Bai Tuantuan scoffed, "Are you threatening me?"
Cui'er lowered her head: "I just want a way to go. I didn't mean to threaten the princess. As long as the princess does as I say, I will definitely repay the princess in the future!"
"Oh, I don't want to." Bai Tuantuan glanced at Cui'er indifferently. "Don't drag me into your business. Besides, you're not qualified to frame me."
"Go back now."
Cui'er looked at Bai Tuantuan in disbelief, took a deep breath and said, "If I scream right now and say that you ruined my child, aren't you afraid?"
"What are you afraid of?"
Bai Tuantuan laughed: "I think you're the one who should be afraid."
As he spoke, he looked behind the screen.
Cui'er's heart skipped a beat as she watched Mu Yangzhi, Ning Nanxiao, the Emperor, Bai Han, and Chen Luo walk out.
Cui'er's face turned pale, and she stumbled and fell to the ground.
Bai Han snorted coldly: "What a despicable person! To actually use such a trick to threaten Tuantuan. Your Majesty, you should send less people like this to the Third Prince. The Third Prince is probably being corrupted by people like this!"
Ning Nanxiao also spoke coldly: "One who stays near ink gets stained black, and one who stays near vermilion gets stained red."
Mu Yangzhi rolled his eyes: "I knew that although the third brother was outrageous before, he wouldn't be this unreasonable. So it turns out he has a woman like this by his side! That's not surprising. After all, everyone knows the power of pillow talk!"
The Emperor naturally wouldn't admit that it was his son's fault, and instead blamed the matter on Cui'er and Xiao Ruyan.
"No, that's not it... Your Majesty, spare me! Your Majesty, spare me!"
Cui'er kept kowtowing, her face full of fear.
The Emperor didn't say anything, but simply told Cui'er to leave. Then he said, "Second Prince, send her back directly, warn them what they should and shouldn't say, and give them some money to get rid of them."
"Yes, Father."
Chen Luo shook his head and changed the subject: "Now we'll split into three groups and leave, using signal flares as our guide."
"Tuantuan, the people from Fengyue Pavilion are yours to keep safe and protect the Emperor."
Bai Tuantuan nodded: "Grandfather and maternal grandfather, don't worry, I will safely deliver the Emperor to Jinzhou."
"From here to Jinzhou, it should take three hours if nothing unexpected happens. At most, you should wait an hour. If anyone hasn't arrived, leave first," Bai Han said slowly, stroking his white beard. "Don't wait too long, lest something unexpected happens."
After everyone agreed, Bai Han and Chen Luo, along with a bodyguard pretending to be the emperor, took the safest route.
Mu Yangzhi and Ning Nanxiao split up and took a relatively dangerous route.
As for Bai Tuantuan and the Emperor, they waited for the signal flares from the others.
Sending a signal flare means there's an ambush going on here.
The Emperor, the Imperial Physician, and Eunuch Cai all stayed with Bai Tuantuan. After Ning Nanxiao and the others left, the two of them came over with their bundles.
Bai Han and Chen Luo were the first to fire the signal flare.
Bai Tuantuan looked in that direction, extremely worried: "Grandfather has many friends secretly protecting him, so he should be fine, right?"
The Emperor put down his teacup and walked to the door. He stared at the signal flare and was about to say something when Mu Yangzhi's signal flare was also fired.
The emperor's eyes turned cold: "It seems there are quite a few people who want me dead."
"Of course, after all, you are the ruler of a country. If you die, the Sheng Ning Kingdom will fall into chaos, and they will be able to divide it up."
Bai Tuantuan disagreed.
The imperial physician standing nearby was startled and looked at Bai Tuantuan in disbelief. How dare she speak to the emperor like that?
But Eunuch Cai was used to such things, only worried about the situation outside: "Are we really leaving today? Isn't it too dangerous?"
“No.” Bai Tuantuan pondered for a moment and said, “Even if we take them by surprise, if we are delayed for a few days, their plan will be more refined, and it will be more difficult for us to leave.”
Upon hearing this, Eunuch Cai looked enlightened.
Soon, Chen Luo set off smoke grenades again, indicating that the ambush had been resolved.
"Is there no ambush on Ning Nanxiao's side?" Bai Tuantuan raised an eyebrow. "Wait another half hour. If there's still nothing, we'll take that road!"
The Emperor responded and kept staring at the sky. Half an hour later, Mu Yangzhi's ambush was also dealt with.
However, Chen Luo once again set off a smokescreen.
Bai Tuantuan and the Emperor exchanged a glance, then walked out. Zhao Quanchun had already prepared the carriage.
After the group boarded the carriage, Zhao Quanchun breathed a sigh of relief.
The advisor standing nearby said, "My lord, the Emperor has seen your efforts; your future is limitless!"
"We must thank the Crown Prince. If he hadn't persuaded me, how could I have implemented the policy of allowing men and women to serve in the same government? Let's work hard and strive to let the Emperor see our achievements in a year."
The clerk nodded vigorously, then said, "What about the Third Prince and the others in the manor..."
"Don't worry about it." Zhao Quanchun smiled slightly, recalling what Ning Nanxiao had told him. "It's nothing to fear."
Inside the carriage, Bai Tuantuan looked around warily.
"We're about to enter a road with a cliff on one side. Only one carriage can pass at a time," Bai Tuantuan whispered. "The road is narrow, and it's easy to overturn."
The Emperor lifted the carriage curtain and glanced inside. Seeing the bottomless abyss, he immediately sat up straight: "Hmm."
Bai Tuantuan laughed: "Your Majesty, don't worry, I'm here. I guarantee this won't turn into a disaster!"
As she spoke, Bai Tuantuan enveloped the carriage with her spiritual power, her eyes fixed on the outside of the carriage, watching for signal flares. However, Chen Luo and Mu Yangzhi had already fired quite a few signal flares, but Ning Nanxiao hadn't fired a single one.
Either this road is safe, or the enemy on this road is too powerful.
"Why choose this road? The two over there have already been dealt with, shouldn't we have chosen those two?" The imperial physician couldn't help but ask the question that had been bothering him.
The Emperor shook his head, his expression grave: "No one knows how many ambushes are lying in wait over there; we cannot take the risk."
“That’s right. If they discover that the people my maternal grandfather and the second prince brought are not the real emperor, but are guarding over there, wouldn’t we be walking into the lion’s den? So this road is safer.”
Bai Tuantuan explained in a low voice, "Furthermore, although this road is difficult to travel, it is also difficult to attack, so it is relatively safer."
As Bai Tuantuan finished speaking, she suddenly realized something was wrong and used her spiritual power to force the carriage to stop.
"Your Majesty, something is wrong."
Bai Tuantuan lifted the curtain, walked outside and circled around, then immediately said, "Take the Emperor back the way he came! Quickly!"
"Iron pot, soup ladle, you protect the Emperor!"
As Bai Tuantuan's voice fell, the iron pot and the soup ladle appeared quickly. The three of them used their spiritual power to make the carriage turn around in mid-air. Then, the iron pot drove the carriage, the soup ladle went into the carriage, and they returned the way they came!
Meanwhile, Bai Tuantuan ran quickly toward the source of the spiritual energy fluctuations!
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