Chapter 52 Chapter 52 I Want to Share a Bed with Ayu
Hmm? Is he talking to her? Or is he just dreaming?
Seeing that Hanyu didn't move, Yin Jinglong said again, "If you don't want to share a bed with me, then you sleep on the bed and I'll sleep on the table. You're still injured and you won't catch a cold."
"This... isn't good!"
Hanyu wrapped herself tightly in the quilt. The cold air of the night invaded from her back. Sleeping on this table without a quilt to cushion her forehead, she felt quite cold indeed.
She said embarrassed words, but her eyes looked at the person on the bed pitifully.
Yin Jinglong struggled to get up, supporting himself on the edge of the bed with his hands, but fell to the ground after taking only two steps.
Hanyu couldn't bear to see him looking so pitiful, so she went forward and helped him back to bed and stopped making things difficult for him.
"Does your wound still hurt?" he asked gently.
"It's okay. I won't die."
"Then do you want to sleep with me?"
Hanyu's sharp eyes suddenly widened, as if to say, "Just try and see if you dare to say something nonsense again."
"My leg injury prevents me from sleeping on a soft mattress. You are injured, and you won't catch a cold. If you don't want to sleep on the bed, forget it. Just consider my kindness in vain!"
Yin Jinglong gently pushed Hanyu's body away, and deliberately left the mattress under the bed for her, perhaps it would be warmer this way.
The two of them didn't say a word all night, one lying on the bed and the other sleeping on the table, and they spent the night in silence.
The next morning, there was a loud noise outside the inn. Several rude men were arguing with the waiter. Hanyu was woken up and opened the window to look downstairs.
I saw two officers and soldiers wearing brown armor and holding swords arguing with the waiter. It sounded like they were arguing about the waiter not arranging a room for them.
As for the two officers and soldiers, their accents sounded like they were from Shangjing in the Central Plains, and the armor they wore seemed to have been seen somewhere before.
Hanyu recalled that the guards in the palace were not dressed like this, so whose lord's soldiers were they?
While she was lost in thought, Yin Jinglong had gotten up at some point. Seeing her standing by the window for a long time without moving, he asked what had happened.
Hanyu told him her doubts and guesses.
"Oh? Soldiers from the capital? Help me up and let me see."
With Hanyu's support, he slowly walked to the window, lowered his eyes and looked down, and recognized who it was at a glance.
Yin Jinglong raised the corner of his mouth slightly, revealing an intriguing smile, "What a coincidence, I actually ran into the princess's people?"
When Hanyu heard they were the princess's men, her hair stood on end, and the old wound on her wrist began to ache. What were Princess Chaoyang's men doing in Southern Xinjiang? How many men had she sent? Why were there only two solitary soldiers downstairs?
Yin Jinglong told her that when the news came out in the capital that the great general Yin Jingheng appeared in the southern border, the princess's mansion had many secret guards. In order to give her a chance to redeem herself from her crime, His Majesty gave her the task of finding out the truth of the news.
However, as far as he knew, Princess Chaoyang did not take action personally at all. She handed the mess over to the good-for-nothing prince consort who only knew how to live off his wife.
The prince consort had already set out from the capital more than 20 days ago. Calculating the date, he should have arrived in southern Xinjiang half a month earlier. How come he appeared in this deserted border town now?
"What should we do next? If we leave now, we might run into her people, but if we stay where we are, there's no guarantee they won't come upstairs."
Hanyu frowned worriedly and subconsciously covered the scar on her right wrist. Princess Chaoyang was indeed Yin Jinglong's aunt. Her family were all crazy people who killed people without blinking an eye. She almost lost her life to her, and this time she happened to run into her again. She had to hide well.
She looked at Yin Jinglong's confident expression, as if he was not afraid of being discovered by them at all. In other words, he wanted them to discover his identity.
He asked Hanyu to call the waiter over and after careful questioning he found out that the two soldiers were just sentinels of the prince consort, who had come to scout the way and ask about the store.
Based on this speculation, Prince Consort Sun’s team should be nearby.
Speak of Cao Cao, and he will appear. Prince Consort Sun shouted from downstairs in a smoky voice: "Is this the inn that won't let our people stay? Where is the innkeeper?"
The waiter panicked and cried out, "Oh no! Oh no!" He hurried downstairs to help the boss deal with this group of unreasonable officials who acted like bandits.
The innkeeper knew that these were people who were not easy to deal with, so he greeted them with a smile and explained that he was not refusing to let them stay, but that he really had no rooms left and could not accommodate dozens of officials.
Prince Consort Sun randomly picked a room and ordered his soldiers to push the door. "Isn't there a vacant room? Boss, you are so dishonest! You clearly have a room available, but you lied to us. It's obvious that you don't want to accommodate us anymore."
"Oh! That's not the case, sir. You're being too kind! I simply feel that our shabby inn is ill-equipped to host a distinguished official like you, and I'm afraid that my poor hospitality will displease you. That's why I'm recommending another large inn in town to your soldiers. The facilities there are a hundred times better than ours!"
The waiter hid behind the innkeeper and bowed and nodded quickly, not daring to face these people directly. After all, knives have sharp eyes, and he was afraid that they would raise their swords and chop people if they were dissatisfied.
Prince Consort Sun naturally wouldn't be satisfied with his explanation. He insisted on living in a place he wasn't allowed to live in! Not only that, he also wanted to stay in a hotel that was overpriced! He also wanted to eat a free meal!
He brought dozens of guards from the princess's mansion into the inn and broke into each room from the first to the third floor, regardless of whether there was anyone inside.
The guests were so frightened by this group of people that they fled in panic, carrying their bags on their backs, without even having time to pay for their rooms. The innkeeper slapped his thigh and cried, "Hey! Don't leave! You haven't paid yet!"
These tyrannical ancestors not only drove away his guests, but also wanted to stay in the hotel of the tyrant! Is there no law in this world?
Hanyu secretly opened the door a little and caught a glimpse of the group of people who unreasonably broke into other people's rooms, drove out the original residents, and then let their own people move in with a swagger.
Whenever she saw Prince Consort Sun's bully-like face, she couldn't help but recall the scene when he cut her wrists with a dagger, and how he chased her with a crescent sickle. The thought was terrifying, and her legs couldn't help but tremble.
She asked Yin Jinglong tremblingly, "They're almost on the third floor. Should we hide? No, there's nowhere to hide in this tiny room! Do we have to jump out of this window?"
"Why should we hide from him? Are you afraid of him? I am not afraid!"
Just as Prince Consort Sun's men were pushing the door open, the innkeeper quickly stepped in and said, "This room is really not suitable! The person living inside is also a noble from your Central Plains. I can't afford to offend him! Please skip this room!"
When he heard that the man was also from the Central Plains and was called a "noble lady", Prince Consort Sun inquired about the identity of this noble lady with great interest.
The innkeeper shook his head with a sad face, "He hasn't revealed his identity, but judging by the token he carried with him, he must be someone special."
Prince Consort Sun knocked on the door and loudly demanded, "Whoever's inside, please introduce yourself!"
Hanyu looked at Yin Jinglong in horror, not daring to speak, while he just stared at the figure outside the door with an expressionless face.
Seeing no one answering, Prince Consort Sun lost his patience and sternly ordered the innkeeper, "Kick him out! I'll pay double what he paid for the room!"
"What should we do? Why don't you say something?" Han Yu whispered.
When Prince Consort Sun saw that there was still no response from inside, he was about to kick the door open when Yin Jinglong shouted back, "How dare you, Prince Consort! How dare you trespass into the chamber of the Prince Regent?"
As soon as these words were spoken, Prince Consort Sun's feet were suspended in the air. He was stunned for a long time, unable to believe his ears.
He also asked the soldier next to him: "Why do I seem to hear Prince Yin's voice? Did you hear it?"
The soldier nodded uncertainly, not daring to answer.
Prince Consort Sun suddenly burst out laughing. He had never expected to meet his powerful nephew in such a remote place. What a strange thing!
Since the person living inside is really a noble from the Central Plains, and even the regent prince who behaves more cruelly than the princess, then of course one cannot just kick the door open rudely, but must invite him in.
He feigned politeness and addressed the people inside, "On behalf of Her Royal Highness the Princess, I have been ordered by His Majesty to the southern border to investigate the General's return. I never expected Prince Yin, rumored to be secretly raising personal soldiers and plotting rebellion, to appear in this desolate place. Could it be that his plot to rebel was exposed, and he's fled here out of fear of punishment?"
Prince Consort Sun and his soldiers laughed loudly. At this moment, the door of the room suddenly opened. Hanyu hid behind the door. Yin Jinglong had been helped up from the bed by her and sat upright on the chair.
As soon as the door opened, Yin Jinglong's sinister and cold eyes were staring at Prince Consort Sun, making his back cold and the smile on his face froze.
"How dare you accuse me of rebellion without any evidence? Don't you know that the consequences of my anger are very serious? It won't be as simple as blowing up a secret room."
"Why...why...is there no evidence? Your Highness's secret guards have already gathered all sorts of evidence that you, Prince Yin, have amassed wealth and harmed the people, maintained private soldiers, and are plotting rebellion. Not only that, you lied to His Majesty, claiming to be absent from court due to illness, but in reality, you've fled for fear of punishment! Now His Majesty has sealed off your palace and is dispatching forces everywhere to capture you!"
Han Yu's heart tightened. It turned out that the bad news that the spider had said was true. But why? Why did the news of the rebellion have to spread when Yin Long left Shangjing?
Prince Consort Sun must have thought that he had found a good opportunity this time. His Majesty had offered a reward for the criminal Yin Jinglong. If he allowed him to bring the criminal back with the reward, then His Majesty would not only reward him with a princess's mansion, but might also give him an official title. In the future, he would be a man of real power instead of wasting his life with the title of Prince Consort.
He deliberately poked his head inside to see how many people Yin Jinglong had brought with him. He was also trying to gauge whether his own men could defeat the assassins in his palace.
But he looked around and found that there was no one else in the room except him.
So he ordered, "Come here! Arrest this traitor!"
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