I didn't become a princess today

Chapter 185 The Snake of Southern Border
Shen Yuan's eyes were slightly red, the tip of her nose was sour, her vermilion lips quivered slightly, and she finally smiled, "Don't think I'll forgive you if you say a few nice words."

Wei Yan pouted, it was too difficult to coax Shen Yuan.

From the corner of his eyes, Wei Yan noticed a dead branch that broke unnaturally on the ground, picked it up and looked at it for a while, and then said to Shen Yuan: "This way."

As soon as she heard the clue, Shen Yuan immediately restrained her thoughts and followed Wei Yan forward.

The road under your feet is uneven, full of potholes, and there are dead leaves blocking it. If you are not careful, you may step on it, and there are many hunting traps around.

Wei Yan walked ahead holding Shen Yuan's hand, holding a dagger in the other hand, and chopped off the piercing bushes in front of him.

"Wait a minute." Suddenly, Shen Yuan seemed to see something unusual.

Wei Yan stopped, "What's wrong?"

Shen Yuan raised her head, squinted her eyes, pointed to a high place on the tree, and said, "What is that?"

Wei Yan looked in the direction Shen Yuan pointed, and there seemed to be some marks carved on the tall tree trunk, Wei Yan said: "You wait here."

Wei Yan let go of Shen Yuan's hand, performed lightness kung fu, stepped on it and landed on the branch.

Wei Yan took a look at the two scratches on the tree trunk. They were made with a sword. They seemed inconspicuous, but they were often used as secret signs among hidden guards or killers.

Wei Yan stood on the branch and looked forward, there were still some shallow footprints on the branches in front of him, probably a group of people passed by...

"Wei Yan!" Suddenly, Shen Yuan below shouted, and Wei Yan regained his senses and looked down.

Shen Yuan looked at a poisonous snake hovering over the protruding bushes. The snake's upper body was already tense, and it spit snake letters at Shen Yuan, and approached her little by little.

Shen Yuan didn't dare to move her neck, it would be troublesome if she was bitten by a poisonous snake.

Wei Yan lowered his head and saw the poisonous snake approaching Shen Yuan, and flew the dagger in his hand with his backhand.

The cold blade was so sharp that it directly chopped off the snake's head.

Wei Yan jumped down from the tree and landed beside Shen Yuan, "Are you injured?"

Shen Yuan shook her head, turned to look at the snake, frowned and said, "This is a snake from southern Xinjiang, how could it appear here?"

There are no such venomous snakes in the Ming Dynasty, but there are many people in southern Xinjiang who know how to raise them. Shen Yuan is a little puzzled. Now the only people in southern Xinjiang in Chang'an City are the dead soldiers raised by Wei Li.

Wei Yan put away the dagger, and said: "I also found a lot of footprints on it just now, there should be assassins."

Shen Yuan's eyes froze slightly, Wei Yan took her hand and said, "Let's follow the footprints first, and find a way to find them first."

Shen Yuan nodded, and was dragged forward by Wei Yan, while paying attention to the surrounding situation.

The further he walked, the denser the bushes in front, Wei Yan cut a path with his dagger.

After passing through the bushes, Wei Yan smelled a faint smell of blood. The two looked down the hillside, and there were dozens of corpses of men in black lying here and there.

Shen Yuan suddenly lost her composure, opened her eyes wide, and wanted to jump off the hillside regardless, but fortunately Wei Yan held her back.

"Calm down, there is no Shen Yu inside." Wei Yan comforted him.

Shen Yuan broke out in a cold sweat and grabbed Wei Yan tightly, "I want to go down!"

Wei Yan grabbed her waist and took her down.

The blood on the ground has dried up, and these corpses have been left for a day, and they have begun to smell like corpses.

Shen Yuan saw Shen Yu's sword next to the body of a man in black. The long sword was firmly planted on the ground, the red tassel swayed, there was blood on the hilt, and the black scabbard was thrown aside casually. .

Shen Yuan stretched out her hand to pull out the long sword, but she didn't have enough strength.

"This sword..." Wei Yan pulled the long sword from the ground with one hand, only to realize that the weight of the sword was unusual.

"It's my brother's relic. My sister is good at using guns, but she can also wear swords." Shen Yuan said.

Because it was inconvenient to carry a spear sometimes, Shen Yu would occasionally carry a sword for self-defense.

Wei Yan put the sword back into the scabbard, and said: "Looking at the wounds on these people, they should all be killed by Shen Yu with this sword."

Wei Yan looked at the corpses on the ground, almost all of them were fatally hit by one blow, and Shen Yu has always been like this on the battlefield.

Shen Yuan squatted down and reached out to look at the body of the man in black, Wei Yan hurriedly stopped her, "Don't you, a girl, be afraid of corpses?"

"In southern Xinjiang, many villages are full of corpses, and no one has buried them yet." Shen Yuan suddenly said, "I've been used to it for a long time."

"I can't get used to it either." Wei Yan pulled Shen Yuan behind him, endured his obsession with cleanliness, and stretched out his hand to tear off the veil from the man in black, "What else do you want to see?"

Wei Yan's tone was full of disgust. It was the first time for him to do such a thing like digging through the corpses himself. Before, he had left it to his subordinates.

Shen Yuan looked at Wei Yan's actions and felt a little gloating in her heart, but she was more moved.

"I don't want to see their faces, I just want to see if they have tattoos on their necks."

Wei Yan twitched the corners of his eyes, and poked the corpse's head with his scabbard, exposing his neck.

But they didn't have the tattoos that Shen Yuan mentioned on their necks, so Shen Yuan was relieved.

The group of dead men raised by Wei Li would have a tattoo on their necks, but these men in black did not, which means that this assassination had nothing to do with Wei Li.

It wasn't that he suspected that Wei Li had hurt Shen Yu, but that he was worried that Wei Li accidentally hurt Shen Yu when he was dealing with Wei Sheng.

"These all look like people from southern Xinjiang." Wei Li said as he pulled off the masks of a few men in black.

Looking at these corpses on the ground, Shen Yuan always felt as if she was caught in a foggy chess game.

The two rummaged through the corpses again, but found nothing unusual.

"Let's look further, someone must have walked this road." Wei Yan pointed to a direction, but the bushes in this direction made it difficult to walk.

And because someone broke through, some marks were left, and the fabric of the clothes was also hanging on the barbs.

Wei Yan took off his coat, put it on Shen Yuan's head, held her with one hand, and said, "Let me walk slowly, be careful not to get hurt."

"En." Shen Yuan nodded.

This place is too hidden, with tall trees covering the sky and overgrown bushes, it looks like a dead end, no wonder those who searched the mountain did not search this way.

It took the two of them more than an hour to get out of the bushes. No matter how careful Wei Yan was, his face was also scratched with blood.

Shen Yuan took out the handkerchief from her arms, tiptoed to wipe it carefully for him, and asked, "Does it hurt?"

Wei Yan froze, and for a moment seemed to see the unscrupulous Shen Yuan who loved him wholeheartedly three years ago.

Shen Yuan looked at it carefully, and said: "The wound doesn't seem to be deep, go back and apply some medicine and it will be fine in a day or two."

Shen Yuan put away the handkerchief, and seemed to hear the sound of splashing water in her ears.

(End of this chapter)