Chapter 39 – Underhanded Tricks Come in Use

“I’m not qualified to make a move, nor do I want to, otherwise what’s the difference with you.” Su Yan slowly let go of his hand and threw the short sword far into the forest.

Cloud wash lying on the boulder, open eyes looking toward the clouds cover the moon dark night sky, “I know you and the exchange, only this two days, although holding attempts and malicious intent, but there are so one or two moments, want to give up to take your life …… However, Ye Donglou’s blood splattered on my hands, burning like a brand, day and night to remind me that the mud and feet of the people who are deep in the mud and feet of the people who have long been drenched in blood and dirt, what qualifications to turn back to the shore? The body and mind have long been drenched in blood, what qualification is there to turn back to the shore? I should not even have a moment’s flash of thought.”

“One wrong move, and the whole plate falls.” Su Yan regretfully got up, covered his bleeding wound, and walked towards Chong Qi Hall.

He did not look back to see the clouds wash, also do not want to think about the fall into the dust of the end of the scholar, always escape the end of the sad, as the poem prophecy, “the lonely Hong a cry of frightening cold to go, the cold moon a thousand rivers shine the shadow of the empty”.

Su Yan dragged his snowed-in injured leg, slowly walked out of the forest, and from afar, he saw two or three patrolling guards, carrying lanterns, walking into the back garden through the moonhole gate.

“What man?” The guards droned, pressing their hands on their belt swords and approaching at a fast pace.

Su Yan smiled bitterly, “I’m the Sijing Bureau’s washer horse, and the Crown Prince’s attendant, Su Qinghe.”

“So it’s Lord Su.” The guard in the lead was somewhat surprised to see him covered in mud and blood, “Why is your lordship walking around the back garden in the middle of the night? And you’re also so seriously injured?”

Su Yan said, “The injuries are not serious, just looking scary. This big brother guard, please lend me a lantern, I will return to the hall on my own.”

The guards exchanged glances, and the leader said, “That’s no good, it’s better for us to give your lordship a ride.”

Before his words fell, the remaining two men stepped forward, one on the left and one on the right to hold Su Yan.

Su Yan was sandwiched in the middle of them, unable to move, knowing that it was not good, thinking that he had bumped into the killers sent by Feng Deiye, so he was going to pull out his voice to call for help.

The two brocade guards holding him hostage were used to doing this kind of thing, and had long been preventing him from screaming, their palms directly covering their mouths and noses, dragging them toward the secluded inner cave of the wigwam.

Knowing that his life was hanging in the balance, Su Yan struggled to the death and kicked over a decorative flowerpot on a low lamp post by the roadside.

The flowerpot fell on the stone floor, a crunching sound that carried far in the quiet night. Fan Tongxuan drew his belt knife and instructed two of his men, “Settle it here, so as not to have a long night’s sleep. Press tightly, don’t let him scream out.”

Seeing the blade opposing the chest, Su Yan despair closed his eyes, thinking that this is really going to die machine reboot, I do not know after the reboot there is no next life, is not still in this dynasty, still can not meet the people who know each other.

Prince, emperor, thousand households, Wu Ming, Yu Wang …… heavy silhouettes in front of his eyes abruptly fluttered past, his heart suddenly born of attachment and reluctance, can not help but think that after his death, these people will not be sad. He does not want others to be sad for him, but also feel that if a person is dead, if even the people who are sad for him are not sad, then it is not too much of a failure to live, it is better to die.

Between life and death, he was caught up in a floating thought when he suddenly heard the wind whistling, followed by a cry of pain.

Su Yan opened his eyes, only to see the guard who had drawn his sword to kill him flopping face down on the ground, with half a broken branch sticking out of his undershirt.

The branch is as thick as a child’s arm, the end of the sharp, uneven, obviously is temporarily broken down. This three-foot-long branch, but also with a little curved arc, such as a spear thrown out, can penetrate the human body, this brawn is really amazing.

Su Yan looked at the silhouette that appeared at the entrance of the Moon Cave, a man wearing a basalt cloak and a wind hat, looking at the figure was a bit familiar.

The two guards who were holding him hostage saw their leader die horribly, and immediately became red-eyed with rage and anger, not caring if he was dead or alive, and drew their swords and rushed towards the man.

These two people are well-trained, knife skill, not like ordinary guards. Su Yan is worried about the unarmed cloaked man suffered, the next second to see the other side do not even avoid the blade, Ðåñê face a punch, hit a guard full of face, waist knife off the hand flew out, the end of the “heavy sword without a blade, the great coincidence is not work”.

The other guard exchanged a few rounds with the cloaked man and could not hold his own, so he had to fight desperately to entangle himself.

The one who opened a dye store on his face before, seeing the situation, about recalling the chief’s order, gritted his teeth and lunged towards Su Yan.

At the critical moment, Su Yan’s spiritual platform, remembered Wu Ming taught a move “leaf hidden flowers mandarin ducks foot”, and immediately performed out, intercepting the allocation, lifting the foot kicking and striking in one breath, and finally kicked the other party’s children and grandchildren on the root.

The guard let out a broken tone scream that did not sound like a human voice, his hands tightly covered his crotch, bowing his body like a shrimp, convulsing like chaff.

Look at all feel pain to the extreme, Su Yan can not help but be glad that he was not lazy, weekdays on the trunk of the old tree at home to practice this trick, the bark of the tree are kicked bald, and now for the first time into the actual combat, surprise, attack, the effect is not bad.

Relieved to see him free, the cloaked man snatched his belt knife and hacked the entangled guard to the ground. The guard struggled for his life and yanked off his hood.

Su Yan was surprised, “His Highness King Yu?”

At this moment, he was covered in sludge and blood, his clothes were torn, even his hair bun was crooked, and a few strands of scattered ebony hair stuck to his sweaty cheeks, appearing both wretched and pitiful, and the poise of his windy beauty was gone.

King Yu looked in his eyes, but did not dislike it, only felt heartache, sprinted forward and asked, “Where is the injury? Stop the bleeding first.”

“Left arm, and right leg.”

Yu Wang tore strips of cloth from his own clean clothes, pulled up his sleeves, and used the cloth to tie it tightly to stop the bleeding. The wound on the outside of his thigh had to be tied through his pants because Su Yan refused to take off his pants.

“It’s just a superficial wound, just apply some gold sore medicine.” Su Yan gratefully said, “Thank you for saving me. I don’t know whether Your Highness met this by accident tonight, or had prepared for it?”

King Yu said, “I was planning to come to the small south courtyard this night, and on the way, I happened to meet a Jinyiwei Qianhu, who pretended to frighten the horse and shoved this paper ball to me. I saw the urgency of the situation and sped up my horse, but fortunately I arrived in time.”

He pulled out the crumpled ball of paper in his arms and handed it over to Su Yan.

“A Thousand-Thousand Household of the Brocade Guards? Could it be Shen Qi.” Su Yan on the floor of the lantern, open a look, is a straight to the emperor of the secret fold, wrote Feng go evil temporarily transferred him back to the North Zhenfu Division, another thousand households Fan Tong Xuan assassinated the crown prince readers. Su Yan is in danger, their own situation can no longer serve as the responsibility of the guard, begging the emperor to send another manpower, as soon as possible to go to the small south courtyard.

Su Yan huffed slightly.

This secret folding looked at only a few words, leaking out the amount of information can be big.

First of all, Shen Qi, as a small Qianhu, was able to deliver a secret letter directly to the emperor, I wonder when this connection was established?

Come to think of it, there is only one possibility, Shen Qi in the Feng go under the evil ten years, never really loyal, may also secretly clutch each other a lot of handle. After the murder of Ye Donglou, Shen Qi was determined to betray Feng Zaixin, so he took the risk, privately met with the emperor, presented Feng Zaixin’s evidence of guilt, and risked his life to go to the top of the government.

The emperor did not condemn at that time, otherwise Shen Qi’s head has long been on the ground. Perhaps the emperor had an idea of Feng to go to the evil, but just do not move, Shen Qi’s move has become a sleepy pillow.

Secondly, he himself became a stake to live in the small southern courtyard under the hint and arrangement of the Emperor. Seemingly, he put himself in danger, and even the Crown Prince and King Yu were quite critical of this, thinking that the Emperor was negligent of his safety. But in fact, the emperor did not let him in danger, but let Shen Qi sneak into the small south courtyard to guard his personal safety. That’s why Shen Qi is dressed as a guard, from time to time in his room.

The emperor’s far-sightedness was admirable, but what really moved Su Yan was the thousandth household, Shen Qi.

Double spies are not that easy to be! On the one hand, to cope with the Feng to evil, secretly to save people, but also to reduce the suspicion of the other side, to protect their own lives, but also to ensure that the liaison with the emperor does not leak, just like walking a tightrope over the cliff, half a step wrong, is shattered.

Tonight, Shen Qi handed this secret folding to King Yu, probably also desperate and forced to do so.

If the King of Yu had any other thoughts, Shen Qi would surely die. Qianhu is using his life to bet that the King of Yu is not only harassing Su Yan, but also has some sincerity in it, and is willing to come all night to save him.

And King Yu did not fail Shen Qi’s trust in his life and arrived in time, which pulled him out of the ghost gate from under Fan Tongxuan!

How many of these swords and shadows, dark currents, their own until this moment only to have some understanding …… Su Yan held his breath to think, sweating through the heavy clothes.

He pinched this secret fold, as if he was pinching Shen Qi’s heart, sitting on the rock by the roadside in a daze, his thoughts were as chaotic as hemp.

King Yu saw that he was lost in thought that his physical strength was not enough, he was busy taking off his cloak, wrapped Su Yan’s whole body, and picked him up horizontally, “The injury is important, I’ll send you back to your room, and call the Imperial Doctor to come to diagnose and treat you quickly.”

Su Yan always felt that he missed something important, grabbed Yu Wang’s arm and called, “Wait …… allow me to think again!”

King Yu was slightly annoyed, “The Lone King is here, what are you still worried about? Heal your wounds in peace, and I will take care of the rest.”

“I am worried ……” Su Yan finally cleared his thoughts and said sharply, “There is still a cloud wash in the back garden! If the assassins sent by Feng De Evil are more than these three, and the others see the body searching around, he is afraid that he will run into a gun. He is the real culprit who killed Ye Donglou, he can’t die an unknown death before being brought to justice, otherwise I can’t plug all the questioning mouths even if I explain a hundred times.”

King Yu was surprised: “He is the real murderer? He and Donglou had the friendship of classmates, have always been good friends, Donglou in front of the king also repeatedly mentioned, said that his nature is noble and clean do not tend to common affairs, is a true literati style. Why did he want to kill Donglou?”

Su Yan was held in his arms, diaphragmatized, struggling to get off the ground and stand firm, unable to hold back the anger surging in his heart, “It’s not the king’s own sins! If you didn’t go to scourge Ye Donglou, nothing would have happened.”

King Yu thought that he was jealous, and snickered and eagerly explained, “That was before he met you. If you are willing to respond to me, this king promises not to look at anyone else more than once in the future, and will only be single-mindedly devoted to you.”

Su Yan half do not believe, coldly smiled and said: “The king love, I am grateful in my heart. Unfortunately, the next official is really not good this way, even if it is good, but also when looking for a good man to carry each other for the rest of their lives, can not be subject to the benefits of the dewy love affair.”

“The Lone King has a sincere heart for you, Su Qinghe, how do you–“

Su Yan raised his head to look at the sky, pointing to a full moon in the clouds that was sporadic, and mockingly said, “Is it possible that Your Highness also wants to make a vow with me to the moon, saying something like, ‘the sky will never end, and this love will never end’? Ye Langzhong’s depressed blood has not yet cooled, I don’t want to follow in his footsteps.”

King Yu was bashful to his shame, quite a kind of lifting a stone to stone their own feet feeling, can not help but defend: “I am not really greedy flowers and good color–” the back of the abrupt end, his face sank, the corners of the mouth pursed, and no longer say a word.

Su Yan kindly said: “The sage said, food and color is also sex, can see that good sex is human nature, especially men. I know that Your Highness is in a high position of power, and it’s normal to treat favor like clouds, but my humble servant only begs that this favor doesn’t fall on me. Does Your Highness know why Yun Wash wanted to kill Ye Donglou?”

The night wind is slightly cold, he lost blood and cold, tugging the cloak to wrap his body tightly, carrying a lantern and walking towards the forest with weak feet, while telling the beginning and end of this case and the motive of Yun Wash, one by one.

King Yu followed closely behind him, listening to a face that was green in white and purple in green, embarrassed to the extreme.

Su Yan’s words were like an invisible whip lashing at his face, if it wasn’t for the color of the night masking the look, he was afraid that he would have turned around and walked away, unwilling to suffer this punishment of the heart again.

After walking along the road and not seeing any silhouettes, Su Yan stopped by the large green stone where Yun Wash had laid down before and regretfully said, “He is afraid that he has already left. The net of heaven is wide open, where can he escape to!”

King Yu at this time also gradually calm down, calm the turbulent mind, with self-blame sullenly said: “I do not kill Bo Ren, Bo Ren but because I died …… is indeed all the lonely king’s fault. I acted absurdly, thinking that the two sides of the willingness will not hurt with people, but do not want to hurt the heart, as if it is better to hurt the body.

“I treat love as a pastime and put it away as I please, so I mistakenly push myself to others, thinking that everyone can withstand a good get-together and a good break-up, but I have never really considered the feelings of others – I am the prince of the dynasty, with a prominent position, I want to get together, who dares to break up? I want to disperse, who dares to stay? But it’s just a superficial pretense of fairness and bullying!”

Su Yan see him in a high position is still willing to bow down and admit fault, and the words are sincere, to the point, like a sincere introspection of the model, the bottom of the heart to him to change his mind.

And remembered tonight’s life-saving grace, he is not good to tense a face, so warmly said: “The book says that it is better to know the error than to correct it, if the king can introspection, it is a model for us. Tonight, I said a lot of overstepping the bounds of the word, all because the king said earlier, and I do friends to deal with, since it is a friend, there is the responsibility to correct each other, how can you see the wrong not to advise.”

It was rare for King Yu to hear Su Yan say a few words to him about himself, and while he was harboring his heart, he felt resentful, “A friend? This king lacks a friend of yours?”

Su Yan, self-conscious of being humiliated, gritted his teeth and said, “It is my humble servant who has climbed high! I don’t deserve to be your friend!”

Seeing his misunderstanding, King Yu busily came forward to embrace him and sighed helplessly, “You know my heart, the ‘friend’ remark is just a pretext, a delaying tactic. I love you with all my heart, how can you believe that?”

The words rolled back again. Su Yan hated Yu Wang’s stubbornness and still wanted to sleep with him, so he was so angry that his hands were shaking, and threw down a sentence, “Don’t follow me! I don’t even want to see you now”, pushed people away and flung his sleeves away.