mtlumby2d Chapter 386 Enter the city immediately!
Chapter 386 Enter the city immediately!
Huo Qingyun left with a complicated expression on his face. Luo Xiaoran got to know the big news between him and the Queen, and felt a little uneasy.
It happened that Eunuch Sun had just been "dismissed from his post", and the Heavenly Prison was leaderless, so all matters were handed over to Huo Qingyun for dispatch.
Huo Qingyun used lightning speed to interrogate the criminal in the Hong Shanhu case, and then set out to report to Emperor Tianqi.
Luo Xiaoran and Wei An were waiting quietly in their own cells. They would be free at the earliest... tomorrow.
After dinner, Luo Xiaoran rubbed her full stomach contentedly, feeling very relieved.
At night in the prison, Luo Xiaoran and Wei An took turns to keep watch and they absolutely dared not fall asleep at the same time.
Tonight, Luo Xiaoran offered to guard the first half of the night, letting Wei An, who had just been injured, sleep first, and told her that she would wake her up in the middle of the night. In fact, she had already planned to guard the whole night so that Wei An could have a good rest.
Wei An obediently went to sleep first. Luo Xiaoran also put out the candle and closed her eyes to rest.
At three quarters past midnight, Luo Xiaoran, who was feeling extremely sleepy, stood up from the bed, stretched herself to wake herself up, and yawned several times.
Suddenly, a smell that did not belong to the Heavenly Prison drifted in, and Luo Xiaoran wrinkled her nose.
She walked quickly to the cell door, sniffed again, and then her face darkened.
"Wei An, wake up!"
Being born as a secret guard, Wei An is a very light sleeper.
Luo Xiaoran's voice was not loud. The moment it sounded in her ears, Wei An woke up.
Wei An originally thought that Luo Xiaoran woke her up to keep watch for the rest of the night, but he saw that she was holding a candlestick in her hand, and when she saw that she woke up, she got up and walked towards the prison door.
Wei An looked over following Luo Xiaoran's figure and found that the lock of the cell door had been opened. He was a little confused.
"Princess, what are we doing out so late?"
Luo Xiaoran was also a little uncertain, but she never hesitated to speculate on the worst-case scenario she was facing or would face.
"I seem to smell...kerosene."
"Kerosene?!"
Wei An was shocked and subconsciously wanted to go forward and extinguish the candle in Luo Xiaoran's hand. But when she saw that her princess was very calm, she also calmed down.
Wei An sniffed the air hard and did not smell any kerosene in Luo Xiaoran's mouth, which made him feel even more relieved.
"Princess, could it be that you smelled it wrong?"
"do not know."
I got out of bed and felt a little cold all over.
Luo Xiaoran walked slowly towards the direction where the kerosene came from.
"The overall layout of the prison is strict, and there is only one exit. If there is a fire, the eunuchs guarding the prison may be able to escape, but suspects like us who are locked in the cell will probably die."
"So let's unlock the door first. If there's a fire, we'll have the upper hand and be able to escape."
Wei An understood what Luo Xiaoran meant, and then seemed to remember something, and said hesitantly:
"Princess, should we help open the doors of the suspects in the other cells as well?"
Luo Xiaoran paused and was silent for a while. Her voice rang out in the darkness:
"The fire hasn't started yet. What if I'm just being too suspicious?"
Wei An followed Luo Xiaoran and groped in the darkness. A dim light illuminated the two figures crossing each other.
Soon, Luo Xiaoran found kerosene and poured it all over the ground in the passage leading to the exit of the sky prison.
Wei An had just smelled the kerosene in Luo Xiaoran's mouth, and now he saw it with his own eyes, and his heart sank immediately.
"Princess, there is so much kerosene poured on the passage. Someone wants to burn down the prison and burn everyone inside to death!"
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After traveling day and night, Chen Ji finally led a group of personal guards to the outskirts of the capital to stop and rest.
It was already late at night, the gates of Kyoto had long been closed, and the people of the entire capital had fallen into a deep sleep.
"Your Highness, Kyoto has already been under curfew and it's getting late, so we have to enter the city tomorrow," Wei Lin said.
At this time, Chen Ji already knew that after Luo Xiaoran was imprisoned and released for the death of Lin Yuanfang, she was involved in the Red Coral and Musk Case in Kunning Palace and was imprisoned for the second time.
Originally, the group would have arrived in the outskirts of Beijing at noon tomorrow at the earliest, but because of this news, they were forced to move their trip forward to today, but they still didn't arrive until midnight.
Chen Ji was strict in military discipline. Although he was a member of the royal family, he was able to eat and drink together with the soldiers in the army, and he never used his royal status to do anything beyond the rules.
Therefore, as usual, Chen Ji would not use his status as a prince to force his way through the door.
But in order to get to Kyoto as soon as possible, several horses died along the way, which completely overturned Wei Lin's perception of Chen Ji's love for horses.
Therefore, Wei Lin was really afraid that Chen Ji would break into Kyoto at night just to see Luo Xiaoran immediately.
Fortunately, Chen Ji still had some rationality. After taking a glance at the tired troops, he told Wei Lin to give orders to rest on the spot and enter the city as soon as the city gates opened tomorrow.
Wei Lin breathed a sigh of relief and went downstairs to make arrangements.
The place where everyone was resting was a large slope in the suburbs of Kyoto, which overlooked the entire Kyoto.
Chen Ji's figure was hidden in the darkness of the night, with only a pair of deep black eyes staring towards Kyoto without blinking.
Now that Kyoto is in front of me, she is in front of me.
Something was stirring in Chen Ji's heart, and all the fatigue from days of traveling was swept away!
The guards were resting on the ground, and some had already fallen asleep, but Chen Ji was still standing there, gazing at Kyoto from afar.
This scene caught Wei Lin's eyes and made him feel deeply moved.
He had been with His Highness for so many years, but had never seen His Highness so attentive to a woman. He had become somewhat unlike the original His Highness.
Just as he was feeling deeply moved, Chen Ji suddenly turned around and passed by Wei Lin like a gust of wind.
"Enter the city immediately!"
Wei Lin always carried out Chen Ji's orders without any hesitation, and this time was no exception.
He immediately gathered his personal guards, mounted his horse, and followed Chen Ji who was already galloping away.
Wei Lin's heart tightened.
In the darkness of Kyoto, orange-red flames suddenly appeared, illuminating half of the sky.
Look at the direction, that is the imperial city, the heavenly prison!