Chapter 172: Intrigue and Deception
All actions are instinctive.
She stretched out her hand to grab the eaves of the palace, but her wrist suddenly tightened and her falling momentum stopped.
Chen Yu raised her head and saw that the assassin was holding the eaves with one hand and holding her tightly with the other hand. The hand holding her was unusually thin.
He had his back to the moon, so she couldn't see the assassin's face clearly. She only felt that a pair of eyes were looking at her deeply.
Chen Yu trembled, "You..."
The glazed tiles fell to the ground and shattered.
"Over there!" The guards heard the sound and chased after him.
"Go quickly." Chen Yu said.
The assassin grabbed her and lifted her up suddenly, and Shen Yu fell on the eaves.
The assassin didn't even glance at me, then turned around and left.
"Wait." Chen Yu whispered quickly, "Don't go northwest, go southwest, the Forbidden Palace has changed its defense."
The assassin ran straight to the southwest without stopping, as if he had no doubt about her words.
There was no time to think. Shen Yu looked at the imperial guards chasing after her, raised her hand and cut her arm. She gritted her teeth to endure the pain and deliberately fell towards the eaves.
With a "bang".
As they landed, the imperial guards also arrived.
"It's Du Yuhou!"
Hearing the sound, the assassin paused slightly, but still headed southwest.
“Ahem—” Chen Yu lay on the ground, propped herself up, raised her hand and pointed in the opposite direction, saying, “The assassin went that way.”
Although she found the right angle when she landed, she still felt pain all over her body, especially the cut on her arm.
The guards helped her up, leaving two of them behind while the rest chased towards the northwest.
"Don't worry about me." Chen Yu broke free from the guards' support, "You go and help."
Such a big thing happened in the palace, and the commander-in-chief Jiang An rushed in from outside the palace.
When she arrived at the duty room, Shen Yu was bandaging the wound on her arm. When she heard footsteps, she untied the half-wrapped gauze.
When Jiang An entered the room, he immediately saw the arm resting on the table. The wound was quite large and the injury was serious.
"How did you get injured like this?" Jiang An said.
"Commander." Chen Yu wrapped the gauze around her waist, put down her sleeves and stood up. The first glance was enough to clear herself of suspicion.
Jiang An sat down opposite her and asked, "How are those people's skills?"
"Very unusual." Chen Yu raised her arm, "The commander also saw it.
If there is only one person, I can barely fight him, but there is really no way I can fight three people."
"Hey..." Jiang An said, "Don't worry, I'm just trying to understand. Can you tell what kind of skills the assassin used?"
Chen Yu lowered her eyes, pretended to think for a while, shook her head, and said: "I can't tell, it looks a bit like the Nine Palace Sword, but it's a knife, I really can't tell."
"That's normal." Jiang An said, "If they wanted to enter the palace to assassinate someone, they would definitely try to conceal their tracks. How could they just reveal their tracks so easily?"
Chen Yu said, "I have already gone to His Majesty to apologize for not catching the assassin."
As soon as Jiang An heard this, he knew that Emperor Tongxu had no intention of punishing him. He was indeed a favorite of Emperor Tongxu.
Jiang An was also happy to do a favor, "You've worked hard tonight, go back and rest after you bandage your wound."
Chen Yu said: "It's just a flesh wound."
"Don't waste your body just because you're young." Jiang An said, "When you reach our age, your health problems will start to show up. You should go back."
Seeing Shen Yu's troubled expression, Jiang An asked, "What's wrong? Are you having trouble?"
Chen Yu smiled bitterly, "To be honest with you, Commander, the house outside the palace has not been settled yet, and I currently... have no place to stay for the time being."
Jiang An was stunned. "Then the Beilin Palace... um, what I mean is..."
Prince Beilin used to bring this bodyguard with him wherever he went, so word had long spread inside and outside the palace that Prince Beilin and this current Du Yuhou were secretly having some affair.
"I understand." Chen Yu said, "I had a falling out with the prince. As for the reason, I'm sure the commander can guess it."
Jiang An thought about it for a moment, but when Xie Tingzhou looked at Shi Yu in the morning court, the look in his eyes was not innocent at all.
Seeing that he still had doubts, Shen Yu said, "If there is another way, who would be willing to be controlled by others?"
Jiang An understood now that the Prince of Beilin indulged in pleasure and did not care about men or women. As a guard, Shi Yu had no right to choose for himself.
Now that he has become the Du Yu Hou and has a bright future, who would still be willing to serve someone with beauty?
Jiang An wanted to win this man over, so he said, "Since you have no place to stay, why don't you come to my house and stay as long as you want."
Chen Yu stared at Jiang An intently until he suddenly realized something.
"Please don't get me wrong. I have a wife and children at home. I definitely don't mean that. Besides, I'm not interested in men," Jiang An explained.
Chen Yu lowered her eyes, "You are joking, my Lord.
I have asked someone to buy it for me. I will just stay in the palace for a few days."
After the misunderstanding just now, Jiang An didn't try to persuade him too much, for fear that people would think he had ulterior motives.
"We have a doctor in the Palace Front Department. Let him come and treat you later."
"No thanks." Chen Yu said, "I don't really like getting close to people."
Jiang Anxin thought that as a person who had been a male concubine, she hated being touched by men the most.
He didn't force it, "Then you take a rest first, I'll go watch the patrol."
Chen Yu stood up to see him off, "Commander, take care."
After Jiang An left, Shunshou came over, followed by a palace maid holding a tray.
"Master Yuhou." Shunshou said, "This is Longcui, one of us. Please lift up your sleeves and let Longcui bandage you."
After Shunshou finished speaking, he went out and closed the door.
Shen Yu lifted her sleeves and saw that the wound had not been bandaged properly and blood was seeping out again.
Long Cui took a breath and said, "Sir, this wound is not small. I'm afraid it needs to be sutured."
"You sew it." Chen Yu said.
Long Cui didn't dare to do anything, "I don't know how to sew wounds."
"A sewing club, right?"
"I know how to do needlework." Long Cui looked at the wound, "Why not notify ..."
"You dare!"
The two words were plain but powerful. Long Cui dared not speak under such majesty.
"Just sew if I tell you to." Shen Yu said calmly.
Anyone with a little power would have a few spies in the palace. Long Cui was the person placed in the palace by the Beilin Palace.
Long Cui had only seen Yu Hou from a distance before. At that time, she felt that he was not that tall and strong, but his whole body was full of imposing aura.
This is completely different from the eunuchs serving in the palace.
Even if one reaches a high position like Defu, he still has to hunch his back when meeting his master. This is because he has been a slave all his life and can no longer straighten his back.
"Sir, it has been bandaged," Long Cui said with sweat on her forehead.
This Yu Hou was indeed not an ordinary person. He sewed the wound without saying a word.
Long Cui warned: "Sir, don't get wet or use too much force these days, to avoid the wound opening again."
Chen Yu nodded slightly, "Let Shunshou come in."
Shunshou entered the duty room and said, "If you have any instructions, just tell me. I said that seeing you is like seeing him."
"Don't tell him a word about my injury tonight."
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