Chapter 12 The Long Staff Whistles! The Great Zhou War God is nothing more than this!
Finally, the day of the Shen family's exile arrived. The city gates opened at the end of the Yin hour (around 5 a.m.). The things needed for the journey had been picked up and prepared. I checked them once before going to bed last night, and then again. I got up at 4 a.m. and checked them again. I checked them three times in total to make sure everything was in order.
At 4:30, Chunxue and Qiushuang each set off in a car. When they were almost at the city gate, they were suddenly stopped by a group of people!
It was Bai Qingling!
"Where are you taking our things from the Prince's Mansion?" Bai Qingling waved her hand, and the guards immediately surrounded the two carriages!
Shen Lanxi got out of the first car. For convenience, she had changed into men's clothing. Dressed in a smart outfit, she jumped out of the car nimbly without Chunxue's help!
"Who do we have here? Oh, it's the two of you. What, did you know I was leaving the city and came to see me off?"
Bai Qingling looked at the person who had fallen to the dust. She thought, "He's already like this. Who is he trying to impress by still acting like a noble princess?"
"Search!"
Shen Lanxi pulled a stick from the carriage and pointed it coldly at Bai Qingling.
"Let's see who dares!"
Bai Qingling felt disdain, but she was unwilling to be the villain in front of Zhou Ruyuan!
"Shen Lanxi, our Prince is a sentimental man. If you honestly hand over the stolen items from the Prince's mansion, he might spare your life out of consideration for our past relationship! If you don't hand them over, don't blame our Prince for being merciless!"
Undeterred, Shen Lanxi forcefully slammed the stick into the ground. The solid steel rod made a loud thud as it hit the ground, and paired with her athletic outfit, it accentuated her lithe figure and heroic bearing!
"You keep saying I took things from the Prince's mansion, but do you have any evidence? Who saw it? If no one saw it, it's slander. You dared to have the guards search my carriage; that's bullying and abusing your power!"
She sneered and looked at Zhou Ruyuan: "Under the Emperor's nose, you dare to touch one of them!"
Seeing that the guards dared not move, Bai Qingling immediately became angry and scolded them.
"What are you all standing there for? Search them now!"
The guards rushed forward, but Shen Lanxi moved like lightning, her long staff whistling. The first guard to make a move didn't even see clearly before he was sent flying five or six meters away and crashed heavily to the ground.
Shen Lanxi pointed her long staff at the fallen guard, her face cold: "Anyone who dares to lay a hand on me will suffer the same fate!"
Bai Qingling was shocked. Impossible. How could Shen Lanxi, a pampered princess, possibly know martial arts?
"Get them! The Prince has ordered that the lost items must be found. Anyone who fails to do so will be punished according to military law!"
The guards made their move again.
Shen Lanxi gripped the long staff tightly and swung it around in a wide arc. The staff collided with the weapon, producing a clanging metallic sound.
Every time a guard's weapon touched the long staff, the weapon was jolted out of his hand, and he painfully clutched his fractured right arm.
With his feet on the ground, he used the momentum to leap up and fly to the other side of the carriage. He swept his long staff through the air, and five or six more weapons fell to the ground, where guards lay on the ground clutching their right arms and groaning in pain.
Shen Lanxi seemed to blend into the night. Wherever her figure went, her long staff whistled through the air with ghostly speed. The guards didn't even see where the staff was going before they came to their senses. When they came to their senses, they felt a sharp pain in their arms as if their bones were breaking. They could only hold their arms and scream in agony!
In the blink of an eye, all twenty-odd guards were lying on the ground.
Bai Qingling stared in disbelief at the scene before her. Shen Lanxi was clearly unable to lift anything with her hands or shoulders; she couldn't possibly be this strong!
Shen Lanxi leaped into the air, her long staff moving like a dragon, aimed directly at Bai Qingling.
"Watch out!" Zhou Ruyuan's voice rang out.
The next second, a sharp and ear-piercing metallic clang rang out. Zhou Ruyuan's eyes widened in horror. He didn't have time to care about his stinging right arm and quickly made a move to block Shen Lanxi's attack.
He was kicked away before he could even last three moves!
"Your Highness..." Bai Qingling exclaimed and quickly ran over.
Shen Lanxi forcefully slammed the long staff into the ground, embedding it more than an inch deep, and it remained standing. Beside the staff, a person with an equally upright posture looked at the disheveled person who couldn't get up with disdain.
"The God of War of the Great Zhou is an exaggeration; he's nothing special!"
Zhou Ruyuan had already recovered from his shock. Before he could even figure out how powerful her martial arts were, his blood was boiling from the insults she had hurled at him, and anger took over his mind.
“Chen Lanxi…” Zhou Ruyuan staggered to his feet, clutching his throbbing right arm.
Bai Qingling's eyes were fierce as she angrily supported Zhou Ruyuan.
"Shen Lanxi, how dare you injure the Prince like this! I will never let you get away with this!"
Shen Lanxi sneered disdainfully: "If you're not convinced, then fight!"
Bai Qingling's pupils contracted, and her fingers trembled slightly.
Even someone as powerful as the prince couldn't defeat Shen Lanxi. If she gets hurt, who will take care of the prince?
"Shen Lanxi, you dare to commit violence and harm the Prince and the Crown Prince, you deserve to die!"
Shen Lanxi retracted the long staff and held it in her hands.
“I dare to hit you, and I’m not afraid of your complaints! Zhou Ruyuan, my uncle, His Majesty, has ordered you to reflect on your mistakes behind closed doors. Your presence here is an act of disobeying the imperial decree! I am guilty of a capital offense, and neither are you and the one beside you!”
Zhou Ruyuan's eyes burned with raging anger as he stared at Shen Lanxi with a chilling expression.
Suddenly, a commotion arose not far away; the yamen runners were escorting the exiled prisoners over.
The sound of the city gates opening could be heard not far away.
Zhou Ruyuan said with a gloomy face, "Return to the manor!"
Bai Qingling glared fiercely at Shen Lanxi, then glanced in the direction the prisoner had come from before carefully helping Zhou Ruyuan away!
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"Wow~ Miss, how did you become so amazing?" Chunxue and Qiushuang excitedly surrounded Shen Lanxi, exclaiming in surprise.
Shen Lanxi said with a serious expression, "I've been watching you practice martial arts for years, and I've learned it just by watching!"
Qiu Shuang looked puzzled: "Can you learn something just by watching?"
Shen Lanxi: "Your young lady is exceptionally gifted. It's like how some people can easily become top scholars without much studying, while others study day and night, ruining their eyesight, and still can't even pass the county-level exam!"
Spring Snow and Autumn Frost were stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized.
That makes sense. Their young lady must be one of those legendary, exceptionally gifted and intelligent people!
The city gates opened, and they went outside to wait!
"Miss, will the Prince send people to arrest us?" Chunxue asked fearfully.
Shen Lanxi looked towards the imperial city and smiled.
"Don't worry, he won't have time to come. I've saved two big gifts for him!"
Just imagining the expressions on Zhou Ruyuan and Bai Qingling's faces when they saw the first grand gift must have been quite something.
Unfortunately, she had already walked more than ten miles by then, and missed seeing such a wonderful scene!
"Miss, what wonderful gift is it?"
"They've all treated you this way, so why are you still so kind to them?" They even gave you a grand ceremony and didn't throw excrement at the Prince of Zhennan's mansion; that's already showing them mercy.
"Miss, an oxcart is coming this way. It looks like it belongs to Mama Wang and her family!"
Shen Lanxi lifted the curtain and looked over, and it really was Wang Mama's family!
(End of this chapter)
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