C65 My First Visit to the Mansion of Prince Hengguang

Seeing that the old doctor had left, Xiao Ya walked over to Yun Shu's side, who had just put away the small porcelain bottle. "Elder Sister Yin, are you alright?"

Yun Zhuang shook his head and turned to look at the people standing at the entrance to the county. "Your royal uncle has come out. Let's go."

Perhaps it was Xiao Ya who had told Xiao Heng about the old doctor's private conversation with her. As soon as they had returned to the inn, Xiao Heng had pulled her aside and said, "If you're really not feeling well and can't bear the strain of the boat, you can rest for a few more days."

"Thank you for your concern, Your Highness, but there's still no need." As long as she did not know Xiao Heng's motive for bringing her to his side, she would not be at ease for even a single day. In addition, Xiao Heng seemed to be very interested in that phoenix pattern, which undoubtedly made her even more puzzled and anxious.

The only way to solve this situation was to get to Enoch first. Her intuition told her that once she got there, she would be one step closer to the truth, regardless of whether it was Xiao Heng's ultimate goal or the meaning behind the diagram.

Because Xiao Ya was riding in the same carriage as them, Yun Shu did not feel that there was anything uncomfortable staying in the same carriage with Xiao Hengfeng at all. Furthermore, Xiao Hengfeng tactfully did not speak another word to her during the journey and instead, chatted with her for a long time.

Just like that, they finally arrived at the outskirts of the city between Eno and Jiangdu.

But not long after walking on the outskirts of the city, they met an old lady with white hair who had collapsed in the middle of the official road after cleaning up the snow. The Qin Province had no choice but to stop the carriage and report to Xiao Heng.

He didn't expect that the Grand Matriarch would grab his wrist just as he was squatting down and probing for his breath. Almost at the same time, a poisonous needle flew out from the Grand Matriarch's other hand and headed straight for his throat.

Fortunately, the Qin Prefecture was wary of strangers, so they were able to avoid the poison needle.

"Protect the king and the princess!" As soon as his voice fell, dozens of arrows shot out from the bushes by the side of the road towards the two carriages. Soon after, a group of men in black clothing surrounded the two carriages.

The sounds of the Qin Province and the sounds of arrows piercing through the air rang out at almost the same time. Xiao Heng immediately grabbed Xiao Ya and Yun Shu by the shoulders and brought them over. Only after the sounds of a few arrows piercing into the carriage resounded did he finally remove his hand from behind their heads.

After the pressure on her head disappeared, Yun Shu couldn't help but raise her head to look at the place where she had been sitting. The three silver arrows with black tips had already pierced through the board used as a wall.

She couldn't help but feel a lingering fear. She couldn't imagine what would have happened if Xiao Heng hadn't pressed down her head.

However, there was no trace of panic on Xiao Heng's face, which gave Yun Shu a feeling that these things were common knowledge for him. He calmly turned around and pressed the button on the wall behind him, and a secret compartment was pushed out.

At the top of the secret compartment was a set of bows and arrows.

Xiao Heng picked up the set of bows and arrows and pressed it into Yun Shu's hands without hesitation. "Protect Xiao Ya and yourself." After saying that, he took the remaining long sword in the secret compartment and left the carriage.

Yun Shu could not help but stare blankly at the bow and arrow in her hand. For Xiao Hengyi to actually give her a weapon, it seemed that he really wasn't afraid that she would take advantage of the chaos to escape — but it was true that she didn't have any intention of escaping right now. Just because Xiao Hengfeng saved her twice, she couldn't leave them behind and leave on her own.

The sounds of swords clashing outside became more ear-piercing, it seemed like there were quite a few people ambushing them. She lifted a corner of the curtain to take a look, only to see that the black clothed people's attacks were fierce and their sabers were deadly.

It was hard to tell what kind of trouble His Highness Duke Heng had gotten into.

Thinking up to here, Yun Shu suddenly felt a bit touched. Ever since she left her homeland, her life seemed to have become extremely ill-fated. She had encountered all sorts of things.

She sighed to herself as she gripped the arrows in her hands and patted Xiao Ya's shoulder, who had clearly been scared witless, "There shouldn't be any arrows shooting over. Princess can temporarily hide in the carriage, I'll go help King Heng."

"Sister Yan, I'm afraid …" Xiao Ya tightly held onto the corner of her clothes.

Yun Shu consoled him, "Everything will be fine soon, don't worry." He then took off his clothes from her hand, jumped off the carriage and found a nearby tree as a temporary cover, and began to draw his bow and shoot at the men in black.

Although this was the first time he had fought alongside Xiao Heng and the others, their coordination was not bad. In the end, the men in black who ambushed them fled for their lives, while the other two who were injured saw that the situation was not good, and quickly bit down on the poison in their mouths to commit suicide.

The Qin Prefecture angrily threw the two black-clothed people who committed suicide by the side of the road. They squatted down and rummaged through the corpses.

Not long after, he returned to Xiao Heng's side and handed over the metal tablet with the word 'Forbidden' engraved on it. "It's the Imperial Guards. Prince, could it be His Majesty …"

"No, it's just someone's hand reaching out a little further." Xiao Heng frowned as he felt a headache coming on. He took one of the signs and looked at it before placing it back in the hands of the Qin Prefecture. "Clean up the corpses and quickly enter the city. This king will bring the princess into the palace to see His Majesty today."

When the carriage came to a halt again, it was already noon. After Yun Shu had jumped off the carriage, Xiao Heng had the Qin Province drive the carriage straight towards the palace gate. Xiao Ya, who did not want to return to the palace, did not expect that her royal uncle would enter the palace without even changing his clothes. She originally thought that he might be able to slip away when her royal uncle was bathing and changing his clothes.

Yun Shu had coincidentally been brought to the Duke's Mansion Main Hall together with Oji's two wives, attracting a lot of attention along the way.

Little Treasure finally regained his freedom after being locked in the cage for a long time. He was rarely able to go out for a stroll. He jumped up and down as soon as he was released, acting like a demon of the age.

When a maidservant came over to pour some tea, it jumped onto the maidservant's body. The maidservant was so frightened by the white object that she immediately retreated a few steps, causing the teapot in her hand to fall off the tray and spill some of the boiling tea towards Yun Shu. Luckily, it happened to kick the teapot to the side agilely, causing her to dodge quickly in order to avoid being burned by fate.

"How do you do things? Someone else will do it." Qiao Qiao was merciless as she shouted at the maidservant to retreat.

However, right after, a purple-clothed lady who did not look like a servant girl but more like a lady walked into the hall arrogantly. "How come Miss Xiang didn't know about this? There was no lunch for the girls in the kitchen. "

"I came back with Duke Zi Yun and Guard Qin, but he had urgent matters to attend to so he asked me to bring General Ao's two wives and Lady Yun to rest first. Would Lady Zi Yun be able to clean up four rooms and give them to us?"

"Since it's your wish, Zi Yun will go and make the arrangements. There will also be people who will bring it to the main hall after lunch." Zi Yun's words were filled with reluctance.

Anyone with a discerning eye could guess that it was probably because of his dissatisfaction that he had coincidentally brought out the king to suppress her.

Yun Shu was observing the situation from the side as she bit her lower lip. She feared that life in the Duke Heng Palace would not be so easy in the future … Just this young lady Zi Yun was not someone who was easy to get along with. Once she found out that he was heading back to the manor, she came all the way here to intimidate him. Who knew what sort of identity she had?

He hoped that aside from Lady Ziyun, there wouldn't be any other red clouds, yellow clouds, green clouds, and blue clouds in the Residence of Prince Heng.

However, her wish had failed.

After lunch, a maidservant came to inform them that their room had been cleaned up.

All four rooms were in the same yard. After resting for a while, she intended to familiarize herself with the environment of the Prince's Mansion. However, she didn't expect that she would run into Qiao Qiao who was carrying sweet soup back to her room just as she was about to leave.

"Does Miss Yun want to try?" Ye Zichen asked Qiao Qiao politely.

Yun Zhui shook his head. "Use it slowly for the girl. I'll walk around for a while."

Only after seeing her figure disappear around the corner did she bring the sweet soup into her room. When she thought about the two women in the prince's estate who were definitely not good people, although she was a little worried about the newly arrived Yun Shu, in the end, she was still unable to resist the temptation of the sweet soup.

It had snowed in the days and nights they had walked from Jing Yi to Yi Nuo, and by the time they reached Jing Yi, the snow on the roadside was visibly thicker than the ones that had been piled up on the road before.

Enoch must have been colder than any city they had ever passed, as she had felt not long after she had left the room.

A winter breeze had just passed by her and she couldn't help but lift her hand to tighten the collar of her winter dress.

Occasionally, she would see some winter plums that had not been completely covered by snow. When the maidservants who swept the snow in the courtyard saw her, they all stopped what they were doing and began to discuss her. This made her feel a little uncomfortable.

Until he bumped into a seventeen or eighteen year old girl at a corner.

"I'm sorry." Unconsciously, Yun Shu took a step back and glanced at the footprints her opponent had just made on her delicate embroidered shoes.

"Bastard!" My favorite shoes have been trampled by you, you're so unlucky! "

This young lady's temper isn't small. Yun Shu inwardly sighed: "I'm sorry, I'm really sorry …"

"You don't think that you can make my shoes return to their original state by apologizing a few more times, do you?" As she spoke, she took off her shoes and smashed them onto Yun Shu's body, "Hurry up and wash me before bringing it back. I'll wait here. If you don't deliver it within two hours, I'll get His Highness to chase you away."

Yun Shu looked somewhat awkwardly at the unruly young miss who was sitting on the corridor with the support of a servant girl beside her, "I don't mind washing, but this weather … And shoes can't dry out very quickly... "

"I don't care. I have to wear these shoes today. Why don't you just wait for His Highness to kick you out. From the looks of it, you don't look like the type that His Highness would like, and I don't think that His Highness would be reluctant to part with it. "

Yun Shu raised her eyebrow, what misunderstanding did this little girl have towards her?