Yiyun opened her mouth in surprise, not knowing what to say. Was Ji Lingxue saving her at that time? This thought flashed through her mind again and again. At that time, she wanted to push her into the lake.
Seeing Yiyun suddenly silent, Xiao Yichen asked, "How did you fall into the lake?"
Yiyun lowered his head, twirling his fingers in his sleeves, trying to find a reasonable excuse.
Yiyun said: "I... I don't know either. It was too chaotic at the time. The princess suddenly leaned back. I wanted to hold her back, but I didn't have enough strength and fell into the lake..."
Mo Bai asked: "What happened next?"
Later... her mouth and nose were filled with water, her mind was in a mess, and she felt a hand pulling her clothes and sinking... Later on... she lost consciousness.
Xiao Yichen frowned, and seeing that he could not get to the bottom of the matter, he comforted Yiyun with a few words, arranged for someone to send her back home, and then sent a message to the butler to ask him to send an apology gift.
Yiyun looked at Xiao Yichen reluctantly and asked weakly, "Where is the princess?"
Xiao Yichen remained silent. Yiyun darkened her eyes, turned around and got on the carriage.
The wheels of the carriage moved forward. Yiyun lifted the curtain and looked back. Only a glimpse of Xiao Yichen's back remained on the pleasure boat, and he gradually disappeared from her sight.
Xiao Yichen sent his secret guards down to the lake to look for people and personally interrogated the captured assassins. Unexpectedly, these tough guys just gritted their teeth and endured the cruelest torture without saying a word.
Chi Feng came on horseback with twenty private soldiers from the palace and began a carpet search on the shore. Finally, they found Ji Lingxue's fallen shoe and some scattered beads.
Xiao Yichen followed the clues and got out of the mud and onto the official road. The marks left by the carriage wheels suddenly disappeared, and the clue was cut off.
Xiao Yichen stood in the pipe and looked straight ahead, feeling extremely confused. He didn't know whether he was worried or nervous.
Xiao Yichen: Ji Lingxue, just wait, I will find you soon.
"A-choo!" Ji Lingxue in the carriage sneezed loudly, shivering and saying, "It's so cold, big brother... When will we get to the destination and have a fire to warm ourselves... If anything happens to me and the King gets angry, you won't get any benefits."
Along the way, Ji Lingxue learned from the conversation between the kidnapper leader and the driver the original intention of kidnapping her. This matter started two years ago.
Two years ago, the idle prince Xiao Yichen suddenly asked for permission to go to the northwest. At that time, Xiao Yimo had just ascended the throne and carried out a major purge of the court, inserting his own cronies into it.
Xiao Yimo, who had just ascended the throne, was very wary of Xiao Yichen. With the power of 200,000 soldiers in his hands, it was not impossible for him to rebel and become emperor. The situation in the court was very urgent for a while, which was one of the reasons why Xiao Yichen wanted to leave the capital to stay away from the trouble.
After arriving in the northwest, Xiao Yichen began to fight in all directions to expand his territory and prove his ability to Xiao Yimo. When the battle started, the hot-blooded young man volunteered to join the army, hoping to make a name for himself while defending his country.
Xiao Yichen only stayed in the northwest border for two years before he was recalled to the capital by an imperial edict, and the soldiers who followed him stayed in the northwest.
With the change of generals in the northwest, those small border countries whose lands were occupied and burned by the flames of war rose again. After two years of recuperation, their forces have become stronger and they have begun to launch wars to regain their lost lands.
Some of the victors went straight into the Central Plains and lurked in the capital, waiting for an opportunity to take revenge on Xiao Yichen. Today was the day of the assassination plan they had been preparing for a long time.
These kidnappers were the enemy troops from Dayan. They knew that Xiao Yichen was not easy to deal with, so they ambushed him in the water. Unexpectedly, Ji Lingxue and Yiyun suddenly fell into the water, disrupting their plan.
The kidnappers threw a stinky coat on Ji Lingxue, which made her almost vomit up her overnight meal.
With clothes to cover her, Ji Lingxue twisted her wrist and started to save herself. Although she left marks along the way, she didn't really expect Xiao Yichen to save her, as by the time he came, it would be too late.
She knew how to take off the rope, thanks to Mo Xiang. She remembered that when Mo Xiang taught her, she said, "Princess, I will teach you a few ways to save yourself. Since you are a princess, there will always be people who want to take your place. You must have some self-defense skills."
Now that she thinks about it, this girl Mo Xiang really has a long-term vision. Ji Lingxue pulled the corners of her mouth into a bitter smile.
The carriage finally stopped. Without the sound of the wheels, Ji Lingxue could clearly hear the chirping of insects outside the carriage.
The leader of the kidnappers got out of the carriage and patrolled the surroundings with the kidnappers driving the carriage in front. After making sure that no one was following them, they dragged Ji Lingxue out of the carriage.
Ji Lingxue's eyes were blindfolded and she couldn't see the road. She was dragged so roughly that she stumbled all the way. Her feet stepped on the rough stones and formed blisters. The pain made her forehead sweat.
Ji Lingxue listened to the sound of horse hooves behind her, which gradually faded away, and her heart sank. This was a common trick used by people in the underworld to prevent people from following them.
(End of this chapter)