coobybook Chapter 196 Preparation before departure
Chapter 196 Preparation before departure
"This time, Qizhou Black and White Impermanence and Meng Po, you all should come with me, and call Hong Sheng and Bai Zhi as well." After saying that, Nangong Lin waved his hand and crushed the teacups and tea on the tea table into pieces, as if the teacups and tea were his enemies.
"Master, I have captured Wang Yuanxiang. What should I do with her now?" Meng Po asked cautiously.
Nangong Lin narrowed his eyes slightly, with a hint of disdain in his eyes: "Let's scare her first and see if we can get some useful information out of her. However, she is just an insignificant little character." He spoke casually, as if he was talking about something insignificant.
Before he finished speaking, Nangong Lin suddenly stood up and flew up like an agile bird. In the blink of an eye, he disappeared from the spot, leaving only a faint afterimage.
Meng Po and Lei Ba Ba looked at this scene, and after looking at each other, they both showed expressions of amazement. They secretly sighed in their hearts that the master's kung fu seemed to be more powerful than before! This made them more awed by the master.
In Prince Yu's mansion, Yu Yunxin was immersed in the nightmare of being assassinated during the day. She was a modern soul. Facing the scenes of killing several people with her own hands and seeing the blood gushing out, she still had psychological trauma. Her hands were covered with blood, and she couldn't wash it off no matter how hard she tried. She was so scared that she was sweating. After waking up, she saw that her room was as dark as ink, and the bed was empty. She couldn't help but tremble and shouted loudly: "Nangong Lin, where are you? I'm so scared..."
Nangong Lin had just returned from the ghost market. When he heard Yu Yunxin calling him, he thought there was another assassin coming and rushed into the house like a gust of wind. Yu Yunxin was frightened by the black clothes again. In the dark, she couldn't see the face of the person clearly, and didn't see who the person was, so she used Tai Chi on Nangong Lin.
Fortunately, Nangong Lin was quick-witted and dodged like a nimble leopard, otherwise he would have been smashed to pieces by Yu Yunxin's Tai Chi like the table behind him. With some internal strength, Yu Yunxin used Tai Chi with full internal strength, and smashed the table behind Nangong Lin to pieces.
Nangong Lin grabbed Yu Yunxin's hand and said gently, "Xin'er, it's the king."
When Yu Yunxin heard the familiar voice, she threw herself into Nangong Lin's arms like a young swallow flying into the forest.
"I just had a nightmare and found that you were not by my side. I was very scared."
Nangong comforted him, "Don't be afraid, I will not leave you, you are safe in the palace."
There were more than a dozen guards on night watch outside. When they heard the noise in the prince's bedroom, they immediately turned on the lights outside the house. They also heard the sound of a dog barking, and asked, "Prince, Princess, what happened?"
"It's okay. The princess was awakened by a nightmare. You all can leave!" After Nangong Lin said this, he carried Yu Yunxin back to the bed. The two of them hugged each other and slept until dawn.
"Xin'er, don't leave the house these few days. I will tell you that you were assassinated and seriously injured. We will go to Qizhou together in a few days. The glass workshop that my father has instructed us to start as soon as possible." Nangong Lin said solemnly.
"Who said he wanted to kill me? Was it because of the palace treasury?" Yu Yunxin asked softly with a worried look on her face.
"It's possible that you are coming for me. If I get rid of you, I will be left with nothing. Everything in the mansion now is brought to me by you." Nangong Lin replied with a hint of firmness in his voice.
"Is there a prince in the palace? Concubines?" Yu Yunxin also thought that in the palace there were not only concubines competing for favor, but also princes wanting to compete. A trace of worry flashed in her eyes.
"Nangong Lin hugged Yu Yunxin tightly in his arms and comforted her softly: No matter who it is, I will keep a low profile these days, don't be afraid." Nangong Lin stroked Yu Yunxin's fragrant hair and said gently.
On that day, Nangong Lin still went to the morning court first. In order to allow Nangong Lin to disguise himself as a merchant and sneak into Qizhou, Emperor Cheng deliberately got furious with Nangong Lin in front of the ministers and princes. He also told him that he didn't need to attend the court for a month and sent him directly to the military camp to train troops.
"Second Prince, this move you made is really brilliant! It is even smarter than dealing with the Crown Prince directly. It's a pity that my dozen or so experts didn't even know that there is such a powerful expert in Prince Yu's Mansion."
The person who spoke was Taifu Wang, who was sitting in front of the chessboard playing chess with Nangong Rui.
Hearing Master Wang's words, Nangong Rui's mouth corners slightly raised, and a hint of pride flashed in his eyes. However, his face soon turned gloomy, and he slammed the chess piece on the chessboard with force, making a crisp sound.
"Damn it! In my two assassination attempts, none of the elite killers I secretly hired survived. How did Shangguan Hongling do it?" Nangong Rui said, gritting his teeth.
Wang Taifu comforted him, "Your Highness Prince Rui, don't worry too much. Although more than a dozen assassins died at once, isn't Princess Yu already dead? Didn't Nangong Lin offend His Majesty in the court today? In the long run, everything will be in your favor, and the position of Crown Prince will fall into your hands sooner or later."
Nangong Rui looked at the chessboard and slammed the table in anger, "Humph, the eldest brother is dead, so how can I, the second son, be the crown prince? I didn't expect that father didn't like me so much that he insisted on giving Nangong Sheng the crown prince position."
"Your Highness Prince Rui, calm down." General Tao on the side hurriedly advised. "The most important thing now is to stay calm and not be swayed by emotions. If you can bring good news to His Majesty when you go to Qizhou today, His Majesty will definitely be very kind to Prince Rui."
Nangong Rui took a deep breath and calmed down. "I understand. However, you old guys have to help me with some advice. Don't let something like this happen again."
Wang Taifu and Tao Taiwei looked at each other and nodded in agreement. They knew that only by helping Nangong Rui ascend the throne could they ensure that their own interests would not be harmed.
"By the way, is there any new news about my third brother?" Nangong Rui asked.
Tao Taiwei replied: "From what we know, the third brother has been staying at home recently. He rarely goes out except for attending court. It seems that he has been lingering with a woman who looks very similar to Princess Yu all day long."
"Oh?" Nangong Rui frowned, then smiled. After thinking for a moment, he said, "We found a replacement so quickly. Send this news to the Qin Mansion quietly and make sure Qin Xiyan, who will be arriving in a month, knows about it."
Wang Taifu reminded him, "Your Highness, you should go to Qizhou as soon as possible. I heard that His Majesty seems to be suspicious of Prefect Bai."
"Yes, I understand." Nangong Rui nodded: "Hurry up and ask Concubine Bai to pack the luggage. I am going to Qizhou."
Commandant Tao knew that Prince Rui was the most amorous, but the only one who was pregnant with Prince Rui's heir now was her legitimate daughter. Although she was not the principal wife, it was possible that she would become the principal wife in the future. Besides, Prime Minister Meng was not so valued by Emperor Cheng now, so the principal wife of Prince Rui might fall to her own daughter in the future.
"If General Tao is worried, even though I will be away from the palace for a while, I will send more people to the palace to protect Concubine Tao. If you are still worried, you can take her back to her parents' home to take care of the pregnancy." Nangong Rui said to General Tao who was thinking.
Upon hearing this, Commandant Tao was delighted and immediately stood up and said, "I will go back home and arrange for a reliable person with Madam to come and pick up my daughter. Please rest assured, Prince Rui." After saying this, he turned and left.
Although there were open and covert struggles in Nangong Rui's backyard, he still adhered to fairness. The women in his backyard were all his backers in his fight for the throne. He loved each woman very much and brought their roles to the fullest.
As soon as General Tao left, he rushed back to the backyard without stopping and told his principal wife Meng Hongqing, "I heard that Princess Yu was assassinated and seriously injured. You should go and visit her with some gifts."
"Your Highness wants me to go and find out the truth, right? Is that really a good idea? We don't have any contact with Prince Rui." Meng Hongqing replied softly.
"What do you know as a woman! If you fail to handle this matter well, don't blame me for abolishing your position as the principal wife! Although your father is Prime Minister Meng, there is more than one prime minister in the court! You go, and take your fourth brother's princess with you!" After Nangong Rui finished speaking, he turned around and walked out of the room.
In Prince Yu's mansion, although Yu Yunxin could not leave the mansion, she was not idle and had been practicing martial arts. In order to make her flower brocade more convenient to carry, Nangong Lin specially asked the Ou family and the Liu family to make several sets of mechanical steel umbrellas. For convenience, her flower brocade wheel was modified. Even a few small daggers were prepared for her waist, which could not only be used to cut fruits but also turned into flying blades to kill people without blood.
In addition, Yu Yunxin wrote a letter to Yanyu Manor and asked Yunshan Yanluo to send more than 50 elite disciples of Yanyu Manor to lurk in various places in Qizhou. She even figured out some of the silver needles' moves. Trial? In her back garden, she raised a lot of wild game for the convenience of several restaurants and the taste buds of the five little ones.
In order to help Yu Yunxin get out of the shadow, Wuming and the other person started killing in the back garden. The bison, wild boars, rabbits and pheasants brought back from the medicine shop became their targets of attack.
Even Nangong Lin joined their killing mode with his golden fan, which made the three cooks in the mansion very busy. They didn't have time to eat them, so they sent them to the manor and the medicine shop. They even sent them to Zuixianlou and Mingyanglou several times.
"Senior Sister, is it boring for us to just kill animals here? It would be great if we could go out and have a look in the martial arts world." Wuming complained as he stabbed a rabbit that was jumping down from the rockery with a sharp sword, blood splattering on the edge of the rockery.
"We will set off for Qizhou the day after tomorrow. Is there no news from your master?" Nangong Lin asked without raising his head while looking at the book in his hand while sitting on the rockery.
"Without the delivery pigeons these days, I don't know how the master is doing." Wuming replied dejectedly.
Just as he finished speaking, a white dove flew over from the sky and landed on the rockery in front of him. Wuming shouted in surprise, "It's a letter from Master!" As he spoke, he excitedly jumped over the wall, grabbed the dove, took the note off the dove's leg, and couldn't wait to open it and read it.
"What do you think, Master? What did you say?" Yu Yunxin asked anxiously.
After reading the note, Wuming's face became serious and he said, "Master told us to bring more people with us. He led the Baijia of Ningyuan County to steal grain from the government office these days and was caught by a master. We should go and rescue them."
Everyone was surprised when they heard this.
"A master in the government office. Master can come and go freely in the general's mansion. How can he not deal with the government office?" Yu Yunxin asked curiously.
At this time, the guards in the palace reported: "Princess, Princess Rui and Princess Qi brought some supplements to see you."
"What are they here for?" Yu Yunxin muttered.
When Nangong Lin heard this, he and Wuming immediately killed a few wild boars, and then sprinkled the pig blood on Yu Yunxin's clothes, and deliberately smeared the blood on her face, mouth and hands. Yu Yunxin was furious when she saw this scene, and shouted loudly: "What are you doing?" But soon, she understood their intentions, so she pretended to be seriously injured and slowly went back to the room to lie down.
When Meng Hongqing and Gu Yin walked into Yu Yunxin's room, they saw her lying on the bed, covered in blood, her face as pale as paper, as if she had lost her breath. They were frightened out of their wits.
Nanny Li cried and said, "After the Queen Mother and Concubine Li in the palace learned about this, they sent imperial physicians to treat us, but our princess is seriously injured and I'm afraid she won't live long. Now she can only rely on blood-replenishing herbs to barely keep her alive. There are too many wounds and the bleeding can't be stopped. I really don't know how long our princess can hold on..." As she spoke, she couldn't help sobbing.
Hearing this, Yu Yunxin was secretly happy in her heart, but she remained calm on the surface, just frowning slightly. Li Ma continued, "Princess, I'm really sorry, we still need to invite the imperial physician to come, so we can't continue to entertain you two, please go back!" After saying that, she turned and left the room, leaving Meng Hongqing and Gu Yin with a look of astonishment.
These two women were both spoiled from childhood, how could they have seen such a bloody scene? They were so scared that their faces turned pale, dropped the items in their hands and hurriedly left Prince Yu's Mansion.
Along the way, the two walked and whispered to each other.
Princess Qi Gu Qin said with lingering fear: "Sister, I have never seen so much blood! Princess Yu is so pitiful. She could have been the Crown Princess, but ended up being the Princess Yu, and was harmed like this."
Princess Meng Hongqing of Rui sighed and continued her words: "Sister, have you ever heard of a word?"
"Sister, what do you want to say?" Gu Qin asked curiously.
Meng Hongqing replied with a look of regret: "Beauty is envied by heaven, and Princess Yu is a beauty with a tragic fate!"
Before she finished speaking, Meng Hongqing suddenly saw someone walking in front of her. She looked closely and found that it was the Crown Prince. At this time, the Crown Prince happened to hear the conversation between Meng Hongqing and Gu Qin.
He was extremely angry and was about to rush into the room to question Prince Yu, but was stopped at the door by Prince Yu.
Prince Yu said to the Crown Prince with a serious face: "Third brother, it is not appropriate for you to come to my mansion to visit my princess now. Besides, you are getting married soon, aren't you afraid of disturbing your happiness?"
The prince's eyes widened with anger, and he responded firmly: "Get out of my way, or I will be rude to you!"