Chapter 343: Crisis
Xue Rui arranged for people to check near the teahouse, and went to the Wangji Building to wait for news, the princess's mansion was inconvenient to speak, and the Wangji Building was Xue Rui's territory, and there was no outsider's eyeliner.
Liu Tan rushed over when he heard the news, was led to the elegant room, and as soon as he entered the door, he asked eagerly: "Brother Rui, why is my little aunt missing?" Did you send someone to find it? β
Xue Rui held the tea in his hand, didn't drink it, shook his head, and said, "I have already sent someone to investigate, don't be impatient, sit down and listen to me." β
Liu Tan was sweating anxiously when he came, but seeing Xue Rui's calm appearance, he calmed down a little and sat down beside him.
"Tell me, what the hell is going on?"
Xue Rui then told him about the situation he found in the restaurant, and said concisely: "In the morning, the water girl went to find my sister-in-law, and somehow asked her to go out, and the two of them probably wanted to talk privately in the teahouse, and the guards said that the water girl avoided them, and the two went up to the second floor for less than half an hour, and the guards went upstairs to find someone and there was no trace of them. I went to see it, and in the tea they drank, they were given a strong sweat medicine, which was difficult for even those who practiced martial arts to resist, and the water girl drank this tea, so she had no resistance and was taken away. β
Liu Tan's expression changed, his left hand resting on the table was clenched into a fist, and he laughed angrily: "I'm afraid which of my brothers has done a good thing!" β
After speaking, he was annoyed again, slammed the table, and said in a low voice: "It's all my carelessness, just when they don't dare to move the real thing, they didn't send more people to protect the little aunt, and now she is being arrested, if there is a good one, I will die and I will not be able to escape the blame." β
Xue Rui saw him blaming himself, and he also regretted it in his heart, if he had gone to find Yu Shu earlier in the morning, he would have stopped her at home and avoided this catastrophe.
"You calm down first, the top priority is to find someone first," Xue Rui speculated hesitantly, "I'm afraid that if it drags on for a long time, something will happen to them." β
Liu Tan exclaimed: "How come." If the little aunt was really captured by any of them, it was also if she couldn't help me at the Shuangyang Meeting, and at most she would be locked up for a while, and it shouldn't hurt her life. Otherwise, wouldn't this matter be a big problem, and they wouldn't be afraid that I would sue my father? β
Hearing his naΓ―ve thoughts, Xue Rui smiled bitterly and said, "Has Your Highness ever thought about it, if you go to the Holy Lord, how will the Holy Lord look at you?" β
Liu Tan's face turned cold. Yes, let my father know that he can't even protect himself, and if he wants to go to the palace and ask him to be the master, he will definitely feel that he is incompetent.
Xue Rui said again: "Moreover, the other party must have a chaotic heart for attacking the water girl at this time, I am only afraid that after finding out the worst, the one that comes out is not the one we are looking for." β
Liu Tan was surprised: "What do you mean?" β
"Blame others." Xue Rui's eyes sharpened.
Liu Tan's heart sank. A layer of cold sweat overflowed behind his back, gritted his teeth, and said in a dumb voice: "It's really calculating." Kill three birds with one stone, I'm destined to suffer this dumb loss! β
To say the key, the two of them were silent, and before long, Liu Tan looked up at Xue Rui, his eyes were slightly red, and there was a hint of hope in his expression, "Brother Rui, you, do you have a countermeasure?" β
Xue Rui glanced at him, secretly sighing that he was still a young man who had not been stormy, and tapped his fingers lightly on his knees. If you have some pointers:
"Daozi is in the palace right now."
Liu Tan didn't understand at first, and his face was suspicious, so Xue Rui had to make it clearer: "The water girl is the same junior sister of Daozi, she was arrested, and she was most worried about Daozi, and he came forward to ask the emperor to make the decision." The best. β
Liu Tan suddenly realized, "Yes, there is also Uncle Shi!" β
Xue Rui nodded, a sneer flashed across the corner of his mouth, "Didn't the mastermind want you to make a big fuss, then you might as well follow his wishes." β
Liu Tan understood what he meant, his eyes flickered, and he said in a low voice: "It's okay, take this opportunity to pull a few more people into the water, and no one wants to watch the fire from the other side, lest they step on me and don't take me seriously!" β
Xue Rui glanced at him approvingly, his cousin, as a prince, although he had many shortcomings, he was not lacking in intelligence and courage, and he might not be able to do so in the future.
"Without further ado, I'll go back to the palace now and go to my uncle to discuss." Liu Tan stood up.
Xue Rui stretched out his hand to stop him, "Wait, you can't go, there are a lot of eyes and ears in the palace, so let's wait for him to come out, so as not to startle the snake." β
Liu Tan hurriedly said: "Then my little aunt is not dangerous." β
"It's only one night, tomorrow the saint will be early, and Daozi will come back." Xue Rui was less worried than him, but he was calmer, and no matter how anxious he was, it would be useless.
Xue Rui raised his hand and touched his chest, there was a treasure box close to his body, the contents of which he had only begged from his grandfather last night, originally to lend it to Yu Shu to avoid this disaster, but who knew that she was a step late, she was already in danger.
As soon as he thought of Yu Shu, Xue Rui's mood became impetuous again, and he comforted himself without thinking about the worst:
Her luck is very bad, but her life is also great, and she has escaped several deaths, so there is no reason to fold this time.
changed his mind, frowned again, and secretly thought: When he saves her back, he must teach her a good lesson, lest she continue to do such a good thing and lose her life sooner or later.
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Yu Shu didn't know how long she had been tied up in the sack, and the car stopped a few times on the way, but she didn't put them down, she had a splitting headache, and she didn't dare to fall asleep along the way, for fear that she would lose her life in her sleep and die in vain.
The car stopped again, and Yu Shu squinted through the sack to discern that it was dark outside, and heard someone whispering in his ear:
"It's here, unload it."
"Put it in the cellar first."
"It stinks, come on."
Then there was a sway, she was carried up, walked a short way, heard the sound of unlocking, was thrown face down on the ground, the sack under her feet was untied, she heard the sound of the knife cutting, did not dare to open her eyes, said that someone had cut the sack and let her out, lest they suffocate to death.
"Tie up, beware of people waking up."
"No need, my medicine is fierce, they will sleep until at least tomorrow, and they won't wake up by beating gongs and drums."
"If you tie it up, it's nonsense, quick."
Yu Shu secretly scolded them for being careful, but they still didn't dare to move, they were twisted and tied up, and they gagged them with things and carried them to the corner.
"Let's go, you go outside and keep guard, I'll go back and resume my life."
The footsteps left, and it wasn't until the sound of the lock falling that Yu Shu dared to open his eyes, turned over, leaned his head against the wall, and looked at the surroundings.
Speaking of which, counting the practice of being caught by a group of wild Taoist priests in Yiyang City to open the altar, this is the second time she has been taken captive, and she has had an experience before, so she didn't panic too much, and only thought about how to escape.
It was a cellar, with a skylight overhead, and it was dark outside, and it should be evening.
There were still some sundries piled up in the cellar, and a few steps away from her, there was a person lying on the ground, who couldn't see clearly, and knew that it was Shuiyun.
Yu Shu moved closer to her, stretched out his foot, and kicked her leg, Shui Yun remained motionless, obviously due to the sweat medicine.
"Hmm" There was something stuffed in her mouth and she couldn't make a sound, Yu Shu twisted her body, and Jinbao, who had been hiding in her sleeve, shuddered and squeezed out, planted a heel on the ground, and crawled out from behind her.
"Chirp." Jinbao stood on the ground with his feet on his feet, raised a pair of front paws, and tilted his neck to look at Yu Shu, perhaps seeing that his master was in a difficult situation.
Yu Shu saw the vague lump on the ground by the light, his heart moved, he struggled to hold the tip of his tongue against a lump of rags in his mouth, shook his head and spit it out, gasped a few times, and whispered with his tongue open:
"Jinbao, Jinbao."
"Whew."
"I know that you understand human nature, if you can understand me, go back now to find someone to save me, and when I escape, I will build you a nest with gold." Yu Shu rubbed the fluffy mass on his toes, and coaxed uncertainly.
But destined to disappoint her, Jinbao listened to her words, just swirling at her feet, chirping and not leaving, clearly not understanding Yu Shu's cry for help.
With a wry smile, Yu Shu secretly scolded himself for being dizzy and whimsical.
Leaning against the wall to rest, Yu Shu slowly recovered his strength, the surroundings were quiet, the darker the sky, the more hairy, just when she couldn't hold on to sleep, Jinbao suddenly screamed a few times, Yu Shu immediately woke up, vaguely heard the footsteps outside, hurriedly lowered his head and bit the ball of cloth on the ground in his mouth, moved to the same place and lay down.
The visitor opened the door, Yu Shu noticed the light of the cellar through his eyelids, listened to the footsteps, and three people came in, one more than before.
"Master Xiong, look, everyone is here, your subordinates are doing things, you can rest assured."
"Huh? How did you tie up one more person, who is that. β
"It's with that little fairy girl, and my subordinates caught it back, and I don't know which one Lu Dao is, why don't you recognize it?"
"Bring it up to me."
In three or two sentences, Yu Shu had already figured it out, and her previous guess was right, this group of people was really coming for Shui Yun.
Knowing that he was affected by Shui Yun, Yu Shu was in a complicated mood, and when he heard someone approaching, he didn't dare to breathe more, so he pretended to be dead and was picked up by someone and put it in the light.
"Hey, why is she?"
"Master Xiong, do you know this little woman?"
"Well, I've seen it, this person is-tsk, you two take a good look at people, I'm going to go back and report to the prince, and then make plans."
"Yes."
Yu Shu was then thrown back to the ground, and he was shocked in his heart, the voice of this "Xiong Ye" sounded unfamiliar to her, but he said that he had seen her, and said that he would go back to report to the prince, could it be that the "prince" in their mouths was also known to her?
The prince in the capital, she knows only three, one King of Xiang, one King of Jia, and one King Ning, who will it be?
The three of them stayed for a while and left, Yu Shu opened his eyes in the dark, pondered over and over again the reason why Shui Yun was arrested, and gradually sorted out some eyebrows-
Shui Yun was arrested, and eighty percent was because she was too big in the limelight at the Shuangyang Meeting.
According to this, that prince can only be the one who participated in the Shuangyang Society, either King Jia or King Ning.
Shui Yun's life can be saved, if the other party wants to kill her, she will do it a long time ago, and there is no need to delay, but what about herself, if she hears something that she shouldn't hear or sees something that she shouldn't see, it's hard to ensure that she won't be killed.
Yu Shu thought of this, cold sweat fell, and he quickly had a plan in his heart, if he wanted to save his life, he must not make them suspicious. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )