Chapter 121 Fu Yi taught
"Then... then should we withdraw all the people?" The secret guard's voice was weak.
"Keep them all."
"Yes." The secret guard looked ashamed, "I haven't done my job well..."
"What does it have to do with you?" Fu Yi raised his hand and poured himself a glass of water. It was just a glass of water, without a speck of tea foam on it. He hadn't slept well in the past two days, so naturally he couldn't drink tea.
The water rippled slightly beneath his eyes.
This reminded him of the time when the young woman first came into the mansion. Sometimes she'd see him not drinking tea, and she'd become curious. He'd always brushed it off, saying he was ill and couldn't eat many things.
Thinking of this, Fu Yi paused and raised his hand to press his head.
Seeing this, the secret guard felt even more ashamed: "Master, please don't be angry. We will definitely find a way to track him down!"
Fu Yi replied calmly with "hmm" and waved him off.
After a while, only Wu Xun was left.
Wu Xun was even more worried: "How can I not sleep well like this?"
Fu Yi himself didn't care much about this matter.
He said calmly, "There are just some things I haven't figured out yet. It will only take a few days."
Is that so? Wu Xun stared at him blankly, then chose to believe it.
Indeed, how could such a trivial matter trouble the prince? What the imperial physician said was just groundless worry!
"There's only one thing that's not good..."
"What's not good?"
His mind would naturally flash back to the details of his previous interactions with the girl.
Fu Yi didn't feel much, but he instinctively felt that this was not a good sign.
"Prince." Nanny Shi's voice rang out from outside. "There's a bowl of cordyceps soup brewed in the kitchen. Would you like some?"
"Bring it up."
Nanny Shi came in and while setting the table, she looked at Fu Yi cautiously.
Fu Yi asked: "What?"
"Princess...why did you move to the Earth Moon Pavilion? What did you do wrong?"
Nanny Shi was not present when Chu Zhen was interrogated that day. In her opinion, everything had changed overnight, and she was naturally very nervous.
"She is not the princess of a county." Fu Yi said, holding the spoon in one hand.
Nanny Shi’s first reaction was that she had made a huge mistake, causing the prince to strip her of even the title.
But then Fu Yi said: "The real princess is missing."
Nanny Shi was so shocked that she couldn't close her mouth: "This, this..."
Fu Yi took a bite and found it tasteless, so he put down the spoon and said, "Don't worry, I'll get it back sooner or later."
"Is it about what happened at the palace banquet that day? Where did these thieves come from?" Madam Shi patted her chest in anger. "How dare they!"
Because she had often encountered assassination attempts before, Nanny Shi didn't think there was anything illogical about this.
He was only worried about the life of the Princess.
"Bring me my court robes." Fu Yi stood up.
Nanny Shi responded and left.
Fu Yi changed into court clothes and entered the palace.
He arrived late, and the court officials had already dispersed. Walking through the palace, he felt a cold and deserted atmosphere.
"Fu Yi!" Suddenly, an angry shout came from nowhere.
Fu Yi turned around and saw King Liang striding towards him.
"Finally I see you. What did you do to the Princess?" Prince Liang frowned and asked sternly.
A burst of anger suddenly hit Fu Yi's chest.
However, he didn't show it on his face, instead he said calmly, "I thought Prince Liang should be cultivating himself in his mansion these days."
This is exactly what the emperor asked for.
But King Liang didn't care about this.
He waited for several days before Fu Yi came.
"Don't beat around the bush. Just tell me, what did you do to her?"
Fu Yi would never tell others that he had run away.
"None of your business."
"Brother Prince Liang! Stop arguing. Don't you think father wasn't angry enough that day?" Princess Zhaoning came running over with her skirt lifted up and hugged Prince Liang's arm.
Fu Yi nodded slightly, then walked away as if nothing was in his eyes.
Princess Zhaoning's eyelids twitched, and she realized that Fu Yi was not the same as before.
"Why are you stopping me?" Prince Liang was furious. "My father wants to choose a new wife for him. The former princess will die in the Prince's Mansion one day under the pretext of being 'seriously ill'. Look how heartless he is..."
Princess Zhaoning's eyes flickered. "He's such a smart person, unique in the world, and should not be involved in love."
Prince Liang immediately understood what she meant and laughed angrily: "Could it be that you still think in your heart that he doesn't love anyone anyway, so it's fine that way?"
Princess Zhaoning hurriedly said, "Brother Prince Liang, I..."
Prince Liang looked at her for a moment and felt that it was a rare flower in the palace that remained untainted by the mud, but she was not that clean.
He was so angry that he just turned around and left.
*
Cheng Nianying didn't know that someone was still thinking about her.
She accepted Yin Heng's request and set off with him. Coincidentally, they were both going to the same place.
Now that the threat of pursuit was gone, Yin Heng asked her, "Miss, are you also delivering the convoy to Weiyang?"
"Yeah." He said he was no longer a killer, but those habits were still ingrained in him. — He didn't tell the truth to anyone.
Cheng Nianying was stunned for a moment. She wondered when she would be able to show her face to others without fear of anything.
"Miss, do you always deliver the escort alone?" Yin Heng asked again.
"Yeah." If one person kills someone, it also counts as one person.
The servant boy stretched his neck behind him.
I thought to myself that it was a rare opportunity to see our master, so I didn't even bother to say a word, let alone blushing.
Yin Heng actually felt it was rare.
This girl was very capable and smart, and she was not like the girls in the boudoir of his old friends' families... He felt very comfortable staying with her.
At this moment, a muffled cry of pain was heard.
That was the man who had chased Yin Heng before. He was tied to the back of a horse and slowly woke up. He could make a humming sound in his throat but could not make any other sound. It was obvious that he was very angry.
Cheng Nianying then took the initiative to ask Yin Heng: "Why don't you kill him?"
"I think he's only thirteen or fourteen. Why was he sent to do such a dangerous thing? We have to find out."
Cheng Nianying was slightly stunned.
If only she could have met such a good person in the past...
Yin Heng then keenly discovered that the girl seemed to like him more.
And no longer rejected his identity as a descendant of a prominent family in Yujing.
"Follow me into the city." Cheng Nianying pointed ahead.
Yin Heng: "Me?"
"Well, I need to buy some medicine for my injuries."
“Yes, yes.”
The servant was left behind to guard the "prisoners".
The city is bustling with small vendors everywhere on the streets.
Yin Heng glanced at the roadside stall, then turned to look at Cheng Nianying, whose hair was still loose.
"You took off your hairband and tied it on your hand just to catch the arrow?"
"Well, this way I can hold it and it won't hurt my palms."
Yin Heng stopped and said, "Why don't you buy a new one?"
After leaving the Prince's Mansion, there wasn't that much money to spend, so the money I had had to be saved. Cheng Nianying shook her head: "This one can still be used after washing it."
Yin Heng bent down and picked up a hairband from the stall: "I bought it for the young lady." He paused and added quickly: "It's not for any other reason, I just want to thank the young lady for extending a helping hand..."
Cheng Nianying tilted her head, thinking of the copper hairpin Fu Yi bought for her. It was not very valuable and not conspicuous, so she took it away.
She touched the small pouch around her waist.
That thing stuck in there hurts my hand.
She took out her hairpin and tried to put her hair up...but there was too much hair and it quickly fell down again. She couldn't even put it up.
She was not polite at this time. Without waiting for Yin Heng to persuade her, she directly took away the one he picked up and tied it up in a few seconds.
Yin Heng couldn't help but pause again. Really...really refreshing.
After buying medicine and replenishing food, the two went back.
The wound on the face of the man being pursued was caused by Cheng Nianying's arrow. It looked very hideous, and even the servant boy trembled when he saw it.
So Cheng Nianying took action, held his face and applied medicine to him.
The thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy was trembling with pain, and there was a hint of fear in his eyes when he looked at Cheng Nianying.
The book boy muttered secretly: "Too fierce, too fierce."
Yin Heng sat aside, watching Cheng Nianying's actions, and was amazed in his heart. At the same time, he carefully looked through the secret letter that he had found yesterday.
After applying the medicine, Cheng Nianying turned around and caught a glimpse of the letter in his hand.
Yin Heng noticed her gaze and said helplessly, "There's nothing on it except my portrait..."
Cheng Nianying: "Danzhou Mo."
"What?"
"The ink used is Danzhou ink."
Yin Heng was even more surprised: "How did the girl know that?"
Cheng Nianying pursed her lips. Fu Yi taught her.
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