Traveling through ancient times: daily life on the run

Chapter 411 Never die in peace

Zhu Jinyou frowned and his eyes were extremely sharp. He waited until the atmosphere in the room eased a lot before he dared to look at Qin Luohong, but he did not speak for a long time.

The distance between the two of them was less than ten feet, but it felt like a mountain barrier.

Zhu Jinyou didn't ask her how she knew there was a dagger hidden in the maid's sleeve. Her carelessness always seemed overly deliberate.

However, it was still unclear whether the dagger was poisonous. He couldn't use this uncertainty to question the Queen Mother.

Finally, a faint smile appeared on Luo Yu's lips: "Zhu Jinyou, let's continue making egg tarts. When they are done, you can send them to the Queen Mother."

"I'm not going to the Queen Mother's place. I'm only accompanying you today."

"Ah."

The two of them stopped talking and walked towards the kitchen hand in hand. Song Si brought the guards to guard the yard layer by layer.

Time passed quietly, and everything seemed normal and peaceful. As dusk approached, Luo Yu wondered if the assassination attempt had already passed, and if this had ended prematurely. Several maids had been arrested this morning, and it seemed likely that the Ning Palace still had many spies within the Empress Dowager's office. Would the Empress Dowager really let them go?

Even if it's not today, it will be tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, unless the toxicity remaining in the body has a time limit.

During dinner time, there was a commotion outside.

Song Si went to the hall and reported: "Master, the guards guarding the prison came to report that several imprisoned maids committed suicide by taking poison."

Zhu Jinyou stood up suddenly, furious. He had originally thought that everyone in his mansion was carefully selected by him, but he had never expected that they all had ulterior motives. The maids had been searched repeatedly and it was impossible for them to be hiding poison. So there was only one possibility: someone had sent poison.

"Investigate thoroughly. Everyone in this palace must be thoroughly investigated today. Anyone who is suspicious must be exiled. They must not even set foot in the capital."

"Yes."

Luo Yu was just thinking that he could finally breathe a sigh of relief, but it seems that he is destined to have a sleepless night.

Song Si brought a group of people and began to search the mansion carefully inside and outside. Zhu Jinyou drove out all the maids who served Luo Yu.

Luo Yu saw that his face was gloomy. He hadn't seen him smile for a single day since Luhua's accident.

She was just thinking about how to comfort him when she heard him whisper in her ear: "Luo Yu, write a letter to the Fang family tomorrow and ask them to arrange for Xiao Tao and a few reliable maids to come and serve you."

Luo Yu smiled suddenly. "Zhu Jinyou, there's no need to be so overly cautious. I'm fine now, right? Besides, if there really weren't a single servant left in the mansion, wouldn't you be afraid that others would think you were paranoid?"

Zhu Jinyou held her in his arms, patted her head and said, "As long as Luo Yu is fine, we don't need these people who worry about us in the future, not even one."

"..."

At this time, Song Si came to report again: "Master, I found that a few servants are not quite right. Do you want to check it out?"

In order to find out who sent these people, Zhu Jinyou decided to go and find out.

Luo Yu thought about it and followed closely. If she stayed in the house alone, it would probably be even more dangerous.

Zhu Jinyou took her hand and walked towards the front hall.

Unexpectedly, shadows were lurking along the way, and many people were coming. It seemed that this assassination mission was very urgent and could only be completed within a limited time.

They were originally targeting Qin Luohong, but they didn't expect that His Royal Highness Prince Ning would always be with her.

As she was about to reach the front hall, the group of secret guards came out fighting. Luo Yu thought to herself, it seems that this group of people will not stop until they have taken her life. Even Zhu Jinyou has no intention of withdrawing.

Fortunately, the Ning Palace had many skilled guards, more than enough to deal with these people. Luo Yu was tightly protected by Zhu Jinyou, and the others couldn't touch her at all. Song Si was also blocking her, not to mention the hidden arrows that were difficult to defend against.

Luo Yu discovered that this group of people tried their best to avoid Zhu Jinyou. It seemed that their swords were all highly poisonous. As long as the poison touched the wounds on Zhu Jinyou and her body, the poison in their bodies would immediately take effect.

They are so anxious, I guess the poison in her body can only last until today.

When the people in the front hall heard the fighting outside, several guards ran out to help, and the servants who had no time to help all crowded into the front hall, huddled together.

But not long after, Luo Yu heard a loud noise in the house. She was protected by Zhu Jinyou in the corner, but she saw a man dressed in the clothes of a servant in the mansion breaking out from the roof. In the hazy moonlight, an arrow flew towards Luo Yu.

When Luo Yu reacted, she saw Zhu Jinyou blocking the attacker in front of him while extending his other arm to block the flying arrow for her.

"Zhu Jinyou!"

"Master!"

When the arrow hit Zhu Jinyou's arm, the person who had just shot the arrow was frightened and fled. The other assassins also stopped their actions and chased after the man. The assassins who were defeated by Song Si and his men committed suicide by cutting their own throats and would not reveal anything until their death.

Zhu Jinyou didn't feel much pain at first; it was just an arrow piercing his arm. After a while, he looked at Luo Yu with an increasingly hazy expression. She hugged him, falling with him as he leaned down. He could feel a few cold tears falling on his cheeks, sliding down the slope of his cheeks to the corners of his mouth. They were particularly bitter, and seemed to be wrapped in a salty, faint sadness.

"Zhu Jinyou, why are you so stupid?"

He tried his best to force a smile: "You saved me once too."

Luo Yu shook his head. He knew clearly that the other party's weapon was poisoned, and that the poison would kill them both...

Song Si watched as his master's face turned pale and his lips purple in an instant, and he shouted, "Quick, go find the imperial physician!"

Thinking again, it would take a round trip to find the imperial physician, so he decided to carry his master to find the imperial physician himself.

Luo Yu pulled out a dagger she had hidden away and said to Song Si calmly, "This poison will take effect quickly. It's too late."

Before Song Si could come to his senses, he saw Miss Luo Yu pull out a dagger and slash his neck fiercely. The dagger fell to the ground, and she hugged Zhu Jinyou and whispered in his ear, "Zhu Jinyou, I'm with you."

The last scene that Zhu Jinyou saw was Luo Hong staying with him until his death. He was in great pain and raised his hand with difficulty to cover her bleeding neck, but Luo Hong grabbed his hand. Her tears flowed silently in the cold night.

Song Si was really confused and stood aside, not daring to believe what was happening before his eyes.

Miss Luo Yu, you must love His Highness very much.

The moonlight was hazy, and dark clouds appeared from nowhere, silently covering the faint moonlight bit by bit, as if covering up endless sorrow, covering up this absurd and cruel world...

Song Si's legs went limp, and he knelt down beside the master, helpless and powerless. His true sorrow was a dead heart, a total despair...