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Published at 10th of February 2023 06:07:05 AM


Chapter 204

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Coming out of Qin Canglan's courtyard, Su Xiaoxiao ran into a little trouble.

After the Duke Protector's Mansion stepped up its security, she couldn't go out.

She still can't figure out why the Duke Protector's Mansion has suddenly stepped up its guard. Could it be that they guessed that someone would come to spy on the news tonight?

Or did something happen that she didn't know about, and she was unlucky enough to bump into it?

Come to think of it, the peddler who poisoned Lord Hou died.

The peddler's concubine is from the Duke Huguo's mansion, so if the other party can't find Xiangzi, he probably guessed that something happened to Xiangzi, and they also guessed that something happened to them. Come to investigate in secret—

"If you say that, it's not surprising to strengthen your guard."

Su Xiaoxiao found a corner with relatively few people, tugged on her gloves, and easily crossed the wall.

As soon as she landed, a cold arrow flew towards her.

She caught it with her bare hands, and handsomely held the gleaming arrow.

The guard who shot at her was stunned.

This... chubby assassin actually received an arrow... head empty-handed?

Be aware that arrows are very sharp.

Su Xiaoxiao turned around and threw the arrow in her hand at the guard.

The guard was shocked, and hurriedly used his bow and arrow.

He was forced to take several steps back!

What a terrifying strength!

He shouted solemnly: "Come on! There are assassins!"

The guards of Duke Protector's Mansion rushed over and surrounded Su Xiaoxiao.

Su Xiaoxiao didn't talk nonsense with others, she rolled up her sleeves and started working.

Her body was much more flexible than before, and every time the guard seemed to want to grab her, she was pulled away from the palm of his hand like a loach.

It's just that two fists are no match for four hands, and the disadvantage in numbers caused Su Xiaoxiao's physical strength to be severely exhausted.

Three guards blocked her front, left, and right sides, and another guard sneaked up from her back.

Before it was too late, a hidden weapon shot out and hit the guard's wrist.

The guard let out a scream, and the long sword in his hand fell to the ground.

Su Xiaoxiao punched him with a backhand, like hitting a sandbag, and knocked him flying.

It was another man in black who rescued Su Xiaoxiao. He didn't fight with him for too long. He took Su Xiaoxiao into the air and disappeared into the boundless night with his lightness kung fu.

"Chase!"

The Duke Protector's Mansion was guarded by cavalry, and they rode their horses and chased them in the direction of the two.

"Su Mo?" Su Xiaoxiao asked.

The man in black paused unexpectedly, then nodded: "Yes."

"Why are you here?" Su Xiaoxiao wondered.

Su Mo said coldly: "I should ask you this."

Su Xiaoxiao said: "Speak as you speak, don't slow down, keep going."

Su Mo hesitated to speak: Why do you think I slowed down?

The Duke Huguo's Mansion has the most elite cavalry in the Zhou Dynasty. They are divided into three groups. One group of cavalry pursues Su Mo and Su Xiaoxiao, and the other two groups of cavalry detour to outflank them.

Su Xiaoxiao looked back from the eaves: "Well, there are still tactics."

Su Mo said lightly: "The cavalry brought out by Qin Canglan, what do you think?"

Su Xiaoxiao said calmly: "Oh, then why is Qin Canglan so powerful?"

Su Mo asked suspiciously, "Shouldn't you be called grandfather?"

Su Xiaoxiao spread her hands: "I didn't recognize him."

Su Mo trembled and almost fell from mid-air: "Don't move!"

Su Xiaoxiao obediently withdrew her hand: "Okay."

Moved again!

Su Mo: "?!"

The advantage of cavalry is speed, but their disadvantages are also quite obvious. For example, they cannot enter narrow places.

Su Mo gave up on the streets and climbed over the roofs of a row of typesetting houses.

"They shouldn't have come after them."

Su Mo and Su Xiaoxiao landed in front of a house with closed doors and windows.

He glanced at Su Xiaoxiao, "Are you okay?"

"No." Su Xiaoxiao shook her head.

This girl's physical fitness is really good, if it were someone else, she would have vomited a long time ago.

Su Mo looked around, staring and said: "They should be guarding the nearby exit, I will lead them away in a while, you go straight from the east, there are people to meet you."

"Okay." Su Xiaoxiao agreed.

Su Mo was startled again.

Are you sure you're welcome? Don't ask "what will you do if I leave"?

Although he didn't need this girl to be polite, he really wanted to get her out of trouble.

But this girl's reaction...was really too different.

It was the first time he met someone so straightforward, and he didn't get used to it all at once.

Su Mo coughed lightly: "Well, be careful yourself, if you get caught, just push me."

Su Xiaoxiao nodded for a second: "Success!"

Su Mo: "..."

Forget it, that's fine, don't worry.

If you really meet that kind of crying and indecisive, it is easy to do bad things.

He turned around and left, but unfortunately he was one step too late.

The cavalry from the Lord Protector's Mansion actually took a detour and came in!

People came from both sides.

It's impossible to pull away——

Seeing that a fierce battle was inevitable, suddenly, the courtyard door behind the two opened, and a slender jade-like hand clasped Su Xiaoxiao's wrist, pulling him in with a snap!

Su Mo's face changed, and he drew his sword and rushed into the yard——

clang!

The courtyard door was closed.

In the night, a tall and straight figure stood beside Su Xiaoxiao, pulling Su Xiaoxiao's wrist without hesitation.

Su Mo's eyes turned cold for an instant, he raised his eyes, and his eyes fell on the familiar handsome face.

"Wei Ting?"

Su Mo was taken aback.

"You let me go—"

Before the word "cousin" was spoken, there was a rush of horseshoes outside the door.

The cavalry of the Duke Protector's Mansion stopped at the gate.

Wei Ting looked at the closed courtyard door indifferently, and lightly rubbed the back of Su Xiaoxiao's hand with his fingertips, like a silent comfort.

Su Xiaoxiao blinked.

Wei Ting let go of her hand and gave Su Mo a look of "excuse me, let me go".

Su Mo frowned, stepped aside, and blocked Su Xiaoxiao behind him.

Wei Ting went out swaggeringly, the courtyard door was open, covering the two of them properly.

The cavalrymen were about to get off their horses and rush in, but they paused when they saw Wei Ting.

Wei Ting is the youngest son of the Wei family, with a high status, not everyone has the opportunity to witness his true face.

But as it happened, all these cavalrymen had the good fortune to see him during the royal hunting.

The leader is named Feng.

Guard Feng didn't get off the horse, nor did he get on the horse, he just kept a posture of not getting up or down.

After a long time, he still came down.

Because he doesn't come down by himself, this master will definitely beat him down.

Wait, didn't this master go to the temple to be a monk?

Guard Feng cupped his hands like a routine: "I don't know if Mr. Wei has returned to Beijing, so I'm sorry to welcome you."

Wei Ting scoffed: "You are also qualified to welcome?"

Guard Feng: "..."

Wei Ting said sarcastically: "In the middle of the night, you didn't sleep and came to block my yard. What's the matter? The Duke Protector's Mansion finally can't sit still, and is going to assassinate me in the middle of the night?"

Look at this hat buttoned!

Guard Feng didn't dare to cause trouble for his master, he hurriedly cupped his hands and said: "I don't dare, it's just a misunderstanding."

Wei Ting pointed to the cavalry behind him: "Then tell me, what's going on?"

Guard Feng said: "The little one... is chasing two assassins."

Wei Ting looked shocked: "So you suspect that I am an assassin?"

Guard Feng: "No—"

I doubt it, but can you stop saying that?

Wei Ting said hehe: "Then you suspect that I am harboring assassins? That's fine, you just come in and search!"

After saying that, Wei Ting turned his head and said mockingly to the yard.

"Laifu, go to the palace and tell His Majesty that I'm back, but some people are not happy that I'm going back to Beijing. They came to my private house in the middle of the night in the name of catching assassins, and gave me a big blow!"

Su Mo looked left and right, where is there any blessing?

Su Xiaoxiao pinched Su Mo.

Su Mo raised his voice unwillingly: "Yes—the little one, let's go—"

"No need!" Guard Feng hurriedly said, "You guys made a mistake!"

Guard Feng left with his men.

A cavalryman asked puzzledly: "Brother Feng, are we leaving just like that? Don't go in and search? What if the assassin is really hiding in there?"

His words were not without purpose.

The Wei family and the Qin and Su families are hostile to each other. Maybe the assassin tonight was sent by Wei Ting!

"No." Guard Feng said thoughtfully, "Anyone will cover up the assassin tonight, but the Wei family will not."

The cavalry of the Lord Protector's Mansion walked away.

Wei Ting went back to the yard.

Su Mo's long sword came out of his body, and he swung his backhand at Wei Ting's neck.

Su Xiaoxiao stepped forward, pulled out the dagger at her waist, and cut off Su Mo's long sword with a snap!

In order not to reveal his identity, Su Mo naturally did not carry his own exclusive saber. He used an ordinary long sword bought on the market.

But it was also very hard, to be chopped off by this little girl?

What is even more surprising is why the little girl protects Wei Ting so much?

That dagger that cuts iron like mud...

Su Mo's pupils shrank.

Isn't this the weapon of General Wei?

Wei Ting actually gave it to this girl?

"You..." Su Mo calmed down, "What's your relationship?"

Wei Ting said with a half-smile, "The relationship between husband and wife, if you don't believe me, you can ask her."

Su Mo looked at Su Xiaoxiao sternly.

Su Xiaoxiao: Do ​​couples in name count?

Su Mo thought of the news that the subordinates posing as shopkeepers had found from the village: "Are you that Mr. Wei Xiaolang?"

When the shopkeeper said that the girl from the Su family had recruited a son-in-law whose surname was Wei, he never guessed at the youngest son of the Wei family.

After all... the youngest son of the Wei family became a monk in the capital, so it is impossible for him to appear in Qingzhou——

Su Mo looked at Wei Ting in astonishment: "You have not been in the capital...how could you..."

He looked at Su Xiaoxiao, "What's going on?"

Su Xiaoxiao corrected her fingers: "Well, he was injured, my father... tied him back and made me a door-to-door son-in-law!"

Su Mo: "..."

At that time, Xiao Su's family didn't know his own life experience, so everything was just a coincidence.

But this coincidence is too foolish.

Who is not good to catch, a young son of the Wei family?

Do you know the relationship between Su, Qin and Wei's families?

It is no exaggeration to say that the possibility of the Wei family marrying these two families is lower than the possibility of Princess Wei Tingshang handing over military power.

Su Mo asked Su Xiaoxiao: "Do you not know his identity?"

"Mmmmmmmm!" Su Xiaoxiao nodded.

Su Mo glanced at Wei Ting coldly, and said solemnly to Su Xiaoxiao: "Well, I will tell you clearly today that his name is Wei Ting, also called Wei Xichao, and he is the young grandson of Lord Wu'an Weiwei." The Wei family and our Su family are rivals, and so is the Qin family, so you'd better not have anything to do with him!"

Su Xiaoxiao was silent.

Su Mo didn't have much contact with Su Xiaoxiao, but he also saw this girl's unconventional temperament.

He wasn't sure if his words would sway her.

Or, whether Qin and Su are qualified to sway her.

Just when he thought that this girl would ignore the grievances of the previous generation, he saw Su Xiaoxiao raised her head little by little, with a huge sadness in her eyes.

Her chubby hand hesitantly pulled out the veil, and flicked it in the air.

In an instant, she seemed to be a different person, covering her heart with her hand holding the handkerchief, her expression became extremely sad.

She stared at Wei Ting deeply, wanting to cry.

"The mountain has no edges, and the heaven and the earth are united, so you dare to break with the king."

"The king is a rock, and the concubine is a pampas grass. The rock is invariable, but the pampas grass is as tough as silk!"

Wei Ting: "Speak human words."

Su Xiaoxiao turned her face away and cried Qingqing: "We are not suitable, so we should not meet each other in the future!"

Wei Ting: "Return the son to me."

Su Xiaoxiao turned her head in a second, and said with a smile, "Sir, let's go home!"

Su Mo: "..."

It was late at night.

On the carriage going back, Su Xiaoxiao couldn't resist the drowsiness of her body and fell asleep.

Sitting beside her, Wei Ting raised his head, gently supported her little head, and let her rest on his shoulder.

His gaze was as indifferent as ever.

He held her hand and put it on his lap, stroking the back of her hand with his fingertips, with tenderness hidden between his brows.

Su Mo looked away.

The carriage arrived at Lihua Lane.

Su Ergou dozed off in the main room waiting for his sister, and when he heard the movement of the carriage, he woke up instantly.

"sister!"

He stomped and ran out, and opened the courtyard door.

Su Xiaoxiao slightly opened a slit of her eyes, and got out of the carriage in a daze.

Su Ergou looked at Wei Ting who got out of the car with Su Xiaoxiao again, his eyes lit up: "Brother-in-law?"

"Well, why haven't you slept yet?" Wei Ting stretched out his hand, looking at Su Ergou, but lightly blocked the door frame with his hand.

Su's small forehead brushed against the back of his hand.

Su Xiaoxiao entered the house.

Father Su didn't sleep either, waiting for his daughter at home.

"Girl, are you back?"

"Well, sleepy."

Su Xiaoxiao opened the door and threw herself face down on the bed.

Papa Su went to the door.

"Huh? The son-in-law is back too? Why are you standing at the door? Why don't you come in?"

He looked at Su Mo who also got off the carriage again, "Ah, you...you are the son of that...Master Su?"

"Uncle..." Su Mo opened his mouth and said in a warm voice, "Uncle Su."

Su Cheng looked at him, then at Wei Ting: "You guys know each other? Did you come here together?"

The two didn't answer for a while.

That's not a good answer.

Saying you don't know each other is a lie, but if you say you know each other, what if Su Cheng asks what's the relationship and says they killed each other?

Fortunately, Su Cheng wasn't really interested either.

"Then what, it's getting late, I won't let you sit down, you go back quickly, don't let your family worry."

Su Cheng said to Su Mo, and dragged Wei Ting in.

"The buns are hot in the pot..."

"Go and see Erhu in a while, he also complained of a toothache in the afternoon..."

"Ergou's something is broken again, it took me a whole night to fix it..."

"Father, go to sleep, I'll do it."

"Okay, I'm going to sleep... I'm sleepy... Remember to put out the fire on the stove, otherwise the bottom of the pot will be burned..."

"Got it, Dad."

"Ergou, what are you dawdling about? Go back to the room and sleep!" Su Cheng yelled.

"Oh." Su Ergou responded to his father, and said to the dazed Su Mo, "Master Su, I... close the door first."

Su Mo nodded.

Watching the door close in front of him, the conversation with Wei Ting in the carriage flashed through his mind.

"Do you know who she is?"

"Know."

"Then you still—"

"My pleasure."

He knew early on that the youngest son of the Wei family was uninhibited, and in his eyes all manners and rules were farts.

He just didn't expect that the other party even had family hatred--

Wei Xichao, I hope you can really protect her.

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