Chapter 169 Luoyang Memory 3

Because of the heavy snow, we stopped for three days. On the morning of the fourth day, Xue Wanjun pulled out a big brown horse from the stable and a big dark horse in the other hand. With the sound of iron hoofs, elegant mane, shiny skin color and strong limbs, you can know at a glance that it is a strong good horse. Li Shimin, who was about to get into the carriage, looked back at me in surprise when he saw the horse. I smiled and nodded to him, and he suddenly realized that someone hugged me on the front of the court and kissed me on the forehead. My cheeks were slightly red, and I gently pushed him away and asked him to lead the horse quickly.

He took the reins handed over by Xue Wanjun and patted the horse's mane, as if he were discussing with it. Then he jumped on his legs and crossed it. Sitting on horseback, he is refreshed and majestic. He stared at me, and I smiled gently and stepped into the carriage, and then he nodded to indicate that he could leave.

There is no smell of Li Shimin in the carriage, but he is not used to it. When he touches the air, it is so cold. It snowed for a day and melted for two days, and today it is mostly ice water. It's the coldest when the snow melts. I exhale in the palm of my hand, but I still can't relieve the numbness. I'm so cold in the carriage. I don't know how the people outside are. I lifted the curtain slightly and saw Li Shimin and Xue Wanjun riding side by side. They talked happily and didn't notice the cold weather at all. It seems that it is better to give him the pleasure of being trapped beside me.

I laughed bitterly and laughed at myself. Isn't this what I chose for him, but why am I sad?

The motorcade drove out of the town and crossed the suburbs, where there was a wide evergreen forest. After entering the forest, the air around me felt colder and colder. I rubbed my arms and my feet were so cold that I couldn't sit still. In desperation, I asked the disguised eunuch driving the car to stop. After the car stopped, even if Xue Wanjun and Li Shimin reacted, they pulled back the horse rope to the side of the carriage. I stood out of the carriage and said that my feet were numb and wanted to come down and walk. Li Shimin looked very touched and stopped to rest.

Li Shimin got off the horse and opened his hand to help me get out of the car. His lukewarm palms held my hand tightly, and then hugged me in his arms sadly and ordered the eunuch to go around to make some branches to make a fire. The eunuch who could bring out did not only bring tea and water. Soon, he came back with a handful of dry firewood, and it seemed that he had been beaten down from a branch. He surrounded the dry firewood, and Xue Wanjun lit the stone beside him. After the fire was docile, Li Shimin took off his cloak and wanted to spread it on the ground. I quickly stopped him: "I sat in the carriage for a day, and I wanted to stand. What's more, the cold weather is better for you to wear this cloak."

pushed back and forth a few times, and he finally put on his cloak again. We gathered around the fire, and a hot air trembled slightly, expelling the chill little by little. But not long after standing, Li Shimin beside him suddenly became refreshed and looked around carefully. Xue Wanjun also seemed to notice something and secretly held the hilt of the sword in his right hand. Suddenly, a white light flashed in the jungle, and his waist was tight. Li Shimin hugged me and flashed to the side of the road. Between them, three silver darts quickly plunged into the ground, pulling up a layer of black mud, and another one plunged into the eunuch's chest and fell down before shouting.

"Assassin!" Xue Wanjun shouted and drew his sword in front of us to guard. The trees in the forest shook violently and suddenly rushed out six or seven people in black. Xue Wanjun stabbed his sword and stopped the man in black with one move to fight with him. A few sounds of grass restlessness came from behind his ears. Li Shimin turned around and protected me behind him. More than a dozen people in black jumped out of the grass and rushed to us. Li Shimin closed the folding fan in his hand and swept away a few head-on swords, but the people's hands were all sharp weapons with fierce techniques. The only fan in Li Shimin's hand that could be blocked quickly split in half.

Oh no! I was shocked. These people were divided into two groups. Xue Wanjun was dragged down by several assassins, and Li Shimin here fought with his bare hands and wanted to protect me. He really stood at a low hand. In addition, there are more assassins dealing with Li Shimin than Xue Wanjun. We are really outnumbered! But what surprised me most was that these assassins avoided me with every knife and sword. Why? And Changsun Wuji said that he sent people to secretly protect us. What about his people? The people he sent are not far away, and they should be near here!

Just thinking of this, a few uneasy winds, a group of people in dark robes jumped into the fight and shot at the assassins with a sword. And these assassins were absolutely prepared. They all took out a handful of white powder from their arms and splashed them on their bodies. They only heard a few screams, and several dark robes who had fallen down to help.

I was shocked that these people did not want to assassinate Li Shimin, but to capture him alive. If it is not just hatred, it is to blackmail the emperor and order the princes!

The person behind the scenes must know Li Shimin's identity. If it's just hatred and it's too dangerous for him to be caught alive, then... he wants to usurp the throne! As soon as the emperor died and the new emperor succeeded to the throne, this person wanted to blackmail the emperor to order the princes. He must know the general situation of the ministers in Li Shimin's dynasty. If Li Shimin is killed and the prince is prevented from ascending the throne, the eldest grandson Wuji, Qin Shubao, Cheng Yaojin, Wei Zheng and others will not accept it. With these Chinese elders, it is enough to stir up the world. So the hostage is the ultimate force! So who even wants to usurp the throne outside? Is it the person who has a grudge against Li Shimin, or the posthumous minister of the former prince Li Jiancheng?

I didn't have time to think about it anymore. Li Shimin took me to another tree. The rest of the dark robe trapped some of the people in black, but a few of them still caught up. Although there is not a little less power without weapons, Li Shimin's skills are still very vigorous. Using the weapons in their own hands seem to unintentionally let them assassinate their companions. However, when there is only one person left, this method fails.

Seeing that his companions died under his own sword, the assassin's eyes turned red and the sword came fiercely towards Li Shimin. But even so, he never intended me. I became more and more confused, but I couldn't take much thought about it and dodged step by step along with Li Shimin's movements. Li Shimin took me with one hand and blocked the sword with a fan in the other hand. My heel was suddenly tripped by a tree root. Li Shimin quickly lifted my back with one hand and hugged me down. The man in black saw this and picked up his sword and stabbed him. I could see clearly from the front and wanted to turn over to protect Li Shimin, but he held me tightly and couldn't move. Looking at the sword light that was waving his hand, I screamed and buried my head in Li Shimin's arm.

I only felt that Li Shimin turned around and heard the sound of the broken fan opening. But the fan in Li Shimin's hand has been broken into a skeleton, and he can't resist the sharp sword wind! At this moment, there was a quick sound of sword. The person on my body did nothing else. I looked up nervously and saw the man in black standing in front of me stiffen and inserted a sharp sword from behind my chest. At this moment, Li Shimin stood me up, pulled out the sword in the man in black's hand and wiped it down, and put an extra sword on his abdomen. The man tilted his head and fell to the ground and died. The owner of the sword that stabbed his chest, that is, the teenager who helped Li Shimin still maintain the momentum of stabbing the sword, and his eyes communicated with Li Shimin. Li Shimin smiled and threw away the broken fan in his hand. The two did not stay and strode to the front confrontation.

At the beginning, only the people sent by Xue Wanjun and Changsun Wuji fought with the assassins. Now there are more Li Shimin and teenagers, and the formation suddenly tilted down. Li Shimin fought all over the world, and few people blocked him with swordsmanship. In addition, the inexplicable young man's superb swordsmanship greatly increased our morale, and more than half of the assassins soon fell down. The rest saw that the situation was not good, and after a loud whistle, they disappeared on all sides.

The forest immediately calmed down. I ran back to Li Shimin and saw that many people in the dark robe were killed and injured, and Xue Wanjun injured his arm. It seems that these assassins have been carefully screened and arranged to capture us once. It was thanks to the sword of the inexplicable teenager to win this time. When I threw my gratitude, the sword-wielding teenager over there was also looking at me, with waves in his eyes that could not hide the surprise. Just as he was about to come forward, Xue Wanjun ignored the blood coming from his arm and cautiously pointed out, "Who is coming?"

The teenager swept Xue Wanyi's eyes, stood on the other side, put down his long sword and knelt down and hugged Li Shimin, and said loudly, "It belongs to Molan next week!"

I was shocked and looked at it carefully. This person's appearance is good, and his whole body exudes a refined spirit. Generally speaking, it is very difficult to know his former appearance, but he can still distinguish a few familiar state from it. More than ten years of changes, from simple to deep maturity, if it hadn't been for the respect and loyalty he often showed to me, I'm really not sure that he was Zhou Molan. After all, there are very similar people in the world, such as me.

Zhou Molan looked at me and boldly looked up for me to confirm. I smiled happily and told Li Shimin, "This man was a bodyguard in my temple before you ascended the throne. Later, I felt that he had great potential, so I sent him out to practice martial arts.

Li Shimin did not recognize Zhou Molan. Although he helped him with a sword, he was still a little wary of him. Zhou Molan half knelt on the ground and looked back and forth at me and Li Shimin, and did not dare to get up by himself. Li Shimin's accession to the throne is a matter of the world. How can he not know that the king of a country dares not move easily in front of him, even my old knowledge. However, Li Shimin did not let him get up and looked at him lightly, but his eyes were extremely deep, but finally turned into a polite smile: "How about the next stop of the chivalrous man?"

Zhou Molan straightened his eyes and said, "It's difficult for me to be the name of 'chivalrous'. My subordinates have practiced martial arts, and it's time to return to the palace!"

Li Shimin was slightly clear and said, "You follow us first, but you can't go back to the palace yet." I looked at him in surprise. Someone has already noticed our whereabouts. Does he still want to go to Luoyang? Li Shimin saw my concerns and insisted, "I must go to Luoyang, otherwise I will leave regret."

He went upstairs to my waist and looked at my eyes a little deeper. I watched him suffocate for a moment, and my heart a little more painful. The previous assassins didn't hurt me at all, and even I realized it myself. How could he not know? Who sent these people of unknown origin and what purpose did they hide from Li Shimin to me?