Chapter 189: Junyi, My Hand Hurts!

Baili Qingcang stood up abruptly, his eyebrows furrowed tightly with deep traces. “What’s going on?”

“Your Majesty, the guards guarding the entrance of the tent heard the noise in the room and went to check. They found that Fifth Prince was lying motionlessly on the bed with medicine bottles scattered around him.”

“I’ll go and take a look!”

Shen Ninghua followed behind Baili Qingcang and thought in her heart that Baili Jinze cherished his life very much, but unexpectedly he chose to commit suicide. Looked like he was scheming for something big.

Baili Qingcang strode into the tent, where Doctor Chen had been treating Fifth Prince inside.

“Your Majesty, His Highness is fine. You should take care of yourself and don’t worry too much.”

Baili Qingcang’s expression relaxed slightly and he asked, “Chen Yun, what happened to him?”

Chen Yun’s expression was slightly subtle. After a pause, he said, “Reporting to Your Majesty, His Highness took the medicine that calms the mind. There’s nothing wrong with the medicine itself. The reason why he was so deep in sleep this time was that he took too much at once. It should be fine after a good sleep. There’s no need to worry too much.”

“Medication that calms the mind?” Baili Qingcang gritted his teeth and took a deep breath to suppress the anger in his chest.

“Yes.”

Baili Qingcang abruptly turned his head to look at the guard kneeling on the ground. “Suicide? Heh, my guard can’t even tell death from being asleep?”

Such a big commotion was unexpectedly caused by some kind of tranquilizing drug. How dare he!

“Your Majesty, please forgive me!”

“Guards, take all the guards who were on duty to get punished for twenty times of flogging. Let the Imperial Guards fill up and guard Fifth Prince. Take everything from the tent. I’ll see what else trouble he wants to cause!”

Shen Ninghua’s eyes lit up and she thought of something in her heart. Taking everything from the tent would not only prevent Fifth Prince from committing suicide again but also prevent others from plotting against him. Furthermore, it would make it even more impossible to happen anything bad since the Imperial Guards had an eye on him. It seemed that the Emperor’s suspicion that Baili Jinze was the Villa Master of the Panlong Villa should be only 50%, which was lower than her expectations.

“Ah, what is that? Help! Someone help!”

Baili Qingcang walked out of the tent and saw people running back from the south of the camp in panic.

Seeing Baili Qingcang, everyone hurriedly knelt and said, “Your Majesty, there’s a pack of wolves coming from the north. It’s a large pack, about a few hundreds of them!”

Baili Qingcang’s expression became serious. “Why would there be wolves?”

“This servant doesn’t know.”

Chu Junyi stepped out, “Your Majesty, the reason why the pack of wolves gathered is to be verified later. Right now, it is mainly to protect your safety. Your Majesty, please move to another place!”

As soon as he finished speaking, an official behind him cried out in horror, “The wolf is coming!”

Chu Junyi didn’t have time to hold onto manners. He turned around and jumped to the front immediately, killing the wolf that was pouncing over with a single sword strike!

“Protect His Majesty!”

Shen Ninghua protected Baili Qingcang behind her and said, “Father Emperor, be careful.”

“Ninghua, although I’m old, I don’t need a young girl to protect me.”

Shen Ninghua smiled faintly, but she didn’t move away from Baili Qingcang. Instead, she took a dagger from Qing Que and stared seriously at Chu Junyi who was standing at the forefront to kill the pack of wolves. Was this his plan? No, that was impossible. He had always acted with discretion and would definitely not put the Emperor and most of the officials of the Imperial Court in danger. Then who exactly had lured these wolves?

At first, the pack of wolves attacked ferociously. The soldiers and guards didn’t have time to react, which caused a certain degree of panic. After the initial panic, the scene was immediately under control.

Although there were quite a lot of wolves, it was after all the Emperor on tour who brought with him over 800 guards. Soon, the wolves realized that the humans in front of them were not something they could deal with. So they slowly retreated one after another.

Right at this moment, a person wearing a black cloak quietly stood up. He held a small green bamboo flute in his hand and a sharp sound suddenly came out.

The pack of wolves that were about to retreat suddenly rushed towards the crowd as if they had been fed manic medicine. Their fierce gazes were filled with savagery.

Chu Junyi’s expression was cold and fierce as he slashed down a sturdy wolf with his sword. He leaped towards the man in black with the sharp sword in his hand shining coldly.

The man in black turned around and wanted to run, but Chu Junyi caught up with him from behind and slashed him on the back. The man in black pounced on the ground.

Baili Qingcang had been paying attention to Chu Junyi and immediately shouted when he witnessed the scene, “Great! Ninghua, you’ve chosen the right man. Chu Junyi is excellent and worthy of you.”

Shen Ninghua relaxed from being nervous and turned around to walk to Baili Qingcang’s side. “Father Emperor, you’re overpraising me.”

Just as Baili Qingcang was about to say something, Shen Ninghua swept a gaze over behind him and widened her eyes suddenly. She quickly pushed Baili Qingcang backward. A guard held a cold dagger and was attacking towards her chest.

In the blink of an eye, Qing Que threw out the sleeve sword in her hand and struck the dagger. Although she didn’t knock off the dagger, the hitting turned the dagger in the wrong direction which then ruthlessly stabbed Shen Ninghua in the shoulder!

“Ninghua!”

Qing Que leaped forward and kicked over the guard before supporting Shen Ninghua. “Miss, are you alright?”

“I’m fine. It doesn’t hurt my vital points.” Shen Ninghua’s face was pale, and the intense pain caused cold sweat to appear on her forehead.

Chu Junyi subdued the man in black and turned around to happen to see the scene in which Shen Ninghua was injured. The murderous aura gushed out from his eyes. The wolves seemed to feel it and took two steps back altogether.

Without the man in black’s bamboo flute, the pack of wolves no longer had any backup. They all turned around and ran towards the forest.

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“Ninghua, are you okay?”

Baili Qingcang’s expression was so gloomy that it looked like he was going to kill people. There was unexpectedly an assassin hiding among his guards. If Ninghua hadn’t discovered it in time, he would have been in danger.

“Chen Yun, hurry up and check on Ninghua. Governor of Capital Guards, you clean up the scene. Other officials, come to meet me in the main tent.”

“Yes, Your Majesty. We will obey the decree.”

Chu Junyi didn’t care about what the others would think now. He directly carried Shen Ninghua up and quickly walked back to the tent. The cold sweat on his forehead was even more than Shen Ninghua’s.

“I’m fine. Don’t worry, Qing Que made her move in time. The dagger only stabbed into my shoulder, and the wound isn’t deep. It’s okay.”

“Shen Ninghua!”

Hearing the anger in his voice, Shen Ninghua curled her lips and compromised, “Alright, I won’t say it anymore.”

After entering the tent, Chen Yun instructed Qing Que to clean up Shen Ninghua’s wound and wrap it up with layers of gauze.

“Your Highness, your health condition is not good. Although you have been carefully recuperated, you are still innately weak. Besides, you were poisoned, tired, and overthinking before, and this wound is already very serious to you. If you don’t recuperate carefully, it may affect the normal movements of your arms, so you must be extra careful about that.”

“Okay, thank you, Doctor Chen.”

After sending Chen Yun off, the last smile on Chu Junyi’s face disappeared. He stared at Shen Ninghua motionlessly with his gaze filled with anger.

For some reason, looking at him like this, Shen Ninghua felt somewhat guilty, “You… What happened to you?”

“Ninghua, why did you rush up?” He had repeatedly warned Shen Ninghua to take care of herself, but in the end, he was only distracted for a moment and then she got hurt again!

Shen Ninghua paused, and rubbed the quilt with her fingers, “That assassin was obviously trying to kill His Majesty. He’s my Father Emperor and dotes on me very much. It’s only right that I want to save him.”

“That assassin was in a panic. With Baili Qingcang’s ability, as long as you shouted to warn him, he would be entirely possible to avoid him. Why did you have to hurt yourself?”

Shen Ninghua bit her lips and reached out to hold Shen Junyi’s trembling hand. “Junyi, my hand hurts.”

Chu Junyi raised his hand and faced the pair of wet eyes. The lecturing words were swallowed back into his chest, making him feel oppressed. If he didn’t consider that she was wounded, he would hug her into his arms tightly and then fiercely spanked her butt. “In the future, you can’t do this anymore.”

“OK.”

After this incident, Baili Qingcang would definitely step up the defenses, and there was no need for her to do this again.

Qing Que reported from the door, “Your Highness, His Majesty has sent someone to invite Lord Chu over.”

Chu Junyi’s eyebrows twitched. “I’m going.”

“Okay, be careful.”

“Alright.”

In the tent, Baili Qingcang looked at the statement of confession on the table and his eyes were filled with angry storms. “Good, very good. An unknown enemy had sneaked into the royal hunting ground and controlled the pack of wolves to attack my camp. Yet none of you officials had noticed anything unusual in advance!”

“I’m guilty.”

“Minister of Justice, did that man in black confess? Who is he?”

“Reporting to Your Majesty, the man in black refused to confess in the beginning and tried to commit suicide many times. I found ten hidden poisons on him. Later, I tortured him to learn that he came from the Panlong Villa.”

Baili Qingcang’s gaze was like a sword, “It’s Panlong Villa again… Very good, Panlong Villa!”

“Your Majesty, the Panlong Villa is ambitious. They had sent people for assassination before, and now they even planned to assassinate in the royal hunting ground. I plead on Your Majesty’s behalf to wipe out the Panlong Villa!”

“Your Majesty, I don’t think it’s appropriate. The man in black can control the wolf pack with the bamboo flute. It’s hard to say whether there are other capable warriors in the Panlong Villa. It’s extremely inappropriate to rashly attack.”

“Your Majesty!”

Everyone argued endlessly. Then Chu Junyi steadily walked into the tent. His black clothes made him look even whiter. “Greetings to Your Majesty.”

“You’re here, just in time. Tell me, should we encircle and exterminate the Panlong Villa?”

Chu Junyi frowned slightly, “Your Majesty, the assassins were bold enough to disturb Your Majesty in the royal hunting ground. And they even injured Prefectural Princess Zhaohua. So we must send people to search and destroy them all. However, we only know the name of Panlong Villa and don’t know about the specific address. Where should we start the investigation?”

The officials lowered their heads one after another. They argued for a long time, yet they actually forgot one of the most important questions, which was that they did not know exactly where the Panlong Villa was!

“So in your opinion, what should we do?”

Chu Junyi cupped his hands and a cold light flashed in his eyes, “Your Majesty, I remember that we captured a man of sacrifice before who confessed that the owner of the Panlong Villa was from the royal family, so I think we should find this owner of the villa first! Destroy the leader and the gang will collapse. So as long as we capture their owner, the rest of the gang will break up and scatter like birds and beasts, right?”

Baili Qingcang frowned, and Baili Jinze’s face flashed in his mind as he struggled in his heart.

Seeing his expression, Chu Junyi thought to himself that the good impression Baili Jinze left upon the Emperor was too deep-rooted. Even though he had seen the evidence, he still did not want to believe it. However, it didn’t matter. All he had to do was to convince him to believe it and make things have no room for turning back.

“Your Majesty, Fifth Prince is awake. He is waiting outside the tent and asks to see Your Majesty.”

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