Chapter 337 The Dispute at Baiyun Temple
"yes."
He glanced at the cave entrance and said, "This place is quite far from the discovery site. It would be better for you to send someone in through the collapsed area."
No one around dared to disobey orders.
Inside the cave, Song Ci heard footsteps and voices going away, then she threw away the boot, changed into her own embroidered shoes, and walked out of the cave.
After a long period of darkness, the sunlight outside stung her eyes so much that she almost cried. She went outside and heard Qiao Xianglan's voice. She was holding an officer and repeating something over and over again.
"Save my daughter, sir! My daughter is buried down there!"
The soldier in the house was pulled by her sleeve, "If he is buried, I'm afraid he will be in great danger." He was having a good rest at home today, but suddenly a landslide occurred and he was transferred here. The most terrible thing was that the emperor's most beloved son, Prince Yu, was buried underground. If something happened to him, no one would have a good life.
The two were arguing, "Mom!"
Qiao Xianglan thought she had misheard. She opened her tearful eyes and pounced on it after seeing that it was Song Dynasty porcelain.
When mother and son met, Qiao Xianglan burst into tears of heartache.
"Master Pei! Prince Yu has ordered this place to be cordoned off and no outsiders are allowed to enter!"
"Go away and don't make me say it a second time."
"grown ups!"
Pei Ji lost his patience. He looked into the temple anxiously and kicked the soldier in the chest. "Go in quickly and check carefully. She is in the temple!"
"yes!"
"Lord Pei." Prince Yu arrived at some point. He looked at Pei Ji with cold eyes, without a trace of smile.
"Your Highness Prince Yu."
"Do you still have eyes for me? I ordered this place to be sealed off, yet you dared to trespass in."
Pei Ji's expression remained unchanged. "I heard something serious happened here, so I came to investigate so I can report back to the Emperor. Miss Song, to whom I'm engaged, is also trapped here. It's only right that I go in and take a look."
"How dare you!" Prince Yu refused to give in.
The officers and soldiers led by Prince Yu were in a standoff with the black-clad secret guards behind Pei Ji. The atmosphere was solemn and tense.
"Pei Ji!"
The soft female voice brought Pei Ji back to his senses. When he saw the woman in front of him, his eyes softened for a moment. Then he noticed that she seemed to be injured on her foot. He didn't care about that. A Lin led the way and forced the soldiers back with his sword. The soldiers were forced to retreat again and again by the murderous aura on him.
Pei Ji walked up to Song Ci, held her arm with his hand, then picked her up in front of everyone and walked out with big strides.
Alin did not put down the sword in his hand, and the people around him did not dare to step forward. He just broke in and left in such a dignified manner.
Prince Yu's face was so gloomy that it seemed as if water was about to drip. He glanced at the officers and soldiers who were retreating beside him. The officers and soldiers said aggrievedly: "I deserve to die. The murderous aura of that man is beyond my ability to resist. I am also..." He is also a human being and is afraid of death.
Prince Yu glared at him, then looked at Song Ci, whose face was pale, in Pei Ji's arms in the distance. He tightened and loosened his hands in his sleeves several times before he finally calmed down.
In the carriage, Pei Ji pulled the curtain. There were only two people in the carriage at this moment. Qiao Xianglan was sitting in another carriage. The room was quiet.
"This, this is inappropriate."
Seeing Pei Ji take off her shoes without saying a word, Song Ci felt ashamed and embarrassed, and tried hard to break free from his grasp.
Pei Ji's hands were long and slender, with thin flesh beneath distinct joints. His skin was white, with slightly protruding blue-gray veins. At this moment, he held Song Ci's ankle tightly and did not let go at all.
"You and I are already engaged, so there's no need to care about these things." He looked intently at the wound on Song Ci's foot, a trace of heartache in his eyes.
He then skillfully cleaned the wound and applied medicine.
Song Ci was stunned for a while, "You are very skilled in treating wounds." Even she, who is good at medicine, would probably find it difficult to be so meticulous.
"When I first started working for the emperor, I was constantly injured, big and small, every day. It's just practice makes perfect." He treated the wound and released her ankle. Song Ci hurriedly retracted her foot under her skirt.
The skin that was touched just now still had some warmth. It wasn't very hot, but it burned her heart so much that it made her tremble.
This is the first time in Song Ci's two lives that she has been so close to a man.
"Why are you here today?"
Song Ci honestly told the whole story, and finally, she decided to tell him everything that happened in the underground cave. Generally, if a man saw a woman being alone with another man, he would definitely have some grudges.
But she believed that Pei Ji would not.
Therefore, she spoke very frankly without missing a single detail.
"Prince Yu found you right after you fell?" Pei Ji's voice was not friendly.
"Yes." She continued, "Prince Yu didn't look like he fell with me. Instead, it seemed like he knew I was here and came here specifically."
He sneered, "I'm afraid this whole thing, from beginning to end, was staged and directed by Prince Yu himself. It's just that you happened to be here and suffered an unprovoked disaster."
"Why would he do this? What good would it bring to Prince Yu if he blew up Baiyun Temple?"
Pei Ji looked at her and said, "My people have found out in the past few days that the Crown Prince has hidden a batch of weapons, and the place where the weapons are hidden is within three miles of Baiyun Temple. I'm afraid Prince Yu has learned about it and may have come here to create a landslide to expose the Crown Prince's hiding of weapons."
But he shouldn't have hurt Song Ci.
Pei Ji's eyes were deep.
"Prince Yu is about to take action against the Crown Prince. I'm afraid the court will be in turmoil, so you should be careful."
Seeing that her first reaction was to remind herself, Pei Ji's eyes were as warm as the first ray of sunshine in spring, "I will."
He personally sent Song Ci and Qiao Xianglan back to the Song residence. When he learned that Song Ci was injured, everyone in the residence was in chaos again.
In the main hall.
The court was about to be in turmoil. Song Ci thought for a while and decided to remind his family, but he had to use a different method.
"These past few days, Pei Ji has said that things are not peaceful outside. Mother, tell the housekeepers and servants not to come in and out at will and to guard the door tightly."
Qiao Xianglan was still in shock, so she nodded in agreement.
Song Lao San and the two brothers of the Qiao family keenly sensed something, but all three chose to remain silent and did not ask.
The others didn't think much about it. When they heard that there would be chaos outside, although they didn't know what it was, they were instinctively worried and naturally responded one after another.
After settling the house, Alin came in person in the evening.
He handed Wanxiang a porcelain bottle and said, "This is the healing medicine that my young master specially asked the imperial physician to prepare. Use it once in the morning and once in the evening, and Madam Banyue's injuries will be completely healed."
"Thank you, Master, for me."
Song Ci was used to hearing them calling her "Madam" all the time. Fortunately, she was too lazy to correct them and just let them do what they wanted.
After sending Alin away, Tian'er used the medicine that Pei Ji sent for her, and the stinging and burning sensation of the wound was indeed relieved a lot.
"This medicine really works."
Tian Er smiled and said, "Since it was sent by my uncle, there must be nothing bad about it."
Song Ci glared at her, and then thought of the look A Lin gave Tian'er before he left. It was really intriguing.
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