Chapter 589 Someone Wants to Assassinate the Crown Prince
That night, Zhou Ruiyuan went out wearing a cloak and didn't return until the next day.
Du Wanchun told him to rest in the room, but he didn't sleep for long before leaving the palace again.
In the evening, in a small alley not far from the palace, a young eunuch who was about to sneak into the palace to deliver a message was stopped by several southern barbarians.
"It's him. I could see the top of his head from afar."
"Alright, so someone really is eavesdropping. Master, what do you plan to do?"
The leader of the Southern Barbarians, dressed in the attire of the Xuan Yue Kingdom, slowly approached, coldly looking at the young eunuch. "What else can we do? Of course, we must..."
As he spoke, he swung his hand towards his neck.
The young eunuch was startled; he hadn't expected that he had been discovered in the suburbs the day before.
However, judging from their words carefully, it seems that only he himself was seen by others.
The southern barbarians surrounded him, holding curved knives and pressing them against the eunuch's throat, ready to attack.
The young eunuch trembled with fear. He had only intended to save the emperor, but he had ended up risking his own life.
He closed his eyes, waiting to die.
Unexpectedly, just as the knife was about to fall, more than a dozen stray dogs suddenly rushed out of the alley.
These stray dogs usually roam the streets and alleys of the city, but for some reason they all gathered together today and swarmed into this alley.
The wild dogs, strong and muscular, bared their teeth and pounced on them.
"Dogs?! Where did all these dogs come from?!" The Southern Barbarians were all startled.
The young eunuch opened his eyes and looked closely. He saw a large black dog pounce on him and bite the hand of the southern barbarian holding a curved knife.
"Ah! My hand!"
The curved sword fell to the ground, and the southern barbarian clutched his hand and cried out in pain.
They snapped out of their daze and started waving at the stray dogs.
A dozen or so stray dogs surrounded them. The little eunuch took the opportunity to run behind the dogs, curling up in fear.
When the Southern Barbarians saw him run away, in order not to attract attention, they did not confront the wild dogs head-on, but instead dragged their injured companion away from the place.
The young eunuch panicked and ran off towards the palace gate.
The guards at the gate didn't recognize him and blocked him at the entrance, shouting, "Who are you? How dare you trespass through the palace gates!"
The young eunuch was still shaken and covered in cold sweat. He searched his pockets for his palace pass, but after searching for a long time, he found that the pass was missing. "Sir, please let me in quickly. I am an eunuch in the Emperor's palace. I have important matters to report to the Crown Prince."
The guard looked coldly at the young eunuch, sized him up, and said disdainfully, "Look at your disheveled appearance, you call yourself an eunuch in the Emperor's palace? I think you're just a stinking beggar."
The young eunuch was indeed dressed in tattered clothes during his escape.
Hearing the guard's words, the little eunuch became even more anxious and kept rushing inside, saying, "Let me in quickly! I really have something important to report to the Crown Prince! Let me in!"
A guard stepped forward and shoved him to the ground with one hand. "How dare you! You dare to break into the palace in the street? Don't you have a death wish!"
The young eunuch fell to the ground, winced in pain, got up, and continued to rush inside.
The guards pushed him to the ground again.
"Such audacious commoner, I'll beat you to death!" The guard gripped his spear, ready to strike.
At this moment, the lead guard came out of the palace and said, "Stop."
The guards immediately stopped and retreated to the side.
The head guard recognized the young eunuch, but without a token, he couldn't let him in. So he helped him up and asked, "You said you had something important to report to His Highness. What is it?"
As if he had found a savior, the little eunuch grabbed him and whispered, "Assassins! There are assassins trying to kill His Highness! They are remnants of the Wu family and southern barbarians. The Wu family is traitorous and wants to harm His Highness!"
The head guard was taken aback, his eyes widening in shock. He immediately asked him, "Is this true?"
The young eunuch nodded emphatically, "I heard it with my own ears."
The head guard frowned, pulled him along, and said, "Come with me."
The young eunuch was overjoyed, "Yes!"
The head guard led the young eunuch into the palace.
Zhou Ruiyuan was not in the palace today, so the young eunuch was brought before Du Wanchun.
"Your Highness, this person is causing a disturbance at the palace gate, claiming that someone is trying to assassinate the Crown Prince."
Du Wanchun was taken aback, and slightly raised her eyes to look at the young eunuch, "How did you learn about this?"
The young eunuch's eyes darted around. He deliberately concealed the fact that he had rescued the emperor, only revealing that he had accidentally bumped into Wu's nephew and the southern barbarians outside the palace.
Du Wanchun noticed something amiss and asked him coldly, "I remember you are a eunuch in the Emperor's palace. Why are you suddenly appearing outside the palace? Or are you hiding something from me?"
Her words struck a chord, but the little eunuch continued to argue, "I didn't want to be the crown prince in the palace forever, so I secretly left."
As he spoke, he immediately steered the conversation back on track, anxiously saying, "Your Highness, the Crown Princess should tell the Crown Prince about this as soon as possible, so that he can be careful. Those Southern Barbarians even came to the alley today to ambush and kill me."
Du Wanchun replied, "I am already aware of this matter."
She seemed to be deep in thought as she finished speaking, and she probably already guessed that it was this little eunuch who helped the emperor escape. However, she couldn't understand why the emperor would send his eunuch to deliver a message when he had already escaped.
However, one thing is certain: as long as you follow this little eunuch, you will be able to find the emperor.
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