Traveling through the ancient times

Yongkang didn't respond, but stared at Nianchuhua without blinking. Nianchuhua felt uneasy and shrank her neck, wondering how she could save her life if Yongkang wanted to kill her.

"You are an interesting woman..." Yongkang sneered when he saw that Nianchuhua was getting scared. He thought that this woman was really not afraid of death, but it turned out that she was just pretending.

After Yongkang finished talking to Nianchuhua, he walked to the cave entrance to check if the personal guards of King Xiliang had caught up.

About an incense stick later, the personal guards of King Xiliang arrived at the cave.

"How about it, there is no tail?" Yong Kang asked the group of people.

"No! Where's that woman?"

"inside!"

Yongkang entered the cave with ten personal guards. The cave was originally quite large, but became a little crowded because of the arrival of this group of people.

Nianchuhua looked warily at the group of people walking towards her.

"Why aren't they tied up?" When the head of the personal guards saw Nian Chuhua sitting on the rock, he thought that Yongkang was not trustworthy at all. He didn't even tie up the hostages' hands and feet. If they ran away, all their efforts would be in vain.

"The rope is in your hands..." Yongkang could hear the dissatisfaction in the guard's tone, but he didn't dare to get angry now, as he still had to rely on these people's help in his affairs.

"Uh... who holds the rope?" The head of the guards turned around and asked the person behind him.

“Here I am…” One of them took off the rope hanging around his waist and handed it to their boss.

"What are you doing? Tie him up!" The head of the guards slapped the man on the back of the head.

"Yes!" The man scratched his head and walked to the picture at the beginning of the year with a rope.

Nianchuhua shrank back and said, "Be honest and suffer less physical pain!"

The man walked around behind Nianchuhua and tied her hands together, then tied her feet. "Actually, there's no need to tie me up. I won't run away!"

The man glanced at Nianchuhua and said, "Don't try to play any tricks. You can't run away even if you want to."

"... "

If Yongkang was the only one here, she could still find an opportunity, but now with so many people coming, it is really difficult for her to escape.

After tying up the New Year painting, the group of people stopped paying attention to him and started discussing the next move, "What should we do next?"

"The next step is to lure the snake out of its hole!" The head of the personal guard narrowed his eyes and said the next plan.

The head of the imperial guards looked at Nian Chu Hua, walked over, plucked a hairpin from her hair, and threw it on a large rock they were gathered around. "Write a letter and send it to the Third Prince's residence along with this hairpin. Ask the man surnamed Qi to take off his mask and come to the Shili Pavilion outside the city alone at twilight hour today."

“Good idea…”

When Nianchuhua heard that these people wanted to use her to lure Qi Muhe out of the house, she immediately became anxious, "What's the point of giving my hairpin to him? The relationship between Mr. Qi and me is just that of employer and shopkeeper. He works for me in exchange for money. How could he put himself in danger for me?"

How could the head of the imperial guards not know what Chu Nianhua was up to? He chuckled and said, "Don't worry about that. If Qi Muhe doesn't come out to save you, the people in the Third Prince's Palace can't just ignore you. As long as one of them leaves the palace, it doesn't matter who comes out."

The head of the imperial guards thought of another thorny matter and asked Yong Kang, "You said that Qi Muhe is good at disguising himself. How can we tell if that person is Qi Muhe? What if he disguises the guards of the Third Prince's Mansion to look like him? Wouldn't it be easy for us to be deceived?"

"This is not difficult. Apart from his martial arts skills, the easiest way to distinguish him is that there is a plum blossom-shaped birthmark on Qi Muhe's left forearm!" He discovered this when they were swimming in the river together when they were young.

"Yeah! Everyone remembers it!"

"Remember!" The guards nodded one after another.

The head of the guard turned to look at his gang of younger brothers and said, "Hurry up and write a letter!"

Everyone looked at each other, no one started writing, "Boss, we don't have any writing materials..."

The guard was slapped again. "Do you have to write it here?"

"Yes! I'll go right away!" The guard came out of the cave with the hairpin painted by Nian Chu.

The head of the guards pointed at a few more people and said, "The four of you should follow him into the city and ambush outside the Third Prince's residence. Once the defense of the Third Prince's residence is relaxed, we will find a chance to go in and look for him. If they send a fake one, we will not miss this rare opportunity. After we succeed, we will signal with red fireworks."

"Yes!" The people who were called walked out with knives in hand.

Through the conversation between these people, Nian Chuhua roughly guessed that the purpose of their arresting her was not for money, but for her life. They wanted to lure Qi Muhe out!

Are these people Qi Muhe’s enemies?

But that doesn't make sense. If these people were looking for revenge on Qi Muhe, then why didn't he just kill Qi Muhe directly in Huai'an last time, but instead captured her?

Last time, those people's target was clearly her, but this time they captured her and wanted to use her hairpin to lure Qi Muhe out of the city.

What is the purpose of these people?

When Chushū Hua was still daydreaming, Yongkang and the personal guards of King Xiliang started quarreling again.

A young guard asked, "Boss, what should we do with this woman?"

The head of the guards glanced at Nian Chuhua who was hiding in the corner and said, "Don't worry about her. Now that she is in our hands, she is useless. Let her fend for herself."

The head of the personal guards stated his plan, "After we capture Qi Muhe tonight, we will go directly back to Xiliang."

"No!" Yongkang was the first to raise an objection. His target was not Qi Muhe, he wanted to seek revenge on Lu Mingqian.

"Why not? We have already caught the person. Why are you staying here if you don't leave?"

The head of the personal guards was a bit arrogant. He had realized in recent days that Yongkang was useless except in fighting, so he had to figure out how to arrange everything.

"The Third Prince of Dongyi is the murderer who assassinated our Crown Prince. Now that we are here, we must take the head of the Third Prince of Dongyi, avenge His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and enhance the prestige of our Xiliang country."

Yongkang's words sounded very righteous. Unless he killed Lu Mingqian to avenge his father, he would not let these people take Qi Muhe back like that.

"Our primary purpose for coming here this time is to capture Qi Muhe. As for the third prince of Dongyi, we will wait until the king regains the imperial power and then raise an army to flatten the Dongyi Kingdom and avenge His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

The task that the King of Xiliang assigned to his personal guards was to capture Qi Muhe. As for whether the third prince of Dongyi would be killed or not, the king would not care at all.

"Does the commander of the imperial guards only want to be a secret guard for the rest of his life? If you bring back the head of the Third Prince of Dongyi this time, the king will be happy too.

Besides, the king is in need of noble people right now. Since you have the talent to lead the army, the king will definitely appoint you as a general to lead the army. Then you can enjoy wealth and honor openly and be respected by the people. "