King Yanbei, Xiao Jingxi and the princess were not in the palace. If there was any emergency in the palace, the princess might be able to secretly mobilize people in an unknown way, so Xiao Jingyue and others planned to kill her before she returned to the palace to avoid any problems at the critical moment.
Xiao Jingyue found a chair in the room and sat down, and Yelu Sager also sat down. Concubine Yun did not sit back, but sat next to Ren Yaoqi, holding Ren Yaoqi in her arms, pursing her lips tightly and saying nothing.
The room became strangely quiet.
I don’t know how long it took, but a man dressed as a guard walked in from outside, walked up to Xiao Jingyue and called him "Young Master".
Xiao Jingyue and Yelu Sager both looked at him. Xiao Jingyue asked lazily, "What happened? Is the person dead?"
Concubine Yun and Ren Yaoqi also looked at him.
The guard paused, then said with difficulty, "In reply to your question, sir, Mu Hu suddenly showed up with a group of men halfway through the journey and rescued the princess. Most of the people we sent out were killed or injured."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Jingyue immediately sat up straight, squinted his eyes to look at the guard, and gritted his teeth and said, "Mu Hu? Wasn't he guarding the city gate today? How could he suddenly appear?!"
The guard lowered his head and didn't dare to look into Xiao Jingyue's eyes: "I don't know, Mu Hu's appearance must be... a coincidence."
Their action today had been planned for a long time. Logically, the people in the palace should not have noticed anything wrong, otherwise the princess would not have gone out today, and the palace would not have been controlled by them so quickly.
They didn't expect that they had attracted Ren Yaoqi's attention and suspicion by luring away the two maids who knew martial arts around him just for the sake of safety, so Ren Yaoqi asked Nanxing to pick up the princess. Nanxing naturally handed the task of bringing the princess back to the mansion to Mu Hu, and she had to stay to protect the young lady and the child in her belly.
Xiao Jingyue exerted force with his hands on the chair, and with a "crack", a corner of the armrest of the pearwood chair was broken off.
"Go keep an eye on the situation outside and tell my father. His men can get ready!"
The guards received the order and the two men retreated.
Yelu Sager's face wasn't looking good either. She looked at Xiao Jingyue and said, "Alerting Mu Hu is equivalent to alerting the defenders of Yunyang City. Now we've become the turtle caught in the jar. It's really like a 30-year cycle."
Anyone who has learned a foreign language will always want to show off his or her vocabulary, regardless of whether the words are used correctly.
Xiao Jingyue was silent for a moment with a cold face, then suddenly smiled again. He shifted his gaze to Ren Yaoqi and Concubine Yun, stroking his chin with ill intent, and said, "It's okay, we don't lack bait here. I wonder if the princess will come back for her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law."
Yelusage's gaze also stopped at Ren Yaoqi and Concubine Yun. Although she disdained bullying of the elderly, the weak, women and children, she was still a princess after all, and she understood the need to compromise when necessary, so she hesitated for a moment and said nothing more.
Xiao Jingyue glanced at the silent Yelu Sager, smiled, stood up, and slowly walked to Ren Yaoqi and Concubine Yun, looking at one and then the other. Concubine Yun hugged Ren Yaoqi tightly with a tense body, and looked at Xiao Jingyue coldly.
Xiao Jingyue grinned and said half-seriously, "What do you think? Should I chop off an arm or leg and give it to the princess so she can make the right decision quickly? But whose should I chop off?"
Concubine Yun looked at him warily. Xiao Jingyue sneered, "Hasn't your Majesty always been indifferent to your children and grandchildren? Why are you acting so protective today? It seems we all misunderstood you before."
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