The three of them walked out the door. Han Xiao let out a long breath, looked at Chu Yi and Shi Wu, and said, "Xing Yi just came to tell me some bad news..."
Chuyi's whole body tensed up immediately: "Uncle, what happened?"
Although Fifteen was usually a little confused, he knew the seriousness of the matter when he saw Chuyi's expression: "Yeah, what happened to my son-in-law? What do you need us to do?"
Fifteen knew that he was not smart, so he thought it was right to listen to his brother-in-law and New Year.
"The Second Prince and Hu Yansui may be plotting a rebellion. It's not confirmed yet, but I'm worried that it will affect us. So I'm telling you two about it. You must protect Ruanruan..."
Before Han Xiao finished speaking, Chuyi's expression had already turned cold: "Is what you said true? This kind of thing can't be..."
Han Xiao raised his hand to stop Chu Yi from speaking: "It is estimated that there are about 50,000 people hiding in these deep mountains. Do you think it is true?"
Chuyi clenched his fists. With 50,000 soldiers, it was hard for him to imagine what these 50,000 people were doing hiding here.
Fifteen scratched his head after hearing this: "Then...then can we go back first?"
Fifteen's idea was very simple. Since someone wanted to rebel, why didn't they just run away before anyone arrived?
Chuyi couldn't help but roll his eyes after hearing this, raised his hand and plucked Shiwu's hair: "Are you stupid? Do you think you can leave now?"
"Ah, why not? I just saw some palace servants going out." Fifteen said blankly.
Chuyi had already given up hope on the fifteenth. He looked at Han Xiao seriously and asked, "Son-in-law, what do you want us to do?"
Knowing that it was too late to leave now, he could only hide first, preferably without being discovered by Hu Yansui and the others.
However, although the palace is large, there is very little place to hide people. We can't hide in the mountains.
Han Xiao shook his head: "Chuyi, you should find Xiaobai first. I don't think the Second Prince will take action so quickly. I have sent someone to notify Huo Xinyan. I hope she can find a solution."
This is the only way now. Han Xiao pinched his fingers. Fifty thousand people against ten thousand people, what should he do to survive this crisis?
After making arrangements for Chuyi and the young master, Han Xiao thought about it and decided to ride his horse to the camp. He wanted to meet Huo Xinyan now.
When Han Xiao arrived at the camp, he found that there were fewer guards than before. The Second Prince and Hu Yansui were drinking with some ministers. Seeing Han Xiao approaching with his horse, the Second Prince smiled and greeted him, "Isn't this Han Xiao's horse? Why haven't you been here these days?"
Han Xiao stopped and looked at the smug expression on the Second Prince's face, which made him more certain of his guess.
Hu Yansui seemed to be drunk, and was touching a dancer all over. The dancer looked patient but didn't dare to refuse.
Hu Yansui heard the Second Prince talking to Han Xiao, so he let go of the dancer and drunkenly leaned over. He put his arm around the Second Prince's shoulders and said frivolously, "Hahahaha, isn't this the Marquis of Qingping? Where's your little brother? Why isn't he with you?"
As he spoke, he burped. Han Xiao frowned and didn't want to pay any attention to them: "I have something else to do. Please move aside, Second Prince..."
The Second Prince's expression remained unchanged as he stepped aside to let Han Xiao pass. "Sure, sure."
However, when Han Xiao passed by the Second Prince, the Second Prince said meaningfully: "I wonder how long you can remain so proud."
Han Xiao walked straight over without stopping.
The Second Prince looked at Han Xiao's back with a gloomy expression. The other ministers looked at each other, not knowing why the Second Prince's mood suddenly became bad, but they didn't dare to offend the Second Prince now, so they could only find an excuse to leave.
After everyone left, Hu Yansui walked up to the Second Prince with his collar open and said, "Second Prince, what's with that expression on your face?"
The Second Prince looked at the dissolute Hu Yansui with a flicker of disgust in his eyes: "Nothing, I just think Han Xiao is a variable."
"Hey, what are the variables? Everything must be finished tonight. By then, Jiang Kingdom will be in your pocket, Second Prince..."
The smell of alcohol on Huyan Sui's breath made the Second Prince want to retreat, but he was worried that it would arouse Huyan Sui's vigilance, so he could only endure it and kept cursing the Northern Di people in his heart for their rudeness and dirtiness.
"Prince, please be careful with your words..." The second prince looked around vigilantly and said dissatisfiedly.
It would be bad if someone with ulterior motives heard it.
As a result, Hu Yansui didn't care at all. He felt that today's task had already achieved twice the result with half the effort and there was no need to be so careful. Now the guards in the entire palace added up to only a few thousand people.
How could these thousands of people compare with his well-trained Beidi men? Unless Huo Cheng came back with his troops, whoever came here tonight would die.
Seeing that Huyan Sui refused to listen to his advice, the Second Prince angrily waved his sleeves and turned away. Huyan Sui was not angry at this, but followed him with a sinister smile.
Han Xiao didn't dare to stop and when he found Huo Xinyan, he discovered that Chu Jinglin and Xing Yi were there.
Huo Xinyan sat in the main seat, looking at the sand table. Seeing Han Xiao come in, Huo Xinyan asked, "Han Xiao, what are you doing here? Where's Ruanruan?"
"Ruanruan is resting in the palace. I was worried, so I came to check on her." Han Xiao walked to Huo Xinyan's side and looked at the sand table with the positions marked on it.
Han Xiao has now confirmed that the Second Prince and Huyan Sui are indeed planning a rebellion.
Chu Jinglin disagreed when he heard this and said, "Han Xiao, you shouldn't have come. You should be with Ruanruan at this time. What if something happens to Ruanruan?"
Han Xiao didn't answer Chu Jinglin. He just looked at the sand table seriously and asked Huo Xinyan, "General Huo, how many troops do we have now?"
Huo Xinyan knew that it was impossible for Han Xiao to go to the palace now, so he frowned and said, "Originally, there were 10,000 guards, plus the palace guards, there were about 13,000 people, but..."
However, five thousand of them were taken away by the fifth prince. The guards of the palace plus the existing imperial guards were only a few thousand people. Compared with Hu Yansui's 50,000 troops, these people were simply serving as food.
Han Xiao frowned as he listened. The worst situation had already happened. Now it depended on how Huo Xinyan would arrange it.
Huo Xinyan continued, "I've already sent someone to inform my father. He will come here as soon as he gets the news."
But everyone knew that even if they got here as quickly as possible, it would still take several days in advance, and the Second Prince probably couldn't wait that long.
With these thousands of people, they could only hold out for a day at most after returning to the palace.
Han Xiao was silent for a moment and then continued to ask, "Does Your Majesty know now?"
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