A strong farm girl is busy getting rich

Chapter 400. King Rui escapes

After Shen Qingqian and the others left, Concubine Hui and Eunuch Xia accompanied Emperor Qiyuan back to the house. Everyone had complicated feelings, but there was also a bit of expectation in the complexity.

At the same time, King Rui, who was imprisoned in the cellar, finally used the sharpened stone to cut the ropes that bound his hands and feet.

In the past few days, he had been locked up in the cellar. Apart from not being able to see the sun and having his hands and feet tied, he did not suffer any other torture. He did not starve either, as Eunuch Xia brought him three meals a day.

On the second day after he came in, King Rui dug the stone out of the cellar wall, but the stone was a shield at first and could not cut the rope at all, so he began to grind it on the wall.

Although his wrists were tied with ropes, making it inconvenient for him to move, fortunately he was the only one here and had plenty of time.

Today, he finally sharpened the stone enough and successfully cut the rope!

After regaining his freedom, King Rui quickly climbed out of the cellar. It was already dark, and the yard was quiet. He estimated that the three men should have rested.

Prince Rui was thinking whether he should kill the three men quietly while they were not prepared. But he was afraid that if he failed, he would be caught by the other party. After all, he was alone and the other party had three people. Concubine Hui was also good at martial arts. If he did something wrong, it would be bad!

After thinking it over, King Rui gave up the idea and decided to go get reinforcements first. Anyway, those three people didn't know he had escaped, so he would wait for him to bring people back and catch them off guard!

Thinking of this, Prince Rui climbed over the wall and left the yard.

Ever since Prince Rui was held hostage by Concubine Hui, he had been locked up in the underground cellar, so he was completely clueless about the situation outside. He didn't know what was going on in the palace, and he didn't dare to go to the palace rashly.

The person that Prince Rui trusted the most now was his uncle, Prime Minister Dong, so he went straight to the Prime Minister's residence.

The Prime Minister's Mansion was not far away, and Prince Rui arrived there in just two quarters of an hour. Out of caution, he did not go to the front door, but came to the back door.

Prince Rui was about to knock on the door when it creaked open from the inside.

A head popped out from the crack in the door, with cunning eyes. Before the person had time to look around, he made direct eye contact with King Rui.

Prince Rui has been locked up in a cellar these past few days. Not only is his hair disheveled, but his clothes are also dirty. He no longer looks as handsome as before and is only slightly better than a beggar.

"Who are you? What are you doing here in the middle of the night? Go away, go away!"

The man inside didn't recognize Prince Rui at all and shooed him away like a fly.

Prince Rui had suffered so much in the past few days and was already unhappy. Now he was angered by this man's actions and tone.

He was so angry that without saying a word, he raised his fist and punched the man!

The man was caught off guard and was hit in the eye by a punch. He screamed "ouch" and fell directly into the door.

At this moment, in the backyard separated by a door, Prime Minister Dong and his family had packed their luggage and were preparing to go out through the back door and escape from the capital at night.

The man beaten by King Rui was a personal servant of Prime Minister Dong. He was usually quite smart. Just now, Prime Minister Dong asked him to open the door and see if there was anything unusual outside. If everything was normal, they would go out.

But no one expected that this usually clever servant would be so arrogant today and severely offend King Rui, and was beaten without any warning!

When Prime Minister Dong saw the servant being knocked down, he panicked and thought someone had come to visit him! Just as he was about to tell the guards to be on guard, he heard someone shout "Uncle".

It turned out that Prince Rui had already opened the door and walked into the yard.

When Prime Minister Dong heard the familiar voice, he turned his head sharply to look over.

Although Prince Rui was in a state of disgrace at the moment, Prime Minister Dong still recognized him at a glance.

"King Rui! You are King Rui, you are finally back!"

Prime Minister Dong widened his eyes in disbelief.

"Uncle, it's me!"

Both the uncle and nephew were surprised and happy. Prime Minister Dong was about to ask Prince Rui where he had been taken hostage by Concubine Hui these days, but Prince Rui spoke first: "Uncle, don't say anything yet, just bring more people with me!"

"Where to go? What to do?"

Prime Minister Dong was a little confused. Prince Rui had been missing for so many days, and now he had finally returned safely. He still had a lot to ask him, but he didn't know where Prince Rui was going in such a hurry!

Prince Rui was anxious, so he picked out the most important points and told them to Prime Minister Dong.

"Uncle, when Emperor Qiyuan and Concubine Hui kidnapped me and escaped through the secret passage of the Imperial Study, I clearly saw that they took the Imperial Seal and the Tiger Tally with them.

I escaped today when they were not paying attention, and they probably haven't discovered me yet. So we must kill them as soon as possible and take the jade seal and tiger talisman.

As long as we have these two things, we can say that Emperor Qiyuan passed the throne to me before his death, and we can get the throne without any soldiers!"

Although Prince Rui's words were incoherent, Prime Minister Dong generally understood them.

If things were really as King Rui said, then why was he running away?

Even if Zhao Yichen and Zhao Yifeng were powerful, what would that do? As long as they could get the jade seal and the tiger talisman, and then insist that it was Emperor Qiyuan who took the initiative to pass the throne to Prince Rui, who would dare to disobey?

Prime Minister Dong's eyes suddenly became clear.

"Yiming, where are Emperor Qiyuan and Concubine Hui now? I will gather people and cooperate with you."

Prince Rui knew that he had found the right person when he came to see Prime Minister Dong!

"In the house where Shen Qingqian lived before. The exit of the secret passage in the palace was not far from the house. They took me out of the secret passage and when they passed by the house, they decided to hide inside."

Prime Minister Dong also came out of the secret passage today and passed by the house. He even took a few more glances at it!

I never expected that Concubine Hui and Emperor Qiyuan would hide there with Prince Rui! They really know how to find a place!

However, now is not the time to think about these things. Prime Minister Dong only sighed for a moment and then went to prepare.

Shen Qingqian and her group of four said goodbye to Emperor Qiyuan and Concubine Hui and left the courtyard of "General Qingyi's Mansion".

In less than two quarters of an hour, they arrived at the outskirts of the palace.

Shen Qingqian thought for a moment and said, "Zhiqing, go find Zhao Yichen and Zhao Yifeng and tell them about our encounter with the Emperor and Concubine Hui.

Yingzi, Zhizhu and I will go to the palace first. The educated youth don’t need to look for us when they are done. They can just wait outside to meet us.”

"Yes, girl!"

The educated youth took the order and warned: "Girls, be careful then."

Zhizhu said: "Don't worry, Zhiqing, we will protect the girl."

Then the men split into two groups, each going about their own business.