Madam, she always wants to run away

Chapter 49 Fire
Seeing that the water storage in Renshou Palace was about to be exhausted, the fire did not weaken at all, instead it burned more and more vigorously.

"Boom—"

With a loud bang, the gate of Renshou Palace was burnt down.

Through the billowing smoke, Li Ying saw on the other side of the fire, Xiao Chun was looking at her with a mask-like smirk on his face, which made her stand on end.

"So it's you, Princess Zhongqin."

"Xiao Chun, stop now! The Empress Dowager is your real grandmother!"

"Yes, I'm her own grandson, why doesn't she want to help me?"

"You are such a hypocrite, you don't deserve it at all!"

"Why should the concubine be stubborn? If Xiao Lian comes back and sees you as a charred corpse, I won't be able to explain to him."

"Fuck, I will die if I die, don't even try to get the jade seal!" In fact, Li Ying didn't know where the jade seal was at all, but she just knew that Xiao Chun must never get it.

Xiao Chun's remaining patience was exhausted, he put away his smirk, and threatened: "I will say it one last time and hand over the jade seal, otherwise the entire Renshou Palace will be buried with me!"

"You are dreaming!"

Xiao Chun's face was gloomy: "Since you don't eat the fine wine after toasting, then this king will fulfill you."

With a wave of Xiao Chun's hand, flaming firewood was continuously thrown into Renshou Palace. A palace lady's clothes were stained with sparks, and her whole body caught fire. The palace lady was so frightened that she burst into tears. Throwing the ground into the water tank, this was able to escape from death.

But if the fire continues like this, everyone will die here!Li Ying was spinning around in a hurry, but at this moment, Madam Xu anxiously shouted from the bedroom: "Princess, it's not good! The Queen Mother has passed out!"

Li Ying's face changed drastically, and he threw down the bucket and was about to go to the bedroom, but with another loud "bang", the pillars in the hall fell down!There were raging flames spitting out everywhere, completely surrounding her, and it was impossible for Li Ying to move even an inch.

"Cough, cough, cough..." The pungent thick smoke continued to seep into her nose and mouth. Li Ying felt it was difficult to breathe at first, but gradually, her consciousness began to lose consciousness. Just before she fell unconscious, she even appeared. hallucinated.

She seemed to hear a familiar voice calling her beyond the fire all over the sky: "Yingying—Yingying—"

She closed her eyes and completely lost consciousness.

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When Xiao Lian woke up, not only did he not feel refreshed, but his whole body was sore and limp. He felt strange, so he stretched out his hand to check the position around him.

nobody.

Xiao Lian recalled the conversation that ended without a problem last night, and thought, could it be that she was so angry that she didn't come back all night?Xiao Lian was worried, so he quickly got up and put on his clothes. When he opened the door, he was almost blinded by the bright sun outside.

It was noon outside.Strange, he seldom overslept, why is he so sleepy today?

Xiao Lian walked back to the house from the outside, and suddenly found a strange fragrance in the room. Following the smell, he found six incense sticks that he had never seen before in the incense burner.

All kinds of weird things made Xiao Lian suspicious.

"Come on."

Soon a guard responded: "My lord, you are finally awake."

Xiao Lian raised his eyebrows: "Finally? How long has this king been asleep?"

Xiao Lian thought that he just slept from last night until noon of the next day.

"My lord, you have slept for two days and two nights."

"What?!" Xiao Lian was shocked when he heard the words, and he asked incredulously, "How could this be? Why didn't you wake me up?"

The guard didn't know why, so he explained: "The princess said that in order for you to recover as soon as possible, Imperial Physician Duan prescribed a strong medicine for you. After using it, you will fall into a coma for a few days. We don't need to worry, let alone disturb you."

"It's nonsense! Where is the princess?"

The guard was even more baffled: "The princess followed the chief guard and they went back to Beijing to pick up people. She said you agreed."

A bad premonition suddenly rose in Xiao Lian's heart——

Madame she escaped again?

"How long has the princess been gone?"

"I left early the morning before yesterday."

"Prepare the horse!"

"My lord..."

"Go!!!"

Xiao Lian went on the road alone, day and night all the way, ran to the death of countless horses, and finally arrived at the south gate of the suburb of Beijing on the sixth day after Li Ying left.

Unexpectedly, just before he was about to enter the city, dozens of masked men in black suddenly descended from the sky and surrounded Xiao Lian layer by layer.

"Who sent you here?" Xiao Lian clenched the long sword in his hand and asked sharply.

Without further ado, those people raised their swords and slashed at Xiao Lian's head and face. Although Xiao Lian was skilled in martial arts, he was exhausted from running around for days.

"It's stabbed—" A shining big knife cut towards Xiao Lian, Xiao Lian dodged, the big knife cut across his sleeve, and cut off a large piece of his coat.

The big knife almost hurt him.

But before Xiao Lian could recover, another big knife came down from the top of his head in the blink of an eye, and before he had time to dodge, the knife was about to hit his shoulder!Between lightning and flint, a sword flew across the sky, and knocked the big knife down on the ground, making a crisp "swaying" sound.

"Who?!" The people in black turned their heads and found a group of soldiers standing behind them at some point.

"General Xiao, you dare to assassinate? Who gave you the courage?" A Kong Wu man wearing armor and about the same age as Xiao Lian shouted loudly.

The people in black were about to kill this group of people together, but they heard the continuous sound of marching from behind.

"This general has brought five thousand soldiers. If you are not afraid of death, just come." The man in armor proudly pointed his finger at the man in black.

The people in black looked at each other in blank dismay, and slipped away very sensibly.

Xiao Lian was lying on the ground, seeing the armored man approaching him, he straightened up with difficulty, and then he was taken aback.

"Zhang Jun?"

It is no coincidence that Xiao Lian met here [-] soldiers who were ordered to return to Beijing from the frontier to support him. The leader was Zhang Jun, his good brother who was born and died with him in the frontier.

At first, Zhang Jun almost didn't recognize Xiao Lian. He saw a group of men in black besieging a man from a distance. I thought it was a homeless man from somewhere.

As a result, as soon as the man made a move, he recognized it, it was Xiao Lian!
"Old Xiao? How did you become like this?" Zhang Jun pulled up Xiao Lian's tattered coat, walked around Xiao Lian like watching a monkey, and almost didn't laugh out loud.

Xiao Lian slapped Zhang Jun's hand away: "Don't make trouble, I'm not in the mood."

"what's the situation?"

"My wife has run away."

"Ah?" Zhang Jun was stunned for a moment, and then laughed loudly, "Hahahahahahaha, Lao Xiao, you are really good!"

If he didn't care about Li Ying in his heart, he really wanted to slap Zhang Jun a few times on the spot, sure it would be the same as before, and he wouldn't dare to say a word.

Xiao Lian asked seriously: "Why did you bring so many soldiers? Who sent the order for you to come back?"

"We have received His Majesty's imperial decree, saying that there may be changes in Beijing, and we are told to return to Beijing immediately without delay."

Xiao Lian pondered, he was so anxious that he went to Beijing alone without fully preparing, he was really careless.

"It's not too late, let's go to Beijing together."

"it is good."

So Xiao Lian marched into the capital with 5000 people.

When approaching the intersection of Changning Street, Xiao Lian reined in his horse and asked Zhang Jun to check the situation first, then made a turn and galloped towards the location where Li's Mansion was located.

However, Li Mansion, Hou Mansion, and Prince Zhong's Mansion were all turned upside down by him, but where is there any trace of Li Ying?Xiao Lian became more and more uneasy, where did she go?

When Xiao Lian was searching around Changning Street like a headless chicken, he suddenly thought of a person——Duan Yanlin.That's right, whenever I encounter things related to her, I always get confused, and even forget the most basic truth!

Xiao Lian quickly found Duan Linyan's home. To his surprise, Duan Yanlin and Cao Wenxian were all there, except Li Ying.

"The princess asked me to take her into the palace quietly, and then I left the palace first. Not long after I left the palace, there was a change at the Xuanwu Gate. We wanted to enter the palace to save the princess, but a group of soldiers were strictly guarding the palace outside the gate." Hold your hand, we must not get close at all!" Seeing Xiao Lian, Duan Yanlin hastily revealed Li Ying's movements.

This is really a mixed blessing, the happy thing is that he at least knows where she is, the worry is that there may be a big accident in the palace, she and the queen mother are both inside, if something unexpected happens, what should he do?

Xiao Lian's heart was full of alarm bells, and he ran all the way to Xuanwumen, all kinds of emotions in his heart were surging, remorse, guilt, self-blame...he wished he could slap himself!If it wasn't because he was angry for a while and refused to understand her thoughts, how could she risk her life to return to Beijing alone, let alone encounter such a dangerous situation.

He was wrong, completely wrong!

When Xiao Lian arrived at the Xuanwu Gate, there was already a crowd. The soldiers guarding the gate were very unfamiliar.

At this time, Xiao Lian has no intention of identifying which force is causing the trouble, he just wants to find Li Ying.

"Zhang Jun! Give me five hundred elite soldiers!" Xiao Lian shouted at Zhang Jun while repelling the enemies who wanted to attack him.

"Tianzi Battalion listens to orders! Follow General Xiao!"

"Yes!"

Xiao Lian led five hundred elite soldiers to break out of the siege and finally entered the imperial city. Suddenly, he saw thick smoke billowing into the sky from the northwest of the palace.

No, that's the direction of Renshou Palace!
"Follow me!" Xiao Lian put his legs between the horse's belly and headed towards Renshou Palace at the fastest speed.

There must be nothing, there must be nothing, Xiao Lian kept praying silently in his heart.He never believed in ghosts and gods, but at this moment, he sincerely prayed to gods and Buddhas to bless the two of them in safety.

When a group of people rushed to Renshou Palace, Xiao Lian watched Xiao Chun standing outside the palace throw a piece of burning wood into it.

"Xiao Chun! What are you doing!" Xiao Lian's veins burst out suddenly, and he shouted angrily at Xiao Chun.

Xiao Chun was immersed in the game of cat and mouse and couldn't extricate himself from it. In addition, the fire of Renshou Palace collapsed many beams and columns, making a lot of noise, so he didn't hear Xiao Lian's arrival at all.

When he saw Xiao Lian approaching with killing intent on his face, Xiao Chun couldn't believe it for a moment.

"Xiao...Xiao Lian? You, why are you here?"

"Why can't I come?"

"You shouldn't..." Xiao Chun showed a puzzled expression.

Xiao Lian immediately understood: "It turns out that those men in black outside the city were arranged by you."

Xiao Chun looked at the five hundred elite soldiers behind Xiao Lian, and didn't take it seriously: "You are lucky, where did you bring the reinforcements?"

"You don't have to worry about it, you just need to know that today is your day of death." Xiao Lian said, pointing the sword in his hand at Xiao Chun.

Xiao Chun backed away, and the Yulin Army, which had the same number of people as the Tianziying, stood opposite Xiao Lian.

"If you don't want to die, put down your weapon." Xiao Lian warned coldly.

"Kill him, and after this king ascends the throne, there will be rewards for everything!" Xiao Chun shouted loudly.

"Access to the throne? Make your spring and autumn dream!" Xiao Lian gave an order, and the soldiers on both sides started a scuffle.

Xiao Lian is not fond of fighting, his first priority is to save people, but those traitors besieged him and did not give him a chance to clone himself.

"Yingying! Grandmother!" Xiao Lian shouted into the palace wall from a distance while resisting the attack, but no matter how he shouted, there was no response.

Just when the two sides were anxious, Zhang Jun finally arrived with the rest of the team!

"Zhang Jun! Stop them!" Xiao Lian's eyes were bloodshot, he was numb from killing.

Fortunately, as soon as Zhang Jun came, the situation was completely reversed.However, Xiao Lian had no intention of rejoicing. He had never been so flustered in his life. With a sword in his hand, he fought a bloody path among the rebels who were gradually routed like a madman.

When he dragged his exhausted body and stood in front of the collapsed Renshou Palace, he was covered in blood, like a monster crawling out of the dead.

Grandma, Yingying, I'm here to save you.

Just when Xiao Lian was about to rush in against the fire, Xiao Chun appeared out of nowhere and blocked Xiao Lian's way like a dog's skin plaster.

"Get out of the way." Blood was dripping from Xiao Lian's long sword.

"Xiao Lian, where on earth did you get so many reinforcements?!" When death was imminent, Xiao Chun still refused to accept the fact.

"It was prepared for you by your good father." Xiao Lian laughed with blood on the corner of his mouth.

A crack appeared on Xiao Chun's round face: "Impossible, impossible! Father gave me all the power in his hands, how can there be reinforcements? It must be you! You are as ambitious as Xiao Ling, Want to usurp the throne and treason!"

Xiao Lian didn't bother to talk to Xiao Chun, who was stupid and mean: "Go ahead and deceive yourself, don't block my way."

After he finished speaking, he pushed Xiao Chun away. At this moment, Xiao Chun was kneeling on the ground like a puppet with its strings broken.

Being interrupted by Xiao Chun, Xiao Lian's mind also calmed down. He couldn't rush in from the fire, otherwise the gain would not be worth the loss.

Xiao Lian ordered the victorious army behind him: "Hurry up and put out the fire!"

He wet his coat and covered his body. He quickly turned around Renshou Palace, and finally found a place where the fire was less intense. The walls of Renshou Palace were not very high, and Xiao Lian stepped on another person's shoulder up, into the wall.

As soon as he landed, Xiao Lian was choked by the pungent smoke and coughed. When his eyes saw the scene in the palace clearly, his heart sank uncontrollably.

There were beams smashed from the top, fallen columns, and pieces of wood thrown in by Xiao Chun, the beast. The entire Renshou Palace was burnt beyond recognition, and he even saw several charred bodies. corpse.

The more Xiao Lian watched, the more frightened he became. He kept shouting: "Yingying, grandma! Where are you!"

Just as Xiao Lian was looking around without a clue, he suddenly felt his ankle being pulled by something.

Xiao Lian lowered his head and saw the hand holding his coat.

He opened his eyes wide in surprise, squatted down tremblingly, and turned the person on the ground over carefully.

Although she was completely black from the smoke, Xiao Lian still recognized her at a glance.

"Yingying, I'm here to save you!"

(End of this chapter)