The torches illuminated the surroundings of the carriage again. Bai Chun had dismounted, looking at the missing carriage and at Li Hong who was approaching.
When he saw a girl in red sitting on Li Hong's horse, his expression was obviously startled.
When Wen Wenwen saw Bai Chun looking at her, she felt inexplicably guilty. She, who had just felt normal in Li Hong's arms, suddenly became awkward again, and her face began to show a confused expression again.
Li Hong dismounted first, then held Wenrou's slender waist, lifted her off the horse, then ignored Wenwen and walked towards the carriage that had opened the door.
Wen Wenwen followed Li Hong closely, lowering her head and not daring to look at Bai Chun. Even if Bai Chun's eyes were not on her, she was a little frightened and did not dare to look up ahead.
"Slave Bai Chun has seen..."
"Hong'er, where are you going so late?"
The voices of Bai Chun and Princess Fangling sounded at the same time. Li Hong reached out and stroked Bai Chun's white cheek. He didn't show much surprise at the voice of the eldest princess coming from behind him.
"Well done, but remember to bring more people with you next time. Your own safety is the most important thing, understand?" Li Hong ignored the soft footsteps behind him, and after speaking gently to Bai Chun, he turned around and looked To Princess Fangling.
Bai Chun let Li Hong's hand take off her cheek, then turned to face Princess Fangling and others.
Li Hong had a relaxed smile on his face, but because of the blood stains on his face, his smile looked a little ferocious in the eyes of Li Qian and others.
She silently looked at the calm and natural Princess Fangling, then looked at Li Qian and Li Lin behind her, who saluted her with a forced smile, and the woman in the back who was wearing a Taoist robe also saluted Li Qian and Li Lin, and saluted her. He saluted himself, then nodded and said: "I don't know what the imperial aunt is doing? Why did you appear on this official road so late? This official road is very uneven, and the Nanzhao people don't know how they got in." The team of five hundred people looks very much like Nanzhao’s soldiers.”
Princess Fangling kept smiling while watching Li Hong speak. When Li Hong finished speaking to her, Princess Fangling sighed, then raised her crutch and pointed at Li Qian and Li Lin who were already standing next to her. He said helplessly: "What else could it be? For such a treasonous thing, I have to ask these two cousins of yours. When I found out, it was already too late. When I came over, I saw that the fire was getting stronger and stronger. I want to go back to Chengdu first, and then take her to ask for forgiveness when you come back."
"Oh... what do you mean by this?" Li Hong looked at the calm Princess Fangling in surprise and asked.
But before Princess Fangling could answer, Li Qian and Li Lin had already taken a step forward, bowed to Li Hong and said, "Your Highness, it is Li Qian and Li Lin who forced their husbands Pei Shoude and Murong Bin to burn the granaries. Please punish them." "
"Why are they burning? Where are Pei Shoude and Murong Bin?" Li Hong's eyes still glanced at the two of them lightly, and then fell on Princess Fangling again.
Li Qian swallowed in panic and said dryly: "Back then, the granary was privately sold by my father. After you arrived, Li Qian was deeply afraid that you would find out the gap in the granary. There has been no replenishment of grain and grass in the past few years, so …So I was confused for a moment…”
"You burned down the granary in a moment of confusion, so the Nanzhao people are also related to you two?" Li Hong looked at Princess Fangling's expression. When he looked behind him, he became more and more surprised, and couldn't help but look back. The tenderness behind you.
Wen Wen, who had always lowered his head, raised his head involuntarily when he heard Princess Fangling's voice. It was just because of the angle of the torch lighting and the fact that Princess Fangling's eyes were focused on Li Hong from the beginning. He didn't notice that there was a woman in red behind Li Hong.
While Li Hong kept staring at her, Wen Wenwen was also looking at her carefully. Their eyes met with unspeakable surprise and confusion.
Wen Wen never thought that the old lady who was kind to him and taught him how to read and write was actually the eldest princess of the Tang Dynasty.
Princess Fangling also didn't expect that Wen Wenwen would actually walk with Li Hong. Moreover, looking at Wen Wenwen standing freely behind Li Hong, she didn't look like a knight-errant assassin who was arrested by Li Hong for questioning. The little girl protected by Li Hong.
When Li Qian and Li Lin faced Li Hong's question about Nanzhao people, they were speechless for a moment and didn't know how to answer. Then they saw Li Hong smiled at Princess Fangling, then stretched out his hand and gently touched it behind him, only to see a red The woman in clothes... gentle! He actually appeared in their sight.
"Know?" Li Hong smiled broadly, looked at the helpless Wen Wen, and then looked at Princess Fangling whose expression began to turn deep, and asked lightly.
Not far away, Yu Tuqi, carrying Pei Shoude and Murong Bin, was galloping towards this side. The sound of horse hooves made the brief silence on Li Hong's side seem unusually obvious.
"Wen Wen met grandma." Wen Wen looked at Princess Fangling, looked up at Li Hong in bewilderment, and then saluted Princess Fangling as usual.
Only this time, when facing Princess Fangling, she did not run to her in joy and act coquettishly as usual. Instead, she stood in front of Li Hong with a somewhat numb look on her face, without moving her feet forward.
Princess Fangling looked at Wen Wen with a complicated expression. After a while, she slowly looked at Li Hong. Behind Li Hong, Wei Tuqi and dozens of soldiers had surrounded the place tightly. Pei Shoude followed Murong Bin was also being escorted by two soldiers and was walking this way.
Princess Fangling did not speak, but Li Hong took the hand that Wen Wen was holding on her sleeve. When he saw Wen Wen's beautiful eyes looking at him, he asked calmly: "She is who you said. , the old lady who taught you how to read and write? So... is she your master?"
Following Li Hong's gaze, her gentle eyes followed her. She had actually seen the master standing behind the two women. But at this time, she knew without thinking that the old lady and master she knew were obviously with the prince. They are not in the same group, but as enemies.
No matter what she said at this time, it would cause even more unfavorable factors for the situation between Master and Grandma, but... If it weren't for His Highness the Crown Prince, she would have died in that chaotic battle just now...
Chen Yi looked bitterly at Wen Wen's panicked eyes, but didn't know what to do. At this moment, the surroundings were already surrounded by His Royal Highness's personal guards, and the crossbows in the hands of the personal guards were already pointed at him. As long as they make the slightest move, their fate is self-evident, and they will definitely be killed by random arrows.
"Whose idea was it that Quan Shancai and Su Honghui were killed?" Li Hong took the embroidered handkerchief handed over by Bai Chun and began to wipe the blood on his face that was about to solidify. From time to time, Bai Chun would stand in front of Li Hong. , using slender jade fingers to help Li Hong fiddle with the blood scab on his face that couldn't be wiped off.
There was silence all around. After Li Hong's questions disappeared, there was no other sound except the sound of burning torches on the official road of Nuo University. The night continued to envelope everyone, and the atmosphere became more and more solemn.
"Just now, Li Qian, you told Li Lin that you two forced Pei Shoude and Murong Bin to burn the granary, is that true?" Li Hong walked up to Pei Shoude and Murong Bin, who were in ragged clothes, looked embarrassed, and had bloodstained faces. At this moment, the blood stains on the face were slightly less, and it was not difficult to identify the appearance of the two people.
"Yes, yes, it was the Lord of Yuyao County and the Lord of Liangxiang County who forced us to burn the granary. It was their idea. If the two of us don't obey, they will kill us." Pei Shoude was stunned at first, and then immediately continued He nodded and said.
Murong Bin hesitated for a moment, then glanced at Li Lin not far away with his peripheral vision, and then nodded in agreement with Pei Shoude's words, admitting that it was Li Lin who forced him to burn the granary.
Although Li Qian and Li Lin didn't understand the purpose of Princess Fangling doing this, when they saw their husband at this moment, they didn't even think about it and directly admitted that they had forced him to do it. Their hearts were filled with mixed emotions. That sentence The words that husband and wife are birds of the same forest, but fly separately when disaster strikes, began to linger in their minds.
"What about the five hundred Nanzhao people? Whose idea was it? Where did they come from?" Li Hong stood next to Pei Shoude and Murong Bin. As soon as he stretched out his hand, Yu Tuqi immediately handed a horizontal knife to Li Hong.
Wen Wen's heart trembled as she looked at the horizontal knife, as if she was being grabbed by something. She had seen too much cruelty and blood that night, and she really didn't want to see any more bloody corpses.
So when Li Hong raised the horizontal knife and placed it on Murong Bin's neck, Wen Wen immediately closed her eyes, but at this time she felt her little hand warm, as if it was being held by someone.
Looking back, she saw the fairy in white clothes smiling faintly at her, then gently pulling her back a few steps.
Wen Wen had no choice but to follow Bai Chun's footsteps and move forward. From time to time, her eyes swept over Princess Faang Ling and Chen Yi, who had equally complicated expressions. Her lips wriggled a few times, but she didn't know what to say to her grandma and master.
"This... Your Highness... I... I don't know...."
"It's all death anyway. It doesn't matter whether you say it or not. Just because you assassinated me in the granary. Now that I have killed you, even the eldest princess will have nothing to say. But if you tell how the Nanzhao people came, Jiannan said, I might be more generous." Li Hong placed the horizontal knife on Murong Bin's neck. Even with the weight of the horizontal knife, Murong Bin continued to lower his head and bend unconsciously. .
"Hong'er, all this was done by me and has nothing to do with them. The Nanzhao people... Xinuluo gave it to me."
"Why?" Li Hong didn't seem surprised at all.
(End of chapter)