After bidding farewell to Yan Li, Rong Changan returned to Fengming Palace.
Chuntao was worried about Rong Chang'an's safety, and was so anxious in the palace that she didn't fall asleep, "Queen, you've left me so worried! What did that ghost...do to you?"
Rong Changan smiled: "You still think it's a ghost! In fact, it's just someone else pretending to be a ghost, and the emperor and I saw it through."
Chuntao said angrily: "It turned out to be a human disguise! Hmph, I'm so pissed off. Which bastard is pretending to be a ghost in the back mountain? Queen, have you caught the ghost?"
Rong Changan smiled confidently: "They will be caught by us sooner or later!" Suddenly, his face darkened, and he said to Chuntao: "Go outside and have a look, are they all gone?"
Chuntao scratched her temples, not understanding what Rong Changan meant: "Who's gone?"
Rong Changan pursed his lips and said with a smile, "Everyone!"
"Everyone?" Chuntao asked again.
Rong Changan nodded.
Although Chuntao still didn't understand what she said, since the order was given, she had no choice but to go outside and looked around the door. Except for the two guards guarding the door, there was no one there. Then he turned around and told Rong Changan: "Report to the Queen, there is no one outside except the guard."
Rong Chang'an said: "Tell the two guards that they don't need to guard tonight, let them go back and rest."
Chuntao frowned: "Why?"
Rong Changan just urged her to go without explaining.
Chuntao went out and said to the two guards: "The queen has a decree, you can go back to rest tonight, and you don't have to guard the palace gate."
The guard also raised the same question as Chuntao: "Why don't you need to guard?"
Chuntao was a little impatient: "If you don't teach you how to watch, why don't you let you rest? Why are you talking so much nonsense! This is the queen's order, who dares to ask!"
The two guards were also at ease, and said to Chuntao: "Sister Chuntao please say thank you to the queen for us. Then we will go back to rest now!"
After the two guards left, Chuntao came back into the palace. I saw Rong Changan wiped the screen, wearing a black night gown; the black set off her delicate face, mysterious and charming.
Chuntao was taken aback: "Queen, you are..."
"Hush!" Rong Changan put a finger on his lips, signaling Chuntao not to yell loudly: "I have something to go out, so don't say anything. It's so late, no one should come to me. If someone comes, you Just say that I'm asleep and don't want to see anyone. Anyway, I just can't let others know that I'm not in the palace, understand?"
Chuntao nodded: "Although I don't know what the queen is going to do, it must be very dangerous at this late hour. I hope the queen will protect herself. Chuntao is in the palace, waiting for you to come back!"
Rong Changan touched Chuntao's smooth and slightly immature face, and smiled slightly: "If you are sleepy, go to sleep, don't wait for me to come back. I don't know when I will be back."
She looked at the stars outside the house and knew that it was getting late, so she walked out of the palace gate and walked along the secluded and dark place. She has walked a lot in the palace, and she knows where to leave the palace without anyone noticing.
After leaving the palace, Rong Changan walked alone on the secluded street, surrounded by silence. On the back mountain, the pines and waves burst out, but on the flat ground, I can no longer feel a little wind.
Walking to the end of the back street of the Imperial Palace, Rong Changan turned to the street where she, Yan Li and Lin Hai had led their troops just now, Xuanheli Street.
Xuanheli Street is narrower than the back street of the Imperial Palace, so it looks more remote and inaccessible.
Rong Changan did not walk on the street, but jumped onto the back walls of the houses on both sides of the street. Looking from the wall, he could see most of the capital city. In the darkness, there were still a few houses with bright lights on. From which family is the misty sound of fairy music. These are either rich households in the capital, or high-ranking officials, who are rich and powerful, so they drink and have fun all night long. In the capital, this is not surprising!
But Rong Changan's eyes fell on a mansion without The Sound of Music. This mansion is also brightly lit, but it is relatively quiet, which is really weird. The owner of this mansion is none other than Shang Shuling Du Keming. The back wall of Du Keming's mansion is on Xuanheli Street.
Rong Changan walked cautiously on the back wall, jumping lightly, like a floating cloud swept by the wind, and in an instant came to the top of a small courtyard of Du Keming's house.
A light was on in the main hall of the courtyard, and two figures were shaking under the light. Rong Changan jumped to the roof above the main hall, lifted the glazed tiles, and listened and watched.
One of the speakers was Du Keming, and the other was wearing a cloak and covering his face, so he couldn't tell who it was. Both of them were standing, and Du Keming was walking back and forth, as if he was thinking about something; the one in the cloak was standing by the Eight Immortals table.
"According to the time, he should have escaped, right?" Du Keming's words revealed worry.
The man in the cloak said, "If there are no accidents, you should go out."
Du Keming said: "With the help of Guo Zhen, the soldier of the Nine Sects, he should be able to go out smoothly!"
The man in the cloak couldn't help being suspicious: "Is this Guo Zhen reliable? If he holds both ends, then..."
Du Keming stretched out his hand, which means that the person wearing the cloak should not doubt it: "Guo Zhen was originally the Nine Sect Soldiers in Li Hai's period. Any questions. After a while, it is estimated that someone will report."
The two fell silent again.
Rong Changan thought to himself, who would this Du Keming and the man in the cloak be sending out of the city? Is it related to the person pretending to be Li Hai's ghost in the back mountain tonight? If there is a connection, why go out of town? Is it because he is afraid that Lin Hai will lead his troops to search early tomorrow morning? But he was wearing a mask, neither Rong Changan nor Yan Li could see his face clearly, so he didn't need to panic.
It has been more than an hour since that person escaped down the back mountain. If that person wanted to escape, he should have escaped. Now Rong Changan even sent Lin Hai to guard and search the gates of each city, but it was useless.
What made Rong Chang'an even more puzzled was that when Du Keming was talking to the person wearing the cloak, once he mentioned that person, he would always speak politely, as if that person's position was higher and nobler than that of Shang Shuling Du Keming . Who would be more honorable than Shang Shuling
Rong Changan felt sad and angry for Yan Li. Yan Li treated Li Hai's ministers well, but these ministers kept trying to kill Yan Li. They were really worse than pigs and dogs.
Just as he was thinking, soft footsteps suddenly sounded in the yard, Rong Changan turned his head and saw that it was a young servant running into the house.
Before the man entered the door, Du Keming rushed to the door and asked, "What, did you leave the city?"
The boy nodded: "I have left the city safely, Mr. Guo asked me to come back and report to Mr. Du."