dognovel Chapter 301 Palace Chaos
Chapter 301 Palace Chaos
"If you really want to take advantage of this opportunity, just send someone to do it. As for you, stay out of this mess."
He lowered his voice and said, "Tell your people that when they go there, they only need to deal with the Crown Prince and Jiang Xing, and leave the Princess behind as a witness. Then nothing will fall on you."
The third prince's gaze paused for a moment, and he was slightly surprised.
"Is my uncle confused? Prince Jin and the princess have a very close relationship, why would he stay to testify for me?"
Ji Bozhou smiled calmly, "Don't worry about this, uncle will find a way to do it for you!"
He clasped his hands behind his back and looked around the deserted palace corridor. "And then, I can even testify on behalf of His Highness the Third Prince, saying that you and I were reminiscing about the past together today. That way, won't I be able to get you out intact?"
After hearing Ji Bozhou's words, the Third Prince's pupils lit up and he quickly bowed, "Thank you, uncle!"
As Ji Bozhou left the palace, the imperial guards continued to march towards the East Palace, but there was a lone figure who had already run towards the Chengqian Palace.
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East Palace.
Except for the six people with clean backgrounds who served the prince, Jiang Xing had already dismissed all the palace servants in the Eastern Palace.
At this moment, the entire East Palace was in chaos. Everyone was hurriedly packing their things to leave the palace, fearing that they would be suddenly detained by Prince Jin and would have to die before leaving, just like the palace maids who were beaten to death in the square today.
A leader of the imperial guards came in with three rows of fifty to sixty imperial guards.
"Greetings to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and to Prince Jin and Princess! We heard there were thieves causing trouble, so we've come to protect the Crown Prince!"
When Jiang Xing saw the imperial guards coming, he subconsciously thought they were sent by the emperor, and immediately became displeased: "You're the only ones sent to protect the prince?"
When he came to the Eastern Palace today and saw that there were only about forty guards in the entire Eastern Palace, he felt something was wrong.
According to the Crown Prince's regulations, the Eastern Palace guards usually have more than a thousand people.
He was almost amazed by the number of just a few dozen people. Did they all get recruited by his royal brother?
But he also had some doubts in his heart.
My royal brother is the emperor of Daliang after all. He wouldn’t be so biased in public, right?
The Third Prince's Imperial Guards have hundreds of people, and those in the Eastern Palace have only dozens. It's not necessary to act so awkwardly, right?
Just as he was about to give the order, Lu Xuan came closer with her fragrant body. She acted extremely gentle and charming, almost nestling in his arms, making the imperial guards not know where to look.
At this moment, Jiang Xing felt a tingling sensation in the palm of his hand.
Lu Xuan quietly wrote a word on his palm, "Three."
Jiang Xing was horrified, but with a calm expression, he gave the order, "Alright, all of you go to the back hall. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will be dining there for the time being. Protecting him is more important!"
"Yes!"
The two of them knew tacitly that there was something wrong with these people.
After hearing Jiang Xing's words, about thirty people immediately went to the back hall.
The remaining half of the men stood in front of Jiang Xing and the others, and did not leave in the name of protection.
Seeing this, Jiang Xing affectionately put his arm around Lu Xuan's shoulders and said, "Don't bother with the prince and the princess. We are only here to visit His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. We will go in and wait for him first. You guys just stay outside."
The team of dozens of people immediately answered: "Yes!"
Jiang Xing remained calm and immediately took Lu Xuan into the Wenhua Hall.
Lu Xuan lowered his voice, "The people who came here weren't the Imperial Guards, but the Imperial Guards. I've seen one of them before in Zui Jiang Yue. It was Song Chuchu who took my place when I was humiliated by the Three Emperors!"
Jiang Xing was shocked. He didn't expect that such a small detail could be noticed by A Xuan.
He held her hand tightly, his heart beating as fast as a drum.
"I know you must have seen something, otherwise you wouldn't have acted so clingy just now!"
After he finished speaking, Jiang Xing immediately informed Feixing, the prince, and Nanny Lan of the situation, and notified everyone that they must find a place to leave first.
But then, I encountered difficulties.
It was now broad daylight, and the remaining thirty men were at the door.
How should they go? The main thing is, I don’t know if there are people in the East Palace who are colluding with them, and whether they will all come out and kill them in one fell swoop.
"We are not familiar with the situation at all. It's too dangerous with so many people. There is only one way, use my invisibility spell!" Lu Xuan was so calm just now because he thought that even if things didn't work out, he still had his own way to go.
"No!"
The proposal was immediately rejected by Jiang Xing.
He knew her body best. Her previous injuries were only half healed. How could she withstand the invisibility spell of so many people?
What's more, today, he had already used several talismans on the prince and bitten his finger. He felt sad when he saw all the blood.
Jiang Xing pondered for a moment, then said seriously, "I have a way!"
Lu Xuan had never seen him so serious as today. Just as she was about to ask him what the solution was, she felt a tightness around her waist. Jiang Xing held her waist and stepped hard on the pillars in the hall. In a few steps, he climbed onto the beam.
"Feixing, bring His Highness and the nanny up here! We can wait any longer. I've informed my brother, and I believe his men will be here soon. By then, I don't think these imperial guards will dare to act rashly!"
Although this beam is somewhat easy to be discovered, it is the most suitable place to hide in the current hall.
The door inside the hall can lead to the exit, but it leads to the back hall, and no one knows what is going on over there.
Fei Xing nodded immediately after hearing Jiang Xing's words, and helped the prince to jump onto the corner beam. After settling the prince down, he went down to meet Nanny Lan.
Nanny Lan had never seen such a scene before and her heart almost jumped out of her chest with fear.
The prince steadied Nanny Lan, who was afraid to open her eyes while leaning on the beam, and said anxiously, "Who on earth are these people? How dare they do something bad to me in broad daylight?"
"Third Prince's men!" Lu Xuan looked at him solemnly, "But I just told them you were in the back hall. They sent half of their men there."
"Axuan, in the back hall..." The prince didn't finish his words when he suddenly understood the meaning of today's arrangement.
There are several large halls in the rear palace, adjacent to the residences of the palace maids and eunuchs.
Just now, they were all driven out of the palace by the emperor's uncle for being unfaithful to him. Now there was such a commotion because the emperor's uncle deliberately called the imperial guards over.
Presumably, at the beginning, the emperor's uncle did not beat those disloyal people to death because he wanted to use them for future use.
He was driven out of the palace so that he could find witnesses when the day of reckoning came.
Let the aggressive imperial guards go now. Those palace servants are spies of the emperor, the empress, the third prince, and others. The imperial guards of the Eastern Palace have also been bribed by them. They can use the identity of the imperial guards to stir up suspicion among them.
Lu Xuan looked through the gap in the beam and saw that the remaining thirty people were still standing outside the front hall, seemingly guarding their safety.
She whispered, "Why did we let them stay outside the palace? It's very likely that they really won't leave!"
Jiang Xing saw that Nanny Lan was afraid of heights, and worried that Lu Xuan might be afraid too, so he held her waist tighter.
"These people pretend to protect our safety, but they really want to get rid of us."
His eyes were deep, "It seems that besides the prince, the targets include you and me."
Wu Tian, the leader of the Yulin Guard who stayed outside the main hall pretending to be the imperial guards, saw that Lu Xuan and Jiang Xing had not come out since they entered the hall, so he planned to take people into the hall. After all, the Third Prince said that it was best to cut the Gordian knot.
But at this moment, screams came one after another from the back hall.
Wu Tian paused and looked towards the back hall with a look of surprise and suspicion, his expression showing a bit of viciousness.
A person hurried out from the backyard.
"Oh no, oh no, sir!"
Wu Tian recognized him. This was the man who had just followed him in, Leon, one of his men.
"what happened?"
Lezi's face was already splattered with blood, and he wiped it off in panic: "The back hall is not home to the Crown Prince. It's full of palace maids packing their bags to leave the palace. Now, they've started fighting with our people!"
"How did they start fighting?!"
Lezi stamped his feet anxiously, "It's hard to explain it right away, sir. Support is more important!"
Wu Tian was shocked and immediately gave orders to the people behind him: "The ten of you, follow Lezi and quickly go to the back hall to rescue the other brothers!"
Lezi almost jumped up, "Sir, ten people are not enough! Even if all of you go, I'm afraid it won't be enough!"
"There are hundreds of servants in the back hall, and we only have a few dozen. Even with our military strength, it will take us a while to deal with them!"
Wu Tian felt that the mission His Highness had arranged for him today might have changed, but before he could think about it, he saw another Imperial Guard disguised as a guard rushing out, "Sir, please go and take a look. Three of our brothers have already died!"
Wu Tian's heart trembled, he glanced at the people he brought with him, and immediately waved his hand, "Follow me!"