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Zhu Gaoxu turned his head when he heard the voice, and his eyes flashed with pale skin as white as snow, which was very compatible with those eyes that looked like an abyss. Then there was the flashing sword blade!

"Silk..." A small sound of a slight trembling sound was made in the air.

As in one case: that is, the blade does not seem to be too fast, but when you see it, it has come to the front.

Zhu Gaoxu's muscles tensed instantly. He leaned over and stood up, pinched the sword body accurately with the thumb, index finger and middle finger of his left hand! The sword blade slid forward, and the momentum slowed down. Zhu Gaoxu's lower palm and tiger mouth immediately burst into sting and pain.

...The sword blade was pinched by Zhu Gaoxu forcibly and slid forward for a moment. "Ding bang!" Something fell to the ground, and a few screams came from his ears.

At this time, a small amount of information was passed on to Zhu Gaoxu's mind as if he knew it.

The assassin was a young woman holding a wooden plate in her left hand. She just took the wooden plate away and the small plate of dessert fell to the ground; the dagger also stabbed it.

The assassin's target of attack was not Zhu Gaoxu, but the little lady of the Mu family sitting opposite him!

The Mu family’s little girl was inside, near the lobby, and Geng Hao was still separated from the middle of her and the assassin. After the sword stabbed over, Geng Hao hid backwards and had not yet stood up.

Zhu Gaoxu pinched the sword with his left hand; his right hand was in the direction of the lobby inside, and he could not fight back instantly.

His left hand exerted force and instantly led the tip of the sword to the target; the smooth sword body slid slightly from Zhu Gaoxu's fingertips, but the direction was already deviated.

Although his hand was injured, the lever fulcrum of the sword was the front end of the hilt, so Zhu Gaoxu used force to the side more effectively!

The assassin immediately drew his sword backwards. Even if Zhu Gaoxu had a strong hand, he could not chase the force of the assassin holding the hilt of the sword. He let go of his left hand and grabbed the edge of the coffee table with his right hand, ready to lift it up.

At this time, the two soldiers behind Zhu Gaoxu and the chieftain woman had rushed out to the assassin. The assassin did not launch a second attack and decisively dodged out of the door.

"Stop!" The roar of the soldiers came, and the three of them rushed out of the door together.

...It seemed like everything was just a moment. Before people could come back to their senses, the attempted assassination incident was over.

Zhu Gaoxu looked down at his cut left hand, and blood was flowing down. Only then could he believe that someone was going to assassinate just now, and he was still a little dazed now.

Geng Hao had already stood up and retreated, his back against the wall. The two slaves from the theater were also curled up in the corner of the wall, staring in horror.

Mu Xiaoniang sat there. She didn't make any noise or move just now, but just stared at Zhu Gaoxu with her big eyes. The time in the elegant room seemed to be frozen for a moment, and no one said anything again.

"Dong, dong..." Zhu Gaoxu heard his heartbeat.

Gradually he came to his senses and took a look at the seat of everyone. The stage was on the north side, the theater gate was on the south side, and the private room was on the left side of the entrance, which was on the west side.

Zhu Gaoxu sat on the south side of the private room, and this position was the best, diagonally opposite the stage. On the left was the door of the private room, so he could only grasp the sword with his left hand like a conditioned reflex just now; in this way, he didn't have to sit and turn around, and the speed of reaching out was faster!

Zhu Gaoxu always believed that his muscle reaction speed was beyond ordinary people, so he could always be a little faster than his opponent in battle. But after a little look back at the scene just now, he found that the assassin was faster!

Because when the assassin suddenly launched an attack, the person was at the door, slightly further away than Zhu Gaoxu's attack; but the two of them arrived at a certain position almost at the same time.

Why did the assassin launch an early attack at the door? It seemed to be to create a surprise attack. Otherwise, once someone enters the door, the people in the room may turn their heads in advance; from the beginning of her attack, she will be in the sight of others!

Zhu Gaoxu did suffer an unprepared loss, but his opponent was indeed very fast! This is the reason why his heart was beating very hard, because he felt the real threat.

After the shock just now, anger gradually came to my heart.

"Brother, how hurt your hand?" Mu Xiaoniang said tremblingly. She had already taken out a handkerchief and reached out with her hands tremblingly, watching the blood dripping gently on the table.

"Skin trauma." Zhu Gaoxu glanced at the wound, feeling that it hurts more than before. He looked at Mu Xiaoniang's face again, "She is here to kill you, do you know?"

Mu Xiaoniang said in a strange voice: "I was implicated by my brother, I was wrong... Thank you for helping me, I dare not forget my kindness."

Zhu Gaoxu breathed out, waited for her to bandage her wound, and said earnestly: "My mother, be careful and don't come out privately."

Mu Xiaoniang lowered her head.

At this moment, a general wearing a civilian clothes came in, knelt on one knee, clasped his fists and said, "The last general should be punished for not protecting the prince, and he deserves to die!"

"Prince?" Mu Xiaoniang looked at Zhu Gaoxu in surprise, and everyone looked over.

Zhu Gaoxu said: "This matter is not the brothers' fault."

The military general said: "The last general asked the prince to hand in the order, immediately transfer the front, middle and rear three guards blocked the Yunnan prefecture city and searched for assassins!"

"It's too late." Zhu Gaoxu remembered the speed of the assassin just now and said casually. Moreover, inside and outside the Pear Garden, there were more than a dozen elite guards he had deployed in advance, but they had not caught them just now. This made the assassin run away. Now he is going to temporarily dispatch troops?

He stood up and said, "You find a few people and a carriage to escort Miss Mu back to Mu's mansion."

The general bowed and said, "The last general is ordered!"

After Zhu Gaoxu finished speaking, he quickly left the private room without waiting for Mu Xiaoniang and others to speak. The audience in the lobby was still watching the show with relish, without knowing what had happened, and the actor was singing very well.

When Shen Xu came from the corridor and saw Zhu Gaoxu, she immediately knelt on the wooden floor and said, "This happened in the Liyuan Garden. I asked the palace to surrender! But I did not know about it beforehand, so I hope Your Highness will understand it."

Zhu Gaoxu walked past her and said, "I have urgent matters now, so I will talk about it later."

After he walked past, he saw that Shen Xu was still kneeling there. He was very angry when his hands hurt, but immediately realized that he was a prince with biggies. He suppressed his emotions and turned around and asked calmly: "Is the invitation written by Mrs. Shen?"

Shen Xu turned around and said with a confused look on his face: "What...oh, it's indeed written by me."

Zhu Gaoxu said: "The handwriting looks very good."

...Zhu Gaoxu quickly left the Liyuan and took a carriage back to the Han Palace.

Sitting in the carriage, he took a deep breath and suggested that he was calm. But he was still very angry. His opponent had used any means and actually assassinated him, as if he had broken up!

What annoyed Zhu Gaoxu the most was that he didn't even know who the assassin was.

The first thing he thought of was the unknown force. The assassin was younger, not the woman they were surveillance, but it was most likely the woman's party.

But Zhu Gaoxu was not sure immediately. He took advantage of the time on the road and thought about it repeatedly... I remember a line: The reason for my failure is my lack of imagination.

He began to imagine that the assassin was from Chen Xu's family, or even from Mu's family! But all of them were excluded.

If Chen Xu wanted to kill Mu Xiaoniang, he would blame Zhu Gaoxu, but at least he chose the wrong place, and this happened in her pear garden.

Zhu Gaoxu's carriage entered through Duanli Gate and came to the defence office on the west side. He immediately summoned Wang Bin, Liu Ying, Hou Hai and others to come in to see him.

"To the woman we are following, we will immediately deploy the arrest!" Zhu Gaoxu said immediately. He couldn't say whether it was anger or not, but at this time he was unwilling to continue by speculation. He had to make substantial progress immediately!

Several people clasped their fists and said, "As for your order!"

Zhu Gaoxu said: "Wang Bin, you immediately call the guard station's main brave team to stand by."

"Get orders!" Wang Bin said.

Zhu Gaoxu walked on the ground for two steps and said, "Send someone to the Rongshu Street stronghold and ask the target woman if she is in the yard on the west side of Mu Mansion. Then send someone to the Liuba Village stronghold and ask about the situation on Wang Yu. Please get the latest news and get the reward as soon as possible!"

"Get orders!"

Several people were very silent and stood there thinking. Zhu Gaoxu was also thinking about the connection between the matter.

After waiting for a long time, Wang Bin came back and reported that the Quan Yong team had gathered good people and equipped with mail, waist knives, cherry guns, bows, crossbows, net ropes and other arms, and was fully armed on standby.

At this time, Zhu Gaoxu unfolded the maps around the two strongholds of Liuba Village and Rongshu Street, which were drawn by Hou Hai based on the sergeant's investigation report.

Hou Hai suggested: "Prince, the brave team of the Guardians will be dispatched first, can we add more troops to block the four cities?"

Zhu Gaoxu shook his head and said, "I have faced that assassin myself, which is quite professional... It's amazing. Once this happens, she will definitely try to leave the city first. As long as she leaves the city, it will be difficult for the officers and soldiers to search her by rounding up. This was also the case when I, Commander Wang, Commander Wei and others went to the capital.

Moreover, if this matter is too big, it will make the matter more complicated and the aftermath is more difficult. It is better to send people to several city gates afterwards, and only dozens of people can control the entry and exit of the city gates."

Hou Hai said: "What the prince said is very true."

Zhu Gaoxu discovered that when the ancients used a large number of personnel, they were relatively inefficient and mobilized many people, but not many people actually did things.

After a long time, the person who went to ask for the news came back to report.

"Liuba Village has tried a hundred households and Wang Yu to report that he saw the woman leaving Liuba Village this morning; he returned to the village before the afternoon, and since then, no one has ever seen similar people appear on the road outside the village.

The Rongshu Street Staff reported that the woman came to the courtyard of Rongshu Street this morning. Before he could go out, he had never seen her since. Neither of the two strongholds had seen a young woman with extremely white skin. The brothers had never seen this person before."

After hearing this, Zhu Gaoxu pondered for a moment and said firmly: "That woman is in Liuba Village! The Quan Yong team immediately went to Liuba Village to arrest him as he had originally deployed. A small flag of men rushed to the Rongshu Street stronghold, ready to take action. As long as one of the two targets is discovered, he will take it down immediately!"

"Get orders!"

(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!