The King Knows His Way Chapter 9

There were heavy guards inside and outside the courtyard. After the two left, Eunuch Sixi helped Liam back to the room. Although he didn't say a few words just now, he was really angry enough. He was fat and panting while holding the table.

Liam laughed when he saw this: "Be careful not to get sick. There are no herbs here to help you recover."

"These traitors really want to rebel against the heaven." Eunuch Sixi sighed, "It's a pity that General Shen is not here, otherwise how could they get the chance to act so rampantly."

"No matter how thorough the previous plan was, I didn't expect Zeng Xuan to join the Liu family." Liam shook his head. "There is always a loophole. This is another lesson learned."

"What will the emperor do next?" asked Eunuch Sixi. "A small butler dares to act so recklessly. He must have received orders from above. I wonder what is going on in the royal city now."

"There is no need to worry too much in the royal city. I have already made arrangements." Liam said, "Besides, there is also the Southwest King Logan. I believe he will not watch the Liu family act recklessly. At most, someone will come to rescue you at midnight tonight."

"Yes." Eunuch Sixi nodded first, then knelt on the ground and cried, "I'm afraid that this old servant will no longer be able to serve the emperor from now on."

"Why?" Liam raised his lips, "Do you want to stay and follow the Liu family?"

Eunuch Si Xi was still sighing and shedding tears, and before he could finish his grief, he suddenly heard these words. He was immediately shocked and waved his hands repeatedly: "Your Majesty---"

"I know. Who said I was going to abandon you?" Liam interrupted him, bent down and helped him up. "When I was a child, I was lucky to have you, my father-in-law, to protect me from those people with ulterior motives. Since I'm here to save you, I have to save you as well."

"...This." Eunuch Si Xi was embarrassed. He looked down at his bloated body and big belly. No matter how he looked at it, he looked like a burden.

If I had known this, I should have eaten two less bowls of rice on weekdays.

In the alley behind the government office, Ye Jin was walking leisurely with a basket of vegetables on her shoulder.

A team of guards stood there with swords in hand, their faces solemn and majestic. From a distance they looked like a solid wall of steel.

"This road is blocked! Get out quickly." Before Ye Jin could get close, he was waved away like a fly, so he raised his head in anger and turned back angrily. If it were any other time, he would definitely fight to get back, even by throwing poison all over the sky! But now there was someone trapped in the government office, and no matter whether it was good or bad, he had to find a way to see the higher-ups.

After walking around the government office, Ye Jin could not find a single gap to sneak in. He felt depressed and sat down in a teahouse on the corner to drink tea to relieve his stress. He also kept an eye on the movements on the opposite side, intending to see if there was any chance to fish in troubled waters at night.

Time passed little by little, and the teahouse was about to close. Ye Jin climbed onto the roof and hid in the dark, yawning. It was finally midnight, and before the guards on the opposite side could take over, a team of men in black had already quietly descended from the sky, and with a sharp move, they knocked the man down on the road.

Ye Jin: ...

"Someone come! There's an assassin!" Someone in the yamen sensed something was wrong and shouted.

Blazing torches lit up instantly, illuminating half of the sky. The sound of swords clashing was endless. Some of the people around were awakened by the noise and hid in their beds, not daring to go out. They didn't know what was happening outside and could only shiver and wait for silence to return to their surroundings.

"Let's go!" Liam dragged Si Xi onto the horse, and under the escort of the men in black, they fought their way out of Liu's mansion.

"Come on! Chase him!" Liu Man ordered angrily. At this point, everyone knew what the consequences would be if Liam was allowed to return to the royal city, so Zeng Xuan personally led people to chase him out of the city, with murderous intent in his eyes and a ferocious face.

The black-clad men who came to rescue Liam were the palace shadow guards. Each of them was personally selected by Adrian and secretly sent to the Sun Moon Villa in Jiangnan to learn Qinggong. They were very skilled. They would not show up on weekdays and would only come to rescue the emperor in an emergency. Even if there were many rebels, they would kill them one by one and protect Liam firmly in the middle.

"Shoot!" Zeng Xuan led his men to climb the high hill ahead and trapped Liam and his group at the bottom of the valley.

The arrow blade flashing with cold light pierced through the wind and whistled towards him. Liam drew his sword and left Si Xi behind him.

"Protect the emperor!" One of the shadow guards was injured by an arrow. Seeing that the other side had replaced a new group of archers, he had no choice but to use his flesh and blood to block in front in desperation to buy more time for Liam to escape.

The kerosene bomb rolled down the steep slope with thick black smoke. Liam's horse was injured in the right eye and neighed as it threw the two men off its back. Si Xi lay on the ground and said anxiously: "Your Majesty, please leave quickly and don't bother me!"

Liam swung his sword to clear the flames in front of him, stepped forward to pull him up, and led him out. Zeng Xuan saw it, spitted on the ground fiercely, took the bow and arrow from his confidant, and intended to kill Liam.

"Be careful!" The shadow guard shouted when he saw this. Liam only felt a sharp sound of breaking wind behind him. He only had time to push Si Xi away, but he felt a sharp pain in his back.

"Your Majesty!" Si Xi was so frightened that he rolled and crawled forward to support him.

"Kill him!" Zeng Xuan rushed down the mountain with a knife in his hand, and was about to pursue the enemy when a cloth bag flew towards him. The powder inside covered his face, and he felt as if he was bitten by thousands of mosquitoes. It was painful, numb and itchy.

"Is he not dead yet?" As soon as Ye Jin arrived, he saw Liam was shot by an arrow and rushed to his side in a hurry.

"Hero, hero, please save the emperor!" Eunuch Sixi seemed to have seen the light of hope.

Ye Jin almost cried when she heard that. I am a knight with only these skills, but how come your eyesight is still so bad after all these years?

Seeing that Liam was already unconscious, Ye Jin didn't have time to care about the surrounding situation. He cut open his clothes and treated his wounds. The shadow guards were still fighting fiercely with the rebels. The other side killed them one after another like a tide. Seeing that they were about to be overwhelmed, Ye Jin looked up to the sky and roared: "Ba Lai Cai!"

The roar was so shocking that Liam shivered in his sleep.

An old man jumped down from the treetop in response, rolled on the ground like Tuxingsun, and rushed towards the rebels. He seemed to have no weapons in his hands, but there were wailing wherever he went. In an instant, more than half of the people had their arms broken.

"Knight, is the emperor okay?" asked Eunuch Sixi tremblingly.

"I don't know. If he's dead, he's dead." Ye Jin replied with gritted teeth.

Eunuch Si Xi almost fell to his knees again.

After quickly bandaging his wound, Ye Jin stood up and said anxiously, "Stop hitting me!"

Bai Laicai, holding a wild fruit in his mouth, kicked the last group of rebels down the mountain, and then he got a carriage from somewhere.

There was no telling how many rebels were still in the city, so they obviously had to find a quiet place at this time. So Ye Jin made a prompt decision and took Liam and the shadow guard into the mountains - there was a small house there, which was originally built for sheltering from the rain at night while picking herbs, and it happened to be of use at this time.

"Knight, is the emperor okay?" Si Xi asked this question at least seven or eight times along the way.

If it weren't for the fact that he had held her in his arms when she was a child, Ye Jin really wanted to knock him out.

Liam's face was pale, his clothes were mostly stained with blood, and his fingers were cold. Fortunately, there were a lot of medicinal herbs in the wooden house. Ye Jin boiled hot water to wash him and change the medicine. Bai Laicai returned to Yunshui City and brought a lot of clothes, bedding and dry food. They worked together for several hours before they finally treated everyone's injuries.

Ye Jin stayed beside Liam, checking his pulse from time to time, and only breathed a sigh of relief after making sure that he would not die for a while.

Eunuch Si Xi seized the opportunity and said, "This chivalrous man..."

"I won't die." Ye Jin was exhausted and didn't even have the energy to get angry.

"No, no, no, you misunderstood me. I wanted to ask you your name." Si Xi bowed and saluted. "Thank you for your help this time."

"It's just a small matter. I just happened to be bored." Ye Jin curled his lips.

Si Xi: ...

"I'll go to the mountain to see if I can pick some red vines to replenish blood and nourish the body." Ye Jin stood up, "If the father-in-law is tired, he should take a nap. He will be fine for a while."

"Okay, okay, thank you for your help, knight." Si Xi nodded quickly, and then said worriedly, "But it looks like it's going to rain heavily." The mountains are inevitably slippery, and judging from the fighting postures of both sides just now, it seems that their kung fu is not very good.

Ye Jin had already walked out the door carrying a backpack.

No one knew where Bai Laicai had gone, so Eunuch Sixi hurriedly asked the two uninjured shadow guards to follow and protect him so that they could look after him.

As expected, not long after Ye Jin left the house, a heavy rainstorm broke out in the mountains, with thunder and lightning rumbling from the sky, making people feel numb. This time he was gone for more than two hours, and Si Xi looked out the door three or four times until it was completely dark. Ye Jin was finally helped back by the shadow guards, who said that he almost fell off the mountain while picking herbs.

Grandpa Sixi was frightened and quickly boiled hot water to wash him to drive away the cold. Ye Jin was full of anger and felt that he was really unlucky. After sending the master's ashes to the temple, he should have taken another route back to Qionghua Valley. Why did he come to Yunshui City? Now he was in trouble and couldn't get rid of it.

Liam had been in a coma for two days. That afternoon, Ye Jin sat beside his bed and helped him untie the bandages and check his wounds as usual.

"Knight, knight, be gentle." Eunuch Si Xi was frightened, "The emperor has a dragon body." Apply the medicine slowly, don't hit him.

Ye Jin snorted and dipped a towel in the powder and applied it.

Eunuch Si Xi gasped in shock.

Liam also groaned in his coma, then opened his eyes with great effort.

The scene was blurry, as if someone was looking at him, but in just a moment, it was replaced by another familiar face.

"Four joys."

"Your Majesty, you are finally awake." Eunuch Si Xi almost cried for joy, but he was also puzzled. How could the knight who was sitting by the bed just now suddenly run out at such a fast speed?

Liam closed his eyes and thought for a while before he asked, "Where is this?"

"This is the back mountain of Yunshui City." Si Xi roughly recounted what had happened before, and sighed, "These two knights are really good people." It's just that they have strange tempers. One of them would hum from time to time, and the other one's shadow can hardly be seen.

"Where is he?" Liam's lips were cracked. "I want to thank him in person."

Ye Jin squatted outside the door and pouted, "Who asked you to thank me in person?"

"Knight, Knight." Eunuch Si Xi came out and called, "Your Majesty, please come in."

"I'm not going in!" Ye Jin stood up and slowly got into the carriage.

Grandpa Sixi: ...

But even though he said he didn't want to see her, he still had to check her pulse, after all, she was seriously injured. So after a while, Ye Jin got out of the carriage again.

The shadow guard who happened to be passing by was startled.

"What are you looking at!" Ye Jin put her hands on her H!ps angrily!

"I didn't look at it." The shadow guard lowered his head quickly.

Ye Jin wrapped his head tightly, leaving only his eyes exposed, and walked into the house.

Liam: ...

Eunuch Si Xi was also surprised and asked, "What does this mean, knight?"

Ye Jin said in a muffled voice: "I caught a cold."

Eunuch Si Xi suddenly realized.

Liam kept looking into his eyes.

Ye Jin sat beside the bed and grabbed his wrist to feel his pulse.

"Excuse me, sir, what is your name?" Liam asked.

"What do you call me!" Ye Jin stuffed his hand back, stood up slowly, and prepared to go out to boil medicine.

"Tian'er?" Liam couldn't help but probed suspiciously.

"Don't scream so disgustingly!" Ye Jin was furious.

Liam was surprised and asked: "Is it really you?"

...

...

...

Ye Jin was extremely calm: "It's your head."

"Ninth Prince?" Eunuch Si Xi also suddenly reacted and said that he looked so familiar.

"Ahem!" Ye Jin's eyes were sincere, "Who is the Ninth Prince?"

"It is true." Eunuch Si Xi cried with joy.

Liam also leaned against the head of the bed, smiling and reaching out to him.

"Hmph!" Ye Jin turned and walked out of the wooden house, squatting on the edge of the cliff until dark, before being taken back by Bai Laicai.

Liam was eating porridge on the bed.

Ye Jin stood at the door, eyes full of resentment.

Actually, I don’t really want to save you, so please don’t thank me or pester me!

After all, we are not familiar with each other.

Liam lifted the quilt and wanted to get out of bed.

"Hey!" Ye Jin took a step back and warned, "Lie back down!"

"Tian---"

"Fcuk you!" Ye Jin stepped on the threshold with one foot, looking like a bandit.

"Then you should tell me how to address you." Liam was somewhat amused, and his heart was somewhat warmed. When he was a prince, he had many brothers in the palace, but they all had ulterior motives, and no one had ever been willing to risk their lives to save him like he had.

"Call me Doctor Ye." Ye Jin thought for a moment and then answered.

"That's so unfamiliar." Liam frowned.

"We are strangers to begin with!" Ye Jin sat down on the bed. "Someone from the government office came to search the mountain yesterday. Although they didn't find the back mountain, it's not a long-term solution to stay here. Where are you going to go next?"

Liam said: "There is nowhere to go."

Ye Jin: ...

Don't say that you are really blackmailing me. As an emperor, you must have backbone.

"Zeng Xuan, whom I have always regarded as my confidant, could also betray me. I really don't know who else I can trust around Yunshui City." Liam shook his head.

Ye Jin complained: "Not a single acquaintance?"

"This trip was originally planned to go to Qianye City." Liam said.

"I'm not going to Chiba City!" Ye Jin got furious when he heard that.

Liam was shocked by his reaction. Looking at his attitude, did Qianye City have an enemy?

"Only Qianye City?" Ye Jin was unwilling to give in and asked again.

Liam nodded: "Qianye City Sun Moon Villa is Adrian's home. He is the only one in Jiangnan. I can trust him."

"I told you not to mention Sun Moon Villa." Ye Jin stood up and walked around twice, then sat back down, "Forget it, I'll take you back to Qionghua Valley. It's close, so you can continue to heal your injuries." Qianye City is far away, and no one knows what will happen along the way.

"How is Valley Master Ye doing these days?" Liam asked.

"He passed away three months ago." Ye Jin replied.

Liam: ...

"There's nothing to be sad about. Master is already over a hundred years old. It's a happy funeral." Seeing him silent, Ye Jin curled her lips, but her eyes were a little red.

Seeing this, Liam reached out to comfort him, but was slapped on the head.

It’s really, really, really fierce.

Inside the royal palace, Logan was leaning against a plum tree, staring at the clouds in the sky in a trance.

This was originally a cold palace and no one came here on weekdays. One day, when Eunuch Si Xi was passing by, he thought the soil was quite fertile. So from then on, whenever the emperor was furious, the plum trees would be temporarily dug up here and they grew quite well.

It was not until dark that Logan got up and returned to the brocade shop. Riley was sitting at the table, tidying up a bunch of poisonous weeds. When she saw him, she sniffed and frowned: "Have you been drinking?"

"Just three cups." Logan said.

Riley complained: "You asked me to go to Liu's house every day to get information, but you went out to drink alone?"

"What did you find out?" Logan asked.

Riley replied: "I found nothing."

Logan shook his head: "I might as well go drink."

Riley almost stuffed the penis into his beloved brother's mouth.

"But I'm not asking you to go because I want to hear anything. The Liu family has been deeply rooted in the royal city for so many years, and you can't see any clues in just a few days." Logan said, "It's just that the King of Chu is not in the royal city recently, and he is just keeping an eye on them to see if they have any unusual movements."

"So what if there are unusual movements?" Riley asked, "Can you still do anything about it?"

Logan asked back: "Why can't I manage it?"

Riley frowned: "This has nothing to do with us, why should we get involved in this for no reason?"

Logan shook his head: "Who becomes the emperor in the court is of great importance to the southwestern tribes."

Riley was lying on the table and yawning, obviously not interested in this matter at all.

"Your Highness." Duan Nian said outside the door, "I just received news that General Shen seems to have returned."

"Sure enough." Logan was not surprised at all. "Where is the person?"

"Sun Moon Bank has not returned to the General's Mansion." Duan Nian asked, "Does the prince want to go and meet him?"

Logan picked up the sword on the table and strode out.

Inside the Sun Moon Bank, Adrian was sweating profusely and asked his servants to treat his wound. A sword wound went through his chest and abdomen, and the ground was covered with blood, which made people feel a little numb.

There was a muffled sound in the courtyard, followed by the sound of a sword being drawn out of its sheath: "Who!"

"General Shen." Logan stood in the yard.

Sure enough...Adrian put on his outer robe, opened the door and invited him in.

"The general is injured?" Logan was a little surprised.

"We were ambushed when we were about to enter the city." Adrian said, "There were more than 30 people on the other side, and they have all been killed."

"Someone from the Liu Mansion?" Logan asked again.

Adrian said: "The King of Southwest has not yet explained why he appeared in the Royal City for no reason."

Logan asked: "Did the King of Chu tell the general?"

Adrian shook his head.

Logan said: "Then I won't tell you either."

Adrian: ...

"Although I don't know what the general is going to do next, there is one thing I'd better tell you in advance." Logan said, "I'm afraid the northwest border will be in chaos again."

Adrian frowned when he heard that.

"In order to prevent the Liu family from becoming too powerful, the late Emperor Chu spent a full twenty years gradually taking back the military power in the Northeast. However, he probably didn't expect that these twenty years were enough for Victor to secretly lay out and gradually control the situation in the Northwest." Logan said.

"King Duan, are you talking about the troops stationed in the northwest of Great Chu?" Adrian asked.

"It's not the Chu army, but a foreign race." Logan shook his head, "Shada of An-ǔ country is just a puppet chess piece, and the real master of that brave and combative Northwest Cavalry is in Liu Mansion."

Adrian's face changed.

"Sada is in the royal city now, and my people are keeping an eye on him." Logan said, "The King of Chu is not in the palace, and Victor should be using Gu Li's death as an excuse to attack the court."

"Since someone was trying to assassinate me on the way, Victor must have guessed something long ago." Adrian said, "The situation is critical, I must enter the palace immediately."

"Do you want me to help you?" Logan asked.

Adrian said: "The emperor has ordered that if Prince Duan has nothing to do, he should stay at home and not run around."

Logan raised an eyebrow: "I didn't say I can't help."

Adrian jumped on his horse and headed towards the imperial palace.

In the inn, Riley had just fallen asleep when she was picked up from the bed again. She almost cried with anger.

"During the day, you're still worried about not being able to find someone to raise Gu." Logan patted his face, "Wake up, I'll take you to catch some live ones!"

Inside the Liu Mansion, Henry was anxiously saying, "Adrian's sudden return this time must be for the Liu Mansion. I wonder if father has any plans?"

Victor sat on the armchair with a gloomy face and said nothing.

Henry was so anxious that he stamped his feet: "Father, the current situation is not about you and me rebelling, but the court is trying to dig up the roots!"

"Why are you panicking?" Victor stood up and said, "Go and call your third uncle over."

"Yes!" Upon hearing this, Henry quickly turned around and ran out, but almost bumped into the housekeeper.

"Master, I'm sorry." The butler ran out of breath and didn't have time to say anything else. He just handed the letter in his hand forward, "It was sent from Yunshui City. It seems something happened."

Victor lifted the wax and roughly scanned the letter, then his face changed. After a long time, he slammed the table and said, "Come here! Follow me into the palace!"