In the Qingguo Palace, in the eldest princess's chamber, Li Yunrui sat in front of the mirror, admiring her beauty, while a young maid behind her combed her hair.
Li Yunrui has recently been worried about his daughter Lin Wan'er's marriage. He can't sleep at night and is in very bad spirits.
Looking at himself in the scene, Li Yunrui said to the maid behind him: "Is this palace getting old?"
"Your Highness, how can you be old? You look only eighteen years old at most." The maid complimented with a smile.
Li Yunrui touched the corner of his eyes with his hand and complained: "Look at me, is there an extra fine line here?"
"The princess's skin can be broken by blows, how can there be fine lines." The maid complimented her while combing her hair. Suddenly her face changed, she grabbed something with her right hand and hid it behind her back.
Li Yunrui glanced lightly and said calmly: "What is hidden?"
The maid was frightened and said: "Princess, please forgive me, I accidentally broke a hair of yours while I was combing it."
Li Yunrui said: "Show me your hair."
The maid's body suddenly shook like a sieve, trembling, and she still dared not stretch out her hand.
Li Yunrui said displeasedly: "Bold slave, you dare to disobey my order."
The maid trembled even more, but she still stretched out her right hand fearfully and spread her palm. There was a white hair in her palm.
Li Yunrui stretched out his green fingers and pinched the white hair, his face suddenly darkened and terrifying.
"I am really old, and my hair is growing white."
The maid knelt down with a plop and kept kowtowing: "Princess, forgive me, these and the white hair belong to the maid, not you."
Li Yunrui suddenly smiled and said: "What scares you is that it's just a white hair. Wan'er is already so big. It's not normal for me to have white hair."
Li Yunrui helped the frightened maid up and sighed: "Speaking of which, you have been with me for many years, and you have more silver hair on your head than I do."
The maid's whole body went stiff.
"Yulian, at what age did you enter the palace and how many years have you served me? Do you still remember?" Li Yunrui asked.
"Going back to the princess, Yulian was sent to serve the princess at the age of sixteen. It has been eight years now." Yulian said in fear.
?Li Yunrui suddenly said: "So, you are already twenty-four years old this year. Children from ordinary people's families are already married by this time, and they may have children."
"Go back! I will allow you to leave the palace and go home. Find a man and trust him for life. When the time comes, I will provide you with a dowry!"
"Thank you, Your Highness Princess."
There was no trace of gratitude on the maid's face, only fear and terror. Two guards came over and took her away. As soon as she left the palace, a scream was heard.
Li Yunrui calmed down and started looking in the mirror again.
After a while, a young eunuch came into the palace carrying a basin of water.
"Who are you? I look a little strange to you. Where is Xiao Chunzi?" Li Yunrui asked when he saw the little eunuch.
"Back to the princess, Xiaochunzi is ill and cannot serve the princess." The young eunuch lowered his head and said.
"Sick?" Li Yunrui asked strangely: "Isn't he fine yesterday? Why is he sick?"
"I heard that I contracted a cold last night and my fever doesn't go away. I'm still lying in bed." The little eunuch said while holding a basin.
Li Yunrui nodded and said: "Put your things down! Go back and find Xiao Chunzi an imperial physician to take a look at."
The little eunuch didn't move and was still standing there. Li Yunrui was a little unhappy. Just as he was about to scold him, he found that the little eunuch suddenly raised his head and the two looked at each other.
Li Yunrui's face sank and he said to the other people in the palace: "You all go down."
After hearing this, the palace maids and eunuchs all left the palace and closed the palace door.
"You Anhe are so powerful that you were able to sneak into the palace." Li Yunrui said coldly to the young eunuch.
The little eunuch laughed, put the basin down casually, touched his face, and his appearance instantly changed into that of Wang Gang.
"The princess has lived in the palace for a long time. It is difficult to see her. I can only come in by myself."
Li Yunrui frowned and said, "What are you doing in the palace? If anything happens, I will send a maid to contact you."
Wang Gang said with a bitter face: "There is no way. The contact point in Kyoto has been sealed off by the Inspection and Quarantine Bureau. I'm worried that Her Highness the Princess's people won't be able to find a place, so I can only take the risk of entering the palace to see them."
"There are so many experts in the palace, aren't you afraid that I will hand you over to the inspection agency?" Li Yunrui said with a smile.
"The princess and I still have a business to finish. Isn't it too early for the princess to kill the donkey now?" Wang Gang walked to the coffee table next to him, picked up a few pastries and stuffed them into his mouth.
Li Yunrui snorted coldly: "I also want to ask you, when exactly will you kill Fan Xian?"
Wang Gang sat on the chair and said: "Something has happened now. The Inspection Institute and the Kyoto Prefectural Government have sealed off the capital. I really can't find a chance to make a move."
"You don't have a chance to take action, or you don't want to take action." Li Yunrui said coldly: "I heard that Fan Xian and the shopkeeper of Wang's cloth shop hit it off immediately and ran to the cloth shop all day long."
Wang Gang laughed and said, "I did have a good chat with Fan Xian, but according to the rules of the underground river, as long as you can afford the money, you can kill your relatives, so the princess can rest assured."
Li Yunrui said gloomily: "When are you going to take action? Your Majesty has already started preparing for Fan Xian and Wan'er's wedding. I can never marry my daughter to Ye Qingmei's son."
Wang Gang said: "I would like to ask your Royal Highness the Princess for a favor."
"What's the business?" Li Yunrui asked curiously.
"Tomorrow Emperor Qing will host a banquet for the Yuanmeng envoy, and Fan Xian is also invited. I hope the princess can help me sneak in. It would be best if Eunuch Hong who is with the Queen Mother can be transferred away."
Li Yunrui said in surprise: "With your ability just now, are you afraid that you won't be able to get into the banquet?"
Wang Gang explained: "The palace night banquet is heavily guarded. All the eunuchs and maids who serve must go through strict screening, but I know that the guard commander Yan Xiaoyi in charge of the banquet is the princess's man."
Li Yunrui was shocked, took a deep look at Wang Gang and said, "You guys are so capable in the dark river, you can even find out such a thing."
"The princess is very capable. She can even bribe the commander of the bodyguards. I wonder why you don't let Yan Xiaoyi kill Fan Xian."
Li Yunrui said coldly: "Yan Xiaoyi still has great uses."
Wang Gang looked like he suddenly understood, and said with a smile: "It seems that Her Royal Highness the Princess thinks highly of Yan Xiaoyi. No wonder, no wonder."
Li Yunrui asked in confusion: "What's the wonder?"
Wang Gang glanced at the palace gate and said, "No wonder Commander Yan is so loyal to protect the Lord."
While Li Yunrui was wondering, a long arrow came through the air, shot through the palace gate, and hit the door facing Wang Gang.
Wang Gang smiled contemptuously, raised his hand, and the long arrow was wrapped in a soft force, spun in a circle, and returned to its original place.
boom!
The palace door opened wide, and a man wearing black armor and holding a long bow narrowly avoided the flying arrow and shot another arrow at Wang Gang.
This arrow was so fast and urgent that it was twice as fast as the arrow just now. Even a ninth-grade expert could not avoid it.
?In the entire Qingguo Imperial Palace, the only person with such skill in archery is Yan Xiaoyi, the commander of the guards.
"It's interesting." Wang Gang smiled slightly and raised the coffee table in front of him to block the swift arrow.
"Yan Xiaoyi, the ninth-grade Archery God, truly deserves his reputation." Wang Gang turned to Li Yunrui and said:
"Isn't this Commander Yan also a subordinate of Her Royal Highness the Princess?"
Li Yunrui sat upright and did not move. Even Wang Gang's joking words could not make her waver.
But Yan Xiaoyi didn't have such high energy-raising skills, so he instantly pulled out three new arrows from the arrow pot and shot them towards Wang Gang.
Wang Gang waved his right hand lightly, using his hand as a sword, and slashed out an invisible sword energy, cutting off three long arrows, and then hit Yan Xiaoyi's long bow with unabated force.
Yan Xiaoyi exclaimed: "Grand Master!?"
Li Yunrui, who had always been calm, finally couldn't sit still at this moment.
