PDLP Chapter 74 saw an interesting woman.
Chapter 74 saw an interesting woman.
"puff…"
The assassin felt a chill on his neck, followed by a sharp, piercing pain.
He subconsciously raised his hand to touch it, only to find it was wet and warm.
The assassin's pupils dilated when he brought his hand to his eyes.
He fixed his gaze on the gold hairpin in Xu Jiaojiao's hand, his eyes filled with disbelief.
The woman before him had a fierce look in her eyes. The gold hairpin she held tightly in her hand was stained with blood, reflecting a ferocious appearance that was completely incongruous with her beautiful face.
The assassin then realized that the woman's earlier foolishness was all an act.
A surge of overwhelming rage welled up within him, and he wanted to raise his hand to kill the woman. However, as his blood rapidly drained from his body, his vision blurred, and he gradually felt the strength in his limbs being drained away bit by bit with each drop of blood.
Sensing his intention, Xu Jiaojiao narrowed her eyes and kicked him hard.
The assassin, whose legs were weak, stumbled back a few steps and crashed heavily onto the city wall.
Before he could even stand still, Xu Jiaojiao quickly caught up, raised her hand, and pushed him off the city wall with a swift and decisive motion.
"boom!"
Blood splattered everywhere!
The assassin died with his eyes wide open, unable to rest in peace!
On the top floor of Xiangyun Tower, diagonally opposite Zhengyang Gate, Prince Jin saw through a telescope that Xu Jiaojiao pushed someone off the city wall, then lowered her head, turned around and left discreetly. She found another advantageous spot to sit down and immediately curled her lips meaningfully.
How dare this woman kill someone?
Facing an assassin who was stronger and better trained than herself, she didn't even blink. She raised her hand and struck with a hairpin. Her composure and courage were so impressive that even he, a man who was used to seeing bloodshed, couldn't help but marvel at her.
Is Xu Jiaojiao really just a lowly concubine with no background?
He remembered that the second prince had told the crown prince that his concubine was weak and helpless, and extremely delicate.
It seems the second son doesn't understand his woman at all...
Seeing the Prince of Jin's unusual expression, Lin Zhixing cautiously asked, "What did Your Highness see?"
The Prince of Jin handed the spy bag to Lin Zhixing, saying, "I saw an interesting woman."
woman?
So the Prince of Jin wasn't looking at the Prince of Chen just now?
Lin Zhixing frowned strangely, then took the peephole and looked in the direction that Prince Jin had just been looking.
After watching for a while, Lin Zhixing was drawn to a dazzling color like a sunset. Upon closer inspection, he recognized it as the concubine who served Prince Chen.
Could it be that the Prince of Jin was referring to her?
Just then, Lin Zhixing saw Xu Jiaojiao stand up, looking eagerly down at the city wall, as if she was ready to jump down at any moment.
Below the city wall, seeing that there were far fewer people than before, Yingyi looked at Zhao Yunzheng with a deep and meaningful gaze.
Their eyes met, and the latter glanced at them briefly before looking away and nodding slightly.
The next second, Shadow One pulled out a whistle and blew it loudly.
With the sound of the whistle, countless shadow guards surged out from all directions, surrounding the assassins completely.
Having learned from their previous experience at the welcoming banquet, this time the shadow guards acted swiftly, managing to extract the poison from under the tongues of the assassins before they could be cured.
The shadow guards, who had been lying in ambush, caught the assassins off guard and wiped them all out in one fell swoop.
Zhao Yunzheng sheathed his sword and walked up to the nearest person.
The assassin was restrained by the shadow guards and unable to move, so he could only glare angrily at Zhao Yunzheng.
The latter seemed not to hear and reached out to tear open the man's clothes.
Upon seeing the totem on the man's back, his brow furrowed, and anger welled up within him.
They really are Qiang and Wu people!
You bastard Zhao Minghuai!
In order to seize power, you actually dared to collude with the Qiang and Wu people!
On the city wall.
The moment Xu Jiaojiao saw Ying Yi pull out his whistle, she knew that Prince Chen was about to begin his harvest.
She immediately smeared some black ash on her body, messed up her hair, threw away one of her shoes, and picked up a sharp stone to scratch small red marks on her legs, arms, and face. Then, deliberately avoiding the long way around the stairs, she "clumsily" started to climb down from the place closest to Prince Chen.
As soon as she turned it over, King Kong, who had been searching for her everywhere, saw her.
King Kong's pupils widened in shock, and he immediately rushed over.
Xu Jiaojiao's clothes were so eye-catching that they immediately caught Yingyi's attention.
Seeing Yingyi suddenly become dazed, Zhao Yunzheng, who was explaining things to him, hesitated for a moment and also turned around to look.
"Your Highness!!" Xu Jiaojiao, who was still half-hanging on the city wall, called out excitedly when she saw him looking over.
Because she was "too excited," Xu Jiaojiao, who was half-hanging on the city wall, slipped and was about to fall.
Zhao Yunzheng's body jolted, and before his mind could react, his feet had already moved.
Fortunately, he was not far from the city wall, and he used his lightness skill to arrive in the blink of an eye, catching Xu Jiaojiao who was about to fall steadily in his arms.
Feeling the familiar embrace, Xu Jiaojiao's nose tingled, and hot tears welled up in her eyes.
She jumped down from Prince Chen's arms and immediately checked his arms and legs anxiously. Finding his arm injured, she sobbed, her words tumbling out incoherently with heartache: "Your Highness...you...you're injured...I...this...I should have acted faster...that way I could have shielded you and prevented you from getting hurt..."
The sight of the young woman crying so hard, her eyes filled with worry, instantly softened Zhao Yunzheng's previously fierce demeanor.
He tenderly embraced Xu Jiaojiao, gently stroking her soft, dark hair: "It's just a minor injury, nothing serious. But you, since King Kong brought you to safety, why did you have to climb down to find me?"
Before Qixi Festival, the Shadow Guards had already discovered that Lao Wu was colluding with the Qiang Wu people and planning to make trouble on Qixi Festival.
He wasn't stupid, so he naturally wouldn't wait for someone to kill him. He had already planned and designed to catch the fish in a trap on the day of Qixi Festival.
Even before the worship ceremony began, the shadow guards had already been lying in ambush in various places.
Zhao Yunzheng wanted to wipe out all these Qiang warriors in one fell swoop, so he deliberately exposed a weakness and got injured, creating the appearance of a retreat.
As expected, upon seeing that he was injured, the Qiang warriors who had been watching from the outside rushed over.
As soon as these people made a move, the shadow guards who had been lying in ambush quickly attacked and killed all the Qiang warriors.
All of this was under Zhao Yunzheng's control, except for Jin Gang and Xu Jiaojiao.
He never expected that Jin Gang would disobey orders and leave Xu Jiaojiao behind to help him. He also never expected that Xu Jiaojiao, a delicate and frail woman, would risk everything to climb down from such a high city wall just to get to his side and help him.
Seeing that Xu Jiaojiao's once elegant and exquisite dress was now dirty and torn from the stones on the city wall, and that she had lost one of her shoes, with red marks from the stones on her arms and face, Zhao Yunzheng felt a pang of heartache.
In particular, her hand injury had not yet healed, and by climbing down like this without regard for anything else, the newly grown tender flesh was chafed again, and blood stained her gloves red.
It was as if a pebble had been thrown into his heart, stirring up endless ripples, making Zhao Yunzheng unable to suppress the palpitations and tenderness within him.
This foolish woman, she actually loves him to this extent!
But Xu Jiaojiao was completely oblivious to her injuries; her heart and eyes were only filled with him…