Chapter 589: Qianqiu's one-man show
As the most trusted chamberlain by the emperor's side, Chen Wuliang often traveled back and forth between the Yue Mansion and the Eldest Princess's Mansion, and Yue Qianqiu often met this one. Chen Wuliang has always smiled at him, he is naturally kind and kind to people, and he didn't have any thoughts of looking down on him because he was a eunuch, but subconsciously, he never thought that it was a master of martial arts who was still above Yan Xu!
After all, every time the emperor comes out, he is hugged by the front and back, there are countless guards, Chen Wuliang has never shown his martial arts, no matter how good his eyesight is, but in the face of a heavy foot, every gesture is like an ordinary person's chamberlain, how can you see that the other party is hidden?
Moreover, this person has just come to the eldest princess's mansion to deliver things, he obviously saw Yan Xu follow people into the palace, so he went to Liu Mansion to find Xiao Qingqing Xingshi to ask for guilt, why did Chen Wuliang run here now? Could it be that Yan Xu is also here?
After dealing with the four swordsmen and the two maids at once, and revealing their true colors, Chen Wuliang walked slowly towards Xiao Jingjing and Yue Qianqiu, but stopped three or four steps away, lest the little girl who was so vigilant that her whole body was a little stiff misunderstood. He bowed his head slightly, and then said kindly: "Ninth prince, young palace master, you are frightened." ”
As soon as he raised his hand, the crossbowmen who had been eyeing the four high walls immediately put away their crossbows, and then they receded like a tide, and they could no longer see a person.
Seeing that Xiao Jingjing noticed this scene, his face was obviously much relaxed, but Yue Qianqiu's face was full of suspicion, and his eyes kept looking at him, so he explained with a pleasant face: "I sent Yan Gongzi halfway there, and suddenly received an urgent message, so I asked Yan Gongzi to enter the palace to see the emperor to thank him, and I myself hurried here." Speaking of which, what the hell is going on? How could Palace Lord Xiao's subordinates dare to offend the Young Palace Lord and the Ninth Prince? ”
"Gonggong Chen doesn't know?" Yue Qianqiu originally thought that Chen Wuliang must have been prepared, but at this time, he was sure that the person had just rushed over, he couldn't help but turn dark, and said bluntly, "Xiao Qingqing left her daughter and these subordinates and ran away by herself!" ”
Chen Wuliang's heart jumped when he boarded. He didn't care what to say to Xiao Jingjing, who wanted to stop talking, and reflexively swept into the house. He could be regarded as one of the people who was most familiar with the Liu Mansion and the Xuanxu here besides the craftsmen who built it, and at this time, he checked all the mechanisms and secret passage entrances almost as quickly as possible, and his gaze finally fell on the hair on the ground that was sandwiched between the two walls.
Stretched out his hand and held the end of his hair and pulled it gently, seeing that the hair did not move at all, Chen Wuliang narrowed his eyes slightly, and then pressed his palms on the solid wall. After exerting his strength at first, he saw that there was no movement on the wall, so he slowly withdrew his hand, and his heart was full of thoughts for a while.
Was it when I was passing by before, someone lost a hair and got caught in it, or ......
This door is not easy to open from the house, but must be unlocked from the inside of the secret passage, because of this, the old lady Yue will "invite" Xiao Qingqing from the inn here to recuperate, and the emperor and the eldest princess of Dongyang will come here with the guards to see Xiao Qingqing.
At that time, there was Yue Ying on the roof as the last barrier, and although he didn't follow, he was fine.
That time the emperor and the eldest princess of Dongyang came, and there was indeed no accident, but now Xiao Qingqing disappeared unexpectedly in Liu's Mansion, which can be said to be like an iron bucket!
Fortunately, after the eldest princess of Dongyang found out that Yue Qianqiu was leaving, she immediately sent someone to intercept him halfway, and he coaxed Yan Xu away and immediately rushed over, otherwise it would have been a big deal just now!
was quickly thinking about how to track it down next, when Chen Wuliang suddenly heard two footsteps behind him. He didn't have to look back to know that it was Yue Qianqiu and Xiao Jingjing who followed in. He hesitated for a moment and turned around, and asked Xiao Jingjing with a complicated face with an extremely sincere face, "Does the Young Palace Master know that when Ling Tang left, did he bring anyone else with him?" ”
Xiao Jingjing bit his lip vigorously, and shook his head gloomily for a long time before he shook his head gloomily and said, "No, my mother didn't bring anyone with me." At least the people here were all left behind by her. ”
Even Cui Hao and Hua Le, who have been with their mothers for many years, were actually left behind. And they are clearly insiders, but they also help their mothers hide themselves.
The four swordsmen who were still holding back Yue Qianqiu at first just now are not yet thirty this year, and they were all taken in by their mothers very early, they are orphans who were displaced after a certain sect was expelled from Wupinlu, and even she used to call them brothers when she was a child. If the mother even said that they were moved before, then she and Yue Qianqiu were unfortunate just now, and she couldn't stop them at all......
The only thing that is fortunate is that they are also poor people who have been left behind without knowing it.
Chen Wuliang saw that Xiao Jingjing could only provide such a little information, he couldn't think of anything to comfort this abandoned daughter, so he could only sigh softly when he walked past her, and then walked past her to Yue Qianqiu.
The person sent by the eldest princess of Dongyang to find him only said that Yue Qianqiu came to find Xiao Qingqing's ballast and asked him to come over urgently to stop him, but as soon as he arrived, he found that the matter was more serious than he imagined. But he didn't think it was a good time to ask Yue Qianqiu, why he suddenly came here, and why he caught Xiao Qingqing so accurately.
At this moment, he had to consider that if it was really a secret passage, someone must have opened the entrance from inside to take Xiao Qingqing away. And if Xiao Qingqing really even infiltrated people into this system, then the previous emperor gathered all the craftsmen who built the huge secret passage connecting this place with the palace and various secret strongholds because of his benevolence, and built various instruments that were no longer used in the previous dynasties, then it was really a complete mistake, and the news must have leaked there.
But just when Chen Wuliang was secretly thinking about how to let Yue Qianqiu settle Xiao Jingjing first, and he immediately went back to take someone to pull the net to investigate these tunnels, he suddenly only heard Yue Qianqiu ask: "Gonggong Chen, the reason why I came here is because there are several things to ask people to understand. Just now I told Miss Xiao outside that her mother might not be there, and asked her to verify it herself, to be honest, I just shouted casually because I saw the two maids being strictly guarded, and I was not convinced. ”
Seeing Xiao Jingjing suddenly turn his head to look at him, his face showed a bit of indescribable expectation, as if a drowning person had grabbed a life-saving straw, Yue Qianqiu smiled apologetically.
"Although they failed to stop it, and later they did not hesitate to stab each other and commit suicide in the face of Miss Xiao's questioning, as if to convince us that they stayed here to hide the truth about the Red Moon Palace Lord in the house, or more accurately the Huoshan County Lord Jin Cicada, but I, as a person, sometimes can't help but be a little suspicious."
Although he swore by when he was outside just now, when Yue Qianqiu denied his guess at this time, he was equally calm: "There is a word called dark under the lamp, and there is another word called sound to the east and west." To be honest, I don't believe that the secret passage leading to this place can be so easily infiltrated. In contrast, there is a person hidden somewhere in this house, perhaps more likely. ”
Xiao Jingjing suddenly felt that the whole person came to life. In an instant, she rushed to the big cabinet in the corner like a whirlwind, and when she opened the door and found that it was empty, she refused to stop, knocking and knocking to see if there was a mezzanine, and when she found nothing, she rushed to the big bed against the wall like a gust of wind, from the mattress to the quilt, she almost lifted the bottom to the sky, and finally people got under the bed.
Seeing her looking for someone like crazy, Chen Wuliang couldn't help but glance at Yue Qianqiu with some confusion. Even if he doesn't have clairvoyance and ears, but standing in this room, even if the slightest sound of breathing and heartbeat, it can't hide his ears, eyes and spiritual sense at all.
Yue Qianqiu casually gave Chen Wuliang a slightly calm look, and he also stepped forward to cooperate with Xiao Jingjing to rummage around. After looking for all the furniture, he still didn't give up, and even ran up to the beams of the house like a monkey.
Seeing that Xiao Jingjing also came up, and when he saw the beams that were still dusty, he immediately showed an extremely disappointed expression, and then he smiled bitterly: "It seems that I still underestimated your mother, Miss Xiao." ”
Even if Yue Qianqiu didn't say anything about underestimating his mother's means, or underestimating his mother's ruthlessness, Xiao Jingjing was still as blank as a blank sheet of paper, as if he was only a little bit away from crying. She fell to the ground like a walking corpse, and then sat down, her head lowered, and there was no anger on her face, even if Chen Wuliang had no sympathy for a long time, she still couldn't help but sigh secretly.
At this time, he thoughtfully glanced at the low-hanging door curtain, and immediately realized that the two maids who wanted to kill themselves and the four swordsmen were just caught off guard by themselves and completely lost their ability to resist, and they should not have fainted.
He probably guessed the deep meaning of Yue Qianqiu's pretentiousness just now, strode out of the door, picked up Cuihao, who was knocked to the ground by himself for the first time, stretched out his hand and pressed it on his neck, seeing that he opened his eyes with a low voice, he was clearly just pretending to be dizzy, he asked in a deep voice: "I don't ask you where Xiao Qingqing went, I just want to ask you, she left her daughter and these subordinates, and she is not afraid that they will be punished by the emperor in the name of rebelling against the party?" ”
Cui Hao, who woke up leisurely, was about to grit her teeth and remain silent, but after listening to Chen Wuliang's words, she couldn't help but feel excited, and then broke the jar and said: "Whether it is me and Huale, or they are good, they have been able to survive so far, all because of the kindness of the palace master." The palace master was trapped here before, so we should naturally sacrifice ourselves to protect the palace master! ”
For such an argument, Chen Wuliang was naturally not surprised. Because he himself is also a person who can sacrifice his life for the emperor. However, glancing at the four soulless swordsmen, he sneered: "If you are willing to die for her, that's it, but she can even throw away her own daughter, which is too ruthless!" ”
Cui Hao's face changed drastically, however, Hua Le on the ground struggled to support his body and half sat up at this time, and said word by word: "The young palace master is not the palace master's biological daughter, she has been supported by brocade clothes and jade food over the years, and she has been spoiled like her own daughter. ”
In the room, Yue Qianqiu saw that Xiao Jingjing, who heard this, was already paralyzed like a puddle of mud, as if he would completely collapse anytime and anywhere. Thinking of the delicate girl who stopped him in the middle of the night and asked him to compensate for his mother, he couldn't help but feel pity, and then suddenly had an idea.
He rushed to Xiao Jingjing's side with an arrow, and after smashing her unconscious with a knife without hesitation, he reached out and touched the leather bag hanging on his waist. Since he has practiced martial arts, the secret weapon is a must-have, and sometimes he still pranks like kicking some flour pepper noodles and the like, and the thing he carries with him today is the latest product developed by An Renqing a few days ago.
Without hesitation, he took a deep breath and shouted loudly, "Miss Xiao, don't do stupid things!" ”
Almost at the moment when the words fell, he took out the thing directly from the leather bag, covered it with both hands, and then put it on Xiao Jingjing's neck, he directly took off the golden hairpin on Xiao Jingjing's hair, and stabbed it the thing, and in an instant, he saw blood splashing, making him and Xiao Jingjing all over.
The next moment, he saw that the bloody thing was firmly attached to Xiao Jingjing's neck, like a hideous wound, so he took off his cloak and wrapped the little girl, and then shouted loudly: "Grandpa Chen......"
Before he could finish his next words, Chen Wuliang had already rushed into the door like a gust of wind. Seeing that he looked at himself and Xiao Jingjing, who was tightly wrapped in a cloak but still looked bloody, he was stunned, so he pretended to be sad and said angrily: "Miss Xiao can't stand this blow, I can't stop it for a while, she killed herself by stabbing her throat with a golden hairpin!" ”
Seeing the blood splashing everywhere and hearing Yue Qianqiu's description, Chen Wuliang couldn't help but gasp. However, seeing Yue Qianqiu rushing out as soon as he picked up the person, he couldn't help but stop him, but was yelled back by Yue Qianqiu: "If you don't hurry up and save her, you're going to die!" Let me take her to the imperial doctor! ”
Chen Wuliang wanted to ask again, but seeing that Yue Qianqiu blinked at him desperately a few times, he was so frightened that he almost lost his soul just now, and then he was so angry and funny that he couldn't wait to kick this kid who wanted to have crooked ideas.
No wonder the emperor sometimes hates and loves Yue Qianqiu, how is this stinky boy's brain long?
However, he had to immediately protect Yue Qianqiu and rush out, seeing that the blood on Yue Qianqiu's hands holding Xiao Jingjing kept dripping down, he couldn't think about it, whether Yue Qianqiu cut his hands or how to get so much blood, a pair of eyes glared viciously at the stunned Cui Hao and Hua Le, and when he saw that they were almost rolling and crawling to catch up, he kicked them over without saying a word.
"I helped to abuse before, and now I'm pretending to be a good person, get away, don't touch Miss Xiao!"
Cui Hao watched Yue Qianqiu rush into the west wing with Xiao Qingqing in her arms, and watched the blood fall to the ground bit by bit, and her heart was numb for a while. When she saw Hua Le sitting there dumbfounded, she couldn't help but pounce all of a sudden, and the slap was a heavy slap: "What nonsense did you just say!" If it's because you let the young palace master have three strengths and two shortcomings, how can I have the face to go to the palace master under Jiuquan in the future! ”
Chen Wuliang, who was escorting Yue Qianqiu into the West Wing, caught the four words under Jiuquan, and only felt a huge shock in his brain. And Yue Qianqiu, who was in front of him, couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth. Dead and Dead ...... It can't be a real death, right?