Nine dragons fight for the throne, I don't want to sit on this throne

On this day, the wind was calm and the sun was beautiful.

Even though the north wind was howling, it still couldn't resist Wu Xiuning's enthusiasm.

In order to see Chu Ning as soon as possible, she personally brought a team of imperial guards to the city gate to greet him.

An old man wearing purple official uniform, thin and with white hair followed behind him and whispered:

"Your Highness, the wind is strong outside the city. Why don't you wait inside the city first? When the Crown Prince of Chu arrives, I will send someone to notify you."

But Wu Xiuning snorted coldly when he heard this: "How can this be possible? There is no sincerity in doing this."

"The Crown Prince of Chu defeated Qin this time, designed a plan to make the Han Dynasty and Sima Yi fight, and occupied three states. He is famous throughout the world. How can my Zhou Dynasty despise him so much?"

These well-reasoned words actually made Pei Jiming, the Minister of Rites, smile bitterly.

Although Wu Xiuning is young, he may have inherited his good mouth from his father, and few people can get the upper hand over him.

Even Pei Jiming, the Minister of Rites, found it difficult to resist.

While the two were talking, a spy came to report: "Your Highness, the Princess, there is news from Feixing City that the troops of the Crown Prince of Chu have passed through the city, and it is expected that they will not be able to resist until noon."

Upon hearing this, Wu Xiuning couldn't help but look up at the sun in the sky, pouting her lips and saying, "It's still at least two hours before noon.

Humph, I can't wait that long, come, take me there, I want to meet the master as soon as possible!"

Having said that, she turned and walked to the carriage.

The coachman looked embarrassed and could only look at Pei Jiming for help.

Pei Jiming was about to speak, but Wu Xiuning snorted coldly: "Why, you want to listen to Master Pei but not to me?

Are you my groom or Master Pei's groom?"

As soon as these words came out, the groom was so frightened that cold sweat broke out all over his body. He immediately knelt on the ground and said in a trembling voice:

"Princess, please forgive me. I am just worried about your safety."

"okay!"

Wu Xiuning said with a look of superiority: "This is my decision. You are not responsible if anything goes wrong."

The groom had no choice but to stand up and pick up the stool on the carriage, and said respectfully: "Princess, please get in the carriage."

Wu Xiuning then raised her eyebrows and stepped onto the carriage on a stool.

Then, the carriage started and slowly went out of the city, and the imperial guards behind immediately followed.

Pei Jiming smiled bitterly and said, "Come here, inform His Majesty immediately."

As the Minister of Rites, his duty is to welcome Chu Ning here.

Without the emperor's order, he couldn't go anywhere.

As for Wu Xiuning, he believed that with the imperial guards there, no accidents would happen.

What's more, this is the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Who dares to cause trouble here?

Of course, if the emperor allowed him, he could naturally go with his guard of honor to greet Chu Ning.

But without the emperor's order, he could only greet him at the city gate.

Rules are rules and will not change because of Chu Ning’s special identity.

At this time, after Wu Xiuning got on the carriage, her mind had already flown to Chu Ning.

She imagined the scene of herself meeting Chu Ning, and even more imagined Chu Ning taking her flying a kite.

After all, this was what Chu Ning had promised her before.

Thinking of meeting Chu Ning, a hint of excitement could not help but appear on her little face.

But perhaps because she was thinking too much, she always felt that the carriage was moving too slowly, and couldn't help but urge:

"Why is the speed so slow? Speed up immediately!"

The coachman smiled bitterly in his heart, but on the surface he could only remind her: "Hold on tight, Princess. I'll speed up now!"

He raised the whip in his hand, and the warhorse felt the pain and immediately rushed forward.

Seeing this, the imperial guards behind immediately rode their horses and charged forward to catch up.

Amid the sound of horse hooves, the carriage quickly drove out of Kyoto city.

Half an hour later, the carriage passed through the wide official road and entered a forest.

The towering trees are covered with shrubs, weeds and thorns.

Not long after the carriage and the imperial guards entered the place, Wu Xiuning noticed something was wrong.

Lifting the carriage curtain and looking outside, Wu Xiuning's brows were tightly furrowed, and she looked thoughtful.

After a moment, she seemed to have thought of something, her eyes flashed with surprise, and she suddenly shouted:

"There is an ambush here, stop now!"

The carriage and the imperial guards were stunned. Although they didn't understand why their princess said such a thing, they didn't dare to refuse.

"Whoa~" All the carriages and cavalry stopped.

The leader of the imperial guards, Wu Biao, took the initiative to step forward and asked in a deep voice, "Why did the princess say there was an ambush here?"

Wu Xiuning pointed at the trees around him, looking like an old scholar, and spoke eloquently:

"Look, there are so many trees here, there must be birds flying among them. When we pass by, the birds should be scared away!"

"But from the beginning till now, I haven't heard any bird calls. This means there must be an ambush in the woods, and the birds were scared away in advance!"

As soon as these words came out, Wu Biao's face changed drastically, and he immediately shouted: "Retreat, retreat quickly!"

At the command, everyone turned their horses around and wanted to retreat.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, many sharp arrows were shot out from the woods, and more than a dozen imperial guards were shot dead before they could react.

"Retreat, retreat quickly!"

The scene was in chaos, and before the carriage could be turned around the horses became frightened and out of control.

"Protect the princess!" Wu Biao was furious and rushed to the carriage, waving his sword to block the incoming arrows.

"Groom, hurry up!" Wu Xiuning did not forget to instruct the groom to control the warhorse.

But at this moment, a group of masked men in black rushed out of the woods, waving weapons and killing the imperial guards.

"No, they are well prepared!"

"Your Highness, please hurry up. I will stop them!"

Realizing that the enemy had a large number of people and superior martial arts, Wu Biao acted decisively and immediately carried Wu Xiuning onto a warhorse.

Then, the sharp sword lightly scratched the warhorse.

The warhorse cried out in pain and ran away wildly.

"Everyone follow me to stop the assassin!"

Seeing Wu Xiuning riding away, Wu Biao led the imperial guards to fight with the men in black.

"Hmph, since some of them are going to chase Wu Xiuning, the rest of you can kill these imperial guards!"

The leader of the men in black snorted coldly, and sent people to chase after them while sending people to silence the imperial guards.

There were not many imperial guards in the forest, only about fifty of them. Half of them were killed by two rounds of arrows just now, and now there are only about twenty of them.

There were more than forty men in black, who outnumbered the enemy and killed the imperial guards one after another.

Wu Biao was furious. He forced back a man in black with a sword and couldn't help but roar and question.

The leader of the men in black sneered: "When you go to hell, someone will naturally give you the answer!"

After he finished speaking, this man, holding a scimitar, used several consecutive moves and actually beat Wu Biao back step by step.

"A first-rate master, and your martial arts are not from our dynasty!" Wu Biao recognized the other party's origin at a glance.

But unfortunately, because of his distraction, he was beheaded by the leader of the men in black!

The man didn't even look at the body on the ground, and sneered, "Go after Wu Xiuning immediately!"