Chapter 184

Chapter 184 - It Really Is Him

Teng Yu knew the layout of the palace much better than Yin Xu. Even if it was a remote cold palace, he would still be able to find a safe route. The two of them popped their heads out of a pond and looked around to make sure no one was on shore.

Although it was summer and not cold in the water, they could not bring a body of water with them to trail others. It would be weird if they did not get discovered.

Yin Xu turned around and took a glance at the pond he had just come out of. The pool water was deep, and there were a few lotus flowers growing on each side.

This pool is a flowing river, connecting to the river outside and I accidentally discovered it. From this gate to the Cold Palace, this small garden was built for a favoured concubine. As Teng Yu dried the clothes on his body, he explained to Yin Xu.

The reason he didn't tell Yin Xu about this beforehand was to prevent him from sneaking over by himself.

This road was definitely safer than what Yin Xu had discovered himself.

Yin Xu nodded, after he dried his body, he gave the two of them an Invisibility Charm. Although it was not the first time Teng Yu used this, he could not help but exclaim: I really found a good partner with powerful and complete abilities. With this, I will be safe.

The two of them walked out of the little garden and found the house of the concubine according to the previous marking.

Before, Yin Xu had always been on a pitch black night, and he was mainly recording the terrain, so he didn't pay close attention to this place called the Cold Palace.

Right now, the sky had just turned dark, and there was still light all around, allowing him to see even more clearly.

The so-called Cold Palace was actually an abandoned palace. It had been in disrepair for a long time, and the houses looked old and dilapidated. The courtyard was messy and overgrown with weeds.

Wherever they passed by, they would occasionally see one or two deranged women with disheveled hair and untidy clothes. Similarly in the Imperial City, this place was like a slum.

They were not in the mood to care about the life of the woman in the cold palace. After finding the place to go, the two of them jumped onto the roof, lowered their bodies and laid on the roof, and waited for Lai Jiquan to appear.

Under the roof, they were facing the concubine's bedroom. They could hear the faint sounds of singing, the faint sound of singing, and the strange tone. If they were listening at night, they would definitely be scared out of their wits.

He was a favorite concubine of the late emperor, so it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that he was his concubine. In the past, Lai Jiquan did not fare well in the palace and he had followed the Emperor Dechang since a long time ago and the latter was even an inconspicuous prince who did not have much of a status in the palace. As his servant, Lai Jiquan would naturally not do well.

He had once charged into the First Prince, and looked like he was about to be dragged down and beaten to death. It was this concubine who had saved him, even though the other party had only done so because he did not wish for the First Prince to do as he pleased.

Later on, the emperor gradually aged, and the princes fought fiercely. In a poison incident, this concubine was framed successfully, and was even stripped of her title by the late emperor and sent to the cold palace.

“Ah ...” Suddenly, the old woman let out a loud scream, rolling on the ground while holding her stomach. Her face was terrifyingly sallow.

Lai Jiquan stuffed the handkerchief into her mouth, sealed the acupuncture points on her hands and feet, and muttered: “You must be in great pain, right? But you should have gotten used to it, don't you forget that you gave this to your servant's younger sister back then, and cut off her tendons in her hands and feet, cut her tongue, and dug out her eyes just because she broke a cup that the late emperor bestowed upon you while you were still upset.

You saved my life back then, so I should repay you properly. This debt of gratitude cannot be resolved, so ah, I thought of this method to let you live for a long time. Occasionally, I would find some justice for my poor little sister.

Lai Jiquan sat at the side and watched coldly for an hour, until the old lady fainted. Finally, he placed a pill into her mouth, “You see, this servant does not truly plan to take your life.

Yin Xu and Teng Yu were surprised at the development of this story. They didn't know that Lai Jiquan had a younger sister in the palace, and from the looks of it, she should have been oppressed to death by the old lady.

And the reason why Lai Jiquan stayed in the cold palace every month was not because he wanted to look after the benefactor who had helped her, but because he wanted to torture this enemy who hated him.

But if that was the case, what did it have to do with him drugging the Emperor?

No matter how he looked at it, it seemed like a private matter. Could it be that the Emperor had also killed one of his family members?

Teng Yu rejected his idea immediately. There were too many opportunities for Lai Jiquan to harm the Emperor. If that was really the case, he wouldn't have waited until now to take action.

Just as the two of them were lost in their thoughts, a light sound came from beneath the roof. The two of them looked towards the source of the sound and saw a cloaked man walk out from a secret passageway.

Yin Xu and Teng Yu looked at each other and saw the shock in each other's eyes. So this cold palace could actually be used this way.

“Do you know that there is a secret passage here?” Yin Xu wrote on Teng Yu's palm.

Teng Yu shook his head. Back then, he had only come here to look, and had never entered the palace. Naturally, he did not know anything about the secret passage.

“You're too cruel, you did it to an old woman.”

“Prince, you must be joking. I believe that you will be a hundred times more ruthless than a servant when dealing with your own enemy!”

“Haha ...” Indeed, This King does not have the patience to spend decades torturing a single person. “

The person had his back to Yin Xu, so Yin Xu couldn't see his face, but he could vaguely guess his identity from the way Lai Jiquan called him, and Teng Yu quickly wrote two words in his hands: Duke of Qin.

Yin Xu's eyes congealed, his gaze became deep, and he thought to himself: It really is him.