Chapter 1101 (1/2)

Ninth Prince and Princess Yu Entered The Imperial Palace

With this shout, the imperial guards wanted to ask who had come, but once they took a good look, it was actually the Ninth Prince Xuan Tianming and Princess Yu Feng Yuheng. All the guards bowed in respect and did not dare to ask the pair why they wanted to enter the imperial palace at this hour and dared even less to ask why they had come, quickly letting them through. At this time, Xuan Tianming and Feng Yuheng could enter the imperial palace whenever they wanted. To these two people, there was no need to inspect them, of course, no one dared to inspect them as well.

Just like this, the imperial palace gates were opened, welcoming these two into the palace, the horses were then cared for by the guards.

The two looked like they were in a hurry, dismounting from their horses and entered the palace without saying anything. They walked quickly and it could be seen that the situation was urgent. The guards at the imperial palace gates were a little confused, discussing in soft voices: “Didn’t the Ninth Prince and Princess Yu follow the others to the hunting grounds? Why did they return? And at this hour?”

“Who knows! For the matters concerning the Masters, it is not something that we can analyse at all. Perhaps the Emperor thought of something at the last minute and asked them to come back and handle it! His Highness the Sixth Prince left the imperial palace during the late You hour and should not have reached that place yet. Anyway, we should be more alert, with the Ninth Prince coming back so hurriedly, His Highness the Sixth Prince might return to the capital as well in the middle of the night!”

(Translator’s note: You hour is 5pm to 7pm in GMT+8)

“Sigh! It’s not easy for it to be peaceful for some time, is a disturbance going to happen again? I have a feeling that the Ninth Prince and Princess Yu today are a little off. I don’t know what is off, it just that it feels a little different from usual when I see them?” This person spoke as he looked through the imperial palace gates, there was no sign of the two people who entered first and the suspicion he felt grew a little stronger.

“Is there anything strange about that?” The other person clearly did not want to care about the matters of the imperial family, “It is them, and as for what they want to do, it is something which we cannot supervise anyway.”

“That is true.” That person stopped feeling suspicious, waving his hand in dismissal, continuing to stand in his own position.

And those two people who entered the imperial palace following the route in their heart, heading straight to their planned destination. During this time, they still discussed a few sentences softly: “It should be this path, right?”

“That’s right, according to the directions on the map drawn by Sun Qi, we will follow this path for the period of one incense, go around half a lake, pass through two gardens, then we can see the location of the death row prison.”

“Un. Anyway, be careful and leave immediately after getting the person.”

As they spoke, when they looked up, someone was walking towards them. Wearing the official robes of a minister, he was clearly stunned after seeing the two of them, then quickly approached and bowed: “This Lowly One greets His Highness the Ninth Prince and Princess Yu.”

A minister in the imperial palace? The two exchanged glances, reaching this conclusion. But they did not dare to speak too much, only standing where they were and looking at that person for a while, half a beat later, the man who was recognised as Xuan Tianming spoke first: “It is already late, why have you not left the palace yet?” No ministers were allowed to stay in the imperial palace at night, this person asking this question was not out of place.

The person who came still spoke respectfully: “Many people from the imperial health hall followed the Emperor to the hunting grounds, leaving This Lowly One to be on duty tonight.”

“Oh.” That person nodded, not saying anything else, but he heard the woman next to him say: “You are an imperial physician from the imperial health hall, but there are not many Masters in the imperial palace tonight, whether you are on duty or not, it does not make much difference.”

Hm? A heavy feeling of doubt spread out in that person’s heart in an instant, he even looked up again to look at the two people in front of him, and when he confirmed that they are really Xuan Tianming and Feng Yuheng, he lowered his head again. But a question kept repeating in his head: Why did Feng Yuheng say that sentence? Who he was, whether he was an imperial physician or not, Feng Yuheng should know it very well, right?

The person who came was no one else, but the person who Feng Yuheng sent into the imperial palace from Hundred Herb Hall, Xu Mao. Even if no one else recognised him, Feng Yuheng should know him. If Xuan Tianming was more unfamiliar with him, Xu Mao would not feel it was that strange, but with these words coming from Feng Yuheng, there was an indescribable strangeness.

Xu Mao lowered his head, constantly thinking about what was going on, but the two people opposite him did not suspect anything, and that “Xuan Tianming” even said: “ This Prince and Princess still has things to settle, you can leave!”

Xu Mao shifted to the side on reflex, giving way to the pair, and when those two people walked past him, he looked at them again from behind. This look caused Xu Mao to frown deeply.

It does not resemble them! A scary thought surfaced in his heart. Their backs do not look like them! Is this really the Ninth Prince and Princess Yu? Why does it look like them from the front but their backs seem so unfamiliar? Especially that woman, even though Feng Yuheng was trained in martial arts and had an excellent martial arts foundation, but when she walked, she would still be like a cultured girl from a respectable family, showing a graceful body unique to females.

But this one in front of him was tough, as if it was a person who only practiced martial arts, their back was completely straight and they walked forward with large steps. Their pace matched the man and did not lag behind at all.

Xu Mao broke out in cold sweat, his legs and stomach trembling. He was afraid of his own thoughts, and was worried that he was overthinking things, what if the two of them really had something urgent to attend to? When Feng Yuheng had urgent matters to attend to, she was rash and hasty as well, so this was not enough evidence to be considered strange. In addition, it was too dark, so they might not have seen him properly.