The prince supports her, and the reborn princess kills people

Qingmei was horrified and immediately banged on the door and shouted outside.

"Is anyone there? Open the door! There's a fire!"

However, there was no movement outside, and the two little palace maids had disappeared without a trace.

The fire in the room grew bigger and bigger, and had already caught fire on the bed.

Shen Qingyan was still relatively calm. By now she had realized that the fire was not caused by carelessness, but was a long-planned plan.

There is no doubt that it was the Queen's work.

She checked the window and found it had been nailed shut.

Now I can only save myself.

"Qingmei, hurry up and wet the silk handkerchief and the bed sheet!"

It is unlikely that anyone will come to rescue them in a short time. Seeing the fire growing bigger and bigger, they cannot be choked to death by the smoke.

Qingmei understood what she meant instantly. Fortunately, there was still a lot of tea in the teapot, and it all spilled onto the handkerchief and mattress sheet.

The two men covered their mouths and noses and hid in the corner.

At this time, the fire had spread from the bed to the wardrobe and beams, and the smoke was so thick that people couldn't open their eyes.

Finally, the shouts of the palace servants were heard outside the door.

"Go away!"

"Come quickly, put out the fire!"

"Water, water..."

At the same time, the queen had just washed off the jade cream on her face and was admiring her own face in the bronze mirror, which seemed to have become a little whiter.

Lu Jiuxiao was almost sleepy as a dog, but she had to deal with the Queen's praises.

At first he thought that he only needed to say a few words to comfort the Queen, but when he talked about beauty and skin care, the Queen showed great interest in him and was very satisfied with the Jade Cream he brought. Before she knew it, she had kept him until now. The palace gates had long been closed and he could not leave the palace even if he wanted to.

Lu Jiuxiao sighed in his heart, women are really not something that can be coaxed by ordinary people.

I don’t know how Gu Beihuai could comfort a woman as tough and cold as Shen Qingyan when she was angry. Isn’t he afraid of getting beaten?

Just as his head was about to hit the table, a young eunuch rushed in, crawling and tumbling, and hurriedly reported without even having time to salute.

"Empress, it's bad. There's a fire. There's a fire in the side hall..."

The place where Shen Qingyan lived was the side hall.

"What?" The queen stood up suddenly, her face showing shock. "What's going on?"

"I don't know, but I have ordered people to put out the fire."

The queen seemed a little flustered and hurriedly said that she wanted to go and take a look.

Lu Jiuxiao had a cold expression and looked at the queen with a slightly complicated look.

The queen met his eyes and understood what he was thinking. She frowned and said angrily, "Jiuxiao, do you think I did it?"

No?

Lu Jiuxiao was puzzled, but he didn't show it on his face, "My nephew didn't mean that. My cousin is kind-hearted, how could she do such a thing?"

The queen snorted, knowing that he was saying one thing and thinking another.

"I do want to kill her, but I'm not stupid enough to do it so blatantly in my palace."

Maybe this little bitch directed and acted it out herself!

There was no time to say more. When they rushed to the side hall, the fire had already spread to the roof. It looked like the people inside were in great danger.

The queen was so frightened that her face turned pale. Wouldn't this man be burned to ashes?

"What are you all standing there for? Everyone, help me put out this fire!"

Lu Jiuxiao, however, had a sullen face. He quickly grabbed a quilt, wet it, wrapped it around his whole body, and rushed in.

"Jiuxiao!"

The queen's face turned even paler and she almost fainted again.

Almost everyone in Kunning Palace joined the fire-fighting team. When Gu Ruxiao hurried over, most of the fire had been put out.

"Mother, what's going on? Where's the Empress?"

The queen did not answer, but instead grabbed Gu Ruxiao's hand.

"Xiao'er, I didn't do this, can you trust me?"

"Mother, it's already this hour, why are you still talking about this?" Gu Ruxiao looked anxious, "How is the emperor's sister-in-law doing?"

"I don't know either. Jiu Xiao has already gone in to look for it."

"What? It's so dangerous in there, how can mother let my cousin go in?"

Gu Ruxiao was completely anxious and didn't know what to do.

In desperation, she immediately called a palace maid, gave her a few instructions, and the maid immediately left in a hurry.

After entering the side hall, Lu Jiuxiao anxiously searched for Shen Qingyan, but strangely, he couldn't find her after searching every corner.

After the palace servants put out the fire, everyone started looking together, and an even more bizarre situation occurred.

Shen Qingyan and Qingmei seemed to have evaporated from the face of the earth and disappeared into the side hall!

The two little palace maids who the Queen had ordered to keep an eye on Shen Qingyan were also gone.

Whether it's life or death, at least it can be given a quick resolution. What's the matter with this person disappearing?

The queen forced herself to calm herself down and not panic, because if she panicked, it would really be her fault.

"Find him! Even if we have to search the entire palace and dig deep into the ground, we must find him!"

This matter soon alarmed the emperor.

The princess disappeared in the palace. No matter how you look at it, the queen is a major suspect. After severely reprimanding the queen, the emperor also sent the Imperial Guards to assist in the search.

Little did they know that when everyone was in a state of panic, Shen Qingyan and Qingmei had already gone to a safe place.

The situation was critical at the time and the two were hiding in a corner.

But Shen Qingyan knew that if the fire was not put out, the two would die here sooner or later, so she tried to find other ways out.

Unexpectedly, some unknown mechanism was triggered and the two of them fell directly into the ground.

Although I don’t know whether it is safe underground, it is better than being burned to death by fire.

So the master and servant walked along the dark underground passage, and after about two hours they finally saw the end.

That was a barren mountain behind the imperial palace.

Someone actually opened a passage leading to the back mountain of the imperial palace from the queen's side hall. This is really suspicious.

But Shen Qingyan and Qingmei didn't have time to think about it. They left along the back mountain and did not return to the palace.

This is what Shen Qingyan thought.

"This is most likely the Queen's doing, so we can neither return to the palace nor the Prince's Mansion, and we can't go to my brother to make him worry. It's better for us to go directly to the Ghost Market to look for the Prince."

Qingmei felt a little scared when she thought about it. Fortunately, the princess was smart and found a mechanism to escape in time, otherwise they would have died on the spot.

"Princess, how are we going to find the prince in the ghost market? What if we can't find him?"

"Simple." Shen Qingyan whispered, "We can let the people of the Rat generation find the prince's whereabouts without alerting my brother."

But what she didn't know was that Gu Ruxiao had already asked someone to inform Gu Beihuai as soon as possible.

Coincidentally, Gu Beihuai and Pei Zheng successfully tracked down the person who was selling gunpowder in the Ghost Market, so the people sent by Gu Ruxiao just happened to find him.

After learning that Shen Qingyan was missing in a fire in the palace, Gu Beihuai's face changed completely. He left Pei Zheng behind and rushed to the palace.

At the same time, Shen Qingyan used Chu Yue Pavilion's unique communication method and successfully contacted the people of the Rat generation.

Shen Qingyan repeatedly warned Shen Yuanmu not to know, and then set off for the ghost market first.

After some disguise, Shen Qingyan and Qingmei pretended to be small vendors who came to purchase goods and successfully sneaked into the ghost market.

It was already late at night, and the ghost market was shrouded in fog, looking extremely eerie.