Daqian Night Emperor

Chapter 221 The Killing Intent Is Coming

It was the eighth day of July, the day Ji Qingkong and Ruan Yu had agreed upon.

Before five o'clock in the morning, the sky was still pitch dark, so Ruan Yu packed everything early and prepared to go out.

"Brother, I have never seen what this palace looks like. Please take me in to see the world."

Wei Zhaofeng helped Ruan Yu change clothes. The young man couldn't help but be curious and begged.

Ruan Yu shook her head and refused: "This time is different. No matter how much the Fourth Prince talks, no one knows what the Second Prince thinks. This is not the time to show you the world. You just wait in this courtyard."

Wei Zhaofeng was immediately disappointed and had to say, "Then I will drive the horse for you and wait for you outside the palace."

The young man cannot hide his thoughts; his joy, anger, sorrow and happiness are all written on his face.

Seeing his disappointed look, Ruan Yu could not bear to refuse him anymore, so she just said, "Don't run around while you're waiting for me outside."

Wei Zhaofeng became happy again and nodded repeatedly: "Yes, then I will go to harness the carriage now."

Ruan Yu looked at Wei Zhaofeng walking out of the house in a hurry, and a smile appeared on her face.

……

Coming out of the small courtyard outside the west market town, the carriage entered the inner city and drove towards the west side of the imperial palace.

Before the curfew, there were still night patrols on the streets, and carriages were often stopped and questioned.

Fortunately, Ji Qingkong was reliable for once and took this into consideration, preparing a "night pass" token for Ruan Yu.

Therefore, even though he was stopped by the officials from the Astronomical Observatory, he was not harassed and was quickly released.

When the carriage arrived at the designated location, it was already dawn.

As soon as Ruan Yu got off the carriage, he saw Ji Qingkong who had been waiting at the small gate of the palace.

"Zhao Feng, park the carriage in a secluded place and wait for me."

He gave an instruction to Wei Zhaofeng, who was driving the horse, and after the carriage drove away from him, he walked towards Ji Qingkong.

"Your Highness, Fourth Prince."

"Are you here? Wait a minute."

Ji Qingkong was squatting at the foot of the imperial city wall, not looking like a prince. If you ignore his luxurious and embroidered clothes and his handsome and almost enchanting face, he would have looked like an idle hooligan on the street.

He was quite polite and moved to the side to make room for Ruan Yu.

Seeing Ruan Yu not moving, he didn't care. He looked up at Ruan Yu and asked, "Where's the stuff?"

Ruan Yu took the small wooden box that he was carrying and brought it in front of him.

The wooden box is not big, it is square and only about two feet long and wide, like a small medicine box carried by a quack doctor, and even an ordinary person can carry it with him.

Ji Qingkong was immediately surprised: "It's only this big? Isn't it just a tree?"

Ruan Yu glanced at the wooden box in his hand and explained, "It is not easy to grow a natural treasure like the Wudao tea tree. This box contains a seedling."

Ji Qingkong was immediately unhappy: "Aren't you cheating me? I finally persuaded my second brother to meet you, and you brought a seedling with you. Then my second brother will think that I helped you to fool him."

Ruan Yu shook his head and said, "Although it is a seedling, this treasure still has supreme efficacy and will not disappoint the Second Prince."

Ji Qingkong was intrigued and asked, "What effect?"

Ruan Yu said calmly, "I will explain when I see the Second Prince. But why did the Fourth Prince ask me to wait here?"

Seeing that he was unwilling to say anything, Ji Qingkong also kept it a secret: "You will know in a while."

"Why choose this time?"

"You'll know in a minute."

Ruan Yu stopped asking, he knew that the Fourth Prince said that on purpose.

After a long while, another carriage came towards them.

When they arrived in front of the two of them, two eunuchs got off the carriage and saluted Ji Qingkong.

Ji Qingkong took a set of clothes from the eunuch and said to Ruan Yu, "Come, change."

Only then did Ruan Yu understand what Ji Qingkong asked him to wait for.

He actually wanted him to pretend to be a eunuch who went out of the palace to buy things and sneak into the palace. Seeing that his face was not right, Ji Qingkong urged him, "There are many rules in the palace, please bear with it."

At this point, Ruan Yu could only suppress her anger, take the clothes and change into them.

After changing his clothes, he put the box containing the Wudao tea tree on the eunuchs' cart.

"What's on this car?"

Ruan Yu noticed that the cart was loaded with large wooden barrels. Whenever there was any movement, there was a "gurgling" sound of liquid flowing inside. It didn't sound like it was loaded with vegetables, fruits or the like.

Ji Qingkong casually explained: "Water."

Ruan Yu was puzzled: "Does the palace have to go out of the palace to buy water?"

"I don't know what happened a few years ago, but the well water in the palace became bitter and astringent, and drinking it would easily make you sick. We had no choice but to buy water from outside."

"With so many people in the palace, are they all buying water from outside?"

"What are you thinking? These are the best sweet water wells, only for the nobles. As for the other eunuchs and palace maids, just drink the original water. It won't kill you anyway."

Ji Qingkong lost his patience and urged, "Ordinary shopping cars cannot go to the Chengping Palace. Come on, get in the car quickly and don't waste time. I have only bribed this group of guards. It will be troublesome if they change the guards later."

Ruan Yu had no choice but to stop asking questions, got on the carriage, pretended to be the same as other eunuchs, and followed the carriage into the palace.

……

The carriage delivering water had smooth sailing in the palace.

The palace was heavily guarded, with guards patrolling from time to time.

But Ji Qingkong just followed the water-delivering carriage, and no guards dared to come forward to question him.

All the way to Chengping Palace, Ji Qingkong led the carriage carrying water to the Jinfeng Gate.

"Wait here for me. I'll go see if my second brother has gotten up."

After Ji Qingkong and Ruan Yu gave some instructions, he walked towards the bedroom alone.

Ruan Yu didn't think much about it, but just waited by the carriage.

The two eunuchs who had entered the palace with him now left carrying a bucket of water, leaving Ruan Yu alone waiting.

There were more than a dozen large wooden barrels on the cart, but Ruan Yu didn't know that someone had put a white "pill" in one of the barrels.

The pill was wrapped in a layer of amber wax. The wax was melting a little bit when it came into contact with water. It looked like the wax was about to be completely digested, and the white pill inside was about to come into contact with water...

At the same time, outside the Golden Phoenix Gate, a group of palace maids were surrounding a woman wearing loose clothes and with a bulging belly, rushing towards this side...

……

In the princess's mansion, Zhao Qi'an was sitting in the study, stroking a little rabbit on his lap.

The rabbit was extremely skinny, but its belly was bulging so high that it seemed almost transparent.

On the desk in front of Zhao Qian'an, there was a strange baby statue of the "Spiritual Lord Above the Three Lamps".

He placed the rabbit on the table, then took out a white pill from his sleeve and threw it into the pen basin on the desk.

There was water in the basin, but the white pill was not covered with wax. Once it came into contact with the water, it immediately caught fire, and then...

"bump!"

The pen-washing basin exploded, and the water in it leaked all over the desk.

The rabbit on the desk was also startled by the sudden explosion and tried hard to escape.

But as soon as it moved, its full belly suddenly began to wriggle violently, and its belly began to crack like a baby bird breaking out of its shell.

Something is about to come out.

The rabbit struggled on the desk for a while, and then fell completely silent.

But its stomach continued to move, and eventually it burst open, its intestines flowed out, and an irregular piece of flesh and blood came out...

Zhao Qi'an watched quietly from the side, with no expression on his face.

(End of this chapter)