"Then you should quickly rescue the prince! He is being held captive in Lanxiufang by Tian Qiquan and has no freedom!" Empress Wei said again.

"You don't have to worry about that. General Xiong has already brought people over."

Hearing that Tian Muchen was about to be rescued, Empress Wei finally breathed a sigh of relief. She stopped struggling and simply walked to the side and sat on a chair, waiting to see Lan Ruyun's joke.

After the panic just now, Lan Ruyun was now much calmer. Like Empress Wei, she walked to the chair next to her and sat down.

The two of them sat upright, separated by a table.

They were holding their breath and competing secretly.

Concubine De didn't want to get involved in the fight between the two queens, so she pulled Jixiang out.

"Jixiang, you just arrived in the city, so you must have a lot of things to do. I'm fine here, everything is fine. If you have something to do, just go and do your thing first."

Jixiang looked at Jiang Peipei and Princess Linglong beside him and said, "You two should have someone clean up the Queen's Yikun Palace and send the Queen back to Yikun Palace."

"Okay." Jiang Peipei responded loudly, "I've been to the Queen's palace, and I know how to get there. Come on, Linglong, let's go help the Queen pack up first."

The two butterflies flew away like one another.

De Fei couldn't help but be moved. She held Jixiang's hand tightly and said, "Jixiang, I..."

Jixiang smiled, "I really can't stay here for too long now. Things won't be settled until the prince and his men find the Sixth Uncle, so..."

"I know, I know." Defei quickly let go of Jixiang's hand, "Your business is more important." Although she told Jixiang to do his own thing, she seemed to have something to ask.

Jixiang naturally knew what she wanted to ask, "The Five Emperors did not follow us into the city. I asked Guard Li to take them into the mountains. When the city stabilizes, I will send someone to pick them up."

Defei didn't expect that Jixiang had made such careful arrangements, and her worries disappeared instantly.

"Okay, go quickly. I'll go to Yikun Palace as well. Xing'er, let's go to our own palace."

Xing'er looked at Jixiang gratefully and quickly followed Defei.

Jixiang then looked at the two queens who were fighting with each other in the room, and then ordered the soldiers around him, "Keep an eye on them, no one is allowed to come in or out at will."

Several soldiers immediately stood on both sides of the palace gate, ready for battle.

After leaving Kunning Palace, Jixiang went straight to the Yangxin Palace.

Apart from the young eunuchs, there was no Tian Qiquan in the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

It can be seen that he left from the city gate and did not return to the palace, so where did he go?

Jixiang knew that Tian Qiquan was hit by her arrow.

Her arrows were poisoned. Although they would not kill, they would make the person hit by them weak.

Therefore, he must have been hiding somewhere to heal his wounds and detoxify. It is impossible for him to leave the city so quickly.

However, when Jixiang met Tian Muyu and saw Tian Muyu's expression, she knew that the person had not been found yet.

"The Sixth Uncle is missing." Tian Muyu said as soon as he saw Jixiang, "The new Minister of War Hou Ping met with him before we entered the city. He said that he was poisoned and asked the imperial physician to detoxify him."

"I didn't see him in the palace." Jixiang said, "I just came out of the palace and didn't see him."

"Did he escape during the chaos?" Tian Muyu pondered, looking at the panicked people on the street.

"Bring Qi Xiao here." Jixiang said.

Tian Muyu understood instantly and immediately ordered the guards around him to bring Qi Xiaodi.

Qi Xiaodi and Qi Rui, father and daughter, had always led Jixiang and Tian Muyu in the team and had not killed them, just for the day of entering the city.

Qi Xiaodi was a person that Tian Qiquan had arranged in the capital a long time ago. Tian Qiquan's sudden appearance in the capital one day must be related to Qi Xiaodi.

Therefore, if Tian Qiquan escaped secretly, then they must have a secret passage, and Qi Xiaodi knew this passage 100% for sure.

However, when Tian Muyu asked Qi Xiaodi this question, Qi Xiaodi did not respond at all.

"You won't tell me?" Jixiang asked coldly, "The master you serve ran away when we bombarded the city with cannons. Do you think he has the ability to come back and ascend the throne again?"

"If he ran away, it means he knew he couldn't hold on to the throne, so saving his life became his top priority. He could abandon those who followed him at any time for the sake of his life. Do you think he would come back to save you?"

Jixiang's voice was cold, and his words were even colder, like a basin of cold water poured directly at Qi Xiaodi.

"Also, I emphasize to you again that some of your family members are still in Fengyu County. If you actively cooperate with us, the prince and I will naturally consider sparing their lives. But if you insist on being our enemy, I'm sorry, but we don't have a heart of mercy and will leave anyone behind."

"Dad!" Qi Rui looked at Qi Xiaodi pleadingly.

Since Zhong Feng died, Qi Rui has become much more honest.

Tell her to go and she will go; tell her to stop and she will stop.

Now that she and her family members who were detained in Fengyu County still had a chance to survive, she finally spoke to Qi Xiaodi.

But Qi Xiaodi still didn't speak.

"Dad, do you want Mom and Grandmother to die? Jiyue Villa is gone, all because you and Uncle followed the wrong person! The person you followed is not worth the sacrifice of our Qi family!"

Qi Rui's voice became louder and louder, and even Qi Xiaodi, who had been keeping his head down and silent, looked up at her in surprise.

That's right, Qi Rui was very angry, angry that her father was a man who didn't know how to act according to the times. The moment she followed Jixiang and the others into the city, she knew that the Qi family had followed the wrong person.

As an emperor, when the city was broken into, he didn't even have the courage to resist and just ran away, disappearing without a trace.

This is not a mighty and powerful emperor at all. He is not even as good as an ordinary man.

Such a person cannot protect his country and his people.

Of course, it is even more impossible to protect those followers who follow him to seize the throne.

Therefore, Qi Rui felt that her father was not worthy of being loyal to that person, and he should tell Prince Ning and Princess Ning everything he knew in order to try to keep them alive.

As long as they can survive, with the Qi family's wealth, they will always be able to make a comeback.

Therefore, Qi Rui looked at her father with deep eyes, "That person is not worthy of you following."

Qi Xiao was stunned. He didn't expect that his teenage daughter could say such words.

"Your daughter is right. The Sixth Prince is really not worth your efforts. His behavior of fleeing without fighting is indeed not like that of a king. Instead, he is like a coward without vision. If you follow him, not only will you not achieve any great achievements, but you will also forget about rising to prominence." Jixiang said with a smile.

But Qi Rui just looked at Jixiang and Qi Rui and still said nothing.

This made Qi Rui very anxious, and she wanted to go over and beg her father for help.

But Jixiang didn't give in. She signaled to the soldiers guarding Qi Rui, and they took Qi Rui away.


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