Chapter 304: 167 Rescue (First Watch)
“Now, the officials are all too afraid to move, and they are dispatching someone to our mansion seeking your confirmation,” they said.
Steward Liu was completely stunned.
Did someone just try to hustle the Marquis of Xuanping? Which student could be so audacious as to curse the Marquis to be buried underground?
Was he not afraid that the Marquis would annihilate his whole family?
The last person who dared to falsely use the name of the Marquis as a trick ended up having his tomb covered with two-meter-high grass!
However, Marquis Xuanping just gave a snort of laughter: “Interesting, very interesting. Chang Jing!”
A black-clad bodyguard rode his horse over: “My lord!”
Marquis Xuanping: “Go and save the people.”
Steward Liu was puzzled: “My lord, who are we saving?”
Marquis Xuanping couldn’t help but chuckle: “Isn’t it said that I’m buried under the ruins? Shouldn’t you hurry to save me?”
Chang Jing seriously answered: “Yes, sir!”
Marquis Xuanping: “And find out who that youngster is.”
Chang Jing left for the Music Hall with three bodyguards.
Steward Liu didn’t quite understand the Marquis’s actions: “Are you worried that the crown princess won’t last that long, so you’re rushing them to save her?”
Chang Jing is the bodyguard with the best martial skills under the Marquis. The Marquis’s intention to have him take action was obviously not merely to save one person. He wanted Chang Jing to rescue everyone, including the scholar who was impersonating him.
Steward Liu said: “My lord, that student was too bold. He even said that it’s you under the stone slab? Oh my, is he cursing that you wouldn’t get back up?”
Marquis Xuanping gave a cold laugh: “Do you think I would be so easily cursed? Those old officials at court, out of ten, eleven of them wish for my death.”
Steward Liu: “Ah…it’s not that exaggerated.”
Seven or eight out of ten, at most!
Mainly because Marquis Xuanping is too arrogant at court, taking advantage of the Emperor’s favor. He never reins in his sharpness.
He also openly bribes, yet when such cases reach the Emperor, he merely reprimands him.
After all, Marquis Xuanping is a great war hero of Zhan Country. The campaign against Chen Country a few years ago was won by him. He turned around the hostage situation in Zhan Country, instantly reducing Chen Country to a prisoner.
At present, there is still a hostage from Chen Country living in the Imperial Palace.
How Chen Country mistreated An County’s king in the past, they are now repaying double to that hostage.
Marquis Xuanping looking at the endless stream of people said, “These days, those who dare to publicly defy me are rare, how lonely I am…”
“But if the news of your meeting with the crown princess gets out…” This was what steward Liu worried the most.
Marquis Xuanping said arrogantly: “Being cautious is a choice for me, not a necessity.”
Chang Jing arrived at the Music Hall with his bodyguards.
The guards on duty did not recognize them, but they couldn’t stop them either.
Before anyone could understand what was happening, the four of them each took out a glimmering iron chain, crossed it over both ends of the large stone slab, and then simultaneously, they all flew up into the air, lifting the heavy stone slab!
The officials’ eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets.
My God, who are these masters?
Having safely placed the stone slab on an open area, they began to clear the collapsed scene.
This place could easily collapse again, thus Chang Jing and the others were very careful.
Meanwhile, Xiao Liulang managed to crawl through the numerous obstacles to Gu Jiao’s side.
Gu Jiao’s situation wasn’t good, the stone slab above her was too heavy, and the two stone slabs forming a crisscross pattern were being crushed downwards, making her chest constricted and breathing difficult.
Listening to that familiar breath, Xiao Liulang’s heart tightened, “Jiaojiao, is that you?”
Gu Jiao couldn’t speak.
Xiao Liulang didn’t dare to move the stone slab casually. He found her sleeve in the dark and held her hand, “Don’t be afraid.”
Gu Jiao gripped his hand back.
She was lying under the stone slab, he was kneeling outside the stone slab, holding her hand, all the while.
In the darkness, someone held her hand. It felt really nice.
After who knows how long, the large stone slab above their heads was finally moved. The dazzling light poured in.
Xiao Liulang found the right angle, one hand supporting the small stone slab on the left and the other pulling open the slab on the right.
Gu Jiao could finally breathe smoothly. She gasped for air.
Seeing her gasping like that, the lump in Xiao Liulang’s throat finally dropped.