The rain was still falling. Cui Yuanyang held his head and followed Zhao Changhe through the mountains. He watched him find a cave with great familiarity and crawl into it. He then dug out some drier branches and leaves from the cave and lit a tinder.
Soon a warm little nest was formed.
The reason for changing the place was not just because the corpses everywhere were creepy, but mainly because he didn't want to encounter those who were "taking shelter from the rain" again. Now that a strange murderous intent was directed towards Cui Yuanyang, Zhao Changhe had to be more cautious. It would be impossible for anyone to find a cave in the wild mountains!
Cui Yuanyang sat by the campfire with his knees hugged, waving his hands back and forth, warming his slightly damp rabbit down coat. He wanted to take it off but didn't dare.
There was only a small bellyband inside, and it was a pattern of mandarin ducks playing in the water.
Zhao Changhe ignored her and took off his coat and dried his clothes naked.
Cui Yuanyang didn't dare to look at his muscular body, and turned his head to mutter, "Bandit."
Zhao Changhe was too lazy to pay attention to her. You peeped at me practicing sword skills this morning. It’s not like you haven’t seen it before. Why are you pretending to be shy now? I’m not going to get beastly and push you to the ground.
Cui Yuanyang couldn't scold Zhao Changhe, so he had to blame God: "What a horrible weather! It's so annoying."
"It's normal for spring rain to continue. Without it, there would be no autumn harvest for your family." Zhao Changhe was drying his clothes and sighed, "I think your brain is racking its brains to figure out who wants to kill you? Have you ever offended anyone before?"
Cui Yuanyang shook her head absentmindedly. She had been a girl who was always loved by everyone at home. How could she have offended anyone? If she had to say something, she had scolded the servants occasionally, but she wouldn't hold a grudge against someone and hire someone to kill for such a small matter, right
This is too weird... I can't guess.
Zhao Changhe was also puzzled. Who could this girl have offended? Conflict of interest? She didn't have any vested interests with anyone.
It's normal for the Cui family to have enemies, but what's the point of targeting a little girl like this? If you say that kidnapping and dressing her up is understandable, then why hire someone to assassinate her? Is it just to vent your anger
Of course, it wouldn't be surprising if someone was just venting their anger, there are all kinds of people like that in the world... But if that's the case, then there's really no way to guess.
wrong!
Zhao Changhe suddenly felt something in his mind: "How many people know that you came to see me halfway?"
Cui Yuanyang was stunned for a moment: "My family should know about it... As for outsiders, I don't know..."
"Yes." Zhao Changhe snapped his fingers. "Even if your family urgently sent someone to look for you, it hasn't been long since you ran away. People in other places should have just received the news and started looking for you, but the assassin has already arrived! With this timeline, it's unlikely that someone hired the murder."
Cui Yuanyang shuddered and murmured in disbelief: "Is it my family? Someone in my family wants to kill me?"
"Not only is he your family member, but he is also someone who knows that you ran away to find me. This is the fastest way to find you." Zhao Changhe said expressionlessly: "Do you think it could be Cui Yuanyong? He best meets this condition."
Cui Yuanyang shouted: "Impossible!"
Zhao Changhe shook his head. He also felt that it was impossible. If Cui Yuanyong wanted to kill his sister, this idiot would have been killed in a hundred ways along the way. Why would he wait until now? Even if he deliberately waited until he left to get rid of the responsibility, in fact, he couldn't get rid of the responsibility. Everyone knew that his sister went out with him to travel, and ended up dying outside. How could you get rid of this responsibility? You must be held accountable.
The most anxious person right now should be Cui Yuanyong.
"It's not Cui Yuanyong. It's possible that he wants Cui Yuanyong to bear the great responsibility for not taking good care of his sister and causing her death." Zhao Changhe smiled and said, "It seems that there is a struggle for succession in your family. Is Cui Yuanyong the only one in the Cui family who is on the Hidden Dragon List? What about the others?"
Cui Yuanyang bit his lower lip and said nothing.
Whether or not one is on the Hidden Dragon List does not actually mean that others are not as good as Cui Yuanyong. After all, the Book of Troubled Times speaks based on battle records. Others may not have outstanding battle records, but they are strong enough.
Moreover, when aristocratic families choose their patriarch, it is not necessarily based on strength. The status of the eldest son is more important. As long as his strength and character are not so bad as to cause opposition from the entire family, basically no one can shake the position of the eldest son.
Cui Yuanyong and Cui Yuanyang are both born to the eldest wife of the first house. Cui Yuanyong does not seem to be the eldest son, as he has an older brother... However, this older brother is born to a concubine, which means that although Cui Yuanyang calls Cui Yuanyong the second brother, Cui Yuanyong is actually the eldest son. He has the best status, is the third hidden dragon, and has the greatest reputation. He is basically destined to be the next generation head of the Cui family. Others really have no competitiveness in front of him.
But what if something happened to him
Is it enough to kill my sister? It's hard to say, but it's a good weight.
At least Cui Yuanyang's eldest brother is not just Cui Yuanyong. Not to mention the eldest son, there is also the second son. No one knows whether other branches are also eyeing the throne.
The Cui family has many male descendants in this generation.
However, according to this reasoning, the most likely person seems to be the second legitimate son, Cui Yuancheng, who is also Cui Yuanyang's closest brother with the same father and mother. This possibility made Cui Yuanyang numb and speechless for a long time.
Zhao Changhe said: "Why don't you say anything? I don't know much about your family's affairs. I need you to explain the situation to help me analyze it."
Cui Yuanyang hesitated for a long time before he stammered out a general account of the situation.
Zhao Changhe's expression twitched a little. What about the eldest son in the family, the second son in the family, the eldest son of the legitimate wife, the eldest son of the illegitimate wife, the second son of the legitimate wife? His head was so big after hearing all that. It took him a long time to figure it out. There are so many things to deal with in a big family.
He pinched his head with a headache: "Don't be so shocked. It may not be your brother. It may be someone else. The more important problem we have to face now is that I may not be able to defeat the killer."
Cui Yuanyang also thought of this.
If it was a member of the Cui family who offered the reward, her reward might be even more outrageous than Zhao Changhe's thousand taels of gold. The killer who was greedy for this money was not just a third or fourth level Xuanguan master, it was hard to say how strong he was.
In fact, Zhao Changhe’s own bounty might also attract very terrifying enemies, so he needs to cover his whereabouts.
At present, no strong people have come to find them. It's just that they are not so lucky. How can there be a strong killer who happens to be interested in this bounty nearby? Even if there is a killer nearby, how can he find them by chance
Han Wubing didn't know where he came from. The assassin just happened to pick up the dead rabbit when he went to the mountain temple to avoid the rain. The real reason for the encounter was that everyone was taking shelter in the mountain temple, not that they had turned on the radar. So there must be stronger people, but they just haven't encountered them for a while. How many can Zhao Changhe deal with with only the third level of the entrance
If it was just Zhao Changhe himself, it would be very simple. No one knew where he would go. As long as he didn't show off his heroic spirit and go to the martial arts hall to expose himself as Zhao Changhe, where would he be one month later? Soon, nothing would happen.
But Cui Yuanyang always has to go home. Qinghe is right there. Others don’t need to come looking for them. They just need to send people to wait for them on various routes to Qinghe. How can they send him there
"Now it all depends on the Cui family's reaction. Will they send elite soldiers to guard all the roads..." Zhao Changhe said, then quickly denied himself: "It doesn't seem realistic. How would they know that you were being assassinated? They probably thought you ran away with a wild man, so they didn't even dare to make it public."
Cui Yuanyang's head drooped, and his rabbit ears were almost falling to the ground.
Running away from home was fun for a while, but who knew there would be such trouble... At this moment, the girl really felt that Zhao Changhe was right to scold her before, he was just a fool.
"I have an idea." Zhao Changhe stroked his chin, "It's possible that your reputation will be ruined."
Cui Yuanyang asked curiously: "What's the idea?"
"As long as we don't go to Qinghe, and do the opposite, such as going to see the misty rain in the south of the Yangtze River or the scenery in the north of the desert, I don't even know where I'm going, and they don't have the eyes of heaven, so how can they find us? Even if your family knows your whereabouts in the future, maybe half a year or a year has passed, and they may have thought of a name for their grandson in their minds, and everyone in the world should know it..."
Cui Yuanyang opened his mouth, not knowing how to respond.
Zhao Changhe leaned against the cave wall and closed his eyes to rest: "There is another plan that is more straightforward. We are now rushing back to Qinghe day and night. The bounty has just started, and not many people know about it. The possibility that so many people can set up a trap to block you is actually non-existent. In other words, if you want to go back, you must do it as soon as possible. If the profit-seeking people make a move, you and I will have already reached Qinghe."
(End of this chapter)