Chapter 299: All will be killed as traitors

"Outside... there are so many imperial soldiers outside!"

"Why are you all carrying swords?"

"Something bad is going to happen! Run!"

Outside the alley, countless imperial troops rushed towards the city gate.

At this hour, the sky was just getting light, and the people had dressed up early and gone out to go to the market, but they were almost had their spines broken by the cavalry.

Screams and shouts echoed throughout several streets. For a moment, people were in a panic and ran home desperately. The crowd was so crowded that the mother and child were separated. The elderly man was pushed to a vegetable stall nearby, and the shouts for help completely drowned out the crying of the child.

"Child! My child!"

"Has anyone seen my grandmother?"

"Stop pushing, there are people under your feet!"

Cai Lian only half-sticked out her body, glanced outside, and quickly retracted her head, looking back at the people in the courtyard, "Miss, it's a complete mess outside. It's not even daybreak yet, and civilians and soldiers are all mixed together. If this continues, there will definitely be a big chaos."

"What..." Rong Qing's face turned pale. His trembling fingertips touched his slightly swollen belly and he slowly stood up. "I have to go save those people."

"What are you going to do?" Su Cheng grabbed her wrist first, his face solemn, "You are pregnant now, you must not make any mistakes, otherwise the prince consort will be furious to death."

"Those are the people of Daqi, my people." Rongqing's eyes were filled with tears. Although she knew she should hide in the small courtyard for now, she couldn't just sit back and watch the people suffer outside. "Ah Cheng, I am a child of the royal family. No one knows better than me what will happen if the people riot."

Su Cheng frowned, and confusion flashed in his eyes.

"Princess, even if we wanted to help, it's such a mess outside, with everyone fleeing for their lives, no one would listen to us." Du Heng sighed, unable to speak. "I'm a doctor, and hearing those noises outside doesn't make me feel good either. But Princess, you have a special status, and you're pregnant, so you absolutely can't leave the house right now."

"Rongqing, if something happens to you, won't Bai Moyan's life be in jeopardy?" Zhang Yuemei also disagreed and whispered, "If you really want to save those people... I'll go."

Rong Qing widened his eyes slightly and shook his head without thinking, "No..."

"This is the only way now." Zhang Yuemei held her hand, pursed her lips and smiled, "My father is devoted to the emperor, and I am also devoted to you. As long as the royal family has an order, we will naturally obey it."

"I'm going with Miss Zhang." Su Cheng pulled out a dark object from his sleeve like a magic trick, his expression serious. "With this thing, I don't have to worry about anyone taking advantage of the chaos to cause trouble."

"What... is this?" Rong Qing looked at the object in her hand. It looked so new to him. He had never seen it before.

After all, Zhang Yuemei, who was from the Beijing intelligence network, was more knowledgeable. She took a few steps forward, took the object from Su Cheng's hand and examined it carefully, "This does look a bit like a pistol..."

"It's even lighter than a hand cannon. It's called a gun." Su Cheng quickly demonstrated how to use it. "Press here and the bullet will fire. The gun is extremely powerful. If Yan Sheng hadn't suddenly started an uprising today, I wouldn't have been willing to take this thing out. Have you guys memorized how to use it?"

"What's the point of us writing it down? There's only one good thing—"

Before Zhang Yuemei could finish her words, Su Cheng waved his hand and instructed the two maids Qingshuang and Cailian to go into the west wing.

A moment later, the two girls worked together to carry out a large box of guns.

"This..." Rong Qing was dumbfounded and almost bit his tongue. "When did you get these things?"

She couldn't say that the system was running an assembly line to give her a large number of modern goodies in order to compensate her.

Now, it is no problem for her to conquer a city by herself.

"There's no time to explain. Keep these things safe. Qingshuang, Cailian, I'll leave this to you." Su Cheng put on a bamboo hat, covering most of his face, and said in a deep voice, "If I leave this door, I will have to return with A Ming's troops. Take care, everyone. See you at dawn."

"Acheng...Acheng!"

"mother!"

"Miss Wang, you must not disturb the fetus." Seeing Wang Qingchan and Su Zhijun about to rush out together, Du Heng was frightened and broke out in a cold sweat. He hurriedly reached out to stop them, and did not forget to scold the little girl, "Cui, don't follow them and cause trouble. Your mother is a lucky person, and nothing will happen to her."

Su Zhijun bit her lips tightly, watching the thin figure plunge into the darkness, and couldn't help crying out loud, "Mom... I can help you, Mom!"

She has always been sensitive to emotions. Although she didn't know what was happening outside, her mother had never been as silent as she was today.

Something big must have happened today. How could she let her mother go out alone?

The door of the courtyard was closed tightly. The two maids stood by the door with tears in their eyes, holding new and novel toys they had never seen before, and recited the instructions of the young lady over and over in their minds.

Tonight, no one can open the door of the courtyard.

Wang Qingchan's body was limp. He sat powerlessly on the stone bench, staring blankly at the closed courtyard door.

There's no news about Yan Ci, and Ah Cheng is gone too...

In a hurry, I felt a slight pain in my lower abdomen.

"Mr. Du..."

Du Heng snapped back to his senses and wiped the tears from his eyes with his sleeve. He turned around hastily, only to see Wang Qingchan's face pale in the candlelight. "Miss Wang, what's wrong with you? Why do you look so bad?"

"My stomach...my...stomach..." Wang Qingchan covered her lower abdomen, a thin layer of cold sweat seeping out of her forehead.

Rong Qing's face changed drastically, and he hurried over to help her, "Mr. Du, you're not too frightened..."

"Don't worry, let's not worry." Du Heng took the medicine box handed to him by Ping'er, his fingertips trembling slightly. "I'm here. Miss Wang and the young master will be fine!"

At the entrance of the alley, Zhang Yue squinted at the beauty beside her, observing her subtly, "Ah Cheng, how come you always manage to come up with one or two new and interesting things I've never seen before?"

Su Cheng smiled at her, his almond eyes clear and bright, "Ms. Zhang, I'm not a bad person."

As soon as they finished speaking, the two of them walked out of the alley.

There were already quite a few people jammed on the streets, some were there to catch the morning market, some were there to join in the fun, but ended up unable to go home.

The crowd was so excessive that even many imperial troops were stuck at the back and unable to go to the city gate to provide support.

Zhang Yuemei wanted to speak to persuade her, but she saw the girl next to her picked up a weapon and fired two shots straight into the sky.

The loud noise of gunfire plunged the street into an eerie silence. Su Cheng lifted her skirt, stepped onto the stone lions in front of a nearby restaurant, and shouted, "Everyone, be quiet! The soldiers are fighting bloody battles outside the city gates. Not only can you not help, you're also blocking the only way to the city gates. If the rebels break through the city gates, how many days do you have left to live?"

"Now, make way!"

Another gunshot rang out.

"Anyone who dares to take advantage of the chaos and cause trouble again will be treated as a traitor and killed!"