Chapter 250 Afu's Identity
Su Jinwei felt no burden and directly handed the task of keeping vigil over to Yan Ruqin.
Yan Ruqin was not surprised, she just bowed and saluted: "Farewell, Your Highness."
Watching Su Jinwei leave with the food box, the respectful look on Yan Ruqin's face slowly faded away.
Yan Ruqin did not kneel before the empress dowager's spirit, but sat directly on the threshold of the hall, supporting her chin with one hand and looking up at the sky.
In the second half of the night, the entire palace fell into silence. Yan Ruqin heard a slight noise. She stood up suddenly and knelt in front of the coffin.
As the fire in the main hall grew larger, everyone in the palace was awakened, and palace servants came with buckets of water to put out the fire. However, when they arrived at the door of the main hall, they found that the door had been locked from the outside.
"His Royal Highness is still inside, someone come quickly..."
When Emperor Jing of Wei and the Imperial Noble Consort arrived, they happened to hear this sentence, and Emperor Jing of Wei hurriedly ordered: "Split the palace door open."
But with the fire so big, who would dare to break open the palace door at this time? After the guards arrived, they could only circle around the palace door, thinking about putting out the fire first and then breaking the door!
Su Chenyu, Bai Yanqing, Su Ruian and Lian Shizhao arrived here and saw that the funeral hall was on fire. Su Ruian shouted hurriedly: "Is the emperor still in there? Save him quickly..."
Bai Yanqing snatched the sword from the guard's scabbard, spun forward, put out the fire in front of the hall, then used the sword to pick up the chain and split the lock on the door.
The palace door opened, and everyone found a person lying in the sea of fire. Just looking at the figure, it didn't look like the prince, but a woman.
Su Chenyu threw the white silk soaked in cold water out, and the silk seemed to have eyes, and directly wrapped around Yan Ruqin who was unconscious on the ground. Su Chenyu exerted more strength and brought Yan Ruqin out of the sea of fire. She flew forward and caught Yan Ruqin.
"Isn't this the prince's concubine?" Su Chenyu was a little surprised. "Isn't the person guarding the body tonight the prince?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Su Jinwei ran out from somewhere and stood in front of everyone in a panic.
"How could the mourning hall catch fire?" Su Jinwei asked with a stammer.
Emperor Jing of Wei couldn't bear it any longer and slapped Su Jinwei in the face: "Aren't you the one keeping vigil? How dare you ask?"
Su Jinwei was slapped and felt a little embarrassed, but he could no longer care about these things at the moment and knelt on the ground: "Father, I am too tired. I wanted to go to the side hall to rest for a while, but I fell into a deep sleep."
Emperor Jing of Wei kicked Su Jinwei, who was kneeling on the ground, and said, "I asked you to keep vigil, but you dared to go and rest by yourself, and let the concubine keep vigil for you?"
Su Jinwei quickly got up and knelt again: "Father, I just wanted Ruqin to stay for a while, but I didn't expect things to turn out like this."
Emperor Wei Jing wanted to say something else, but Su Ruian quickly spoke up: "Father, the most important thing now is to find out why the funeral hall caught fire."
After hearing what Su Ruian said, Emperor Jing of Wei calmed down a little.
Su Ruian pointed the finger at the Imperial Concubine: "Father, this funeral was organized by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Rites. If something like this happened, then... "
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