Noon the next day was the time when Su Ranhua was executed.
Su Ranhua was sitting in jail counting her time limit. She was unwilling to be killed like this. Since she could magically come to this time and space, she shouldn't live such a simple and useless life.
She thought of escaping, but the sky prison was cleverly designed with only one exit. Even if there was no one to guard the cell, there would be someone guarding the entrance. With just a few efforts of her own, even if she rushed out, the entire palace would be disturbed. Is it difficult to say that
She had to escape from being rounded up by the royal guards, not to mention that Li Bing could easily capture her, and she was afraid of being executed by then.
While Su Ranhua was thinking about it, light footsteps suddenly sounded around Sen Leng.
Su Ranhua stood up alertly. The last time he met the killer in the prison was still vivid in his mind. This time, the emperor had already decreed her death. Could there be someone who couldn't wait to kill her?
As the footsteps gradually approached, Su Ranhua didn't feel any murderous intent, and he paid suspicious attention to the approaching shadows under the candlelight.
"King Xi!" After Su Ranhua saw the person clearly, he took a breath of surprise.
Ximenzhe's appearance was very unexpected, but Su Ranhua was more worried about how much trouble his breaking into the prison at night would bring him.
Ximenzhe skillfully pried open the iron lock of the cell door, rushed into the cell, hurriedly grabbed Su Ranhua and walked out.
"What's going on? How did you get here?" Su Ranhua paused and asked solemnly.
Ximenzhe's clothes were wet, as if he had just waded across a river.
"Without further ado, let's leave here first." Ximenzhe didn't bother to answer. He pulled Su Ranhua tightly and dragged her out of the cell.
On the way, Su Ranhua saw the dead guards. She couldn't believe that these people were killed by Ximen Zhe, and they were killed silently.
At the door of the prison, two guards stood upright against the wall, but when they saw that he was motionless, Su Ranhua knew that the remaining two people were also dead.
Su Ranhua looked at Ximenzhe. He was holding his hand tightly all the way. His clear face was etched with solemn lines, his lips were tightened, and his eyes were sharply paying attention to all directions.
With his familiarity with the palace, under the cover of night, Ximenzhe took Su Ranhua to the pond in the imperial garden.
"The water here is connected to the moat outside the palace. We can dive out of the palace." Ximenzhe looked at the sparkling water and said to Su Ranhua.
Su Ranhua told him how she escaped under Wu Tuo's nose as a joke that day, so he knew she could dive.
After arriving in southern Xinjiang, the first thing Ximenzhe practiced was water.
"Okay." Su Ranhua understood why Ximenzhe's clothes were soaked. At this point, with no choice, Su Ranhua hid the many questions in his mind and jumped into the pool.
Ximenzhe then jumped in and swam in the water with Su Ranhua.
Half an hour later, the two of them poked their heads out, and sure enough they reached the moat. Looking back, they saw the towering walls of the palace.
The two swam along the moat for a while, avoiding the sight of the palace guards, and quietly climbed ashore.
Su Ranhua looked at a thick and lush tree by the river, climbed up, and hid in the lush branches and leaves with Ximenzhe to rest.
Fortunately, summer was coming to an end at this time, so although we were wet, it was not very cold.
"Now you can explain." Su Ranhua said.
"After you returned to Beijing with him, I was worried so I followed you back secretly." Ximen Zhe said.
Su Ranhua nodded, she had guessed this.
"I never thought he would treat you like this!" Ximenzhe said with hatred on his face, "He is simply an idiot and doesn't know the difference between innocence and innocence!"
"How did you get into the heavenly prison so easily?" Su Ranhua asked. Her ears were so sensitive that she didn't notice Ximenzhe's movements. She didn't notice that he had such skill when she was in southern Xinjiang.
"I am the King of the West. When they saw me, they were more surprised than prepared, so I drugged them in that small amount of time."
As he spoke, Ximenzhe took off a sachet wrapped in waterproof kraft paper from his wrist and said, "This is it. The Mongolian perspiration medicine I got in the border town of Yuehua Kingdom is extremely strong and will cause dizziness when it enters the nose. It is the best anesthetic.
It is used for scraping bones to heal wounds, but I thought it could also be used against people, so I didn’t hand it in with other medicinal materials. I didn’t want it to come in handy just to save you.”
"Why did you kill them when you were already unconscious?" Su Ranhua asked. In her impression, Ximenzhe should not be the killer.
"They saw it was me, and they couldn't help but die." Ximenzhe said nonchalantly. He had killed many people on the battlefield in southern Xinjiang. He was scared at first, but he gradually got used to it.
It was all because of Ximen Hao, who forcibly turned a cheerful young man into a killer who was indifferent to death. Su Ranhua's hatred for Ximen Hao rose again in her heart.
"After all, this is an important prison. I will definitely find out that I have escaped soon." Su Ranhua said and glanced at Ximenzhe, "Let's separate. I don't want to injure you."
"No!" Ximenzhe refused without hesitation, staring at Su Ranhua with a deep look, "My purpose is not just as simple as rescuing you from the palace, I want to ensure your safety. Even if we can't escape, I
I also want him to see that I am no longer the cowardly Ximenzhe I was back then! If you want to die, I will accompany you."
"King Xi!" Su Ranhua said solemnly, "Don't forget Concubine Yao."
"Concubine, I owe her." A dark light flashed in Ximenzhe's eyes, and he looked at Su Ranhua intently. The branches and leaves covered half of her face, but it was enough for her eyes to meet.
She has always refused to call him by his name, and King Xi is an unfamiliar title between them.
"The moat is connected to the imperial garden, so there is such a dangerous hidden danger in the palace." Su Ranhua recalled how he easily left the palace. Although the waterway was narrow and could only accommodate one person in some places, it was enough.
, it is the safest compared to escaping through the palace, but no one is guarding such a weak place?
Ximenzhe understood Su Ranhua's doubts and explained, "Only my mother and concubine know this secret. She also accidentally leaked it to me back then. I must never let it out."
"What's going on?" Su Ranhua immediately thought that the seemingly peaceful Concubine Yao had an unusual past.
"Before the mother-in-law entered the palace, there was a person outside the palace who had a deep affection for her. She always suspected that the mother-in-law was forced to enter the palace and became a concubine. Therefore, after the mother-in-law entered the palace, she tried every means to enter the palace to find the mother-in-law.
Later, I thought of taking the water route, sneaking into the moat, and following the underground waterways, opening it up bit by bit.
The barrier leading to the palace ended up leading to the Imperial Garden." Ximen Zhe said, "It took him three years to make this half-hour journey. When he appeared in front of his mother-in-law, she was already pregnant.
She married me and showed him that she was willing to marry my father, thus ending his infatuation."