Chapter 176: Fire, Escape from Chu Palace
"You don't have to thank me in such a hurry, I can only help you get out of this palace door, if you want to really leave or rely on yourself, I can't help you." Yanyun opened her mouth lightly, and a pair of beautiful eyes jumped under the lights.
The two exchanged clothes, and the palace maid stood faintly in the backlight like a puppet after changing her clothes. Jiang Cailing took a closer look through the light, and found traces of the degumming of the human skin mask on the woman's face, as if the skin of the face had been torn apart, which looked a little terrifying.
"Thank you." Jiang Cailing didn't know what kind of ending this palace maid was going to face, so she said thank you in a low voice.
The palace maid seemed to turn a deaf ear and did not speak, without any superfluous expression on her face.
Yanyun took off the fake bangs on the top of the palace maid's head and pasted them on Jiang Cailing's forehead, and the heavy bangs formed a large shadow, which could not be seen at all under the covering.
"Let's go." Yanyun took Jiang Cailing smoothly out of the heavily guarded Fengyi Palace, and at the bend in the corner, the two of them stopped.
Looking at the delicate cage built out of the high palace wall of Fengyi Palace, Jiang Cailing breathed a long sigh of relief.
Although I don't know why Yanyun helped her, Jiang Cailing is still very grateful.
Just when the two of them were about to separate, Yanyun suddenly stopped her and said in a low voice, "The snow dragon ginseng is placed on the fifth floor of the Duobao Palace, but there are many mechanisms there, and it is almost impossible to break through if you want to......"
Jiang Cailing nodded, whether it was Longtan Tiger's Den, as long as there was a glimmer of hope, she would do her best to give it a try, her red lips were raised high, with a sense of open-mindedness, brighter than usual.
"Yanyun, thank you."
Yanyun shook her head, "I didn't save you today for you, but for Your Majesty." I also hope that you don't blame Your Majesty, it wasn't really him who killed Hou Ye Xie. β
At the mention of the Xie family, Jiang Cailing's expression was obviously gloomy, and her body was tense and straight.
The great hatred of killing his father cannot be explained clearly in a single word, and Yanyun understands this very well.
"You are a smart person, except for Du Nianyu, I have never seen His Majesty take anyone so seriously. Maybe he didn't explain to you that the exile of Marquis Xie was not his original intention, but the only condition proposed by the Emperor Taishang, and Marquis Xie also took the initiative to accept it at that time. His Majesty originally planned to let Marquis Xie come back after the regime was stabilized, but the world was unpredictable. β
"First of all, he found out about you and Gu Xiang, Your Majesty is impulsive, and he has secret emotions for you, so naturally he can't stand such deception, so he thought of a place on the enthronement ceremony to humiliate you. Then comes the bad news, which strains the relationship between the two of you even more. If you leave this time, don't come back, I'll create a fire and make it look like you're dead. β
Jiang Cailing didn't expect this to be the case, her palms were clenched tightly, and her nails were deeply sunk into the tender flesh of her palms.
"Did that palace maid die for me just now?"
"She's on death row."
Jiang Cailing's eyebrows frowned slightly, "Will you be proficient in the art of disguise?" β
Yanyun didn't expect Jiang Cailing's focus to be here, so she couldn't help but be stunned, and then spoke leisurely, "There are countless people who can change their appearance, and I can serve as the first maid next to the prince of a country, do you really think that I just rely on unmatched beauty?" β
Thinking of the loopholes on the palace maid's face just now, the conjecture that came up in Jiang Cailing's heart gradually suppressed.
The murderer who killed her, whether it was skin, figure or voice, there was no flaw, how could she mistake it for Gu Jiming only by relying on Yanyun's three-legged cat's disguise technique.
The moonlight is cold and silent, shining cold in people's hearts. If she can successfully get the snow dragon ginseng tonight, everything in the Chu Palace will return to dust with her from now on.
Yanyun looked at Jiang Cailing's distant back, and the idea in her heart began to waver.
She didn't know if the decision to let Jiang Cailing go was the right one, maybe she would regret it one day in the future, but at least she was very satisfied with the result now.
She saw early on that Jiang Cailing's influence on His Majesty was too great, even if Su Qingcheng was so fond of Du Nianyu before, she had never seen Du Nianyu affect his emotions so much.
If Su Qingcheng is a prince for life, then she is very willing to have Jiang Cailing by his side. But now that he has become an emperor, he has to protect not only a prince's mansion, but also tens of millions of people in a country.
Jiang Cailing's heart is obviously not in him, the beloved woman thinks about other men in her heart, and she is as proud as Su Qingcheng, how can he accept it?
The Son of Heaven was furious, and the corpses were floating for thousands of miles.
She couldn't watch Su Qingcheng fall into the reputation of a tyrannical emperor.
Yanyun closed her eyes and prayed silently in her heart, praying that Jiang Cailing would leave the palace smoothly, that the Great Chu country would be prosperous, that Su Qingcheng would become a generation of virtuous kings, and that the people of future generations would avoid displacement.
As for Jiang Cailing, after separating from Yanyun, she hurriedly walked in the direction of Baichuan Hall with an octagonal palace lamp in her hand.
These days, Su Qingcheng usually goes to Fengyi Palace after processing the official documents, which is about the time of Shen.
In other words, she still has less than an hour to go, and when the fire in Fengyi Palace burns, the palace will inevitably fall into a panic, and that time is the best opportunity for her to leave the palace.
The Duobao Hall is dozens of feet high, showing the shape of a tower, and the whole body is glazed, and even at night, each floor of the nine-story tower is brightly lit, like a god standing in this land.
There were not many people guarding the Duobao Palace, the back door was only tightly locked, and there were only two sleepy guards at the front door, and from time to time there would be patrolling guards.
Jiang Cailing's fingers picked up the silver needle stained with anesthesia from her waist and pierced it unmistakably into the necks of the two guards.
The two guards fell to the ground, and Jiang Cailing took advantage of the fact that the patrol team did not come, walked lightly to the main gate, and helped up the two guards to let them lean on the Red Pillar Mountain, pretending to be a picture of them napping.
When I walked into the pagoda, I saw that the cabinets inside were full of rare treasures, and the brilliant lights I saw outside were not because of the candles, but because of the huge night pearls hanging on each of the four walls, exuding a warm fluorescent light.
Jiang Cailing hid the octagonal palace lamp, and used the light of the night pearl to go straight to the fifth floor and found the place where the snow dragon god was stored.
Thinking of Yan Yun's reminder, this Duobao Hall stored so many treasures but put two sleepy little guards to guard it, presumably very confident in its own protection system.
Throwing stones to explore the way, Jiang Cailing threw a copper coin in front, only to see the originally delicate beast head hanging on the wall suddenly opened its mouth hideously, and spit out countless arrows from it.
Jiang Cailing felt a dilemma in her heart, and sat quietly on the ground thinking of a way, but just when she had a flash of inspiration, she suddenly felt a shallow breathing sound behind her.
Then, Jiang Cailing's shoulder put a cold hand.
There is a saying in the Great Zhou that when walking at night, if someone puts your hand on your shoulder, you must not turn back, if you turn back, you will be entangled by evil spirits for eternity and become a slave of hell.
The goosebumps on Jiang Cailing's arms rose layer after layer, not because of fear of ghosts and godsβthe most terrifying thing was never the devil, but the human heart.
With the mentality of fighting to the death, Jiang Cailing's hand quietly groped for the silver needle on her waist and slammed towards the back.
The wrist was easily grasped, and a playful voice came from the ear, "Niangniang's stitching is better than before." β
The voice was all too familiar to her, and her face was beaming, and when she turned around, she saw the face of a cynical young man, wearing the clothes of a guard who had gotten out of nowhere.
Jiang Cailing swung a fist on Jiang Weimian's shoulder, "Mimian, where have you been these days?" β
Sleepless gasped in pain, Jiang Cailing frowned, "Are you injured?" β
Sleepless waved his hand, pretending to be relaxed: "It's just a small injury, what happened after that day is a long story, wait until we leave the palace." β
"Okay."
This kind of mechanism is not too complicated for the Kunlun Lord, I saw that he shuttled through the arrows like rain as light as a swallow, and successfully got the glass box containing the snow dragon ginseng.
"Take half and we'll take it back."
"Gotcha!" Sleepless said with a smile, showing a mouthful of white teeth, accurately cut off half of the snow dragon ginseng, tied it with the red thread he carried, and threw it into his pocket.
When the two of them went downstairs, they just in time for the patrol team to come.
One of the leaders saw that the two people guarding the gate were still sleeping, and suddenly his heart was unbalanced, and he couldn't help but shout, "You two should wake up!" β
Seeing that the two people were still unconscious, the man walked over with square steps.
Jiang Cailing's heart tightened, and she exchanged glances with Sleepless, and once they found that something was wrong, they would do it immediately.
However, just as the leading guards walked in front of them, a noisy sound suddenly came from the southeast direction, and they all looked around, only to see that the direction of Fengyi Palace was full of fire, dyeing the dark blue night sky scarlet.
"It's not good, Fengyi Palace is out of the water!" The man screamed, and simply stopped caring about the two people who had fallen asleep, and led the patrol team to run over to put out the fire.
Jiang Cailing's heart was not relaxed because of this, a pair of swarthy eyes reflected the fire in the sky, and she didn't know what it was like in her heart.
Yanyun's plan for the golden cicada to get out of the shell was painstakingly aimed at making Su Qingcheng think that he was dead.
And once Su Qingcheng found out that half of the snow dragon ginseng had been stolen, he would definitely know that she had done it.
Jiang Cailing took a deep breath, "Sleepless, you go and find a random ginseng, similar to the snow dragon ginseng, and then change them to another position." β
It took a short time for the sleepless to be replaced.
The two of them left the Duobao Hall and were confronted by a mighty procession.
It is Su Qingcheng's sedan chair!
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