The punishment of the female imperial court

Chapter 217 Beware
"Sister Yu, why are you here?"

Jiang Jiqing was both surprised and delighted, and jumped up from the ground.

Yu Qiansi then slowly opened her eyes and looked around.

This formation was circular in shape, only three feet square from north to south, and was shrouded in thick white fog that kept surging, making it impossible to see anything clearly.

Only in the middle of the formation, there stood a familiar-looking lake rock.

It seems that I have passed by this place before on my way to the holy mountain.

It seems that this is indeed the center of the formation.

But she couldn't see what kind of formation it was, and she had no way of understanding it.

Yu Qiansi bowed to him hastily: "Your Majesty, I am late in coming to your rescue."

"Sister Yu, get up quickly!" Jiang Jiqing seemed relieved when he saw her.

"I came to look for Su Niang, but somehow I got lost and ended up here. Luckily you came."

"Where's Su Niang?"

Jiang Jiqing shook his head, with a worried look on his face: "I haven't found any trace of her. This place is too weird. I'm worried about her."

It's that innocent look again.

"Are you worried that she might have other intentions?" Yu Qiansi sneered and interrupted Jiang Jiqing: "Or are you really concerned about her safety?"

"Your Majesty is so smart that you would have guessed it. If no one had planned for you, you wouldn't have been trapped here, right?"

If Su Niang really entered the garden but did not appear here, then she was colluding with someone. But if she did not enter the garden at all, then she was deceiving the emperor.

She really wanted to know how this emperor, who always appeared to be a man of great loyalty and righteousness, would deal with the woman whom he "loved with all his heart".

The worry in Jiang Jiqing's eyes froze.

"Master Yu, do you think that I really have never doubted Su Niang?" Jiang Jiqing said in a deep voice, "If Su Niang wanted to harm me, I have been with her day and night all the way, so why would she not have the opportunity to do it?"

He even gave her a chance. He placed the sharp weapon in the carriage they were riding in, within her reach.

But she did nothing.

"Your Majesty, do you want to tell me that you are truly in love with her now?" Yu Qiansi said with disdain.

Su Niang's identity was indeed somewhat strange. He trusted her so much without waiting for the Ministry of Revenue to verify it, which was really inconsistent with his calculating character.

Jiang Jiqing looked at Yu Qiansi and said seriously, "Sister Yu, although I used you last time, what I said to you was not false at all. The pleasant time I spent in the village with Su Niang those few days was a beautiful dream that I never want to wake up from in my life."

They work from sunrise to sunset and rest from sunset to sunrise. At dusk, the whole village is shrouded in a layer of brown smoke swirling from cooking fires.

It was the most common smell of firewood, pungent and irritating to the eyes, but addictive.

Although the lamp is of poor quality and dim, it makes the humble room feel warm.

And those vegetables with worm holes, if stir-fried in an iron pan a few times without too many seasonings, will become the most delicious dishes in the world.

He did understand at that time what Yu Qiansi had said to him.

What is the worldly world?

What he wants to protect is such a fairy-like life.

"So, Your Majesty doesn't like Su Niang, but just that feeling?"

"Whatever you say." Jiang Jiqing looked unfriendly.

He walked around to Yu Qiansi and said, "Master Yu, how do we get out?"

"Go out?" Yu Qiansi showed surprise and waved his hands repeatedly, with his usual smiling and nonchalant look.

"This is a killing array, I can't get out." "But aren't you here to rescue me?"

Yu Qiansi looked him up and down and said, "Your Majesty, you haven't been injured yet. I came in just to prevent any possible harm."

I just don't want the Lan family to get what they want.

Jiang Jiqing was extremely angry.

What dangers should we guard against?

When he was halfway there, he realized that this could only have been done by the Lan family.

They didn't dare to take his life, and they couldn't see him. They could only use this method to show their faces in front of the ministers. If he wanted to stop the meritorious ministers from seeing him again, it would be unjustifiable.

So he was happy to see Yu Qiansi here.

Even if he had to jump into the pit dug by the Lan family themselves, he was unwilling to let the Lan family get what they wanted.

Therefore, Yu Qiansi, who has no desire for fame, wealth or power, is the best candidate for the role of "hero".

At most, I can give him a great reward and make the Duke of Qi's mansion more prosperous.

But if the two of them wait here for rescue, wouldn’t the final credit still belong to the Lan family?

The gloomy and damp mist was floating around, and it was impossible to see the sky clearly. It was really annoying. Jiang Jiqing paced back and forth, becoming more and more irritated. He turned around and looked at Yu Qiansi, who was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed in meditation, and became even more angry.

"Then how did you get in unscathed?"

"Your Majesty, concentrate your mind and don't let this formation disturb your heart."

The clear tone was like a gentle breeze blowing on his face, and Jiang Jiqing woke up suddenly.

He had never been so impatient.

This formation is so mysterious that it can even calculate people's emotions.

Seeing that Jiang Jiqing looked a little more panicked, Yu Qiansi shook his head, raised his hand and drew a Tai Chi in the air.

There were two "ding ding" sounds from Yuli Qiankun, and she tapped twice on the invisible Yin-Yang fish.

"The entire imperial mausoleum, together with the terrain of the canyon outside, is built based on the Tai Chi diagram to protect the Holy Mountain. This garden is in the shape of a yang fish. And this killing formation is the only way to the Holy Mountain. It is the Yin Fish Eye in the Yang Fish, and it is a killing formation."

We must guard against thieves who might disturb the holy mountain.

Yu Qiansi looked down at the compass, and then he continued, "The villa and the canyon are half of the Yin fish, but from the topography of the mountains and rivers here, the Yang fish eye is outside the canyon. Who do you think they are protecting against?"

Jiang Jiqing had not yet recovered from this strange Zhouyi technique, and he also asked in confusion: "To protect against whom?"

Yu Qiansi watched coldly.

Jiang Jiqing was now trapped by the formation, and his mind and thoughts were different from before. His expression at this moment could not be false.

He doesn't know?

Thinking of this, she felt her heart sink for some reason.

The Yin Fish Eye is a killing array, and the Yang Fish Eye is naturally the same.

But why did the ancestor of the Yi family set up the outer formation? Was he trying to guard against the Lan family?
The four families jointly assisted Emperor Gaozu in creating great achievements, but why were they wary of each other?

Judging from the Lan clan's attitude towards him, it seemed that they were dissatisfied with the Yu family.

"Sister Yu, why are you confused too?" Jiang Jiqing saw that she looked unhappy, so he squatted in front of her and asked with concern.

"No problem," Yu Qiansi smiled and got back to the point, "This is a killing array. Although there is a solution, it is a life-threatening one. I have only learned some basic Yi techniques when I was free, so I don't have the ability to break this array without any mistakes."

"Then we can only wait like this," Jiang Jiqing released his strength and sat on the ground, the corner of his sleeve accidentally brushing against the mist.

The thick fog that quietly rolled like clear waves was shining like the golden sun shining through the clouds.