Chapter 527: Climbing the Palace Wall
Looking at Runhe and Luliang, two old acquaintances, grinning at him with their white teeth, Yunchen felt speechless.
Aren't you close to the people you serve? These two have been with you for more than ten years, and they're not close enough? Not close enough?
What a scheming ghost, lying again! And making up stories again!
She complained in her heart as she went forward to get the razor.
As if seeing through what she was mumbling in her heart, Huo Gannian lay down on the bench, with a slight curve at the corner of his mouth, obviously smiling.
She frowned unhappily.
"Don't make any expression, or I won't be responsible if you get scratched."
"good."
He obediently smoothed the corners of his mouth, but his eyelashes were still curved.
Runhe and Lu Liang cooperated skillfully to wash the hot towel and apply it to Huo Gannian's face. They stuffed the small silver pot of goose oil into Yunchen's hand, then immediately retreated without looking back and closed the door of the hall tightly.
Yun Chen stood there for a long time with a razor in one hand and goose oil in the other, frowning, and finally sighed helplessly.
As she used to do, she picked up some goose fat with her fingertips and gently applied it to his chin.
Through the smooth touch of goose oil, she could feel the short, hard stubble on his chin, which made her fingertips numb.
She leaned over slightly and carefully shaved his face with a razor. An extremely familiar and pleasant pear scent, which seemed to have a calming magic, then entered her nose.
But she didn't know which memory was touched, which soft and painful nerve, which made her feel empty inside, her nose sore, and tears welled up in her eyes.
She could feel his eyes fixed on her, his gaze as affectionate and lingering as before.
She deliberately ignored it and focused on shaving him, but her eyes were so sore that tears welled up uncontrollably and dripped into the corners of his eyes with a "plop".
It was as if all his disguises collapsed in an instant, and he could no longer pretend to be calm. His brows furrowed, and he suddenly leaned back to hug her, but she quickly dodged him.
She pushed and shoved him out of the bedroom, slammed the door shut, and locked the bolt, like a young wife who had driven her husband away in a fit of anger. No matter how much Huo Gan knocked on the door from outside, she refused to open it.
"Chen'er, what's wrong? Don't lock me out. I'm scared."
He was chatting resentfully outside, completely unaware that she was squatting against the door inside, curled up in pain, and beginning to endure the toxic effects of the Soul Devouring Pill.
She hugged herself tightly, crumpled the belt into a ball and bit it in her mouth, biting it tightly, not daring to make any sound.
Although there were no wounds on her body, she felt as if every inch of her meridians and flesh were being torn apart.
The hoarse gnawing of thousands of insects is just like this... It hurts, it really hurts...
Her head was spinning and her consciousness was starting to blur. She wanted to curse that bastard Yan Lang. The poison only worked once a day, which sounded good, but was it because the pain from all the other symptoms was coming back together?! What a lousy miracle doctor! It really hurt...
She cursed in her heart and heard Huo Gannian knocking on the door outside.
He called her "Chen'er" again and again. After patting her a few times, he stopped patting when he saw that she didn't respond.
But she could feel that he was still standing at the door, not moving an inch.
She didn't know if it was her illusion, but she seemed to hear a very slight, quick sniffing sound.
She had no time to figure out who it was. Was someone crying?
She was sweating profusely from the pain, her clothes on her back were soaked, and she used all her willpower to try to control herself and not make any sound.
When she was about to faint from the pain, she stretched out her trembling hand and gently stroked the door.
She really wanted to tell him that she didn't want to avoid the hug just now, but she had to hide because she felt that the Soul Devouring Pill was about to take effect.
But Anian, I'm about to die.
Why can I forgive Yanlang but not you?
Forget it, not everything in this world has to have an outcome, it’s okay not to forgive.
She said this silently, and suddenly she felt a sharp pain in her heart and fainted.
She didn't know how much time had passed, and in a state of half-consciousness and half-wakefulness, she couldn't tell whether it was a dream or reality.
She vaguely saw a thin knife reaching in from the crack of the door and gently picking up the bolt.
Behind the door, Huo Gannian's face was covered in tears, as if he was also trying to hold back the pain. His eyelashes were wet, his eyes were red, and the tip of his nose was also red.
He sniffed, bent down, picked her up from the ground, and gently placed her on the couch.
He gently took off her sweaty clothes and wiped the sweat off her body with a warm handkerchief.
When he took out the bleeding belt from her mouth, he finally broke down completely and leaned on her arms and cried softly.
His shoulders trembled from crying, and his tears gradually wet her sleeves.
She never knew that he could cry so much...
He is cold and deep, and his eyes turn red when he cries.
But is all this true?
Is it reality or a dream?
When Yun Chen woke up again, she found herself still lying on the ground against the door, exactly the same as she was before she fainted from the pain. She then realized clearly that it was just a heartbreaking dream.
"Chen'er, come for a walk with me."
Yun Chen didn't know how long he had been unconscious. Behind the door, Huo Gannian was still standing there, but his voice sounded a little muffled.
"good."
She struggled to get up from the ground, endured the exhaustion and opened the door.
The two of them, one in front and one behind, began to walk around the palace.
The guards followed from a distance, and Lu Liang and Runhe were also very far away.
Huo Gannian was half a step ahead, and Yun Chen lagged behind.
Several times he stopped to wait for her, stretched out his hand, wanting to touch her but then pulled it back nervously, as if he really wanted to hold her hand.
She slowly curled her fingers and took two steps further behind him, increasing the distance between them.
In his eyes, this action was a rejection more cruel than any words.
His face turned pale, but he quickly recovered and continued to take her around on a tour like a guide.
"Look here, it's no longer called 'Feng Yu Tian Palace', but 'Dragon and Phoenix's Rest'... Here, in the library, there are many ancient medical books collected by the late emperor to treat the late empress. I plan to give them all to Yan Lang... Over there is the Nine-Storied Tower, remember? It overlooks the entire Kyoto City, and there's that..."
He patiently introduced each sentence to her, and his tone seemed to say, "Look, this is our home from now on, and we will live here forever."
She listened quietly, but actually didn't hear much. She just couldn't help but look at his profile.
When he said that there was no need to rebuild the Yong'an Hall and that the coronation ceremony should be kept simple and not waste money and manpower, he already looked like a wise and compassionate emperor.
She felt inexplicably relieved and couldn't help but feel happy for the millions of people. After years of chaos, there was finally a wise ruler to rule the world.
He seemed to have sensed something and turned to look at her. Just as he was about to say something, Lu Liang came hurriedly to report that a minister of government was waiting in the Qinzheng Hall.
When Huo Gannian was the young master of the Huo Gang, he was busy day and night. Now that he is the emperor, he will only be busier than before.
He looked at Yun Chen apologetically, but before he could speak, Yun Chen smiled:
"Go ahead."
"Okay. Let's wait until we get to the throne hall. I'll accompany you then, Chen'er." He said this and left.
Yun Chen stood there, looking at his back.
She wanted to see longer and more deeply, but unfortunately, the guards followed her in large numbers, so she could only see the heavy, cold palace walls and the gorgeous, bright yellow canopy, and nothing else.
I have forty days to live, and I must escape within five.
Ah Nian, I'm afraid I won't be able to wait until "that time"...
Five days later, the new emperor will ascend the throne.
All civil and military officials, dignitaries in Kyoto, and important foreign guests will enter the palace to participate in the ceremony.
Yanlang will also leave after the ceremony.
She knew that Yan Lang was a man who kept his promises. He said that there would be someone waiting to pick her up outside the West Palace Gate during the next five days, and he would definitely do it.
He must have also arranged all the transportation and arrangements for his escape, just waiting for her to reunite.
So, what she has to do now is to escape.
She pretended to be taking a walk and continued to move around the palace, but in fact she was quietly observing the surrounding defense situation.
As she expected, Huo Gannian was a thoughtful and meticulous person, and Duan Jie and Fu Lin, as his capable men, acted in a proper and thorough manner.
The palace was heavily guarded, with defenses almost perfect, leaving no loophole for her to escape.
She couldn't help but sigh. It was so difficult to enter the palace and it was so difficult to leave the palace. This palace was really not a good place!
While she was worrying, she came to a secluded palace garden near the wall.
As the most remote place in the entire imperial palace, it has been used to store the remains of "Nanli Jun" and various belongings of Nanli Jun in recent days.
No one knows where Nan Lijun has escaped to now. When the palace counted the bodies, they did not find Bu Yan.
But to the officials and common people, Nanli Jun was swallowed by a giant snake.
Logically, no matter how foolish and incompetent Nan Lijun was, he was still a legitimate monarch and should have held a grand funeral for her first.
Unfortunately, the entire palace is busy with the new emperor's coronation ceremony, and everyone has forgotten about Nan Lijun's matter.
They only found a remote palace to place the "body swallowed by the giant snake" and some funeral items, and even skipped the process of taking the body out of the snake's belly. It seemed that they were planning to choose a time to bury it quietly.
Therefore, this palace has the least people in the entire palace and is closest to the palace wall.
Yun Chen glanced at the palace maids, eunuchs and guards around him, pretended to go in to pay homage, and tampered with the altar next to the coffin.
She deliberately avoided looking at the coffin, imagining A Ling wrapping Yan Shijiu inside, and tried her best to focus on the small movements of her hands.
When she left the palace, the flames from the sacrificial furnace suddenly jumped up and set many things on fire. All the palace maids and guards around ran to put out the fire.
Yun Chen immediately found an opening and set his sights on the nearest palace wall—
The palace walls were majestic and towering. In the past, when she was in good health, it would have been easy for her to jump over the palace walls.
But at this moment, her body had become extremely weak because of the Soul-Devouring Pill, and coupled with the fact that she had just experienced an attack of the poison, she had difficulty even running two steps, let alone jumping over the palace wall.
She quickly spat into her palm and secretly cheered herself up. She estimated that if she used all her strength, she should be able to climb to the top of the palace wall, but it would be difficult to climb down, and she might fall hard.
But she couldn't care less about that now. She concentrated her energy and stepped onto the wall with all her strength.
As expected, she barely managed to climb to the top of the wall, but before she could stand firmly, she lost all her strength and staggered and fell down.
It fell into a large group of Tianwei soldiers outside the palace wall, and hit the head of a guy who was bragging to the soldiers.
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