At three o'clock, the procession to welcome the bride set off from the Marquis Mansion in Zhongshan.

Pei Yue was in the middle of the team, and Deng Zai said next to him: "Master, Commander Fu has deployed a large number of manpower near that house. There will be no mistakes in Miss Lin's safety. In addition, our people will protect her along the way."

Lu Jiang's mysterious disappearance is not good news. According to this person's paranoid character, it is obvious that he will not let it go. There will not be any danger in the Zhongshan Marquis Mansion. Even if Lu Jiang goes crazy, his men will not die in vain, so the main points that need to be taken precautions are

It is the house that Pei Cheng bought in Qingyufang, Xicheng. It has been transferred to Lin Andu's name and is used as the place where Lin Shuyue will marry.

Fu Hongzhi was filled with regrets and did not dare to make any more mistakes, so he asked Qi Min and Yang Hu to take their subordinates to guard the wedding procession along the way, while he himself led the elite Tibetan Guards to guard the Qingyufang house airtight.

Pei Yue nodded absently.

He was thinking about who helped Lu Jiang escape from death.

After excluding Li Bingzhong who pretended to be a pig to eat the tiger, there were not many people who were willing and able to do so. The more Pei thought of Wang Jiuxuan's sudden appearance, Wang Pingzhang's old but sharp-eyed face came to mind.

He and Wang Pingzhang had a personal feud. In the Yongning Autumn Night Incident, Lingping and his wife died innocently. After all, they were his blood parents. Since he inherited this body, he couldn't just pretend that nothing happened. Even if Wang Pingzhang didn't know about it, from the current situation

As far as the court was concerned, the two were also at odds with each other. If Emperor Kaiping wanted to limit Wang Pingzhang's power within a controllable range, he had to rely on the rise of Gu Liang and Pei Yue.

Only when one is ebbing and the other is elevating can we achieve balance.

Wang Pingzhang had previously contributed to the war in the Western Region and easily got rid of Lu Min with the help of Emperor Kaiping's plan. This was a lesson learned from the past, and Pei Yue would not take it lightly.

It's just that he couldn't understand Wang Pingzhang's purpose of doing this. Did he think that relying on Lu Jiang and those reckless bandits could assassinate a powerful prince?

The wedding team walked through the capital, and after entering Xicheng, people gathered all the way to watch, which made Deng Zai a little nervous.

Pei Yue had an excellent reputation among the people, which was completely different from the impression he had in the minds of many courtiers. Therefore, the people just stood on the side of the road and watched. People kept congratulating Pei Yue from a distance, with sincere expressions and smiles on their faces.

Pei Yue put away his thoughts and sat on the horse with a smile and clasped his fists. The atmosphere was particularly harmonious and beautiful.

After entering the wide and flat Yulong Street, the pace of the wedding team was forced to slow down. The streets were packed with people and the shops lined up along the roadside.

More than a hundred steps to the left, in the window seat on the second floor of the restaurant, Yang Hu was sitting alone. There were several plates of dishes on the table, but he had not touched a chopstick at all. He carefully and carefully observed the movements on the street, his eyes

Weaving through the complicated and flowing crowds, and after seeing the wedding team entering the long street, I concentrated all my attention.

The shouts of vendors, the shouts of women, and the play of children mixed together to create a noisy and bustling scene.

The wedding team moved forward slowly, and Pei Yue responded with a smile to the blessings of the people who recognized him.

On the second floor of the wine shop, Yang Hu's expression suddenly changed. He grabbed the wine bottle on the table, jumped over the window edge in the blink of an eye, stood on the eaves outside, smashed the wine bottle in his hand to somewhere diagonally opposite, and shouted angrily:

"There's an ambush!"

As if in response to him, a burst of uniform roar suddenly erupted from the long street.

"Kill the traitors of the country, kill Pei Yue!"

"Kill the traitors of the country, kill Pei Yue!"

"Kill the traitors of the country, kill Pei Yue!"

…

Dozens of young men showed their weapons and rushed towards Pei Yue, roaring.

They hid among the people, moved neatly and quickly, and almost instantly divided the wedding team into three, aiming directly at Pei Yue in the center.

The common people looked at those swords with a cold light, and after a brief period of confusion, they were terrified and ran around like headless flies. In an instant, the scene became extremely chaotic and complicated.

The moment the killer appeared, Deng Zai calmed down and shouted calmly: "Meet the enemy!"

The wedding team, dressed in festive costumes, immediately put down the gifts they were carrying. Everyone pulled out steel knives from baskets or boxes and bravely moved forward towards the killers.

At the same time, forty or fifty tough men appeared on both sides of the long street. It was Qi Min who led the masters hiding in the dark.

Pei Yue sat on the horse as calm as a mountain, looked around, and had some concerns in his heart.

The number of these killers was about sixty, which was not much different from Fu Hongzhi's previous judgment. However, what made Pei Yue a little surprised was that Lu Jiang was not among them.

The wedding team was actually made up of sharp soldiers selected by Fu Hongzhi from the right army of the Tibetan Front Guard. These people were originally led by Shang Yu. Although they had no military experience and were not conspicuous on the battlefield at first, in terms of personal martial arts

But it is the best of Zangfengwei.

After experiencing the hardships of the battlefield, these martial arts masters became stronger because they learned to fight together.

Logically speaking, a wedding team of nearly a hundred people plus the elite soldiers led by Qi Min should be able to deal with these sixty killers with overwhelming force.

Pei Yue's expression gradually became serious.

The strength of these killers was not weak, especially the strong man who kept charging at him. The sharp soldiers of the hidden front guard could not stop him.

The strong man was seven feet tall and had a burly build. He originally hid in a liquor store on the street and came out after the killers started taking action. However, this man arrived first and rushed in front of all the killers.

The man was carrying an iron rod. After knocking down two people, he was less than two feet away from Pei Yue's mount.

Pei Yue could even clearly see the man's delicate face, which looked very strange when paired with his burly body.

"Protect the young master!" Deng Zai roared angrily, and immediately drew his sword and urged his horse forward.

Looking down from above, I saw that the middle section of Yulong Street had turned into a terrifying Shura field. Pei Yue and more than thirty of his men were surrounded by killers, while others blocked the killers' retreat from the outside. Most of them

Most of the people were lucky enough to escape the killing, but only a handful of people were killed by the killers because they were near Pei Yue when the incident occurred.

The strong man didn't even look at Deng Zai who was standing between him and Pei Yue. He just swept across with his stick and knocked Deng Zai's horse to the ground. This shows how terrifying his strength is.

Deng Zai had already taken off his stirrup the moment the opponent took action, then jumped down and rolled forward to the left. He kicked off the ground and dived without any hesitation, slashing the strong man's legs with the steel knife in his hand.

I saw the strong man suddenly raised the iron rod and slapped it sideways. Deng Zai's steel knife made a disgusting sound after slashing at it. Severe pain came from the tiger's mouth and he could hardly hold the handle of the knife. The strong man ignored it and lay down on the ground.

Deng Zai stood on the ground, his body as tall as a mountain suddenly moved forward, his feet stepped on the bluestone ground, and he could actually hear the sound of breaking.

The guards around Pei Yue looked solemn and moved forward with swords in their hands. Even though the strong man was terrifying, there was no fear in their eyes.

However, Pei Yue was faster than them.

After the strong man blocked Deng Zai's full sword attack, Pei Yue saw that this man had a high level of martial arts training and that the guards around him were definitely no match for him, so he took the steel sword of a guard next to him and flew off his horse to meet him.

Go up.

The strong man looked at Pei Yue with a trace of hatred in his eyes, and immediately thrust out the iron rod in his hand. With the inertia brought by his body's forward motion, his whole body was like a spear that pierced through all obstacles in the world, and stabbed straight into Pei Yue's chest.

chest.

Pei Yue had a hint of surprise in his eyes.

The opponent actually used marksmanship!

Under the nervous and worried gaze of the guards next to him, Pei Yue's body suddenly deflected, the back of the knife was pressed against the head of the opponent's club and then moved forward. In the blink of an eye, he stepped forward until he was in front of the strong man. All this happened in a flash of lightning.

Suddenly, before many people could see clearly, the steel knife in Pei Yue's hand had already been inserted into the strong man's abdomen.

The surrounding scene seemed to freeze for an instant.

The strong man looked at Pei Yue who was close at hand, and a strange smile suddenly appeared on his handsome face. He didn't care about the steel knife that penetrated his body. His left hand instantly reached out to grab Pei Yue's right hand holding the knife, and then he raised up all the strength in his body.

Power punched the right fist.

Pei Yue was so experienced in fighting the enemy that he was prepared for the opponent's fatal blow. Therefore, the moment the strong man punched, he raised his left arm to protect his chest and used his strongest elbow to meet the man's fist.

An overwhelming force came, and Pei Yue's left arm, which was originally in a triangle shape to protect himself, was punched straight by the man!

The strong force hit Pei Yue hard on the chest, causing him to take several steps back before he could regain his balance.

If he hadn't been prepared to block the punch with his strongest elbow, the consequences would have been unpredictable.

The guards rushed forward and stabbed five or six steel knives into the strong man's body from different directions.

He looked at Pei Yue a few steps away, grinned with a relieved smile, and said intermittently: "I'm not... the last one..."

Dying from exhaustion.

The chaos on the long street broke out suddenly, but it did not last long, because except for this strong man, the other killers did not have the strength to turn the situation around, especially since Pei Yue's elite men were several times their number.

Pei Yue stood where he was. Deng Zai and Qi Min came to him. Looking at his slightly pale face, they asked worriedly: "Master, have you ever been injured?"

Pei Yue shook his head slightly, forced to stop the turbulence in his chest and abdomen, and ordered: "Inform the Kyoto Prefecture and Taishitai Pavilion that Lu Jiang must be caught as soon as possible."

"yes!"

Pei Yue took one last look at the strong man with a cold expression on his face and turned around to mount his horse.
Chapter completed!