marry a princess

Chapter 78
The sky was still full of dark clouds just now, and now the moon broke through the clouds, casting cold light, reflecting the shadows of the two on the ground, stretching them very long.There is some distance between the two, but the shadows of the two are close together, inseparable.

Walked in silence for a while, heard some rustling noises, looked up, and saw an old man sitting in a dim candle, constantly stirring something.The wind made the candle flame sway constantly, but fortunately the wind was not too strong, so the candle flame was not blown out.

When I got closer, I found that the old man was frying chestnuts.Bai Ziwan couldn't help but smile, one of her favorite things in the past was stir-fried chestnuts in sugar.

"My lord, would you like some chestnuts?" The old man looked at Bai Ziwan kindly, and his hands kept moving, "This chestnut is grown by me. You smell it, and it smells good. Would you like some, my lord? One or two is only three Wen."

Bai Ziwan was about to say yes when he remembered that the money was kept at Yunxiang's place and he was penniless, so he said embarrassedly, "I forgot to bring the money when I came out, and I will come back to buy it tomorrow. It's getting late, it's cold , the old man should go home earlier."

The old man said, "It's not too late, I'm waiting. I'll come back when the chestnuts are sold. I'll keep the chestnuts for you tomorrow. You must come."

Bai Ziwan nodded.

"Old man, how many chestnuts do you have left?"

Hearing this, Bai Ziwan looked at the indifferent Yuan Hongyi in surprise, what does this old man want to do?Is it possible to buy chestnuts for him?

The old man looked at Yuan Hongyi suspiciously, as if he didn't understand what he meant, and then pointed to the bamboo basket on the burden, "The only ones in the bamboo basket are left."

Yuan Hongyi took an ingot of silver and put it on the burden, "Is this silver enough to buy the rest of the chestnuts?" He pointed to the chestnuts in the bamboo basket.

"Master, you want to buy all these chestnuts?" The old man looked at Yuan Hongyi in disbelief. The chestnuts weighed two catties.

The old man nodded his head like a chicken pecking at the rice, said "enough" three times in a repeated voice, and then wondered, "This is too much money, my lord..."

"The rest of the money will be your wages, and you will help fry these chestnuts." Yuan Hongyi interrupted the old man.

The old man agreed, smashed the fried chestnuts into a bag and handed them to Yuan Hongyi, scooped some sand from the bag and poured them into the pot, poured some chestnuts from the bamboo basket into the pot, and stir-fried them. There was an indescribable satisfaction on his face.

Bai Ziwan smiled as if infected, but the people around him were dumbfounded.Other women are not greedy even when it comes to gold, silver and jewels, but she, but some fried chestnuts in sugar, made her smile so happily and contentedly.

Seeing the chestnut handed in front of him, Bai Ziwan was taken aback for a moment, her smile disappeared suddenly, and she was really taken seriously by her own misfortune.After taking the bag and saying "thank you", she took out a chestnut, put the bag on the burden, peeled the chestnut and put it in her mouth, it was fragrant and soft.

Not long after, another pot of chestnuts was fried, and when he saw that the old man was about to pour all the remaining chestnuts into the pot, Bai Ziwan hurriedly stopped and said, "Old man, you don't need to fry these, you can pack them in a bag for me." Good." Everything should be cooked and eaten now, especially chestnuts, which will harden overnight and taste not as good as freshly fried.

0 The old man looked at Yuan Hongyi, and Yuan Hongyi nodded, "Just as this... Young Master said, just pack up the remaining chestnuts."

The old man packed the chestnuts and handed them to Yuan Hongyi, extinguished the fire, moved the stove to one side with difficulty, covered it with a wooden plank on the ground, packed up other things, and walked away with a load on his shoulders. Humming a tune that the two of them could not understand.

"It's getting late, let's go back too." Yuan Hongyi took a chestnut and went to hold Bai Ziwan's hand.Seeing her avoiding his hand and walking forward as if nothing had happened, he chuckled and shook his head, then followed her back.

A crackling sound was heard.

Yuan Hongyi turned his head, only to see a feathered arrow flipping towards the front, his eyes narrowed, he turned around and put his arms around Bai Ziwan's waist, and took two steps back with her in his arms.Feather arrows flew across Zi Wan's face, causing her to suddenly open her eyes wide in shock, turning her head to look at Yuan Hongyi.

"Wait until I entangle them, you try to leave, remember, no matter what happens, you are not allowed to turn back, understand?" Pushing the chestnut to Bai Ziwan, protecting her behind, Yuan Hongyi stared at the fast The man in black coming this way.

In the quiet night, killing intent was everywhere, and a gust of wind whizzed by.Bai Ziwan took two steps back holding the chestnut, and saw Yuan Hongyi took two steps, something slipped from his sleeve, and then jumped up to fight with dozens of men in black.

Fighting close to each other, only the sound of clanging is heard, which is particularly harsh in the silent night.Bai Ziwan backed away slowly. She had seen Yuan Hongyi's martial arts before, but the opponent had a lot of people, and the opponent's attacks were vicious, and every move wanted to kill him.Even a person with extremely high martial arts can become the soul of the opponent's sword in the end after such a fierce fight.

Turning around to leave, unexpectedly, Bai Ziwan just took a step when he heard someone shout, "It's not that easy to leave!"

"Ah Wan be careful!"

Turning around abruptly, when he saw the sword stabbing straight at him with a cool silver light, Bai Ziwan opened his eyes wide and intuitively took two steps back.

He only heard a "clang", and saw that the sword that was about to pierce Bai Ziwan's chest was blocked by another sword.Xiao He turned over and fell down, shouting, "Escort the master back!" while wielding his sword, he fought with the man in black in front of him.

Yunxiang protected Bai Ziwan and retreated to one side, Ziwan saw not only Xiao He and Yunxiang coming, but also Yuan Hongjin.

Is it designed again?Bai Ziwan frowned, and then told Yunxiang, "Go and help the Fifth Prince."

"master……"

"I'll be fine here, hurry up and help the Fifth Prince." Bai Ziwan stretched out his hand and pushed Yun Xiang.

Bai Ziwan didn't expect that besides the wire, Yunxiang also had a soft sword on her body.At this time, Rue Xiang was not as careless as usual, her eyes were cold, and her moves were quick and agile, so that the opponent was hard to parry, except for defense, there was no room for counterattack at all.Yuan Hongjin's kung fu was not bad, but after a while, those men in black couldn't do what they wanted.

Seeing that the situation was not good, one of the men in black avoided Yuan Hongyi's move, flew up and retreated a little, and shouted at the other doors, "Retreat!"

Hearing this, the rest of the men in black retreated one after another, flew towards the direction they came from, and disappeared under the night after a while.

"Are you okay? Did you hurt yourself?" Yuan Hongyi ran over, holding Bai Ziwan's shoulder, his expression full of anxiety.

"I'm fine." Seeing the bamboo flute in Yuan Hongyi's hand, Bai Ziwan was taken aback. Was the sound of the flute heard in the dream that night real?

"Brother, sister-in-law, let's go back first, lest they go and come back." Yuan Hongjin looked back and reminded.

Back at the General's Mansion, seeing the chestnut in Bai Ziwan's arms, Yuan Hongjin was taken aback for a moment, and then burst out laughing, "Sister-in-law, you are the bravest and most special woman I have ever seen." Thumb, "Hong Jin really admires it."

Bai Ziwan rolled his eyes, "I thought that the sixth younger brother would be straightforward, but I didn't expect that he would beat around the bush like everyone else. If I want to make a joke, I'll just say it straight. There's no need to praise or criticize."

Yuan Hongjin touched the tip of his nose, and patted Yunxiang's shoulder, "Little girl is very skilled. With you by my sister-in-law's side in the future, my fifth brother doesn't have to worry about it."

Rue hung her head and remained silent.

"Fifth Master, you are injured."

Hearing Xiao He's words, they saw that Yuan Hongyi's right arm and clothes were already stained red with blood.Yuan Hongyi said, "This blood is not mine."

Yuan Hongjin heaved a sigh of relief, and continued, "Fifth brother, did you notice that the tricks of the man in black who assassinated you just now don't seem to be sent by that person. The people around him always covered their faces, and those men in black just now It didn't."

Yuan Hongyi thought for a while, then patted Yuan Hongjin, "It's getting late, go back to the house and rest, we'll talk about anything tomorrow." Then he said to Xiao He and Yunxiang, "You also go back to the house to rest, don't stay Serve here."

Aunt Liu brought hot water in and then withdrew.After a brief wash, Bai Ziwan lay down on the bed, then got up and sat leaning against the bed rail.

Yuan Hongyi came to wash up, saw Bai Ziwan staring blankly at one place with bent legs, and couldn't help asking, "What are you thinking?"

Bai Ziwan shook her head unconsciously, "It's nothing."

"Did you get scared just now?"

"I'm not for the faint of heart."

Yuan Hongyi smiled, "I didn't know what happened just now..."

"I know." She suspected that they knew what happened tonight, otherwise Yuan Hongjin and the others would have appeared so timely, but just now after hearing what Yuan Hongjin said, she knew what happened tonight was just an accident, and they didn't Unaware.

However, how many such accidents are there?How long?
"Awan." Seeing Bai Ziwan staring blankly at one place again, not knowing what he was thinking, Yuan Hongyi panicked inexplicably.
"Tell me, who are they?" Although Xiao He had already got the answer, he still wanted to hear him tell himself.Bai Ziwan said, "I'm talking about the men in black who chased and killed you several times, including the four who appeared in Zuixiang Tower last time."

"Awan, it's not that I want to hide it from you, but..."

"Who are they?" Bai Ziwan insisted.Then he said, "I almost died in Huangquan last time. Although I escaped from death, I still want to know who they are?"

"Ah Wan, I can tell you everything else without reservation, except this one. The more you know, the more danger you will face."

Bai Ziwan smiled softly, "Do you think that I will be safe and sound if I don't know anything? Their goal is you, but they have attacked me a few times. You think I can stay out of it and pretend nothing happened ever?"

Yuan Hongyi choked for a moment.

"Tell me, who are they? Or, who is behind them." Bai Ziwan stared into his eyes and said word by word.

Yuan Hongyi frowned and said after a while, "It's the tenth prince, my half-brother, Yuan Hongjie."

"Why?"

Yuan Hongyi frowned again, took Bai Ziwan's hand, and wrote two words in her palm.Although I had already guessed it, I was still taken aback.

(End of this chapter)