The heavens set sail from the courtyard

In the Princess's bedroom in the Qing Palace, Li Yunrui sat in front of the mirror, admiring her own beauty, while a young maid behind her combed her hair.

Li Yunrui has been worrying about his daughter Lin Wan'er's marriage recently. He can't sleep at night and is in a very bad mood.

Looking at herself in the realm, Li Yunrui said to the maid behind her: "Am I getting old?"

"Your Highness, how can you look old? You look no more than eighteen years old." The maid said respectfully with a smile.

Li Yunrui touched the corner of his eye with his hand and complained: "Look at me, is there an extra fine line here?"

"The princess' skin is so smooth and delicate, how could there be fine lines on it?" The maid complimented him while combing his hair. Suddenly, her expression changed, and she grabbed something with her right hand and hid it behind her back.

Li Yunrui glanced at it calmly and said, "What's hidden?"

The maid said in fear: "Please forgive me, Princess. I accidentally cut a strand of your hair."

Li Yunrui said: "Show me your hair."

The maid's body suddenly shook like a sieve, and she trembled all the time, not daring to stretch out her hand.

Li Yunrui said unhappily: "How dare you, you servant, disobey my orders."

The maid trembled even more violently, but still stretched out her right hand fearfully and opened her palm, revealing a white hair.

Li Yunrui stretched out his slender jade fingers, pinched the white hair, and his face instantly became terribly gloomy.

"I have really grown old, with white hair on my head."

The maid fell to her knees and kowtowed, saying, "Princess, please forgive me. This white hair belongs to me, not you."

Li Yunrui suddenly smiled and said, "Look how scared you are. It's just a white hair. Wan'er is already that old. It's not normal for me to have a white hair."

Li Yunrui helped the terrified maid up and sighed, "You have been with me for quite a few years, and you have more silver hair than me."

The maid's whole body went rigid.

"Yulian, do you still remember how old you were when you entered the palace and how many years you served me?" Li Yunrui asked.

"Princess, Yulian has been in the palace since she was eight years old. She was sent to serve the princess at the age of sixteen. It has been eight years now." Yulian said fearfully.

Li Yunrui suddenly realized, "So, you are already 24 years old this year. Children from ordinary families would have been married by this time, and they might even have children."

"Go back! I will allow you to leave the palace and go home. Find a good man to spend your life with. When the time comes, I will give you a dowry!"

"Thank you, Your Highness Princess."

There was no gratitude on the maid's face, only fear and terror. Two guards came over and took her away. As soon as they walked out of the hall, a scream was heard.

Li Yunrui calmed down and started looking in the mirror again.

After a while, a young eunuch came into the hall carrying a basin of water.

"Who are you? You look unfamiliar to me. Where is Xiao Chunzi?" Li Yunrui asked when he saw the little eunuch.

"Your Highness, Xiao Chunzi is sick and cannot serve the princess." The young eunuch said with his head down.

"Is he sick?" Li Yunrui asked curiously, "Wasn't he fine yesterday? How come he is sick now?"

"I heard that he caught a cold last night and has a high fever. He is still lying in bed." said the young eunuch holding the basin.

Li Yunrui nodded and said, "Put the things down! I'll find a doctor to see Xiao Chunzi later."

The young eunuch did not move and still stood there. Li Yunrui was a little displeased and was about to scold him, but he found that the young eunuch suddenly raised his head and the two looked at each other.

Li Yunrui's face darkened, and he said to the others in the palace: "All of you go down."

Upon hearing this, the palace maids and eunuchs left the bedroom and closed the palace gate.

"You, Anhe, are so capable that you can even sneak into the palace." Li Yunrui said coldly to the young eunuch.

The young eunuch laughed, put the basin down, and touched his face. His appearance changed instantly, turning into Wang Gang's. "The princess has lived in the deep palace for a long time. It's too difficult to see her. I can only come in by myself."

Li Yunrui frowned and said, "What are you doing in the palace? If there is anything, I will send a maid to contact you."

Wang Gang said with a bitter face: "There is no other way. The contact point in Kyoto has been sealed by the Inspection Bureau. I am worried that Her Royal Highness's people can't find the place, so I can only take the risk to go to the palace to meet her."

"There are so many experts in the palace. Aren't you afraid that I will hand you over to the Inspection Institute?" Li Yunrui said with a smile.

"The princess and I still have a business deal to finish. Isn't it a little early for you to get rid of me now?" Wang Gang walked to the coffee table next to him and picked up a few pieces of cakes and stuffed them into his mouth.

Li Yunrui snorted coldly: "I also want to ask you, when will you kill Fan Xian?"

Wang Gang sat down on the chair and said, "Something has happened. The Inspection Bureau and the Kyoto government have blocked the capital. I really can't find a chance to escape."

"You don't have the chance to make a move, or you don't want to make a move." Li Yunrui said coldly: "I heard that Fan Xian and the owner of Wang's cloth shop hit it off right away and they went to the cloth shop all day long."

Wang Gang laughed and said, "I do get along well with Fan Xian, but the rules of Dark River are that as long as you can afford it, you can kill your closest relatives. Princess, don't worry."

Li Yunrui said gloomily: "When are you going to make your move? His Majesty has already started preparing for the wedding of Fan Xian and Wan'er. I cannot marry my daughter to Ye Qingmei's son."

Wang Gang said: "I would like to ask Your Highness the Princess for a favor."

"What help?" Li Yunrui asked curiously.

"Emperor Qing will host a banquet for the Yuan-Mongol envoys tomorrow. Fan Xian is also invited. I hope the princess can help me get in. It would be best if we can transfer Eunuch Hong who is beside the empress dowager."

Li Yunrui was surprised and asked: "With your ability just now, are you still afraid that you can't get into the night banquet?"

Wang Gang explained: "The palace night banquet is heavily guarded, and all the eunuchs and palace maids who serve are strictly screened, but I know that Yan Xiaoyi, the guard leader in charge of the banquet, is the princess's man."

Li Yunrui was shocked, and looked at Wang Gang deeply and said: "You guys at Anhe are so capable that you can even find out about this kind of thing."

"The princess is really capable. She can even bribe the commander of the guards. I wonder why you don't let Yan Xiaoyi kill Fan Xian."

Li Yunrui said coldly: "Yan Xiaoyi is still very useful."

Wang Gang looked as if he had suddenly realized something, and said with a smile: "It seems that Her Royal Highness the Princess thinks highly of Yan Xiaoyi. No wonder, no wonder."

Li Yunrui was puzzled and asked: "What's the wonder?"

Wang Gang glanced at the palace gate and said, "No wonder Commander Yan is so loyal to his master."

While Li Yunrui was wondering, a long arrow came through the air, shot through the palace gate and headed straight for Wang Gang's face.

Wang Gang smiled contemptuously, turned his hand and raised it. The long arrow was wrapped by a soft force, turned a circle, and returned to its original place.

boom!
The palace gate was wide open, and a man in black armor and holding a longbow narrowly avoided the flying arrow and shot another arrow at Wang Gang.

This arrow was so fast and sharp that it was twice as fast as the previous one. Even a ninth-rank master would have no chance of avoiding it.

In the entire Qing Palace, the only person with such archery skills is the guard leader Yan Xiaoyi.

"Interesting." Wang Gang smiled slightly, turned his hand and lifted the coffee table in front of him to block the swift arrow.

"Yan Xiaoyi, the ninth-rank archery god, is indeed worthy of his reputation." Wang Gang turned to Li Yunrui and said:
"This Commander Yan, could he also be a slave to Her Royal Highness the Princess?"

Li Yunrui sat upright and did not move. Even Wang Gang's joking words could not shake her at all.

But Yan Xiaoyi did not have such a high level of Qi cultivation skills. He instantly pulled out three new arrows from the quiver and shot them at Wang Gang.

Wang Gang waved his right hand lightly, using his hand as a sword, and slashed out an invisible sword energy, cutting off the three long arrows, and the remaining force hit Yan Xiaoyi's longbow.

Yan Xiaoyi screamed: "Grandmaster!?"

Li Yunrui, who had been calm all the time, finally couldn't sit still anymore.

"Stop!" (End of Chapter)