Chapter 174 The True and False King Jin
"Prince...Prince...it's...it's my aunt...who sent someone..."
"Your Highness?" Chen Yue was surprised.
How many princes are there? Isn’t Prince Jin outside?
However, Princess Jin couldn’t have recognized the wrong person, right? Could it be that the Prince of Jin outside was fake?
After thinking this through, Chen Yue quickly said, "Your Majesty, please forgive me. I will rescue you right away."
As he said this, he quickly chopped at the thick iron chain on the cage, but his sword sent out sparks and failed to cut the chain.
At this moment, I suddenly heard footsteps coming from a distance. The footsteps were hurried and sounded like a group of strong men.
Chen Yue and others looked towards the exit vigilantly, ready for action.
The footsteps gradually approached, and a beam of torch light shone from the corner, followed by the bright armor of the Yulin Guards reflecting the light, like a walking light source, gradually approaching.
Chen Yue raised his voice and asked, "Is that General Xiao Xue?"
"Old Chen, it's me." Xue An's voice came.
"Hurry, we have control here, come and rescue Prince Jin and Princess."
"Prince Jin? I just saw him outside. How did he get here ahead of me?"
Xue An said as he quickened his pace and walked over.
When I got closer, I gasped at the scene in front of me.
Two people were imprisoned in two large cages hanging in the air. They were dressed in rags, had untied hair, and were hunched over.
"This chain is too thick for my sword to cut through."
Chen Yue didn't even give him time to think and spoke.
Xue An didn't have time to think about it after hearing this, saving people was the most important thing.
"I will do it. This black iron sword of mine was given by His Majesty. It can cut through iron like mud."
Chen Yue nodded and said, "Well, you go up there, make a hole from above, and rescue the people.
If we cut the chain directly, the prince and princess might get hurt."
Xue An said: "Okay."
After saying that, he took two steps back, sprinted onto the wall next to him, grabbed the chain and climbed to the top of the cage.
"Your Majesty, please hide in the corner opposite me. I will come to rescue you."
After hearing this, the person in the cage used his hands and feet to slowly crawl towards the opposite corner.
Xue An swung his sword twice, creating a gap in the iron cage.
"Your Highness, please stand up and grab my arm." Xue An said loudly.
But the King of Jin inside remained indifferent.
Princess Jin next door said, "Your Highness...his...hamstrings...are...broken. He...can't stand up."
After hearing this, Xue An was stunned for a moment and then jumped directly into the cage.
"Old Chen, come up and take the prince over."
Chen Yue flipped over, and the two of them worked together to carry King Jin out of the cage.
Chen Yue felt the weight of King Jin. An adult man weighed less than a half-grown child.
It feels like a pile of bones wrapped under a human skin.
If the person in his arms had not been breathing, Chen Yue would have thought he was holding a dead person.
The two of them followed the same method and rescued Princess Jin as well.
Chen Yue held the Prince of Jin in his arms, Xue An carried the Princess of Jin on his back, and a group of people hurriedly evacuated from the cave.
As soon as they came out of the main hall of the east courtyard, a group of guards from the Prince of Jin's Mansion suddenly appeared in the courtyard. When they saw everyone, they started shooting them with arrows.
Seeing the crossbow arrows shooting, everyone had no choice but to go back into the house.
It turned out that although King Jin was entangled by Huai Xiucheng, he was still worried about this side, so he secretly sent someone to take a look.
Seeing that everyone in the yard had fallen, he decisively mobilized more people to surround the yard.
When he saw Chen Yue and others coming out, he shot them without saying a word.
Chen Yue and others retreated all the way back to the small Buddhist temple. The arrows outside passed through the doors and windows and stuck in the pillars, and the sounds on the walls could still be heard.
Xue An said, "What should we do? Wait for Huai Xiucheng to rescue us?"
Chen Yue shook his head.
"Our division of labor today is that Huai Xiucheng is only responsible for keeping Prince Jin busy. He doesn't need to worry about anything else."
Suddenly, Prince Jin raised his hand with difficulty and pointed behind Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.
Seeing this, Chen Yue thought for a moment and said, "Your Highness, are you trying to say that there's a mechanism behind the Bodhisattva?"
Prince Jin blinked.
Chen Yue said, "Go move the Bodhisattva out of the way and see what's behind it."
The Qianyu Guards hurried forward and moved the Bodhisattva away. One of them knocked on the wall and observed it for a long time.
"General, no findings."
Chen Yue had no choice but to carry Prince Jin closer to the wall. Prince Jin looked at the pillar next to him.
The Qianyu Guards went to check the pillar again, and sure enough, they felt an inconspicuous bulge on it.
He pressed down hard, and suddenly there was a "click" sound, and a secret door appeared behind Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.
The Qianyu Guards hurried through the secret door and looked outside.
"General, this is a deserted yard."
When Prince Jin looked over there, Chen Yue took the lead and carried Prince Jin through the secret door.
Then Chen Yue carefully observed King Jin's eyes, and wherever his eyes looked, Chen Yue would walk in that direction.
Everyone followed quietly behind.
Walk through this deserted courtyard and exit from the northeast corner gate, and you will reach the back garden.
At this moment, everyone was busy putting out the fire, and there was no one in the back garden.
The group walked through the back garden and planned to go out from the corner door on the east side. Halfway through, they suddenly heard footsteps behind them.
Everyone quickened their pace and ran towards the corner gate.
Suddenly a man came out from the side, saw the crowd and rushed over waving the weapon in his hand.
Qianyuwei chopped the man to the ground.
The Qianyu Guards walked behind and looked back, ready to cover their retreat.
When they reached the small gate, Xue An held the sword in one hand and split the iron chain of the corner gate, and the secret guard removed the bolt.
Everyone successfully left the Prince of Jin's Mansion before the pursuers arrived.
When Chen Yue saw him coming out, he said, "Go to where there are many people."
When everyone heard this, they quickened their pace and headed towards the crowded area ahead.
After blending into the crowd, Xue An took out a signal firework from his arms, and Qianyuwei launched it directly into the air.
When Huai Xiucheng saw the fireworks, he knew what they were doing.
He stopped entangled with King Jin and prepared to withdraw.
The Grand Princess's Mansion.
Li Yueyao had already fallen asleep unconscious, and Feng Shenyu was waiting for news from Chen Yue, just lying there with his eyes closed.
After midnight, he opened his eyes and got up from bed.
After midnight, Chen Yue and others returned.
There were more than a dozen people in the group, and only four were hit by arrows and had arrow wounds, while the rest were intact.
Feng Shenyu was furious when he saw the skinny Prince Jin and the almost unrecognizable Princess Jin.
"Report to the Right Prime Minister, the King of Jin does not seem to be feeling well and needs immediate medical treatment." Chen Yue said.
"Go call Qian Lou, Cui Yu, Imperial Physician Zhao, and Imperial Physician Hu."
Soon Qianlou arrived.
"Send someone to call all the imperial physicians who are not in the palace today."
Qian Lou lowered his head and turned to leave.
Cui Yu, Doctor Zhao, and Doctor Hu came over and were dumbfounded when they looked at the two people in front of them who were no longer in human form.
"Now we must do everything we can to save King Jin's life."
"Prince of Jin? Right Prime Minister, you said this is the Prince of Jin?" Doctor Hu was very surprised.
He and Doctor Zhao walked forward tremblingly and examined the patient.
Feng Shenyu stood outside, his whole body filled with chills, and gave orders to the Yulin Guards:
"Go find Huai Xiucheng now, mobilize the Jinwu Guards, and surround Prince Jin's mansion. No one is allowed to escape."
"Yes."
Xue An agreed without hesitation.
After a while, two imperial doctors and Cui Yu came out.
Doctor Hu gnashed his teeth and said, "Who did this vicious thing? Prince Jin has barely a single piece of good skin on his body..."
Multiple burns, bruises, and both hamstring tendons were severed...
More importantly, Prince Jin is seriously deficient in food, and his health is in a precarious state, almost exhausted."
Doctor Zhao burst into tears beside him: "Prince Jin... Why is Prince Jin like this?"
Cui Yu said beside her, "Princess Jin is feeling better, but she hasn't been eating enough for a while and is weak.
There were only some scratches and old whip wounds on his body, but no other scars."
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