I sniffed it and said, "It's not poisonous, eat it with confidence."

After hearing this, Zheng Yan picked up the bowl and happily started eating with big mouthfuls.

Seeing Zheng Yan eating so happily, I couldn't help but ask, "Aren't you afraid that I'll cheat you?"

Zheng Yan had no time to eat when he was busy. He only ate a few steamed buns the whole day. Now that there was hot rice and hot dishes in front of him, he didn't care whether they tasted good or not, he just wanted to fill his stomach.

Zheng Yan picked up a large piece of bacon and stuffed it into his mouth. He chewed it hard and swallowed it before saying, "Before I left the capital, my father told me to listen to you more. You saved all of our lives last night. If I don't listen to you, who else can I listen to?"

I took the bowl of mutton soup Yingchun gave me and said with a smile, "You are the future king, so you can't just listen to me."

Zheng Yan said without even looking up: "I'll listen to whoever is right."

After the New Year, Zheng Yan turned seventeen years old. He became more and more independent-minded, acted decisively, spoke tactfully, had a cool head, and was good at listening to other people's opinions. I think he will definitely be a wise ruler in the future, right?

After dinner, Zheng Yan said he was going to go down for a tour. I always felt inexplicably uneasy. When Zheng Yan was about to leave, I held his arm and said, "Jiang Qianqiu might just be a trigger. It would be best if he could kill you, but if he can't, there will probably be a trick. If something happens to you, the position of crown prince will definitely fall to the fifth prince. I think you should understand what this means."

Zheng Yan's face darkened after hearing this, and he said, "I understand."

Zheng Yan patted my shoulder and said, "Don't worry, I will be careful."

After Zheng Yan finished speaking, he took the cloak handed to him by his personal eunuch, turned around and walked out.

I glanced at Zhang San and Li Si who had been guarding the room, waved my hand, and said, "You follow the prince and report back if anything happens."

Zhang San quickly clasped his fists and responded, "Yes." Then he took Li Si and followed Zheng Yan away.

Yingchun asked quietly while clearing the dishes, "Second Young Master, have you discovered something again?"

Yingchun now admires me immensely and always feels that I am like a god who can predict the future.

I covered my chest and said, "My heart is beating very fast. I always feel like something bad is going to happen. Go to bed early after you finish cleaning up. Don't sleep on the floor tonight. Although there is charcoal burning in this room, the floor is still very cold. Don't get sick."

Yingchun muttered quietly, "We are the only two women here. I can't find a companion even if I want to. I am really scared to sleep alone at night."

I ignored Yingchun's muttering. I walked to the bed, picked up the small black axe, weighed it, and then lay down on the bed with my clothes on.

Because I was too weak, I fell asleep quickly.

I was sleeping soundly when I suddenly heard a sound of fighting. I sat up suddenly and saw Yingchun sitting on the ground next to my bed wrapped in a quilt, shivering and looking outside the door.

Seeing that I woke up, Yingchun said in a crying voice: "Second Master, there is a fight outside."

At this moment, the door was suddenly opened, and three masked men rushed in. The leader waved his hand and said, "Kill them."

Yingchun was so frightened that she screamed, wrapped her head with a quilt, and shouted, "Don't kill me, don't kill me."

I slowly stood up with the axe in my hand and looked coldly at the three men in black rushing towards me.

My two arms and two leg bones were broken by Jiang Qianqiu's internal force. Although I have been recuperating for more than ten days and occasionally nourishing them with the little remaining white light, it will take a long time to fully recover.

But looking at the posture of these people, it is clear that they want to kill me. Even though my arm still hurts a little, I can't care about that anymore.

There were two people guarding outside my house, but now they were lying in a pool of blood, motionless, obviously killed by the men in black.

Fire suddenly rose in my eyes. These men in black were killing innocent people indiscriminately. They deserved to die!

My eyes were dyed red with anger, and when they pounced on me, I swung the axe without hesitation.

Due to the injuries on both hands, I could only exert less than half of my usual power with this axe, but this half of power, combined with the sword energy of the small black axe itself, actually cut the three men in black in half at once. With a few "thumps", they fell to the ground and died before they could even scream.

After I swung the axe, my hand was shaking with pain and I almost lost my grip on the small black axe and it fell to the ground.

I took a few steps back to the bed, sat down on it, and breathed heavily.

Yingchun heard no noise outside, so she gently pulled off the quilt covering her head. When she opened her eyes, she saw three separated bodies. Her eyes went dark and she fainted!

I looked at Yingchun who had fainted beside me and shook my head helplessly. I shook her hand and the piercing pain disappeared a lot. So I stood up with the axe and walked out the door.

I am worried about Zheng Yan. I don’t know how he is doing. If something happens to Zheng Yan, I guess no one can withstand Zheng Xian’s anger.

I walked to the corridor with an axe in my hand, and saw people lying all over the corridor, and the blood had dyed the entire corridor red.

My thick boots stepped on the blood, which felt sticky and disgusting. My scalp went numb, but I suppressed my nausea and walked down the stairs step by step to the lobby on the first floor.

There were many people lying on the floor in the lobby, and the tables and stools were all smashed to pieces, leaving no trace of their original appearance.

I heard sounds of fighting and screams outside the inn, and I quickly rushed out with an axe.

I rushed out of the inn and saw that the snow-covered ground was almost stained red with blood. Zheng Yan and more than twenty guards were forced to retreat to the wall of the inn, holding swords and looking at the group of men in black in front of them with unyielding expressions.

The guards led by Zheng Yan had at least several hundred people, but unexpectedly there are only twenty or so people left now. Looking at the men in black, there was a huge group of them, at least a hundred people!

Judging from the number of people alone, Zheng Yan's side is bound to lose!

When I walked out, maybe my footsteps were light and no one noticed me, so I stuck close to the wall, hid in the dark, and slowly moved towards Zheng Yan.

At this time, the leader of the men in black suddenly said, "Your Highness, you'd better surrender obediently. If you give up resistance, I can still leave you with a whole body. If you resist to the death, don't blame me for being rude."

Why does this voice sound so familiar?

I was in a daze when Zheng Yan shouted, "Fifth brother?!"

It’s Zheng Hao indeed!

Zheng Xian originally wanted to drive the mother and son to another garden, but the queen died suddenly, so the mother and son had to stay and keep vigil. Unexpectedly, this stay would bring disaster!

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