Chapter 470: Strange Movements
Half an hour later.
The night banquet in Yongshou Hall officially began. From afar, one could hear the sounds of stringed instruments and constant laughter coming from the hall.
Tianbao, Bai Yu, Su An and Xiao Mai Sui were standing on the corridor of the side hall thirty feet away, so bored that they were growing hair on their heads.
Little Wheat Ear sat on a bench in the veranda with his arms folded, a gloomy look on his face. "The palace has so many complicated and confusing rules! Why can't maids and guards enter the banquet? How can we protect our master if we don't go in with them? If something goes wrong in there, even if we grow wings and fly away, it won't be enough!"
Su An sat at the other end of the bench, stretched his arms and leaned against the railing, the moon reflected in his eyes. "Okay, scolding is useless. There are more than four of us who are stopped outside. Look around, aren't there people everywhere?"
A corridor meandered around, with people sitting on the benches in groups of three or five, but clearly separated, and it was obvious that they were not from the same group.
Those were also the accompanying personnel of the various envoys.
Bai Yu and Tian Bao both leaned against the corridor pillars, ignoring the eyes that were swept towards them from all around.
"With Xiling and Yunqin here, Lord Gan and the old man won't be completely isolated at the banquet, and nothing serious will happen." Bai Yu whispered to the young woman beside him, "With the Nansang Emperor's ceremony approaching, nothing can go wrong. Even for his own sake, he wouldn't choose to cause trouble at the banquet."
Tian Bao hummed, "During the greetings at the palace gate, the old man poisoned Yan Changkong. If Nan Sang dares to catch the turtle in the jar, the emperor's eldest grandson will be buried with him. The initiative is in our hands."
Bai Yu, "..."
After the old man came out, he discussed with him and decided not to remove the poison.
Bai Yu was in a good mood, with a smile on his face. He tilted his head and whispered, "Guess how many people are secretly following us?"
Tian Bao, "There are two people on the albizzia tree ten feet to the southeast, one person next to the rockery seven feet to the north, two people at the west end of the corridor... At the top of the pillar we're leaning against, there are six people fifteen steps to the east."
"...Luckily there were so many people around and it was noisy, otherwise the guy hiding upstairs would have heard everything we said."
"It doesn't matter. They must die before they get the message back."
"Tsk, I just like your decisiveness!"
Tian Bao raised an eyebrow and glanced sideways, "Let's go play?"
Even asking? Bai Yu walked out first, kicking the other two who wanted to follow back onto the bench. "You two cover our retreat."
When Xiao Maisui and Su An came to their senses and wanted to chase after them, the culprit had already run away with Tianbao.
Furious, Xiao Mi Sui gnashed his little white teeth, waving his fist and growling in a whisper, "What are you waiting for?! I was fooled for a moment without even noticing. Bai Yu, you bastard! Brother An, you didn't stop them! I'm telling you, Bai Yu has no good intentions towards me!"
Su An spread his hands and replied in the same breath, "You are so smart and you didn't react, how can you expect Brother An to do that? Besides, if Tianbao doesn't want to, Bai Yu can't take Tianbao away no matter how many tricks he has. Sit down, calm down, and wait."
The wheat ear had no place to vent its resentment, so it threw a series of punches at the air before it stopped.
The two people left the corridor and walked along the path paved with white marble. The moon in early September looked like a moon dumpling with a bite taken out of it. Although a corner was missing, the moonlight was still bright and clear.
Along the way, there are exotic flowers, plants and rocks on both sides, pavilions and rockery scattered around, and dim shadows everywhere under the moonlight.
"Baby, what do you want to play?" Bai Yu tilted his head, staring at the quiet girl beside him and asked with a smile.
Tian Bao glanced around, looking for a suitable place, "Let's try and make a hundred responses. Maybe it will work."
"We'll see."
The two men whispered quietly, their auras relaxed and unrestrained, completely ignoring the eagle eyes that were watching them closely from behind.
Go straight to the outermost part of the side hall, and next to the arch bridge that intersects with another hall, there is a medium-sized rockery.
"Wait for me here." Tianbao whispered, then flashed and went into the gap in the rockery cave.
The cave is not big, only one person tall, and only wide enough for one person, with no exit at the other end.
After quickly checking that there was no one else in the cave, Tianbao let Wangbai out.
There was a dull thud.
Wang Bai stood in the dark cave, hunched over, one hand touching his head, his face expressionless.
Tianbao, “…”
Sorry, I forgot to calculate Wangbai's height.
She was standing at the perfect height, and Wang Bai couldn't straighten his back.
Bump your head.
She reached out and pushed Wang Bai's head down a little, pretending not to see his glare. "Go around and see if there's any hidden Iron Man in this palace. I know you have a way."
Wang Bai covered his head and did not move, obviously still angry about being "attacked" innocently.
"Wang Bai is the best."
“…”
Wang Bai's eyes flashed, and he reached out and broke the rock that hit his head with his bare hands, then disappeared into the ground.
Wang Bai left, and the places he had scratched were still shedding stone chips, which fell all over Tian Bao's head and face. "..."
When she walked out of the cave, she looked completely dusty and dirty.
The corner of Bai Yu's mouth twitched.
"...Don't laugh, I'll beat you up."
"Sorry, I tried my best...hahahaha!"
Next to the rockery under the moon, laughter suddenly started and stopped, followed by the sound of punches and kicks that were even more frightening than the laughter.
The eagle eyes watching from the dark only saw the man and woman chasing and playing, but could not see the sign language they used in the playfulness.
The laughter in Yongshou Hall continued, and the moon slowly rose higher in the blue sky.
Wang Bai never showed up anywhere in the palace.
It’s just that in a very hidden place, a tiny hole would appear out of nowhere from time to time.
Around midnight, strange noises were faintly heard from the most remote corner at the northern end of the Imperial Palace.
There is the abandoned palace complex of the Nansang Imperial Palace. It is said that it was once a cold palace where many concubines were imprisoned and many people died.
As the most favored prince of Nansang, Yan Changkong naturally felt at home at the palace banquet, with countless people coming to chat with him and toast him.
A banquet ended quietly, and everyone was already drunk.
Suddenly, a man in guard uniform hurried in from outside the hall and whispered in Yan Changkong's ear.
Afterwards, Yan Changkong's expression changed slightly, and he left the banquet without even saying a word of politeness.
Upon seeing this, Emperor Nansang, who was sitting at the top, had a gloomy look in his eyes. He turned his head and said something to the eunuch beside him, and the eunuch left.
"What's going on? Why is there such a big noise all of a sudden?" Yan Changkong shouted angrily as he walked, feeling as if a huge rock was pressing on his heart.
The guard trembled and replied, "Your Highness, please forgive me! I have been keeping a close watch on them. This time, for some unknown reason, they all burst out and ran everywhere, making it impossible to stop them!"
"Where's the whistle?"
"The whistle has been blown, it's useless!"
"Let's go check the situation first. If that doesn't work, release that person! We absolutely cannot let anyone at the banquet notice!"
The guard didn't dare to say anything else and his face turned pale.
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