Ye Boru was originally worried that Ye Yunting would cause trouble when he arrived at Zhuangzi, but when he arrived, he found that Ye Yunting only read books or soaked in hot springs every day. Most of the time, he was content and ignored him. Surprisingly,

I really came to the hot spring village for a short stay and fun.

He put the secret message into a thin bamboo tube, tied it to the pigeon's leg, and quietly let it fly in the woods outside Zhuangzi.

——The emperor sent him a secret message, telling him to keep an eye on Ye Yunting. Every day, he would use a carrier pigeon to send back what Ye Yunting had done that day. Now four days have passed, and Ye Yunting will return to the palace the next day. Today should be

It was the last letter he sent.

When he came out of the woods, he happened to meet Ye Yunting riding back from outside. He was wrapped in a thick cloak and hood, and there were still a lot of snow particles on his body. It was obvious that he had just come back from outside. He saw Ye Boru

When he came out of the woods, he raised his eyebrows and said, "What are you doing in the woods alone?"

"Appreciating the snow." Ye Boru opened his eyes and told lies.

"It's very cold in the woods. Second brother, please be careful about the wind chill." Ye Yunting didn't go into details. He handed the horse over to his servant, took off his hood, rubbed his hands, and ordered: "Tell someone to prepare a bathrobe. I'll go and soak in the back for a while."

Get rid of the cold."

The servants took the horses down to set them up. Ye Yunting casually said hello to Ye Boru and hurried to the hot spring pool at the back.

Ye Boru curled his lips when he saw this, thinking that he would go back early tomorrow morning, so he went back to his house.

…

The carrier pigeon released by Ye Poru arrived at the palace in the evening. In the past few days, news came back from Liushan Hot Spring Village every day, but most of them were trivial matters. Either Princess Yongan went to the mountains to enjoy the snow, or Princess Yongan was in the village with the book boy.

Eating hot pot and not going out for a whole day.

Li Zu listened for a few days and became impatient: "From now on, you can take care of the news from Yong'an Palace. What about the palace? Is there any news?"

The chamberlain replied "Yes": "The old princess worships Buddha in the palace every day and can hardly leave the house."

"In that case, then you should keep a close eye on it." Li Zong waved his hand: "There is no need to report every day in the future."

"Yes." Upon hearing this, the chamberlain retreated with the letter.

Ye Yunting went to the hot spring pool in the backyard, but did not get into the water.

There, Wu Weng had been waiting with a young man similar in stature to Ye Yunting. When they saw him coming, the two of them saluted silently.

"Is everything arranged?"

"Everything has been arranged. The princess will go down the mountain first, and then go to the palace to pick up the old princess." Wu Geng said: "If everything goes well, we can leave Shangjing before dawn."

Everything today had been planned before Li Fengqi left Beijing. They had already expected that if Li Fengqi went to northern Xinjiang, Li Zong would definitely take the old princess as a hostage, so Ye Yunting took the initiative to stay in Beijing, just to make the plan smoother.

It was also part of the plan to specially bring Ye Bo Tathagata to the hot spring village.

There are many eyes and ears in the capital, and it is even more difficult to leave the city quietly. But it is different outside the city.

Ye Boru was the emperor's confidant. With him following him, Ye Yunting's departure from the city would not arouse the emperor's vigilance. In the past few days, Ye Yunting had been eating, drinking and having fun openly, but he was just using Ye Boru's eyes to paralyze the emperor.

Now the time is ripe for him to "escape from his golden cicada shell".

The young man with a similar figure to Ye Yunting was Li Fengqi's chosen substitute from the secret guards. He took off his dark cloak and wore only a white bathrobe underneath, which Ye Yunting usually wore when soaking in hot springs.

, her long hair was casually spread over her shoulders, just covering most of her face.

He imitated Ye Yunting's voice and said, "Don't worry, Princess, my subordinates will fulfill their mission."

Ye Yunting raised his eyebrows. His original intention was to find someone who could temporarily replace him, but he didn't expect an unexpected surprise: "Are you good at ventriloquism?"

"I can only imitate 70% to 80% of it," the young man said.

"That's enough." After discovering that he could imitate his own voice, Ye Yunting came up with another plan. His original plan was to have a substitute pretend to be him to deceive Ye Boru and return to the Duke's Mansion smoothly.

But the secret guard was good at ventriloquism, which gave him another idea.

He waved to Wu Geng and whispered to him. Wu Geng looked surprised after hearing this, and then he expressed admiration: "I will make arrangements right now."

"Then I'll leave this place to you." Ye Yunting cupped his hands towards the young man, then wrapped his cloak tightly and followed the escort down the mountain through another secret path.

At this time, Ye Boru was still in the house, thinking about how to settle his mother after Ye Yunting sent her back. The child was definitely not wanted, and the mother must be left behind as soon as possible. As for the father, he could use the excuse of illness to recuperate.

I will delay it for a while, wait until it is fully recovered, and then take my mother back home.

While he was pondering, he heard a voice coming from the courtyard: "Ask the kitchen to bring a hot pot over and cook the mutton today."

Another cheerful voice continued: "Okay, I'll go right away."

This voice has become familiar to Ye Boru in the past few days. It is the voice of Ye Yunting and his book boy. Ye Yunting is very voracious and cooks in the kitchen every day. The book boy follows his master and eats in vain.

He doesn't look like a servant at all, but his life is better than that of some other young masters.

He snorted, his eyes showing some disdain, and went back to doing his own thing.

But it was said that Ye Yunting, after following the escort down the mountain, rode his horse straight to the palace.

The night was already dark at this time, and behind him, the Wolf King and the Falcon followed from a distance, barely showing any trace.

Someone had been waiting outside the palace for a long time. Seeing their arrival, after making a few silent gestures, they saw the old princess who had changed into a palace maid's costume being escorted by two secret guards. In the palace not far away, the lights were dim and a

peaceful.

"The carriage is waiting ten miles away." Ye Yunting lowered his voice and said, "I need the guards to take you for a while. Please bear with me for the time being."

But the old princess waved her hand: "No, give me a horse, and I'll go with you. It's faster this way."

The Shen family started with military success, and as the son of a military general, she was able to ride a horse.

Seeing her calm expression, Ye Yunting did not hesitate and ordered the secret guards to bring a horse. He also made a gesture of preparation to the people left behind, and the two of them were escorted by six secret guards and headed ten miles away.

Run.

The secret guard who stayed behind quietly returned to the palace, took out the kerosene that had been prepared long ago, and set a fire in the courtyard where the old princess was.

Suddenly a fire broke out in the peaceful and peaceful palace, and the voices of palace people shouting "Water has escaped" were heard everywhere. Some of the palace people who reacted quickly began to bring water to put out the fire.

But the wind was strong in winter, and the wind helped the fire grow. A little water could not extinguish the swollen flames, and there was no one in charge in the palace, so it suddenly became a mess.

I don't know who suddenly shouted in horror: "Old Princess, Old Princess is still in there!"

The palace man who put out the fire heard the sound and went to look, and saw a vague shadow in the flames. The shadow was swaying as if it was unsteady. After a few breaths, it fell down. It was only vaguely visible through the crack of the half-open door.

A piece of white middle coat hem.

The leading palace servant screamed: "Quickly put out the fire! Send someone back to the palace to inform His Majesty! Hurry!"

The fire was raging in the palace, and the palace people were in a hurry.

Li Zong was woken up in the middle of the night and felt dizzy. His first reaction was to suspect that Li Fengqi had done it: "Send people to put out the fire, and at the same time send people to search around the palace!" If Li Fengqi's people set the fire, that person must not have been there yet.

Go far.

After they left, the more he thought about it, the more worried he became, and ordered Cui Xi to go over and have a look.

…

It took two hours for the news of the palace breach to reach the hot spring village. Before midnight, the maid from the palace hurriedly came to report the news. After entering the village, she started shouting at the top of her lungs.

Ye Boru was disturbed by the noisy voices outside, "The palace was flooded" and "Something happened to the old princess." He rubbed his temples and called someone to ask, only to find out that the palace was flooded and the old princess was probably buried in a sea of ​​fire.

.

Now the fire in the palace has been extinguished, but the entire courtyard where the old princess lived has been burned down, leaving only the ruins. Now Cui Changshi is leading the Shence Army to search for the old princess's body among the ruins.

He was suddenly startled, hurriedly put on his robe and got up to go out. He saw that Ye Yunting had already boarded the sedan chair, and the sedan bearers were carrying the sedan chair and speeding away down the mountain.

"Prepare the sedan and go down the mountain!" He couldn't decide for a moment whether something really happened or whether it was just a trap set up by King Yong'an. He was afraid that Ye Yunting would take the opportunity to run away, so he quickly followed him with his people.

The hot spring village is halfway up the mountain, with winding steps all the way. A team of people jolted for two quarters of an hour before reaching the foot of the mountain.

Just as he was about to abandon his sedan chair and change his horse, a dozen masked assassins with scimitars suddenly rushed out from the woods on both sides. These people all had fierce eyes and the way they used their swords was very strange. Ye Yunting hurried down the mountain.

, did not bring any attendants, only ten servants disguised as Shence Army brought down by Ye Boru struggled to resist.

But they were obviously no match for this group of assassins, and they gradually became exhausted after a fight. But the targets of those assassins were directly aimed at the sedan where Ye Yunting was sitting.

Ye Yunting, who was watching the battle in the sedan chair, saw that something was wrong and said in a deep voice: "The assassins are coming for me. I'll divert them away. Second brother, you take people to move the reinforcements." After saying that, he quickly got out of the sedan chair.

A horse got on nearby and galloped away into the distance under the cover of night. In an instant, only a blurry figure was left.

Ye Boru got out of the sedan and only had time to see Ye Yunting's hastily fleeing back. The assassins probably didn't expect that he would dare to run away on horseback. The leader among them eagerly issued an order, and most of the assassins chased in the direction of Ye Yunting.

He passed by. The remaining assassins silently raised their scimitars again.

Ye Boyu was protected by the guards and evacuated towards Shangjing. He looked suspicious. He originally thought it was a coincidence that these assassins suddenly appeared, and suspected that it was arranged by Ye Yunting. But the assassin leader said something in a hurry.

, but it made his heart beat heavily.

——The leader of the assassin spoke in Xihuang dialect.

When he thought about the fact that these people had never made a sound and had particularly weird sword skills, he became even more frightened and said, "Quickly, let's set off the fireworks! They are from Xihuang!"

The fireworks were only used in emergencies. He had previously suspected that Ye Yunting was making a show and had never used them. But now that he realized that someone from Xihuang might have sneaked in to take advantage of the situation, he couldn't care less.

The blazing fireworks rose into the dark night sky, and the assassins who were chasing after them stopped for a moment, and then the attack became more fierce.

Seeing their desperate efforts, Ye Poru's heart beat faster and he could only hide behind the guards in embarrassment. But these assassins were too fierce. Even though they were protected by guards, he was still inevitably injured, and the guards lost most of their lives.

When the reinforcements arrived, there were only four guards left protecting him. When the assassins in black saw the arrival of the reinforcements, they immediately stopped fighting and scattered into the dark woods.

The commander of the Shence Army who came to support looked ugly: "What's going on?"
Chapter completed!