Chapter 207 Sacrifice
When Jiang Lan woke up, it was already daybreak. She vaguely heard someone talking, and then heard Gui'er shout, "Madam is awake." The talking stopped abruptly.
When Qing'er and Gui'er helped Jiang Lan up, she saw Xie Yun and Ling Feng hurried over. Xie Yun asked her how she felt and if she was feeling unwell. Jiang Lan shook her head and looked around, but did not see Qi Wuhan. When she asked where he had gone, they all looked evasive, as if they didn't know how to tell her.
"Sister Lan, don't be anxious." Xie Yunxian comforted her.
Jiang Lan's heart tightened, and her expression was extremely panicked. A bad idea appeared in her mind, and her voice trembled, "Where's the child...?"
Xie Yun hesitated, not knowing what to say.
Jiang Lan wanted to get out of bed to see the child, but Qing'er and Gui'er quickly supported her. Xie Yun comforted her, "The child is fine." Jiang Lan tightly grasped his arm and pleaded, "What happened?"
Xie Yun knew that he couldn't hide it, so he told her the truth.
Someone broke into the house last night and took away the twin brother. Qi Wuhan has gone after him.
After Xie Yun finished speaking, he saw that Jiang Lan did not respond, her eyes were blank, as if she couldn't even breathe. He called her anxiously, and Qing'er patted her on the back. Jiang Lan let out a breath and came back to her senses.
Ling Feng reported, "The Marquis asked me to stay and protect Madam, just in case. He assured Madam that he would bring the young master back safely."
Jiang Lan wanted to go find him. Xie Yun advised her to have a good rest first. Qing'er and Gui'er also advised her to take care of her health, but she couldn't listen to anything now and just wanted to find her child.
At this time, Ye Rushui walked in, holding the twin sister in her arms.
Jiang Lan calmed down after seeing the child. Ye Rushui handed the child to her arms. She gently rubbed the child's head, and tears rolled down her face.
"Sister Lan, it's okay. Your brother-in-law and nephew will definitely come back safely." Xie Yun comforted her softly.
After coming out of the house, Xie Yun made a decision in his heart and said to Ling Feng and Ye Rushui, "Sister Lan is left to you. I will go and help my brother-in-law get my nephew back." He looked back at the house behind him, turned around with a firm look, and strode forward.
After leaving, he returned to the mansion first and asked Hequan to pack his luggage, saying that he was going on a long journey, and then went to the study.
There was a sword on the shelf in the study, which had never been unsheathed.
Xie Yun took the sword and strode out of the study.
When he came back, Hequan was still packing his luggage, packing up his food, clothes, and sleeping supplies as before. He simply packed a bag for himself and said to Hequan, "I'm leaving."
Hequan quickly chased after him and asked, "Sir, where are you going? What should I tell you if the master and the mistress ask?"
"Just say I'm going traveling." Xie Yun waved his hand and his figure disappeared at the gate of the yard.
Then he slipped to the stable, quietly took his horse and left through the back door.
On the other side, Ye Rushui handed a diet therapy prescription to Ling Feng and left.
…
Northern Desert, the royal capital.
Qi Wuhan looked at the palace in the distance, his eyes as cold as a knife.
That night, after Jiang Lan fell asleep, Qing'er and Gui'er took the two children to the wet nurse to feed them, and he stayed to accompany her. In the second half of the night, he noticed something strange. Ling Feng came in to report that a man in black had sneaked into the house, and An Yue chased him.
Qi Wuhan's expression changed slightly, and he asked Ling Feng to stay here. When he arrived, the wet nurse fell beside the cradle, and the child in the cradle was gone.
When Ling Feng came to report that An Yue was lured away by a man in black, he knew it was a trick to lure the tiger away from the mountain, but he was still a step too late and the child had already been taken away.
Then An Yue also rushed back. When the other party led him out of the house, he realized the other party's intention and rushed back immediately, but it was too late.
An Yue knelt down to apologize. Qi Wu Han remained silent, his expression sullen. His attention was fixed on the back of the nurse's neck, where a cold, gleaming silver needle was stuck. "Call Ye Rushui over," he ordered.
When An Yue brought people over, Qi Wu Han was gently pushing another cradle to coax his sister to sleep.
"The back of the neck." He prompted.
Ye Rushui squatted down, took out the silver needle, sniffed it closely, and said, "It's the same one I used to prick you before.
Before, Ye Xuanhe took away Princess Zhaoyang. Qi Wuhan led people to intercept the group outside the city. When he was fighting with Ye Xuanhe, he was ambushed by someone. The person who attacked him was also a silver needle like this one, which was tempered with a very strong anesthetic. He was still conscious at that time.
But ordinary people will faint like the wet nurse, and it will take three to five days to wake up.
Ye Rushui gave the wet nurse an injection, and she showed a slight reaction. He gave her another injection, and she showed signs of waking up. After the third injection, she opened her eyes, but she was in a daze and couldn't explain what had happened.
Qi Wuhan didn't need to know because he had already confirmed who took the child away.
…
"Wei Ping!"
He stared at the palace in front of him, his face covered with a layer of cold light from the stars and the moon, as cold as condensed frost.
The sound of horse hooves broke through the night and galloped towards the palace.
When Qi Wuhan arrived at Qinglong Garden, he was stopped by the guards at the gate. The next moment, the guards were knocked to the ground by An Yue. Qi Wuhan walked straight in. When the eunuch An Zhong arrived, he asked coldly, "Where is His Majesty?"
There was a cold light in his pupils, and murderous intent filled the air.
An Zhong soothed him, "Your Highness, please calm down. His Majesty is at the Jade Terrace. I will take you there right away."
As soon as he finished speaking, Qi Wuhan left like a cold wind, and An Zhong hurriedly followed him.
The sound of the piano spread along the surface of the water, sounding too clear.
"Your Highness the Crown Prince?" Seeing Qi Wuhan rushing in with a look as if he wanted to kill someone, An Zhong couldn't stop him.
When Qi Wuhan stood in front of him, the music of the piano did not stop.
"What's wrong?" Mu Jin asked.
"Where is the child?" Qi Wuhan asked.
The piano music stopped.
"Your child?" Mu Jin asked.
"Where?" Qi Wuhan asked emphatically, a dark aura emanating from his eyes.
Mu Jin raised his head, his clear and cold peach blossom eyes looking at the pair of peach blossom eyes full of hostility, and raised the corners of his thin lips, "Are you going to kill me?"
"Give me back my child." With every word he spoke, the hostility in his eyes grew more intense, and the dark aura on his body grew stronger.
The eunuch An Zhong stepped back a little.
"Why would I want your child? In your eyes, am I such a cold-blooded father that I wouldn't even let my own grandson go?"
"Didn't you ask Wei Ping to bring the child back?"
The hostility in Qi Wuhan's eyes subsided a little.
"Wei Ping..." Mu Jin smiled faintly, "It seems that he and the high priest haven't given up yet."
Qi Wuhan immediately went to Tianchen Pavilion.
When he arrived, he heard a baby crying coming from the building. He slashed the door open with a sword and rushed in.
The crying sound came from upstairs, and when he was about to go upstairs, someone stopped him.
The other party was Elder White Tiger who had not appeared for a long time.
An Yue recognized that the other person was the man in black who led him away that night, and forced him away with one blow to make way for Qi Wu Han.
In the sacrificial chamber, the high priest held up the crying baby in his hands, as if preparing to sacrifice it.
With a clang, the door was broken open by a sword.
As Qi Wuhan rushed in, he saw a golden flower bud more than two people tall. From the bud stretched out something like a tentacle, thin and long, like golden threads, and was about to wrap around the child. He rushed over, raised his sword and chopped it, and those golden tentacles retracted into the flower bud.
When Qi Wuhan reached out to grab the child, Wei Ping snatched the child away first.
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