Chapter 34 Breaking into the Princess's Mansion at Night
It was quiet in Xiliuwu. Qiandeng led his men closer and asked them to search outside the house first to make some noise.
Sure enough, within a moment, Mingjiu came out from inside, his clothes were loose and baggy, looking very sloppy.
"Xianzhu? Did you miss me? Come to see me?" He didn't care about other people at all. He smiled at Qiandeng with his big white teeth in surprise, "Come on, come in and let's have some fun in this difficult time!"
Aunt Xuanji coughed lightly, reminding him that someone else was nearby. "Excuse me, Prince Mingjiu. Our young master, Shangluo, who lives in the backyard, has suddenly disappeared. His family is extremely worried, so the county lady brought us here to look for him. We've already checked at the residences of Cui Shaoqing and Xue Lecheng."
Mingjiu's eyes flickered slightly, and he glanced guiltily at his room: "No, why would that little brat come to play here?"
Qian Deng naturally noticed his strange expression. "I hope Prince Mingjiu will forgive us. We are worried too. Your area is the most secluded. What if Shangluo hides here and refuses to come out? If he suddenly gives you a fright, then it would be my fault for not being hospitable to guests at the Changhua Palace."
"What? He can scare me?" Mingjiu was immediately unhappy and pointed inside the house, "Look if you want, but don't rummage through my things!"
Aunt Xuanji responded promptly and took the people inside to take a look. He had only been there for a month or two, but the house was already packed to the brim. The hall was filled with all kinds of wooden frames and ropes of unknown use, piled together in a mess, leaving almost no place to step.
Seeing that their expressions were the same, Mingjiu secretly breathed a sigh of relief: "It's normal for me to have some fun when I'm free, right?"
"Is it normal?" Cui Fufeng grabbed a wooden frame with ropes and asked Qian Deng, "Does the county lady recognize it?"
This thing looked familiar, and Qian Deng remembered it immediately: "This seems to be the tool mentioned by Cui Shaoqing in "Changhua Wulue" for climbing over walls during sieges and captures."
Cui Fufeng nodded and looked at Mingjiu: "I wonder why the prince would play with this kind of thing in the county lady's backyard?"
When Mingjiu saw that they had noticed, he could only mutter, "Just kidding."
"So, you've used these things since you moved in here?" Cui Fufeng pointed at the footprints on the wooden stairs and said, "The ash is still fresh, so it seems Prince Mingjiu has used these things in the past two days."
"I'm also doing this for the Immortal Pearl!" Ming Jiu defended. "I'm a prince, and I often have urgent military matters to attend to. Do I really have to ask the Immortal Pearl for permission to leave the palace in the middle of the night? Wouldn't it be more convenient for everyone if I just go?"
This statement is indeed justified considering his status.
But Qian Deng pointed to a footprint next to his on the wooden ladder and asked, "If that's the case, then why are there fresh footprints of a second person?"
Mingjiu was shocked. After a closer look, he found that there was indeed another footprint on the corner of the wooden ladder, which was obviously smaller than his own.
He opened his mouth, his face hesitant. "He's from... Shangluo, right?"
In this backyard, except for Shangluo, there is indeed no one with such small feet.
Qian Deng frowned and asked, "Why did Shangluo's footprints appear on this ladder together with the prince's?"
Seeing that he had no other options, Mingjiu scratched his head and had to admit that after entering the palace, he had been determined to get close to the county lady, cultivate a relationship with her, and take her to Huihe. However, once the palace's front and back courtyards were locked, his chance to even see the county lady was restricted. The longer he stayed, the more depressed he became. He simply asked for a ladder to be sent over the wall, and sneaked to the military camp in the middle of the night to drink and play guessing games with others. He was so happy.
Anyway, his identity is there, and others can't do anything to him.
Qian Deng looked at his self-righteous appearance, but suddenly he spoke and uttered two words: "Horse head."
Mingjiu's heart skipped a beat, and he stuttered, "What...what horse head?"
"You sneaked into the princess's mansion at night and left the horse's head beside Princess Gao's pillow."
Looking at Qiandeng's calm and determined expression, Mingjiu's usually proud head and shoulders drooped. "How...how did you know that?"
"Just a random guess." Qian Deng gestured for Aunt Xuanji and the others to check the situation inside the house first, and then he found a chair and sat down. "Tell me, why did you do this?"
"Just a few days ago, I was drinking with someone and heard someone talking about that slap princess who had framed Xianzhu..."
"Jianfu Temple." Qiandeng reminded while suppressing his slightly twitching eyelids.
"Anyway, everyone says she's harmed you multiple times, and I was also brought in by the Slap Princess to make the county lady's backyard even more chaotic..."
"confusion."
"Anyway, I was furious. They even asked me, 'Didn't you say on New Year's Day that the Slap Princess would soon die?' 'Prince, how long can she keep up her mischief?' I patted my chest and said it would be today! Everyone said I was drunk, but I wasn't. I was wide awake. After they sent me back to the palace, the angrier I got. I'm the Huihe prince, Yaoluo Gemingjiu, notorious in the northwest... and famous far and wide. That woman actually dared to use me, making me a joke, and even had to drink and get jealous with other men in the county lady's backyard..."
Liuli, who was standing next to him, looked at Qiandeng, whose face looked unhappy, and silently swallowed the jealousy on her lips.
"I got so angry that I decided to kill her right away. I found a toilet and went to the backyard to find a toilet..."
Hearing this, Cui Fufeng realized something was wrong: "Wait, what do you mean by imminent death?"
Mingjiu said confidently: "Just pick up a bucket of shit and pour it on her head!"
Everyone present twitched their lips. Liuli pressed her throbbing temples and asked, "So...did the prince leave later?"
Mingjiu said angrily, "Why are you going out? I was carrying a bucket to find the toilet when I ran into Shangluo. This kid is really troublesome. He actually followed me secretly. When he saw me trying to climb over the wall with the bucket, he jumped out and asked me what I was doing..."
After hearing Mingjiu's explanation, Shangluo almost couldn't stand up and laughed. He told him that even if he could climb over the wall with shit and urine, he couldn't sneak into the princess's mansion with it.
"The princess's mansion is completely different from your Huihe camp. It's even larger than the Changhua Palace! There are hundreds of rooms. Who knows where the princess will stay? And you're carrying a huge toilet?"
Hearing him say this, Mingjiu also lost his temper: "Are Xianzhu and I really going to be bullied by the Slap Princess like this?"
Shangluo said, "Brother Tianshui and Brother Fufeng also gave them a warning. I heard that the princess's horse was shot and they didn't even dare to fart."
Mingjiu was naturally curious and asked what happened. Shangluo exaggerated the matter and talked about how Xiao Fuyu bullied the county lord in the mountain mausoleum, Ling Tianshui broke her horse's leg with one kick, and Cui Fufeng made the princess apologize with just a few words.
"Brother Linyou suspects that Princess Gao must have secretly made things difficult for Brother Tianshui and Brother Fufeng. However, they are so powerful that they should have resolved the situation without making a sound. In any case, they didn't show it at all on the surface."
Hearing this, Qiandeng couldn't help but look at Cui Fufeng with a questioning look in his eyes.
Cui Fufeng just smiled at her calmly, indicating that it was okay and he would listen to what Mingjiu had to say first.
Ming Jiu's mouth twitched after hearing Shang Luo's words: "That's right, who would dare to mess with someone like Ling Tianshui?"
"That's right, they don't dare to mess with Brother Tianshui and Brother Fufeng, so they only dare to bully the county lady!" Shang Luo complained, "I heard that Xiao Fuyu recently got a white horse that's exactly the same as the one that Brother Tianshui kicked to death. He's going to be so proud again!"
Thinking about how close Qian Deng and Ling Tianshui were, Ming Jiu threw the toilet bowl away and muttered to himself, "So Xianzhu likes men like this? Just wait, I'm going to do something big tonight!"
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