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There was no need to clean up this place. In any case, there was no need to worry about an epidemic in this location. Moreover, when the matter was settled, there would always be someone to deal with it. Even if Li Hongyuan was extremely unlucky and lost his life in the end, the people of Zhang would definitely come to clean up the mess. After all, the traces of their activities in the Qi Yuan were too obvious. If they did not clean up the mess and angered the Qi Yuan, it would be a disaster for them.
However, it was obvious that if Li Hongyuan fell so easily, he would not be Li Hongyuan.
As for whether there would be more hounds behind them, it was hard to say. However, even if there were, there was nothing to be afraid of.
There were only so many people from Zhang. Previously, at least half of them had died outside the col. Now, they had to spread out and guard each road. In order to be absolutely successful, there would definitely be no less than twenty people. As a result, the number of people that could be deployed to search the mountain was very limited. There were already fifty to sixty people here, how many people would be left? Therefore, Li Hongyuan thought very clearly. As long as he was careful, the final result would be his victory. It was only a matter of time.
If Jingwan was not by his side, he would have already turned the tables and directly went to find them.
First, he had to ensure that Jingwan was absolutely safe. Only then could he retreat now.
However, no one else appeared even after an hour had passed, so there shouldn't be anyone else coming.
Li Hongyuan slightly narrowed his eyes and looked in the direction of the foot of the mountain. Under normal circumstances, even if no one went back and did not report, it was still dozens of people. As the person in charge, it was impossible to be indifferent. At the same time, he should have thought that it was very likely that they had met Prince Jin of the Qi Yuan.
Li Hongyuan's approximate location was clearly written. There was no reason for him to ignore it.
"Could it be that they knew that it was impossible to complete, so they gave up?" Jingwan guessed.
"The possibility is very low. After coming out of the col, as long as one of my people went out, it means that Zhang's matter has been exposed. Even if the identity of the shadow guards is sensitive, and they did not find the local garrison for the time being, sooner or later they will find those who are loyal to me in the court. If they wanted to give up, they should have done so at the first moment. Besides, the one who really wants me dead is Southern Qi. Zhang is at most a pawn. If Zhang is exposed and cannot complete the mission, then Southern Qi will attack Zhang before Qi Yuan does. On the other hand, if Zhang completes the mission, even if Qi Yuan's revenge, Southern Qi can still ask Southern Qi for help... So, if they kill Zhang, there is still a chance of survival. If they don't kill me, then there is only one path left. "
Li Hongyuan was such a dangerous person. He could not be used by Southern Qi, so he had to find a way to destroy him. In any case, Southern Qi's national strength was not inferior to Qi Yuan's. Even if they killed a prince of Qi Yuan, they would not be afraid. Getting rid of Li Hongyuan would reduce the danger. So, in fact, one could imagine the threat that Southern Qi posed to Zhang.
So, not only would they not give up, but they would also become crazier at this time.
The real situation was completely different from what they had expected. It made people wonder if there was something fishy going on.
Uncontrollable things were what people hated the most.
Li Hongyuan sent someone out to investigate the specific situation. They did not make any moves for the time being, but they would not stay in place and wait.
That secret guard had been gone for nearly four hours, which was much longer than expected.
However, he came back with good news.
It turned out that the person in charge of the State of Zhang knew that it was impossible to complete the mission, but he didn't want to die. Therefore, while he arranged for his subordinates to continue searching for Li Hongyuan's whereabouts, he secretly slipped away and prepared to sneak back to the State of Zhang quietly. Before the news of the failure spread, he would take his family away. After leaving the State of Zhang, there would be a place for his family to settle down. Therefore, Li Hongyuan's previous plan was flawless, but he still missed a person's heart. He probably didn't expect that the person carefully selected by the State of Zhang to carry out the mission would be a coward when faced with a problem. He didn't care about the national interest at all.
It was just that this person's luck was not very good. Because he was in a hurry to return to Zhang, he did not follow the original route of "smuggling" back. Instead, he took the official road. It must be known that there were troops stationed at the border. Unlucky people would not know how to arouse suspicion. With a little interrogation, they would be exposed. So, how could they return?
Although the number of troops stationed was not many, when they knew that Jin Qinwang was in danger near them, how could they ignore it? So they immediately sent people to clean up the people of Zhang. And the person in charge of Zhang ran away by himself. The people left behind did not know anything about it. So, they were all caught without knowing.
The situation was reversed like this. To be honest, the appearance of a pig opponent, no matter who it was, they would be very happy.
Including Li Hongyuan, his expression was slightly relaxed. He looked at Jingwan. He did not care. The main thing was Jingwan. The earlier the matter was over, the earlier Jingwan could relax. This kind of environment was harmful to her.
Now that the matter was resolved, there was no need to hide anymore. They went down the mountain openly.
During this period, she learned from the shadow guards that because the troops stationed at the border were cleaning up Zhang, some of Li Hongyuan's scattered subordinates had gathered. Among them were Hei Mei and Fu Rong. Both of them were injured. Fu Rong was more seriously injured. Because on the night of the breakout, she pretended to be Jingwan. In fact, she was the one who proposed the strategy of luring the enemy.
Fortunately, she did not suffer a fatal injury. She also did not lose all her limbs. If she slowly recuperated, there would be a day when she recovered.
Jingwan sighed in her heart. Fu Rong was a rare person who valued friendship and righteousness. If she grew up in a normal environment, she should also be a woman of peerless beauty.
Qi Yuan's troops were close at hand. There were at least three hundred people. However, this number would only make people feel at ease.
"What is the name of this garrison?" Li Hongyuan asked casually.
Although there were only a few thousand troops stationed here, the highest ranking officer was still a garrison, a fourth-grade official.
The shadow guard said a name.
And it was this name that made Li Hongyuan stop. The expression on his face was slightly serious.
As soon as he stopped, the others stopped as well.
"What's wrong? Is there something wrong with this person?" This person was right in front of them. If there was really something wrong with this person, then … Jingwan's nerves instantly tensed up again.
Li Hongyuan held her hand and was silent for a moment. He wanted to smooth things over, but there were some things that it was better to be mentally prepared in advance. And maybe he was just thinking too much.
"Did you see Sun Yilin before?" Li Hongyuan asked.
"Replying to Master, I saw him. He also suffered some injuries and his consciousness is not very clear."
At the mention of Sun Yilin, Jingwan suddenly understood why her husband asked this. It was because this garrison's surname was Sun, and the word in the middle of his name seemed to be the same as the current Duke Ding's. Although it was not a coincidence, it was very likely that he was a member of the Sun family. The Sun family was led by the Duke Ding's family. This position was too delicate. Moreover, Sun Yilin wanted Li Hongyuan to die. "Ah Yuan, you should have known about the Sun family, especially those in the officialdom …" He had forgotten about this Garrison Sun, and the shadow guard beside him should not have forgotten about it.
"Yes, I have. There is no such person."
Jingwan heaved a sigh of relief. Fortunately, it should be just a coincidence … However, when she saw Li Hongyuan's expression, she swallowed the remaining half of her sigh. "What's wrong?"
"The Minister of the Ministry of Rites is also surnamed Su." The implication was that Li Hongyuan already had doubts in his heart.
It was as if a fishbone was stuck in his throat. "Sun Yilin, you should have killed him directly. You should have killed him directly …" Jingwan really regretted and blamed herself. She should not have completely reduced him to a prisoner and could not cause any trouble. It was impossible for him to pose a threat to her husband. Also, because of Sun Yijia's compassion, she only thought that no matter how he was punished, it would be enough to keep him alive.
Li Hongyuan was the one who disliked Sun Yilin the most. However, when he saw Jingwan's current state, he completely forgot about Sun Yilin. In particular, when he saw that there was a trace of blood on Jingwan's lips, he did not know where she had bitten. His thumb brushed across her lips. "Wan Wan, everything is just speculation."
However, if this speculation was true, then they already had no way to escape. Everything that had happened before, at this time, was actually just a small matter. The hundreds of people who had originally made them feel at ease had now become their prison, making it impossible for them to escape even if they had wings.
"Wan Wan, you don't need to blame yourself …" Li Hongyuan said softly. In the blink of an eye, he had already sorted out all the clues.
As a member of the Sun family, they would certainly support Prince Kang. As long as they knew the danger of Li Hongyuan, they would think of a way to get rid of him at the first opportunity. Their thoughts were even stronger than those of the Southern Qi people. Sun Yilin didn't even need to do anything. He didn't need to reveal his identity. He only needed to let this guard know the tip of Li Hongyuan's iceberg. That was enough. He didn't even need to give any evidence. The people of Zhang wanting to kill him was the best evidence. He didn't need to give this move now. He only needed to give a vague hint before Li Hongyuan left the capital.
Li Hongyuan explained in detail. "… So, it doesn't matter if Sun Yilin is still alive or not." Speaking to this point, he suddenly laughed lightly. Previously, he had felt that he had overestimated Sun Yilin. He really hadn't played any role in this matter. Perhaps he had only formed a relationship with the Southern Qi Kingdom at the beginning and given them a little hint. However, it turned out that his true killing move was not in the Southern Qi Kingdom. Rather than saying that he had thrown himself into the Southern Qi Kingdom, it was better to say that he had used the Southern Qi Kingdom. This plan was actually very simple. However, no matter what the process was, it was not very difficult to reach this point. Perhaps everything was within Sun Yilin's expectations. "As long as I leave the capital and come here, it doesn't matter if he participated or not. Even if he dies, the plan can still proceed."
Li Hongyuan thought to himself that it was no wonder he was the youngest Grand Secretary to be promoted from First Minister in his previous life. Because of his different experiences, he had grown faster than in his previous life. If it weren't for his relationship with Wan Wan, he would still be willing to continue using such a talented person. However, there was no "if" in everything.
Looking at the hundreds of Qi Yuan soldiers coming closer and closer, they were all dressed in the same uniform, with shining weapons and bows in their hands. They were moving faster and faster, and even the bows on their backs had been taken off. No matter how one looked at it, they did not have good intentions.
"Ah Yuan, hurry up and leave. You are their real target. As long as you can escape …" Jingwan anxiously pushed him away.
"Wan Wan," Li Hongyuan softly interrupted her. "I won't leave even if I can. Wherever you are is where my heart belongs. You have to know that as long as you are in their hands, I will definitely walk into their trap. Moreover, if they use you to threaten me, then I will do anything for them before I can save you."
Jingwan's eyes instantly reddened, and her teeth chattered. "If it weren't for me, if it weren't for me …"
"If it weren't for you, there would be no meaning in restarting my life. Wan Wan, you should blame me. I am the one who dragged you into this. However, even if it were a hundred or a thousand times over, I would still do it. So, don't say such things. Your husband will be sad." Li Hongyuan's fingertips brushed past Jingwan's eyes. "As long as I have you, I can accept any failure. So, Wan Wan, will you die with me?"
"Okay!" Jingwan said without hesitation. Her only regret was that she would not be able to accompany them after the baby was born. However, it did not matter. Jingwan believed that they would still be a family in their next life.
After making preparations, Jingwan was no longer so nervous. Looking at the Qi Yuan soldiers who had not yet come close, there was nothing to say. Her guess was the truth.
Li Hongyuan and the others were surrounded. Although they had all heard Li Hongyuan and Jingwan's words, they still dutifully protected them. They held their weapons and faced outwards, showing a defensive posture. Even if they were faced with hundreds of arrows, they were still too weak.
Guard Sun walked out. He looked like a decent person. It seemed that he really had not done any evil deeds. However, people nowadays were too good at pretending. The so-called "one's appearance comes from one's heart" was not so reliable. As the saying goes, one may know a person's face but not his heart.
Guard Sun stared at Li Hongyuan for a moment and suddenly cupped his hands. "This subject greets Your Highness."
"Duke Dingguo, there is no such person within the five servers. Which branch of the Sun clan do you belong to?" Li Hongyuan asked faintly.
"Hearing Your Highness say this, it seems that you have a good understanding of the Sun clan. Under normal circumstances, even if it was a prince who held great power, he would not go to such a detailed understanding right? After all, it was no longer the time when the aristocratic families ruled the world. Who would still study the genealogy, ah? And those who would do this kind of thing would definitely not be purely interested. Jin Qinwang is useless, who said this? " Guard Sun's face was full of emotion. As for his own birth, it was the one he did not want to mention the most. Because it was a stain that could not be washed away, causing him to be holed up in a barren mountain for the rest of his life. Other than muddling along, there was still muddling along. But he did not expect that the Heavens would actually give him such an opportunity.
"There are quite a lot of people who said this. At least half of the Sun clan said this. The remaining half must have thought about it."
Guard Sun's face twisted. This was ridiculing their entire clan for having eyes but failing to see! But then he sneered, "So what? Jin Qinwang has been dormant and deceiving the world, but he will die in this wilderness. Even his corpse will not be left behind. "
"Since you are from a prestigious family, why don't you know how to leave some leeway when speaking? No matter whether the target is dead or not, you should not leave behind anything to talk about. "
"Your Highness has good willpower, but thinking about it, if you don't have this willpower, how can you hide from the world for so long? Just before this official arrived, I reckon that Your Highness had already realized that something was wrong. Unfortunately, it was still a bit late. Otherwise, Your Highness probably would not be standing here, but would be running for his life like a stray dog. However, even so, it is not just a matter of living a few more hours. The final result will be the same. In the capital, the other princes all see Your Highness as a threat and want to get rid of you quickly. In reality, you are indeed a big threat. It is not as simple as being favored by the emperor. If I send Your Highness's head back to the capital to Prince Kang, even if you don't reach the heavens in one step, at least you will have a meteoric rise. "
Jingwan frowned. Even if her own husband was now a fish on the chopping block, he was not someone that anyone could humiliate. However, Jingwan did not open her mouth. Even if she was prepared to die, she would not give up easily until the last moment.
Li Hongyuan's expression did not change. He even nodded as if it was a matter of fact, "Your thinking is quite good."
"Thinking? That is the truth! Get ready — "
"Wait a moment," Li Hongyuan raised his hand, "Where is Sun Yilin? He should want to see Ben Wang die with his own eyes. Where is he? Did he not come along?"
Jingwan tilted her head slightly to look at Li Hongyuan. Her own husband seemed a little strange. At this time, he was still thinking about his "love rival". Wasn't it a little …
"Does Your Highness want to see me?" A voice that sounded like a broken gong sounded from behind the soldiers on the road.
The soldiers moved aside to let a man in black slowly walk up. Halfway through, he clenched his hand into a fist and coughed a few times.
He was different from what Jingwan had seen before. He was wearing a large hood that almost covered his eyes. When he lowered his head, his face could not be seen. When he raised his head, there was a mask on his face.
He was very calm before, but now he was covering it up … Jingwan glanced at Guard Sun. In order to cooperate well, it was normal to cover it up.
"I really want to see Your Highness die. At this time, if I don't say something, I will feel very uncomfortable. After realizing that Your Highness is not simple, I know that it is not easy to deal with Your Highness. I can only overestimate you. After all, you have the ability to deceive the world. If I underestimate you, I am afraid that I will die without a burial place. Therefore, I must not act blindly without thinking. I must be patient and wait quietly. I also need a careful plan to win in one strike. Don't look at how happy Ruan Fangfei and the others were before. I didn't think that they would succeed at all. The truth is as I expected. However, to reach this point, in my opinion, it is not as difficult as I expected. "
Sun Yilin and Li Hongyuan looked at each other. His eyes were covered by the hood, dark and frightening.
"In the end, I still won."
"Is that so? You are not sure? "Li Hongyuan asked faintly.
Sun Yilin's gaze shifted slightly and landed on Jingwan. "Wan Wan, come with me, okay? What I said before is still valid. "
"It's broad daylight, don't dream. Quickly wake up." Jingwan said expressionlessly.
Sun Yilin knew that if Jingwan had any emotional reaction to him before, there would be nothing left now. He won. Did he really win? His own fate seemed to have changed from liking her. Because he liked her, she was the one that Jin Qinwang had long set his eyes on, so she was ruthlessly suppressed and then pushed to a dead end step by step. Could he blame her? In fact, Sun Yilin knew that he should not blame her. She was not wrong. However, sometimes, a person's emotions were not so easy to control.
Therefore, Sun Yilin admitted that when he was ruthlessly tortured and driven mad, he blamed her. The more it was like this, the deeper his obsession, the more he wanted to get … …
"If she is the object of competition, it seems that I really can't win against you." Sun Yilin saw clearly that she would really follow him from the blue sky to the yellow springs. "It really makes people jealous."
"Wan Wan is not an object. You treat her as an object and fight for it. Sun Yilin, now I am very suspicious. Do you really like her? "Li Hongyuan frowned and looked at Sun Yilin, as if he was reevaluating her.
Sun Yilin was startled. He liked the Luo family's third young lady. This point, he had always believed. Wait, Luo family's third young lady?
"Young Master Yilin, why are you still talking nonsense with them. If you really like this Jin Qinwang Fei, just kill the others and snatch her." Guard Sun said this, but his eyes flashed with ridicule. The dignified Ding Guo Gong fu's legitimate son, how honorable was he? He actually kept thinking about a married woman. Yes, this kind of person, no matter how capable he was, there was a limit.
However, Sun Yilin did not pay attention to him.
Guard Sun's face was somewhat green. He raised his hand, "Get ready — —"
"Who allowed you to make decisions without permission?" Sun Yilin looked over.
Guard Sun's face stiffened, his eyes somewhat unfocused, and then he ordered to put down the arrows.
"Puppet Gu?" Gong Jiu whispered softly.
The nearby people all stopped in their ears. Just by hearing the name, they knew what it was used for. In a flash, Jingwan thought, could it be that Sun Yilin also wanted to use this kind of Gu on her?
"Wan Wan, you really don't want to consider it? If you agree, I can even give Jin Qinwang a way out. "Whether he liked it or not, he did not want to pursue it.
"A way out is the same as living a life worse than death." Jingwan sneered.
"That's still living. Isn't living good?"
"Just like you, like a rat living in the dark? You used to be the capital's number one young master, do you think you are very good now? "Jingwan ridiculed.
In the end, he was once a proud son of heaven. Jingwan's words pierced his heart until it was dripping with blood, okay? Not at all! "Since that's the case, then there's nothing to say. In any case, I can't get your heart. It's enough that your body is left behind." Sun Yilin turned around, "Send them on their way."
Although they were already mentally prepared, but when it came to the end, facing hundreds of fully drawn arrows, thinking that they would be pierced into a sieve, they still couldn't help but feel some fear. However, none of them closed their eyes.
Li Hongyuan held Jingwan's hand, and Jingwan also tightly held onto him. Li Hongyuan squeezed her fingers, "Wan Wan, don't be afraid." His eyes were serene as he said a few words that Jingwan didn't understand … …
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