Chapter 16: Save a Life
Sun Shengan kicked several men in black who were being held at the door. Before the people above threw the gunpowder, he and Xie Chengyan had captured these men and tied them up outside.
But in order to protect the royal tomb from damage, they had no choice but to throw gunpowder outside the tomb, which actually killed several people who had just been captured.
He glanced at the few men in black standing at the doorway, their arms and legs missing, and sighed, "What a pity we didn't catch them alive."
Upon hearing this, Ye Lanzhou also went to look outside the royal mausoleum. Sun Shengan looked at her, took a step forward, and stood in front of her, saying, "Lady Ye, this scene is bloody. I'm afraid you'll feel sick after seeing it."
After saying that, he turned to look at Xie Chengyan, and seeing that he didn't say a word, he wisely didn't try to block him anymore.
Ye Lanzhou stepped behind Sun Shengan and saw that there was no sign of human life outside. There was a broken arm and only one leg...
Very bloody.
A bloody smell rushed into Ye Lanzhou's nostrils, making her feel nauseous.
But she had been running all the way and hadn't eaten anything. She just retched a few times, and the pain in her stomach made her eyes sore and a few tears welled up in her eyes.
There is no white clothes outside. Where is the person standing at the top wearing a white veiled hat?
Was it blown to ashes? Or did it run away?
While still thinking with her head down, she seemed to hear Xie Chengyan chuckle in her ear.
But the legendary King Rui would not laugh, so he must have heard it wrong.
When he turned around and went back to the royal tomb, he found that Zhang Qiyue was injured. One of his legs was injured by the explosion, and blood spread through the black clothes to the ground.
His whip should have been put away by now, but he looked like an unreliable child again, baring his teeth, covering his injured leg and crying out in pain.
Sun Shengan squatted down, looking Zhang Qiyue in the eye, and said with a hint of teasing: "Baby, stop crying. I'll take you to the government office later and take care of you for a while before returning to Beijing."
Zhang Qiyue immediately shook his head: "That won't do. Godfather is still waiting for me to return to the capital to report."
As he spoke, he put away his agony, lowered his voice, and patted his sleeves, where he had wrapped the whip. "Besides, I'm still a minor official in Shangjing. If I don't go back, those people under me will be in turmoil, don't you think? General Sun?"
Ye Lanzhou knew that Zhang Qiyue was deliberately avoiding her when saying this, so she spoke in a very low voice. However, Ye Lanzhou had good hearing since she was a child. In the past, people in the Ye Mansion said bad things about her through the wall, and she could hear it clearly. What's more, now several of them were in this small area.
Zhang Qiyue's words left her bewildered. He looked about thirteen or fourteen, about the same height as her. What kind of manager was he? And why did the person next to Xie Chengyan call him "General"?
The general is not going to fight, but is here to arrest people? The people he is arresting are those who are lying in ambush at the royal tomb.
Moreover, the mourning period for Emperor Yinning has not yet passed, and the funeral at Guangfu Temple has not yet ended. As Yinning's younger brother, why is he coming to Nanyang instead of guarding the tomb at Guangfu Temple?
There were so many things about Xie Chengyan that puzzled her, but she was not interested in asking, nor did she want to ask.
The more she knew, the more entangled she would become with Xie Chengyan, and it would be a problem for her to get out of the situation.
She looked up at the top of the royal tomb, thinking that as long as she got the red blood vine and the antidote to the Gelsemium elegans, she could make it, and all the grudges between her and Xie Chengyan would be wiped out.
She didn't expect him to send her out of the Forbidden City. How could it be so easy to transport someone away? As long as she could keep her alive, it would be enough.
With Xie Chengyan and Sun Shengan around, at least no one in the royal mausoleum would take action again. Although the red blood vine grew at a high place, Ye Lanzhou had spent several years stealing flowers as a springboard, so this height was not difficult for her.
In just a moment, she removed the red blood vine.
When she took it off, something like pollen from the vine fell on her face and she accidentally inhaled it into her nose, making her nose itchy. She didn't even notice that her wrist bone was scratched by the thorns of the vine.
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