The temperature in the tunnel was a little low, and Jiang Huaixu's body was covered with goose bumps. She rubbed her arms and did not go down immediately. Instead, she watched the guards who broke in at the entrance of the tunnel.
The thick smoke choked the guards, causing them to cough and cry, and they could not see clearly what was happening inside the warehouse.
The guard leader was the first to get rid of the smoke. Looking at the empty warehouse, his face instantly became extremely ugly.
"What...what's going on? Where are the things in the warehouse?!"
The smoke gradually dissipated, and more people saw the same scene, causing the crowd to fall into chaos.
The leader had no choice but to shout angrily, "Eunuch Ma was just leading people in and out of the warehouse. In such a short time, the thief must not have gotten far. Go search!"
They don't know about the existence of the tunnel? Jiang Huaixu thought to himself.
Yes, there is evidence of his intention to rebel in the tunnel, and only a fool would make this secret public.
She had to hurry.
Walking down the stairs, Jiang Huaixu quickly looted all kinds of objects, even the wooden racks where the objects were placed. Finally, she looked at the dragon robe and wanted to remove the gold thread on it, but time waited for no one.
Jiang Huaixu, who was about to leave, was attracted by the small box placed in the groove under the hem of his dragon robe.
She walked to the front of the dragon robe and squatted down. The naked eye couldn't see that there was a box here at all. She reached out and touched it carefully. Only by touching it with her hand could she feel a slight irregular dent.
The scan result showed that there was a booklet in the box.
Jiang Huaixu put the box directly into the space and walked towards the opposite passage he came from.
The tunnel has not only one exit at the warehouse, there is also an exit that leads directly to Prince Duan's study.
When they arrived at the study and activated the tunnel mechanism, the noise was so loud that it woke up the two servants who were guarding outside the door.
Having revealed her weakness, she simply opened the window, turned over and ran out, with the window making a dull banging sound.
The servant shouted loudly: "A thief has broken in!!"
“Someone come quickly...Ahhh!”
A blinding light suddenly erupted in the study, followed by a raging flame.
After throwing a incendiary bomb, Jiang Huaixu took advantage of the chaos and disappeared into the night.
[Ahhh, this is exciting! ! ]
Fu Tuan, who was in the shape of a white cat, fluttered his wings and squatted on Jiang Huaixu's shoulder, as if he wanted to jump up.
Jiang Huaixu, who was anxious to escape, didn't want to pay any attention to Fu Tuan, who was just watching the fun and making trouble.
While running, she checked the surrounding situation. She wanted to keep her eyes and ears open. The incendiary bomb directly set the study on fire, which would delay them for a while. There must be many capable people in a place like the palace. Before they could react, she had to escape from Prince Duan's palace as soon as possible.
Turning left and right to avoid the servants who were carrying water to the study, Jiang Huaixu came to the back of a house that was lower than the other houses.
She could get out by simply climbing over the wall next to the house, but there was a corner across a row of houses where four guards were standing about ten meters away from her, and she would be discovered if she climbed over the wall.
[Host, there's a hole at the base of the wall here.] Fu Tuan flew down from Jiang Huaixu's shoulder and stood in front of a tuft of grass.
Jiang Huaixu parted the grass and saw a hole, a dog hole.
She crawled on the ground and moved out little by little. The process was a bit difficult, but she didn't make any noise.
Without bothering to take care of her rustled mask and towel, she ran four or five hundred meters in the direction she came from before slowing down and straightening her clothes.
The east was getting light, with a pale fish belly white appearing on the surface. Daybreak was approaching.
Her leg muscles felt slightly sore from being tense for a long time. As she ran, she took off her black clothes to reveal the rough linen clothes underneath. As for the mask and cloth on her face, she did not dare to take them off.
When he was about to leave the city, Jiang Huaixu found the old lady's house, climbed over the wall into the yard, and left ten taels of silver on the sleeping old lady's pillow as payment for the cakes.
Even if the old lady's son and granddaughter didn't come back, she could still survive for a while with this money.
After taking a last glance at the devastated Zhangzhou City, Jiang Huaixu turned and left.
After leaving the city, she took off the mask and cloth on her face, and met Yun Qi on the way back to the bamboo forest.
"You went into town?"
Jiang Huaixu, who had been running all the way, was slightly out of breath. Hearing this, he did not hide it, "Yes. Did you wait here all night?"
Yun Qi was slightly surprised that Jiang Huaixu knew that she was following her last night.
He turned his face away and said, "I want to ask you about the situation in the city."
Knowing that he did not enter the city, Jiang Huaixu felt a little relieved.
But the matter had become so serious that it couldn't be concealed. It would be better for her to speak out. Even if Yun Qi suspected her, she was young and thick-skinned, so she would just refuse to admit it.
After briefly discussing the dire situation in Zhangzhou City, she turned the topic to Prince Duan's Mansion. "Something interesting happened there last night. It seems there was a fire, and it was quite large. I thought you were the one who started it. Did you really not enter the city last night?"
Glancing coldly at Jiang Huaixu, Yun Qi said without revealing any emotion, "It's not like I want to die."
Jiang Huaixu glanced at Yun Qi from head to toe. "Yeah, you can't even outrun me. I guess you don't have the ability."
After saying that, she walked away with her hands behind her back.
Yun Qi, who was planning to ask her if the arson had anything to do with her: ·······I was so angry that I wanted to grind my teeth.
When the two men walked back to the camp one after the other, the villagers had already woken up and were moving around.
Seeing Qian Xiuzhu and Zheng Li Niang looking for something from afar, Jiang Huaixu shouted loudly: "Mother! Sister-in-law!"
She trotted over to the two of them and asked, "What are you looking for?"
"Your sister-in-law said you were not in the tent, and I thought something happened to you!" Qian Xiuzhu gathered Jiang Huaixu's scattered hair.
"I couldn't sleep, so I wanted to go catch some fish in the little lake over there, but I didn't catch a single fish!" Jiang Huaixu pretended to be depressed, "Now I'm so sleepy."
Zheng Li Niang laughed, "How can fish be so easy to catch? Go into the tent and catch up on some sleep. More sleep will help you grow bigger."
Jiang Huaixu nodded listlessly, and after taking two steps, he seemed to suddenly remember something and stopped to look at the two of them.
"Mom, tell Dad that we should leave Huai'an Prefecture as soon as possible. Yun Qi said that many people died in Zhangzhou City, and the prince's mansion is on fire. It's a mess now! We can't go into the city."
Qian Xiuzhu and Zheng Li'niang looked at Yun Qi inquiringly with unhappy expressions.
Cloud Seven: ······
"Yes, I went into the city at night." His tone was a little gritted.
Jiang Huaixu pretended not to hear and continued to look at Qian Xiuzhu seriously.
Qian Xiuzhu sighed, "What kind of world is this!" Then she said to Jiang Huaixu, "Mom knows. I'll tell your dad later. Go to bed now."
Jiang Huaixu, without any psychological burden, turned and entered the tent.
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