The carriage started from the path in the backyard of the mansion, carrying two children who were worried about their future fate, and ran towards the night.
Erica hugged the firecracker in one hand, and tightly clenched Ding Leshui's fingers with the other hand. He no longer had time to worry about whether the other party's fingers were as rough as bark, because this was the only thing he could hold now. something.
"Elica..." Ding Leshui felt a little painful from being held. He cautiously stretched out his other hand, just as he was about to signal the other party to relax a little, when suddenly there was a loud shout from outside the car.
The carriage actually ran into the rioting crowd head-on! The shouts rushed like waves, mixed with fanatical words that the children could not understand at all, like the scolding of the overseer when he found out that the slave was being lazy, and a long whip would fall in the next second. Ding Leshui tensed his body suddenly, and instinctively protected Erica. The next second, the carriage suddenly bumped, and something smashed through the window!
Ding Leshui let out a short scream, and was hit on the back of the head without avoiding it. It was a stone full of anger.
"Go to hell, nobleman!"
Crowds of people passed by quickly on both sides of the carriage, and under the firelight, their faces looked like drenched funny faces, and they couldn't see clearly. Someone is laughing and tugging at the locked car door, someone is pulling the coachman from his seat, someone is throwing filth at the horse to make it run harder, and it would be nice to have an accident and kill him sitting in it people.
"Let this car rush into the Reflecting River and drown!" "Isn't it stinky?"...
The out-of-control carriage crashed into a pile of debris on the street, and the carriage rolled and fell apart. The two boys were thrown into the chaotic vortex without warning. Burning in the flames.
35.
The newly bloomed double peach blossoms fell like fire.
In late February, both dignitaries and ordinary people in Taiyan City will go out for a spring outing, wrapping the first new green plant they found around their buttons. For such a grand outing, Beihong's royal family will naturally take action—the prince's marriage has been negotiated for more than half a year, and the dust is almost settled.
The invitation to invite Queen Tisu to travel with her has been sent to the embassy by the attendant ten days ago. His Royal Highness Longrong also attaches great importance to this spring outing, and even ordered several new sets of clothes. During this time, people from Buzhuang are often seen. With all kinds of expensive and gorgeous cloth for her to choose.
The busier you get, the more chaotic you get. Before setting off, the princess suddenly found that not only a hairband was missing from her accessories, but also a string of jewelry in the jewelry box was missing. Long Rong was furious, thinking that the random people who had recently entered and left the embassy must have stolen her jewelry. She asked her maid and several attendants to go back to Cloth Manor to investigate the situation, and she apologized to the attendant who came to pick her up from Beihong, hoping that they would go ahead with the gifts she had prepared and wait for her to pack them up After finding the jewelry, go to Beilin Garden, where the royal family goes outing and hunting.
The servants hesitated for a moment, but after all, the other party was Queen Tisu, and she might be the queen of Beihong in the future. They were so humble that they couldn't say anything. They only asked Tisu to leave as soon as possible and then dragged a full cart After leaving the gifts and various necessities for travel.
About an hour later, Long Rong seemed impatient to wait any longer. She changed into a set of clothes, and boarded the carriage with a look of hesitation. Two carriages and dozens of Tisu guards finally left the embassy. The team followed the crowds slowly to the gate of the city. After showing the pass token left by the guards to the guards, they left Taiyan City unimpeded.
The hustle and bustle of carriages, sedan chairs and pedestrians overwhelmed this group of foreign visitors, making them completely disappear among the new willows and poplar flowers.
"Is this really okay?" Taiyan's majestic city gate had disappeared on the horizon, but Long Rong still didn't dare to let go. Just as she was about to raise her hand to lift the curtain, she slowly retracted her fingertips, "How long will it take for them to find out?"
"I guess it won't be long." Hailian took out the clock and glanced at it. "Before they find out, we have to rush to the banyan tree a hundred miles west of Taiyan City, and then change to the truck prepared by Buzhuang. , everyone pretends to be a wandering Penglai guest."
In the past two months, he used the pretext of ordering spring clothes for Longrong to frequently go to Congfang Silk Village, negotiating with the people there and making plans. He never saw the kind-hearted old lady again, but all the people in Congfang Silk Village did obey the orders of the owner and responded to Hailian's plan, but they never said why they paid so much.
Hai Lian didn't know how trustworthy Cong Fang's people were, but he had to make this gamble—divided the entourage he brought this time into two groups, and one group was taken to Yanjing Wharf by people from Buzhuang, and mixed with the caravan Directly to Luofu City, and the other group of people will be escorted by himself - this is the only way Hailian can think of to send everyone out of Taiyan City.
"The next time we are equivalent to crossing the entire territory of Beihong, those girls who have no fighting power should leave first, otherwise I won't be able to protect them." Hai Lian checked the two firecrackers in his hand, one long and one short. , he raised his head and glanced at Long Rong, "What's wrong?"
"It's nothing." Long Rong shook his head and laughed, "I just suddenly remembered that when I attended various banquets in Jiumeng City, people always spoke ill of you to me."
"Of course I know, it's just that I'm a foreigner, I was born in the muddy area, I was among the pirates, and my words and deeds are rude and rascal, right?" Hailian raised his eyebrows.
"Almost. They reminded me, as a noble princess, to stay away from people like you who will become a stain on my skirt," the princess raised her shoulders, "I explained your advantages to them, but they didn't listen .”
"You are too gentle, do you have any good explanations with this group of people," Hai Lian's tongue, "It is better to tell me the name now, I returned to Jiu Mengcheng and took them one by one. No one will bother you at the banquet in the future."
Long Rong's brows and eyes became more curved: "When you return to Jiumeng this time, you are the biggest hero. I don't think you need your fists, and they don't dare to say anything about you."
"That's the best." Hai Lian said.
Because it is close to Gyeonggi, the road from Taiyan to Yu'an is very smooth. Hailian originally expected to arrive at the destination after sunset, but at this time, he saw the huge banyan tree that had grown for thousands of years outside the window.
There was no one under the banyan tree.
The young man frowned, jumped out of the car first, and trotted over quickly. He glanced at the ground, and there were clearly a few ruts of trucks on the wet ground after a spring rain—people from Congfang Silk Village had indeed been there.
But where are they now
Hailian looked around, there was a piece of low bushes around the banyan tree, and there were no other pedestrians on the road beside them except for their group of people. Farmers in the distance led their returning cattle, and tea girls returned home together, like a bloody sunset coming from another The mountains at one end are slowly soaking the whole land.
Others also rushed to the banyan tree one after another, and Long Rong got out of the car with his skirt in his hands: "What's wrong?"
The envoys in the other car also came down, muttering in a low voice, "Your Excellency, the helper you are looking for won't betray us, will it?"
"I... trust them."
This is too strange. Helen thought. Even though there was such a quiet scene in front of him, there was always a tight rope in his body. This thin rope affects his heart and five senses, making him seem to be able to see the movement of the extreme eye.
And he did hear a slight click.
It was the sound of a gun being loaded!
Hailian's brain, which has been fighting for a long time, made a judgment immediately, and he grabbed Long Rong who was closest to him: "Get down!"
The cracking sound of gunpowder and his scream sounded at the same time, and the salvo of bullets passed over the woman's head, wedged into the old tree trunk like a rainstorm, and burst into clusters of flower-like debris. Hai Lian grabbed Long Rong's arm with all his strength, making the opponent's waist lower, while he turned around sharply, and quickly fired a shot at the source of the ballistic trajectory.
The smell of blood came over.
The original green beauty was torn into pieces by the two gunshots. Seeing that the sneak attack was impossible, the enemies hidden in the dense forest quickly swarmed out of the bushes and rushed towards their target.
"Get in the car and hide! Don't get in the way!" Hai Lian pushed Long Rong to the carriage not far away. He didn't need to command, he and other guards had already stopped the enemy in front of him.
The sun was still setting.
In the chaos, Hai Lian couldn't see clearly what clothes these enemies were wearing or what kind of faces they had. He only knew that no bullets could go through the compartment, and no enemy could get close to the door. His magazine was empty long ago, and the enemy would not give him time to reload it. Hailian simply dropped the firecracker and pulled out the clear water steel dagger. The snow blade also took advantage of the situation and sent it into an enemy's chest.
But not all the guards have ghostly skills like his. People kept getting shot and fell during the exchange of fire, and the gap in defense was getting wider and wider. The enemy quickly seized this gap and wanted to break through, but Hai Lian only had time From the corner of my eye, I saw the back of the man rushing towards the carriage carrying Long Rong.
The young man cursed a curse word, pulled the dagger out of the eye socket of the enemy in front of him, and threw it towards the opponent's back!
The cold light drew a sharp straight line in the blazing red sky, but it began to fall one foot behind the target he wanted to hit.
That's too late-
at this moment. Hailian heard a horse neighing and a sharp gunshot.
The next moment, the enemy that he couldn't catch up with fell forward, twitched twice and then remained silent. Then there were more gunshots, more hisses, and more screams, but Hai Lian But I felt that everything seemed to be quiet in my ears.
He stared blankly at another team of uninvited guests coming in front of him, all of them were wearing cloaks, and the hem of the cloaks was embroidered with Bolang Merchant's chasing waves and treading clouds. The leader shook off his hood, revealing a sweaty face—this face should appear in the fragrant spring breeze of the Hundred Miles Outing, not in front of the messy corpses here. An elegant smile bloomed on the corner of the man's mouth.
"Sorry, I'm a little late." Fang Tinglan said.