Chapter 158 is indeed what Gu Yanchen is most interested in!
"Actually, this matter may be of most interest to you!"
The assassin stared straight at Gu Yanchen. Ran Qingxuan glanced back and forth at the two of them, and a bad premonition arose in his heart.
Gu Yanchen frowned slightly, waiting for his next words.
The assassin kept swallowing because of nervousness, and only spoke after he had prepared himself mentally.
"In fact...Grandpa Gu Yanzong of the Gu family...did not die at all!"
"What did you say?"
The assassin's words were like a sharp sword, piercing Gu Yanchen's heart. Not only him, but even Ran Qingxuan was so shocked that he stood there for a long time, unable to recover.
Gu Yanchen's body trembled uncontrollably because of the news. With his fingertips trembling slightly, he rushed forward and grabbed the assassin's neck.
"You are lying. The imperial physician was unable to treat the patient. Qi Jing personally brought the patient back to Kyoto after the patient died. I also saw the person in the coffin with my own eyes. How... How could it be as you said..."
In fact, the further he talked, the more unsteady Gu Yanchen became.
He was not confirming the death of his eldest brother, but he could not believe the fact that a dead person was still alive.
"I didn't lie. Gu Yanzong was secretly imprisoned in a water dungeon and never left the capital..."
This sentence almost crushed his last bit of sanity. Closing his eyes and taking a deep breath, Gu Yanchen clenched his teeth and asked word by word.
"Where are the people?"
"Taicang Palace!"
Before Ran Qingxuan could stop him, a crisp sound was heard from the assassin's neck.
The corpse was thrown out by Gu Yanchen fiercely. An Si stood aside and didn't dare to breathe. For a moment, he couldn't believe that the old man of the Gu family was still alive.
In fact, Ran Qingxuan wanted to ask for more information, but Gu Yanchen acted too quickly and did not give her time to react.
"Qingxuan, I must go. My elder brother is still alive. He is still alive!"
At this time, Gu Yanchen's eyes were bloodshot and he looked very crazy, but Ran Qingxuan knew that he was so anxious because he was worried about Gu Yanzong's safety.
"Don't worry, we will go, and I will accompany you, but we still have other things to do. Only when Tang Ciyun wakes up will we know what happened to your fourth brother..."
Ran Qingxuan walked to Gu Yanchen, took his hand, and comforted him softly.
Now they didn't know why Gu Yan was so heartless. If they rushed to rescue them without understanding the situation, it might backfire. She had to understand it first.
"No, let's go to Taicang Palace first. It's very close. Let's go to Taicang Palace first to rescue my brother, okay?"
The matters of the third and fourth brothers have not been settled yet, and Gu Yanchen has learned again that his eldest brother is not dead, and is less than 800 miles away from him. How can he not be anxious?
"Madam, Taicang Palace is where the prince usually spends the summer. It is about 200 miles away from where we are now."
It was the first time that An Si saw his master lose his composure like this. Seeing that he didn't explain clearly, he added something.
Ran Qingxuan didn't expect the distance to be so close. At a speed of one hundred yards per hour, it might take an hour or two to get there.
After all, it had only been eighteen days since they set out from the capital, a distance of more than five hundred miles, and only five or six hours by car.
It's just a two-hour delay, Tang Ciyun should be able to wait.
After thinking it through, Ran Qingxuan expressed it immediately.
"We'll leave now."
The assassin's body was hastily buried by An Si, and the three got into the car, but this time Ran Qingxuan did not let Gu Yanchen drive.
In his unstable emotional state, Ran Qingxuan was afraid that he would lose concentration due to excitement, so he simply persuaded him and then opened it himself.
No one spoke during the process. The off-road vehicle was speeding through the wilderness like a black lightning in the darkness.
Under the guidance of An Si, the car drove steadily to a manor surrounded by dense forests two hours later.
After parking the car, Ran Qingxuan was picked up by Gu Yanchen and quickly approached the palace.
The three of them landed on the high wall outside the palace and used the cover of pine leaves to carefully observe the situation inside the palace.
An Si was also wearing night vision goggles on his head. Although he was curious about why they could allow one to see at night, he did not forget that he had more important things to do.
"Master, I will go explore the location of the water dungeon first."
"Well, remember not to alert the enemy."
"yes."
After answering, An Si immediately disappeared into the night, but in the eyes of Ran Qingxuan and Gu Yanchen, An Si moved very quickly on the roofs of the houses.
I don’t know if it’s because it’s not summer at this time, but there are very few guards in the palace except for the occasional night patrol eunuchs passing by.
Perhaps seeing the confusion in Ran Qingxuan's eyes, Gu Yanchen explained in a low voice.
"Taicang Palace is a summer resort that Emperor Mingde specially built for Qi Jing. Qi Jing only comes here to escape the summer heat from July to August every year."
"Later, some ministers suggested that the Taicang Palace was too luxurious. Qi Jing was the future king, and excessive luxury would cause criticism from the people. Since then, Qi Jing rarely came here.
But I never expected that my brother would be trapped here for eight years. I thought I had accepted it all, but..."
Gu Yanchen's tone was heavily nasal, and Ran Qingxuan immediately reached out and gently put his arm around his shoulders to comfort him.
"It's all over. We'll be able to rescue the people soon. You should be happy."
"I know, I'm just afraid that my brother will blame me for taking so long to come..."
Ran Qingxuan sighed slightly in his heart, and when he was about to speak, the figure of An Si came quickly from a distance.
"Master, there are no soldiers guarding the front yard, but there is a very secret corner in the back yard where no less than ten people are hiding, and all of them are masters."
Gu Yanchen's eyes lit up. Needless to say, that place was probably the entrance to the dungeon.
The three of them no longer hesitated, and carefully avoided people and quietly approached the place that An Si mentioned.
With the help of night vision goggles, Gu Yanchen quickly found the six people hiding in the dark. In addition to the four people on the ground, there were four soldiers with sabers standing guard at the four corners.
"You guys take care of the people down there, and leave the people on the roof and in the trees to me."
As the distance was very close, Ran Qingxuan did not take out the sniper rifle. He set the rifle to single shot, screwed on the silencer, and leaned against the pine tree ready to shoot.
"Okay."
As soon as Ran Qingxuan finished speaking, he raised his hand and killed a man who was leaning against a tree and seemed to be taking a nap.
Before the man fell, there were two more "puff" sounds from the rifle in his hand, and the two people on the roof fell to the ground.
Three consecutive muffled sounds finally attracted attention, but before the hidden guards above their heads could take any action, the three people fell to the ground like dumplings.
The people in the yard below had already noticed something was wrong, but no one knew what was happening in the dark.
Gu Yanchen and An Si cooperated with each other and ended the battle in less than two minutes.
Ran Qingxuan stood quite high and looked around. After making sure that no one was paying attention to them, she quietly signaled Gu Yanchen to take her away.
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