In fact, the moment he saw the man in black, Xiao Heng had already guessed that he had met an assassin.
I asked this to delay time so that I could have time to escape.
"This is the royal paddock. Aren't you afraid of killing the nine tribes?" Xiao Heng glared at them, holding the reins tightly with his hands. After saying that, he pinched the horse's belly, turned around and ran away.
The leading man in black shouted, "Chase."
A group of men in black swarmed up and surrounded Xiao Heng in a short time.
The goal of the man in black is to assassinate the eldest prince, and he will do it without hesitation.
Xiao Heng has practiced horse riding and knows some kung fu.
But facing so many killers, he was forced to dismount after just a few moves, and his arms and thighs were injured.
Facing a group of killers who wanted to kill him, Xiao Heng's eyes were full of fear, "As long as you don't kill me, I can satisfy all your demands."
The leader of the men in black sneered, "The people who want you to die also say the same thing."
After Heiyi finished speaking, he no longer gave Xiao Heng a chance to speak, and raised the knife in his hand to chop at Xiao Heng.
"ah!!!"
Xiao Heng's eyes widened, with fear of death in them.
The knife cut the neck, and bright red blood spattered all over the floor. His face confirmed that death was avoided.
The assassination was successful and the man in black quickly evacuated the scene.
Not long after the man in black left, Liu Yun came to Xiao Heng wearing night clothes, took out a jade pendant from his arms and stuffed it into Xiao Heng's hand, and then hid his hand under his clothes.
After doing this, Liu Yun stood up and left the scene quickly.
On the other hand, Xiao Min is in a particularly good mood today because he wants to get rid of Xiao Heng.
Xiao Heng is the queen's son and the eldest son, so it is very likely that he will be crown prince.
As long as Xiao Heng dies, there will be no obstacle for him to become the prince.
Just when Xiao Min was secretly happy, a man in black suddenly appeared and without saying a word, he raised his sword and stabbed him.
Xiao Xi naturally knew that he had met an assassin. Could it be that Xiao Heng knew his intentions and sent an assassin to kill him? ,
Fortunately, there was only one man in black, and he still had a chance to escape.
Xiao Min twitched and held the sword at her waist to block this murderous sword.
The man in black didn't stab him and didn't care. Instead, he kicked Jiang Xiaomin off his horse.
Xiao Min's body fell to the ground like a kite with its string broken.
The man in black didn't give him a chance to react, raised his sword and attacked him again.
Xiao Min tried her best to not let the other party succeed.
After struggling for a long time, Xiao Min's strength had been exhausted. She held on to the tree trunk and gasped for air, but the man in black remained calm and composed.
"What exactly do you want to do?"
The man in black only uttered three words, "Your life."
Xiao Min's pupils narrowed upon hearing this, as if she couldn't believe it.
The man in black is very powerful in martial arts and it would be easy to kill him.
But the man in black has not taken action yet, which means that he still has a chance to survive.
"You don't want to kill me, right? As long as you don't kill me, if you want glory and wealth, I can give it to you."
No one can resist the temptation of glory and wealth. Xiao Min is very sure about this.
The man in black sneered, "I'm afraid you can't afford it."
Xiao Min was startled when he heard this.
The man in black stopped talking nonsense and quickly attacked Xiao Min.
Xiao Min could only dodge the opponent's attack.
If you say you want to kill him, but you won't actually do it, it feels like a cat teasing a mouse, and then it will kill him after it has had enough fun.
After struggling for a long time, Xiao Min didn't even have the strength to stand up, so she could only let the other party slaughter her.
Just when Xiao Min thought she was dead this time, the man in black suddenly left.
Xiao Min was stunned on the spot. Are you leaving now?
After Xiao Min reacted, she quickly got up from the ground and looked at the horse not far away. Fortunately, the horse was still there.
He exerted all his strength to get on the horse, and after sitting firmly, he rode away from the place of trouble and wrong as quickly as possible.
After Xiao Min left, the man in black walked out from behind the tree and said, "Now there's something good to watch."
Xiao Lin and Xiao Xuan happened to meet each other while hunting. When they were planning to get together, they found a horse in front of them.
"Second brother, that horse seems to belong to the eldest brother."
Xiao Heng's horse was a gift from his father. Xiao Xuan had seen it and looked at it before, so he knew it.
Hearing this, Xiao Lin also looked at the horse a few times and said, "It is indeed somewhat similar to Big Brother's horse. Let's go and take a look."
"Um."
The two men came over on horseback one after another. Before they could get close to the horses, they saw a man lying on the ground. Looking at the waiter, they both recognized it as the eldest prince.
"That's eldest brother?"
Xiao Lin and Xiao Xuan looked at each other, jumped off the horse, and then walked toward the people on the ground with doubts.
When they got closer, they could see the people on the ground clearly, and both of them broke into cold sweats.
The person on the ground was indeed Xiao Heng, but there was a cut on his neck and blood was flowing all over the floor...
Xiao Ji was sitting at the table, drinking tea, and glanced at Shi Chen, with a faint smile flashing in his eyes.
At this moment, a guard hurried over and knelt on the ground with a plop, "Your Majesty, something happened. Something happened to the eldest prince..."
The emperor frowned when he heard this, "What happened?"
The guard said cautiously: "Back to the emperor, the eldest prince has encountered an assassin and has..."
The guard did not dare to continue.
Xiao Ji stopped drinking tea and looked up at his father. He saw that his face was pale. He must have guessed something, so he put down the tea cup in his hand.
The emperor stood up suddenly and said, "Come, come and have a look."
The emperor personally took people to check the location of the eldest prince's accident.
Xiao Ji naturally wanted to go with him.
When we arrived at the incident site, the place was already fenced off by guards.
The emperor looked at the eldest prince lying on the ground, as if he couldn't believe that someone dared to attack the prince in the royal paddock.
When he got closer, he saw Xiao Heng's eyes widening, as if he was still staring at death.
When the emperor saw Xiao Heng died so miserably, his body swayed. Fortunately, Eunuch Li held him in time so he didn't fall.
After the emperor calmed down, he said angrily: "Let me find out who harmed the eldest prince."
"It's the Emperor."
Everyone accepted the order.
Everyone knew that something happened to the emperor, and the emperor was very sad. If the murderer could not be found, the emperor would definitely be furious.
After the two workers prepared the props, they began to examine Xiao Heng's body.
When Wuzuo saw the injury on his hand, he saw Xiao Heng holding a jade pendant in his hand. He quickly put it in a tray and presented it to the emperor.
"Your Majesty, this was found in the hands of the eldest prince. It must have been held in the hands of the murderer before he died."
When the emperor heard this, he looked at the tray in front of him. There was a bloody jade pendant on it. He recognized it at a glance as the jade pendant of the third prince Xiao Min.
On Xiao Min's sixteenth birthday, I gave him a reward, and I will never admit my mistake.
The emperor's eyes darkened, "Where is the third prince?"
Eunuch Li glanced around. All the other princes were there, but the third prince was not.
He looked away, "Your Majesty, the third prince is not here."
The emperor ordered in a cold voice: "Bring him to me."
"As ordered." The guard rode quickly to find someone.
As soon as the guard left, he heard the sound of horse hooves coming towards this direction.
Everyone heard the sound and went out, and some people recognized the person coming.
"It's the third prince."
The emperor looked up and saw blazing anger in his eyes when he saw Xiao Min.
Xiao Min saw so many people here and knew that the killer had succeeded, and he felt proud.
After Xiao Minli got off his horse, he came to the emperor and saluted, "Father, how is this..."
Before he finished speaking, the enraged emperor kicked him in the chest. Xiao Min had been entangled with the man in black for a long time, and her energy was almost exhausted. She was kicked and fell to the ground immediately.
The moment he fell, something fell out of Xiao Min's arms.
The emperor saw it and strode over.
Xiao Min looked confused as the angry-faced emperor walked towards her, "Father, what's wrong with you?"
The emperor walked up to Xiao Min and ignored Xiao Min. His eyes fell on a piece of rag on the ground. He bent down and picked it up. It was exactly the same as Xiao Min's clothes.
The emperor looked at Xiao Min, his eyes even more angry.
Xiao Min didn't know why and was stunned on the spot.
"Your Majesty, this was found nearby." The guard presented his hands to the Emperor.
The emperor looked at the things in the guard's hands, which were a sword and a very small piece of cloth. He looked down at the cloth in his hand, then looked at the piece of cloth, grabbed it, and compared it. The gaps matched. Zhi was cut from the same piece of cloth by a sword.
Then he took another look at the sword, which belonged to Xiao Heng.
The emperor can now confirm that Xiao Min was the one who killed Xiao Heng.
The emperor glared at Xiao Min, "It was you who killed Heng'er and mutilated my brother. I don't have a son as vicious as you."
"Come here, arrest King Xian."
"Father?" Xiao Min looked at the emperor with wide eyes, and glanced at the cloth in his hand. Did it fall from his body? Why didn't he know?
"Father, I don't know anything."
Xiao Min was escorted off by the guards.
Xiao Ji looked at the scene in front of him indifferently, glanced at everyone present, and a sneer flashed in his eyes.
After returning, Xiao Ji felt unwell and went back to the battalion commander to rest.
No one expected that something would happen to the eldest prince during this hunting, and the murderer was indeed Xiao Min.
When Tang Wanqing saw Xiao Ji coming back, she felt relieved.
She stepped forward quickly and looked Xiao Ji up and down. Seeing that his expression was not very good, she couldn't help but feel worried.
"My lord, are you okay?"
Xiao Ji shook his head, "I'm fine with you."
"I see that the prince's face is not very good. Sit down and rest first." Tang Wanqing helped Xiao Ji sit down on the chair.
After Xiao Ji sat down, he raised his eyes and looked at Tang Wanqing, "I made you worry."
Tang Wanqing picked up the teapot and poured water while saying: "Your Majesty, was it really the third prince who killed the eldest prince?"
Although Tang Wanqing did not go with him, the murder of the eldest prince and the murder of his brother by the third prince were widely spread, and the emperor fell ill in anger.
Xiao Ji knew that Tang Wanqing was not just a daughter of a boudoir who didn't understand anything, but she knew a little bit about the affairs of the court.
"The third brother has always wanted to be the prince, and since he and the eldest brother have never gotten along, the possibility is very high."
"The third prince is too vicious, and my own eldest brother..." Tang Wanqing sighed and said nothing more, because she knew that fighting for the throne meant disowning all her relatives.
Xiao Ji looked at the tea in front of her. The tea soup was clear, with a hint of green, and the tea leaves were floating in the hot water. It was obviously handled perfectly, but why did she always feel uneasy?
Xiao Min killed his brother. No matter how he explained it, the emperor didn't believe it.
The hunting ended early and Xiao Min was escorted back.
Prince Yu's Mansion
"Xia'er, Xiao'er..."
Fu Yuanxiao raised his head and looked at the parrot in the birdcage, which was flapping its wings as if it was very happy.
"Xia'er, Xiao'er, Xiao'er..."
"You're so annoying!"
Fu Yuanxiao stood up slowly and walked under the birdcage, reached out to open the birdcage, and then patted the birdcage, "You can leave, the noise will give you a headache."
The parrot tilted its head and looked at Fu Yuanxiao, wondering what she was doing.
It flapped its wings and flew away.
Fu Yuanxiao watched the parrot fly away and was stunned for a while, but finally chased it out.
The parrot was freed, hovered in the yard for a while, and then flew out of the yard.
Fu Yuanxiao also ran out. When she saw two people not far away, she paused and then stopped.
Xiao Ji and Tang Wanqing walked out of the Moon Cave Gate side by side. Tang Wanqing was talking and laughing, as if he was having a great time.
Fu Yuanxiao watched them walking this way and froze in place, not knowing how to react.
Xiao Ji found Fu Yuanxiao not far away, looking at him unblinkingly, and he stopped in his tracks.
Tang Wanqing also saw Fu Yuanxiao. Where she was, we should have seen her and Xiao Ji, right?
She turned to look at Xiao Ji and found that his eyes were looking at Fu Yuanxiao. Is this?
Xiao Ji noticed Tang Wanqing's gaze, calmly looked back, and continued walking forward, as if she hadn't seen Fu Yuanxiao.
When they reached the fork in the road, Tang Wanqing glanced at Fu Yuanxiao and saw that she was still standing there with her eyes looking this way.
She hesitated for a while and looked at Xiao Ji, "Your Majesty, where is the Princess?"
Xiao Ji knew that Fu Yuanxiao had been watching him and waiting for him. Maybe he was wondering why he didn't take her to participate in the Qiuwei hunting?
Why take Tang Wanqing with you...
Xiao Ji recovered her thoughts and said calmly: "Don't worry about her."
Tang Wanqing glanced at Fu Yuanxiao again. She thought that Fu Yuanxiao would come over on his own initiative. After all, he was a fool and his ideas were simple.
It's just that Fu Yuanxiao has been standing there, isn't he looking for Xiao Ji?
Tang Wanqing followed Xiao Ji with doubts.
Fu Yuanxiao watched Xiao Ji and Tang Wanqing walking past, his eyes full of disbelief. He clearly saw her, why did he pretend not to see her?
I saw her obviously.
Fu Yuanxiao covered his heart, it felt so uncomfortable here!
Why is Xiao Ji doing this?
"Xia'er, Xiao'er..."
Fu Yuanxiao raised his head and saw the parrot sitting on the branch, calling Xiao'er all the time.
"You're so annoying!"
Fu Yuanxiao looked back at the two people who had left, a little unwillingly, and wanted to ask Xiao Ji face to face why he pretended not to see her.
"Girl, you are here, you scared me to death." Baozhu was startled when he discovered that Fu Yuanxiao was not there. He was there a moment ago, but disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Fu Yuanxiao glanced at the orb, opened his mouth to say something, but in the end said nothing, and then ran towards the study without looking back.
Before Baozhu could take a breath, he saw Fu Yuanxiao running away again. He felt helpless and his eyes were full of worry, "What's wrong with the girl? She's always been depressed these days."
Baozhu was afraid that something might happen to Fu Yuanxiao, so he continued to chase him.
Good night, babies!
