Chapter 16 The Daring Madman
At night, the moon was high in the sky. Xiao Jingfan came out of Maohua Palace in a good mood and got on a sedan chair to go to the Yangxin Palace.
Zhou Yuande was walking closely beside him when suddenly someone pulled his sleeve back.
He turned around and saw his apprentice Xiao Anzi.
He paused, and Xiao Anzi immediately stepped forward and whispered in his ear, "Master, a young eunuch working in the pharmacy just came looking for you, claiming to be Xiao Xiazi. He said Miss Liu Zheng is missing."
Zhou Yuande was shocked. He had some impression of the name Xiao Xia Zi. He thought she was of the same type as Chu Liuzheng.
But wasn't he recuperating in Nongyun Garden? How could he suddenly disappear?
"What are you talking about?" Xiao Jingfan turned his head and glanced at the two of them.
The sedan chair then stopped.
Zhou Yuande hurriedly trotted forward, bowed, and reported, "Your Majesty, a eunuch named Xiao Xiazi just reported that Miss Liu Zheng had gone missing. I was just about to send someone to Nongyun Garden to check, but perhaps the young lady got bored and went out for a walk, and has already returned."
Xiao Anzi thought that Eunuch Xia had already searched the entire area around Nongyun Garden and found no one. Given Miss Liu Zheng's steady nature, she wouldn't have strayed far if she were taking a stroll.
But seeing his master's expression, he wisely swallowed his words.
The master must have his reasons for reporting to His Majesty in this way, so he should just learn from him.
He actually disappeared!
Xiao Jingfan's good mood disappeared immediately. He looked at Zhou Yuande and said, "Go find him. When you find him, bring him to Yangxin Palace and report back."
Oh, Your Majesty really values Miss Liu Zheng.
Zhou Yuande bowed and accepted the order, then turned around and told Xiao Anzi to take people to look for him.
Xiao Anzi hurried away with his men.
Xiao Jingfan thought for a moment and called out to the empty space, "Eleven."
A black shadow appeared out of nowhere and knelt respectfully beside the sedan chair.
"You go too." Xiao Jingfan said, "Bring the person back to me safely."
That woman's system is very useful and can't be destroyed like this.
Zhou Yuande was shocked. In order to find Chu Liuzheng, His Majesty actually used secret guards.
This is a secret guard who must be used for confidential matters!
He actually sent someone to find a little palace maid!!
This needs to be taken seriously!
Miss Liu Zheng will definitely have great fortune in the future!!!
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"A-choo! Who is scolding me?" Chu Liuzheng sniffed, rubbed his wrists which were red and swollen from being tied by the hemp rope, and kicked the cut hemp rope into the corner.
I still feel a little dizzy, probably the aftereffect of the drug.
Putting the hairpin back into his sleeve, Chu Liuzheng groped his way to the door and reached out to open it.
Can't pull it.
Sure enough, it was locked from the outside.
She sighed and looked around the room in the moonlight coming through the window.
There are spider webs everywhere on the old cabinets and benches. If you wipe them with your hand, a layer of dust will come off the table.
There are many such places in the palace. After all, there are so many buildings and palaces, and naturally no one will take the trouble to clean the uninhabited rooms.
It is impossible to tell which palace or hall this is just by looking at the furnishings inside the house.
"Is anyone there?"
"Is there anyone outside? I'm a palace maid serving the emperor. Help me!"
"Someone! Help!"
"The fire is happening!!"
“Earthquake!!”
“Help!!!”
Chu Liuzheng grabbed the door and shouted a few times at the top of his voice, but apart from the whistling sound of the wind coming in from the torn door paper above, he didn't get any response. Instead, his empty stomach growled, reminding his owner that he had missed dinner.
【Let’s save some energy. 】
Chu Liuzheng sat cross-legged on the ground, intending to sort out his situation first.
The young eunuch named Xiao Yuanzi knocked her unconscious and brought her to this abandoned palace, where he tied her to a pillar.
She had no injuries or pain, and the hairpin in her sleeve was still there. It was obvious that Xiao Yuanzi had not done anything to her except tying her up.
But that little Yuanzi went to so much trouble just to tie her up here and let her gather dust?
There must be something wrong with your head!
His stomach growled again, and Chu Liuzheng thought, could it be that little Yuanzi wanted her to starve to death here with no response from heaven or earth?
How can he be so vicious when we have no grudge against each other?
【We can’t just sit there and wait for death! 】
Chu Liuzheng stood up and stretched his arms and legs, then bent down, picked up the solid wooden chair, and sprinted towards the closed window with all his might!
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
In the silence of the night, the loud sound of smashing windows could be heard from far away.
Xiao Shiyi's ears twitched and he jumped towards the direction where the sound came from.
The noise was also heard by Wang Cairen, who got up in the middle of the night to eat some stinky tofu and ran outside Yinyuexuan to get rid of the smell.
"What's that sound?" Concubine Wang pricked up her ears and listened carefully. She asked Chun Xing, the senior palace maid who had accompanied her, "Did you hear it?"
"It sounds like something being smashed." Chun Xing looked around fearfully and whispered, "Tairen, let's go back. I heard that the harem is full of yin energy and is often haunted in the middle of the night."
Hearing this, Lady Wang shuddered, but with a stern face, she forced herself to scold him, "Where in the world are these ghosts? Don't talk nonsense. If others hear this, even I will be implicated."
Chun Xing nodded in response.
Wang Cairen tilted her head and listened carefully again, but found that the strange sound was gone.
"Cairen, let's go back." Chun Xing continued to persuade, looking around, afraid that a female ghost with disheveled hair and red clothes would suddenly jump out from somewhere.
"If you want to go back, go back. I'll go take a look." Wang Cairen couldn't help but feel curious, so she lifted her skirt and walked towards the direction where the sound came from.
Chun Xing didn't dare let her go alone, so she gritted her teeth and followed her no matter how scared she was.
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“I’m so tired!”
Chu Liuzheng leaned against a solid wooden chair, panting heavily, beads of sweat running down his forehead. He looked at the completely undamaged window and muttered, "Who made a window so sturdy? When we get out, I'll give you a banner!"
Xiao Shiyi, who had just arrived, felt a little relieved when he heard the vigorous curse.
It's good. He is still alive and well and can do his job.
He leaped up and broke into the room through the window.
Chu Liuzheng, who was hit on the head and face by flying debris, said: "..."
Thank you to your whole family!
"Who are you?" Chu Liuzheng brushed off the wood chips on his body and stared warily at the man in front of him who was dressed in black and wearing a black dragon mask with only a pair of eyes exposed. He couldn't help but step back.
Doesn’t this guy look a lot like the legendary killer?
Xiao Shiyi: "My Lord... His Majesty knows you are missing and ordered me to find you."
"Are you kidding me?" Chu Liuzheng continued to step back, quietly tightening his grip on the hairpin in his sleeve.
The tyrant is going to fight the delicate and weak Concubine Chun for three hundred rounds tonight. How could he possibly know that she has been abducted?
Besides, even if he knew, would the tyrant send someone to find her specifically?
But forget it, changing a palace maid to serve tea would only be a matter of a few words.
Chu Liuzheng has always known her place clearly. At most, she is just a familiar figure to the tyrant. Her importance is about the same as that of an ant and is not worth the tyrant's attention at all.
Xiao Shiyi was too lazy to waste time talking. Anyway, the order he received was to bring the palace maid back to the Yangxin Palace safely. As for the palace maid's wishes, that was not important at all.
"What are you doing? Put me down!" Chu Liuzheng, who was being carried on his shoulders after having his acupuncture points pressed, screamed at the top of his lungs, "Help! Someone's killing me!"
"Stop!" A figure in a pale yellow palace dress slammed to a stop, raised his finger and pointed at Xiao Shiyi, saying sternly, "You bold lunatic! Let this maid go!"
At the same time, a sharp voice rang out from not far away: "Empress Rong is here!"
(End of this chapter)
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