In an abandoned small room, Li Qingyou slowly opened his eyes, the faint scent of medicine drifted past his nose, and the sound of footsteps sounded in his ears.

Li Qingyou turned his head in fear, feeling a pain on the side of his neck. He raised his hand and touched the gauze wrapped on it. Only then did he realize that part of the medicinal fragrance came from here, and the other part came from the man holding the medicine bowl at the door.

Floated over.

"Zhang Tieniu?" Li Qingyou opened his eyes wide. After being separated for many years, he never expected to meet again here.

What's the situation now?

The previous scenes came flooding back, and then she remembered that she and Princess Duanyang went to the mountains to offer incense, and met a robber on the way back. She didn't know what happened after that.

Zhang Tieniu brought the medicine over, put the medicine bowl on the bedside table to dry, and gave a complete account of what happened next.

Back then, he left home to join the army and fought in several battles. Because he knew how to work hard, he was highly appreciated by his superiors. He was doing well at first, but a few days ago he was suddenly transferred to the patrol camp here in Gyeonggi Province.

Any squad leader.

Today it happened to be his turn to patrol here, and he encountered Li Qingyou being held hostage by the robbers, and immediately led his men to rescue her.

"You were injured. It's getting late and the city gate has been closed. So I looked for this place to rest for the night and send you back tomorrow morning." When Zhang Tieniu said this, his eyes were darting around, but he didn't dare to look.

To Li Qingyou.

In fact, the situation at that time was much more complicated than what he said. When Li Qingyou was held hostage, her dress was broken into pieces. The clothes she was wearing now belonged to him.

The childhood sweetheart of the past, today she is being looked at by him again. He should take responsibility both emotionally and rationally, but I don't know if she is willing.

But before he could understand the problem, the door was suddenly kicked open by someone from the outside. Adi walked in from the outside with a gloomy face, and his sinister eyes suddenly fell on the gauze around Li Qingyou's neck, which was still leaking.

There's some blood.

Looking further down, the shirt and skirt she wore when she went out yesterday had turned into a wide, ninth-grade military uniform, except that the top sills had been removed. Except for the slightly better fabric, it looked like ordinary crops.

There is no difference between Han.

Zhang Tieniu and Li Qingyou were both shocked, especially Zhang Tieniu. There were several of his men in the yard. They had been ordered to guard the door just now. How did this person get in?

Before he could figure out the problem, Adi stood in front of him before he had time to react. A cold dagger appeared in his hand and was pressed against his neck.

"What did you do to her?" Adi's eyes were splitting, and his serious gaze was in sharp contrast with his handsome face. With a slight force on his hand, he pressed a bloody mark on Zhang Tieniu's neck.

Zhang Tieniu was so shocked that he forgot to speak, and looked blankly at the young man in official attire in front of him. He felt that the man looked familiar, but he couldn't remember when he had seen him before.

Zhang Tieniu's silence seemed to Adi to be a sign of guilty conscience, and his anger became even more intense at that moment. It would be difficult to understand the anger in his heart unless he killed this person, and he pressed down his wrist with the intention of killing the other person.

At the critical moment, Li Qingyou interrupted him, "Brother."

It was only then that Li Qingyou realized how hoarse her voice was, her throat was burning, and it hurt so much to make any sound, but she had to make a sound.

"Let him go, it has nothing to do with him." Li Qingyou said in a hoarse voice. At the same time, he struggled anxiously to sit up, but he pulled at the wound and hissed in pain.

Adi may not care about anyone, but he must care about his sister Qingyou. After hearing this, he let out a heavy breath and shouted to the person outside, then looked at Zhang Tieniu and said, "Get this person for me.

"

Zhang Tieniu was taken out, and only then did he realize that his subordinates were being held in the corner with their heads in their hands, and he soon became one of the people squatting in the corner.

The courtyard was full of soldiers standing around. These people were not from the military camp, but more like soldiers from a certain prince's palace.

In the room, Adi helped Li Qingyou sit up and carefully checked the injury on her neck. He heard her say, "I'm fine. I just scratched it and the bleeding has stopped."

Looking at his brother's still gloomy face, Li Qingyou hurriedly explained that this matter had nothing to do with Zhang Tieniu, "He saved me."

Adi snorted, he had already ordered someone to check on the way here. Zhang Tieniu was not in the patrol camp originally, but was suddenly transferred here. What a coincidence, his patrol location was nearby, and in his Qingyou

He came here when something happened to his sister?

If there was no one behind this, I wouldn't believe it even if I beat him to death.

As long as you give him some time, he can get to the bottom of this matter.

But now he doesn't plan to talk about it. He is more concerned about another thing, who changed the clothes on Li Qingyou, and did anything happen during the change of clothes?

but……

He couldn't ask these words out of his mouth.

Looking at the pale face of his sister Qingyou, Adi swallowed back all the depression in his heart. No matter what happened to her, she was still his.

As for everyone else…

Adi left here with Li Qingyou overnight, used the third prince's token to open the city gate and returned to the Number One Scholar's Mansion. Princess Duanyang was also there, with her eyes crying like a rabbit.

Since the robbery incident, she has not returned to the palace. She has been crying here in Zhuangyuan Mansion. She kept saying that she was the one who caused Li Qingyou's trouble and that the bandits mistook her for Princess Duanyang.

Adi just listened coldly as she opened her eyes and told lies.

How many bandits dare to kidnap the royal princess?

Moreover, this is the capital, the economic and political center of the entire Wei Dynasty. Not to mention the capital, even the suburbs of the capital are patrolled by people from the city defense camp. Even if the bandits can fly to the sky and escape, they will never have the ability to do evil near the suburbs of the capital.

Another thing, even if there are bandits, even if the bandits take advantage of the leopard's courage and come to kidnap the princess, don't they know how old Princess Duanyang is beforehand?

Even if the bandits don't know anything, Princess Duanyang and Li Qingyou are dressed differently and are obviously more noble. It's not that my brother is reluctant to dress up Li Qingyou, but many of Princess Duanyang's accessories are only qualified to be worn by the royal princess.

If a commoner wears it, it means he is deceiving the emperor.

Even if the bandits are idiots and can't tell the difference between good and bad, they only kidnap one of the two women in the carriage. Does this make sense?

Adi didn't expose Princess Duanyang's lie, he just nodded to express that he understood, and then led the people to rescue Li Qingyou as quickly as possible.

Now they brought them back, but before Princess Duanyang left, the key to the palace had been issued, so she couldn't go back. Although Princess Duanyang didn't say it explicitly, she showed by her actions that she would live in the No. 1 Scholar's Mansion tonight.

Adi didn't bother to pay attention to her and directly ordered her to be sent to the third prince's house.

"I'm not going, princess." Princess Duanyang said firmly.

Adi didn't force it, he just bowed slightly and said, "Then I can only ask His Highness the Third Prince to condescend to come to Zhuangyuan Mansion for one night to feel grievances."

Although they are nominally an unmarried couple, they have not yet gotten married, and Adi's elders do not live in the house. It is not appropriate for Princess Duanyang to live here like this.
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