Daqian Night Emperor

Chapter 37 Princess, something terrible has happened...

"Saint, Saint..."

The calling sound from outside the secret room made Gong Xinying, who was sleeping in front of the strange statue, slowly open her eyes.

She looked a little lost, still immersed in the dream she had just had.

But she quickly gathered herself together, stood up, and called out calmly, "Come in."

Soon, a member of the Salvation Church opened the door of the secret room and walked in, bowing respectfully.

Gong Xinying asked calmly, "What's the matter?"

The believer said respectfully: "Princess Yuzhen is here to visit, please meet her."

Yuzhen?

A strange look flashed across Gong Xinying's eyes, and she nodded immediately, "Please ask her to wait at Feixian Pavilion. I'll go this way."

"Yes."

……

Baiyun Temple, the entrance to the mountain gate.

"They are all waiting outside."

Yuzhen was dressed in casual clothes and a bamboo hat, with the hanging gauze covering her face.

She ordered the servants and maids who accompanied her to wait outside the mountain gate, and followed the Taoist priest who led her into Baiyun Temple, and finally arrived at the Feixian Pavilion in the backyard of the mountain gate.

This is the best place for the entire Baiyun Temple. A corridor runs across most of the mountain. The pavilion is built on top of the cliff. On the right is a waterfall. To the left of the pavilion, you can overlook most of Kyoto city.

Yu Zhen entered the Feixian Pavilion, and the Taoist priest who greeted her bowed and said, "Your Highness, please wait here for a while. The Saint will be here soon."

Yu Zhen waved her hand, motioning him to leave.

It rained a little this morning and the air was fresh after the rain, but the chairs outside the pavilion were wet, making it difficult to sit down.

If it were in the past, Yu Zhen would have been dissatisfied, but today she didn't care about it. She just found a clean place in the pavilion to sit down, took off her hat and put it aside, her delicate face was full of uneasy thoughts.

After coming out of the palace yesterday, she sent people to Baiyun Temple to look for Gong Xinying, but her men came back to report that all the Taoists from Baiyu Temple had been taken away by the people from the Astronomical Observatory. She was so frightened that she almost thought she was implicated.

She waited anxiously in the princess's mansion for a whole night, but no one from the Astronomical Observatory came. After sending people out to inquire about the news, she learned that the people from the Astronomical Observatory had been released.

After Yu Zhen heaved a sigh of relief, he hurried to Baiyun Temple to look for Gong Xinying.

She sat in the pavilion, looking forward to waiting, and finally saw Gong Xinying's belated arrival.

"Xin Ying!"

As soon as Yu Zhen saw her, she smiled, hurriedly stood up, picked up the hem of her skirt and trotted over.

She took Gong Xinying's hand and asked, "How did the people from the Patrol of Astronomy find out about Baiyun Temple? Did they find out something?"

She asked cautiously, "Will... I be the one to be found out?"

Gong Xinying calmly explained, "Don't worry, Your Highness. It was just that one of the believers accidentally released a ghost, which was discovered by the Patrol of the Heavens, and that's what caused the disaster. Now it has been properly handled, and Your Highness will not be implicated."

Yu Zhen patted her full chest and breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good, that's good."

She just remembered something at this moment, looked at Gong Xinying, and asked awkwardly: "Are you okay? Did it affect you yesterday?"

Gong Xinying shook her head.

Seeing that she didn't seem to be lying, Yu Zhen was completely relieved and said with a smile: "It's okay, I'm just worried about you. Speaking of which, I haven't practiced for two days. Let's go to the temple to practice?"

As she said that, she was about to hold Gong Xinying's hand.

But Gong Xinying avoided the question calmly and replied, "Your Highness, the 'Ascension Pill' is hard to come by, and I have already used up all of it. What's more, your Highness's foundation has been made up by the 'Ascension Pill', and you can be self-reliant in future practice." Before Yu Zhen was twenty years old, he had never been exposed to martial arts practice and had already missed the best time to practice, which was equivalent to destroying his foundation.

But the "Immortality Pill" has made up for her lost "foundation", so she can be self-reliant in future practice.

However, if someone has taken a shortcut, how can you expect her to take the right path?

How can I still walk?
Yu Zhen had long been accustomed to the "Immortality Pill", and could not forget the ecstasy of dual cultivation. When he suddenly heard that Gong Xinying no longer had the elixir, he immediately showed disappointment.

But she didn't lose her temper with Gong Xinying. She just thought for a moment and said, "It's okay. If the pill is gone, you can make another one!"

"Your Highness, this pill is not..."

"I know, it costs a lot. Wait for me for two days, and I will be able to raise the money quickly when I return home."

Having been pampered since childhood, Yu Zhen has no concept of money. He just feels that whenever he needs something, he can just ask and there will be endless money to spend.

So she patted her chest and took the responsibility, preparing to go back to the princess's mansion to prepare the money.

When Yu Zhen was about to turn around and leave, Gong Xinying couldn't help but call her.

Yu Zhen turned around and looked at her in confusion: "Xin Ying, what's wrong?"

Gong Xinying pursed her lips slightly, her eyes showing a rare hint of hesitation, and after a long moment she asked, "Your Highness, do you still remember your childhood in Jingzhou?"

"Jingzhou?"

Yu Zhen thought for a while, then suddenly realized, "When I was young, I went to Jingzhou to visit my grandfather every year. But when I was ten years old, my father promised me to Zhao Qi'an and forbade me to leave the capital, so I never went there again. I don't remember much about it, but I just know that the children in my grandfather's house liked me, played with me, and asked for Jingzhou's delicious sweet rice cakes... Why are you asking this?"

Gong Xinying lowered her eyelids, the light in her eyes gradually extinguished, and she said softly: "I was just wondering if Your Highness is a little different from when he was a child."

"Of course it's different." Yu Zhen didn't notice her abnormality and said without thinking, "People always change."

Gong Xinying laughed at herself, bowed her head and said, "Your Highness is right."

……

"Someone, call Steward Hai over!"

After returning from Baiyun Temple, Yu Zhen was in a good mood. He shouted to the people around him to call the housekeeper of the mansion.

Not long after, a man in his fifties trotted into the front hall. When he saw Yu Zhen, his face was full of flattering smiles, and he lowered his body and said, "Your Highness, I am here."

Although this steward was old, he had no beard, and his signature shrill voice and faint smell of urine made it clear at first sight that he was a eunuch.

He is an old man in Fuyan Palace. He has served Concubine Zhen for twenty years. After Princess Yuzhen got married, he went out of the palace to serve Princess Yuzhen for ten years. Now he is the steward of the princess's mansion and is in charge of all matters big and small in the mansion.

Princess Yuzhen said to him, "Go check how much money is left in the treasury and take it all out!"

"Whoo."

Butler Hai did not ask what his master wanted the money for. After answering, he turned around and walked towards the warehouse.

Yuzhen sat in the hall, picked up the teacup handed to her by the maid, and thought to herself: "I wonder if the money in the mansion is enough. If not, I can get some more from the Zhao family's business..."

While I was thinking about these things, I heard crackling sounds in the courtyard, and vaguely I could hear someone wailing and screaming.

The noise immediately interrupted Yu Zhen's thoughts. She frowned and looked outside the hall in the direction of the sound.

Before she could find someone to ask, she saw a young servant running into the hall in a panic. When he saw her, he kowtowed and bowed:

"Your Highness, it's bad. The warehouse has been taken over by the Prince Consort's men... Butler Hai, Butler Hai... He's going to be beaten to death!"

"what?!"

Yu Zhen was stunned for a moment, the teacup in her hand slipped and fell to the ground with a thud, breaking into pieces.

I ate melons all day today, so the update is a bit late, sorry~
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