Chapter 813: You are burning the bridge when you cross the river.
I'm going!
Xie Qionghua lay stretched out under the railing and couldn't help cursing, "No way! I'm just acting this one time, and I can still encounter such a thing. There is no need to arrange all these scenes!"
Lan Tian glanced at her in surprise, then laughed mercilessly, "So that's all you have."
"I'm not a pervert? Of course I'm afraid of death! Not only am I afraid of death, I'm also afraid of pain and nausea!"
Lan Tian was too lazy to argue with her at this time. He stood up slightly and looked outside.
After the first arrow missed, the palace's secret guards had actually taken action. It was impossible for the other party to achieve the unexpected effect just now.
Lan Tian watched the movements of the secret guards in the darkness with great interest.
Fortunately, Magistrate Cai had already planned for such a thing. Although the big men on the tower were somewhat frightened, after many days of training, they still stabilized their image and stepped back one by one.
, and then hurriedly hid inside the fortification.
The people below the tower didn't even know about the assassination that had just happened above.
Magistrate Cai walked over with his body hunched over, his voice trembling a little, "Princess, are you okay? Are you injured?"
Before Xie Qionghua could speak, Lan Tian on the side spoke angrily, "Wait until you come here to ask questions. The blood is almost gone. Why don't you come with the funeral procession and ask questions!"
Magistrate Cai's face immediately became embarrassed. Xie Qionghua glared at him fiercely, and then said casually: "It's okay, I won't die."
Magistrate Cai was choked again and didn't know how to speak for a while.
"Come on, come on, go about your business! It's time for me to go back. There are still secret guards of the palace here, and they're all under control over there. You don't need to show your loyalty here."
Magistrate Cai's words of apology were stuck in his throat as soon as he reached his lips.
This Princess Chen is really different from the rumors.
All the Kongming lanterns were extinguished, tonight's events were completely over, and the people below also dispersed.
Xie Qionghua returned to the palace under the escort of several secret guards, while Lan Tian followed behind under the supervision of several people.
Lantian was very dissatisfied with this kind of treatment.
As soon as he came back, he accused Xie Songhua, "Didn't you say you would trust me? Trust me to find so many people looking at me?"
Xie Songhua was stunned, and Xie Qionghua on the side said without hesitation: "That was all arranged by me, why? I don't trust you, do you have any objections?"
"You are this person..."
"Get out!" Xie Qionghua looked annoyed, and while instructing the maid to get water to wash her face, she said angrily, "Today is New Year's Eve and I haven't had a good meal yet. Don't disturb my appetite here."
Lan Tian pointed at her and was speechless for a long time. In the end, he only said, "You are trying to burn bridges by crossing the river!"
After saying that, he shook his sleeves and left directly.
Xie Songhua looked at Xie Qionghua and couldn't help but smile and said: "Anyway, he has helped us a lot tonight. Even for this reason, you should have a slightly better attitude, right?"
Xie Qionghua exposed her words with one sentence, "He helped us? Xie Songhua, you have to understand clearly. He helped you, and I also angrily criticized him for helping you, but he didn't help us. Do I still have to admit it?"
Is his love possible? It’s impossible!”
Xie Songhua had nothing to say. What could she say when she met such a sister of Ding, Ding and Mao!
Xie Qionghua immediately discovered the point, "Okay, Xie Songhua, I'm working as a cow or a horse for you outside! Are you going to eat the food without me? Do you know that this is New Year's Eve! You don't even know that it's New Year's Eve!"
Wait for me."
While putting food on the table, Cuiliu said: "Oh, big lady, please stop making trouble. How can our princess be hungry when she is like this recently? Besides, there is obviously a banquet arranged tonight, so why not?"
I didn’t hear you say you wanted to come back to eat!”
Xie Qionghua said displeasedly: "I'm going to have a banquet with a face full of stuff. Am I tired? In any case, it's just you who are not kind."
"The prince is here!" Xiao Qing patted Xie Qionghua's shoulder reassuringly, "And he is leaving immediately. We can't let the prince wait for the eldest daughter and then leave hungry!"
Xie Qionghua was stunned when he heard this, "Why is the prince coming back at this time?"
"He said he wanted to keep an eye on something. It's an urgent mission tonight. It's not easy for him to talk to me about this kind of thing, and I won't ask any more questions. Why do you ask?"
Xie Qionghua suddenly thought of something, but the idea flashed in his mind so fast that he couldn't catch it for a while.
She thought about it for a while, but still didn't remember it, so she gave up and stopped thinking about it.
Xie Songhua ate with her and asked in detail about what happened on the tower.
I heard that someone was assassinated, but I didn't feel surprised at all.
Xie Qionghua quickly stopped the chopsticks in his hand and looked at the cousin in front of him in shock, "Hey, do you know there will be danger tonight?"
Seeing that the person opposite was about to explode, Xie Songhua repeatedly comforted him, "Don't worry, don't worry, it's not the person I arranged. How could I know that I would definitely take action tonight."
I just heard that a few days ago, our side recaptured a city. I think the other side is very anxious to come back now.
It's such a rare opportunity for Xiao Yu's princess to show up on the city tower at this time. If he can kill me in one fell swoop, I guess he won't have much thought on the battlefield. Wouldn't this be of great benefit and great honor?"
When Xie Qionghua heard this, he nodded gently, it really made sense.
But then he reacted, "So you still expected such a result."
Seeing his cousin's guilty look, Xie Qionghua suddenly became furious, "Well, Xie Songhua, you are taking me in now because you want me to work hard for you!"
"Okay, okay, don't speak so harshly! I can't help it, and I know that you, eldest sister, are the most loyal, right?
What's more, you see, I have made arrangements. I have left a few secret guards around you, and I have arranged manpower everywhere in the city. Not only our palace, but also the prefect's Yamen also take it very seriously. You see, you are not a little bit
Is everything okay?"
Facing Xie Qionghua's dark face, Xie Songhua said more and more sincerely, "You are my cousin and you took the trouble to come here to help me. How could I not treat you well?
If you make any mistakes, I won't be able to explain it to my family when I go back, right? So I really considered all the possibilities early in the morning, and I will never let you have the slightest chance of getting hurt."
Xie Qionghua snorted, finally picked up the chopsticks again, and continued eating.
But what she was thinking was that the secret guards that Xie Songhua arranged this time were really not good enough. If it hadn't been for Lan Tian's attack, she might have died with an arrow stuck in her head and looked stupid like that.
Looking at it this way, she really owed her life to that man named Lan.
Seeing that she was silent, Xie Songhua thought she had stopped thinking about the matter, so he winked at Cuiliu and asked the small kitchen to prepare a few more Xie Qionghua's favorite dishes for her.
The New Year's Eve meal was just finished.
Due to the current situation, Datong cannot set off fireworks, which is somewhat regrettable for Xie Qionghua.
"The capital should be very lively at this time. It stands to reason that there will be fireworks on the tower of Zhengyangmen."
The two of them were sitting together, talking about Zhuo Yuanshi's medical case with their heads together. I didn't know if Xie Qionghua was homesick when he suddenly said this.
Xie Songhua has no nostalgia for Beijing.
Although I occasionally think of those relatives in the Xie family, I don't feel that kind of attachment from the bottom of my heart, so there is no sadness about leaving home here.
After hearing Xie Qionghua's words, I thought of other things in the capital.
"I don't know if the fireworks are hot or not, but I think the palace is probably quite lively tonight."