He looked at Ye Qingxue in disbelief.
"If you won't let us, husband and wife, live, then I'll kill one of you if I can, you lackeys of Ning Hongxi!" Ye Qingxue's eyes were as cold as frost. She pulled her dagger back and kicked the Xuanjia away.
With a "thud," Xuanjia landed directly on the ground, without even having a chance to fight back.
His blood sprayed all over Ye Qingxue's face, but was instantly washed away by the rain. Before anyone around could react, Ye Qingxue had already fallen straight to the ground.
"Crown Princess!" Qiu Shen exclaimed, and together with Granny Xing and Xia Lu, they caught her as she fainted.
From the moment she learned of Yun Zhuo's tragic death, she had been on edge, clinging to the last hope of rescuing him. But now, with the river overflowing and the tunnel collapsing a second time, the string in her heart snapped completely.
The rain was still falling, pattering and making a lot of noise.
Qiu Shen made a quick decision, taking Ye Qingxue back to the carriage, temporarily putting aside the matter of receiving the Crown Prince's spirit.
Ye Qingxue was pregnant, and her belly was already so big that she couldn't be careless. Once in the carriage, Qiu Shen asked Xia Luchun and Granny Xing to help her change her clothes, while she quietly sat to the side and began to assess the situation.
She had told the Crown Princess that the Emperor had ordered her to come to Qinglan Gorge in order to use the Crown Prince's death to provoke her into losing both her and her unborn child. The Crown Princess clearly agreed with this explanation.
Going back further, they learned of Ning Hongxi and Liu Qinghe's evil deeds, then His Highness the Crown Prince had an accident, and the Crown Princess was sent over. It is clear that these events are all connected.
Now that His Highness the Crown Prince has very little hope of surviving, or even none at all, neither the Emperor, Ning Hongxi, nor Liu Qinghe will allow the Crown Princess to live.
The rain is so heavy, the sky is so dark, and the wind is so cold!
Qiu Shen shivered violently. "Let's get out of here before they realize what's happening!"
She put on a straw hat, lifted the carriage curtain, rushed out, and drove the carriage away.
Fortunately, when they came, they brought many guards from the Crown Prince's residence. The Emperor and the Prime Minister probably thought that Ye Qingxue would miscarry after learning the bad news about Yun Zhuo, and that they could take advantage of the situation to easily kill her and her unborn child. Therefore, they did not send as many guards.
After receiving her signal, Zhan Shuang quickly led his men to catch up and protect them.
But where to go? Did the guards who had previously retreated from all directions of Wanliu Town manage to break through the Prime Minister's obstacles and meet Yu, Lan, and Pan?
When the carriage had traveled fifty miles, the rain gradually subsided. Summer downpours come and go quickly, and Ye Qingxue woke up.
The carriage was bumping along, but the thick mattress beneath her didn't bother her at all. It took her quite a while to realize where she was and what she had just experienced.
An excruciating pain washed over her, and for a fleeting moment, Ye Qingxue thought, "If only I hadn't woken up!"
Granny Xing and Chunqian and Xialu's eyes were swollen and red like walnuts from crying so hard. When they saw her wake up, they wanted to cry again, but they forced themselves to hold back.
Granny Xing touched her forehead: "There's some food in the carriage, child, would you like some?"
child.
Ye Qingxue hadn't heard her nanny call her that in a long time. She wasn't the Crown Princess, nor the eldest daughter of a marquis's family, but just a child who had suffered a devastating blow in her life, even though she was carrying a fetus and was about to give birth.
She was also the child that Granny Xing loved dearly.
My heart still aches. Just thinking about Yun Zhuo makes me ache. It's an endless, agonizing pain that makes it hard to breathe.
However, Ye Qingxue still reached out to Granny Xing, who immediately grabbed her hand, helped her sit up from the cushion, and placed two soft cushions behind her.
Then I gave her food and drinks.
When Qiu Shen learned that Ye Qingxue had woken up, she changed the driver of the carriage. She entered the carriage and told Ye Qingxue the reason for her quick departure, "But now we don't know where we're going. Are we going to Jingzhou?"
It was Granny Xing who suggested going to Jingzhou.
"I wonder if our men have seen Prince Yu, Lord Pan, and General Lan. If not, it will be very dangerous for us to return to the capital now!" Qiu Shen said.
“Your concerns are valid, and you’ve done a good job,” Ye Qingxue said, lowering her eyes slightly to look at the porridge in her hand.
Qiu Shen was taken aback when she didn't hear what she was going to say next, and asked again, "So, Crown Princess, where are we going now?"
Ye Qingxue finally came to her senses, raised her eyes, and found that Granny Xing was watching her all the time. It felt as if a thousand needles were piercing her heart—what had she just been doing? She was still responsible for the lives of so many people!
And then there's Xiao Bao; she absolutely has to give birth to him safely.
So, where is the safest place to go next? Where can she go to protect so many lives?
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