Two hours later, Gu Yi went to the South City and showed Song Wan Yue the gifts he had bought: a box of good water powder for Madam Gu, a gold-encrusted smoking gun for Master Gu, and two pounds of good tea ******* good.”
Song Wan Yue praised.
Gu Yi’s beautiful eyes narrowed, instructed Xiao Si to put the things away, personally went to the pastry shop in front and brought over a few pieces of dim sum, handing one of them to Song Wan Yue attentively.
“Little girl, let’s discuss something for you.”
Song Wan Yue looked at her and took a bite of the pastry, “Speak.”
“I want to stay over here with my big brother at night and not go over.”
Song Wan Yue raised her eyebrows and looked at him as she ate the pastry.
Gu Yi was looking weak, but his eyes didn’t dare to move, lest Song Wan Yue might see the clues, so he could only cover up and take a bite of the pastry as well.
“Okay.”
Gu Yi’s hanging heart fell back.
As it was getting dark, the pastry shop closed its doors and Song Si sent Xiao Yao back, while Song Wan Yue also came out and got on the carriage to go back to the Xu residence.
Gu Yi took Xiao Si to one of the courtyards he had bought.
Inside the courtyard, the waiting servants saw him enter and saluted, “Young master.”
Gu Yi walked straight into the house and looked at a pair of armour sitting on the table, lifting his hand and fondling it a little.
There was silence in the room.
Song Si returned from the Xiao residence only after dinner, and went to rest after playing a game of chess with Gu Yi.
When the drums of the hour came, Gu Yi quietly opened the door of his room and came out of the house dressed in black. He went to Song Si’s window, lit a piece of incense and reached in.
Five or six imperial guards stood in front of the Qinwang Mansion, and the rest of the place was also guarded by a soldier holding a torch every few metres.
When Gu Yi arrived, he hid in the shadows and reached out, Xiao Si put a stone in his hand, Gu Yi waved his hand, the stone flew out and the torch in the hand of one of the imperial guards was extinguished.
“Who?”
The imperial guard looked at the shadows in horror, the rest of the imperial guard quickly gathered around as a gap appeared behind them.
Gu Yi went over like a ghost and leapt up the wall through the gap, followed by Xiao Si and the other boy.
Not noticing anything strange, several imperial guards relighted the extinguished torches and stood back in their respective positions.
The two boys went to the entrance of the Qin Wang Mansion and tied the heavenly silk in their hands to the latch. Gu Yi led his party to the entrance of the main courtyard, where Xiao Si unloaded the wrappings from his body, took out his armour and helped Gu Yi to put it on, while giving a secret signal.
The two boys heard it and slowly exerted force, and the bulky gate of the Qin Wang Mansion was creaked and pulled open from the inside.
The scalps of the imperial guards guarding the door exploded, and they retreated countless steps in panic, some dropping their torches to the ground in their hands.
“Who?”
No one answered, the gate was still slowly opening, and the piercing sound shook their eardrums tight.
“Quickly report to the Duke of State!”
A soldier got on his horse in a panic and headed straight for the State Prince of Qi’s residence, and when he arrived, he rolled off his horse and knocked desperately on the gate, “State Prince, it’s not good, something big has happened!”
The Duke of Qi was awakened and immediately got dressed and hurried outside. When he saw the imperial guard, he knew that someone had entered the Qinwang Mansion.
Before the steward could answer, the Duke of Qi had already ridden out at a gallop, all the way to the entrance of the King of Qin’s residence.
Countless imperial guards held up their swords and spears, looking warily inside the door, but none dared to enter.
When the Duke of Qi dismounted from his horse, the commander of the imperial guards immediately came forward, “Your Highness.”
“Search!”
The commander waved his hand, and the imperial guards carefully walked into the mansion.
All that entered was weeds, a man’s height, which looked even more gloomy and terrifying in the light of the torches.
“One team of ten, search forward in unison.”
The Duke of Qi followed behind the imperial guard, his beady gaze moving as they searched.
The affair of Zhang Huai had caught him off guard, and had taken Aunt Zhang with it; he knew it was definitely connected to Gu Yi, and he was worried that he would not be able to catch him in the act, but Gu Yi had delivered him to his door.
“Don’t let go of any corner, no need to show mercy when you catch someone, just ……”
“Then, what is that?”
The imperial commander’s pointed alarmingly into the distance.
A man floated in mid-air, wearing armour, slowly coming towards this way.
“A ghost!”
Somehow someone shouted, and the searching imperial guards were terrified and ran out of the room.
“Stop right there!”
The Duke of Qi shouted, grabbed a spear from one of the imperial guards and threw it towards the other side, seeing that it was about to penetrate the “ghost”, but it suddenly fell down.
All the people were shocked, even the Commander of the Imperial Guard took a step back.
“What are you afraid of? It’s just a ghostly thing.”
“No, it’s not pretending, it’s King Qin, it’s the ghost of King Qin who has returned to claim his life!”
The imperial commander took another step back.
Back then, King Qin had been so successful in battle that the emperor had specially rewarded him with a pair of golden armour, but later, when King Qin entered the palace to carry out an assassination, the emperor was furious and gave him the punishment of boning, and the armour was stripped off his body and thrown into the fire to melt.
“What a load of nonsense!”
The Duke of Qi kicked over the Commander of the Imperial Guard, snatched the sword from his hand and put it against his neck, “Whoever dares to confuse the public with demonic words, I will kill him on the spot!”
No one dared to step back.
“The Duke of Qi ……”
An eerie voice came from above, like a cold wind from hell, blowing into the bones of everyone below, “This king has come to see you.”
Hearing the voice, the Imperial Commander became even more fearful, “Yes, yes ……”
Before he could finish his words, the Duke of Qi raised the hilt of his sword and knocked him unconscious, shouting high into the sky, “Stop pretending to be a god, Gu Yi, your time to die has come today!”
After saying that, he drank and led the imperial troops, “All of you, catch him and reward him with ten thousand taels of gold!”
No sooner had his words fallen than the floating man suddenly came this way, and the Imperial Guardsmen retreated in fear as the Duke of Qi raised his sword and slashed at him.
The floating man was cut in half, and before the imperial guards could regain their composure, the two halved bodies slowly came back together.
All the men saw clearly.
There was a silence.
The Duke of Qi looked at the knife in his hand in disbelief; it was as shiny as new, without a drop of blood.
“A ghost!”
I don’t know who shouted.
All the imperial guards ran towards the entrance of the house without life.
The Duke of Qi also subconsciously followed and retreated. In a flash of white light before his eyes, the Duke of Qi’s crown instantly fell to the ground and his head was covered with white hair, which covered his eyes.