Qiling, Donglai post house.
Qinger returned to the hall and sat at the table gloomily.
"Asked for a snub again?"
The third captain, Zhao Wuji, turned his head and asked Qinger in a low voice, with contemptuous eyes darting across the fierce guard at the door.
Qinger looked unhappy, answering harshly,
"Definitely! It doesn't make sense. We got in the post house but can't go out easily, and we have to listen to the prefect. I just miss our Lady. I can't even go and keep her company!"
Xiao Xiaoshen took the teacup and sipped. He smiled at Qinger with his eyebrows slanting,
"Do you think she needs your company? Just stay in the post house. Don't always sway like a candle between her and the Master."
"Pooh!" Qinger shook her head and scolded, "You are a candle. Your whole family members are candles!"
Xiao Xiaoshen stopped smiling at once. He glanced at the door of the post
Qinger crawled out of the dog hole and dusted herself angrily. Seeing how Yuan Qian and Xiao Xiaoshen couldn't hold their laughs, she rolled her eyes at them,"This is your good idea? Teaching me how to crawl out of a dog hole?"Xiao Xiaoshen crossed his arms and held his chest. He looked down at Qinger who was much shorter than him. He smiled and asked,"Who taught you Kungfu? You can't even climb over a wall? How can you protect Yunxi?"Qinger was not convinced. She smiled coldly and countered him with what he said to her in the post house,"Lady is with the Master. Does she need our protection? What are you thinking?""Huh? I...""Are you two finished? We have a business to do!"Yuan Qian was impatient. He interrupted their quarrel, turned back, and glanced at the end of the alley vigilantly.Qinger arched her back and asked quietly, "The tenth captain, are we real
A room at the Prefect's Mansion in Qiling.Prefect Feng was seated in the center, surrounded by several guards.Glaring, one guard swore to him,"Sir, we are all ready. The signal will be sent at nightfall. Our men will hit both the post house and the Prefect's Mansion to kill all of them!"Slowly raising his head, Prefect Feng's face went from bright to solemn. His piercing eyes became empty, in the depth of which was inexplicable gloom and sadness.His right fist clenched so hard that his finger joints snapped as loud as his emotions."Eleven years! It's time... to collect the blood debt for Lord Protector Zheng..."One guard looked at the window when a worrying thought struck him."Sir, the young guard by the eunuch's side was a sly one! Ever since they arrived, he's never stopped working with the Eastern Depot Master to make trouble for us."Prefect Feng retracted
She didn't know how long she had slept. When she rose from unconsciousness, she saw darkness all around her.Flame leaped. The shallow shadow moving on the wet black brick wall gradually became clear in Gu Yunxi's sleepy eyes.No sooner had she moved than she felt pain all over her body. This was the aftereffect of having been knocked down by the fake prefect.She was suddenly shocked.She found herself lying on the cold brick floor, bound with twine. With her face against the floor, she couldn't avoid the foul smell in the secret room, which made her retch.She opened her eyes to look around and found Feng Yunheng, who was covered with blood, lying a few steps away from her.He was asleep, perhaps. His back against the wall bent from torture, his head lowered still, and his shriveled body rose and fell rhythmically with his breath.Someone came with quick footsteps.Gu Yunxi twis
It was in February, Qiling. Lightning pierced the sky, and thunder roared."Rumble..."Lightning split down from the dark night sky, tearing it in two parts with its bright cold light.The deafening sound of thunder followed.Around the Prefect's Mansion and Donglai post house were in chaos. People were woken up by the great change. They ran outside and saw a red, burning world. Panic, anxiety, confusion, and bewilderment appeared in their eyes looking at the tragedy on the earth.In the Prefect's Mansion, after the fake prefect revealed his face, Gu Yunxi pointed at him and shouted,"Master, it's him! He shut the real Feng Yunheng away in the Prefect's Mansion's secret room underground!"The wind brought Gu Yunxi's excited shouts to them. Leng Qingtang and the fake prefect both turned their heads to her.When he saw Gu Yunxi, Leng Qingtang rose his dashing eyebrows. His face ligh
At night, the wind blew and the fire spread. In the sky above the Prefect's Mansion, the thunder roared and the lightning exploded."Don't be scared, Ruo. Hold on tight! You have to hold on tight!"Gu Yunxi stared at Wenren Junzheng, who was stepping back. Her eery and cold look softened and gradually warmed up.She faintly remembered the nightmare that had troubled her since she was little. In her dream, there was a man who called out to her anxiously and painfully. He hid half of his face under the half-worn bamboo hat. Was it him?But why was he the enemy of the Eastern Depot? Who was him?She stared at Wenren's empty sleeve that waved in the air. She tried to fill in the blank of her memory. She struggled to piece it up.She was torn inside. Wenren Junzheng looked at Leng Qingtang. Tears emerged in his woeful eyes. He had a pathetic and angry look."Why did you do this? Leng Qingtang, answ
About half an hour after the banquet began, a handsome servant of over ten years old came out from Donghua Gate.With his lowered eyes slowly sweeping over all the people at the door, he asked in a thin voice,"Who is the close guard of Commander-in-chief of the Eastern Depot?"Hearing this, Gu Yunxi was overjoyed, while a sense of nervousness rose simultaneously. She clenched the food box with her hands for fear that she might break something and lose decency.According to the rules, Gu Yunxi straightened her back and strode forward. She stopped three feet away from the servant, bent down to give a salute, and answered with a loud voice,"Lord, I am.""I see."The servant looked at her up and down and said with his lips curling slightly and his head nodding languidly,"Master Leng is a little drunk. He asked people to send him the sober-up soup. Take your belongings and come with
The Kanfang Pavilion in the Palace."Yunxi, what did you say?"With her beautiful face stunned and her slender body petrified, Gu Yunyao stared blankly at her sister across the table and slowly stood up from the stone bench.There were many female doctors with advanced medical skills in and out of the Dayi Palace. They could diagnose and treat all kinds of female patients.Acupuncture treatments required the patient to remove all clothing. To keep her chastity and reputation, a female patient must be treated by female doctors.The Imperial Doctor Jiang in the Palace, also known as Jiang Huaian, was quite familiar to Gu Yunyao.How could a full-grown man like him treat Yunxi? She had never heard of any female students that Jiang Huaian had taught.Could it be that the person who acupunctured Yunxi was.Impossible. How could he know medical skills?Gu Yunyao fixed her b
Dayi's banquets were held every time in the Baohe Palace, which was wide enough to contain hundreds of seats and groups of performing dancers and musicians.The back of Baohe Palace was connected to a large square platform above the clear river.It was midsummer now. Enchanting lotus blossomed with its crystal pink petals clustered around tender yellow stamens, and oily emerald lotus leaves crowded closely together.Emperor Jingxiao would appreciate music and dance on the platform or took on a gaily-painted boat, letting the musicians and dancers perform for him on the river, when he was in a good mood.The night was inky.Stringed and woodwind instruments played beautiful and gay melodies in Baohe Palace, which was lit up with numerous candles as bright as day that each beaming face in the Palace was illuminated.When Yunyao and Yunxi were talking about the old days in the Kanfang Pavilion, there was a li