Save the tragic villain in progress!

They drove the carriage and rushed towards the city, leaving the vast night outside behind.

Sitting in the carriage, Chu Xinian couldn't help but fell into deep thought. He discovered another falsified plot: In the original work of "Qianqiu Fenghou", the first queen died of illness, which caused the prince to lose the discipline of his biological mother. Turned into being strangled to death by the emperor?

There is also Qin Daoyan, Shangshu of the Ministry of War.

Chu Xinian actually didn't think of him at first, because this character only appeared in the middle and late stages of the original work, and there were not many scenes.

Qin Daoyan is ambitious.When the future was in full swing, he once had an affair with a foreign country to betray the national conditions, but was discovered by the King of Jin, and reported to the Emperor Yan, who was sentenced to beheading, and the King of Jin also made a great contribution for this.

Qin Daoyan has countless foster sons, among them is a man who is good at wielding two swords, named Qin Shuang.He is good at martial arts, and he specializes in assassinating dissidents for Qin Daoyan, so he can be called a confidant.

As soon as Chu Xinian saw the sword wound on the corpse, he immediately thought of the character "Qin Shuang", and guessed following the clues. The behind-the-scenes messenger did not think of anything other than Qin Daoyan.

Jiuniang's letter is very important.If what she said is true, Qin Daoyan must still have a huge killer organization in his hands.The case was not so easy to solve.

But if enough evidence can be collected to trip Qin Daoyan, not only can Xie Jingyuan get rid of an old enemy, but also allow the prince to make a great contribution in front of Emperor Yan.

So how to investigate this case, Chu Xinian still needs to figure it out.

The prince was driving a carriage outside, and the whip was crackling.There's no way, Chu Xinian can't drive, and Xie Jingyuan is a sick child. He was half frozen in the well just now, and the only person who can use it is him.

The prince felt very unbalanced, turned his head and looked into the carriage: "You two bastards, how dare you let Gu drive?"

Xie Jingyuan sharpened the toe of his shoe silently, resisting the urge to kick him off, frowned and said, "Could it be that you want to walk back to the capital?"

Here is a mountain road, the road surface is rough, if you change someone who is not familiar with driving, it may be possible to drive the car into the ditch.

The prince snorted heavily, obviously upset, his ass was almost swollen by him.

Chu Xinian always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't find any clues for a while, but his keen sixth sense made him aware of the approaching danger.At this moment, Xie Jingyuan seemed to have discovered something, and suddenly frowned: "Wait a minute—"

The prince stopped the carriage: "What's the matter?"

A gust of wind passed, and the mountains and forests rustled.Some gravel fell from the valley and landed directly on the roof of the carriage.

Xie Jingyuan closed his eyes and said nothing, his ears moved slightly, as if he was listening to something.After a while, he opened his eyes suddenly, and suddenly pulled Chu Xinian out of the carriage with lightning speed, threw the prince down with him, and rolled to the side on the spot.

"boom--!"

They left the carriage with their front feet, and a man in black jumped down from the treetops at the back. The two long swords gleamed coldly, and pierced straight into the carriage from the roof. The sword energy split the carriage into pieces.But if Xie Jingyuan hid a little slower, he might have been stabbed right now.

Chu Xinian was dragged by Xie Jingyuan, fell off the carriage unexpectedly, and rolled a few laps on the gravel road before stopping.He sat up with stares in his eyes, but saw a masked man in black standing not far away, staring at them with a pair of emotionless eyes, holding a long sword in each of his left and right hands. Clearly visible in color.

Qin Shuang——!

Seeing this, Chu Xinian's pupils shrank for a moment, and he never thought that this character would just appear on the stage.He slowly got up from the ground, without any trace in his heart, he estimated the odds of victory between the enemy and us.

The prince's head was knocked hard.He covered his head and frowned and stood up, stunned when he saw the scene in front of him.After realizing it, he sneered, turned his head to Xie Jingyuan and Chu Xinian and said, "The three of us go up together!"

He didn't believe it anymore, could three still beat one?

Xie Jingyuan's face was gloomy, and he only said two words coldly: "Shut up!"

If Xie Jingyuan was in his heyday, it would be no problem to kill a mere Qin Shuang.But now that the remaining poison in his body is not cleared, and he has no weapons in his hands, it is already difficult to protect himself, not to mention protecting Chu Xinian and the prince, the chances of winning will decrease again and again.

Qin Shuang was obviously afraid of Xie Jingyuan, so he didn't move.He silently pulled a sword flower, and his figure melted into the night: "Hand over Jiuniang's things, and I may spare you from dying."

Obviously, this sentence cannot be believed.

Chu Xinian keenly captured the key words: "Maybe?"

The prince was quite royal at the critical moment, at least he didn't freak out in fright, he sneered and said: "You came here to take the lonely life if you had the guts, you hide your head and show your tail, you little boy!"

Qin Shuang frowned when he heard that he called himself "Gu", obviously he hadn't decided whether to kill the prince or not.It seems that among these three people, only Chu Xinian is the best to deal with. With a thrust of the sword, he attacked Chu Xinian without warning——

"Come on!"

Xie Jingyuan's eyes froze, he pushed Chu Xinian away, and went straight to meet him.He jumped up, avoiding the edge of the sword, and struck Qin Shuang's wrist with a strange and delicate gesture, and snatched the long sword while he was numb.

Chu Xinian didn't expect Xie Jingyuan to stand in front of him like that, and was stunned for a moment.After reacting, he quickly untied the sachet on his waist, poured all the contents into the palm of his hand, and crushed it vigorously.

The crown prince wanted to step forward to help, but he couldn't get in at all. Seeing that Chu Xinian was beside him and didn't know what to do, he was annoyed and annoyed: "Chu Xinian, you are more useless than Gu!"

It seems that the prince has a clear understanding of himself.

Chu Xinian knew that the more critical the situation, the less he could panic.While kneading the contents in his palm vigorously into powder, he frowned and glanced into the arena, only to see Qin Shuang and Xie Jingyuan's swords clashing so fast that even the afterimage could not be seen clearly, and the surrounding fallen leaves and rubble Injured by sword energy.

Although it is hard to tell the winner, but if it continues, Xie Jingyuan is afraid that he will be defeated by exhaustion.

The prince picked a stone from the mountain wall next to him, stood in the distance, aimed at Qin Shuang's head and smashed it hard, but was smashed into pieces by the sword tip before he even touched the opponent's shoulder.

Xie Jingyuan frowned and glanced at him: "Take Chu Xinian and go!"

The prince was furious: "You let Gu go away, why take him with you! He is just a spy!"

However, neither he nor Chu Xinian intended to leave.

Gradually, Xie Jingyuan began to feel a little overwhelmed, and the speed of his moves slowed down visibly to the naked eye.Qin Shuang was obviously struggling too, his forehead was covered with dense cold sweat, he clenched his long sword tightly, and was about to give Xie Jingyuan a fatal blow, when an extremely calm voice suddenly sounded in his ear: "Do you want Jiu Niang's letter? "

Qin Shuang looked subconsciously, but saw Chu Xinian standing not far away, with his left hand behind his back, and a blood-stained envelope in his right hand, and smiled to himself: "I'll give you the letter, what if you let us go?" ?”

Qin Shuangxin thought that Xie Jingyuan was really hard to deal with. It didn't matter whether these people were killed or not.Hearing this, he immediately stopped fighting, withdrew from the battle circle, and walked towards Chu Xinian step by step.

Xie Jingyuan's face was as pale as paper, he swallowed the fishy sweetness surging in his throat expressionlessly, and barely supported his body with the sword.He frowned and looked at Chu Xinian, but the other party gave him a comforting look.

Qin Shuang was still vigilant, stopped three steps away from Chu Xinian, and said coldly: "Throw the letter over here, if you dare to play tricks, I won't spare you!"

"I don't know martial arts, what kind of tricks can I play?"

Chu Xinian smiled slightly, folded the letter in half, and threw it directly at Qin Shuang.

Seeing this, Qin Shuang quickly caught it, lowered his head and opened the envelope, but saw that it was empty, and glared at Chu Xinian angrily: "How dare you play me!"

Seeing this, Xie Jingyuan was about to make a move, but at that moment, Chu Xinian suddenly sprinkled a handful of red powder on Qin Shuang, only to hear Qin Shuang scream in pain, covered his eyes with his hands and staggered back. Far.

Chu Xinian said quickly: "Xie Jingyuan, save his life!"

In other words, as long as you don't die, you can do anything.

Xie Jingyuan quickly understood what he meant, squinted his long and narrow eyes, and took advantage of Qin Shuang's loss of defense, he threw the long sword in his hand vigorously, and directly pierced the opponent's left shoulder.The force was so ruthless that he sank into the rock, and actually nailed Qin Shuang to the mountain wall.

"what--!"

Qin Shuang raised his head in pain and let out a scream, only to feel the burning pain in his eyes and the unbearable pain in his left shoulder.He waved the long sword in his right hand indiscriminately, but Xie Jingyuan twisted it with his backhand, directly dislodging his joints, and even his jaw, he couldn't even speak.

The fighting finally ceased.

With his back against the mountain wall, Xie Jingyuan slid slowly to sit on the ground, frowning to calm the turbulent Qi and blood in his body.

Chu Xinian patted the remaining powder in his hand, his face was still calm, making it impossible to tell whether he was flustered or not.

The prince didn't understand what happened, and the battle ended somehow?He looked at Chu Xinian suspiciously, smelled the pungent smell in the air, and couldn't help sneezing: "What did you do?"

"It's nothing," Chu Xinian said, "I sprinkled some chili powder."

When he checked the source of the poison in the General's Mansion last time, he saw dried chilies drying in the courtyard of the back kitchen, so he grabbed some and put them in a sachet for emergencies.After all, in this era where flying flowers and picking leaves can kill people, it is really dangerous without martial arts. In a sense, irritating substances such as peppers can replace wolf-proof spray.

Look, it will come in handy today.

The prince seemed to be emotional, as if he really knew Chu Xinian for the first time: "You are so insidious..."

"Thank you, Your Highness, for the compliment."

Chu Xinian accepted this comment.After he finished speaking, he walked towards Xie Jingyuan, leaned over and put the other's arm on his shoulder, then helped him up, and asked in a low voice: "Can you still go?"

Xie Jingyuan didn't speak, always feeling like he would vomit blood when he opened his mouth.He hadn't been so embarrassed in several years, and nodded with a gloomy face.

Chu Xinian didn't believe it, pinched his wrist to check his pulse, but found that his breathing was disordered and quite bad.

"Don't lie."

After Chu Xinian finished speaking, he took a deep look at Xie Jingyuan, then turned around without saying a word, knelt down in front of him, and motioned him to come up: "Let's go, I'll carry you on my back."

Xie Jingyuan stared at his back without moving.

Chu Xinian didn't look back, and although his voice was still gentle, he couldn't resist: "Come up, don't make me say it a second time."

Only then did Xie Jingyuan lie on his back.Feeling Chu Xinian's warm back, he couldn't help closing his eyes, feeling something strange in his heart.

There was still a distance from the gate of the city. The carriage broke down and the horse ran away. They had to walk the rest of the way.

Seeing that Chu Xinian was carrying Xie Jingyuan on his back, the prince subconsciously asked, "What about Gu?"

Xie Jingyuan's eyes were heavy: "Don't you have long legs?"

The prince choked, pointed at Qin Shuang and asked, "Then what should he do?"

Chu Xinian said: "Take it, he is a witness."

Xie Jingyuan sneered coldly: "If you are not afraid of death, then let him carry you on his back."

The prince cursed bad luck in his heart.Seeing a tree and vine beside him, he wrapped dozens of circles around Qin Shuang's body and tied it tightly.Holding the other end of the rope in his hand, he kicked his ass like walking a dog: "Hurry up!"

With Xie Jingyuan on his back, Chu Xinian walked very steadily step by step in the dark.Hearing the voice of the crown prince cursing from time to time behind him, he couldn't help smiling, and unexpectedly remembered the matter of King Jin's expedition to Shuofang.

"General, do you know that sometimes killing people is not necessarily the best way." Chu Xinian's voice was clearer than the moonlight, as if he could see through many things.

Xie Jingyuan looked down at his neck: "If you don't kill people, what should you do?"

"Praise him as high as possible, so that even if we don't make a move, the superiors will crush him to death." Chu Xinian seemed to be reminding something, but he didn't seem to say anything.

Emperor Yan has always been suspicious, military power and the throne are the most untouchable things.At that time, the Xie clan was feared by the emperor because of their high prestige in the army, not to mention King Jin, a prince who is qualified to succeed.

Emperor Yan could tolerate an excellent son, but he would not tolerate a son who was in power.If King Jin is in the army like a fish in water, the emperor will naturally take action without the need for the crown prince.

The prince walked behind, listened to their conversation, looked up at Chu Xinian thoughtfully, did not speak, and finally spoke out after a while, but cursed lightly: "You little trickster."

After he finished speaking, he led Qin Shuang to follow them, walked side by side, and warned Chu Xinian: "Don't come here to confuse the public, I won't be fooled by you."

They were so close, Xie Jingyuan directly pushed the prince away, his disgust was palpable: "If you don't speak, no one will treat you as dumb."

The prince felt that the little friend had changed, he was different from before.He slowly circled the vine in his hands a few times, thinking about what happened in the past few days, he seemed to understand something, but he didn't seem to understand it.

The prince asked directly, a little unconvinced: "Xie Jingyuan, why do you always protect him?"

The hand holding the tree vine pointed at Chu Xinian impartially.

Chu Xinian paused.