Son's identity

  Who is this? He has actually killed all the imperial palace guards.

  She tightly wrapped her arms around her son's small shoulders, and as she looked around, the surrounding forest rose with clouds and mist. The dense fog was like a layer of silver frost that wrapped around them, impenetrable to outsiders.

  A strange and eerie killing aura suddenly enveloped the mother and son.

  What kind of person is this? Since even the people sent by the empress were killed, it proves that they are not members of the imperial family. Non-imperial family members who can sneak into the palace and openly kill people in broad daylight have such audacity, which is both ability and definitely has power backing them up, fearing no consequences after killing someone. Moreover, unlike the imperial family who acted for reputation against the mother and son, why did this group of people go to great lengths to target the mother and son?

  Want to kill her? Want to kill her son?

  Suddenly this thought flashed in her mind, all because of the black-clothed man's line of sight, which seemed to be concentrated not on her, but on the small body in her arms.

  Her fingers tightened again, and she whispered in Xiao Er's ear: "Mumu, wait for mother's order, you immediately run to the left, the farther the better, run down the mountain to find Zhang Fu, if you can't find him, break open this pill, Zhang Fu will come."

  "Where's your mother?" The little eyes were fixed on her at this moment with tension.

  A faint smile on her lips, she gently patted the little one's straightened back: "Mom will be right there. You have to escape first so that mom can find help."

  He didn't believe it! Her little heart shrunk into a ball, her two small hands hugged her legs and wouldn't let go: "Don't!"

  He doesn't want to lose his mother again. Just like when he was very young, less than a year old, and didn't know anything. He is no longer the infant of that time, no longer the self who knew nothing.

  "Mūmū!" Huā Yùyàn's expression turned solemn. If possible, she actually wanted to ask what the child's real name was, but everything came too late. Although she didn't know whose child this was, she couldn't just watch a child die in front of her.

  Her nose twitched, and she wiped her sleeve on the floral pattern of her dress. In a soft, childish voice, she said: "I'm going to help Mother move the troops, Mother is waiting for me, we made an appointment, if Mother can't make it, I, I——"

  The child's voice that had not finished speaking, saw Hua Xiuyan raise the root of her tail and point it at herself with a small hand, saying one or two hooks.

  As she hooked her son's small hand, her apricot eyes rolled around, and after sizing up the several black-clad men who were already waiting for an opportunity to strike, she turned out of the left wrist with her son in her arms and shot out three black needles, directly attacking the three black-clad men on the left.

  The black-clad figure dodged and weaved like a ghost, their movements not something the foolish imperial guards could match. Seeing that the opponent was even able to dodge her needles, Hua Xiyan made a swift decision, and as she threw the needle, she simultaneously picked up her son, tiptoed, and lightly brushed past several black-clad figures' heads like a dragonfly skimming across water, tossing her son onto a tree crown outside the mist.

  Li Dongyun took a deep breath, knowing he couldn't look back. He leaped out of the treetop to fly onto another tree, but just as his body flew into mid-air, he suddenly felt dizzy and lightheaded. In an instant, his entire body went limp, and he fell straight down to the ground.

  Hanayori, entangled with the black-clad man who had caught up to her, was worried that the child would turn around and see his small body suddenly falling from the sky, and in a state of shock, flew over and stretched out his hand to catch the child.

  Behind her, several black darts flew out from the black-clad man. In order to hug the child, Hua Xiuyan didn't dodge in time and was hit by a dart on her shoulder. The intense pain made her bite her lip tightly, but she managed to stretch out her hand to hug the child and jumped backward, falling into a grass thicket. Her two feet couldn't stand firmly, so she had to punch the sandy ground first: Damn it! This isn't ordinary poison, probably they want to make her faint to death. The opponent's goal was still to attack the child in her arms first.

  What kind of person would want to put this child in harm's way?

  The palm of the hand touches the small forehead, feeling hot, apparently poisoned, when was the poison taken?

  "Daughter." Li Dongyuan exhaled, his half-open eyes gazing at her pale face and black lips, scaring him into reaching out to touch her face.

  Huā Yùyán quickly pulled out two pills from her bosom, which were tucked away in the bundle she had brought with her when she came. They might have been left to her by Old Lady Huā of the Huā family, and were labeled "Life-Saving Pills". She hadn't used them in six years, and didn't think she would need to use them now.

  One pill was stuffed into the small mouth, and one was stuffed into his own. The intestines in his stomach were already in severe cramps at this moment. This poison should have been administered through food in the imperial palace. The person who poisoned them could be said to be ruthless enough, and for the sake of poisoning the mother and son, he didn't know how many people were implicated.

  It is better to kill one thousand by mistake than to let him escape?

  Xiao Yan wiped her sleeve again, and her face was covered in sweat. Looking at this little Xiao Yan who looked just like her son, a pang of pain and love emerged in Hua Xiuyan's heart.

  At such a young age, he's already involved in a murder case, what kind of parents did this child have?

  The man in black, step by step, walked towards the mother and son, his throat issuing a disguised, altered voice, low and deep, full of malice: "Hand him over to us, we can spare your life. You should know, he is not your son."

  "Who says he's not my son?" A faint, blood-curdling smile played on his lips.

  "A mere trash from a flower house dares to claim Tianying's noble son as your own?"

  Heavenly noble family?

  Her eyes narrowed, and scenes from before flashed through her mind. The elegant and refined little steps, the impeccable etiquette that couldn't be hidden - it all turned out to be because this child was truly a dragon's blood phoenix marrow.

  "Since you're the so-called noble and esteemed Tian family, how could you possibly appear in a place like this? And as you said, together with me, a useless member of the Hua family?"

  It seems that the other party was also confused. At a loss for words, the man in black suddenly came to his senses and realized that Huā Yù Hua was trying to trick him, so he drew out his sword: "If you don't drink the wine of respect, then you'll have to drink the wine of punishment. Although my master is kind-hearted and doesn't want to kill people indiscriminately, now I can only kill you first and talk later."

  Heart of charity, laughable to the extreme. It's just that even if you don't use a knife to leave evidence, relying on poison can still kill her, it's just that the time is longer because she took a Huahua's slow-acting antidote pill.

  A surge of blood rose to her throat, and she swallowed hard just as a small black shape shot out from the underbrush, revealing sharp fangs that sank into the back of the black-clad figure's hand.

  Ah! The miserable cry shook all the other black-robed men, causing them to retreat in unison for half a circle.

  The black-clad man with the knife covered his dark wrist, and the knife fell to the ground as his hand quickly turned into a withered bone. The little piglet that had rolled beautifully in mid-air landed on its back, revealing two small pig teeth that were usually not visible, their black edges sending chills down one's spine.

  "Hum, hum, the little piggy triumphantly swung its tail and turned around to see that both the mistress and the fake mistress had fallen to the ground, unable to support themselves. The pig's eyes suddenly narrowed, and its dark pupils emitted a chilly starlight."