Cypress Boat Floating

Gongyang Junyu was not so petty. After Lu Ci Qiu said a few nice words, the other party came down the stairs, and the two of them became friends again.

Originally, I thought the matter of the assassins was over, but who would have thought that one wave after another would come, and the knife in Ye Jianqing's hand had been stained with the blood of many people.

At this time, Ye Jianqing protected Lu Ci Qiu and Gong Yang Junyu and hid behind a big tree. The three of them lowered their voices and dared not speak. Not far away, an assassin was searching for their location bit by bit.

Ye Jianqing held the skylark tightly, and when the other party walked to the big tree where they were hiding, she rushed out from behind the big tree like a gust of wind and sneaked behind the other party silently.

The assassin hadn't reacted to Ye Jianqing's speed yet, and only reacted when her arm locked onto his throat. The moment he reacted, he became ruthless, bent his hand, and rammed his elbow directly into Ye Jianqing's abdomen.

Ye Jianqing groaned. Although the other party had been clamped by her, his strength came through his elbow and hit Ye Jianqing, causing her to frown in pain.

But she endured the pain, clamped his neck with her left hand, held the Skylark tightly with her right hand, and slowly moved the tip of the knife closer to the other's throat. The other party reacted quickly, and when Ye Jianqing stood up the Skylark, he tightly grasped Ye Jianqing's wrist, trying to push the tip of the knife away from himself.

The two sides were fighting for each other. At this moment, Lu Ci Qiu came out quietly, holding the sword tightly in his hand, and thrust the sword into the assassin's abdomen. The assassin wanted to resist for a moment and wanted to turn around and use Ye Jianqing to block, but Ye Jianqing and Lu Ci Qiu did not give him this opportunity at all. One stood still and the other was extremely fast. Soon, the sword went straight into the assassin's abdomen. When he felt the pain, the strength in his hand weakened. At this time, Ye Jianqing used all his strength to push the skylark forward, straight into the opponent's throat.

Blood splattered on Lu Ci Qiu's face. Lu Ci Qiu's face was pale and the scarlet blood covered his entire face. The combination of red and white was terrifying no matter how you looked at it.

After confirming that the other party was dead, Ye Jianqing relaxed and pulled the skylark out of the other party's throat.

"Are you okay?"

Lu Ci Qiu shook his head: "It's okay."

This was the third wave of assassins they had encountered. The previous ones were relatively weak, and Ye Jianqing and the guards could still handle them, but this wave of people had both martial arts and strategy. Not only did they disperse them and the guards, they also outnumbered them and trapped them in this place.

The assassins were chasing Lu Ci Qiu and the others. Ye Jianqing was completely unable to stop them by herself. In addition, she had consumed a lot of her physical strength at the hands of the previous two waves, and her physical strength was gradually decreasing. Now it was difficult for her to completely deal with the opponent face to face.

So during the escape, Lu Ci Qiu also helped her a lot. The two of them cooperated with each other and managed to eliminate quite a few people.

"Be careful. If we go further we will reach Fengcheng. We will be fine once we return to Fengcheng." Ye Jianqing and Lu Ci Qiu walked behind a tree. Ye Jianqing identified the retreat route and said to them.

Gongyang Junyu glanced at the way back. The road was bumpy and covered with lush branches and leaves. It was difficult to find a way out. Moreover, there would inevitably be traces left. He was afraid that the assassins would follow them based on their traces.

They knew his concerns, but they had no better solution at the moment, so they had to do this.

"I don't know how the others are doing, whether they have encountered any assassins." Gongyang Junyu said as he walked.

"I don't know about the others, but it's obvious that these people are coming for us. The most important thing is that we can get out first." Ye Jianqing said while looking for a way.

Gongyang Junyu touched his nose awkwardly, stopped talking, and followed Ye Jianqing quietly.

"By the way, how can you be sure that we can walk back to Fengcheng if we go this way?" Gongyang Junyu was silent for less than two minutes before asking again.

"Fengcheng is in this direction, and it's okay to go in this direction." Ye Jianqing was not in the mood to talk. After giving two simple answers, he became quiet again.

She now needed to concentrate to prevent any assassins from coming in their direction. She was also worried about the others. At least the three of them had some martial arts skills to protect themselves, but ordinary ministers like Zhao Wenbin could not normally carry anything on their shoulders or hands, so if they encountered an assassin they would just be waiting to die.

But judging from the assassin's appearance, he was definitely targeting them, so he might not even notice the officials over there.

Suddenly, Ye Jianqing's ears vaguely caught a sound. She signaled the other two people to be quiet and took them to hide in the bushes silently.

Just when they had hidden themselves, five assassins came from not far away, holding knives in their hands, searching around cautiously.

Lu Ci Qiu looked at Ye Jianqing worriedly, while Ye Jianqing looked around for any escape route.

Seeing the assassins getting closer and closer to the bushes where they were hiding, Ye Jianqing pointed to the road on the left and whispered to them, "Stay here, I'll lead them away. Find a chance to keep walking along this road and you'll arrive."

Lu Ci Qiu held her hand and shook his head. He did not quite agree with letting Ye Jianqing go alone to lure them away. If it was three people against five people, there would at least be some chance of winning. But letting Ye Jianqing deal with them alone was like walking a sheep into the tiger's mouth.

Ye Jianqing smiled at him and patted his hand to comfort him, "Don't worry, I know what's going on."

Lu Ci Qiu disagreed and wanted to say something else, but was stopped by Ye Jianqing. The assassin was getting closer and closer to them, and she didn't have much time to deal with Lu Ci Qiu. She had to let go of Lu Ci Qiu's hand and prepared to run in another direction to divert their attention.

Just as she was about to leave, Gong Yang Junyu stopped her and said, "How do you know that you can lead all of them away? Let's go in three directions, then surround them and kill them separately."

Hearing his suggestion, Ye Jianqing couldn't help but give a thumbs up and exclaimed: "The countryside surrounds the city!"

Obviously, Gong Yang Junyu didn't understand what she was saying, but that didn't stop him from feeling happy about being praised.

Lu Ci Qiu curled his lips and said nothing, but he felt a little unhappy in his heart, but he couldn't tell why he felt unhappy.

"Look, I'll stay here, and you go around them. If they scatter to chase us, you can fight if you can, but don't do it if you can't. We will just surround them and fight them together. It may be a little difficult for three people to deal with them, but it is better than one person alone." Ye Jianqing quickly adjusted his strategy and rearranged the actions of the three people.

The other two people also agreed with her opinion, so they obediently and carefully walked to the sides.

Ye Jianqing narrowed her eyes and looked at the assassin. She began to hate why it was not in modern times. If it were in modern times, this kind of enemy would be no problem for her. A sniper rifle could take care of everything. However, now she could only use the most primitive hand-to-hand combat.

She clenched the knife in her hand, and the other two people gradually walked to the position arranged for them by Ye Jianqing. The assassins walked back to back and cautiously. They didn't know if they heard the sound, but they became visibly alert.

Ye Jianqing didn't care what they were thinking at the moment. What she had to do was to try to get rid of one of the assassins before they could react.

She picked up a stone from the ground and threw it to the right, close to the ground.

When the five assassins heard the noise, they instantly stood up, their eyes fixed on the location of the stone. One of them walked forward, and as soon as he left, the others immediately took his place. In this way, no matter how many people were left, their team could always be on guard in all directions.

The assassin walked towards the stone. Ye Jianqing stared at him closely. When he reached the stone, before the assassin could react, she stabbed him with a knife, directly hitting the assassin's knee.

The assassin shouted, but before he could react, Ye Jianqing was faster than him. He jumped up and cut his neck, then disappeared into the bushes.

"Attention!" the leader of the other assassins said to the others.

They had seen Ye Jianqing's speed, so even if there was movement in other places, they did not dare to disperse. They had the advantage in numbers, but if they were killed by Ye Jianqing after they dispersed, they would have no advantage at all.

Ye Jianqing squatted in the grass, looking at the other party's cautious appearance, secretly sighing that it was not good. The other party was obviously planning to fight her in a group. If the other party formed a group, it would not be particularly advantageous for her, but now there were four people left, and three against four should be okay.

Then Ye Jianqing made a bird-like sound from his mouth, and the other two people who were ambushing on the side heard the sound and rushed out, heading straight for the four people, and Ye Jianqing did the same.

Since you want to fight in a group, then come on. If you can't catch someone who is alone, then join us together and fight in a group.

Four people from the other side fought against three people from this side. Lu Ci Qiu and Gong Yang Junyu each fought one, while Ye Jianqing was involved with two.

Ye Jianqing's perfect assassination skills allowed her to move in and out of the crowd from time to time. Even when facing an attack from two people, she could cleverly use her advantages to dodge them and leave a little wound on the opponent.

The two opponents obviously discovered Ye Jianqing's strategy. They sandwiched Ye Jianqing from the front and the back, blocking her retreat.

Ye Jianqing took a deep breath and secretly gathered strength with his feet. When the swords of both sides were about to reach him, he stomped his right foot hard on the ground, jumped lightly onto the sword of the man in front of him, stepped hard on the sword again, and turned over and passed the man in front of him.

As she climbed over, the skylark in her hand pierced into the opponent's shoulder, drawing blood immediately.

As soon as she landed on the ground, the assassin quickly turned around, covering his shoulder, and swung the sword with his uninjured hand. The attack was fast and fierce, and the blade was sharp, rushing towards Ye Jianqing with a gust of cold wind. Ye Jianqing bent down and dodged.

Before she could get up, another man swung his sword towards her legs. Ye Jianqing flipped her feet hard, stretched her toes and kicked the sword of the man in front of her away. She then turned over and landed steadily without being hurt by the other man.

The two people were not in a hurry at all when seeing this situation, and they still cooperated with each other in an orderly manner. Ye Jianqing could still cope with it at the beginning, but gradually, the opponent was able to accurately block her retreat every time, forcing her to repeatedly find another way out in danger.

At this moment, Lu Ci Qiu and Gong Yang Junyu still worked together to deal with the other two people and came to help Ye Jianqing.

With the addition of these two people, Ye Jianqing's pressure was reduced a lot.

Soon, the three of them worked together to defeat them in one fell swoop.

"Hurry up, we don't know if there is anyone chasing us, let's retreat first." After confirming that the five assassins were all dead, Ye Jianqing pulled the two of them and was about to leave, but halfway through, they suddenly found that there were also assassins searching ahead. They had no choice but to retreat and walk in another direction.

No matter whether it was Fengcheng or Nancheng, as long as it was close to the road leading down the mountain, there were always assassins guarding there. Given the current situation of the three of them, they could no longer continue to mediate with them.

The three could only keep moving in another direction, but soon they found that they were surrounded by assassins.

Now all that was left was the rushing river below the cliff, which kept hitting the mountain. Seeing that the assassin was about to find them, the three men looked at each other in bewilderment.

"What should we do?" Lu Ci Qiu asked.

"We can't defeat so many people." Ye Jianqing had no choice.

"Swim up from the Sannan River?" Gongyang Junyu asked, pointing at the river below.

Ye Jianqing took a look. The river water was naturally no problem for her. Even if the physical strength of this body was not good, the training of armed swimming before was not bad here. But for the other two princes, it was a bit difficult, especially Lu Ci Qiu who was afraid of water.

Ye Jianqing wanted to reject Gong Yang Junyu's suggestion, but at the moment this suggestion was indeed the most suitable for them. As long as they hid underwater, the possibility of those assassins finding them was very low.

"I think......"

"Okay." Ye Jianqing was interrupted by Lu Ci Qiu before he could finish his words. Lu Ci Qiu looked ready to die, which made Ye Jianqing a little worried.

She tugged at Lu Ciqiu's clothes and whispered in his ear, "Don't be so stubborn. You forgot you are afraid of water."

Lu Ci Qiu gave her a soothing smile in return, "There's no better way now, right?"

this......

Ye Jianqing bit her lower lip. Okay, since Lu Ci Qiu had made the decision, she had no reason to object. She just had to make sure Lu Ci Qiu was safe.

So she took off her outer clothes, tore them into long strips of cloth, and then tied the three men around their waists with the strips of cloth.

"This will prevent us from getting separated. I'll count to three, two, one, and we'll jump together." Ye Jianqing said to them after tying them up.

The other two nodded and stood at the edge of the cliff ready.

"Take a deep breath first. You won't be able to breathe after you go into the water. Be prepared. Close your eyes, don't be afraid, hold my hand. Remember, don't hit the water directly with the front of your body. Use your toes to fall into the water. Keep your body tense and don't relax." Knowing that Lu Ci Qiu was afraid, Ye Jianqing had to remind him repeatedly and even put his hand in front of him for him to hold on to.

Gong Yang Junyu also grabbed his other hand, and the three of them held hands and took deep breaths.

"three."

"two."

"one."

As soon as the words fell, the three of them jumped down together.

The Sannan River is very deep. Ye Jianqing grabbed Lu Ci Qiu's water and felt that he was slowly sinking. She couldn't help but hold his hand tightly and tried to pull him up, but there seemed to be something attracting them from below. A strong suction force sucked them over. There was no time to breathe or escape, and the three of them were sucked into an unknown place.