Two days later, Xiao Qiheng and his group escorted the relief bankers all the way north to Jizhou. In addition to the guarding officers and soldiers, Jiang Li, Zhao Qing, and Zheng Yu were also accompanying him.
The team left Kyoto, and after walking for half a day, they came to a desolate forest.
Zheng Yu reined in his horse, looked around, and said loudly, "There is still some way to go to the next station, let's rest here for a while."
"Yes!"
Everyone rested in place, and the officers and soldiers of the guard formed a circle around the carriage transporting the relief money to prevent surprise attacks.
Jiang Li and Xiao Qiheng were sitting in a carriage. Hearing Zheng Yu's words, Jiang Li said to Xiao Qiheng, "Your Highness, go out and exercise your body."
Xiao Qiheng nodded, and the two got out of the carriage. Jiang Li unscrewed the kettle and handed it to Xiao Qiheng: "Your Highness, drink some water to moisten your throat."
Xiao Qiheng took two sips of the water, and handed the kettle to Jiang Li. Jiang Li took it and screwed the lid on. Just as he was about to put it back on the car, he suddenly heard something breaking the wind, and when he turned around, he saw an arrow pointing at Xiao Qiheng Come straight!
"Your Highness, be careful!"
Jiang Li pushed Xiao Qiheng away and dodged the arrow. The sharp sword at his waist was unsheathed instantly, a silver light flashed, and the second arrow that followed was chopped off by him in the middle!
"There are assassins! Protect Your Highness! Protect the official silver!" The officers and soldiers drew their swords together and shouted loudly!
Lin Zi, who originally only heard the sound of "rustling" wind, suddenly flew down a group of men in black from all directions. They were divided into two groups, one group ran straight towards Xiao Qiheng, and the other group aimed at the disaster relief officials.
Jiang Li had been waiting for them for a long time. Looking at the person rushing towards him, he did not back down and counterattacked, and faced him directly. With a flip of his sword-holding wrist, he cut off the shoulder-length arm of the man in black who was closest to him!
Xiao Qiheng: "..."
Jiang Li knew that Xiao Qiheng had been practicing martial arts for these years, and knew that his martial arts were very good, but this simple and rough fighting style was unexpected.
In Xiao Qiheng's cognition, Jiang Li usually waits by his side and has never had the opportunity to compete with others. His actual combat experience should be unfamiliar, but right now when he fights with others, his moves are clean and neat, and his sword blade Wherever he goes, blood is bound to be seen, and he clearly looks like he has experienced many battles!
However, Xiao Qiheng didn't think too much about the current situation, and even thought it was good, so that Jiang Li would be able to protect himself, so he drew the sword from his waist and joined the melee.
On the other side, Zhao Qing and Zheng Yu also fought with the black clothes with knives, forcing them to the side.
The officers and soldiers accompanying this trip were selected by Zheng Yu, and many of them are his cronies brought back from Xiyangguan. They have been on the battlefield for many years, and they are all experienced and experienced in many battles. They will be resolved in a short time killed most of the enemies.
"Keep alive!" Xiao Qiheng restrained one of the men in black with one hand, preventing him from committing suicide, and said to the others at the same time.
There were twenty men in black, and only two were left alive. Jiang Li pinched the jaw of one of them and said sharply, "Say, who sent you here!"
The other party turned his head and said nothing, obviously unwilling to cooperate.
Zhao Qing stepped forward: "Let me do it."
"No, no, I'm good at this." Jiang Li waved his hand and put the long sword aside.
The others saw that he suddenly took out a small dagger from his pocket, and with a flick of the blade, half of the belt of the man in black was opened, and he was about to take off his pants.
Seeing this, Xiao Qiheng on the side said with a dark face, "Jiang Li, what are you doing?"
Jiang Li stopped what he was doing, and said with an innocent face: "Since he doesn't want to say it, then I think it's useless to keep his thing, so I might as well castrate it."
With a flick of his wrist, the dagger cut through the pants of the man in black, and the tip of the dagger was stained with blood.
Xiao Qiheng: "..."
Zhao Qing: "..."
Zheng Yu: "..."
Officers and soldiers: "..."
Everyone doesn't understand, what does it have to do with cutting the thing below? Shouldn't the tongue be cut? Is cutting life so scary? !
Jiang Li's movements were well controlled, the dagger barely scratched the skin between the man in black's legs, but that place was too sensitive, the sharp pain seemed to be magnified several times to make the man in black The person's eyes were wide open, and the sound of "woo woo" came out of his mouth!
Man in black: Stop it, I don't want to become a eunuch! !
"I know you are not afraid of death." Jiang Li looked at the man in black and smiled, then patted his face with the dagger, "I won't let you die so easily."
The man in black: "Woooooooooooooooooooo!!!" I'm afraid of you! !
"Don't get excited, I'm here too." Jiang Li gestured twice between the man in black's crotch with the dagger, as if he was looking for where to strike the next knife, "It was just an appetizer, now I will definitely let it go." You break it all at once."
other people:"… "
"It's just that after the break, you need to lie in bed for ten days and a half months, waiting for your wound to heal. That's a painful process..."
As Jiang Li said, his eyes turned cold, and he suddenly waved his hand, aiming at a place between the opponent's crotch and cutting it down. The silver dagger flashed a light on the face of the man in black, and the man in black's eyes were tearing apart. , trembling like nervous! Jiang Li desperately let out a "woo woo woo" sound from the mouth stuck in one hand.
"Wow-"
A few birds flew by, spread their wings and flew into the sky.
The scene in the forest was a bit weird, there was an unpleasant smell in the air, Xiao Qiheng frowned, and looked at the man in black opposite him with disgust.
The man in black trembled like a sieve, and the wet cloth between his crotch showed that he was scared by Jiang Li and peed.
Zhao Qing and Zheng Yu looked at each other, both felt a little pain in their crotch, and their eyes fell on Jiang Li in unison, as if they were meeting him for the first time.
At this time, Jiang Li didn't look like the boy who talked and laughed at Yan Yan in normal times, he was clearly a little devil.
"Hey, the hand slipped and didn't cut it." Jiang Li said with some regret, playing with the dagger in his hand with five fingers flying, and asked lightly, "Are you willing to say it now?"
The man in black kept nodding his head, and Jiang Li relaxed his hand a little so that he could make a sound, but he couldn't bite his tongue to kill himself.
"... it's... it's the sixth... the sixth prince!"
The man in black finished speaking intermittently, and the fear of his lifeblood being almost cut off made him terrified. For a normal man, what is more terrifying than being eunuched
Jiang Li got a satisfactory answer, smiled slightly, and suddenly exerted force on the hand clamping the opponent's jaw. Hearing a "click", he removed the opponent's jaw, and then said to the two officers and soldiers who were holding the opponent: "The following I leave it to you."
The two officers and soldiers looked at each other and said silently: "... yes."
Jiang Li threw the dagger to an officer and soldier beside him, asking the other party to help him clean it up, then clapped his hands and walked towards Xiao Qiheng's direction. Just two steps away, he saw Xiao Qiheng and the others looking at him intently, with indescribable expressions.
"What's wrong?" Jiang Li patted himself on the body, walked over and asked inexplicably, "Why are you looking at me like that? Is there something wrong with me?"
The three of them thought, what a mistake! !
"No."
Xiao Qiheng was the first to speak, picked up the kettle that fell aside during the fight just now, unscrewed the lid, pulled Jiang Li over with one hand, and poured water for him to wash his hands: "It's dirty."
He poured water with one hand, held Jiang Li's hand with the other and used his thumb to wash his palm, his brows were tightly frowned, obviously he didn't like his behavior of cutting the man in black just now, and felt that it was dirty hand.
"No touch." Jiang Li said with a smile.
Without saying a word, Xiao Qiheng washed his hands carefully.
The behavior of the two at this time was too intimate, Jiang Li felt two hot eyes sticking to his body from behind, and reminded him in a low voice: "Your Highness, there are still people watching."
Hearing this, Xiao Qiheng raised his head and glanced at Zheng Yu and Zhao Qing behind him, with oppression and coldness in his eyes.
Zheng Yu and Zhao Qing suddenly felt a chill in their necks, subconsciously turned their eyes away, and pretended not to see anything.
After Xiao Qiheng and Jiang Li got into the carriage, Zheng Yucai and Zhao Qing looked at each other. Zheng Yu touched his nose and said in a low voice, "Then what, you usually serve your Highness by your side, have you noticed anything wrong with him?"
"...I'm sorry." Zhao Qing said shamelessly, "Jiang Li is serving His Highness, so I can only stay outside."
Zheng Yu: "... Oh." It seems that something is really wrong.
"How long are you going to dawdle?" Xiao Qiheng's voice came from the carriage.
"Leave right away!" Zheng Yu responded, and arranged for the two men in black to be escorted back to Beijing, and then let everyone pack up and set off to continue to the next station.
The next day, news of Xiao Qiheng's assassination on the way to Jizhou for disaster relief came back to the palace. Emperor Yuan learned that the incident was related to Xiao Qiyun.
Xiao Qiyun was drinking wine and listening to ditties in the palace, imagining that Xiao Qiheng would surely die this time, after this corruption incident, he would still be the prince who covered the sky with one hand, and when Emperor Yuan got old, he would be able to inherit the rule.
He was drunk, dreaming sweet dreams during the day, when he was brought in front of Emperor Yuan, he still couldn't react. It wasn't until the two men in black were thrown in front of him that he realized that the matter had been revealed, and he lay down in front of Emperor Yuan and shouted for grievances.
Emperor Yuan smashed the inkstone at his hand to his feet, making a loud "boom—" and his fingers trembling when pointing at him: "You still have the face to complain?! People are already in front of me, you still have What are you talking about!!"
"It's not me!!" Xiao Qiyun crawled up to him with hands and feet, "Royal Father, he is the Seventeenth Brother, he sent someone, and has nothing to do with me!! If you don't believe me, ask him to confront him face to face!"
"Little Seventeen?" Emperor Yuan frowned, knowing that he had gotten close to Xiao Qiwen over the years, so he said to Eunuch Chen, "Call Seventeen over."
"Yes." Eunuch Chen stepped back, went outside the door and ordered someone to invite Xiao Qiwen.
Soon, Xiao Qiwen came over. He was taken aback when he saw the situation in the palace, and after saluting to Emperor Yuan, he asked puzzledly: "Father, what do you order my son to come over?"
"Seventeen! Don't pretend you don't know anything, tell me, are you the one who sent someone to assassinate the prince and brother?!" Xiao Qiyun asked sharply.
"Brother Prince was assassinated?" Xiao Qiwen looked shocked, took two steps forward, and asked anxiously, "Where is Brother Huang? Was he not injured? Who is so bold!!"
Seeing his worried expression, Emperor Yuan frowned and asked, "Seventeen, do you really not know about this?"
"Why did the father say that?" Xiao Qiwen was puzzled, and said sincerely, "Recently, apart from paying respects to the father and mother, I have been discussing scriptures with him at the national teacher's side, and I don't know what happened thing."
"You are talking nonsense!" Xiao Qiyun said angrily, if Emperor Yuan was not there, he would have stepped forward and tore up this hypocritical bastard Xiao Qiwen, "You clearly went to my palace a few days ago!"
"I'm wronged." Xiao Qiwen said, "Brother Liu Huang said that my younger brother has been to your place, so when is the date?"
"May 21st, Weishi! People in my palace can testify!"
When Xiao Qiwen heard the words, he bowed his hands to the Emperor Yuan: "Father, Brother Liuhuang, this is purely a false accusation. My minister has been in the National Teacher Hall for the past few days. If you don't believe me, the national teacher can testify for my minister."
Emperor Yuan obviously believed in Sheng Hexuan more than his two sons, so he asked Eunuch Chen to go to the National Teacher Hall in person, invited Sheng Hexuan over, and sent someone to Xiao Qiyun's palace to collect evidence.
After Sheng Hexuan came over, he confirmed what Xiao Qiwen said, that he was indeed in the National Teacher Hall these few days.
At this time, the servants in Xiao Qiyun's palace that day were also brought before Emperor Yuan, and they all said that they did not see Xiao Qiwen's visit that day.
With conclusive evidence, Emperor Yuan ignored Xiao Qiyun's words of grievance, and ordered people to take him down and wait to be punished.
As for Xiao Qiheng's side, apart from daily eating, drinking and resting, the group of them didn't waste any time, they hurried along the way, and finally arrived in Jizhou half a month later.
Zhu Wentao, the magistrate of Jizhou, led his people to wait at the gate of the city early in the morning. When he saw them, he quickly stepped forward to salute, and welcomed them all the way back to the magistrate's yamen.
Xiao Qiheng and Jiang Li were together along the way, seeing Xiao Qiheng being surrounded by Zhu Wentao and others, Zheng Yu finally couldn't bear the questions he had held back all the way, pulled Jiang Li over and asked, "I want to ask you something."
"What?" Jiang Li looked at him with a mysterious look on his face.
"Your Highness..." Zheng Yu coughed, "Your Highness, do you have any unspeakable secrets?"
Jiang Li was puzzled: "What's the unspeakable secret?"
"That's right, that's right..." Zheng Yu couldn't say anything, so he simply took his hand, imitating Xiao Qiheng's movement of washing Jiang Li's hands before, rubbing it back and forth a few times, "That's it!"
Jiang Li: "Huh?"
Seeing that he still didn't understand, Zheng Yu touched it twice again: "Do you understand?"
"Understood." Jiang Li nodded.
"Is it true?" Zheng Yu asked quickly.
"Well..." Jiang Li hesitated to speak, with a troubled expression on his face.
Zheng Yu was overwhelmed by him, and urged, "Say it quickly!"
Jiang Li sighed, and pointed to his back: "Ask yourself."
Zheng Yu turned around, and saw Xiao Qiheng standing behind him at some point, staring coldly at him holding Jiang Li's hand, and he didn't know how long he had been standing there.
Zheng Yu realized it later, and turned his head to look at Jiang Li, who gave him a cute smile and withdrew his hand.
Xiao Qiheng looked at Zheng Yu, and said with a sullen face: "What are you doing?"
Zheng Yu: "..."
No, brother, listen to me, this is really a misunderstanding, the baby you raised is a troublemaker! ! !