"...I've seen the poison smeared on those arrowheads, but it's just the root juice of poisonous weeds mixed with snake venom. It's not a problem...I've applied new medicine to you, endure the pain."

In a room, Princess Su Mijiang was chattering while helping her husband Zhao Hongrun apply medicine to the arrow wound on his left chest.

This woman rarely spoke so many words in one breath. Although her expression was still indifferent, it could be seen that her eyes revealed concern for her husband.

"hiss--"

The pain was as burning as salt, and Zhao Hongrun couldn't help but let out a breath of cold air.

Seeing this, Mi Jiang seemed to be trying to distract him and said, "I can't figure it out. Wei Jiao and the Green Crows were surrounding you at that time. How could you still be hit by arrows?"

Hearing this, Zhao Hongrun smiled bitterly and said, "How do I know this? It's probably God's will (zhe) that arranged it this way."

After that, he couldn't help complaining: "It hurts, it hurts, don't you have any medicine that won't hurt? If the poison on the arrowhead and arrow cluster didn't kill me, I would have died in your hands..."

…Is the new medicine you prepared really okay? Why do I feel like I’m about to have a fever?”

Mi Jiang rolled her eyes when she heard this. She seemed a little annoyed that her husband didn't trust the new medicine she prepared. After bandaging the latter's wound, she deliberately patted the bandage lightly, causing Zhao Hongrun to utter an "ouch" in pain.

He looked at Mi Jiang with disbelief: I'm already like this, and you still want to torture me?

As if she understood the strange look in her husband's eyes, Mi Jiang shook her head speechlessly and said, "Okay, I'll go see Wei'er and have a good rest."

After saying that, there was a hint of hesitation in her eyes, and she gently put her right hand on her husband's chest, but hesitated to speak.

Through some unknown telepathy, Zhao Hongrun vaguely felt that Mi Jiang's seemingly calm expression was actually not emotionally stable, so he raised his right hand and pressed Mi Jiang's chest, then patted it twice and whispered softly.

Said: "Don't worry, I will be fine...just go."

After receiving her husband's assurance, Mi Jiang nodded, then stood up and walked out.

After Mi Jiang left, Zongwei Weijiao and Mu Qing, who were guarding outside the house, came to the room and saw Zhao Hongrun sitting on the edge of the bed with his upper body bandaged. Mu Qing smiled and said: "Your Highness, even if

Even miles apart, I can hear your shrill screams..."

Hearing this, even Wei Jiao couldn't help but laugh.

It's not that they don't care about Zhao Hongrun. In fact, they are extremely concerned about the latter. However, Zhao Hongrun's screams sounded quite energetic at that time, and the His Highness looked good at the moment. Therefore, Mu Qing

He couldn't help but make a joke about his Highness - this was probably a disguised attempt to make Zhao Hongrun pay less attention to his wounds.

After giving Mu Qing a fierce look and swearing a few vicious words like "Sooner or later I will throw you to the Youma Army to pick up horse dung", Zhao Hongrun lay down on the bed with the help of Wei Jiao, and then

, he slowly put away his smile and curse, and said with a serious face: "That group of people... really want to take my life."

Seeing that His Highness brought up business, Mu Qing stopped joking and said with a frown: "Your Highness, are those people really not deliberately arranged by Zhang Qigong?... I still feel that this guy is very suspicious."

Zhao Hongrun shook his head and said calmly: "Zhang Qigong is a smart man. He should know what would happen if I died near Daliang. Therefore, at the last moment, he weighed the pros and cons and ordered the ban

Guard protected us and boarded the ship..."

"Maybe Zhang Qigong deliberately designed this?" Mu Qing reminded from the side: "Seeing that His Highness was hit by a deadly poisonous arrow, he simply let him go, hoping to get rid of the responsibility of killing Your Highness..."

"He can't get rid of it." Shaking his head, Zhao Hongrun said objectively: "As long as the king dies near Daliang, the prince has an unshirkable responsibility. How can Zhang Qigong get away with this method?" At this point

, he said with some certainty: "It's Xiao Ni!"

"How could Xiao Ni show up at the right time?" Mu Qing asked suspiciously.

Zhao Hongrun laughed when he heard this and said lightly: "It's very simple. Among the guards that Zhang Qigong brought to Xiangfu Port at that time, there were either Xiao Ni's remnants, or Xiao Ni's informants, who were informing the latter..."

Hearing this, Wei Jiao couldn't help but said: "Even if the information was leaked, Xiao Ni would not be able to gather such a team of people in such a short period of time, right?... The number of thieves at that time seemed to be greater than that brought by Zhang Qigong.

There are even more imperial guards in Xiangfu Port. Unless..." He frowned and added: "Unless Xiao Ni has actually been deployed around Daliang."

Having said this, he seemed to have thought of something, and his brows furrowed even more tightly.

As if guessing what Wei Jiao was thinking, Zhao Hongrun nodded and said, "That's probably the case... The prince was too hasty and integrated the imperial guards, summoning many local families and disciples to Daliang, which gave the group of

People can take advantage of this opportunity, I believe Zhang Qigong should have noticed it after that day."

After a pause, a look of confusion appeared on his face, and he murmured in confusion: "It's just that I can't figure out why Xiao Ni didn't hesitate to expose the men and horses deployed in Daliang, and also planned to kill me..."

Although many people knew that Zhao Hongrun wanted to cut Xiao Luan, the leader of Xiao Ni, into pieces with a thousand knives, I believe this was definitely not the reason why Xiao Luan wanted to kill him.

Is Xiao Luan afraid of death?

Don't forget, this is a villain who dared to change his appearance and appear in Daliang, the capital of King Wei, as a government official - I remember that in Zhao Ying, after the Zhao Que sisters drew a portrait of Xiao Luan from memory, Zhao Hongrun was shocked.

In fact, he had already met the leader of the remnants of the Xiao family many times.

Yes, the former Dali Temple Duan Cheng who returned home is none other than Xiao Luan himself!

From this we can see what a courageous man Xiao Luan is.

Such a person would strike first because Zhao Hongrun wanted to kill him, and would not hesitate to expose the remaining members of Xiao Ni's party who had finally been redeployed in Daliang?

Zhao Hongrun never believed it!

Unless Xiao Luan had other motives - in any case, it would not be because of personal grudges.

Thinking of this, Zhao Hongrun murmured to himself: "I can't figure it out... That day Xiao Ni sent someone to give Zhao Hongli evidence of the private contact between Quliang Hou Sima Song and the prince. Logically speaking, Xiao Luan planned to get the prince as well.

, is he trying to help the prince now? Isn’t that right?

Yes, if he really wants to help the prince, he will never do it while I am still in Daliang. Otherwise, if I die, the prince will have no excuse... It’s strange, since he doesn’t want to help the prince, why would he kill me? Leave me alone.

To bring down the prince, our interests should be aligned with his own."

Raising his hand to rub his brow bone, Zhao Hongrun felt that the whole thing was weird.

His father, Zhao Yuancai, had done nothing in the past year, and the resurgent Xiao Ni, the remaining party, after a year of silence, the first thing they did was to try to kill him even if they exposed themselves. Zhao Hongrun always felt that behind these things,

It seems like something is secretly pushing it.

He felt that this whole thing was like a huge chess game. Both Zhao Hongrun and Prince Hongyu seemed to be just chess pieces on the chess board. As for the people playing chess——

Suddenly, Zhao Hongrun asked: "Wei Jiao, can you accomplish what I asked you to do?"

A strange look appeared on Wei Jiao's face, and he said with some shame: "Reporting to Your Highness, I have invited all the doctors in (Shangshui) County to the palace according to Your Highness's instructions, and wronged those few and put them under house arrest.

At the house, people named Zhu Gui, He Miao and others were looking for any medicinal materials that could help detoxify... As long as there were Xiao Ni's spies in Shangshui County, Xiao Ni would definitely learn "the news that His Highness died from a poisoned arrow."

.”

"Very good." Zhao Hongrun nodded with satisfaction, and then said with a smile: "In this way, in a few days, when you tie up your head in white silk and gather an army to attack the prince in Shangshui County, Xiao Ni will definitely think that I

The king is dead..." At this point, he touched his chin and asked in confusion: "Do you want to hold a funeral to make it more credible?"

Wei Jiao and Mu Qing were ashamed of this, and laughed bitterly in unison: "Your Highness, you must not do this! ... This is taboo!"

"Okay, okay, I didn't just say it casually." Zhao Hongrun smiled, then he squinted his eyes and said in a deep voice: "In this confrontation between the prince and Prince Qing, if I am not wrong, Xiao Luan is also

One of the promoters behind the scenes. But he wants me dead, which means that I am not needed in this game of chess. In other words, my survival will be a huge obstacle to his upcoming actions.

...Since we can't guess his purpose for the time being, we can only resort to tricks..."

Wei Jiao and Mu Qing nodded.

The three of them were chatting when suddenly a member of the Green Crow family came from outside the house asking for instructions: "Your Highness, there is something urgent to report about Zhao Hongjing, King of Yangzhai."

After hearing this, Zhao Hongrun ordered Mu Qing to open the door and recruit the Qingya people.

After entering, the Qingya member kowtowed to Zhao Hongrun and said, "Your Highness, Zhao Hongjing, King of Yangzhai, just wanted to forcefully leave the palace, but he was subdued by my Qingya brother."

After hearing this, Zhao Hongrun couldn't help laughing: "This Zhao Hongjing is really utilitarian..."

After thinking about it, he ordered Mu Qing: "Mu Qing, go and bring him here."

"Yes!" Mu Qing clasped his fists and retreated.

About an hour later, when Zhao Hongrun was lying on the bed in the house with his eyes closed and recuperating, he heard a somewhat stern warning from the King of Yangzhai, Zhao Hongjing, from outside the house: "Mu Qing, please order someone to kill me.

What does the king want to do by forcefully taking him to this place? I can warn you, I am a descendant of the royal family..."

But at the end, Zhao Hongjing's voice gradually softened: "Mu Qing, what happened to Lao Ba has nothing to do with me. I advised him at the beginning not to go to Daliang, but it was Lao Ba who didn't listen...

...You believe my words, Mu Qing..."

"It seems that Mu Qing scared Prince Xiang quite a bit..."

Zong Wei, who was standing next to the bed, chuckled and said in a low voice.

Zhao Hongrun couldn't help but laugh at this - he did feel unhappy when he was teased by Mu Qing, but this did not prevent him from taking pleasure in others being teased by Mu Qing.

A moment later, there was a bang and the door was pushed open. Mu Qing stood at the door and said fiercely: "Get in!"

Immediately, he pushed the earth-colored Yangdi King Zhao Hongjing into the house and slammed the door.

Their eyes met, Zhao Hongrun looked at the look of horror on the face of Yangzhai King Zhao Hongjing in amusement, which was gradually replaced by astonishment, especially when the latter gradually widened his eyes, and his stunned expression made Zhao Hongrun feel joyful, as if he was

The pain was relieved a bit.

"Brother Three Kings, long time no see." Zhao Hongrun smiled lightly and waved.

Yangzhai King Zhao Hongjing stared at Zhao Hongrun with an uncertain expression. After staring for a few breaths, he took a long breath of relief and complained angrily: "Old man, your Zongwei is so ridiculous. Why?"

Brother just now really thought he was going to take me to some remote corner and kill me with one knife..."

Having said this, a look of deep joy appeared on his face, he walked forward quickly and said with a smile: "Hongrun, I am really relieved to see that you are safe and sound."

Zhao Hongrun smiled faintly.

He could guess that the so-called care about him by Yangzhai King Zhao Hongjing was actually to put it bluntly, he was concerned about whether he was still valuable. After all, Zhao Hongjing was a man who was no less utilitarian than Zhang Qigong - the difference between the two was that,
To be continued...