Demon Girl Against the Sky: Phoenix on Fire

Chapter 60 The Princess Missing
harem, queen's chamber

The peaceful and relaxed atmosphere of the past was no longer there, and now there was a dead silence. The maids and eunuchs did not dare to breathe, and lowered their heads tremblingly, busying with their respective affairs.

"Crack!" A crisp sound came from the queen's bedroom.

Then, the little maid with a broken teacup ran out with a swollen face.

"Can't find it, why go back?" The queen threw the newly replaced teacup on the kneeling guard's head, her beautiful eyes widening angrily. "Lead to death?"

Blood flowed from the guard's forehead, mixed with the hot tea on his cheeks, and he was in a panic.

"Empress, please calm down." The guard knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly. "The servant will look for it again."

"Get lost!" the queen yelled angrily, "If you don't find it before dark, you won't have to come back alive."

The guard scrambled away.

The queen sat on the chair, tears streaming down, covering her face with a handkerchief and sobbing softly.

The nanny who has been with the queen since she was a child waved her hand to get everyone in the room to leave, and she went to close the door, then went back to kneel and sit at the queen's feet, and said softly, "Princess Bao is a lucky person with a natural appearance. Nothing will happen, the empress must not cry to the point of breaking down and make the emperor worry."

The queen raised her eyes to look at the nanny, and stretched out her hand to help her up, "Even if Bao'er is playful, she will never stay out all night, not to mention there is no news for so long, I'm really afraid."

"If there is no news, it means that Princess Bao is fine. Queen, please rest assured."

The mood stabilized a lot, the queen wiped the tears on her face with the wet cloth given by the mother, "Lin'er hasn't returned yet?"

Mammy took the wet cloth from the Queen's hand and was about to answer, but was interrupted by a knock on the door.

"Qi Niang, the prince is here."

"Quick, let him in!" The queen stood up abruptly, straightened her slightly messy hair, and urged the nanny to open the door.

Dongfang Youlin strode in, his hair slightly disheveled, his eyes darkened, and the boots on his feet still had a lot of yellow mud stuck to them. He had obviously been running all night.

"How? Is there any news about Bao'er?" The queen asked eagerly, pulling the prince's sleeve.

Dongfang Youlin gulped down two cups of tea before saying, "I heard that he was kidnapped."

"Abducted?" The Queen's body trembled slightly, she took a step back and almost fell to the ground. Fortunately, the Crown Prince quickly supported her body and let her sit on the chair. "Who is it? Where did it happen?"

"Who doesn't know, but knows that he was taken captive at the gate of Yingyun Academy."

"Yingyun Academy? I heard that the national teacher is the head of the academy. I don't know if he knows about it." The queen looked at the prince, "Lin'er, Lin'er?"

The prince's eyes fell to the ground, his head was lowered and he was thinking about something, the queen called him twice before he raised his head.

"What are you thinking? Can you keep something from me?" The queen frowned and looked at Dongfang Youlin.

"My son is thinking." The prince paused for a moment, and then said in a low voice, "This matter is done so carefully, it must have been premeditated, but I haven't received any news from the other party until now, and I don't know what their purpose is for doing this?"

"No matter what the purpose is, the most important thing now is to get Bao'er back." The queen said. "Tell me about what happened between you and Bao'er that day."

The prince pursed his lips and said, "We went to register by car that day, and she got out of the car to say hello after seeing Lan'er. I waited in the carriage for a while, but I didn't see her come up, and then the maid beside her ran to say hello. It was she who advanced the academy and let me go in directly, but I never found her afterwards."

The queen was silent, then raised her head, her eyes suddenly fell behind the prince, and said with a smile, "The emperor is here."

The emperor walked over quickly, looked at his beloved wife's red and swollen eyes, couldn't help feeling distressed, held her hand and helped her to the chair, "Bao'er is a weird girl, nothing will happen, don't cry and break your body." .”

The queen pulled out her hand, stretched the folds of her clothes, and forced a smile, "The emperor is worried."

Seeing the emperor coming, the prince quickly stood up and saluted, and then stood aside with his head bowed.

Looking at his empty palm, the emperor shrank it back into his sleeve, clenched it tightly, and his eyes dimmed instantly.

"Lin'er, you just said that her maid was the last to see Bao'er, right?" said the Queen.

"Maid girl?" The emperor said and stood up. "Then what are you waiting for, order someone to bring her and ask!"

"Father, there is no need." The prince stepped forward and said in a deep voice, "That maid is already dead."

The two frowned at the same time, looking at the prince.

Dongfang Youlin sighed and continued, "After I didn't find Baoying, I felt that something was wrong, and I went back to look for that maid, but found that she was already dead. It is said that she slipped and fell into the river and drowned."

"Oh, how could such a coincidence happen!" The emperor slapped the table angrily, "It's clear that someone silenced him. Come here!"

"The servant is here!" The leading guard standing outside knelt on the ground.

"Check out the dead servant girl next to Princess Bao, and see what strange behaviors she has been doing recently!"

"Yes!" The guard led the order to retreat.

"Father, I think there is one more thing to investigate." After the guards left, the prince said.

The emperor's eyes fell on him, he raised his eyebrows, and motioned for him to continue.

"It's not easy to kidnap a living person in front of so many people. There must be insiders around. As soon as the college list is down, all the applicants have not left. We only need to ask one by one to find out some clues. .”

"The list?" The queen looked at the prince.

"That's right, the only one who has the list is the dean of Yingyun College, that is, the current national teacher——Chi Yan." The prince carefully observed the emperor's expression, and then added, "We can't let him take the palace salary for nothing. Do nothing."

The emperor looked at the prince without saying a word. At that time, he gave Chi Yan an unwarranted position as a national teacher because his precious daughter could successfully enter the Ying Yun Academy. He knew how many people in the court were dissatisfied.

"Come here!", the emperor stood up, patted Dongfang Youlin on the shoulder, then turned his head and shouted outside, "Bring the national teacher into the palace!"

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"The princess disappeared at the gate of the academy?"

As soon as Chi Yan walked out of the National Teacher's Mansion, he heard what Nan Feng said about the three days ago, and turned his head to look at Nan Feng in surprise.

"Yes." Nanfeng answered with his head down.

"Why didn't you report it early?" At first, he didn't know why the edict announcing his entry into the palace came an hour ago. It turned out that it was because the emperor's favorite jewel disappeared in his own territory, and he didn't even know it at all.

"I've been busy with college affairs these few days, and I also thought that the princess' disappearance has nothing to do with the college, so I didn't tell Master." Nan Feng explained that when the prince came to look for him, he had heard about the princess's character, thinking that she ran away for a while. , and because it didn't happen in the college, he didn't take it seriously, and sent some people to follow the prince to look for it, and then didn't ask any more questions.

I didn't expect things to become such a big mess.

"Nanfeng is not good at doing things, so I ask Master to punish him." Seeing that Master didn't speak, Nanfeng said hastily.

"It's really wrong for you to do this." Chi Yu rode on the horse led by the boy, looked up at the palace in the distance, and said softly: "Stay in the mansion and protect Bing Lan. Come back and take her to the academy."

"Master, I..." Nan Feng looked at Chi Yan in surprise.

Chi Yan looked at him, and continued, "Remember, if she asks, you can tell her that I have returned to the academy, and you must not tell her about my entry into the palace."

"But……"

"Didn't understand?" Chi Yan raised his eyebrows, and his eyes fell on Nan Feng.

"Understood." Knowing that Master was angry, Nan Feng didn't dare to say anything else.

Looking at the back of Chi Yu leaving, Nanfeng couldn't hide the worry on his face, and wondered if the emperor would blame the master for the disappearance of the princess. It is inevitable that I will not be threatened, and I only hope that Master can return safely from this trip.

("Not awake yet?" Xiao Li looked at the room in front of him, stretched out his hand and yawned and asked.

Nan Feng looked up at the moon in the sky, and then said, "Master said he put Anshen Pill in the wax, and it won't be until tomorrow morning..."

"Bang!"

Suddenly, a loud noise inside the house interrupted Nan Feng's words.

The two looked at each other and rushed into the room quickly.

Xiao Li called softly through the screen, "Little Junior Sister?"

Binglan rubbed her sore knee, just woke up and didn't see Chi Yan, so she wanted to get out of bed, but she fell down on the ground with powerlessness, and even knocked down a chair.

"My head is a little dizzy." Bing Lan barely stood up while supporting the table, and closed her eyes. Bing Lan was surprised in her heart. Even if she was backlashed by the spirit tripod, it is impossible for her to recover her strength for so long. "Where's Chi Yan?"

Nanfeng and Xiaoli were silent, no one thought that Binglan would wake up so early, how to explain?Master has only left for an hour.

"Why don't you speak?" Bing Lan's voice suddenly dropped.

"I'm going to the academy." Nan Feng said.

"Go to the academy before dawn?" The reason Nanfeng said was really lame, "And you left the two senior brothers?"

Xiao Li didn't speak, looked at Nan Feng, gave him a "good lie" look, and then took a step back to watch the play.

"Yes." After a long silence, Nan Feng finally answered, but his confidence was obviously lacking.

Bing Lan took out a Qingxin Pill from the space ring and swallowed it, her mind cleared up a lot in an instant, she sniffed, and found a faint familiar fragrance in the room, the pill she had kept for so long, she smelled it all at once Come out what it smells like.

Something was wrong, Binglan frowned and looked at Nanfeng who had been bowing his head in silence.

"Boom boom boom!"

A knock on the door interrupted the silence in the room.

"Young Master Nanfeng, there are two people outside who claim to be your friends asking to see you."

Without waiting for Nanfeng to speak, Xiaoli stepped forward and hooked Nanfeng's shoulder and said with a smile, "I thought you only had me as a friend."

Nanfeng patted Xiaoli's hand off, and replied coldly, "I have no friends."

After speaking, he left without looking back.

Xiao Li shrugged his shoulders, turned around but saw Bing Lan walking towards him, and quickly reached out to stop him, "Hey, little junior sister, what are you doing?"

"Go out."

"It's not even daylight..."

"When you and Nan Feng are together, I may not be able to beat you, but you yourself..." As he spoke, Bing Lan took out a dagger from the space ring and played with it in his hand, "I want to try."

Xiao Li looked at the cold dagger in Bing Lan's hand, and took two steps back without thinking, "Ahem, where do you want to go, I will accompany you."

Withdrawing the dagger, bypassing Xiaoli, Binglan pushed the door and went out.

It was almost dawn, and the morning breeze in late autumn carried a bit of a biting chill. Osmanthus fragrans were planted all around the yard. A breeze came, and the air was mixed with a faint fragrance, which made people feel refreshed.

"Is this the master's residence?"

Xiao Li closed the door and replied, "Yes, the Imperial Teacher's Mansion awarded by the emperor was originally a larger courtyard, but Master didn't want it, so he chose this place closer to the academy."

"Miss!"

Binglan turned around following the sound, it was Lingsu and Zhang Xiaotian, their hair was disheveled, obviously they hadn't slept all night.

"Why are you two here?" Bing Lan walked over quickly, and was relieved when she saw that neither of them seemed to be injured.

"Master Chi took you away last night, we were worried about Miss's safety, so we followed." Zhang Xiaotian said.

"I'm fine." Bing Lan said, and walked on. "Go back, don't follow me."

"Where are you going, miss?" Lingsu asked anxiously after trotting two steps, before she finished speaking, she was grabbed by Zhang Xiaotian.

"Miss let us go back." Zhang Xiaotian understood Bing Lan, since they were not allowed to follow, they couldn't follow even a step.

Lingsu bit her lip and let Zhang Xiaotian drag her away.

"Little Junior Sister, where are you going?" Xiao Li looked at Bing Lan who was about to walk out of the gate, and Nan Feng, who just looked at her with the same expression of frowning, and Xiao Li hurriedly followed.

Bing Lan took out the black cloak from the interspatial ring, and said in a low voice: "Since you don't tell me the whereabouts of Master, then I will search everywhere until I find Master."

Both Xiaoli and Nanfeng could tell that Binglan was angry, and it was very serious.

"What should I do?" Xiao Li whispered to Nan Feng.

Nan Feng was also entangled, how did he know that if something happened to Bing Lan, the two of them might be ripped off by Master.

"Don't follow me if you don't say it!" Bing Lan was really angry, and threw back ice picks, hitting Nan Feng and Xiao Li's feet behind her, glaring at the two of them.

"Little Junior Sister, don't be angry." Xiao Li glanced at Nan Feng, then sighed and said, "I'll tell you."

Bing Lan raised her eyebrows, stood on the spot with her arms crossed, raised her chin to signal Xiao Li to speak quickly.

"The emperor declared Master to enter the palace two hours ago." Before Xiao Li finished speaking, Bing Lan turned and left.

"What's the matter?"

Nanfeng told Binglan about Dongfang Baoying's disappearance.

Binglan's brain was running fast, Dongfang Baoying happened at the Yingyun Academy, the emperor and empress loved the princess so much, she must have gone crazy, now that Chi Yan is being introduced into the palace, it may be more or less ominous.

Thinking of this, regardless of what Nanfeng continued to say, he turned and ran towards the palace.

Nanfeng and Xiaoli looked at Binglan's back, sighed helplessly, and also stepped up to chase after them. Now they only prayed that Master would not punish them too much after knowing about this matter.

Bing Lan ran to the palace at the fastest speed, and there were still guards guarding the palace below.

"Stop! Who is it!" Seeing Bing Lan, the guard stepped forward and stopped her expressionlessly.

Binglan took out the token given to her by the emperor.

When the guard saw the token, he was so frightened that he quickly knelt on the ground.

"See Her Royal Highness."

"Get out of the way!" Bing Lan's voice was very cold, the guard kneeling on the ground trembled, fearing that he would lose his head, he hurriedly made way for Bing Lan, rolling and crawling.

According to the memory of entering the palace last time, Binglan came to the queen's bedroom with ease, the maid at the door recognized Binglan, asked Binglan to greet her, and trotted all the way in to report to the queen.

Soon, the maid came out and led Binglan in.

"Lan'er, come quickly!" As soon as one foot stepped into the door, the Queen's voice came over.

"Greetings to the queen!" Bing Lan bowed her knees and saluted.

"You don't need to be too polite as a family, but Lan'er hasn't seen me for a long time."

Bing Lan looked at the queen, as if she was too worried about her daughter, her usually delicate face was a little weak, and her eyes also revealed a sense of exhaustion that was hard to hide.

"I heard something happened to Princess Baoying." Bing Lan sat on the stool that the maid had just brought. "On the day of registration, Binglan met the princess and had a few conversations with her."

"Really?" The queen looked at Bing Lan. "Is Bao'er different?"

Bing Lan shook her head.

Seeing the queen's obviously disappointed expression, Bing Lan continued: "Princess Bao went missing on the day of enrolling in Ying Yun Academy. I don't know if anyone in the academy knew about it."

She deliberately brought the topic to the English Rhyme Academy, so that she could meet Chi Yan sooner.

"Lan'er and Lin'er really have a tacit understanding." The queen curled her lips and revealed a gentle smile. "Lin'er also told the emperor that. No, the national teacher is also the dean of Yingyun Academy, and he is currently in the imperial study."

After hearing what the queen said, Binglan lowered her head and took a sip of tea, her eyes were cold, and she saw Dongfang Youlin again.

"I don't know if Master Guoshi knows about it." Binglan put down her tea and said in a low voice. "It's really worrying to wait like this."

The queen frowned, thought for a while and said: "Indeed, sitting down like this is not an option. In this case, Lan'er will accompany me to the imperial study. I still have something to ask the national teacher."

Binglan waited so long for the queen's words, she immediately stood up and supported the queen, and went to the imperial study.

Imperial study room

"National teacher, I am so eager to announce you into the palace because I have something to ask you." Dongfang Mingdu kept pacing in front of the desk with his hands behind his back.

Chi Yan was not wearing a mask at this time, standing there looking at Dongfang Mingdu, he already knew what he was going to ask.

"Princess Bao disappeared on the day of enrolling in the academy. I wonder if the national teacher knows about it?" Dongfang Mingdu stopped and looked at him, his eyes full of searching.

"Chi Yan doesn't know." Chi Yan said neither humble nor overbearing.

After searching for a long time, Dongfang Mingdu didn't show any emotion on Chi Yan's face.

"I am worried that the disappearance of the princess is related to the students from other countries, so I would like to ask if the national teacher can give me a list of admission registration, so that I can send someone to investigate one by one."

Chi Yu refused without even thinking about it.

Just kidding, Yingyun College is one of the four holy places in the Lanhai Continent. Is the list just for the emperor of your country to read if he wants, just to find his over-spoiled princess?

Dongfang Mingdu didn't expect Chi Yan to refuse so decisively, and his face was slightly displeased.

The imperial study room fell into silence.

If this Chi Yan was an ordinary person, he could have killed him with a single order, but his identity is too special, and his magic power is definitely not low, so he doesn't have the guts.

Now I regret that I gave Chi Yu the position of the national teacher, not only did Dongfang Baoying fail to enter the Yingyun Academy, but also disappeared. The more Dongfang Mingdu thought about it, the more angry he became.

"The national teacher means that it can't be done anymore?" Dongfang Mingdu's voice was cold, and he stood there without anger.

Chi Yan looked directly at the emperor.

"If the emperor is trustworthy, I will hand over the matter of the list to Chi Yu to investigate. It is really the princess who was kidnapped by the person admitted to the hospital. I will not tolerate it and I will be punished."

Xiao Jiujiu, who knows Dongfang Mingdu's heart, is the first time to find the princess according to the list, mainly to grasp the list of people sent by the royal families of various countries to study in the academy.

Chi Yan guessed right, both Dongfang Mingdu and Dongfang Youlin had such an idea, but they didn't expect Chi Yan to refuse.

"Of course, please ask the national teacher to worry about it." Dongfang Mingdu had a smile on his face, and he had already killed Chi Yan thousands of times in his heart. After this incident, he must find a reason to take off the hat of the national teacher Chi Yan , this person cannot stay.

When Binglan and the queen came to the door of the imperial study, the two had just talked about this sentence.

"I don't know what bothered Master Guoshi." The queen walked in with Bing Lan's support.

Chi Yan raised his head at the sound, and when he saw the ice blue with a veil behind the queen, his eyes turned from indifference to surprise, he was stunned for a moment and quickly bowed his head to salute the queen.

Bing Lan blinked at Chi Yan quietly while the emperor and queen were not paying attention, and the corners of Chi Yan's mouth curled up slightly.

The little interaction between the two was not discovered by the emperor and queen. )
(End of this chapter)