At the same time, the boat painters of the Zhou family also noticed the appearance of small boats on the shore in the distance.
"Brother, didn't you say that the civilian boats on the lake have been emptied out a long time ago? Even if they don't die in the hands of our dead soldiers, they will die in the water!" Zhou Changle couldn't help but turned to look at Zhou Tongchen in annoyance.
Zhou Tongchen's thin and shrewd face showed annoyance: "This..."
He didn't know where those boats came from. He had obviously planned it a long time ago and emptied all the civilian boats on the lake in the name of the Spring Lake Festival!
No one from the Five Cities Military and Horse Division responsible for public security in the capital would dare to disobey him and his father!
He said with a cold face and viciously: "Don't worry, the matter is not over yet!"
As he spoke, he motioned to the people around him to raise a scarlet flag on his boat.
Then, a tall ship that had been parked near the center of the lake suddenly moved and headed straight towards Ming Lanruo's ship.
Ming Lanruo was leaning on the railing at this time and watching the battle going on downstairs.
Jinghe carried the shield whip specially made for her by the unknown master and swung it vigorously on the ship, like whack-a-mole, knocking down waves of black-clad killers who tried to rush onto the ship.
Ming Lanruo saw that something was wrong, so she simply knocked on the wooden fence and raised her voice: "Jinghe, don't drag them all into the water, kill them on the boat!"
Jinghe, this girl, was so excited that she forgot what she had told her when she made the plan last night!!
When Jing He heard this, he immediately turned his wrist and replaced the action of pumping the enemy into the water with dragging the killer into the boat. He laughed dryly: "That's your order!"
Yin Shusheng's eyes flashed with suspicion, why did she want Jing He to lure the killer to the ship and then kill him.
Now the entire ship is leaking, and it will take time for reinforcements to arrive. It is obviously safest to kill the enemy under the ship!
Before he could ask, he suddenly noticed a huge shadow approaching from the corner of his eye.
His eyes turned cold, and he rushed forward suddenly, hugging Ming Lanruo in his arms: "Be careful!"
Ming Lanruo noticed something and wanted to avoid it, but was too late. She was hugged by Yin Scholar and rolled on the spot.
Then the whole ship was suddenly hit by something with a "bang", causing violent vibrations and almost overturning.
Many people on the boat fell into the water instantly and screamed for help - "Help!"
Ming Lanruo was held in the arms of the hidden scholar. He quickly grabbed the fence, hugged Ming Lanruo and lay down on the spot, close to the ground of the second floor deck, so as not to roll into the water.
Fortunately, because the boat had already taken in water and its hull was half-sunken, it did not capsize so quickly and became stable.
Ming Lanruo came back to her senses, looked at Scholar Yin, and saw that he was hugging her awkwardly, the new square scarf on his head had fallen off, and his forehead was slightly red and swollen.
She frowned worriedly: "Is your injury serious?"
Scholar Yin shook his head: "It doesn't matter, but I'm afraid this ship won't last long!"
Ming Lanruo looked at the three-story boat that crashed into the painting boat just now. It was a warship specially used by the imperial court to guard and clean up the Mingchun Lake!
At this time, officers and soldiers on the ship kept jumping down from the building along the ropes, asking loudly: "Where is the assassin?!"
The leader of the team even shouted loudly after landing: "People in the boat, come out quickly, your boat is going to sink, we are here to pick you up to the boat!"
As the boat was about to sink, most of the people, led by Xu Xiuyi, followed Ming Lanruo's instructions and ran to the cabin on the second floor to hide shiveringly.
They saw the officers and soldiers through the cracks in the doors and windows, and the fear that the boat was about to sink in water made people instinctively feel that they were saved, so they opened the door and ran out.
"Here, we are here!"
"Help!"
Those sounds attracted the attention of the officers and soldiers, who immediately grabbed their knives and walked to the wing on the second floor.
Ming Lanruo, who had just stood up after falling on the edge of the deck, saw a cold light in his eyes and shouted sternly - "Xiu Yi, don't come out!"
Xu Xiuyi was excited, remembered Ming Lanruo's advice, and immediately turned around and stopped in front of everyone, blocking the door with her back: "You can't go out, you have to wait for Princess Mou's order before you can open the door!"
Although she didn't know why, she instinctively felt that Ming Lanruo would never harm them!
Xu Xiuyi had the highest status, and everyone present and the maids did not dare to disobey her, but were panicked and at a loss.
Ming Lanruo, who was originally in the corner of the deck, instantly attracted the attention of other officers and soldiers because of that shout.
They immediately raised their swords, looked at each other, divided into two groups, and continued into the cabin on the second floor to knock on the door fiercely: "Open the door!"
Another group of people rushed towards Ming Lanruo and Scholar Yin, but their eyes were full of ferocity. They didn't look like they were saving people at all, but they looked like they were here to kill!
When the hidden scholar saw this, a cold light flashed in his eyes, and he understood instantly——
These officers and soldiers are basically the same group as those killers downstairs!
From the moment they used the heavy building bed to crash into the Xu family boat, they planned to force the people out of the boat as quickly as possible.
Their mission is to kill everyone on the Xujiahua Boat before the people on the shore arrive, and then let the masked killer downstairs run away, passing the blame on those killers who escaped, so that they can be clean!
Ming Lanruo also understood the other party's plan at the same time. She frowned and shouted - "Jinghe!"
The Zhou family's techniques this time are layered, ruthless and meticulous!
Jing He immediately tried to fly up to her, but at this moment the killers were going crazy. Suddenly, seven or eight of them rushed over at the same time to wrap their heads around her without fear of death!
She whipped the other person with a whip, causing her to scream in agony, but she couldn't get away for a while. She was so anxious that she shouted: "Miss, I can't get up!"
The officers and soldiers laughed ferociously upon hearing this, and charged fiercely towards Ming Lanruo with their swords in hand: "Kill her and receive the reward!"
The hidden scholar's eyes were filled with cold light. He turned his wrist and pinched the lotus flower to kill.
Even if his identity is exposed and she hates him, he can't let anything happen to her!
But unexpectedly, Ming Lanruo suddenly raised his hand to push back the man who was about to block her, and said coldly: "Don't move, lower your head!"
Before he could react, he saw her suddenly raise her hand, and a gorgeous gold feather bracelet on the woman's white wrist suddenly made a "buzzing" sound.
The next moment, fierce winds burst out, and countless poisonous needles as thin as cow hair exploded like a goddess scattering flowers!
"ah--!!"
Regardless of the officers and soldiers who were rushing over or on the building and the boat, as long as their faces were exposed and not covered, they would all scream and fall down in an instant, twisting and dying in pain!
In just an instant, the entire second floor was cleared, and the soldiers who were lucky enough to be alive on board the building stared dumbfounded at this strange and tragic scene.
The hidden scholar's pupils shrank instantly, it was a unique secret weapon of the Tang family in Shu that had been lost for hundreds of years in the world——
Ten Thousand Poison Peacock Feathers!!
Ming Lanruo didn't know the origin of the golden feather bracelet on her wrist, so she couldn't help but sigh, the unknown master's private collection is really amazing!
The power is so powerful that it can frighten everyone!
She walked directly to the cabin of the painting boat. The soldiers who were slashing at the door with knives looked like they had seen a ghost. They no longer cared about killing Xu Xiuyi and others, and turned around in a panic and fled in the other direction.
The situation was reversed, and the originally ferocious murderer became a bereaved dog running away in panic.
Xu Xiuyi and others were hiding in the room. Ming Lanruo raised her hand without any scruples, and the bracelet on her wrist buzzed again.
The fine needles flew out, and the soldiers screamed and all fell down in the corridor.
Ming Lanruo took back her hand coldly. This was her rebirth. This was the second time someone died directly at her hands, and there were still so many people.
She lowered her eyes and looked at her slender, trembling white fingers, her face a little pale.
but……
She took a deep breath and clenched her fists. It seemed that, like her previous life, she was destined not to be a gentle and virtuous woman, or even a good person.
But for the beliefs in her heart and for the people she wants to protect, she will never look back!
A determined and cold light flashed in Ming Lanruo's eyes.
Jinghe finally finished cleaning up the killers, jumped up to the second floor, and looked at her anxiously: "Miss, you..."
Ming Lanruo said softly: "I'm fine. You must leave none of the remaining soldiers in the building ship that attacked us."
Jing He nodded, not questioning Ming Lanruo's order at all: "Yes!"
Later, Ming Lanruo took out a handful of waist badges from the bag on his waist and handed them to Jing He: "Before Mu Qingshu arrives, stuff all these waist badges onto the corpses of these officers, soldiers and killers!"
Each of these waist tags is no more than the size of a copper coin, and there is a seal engraved on it - the word "Zhou", which is the waist tag of Huben Camp under Zhou Jiatong.
"Jinghe obeys!" Jinghe took it and immediately turned around to take action.
Soon, there were bursts of shrill screams and the sound of human bodies falling heavily into the water.
Ming Lanruo stood with her hands behind her hands indifferently.
Those who kill will always be killed.
They wanted to silence their entire crew, but they didn't know that she also wanted to take the opportunity to silence them, the assassins.
All the old foxes who hang out in the court know that only when one party has absolutely no way to speak can frame-up and frame-up be successfully completed...
There was a cold and shrewd light between her beautiful eyes.
The hidden scholar stood not far away, silently taking in everything, the corners of his lips curved in an unpredictable and deep arc.
It turns out that the reason why she asked Jinghe to kill more killers on the ship was to leave their bodies behind and use them as Zhou family badges.
What a... cruel little lady.
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A quarter of an hour later, Jing He finished processing everything and returned to Ming Lanruo with a whip full of blood.
More than a dozen small boats led by Mu Qingshu also arrived at the edge of the painting boat almost at the same time.
He couldn't wait to get on the gangway, fly onto the boat, find Ming Lanruo and look her up and down: "Princess Mourning, are you okay?!"
The beauty in front of her looked pale, but she was still calmly shaking her head at him: "Fortunately, Jinghe is here to help."
Seeing that Ming Lan was fine, he breathed a sigh of relief.
But when his eyes touched the corpses of officers and soldiers lying scattered on the ground, his eyes suddenly sharpened: "What's going on with these people? Are they also members of the Zhou family..."
When he received news from the Queen Mother, he only said that he was worried that the Zhou family would blame Princess Mourning for the Queen's imprisonment.
The Queen Mother was afraid that they would take the opportunity to send assassins to deal with Princess Mourning, so she asked him to lead the boat and hide by the lake.
If you see Ming Lanruo sending out a distress signal, immediately take a boat to rescue Ming Lanruo and capture the assassin at the same time.
But Mu Qingshu didn't expect to see the corpses of officers and soldiers. They saw the boat heading towards the boat in the lake just now, and thought they were going to rescue people!
One of his civilian guards hurriedly handed several blood-stained tokens to Mu Qingshu: "Commander, these are the things found on the killers and those dead soldiers."
Mu Qingshu looked at the tokens, his eyes suddenly sharpened, and he gritted his teeth and said: "The Zhou family is so outrageous. They sent dead soldiers to kill people, and they dared to mobilize soldiers in the capital to avenge themselves. I would definitely report to His Majesty the Emperor."
Take a copy of them!"
Ming Lanruo reminded softly: "Without His Majesty's imperial decree, mobilizing soldiers from the capital camp without authorization is a treason."
The expressions of all the Imperial Guards present changed, and Mu Qingshu frowned even more tightly.
That's right, mobilizing soldiers in the capital without authorization and starting a big war is a major crime of treason that involves the whole family being imprisoned or even beheaded!
Ming Lanruo looked coldly at the gorgeous Zhou family boat in the distance on the lake.
Since the Zhou family dared to send troops to kill her, they would definitely not let these soldiers leave evidence belonging to their Zhou family.
If the soldiers who came to kill her were captured alive, they must have been bribed by the Zhou family, who would have fabricated confessions to get the Zhou family off the hook, or even bite her back.
But now that these soldiers are dead, dead people will no longer quibble and be bribed and threatened.
She then arranged the Huben Camp tokens of the Zhou family as "evidence" for the bodies of these soldiers and the Zhou family's dead soldiers.
This time, she wants the Zhou family to walk around without food!