Chapter 289: Rebellion
Jiang Ruanxi seemed to understand the look in her eyes and explained helplessly, “What are you thinking? I asked those people to come protect us, in case of unexpected needs.”
After all, the Jiang family members would never let her go now.
Yushui awkwardly scratched her head.
“Go quickly.” Jiang Ruanxi did not blame her either.
Yushui nodded.
After Yushui left, she did not appear in front of Jiang Ruanxi for several days in a row.
Jiang Ruanxi was a bit worried about her, but since she could not go out, she did not know the situation outside.
Five days later, as soon as it got dark, there would usually be the sound of the night watchman when it was slightly dark, but today it was unusually quiet, with only the sound of dogs barking outside.
Jiang Ruanxi felt very uneasy in her heart, always having a sense of foreboding.
Her heart beat faster and faster, and she stood up and paced back and forth in the living room.
Since Wei Chang was demoted, the palace maids and eunuchs had all been dismissed, leaving only her alone in the vast manor. Although she had been reborn once, it would be false to say she was not afraid.
The sound of the charcoal fire burning in the room was particularly loud today.
Her eyelids were very heavy, but her heart was always uneasy, her heart beating fiercely, always feeling that something bad was about to happen.
It made her afraid to go to sleep.
Suddenly, flames shot into the sky outside.
Soon, the sound of clashing swords came.
Jiang Ruanxi’s entire body trembled in fear, and she took a deep breath to force herself to calm down.
Before she could calm down, the sound of swords outside seemed to quiet down, but soon it started again, even more intense than before.
After calming down just now, Jiang Ruanxi’s mind was much clearer.
The people outside were probably coming for her, but who exactly wanted to kill her?
Was it Jiang family members or someone else?
Also, the first group just now should have encountered the soldiers sent by Emperor Qin to guard her.
But the second commotion just now, who exactly did they encounter who came to help her? Now she could not care about anything else.
She ran toward the room.
She seemed to remember Wei Chang saying that in the room, he had dug a tunnel leading outside the city, and there was also a secret room.
Now, as long as she could reach the room, there was a sliver of hope to survive.
While Jiang Ruanxi prayed that the people outside could hold on a bit longer, her footsteps quickly headed toward the room.
When she passed through the long corridor, someone grabbed her wrist, and her heart jumped to her throat. She raised her hand and slashed hard at the wrist.
Just as her hand was about to touch that hand, a familiar voice came from behind.
“Madam, it’s me.”
Jiang Ruanxi turned her head and saw Yushui, whose face was covered in blood and whose clothes were also bloody.
Jiang Ruanxi was full of surprise, “Yushui, what happened to you?”
Yushui pulled her hand and ran toward the study room, “The Second Prince and Jiang family members have rebelled. There are soldiers everywhere outside, burning and killing at every sir’s manor.”
So the flames she saw outside just now were their doing, and Jiang Ruanxi immediately understood.
“There are many of their people outside our manor. When I just brought people over, I saw them ramming the door, so we should hide quickly. Our people cannot hold on for long. I know there is a secret room in the study room. Let’s go hide there.”
After Yushui briefly explained the situation outside, she quickly pulled Jiang Ruanxi toward the study room.
As they spoke, there seemed to be flames not far away.
Jiang Ruanxi’s heart trembled, and her mind raced.
“No time, let’s go to my bedroom. There is also a secret room and secret passage there.”
Most importantly, it was closer to the bedroom here.
Although Yushui had martial arts skills, taking her along would still be a burden. Besides, she could not possibly fight off so many people alone.
Yushui was stunned and quickly turned toward the room.
The people not far away seemed to have spotted them and came rushing with torches in hand, shouting nonstop, “Stop right there.”
Yushui walked faster and faster.
But because of her injury, her steps were a bit staggering.
She pushed Jiang Ruanxi forward and said to her, “Madam, you go quickly. This servant will hold them off.”
Jiang Ruanxi stepped forward to support her, “I’m not leaving. If we leave, we leave together.”
Yushui struggled to break free from her, “Go quickly. I promised Master to protect you until he returns.”
Jiang Ruanxi was stunned and suddenly seemed to understand something.
But seeing how Yushui had always been by her side, she had long treated Yushui as her own sister. Now facing danger, she could not abandon Yushui and leave alone.
Ignoring everything else, she helped her up, “If we leave, we leave together.”
Yushui also knew that if they delayed any longer now, none of them would escape.
In her heart, she felt grateful and even more touched that Jiang Ruanxi had not run off and left her.
Suddenly, she pushed Jiang Ruanxi forward. Jiang Ruanxi disappeared from sight, and Yushui slightly squatted down to move the tree trunk beside her. Everything returned to normal.
After she ran a few steps, the people behind caught up.
Seeing only Yushui alone, they said fiercely, “Where is she?”
Yushui pretended not to know, “What person? Who exactly are you?”
“Grab her for me, and search for Jiang Ruanxi. If you don’t find her by tomorrow, you will answer for it.”
“Yes.”
The pushed Jiang Ruanxi had just wanted to speak when she heard a somewhat familiar voice above and immediately fell silent.
It turned out that the ones who had been chasing them were actually Jiang Minghuai.
But it was truly strange.
In the current Crown Prince’s Manor, apart from the people sent by Emperor Qin outside, there was only her alone. Why would Jiang Minghuai, the great general guarding the border, come to their manor to catch her?
Even with doubts, Jiang Ruanxi had no time to think more.
The place she had fallen into seemed to be a secret passage, pitch black.
Now she could only run before they discovered it, otherwise if they found the entrance, she would not be able to live.
