Qi Jue's answer was so natural that it took Yan Mingzhu two seconds to react.
"Your Highness just revealed his trump card to me, aren't you afraid that I will turn around and tell others?"
Qi Jue looked down at her and gently poked her between the eyebrows with his long fingertips.
"You won't."
The man's tone was firm without any hesitation, and Yan Mingzhu also laughed.
After another two days of driving, we have arrived at the border of the imperial capital. According to the route, we can enter Beijing tomorrow.
While they were making repairs on the spot, Yan Mingzhu led the horse and walked to Qi Jue's side pretending to be casual.
"There are two people in the southeast, and there are also people in the northwest. They probably followed here two days ago. If it's for Ma Zhi, today is their only chance to take action."
Yan Mingzhu discovered it very early, but she never said anything because she could sense that Qi Jue's martial arts was not inferior to hers, so he must have known about it.
"Well, when the time comes, you stand behind me, and I will be able to deal with these little minions."
Originally I thought Yan Mingzhu would refuse, but unexpectedly she agreed simply this time.
"If your Highness can't do it, just call me."
Qi Jue looked at her amused and helpless. Before he could answer, there was a rustling sound coming from around him.
In an instant, several arrows were fired in their direction!
Qi Jue grabbed Yan Mingzhu's hand with one hand, and while blocking her behind him, he drew out the sword from his waist.
But with one turn of the sword, several arrows were split in half instantly!
"Don't run around. I will kill someone and then come back."
The man's tone was too natural, as casual as if he was talking about what he wanted to eat today.
Qi Jue jumped up, pointed his toes on the flying short arrows, and directly attacked the assassin's interior!
After recovering from his injuries, His Royal Highness King Dingbei fully recovered his combat effectiveness, which also allowed Yan Mingzhu to see the true strength of the God of War, who could sweep thousands of armies on the battlefield and scare the enemy with just his name!
While Qi Jue was dealing with the assassin hiding in the grass, an assassin rushed over from the other side.
And while rushing over, they threw smoke powder on the ground. They came towards the prison car with a very clear goal, obviously heading towards Magistrate Ma!
Yan Mingzhu sighed quietly, "Your Highness, you can't do it. In the end, I have to take action myself."
His mouth was filled with emotion, but the movements of his hands were very crisp and fast.
The long whip flew out and wrapped around the waist of one of the assassins. While throwing it out, it hit three assassins in succession, knocking them away and slamming them onto the tree stump!
These assassins were not afraid of death and rushed forward. They seemed to be a group of dead soldiers who came just to kill Magistrate Ma.
After Yan Mingzhu was sure, he was no longer soft-hearted. The dead man couldn't ask for anything, so in order to solve the problem at once, it was most convenient to kill him directly!
Use a long whip to roll up a sword on the ground. When the assassin rushes up, use the long whip to drive the sword and wipe out an assassin's neck in the blink of an eye.
She sealed her throat with a sword without even spraying out a drop of blood, which is enough to show that her movements are fast and agile!
When Magistrate Ma saw this scene, he was already frightened. He slumped down in the prison car, huddled up and shivered.
After finishing dealing with the wave of assassins, Yan Mingzhu approached and smelled a strong smell of urine.
Oh, I was so scared that I peed.
As a corrupt official, to be so timid is really embarrassing for a corrupt official.
"Ma Zhiyong, it seems that the master you work for, after learning that the matter was exposed, did not hesitate to send dead soldiers to take your life."
At this moment, Magistrate Ma could only cry, "Your Highness, Your Highness, as long as you can let the guilty minister survive, the guilty minister will tell you everything he knows, and he will tell you everything!"
Qi Jue threw his sword to a secret guard without even looking at this corrupt official who was afraid of death.
"It seems that I am not very good at it, so I asked you to do it yourself."
Yan Mingzhu was about to say something trivial, but she saw Qi Jue naturally holding her wrist and taking one of her hands.
Under her puzzled gaze, Qi Jue gently massaged her wrist.
"How strong is this?"
Only then did Yan Mingzhu realize that Qi Jue was giving her a massage.
He burst out laughing, "So your highness is rewarding me?"
"Isn't it obvious?"
"Obviously, but compared to this reward, I want something more material, such as treating me to a big meal after returning to the imperial capital."
Qi Jue chuckled lightly and scratched the tip of her nose with a doting look.
"If you want any stars in the sky, I can pick them for you."
Yan Mingzhu's earlobes turned red and she looked away uncomfortably.
But here, the only dead soldier who escaped death fell to the ground as soon as he landed.
He struggled to get up and knelt on the ground to apologize.
"Young Master, my subordinates are incompetent and the assassination failed. In addition to the bodyguards, King Dingbei also has a group of secret guards hiding in the dark. Each of them is highly skilled in martial arts. The subordinates are invincible. Only one of his subordinates escaped death.
And the others... none of them survived!"
When Pei Duqin was on his way to Jizhou, news came from the hidden stake. The matter of the Lingxi Mountain Gold Mine was indeed exposed.
The person who discovered this was none other than King Qi Jue of Dingbei.
Magistrate Ma was no longer in the mansion, nor in the Yamen. Pei Duqin immediately guessed that Qi Jue must have secretly brought someone back to the capital.
Once Magistrate Ma was brought to Emperor Zhao and told about the gold mine, both the prince and the Pei family would be finished!
Therefore, Pei Duqin made a decisive decision. After finding out Qi Jue's route, he arranged for dead soldiers to take the head of Magistrate Ma at all costs!
But now, the assassination failed, and he missed the last opportunity to assassinate Qi Jue before entering Beijing.
Attendant Mao Lin worriedly said: "Sir, what should we do? Once King Dingbei brings Ma Zhiyong to His Majesty, everything will be over!"
"Let Jizhou's hidden stakes sneak into Ma Mansion..."
If it weren't for the fact that this matter was very involved and related to the lives of the entire Pei family, he wouldn't want to do this.
The next day, at almost noon, we finally arrived at the Imperial Capital.
As soon as he entered the city gate, he smelled the smoke of fireworks, and Yan Mingzhu stretched himself.
"Your Highness, I'm going back to the Marquis Mansion first. I wrote down the big meal you owed me in my little notebook."
Qi Jue answered very naturally: "You can follow me back to the palace, and you can choose the delicacies from the mountains and seas."
How could such a good sentence come to Qi Jue's mouth and become like abducting a good family girl?
"Go and do your big business, I'm leaving."
After her trip to Jizhou, Yan Mingzhu felt that she could no longer resist Qi Jue's words, so it would be best to quickly apply oil on her soles and run away.
Seeing Yan Mingzhu's back running away like flying, Qi Jue chuckled.
It doesn't matter if I run away now, it won't fly out of his hand anyway!
Yongyihou Mansion.
Yuan Yixiao was weeding profusely while instructing the servants not to step on the vegetable seedlings.
"Xiaoxiao is good at growing vegetables. In just half a month, these vegetable seedlings have grown almost to the waist."