They ran for more than a quarter of an hour, and gradually the road became more and more bumpy and difficult to walk on.

Xia An looked around and said, "Princess, this path leads to Qinglong Temple."

"Yeah." Chu Feiyan whipped the whip again to speed up.

This is a shortcut to Qinglong Temple, but the road is not easy to walk on. With Xiao Changqing's current injuries, he can't withstand the bumps on the road.

She had a bad feeling. Even if Xiao Changqing wanted to go to Qinglong Temple, why did he choose this route?

While I was thinking, I heard the faint sound of fighting.

"Princess, there's a fight going on."

"Gee!" Chu Feiyan's face was cold. The thing she was worried about still happened!

After turning the corner of a mountain, I saw a small stream in front of me. Across the stream, a carriage had overturned and the horse seemed to be dead! Two blood-stained guards were fighting with a masked man in black.

"Damn it!" This idiot was actually tricked and silenced.

Seeing someone coming, the man in black became anxious and fired several hidden weapons.

The two guards were already seriously injured and had no time to dodge. They were shot in the throat by hidden weapons and fell down, dying with their eyes open.

Chu Feiyan jumped off the horse, flew across the small river, and pounced on the man in black.

"Swish, swish, swish!" Before the person arrived, three sleeve arrows shot straight at the black man's face with fierce force.

The man in black swung his sword to block the hidden arrow, his arm became numb, his face changed, and he turned around and tried to run.

"Want to run!" Chu Feiyan raised his arm and shot out the fourth and fifth arrows.

"what!"

The man in black dodged the fourth arrow, but was hit in the left leg by the fifth arrow. He fell forward and rolled down a steep slope.

Chu Feiyan flew to the front of the carriage and saw Xiao Changqing lying in a pool of blood with a dagger stuck in his chest and black blood coming out of his mouth.

There is a deadly poison on that dagger.

"Xiao Changqing, who wants to kill you?" She patted his face.

Xiao Changqing opened his eyes with difficulty, "Yes..."

Before he could finish his words, he vomited a large mouthful of black blood, then his head tilted and he didn't move anymore.

Chu Feiyan reached out to feel his breath and found that he was dead.

Xia An also followed and flew up the slope, "Princess, that man ran away."

"Chase!" Chu Feiyan flew up and followed, leaping down the steep slope.

He bounced a few times and flew to the foot of the mountain, where he saw the man in black running away into a woods.

Her hidden arrow was coated with poison; the man couldn't get far.

After running for a while, a cliff blocked the way of the man in black. Seeing that he could no longer move, the man in black turned around and looked at her with anger.

"Princess Min'an, I have no grudge against you, why are you chasing me?"

When Chu Feiyan heard this man's voice, she was shocked, because this man's voice was very similar to the man in black who killed her grandfather that night in her previous life.

She stared at the man's eyes, which gradually overlapped with the pair of eyes in her mind that made her hate them so much.

"It's really you!"

The man in black was stunned. "Princess Min'an, I don't think we know each other?"

"Who are you?" Chu Feiyan pointed his sword, "Why did you lure Xiao Changqing out and kill him? Who is the master behind you?"

"Princess Min'an, there are some things you'd better not know, otherwise! The entire Weiguo Mansion will be implicated by you." The man in black threatened her in turn.

"Ha! You dare to touch my Weiguo Mansion. It seems that your master is not ordinary!" Chu Feiyan approached step by step, "You are about to die. If you are willing to surrender and tell me your master, I can spare your life."

"Save my life? Hahaha!" The man in black laughed a few times with his head raised, then suddenly jumped off the cliff.

Chu Feiyan swung his hand and shot out two flying knives.

"Whizzing!!"

One flying knife missed and the other hit the man in the back.

"what--"

The screams echoed in the valley.

"This guy is still a tough guy." Xia An looked down at the bottom of the abyss, feeling a little annoyed.

This clue is broken just like that?

"Send a signal and call our people to come down the cliff to look for him. We must find him alive or dead." Chu Feiyan ordered.

Perhaps we can find useful clues from this person.

"Yes!" Xia An took out a flare and fired it into the sky.

"Princess, what should we do with Xiao Changqing's body?"

"Don't worry, someone will find us. Just bring our horses here." Chu Feiyan said and turned to go down the mountain.

Xiao Changqing's murder might be related to her investigation of military pay.

Or maybe Xiao Changqing was no longer useful and knew who was behind the murder? That’s why he was killed.

More than half an hour later, their people arrived one after another. Xia An fired several flares to help their people find the place.

There are jagged rocks, overgrown weeds, and uneven trees at the foot of the cliff. There is no road at all, so it is very difficult to find a body.

There were fifty or sixty of them, and they searched from morning to evening until they finally found the body of the man in black.

It was her father's adopted son Qiao Shengxian who discovered it and immediately sent out a flare.

When they saw the signal flare, they knew someone had discovered the target and rushed in that direction.

When Chu Feiyan arrived, Qiao Sheng had already searched the body. "Feiyan, this man has nothing else on him except a packet of poison powder and three hidden weapons."

Chu Feiyan took the three hidden weapons and examined them. They were just ordinary hidden weapons, coated with poison powder and without any markings.

"Take off his clothes and check his body to see if there are any marks on his body."

"Okay!" Qiao Sheng walked back and re-examined the body.

After a moment, he discovered the problem, "Fei Yan, there is a mark on this person's back."

Chu Feiyan walked over and saw that there was a black mark in the shape of a crescent on the man's shoulder blade, with a snake-like animal wrapped around the crescent.

"This must be the mark of some gang." Qiao Sheng guessed.

"Brother Qiao, leave this mark behind." Chu Feiyan gave an order and left with Xia An.

Although they didn't know what the mark was, they were certain of one thing: this person was a gangster.

The people who broke into the Duke of Weiguo’s Mansion in the previous life did indeed have a sect.

******

"Fei Yan!" Qiao Sheng came to the courtyard where she lived, Yunlan Courtyard.

"Brother Qiao, you're here!" Chu Feiyan called out to him.

Qiao Sheng is 23 years old. His father is a deputy general. He was seriously injured on the battlefield and the bleeding could not be stopped. Before he died, he asked his father to help take care of his only son.

After Deputy General Qiao died, his father took the ten-year-old Qiao Sheng to his side to teach him and treated him like his own son.

After the truce between Longyuan State and Northern Qi State, Qiao Sheng was unwilling to stay at the border, so he followed her back to Beijing and stayed in the Duke of Weiguo's Mansion as a family general, responsible for the safety of the Duke of Weiguo's Mansion.

Chu Feiyan applied to the emperor to help him retain his official position. The emperor agreed and appointed him as a third-rank sword-bearing guard with a court salary.

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