It was this slight time difference that allowed Ye Jinyun to successfully escape from the Beirong Palace among a pile of cold corpses.
At this time, Helian Rongxia had just arrived at Luocheng, the current border of Beirong, with his men.
The original border city has been captured by Da Qi, and now Luocheng is the most important place for Beirong to face Da Qi.
After they arrived in Luocheng and settled down, they prepared to exchange "Ye Jinyun" with the envoy of Da Qi outside the city tomorrow. The condition he proposed was that Da Qi should withdraw its troops and stop attacking Beirong.
Mo Qiyuan agreed. Expanding the territory was important, but rescuing his beloved, the mother of his child, was more important to him.
In the Da Qi military camp temporarily stationed fifty miles away from Luocheng, Mo Qiyuan, the Lin family father and son, Wei Lingfeng and others were discussing the matter of bringing Ye Jinyun back tomorrow.
They were afraid that Helian Rongxia was just pretending to hand over the person, but actually wanted to take the opportunity to launch a surprise attack on Mo Qiyuan, so they had to take all possible emergencies into consideration and formulate a series of corresponding countermeasures.
Originally, Lin Dingyao and Wei Lingfeng did not agree with the emperor taking the risk personally, but Mo Qiyuan wanted to see the person he thought about day and night in person as soon as possible, so he ignored the dissuasion and insisted on coming here in person.
On the second day
Da Qi and Bei Rong met at the agreed location. Both armies were on guard against each other until Helian Rongxia showed up in person with "Ye Jinyun" and Mo Qiyuan and his party breathed a sigh of relief.
However, they still did not let their guard down. Only after the envoy of Da Qi delivered the truce agreement drafted by Mo Qiyuan himself to the Beirong camp and brought back "Ye Jinyun", and the group escaped safely, did they completely relax.
As soon as Ye Jinyun saw the Emperor of Da Qi, she threw herself into his arms as she had practiced in the past. Mo Qiyuan felt a little strange in his heart as he held the person he cared about day and night in his arms. However, looking at the Beirong soldiers who were eyeing him covetously, Mo Qiyuan took her and evacuated first.
After handing the person over, Helian Rongxia returned to the city wall of Luocheng and saw that the soldiers of Daqi had retreated. He knew that Mo Qiyuan did not doubt the substitute, and a mocking smile appeared on the corner of his lips.
Mo Qiyuan, ah Mo Qiyuan, your feelings for her are nothing more than this. You can't even tell the person you love apart. What qualifications do you have to want her to come back to you?
"Give the order and return to the palace immediately."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Helian Rongxia led his men and rode back at full speed.
He left Ye Jinyun alone in the palace. Although he had left secret guards to monitor her and prevent her from escaping, he was still worried because she was not under his control.
Sure enough, his premonition was correct.
While they were still on their way back to the palace, Helian Rongxia received a message from the palace's secret guard Ye Jinyun, saying that the person was missing.
She's gone!
Helian Rongxia's face suddenly turned gloomy, and a storm brewed in his eyes, mixed with a hint of panic.
As expected, she took the opportunity to escape! But he would never let her go. Even if she escaped, he would dig deep into the ground to find her!
He asked his personal guards to take his token and notify all the towns from the capital to the border to strictly search every person leaving the city, while he himself took Yan Ji and others to return to the Beirong Palace day and night.
It was already the next morning when they arrived. As soon as Helian Rongxia returned to the palace, he hurried straight to his bedroom. On the way, he had already learned the whole process of Ye Jinyun's disappearance.
The maid suddenly had diarrhea and was unable to remain on duty, and then an assassin distracted the secret guards?
At first glance, this method did seem like someone had sneaked into the palace and kidnapped Ye Jinyun, but after thinking about it carefully, he found something wrong.
If it was someone from Mo Qiyuan's faction, they would have just found Ye Jinyun and directly engaged in a fight with his men, just like before, and forcefully took him away. They would never have used this method of making a feint to the east and attacking in the west.
What's more, if laxatives were put in the maids' food, could people outside really tell which ones were the maids serving Ye Jinyun?
So he felt that Ye Jinyun might not have been taken away by the people from Da Qi, and there might be other hidden reasons behind her disappearance.
So the first thing Helian Rongxia did when he returned to the palace was to rush directly to his own bedroom. That was the first crime scene, and more clues could be found there.
After he entered the hall, he began to carefully examine all the furnishings in the hall, not missing any details. Sure enough, when his eyes swept across the ground under the table in the hall, he found a drop of dark red.
Helian Rongxia squatted down and asked someone to bring a wet white silk handkerchief to wipe the mark, then put it under his nose and sniffed. It was blood.
He immediately understood what was going on. Just as he expected, Ye Jinyun was not kidnapped by the people of Da Qi, but was murdered by someone in the palace.
"Come here, bring the maid who fainted in the palace to me."
Outside the bedroom, the maids who originally served Ye Jinyun were controlled by Helian Rongxia as soon as he returned, so when he spoke this, the maid was immediately brought in.
Helian Rongxia looked at her bloodthirstily, stretched out his hand and unfolded the bloodstained silk handkerchief in his hand and said:
"Will you confess the truth, or will you wait until I use all the torture instruments in the torture chamber on you?"
The maid's heart sank, but she still pretended to be ignorant and shook her head:
"Your Majesty, I really don't know anything. I was knocked unconscious just after entering this palace. I don't know what happened."
Helian Rongxia narrowed his eyes upon hearing that, and then a cold light flashed before his eyes. With the sword in the hand of the secret guard, he cut off the maid's right ear.
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