mtl008 Chapter 263: Rescue and Doubt (8)
Chapter 263: Rescue and Doubt (8)
The room was silent, you looked at me and I looked at you.
"No?"
Mr. Wu nodded, "No."
He spoke as the scroll in his hand opened, revealing an obviously newly drawn route map.
The next moment, everyone gathered forward and looked down, but Shen Yu narrowed his eyes and blurted out, "So, this road really leads to the prince's residence?"
Before Mr. Wu could answer, Wu Su at the side interrupted, "But we didn't find the second prince?"
"Wasn't there a scream the night before? Was she rescued?" This time, it was Wu Lie who spoke.
Wu Chen, Wu Su and Wu Lie are Mr. Wu's three confidants. After following Shen Yu's play this time, they have been completely led astray and have forgotten about the pursuit of being steady, mature, and aloof.
Mr. Wu looked at the three people here and then at the four people on Shen Yu's side, and he suddenly realized that as expected, there are subordinates for every master.
Thinking back to the first time she met the princess yesterday, she asked the three of them if they had a junior fellow student named "Wu Zhang"? Because the sky and earth are dark yellow, the universe is vast and wild, the sun and the moon wax and wane, and the stars are lined up?
At that time, the three of them looked at me shyly and asked for help, not knowing how to answer. But after just one day, they had naturally integrated into the group. The princess was indeed very good at controlling her subordinates...
"gentlemen?"
Seeing seven pairs of eyes looking at him at the same time, Wu Zhong, who was distracted for a rare time, coughed lightly and pointed to a marked position on the scroll and said, "There were traces of people being imprisoned here, but the hostages should not be injured. We didn't find any clues here..."
He pointed to the other side and was about to speak when he was interrupted by Mu Yi, "Princess, there is someone outside the door who wants to see you."
Shen Yu looked up in confusion. Is someone knocking on the door? Oh, they have their own set of secret codes, right?
The next moment, a man came in, "Excuse me, Princess, I found that symbol on the wall, but I'm not sure if it's the one!"
"Really! Draw it quickly!" Shen Yu was excited.
Then the secret guard drew a few crooked lines on the paper. Shen Yu's smile deepened, and he said affirmatively, "Thank you for your hard work. You all did a great job! Extra meal tonight!!"
The secret guard rarely showed a silly smile, patted his head and left.
Shen Yu looked at the paper for a while, then put it on the candle and lit it while saying, "It's confirmed. The person imprisoned there before was the second prince."
She said, if you learn the distress signal well, you won’t be afraid of being caught anywhere in the world! !
She was afraid that Baoer, Muer and other mediocre people would be captured, so she took the time to develop several distress signals, just like the modern SOS, so that only they could understand them.
She created corresponding symbols for herself, Lu Yingxing, the children, and the maids. Even Wuchen and Wuliu had ones. Fu Yunxiu happened to be there that day, so she got one from him. The next day, the Second Prince came to her house again and pestered her, so she got another one. She didn't expect to use it this time.
After she finished explaining, she looked up and suddenly met several pairs of burning gazes. The youngest, Wu Lie, begged eagerly, "Princess..."
Shen Yu, "..." She actually understood it in a second, and held her forehead speechlessly, "Okay, okay, I'll make one for you too. Can you continue to listen to what the master says now?"
Then she realized that Mr. Wu was also staring at her. She nodded obediently, indicating that she understood. She had everything...
Wu Zhong continued with satisfaction, "The princess's previous guess was correct. This is indeed a one-way passage. It took our people less than two quarters of an hour to reach the end, but the exit is at the top with a lid on it. There are no objects around to help people climb up, so we can only go down, not up. Therefore, we cannot determine whether the exit is inside the prince's residence. We just calculated based on the distance, and it should be in that area."
The eldest prince had sent them a message before, saying that although the door of the second prince's residence was closed and there was no one guarding it, he could sense that there were no less than dozens of experts lurking nearby, all of whom should be dragon guards, and he told them not to act rashly.
Such an obvious trap, Shen Yu didn't think the emperor would make such a low-level mistake. Although the second prince could not be found yet, it was at least proved that he was a bait. The only people in this world who would take the time to save him were Lu Yingxing and Fu Yunxiu. Fu Yunxiu could not mobilize too many military forces in the mansion, but Lu Yingxing could, but not unless he gave up and left.
But...if Lu Yingxing's bloodletting this time was also premeditated...
"So, their target is the princess?!" Wu Chen blurted out, and everyone was shocked by his inference.
"I guess... yes!" Shen Yu did not hide it anymore and smiled apologetically.
In fact, ever since she accidentally discovered the revelation, she knew that the emperor's target might be herself. After all, "Zimu Shuzhai" was under Yu Ling's name. In fact, she was also very curious, was Lu Yingxing's rescue of her father a coincidence, or was he trying to trick him into bleeding?
After all, if she hadn't left the city, the bloodletting wouldn't have been established. After thinking about it, she found that the result was not so good. It always felt like a cat and mouse game, and she was the little mouse being teased... How could she be so worthy of the dog emperor to plot against her like this! !
Obviously, these things didn't happen in the original novel. No! Obviously, she didn't have any scenes in the original novel!! Why did you force me to have more scenes!!
"No! Arrange for someone to send the princess away immediately, and we will stay to save people." Wu Zhong knew how important Shen Yu was in the prince's heart. Even without saying this, she was the princess that Zhuocheng needed most, and she must not be allowed to get into trouble!
"It's too late... I guess the dog emperor has already laid a net!"
Shen Yu shrugged and said nonchalantly, "I guess, if I hadn't taken the initiative to stay, the prince and Mu'er might not have been able to leave. As a family, everyone can leave. They are all old, weak, and disabled. I am so young and promising, I should respect and love the elderly~~"
Wu Zhong disagreed, "Princess, you are too reckless! We should not stay in Luocheng for long."
“Wait, what happened today, that dog…that guy, didn’t he know that it was the princess who did it?” Wu Su still couldn’t call that person like that, so he just didn’t mention it.
"So what if he guessed it was me? They couldn't catch me at the scene, so what could he do to me? I am Princess Zhuo after all. If I am forced into a corner, I will just come out and reveal my identity, saying that I was kidnapped by bad guys. He will have to send me away to maintain peace, so he won't tell me... By the way, what was the result of the interrogation of those who were caught?"
This time it was Mu Yi who spoke up, "Those people are just sentinels, not very valuable..." Then he changed the subject and said a little proudly, "But the people the princess arranged in the Ou Mansion caught a big fish, and their identities are still being verified."
Shen Yu perked up when he heard this, "Who?"