Chapter 51 I'm angry
Even though Chen Yu tried to control herself, she still couldn't stop herself from subconsciously slowing down her pace.
Xie Tingzhou turned around and asked, "Hmm? Do you know him?"
"I know him." Shen Yu controlled her breathing.
At that moment, Shen Yu seemed to feel that he already knew her background.
Xie Tingzhou looked at him in the light of the lantern, "Was she in the army during the battle of Yanliang Pass?"
Shen Yu swallowed and said, "Yes."
Xie Tingzhou pressed on, "Why didn't you say a word? Since she was a member of the Shen family, why didn't you mention looking for her body?"
Shen Yu's heart was beating wildly. If the Shen family had not been separated from her plan, the current situation would not have occurred.
The clothing store was owned by the Lu family, and she had already asked the owner about the situation.
Lu Yao had indeed returned to Beijing many days ago, and told the shopkeeper that she would go to the border to find her after completing the task assigned to her by Shen Yu.
But later on, Lu Yao disappeared. She didn't show up in any of Lu's shops, and Chen Yu didn't receive any news from her at the border.
Fortunately, after hearing the news today, she expected that the news that three people from the Shen family died in the battle would definitely reach Xie Tingzhou's ears, so she had already thought of a countermeasure.
"Because I dare not say it." Chen Yu said.
Xie Tingzhou slowly walked up to him and lowered his head slightly, "Why don't you dare?"
Shen Yu knelt on one knee under his sharp gaze, "Because Miss Shen is not dead at all."
Xie Tingzhou was shocked. "What do you mean?"
Chen Yu said: "The general didn't want to let her die at the border, so he sent someone to send her away on the eve of the battle."
"Where is she now?"
"have no idea."
"Why do people in the capital say that she died in battle?"
"have no idea."
"You don't know?" Xie Tingzhou said with a warning tone.
Chen Yu raised her head and let him see her eyes, because he once said that these were a pair of eyes that could speak.
"I don't know. I am also confused by this matter, but Miss Ye Chen has indeed left. The person sent to escort her is the major general's personal soldier Kong Qing."
Xie Tingzhou narrowed his eyes and looked at him for a while. "You are sure that there are not many survivors in this battle, so you are not afraid of my investigation, right?"
Chen Yu didn't hide or give in, "There aren't many survivors left, right? If we really want to investigate, we can always get the answer from the thousands of wounded soldiers and the deserters we have recovered, right?"
Xie Tingzhou's eyes were cold, "I will check, but Shi Yu, our friendship of life and death cannot stand you destroying it like this."
Chen Yu said: "Before finding out whether what I said was true, His Highness had already preconceived that I was being derogatory, and what kind of friendship of life and death was he talking to me about."
Just now the two of them were huddled in the kitchen eating a pot of noodles together, but now, tensions were rising.
The secret guards didn't dare to disturb and secretly retreated into the darkness.
Xie Tingzhou was defeated by him and suddenly laughed, "You are sharp-tongued and have no rules."
Shen Yu gritted her teeth and said nothing, her face full of stubbornness.
Xie Tingzhou looked at him for a moment and said, "Get up."
Shen Yu knelt still.
Xie Tingzhou lowered his eyes, "Are you still angry?"
Shen Yu herself didn't know where her temper came from, thinking about how she had just eaten her noodles, she turned around and questioned her.
If Xie Tingzhou asked before eating, she would rather feed it to the dog than give it to him.
Xie Tingzhou leaned over to look at him, seeming to be in a good mood, "Are you regretting cooking noodles for me, or regretting not putting poison in it?"
Chen Yu was surprised by his insight and subconsciously retorted, "I'm not that vicious."
Xie Tingzhou stood up and nodded, "You regret cooking it for me, or I should spit it out for you?"
Shen Yu glanced at him and said with disdain: "Are you disgusting?"
In the darkness, Xie Tingzhou's laughter escaped from his throat.
He turned and left. The secret guard quickly came out from the darkness and asked in a low voice: "Then he..."
Xie Tingzhou: "If he wants to kneel, he can continue kneeling, if he can find a way back."
After a moment, hearing the sound of footsteps behind him, Xie Tingzhou curled his lips slightly.
Officials were given seven days off during the New Year's Eve, and did not have to attend court. However, the guards were different from the officials. Apart from rotating rest days, they had no holidays in the 365 days of the year.
On the sixth day, Chen Yu was on duty.
Xie Tingzhou was not at home today, and Xi Feng was not there either. Without Chen Yu accompanying them, she had no choice but to guard the empty yard with a few guards.
They took turns to have lunch at noon. When Chen Yu came back, she saw Xi Feng coming back to get something.
A guard whispered, "A few letters were delivered just now, concerning the Yanliang Pass case. Should we present them to His Highness right away?"
"Give it to me," Xifeng took the letter, "His Highness and Cang went hunting, and they won't be back for a while. Put it on his desk and wait for him to come back and read it."
Xifeng took the letter into the study and came out after a while.
When passing by Chen Yu, he asked, "Are you used to being on duty?"
"It's OK," Chen Yu said briskly, "It's about the same as in Yanliang Pass, but it's better than Yanliang Pass, not as cold as there."
Wind Point
He nodded and left.
The guards go off duty at the hour of Xu.
In the darkness of the night, a figure was crawling silently on the eaves.
There were only a few lanterns lit in Xie Tingzhou's courtyard, the windows were painted black, and two guards were standing under the eaves.
Chen Yu lay on the eaves and blended into the night. With a flick of her fingertips, a corner of the tree leaf rustled.
The palace is heavily guarded, probably no less so than the Imperial Palace. After taking turns going back and forth over the past few days, she has already gotten to know the route very well.
It takes some effort to avoid the secret guards all the way, but it is not too difficult.
While the guards were checking, she sneaked into the study quietly.
I had been to the study before and knew the layout here. The moonlight shining through the window paper allowed me to barely see that there were indeed several stacks of letters on the desk.
The letters were sorted into different categories. She didn't dare to light a candle, so she could only squat under the table, take out a night pearl and look at it closely.
One stack looked like military secrets from Beilin with wax seals, one stack was letters from staff, and the smallest stack looked similar to the one the guard handed to Xifeng at noon.
It was eerily quiet all around, the only sound in the study being the rubbing of paper against each other.
Just as she pulled out a letter and hadn't had time to read it, Shen Yu's hair suddenly stood up.
It is an instinctive reaction of the body when it encounters danger.
Chen Yu turned around suddenly, saw the black shadow and rolled to the side.
The speed of the black shadow was abnormally fast, and its two light golden eyeballs flashed with an eerie phosphorescent light in the darkness.
What is this?!
The body slowed down for a moment, just a moment of delay, but it was enough to make the difference between life and death.
The thing instantly knocked her to the ground, its two strong front legs pressing on her shoulders, looking down at her condescendingly.
The night pearl rolled to the ground, hit the leg of the table and rolled back to her side.
Chen Yu finally saw clearly that it was a leopard in pure black.
She lay on the ground, not daring to move. She could already feel the black panther's breath on her neck, mixed with a faint smell of blood.
She had no doubt that if she made the slightest movement, the black panther would bite her neck without hesitation.
Chen Yu tried to breathe as lightly as possible, but she still couldn't avoid the fear that was rising from her body.
She moved her hand slowly, trying to reach for the dagger at her waist, but the black panther moved closer to her.
As if he had noticed her unusual movement, his pair of light golden leopard eyes stared at her fiercely, and he let out a warning growl from his throat.
Chen Yu shuddered uncontrollably and closed her eyes tightly.
Suddenly, the bookshelf moved, and a slight friction sound was heard in the darkness.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
