A man's voice came from outside, "Little Master, we are traveling merchants. We missed the inn because we were in a hurry. We have no choice but to come here to seek accommodation. I hope it will be convenient for Little Master."
"This..." If it was a female guest, Yilin would open the door, but it was a male guest. Generally speaking, their temple does not accept male guests. When Yilin was still hesitating, she said from outside: "Little Master
, I really had no choice but to ask your temple for help, and I also asked the young master to open the door for us to take a rest, and we will definitely donate more sesame oil money."
"Okay then." Yilin thought for a while, but finally couldn't bear them sleeping in the wild and opened the temple door. Little did she know that she had already led a group of evil wolves in!
Because the night was already dark and Yilin didn't have a lantern in her hand, she couldn't see clearly the appearance of the people outside the door, let alone the weapons they hid behind them. She only knew that they really came to stay, and after pronouncing the Buddha's name, she said:
"Several donors please!"
"Thank you, little master!" With these words, Dark Eagle pulled out the long knife hidden behind her and slashed at Yilin. Yilin only had time to scream in pain before she fell to the ground covered in blood. But her
The shout attracted the attention of everyone in the Buddhist hall. Just as Xu was about to get up and go out to see what was going on, Jing'an held her down and said, "The noble man stays here, and the poor nun goes out and takes a look!"
Jing'an came back as soon as she reached the entrance of the palace, but her posture when she came back was a bit strange. She was walking backwards, as if she was being forced by someone. In fact, she did have a knife on her neck, "You...
What do you want to do?"
The masked Dark Eagle glanced around the hall and already knew who Mrs. Xu was, because among the many nuns, she and Zi Rong were the only ones with long hair, and the makeup of the master and servants was always easy to distinguish.
"Hand over all the valuable things in your temple. If you hide them and don't hand them over, I will kill you immediately." Yingge asked them to pretend to be gangsters, just because he didn't want Yinzhen to suspect that someone was deliberately assassinating the Xu family.
Jing'an calmed herself down and said: "We are in a temple here, there is nothing valuable anywhere."
Dark Eagle said coldly: "Old nun, do you think we are fools? Hui'an Temple is an imperial temple, and the incense money alone is huge. How can you have no money? Hand it over quickly, otherwise the little nun just now will be you.
If you are not afraid of death, you can try it. Hurry up!"
Jing'an was afraid that they would really kill people, so he had to have all the valuable things in the temple fetched. At the same time, the Ouchi guard who was responsible for Xu's safety heard the news and came over.
Dark Eagle had known that the Ouchi guards were there, so the secret guards he brought with him were all top-notch secret guards, and their numbers were superior. He quickly suppressed the Ouchi guards and could take them right before his eyes.
Life, suddenly another group of people ran in and helped the Ouchi guards to block them.
Dark Eagle looked wrong and quickly asked: "Who are you?"
The leader of the other party sneered: "You don't need to know. If you know what's going on, retreat quickly, otherwise your life will be in danger!"
These were originally Dark Eagle's words to threaten Jing'an, but now he was threatened in turn. It was really annoying. Dark Eagle stopped talking and only attacked the opponent's fatal points with every move. He was originally a secret guard carefully trained by Yingge.
The leader is good at assassination. Once he goes out with all his strength, the opponent will soon be unable to resist. The other side is similar, being suppressed by the secret guards.
"I really don't know who wants whose life!" After spitting out these cold words, Dark Eagle held on to the bloody steel knife and chopped hard on the opponent's body, intending to completely end the opponent's life.
Seeing that he could not escape with his life, the other party got angry and shouted: "Do it quickly!"
Just after saying these words, Dark Eagle felt a strong murderous intention, which even made him feel dangerous. Before he could understand where the murderous intention came from, a sharp arrow had already grazed his cheek and flew away. passed, leaving a blood-red mark.
"No, there are archers ambushing you!" The person who shouted these words was shot in the chest by a sharp arrow the next moment.
The situation reversed at this moment, and sharp arrows continued to be fired. Although Dark Eagle led his men to hide in the darkness as quickly as possible, causing the archers to miss their target, more than half of his men were killed or injured.
After they hid in the dark, the archers also stopped shooting arrows, and there was a strange stalemate between the two sides. As for those who originally fought against the Dark Eagle, they and the Ouchi guards guarded the Xu family, making it impossible for the Dark Eagle to find them. Don't get the chance to do it.
"Sir, what should we do now?" asked a wounded secret guard. No one could have imagined that something that should have been a sure thing would have such an unexpected turn of events. Who sent those people? How did they know they would come here?
Dark Eagle gritted his teeth and said nothing. He had just tried to break into the hall with his quick movements and kill Xu, but as soon as he stepped out of the darkness, arrows shot out like rain, making it impossible for him to get close to the hall, let alone Kill the Xu family.
After some weighing, Dark Eagle gritted his teeth and squeezed out one word, "Withdraw!"
Although they are secret guards who are not afraid of death and put orders first, but that does not mean that they will die in vain. When the strength difference between the two sides is too large and the mission cannot be completed even if they all die, retreat is undoubtedly the best option. choice.
After Dark Eagle evacuated, those people and the archers also evacuated, leaving Xu and others who had no idea what was going on.
It was late at night, but Hongli was still awake and still stayed in the study. Little Zhengzi stood quietly aside.
I don't know how long it took, but a gust of wind came from outside the door, causing the candle flame on the candlestick to flicker, flickering in and out. When the candle flame stabilized, there was one more person in the study.
This person is Hongli's most trusted subordinate, his name is Ade. It was him who stopped Dark Eagle and others just now, "My subordinates, please pay homage to the prince."
Hongli saw the blood dripping from Ade's body, and quickly asked Xiao Zhengzi to help him sit aside, and then said: "How is it? Did you protect Xu Guiren?"
"Fortunately, the prince sent a team of archers to the subordinates, otherwise Xu Guiren would really be in danger." As he said, Ade explained the situation in detail, and then said: "The subordinates follow the prince's words and let them Those who were not injured and the archers continued to ambush outside the temple to prevent those people from returning."
"Okay!" After learning that Xu was fine, Hongli let out a long breath, "You go down and bandage the wound first, and I will arrange the rest."
Although Ade was curious about why Hongli sent himself to protect the Xu family, he knew that these were not questions he should ask, so he could only endure his curiosity and retreat.
After Ade retreated, Hongli told Xiao Zhengzi: "Get your horses ready immediately. I am going to the prince's palace to be married."
Little Zhengzi advised: "Your Majesty, it's already late at night, and my second elder brother must have rested. Why don't we go tomorrow?"