During a thunderstorm, Ahudala came to the gate of the courtyard where Chai Yan lived.γγ
At this time, the courtyard door was closed, and Ahudala held an umbrella and knocked on the courtyard door.
After a while, someone came to answer the door.
"Who is it? You're knocking on the door so late." It's a maid.
Ahudala did not speak, but quietly waited for the maid to open the door.
"Your Highness?" The maid opened the door in the rain and was shocked.
Ahudala walked into the courtyard holding an umbrella and said softly: "Go and wake up the Taoist priest, ask him to go to the small hall at the back, and tell him that I have something very important to see him."
"Yes, Your Highness." The maid immediately agreed and hurried away.
Ahudala turned around and said to the two attendants behind him: "Don't go in, just wait outside."
"I understand, Your Highness." The attendant agreed.
Ahhudala gently closed the courtyard door, then held an umbrella and walked through the open space in front of the courtyard to the porch.
Along the verandah, Ahudala arrived at the small hall. During this entire journey, Ahudala was thinking about how to speak to Chaiyan in order to ask for their help.
At the same time, he was also concerned about how he would respond if Chai Yan felt that this was an internal matter within Muyue Kingdom and was unwilling to get involved in trouble.
At this moment, Ahudala's mood was very complicated and uneasy.
After waiting in the small hall for a while, Chai Yan arrived.
Chai Yan's face was full of sleep. When he saw Ahudala, he asked: "Second Prince, what's going on? Did something happen in the middle of the night?"
"You go farther away, and don't come here without me." Ahudala waved the maid away.
Immediately afterwards, Ahudala closed the hall door, then bowed deeply to Chai Yan, held his hands in salute and said: "I beg Mr. Chai to take action to save Ahudala's family!"
Chai Yan was shocked and hurriedly stepped forward to support Ahudala: "Second prince, what happened? Don't be like this, please explain the matter clearly first, okay?"
"Master Chai, Karuga, he... he wants to kill our whole family!" Ahudala frowned, looking anxious and nervous.
It took less than a cup of tea before Ahudala told him about Karuga and Chaoyan's plot to besiege the mansion.
"No, is he so brave?" Chai Yan couldn't believe what he heard.
Ahudala nodded: "General Lu Zihao came here in the heavy rain just now and informed me of the news overnight. It is absolutely true, Mr. Chai!"
"Lu Zihao?" Chai Yan asked back: "Isn't he from the city defense army? Is he a confidant of Karugala?"
Ahudala said: "Although General Lu is Karuga's confidant, General Lu is cautious and timid, and such a plan seems too risky to him, so he came to take the risk to inform me. I hope I can do something about it."
Cope with it and don't let things get out of hand."
Chai Yan thought for a while and asked, "How can the second prince need my help?"
Ahudala said: "Master Chai, I hope you can provide some martial arts holy water for our people. As long as we can withstand their fierce attack for a short period of time and wait until His Majesty arrives, everything will be over naturally."
"I understand, you want to take advantage of the situation so that Karugala has no chance to stand up." Chaiyan nodded.
Ahudala nodded.
Chai Yan said: "What's the problem? I can help you!"
"Really? That's great!" Ahudala said in surprise: "Thank you, Mr. Chai."
Chai Yan immediately said: "But, I have a request."
"Master Chai, please speak." Ahudala's eyes were very excited.
Chai Yan said: "Speaking of this, it can be regarded as an internal struggle within your country. It has nothing to do with the four of us. In other words, we ourselves are not willing to get involved in your disputes. We want to leave here immediately."
"Yes, of course!" Ahudala didn't think Chai Yan was unethical at all. On the contrary, he thought it was right and appropriate at this time.
"Don't worry, Mr. Chai. I will arrange another place for you early tomorrow morning. This time, Mr. Chai and others will not be involved." Ahudala agreed.
Chai Yan nodded and said, "That's good."
Chai Yan made this choice because he really didn't want to get involved in their fight for the crown prince, and secondly, it was for the sake of Jimo Qiao's safety.
Ahudala saw that the matter of asking for help had been settled, so he could no longer disturb him and hurriedly left the courtyard in the rain.
After Chai Yan sent Ahudala away, he turned around and found Jimo Qiao peeking at him from the end of the corridor with his little head.
"Why are you up again?" Chai Yan asked with a frown.
Seeing that Jimo Qiao was discovered, he simply stopped hiding and walked over quickly: "I'm worried that you're going to have a secret meeting with another woman again. I have to keep an eye on you for my sister!"
"It's boring, how come there are so many women having secret meetings?" After Chai Yan finished speaking, he shook his head and walked into the room.
Jimo Qiao followed up and asked: "Brother-in-law, what is the second prince doing here? He looks very anxious."
"I'm a little anxious, but it's none of our business. Go to sleep. We have to get up early tomorrow," Chai Yan said.
"Get up early?" Jimo Qiao asked curiously: "Why are you getting up early? It's raining so heavily, do you still want to go out?"
Chai Yan shook his head: "It's not me, it's us. The second prince just said that he will find another place for us to live and move there early tomorrow morning."
"Why?" Jimo Qiao was even more confused: "We live well, why do we move?"
Chai Yan said: "I'm sleepy, go to bed, I'll tell you in detail tomorrow. Go ahead, go ahead..."
After saying that, Chai Yan urged Jimo Qiao back to the room.
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The rain kept falling, and the sky felt like there was a hole in it.
Yin time is right.
At this time, Karukala had not yet fallen asleep. From midnight to now, he had been tossing and turning, feeling uneasy.
His mood can be said to be very complicated. He is sometimes afraid, sometimes worried, sometimes worried, and sometimes determined.
At this moment, there was a sudden noise outside, which sounded like something happened.
Karugala stood up in a hurry, opened the door and asked, "What's going on? What's the noise outside?"
Soon, a servant came to report that General Chao Yan had come and had kidnapped General Lu Zihao, his wife and children.
Karugala was shocked. These two people were his right-hand men. How come they had a falling out before even a single sleep had passed? They even tied up other people's wives and children.
Karukala didn't have time to think too much, so he quickly put on his coat and hurried to the front hall.
At this time, the three members of Lu Zihao's family in the front hall had been tied together and thrown into the hall. Chao Yan stood in the hall holding the hilt of the sword on his waist, looking at them with an unkind expression. There were also a group of city defense soldiers around them.
Mrs. Lu and her son were so frightened that they trembled and cried softly.
Lu Zihao was scared in his heart, but he remained strong and calm in front of his wife and children, and kept whispering to comfort them.
"What's going on? General Chao, why do you treat General Lu and his family like this?" Karuga was very understanding after arriving.
Chao Yan pointed at Lu Zihao and said, "Your Highness, Lu Zihao went to the second prince's house, and when he came back, he was bumped into by one of my men!"
"What?" Karugala was horrified. He immediately ran to stare at Lu Zihao and asked, "General Lu, is it true?"
Lu Zihao did not deny it, but said: "Your Highness, please calm down, you must not do that..."
"Pah!" Karugala slapped Lu Zihao on the face.
"Have you forgotten how I treated you kindly in the past? Now, this is how you repay me?" Karugala roared.
After Lu Zihao was slapped, his fear decreased a lot: "Your Highness, please, don't do that!"
When Karukala heard what Lu Zihao said, he immediately punched him and beat him violently.
Lu Zihao endured the pain and said: "Your Highness, I have told the second prince your plan. Please, don't go any more!"
"Come here! Take them down and lock them up!" Karuga said angrily.
Immediately, someone came and dragged Lu Zihao's family of three out of the front hall.
"General Chao, what should we do? Lu Zihao has already exposed our plan!" Kalugala was worried.
Chao Yan was also very angry, but he already had a plan in his mind, and immediately said: "Your Highness, the current situation is such that the arrow has to be fired. Why don't we take action immediately, lead the troops to attack the Second Prince's Mansion, and capture him as quickly as possible?"