Yuan Zhao's question made the old man laugh silently a few times and said slowly:

"I just heard them calling you Princess outside..."

In Wuchu, there were too many people trying to assassinate her. When the guards heard this, they immediately stepped forward to try to block her behind them.

The old man ignored him and said to himself:

"How could a noble daughter like the princess appear at the border of a remote mountainous area in Nanzhou? I then thought about it and heard that Marquis Dingyuan and his son were stationed at the border of Nanzhou. His young daughter is also a princess and is also in Nanzhou..."

Following his words, the atmosphere in the room became heavy and tense. The old man glanced at them and said:

"You don't need to panic. When I was young, I had a chance encounter with Bei Emperor. I made a solemn oath that our clan will not be enemies of the Beiyue clan in this life..."

Hearing this allusion, some of the guards breathed a sigh of relief, while others still looked solemn and waited for the next chapter.

Sure enough, the old man said again:

"Here today, except for the Beiyue clan, anyone who has seen the old age will die. You can commit suicide."

He said that if you are not an enemy of the Bei Yuezhi, you cannot kill the people of the Bei Yuezhi.

"Absurd," Yuan Zhao endured the pain and said weakly, "If you are not an enemy of our clan, why do you want my people to commit suicide? Old man... I can provide you with a route to let you leave Wuchu safely. I just ask you to let me go."

My people."

The other party is obviously good at pharmacology. He can drug her guards, and naturally he can also poison her. His refusal to poison must have something to do with the oath he just said.

"Oh?" The old man heard her voice and couldn't help laughing, "You are so clever..."

I actually guessed that he was a fugitive, and he was worthy of being the descendant of the Northern Emperor. It was a pity that the Northern Emperor was a wise man, but when he was old, he became confused and made his younger son the emperor instead.

Not only did he lose his country, but he also harmed the entire Beiyue clan.

"Princess..." The guard standing in front of her stopped her, "No!"

That was her secret way of escape. The more people knew about it, the more danger it would be.

"With you here, I have a chance to go back alive; without you, in my current situation..." Hiss, the pain from the arrow wound made Yuan Zhao take a breath and said with force, "How to escape?"

"Old man Er Jian, your people are already approaching. There is an ambush in the forest. It still takes a cup of tea for them to get here." The old man said slowly, "I will give you one last chance to kill yourself. Not only will I let her go, but I will also save her."

Her life."

Although the arrow did not hit the heart, it took such a long time. With the child's constitution, even if he was rescued, it would be a disaster.

"You die, she lives, or neither of them lives!" the old man insisted.

"Wait a minute," Yuan Zhao spoke first before the guards could react, "Why don't I and my people exit this room..."

In order to save her, the family members most likely divided their forces into two groups. They broke in directly from the forest and rushed out from the secret passage to catch the enemy by surprise. Therefore, she only had to hold off the old man for a moment and a half, and everyone could be rescued.

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"Little girl, don't even think about stalling for time." The old man saw her intention at a glance, and his eyes as he stared at the guards became colder. "I have removed half of the medicine on you. If you don't take action, I will send her on her way first."

At this point, the male guard standing in front of Yuan Zhao knew that there was no hope of survival and said in a deep voice:

"I hope my father-in-law will keep his word and we will obey his orders."

After speaking, he raised his sword and fell down with his neck cut off.

Soon, the same sound came from around them one after another. People around them fell down one by one, including He Chun and Jin Niang, who were full of joy in the house and wanted to go to the capital to expand their horizons.

The life that was still alive yesterday fell silently before her eyes.

In an instant, Yuan Zhao's tears fell like beads, and his heart felt like a knife.

The coach is incompetent and the entire army is exhausted. Is she the one you are talking about?

She was short in stature and clenched her sword tightly, and stood up stubbornly and staggeringly. The arrow wound on her body no longer hurt, but her heart felt like a dull knife was cutting at her, and the suffocating sharp pain hit her one after another.

She stared at the old man, and just about to speak, she suddenly glanced back and said coldly:

"Why don't you die?"

Behind her, there was a guard half-kneeling, trembling all over, and seemingly stunned. Hearing her question, he mumbled and was about to speak, when he suddenly got up and ran out of the house as fast as he could.

It turned out that he was waiting for his numb limbs to relax and waited for an opportunity to escape.

Soon after, Yuan Zhao, who was still dying just now, pounced with all his strength, and the sharp sword in his hand was accurately inserted into the opponent's vest.

She recognized this person. He was the guard who alerted everyone to the white fox in the forest. She killed him because he was greedy for life and afraid of death, so he wanted to abandon his master and escape. Abandoning his master was tantamount to betrayal, and such a person would never escape.

Dare to stay in the Hou Mansion.

In order to save his life, he is very likely to surrender to the enemy.

A guard is different from a maid. He was trained by Uncle Ji and others, and he knows more about some things than Yuan Zhao. Although this is just a guess, she knows that once this person surrenders to the enemy, there will be endless troubles.

The guard's numb limbs had just recovered, but his movements were still sluggish, and he was stabbed squarely by Yuan Zhao.

He widened his eyes and looked desperately at his master, who was clearly hit by an arrow, but still had the strength to turn him over. She was obviously a yellow-haired girl, with a pair of single-lidded eyes still filled with tears, but there was no innocence at all, and he said indifferently:

"You are a traitor!"

No, he was not. The person he was loyal to from the beginning to the end was not her or Dingyuan Houfu. Before he could defend himself, a sword flashed before his eyes, and he saw a splash of bright red in his throat...

"As expected of Queen Beidi..."

Executing the abandoned master's guard with her own hands, a sighing old voice came from behind Yuan Zhao. The tip of her sword was inserted into the ground, and she managed to hold on without falling. She turned around slowly and said coldly:

"Old man, you'd better keep your word, otherwise, if this princess doesn't die, your descendants will end up like them!"

Why is it a descendant? Looking at this old man's age, I wonder if he can live until she grows up.

"Hahaha……"

The old man looked up to the sky and laughed wildly. His laughter penetrated the dilapidated roof, crossed the burning grass, and spread far away...

When Ji Wu and his men came out of the secret passage, they found that the fire outside had burned around the house. Braving the intense heat wave, he and a group of soldiers rushed to the main hall of the house, and were shocked to find that all the young master's guards were dead.

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Fortunately, the little princess was still alive and was lying under the cover of the bodies of He Chun and Jin Niang.

The sound of fighting was still heard in the forest outside, and the assassins had their own people to deal with it. Ji Wu roughly checked the wounds on the young master's body, but fortunately there were no serious injuries. Leaving a few confidants to clean up the scene, he carefully picked her up and left through the secret passage.

After many twists and turns, I finally returned to the General's Mansion.

At this time, Dingyuan Hou and his son were still on their way back. After receiving the urgent message sent by Ji Wu, they were furious, and Bei Yueli led his soldiers to the scene to investigate and pursue them.

They are personal soldiers, not soldiers in the camp.

Today, the military generals who succeeded the father and son have been put in place, and the handover of military power has been completed. The only people the father and son can use are their own soldiers. The son turned around to hunt down the assassin, and the Marquis of Dingyuan went to the government in person to report the case and inform the government of his daughter's assassination.

Although it is frustrating, it is a formal procedure.

When they learned that the little princess had been assassinated in the suburbs, the local officials who were about to go to the banquet were happy to send a favor and told them to close the city gates and arrest all suspicious people in the city.

For a moment, people in the city were panicked and everyone was in danger.
Chapter completed!