Chapter 96 Zhao Mingzhu, you bastard

When An Yun heard the news and rushed over, she took one look at the cliff and wanted to jump down.

Lei Ruoshui quickly grabbed her and was about to curse when she saw Gu Yu coming on horseback. She used all her strength to grab An Yun.

"Princess, hold her back! She's about to do something stupid!"

After Gu Yu dismounted, she stumbled and walked towards An Yun, pinching her palms:

"What are you going to do?"

An Yun was speechless. Tears welled up in her eyes, but she stubbornly refused to let them fall, and her throat was choked with suppressed sobs.

"Do you want to go down?" Gu Yu asked again.

An Yun nodded suddenly. She wanted to go downstairs because Mingzhu was still waiting for her.

Gu Yu took her hand and said, "Then go down. I'll go with you."

Lei Ruoshui was so anxious after hearing this that she didn't care about offending her superiors and reached out to grab Gu Yu:

"Princess, I wanted you to go and persuade her, but no... none of you can go down. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has already gone down. I've also sent someone back to help search. You can't go down alone. It's too dangerous!"

Lei Ruoshui tried her best to persuade them, and since it was clear that neither of them was shaken, she decided to continue to persuade them.

An Yun pried her hands apart, Lei Ruoshui hurried to grab her, and Gu Yu followed.

Lei Ruoshui was so angry that he jumped up and down: "Are the three of you connected by an umbilical cord?!"

When Zhao Mingzhu fell off a cliff, they went there regardless of their own danger!

Forget it, she is still young. Lei Ruoshui bent down to look at the cliff shrouded in thick fog.

She knows martial arts, so she can't fall to death, right?!

Lei Ruoshui was about to follow when she saw Gu Yu's figure seemed to sway. She reached out to support him and was horrified to find that Gu Yu's temperature was frighteningly high!

Only then did she notice that Gu Yu's shoulders and back were soaked by the rain, and the knees of her skirt were dirty, as if she had rolled in the mud.

Lei Ruoshui hurriedly shouted towards the bottom of the cliff: "An Yun, An Yun come back...Gu Yu has a high fever!"

The cliff at Guoqing Temple is steep and dangerous, with moss and mountains everywhere. Even experienced herbalists dare not set foot there easily.

"Your Highness, please be extremely careful." Changhe followed behind, trembling with fear and unable to help but say.

He blamed himself in his heart. It was all his fault. His Highness sent him to follow to protect the Crown Princess, but he actually neglected his duty.

If anything happened to the Crown Princess, it would be a pity for them brothers to die a thousand times.

Gu Qingheng didn't say anything, but suddenly stopped moving. He looked at the lonely smoky purple on the short pine tree.

That was the shawl that Zhao Mingzhu wore when she went out in the morning. Now the shawl appeared, but its owner was nowhere to be found.

Gu Qingheng's heart suddenly collapsed and he felt desolate.

"Your Highness, do you want me to fetch it?"

Changshu had been following behind silently. When he saw the shawl, he remembered that it belonged to the Crown Princess, so he thought that Gu Qingheng wanted to take it back.

"No need." Gu Qingheng uttered the words through his thin lips, the tone of his words being difficult to resist.

It didn't matter, his pearl was still somewhere waiting for him to take her home.

It was originally drizzling, but blue-gold lightning flashed across the sky with great force, and the rain gradually became heavier, forming a dense net.

Gu Qingheng didn't even look back and went deep into the bottom of the cliff in the rain.

Half an hour later, everyone finally reached a flat area. Chang He wiped the water off his face. The rainwater poured into his mouth, and he spat it out and suddenly shouted:

"Your Highness, that's the Crown Princess's cat box!"

The cat box was placed neatly on the rock, giving the illusion that it was placed there by someone and the owner had just left temporarily to avoid the rain.

Hope flashed in Gu Qingheng's eyes. He walked over step by step, but when he arrived in front of the cat box, he found that it was because of the rain that they could not see the details clearly.

The cat box was covered in scratches, the bottom had been smashed to pieces, and faint traces of red blood could be seen between the cracks in the bamboo strips.

Gu Qingheng picked up the cat box without saying a word. The bloodstains were more obvious in the places that had not been soaked by water.

Then Changshu and Changhe picked up cat hair in the mud around them, and the situation was not optimistic.

"I haven't seen Wuyun and Juzi. They must have hidden with Mingzhu. Take your men and search this area inch by inch."

Gu Qingheng was holding the cat box, and the fingers on it were transparent white with bulging blue veins.

God was kind to them after all. The rain came and went quickly, and the dark clouds dispersed, revealing a clear sky.

It will be a beautiful day again.

At the bottom of the cliff, light was scattered everywhere. Gu Qingheng's eyes fell on the lake. Among the reeds, an embroidered shoe swayed with the ripples.

Gu Qingheng's mind was confused. He walked away slowly, and the cold lake water gradually swallowed him.

The water is so cold, is Mingzhu feeling cold?

Changhe had been paying attention all along, but was shocked when he saw this scene. He ran back and grabbed Gu Qingheng's sleeve.

"Your Highness, all the mistakes are mine and Changhe's fault. You are so precious, why do you need to go and get it yourself? Let your subordinates go..."

Gu Qingheng didn't look back, and Changshu hurriedly took out the amulet from his arms:

"Your Highness, after the Crown Princess arrived at Guoqing Temple, she went to ask for a peace amulet. I secretly thought she asked for it on your behalf. She donated all her copper coins for this amulet, which shows how sincere she was at the time."

"You are so disrespectful to Kang Jian, won't it make the Crown Princess sad?!"

Gu Qingheng turned his head, his lips trembling as he watched the wet amulet fall into his palm, gradually tightening, exerting force, and finally clenching into a fist.

"I'm fine."

Gu Qingheng felt as if strength was injected into his chest. He stretched out his hand and patted the surface of the lake, letting Bo push his shoes to him.

Gu Qingheng's eyes seemed to be bleeding, and his voice was low and hoarse.

As if he had made up his mind, he said, "Let them scatter and search. If he's alive, I'll find him. If he's dead, I'll find his body."

One hour, two hours, three hours...

Originally, there was a full moon hanging in the sky, with stars dotted around like the Milky Way.

It was gradually submerged in the pale sky.

More and more guards from the Eastern Palace came back to report, until the last team returned.

Their faces were filled with dejection. "Your Highness, we didn't see the Crown Princess...but we found a piece of cloth in the bushes."

Gu Qingheng took it and seemed to have some feeling that it was indeed Zhao Mingzhu's clothes.

The Guoqing Temple is built on a high mountain, surrounded by towering peaks that stretch endlessly.

The howling of wolves came from somewhere in the mountains, stimulating everyone present. Wild beasts were rampaging in the mountains, and people fell off the cliff and disappeared... Everyone present thought of another possibility.

Gu Qingheng's eyes were dry as he recalled that when Zhao Mingzhu looked up at him and smiled, she said she would wait for him to come home.

In Changle Palace.

Gu Yu opened her eyes and had a splitting headache.

"Gu Yu, are you awake?" Zhao Mingzhu leaned forward with a smile.

Gu Yu blinked: "Zhao Mingzhu?"

But Zhao Mingzhu's figure disappeared in the wind, and Gu Yu suddenly woke up, gasping for breath.

Gu Yu held up her forehead, feeling a sweet and fishy taste in her throat. She saw An Yun sleeping beside her on the bed and slowly swallowed it.

An Yun had obviously been crying; her makeup was all smudged and her eyelids were swollen like walnuts.

At this time, the palace maid came in and said, "Princess, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has returned to the East Palace... The Crown Princess is still missing."

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Gu Yu said softly: "Zhao Mingzhu, you bastard."