Seeing such a situation, Song Wangyue, who had already bent down and moved to a short distance behind the man, narrowed her eyes.
The capital’s governor had come quickly, he had come as soon as he received the news from Shunde.
Dismounting from his horse, he walked up to Consort Xiao Xian’s palanquin and saluted, “Jingzhao Prefect Yin has met Consort Xian’s wife.”
Consort Xian nodded her head slightly.
Only then did the capital magistrate look into the scene to see Xiao Yao being held hostage, with quite a bit of blood on her neck and some running down the dagger that was held against her neck and onto the man’s thick hand, following this hand, his gaze moved up to see the man’s face and was greatly alarmed.
The man’s name was Wu Jin, and he and their accomplice had been apprehended two months ago and sent to the capital’s prison. There were six of them, all of them ruthless and ruthless, and they had killed several people in order to steal money, and it had taken the capital government a lot of effort to catch them. How could he have escaped from the jail when he should have been there?
The man took his expression in his eyes and bared his teeth towards him with a provocative smile.
The governor of the capital was in a daze at the moment. Since this hijacked prisoner was the one who had escaped from the capital’s prison, the involvement was not insignificant, and even if it was not to rescue Xiao Yao, but to redeem himself, he had to take the man down today.
Suppressing the shock in his heart, he turned around and bowed once again, “Your Majesty wait a moment, the prisoner will be escorted to him soon.”
Consort Xiao Xian nodded once again.
Everyone was paying attention to this side, no one saw Xiao Qian seemingly raise his hand, and the few figures that had just popped their heads up on the distant ridge of the roof, quickly disappeared down again.
The time passed a little, and the aunt in charge looked at the time and reminded in a low voice, “Your Majesty, the time has come to return to the palace.”
The Emperor had allowed Her Majesty to return home to see her niece off to marriage, which was already a great grace. If Her Majesty failed to return on time, not to mention that it would cause displeasure to the Emperor, I was afraid that she would never be allowed to leave the palace again for the rest of her life.
“No matter.”
Consort Xiao Xian’s voice was calm, without the slightest hint of panic.
Aunt Steward was about to say something else when Consort Xiao Xianfei gave her a look and Aunt Steward shut her mouth.
A quarter of an hour later, a carriage came galloping by with five prisoners in shackles and leg irons.
The carriage sped to a halt two feet in front of Consort Xiao’s palanquin. Sheriff Liu jumped down from the carriage, took the five prisoners off one by one and threw them to the ground, before saying to the capital, “Your Excellency, the prisoners have all been brought.”
“Bring them here!”
Sheriff Liu led the soldiers to escort the men over.
“Open their shackles and leg irons!” The man shouted, tiny beads of blood seeping out from the dagger in his hand against Xiao Yao’s wound.
The capitalist had also just opened his mouth when he heard Consort Xiao Xian’s voice ring out, “Open them up, if anything happens this palace will take the blame.”
“Your Majesty ……”
The capital magistrate was a little worried, these people were vicious people, if they really let them go today, there was no telling how many people would be wrecked by them.
Consort Xiao Xian’s voice was calm, but carried a compelling pressure, “Open up.”
The capital’s governor swallowed what he was about to say and waved his hand. Sheriff Liu took out the key and opened them one by one. The five thieves moved their wrists and ankles and smiled arrogantly towards Sheriff Liu, baring their teeth.
Sheriff Liu really wanted to smash the shackles down on their heads.
“Brother.”
“Big brother.”
……
The five thieves only saw their big brother in their eyes, as if the others did not exist. The “big brother” smiled wildly, “Come over here.”
The five men just lifted their feet…
“Hold it!”
Xiao Xianfei’s voice came, and Sheriff Liu reacted quickly by drawing his waist sword, and the arrows and crossbows in the hands of the men from the Five Cities Military Division were aimed at them.
The five men’s faces turned pale in unison.
Concubine Xiao’s voice came again, “Let go of Yao’er first.”
The man laughed, arrogance in his tone, “Your Highness Consort Xian, do you take me for a fool? Once I let go of her, our brothers will be shot into a sieve. You’d better let my brothers come over and find us a few more good horses, when we are safe. Man, I will naturally let go.”
“You don’t think so!”
Without waiting for Xiao Xianfei to speak, the man at the head of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses rejected him angrily.
“Is that so?”
The man’s grip on the dagger moved, blood gushed out, Xiao Yao didn’t hold back a stifled grunt and bit her tongue to death again, no trace of blood on her pale face.
Xiao Xian Fei closed her eyes, a monstrous hatred surged up in her heart, but she could do nothing but harden this hatred down, her voice remained calm and unruffled, “Give them the horses!”
“Your Majesty!”
“Your Majesty!”
Two cries of alarm rang out at the same time.
One was from the capital’s governor, who spoke quickly and urgently, “These people are ruthless, even if we let them go, they won’t let Miss Xiao go.”
The other was from the head of the Five Cities Military Department, and his voice was also quick, “Your Majesty, you can’t let them go.”
Consort Xiao Xian’s gaze swept over and landed on his face, “You might have saved Yao’er?”
A choke.
The situation before him could not save Xiao Yao at all.
“Shunde, prepare horses for them!”
Shunde responded and once again left at a fast pace.
The five lifted their feet towards the men, took one step and then stopped, turned, walked over to Sheriff Liu, ignored his smouldering gaze, and arrogantly stretched out their hands towards his waist sword-
Sheriff Liu took a step back, the back of his shackled hand bruising.
“Brother!”
The man raised his voice.
The dagger in the man’s hand moved again and the blood flowed even faster.
The veins on Sheriff Liu’s forehead bulged as the man smiled and drew away his waist knife, and in turn drew away several other soldiers’ and gave them to his four brothers, before striding towards the man.
It was now-
Song Wangyue, who was hiding in the crowd next to the man, suddenly leapt up and threw a stone at the same time, hitting the man’s wrist with unerring precision. The man suffered pain and the dagger left Xiao Yao’s neck by half an inch, Song Wangyue kicked him in the face and the man leaned backwards, Song Wangyue took advantage of the situation to drag Xiao Yao into her arms.
All this happened in a flash, everyone was frozen in place, only Song Si reacted quickly and came over with big steps.
The man at the head of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division also reacted and shouted, “Release the arrows, kill them all!”
It was too late for Xiao Xianfei to stop them, as arrows came towards the field with the sound of the wind.
Song Si happened to be walking beside Song Wan Yue and Xiao Yao, and when he heard the shout, he shielded the two of them behind him as two arrows came straight towards him, looking like they were about to enter his body –
Xiao Qian saw them clearly, his pupils tightened and his body was just about to move –
The arrows, however, fell limply to the ground after touching Song Si’s clothes.
Xiao Qian froze in place.
“Stop!”
Consort Xiao Xian’s voice rang out with anger.
It was only then that the man at the head of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division realised what was going on and hurriedly ordered, “Stop!”