Chapter 172: Deception

All movements are instinctive.

She stretched out her hand to cling to the eaves of the palace, but her wrist suddenly tightened, and her body's downward momentum stopped.

Shen Yu raised her head and looked up. The assassin was holding the eaves with one hand and holding her tightly with the other. The hand holding her was unusually thin.

He turned his back to Yue, so that she couldn't see the assassin's face clearly, and she could only feel that there was a pair of eyes looking deeply at her.

Shen Yu trembled, "You..."

The glazed tiles fell to the ground and shattered.

"Over there!" The guard heard the sound and chased after him.

"Go quickly." Shen Yu said.

The assassin grabbed her and lifted her up suddenly, causing Shen Yu to fall on the eaves.

The assassin didn't spare a glance before turning around and walking away.

"Wait a minute." Shen Yu whispered and said quickly: "Don't go to the northwest, go to the southwest. The Forbidden Palace has changed its defense."

The assassin didn't stop, seemed to have no doubt about her words, and ran straight to the southwest.

There was no time to think. Shen Yu looked at the imperial guards who were chasing after her. She raised her hand and slashed her arm. She gritted her teeth and endured the pain, and deliberately fell towards the eaves.

There was a "bang" sound.

At the same time as they landed, the Imperial Guard also arrived.

"It's Marquis Du Yu!"

Hearing the sound, the assassin paused slightly, but still headed southwest.

"Ahem -" Shen Yu lay on the ground, propped herself up and raised her hand to point in the opposite direction, saying, "Assassin, the assassin is going that way."

Even though she found a good angle when she landed, her whole body still hurt from the fall, especially the knife on her arm.

The guards helped her up, leaving the two of them behind while the others chased towards the northwest.

"Don't worry about me." Shen Yu broke away from the guard's support, "You go and help."

Such a big thing happened in the palace, and Jiang An was ordered to come from outside the palace.

When it was time to check in, Shen Yu was bandaging the wound on her arm. When she heard footsteps, she untied the half-wrapped gauze.

After Jiang An entered the door, he immediately saw his arm resting on the table. The wound was not small and serious.

"Why is it so injured?" Jiang An said.

"Commander." Shen Yu twisted the gauze around, put down her sleeves and stood up. The look just now was enough to clear herself of suspicion.

Jiang An sat down opposite her and asked, "How are those people doing?"

"It's very unusual." Shen Yu raised her arm, "The commander also saw it. If there is only one person, I can barely defeat him, but there is really nothing I can do with three people."

"Huh -" Jiang An said: "Don't worry too much. Just understand it. Can you tell which technique the assassin used?"

Shen Yu lowered her eyes, pretended to think about it, shook her head and said, "I can't tell. It looks a bit like the Jiugong Sword, but it's a sword. I really can't tell the difference."

"This is normal." Jiang An said: "Since you want to enter the palace to assassinate, you will definitely deceive others, how can you expose your flaws at will?"

Shen Yu said: "I have gone to ask His Majesty to apologize for not catching the assassin."

When Jiang An heard this, he knew that Emperor Tongxu had no intention of punishing him, and he was indeed the popular person in front of Emperor Tongxu.

Jiang An was also happy to be a favor, "You have worked hard tonight. After bandaging the wound, go back and rest."

Shen Yu said: "It's just a flesh wound."

"Don't waste your body just because you're young." Jiang An said, "When we reach our age, physical problems will start to show up. It's better to go back."

Seeing Shen Yu's expression of confusion, Jiang An asked, "What's wrong? Are you in trouble?"

Shen Yu smiled bitterly and said, "To be honest with the commander, the house outside the palace has not been set up yet, so I... don't have a place to stay for the time being."

Jiang An was stunned for a moment, "Then Beilin Palace...well, what I mean is..."

Prince Beilin always took this guard with him wherever he went, so it had long been spread inside and outside the palace that Prince Beilin and the current Du Yuhou were somewhat connected in private.

"I understand." Shen Yu said, "I had a falling out with the crown prince. As for the reason, I think the commander can also guess it."

Jiang An thought for a moment, but when he went to court in the morning, the way Xie Tingzhou looked at Shi Yu was really not innocent.

Seeing that he still had doubts, Shen Yu said, "If there is another way, who would want to be controlled by others?"

Jiang An understood now that Prince Beilin indulged in pleasures and had no taboos about men and women, and Shigure, a guard, had no right to make his own choices.

Now that he has become the Marquis of Duyu and has a bright future, who would still want to serve others with sex?

Jiang An wanted to subdue this man, so he said: "Since you don't have a place to live, why not come to my house and stay as long as you want?"

Shen Yu looked at Jiang An intently until he suddenly understood.

"Don't get me wrong. I still have a wife and children at home, so I definitely don't mean it. Besides, I'm not a manly woman," Jiang An explained.

Shen Yu lowered her eyes, "Sir, you are joking. I have asked someone to take care of it. I will just stay in the palace for a few days."

After the misunderstanding just now, Jiang An couldn't persuade others to avoid people thinking that he was up to no good.

"Our front minister also has a doctor. Let the doctor handle it for you later."

"No need." Shen Yu said, "I don't like getting close to others."

Jiang Anxin thought that this person who had been a man's favorite disliked men's touch the most.

He didn't force it, "Then you rest first and I'll go watch the patrol."

Shen Yu stood up and said goodbye, "Command the commander to walk slowly."

After Jiang An left, Shun Shou came over, followed by a palace maid holding a tray.

"Master Yuhou." Shunshou said, "This is Longcui, one of our own. Please, Master Yuhou, please lift up your sleeves and let Longcui bandage it for you."

Shunshou said and went out to close the door.

Shen Yu lifted her sleeves, and the blood seeped out again because she had not bandaged it properly.

Long Cui took a breath, "My lord, this wound is not small, I am afraid it needs to be sutured."

"You sew it." Shen Yu said.

Long Cui did not dare to do it, "I can't sew the wound."

"You can sew clothes, right?"

"I can do needlework." Long Cui looked at the wound, "Or we should notify..."

"You dare!"

These two words were plain, but they landed loudly. Long Cui did not dare to speak under the majesty.

"You sew it if I ask you to sew it." Shen Yu said lightly.

Anyone with a little power would put a few spies in the palace. Long Cui was the one placed in the palace by the Beilin Palace.

Long Cui had only seen Yu Hou from a distance before, and at that time she only felt that his body was not so burly, but his whole body was full of momentum.

This is completely different from the eunuchs working in the palace.

Even if he reached a position as high as Defu, he still had to hunch his back when he saw his master. He had been a slave for a lifetime and could no longer straighten his back.

"Sir, it's been bandaged," Long Cui was sweating.

This Yu Hou is indeed not an ordinary person. He sutured the wound like this without saying a word.

Long Cui warned: "Sir, don't get wet or use force in the next few days, so as not to open the wound again."

Shen Yu nodded slightly, "Let Shunshou come in."

Shunshou entered the duty room, "Yu Hou, please tell me what you want. I said that seeing you is like seeing him."

"Don't tell him a word about my injury tonight."