Chapter 486 The golden cicada escapes from its shell
Half a month later.
The moon is bright and the stars are sparse. Even at night, the entrance to the towering city gate of Di'an City is still busy with traffic, and there is an endless stream of business travelers coming from the wide official road.
In this bustling night, a carriage with the coat of arms of Dahonglu Temple engraved on its body drove out of the city gate, causing a lot of discussion among the business travelers along the way, and the carriage was also in this discussion. Driving slowly and unhurriedly along the official road towards the distance.
As the only political center of the Dayan Dynasty, the mountains and fields around Di'an City are dotted with manors built by various high-ranking officials and wealthy businessmen.
Some manors are located on top of mountains, while others are hidden in mountain valleys.
The beautiful blond woman in a luxurious dress looked through the window lattice at the Jiulong Mountains shrouded in the bustling lights of Di'an City. The look in her blue eyes was hard to fathom.
After staring for a long time, Aulunli quietly withdrew his gaze and slowly closed his eyes, while the beautiful golden eyelashes trembled slightly.
The carriage drove out of Di'an City, passed the most prosperous official road in the suburbs of Di'an City, and then quietly turned into a tree-lined path next to the official road.
The moonlight shines through the layers of branches of the forest and through the window lattice onto Aulunli's flawless profile with her eyes closed, making her look like a saint under the moon.
I don’t know how long passed in this silence. Aulunli slowly opened her eyes, only to meet Huron who had just looked opposite her.
As a carriage provided to diplomatic envoys, in order to show the majesty of the dynasty, the interior of the carriage in Dahonglu Temple is very luxurious.
The space inside is very large. Even if there is a can like a mountain of iron sitting opposite Aulunli, the carriage still does not feel cramped.
“Your Highness, are you okay?”
Huron's voice came out through the tin can, and it sounded a little bit loud. His words were hard to pronounce, and they were not the words of Great Flame.
Au Lunli did not respond to this question. She raised her hand slightly, and a glass bottle filled with light blue liquid appeared between her slender fingers.
He unscrewed the cork of the bottle, raised his swan-like neck, and drank it all in one gulp.
The pale complexion dissipated slightly. Aulunli looked calmly at the forest path bathed in the moonlight outside the window, and said in a very soft voice:
“Sides, do you think the third prince of the Great Yan Dynasty really wants to cooperate with us?”
“I am just your guardian knight and I don’t understand political affairs, Your Highness.” Huron lowered his head.
ˆ “.”
After a moment of silence, Aulunli raised the corners of her lips slightly, slightly pulled up the slit of the skirt of the dress, so that she could interweave a pair of slender white jade legs, propped up her chin, and stared at the tin can opposite with interest:
“As expected, he is a warrior who only knows how to fight, so boring.
"Then let me change the question. If I say that we are in danger now, can you, the guardian knight, take me back?"
ˆ “.”
There was a moment of silence, and Huron's voice through the helmet was serious: "I am willing to pay for this with my life."
Hearing this answer, a hint of helplessness flashed across Aulunli's slightly lazy expression. She looked at Di'an City, which had disappeared from sight, and said faintly:
“Perhaps, I should never have left the Royal Academy from the beginning, let alone allow the second crown prince to come to this strange dynasty.”
"Do you think we are in danger?" Huron spat out this sentence like a dull gourd.
"Ah."
With a crisp laugh, Aulunli leaned forward slightly, crossed her legs, propped her elbows on her knees, held her cheeks, and asked softly:
"Since we set foot on this strange continent, you have seen everything we have experienced along the way. I would like to hear your evaluation of this dynasty."
After a brief silence, Huron replied seriously:
“This is a huge, bloated, decadent, but powerful empire.”
When Aulunli heard this answer, her red lips curled up unconsciously, and her slender index finger gently tapped the side of her cheek:
“Your evaluation is fair, but you missed the most important point.
“Arrogance.”
Orunli’s jade-legged feet hooked up with her amethyst high-heeled boots, and her voice was faint:
“From the lord of the dynasty to the common people on the street, everyone in this empire has a deep-seated arrogance towards us foreigners.
"Whether Japan Island is occupied by you Xien people or Japanese people, it makes no difference to me, Dayan. Sides, look at what the prince said back then. Say it when you need us. This kind of words really makes people uncomfortable.”
Speaking of which,
Orenli narrowed her bright eyes, and her delicate and beautiful red lips raised a cold and crazy smile:
“I’m so unhappy that I want to see that handsome foreign prince kneeling at my feet and licking my shoes.”
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Huron Siddes did not answer these words, as silent as an iron mountain.
Orunli glanced at the knight opposite and asked with a smile:
“You think I can’t do it?”
In his gaze, Huron lowered his head:
“The Lord’s will is what my heart desires.”
The Blood Rose of the Empire, a madman who killed three brothers and sisters, a noble who likes to tease the strong.
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A burst of laughter like silver bells echoed, Aulunli lowered her legs, the murderous look on her face disappeared, replaced by the gentleness of a saint:
“This Great Yan Empire is different from the natives we have encountered before. We should be more pragmatic now and think about how to escape.
"after all,
“Our purpose of coming to the Great Yan Empire has been achieved.”
“Hey, didn’t you say Xu Changge would come?”
At the door of the manor hidden in the mountains, looking at the figure shrouded in black robes and the empty forest behind him, Li Yunqing suddenly had the urge to close the door directly.
Xu Yuan casually pulled down his hood and pushed Li Yunqing, who was blocking the door, without anyone noticing, and walked into the garden. His eyes casually glanced around the unusually decorated courtyard, with a bit of admiration:
"You know how to enjoy yourself. There is actually an estate in a place like this. Why is it so dark inside? Where are the servants? Oh, that's right. You are so precious about money, so you have probably moved it."
As he spoke, he walked towards a pavilion on the side of the courtyard like a master: "You are leaving Beijing anyway, why don't you sell this property to me? I just need a manor to rest."
Li Yunqing, who was dressed in blue and white with purple dragon tattoos, quickly followed Xu Yuan and said quickly:
"Don't talk about whether these things are there or not. If Xu Changge doesn't come, I won't be involved in tonight's affairs."
Hearing this, Xu Yuan waved his hand gently:
“Don’t worry, isn’t it still a while before your appointed time?”
With that said, Xu Yuan walked into the pavilion and sat on a stone bench. Looking at the unhappy third prince, he smiled with slight interest:
“Besides, haven’t you already broken through to the third level?”
"My decision to go to Japan has been decided, so naturally there is no need to suppress my cultivation."
Li Yunqing had a hint of pride on his face after hearing this, but the pride quickly dissipated and he glanced at the quiet classical manor:
“Looking at your confident attitude, I guess Xu Changge has already arrived, right?”
Xu Yuan immediately showed a smile on his face:
"Maybe."
"Maybe?"
ˆ “.”
After a brief silence, Li Yunqing asked tentatively:
“What did you tell Xu Changge?”
“After that day, I went back to the house to find him and told him that I had met the princess of the Kingdom of Xien, and we might not be able to defeat her, so I wanted to ask him to tie her up.”
Li Yunqing took a deep breath after hearing this:
“Hey, you speak so directly?”
"I'm always so direct." "Then what did he say?"
“He told me to get out.”
."Li Yunqing.
Rubbing his brows, Li Yunqing put his elbows on the stone table to support his forehead, staring at Xu Yuan with a painful face:
"In other words, your eldest brother didn't agree to what happened tonight at all, right?"
"right."
"Xu Changtian, if you do something tonight, you will break your skin. The Xi'an Kingdom doesn't care about your identity."
“I know you are in a hurry, but don’t be in a hurry yet.”
"Why am I not in a hurry?! If you want to die, don't drag me with you."
Li Yunqing stood up directly and prepared to leave.
Seeing this, Xu Yuan quickly grabbed him and whispered:
“Don’t worry, I was joking just now, Xu Changge will come.”
"A joke? Are you saying that Xu Changge actually agreed?"
“That’s not true.”
."Li Yunqing.
Facing the other party’s stupid look, Xu Yuan said firmly:
“You don’t understand my big brother. If I say he will come, he will definitely come. No matter how reluctant he is, he will come.”
“Why?” Li Yunqing frowned.
Xu Yuan spread his hands and said loudly:
"If he dares not to come, I will die to show him!"
."Li Yunqing.
by Xu Changge.
The sound echoing in the mountains fell, and silence returned to the courtyard.
In this silence, Xu Yuan felt an inexplicable chill in his back, and he coughed lightly:
“Well, I know this well, and I just have to proceed as planned.”
Li Yunqing rubbed his eyebrows and reminded in a somewhat unkind tone:
"Okay, I have now broken through to the third level. Even if I can't defeat him, this place is only three hundred miles away from Di'an City. As long as I want to escape, they will not dare to chase me."
“Don’t worry, you may not be able to run faster than me.”
“Tsk, that’s not necessarily the case.”
"hehe."
Sitting down again, Li Yunqing looked at the sky and whispered:
"There are still about two quarters of an hour before the time I agreed with the two of them. Let's discuss countermeasures for the time being."
“Countermeasures? What countermeasures?”
Xu Yuan had a strange look in his eyes and said matter-of-factly: "If Xu Changge hadn't come, you, a third-grade grandmaster, wouldn't want my body to be in charge of the tin can, would you?"
As he spoke, Xu Yuan lightly tapped the stone table in front of him with his fingertips and said:
"Instead of discussing this, why don't you tell me what you and Princess Aulunli have discussed in the past half month? Now it has been spread throughout Di'an City. In the past half month, you two have had no less than seven or eight private meetings. Second-rate."
"Private meeting? Ha. These are not just to prepare for tonight."
Li Yunqing snorted softly: "That woman is very smart. Every time I negotiate with that woman, I have to put a lot of thought into advancing the agenda. In the past half month, a total of eleven negotiations have finally finalized the overall cooperation plan. After coming down, we lured him to the outside of Di'an City for final negotiations."
Xu Yuan frowned slightly when he heard this:
"You invited him to meet eleven times in half a month? Isn't it too frequent? It might make the woman wary."
Li Yunqing waved his hand and said with a smile:
"I have naturally considered this. I told him that I may have to be envoy to Japan next month. In this case, I will naturally have to be more diligent."
“You’re leaving next month?”
"Of course I lied to her. My mission to Japan was not reported in the morning."
“In other words, if she knows it, then she can be sure that this is a trap?”
“Now the only people who know about this matter in the court are a few important ministers. Where can she find a way to verify it?”
Li Yunqing replied nonchalantly: "Moreover, I have already planted our royal family's Thousand Miles Dark Soul Incense on her, and even if she wants to run away, it is already too late."
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Huttered for a moment, Xu Yuan nodded slightly.
As an envoy entering a strange empire, as long as someone in power wants you dead, even if you know it, there is simply too much room for resistance.
The reason why Li Yunqing and him took so much trouble to choose to take action in such a remote place was actually more because they wanted to conceal Xu Yuan's identity and the connection between Li Yunqing and the Prime Minister's Mansion, so they couldn't take action in Di'an City. .
Just thinking about it,
Xu Yuan's ears suddenly heard a rather cold and gentle male voice:
“Two idiots are still thinking about plotting here. The two have abandoned the car and ran away. It’s too late to pursue them now.”
The moment he heard the sound, Xu Yuan immediately stood up and scanned the surroundings with his spiritual vision. Unfortunately, except for Li Yunqing, he could not detect anyone around him.
Xu Changge’s voice transmission
Seeing Xu Yuan stand up suddenly, Li Yunqing asked in slight surprise:
"What's wrong with you? Should we meet and attack directly, or should I wait for a while to discuss with them and then attack suddenly?"
Xu Yuan cursed loudly:
"You idiot, stop plotting here. Those two people have abandoned the car and ran away. It's too late to chase them now."
ˆ “.”
Li Yunqing was stunned when he heard the words. The majestic soul belonging to the third-grade Grandmaster instantly came out and surged away along the path in front of the manor. After a moment, he frowned and said:
"What are you talking about? I've been watching. Those two people are sitting in the carriage at Dahonglu Temple, which is only a quarter of an hour's drive away from us."
ˆ “.”
Xu Yuan didn't say anything, his eyes flashed with blood, he jumped directly and galloped away along the forest path.
Upon seeing this, Li Yunqing was confused, but he immediately followed Xu Yuan with a solemn expression.
After a moment, two figures slowly landed in front of the luxurious carriage engraved with the coat of arms of Dahonglu Temple.
Through the window of the unmanned carriage, Xu Yuan's eyes happened to meet Aulunli's eyes looking out of the car.
Looking at each other for a moment,
The Willow Ghost Blade instantly appeared in Xu Yuan's hand, and before Li Yunqing could speak, he slashed it away with a single stroke of his sword.
The sword mark spanned more than ten feet with splashes of ink and blood, and the horse and cart were cut in half horizontally!
Under this attack, the two figures in the car that were broken into two parts stopped for a short time, then quietly turned into a starlight and dispersed in the woods under the moonlit night.
(End of this chapter)