Along the snowy slope of a trail outside the northwest mountain gate, a long blood trail extended to the edge of a cliff and disappeared completely.
Several soldiers went back to report that the eighth prince Li Ye wanted to see his body alive and his body before he died.
The cliffs below were so high that the soldiers were in trouble and had no choice but to look for them.
It's getting later and later, it's almost midnight, and I've found nothing.
Princess Yangping didn't sleep. She was sitting in the Xiehui Pavilion. All the eight doors behind the Xiehui Pavilion were open, and you could see the dark pavilion door at the other end.
There is a spacious space above the platform, and more than thirty soldiers are prying open the stone door.
After all, I came to the mountain this time to take a walk and relax. There is no siege machine on the mountain that can break through the stone gate, so it is very difficult to open the stone gate.
Li Ye's close confidant Jiang Shitai came with two or three people, passed by Princess Yangping, and headed towards the eighth prince who was reading behind him.
Jiang Shitai leaned over and whispered very softly.
Li Ye raised his head: "Seriously?"
Princess Yangping pricked up her ears, wanting to hear what they were talking about.
"Do you want to talk to His Majesty?" Jiang Shitai asked.
Li Ye put down the book in his hand and stood up, saying, "I'll go talk."
Princess Yangping watched them leave, feeling extremely curious.
However, she usually only had a good relationship with the third and fourth children in the palace. She did not like each other with the fifth and eighth children.
In fact, only a few of them came to the mountain this time. Although Lao Liu and Lao Jiu also came, they all said they were feeling unwell and had been in the house for the whole day. Otherwise, Yang Ping would never believe that one day she would be like Lao Wu and Lao Ba.
Sitting in a room.
Seeing that Xun Fei was discussing with the people from the Internal Affairs Bureau outside what tricks he could use, and the guards had not yet opened the stone door to a crack, Princess Yangping stopped waiting here and got up to go find Emperor Xuan Yan together.
Emperor Xuan Yan was having a meal. When he heard what Li Ye said, he asked: "Another palace?"
"It's on the southwest mountainside, about half an hour's walk from here," Li Ye said. "When I was searching for someone, I found that the palace was brightly lit. Because of the remoteness, I didn't pay attention to it in the past two days."
"The lights are bright." Emperor Xuan Yan repeated these four words.
"The door outside the hall was closed tightly, and three or four members of the Yuanhe Sect were fighting to the death," Li Ye said, paused, and said, "There was a small conflict. I didn't expect that they were really not afraid of death. A disciple
...and was stabbed to death by the Imperial Guards in the chaos."
This is no small matter, after all, we are on the top of a mountain.
"Nonsense." Emperor Xuan Yan said with a frown.
"Could it be that old sect leader?" Concubine Mu said.
"When we came up the mountain yesterday, almost everyone in the entire Yuanhe Sect came out to see the Holy Master, but this person was not there. Last night, when the Yuanhe Sect and all the chief officials knelt in the Changhe Hall, this person should also
Before I went out," Li Ye said, "Now something like this happened again..."
"Your Majesty, I think this is very strange." Concubine Mu said.
Emperor Xuan Yan looked at her.
"If you want to hide from people, why are the lights brightly lit? If you don't want to hide from people, why do those disciples block you there to death?"
"Yes," Emperor Xuan Yan smiled and said, "It's really strange."
Li Ye said: "Father, now..."
"How about I go take a look?" Princess Yangping said standing at the door.
Concubine Mu looked toward the door, her face suddenly turned pale, and she winked hurriedly.
Princess Yangping couldn't see it at all, so she went in and said, "Father, let me go and have a look."
Emperor Xuan Yan looked at her with a smile: "Yang Ping, what are you going to do?"
"This sect is weird and weird. At the same time, it has repeatedly ignored us. It treats the emperor's majesty and royal majesty as child's play. I feel so unhappy today!" Princess Yangping said.
"Haha..." Emperor Xuan Yan laughed loudly, "Are you upset?"
"It's hard to calm down."
"That's all, then go ahead," Emperor Xuan Yan said with a smile, "I won't make you mad."
"Thank you, Father!" Princess Yangping was busy with blessings.
Concubine Mu looked ugly and was speechless.
She thought that her daughter didn't know that this sect was weird, but she knew that she was still fighting for the limelight. Who knew what would happen next?
If the limelight was really so easy to grab, Li Ye wouldn't have gone out of his way to tell the emperor. He would have gone first and then sent someone to report.
The corners of her eyes were twitching violently. Concubine Mu raised her hand and touched it gently. An extremely strong feeling of uneasiness made her unable to calm down.
Princess Yangping took the people away. As soon as she left, someone came running towards her.
"Your Majesty!" The visitor came in without waiting for the announcement, knelt down and said, "The assassin has been found! Your Majesty, it is not suitable to stay on this mountain anymore! A group of twelve Forbidden Army soldiers sent to pursue the child were all killed!"
Li Ye's eyes widened: "Kill?!"
"Yes," the visitor said, "the assassin's techniques were neat and clean, and there were no traces of unnecessary struggle at the scene. Almost all of them were killed with one knife, which shows that he is a strong and expert assassin!"
Everyone in the room, including the palace maids and chamberlains who had been waiting quietly with their heads lowered, raised their heads and looked towards Emperor Xuan Yan.
Emperor Xuan Yan's peaceful expression slowly frowned.
"It's such a pity," Emperor Xuan Yan said, "I finally found a place where I can rest peacefully, and they want to destroy it too."
He raised his head and looked around the room.
The sense of peace that this room brought him was gone now.
A word of "assassin" directly dragged him back to a place where the country had fallen, a place full of war and chaos.
Even if there were nearly 3,000 people here who followed him up the mountain, even if the assassin was strong and one against a hundred, they would never be able to do anything to him.
However, what happened in the past two days and the word "assassin" made him have no good impression of this place.
"Then let's go," Emperor Xuan Yan said, "tomorrow morning."
"Yes." The person responded.
Li Ye immediately said: "Deploy personnel quickly, be on full alert and set up defenses, and at the same time send out people to search for the person, fifty people in a team, there is no room for any mistakes!"
With that said, he turned around and said: "Father, I will go and have a look together first!"
"Go." Emperor Xuan Yan said, his voice not concealing his fatigue.
Concubine Mu looked at Li Ye's positive look and was secretly amused.
When will it be your turn to dispatch the Emperor's Jinwu Guards and Imperial Guards?
Seeing Li Ye turn around and leave, Concubine Mu looked up at the open window sash in the other direction. What Concubine Mu was more worried about now than this so-called "assassin" was her spoiled and ignorant baby princess.
I don’t know what will happen if I go there.
…
…
bother!
Princess Yangping only has this word in her heart now.
It's a long, long way to go.
And it’s still mountains, it’s still snow, and it’s still night.
The two palace maids who were accompanying her said they wanted to help her, but they stumbled as she did and almost threw her to the ground.
I feel so trapped and I don’t have a sedan, it’s really annoying.
"There is an assassin!" Someone shouted loudly in the empty valley to her right, and it echoed in the secluded mountains.
"There is an assassin!" The palace maid on the side was shocked when she heard this and looked towards the flames on the other side.
