Chapter Twenty: Leaving the Palace
Three days later, after finishing his dinner, Gu Yanci sent Yuanbao to summon the imperial physician, the Fourth Physician. Once the physician arrived, he locked him up in a side hall and ordered the palace to be sealed off, creating a tense atmosphere.
While they were at it, they also moved most of the Imperial Guards from the Imperial Kitchen area away.
As expected, Nan Wan and Duan Xingyue had already made all the arrangements. They secretly slipped into the swill bucket, planning to sneak out of the palace that night.
Gu Yanjing stood on the city wall, watching the swill buckets being carried away. A night breeze blew by: "Yuanbao, take two eunuchs and make things difficult for them."
Yuanbao, who was following behind, immediately obeyed the order. He handed the bird stand he was holding and Gu Congxin on the bird stand to a little palace maid, and then took two eunuchs and a team of imperial guards to make things difficult for the person.
"Gu Congxin, do you think those two will regret it?" Regret escaping from this palace.
Although they are now in the palace, at least they can live peacefully.
Once they're out there, things might not be so certain.
Gu Congxin pretended to be an innocent little bird, looking up at the sky and the ground like an idiot, but she didn't dare to look Gu Yanjing in the eye.
Gu Yan smiled and grabbed the system, then casually tossed it off the city wall.
The system immediately yelled to fly up, but was blown over by a gust of evil wind and fell to the ground, feeling dizzy and disoriented.
Ten minutes later, Gu Congxin came running up from below, crying and skipping. Gu Yanjing only glanced at him, as if he had been waiting for him to come up. When he saw him come up, he immediately led a group of palace servants down.
Even the palace maids holding the bird stand dared not place Gu Congxin on it, which made things difficult for Gu Congxin. With her two little bird claws, she hopped and skipped behind the group of people, running breathlessly just to keep up.
Meanwhile, on the other side, a man dressed in the male protagonist's standard attire, a moon-white brocade robe, was trembling as he followed an old nanny to learn manners. The old nanny was extremely strict, teaching the man everything from his words and actions to his overall demeanor. Seeing the man's timid appearance, she immediately lashed him with two lashes.
The whip had barbs, and it drew blood from the man's back in no time.
The man was slapped to the ground, his pale robe stained with blood.
Immediately, a palace servant silently stepped forward to help the man up, removed his clothes, and applied medicine.
However, the numerous wounds on his body showed how many times the man had been beaten in the past few days.
The old woman, however, ignored her, her whip curled up: "If you don't want to die, stand up for me. You only have one month. If you can't become someone else, you won't be able to leave here alive."
What His Majesty wants is another eldest son of the Prince of Qi, Gu Shiyue, not someone who looks similar.
Nan Wan felt that she was having a particularly bad time. She had finally managed to escape when the palace guards relaxed their patrols due to the emperor's poisoning, but she did not expect that Zhang Tingshi would suspect them and expose them.
It seems that it is Yuanbao, the chief eunuch who serves His Majesty, leading a team of imperial guards outside, who are now searching the swill buckets.
The eunuch who was transporting the swill had accepted a bribe and knew that if this were discovered, given His Majesty's ruthless nature, he would probably not survive. So he immediately said to Yuanbao, "Lord Yuanbao, how could anyone be hiding in such a dirty and smelly swill bucket?"
Yuanbao, with his sharp eyes and disdainful look, said, "Who knows if there's anyone in here? His Majesty has been poisoned, and the palace is under strict surveillance. Someone, open the swill bucket. You, cut the bucket twice and see if there's any movement inside."
This guy's a werewolf too.
They didn't even pour water, they just started cutting.
After all, His Majesty said it was just a difficult situation, not that he wouldn't let them go.
If these two can't leave, what should we do about the arrangements outside?
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