Like inside and out

Illuminated by the flames under the eerie red full moon, several steeds were leading to the main street of the palace.

"Did you meet eyeliner just now?" Jiang Ru turned to ask Tsing Yi behind him.She hadn't learned to ride a horse for a long time, and she couldn't dance the whip vigorously like others, so she had to be carried by someone else.

Tsing Yi nodded, holding the reins tighter in his hand: "Yes, someone entered the front hall half an hour ago, we felt suspicious and chased them out. Now that I think about it, it should be the other party's swaying the tiger away from the mountain. It seems that we have been prepared for a long time." There was some self-blame in his tone.

As soon as Sheng Jin wanted to comfort him, he heard Ye Ling's voice from the horse in the front: "Everyone stop! Don't go any further!"

"What's going on?" Everyone stopped according to the words, and got off their horses one after another.Jiang Ru rushed to Ye Ling's side, but was stunned by the sight in front of him.

The imperial palace surrounded by the moat on the opposite side seemed to have become a sea of ​​flames.The gorgeous palace no longer exists, only waves of scorching heat remain.One could even see palace guards coming out to fetch water again and again, and the scene was chaotic.

Seeing the flames soaring into the sky, Jiang Ru's heart was completely confused, and now she just wanted to know where Bailiyi was.The group of people immediately rushed across the stone bridge on the river, and Ye Ling unceremoniously grabbed a palace man's skirt and asked, "Where is my prince?"

There is only one prince in the Yucheng Dynasty.Seeing Ye Ling's appearance of wanting to kill someone, the palace servant rushed out without thinking: "Someone saw her just now...she rushed in..."

"Impossible!" As soon as the words fell, Jiang Ru had already slapped him across the face, "You better tell me the truth!"

Although I had a vague guess in my heart, I still couldn't believe it when I actually heard it.After all, it's such a big fire... Is she going to die!

"It's true," the palace man was full of grievances, "Everyone saw it, the prince was so anxious that he was going crazy, we slaves couldn't stop it at all..."

Tsing Yi made a decisive decision, pointed to the two people behind him, and calmly ordered: "You two watch the princess, and the rest follow me in."

"No need," Jiang Ru took two steps back, looking at Tsing Yi firmly, "I'm going to find her."

Before Tsing Yi nodded, Ye Ling, who had seen Jiang Ru's temper, had already agreed: "There is no time to delay, everyone protect the princess."

The guards and hidden guards brought here are all elites, well-trained, and they immediately start a carpet search after entering the palace gate.Ye Ling and Tsing Yi didn't dare to put Jiang Ru in danger, they just searched the courtyard with her.But after a few hours, everyone reunited, not to mention Bailiyi, even the emperor Bailiyan was nowhere to be seen.

"Where did she go!" If I knew it earlier, I shouldn't have let her out!Jiang Ru hit the red-painted pillar fiercely with one hand, and was feeling annoyed when he heard a shrill scream from the next room.

"Someone!" Hearing the sound, the guards almost broke into the door.Jiang Ru broke in, but what she saw was someone she hadn't expected at all: "Sister-in-law?"

She still remembers the beautiful woman she saw when she entered the palace to serve tea when she first married Yucheng.But now that Concubine Zhen was completely gone from her nobility at that time, she fell down in the middle of the fire with her face covered in ashes, and she was still holding the newborn baby tightly in her hands.

"Jiang..." Concubine Zhen opened her eyes with difficulty, and smiled in relief the moment she saw Jiang Ru.

"How are you?" Jiang Ru hurriedly walked around the burning wooden table and chairs and walked to her side, trying to help her up, "Don't move, I'll take you out."

"No, no need," Concubine Zhen shook her head with difficulty, and put the child in Jiang Ru's arms with all her strength, "She... I will leave it to you."

"It's a girl," Jiang Ru took it carefully. The newborn baby was crying softly, which was very lovable.Looking up at Concubine Zhen again, her face was filled with the satisfaction of her wish: "Don't let her... stay in the palace, the most ruthless... The emperor's house..."

This is to adopt her by himself?But if you count this as the eldest princess of the Yucheng Dynasty... Jiang Ru hesitated, but seeing Concubine Zhen begging, she couldn't bear to refuse: "I promise."

Concubine Zhen nodded: "Be careful...left... Xiang..." By the end of the last sentence, it was as low as a mosquito, but Jiang Ru could still hear it clearly.

Leftist?He set the fire?

She was about to ask again, but found that the person in her arms was no longer breathing. That intelligent woman finally got rid of the shackles of this deep palace forever.

"Princess! Let's go! The girder is about to collapse!" Ye Ling shouted anxiously from the door.

"Sister-in-law, don't worry, I'll raise the little one, and I won't let you down." Jiang Ru wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, stood up, hugged the baby in her arms, turned and rushed out of the room.

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The fire burned all night, and it was not completely subsided until the heavy rain fell in the early morning.

Looking at the gray sky outside the window, Jiang Ru became more and more depressed.

There is still no news from Bailiyi, and even Bailiyan has no news at all, as if the world has evaporated.She originally planned to wait by the ruins, but she decided to withdraw because the newly born little princess was not in good condition and was prone to catch cold.

"Bailiyi, it's best not to let me see you, otherwise the debt will never end with us..." Jiang Ru held onto his sleeves tightly, tears still falling down.

How could she just disappear like this regardless of her feelings?

"Ru'er..." Jiang Feng and his wife, who stood behind Jiang Ru for a long time, finally couldn't stand it anymore, and couldn't help calling out her name.

"Father, mother?" Jiang Ru suddenly turned around, "Why are you here?"

"We've all heard about it," Mrs. Jiang walked over and hugged her daughter distressedly, "That child Xiaoyi..."

"She'll be fine!" Jiang Ru immediately interrupted her mother, as if afraid that she might say something unlucky, "I believe she will be fine."

"What are you going to do now?" Jiang Feng said quietly.

"I won't go back," Jiang Ru looked directly at Jiang Feng, "I will take care of Rongshun Palace until she comes back."

"Girl, these are all your wishful thinking," Jiang Feng ruthlessly pierced her fantasy, "What if she doesn't come back?"

"Then I'll stay here for the rest of my life, and if I enter their Baili family's imperial tomb in a hundred years, the former emperor of the Yucheng Dynasty will probably not have any objections." Jiang Ru smiled and said seriously, "Father, I know what you think , and I don’t force you to accept it now. My daughter has never disobeyed your wishes since she was a child, but this time I hope you can fulfill us.”

Jiang Feng didn't expect Jiang Ru's attitude to be so firm that there was no room for turning around.Knowing that this daughter's character is not usually stubborn, and training it now will cause counterproductive results, let her figure it out by herself: "Forget it, you can do it yourself."