Where prosperity ends, flowers never end

Chapter 154: Corpse Search

The news of Ran Qianxi's death had already spread, the whole court was in panic, and the Ran family was in turmoil.

Upon learning of Ran Qianxi's death, Xiahou Jin fainted, and Ran Yuelian was worried all day long.

Xu Yuanchao naturally didn't believe it, so he secretly sent people to investigate, but he saw the elegiac couplet hung for Ran Qianxi in the Prince of Jibei's Palace.

Baili Yong summoned Wei Jiguo to an audience overnight!

"Take your men to Jizhou. Remember, I want to see him alive or dead. If he resists, kill him!"

Wei Jiguo achieved his current success with the promotion of Tan Qianhuan. This matter concerns Ran Qianxi, and he still accepted the emperor's order despite great hesitation.

"The minister obeys the order."

Baili Yong picked up the memorial. He knew that Tan Qianhuan would never let anything happen to Ran Qianxi.

"I want to see what you want to do!"

Three days later, Jibei Palace—

Ran Qianxi was feeling anxious all day long, and her spirits were obviously not as good as before.

"I have to leave now!"

She stood up and left, and Xiaoyi stood up immediately.

"Sister Xi, what are you going to do?"

Ran Qianxi turned around, squatted down and comforted her.

"Tan Qianhuan hasn't seen me for a few days. I think he's busy with my funeral. He will definitely come today. When the time comes, I will fight to the death to get out. You must run away from the vent immediately. Remember to keep running and don't look back. I have focused the attention of the palace. No one will think of killing you. I finally saved you. You must not die, understand?"

Xiaoyi grabbed her sleeve.

"No, the big devil kills without blinking an eye, you can't run away."

Ran Qianxi smiled.

"I'm sure he won't bear to hurt me."

Ran Qianxi drove Xiao Yi away, and sure enough, the courtyard door was opened from the outside.

Instead of letting others manipulate you, why not give it your all?

Tan Qianhuan pushed open the door with a smile. Ran Qianxi picked up the rouge and threw it at him. He immediately raised his hand to block it. Ran Qianxi ran out of the yard!

The guards suddenly surrounded her, and she immediately pulled out her hairpin and pressed it to her throat. Dozens of guards hesitated and dared not step forward.

"Step aside!"

Tan Qianhuan hurried over. Beneath that stunning face, there was an abyss, a hell, but also a heart that loved her.

"Xi'er, where are you going?"

Ran Qianxi glanced at Tan Qianhuan, then stabbed herself in the shoulder with a hairpin. Tan Qianhuan lost his voice instantly!

"Xi'er!"

Ran Qianxi pulled out the blood hairpin and put it against her throat again, saying with moist eyes.

"Foster father... let Xier go..."

Tan Qianhuan wanted to go forward to check the wound, but Ran Qianxi stabbed his shoulder again. Tan Qianhuan's eyes were instantly filled with tears.

"Whatever you want to do, ask, or want, just tell me. Huan will do whatever you want. Don't hurt yourself."

Ran Qianxi didn't want to answer at all, because she knew that Tan Qianhuan's strategy was to buy time. If she couldn't escape today, she would be imprisoned in a more horrible way.

"I just want to leave."

Tan Qianhuan took a step forward, and when Ran Qianxi tried to stab his arm again, he stopped immediately.

"Am I not good enough for you?"

Ran Qianxi laughed sadly a few times.

"Hahaha...what do you think? Imprisoning me is good for me?"

"The current situation is like this. Once I succeed, you will be free. Didn't you also say you would marry me? Xier, you can't go back on your word."

Ran Qianxi laughed loudly a few times, which sounded like a heart-wrenching cry.

"Hahaha, yes, I wanted to marry you then, but not now!"

She raised her hairpin, Tan Qianhuan was panicked, and the guards were even more afraid. If something happened to her, everyone here would have to be buried with her.

"Let me go!"

Tan Qianhuan moved very quickly, suddenly stepped forward and snatched her hairpin. By the time Ran Qianxi reacted, all the guards had surrounded her.

But Tan Qianhuan hugged her, but his eyes were wandering.

He held Ran Qianxi's wrist with his right hand, and after a moment his eyes became even more wandering!

During this moment, Ran Qianxi snatched the hairpin and stabbed it into his chest. In the panic everyone was around, she immediately ran away!

"Your Majesty!"

Tan Qianhuan covered his chest with his hands, blood oozing from the corners of his mouth.

"How are you, my lord?"

Tan Qianhuan laughed a few times, and it was not difficult to hear the nostalgia in his laughter.

"She deliberately deviated a few inches. She felt sorry for me, she didn't hate me."

The guards were puzzled, as the hairpin pierced his chest and blood flowed out of his body, he actually felt sorry for himself.

"Let's go after them."

Qi Shuang was about to turn around but was stopped by Tan Qianhuan.

"Don't chase her. Let her run for a few days. Someone from the imperial court will come over by chance."

Qi Shuang turned around and bowed.

"Yes, I will take you to get the bandage."

"Send someone to follow her, don't let anything happen to Xier."

"My subordinate understands."

Long Street—

Ran Qianxi held her shoulder and walked forward with difficulty.

"Let's find a place to bandage it first."

She endured the pain and went to the pharmacy, and the owner hurriedly called his apprentice.

"Erxiao, quickly bandage the patient."

When Erxiao heard his master calling him, he immediately put down his work and walked over.

"Hey, girl, who hurt you?"

Ran Qianxi took away her blood-soaked right hand, already trembling a little.

Her lips turned pale and she spoke weakly.

"I tied it myself."

"Wow, are you crazy? Is there any hurdle that you can't overcome?"

Erxiao bandaged her wound while chatting with her.

"You said that people can only live for 30,000 days in this life, and there are many things that we don't have time to do. We all want to live a few more days. But why are you so eager to give your life to the King of Hell?"

Ran Qianxi sneered. The strategy of inflicting pain on one's self is always the stupidest strategy from the beginning to the end, but it works every time.

"Thank you for comforting me. I didn't intend to commit suicide, otherwise I would have stabbed my aorta."

Erxiao smiled naively.

"Haha, that's good, that's good. You are so beautiful, you must live well."

After Erxiao bandaged her, he took her pulse and fortunately there was no internal injury.

"Ah, it's nothing serious. I'll prescribe some medicine for you. Remember to take it on time and change it on time."

Ran Qianxi smiled and took out a silver note worth one hundred taels, which shocked the two children.

"No, no, no, it won't take that much."

Ran Qianxi smiled and put it into his hands.

"Take it. The rest can be regarded as a tip to comfort me. If it's still more, use it as buying some medicine for people who are in a plight like me."

Erxiao happily took it and gave her the best medicine in the pharmacy.

In fact, this is the smallest piece of money that Ran Qianxi has.

Ran Qianxi walked out of the pharmacy, and Erxiao walked to the counter and hesitated.

"Why do I feel that... there's something wrong with her pulse?"

The shopkeeper hit him on the head with an abacus.

"I told you to study medicine well, but you refused to listen. What's so strange about that?"

Erxiao scratched his head.

"The pulse is like counting beads, which seems to indicate a happy pulse."

The shopkeeper looked at Ran Qianxi's back. No matter how poor his medical skills were, he could still tell that she was pregnant. It must be that she had been pregnant for a short time. Erxiao was not sure.

Ji Guo, the palace's internal guard, has arrived. The two argued for a moment, and Tan Qianhuan was ready to let him die here.

"Your Majesty's decree: I want to see the person alive or dead! Search!"

At Wei Jiguo's command, the guards all obeyed!

"Yes!"

Tan Qianhuan looked at him calmly with a smile on his face.

"General Wei is a loyal hero, yet he dares to conduct a large-scale search in the palace. I am already grieving over the death of my adopted daughter, and yet Your Majesty has sent people to disturb Xier's peace."

Wei Jiguo sighed deeply and bowed.

"The Queen is your adopted daughter, but she is the Queen of Dachang. Even if she passed away, her coffin should not be kept in the Jibei Palace."

"Ha ha ha ha."

Tan Qianhuan laughed a few times.

"Very good, the enemy that this king cultivated."

"I will never forget your kindness in promoting me, Your Majesty, but this matter involves the Queen, so I cannot take the initiative to do it."

Tan Qianhuan smiled and turned around. Hundreds of Jizhou soldiers surrounded Wei Jiguo and others.

"If we don't find it, we will kill you without mercy!"

The Jizhou Army is powerful!

"As ordered!"