Chapter 8 No Pain
The Queen Mother raised her hand and signaled the maid beside her to stop. With a glance, everyone in the room retreated, leaving only her and He Qiumao who was kneeling in front of her. She asked He Qiumao to raise his head, but saw that his lower body was wet, and there was a fishy smell.
The eunuch smelled bad and was missing a piece of flesh, so it was difficult for him to urinate normally. He was so frightened that he couldn't even keep the door closed.
The Queen Mother frowned and asked, "Why is General He so frightened? This doesn't seem like the courage a person in charge should have."
His voice trembled slightly, evidently frightened. "I am fortunate. Thanks to the late emperor's grace, I have been able to obtain my current position."
Seeing this, the Queen Mother continued, "Since we have received the grace of the late Emperor, we should serve the new Emperor well."
She didn't beat around the bush and continued, "The new emperor is still young, and Yin State has only recently moved its capital. Its foundation is already unstable, and it's inevitable that some powerful people will be eyeing it covetously. Does General He know who I'm talking about?"
He Qiumao: "I...don't know."
The Empress Dowager glanced at him, her aged eyes still hinting at the shrewdness of her youth. "It's strange you didn't know. He narrowly escaped death in Nanjing, so it's impossible for him to have no complaints. Emperor Yinjing is still determined to keep him in the capital. He will definitely be a serious threat in the future."
She lowered her eyes and picked up the tea on the table. Without looking at He Qiumao again, she said, "I want He Zongguan to help me keep an eye on him. If there is anything unusual, report to me immediately."
He Qiumao kowtowed, "Yes, I understand."
The Queen Mother said without even looking up: "Alright, go down and change these dirty clothes. It is really disrespectful to the royal family to enter and leave Guangfu Temple like this."
He replied, "Yes."
Then he left the room, and the young eunuch serving outside followed him. They obviously noticed something was wrong with the general, but they didn't dare to say anything.
None of the people who could serve He Qiumao were gossipy.
The young eunuch saw that although He Qiumao's lower body was wet, his expression was calm and nothing unusual as usual, so he lowered his head and followed He Qiumao silently.
There was no word spoken, but one could clearly feel a chill around him.
But then I thought, when hasn’t it been like this around the main library?
Just as he was thinking about it, He Qiumao suddenly spoke up and asked, "Did Zhang Qiyue reply to the letter?"
The young eunuch quickly replied, "Oh, I just received the message. Brother Yue said he has already arrived in Nanyang with Concubine Ye."
He Qiumao: "Where is Nanyang?"
The young eunuch replied, "The Tomb of the King of Nanyang."
He Qiumao didn't ask any more questions. He went back to his room, changed his clothes, and went to Guangfu Temple again.
Crown Prince Xie Xun was still kneeling in front of the coffin, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs had to settle the people inside, so he didn't have much time to spare.
The matter of Prince Rui has to be put aside for now.
It was drizzling in Nanyang at the moment. Ye Lanzhou and Zhang Qiyue rode their horses into Nanyang City. A burst of damp air came over them, mixed with the earthy smell from the surrounding area.
Ye Lanzhou doesn't like rain very much, and he dislikes the dampness that comes with rain even more.
She frowned and could only finish the task at hand quickly so that she could return to the capital early to report to Xie Chengyan.
As she rode her horse through a main street around Nanyang City, she suddenly thought of something and immediately turned the horse around.
Zhang Qiyue beside him didn't react at all. He rode his horse for several meters before stopping. In a blink of an eye, he found that Ye Lanzhou had entered a street. That was clearly not the way to the royal tomb, but Ye Lanzhou rode his horse so fast that he was about to disappear.
Before Zhang Qiyue could call her, he immediately turned his horse around and followed.
He asked, "Why is your Highness walking here?"
Ye Lanzhou didn't look back. "There's a way here. Let's see if we can get lucky."
The sound of the wind in his ears was as loud as his voice. It was a windy night in Nanyang tonight, and the road would not be easy to walk on. The road leading to the royal tomb was already rugged and difficult to walk on, and it was even more dangerous tonight.
Besides, when she came to Nanyang, she just wanted to bring the blood-activating vine back with her. She didn't have to take the risk of going to the royal tomb.
When she was in Nanyang, she knew there was a black market there.
During the war in Yin Kingdom, the southern barbarians moved north, and Ye Lanzhou and Qin's mother and daughter lost contact with the Ye family. They lived in a dilapidated temple. There was an old temple priest in the temple who often brought some rare medicines from Nanyang to this night market to resell.
I don’t know if the old temple keeper is still there after all these years.
Ye Lanzhou and Zhang Qiyue had tied up their horses nearby. She glanced sideways at Zhang Qiyue and said, "Call me Miss Ye outside. 'Madam' isn't a safe name."
Zhang Qiyue nodded. "Okay, how old is Miss Ye this year? I remember my godfather told me that you were born in the twelfth month of the tenth year of Yinjing. I was also born in the twelfth month, but I'm two years younger than Miss Ye, in the twelfth year of Yinjing. My godfather said that was an unlucky year, and I'm blessed by my ancestors to be alive."
He rambled on: "If you think about it, in the twelfth year of Yinjing, the Great Yin moved its capital to the capital. How many people died on the way from Jinling in the south to the capital in the north?"
Ye Lanzhou sneered in her heart and did not respond to Zhang Qiyue's words. She was not willing to talk about the year of her birth with others. She was born in the tenth year of Yinjing, and the war started in that year. The people of Yin Kingdom were in panic overnight. The old man of the Ye family passed away on the same day she was born, so the Ye family regarded her birth as an ominous sign, and she was looked down upon for several years in the Ye Mansion.
The tenth year of Yinjing was not a good year.
The two men tied up their horses and walked to the end of an alley. Zhang Qiyue was still wondering, it was already a dead end, why should they continue walking?
Just as he was about to ask, he saw Ye Lanzhou suddenly climb onto the high wall of the alley. She kicked her legs and climbed onto the top of the wall, sitting on it. The posture was really indecent.
Suddenly, she felt that her previous request to him not to call her "Niangniang" in public was really unnecessary.
With her skills, it's no exaggeration to say that she is a petty thief in the city.
When people hear this name, they will just think it is a joke.
Seeing Zhang Qiyue still standing below, Ye Lanzhou asked, "Can't you come up?"
This question made Zhang Qiyue somewhat unhappy. After all, he was still a young man and wanted to save face. How could he be willing to be questioned about his ability?
He was born in the palace guards, so the wall was nothing to him, so he followed Ye Lanzhou and climbed up.
After all, it was the skills learned from Gong Zhongxue, which looked much more comfortable than Ye Lanzhou's common skills.
But Ye Lanzhou didn't care at all. If his skills were not put to practical use, they would just be for show.
The dark night made it impossible for her to see what was inside the wall. It was pitch black below, and she thought it was just some debris piled up on the street corner.
She didn't take it seriously and jumped.
By the time she saw clearly that there seemed to be a person below, it was too late.
There was only a loud "bang".
It's loud, but not painful.
This was followed by a muffled groan from the man.
Because the people below cushioned her.
The person underneath him made a dissatisfied "tsk-tsk" sound.
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