"Rustle, rustle, rustle..."
A hoarse sound echoed through the woods, shadows moving constantly, always targeting.
No one would have thought that within this racetrack, soone actually intended to assassinate a Princess Consort!
In the distance, various horses galloped, the horse Long Yue rode was fast, neck and neck with Luo Xiaoxiao’s horse, leaving others far behind.
"Yue’er, keep going!"
From the back, Yang Zhuoya’s encouraging voice ca.
Luo Xiaoxiao, on the other hand, looked at Long Yue running with a face full of shock, doubting if she was mistaken; this noblewoman raised in Capital City actually had such good horsemanship?
Is the world mad? Or has she never stopped practicing?
"Damn it!" Annoyed, she suddenly whipped her horse hard, "Giddy-up! Giddy-up! Giddy-up!"
Long Yue kept a blank face, only focused on whipping the horse’s rump; she wanted to be first and get that Fire Fox Fur!
Since A Mu left, she felt she couldn’t waste away any longer, she had to find sothing to do, so this battle she was determined to win!
However, at this mont, Long Yue suddenly felt a chill on her spine, an instinct of impending danger!
"Whoosh!"
Almost simultaneously, a small arrow flew in from the side!
Accompanied by the sound of the air being sliced!
"Giddy-up!"
As the arrow flew, Long Yue instinctively leaned forward, allowing the arrow to shoot past her overhead.
"Ah—"
On the other side, Luo Xiaoxiao, madly chasing up, let out a scream, and with a bang, fell off the horse.
"Xiaoxiao!"
"Miss!"
"Soone, quick, soone!"
Almost instantly, there was chaos here, everyone halted their horses and rushed to help.
"A hidden weapon, it’s a hidden weapon, and it’s poisoned. Soone wants to murder Xiaoxiao!"
"It’s that person, quick, catch him!"
Chang Yao had always been by Long Yue’s side, so when the arrow flew over, he imdiately spotted the person hiding in the woods and urgently sent people to chase him.
This whole pasture was full of their people, so the person who fired the crossbow arrow was quickly captured.
"Princess Consort, it’s him!"
Though the arrow eventually hit Luo Xiaoxiao, Long Yue wasn’t foolish; she knew exactly whom it was aid at initially!
Chang Yao was clear-headed, hence he brought the person imdiately to Long Yue.
Long Yue looked at the captured man in black, ready to question him, but the man suddenly spewed a mouthful of blood and died on the spot.
"Princess Consort, this person poisoned himself!"
"I saw."
Long Yue’s expression was indifferent and calm; she just stared at the man in black on the ground, watching Chang Yao and others search him for any items that could prove his identity.
Indeed, Chang Yao found sothing after a thorough search.
"Princess Consort, this token was found on him."
Chang Yao showed the token to Long Yue, and she rely glanced at it and let out a derisive chuckle.
The token was inscribed with the character "Ding," clearly a token from Duke Dingguo Mansion, as Dazhou only had one duke mansion starting with "Ding."
However, using Duke Dingguo Mansion’s token to fool her? Did they think she was an idiot or sothing? To believe Duke Dingguo sent soone to assassinate her?
Even if they indeed did it, would they leave such obvious evidence behind for her? Without a doubt, this was deliberate framing!
The purpose was to cause a conflict between her and Duke Dingguo Mansion, even the Grand Empress Dowager, aiming for a bloodied struggle between them, letting the mastermind reap the benefits quietly!
Such a pity that Long Yue was incredibly smart, seeing through their tactics in a glance.
"Princess Consort, Princess Consort?"
Seeing Long Yue in a daze, Chang Yao worriedly called out.
Long Yue ca back to herself, took the token, and appeared very calm.
She looked at him and slowly said, "Young Master Chang, regarding the token, please do not ntion it to anyone, not to anyone, and let’s pretend today’s incident never happened, alright?"
Chang Yao was surprised: "Why does Princess Consort say so?"
Chang Yao thought the matter of the assassination attempt should be reported, it was an assassination on a princess consort, needing thorough investigation, but Long Yue just shook her head, having her own plans.
Luo Xiaoxiao fell due to the arrow, and nobody was in the mood to continue the outing, so Long Yue returned with Yang Zhuoya and others.
On the carriage, Yang Zhuoya worriedly looked at Long Yue: "Yue’er, I keep feeling the arrow was aid at you, did that person’s identity get uncovered?"
Long Yue gently shook her head: "No, but there are so clues."
So things Long Yue couldn’t speak of openly, as it would not only bring trouble upon herself but also upon Yang Zhuoya and others.
And so, they each returned.
"Princess Consort, this..."
Hongtang carefully held the bright red Fire Fox Fur, offering it to Long Yue.
Long Yue rely glanced plainly and said, "Put it away."
She did intend to throw it away, but felt it would be too wasteful; recalling how A Mu was thrifty, it made sense.
Perhaps having endured hard tis or having seen the struggles of the common folk, he always disliked wastefulness.
As such, Long Yue naturally couldn’t break this habit, keeping it.
Hongtang obediently stored the fur cloak, her big eyes rolling, said: "Princess Consort, forgive my frankness, I think you already have so clues."
Hongtang was also in the carriage, though she typically spoke little, her mind was sharp and thorough.
Long Yue smiled slightly at her, took out the token from her bosom, and let Hongtang see it: "This is Duke Dingguo Mansion’s token, but do you really think Duke Dingguo Mansion sent soone after ?"
"Unlikely, Princess Consort, you only recently had a conflict with Princess Ding’an; she wouldn’t imdiately co up with a revenge plan."
"Right, you’re a clever girl." Long Yue looked at her, satisfied, "Soone wants to use this incident to drive a wedge between and Princess Ding’an, between and Duke Dingguo Mansion, the Grand Empress Dowager Xue, ending in mutual destruction, while they benefit.
Furthermore, if I’m correct, Princess Ding’an’s prior visit was also orchestrated by soone behind the scenes!"
"How hateful, truly hateful, Princess Consort, who do you think it might be?"
For this, Long Yue only gave a gentle shake of her head; she truly did not know.
At present, everything was still a fog.
"Perhaps, it’s other factions, or my enemies, what can I do, having offended so many before?"
Long Yue said, self-deprecatingly smiling, but quickly her smile turned cold, "Regardless, it doesn’t matter, I’m eager to play with them! If they want to contend with Princess Ding’an, then contend, it’s not a bad idea!"
Hongtang was shocked, urgently: "Master, this isn’t appropriate!"
Long Yue gently patted her shoulder: "No worries, one must always find sothing to do, lest truly wasted."
She looked up at the clear blue sky, murmuring, "A Mu, I will live well, for our child..."
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