Chapter 73 Unlimited Bounty
Looking at Xiaoze walking towards him with a sword in hand, Yun Chen knew that he was just a commoner, a mere ant, and he would die here tonight.
Xiao Ze put his sword on Yun Chen's neck and said, "The emperor has granted you death. Can you please tell me your last words?"
Last words? Who did she say them to?
She only had the chance to say this one sentence, and she only wanted to say it to Huo Gannian.
Her nose felt sore and tears welled up in her eyes.
Once you become a bodyguard, you no longer care about life or death.
She had never been afraid of death, but at this moment she was suddenly afraid.
She was afraid that she would never see the face that moved her heart again, and she felt sad that she had just realized her feelings but would never have the chance to tell him.
She lost her mother when she was very young, and had no one to teach her many things. She learned everything through hard work and by observing others over the years.
But now she realized that she didn't need anyone to teach her how to like someone, she was born with the ability.
She remembered that Huo Gannian had once asked a question:
"Yun Chen, this 'protecting with one's life', is it directed at the Huo Clan's young master, or at me?"
At this moment, she finally had the answer.
The young master of the Huo Gang can do it, but there will only be one Huo Gannian.
Thinking of this, Yun Chen looked up and looked at Xiao Ze with tears in his eyes:
"Please, sir, give my young master a message. Just say, 'I have the answer to that question. It's the second one.' Please pass it on. The young master will understand."
After saying that, she closed her eyes and prepared to face death.
"Okay, I've got that." Xiaoze said as he raised his sword and slashed at her neck.
Suddenly, she was struck by a heavy blow, and thought of an extremely important question. She grabbed the sword that was already close to her neck, stopped Xiaoze's movement, and said anxiously:
"Wait! I have something else to ask for, Your Majesty's permission!"
The emperor had an amused look on his face, as if he was watching a play with interest. "What's the matter? Tell me about it."
Yun Chen kowtowed respectfully, his clear eyes filled with tears as he said:
"Your Majesty, please allow me to commit suicide. If Your Majesty orders my death, my young master, who treats his guards so well, will inevitably feel resentful and become estranged from the princess. He will even become less close to Your Majesty. I do not wish to place your young master in a position of disloyalty or to embarrass him. I beg Your Majesty to allow me to commit suicide. Just say that I did it willingly, and your young master... will not be troubled..."
After she finished speaking, she leaned forward and kowtowed again, her forehead touching the palace bricks with a "dong" sound, which showed that she kowtowed seriously and with great determination.
She was lying on the ground, so she didn't see the emperor's expression.
Xiaoze, however, was filled with genuine admiration, thinking: After all, a sincere heart is the most powerful, otherwise who could pick the only correct answer among a million answers.
No matter how much you plan, it is better to be simple and pure.
The emperor said, "Okay, I approve."
Yun Chen suppressed his tears and said loudly, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your grace!"
As soon as she finished speaking, before she could stand up, she felt a sudden sharp pain in the back of her neck, and then she knew nothing.
Looking at Yun Chen who was unconscious on the ground, the emperor said:
"Jiang Ming is a cunning traitor, yet he has raised such a pure-hearted and innocent disciple."
Xiao Ze smiled and said, "Your Majesty, to be honest, I'm a little envious of Jiang Ming."
On the other hand, no one in the Huo family knew how Yun Chen experienced the life-and-death test in the inner courtyard of the imperial palace.
It wasn't until the next morning that everyone realized something was wrong.
Yun Chen, who never sleeps in, has not shown up today.
Ye Yan walked around the mansion for a long time, and everyone said that they had not seen Yun Chen.
He had no choice but to look for her in the house, but still no one was there.
In the end, Ye Yan had to speculate an absurd fact:
Yun Chen is missing.
And it seems like he ran away from home.
Ye Yan searched Yun Chen's room eighteen times and could only say to everyone:
"It's been cleaned up, the bedding is neatly folded, and the Hidden Moon Sword is not taken away."
Hua Jue fell to the ground, thinking of Yun Chen's sudden hug in the middle of the night last night, and murmured with tears:
"So it means farewell?"
Buyan held his head and walked frantically in the yard, "He hugged me too! He even mumbled something like 'Sure enough, no redness, no throbbing'. I was so sleepy I didn't think much of it, but now I think there's something wrong! Why didn't I react?!"
Xun Jian was on duty last night and didn't see Yun Chen for the "last time". He just kept shaking his head and saying over and over again, "Impossible! Achen is not that kind of person!"
Xiaoliu burst into tears and shouted at the air: "Brother Yun! Why? Why didn't you come hug me? Why?"
Finally, everyone turned their attention to the figure sitting in the corridor.
Under the corridor, Huo Gannian listened to the discussion with an expressionless face.
The newly renovated door was tall and wide, filled with the biting coldness emanating from him.
"Go find the princess!" he ordered coldly.
He guessed that there was something wrong with the look between the emperor and Xiaoze at the night banquet.
He thought of many ways to deal with the situation, and even considered moving the original residence back to Yancheng, but he never expected that the emperor would arrest Yun Chen overnight.
Once you enter the palace, your life or death is uncertain.
When Huo Gannian thought of this, he felt as if his heart was boiling with oil, and he said angrily:
"Ye Yan! Go quickly!"
It was rare to see Huo Gannian get angry, so Ye Yan immediately took his men to the princess's mansion.
Nan Lijun was also surprised when he heard this, and hurried into the palace to inquire about the situation, but he learned that no guards were transferred or sent out of the palace last night, and no one entered or left the palace.
Nan Lijun asked the guard on duty:
"What about Xiaoze? He never needs to keep records of his movements. Did he go out in person?"
The guard on duty replied, "Princess, Lord Xiaoze spent the entire night reading with the Emperor in Longfeng Palace. He only emerged at dawn and was not seen leaving the palace."
After searching for a while without any results, Ye Yan returned to the Huo Mansion dejectedly.
Everyone waited anxiously for a whole day, but all they saw was Ye Yan shaking his head helplessly.
Runhe felt very uncomfortable, and walked to Huo Gannian and whispered:
"Young Master, why don't you eat first? You haven't eaten all day..."
Huo Gannian couldn't hear anything, his mind was full of thoughts:
Without saying a word, the farewell words like a secret code were "Sure enough, no red, no jumping". Others did not know, but Huo Gannian knew it clearly in his heart.
That means: Sure enough, when she is with other people, her face won't be so red and her heart won't beat so fast.
She was using a silly and cute way to confirm her feelings for him.
So that wasn't a farewell at all, Yun Chen would never run away from home!
If the Emperor hadn't intervened, then Yun Chen had been secretly abducted by an enemy? How powerful of an enemy could they be, allowing them to move freely under the Huo Gang's tight security? How had Yun Chen managed to provoke such an enemy? And there wasn't even a trace of a fight?
Or was it related to Yun Chen's family background, which he never mentioned? Or was it related to the benefactor she had been searching for for so many years without success?
Thoughts rushed into his mind, but were shattered one by one by Huo Gannian.
He felt like he was going crazy, but he still couldn't guess where Yun Chen would be?
He locked himself in the study, did not sleep for three days and three nights, and did not eat anything for three days and three nights.
Finally, under Runhe's crying and pleading, Huo Gannian finally opened the study door with a pale face and said hoarsely to the guards kneeling on the ground:
"Issue all the gangs in the country to find Yun Chen. Whoever finds him will receive a reward—"
After a pause, he said firmly:
"Under the inexhaustible Huo Gang, the bounty is unlimited."
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