Qiao Si knew exactly what Prince Qiao wanted. He had chosen Li Guanghan because his character was different from those of the other members of the royal family, but he had never expected that he would be the one to fall for him.
Prince Qiao had already reached a cooperation with him, and now she was imprisoned here by Li Guanghan...
They must be stopped.
"The security inside the hospital is strict. If you want to get out, you need to find a way..."
Qiao Si discussed several plans with them. In the next few days, they tried to see if they could leave the yard. After two days of coaxing and begging, the guards at the door finally agreed to let Zhang You and the others go out to buy things.
However, if they wanted to leave the house, they had to be accompanied by someone. Originally, it was other people in the house. When Jinlu knew that Xia He was going to leave the house, he volunteered to go out with them.
Because of the incident that Li Guanghan beat Qiao Si that day, Zhang You was not in a good mood towards Jinlu. She believed that they were in the same group, and no matter how soft-spoken Jinlu was, it was useless.
With her attracting Jinlu's attention along the way, Chunhua could take advantage of his inattention to find out about Prince Qiao.
It would have been fine if I hadn't asked, but after asking, I heard that Prince Qiao had already requested to go to Haizhou to deal with the flood.
The supplies donated by Li Guanghan on behalf of the noble families in the capital were lost on the way, and the flood in Haizhou became more serious. The people in the areas south of the capital were complaining. The situation was serious and the emperor could not sit idly by. The officials sent previously were useless, so Prince Qiao asked for leave.
After Zhang You and the others got the news, they hurried back to explain the matter to Qiao Si.
Prince Qiao was a military general. He asked for orders to go, and it was impossible for him to do the work of civil officials. Others might not know this, but Qiao Si knew that her father was only better than others in martial arts and military formations. When it came to things like controlling floods and comforting the people, he was absolutely incapable of it.
At the beginning, the governance of Dingzhou was fully under the authority of her mother, who led her to govern, and Prince Qiao was only responsible for leading the troops and guarding.
Why did he ask for permission to go to Haizhou to control the flood?
As Qiao Si pondered, her brows furrowed tighter and tighter, and her narrow, long, almond-shaped eyes narrowed slightly. She had a bad intuition, and there was always an indescribable feeling in her heart, as if something was about to happen.
"I can't just sit there and wait for death. I have to find a way out. No matter what, I'm going to Haizhou."
Qiao Si spoke in a firm tone. She quickly came up with a plan to deal with the situation and whispered instructions to the six of them.
Zhang You and her companions were preparing their luggage for the trip to Haizhou, but they were under surveillance, which inevitably hindered them. So they could only ask Jiang Xiaorao for help.
When Qiuyue and Dongmei were out, they secretly sent a letter to her, asking her to prepare a carriage and wait for Qiao Si to take advantage of the chaos to leave the city in two days.
Taking advantage of Qiao Si's poor appetite, Zhang You asked the housekeeper for a lot of ingredients, and the small kitchen in Qiao Si's yard became busy.
Many guards came in and out, bringing Zhang You the firewood, seasonings, fruits, vegetables, chickens, ducks, fish and meat he needed.
Although the housekeeper felt that it was inappropriate, the people who came and went were all loyal servants of Prince Han's Mansion, and there was nothing wrong with the needs listed by Zhang You, so he could only reluctantly satisfy them.
The yard became busy, and Li Guanghan sent more people to monitor Qiao Si. His attention was on Qiao Si, so Zhang You became lazy.
Zhang You directed them to place the necessary items one by one to fill up the small kitchen. The small kitchen was not big to begin with, and the entire kitchen could be walked through in just five or six steps.
Zhang You needed a lot of things, and they were piled up here and there, filling up the entire small kitchen.
That night, Qiao Si had no appetite and hadn't eaten much for dinner, so she wanted to have a midnight snack. Zhang You and Cui Liu went to the small kitchen to prepare a midnight snack for her.
The weather in the capital had cleared up over the past two days, and the waterlogging in the courtyard had long since dried up. The small kitchen was brightly lit, with wisps of smoke rising and a fragrant aroma filling the air.
The guards guarding the gate just swallowed their saliva greedily and complained to each other about the good treatment the princess received. Even the people in the dark thought it was just an ordinary midnight snack.
It was not until the small kitchen was engulfed in flames, billowing smoke, and a deafening explosion suddenly rang out that they realized the danger.
Dongmei had been waiting in the yard for a long time. As soon as the accident happened in the small kitchen, she and Chunhua knocked on the door violently to ask the guards to open it.
The fire in the yard was roaring. As soon as the wooden door was opened, a heat wave swept in, and the heat was so scorching that they had to raise their hands to block it.
Dongmei and the others took advantage of the situation and pushed them, shouting, "Go and save the princess! She's still in the house!"
"Hurry up! There's a fire! Help!"
“Cough cough cough!”
"Help!"
"Go find the prince to save us!"
"Put out the fire! Put out the fire first!"
"Oh! What are you still standing there for? Quickly get some water to put out the fire!"
"Get out of the way, we're going to find the prince!"
The two gatekeepers had never seen such a scene before and were thrown into disarray. Listening to their cries of pain and fear, they subconsciously did as they were told and ran to the pond on the west side of the yard to fetch water to put out the fire.
Dongmei and Chunhua took advantage of the chaos to spread the news of a fire in the mansion, and at the same time took the opportunity to leave the mansion, under the pretext of looking for the prince to rescue people.
Seeing this, the guards in the dark stopped hiding. Their mission was to monitor Qiao Si, and now that there was a fire and lives were in danger, how could they just sit back and do nothing?
One of them ordered the others to rescue the princess, while he quickly ran to find Li Guanghan to report the news. Li Guanghan and Zhao Chao were discussing matters at Xiangyun Tower today and had not yet returned, so he had no choice but to run and deliver the message as soon as possible.
However, his letter could not be delivered. As soon as he left the house, he was stopped by people sent by Jiang Xiaorao.
The fire in the yard broke out quickly, and other people in the house had not yet heard the news. This moment was the best opportunity to escape.
Three secret guards risked their lives to rush into the blazing yard.
The small kitchen was adjacent to Qiao Si's house, and the fire quickly spread to Qiao Si's house. From a distance, they heard the painful cries for help from inside. Without thinking about anything else, they broke through the door and rushed in.
Jingzhu and Qiuyue had been waiting for a long time. As soon as they entered the door, they were knocked unconscious by their fierce movements.
Qiuyue clapped her hands, looking very relieved. She looked at Qiao Sicui and Liu Xiahe, smiled and said, "Okay, they're all knocked out. They won't wake up for a while. Come and change your clothes quickly. It will be difficult to go out if you're any later."
The small kitchen had a back window and was adjacent to Qiao Si's room. After Zhang You and Cui Liu entered the small kitchen, Cui Liu pretended to cook in plain sight while Zhang You secretly arranged the flour, firewood and other flammable materials he had bought and made a small device.
After the two of them secretly climbed through the window, the small device in the small kitchen also triggered the long-planned explosion. When they all turned their attention to the small kitchen, they climbed back to Qiao Si's room, creating the illusion that Xia He and Cui Liu were in danger in the small kitchen, and Qiao Si and two maids were trapped in the house.
They just waited for the people outside to become flustered, and then they took the opportunity to change into the clothes of these secret guards, pretending to be them, and leave the house openly.
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