Chapter 2058 [Shangxie]
Xia Fuyi narrowed his eyes slightly, staring at her without saying anything, as if he was evaluating and examining something, his gaze as sharp and cold as a knife.
Fu Yan almost trembled under her gaze, but for some reason, she finally looked up and looked into her eyes.
After a long stalemate, the footsteps of the Xuanyi Guards were heard from the back of the hall. Fu Yan's face turned pale. Xia Fuyi stared at her for a moment, and finally stepped back.
The palace maid who received the signal immediately climbed in in a hurry. The moment she landed, the window was silently closed by Xia Fuyi.
Xia Fuyi did not give her a good look.
"What did you just say?"
Fu Yan swallowed her saliva before raising her head.
"I've been hiding in the Imperial Garden and the Imperial Kitchen these past two days. I saw you being stopped by the Xuanyi Guards, and I wondered if you wanted to leave the palace to find the Emperor."
Xia Fuyi looked at her coldly for a moment and said,
"Do you have a solution?"
Fu Yan hesitated for a moment, then nodded.
"Yes, the chances are slim, but it's much easier than forcing your way in."
"Why should I trust you?"
Xia Fuyi's eyes were filled with undisguised cold suspicion. Fu Yan shuddered at the sight and lowered her head dejectedly.
"I don't know how to make you trust me, but if you do, I will take you out of the palace. If we are discovered, I will definitely die."
There was silence in the hall. Xia Fuyi was silent for a long time before she raised her chin.
"Tell me about it."
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It was early morning that day.
As soon as the dawn broke through the sky, the imperial kitchen in the palace was already busy.
The loaded wheels rolled over the bricks. A eunuch in charge of picking up vegetables for the palace suddenly smelled a pungent odor and immediately covered his nose with disgust. The vegetable vendor next to him, who had been in and out of the palace for a long time, also covered his nose and asked in a muffled voice, looking at the driver pulling the cart slowly passing by.
"Is this for transporting swill buckets?"
The eunuch nodded and said to the driver with disgust,
"Hurry up! Don't stay in the palace for too long! If you bump into any noble who gets up early, you'll have more than ten heads chopped off!"
The driver nodded hurriedly, and started to trot with the stinking swill bucket in his slow car. The vegetable vendor, still feeling a lingering fear, let go of his hand, fanned his nose, and said thankfully,
"Luckily I don't make a living like this, otherwise I'd be soaked in this stench all day and would be pickled."
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Xia Fuyi didn't know if she had been pickled in the smell. Anyway, her nose had completely lost all feeling and she didn't care how smelly it was.
At this moment, she was huddled in a huge泔水 barrel with her knees hugged. The dirty after-meal water was above her knees and was swaying with the movement of the cart.
The bucket next to her contained Fu Yan. She had seen it before coming in. The leftovers in that bucket were even more terrifying, but Fu Yan took the initiative to choose that bucket.
Xia Fuyi hesitated for a moment, then knocked on the wall of the tub amidst the horrible smell that was hard to describe - she was afraid that Fu Yan would be suffocated to death before she left the palace.
Fortunately, after just a moment, a similar knocking sound was heard from the other side.
Xia Fuyi felt relieved, touched the Longyuan Sword soaked in the soup, and let out a sigh of guilt in her heart.
I'm so sorry for you.
The wheels rolled forward and stopped briefly at the palace gate.
Xia Fuyi clearly heard the footsteps of the gatekeepers approaching, and her heartbeat gradually quickened.
Amidst the driver's series of flattering "hard work", the two soldiers opened the two lids with a hint of politeness, and then quickly closed them. The sound of expulsion was suppressed in the palm of their hands, full of disgust, and muffled into the barrel.
"Get out now!"
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Xia Fuyi let out a breath and finally relaxed.
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