Chapter 109 Gao's House
The passages in the secret room are complicated, and there are other secret doors if you go forward.
After Su Yan and Yun Xing discussed, they decided to return the same way. The most important thing now was to rescue these women.
Yun walked in front, and Su Yan followed holding Manrong's hand, patting her face from time to time. Under the stimulation of external force, Manrong's eyes were not as confused as at the beginning.
Su Yan was just about to continue "beating" the man awake when his wrist was suddenly held down by Yun Xing.
Yunxing stood by the door, leaning half of his body out, and turned around to close the door after a moment, "Someone is coming down. If we go out now, we will run into him head-on."
Su Yan didn't hear any sound.
As for the anti-tracking matter, it still depends on Yun Xing. Su Yan said, "Take another route. If you encounter danger, don't worry about me and run away by yourself."
Yun Xing nodded, "Got it."
Su Yan was silent.
Yunxing had already walked back, and Su Yan dragged Manrong to follow him, unable to help but say, "I was just being polite to you."
Do you really want to escape by yourself?
Yun Xing said again: "I know."
Su Yan: “…”
Whether I can escape today depends on Yunxing, so I won’t curse him in my heart for now.
Back in the cell, Su Yan looked at the cubicles hesitantly, "If they come in, they might find that Man Rong is not here. Should we take her away or leave her here?"
It’s not that Su Yan doesn’t want to save people, she just wants to save as many people as possible.
If the other party didn't come, she would still dare to take a gamble, but now that someone has come down, she is worried about the safety of others.
At this moment, Manrong pulled her hand back.
Su Yan turned around and saw Man Rong holding her head weakly, looking at Su Yan with difficulty, "You... is it you?! Go, go quickly! This is hell!"
Su Yan: “…”
Okay, she could still consider abandoning Manrong when she was in a coma, but now that she’s awake, it would be bad to abandon her again.
Su Yan didn't have time to explain, nor did he ask her what happened. He just grabbed her and ran away.
Just as Yun Xing said, these were all locked-up women, lying on the haystacks in a daze, not knowing what they had been through.
Some of them were probably disobedient and had been beaten. Their clothes were torn and there were several bloodstains on their bodies, including their faces.
The pain of torn flesh overwhelmed their spirits. The thick smell of blood could not dissipate, and blood and tears blended together.
However, someone applied medicine to them and white powder could be seen.
Man Rong hid behind Su Yan and didn't dare to look at them.
Yun walked to another exit and turned back to tell Su Yan, "There's no one up there, I'll go up first, and if it's safe, you can follow me."
Su Yan nodded.
Man Rong looked at Yun Xing wearing a mask, panicking, and asked Su Yan in a low voice, "Is he a good person? Not really."
"I don't know," Su Yan answered truthfully, "Maybe not, but it won't harm us."
Manrong felt even more fearful.
He certainly doesn't look like a good person.
Yunxing retreated quickly.
Su Yan asked: "Is there anyone?"
Yunxing seemed to want to say something but stopped himself.
Su Yan reminded: "You can't hide anything from me."
Yun Xing said seriously: "I won't hide it from you, as long as you ask."
"What's going on up there?"
Yun Xing: "It's a private residence."
"Private residence? Have you been there?"
Yun Xing’s reaction was similar to Qiu Shui’s just now.
Yun Xing said: "It's hard to say, but I saw two people."
Su Yan waited for his next words.
"The Crown Prince and Consort Liang, as far as I know, this Consort Liang is very favored and has a close relationship with the Crown Prince. The Crown Princess once had a very unhappy argument with the Crown Prince because of this."
"You know all this secret?" Su Yan guessed that what Yun Xing was doing might be related to the prince.
She had understood this meaning before entering the capital.
Yunxing is working for the prince now?
Yun Xing said: "I just heard others mention it."
Su Yan said: "But the prince is not in the East Palace, why did he take Concubine Liang to the private residence? Is this in accordance with the rules? And this private residence is connected to Gao's residence."
"I don't know what they did, but I do know what they are doing now."
Although Yun Xing's tone was calm, Su Yan could hear that there was something else behind his words.
Without Su Yan's urging, Yun Xing took the initiative to explain: "Liang Di probably fell into the water and was just pulled out. The prince was crying beside Liang Di, and there were four people beside her. They were the prince's guards."
The sweet love channel turned into a suspense channel in an instant.
"Liang Di... is dead?!"
Man Rong was so shocked just by listening to this, "What prince, what concubine, you...how do you know such powerful people?!"
Su Yan comforted him, "I don't recognize the prince."
"Really……"
Su Yan said: "The powerful person I know hasn't shown up yet."
Man Rong: “…”
After all, she was the only helpless commoner.
Regardless of whether Liangdi’s death was an accident or not, Su Yan is currently too busy to take care of this matter.
There will still be time to find out who owns the private house after leaving Gao’s house.
The secret passage appears to be below a tall house, but it is actually intricate and connects multiple houses.
Yunxing took them to another exit.
Su Yan said: "If this is not the right way to go, I will break out."
This time, Yunxing turned back and took them out.
They walked from the wing where sundries were stored to the small square courtyard. In the center of the courtyard was a furnace. Opposite the furnace was the Sanqing Hall, where the Three Pure Ones were enshrined.
Su Yan was surprised and asked, "Taoist temple?"
"It's Baiyun Temple," Yun Xing said, "It works for the Zhao clan. Look east and you can see Chuyun Tower."
Zhao Zong represents Zhao Mingde, and Gao Zhai is related to Zhao Mingde.
Since it was Zhao Mingde, it was not surprising that the prince would appear in the private residence. On the surface, the prince had close contacts with Zhao Mingde.
As for the painting studio, it might be related to Zhao Mingde. Qiu Shui said he was going to look for someone, but I don't know who he was looking for.
A silvery full moon hung in the dark sky, and a several-story building was just below the moon.
Man Rong's expression suddenly changed, "Alchemy furnace, it's an alchemy furnace!"
"Any questions?"
"It's an alchemy furnace!" Su Yan's incomprehension made Man Rong more anxious, "What we eat every day may be made here!"
Su Yan thought of the scraps she had picked up in the cell, "Are you talking about..."
“We eat it!”
Yun Xing looked at the alchemy furnace, "The alchemy furnace is related to your diet? Could it be that... you eat pills?"
Manrong thought about what she had experienced in the past few days and burst into tears. "They said that if we ate it, we would live a hundred years longer. They forced us to eat a lot every day."
The so-called elixirs are all poisonous. No wonder those women were in a trance. It turned out that they had eaten poison.
Su Yan asked: "Eat it every day? Before or after meals? How much should I eat?"
Man Rong looked unhappy. "We only eat this every day. They bring us bowl after bowl of it and watch us eat. They don't want to waste more time. If we eat slowly, we will be whipped. We eat voraciously all day long. I can smell the medicine in my body even when I talk."
The Gao residence, which was related to Zhao Mingde, had gone to great lengths to select women with clean backgrounds, but was actually going to lock them up and feed them elixirs?
What a joke, is he testing medicine? Trying to see which elixir can make one live a hundred years longer so that he can present it to the emperor?
This will take at least several decades, right?
The Taoist temple belongs to Zhao Zong and is not safe either, so Yun Xing leads them to evacuate.
On the way, Su Yan asked about the elixir, and Man Rong replied: "I don't know what to do. I was caught underground and taken away suddenly without telling me anything."
Su Yan asked: "Are you the last one to be arrested?"
"I don't know. I was only conscious for the first two days. After that, I was confused. I only remember that I was desperately eating pills every day."
"Do you remember their appearance? Are they the servants of Gao's house?"
Man Rong shook her head. "How could I dare to look up at them? They all had long whips in their hands, and they would whip anyone who didn't obey. They whipped a woman unconscious in front of me, and she was carried away that night."
"Where are you carrying it to?"
"I don't know. Should we bury it? We can't let anyone find the body."
Yunxing brought them to the wall.
It was easy for him to go out, and Su Yan was also okay, but it was not very convenient for Man Rong.
Su Yan was thinking about how to send the people out when he suddenly heard voices coming from the Taoist temple. The three of them immediately hid.
Four men who looked like guards were carrying a roll of white cloth and walking forward. A hand was hanging from above. They were carrying a person.
Man Rong's eyes widened with tears in them. Before she could scream, Su Yan covered her mouth.
"Well, she, it's her!"
The men talked as they walked, "Another one who didn't make it. According to the immortal, he was about to be raised, but he died at this juncture. What a waste."
Another person laughed and said, "It's not a waste. We can just pick the bones and put them in the oven. It's the same."
"It's really troublesome. It would be better to throw them in together."
"The immortal said that bones are filthy things and can only be used □□."
The four of them seemed to be heading towards the back of the Sanqing Hall.
Baiyun Temple is open to the public, but the area behind Sanqing Hall is usually closed.
Man Rong trembled in Su Yan's arms. "I know her. When I was first captured, she could still talk to me. After two days, she was unconscious and slept all day. Every time they fed her pills, they would pour basins of water on her. What do they mean by removing bones? Are they going to remove her bones?!"
Su Yan didn't understand either.
Remove the bones, leave the flesh, throw it in... where?
It's already done. Can it be done by feeding the pills for a few days?
If it’s not considered a waste, then what does it mean to not waste?
Yun Xing said: "I will take you out first. Feng Tu is still near Gao's house. Leave you to him and I will come back later."
Su Yan was sure that the whole thing was related to Zhao Mingde.
Since it is related to Zhao Mingde, Yun Xing should know more about it than her.
He even offered to come back to see...
Su Yan said seriously: "Do you know something? You know I don't like others hiding things from me."
Yun Xing said: "It's just a guess, I can't be sure."
"You have to listen to your guesses, too."
Yun Xing glanced at Man Rong, who was in a very bad state, and said slowly: "Two years ago, Zhao Mingde presented a new elixir to the emperor. Zhao Zong attaches great importance to Baiyun Temple, and the matter of sending the elixir will go through him."
Su Yan looked towards the alchemy furnace, "You mean... the emperor's longevity pills were made in Baiyun Temple?" Then the woman who was carried over just now is not...
Su Yan's face became more and more stiff, "It's impossible for Zhao Mingde to really ask a woman to try the medicine for longevity."
Even if we want to try it, we have to find a few dying people so that the drug can show its effect, right?
Man Rong asked: "If it's not a drug test, why do they let us take the pill? The pill has a weird smell and tastes terrible."
Su Yan and Yun Xing remained silent.
At this moment, Su Yan heard the sound of uniform footsteps coming from outside the wall, and someone was urging, "Hurry, put out the fire first!"
There was a bright fire in the sky not far away.
There was also a noise coming from the secret room below, as if more than ten or twenty people rushed into the secret room together, and the heaven and earth were vibrating.
A thought flashed through Su Yan’s mind—something happened.
The door leading to the underground was pushed open, and the entire Baiyun Temple was in a panic. Lights were turned on in the side rooms one after another, and Taoist priests came out holding candles. Someone shouted at the top of his lungs, "Catch him! Don't let him get away!"
The firelight quickly turned to Su Yan and the other two. They were hiding behind the side room. Man Rong was so scared that her body was shaking. Someone saw the corner of her clothes and shouted, "Who! She's over there!"
Yun Xing grabbed Su Yan’s hand and ran back.
The scene was chaotic for a while, but Su Yan still remembered to take Manrong away.
Although Manrong said that her act of passing the message had not been discovered, Su Yan still felt bad and always wanted to help if he could.
She has left behind many poor women.
It is really inconvenient for three people to escape, especially since Yunxing cannot show up now - there may be people from Chuyun Tower here.
In a hurry, he took off his mask, took out a black scarf from his arms, and covered his face again.
Before, he showed his mouth, but now he shows his eyes.
Yun Xing wanted to put the mask away, but Su Yan took it away.
He turned around in surprise, and their eyes met. Su Yan was slightly stunned.
Yun Xing was startled and quickly looked away. Without waiting for Su Yan to speak, he said, “I said I would answer your questions, so don’t ask now.”
Su Yan looked at the mask blankly.
It looked so familiar, really familiar, as if it could confirm something, but she didn't dare to think about it anymore.
Su Yan silently put away the mask and said, "I'll keep it."
Yunxing said nothing.
Su Yan said: "It would be better if it is worth a few dollars."
More and more people were chasing them, and it was a big scene.
Su Yan initially thought that they had discovered that Man Rong was missing, but then he realized that they had been calling "him" until they saw the three of them, and then they changed to "them".
In other words, they were originally chasing after someone, not Su Yan.
The one who broke into the underground alone was Qiu Shui.
The situation was urgent, so Su Yan took out the flare Liang Yi gave her. This thing was probably the same effect as fireworks, except that gunpowder was tied to the arrow shaft, and there would be light and sound when it flew into the air.
Su Yan disliked the low sound of the thing and urged: "Set it on fire, with a torch, a pile of fire, anything is fine, burn it!"
There is no more obvious signal than fire.
The firelight lit up in spots, and Baiyun Temple was surrounded by sparks.
The guards who had been transporting the bodies caught up with them, and Yun Xing had to go and clean up the mess. Su Yan grabbed Man Rong and ran all the way.
Her face was covered in black smoke, but she still felt that the matter was not serious enough. She had to notify Liang Yi, and it would be better if she could notify Shi Yangui. If the people who came were the imperial guards from the capital, it would not end well.
The imperial guards are all Zhao Mingde's men.
The black smoke became thicker and thicker, and Manrong fell down under the smoke and trembled.
Su Yan could hardly see anyone anymore. She covered her mouth and nose, and pulled Man Rong while looking for Yun Xing.
If Yunxing's identity is discovered, he will also be in danger.
But no matter how Su Yan looked, she could only see vague outlines, and she couldn't tell which one was Yun Xing.
Man Rong got up from the ground and pulled Su Yan in return, "Hurry up, the fire here is getting bigger and bigger. If we don't leave, we will all be burned to death."
Su Yan looked anxiously into the depths of the fire.
Man Rong yelled, "Let's go first, report to the police, and come back to save that young master!"
Su Yan tried to walk back.
Man Rong said anxiously, "He is your lover? Are you married? My mother said that men are the most unreliable. My father was a playboy when he was young, and later he broke his leg and had to rely on my mother to take care of him. Now he can't do heavy work, and the family depends on my mother, otherwise I wouldn't come out. It's not worth it for a man!"
Su Yan stopped.
Man Rong said nervously: "It's not that I don't want you to save him. What I mean is that we should report to the police first and then come back to save him."
She was afraid that Su Yan would be mean to her, but Su Yan nodded seriously, "What you said makes sense. I am glad that you have this idea."
Finally, it is no longer about supporting the husband and educating children, and the Three Bonds and Five Constant Virtues.
Man Rong: “…”
"But Yunxing is different. I have to go and take a look. I know what's going on and will be back soon."
"Hey, why are you..."
Before Su Yan could go back, a wave of heat surged around her, and her wrist was grabbed by someone, "Hurry up, the soldiers are coming."
When the soldiers come, the arsonists will also suffer.
As soon as Yun Xing finished speaking, a large number of people surrounded Baiyun Temple.
*
The fire at Baiyun Temple destroyed several rooms.
The imperial guards surrounded the Taoist temple, and the woman was detained in front of the alchemy furnace. The Taoist priest was heartbroken, "Baiyun Temple was built by the order of the late emperor, and you actually ran to Baiyun Temple and set it on fire?! You! You!!"
The imperial guards of the Great Zhou Dynasty all wore black armor, their robes were also black, and they held long spears.
Although their clothes are exquisite and their spears are sharp, their mental outlook is extremely ordinary and lazy.
The laziest one was the leading general.
The Taoist priest knelt down to the general and said, "General Yan, you have to take charge of Baiyun Temple!"
Su Yan was particularly sensitive to the surname Yan, and she looked at the general.
Yan Fang was yawning.
He was of a different rank from the ordinary imperial guards, and the style of his armor was slightly different, but it was not worn very neatly, and there was a red mark on his neck that had not been wiped clean. Anyone who saw it would know that it was left by rouge and powder.
Yan Fang touched his neck and said impatiently, "The fire is out, isn't it? The man has been caught, dragged out and beheaded, that's all."
The Taoist priest was very emotional. "Why would she burn down my Baiyun Temple for no reason? Someone must have ordered her to do so!"
Su Yan looked at the woman who had kept her head down.
Although she never looked up, Su Yan recognized her clothes.
Tsk, that’s so pitiful, it’s Qiu Shui.
Qiu Shui angrily said, "I did set fire to the painting studio, but I burned Zhao Zong's house! What does the fire at your Baiyun Temple have to do with me?!"
Su Yan looked up at the sky.
"General Yan, listen to this, she's going to burn people to death!"
Yan Fang rubbed his ears, waved to the Taoist priest, and whispered: "Now that we are here, we can't let this matter go, but you have to think about it, do we really only need to chop off this one person's head? Even the painting studio was burned tonight, and there was a big commotion. If we can't handle it well, Manager Zhao will blame us..."
The Taoist priest looked dispirited and dejected, and there was no trace of his immortal demeanor at all. His eyes were full of fear of power.
Yan Fang snorted, clearly looking down on the Taoist priest, and said, "Take everyone here away!"
Man Rong and Su Yan were both in the crowd. She grabbed Su Yan in panic, "It's over, it's over. Where's your lover? Why doesn't he take us away?"
They were surrounded just now and Yun Xing was driven away by Su Yan.
The ones who came were the imperial guards, Zhao Mingde's men. If Yun Xing stayed, he would be recognized.
Yun Xing was reluctant to leave, and Su Yan had only one thing to say - don't let her do anything she doesn't want to do.
Man Rong regretted, "I should have told you my mother's story earlier. You actually did it for a man..."
Su Yan was in a delicate mood.
She is not the type of person who would risk her life for a man.
But she didn't want anything to happen to Yunxing.
Seeing the imperial guards coming towards them, Su Yan raised his hand and spoke, "General Yan!"
The crisp sound echoed in the Taoist temple. The fire had just been extinguished, smoke and ash rose everywhere, and everyone looked at Su Yan.
Su Yan remained calm, with a flattering smile on his face, and trotted to Yan Fang.
Before she could speak, Yan Fang heard a strange voice: "Don't think about it, don't think about it, don't think about it."
ha?
Su Yan flattered him to the utmost, "General Yan has an imposing bearing, and it is obvious at first glance that he is no ordinary man."
Yan Fang raised his eyebrows and looked at her.
Su Yan began to wipe away tears again, "But General Yan, I also escaped for my life, please General Yan, please make the decision for me!"
Yan Fang looked at the Taoist priest, "Oh? Escape?"
Su Yan cried, "They arrested me and forced me to eat some weird food. They also killed my sister. Her body is in Baiyun Temple!"
After he finished speaking, Baiyun Temple remained calm.
The Taoist priest, the imperial guards, and even Yan Fang, did not show the slightest bit of surprise when they heard that there was a body in Baiyun Temple.
They are really in cahoots with each other.
Why haven’t Liang Yi’s people come yet!
Su Yan cried and said, "Not only are there corpses, there are also secret passages in Baiyun Temple, and many people are imprisoned inside. Oh, they are all maids of Gao's house. There is also a private house, a private house..."
Su Yan paused and did not reveal the prince's affairs.
The Taoist priest scolded: "Don't spit blood on me!"
"What I said is true, General Yan, you can't just trust him."
Yan Fang smiled and said, "I don't understand a word the girl said."
Su Yan: “…”
Bah, running dog.
Yan Fang frowned, "What did you say?"
Su Yan still looked delicate and frail, "I ask General Yan to make the decision for me."
Yan Fang: “…”
He looked at his men hesitantly, and none of them had any unusual expressions.
If she really called them "running dog", these guys would definitely laugh.
No laughter means no scolding.
Yan Fang repeated, "You should say less crazy things."
As soon as he finished speaking, Qiu Shui suddenly shouted, "She didn't say anything crazy, I saw it too! You are in the same group! Call Zhao Zong and ask him to come see me!!"
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