wasn't until her arm suddenly tightened that she couldn't help but let out a soft hiss.
Qiushi quickly slowed down his movements and carefully wrapped the gauze around the wound, saying with concern, "Princess, this is too dangerous. How about letting General Yuzhao defend the ring for you?"
Zhao Mingyue shook her head. "No, they're here just for my title as a princess. I can't retreat."
Qiushi looked up at Zhao Mingyue's face and saw that she was slightly tilting her head. Her originally round face had become thinner after training with the Jinwu Guard for these days, and the lines at her jaw had become a bit sharper.
The princess has really changed a lot, and her aura has become more powerful.
If it were in the past, Qiushi would have tried to persuade him, but now he doesn't dare to do so.
She murmured, "Yes." She winked at Chunying who was holding a medicine box beside her, and they both stepped aside.
Zhao Mingyue glanced at the bandaged wound and tried to clench her fist, but she didn't feel any discomfort. It seemed that Mei Junrong really just wanted to test her and was not serious.
However, looking at the current situation, no one wants to come on stage to compete with her.
Zhao Mingyue was just thinking about it when there was suddenly an uproar from the audience.
She looked in the direction of the sound and saw a dozen guards in the uniforms of the Left Eagle Guard, holding swords and guns, driving the crowd to the sides and forcibly clearing a passage.
A young man in luxurious clothes, waving a folding fan, strode to the front of the stage and jumped onto the platform.
The Jinwu Guard immediately stepped forward to stop him and shouted, "What do you want to do?"
The man quickly put away his folding fan, looked at Zhao Mingyue, and bowed. "I am Xie Qinjian, Captain of the Left Eagle Guard, and I pay my respects to Her Royal Highness the Princess."
Zhao Mingyue widened her eyes in surprise, "You, you are——!"
She remembered this face. This man was the groom in the Nanyang Palace who killed A Niang's Qingzhui horse!
Thinking back to that time now, it seems like a lifetime ago.
She was so stupid at that time that she actually sent someone to deliver medicine to the groom. However, the man ran away out of fear of punishment and the medicine was not delivered.
How come after not seeing him for a few months, the groom had transformed himself and joined the Left Eagle Guard, appearing in front of her with a smug and annoying look on his face?
It's really hard not to suspect that he's here to cause trouble.
Zhao Mingyue became extremely alert.
Xie Qinjian smiled happily, "It seems that Her Royal Highness the Princess still remembers me. I am truly honored."
Zhao Mingyue took a deep breath, barely suppressing the urge to kick him off the stage. With a cold face, she said, "Of course I remember you! It was you who killed my mother's horse and then fled in fear of the crime. Are you here to confess your guilt today?"
Xie Qinjian's expression changed slightly. Why was Princess Mingyue's reaction different from what he had imagined?
That's right, he left too quickly and didn't give Princess Mingyue the chance to take good care of him, and neither of them had time to develop feelings for each other.
But in the future, there will be plenty of time and opportunities.
Xie Qinjian smiled evilly and lowered his voice, "Princess, you have a grudge against me."
Zhao Mingyue watched him wink and make faces, feeling inexplicably angry. Unable to endure it any longer, she shouted angrily, "Come here, arrest him!"
Several Golden Crow Guards immediately rushed towards Xie Qinjian with sticks and chains.
The Left Eagle Guards in the audience saw this and immediately started shouting, "Princess Mingyue, he's Master Zhen's nephew!"
There was only one person named Cai Shang. Although he also shouted, his eyes showed a gloating look. "I told you to be arrogant, but now you've hit a wall. Princess Mingyue won't buy your account!"
He originally served under General Hu Cong of the Left Eagle Guard and was highly appreciated by his superiors. He was about to be promoted, but suddenly Xie Qinjian appeared out of nowhere and stepped on his head, making him so angry.
However, no matter how much he hated Xie Qinjian in his heart, he could only flatter him outwardly. Every day, he praised Xie Qinjian for his wisdom, bravery, and martial arts skills in front of others and in private, secretly hoping that Xie Qinjian would promote him when he got promoted in the future.
But now that he saw someone who could cure Xie Qinjian, he felt happy.
On the high platform, Jinwuwei and Xie Qin were fighting with swords. No one could see clearly, they only saw figures moving back and forth between several sticks, accompanied by a series of collision sounds.
Suddenly, a figure stepped on the stick, flew up, and ran straight towards Zhao Mingyue.
Zhao Mingyue had been watching vigilantly. Seeing this, she immediately raised the steel knife in her hand, but Xie Qinjian suddenly changed direction in the air, and she missed the attack.
The next moment, something touched my cheek.
Zhao Mingyue widened her eyes in disbelief, and the hand holding the knife handle trembled violently.
She was furious. Who was this person? How dare he touch her face with a folding fan?
No one except A Niang can touch her face like this!
Xie Qinjian still didn't know the seriousness of the matter.
He withdrew his hand, quickly unfolded his folding fan, and looked at Zhao Mingyue with a smile, "Princess Mingyue, you are no match for me. If you don't want to lose on this stage, just call me Brother Qin Jian and I will let you win."
Zhao Mingyue raised her hand and wiped her cheek vigorously, with a gloominess in her eyes that had never been seen before.
"I think you want to die!" After saying that, the knife in his hand trembled violently and slashed straight at Xie Qinjian's throat.
Zhao Mingyue had only been practicing swordsmanship with Liu Shen'ai for a little over a month. Fortunately, she was talented and able to endure hardships, and had already internalized all the moves. However, she had little actual combat experience and lacked experience in fighting the enemy.
However, since she led people to rob the prison last time, she has made up for this shortcoming.
Therefore, her sword strike was extremely sharp and murderous, and even someone as confident as Xie Qinjian changed his expression.
He was just joking, why did Princess Mingyue change her face so much? She is so young but has such a bad temper. She must have learned bad things from that vicious Queen Mother Chi.
While he was thinking, Zhao Mingyue's blade had already hit his face. He was not in a hurry, but leisurely raised his folding fan. With a light click, the folding fan stuck to the blade. Then he turned his wrist lightly and easily blocked Zhao Mingyue's knife.
Xie Qinjian raised his eyebrows proudly. This set of Kung Fu was indeed powerful!
Without waiting for Zhao Mingyue to make another move, he stretched out his folding fan and touched her throat with lightning speed.
Several exclamations were heard around, "Princess——!"
"How is it? Is it time to call me Brother Qin Jian?" Xie Qinjian looked at Zhao Mingyue's flushed face and couldn't help laughing. "Your aunt, Princess Zhaoqing, is my eldest aunt. In theory, we are cousins."
Zhao Mingyue's hand trembled as she gripped the hilt of the knife. She looked at Xie Qinjian with murderous intent in her eyes, "You're dreaming!"
Xie Qinjian smiled frivolously and was about to say something else when he suddenly caught a glimpse of a cold light out of the corner of his eye, followed by a sharp sound of breaking through the air. He felt a sudden pain in the back of his heart and his body staggered.
He turned around in surprise and found a sharp arrow stuck in his back. He quickly reached out and pulled it out.
He felt a little scared, fortunately he was wearing armor, otherwise the arrow would have pierced his body.
Just as I was feeling relieved, I suddenly felt a lightness in my hand. The folding fan was taken away by someone, and then I felt a chill in front of me.
He quickly looked down and found a steel knife inserted into his abdomen. A white hand on the handle was instantly soaked in the gushing blood.
Xie Qinjian looked up in disbelief, only to see Zhao Mingyue looking at him gloomily. Holding his folding fan, she slapped him across the face, "I called you dad, you shameless thing!"
Xie Qinjian's face was burning with pain, but he didn't care, because his heart was hurting even more.
This shouldn't be the case. Zhao Mingyue should like him. How could she have the heart to kill him?
This was Xie Qinjian's only thought before he fainted.
Zhao Mingyue had no idea what he was thinking. She pulled out the knife swiftly and watched the blood spurt out, but she remained indifferent.
It seems that he is more skilled than the first time he killed someone.
She ordered in a cold voice, "Catch him and put him in the Yiluansi."
The people of Zuo Yingwei rushed onto the stage in a hurry, helped Xie Qinjian, who had fallen on the stage, up, checked his breath, and found that he was still breathing, and they immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
Then he looked at Zhao Mingyue, "Your Highness, he is Master Zhen's nephew, you can't take him away!"
Zhao Mingyue said angrily, "He openly provoked me, doesn't he deserve to die?"
The guard was startled, but fearing Zhen Ruicai's rebuke, he mustered the courage to retort, "The princess set up this arena, isn't it allowing anyone to challenge you? If the princess can't defeat them, she will kill them. Who else would dare to challenge the princess?"
"I've said it before, don't compete with men. He was the one who ignored the rules and rushed up to me to fight. Do you think he can blame me?"
Zhao Mingyue was too lazy to argue with them. She raised her hand and the Golden Crow Guards strode over, pushed aside the Left Eagle Guards, put the chain around Xie Qinjian's neck, and lifted him up.
Cai Shang was dumbfounded when he saw what happened to Xie Qinjian.
Everyone knows how terrifying the Yiluansi Prison is. Xie Qinjian was captured by the Jinwu Guards and taken to the Yiluansi. He was already on his last breath, so I'm afraid he won't be able to survive even more, right?
He carefully raised his eyes to look at Zhao Mingyue, his heart pounding.
I really didn't expect Princess Mingyue to be so powerful. If he could win the favor of Princess Mingyue, wouldn't he be able to reach the top in one step?
Although Princess Mingyue is only fourteen years old and not yet old enough to understand things, it is precisely because of her youth that she is easy to deceive!
Even if I can only be a male concubine in the future, it will not be a loss.
Cai Shang rolled his eyes, and countless ideas popped up in his mind instantly.
The people in the audience who watched this scene also changed their impression of Princess Mingyue.
It turns out that the princess is so decisive and domineering!
People were talking about it, some really admired him, while others thought he was too cruel.
"Kindness does not suffice in commanding an army. If the princess is not capable, how can she be the leader of the Golden Crow Guards?"
"That's right, this is a role model for us women. That man doesn't even care about the princess. Do we have to kill him and keep him alive?"
"That's terrifying! What kind of people would these women become if they joined the Golden Crow Guard? If they all had the same temper as the princess, who would dare to marry them?"
"Yes, yes. Anyway, my family will never marry a woman from the Golden Crow Guard!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the crowd fell silent, the women blushed and could not say a word.
Suddenly, someone shouted, "Is getting married such a good thing? It would be best if none of you got married. I would be so happy then."
"That's right, have you ever heard the saying, men can't be married, they can only be killed!"
All of a sudden, everyone started arguing.
In addition to the men's initial disparagement of the Jinwu Guard, other voices gradually emerged, and the recruitment campaign became more widely known, resulting in even more applicants.
Seeing more and more people applying for re-election, Zhao Mingyue was no longer as happy as she was at the beginning.
She picked up the sharp arrow that hit Xie Qinjian and looked towards the restaurant opposite in confusion. Who shot the arrow?
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In the restaurant opposite, in the room next to Zhen Ruicai, Chi Qi released the bowstring and stared at the platform opposite with a cold expression.
Sure enough, it is not so easy for the male protagonist who has the aura of the protagonist and the luck of half the world to be killed by her?
When she was in the Nanyang Palace, she had the idea of killing the male protagonist.
Just at the moment when she raised the whip, she felt the breath of the Lord God.
A near-death threat.
After weighing it for a few seconds, she threw away the whip and let the man go.
However, although she failed to kill the male protagonist, she learned something from it.
That is, the Lord God does not allow the male protagonist to die.
So, is the male protagonist very important to the Lord God?
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