PDLP Chapter 445 Sudden Disappearance
Chapter 445 Sudden Disappearance
Xiang Hongxuan left the main hall, leading the Xiang family army waiting at the door, and returned to the Xiang residence.
As soon as I stepped out of the main hall, I saw thick smoke billowing from the direction of the Xiang residence.
Are the emperor's men trying to eliminate any potential threats at all?
No, the emperor must want them alive.
Someone must be trying to take this opportunity to completely destroy the Xiang family.
That was the original plan; they guessed that the Emperor wanted to use Shen Jinyao and the Shen family to blackmail Xiang Hongxuan and Shen Maoshan.
This is why Xiang Hongxuan felt at ease leaving Shen Jinyao in the Xiang residence.
Another reason, of course, is that he was aware of Shen Jinyao's skills; she had even fought against a hundred people on her own before.
According to the plan, he would wait until the Xiang family army outside the city sent word, then rush back to the Xiang residence.
In the main hall, the emperor kept using the Xiang family as a pretext to provoke him, and he stopped trying to outlast him.
He first exposed the identities of the officials' wives in the main hall.
Those officials' wives were all female bodyguards in disguise; there were no real officials' wives entering the palace.
The rescue efforts outside the city, the ambush outside the palace, and the guards outside the main hall have all been dealt with by Xiang's army.
He then told the Emperor that the eldest prince was with the Empress, and they were fully aware of everything that had happened in the main hall.
The emperor was so angry that he spat out a mouthful of blood.
Then the poison that had been dormant in his body finally erupted, and the emperor fainted.
He disrupted the original plan.
The original plan was for the Crown Prince to wait for further news from outside.
After all, Xiang Hongxuan was just singing the "Empty City Stratagem".
The moment the emperor fell to the ground, Xiang Hongxuan fought his way out.
The crown prince then spread the word that the emperor had been assassinated and was unwell, so he was temporarily in charge.
The reactionary voices of the Xue family were drowned out by the voices of the Xiang family army.
When Xiang Hongxuan arrived at the Xiang residence, the situation in the palace had basically stabilized.
After all, the emperor was in a coma, the crown prince was in power, the eldest prince stayed at home with the empress, and the Xue family members were arrested and imprisoned for participating in the assassination.
When Xiang Hongxuan saw the courtyard billowing thick smoke, his eyes turned frighteningly red.
He ordered his men to put out the fire immediately.
The rest of the people followed him into the courtyard to look for someone.
He found a courtyard in the corner, where many assassins were gathered.
In the darkness, someone thrust a sword into a corner.
That person must be Shen Jinyao.
He didn't have time to think it through and ran over there.
But Shen Jinyao was nowhere to be seen.
He drew his sword and killed the man in black beside him.
Continue searching for Shen Jinyao.
The voices of soldiers could be heard outside; it was the Crown Prince who had sent them to the Xiang residence to put out the fire.
They said they were there to put out a fire, but they were actually there to help.
The men in black were either dead or wounded; none of them managed to escape.
"Arrest these two and question them to find out who their masters are."
"Yes."
"General!"
It was already bright outside. Lost in thought, Xiang Hongxuan heard someone calling him and looked up.
It turns out to be Quanfu.
Quanfu was covered in blood, next to Quangui lying on the ground, and two maids kneeling and crying.
That was Shen Jinyao's maid.
Xiang Hongxuan, who had been lost and dejected, finally found his voice.
Her maid.
Where is your wife?
He clearly felt that he saw Shen Jinyao, and his intuition told him that the person surrounded by several men in black was her.
When he got there, he couldn't find the person he was looking for.
He thought to himself that he must be seeing things.
Perhaps Jin'er doesn't know where she's hiding.
He saw two maids who had come with him as part of his dowry, and figured they must have been together.
Upon hearing this, Qiuju and Lanxing cried even louder.
Has the general not found his wife?
Qiuju cried, "Madam...Madam wasn't with me...She told us to hide and ran out of the courtyard...Madam..."
Lan Xing kowtowed repeatedly, crying as she said, "General, it's all my fault, please find the lady!"
The fire at the Xiang residence has now been completely extinguished.
The once ornate courtyard was burned beyond recognition.
Nothing could be seen in the darkness, but by daybreak it had been destroyed like this.
Where could the lady be?
There was nowhere to hide in the entire Xiang mansion, and even they were almost hit by burning logs.
They dared not look at Xiang Hongxuan's face, feeling that General Xiang at this moment was like a villain who wanted to kill to vent his anger.
"Shut up!"
"Everyone get out!"
Xiang Hongxuan and his men searched the courtyard where Shen Jinyao had last stayed several times, but still couldn't find any clues.
The servants who searched the mansion also brought news that they had not found Madam Xiang.
"Looking for it!"
Xiang Hongxuan was already infamous, after all, he had been fighting on the battlefield all his time, and all his fame and fortune were built on the blood of his enemies.
Even after General Xiang got married, although he always kept a stern face, he never said anything harsh to his servants.
Nowadays, a single word can seem like it's going to devour you.
Looking at the general's expression, his face was covered in soot, and his eyes were so red that he looked like a sane person.
We must find the lady quickly, or the general might unleash a massacre!
Xiang Hongxuan thought of the figure he had seen in the darkness again. He went back there, thought for a moment, and then had someone bring over the men in black that he had just captured.
"General, spare my life..."
"Where is she?"
The man in black was taken aback for a moment, then realized that he should be referring to the lady of the Xiang family.
Xiang Hongxuan recognized him; this was the person who had raised a knife against Shen Jinyao's figure.
"General...I don't know..."
Click!
That's the sound of a man in black's hand being crushed!
"General...I really don't know..."
Xiang Hongxuan looked over and said without any emotion, "You were a man hired by the Xue family. The Xue family must have had something on you. Now that the Xue family has fallen..."
The man in black naturally understood what was said next.
But he really didn't know where that woman was!
"..."
Xiang Hongxuan noticed the expression on the face of the man in black beside him and pointed his sword at him.
"you say!"
The man was about to die, but seeing the legendary general driven mad by love gave him a sudden sense of satisfaction.
He laughed heartily a few times.
"General, you probably don't know this yet, but your wife is a demon. She can disappear, she..."
Xiang Hongxuan kicked the man unconscious.
……
When the person was woken up by the water again, he found himself still in the same spot.
Next to it was a pair of shoes covered in mud and blood; they were military boots.
There was no one else around, and the corridor was pitch black.
The person who splashed water on him to wake him up was General Xiang.
He couldn't help but shudder, which aggravated his injuries.
"Tell me where she disappeared, and I'll make you feel better!"
It turned out that after Xiang Hongxuan knocked the man in black unconscious, he drove everyone away.
At this moment, only he and the man in black were in the corridor outside the courtyard.
Phew...
It was the sound of a knife entering a palm. The man in black tried to cry out in pain, but then his palm was sprinkled with medicinal powder.
The pain has subsided slightly.
"Say!"
Originally, it wasn't Xiang Hongxuan's place to pry these people open up.
He just didn't want anyone else to hear what the man in black had said.
The man in black pointed to a corner under the corridor, a very secluded spot where nothing could be seen at night.
"That's it, that woman... oh, madam, she suddenly disappeared..."
Faced with Xiang Hongxuan's expression, the man in black quickly changed his story.
Sudden……
disappear……