Chapter 74 Meng Huaiyan: I'll make you wish you were dead!
Chapter Seventy-Four: Meng Huaiyan, I'll make you wish you were dead!
Qingyang immediately sealed the city gates and ordered the Shadow Guards to search the city extensively for most of the hour, but they found no clues whatsoever.
A living person will inevitably leave traces whenever they make a move, but the Crown Princess was like a tiny drop of water sinking into a lake, leaving no trace.
No one has yet appeared who can do something so seamlessly that the Shadow Guards can't detect a single trace of it, unless the Crown Princess is no longer in the city.
Qingyang immediately went to report the situation to Meng Huaiyan.
Upon hearing this news, Meng Huaiyan unconsciously clenched his fists, his expression dark and unreadable.
He hadn't expected the person behind him to be so fast; in just half an hour, they had managed to transport Shen Tang out of the city.
Without hesitation, Meng Huaiyan immediately mounted his horse and galloped towards the city gate.
"Leave a small group to continue the search within the city; the rest of you, come with me outside the city immediately!"
"yes!"
The sun came out today, and after the snow melted, all traces on the roads outside the city disappeared along with the melting snow.
Moreover, the person behind it was extremely cautious, deliberately leaving many misleading traces along the way, which brought great difficulty to the investigation by the Shadow Guard and wasted a lot of time.
It wasn't until the morning of the next day that Meng Huaiyan discovered the long and short marks left by Shen Tang.
Meng Huaiyan hadn't slept all night, and coupled with his inability to find Shen Tang's whereabouts, his mood was already gloomy.
When he finally saw the mark left by Shen Tang, and found that the location of the mark led to three different roads, and that all three roads had been deliberately left behind, his expression became even more gloomy.
Just as he was about to order the Shadow Guards to split into three groups, he suddenly sensed a sharp gust of wind heading straight for his face. Qingyang, who was beside him, reacted quickly and stood in front of Meng Huaiyan, waving his sword to knock the arrow away.
The arrow veered off course and instantly embedded itself in the tree trunk on the left.
Meng Huaiyan looked in the direction the arrow came from. The moment the arrow was released, a man in black turned and left without hesitation, disappearing without a trace in an instant.
Meng Huaiyan frowned. This person's skill was far superior to Youlan's, and his lightness skill was excellent. No wonder he was able to severely injure Youlan and bring Shen Tang out of the city gate so quickly.
Seeing that there seemed to be a note attached to the arrow, Qingyang quickly went over, pulled the arrow off the tree trunk, and handed the note to Meng Huaiyan.
Meng Huaiyan reached out and took the note, opened it and read: "Twenty miles southwest, Hemu Manor. Go alone, or Shen Tang's life will be in danger."
Meng Huaiyan's hand clenched the note instantly, the image of Shen Tang flashed through his mind, and he made a decision in a split second.
"You stay here."
"Your Highness, no! This man clearly kidnapped the Princess Consort with ulterior motives to lure you here. If you go alone without your brothers, the consequences will be dire!"
Meng Huaiyan knew all too well that this journey was fraught with danger, but since Shen Tang was in his hands, she dared not risk her life.
"I'll go ahead first. You can set off a quarter of an hour later. Stop about five miles from Hemu Mountain Villa and be careful to keep your positions hidden."
"Do not act rashly or expose yourself without my signal, do you understand?"
Seeing that the Crown Prince had made arrangements, Qingyang finally felt a little more at ease.
"Yes, I will certainly follow your orders."
Meng Huaiyan dared not delay any longer, mounted his horse, and galloped swiftly toward the location of Hemu Manor.
Upon arriving at the entrance of Hemu Manor, a man in black approached him, searched him, confiscated his weapons, and then led him to the main hall.
As soon as Meng Huaiyan entered the room, he saw Shen Tang tied to a chair. Seeing that there were no signs of injury on her body, his worried heart finally settled down.
He met Shen Tang's somewhat panicked and frightened gaze, and quickly reassured her, "Don't be afraid, trust me, everything will be alright."
Inside the house, besides the man in black who had shot arrows at him from the forest, there was another man completely covered up in a black cloak.
The man laughed strangely after hearing Meng Huaiyan's reckless words.
"Lord Meng is so confident. You don't really think you can get away unscathed from my place, do you?"
Meng Huaiyan's lips curled slightly as he looked at the man with a cold smile: "Instead of worrying about whether I can get out unscathed, you should worry about yourself."
"If His Majesty knew that you had not returned to the capital, what punishment would he impose on you?"
"Your Highness Prince An."
Li Yuanqi hadn't expected that Meng Huaiyan would still recognize him even though he was so well covered up. So he stopped trying to hide it and pulled down his hood, speaking to Meng Huaiyan with a sinister look.
"Then you'd better be lucky enough to complain to my father!"
After Li Yuanqi finished speaking, he drew his sword and held it against Shen Tang's neck, then shouted at Meng Huaiyan, "Kneel down!"
Meng Huaiyan pursed his lips, staring at Li Yuanqi's face, his eyes surging with murderous intent.
He has the knees to kneel before heaven and earth, ancestors, parents, and sovereigns.
Now, making him kneel before a fallen prince who has lost power? He's not worthy of it!
Seeing that he didn't move, Li Yuanqi immediately moved the sword in his hand closer to Shen Tang's neck. The blade pierced Shen Tang's skin and left a bloody mark on his neck.
"I said kneel down!"
Shen Tang frowned in pain and couldn't help but shed tears.
When Meng Huaiyan saw the bloodstains on Shen Tang's neck and her tears, his eyes instantly turned red, and his fists clenched unconsciously.
Looking at Li Yuanqi, his eyes gleamed with a sinister and cold light.
Meng Huaiyan's cheeks bulged as he finally...slowly...slowly knelt down.
Seeing that Meng Huaiyan had finally knelt down, Li Yuanqi let out a triumphant laugh.
Li Yuanqi was the prince most favored and trusted by the emperor, and his prominence once overshadowed that hypocritical crown prince.
Half of the court officials were his vassals, and they all wanted to support him as the new crown prince.
He used the huge sums of money he made from selling smuggled salt to recruit and train an army, which has now grown to tens of thousands of men.
Given the right opportunity, he could get his father to depose Li Yuanchen and make him the new crown prince.
Everything was clearly moving in a positive direction.
If Meng Huaiyan hadn't insisted on investigating that salt smuggling case, how could he have ended up in such a state today!
His father had clearly intended to let him go, but the Meng family insisted on pursuing him relentlessly. In the end, his father banished him from the capital and sent him to Pingliang, a desolate place where even birds wouldn't bother to defecate.
He only thought about how his former glory had been destroyed by the person in front of him, and all the humiliations he had suffered since being banished from the capital.
He wished he could tear Meng Huaiyan to pieces!
Li Yuanqi sheathed the sword he had been holding to Shen Tang's neck, slowly walked towards Meng Huaiyan's position, and then fiercely stabbed Meng Huaiyan's thigh with his sword.
Blood gushed from his thigh instantly, and Meng Huaiyan groaned in pain as his forehead was instantly covered in cold sweat.
Li Yuanqi did not draw his sword; instead, he gripped the hilt and twisted it more forcefully.
Looking at Meng Huaiyan's disheveled appearance, enduring pain and covered in cold sweat, he felt a sense of great satisfaction.
"Meng Huaiyan, you've finally met your match! Hahahaha!"
After laughing his fill, Li Yuanqi suddenly grabbed Meng Huaiyan by the collar, staring at him with a fierce and venomous look, and said, word by word.
"Meng Huaiyan!"
“I will inflict upon you all the humiliations I have suffered; death would be too good for you.”
I'll make you wish you were dead!
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Shen Tang's escape countdown ()
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