Ji Lingxue's eyes lit up. The flying needle technique of passing through the air was truly amazing!
Ji Lingxue looked at Xiao Yichen with admiration in her eyes, "Your Highness, you showed off this skill so handsomely!"
The fire in the room suddenly went out, and a muffled sound of pain was heard. Xiao Yichen pulled Ji Lingxue's hand away and turned over to the ground. Suddenly, a fire outside the study room lit up and surrounded the entire study room.
The palace guards trained by Xiao Yichen arrived in time, with swords drawn and bows strung, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense.
Xiao Yichen said: "Come out, everyone in the room."
The room was very quiet, as if no one was inside. Xiao Yichen's eyes darkened, he stood up, and kicked through the door.
A sharp dagger brushed past Xiao Yichen's nose. Xiao Yichen stretched out two fingers to hold the dagger, and turned his head to look at the owner of the dagger. The man was dressed in black and his face was covered, so he couldn't see clearly, but he was not Ji Yuqing.
Xiao Yichen frowned. Seeing that the dagger was controlled, the man in black raised his foot and kicked him in the abdomen. Xiao Yichen flexibly avoided the fatal kick, grabbed the man's foot with one hand, and asked in a deep voice: "Who are you?"
The man in black did not answer and continued to attack to escape. Then an arrow flew from nowhere and pierced the man in black's arm.
The black-clothed man's eyes turned cold, and he glanced out of the corner of his eye and immediately found a breakthrough. He made a feint to escape, and jumped up, landing behind Ji Lingxue like a carp. He pulled out the short arrow that was stuck in his arm and pressed it against Ji Lingxue's neck. "No one should move. Prince Chen, if you move again, your beautiful princess will be gone... Haha, it's been said that Prince Chen has a weakness, and it really is this princess. Princess... Haha..." The man spoke in a hoarse voice, and it was impossible to tell whether he was a man or a woman.
Ji Lingxue was upset. If Xiao Yichen hadn't dragged her over to watch the show, the ending wouldn't have been like this. He was holding her hostage and really thought she was a soft persimmon.
Xiao Yichen frowned, thinking that it was Ji Yuqing in the study, but it turned out that he was deceived by the illusion.
Xiao Yichen didn't move, only staring at the sharp bloody arrow tip in front of Ji Lingxue's neck. But he saw Ji Lingxue winking at him, not afraid of being held hostage, which made him feel a little amused.
Xiao Yichen calmed down completely, and then he heard the hoarse voice continue: "If you don't want this woman to die, prepare fast horses, dry food and gifts for me, and I will release this woman when I leave the city gate smoothly."
Xiao Yichen nodded and cooperated by asking Chi Feng to prepare the fast horses and the ceremony.
The man in black sneered, "Prince Chen, don't play tricks, otherwise, I will chop off this woman's hand first." As he said that, he raised his hand, and a sharp arrow fell down. Along with Xiao Yichen's "no", the bottles and jars on Ji Lingxue's body fell to the ground.
The man in black once again put the tip of the arrow against Ji Lingxue's neck and said with a smile, "Princess, don't you feel tired carrying so many bottles?"
Ji Lingxue: “…” Damn it, does this guy have eyes behind his back? He was clearly confronting Xiao Yichen, how did he know that I wanted the poison to deal with him
Soon Chi Feng came back and brought the horse. He immediately put on the saddle and hung the gift package on it. The man in black hugged Ji Lingxue and climbed onto the horse. The short arrow in his hand pierced the horse's butt. The horse felt pain and raised its front hoof to run away.
Ji Lingxue moved her body, trying to use the horse's momentum to jump off, but someone lifted her upside down and hit her face several times by the horse's tail, causing her to burst into tears due to the pain.
Ji Lingxue rolled her eyes, wondering why she was so unlucky. The last time she was unlucky was when she met the perverted Third Prince of Dayan.
The third prince of Dayan was named Yuchi Gongru. He was of strong character, as fierce as a wolf, suspicious by nature, and fond of killing.
This was what Ji Lingxue found out later. Fortunately, Yuchi Ruge showed up and escorted Yuchi Gongru back to Dayan. Wait, she seemed to have missed something...
Ji Lingxue tried to raise her head and look at the back of the man in black who was riding a horse so violently that he almost made her vomit blood. Her heart was brightening inch by inch.
Drinking the north wind, Ji Lingxue's voice was a little uncertain, "You are... Yuchi Gongru..." The third prince of Dayan, you didn't go back with Yuchi Ruge...
The man in black on horseback heard this and took the time to look down at Ji Lingxue. He grinned and revealed a strange smile, "Princess Chen, so you still remember this prince..."
Ji Lingxue: “…”
Ta-da-da, the sound of horse hooves came from behind. Ji Lingxue tried to raise her head and look back. In the firelight, she saw Xiao Yichen's face.
"Princess Chen, you don't have to hold out too much hope. They can't catch up." As he spoke, he raised his hand and pulled out the short arrow that was stuck in the horse's butt, drawing a streak of blood. The horse neighed in pain and ran even more frantically, scaring the horses behind it so much that they didn't dare to get close.
"Ji Lingxue!" Xiao Yichen's uneasy voice drifted into Ji Lingxue's ears with the wind.
At this moment, Ji Lingxue was lying on the horse's back like a dead dog, vomiting crazily, tears streaming down her face, and she was dizzy from vomiting. If she had known that there would be so many bumps in the evening, she would not have eaten so much in the afternoon...
Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh! The sound of an arrow breaking through the air came from behind him. Although Yuchi Gongru's arm was injured, he still moved naturally without any hindrance, as if it was not him who was bleeding from his arm.
Hearing the movement in the wind, Yuchi Gongru raised his hand and pulled Ji Lingxue to lie on his back. Ji Lingxue's body was weak, her hands and feet were powerless, and seeing the arrow approaching, she closed her eyes, waiting for the pain to come.
Da da da!
Three arrows came from nowhere and knocked the previous arrows to the ground, but one of them missed and stabbed Ji Lingxue's thigh. Ji Lingxue gritted her teeth and groaned, cold sweat wet her forehead.
Yuchi Gongru sneered and said, "Prince Chen's archery skills are really not that good. Look at how painful your princess is now... Tsk tsk tsk tsk..." After that, he burst into laughter.
Ji Lingxue gritted her teeth, damn pervert!
There was a moment of silence behind him, and the biting cold wind made Ji Lingxue's face ache and her head dizzy.
The sound of horse hooves behind her gradually died down. She turned her head with difficulty, only to see the shadows of overlapping mountains. Yuchi Gongru's riding skills were so amazing that he had left Xiao Yichen and the others far behind.
Yuchi Gongru seemed to know what Ji Lingxue was thinking, and sneered: "Don't look at it, you can't catch up with the speed of the prince. Haha, my Great Yan is a country on horseback, and your riding skills in the Central Plains can't compare with it."
Ji Lingxue rolled her eyes. The pain in her legs had become numb. She looked up at Yuchi Gongru and asked, "You are already out of the city safely, and Xiao Yichen can't catch up with you. Why don't you let me go?"
Hearing this, Yuchi Gong looked at Ji Lingxue as if he was an idiot. "You want to get off? Do you know what the consequences will be if you jump off this madly running horse?"
Ji Lingxue thought to herself: If I don't die from the fall, I'll be disabled, but it's better than being with a pervert like you.
Yuchi Gongru suddenly grinned, his sharp white teeth were as white as the bright moon and as cold as wolf's fangs in the dark night.
Yuchi Gongru said, "There seems to be a cliff ahead. It seems I'm going to fall down with you." As he said that, he hugged Ji Lingxue's waist and used his toes to leverage on the horse's butt. The horse neighed in pain, and the miserable sound pierced the sky.
Xiao Yichen rushed to the edge of the cliff, looking at the dark bottom of the cliff with his hands clenched into fists. He miscalculated...
Ji Lingxue felt like a fallen leaf, floating in the air. Suddenly, a cold wind blew, and she spun around and was blown even farther away.
There was a noisy sound in my ears, she was not dead!
Ji Lingxue's eyelids moved, and the shaking feeling became stronger and stronger. Ji Lingxue moved her eyelids and slowly opened her eyes. There were five women sitting around her. One of them was wearing coarse cloth and holding a sweat towel in her hand, as if she had just wiped the sweat off her forehead.
Ji Lingxue looked around. They were trapped in a carriage, which was swaying forward and no one knew where it was going.
"Who are you?" Ji Lingxue asked. She opened her mouth and realized that her mute point had been pressed. She couldn't make any sound. The piercing pain in her leg made her frown.
The girl in coarse cloth shook her head, indicating that she couldn't speak either.
Ji Lingxue suddenly had an idea. She struggled to stand up, pulled the girl in coarse cloth's hand and wrote on her palm.
Ji Lingxue wrote: Where are we and who are you
The girl in coarse cloth wrote: "Are you in Dongqi? We are in a carriage now. I woke up here just like you. This carriage has been moving forward. We have never been far away. I wonder where this is?"
Thinking of the missing girl case that has caused a lot of controversy in Beijing in recent days, Ji Lingxue looked at the women sitting in the car. They were all fifteen or sixteen years old. Although they looked haggard, their facial features were regular.
Ji Lingxue: Could he have been involved in the missing girl case by accident? So the murderer is Yuchi Gongru? Looking at his perverted appearance, he looks more like the murderer of the faceless female corpse case...
Ji Lingxue, who had no clue what to do, banged her head against the car wall in distress. A sinister voice rang out from outside the car: "Behave yourself, or I'll rape and kill you!"
Ji Lingxue shuddered, feeling inexplicably that the voice was very familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had heard it before.
Ji Lingxue started chatting with the woman in coarse cloth by writing, and preliminarily confirmed that the person in front of her was Lian Xin, the girl who suddenly disappeared while collecting herbs in the mountains in the case of the missing girl in Beijing.
Ji Lingxue was not in a position to reveal her true identity, so she made up a story. She was sleeping at home and was awakened by strange noises in the middle of the night. When she woke up, she found herself being raped. After a battle of wits and courage with the kidnapper, she was injured and captured.
Miss Lian Xin looked at Ji Lingxue sympathetically, then took her hand and fell silent.
The carriage finally stopped. It was very quiet outside. At this moment, the curtain was lifted and a large bowl of sour rice was pushed into the middle of the carriage. The women looked pale and shook their heads and sighed.
The corners of Ji Lingxue's mouth twitched. She could smell rotten rice from a distance. Are they raising them like pigs
Ji Lingxue wrote on Lian Xin’s palm: You have been locked up here all the time. Is this how you are treated? Why don’t you run away
Lian Xin wrote: It's not that we don't want to run, but we can't run away at all. Two of us escaped before, but they caught us not long after. They drugged us, so we have the strength to write but not to run. In addition, our mute points were pressed, so we couldn't shout for help.
(End of this chapter)