"It's up to the princess to kill or chop him up."
With just this one sentence, Su Huai's face turned cold.
She always smiled at everyone, but this was the first time she was so cold, which made Gu Miao feel something unusual.
Squinting her eyes, she slowly approached Su Huai and lifted Su Huai's chin.
"Who are you?"
"The princess can't handle it."
This sentence made Gu Miao feel an unnatural sense of crisis.
From outside the door, a soldier knocked on the door and came in.
"Princess, the troops are ready. Do you think we should proceed now?"
Gu Miao and Su Huai looked at the soldier at the same time. Su Huai's eyes widened and he suddenly looked at Gu Miao.
"what are you up to?!"
Gu Miao stood up, looked down at the tied Su Huai, and snorted coldly.
"You, too, have no business."
"Let's do it."
The soldier responded and left. When he turned around, Su Huai clearly saw the flint on his waist.
"You want it!"
Su Huai's eyes flashed with shock.
"You can't be so vicious! We in Huaixiang Pavilion have no grudge against you!"
"You're getting in my way and colluding with Changle. This is your hatred for me. This is your grudge against me."
After saying this, Gu Miao stood up and was about to leave. When he walked to the brazier, he felt a burst of heat.
Immediately he fixed his eyes on the brazier and smiled slowly.
"Lan Xuan, torture her until she speaks."
Lan Xuan's expression did not change at all, she bowed and said
"yes."
"You can't..."
Su Huai's voice was drowned out by the branding iron that was getting closer and closer to her. From the woodshed, a struggling scream broke through the sky.
…
"Princess!!"
Bai Lu broke through the door and entered. Countless black smoke rose in the hall behind her. She was covered in black carbon and her face was not very clean. She coughed a few times and covered her mouth and nose. But she saw that Gu Qingsheng had woken up and was hurriedly putting on his coat. He frowned and looked at Bai Lu.
"Bai Lu! How are they? Are they all safe?"
Outside the window of Gu Qingsheng's room, a raging fire was burning. The sound of weeds being burned in the yard could be heard, and black smoke kept coming in through the window.
She hadn't even put on her coat yet as the fire was about to spread. She ran out hastily with Bai Lu. The fire in the hall below was raging, and all the exquisite tables and chairs had been burned to ashes.
"The front and back doors of Huaixiang Pavilion are locked. I don't know what method someone outside used, but no matter how hard they try, they can't open it!"
"Madam Xi has already gone down to the cellar with the other girls! Let's go down quickly!"
Locking the door from the outside and setting fire from the inside, what a brilliant move...
Gu Qingsheng narrowed his eyes slightly
"This is really a generous move by Gu Miao."
It is so cruel that it is hard not to imagine that Luo Zhaozhao was not involved.
Following the black smoke along the way, Gu Qingsheng coughed twice. Fortunately, Bai Lu brought a bucket of water when she came and poured it on her clothes, so that she would not get injured on the way to the cellar.
Those fires must have been poured with gasoline, so they burned very fiercely and ordinary water could not put them out.
The pain burning on his skin was excruciating. Amidst the raging fire, Gu Qingsheng suddenly remembered the deep burn on Xu Qingyi's arm. Even Master Jingyuan couldn't heal it. It must have been very painful...
The iron rod of the cellar had been burned red by the fire. Bai Lu hurriedly went up to pull it, and suddenly there was a crackling sound on her hand.
She screamed and took a step back, and the blisters on her hands suddenly rose high.
Gu Qingsheng stepped forward, and seeing that the fire was about to come over, she didn't care about anything else. She wrapped her wet coat around the pole and pulled it up with all her strength!
A black secret passage appeared before her eyes. She grabbed Bai Lu and climbed down. The iron door of the secret passage closed immediately, and the outer coat that had been wrapped around the pole was instantly burned to ashes.
"Princess, Miss Luo, the tea is here."
Lan Xuan served tea to Gu Miao and Luo Zhaozhao, while Xiguo stood aside without moving.
Lan Xuan glanced at her, then smiled and put the tea next to the two of them.
"Well, how's the plan going?"
Gu Miao rubbed his temples and looked at Lan Xuan, who replied
"The fire has already started, but I heard that Princess Changle's carriage was found in the stable. Princess Changle might also..."
“Bang!!”
Before she could finish her words, Lan Xuan was thrown to the ground by a sharp slap. She kowtowed repeatedly, not caring about the big swollen slap mark on her face.
"Princess, please spare me! Princess, please spare me! Princess, please spare me!"
"Who told you to call her a princess? What kind of princess is she?! Dirty thing! Bah!"
Gu Miao held her waist, her chest heaving with anger. Luo Zhaozhao smiled and stood up to pat her on the back.
"Why are you so angry with this servant? Anyway, Gu Qingsheng is in Huaixiang Pavilion now. It doesn't matter if he was burned to death. Why rush like this?"
"The most crucial issue now is to find Lin Song. Young Master Lin Song is very important to the old minister. If you find him, Minister Lin will owe you a favor."
Luo Zhaozhao's eyes flashed with shrewdness, and he calmed down Gu Miao and sat down.
"But even if we find Lin Song, if he refuses to listen to us, even if we send him back to the Shangshu Mansion, if he does something harmful to us again, even if the old Shangshu owes me a favor..."
"Princess."
In the candlelight, Luo Zhaozhao's voice was a little bewitching.
"We need to take a long-term view."
"Minister Lin is the Minister of Personnel. Which of these officials wouldn't want to win him over? He has a lot of information about them."
"This Minister Lin thinks highly of Lin Song. Even though Lin Qingshan has shown his potential, Minister Lin still has this bastard in his heart."
"Controlling Lin Song means controlling Minister Lin, and thus controlling the lifeline of all court officials. Princess... do you understand what I mean?"
Gu Miao frowned, a strange feeling rising in his heart
"You mean..."
"I mean..."
Luo Zhaozhao's voice became lighter
"Let him become your consort..."
These words startled Gu Miao. Before she could speak, two palace servants came in and knelt down.
"Princess! That woman refuses to confess no matter what. There's not a single spot left on her body...if she keeps going like this..."
Perhaps she was frightened by Luo Zhaozhao's words just now. She rubbed her brows. The fire had been set, and Su Huai still didn't surrender, which meant that there was nothing they could do to her no matter what.
Feeling irritated, she waved her hands
"If she doesn't confess, I'll kill her. Then, when the fire in Huaixiang Pavilion is out, I'll throw her at the door. I'll see if they release Lin Song or not."
"That's right."
The two palace servants were about to leave when Gu Miao seemed to have thought of something and said
"Scratch her face."
The palace maids looked at each other and lowered their heads.
"yes."
…
It was dark all the way and there was a light in the secret room ahead.
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