The eldest son of the Yuan family, Yuan Chenghua, hugged the tall and handsome man in his arms. The man was hit by an arrow in the chest, and the blood stained the clothes in front of his chest. But Yuan Chenghua held him firmly in his arms, never

Release your arms.

Yuan Chengwei's face was pale, and mouthfuls of thick blood overflowed from the corners of his lips, staining a large area of ​​Yuan Chenghua's chest, but Yuan Chenghua did not let go of his arms, his enchanting face was full of ferocity and pain, and he shouted: "Third brother, third brother... Big brother

Nothing will happen to you!"

Yuan Chengwei smiled bitterly, and a large amount of blood overflowed from his mouth. He even spoke a little unclearly, but Yuan Chenghua could hear what he said: "Brother, you have to avenge me!"

"Third brother... you must hold on. I will take you to see the imperial doctor right now!" Yuan Chenghua held Yuan Chengwei's arms and half of his body on his shoulders, but as soon as he moved, Yuan Chengwei's entire body went limp.

It pressed heavily on half of his shoulders, causing him to suddenly stop and couldn't help but call out softly: "Third brother? Third brother, are you okay? Third brother..."

However, in the air, the cheers of three hundred imperial guards could be heard. Apart from the crackling of the flames on the torches blown by the night wind, only his empty voice lingered in my ears.[

Yuan Chenghua suddenly turned around and asked a guard of the Yuan family to hold Yuan Chengwei's body, took out a long knife from his waist, and rushed into the tent.

In the tent, Situ Zhan had already caught two masked men in black clothes. When Situ Zhan saw Yuan Chenghua running in aggressively, he couldn't help but sneered: "Master Yuan, what else do you have to say? This thief is from you Yuan

The family's tent was searched, but you said there were no assassins here. This shows that your Yuan family has been in cahoots with the assassins, and some of them killed the emperor?"

"This step by step calculation is really deep. It seems that Miss Situ is really a cunning woman. Unexpectedly, I still lost and lost two brothers. How can I have the dignity to go back to see my father?"

Situ Zhan saw that he was holding a long sword tightly in his hand, and it was shaking as he spoke, as if he was going crazy. He felt something bad, so he shouted to the three hundred imperial guards: "The eldest son of the Yuan family wants to

The emperor has an order for harboring assassins, and anyone who stands in his way will be killed!"

Yuan Chenghua laughed: "Situ Zhan, you despicable villain, it seems that you also want to kill people and silence them. Okay, you let me die, and I don't want you to walk out of the Yuan family's tent alive. I want to fight for mine."

If the two brothers take revenge, you will die!"

Yuan Chenghua raised his long sword. After hearing Situ Zhan's order, the three hundred imperial guards outside took out their military weapons and prepared to put Yuan Chenghua to death. But at this moment, a handsome man in golden clothes even

He came over and said with a solemn expression: "I, Prince, stop it. What's wrong with you? Do you want to rebel?"

Yuan Chenghua's emotions, which were already on the verge of collapse, quickly returned to normal after seeing His Highness the Crown Prince. He, Situ Zhan and others all paid homage to the Crown Prince. His Royal Highness Li Yuan's amber eyes swept across Situ Zhan's handsome face.

He then said: "If I hadn't arrived in time, I'm afraid that Fourth Young Master Situ would have used my father's Imperial Guards to cause some evil."

Situ Zhan raised his eyes, a pair of agate-like eyes with an irresistible look: "Your Highness, do you intend to prevent the ministers from apprehending the assassin for the emperor? The emperor has an order. If anyone prevents the apprehension of the assassin, he will be killed without mercy!"

The corners of Prince Li Yuan's lips twitched: "Do you mean to say that if I stop you, you will also kill me?"

Situ Zhan took out a gold medal that the emperor had given him from his waist, narrowed his eyes, pursed his lips and said: "This is given to the minister by the emperor himself. Your Highness, it is best not to embarrass the minister."

Prince Li Yuan also narrowed his eyes and took out a sword from his waist. This sword had been seen by Situ Zhan before, and the ministers who often attended the court also knew what it was. Li Yuan frowned and asked: "Your Highness, why bother?"

How about taking out Shang Fang’s sword to hinder this matter?”

"Situ Zhan, you are so brave. This is the Shang Fang sword that the Supreme Emperor once left. Do you still want to question it? If you kill the eldest son of the Yuan family, then you will end the Yuan family's incense. Do you know that the Yuan family

We have been together for hundreds of years, and this young master of the Yuan family is the lifeblood of the Yuan family. If you do this, you will cut off the Yuan family's escape. It shows how vicious your thoughts are. Today, the crown prince will use Shang Fang's sword to stop you from continuing to act maliciously.

, why don’t you take three hundred imperial guards and leave here quickly?”

Situ Zhan gritted his teeth, but he could not order the imperial guards to kill Yuan Chenghua with one strike in front of the Shang Fang sword passed down by the Supreme Emperor. He ordered the men in black to be taken out of the tent and left with the three hundred imperial guards.

When Yuan Chenghua saw Situ Zhan leaving with three hundred imperial guards, he hurriedly knelt on the ground and bowed his head to apologize: "Your Highness, all the ministers were too impulsive today and almost caused something wrong."

Prince Li Yuan retreated everyone in the tent, then stretched out his hands to help Yuan Chenghua up, and sighed softly: "It's not your fault. If I hadn't asked you to deal with that dead girl, your Yuan family would have

This will not happen!"

"Your Highness, I can't blame you for all this. If you want to blame me, I blame you for not being able to protect your brother, so you fell into that girl's scheme. I will definitely settle this debt with her!" Playing with this sentence,

Yuan Chenghua couldn't help looking up at Prince Li Yuan curiously, and asked: "Your Highness, you are really good at predicting events. You actually guessed that my minister would be in trouble today, and came all the way to Xiliang to save my minister?"

Prince Li Yuan sighed heavily: "Master Yuan, in fact, when I told my mother about sending you to deal with this cunning woman Situ Ruoxi, my mother had already guessed that you would be here today, and it was she who sent me to save you."

Yuan Chenghua lowered his beautiful eyes: "It seems that the blame lies with me for being careless and making such a big mistake."

The prince nodded: "Yes! Mr. Yuan, let's go to the emperor's tent to apologize. Don't let Situ Zhan fan the flames in the ears of the emperor, otherwise neither you nor I will be able to escape." [

The two looked at each other nervously, then they both mounted their horses and ran to the Emperor's tent in Southern Xinjiang.

Lin Ruoxi has been staying by Mrs. Situ's side, and Mrs. Situ has woken up an hour ago. Lin Ruoxi is feeding her rice porridge with a porcelain spoon. Mrs. Situ's face is pale, but her smile is a bit embarrassing: "Ruoxi,

Did your adoptive mother feed you rice porridge like this when you were a child?"

Lin Ruoxi's hand movements paused. She was an orphan when she was a child. She had to do everything by herself at a very young age. There was no time for her mother to feed her. Even the fourth Miss Lin Ruoxi in Prime Minister Lin's Mansion was afraid that

You have been separated from Aunt Liu since she was very young, and no one would be kind enough to love, care, and feed a concubine's daughter like this, right?

But Lin Ruoxi nodded sincerely: "Mother, Ruoxi also had good food and clothing when she was a child, so mother, you better not think about your daughter's past."

"That's good, that's good!" Mrs. Situ chuckled lightly, took another sip of the rice porridge handed by Lin Ruoxi, and then said: "I have always felt guilty for not protecting you properly when you were young.

I didn’t feed you porridge and vegetables with my own hands, but look at it now... the mother actually asked her daughter to feed her rice porridge, which is really a bit embarrassing to say!"

Lin Ruoxi smiled tenderly: "Mother, a daughter should be filial to you, so you don't have to worry so much. Just enjoy the time when your daughter takes care of you, and enjoy your happiness!"

Mrs. Situ smiled with satisfaction, and her face was filled with a happy smile.

Outside the tent, Pingyang Hou Situyu paced anxiously back and forth in front of the tent. When he saw his two sons, Situ Han and Situ Bin, rushing back, he relaxed his frown with relief.

He was surrounded by his confidants and the Situ family's guards, so he could safely ask, "Is things going smoothly?"

Situ Han and Situ Bin looked at each other and shook their heads slightly. Situ Han was obviously too excited and said angrily: "Father, everything went according to plan. We were just one step away from killing the eldest son of the Yuan family, Yuan Chenghua, but halfway...

The prince is here to stop us."

"Prince? Isn't he in Nanjiang Kingdom sharing the emperor's worries and handling government affairs? How come he came to Xiliang Kingdom and accidentally saved the eldest son of the Yuan family?"

Situ Bin blinked his peach blossom eyes, and his expression became dim: "I'm afraid that Empress Wu had guessed that the Yuan family would be in trouble, so she sent the prince here to stop it. Father, you don't know that the emperor had already given a piece of cake to the fourth brother at that time.

The gold medal, seeing it is like seeing the emperor himself, but His Highness the Crown Prince actually brought the Emperor's Shang Fang Sword to suppress the gold medal, which is really jaw-dropping."

Situ Yu asked anxiously: "So how is Zhan'er doing now? How will the emperor handle this matter?"

"It depends on how the prince and the eldest son of the Yuan family lobby the emperor and justify themselves. They will blame others for stealing the military cards and see if they can succeed." Situ Bin's vermilion lips pressed together tightly.

Apparently they were worried that the results would go against their plans.

Lin Ruoxi just heard Situ Han's complaints. She saw Mrs. Situ frowning and seemed a little worried. Lin Ruoxi and the others had not told Mrs. Situ about today's plan, so she had no intention of letting Mrs. Situ continue to worry like this.

, she smiled softly, put the bowl in her hand on the wooden plate next to her, and tried to help Mrs. Situ to rest on the soft blanket: "Mother, your body has not recovered yet, and you need more rest!"

"It's okay. Look how you always look worried about me. What was your second brother yelling outside the tent just now? It seems to be related to the Yuan family. What's going on?"

Lin Ruoxi did not intend to tell Mrs. Situ the truth: "Mother, it's not that he and the Yuan family's young master had a bad time when they were involved in the business, so that's why he complained about the Yuan family's young master like this."

"I'm not too proud of the Yuan family, but the Yuan family and the Situ family are the same family after all. If there is any conflict, no one will be able to take advantage of it. Ruoxi, what do you say, your second brother?"

If he will listen, you can advise him not to cause discord between the two families just because of this trivial matter."

Lin Ruoxi suddenly discovered that Mrs. Situ seemed to have forgotten some memories. For example, when the Situ brothers and the Yuan brothers were fighting to the death, she had been injured because of the Situ brothers. At that time, Mrs. Situ had discussed it with the Situ family.

She had to deal with the Yuan family, but Mrs. Situ forgot about it?

But this is okay. If Mrs. Situ thinks about what happened in the past, she will definitely be angry. On the contrary, it will be bad for her health.

Lin Ruoxi nodded with a smile, covered Mrs. Situ with a blanket, and then walked out of the tent.

"Second brother, you should speak softer and don't disturb your mother."[

Situ Han stretched out his hand and touched the back of his head, feeling a little embarrassed: "Little sister, I have a loud voice, so sometimes it's hard to control my emotions. I didn't expect that I would wake my mother up."

Lin Ruoxi just smiled faintly, then looked at Situ Bin and asked, "Sixth brother, how is things going? Is something going wrong somewhere?"

"Everything was going according to the plan before, but the prince appeared halfway and blocked it with the Emperor's Sword of Shangfang. I'm worried that the plan will not progress."

Lin Ruoxi sighed softly: "Unexpectedly, Queen Wu guessed it and actually thought of using the Emperor's Shangfang Sword to bring it to the Prince to prevent the Emperor from getting angry and to suppress him."

Pingyang Hou Situyu asked Lin Ruoxi: "Ruoxi, do you think we still have a chance of winning this matter?"

Lin Ruoxi shook her head: "No, Queen Wu will tell the Crown Prince what to say and do before he comes to Xiliang Kingdom. Besides, Shang Fang's sword is in the hands of His Highness the Crown Prince, and the fourth brother has found the weapon card and returned it."

After giving it to the emperor, the emperor naturally hopes that the big thing will be reduced to a trivial matter. Otherwise, if the Yuan family is punished, the Yuan family's general who is guarding the country outside the border will definitely lead his troops to cause chaos. I am afraid that the emperor will not be ruthless enough to do such a thing.

A dangerous decision."

Situ Han's mind was cloudy and he asked confusedly: "But didn't you say before that you were nine-level sure about this matter?"

"Yes, I had nine levels of confidence before, but when the prince comes, I'm afraid he will lose all one level. Before, it was because the emperor lost his military card and became grumpy, and it was easy to do wrong things in anger, but now

As soon as the prince comes, he can't help but represent the power behind Queen Wu, and he also holds Shang Fang's sword to suppress the emperor's decision. The emperor will definitely consider the pros and cons, take the overall situation into consideration, and choose to give up dealing with the Yuan family."

Lin Ruoxi's analysis was correct. In the end, the Emperor of Southern Xinjiang did make the decision to let go of the Yuan family. He just executed the fake assassin captured by the Situ family as a criminal, and the case of the emperor's military badge being stolen was over.

Situ Zhan came to the tent with his handsome face downcast. When he saw everyone in the Situ family staring at him, he couldn't help but sigh: "The arrival of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince messed up everything. The emperor just executed those two people."

A fake assassin actually said that the Yuan family lost one of their sons in order to help him catch the assassin. This is actually a meritorious service and the Yuan family must be heavily rewarded."

Situ Han beat his chest and stamped his feet: "It's so irritating. How can the emperor be such a useless person?"

Lin Ruoxi warned: "Second brother, you must pay attention to your words and deeds. The emperor does this for himself. If someone accidentally hears what you said and spreads it to the emperor's ears, I am afraid that our entire Situ family will follow.

It’s a disaster.”

After Lin Ruoxi said this, Situ Han hurriedly stretched out his hand to cover his mouth, not daring to say a provoking word.

Situ Yu and even the three young masters of the Situ family were a little crestfallen, but Lin Ruoxi hesitated to think so. She smiled and said: "Father, brothers, don't be so disappointed, because this time, in order to save the young master of the Yuan family, His Royal Highness has exposed himself.

In addition to his threats and disrespect to the emperor, the emperor will definitely find ways to exclude the mother and son Queen Wu and the prince in the future, because they are the biggest threat to his throne, so we only need to wait until the time is right.
To be continued...