The commander of the secret guards glanced at the two small knives in Lei Tingjun's buttocks and secretly gasped. The person who threw the hidden weapon was truly vicious; how could an ordinary person stab someone in such a place?
Lei Tingjun waved his hand and said with a stern face, "No, this operation has been exposed. The constables will definitely make things difficult for Youyou. Youyou is so timid, she must be terrified. I have to go and save her right away."
"Just pull the knife out for me and apply some wound medicine."
Thinking of this, Lei Tingjun glanced at the head of the guards with some reproach, "Why did you go alone? If even one more person had gone, Youyou could have been rescued."
The head of the secret guards was taken aback. How could this be blamed on him? If he hadn't felt uneasy and gone to check on his master, he would probably have been in danger.
So he made a mistake in trying to save someone?
The master was usually quite wise and capable, but why does he seem to lose his mind whenever it comes to Xu Youyou...?
Despite thinking this to himself, the leader of the secret guards still obediently knelt down and admitted his mistake.
"It's all my fault for being negligent. Please punish me, Master."
Lei Tingjun wanted to say something, but when he felt the pain in his buttocks, he swallowed his words.
"This is the last time. Quickly pull the knife out for me and apply some wound medicine."
The leader of the guards respectfully agreed, gripped the hilt of the dagger, and with a forceful pull, the dagger was drawn. At the same time, blood gushed from the wound.
"hiss."
He felt the pain return to his hidden place, so intense that Lei Tingjun let out a soft groan.
"Master, this knife..." The head of the secret guards noticed something was wrong with the pattern on the knife.
Lei Tingjun was in so much pain from his wound that his veins were bulging. When he heard this, he turned his head and immediately saw the excrement on the knife. He was so angry that his eyes widened.
"So what if it's covered in my excrement? What's the big deal? An Yi, are you thinking of changing your position as head of the secret guards?"
An Yi was slightly taken aback by these words. Why was his master so irritable? He clearly meant to talk about the patterns!
So he quickly explained, "Master, that's not what I meant. It's just that the pattern on this knife is a bit strange."
Lei Tingjun also remembered that An Yi wasn't the kind of person who liked to play pranks, so he took the opportunity An Yi gave him to back down.
"Let me see."
Lei Tingjun resisted the urge to throw away the knife and carefully examined the pattern on it. The pattern was indeed different from the common color scheme.
Suddenly, as if he had just thought of something, he asked, "Sixth Brother, what have you been up to lately?"
An Yi was taken aback for a moment, then replied, "The Sixth Prince has been staying at Changchun Pavilion these days. I heard that he has taken a fancy to a courtesan and spends his days drinking and having fun with her. There has been no unusual behavior from him."
Lei Tingjun sneered, "Of these precious swords that were tributes from the Western Regions, only my sixth brother's mother, Consort Rong, received one. The rest are all in Father's private treasury; they are nowhere else."
I never expected that my good sixth brother could really hide his true intentions. He always seemed like a playboy, but in reality, he was plotting to kill me.
If I hadn't noticed the pattern on the knife, I would have truly been fooled by his disguise!
An Yi asked doubtfully, "You believe that the person who seriously injured you was one of the Sixth Prince's men? But why did he use such an obvious weapon, and how did he know we were about to take action?"
At this point, An Yi suddenly knelt down, "Master, the secret guards were all trained by you, they would never be disloyal to you!"
Lei Tingjun quickly told An Yi to stand up. "Of course I know your loyalty. That knife was probably just a smokescreen. His purpose was to frame someone, so that he would end up being the innocent one."
I remember when Youyou was in the capital, she got along well with my sixth brother. Maybe he used a hidden weapon because he didn't want me to play the hero and save the day, since he happened to run into me there for Youyou's sake.
Despite this explanation, Lei Tingjun was still somewhat unhappy. Youyou was his woman; how could just any Tom, Dick, or Harry lay a finger on her?
"Quick, help me pull out the remaining knife. I need to bring Youyou back as soon as possible. If my sixth brother sends people to rescue Youyou first, I will regret it for the rest of my life!"
Lei Tingjun gritted his teeth and gave orders to An Yi.
An Yi immediately took his position, gripped the hilt of his sword tightly once more, and began the act of drawing his blade.
After the wound medicine was applied, Lei Tingjun, as if his eyebrows were on fire, quickly summoned the surrounding guards and ordered them to go with him to rescue Xu Youyou.
An Yi silently followed behind Lei Tingjun, always feeling that something was not quite right. Did that good-for-nothing sixth prince really have this kind of intelligence?
Xu Jinhuan had no idea that the small knife she casually took from the emperor's private treasury had caused the male protagonist to imagine so many things...
At this moment, she was looking at the task that suddenly appeared on the system panel, completely bewildered.
[Ding ding, congratulations host for triggering an S-level hidden mission: leading most of the exiles to escape the natural disaster and successfully reach the exile site.]
Task Rewards: Spirit Spring Space (Final Version), Protagonist Aura (Half).
Because this mission is extremely difficult, upon accepting it, the host will immediately receive one-quarter of the protagonist's aura, helping them to complete the mission more effectively.
Xu Jinhuan read it twice, lingering a couple more seconds on the reward section. Half a quarter, that's one-eighth of the protagonist's halo, right?
After confirming that she hadn't misread it, Xu Jinhuan began her simple and unpretentious performance.
"Xiao Wang, this system of yours is too unreliable. It was supposed to confiscate your property and exile you, but I thought I'd just go along for a couple of days, take some revenge, and then sneak away."
How could there be a natural disaster? What, did ancient times also have an apocalypse? And I have to lead so many people to flee the famine? Do I look like the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary?
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