Chapter 135: Injustice
"Your Highness, be careful!" Hongcao said.
Pei Jingzhou hugged Jiang Zhaoyue and barely dodged.
Jiang Zhaoyue immediately turned around and found that the assassin was actually Chen Xuanmo.
Last time in the carriage house, Chen Xuanmo only wanted to force Jiang Zhaoyue and Pei Jingzhou to retreat, and then escape quickly, with no intention of hurting anyone.
This time he really wanted to kill Pei Jingzhou, but failed once and stabbed Pei Jingzhou again.
"How dare you! How dare you be rude to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!" Hongcao shouted, strode forward, grabbed Chen Xuanmo's right wrist, and slammed it hard against the threshold.
Chen Xuanmo let go of his right hand in pain.
The dagger fell to the ground shortly afterwards.
Hongcao swiftly put Chen Xuanmo's right hand behind his back and kicked him hard in the knee.
Chen Xuanmo knelt on one knee under the force.
Jiang Zhaoyue looked at Hongcao in surprise: "Hongcao, you, you..."
Hong Cao immediately said, "Don't be afraid, Princess. He can't hurt anyone."
Jiang Zhaoyue had always thought that Hongcao, Hongyao, and Xiangqiao were just maids in the harem, just smarter and more clever than the other maids. She didn't expect them to be so skilled. She asked in surprise, "Do you know martial arts?"
"Yes, I can." Hongcao lowered her head and said, "Your Highness, I..."
"It's okay, you revealed your identity in a hurry." Pei Jingzhou explained to Jiang Zhaoyue: "She and Hongyao were orphans rescued by our mother when she was still alive, and it was our mother who sent them to the Dark Guard Camp for training.
“After I finished my studies, my mother had passed away many years ago, so they obeyed my orders.
"I was always worried about Xiao Peng getting into trouble, so I asked them to be Xiao Peng's personal maids to ensure his safety."
"After I entered the Eastern Palace, they followed me?" Jiang Zhaoyue continued.
Pei Jingzhou nodded.
Jiang Zhaoyue said in surprise: "Doesn't that mean I have two top masters by my side?"
"I can't say it's absolutely perfect, but generally speaking, I can guarantee your safety."
I really didn't expect Pei Jingzhou to do such a thing in secret. Jiang Zhaoyue was happy and asked, "If someone provokes me in the future, can't I beat and scold them to my heart's content?"
Pei Jingzhou smiled helplessly: "As long as you are right, you can beat and scold as much as you want."
Jiang Zhaoyue was relieved to hear this. She wanted to say something else, but she caught a glimpse of Chen Xuanmo moving. She immediately shouted angrily, "Chen Xuanmo, what are you crazy about?!"
Chen Xuanmo was seriously injured and could not defeat Hongcao. He knelt heavily on one knee, exhausted and even breathing was difficult. After a while, he raised his head, looked at Jiang Zhaoyue and said, "I killed him!"
"Do you know him? Just kill him."
"He is the current crown prince." Yesterday, Chen Xuanmo was being hunted. In desperation, he hid under a carriage. With the help of rain washing away the blood, he escaped the chase and came to the carriage room of a mansion.
He had intended to stay in the carriage house for a while before leaving.
Unexpectedly, two people came in suddenly.
He had no choice but to scare them and try to find a way out.
Little did I know that these two people were not ordinary people.
He was soon at a disadvantage and fainted.
He thought he was dead this time.
Finally he woke up, truly awake, and was lying in a very spacious and bright guest room.
Hongcao, the maid who was taking care of him, said that it was Crown Princess Jiang Zhaoyue who had gone to great lengths to save his life, and asked him to remember to repay her kindness.
Crown Princess?
The person next to the Crown Princess must be the current Crown Prince Xiao Yi, Xiao Jingzhou or Pei Jingzhou.
He sincerely thanked the Crown Princess for saving his life, and at the same time wanted to get rid of Pei Jingzhou, so he pretended to be weak and grateful in front of Hongcao so that Hongcao would not notice anything unusual.
After Hongcao left, he hid at the door, preparing to assassinate the prince.
Unexpectedly, Pei Jingzhou and his companions reacted very quickly.
He was badly injured, his movements were slow and deformed, and he finally failed.
"Yes, he is the current crown prince. Does he eat your rice, drink your water, or kill your entire family? You come here and assassinate him?" Jiang Zhaoyue was extremely dissatisfied.
"He did nothing, but he collaborated with the enemy and betrayed his country!" Chen Xuanmo said hatefully.
"Nonsense!" Jiang Zhaoyue retorted without hesitation.
Hongcao nodded.
Pei Jingzhou subconsciously looked at Jiang Zhaoyue, and became more and more convinced that she looked down on Chen Xuanmo. Thinking of the fact that he had quarreled with her for this, he couldn't help feeling guilty.
"This is something all the generals in the border states know!" Chen Xuanmo insisted. "To secure his position as crown prince, the current crown prince has been reckless and ambitious. Not only has he won over the hearts of the court officials, he has also ordered the soldiers in the border states to go to war with the neighboring states, causing us to suffer heavy losses."
"What nonsense!" Jiang Zhaoyue immediately denied it.
"You go ask him." Chen Xuanmo turned to Pei Jingzhou.
Without waiting for Pei Jingzhou to speak, Jiang Zhaoyue said, "I don't need to ask him. I know someone must have wronged him."
Chen Xuanmo looked at Jiang Zhaoyue in disbelief: "You——"
"Think about it yourself. The emperor is still alive. What good will it bring to yourself if he blatantly wins over court officials and ignores the soldiers?" Jiang Zhaoyue asked.
Chen Xuanmo immediately said: "He is not blatant!"
Jiang Zhaoyue said, "That's a covert operation."
"That's right." Chen Xuanmo did not deny it.
Jiang Zhaoyue chuckled, a bit like Pei Jingzhou's aloofness. "Since it was a covert operation, how did you know it had to be him?"
Chen Xuanmo said: "I have a witness."
Jiang Zhaoyue asked back, "Where are the witnesses?"
"The witness was my brother, but unfortunately he is no longer with us."
Jiang Zhaoyue asked, "What if he was deceived?"
Chen Xuanmo didn't believe it: "Impossible——"
"Think about it yourself. Since it is a secret operation, there should not be any obvious flaws. But even people like you who are not very smart know that it is a secret operation. How could the emperor not know it?" The male protagonist Chen Xuanmo is not stupid, but he is very easy to trust people in the early stage, just like Yan Zhiyi has her own shortcomings.
After the two people met, they experienced some small hardships together and gradually grew into excellent people.
However, Jiang Zhaoyue was now facing the pre-mature Chen Xuanmo, and she couldn't help but scold him: "You should know that since ancient times, the royal family has no family affection, and serving the emperor is like serving a tiger. Even His Royal Highness the Crown Prince should know the limits of getting along with others. If he does this in private, is he really trying to secure the throne of the Crown Prince? Wouldn't he end up in jail sooner?"
Chen Xuanmo looked straight at Jiang Zhaoyue, his eyes gradually becoming clearer.
Jiang Zhaoyue leaned over to Pei Jingzhou's ear and said, "Your Highness, you are not only more handsome than him, but also much smarter than him. You are simply the most perfect man in the world."
Pei Jingzhou was overjoyed when he heard this, but he tried hard to restrain himself from laughing. Instead, he glanced at her with a slightly curved brow. When he turned to Chen Xuanmo, the smile and tenderness in his eyes turned sharp and cold, and he asked, "Who is your relationship with the prefect of Bianzhou, Wang?"
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