klisemfg Chapter 114 Shouldn't He Have Done This Unnecessarily?
Chapter 114 Shouldn't He Have Done This Unnecessarily?
"Young Master! Young Master, run!" Song Yu was dealing with several bandits fighting with him while distracting himself to see what was happening over there with Xiao Qian'an. He was not paying attention and was stabbed in the left shoulder by the other party. Fresh red blood gushed out instantly. Song Yu frowned in pain and swung out the big knife in his hand, hitting the other party's abdomen with one knife...
The two sides fought fiercely, and a dozen bandits on the bandit leader's side had surrounded Xiao Qian'an and other two. The bandit leader drew the big knife from his waist with a grim smile.
With nowhere to retreat, Xiao Qian'an looked ashen, staring unwillingly at the bandit leader's raised sword. He summoned up his courage and shouted, "Don't you just want money? As long as you let me go, I can give you as much as you want! If you dare to kill me... then you can't live either!"
"Ha!" The bandit leader sneered, "Don't blame me. If you die, just report to the underworld as soon as possible!"
The words Xiao Qian'an was about to say were suddenly stuck in his throat, his mind went blank, and he even forgot to dodge.
"Son!"
The imperial chef who escaped with Xiao Qian'an and the eunuch who served him had no time to think and directly blocked Xiao Qian'an with their bodies.
"Stab" sound,
The bandit leader's sword fell, and the imperial chef who was standing outside the circle fell to the ground. There was a deep cut on his neck, and blood spurted out. The warm blood splashed onto Xiao Qian'an's face, and his body fell to the ground.
Xiao Qian'an watched all this in a daze. The young eunuch who was protecting Xiao Qian'an turned around and saw the miserable state of the imperial chef. His legs went weak and he collapsed to the ground. If the imperial chef had not been blocking the outside, he would have been the one who died just now.
"You are a loyal man, but," the bandit leader raised his sword again, "no one can save you today!"
Just as the bandit leader's sword was about to chop Xiao Qian'an's neck, at the critical moment, a spear came through the air like lightning and hit the bandit leader in the chest. The spear pierced through his back, blood splattered, and the bandit leader didn't even have time to react. He immediately lost his strength and the sword in his hand fell to the ground with a bang.
He lowered his head blankly and looked at the spear that pierced his chest. He turned around with difficulty, and his peripheral vision only had time to catch a glimpse of a few blurry figures in military uniforms riding on horses, and a group of people behind them. They had surrounded his men who were fighting with Song Yu and the others. Then his body fell to the ground uncontrollably!
Seeing that the situation was not good, the bandits who surrounded Xiao Qian'an and the other two turned around and fled deep into the forest.
Ye Ze pointed in the direction the bandits were fleeing and said to the soldiers behind him, "You don't have to catch them alive!"
"Yes!" Several soldiers immediately chased after him on horseback.
"Young Master," the little eunuch called Xiao Qian'an tremblingly.
Xiao Qian'an was still standing there stiffly, his face had turned completely pale, without a trace of blood.
Ye Ze dismounted, came to Xiao Qian'an, and asked, "But is it the Seventh Prince?"
"You, who are you?" the young eunuch asked tremblingly.
Ye Ze said truthfully: "General Zhenwei Ye Ze, it was General He who sent me to welcome the Seventh Prince."
The young eunuch felt relieved upon hearing this, and hurriedly came up to Xiao Qian'an and said, "Sir, he was sent by General He. We are saved. Sir, are you okay?"
Xiao Qianan came back to his senses from his trance, and nodded while trying to remain calm: "Let's go, let's get out of here first."
Seeing this, Ye Ze arranged for Xiao Qian to get on the carriage and rest first.
The remaining bandits who were fighting with Song Yu and others have been controlled by the soldiers, and the injured guards have been taken aside to bandage their wounds.
"General, what should we do with these people?" Lin Tieshan stood up and asked. After Captain Song was dismissed from his post, all his soldiers were handed over to Ye Ze.
Ye Ze glanced around and said, "Take him back and hand him over to the general for disposal."
"Yes!" Lin Tieshan immediately ordered the soldiers to tie all these people together with ropes and bring them back to the camp.
Soon, the soldiers who were sent out to chase the remaining bandits returned, bringing back only three survivors.
After tying up these bandits, the rest of the soldiers went to deal with the bodies of those who had just died.
Ye Ze walked to the bandit leader's body, squatted down, and searched his body, trying to find something that could represent his identity, but found nothing.
Wait, his clothes...
This bandit was wearing a clean cotton jacket inside and a dirty coarse cloth coat outside. If he was dressed like this for robbery, it would make sense... But isn't robbery all for money? It's strange that none of these bandits went to rob.
Looking at the black cloth covering the bandit's face, Ye Ze couldn't help but pull it off. Uh... I don't recognize him.
Ye Ze didn't think any more about it. After cleaning up the corpses and blood here, everyone set off for the military camp.
It took Ye Ze and his men three hours of galloping to get here. Going back, they had to carry a carriage, carry the wounded, and bring the bandits with them, so the journey was naturally much slower. They traveled all night and finally returned to the military camp before noon the next day.
A tent had already been prepared for the seventh prince in the military camp, right next to He Chengfeng's tent.
He Chengfeng was also shocked when he learned that the Seventh Prince had encountered bandits on the road. The army had been camped here for such a long time and had never heard of bandits in the nearby mountains. So, where did those bandits who suddenly appeared come from?
Shouldn't he have gone to the trouble of sending Ye Ze to greet them?
Things had come to this point, and there was no point in saying more. He Chengfeng comforted the Seventh Prince and sent people to interrogate the survivors brought back by Ye Ze. In the end, of course, nothing was learned, and He Chengfeng executed all of those people to vent his anger.
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At night, the Seventh Prince listened to his subordinates' reports in the tent, his face as dark as ink. It seemed that He Chengfeng was no longer useful.
That makes sense. After all, He Chengfeng is the Fourth Prince's uncle. How could he be sincere to me? Not plotting against me was already a sign of his generosity!
No, Xiao Qian'an frowned, he must find a reliable person in the military camp to protect himself!
Xiao Qian'an was uneducated and arrogant, but he was not a fool. A group of bandits came down the mountain not to rob property or kidnap the financiers, but only to kill him. Could they be ordinary bandits? There were more than one or two people in the capital who wanted him dead!
"Sir, dinner is here."
Shuangxi, the young eunuch who served Xiao Qian'an, came in with a tray and placed two dishes and a soup on the tray on the square table in front of Xiao Qian'an.
Cabbage stewed with meat, braised spareribs, three-fresh soup, steamed rice. This is definitely a good meal in the eyes of others, but in Xiao Qian'an's eyes, "Is this for people to eat?"
In terms of color, aroma and taste, it is completely gone!
Naturally, the meals cooked by the cooks in the military camp are not as delicate as those prepared by the imperial chefs.
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