Sometimes the results are always so unexpected. Just when everyone was looking for the dancing girl and disappeared, news suddenly came from the palace - the dancing girl had kidnapped the Queen Mother Zhou.
Mo Jingxiao and Ning Yujin were sitting at the table preparing to have breakfast. When they heard the news, Mo Jingxiao immediately stopped eating, got up and hurried out.
"Hey, wait for me!" Ning Yujin picked up a plate of steamed dumplings and followed quickly.
Mo Jingxiao turned his head to look at her, his eyebrows gathered together, and he reached out to hold her shoulders: "The situation in the palace is unclear and very dangerous. I will go to rescue the Queen Mother by then, so I may not be able to take care of you."
"It's okay, it's okay," Ning Yujin quickly shook her head, "Xiao Ba is always looking at me. If anything happens, won't he still be there to take care of it? Besides, the dancer is good at using poison. I might not be able to help you if I point it out.
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Mo Jingxiao thought for a moment and said, "Okay, let's go."
"Yeah." Ning Yujin narrowed her eyes and nodded sharply. She reached out and grabbed the steamed dumplings on the plate and stuffed them into Mo Jingxiao's mouth. "Eat some first. What if you have to fight later and don't have the energy?"
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Mo Jingxiao's eyes fell on the plate held by Ning Yujin, and he fell silent immediately.
The two of them went first, and Zero One arrived behind with the Shadow Guard troops, and notified the Qinglong and White Tiger battalions of the Gyeonggi Armed Forces in case of emergency.
As soon as they entered the palace, a shadow guard guarding the entrance came out to greet them. Mo Jingxiao asked, "How is the situation now?"
The shadow guard replied: "Now the Queen Mother has been kidnapped by the thief and taken to the ancestral hall. The emperor asked the imperial guards to surround the entire ancestral hall. We don't dare to act rashly. We are waiting for you to come."
"Ancestral Hall? Why did the dancer bring the Queen Mother to the ancestral hall?" Ning Yujin popped up from Mo Jingxiao's arms and asked with two round eyes.
The shadow guard was startled by the sudden appearance of Ning Yujin. When he looked carefully, he realized that there was someone wrapped in Mo Jingxiao's cloak, and it turned out to be their little princess.
He shook his head and said, "I don't know, but from the looks of it, it doesn't look like she ran there in a panic, but she deliberately took the Queen Mother there."
"The place where the Queen Mother lives and the ancestral hall are indeed not in the same direction." Mo Jingxiao raised his head and looked at the harem, his eyebrows suddenly narrowed, and he rode straight into the palace.
Mo Jingxiao, who was able to ride into the palace on horseback, was considered the first person in Daye. The guards guarding the palace gate were already not surprised and quickly moved out of the way to let him in.
Mo Jingxiao didn't stop and went straight to the ancestral hall.
The ancestral hall is a place dedicated to the ancestors of the Mohist family. On weekdays, it is basically deserted except for sacrifices, but on this day, there were people everywhere.
However, those people were all wearing armor, row after row, column after column, looking solemn and orderly, with a majestic momentum.
Ning Yujin glanced over and saw Mo Ye standing at the door of the ancestral hall.
He was not afraid of danger, so he shouted inside through a door: "Please let the Queen Mother go. Whatever you want, I will grant you! I will not pursue your charges, but I can make you a Duke and Marquis, hereditary."
I can also reward you with a thousand acres of fertile land and ten thousand taels of gold..."
Mo Ye was still trying hard to persuade, but there was no movement inside.
After hearing the conditions offered by Mo Ye, Ning Yujin really wanted to ask - if we solve this matter, can we be rewarded with thousands of acres of fertile land, ten thousand taels of gold or something like that?
But at such a serious moment, she couldn't ask this question.
Mo Jingxiao led her to Mo Ye. Seeing Mo Jingxiao, Mo Ye suddenly felt like he had found a savior. He was ecstatic and wanted to run straight over, but Mo Jingxiao stopped him.
"Keep talking." Mo Jingxiao said to Mo Ye through lip language.
Mo Ye understood immediately and continued: "People inside, listen, I keep my word and I keep my word. As long as you let the Queen Mother go, everyone here can testify that I will give you whatever you want!"
Give me whatever you want...
This offer made Ning Yujin so excited that her mouth watered.
But what is strange is that the dancer did not take the opportunity to use the Queen Mother as a bargaining chip in exchange for anything. The door was kept tightly closed without any movement.
Mo Jingxiao wanted to go up to the roof to have a look, and Ning Yujin also wanted to follow: "I'm going to check out the situation. If possible, throw a smoke bomb down. Then it will be easy to save and arrest people."
Mo Jingxiao thought about it and thought it made sense. He then wrapped Ning Yujin in his cloak and the two of them jumped up onto the roof and landed on the tiles silently.
Ning Yujin knew that she had only a little knowledge of Qinggong and a small amount of internal energy. She was very pragmatic and did not speak or gasp for air. She was quietly surrounded by Mo Jingxiao on her chest.
After Mo Jingxiao settled down, he gently lifted up a tile and looked down.
The scene inside is somewhat unexpected. The dancer is wearing a long white dress, with waist-length black hair, and her graceful body is dancing in the ancestral hall.
In front of her were the tablets of all the ancestors of the Mohist family, and the tablet of Emperor Chengguang was placed at the front, as if she was dancing for him.
The Empress Dowager Zhou was not held hostage by her. Instead, she sat cross-legged on a futon nearby, tapping the wooden fish with her Buddhist beads in mind.
Ning Yujin turned her head to look at Mo Jingxiao and asked with her eyes - what is this situation?
Mo Jingxiao also looked back at her - and continued to look.
So Ning Yujin turned her head and continued to look at the dancer.
It happened that the dancer turned her head in a whirl, and when Ning Yujin saw that face, she almost screamed out of control.
So old!
His face was covered with dense wrinkles, just like the skin of a Shar-Pei dog, and it looked much bigger than the old witch the Queen Mother.
But the age of this dancer should not be much older than Mo Jingxiao.
Just as she was thinking about it, she saw the dance steps of the dancer below suddenly change, and her whole body turned into a boneless green willow, incredibly soft. And between each step, she saw white lotus blossoms under her feet.
It blooms and turns into a sea of white flowers.
Ning Yujin's eyes widened immediately - it's true that the steps of a lotus flower can give birth to flowers!
"She can't survive." Mo Jingxiao suddenly said.
"Huh?" Ning Yujin turned her head and looked at Mo Jingxiao, not understanding what he meant by this.
Just as she was waiting for him to explain, she heard a "bang" below, and the dancer fell to the ground while dancing, and then there was no more movement.
When Mo Ye heard the commotion outside, he immediately looked at Mo Jingxiao nervously, fearing that something would happen to the Queen Mother inside.
Mo Jingxiao stretched out his hand and waved it, signaling him to calm down.
In the ancestral hall, Queen Mother Zhou, who was knocking on wooden fish, slowly opened her eyes, slowly stood up and walked to the dancing girl.
The dancer's eyes were closed, her fair skin, and her wrinkled and aged face gave people an indescribable feeling. In short, it was not very pleasant.
Empress Dowager Zhou took out a handkerchief from her arms, carefully covered her face, clasped her hands together, and recited: "Amitabha."