Chapter 563: Master, the Princess and her entourage settled in Xiaojinling City
The group walked into the silent Jinling City in the last ray of light before the city gate closed.
They arrived at the inn. Seeing the guests coming, the waiter immediately put on a smile and greeted them: "Gentlemen, you look tired and tired. You are here to stay..."
Tianyi interrupted him neatly: "Bring some hot food, quickly, and open five more rooms."
"Okay! Please come in, sir!" The waiter swiftly led them to the table in the lobby.
At the counter, the shopkeeper, who had been fiddling with the abacus calmly, had his eyelids twitched imperceptibly the moment Mo Liyuan stepped into the inn.
That handsome yet stern face instantly overlapped with the portrait hidden in his arms!
He was terrified, but he showed no sign of it on his face, still wearing a friendly businessman's smile.
When Mo Liyuan and his group were led to their seats, he immediately put down his abacus and walked back to his room in the back hall as if nothing had happened.
After closing the door, the hypocritical smile on his face disappeared instantly. He quickly ground ink and spread paper, and with a few words, he wrote the news of Mo Liyuan's arrival in Jinling on the secret letter. He carefully rolled it up and stuffed it into a specially made small bamboo tube, and tied it firmly to the leg of the carrier pigeon that had been prepared long ago.
He opened the rear window, looked around vigilantly, then waved his hand, and the gray carrier pigeon silently blended into the thick night.
However, this self-proclaimed secret action was completely seen by Mo Liyuan's personal guards hiding in the dark.
The carrier pigeon had just flown less than a hundred feet when a ghostly black shadow swooped down from the roof and captured it with incredible precision. The whole process was swift and silent.
Mo Liyuan and the others had a quick meal and then went up to the second-floor guest rooms under the guidance of the waiter.
The candlelight danced in the room, illuminating Mo Liyuan's increasingly cold and hard profile.
A secret guard slipped into the room as silently as a shadow, knelt on one knee, and presented the small bamboo tube and the ripped secret letter with both hands. "Master, this was intercepted from the innkeeper. This inn...is actually owned by the New Southern Frontier King Dongfang Ming, and Dongfang Ming is currently traveling with the princess."
Tianyi's heart suddenly sank, and he subconsciously looked at Mo Liyuan.
really!
Under the candlelight, Mo Liyuan's face darkened at a speed visible to the naked eye, like the leaden clouds before a storm. Heavy hostility and cold anger instantly filled the entire room, and the air seemed to solidify, making it suffocating.
He pinched the thin piece of letter paper, and his knuckles turned blue and white from the force.
"Tianyi!" Mo Liyuan's voice was as low as the friction of ice underground, and every word was filled with freezing coldness.
Tianyi froze, and immediately knelt on one knee, his head bowed, not daring to look directly into those eyes that were now surging with turbulent waves. "Master... I am..."
"Why didn't you report this to me..." Mo Liyuan spoke each word with an icy gaze that pierced Tianyi like a solid ice cone. "Yuer is with Dongfang Ming right now? Huh?" The last rising syllable carried a dangerous implication of impending storm.
The immense pressure caused cold sweat to instantly break out on Tianyi's forehead. He spoke with difficulty, his voice trembling slightly, "Master... your subordinate..."
Mo Liyuan's eyes were icy cold, without a trace of warmth, as if he was looking at an insignificant dead object: "Get out of here, and receive fifty lashes."
"Yes!" Tianyi felt bitter in his heart, but he didn't dare to argue at all. He responded respectfully, lowered his head and walked out of the suffocating room.
He pushed open the door of the next room, and a secret guard who had been waiting there silently picked up a cowhide whip soaked in cold water. Under the dim candlelight, the whip was shining with a cold luster.
"Commander Tianyi, I'm sorry." The secret guard's voice was flat and calm.
"Come on." Tianyi took a deep breath and took off his shirt neatly, revealing his strong back covered with old scars.
“Swish! Bang!”
A sharp sound of breaking through the air suddenly rang out! Then came the muffled sound of flesh being torn apart!
As the first whip fell, a hideous blood mark instantly appeared on Tianyi's bronze back, with his skin and flesh torn apart.
The severe pain made his muscles tense suddenly, his teeth clenched, and he let out a suppressed groan.
"Swish! Snap! Swish! Snap!"
The whip shadows shot out again and again like poisonous snakes, tearing through the air fiercely and then heavily branding the flesh.
The dull sound of whipping echoed in the silent room, accompanied by the painful gasps that Tianyi tried hard to suppress but still leaked out from the depths of his throat.
Beads of sweat mixed with blood meandered down along the lines of his taut muscles.
Fifty lashes, not one less.
When the last whip fell, the executioner breathed a sigh of relief. He silently put down the whip, took out a small celadon bottle from his arms, and poured out the medicine powder.
"Commander, I will apply medicine for you. The master has ordered that we should set off immediately in two hours at midnight." The voice of the secret guard remained steady.
Tianyi groaned in frustration, the severe pain in his back almost making him collapse.
The cold powder came into contact with his curled flesh, causing a piercing burning pain that made him gasp uncontrollably and his body tremble violently.
He clenched his teeth tightly, the veins on his forehead throbbing, enduring this belated punishment and the piercing pain.
The candle flame danced, casting flickering shadows on his sweaty and bloodstained back.
As soon as midnight arrived, Mo Liyuan led several secret guards and quietly rushed out of the inn.
The cold moonlight outlined his tense jawline, and in his eyes was a storm that had been accumulating for days.
The Jinling City secret guards who had been waiting in the shadows quickly stepped forward, knelt on one knee, and spoke in a very low voice, "Master, the princess and her entourage are in Little Jinling City, staying in a quiet courtyard in the east. Your subordinates dare not get too close and will only watch from a distance."
"Little Jinling City..." Mo Liyuan opened his thin lips slightly, and the cold words rang out in the night.
His eyes suddenly became sharp, and he jumped onto the horse in a flash, his black cloak fluttering in the night wind.
"Gee!" With a low shout, the horse rushed into the dark night like an arrow.
The two-hour journey was compressed into a burning flame under his desperate gallop.
The horse's hooves shattered the silence of Little Jinling City. Mo Liyuan reined in his horse in front of the villa in the east of the city. The faint light coming through the courtyard wall stung his eyes.
Without the slightest hesitation, he tapped the wall with his toes and landed silently in the courtyard like a flash of black lightning.
Almost at the same moment he landed!
Dongfang Ming, who was originally sleeping with his eyes closed in the room, suddenly opened his eyes, as sharp as an eagle.
A sense of crisis of being locked in by a powerful energy instantly sobered him up.
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