Chapter 1094: The Tenderness of Prince Xiao (VI)
On the second floor of an inn facing the street near Ren Mansion, Leng Feng and Ye Yueying stood by the window, staring at the gate of Ren Mansion through the window slit.
One day had passed since the assassination attempt, and by this time, a white banner had been hung in Ren's mansion.
"Although I failed to kill Ren Feng last time, I killed his brother and made his mother faint from anger. This can be considered as getting some revenge for the wronged souls of the Ye family." Leng Feng said indifferently.
Ye Yueying's face was a little serious: "Knowing that someone wants to kill him, Ren Feng will definitely be on guard. It will be difficult for us to kill him next time."
“There’s always a chance.”
Leng Feng stared at the gate of Ren Mansion for a while before closing the window. He then looked at Ye Yueying with some concern: "Are you okay with your injury?"
Ye Yueying's eyes flashed: "I'm much better now. The golden medicine given by Xiao Da is very effective." When she left Ren's house, Xiao Da gave her the golden medicine she had put down.
"Uncle Leng, Xiao Da's group of Jinling Guards seem to be different from other Jinling Guards."
Leng Feng nodded. "Our previous encounter with them was so sudden that we both overlooked the fact that their mannerisms were very different from those in Liaodong."
Ye Yueying was shocked. "Yes, they don't have a Liaodong accent at all. They don't sound like they've lived in Liaodong. But, they're not the Liaodong Jinling Guards. So where are they from?"
Leng Feng looked at Ye Yueying and said seriously, "No matter who they are, it's best not to have any contact with them in the future. The Jinling Guards' ability to investigate cases can't even be compared to officials from the Ministry of Justice. The more you come into contact with them, the more flaws you'll reveal."
"The relationships among officials in the imperial court are complex. Although the Jinling Guards are directly under the Emperor's command, no one knows which officials they have vested interests in."
"Ren Feng's influence in Liaodong is too great. If you're not careful, your identity will be exposed. Even if you kill Ren Feng, as long as the Ren family survives, you won't be able to live a peaceful life in the future."
Ye Yueying didn't really care about her own safety, but she really couldn't reveal her identity, otherwise it would implicate her grandparents: "Uncle Leng, don't worry, I know."
The last time I met Xiao Da at Ren's house was completely an accident.
Leng Feng's expression softened, and he sighed, "Yingying, you are a girl. You will get married and have children in the future. Although Uncle Leng hopes that the Ye family's extermination will be avenged, he hopes even more that you can live well and live well for your father, your mother, and all the Ye family members."
Ye Yueying understood Leng Feng's concern for her, but she didn't agree with it in her heart. She was a girl, but she could handle the same things that a man could handle.
Leng Feng: "Ren Mansion must be heavily guarded now. It will be too difficult to kill Ren Feng in the city. I will go to the silver mine to see if I can find an opportunity to kill him there."
Ye Yueying: "Uncle Leng, I'm with you."
Leng Feng shook his head: "You are still injured, so stay at the inn and have a good rest. I am a weak girl, so don't take it lightly."
Without giving Ye Yueying a chance to speak, he continued, "If there's an emergency, leave a mark in the woods outside the city, and I'll come find you."
Ye Yueying nodded: "Uncle Leng, be careful."
Leng Feng: "Don't worry, I've been to the silver mine many times, nothing will happen."
After Leng Feng left, Ye Yueying stood at the window and stared at the gate of Ren Mansion except when she was eating.
The next afternoon, just after Ye Yueying finished applying medicine to the wound, she saw Ren Feng leaving the house in a carriage through the gap in the window.
Ren Er's body is still warm. What important matter is worth Ren Feng going out now instead of staying at home to comfort his mother?
Only brought one person
Ye Yueying hesitated for a moment, picked up the sword, left the inn, and followed Ren Feng's carriage from a distance.
The carriage drove through the busy street and finally entered a quiet alley.
Ye Yueying stood at the entrance of the alley, watching the carriage disappear. After pondering for a moment, she decided to follow and find out what was going on.
Just as she was about to step into the alley, someone grabbed her arm.
Ye Yueying was about to fight back, but found that the person coming was Xiao Moxi.
Xiao Moxi looked at Ye Yueying with a smile: "If I were you, I wouldn't follow."
Ye Yueying lowered her sword and said, "You mean this is a trap set by Ren Feng to lure out an assassin like me?"
Xiao Moxi smiled and said, "Not only assassins, but also people who have bad intentions towards him." During the two days they stayed in Ren's house, Ren Feng was very wary of them.
This also indirectly proves that Ren Feng has something to hide!
Ye Yueying: "You appear here, do you also have ill intentions towards him?"
Xiao Moxi stretched out his right index finger and shook it, then corrected him with a smile, "I'm just doing my duty as a Jinling Guard."
Just as Ye Yueying was about to say something, her expression changed at the same time as Xiao Moxi's. They both turned around and quickly left the alley.
Not long after the two of them left, a middle-aged man appeared on the roof at the entrance of the alley.
In a clothing store dozens of meters away, Xiao Moxi and Ye Yueying hid behind the window, frowning as they watched the middle-aged man appear and disappear.
"Can you let me go now?"
Looking at her tightly held hand, Ye Yueying reminded in a cold voice.
Xiao Moxi was stunned for a moment, then quickly let go of his hand, a trace of unnaturalness flashing across his face: "Well, that person just now is an internal martial arts master. You'd better not follow Ren Feng alone in the future."
Ye Yueying said nothing and walked out of the clothing store.
Xiao Moxi quickly followed.
As soon as the two walked onto the street, they saw a team of Jinling Guards wearing Feiyu uniforms riding horses and galloping through the street, knocking over many vendors' stalls along the way.
Looking at this scene, Xiao Moxi's eyes suddenly darkened.
The Jinling Guards in Liaodong really need to be reorganized.
At this moment, he felt a hostile gaze. When he turned around, he saw Ye Yueying looking at him unkindly.
"You Jinling Guards are truly impressive, galloping through the busy streets. The people on this street are lucky that no casualties were reported this time, but I wonder if we'll be so lucky next time."
It was because she was knocked down by a horse of the Jinling Guards on the street and broke her leg that her father went to Ren Feng to ask for bone-repairing ointment. It was at that time that her father discovered that Ren Feng was illegally mining silver.
Over the years, whenever she woke up in the middle of the night, she would think, if she had not been injured, would her father not have discovered that Ren Feng had committed the crime? Would he not have been killed for persuading Ren Feng to let go, and in the end not even a body would be left?
Xiao Moxi could sense Ye Yueying's prejudice against Jinlingwei. He neither defended Jinlingwei nor tried to distance himself from her. Instead, he smiled and asked, "Brother Ye is from Liaodong, right?"
Ye Yueying looked at him, wondering why he suddenly mentioned this.
Xiao Moxi continued, "Since Brother Ye is a native of Liaodong, you should have heard about the Eight Princes colluding with the Tatars to invade Daxia's territory, right?"
Of course she knew all this. Ever since she could remember, her father had never tired of telling her about the various events of that battle. It was because of his great achievements on the battlefield that her father was awarded the title of General Zhaoyong of the third rank.
Ye Yueying: "What exactly do you want to say?"
Xiao Moxi smiled and said, "As far as I know, the victory of the war back then was not only due to the bloody battles of the soldiers, but also because the Jinling Guards played a big role, right?"
Ye Yueying's eyes flashed, but she didn't say anything.
Her father told her that the war ended so quickly because Prince Weiyuan and the Jinling Guards foiled one conspiracy after another by the Eight Princes and the Tatars.
Thanks to the news brought back by Jinlingwei, many soldiers were spared from death on the battlefield.
In that battle, the Jinling Guards' contribution was no less than that of the soldiers at the front.
Seeing that her expression was no longer hostile, Xiao Moxi smiled and changed the subject: "You see, people are different. You can't deny all Jinling Guards just because some of them are bad."
"Liaodong is a bit remote, and the imperial court has poor control. This has allowed some Jinling Guards to act recklessly without restraint. However, now that I'm here, I will report all these situations to the imperial court."
Listening to Xiao Moxi's decisive words, Ye Yueying looked at him in a daze.
This man always had a convincing ability that made her want to believe what he said.
Ye Yueying did not mention the matter of Jinling Guard and walked slowly on the street.
Xiao Moxi followed her and asked, "Where do you live? I'll take you back."
Ye Yueying refused without thinking: "No thanks!"
Feeling Ye Yueying's defensiveness, Xiao Moxi didn't force it, but instead talked about something else: "As the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, Ren Feng is a highly skilled martial artist, and he's surrounded by masters of internal skills. After your assassination attempt, he's even more defensive. You and your uncle alone can't kill him."
Ye Yueying stood still and looked at Xiao Moxi: "Are you telling me this to tell me that you can deal with Ren Feng? And then let me tell you everything I know?"
"But who are you? A mere Jinling Guard. Even if you were a centurion or a thousand-man commander, or even a pacification commissioner, how could you be so confident that you could overthrow the all-powerful commander-in-chief of Liaodong?"
The little Jinling Guard?
Xiao Moxi was silent for a moment, then smiled and said, "Brother Ye, you and I are friends for life and death, but we still don't know each other's identities. How about this, I tell you my name, and then you tell me yours?"
"My mother always says that men should be given priority in matters of the heart. So let me go first. Let me formally introduce myself. My name is Xiao Moxi."
Xiao Moxi was waiting for Ye Yueying's exclamation, but Ye Yueying rolled her eyes at him and said, "Why should I care what your name is?" After that, she left without looking back.
Xiao Moxi stood there in a daze, not coming back to his senses for a long time.
Didn’t Wu Yutang say that he was very popular among the ladies?
Then why didn’t the girl from the Ye family know the name of Prince Xiao?
(End of this chapter)
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