TPATTHU Chapter 76

Chapter 76 Could it be that Xiao Zhinian sent someone to catch up so quickly?

Chapter 76 Could it be that Xiao Zhinian sent someone to catch up so quickly?

“Unable to turn the tide” was like a hammer flying over, heavily hitting the top of Xiao Zhinian’s head, making his ears buzz.

“How is it possible…” Xiao Zhinian staggered a step, obviously unwilling to believe Zhao Taiyi, suddenly became furious, grabbed Zhao Taiyi’s collar, and roared, “Nonsense! I want you to save him!! Save him!!”

Zhao Taiyi stammered, unable to form a complete sentence for a long time: “I, I…”

Xiao Zhinian didn’t have the patience to listen to him anymore, threw Zhao Taiyi to the ground with a backhand, his eyes were cold.

“Cough…”

Before Xiao Zhinian gave the order, a weak cough came from inside the gauze curtain.

Shen Zhejiang seemed to have known for a long time that his life was not long, and he didn’t have too many emotional fluctuations.

Xiao Zhinian roared, “Get out! All of you get out of here!”

Liu Bao and Zhao Taiyi retreated tremblingly, but Lan Shu still stood there, bowing her head and saying, “Reporting to Your Majesty, the Grand Empress Dowager accidentally fainted just now, I hope Your Majesty will go there.”

“What?” Because of Shen Zhejiang’s matter, Xiao Zhinian was already in a state of anxiety, and now with the Grand Empress Dowager, it was simply a mess. He suddenly shouted, “Liu Bao!”

“This servant is here!”

Liu Bao’s legs softened, and his knees fell to the ground.

Xiao Zhinian looked back at the person inside the curtain. Shen Zhejiang had also fainted. He took a deep breath to calm his mind and ordered, “You stay here to take care of the teacher. If there is anything, report it at any time, otherwise I will question you. Zhao Taiyi, follow me.”

Liu Bao replied, “This servant obeys the order.”

As soon as he finished speaking, a person hurriedly passed by. Xiao Zhinian led a group of people out the door.

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Dusk was approaching, and palace lanterns were lit one after another. The light that diffused out seemed particularly hazy and distant in the snow and wind, endlessly cold.

Shen Zhejiang woke up and found himself back in Yanqing Palace, lying on the bed he had slept on many times, his eyes still a little dazed.

Perhaps the Grand Empress Dowager was seriously ill, Xiao Zhinian had not returned until now.

That’s good.

Shen Zhejiang endured the pain left by Xiao Zhinian’s tossing, suppressed a cough, sat up, got out of bed, and took the cloak on the wooden stand and put it on.

Liu Bao brought a basin of hot water in, and ran into Shen Zhejiang’s face lightly, as if he was going out, and immediately felt bad, and immediately stopped him: “Shen Taifu, where are you going?”

“Leave the palace.”

Shen Zhejiang dropped the words coldly, without even looking at Liu Bao, and brushed past him.

Liu Bao secretly thought it was over, and quickly put down the basin of hot water to stop Shen Zhejiang, panicking: “His Majesty is still at the Grand Empress Dowager’s place, and he can’t get away for a while. If Taifu wants to leave the palace, why not wait until His Majesty comes back?”

Shen Zhejiang naturally wouldn’t listen.

He had to go to Qingfeng Tower. Han Zitang was transferred to Hancheng Qingzhou. The snow avalanche in Qingzhou was very dangerous. He couldn’t stop Xiao Zhinian’s decision, at least he had to see him off.

Moreover, the last time he met Han Zitang outside the palace, he seemed to have something to say to him. Perhaps because Xiao Zhinian was there, he didn’t want to say it directly.

He had a feeling that what Han Zitang said to him was related to him and Xiao Zhinian. He had to know what it was. If he missed this time, it would be difficult to know in the future.

Shen Zhejiang ignored Liu Bao’s persuasion, and without even holding an oil-paper umbrella, he walked quickly towards the palace gate in the snow.

The cold wind was like sharp knives piercing his face, and behind him was Liu Bao’s anxious voice when he chased him out, but it was swept into the night snow and disappeared.

Because he was worried that Xiao Zhinian would catch up with him, Shen Zhejiang walked very fast every step. A series of footprints were left on the snowy ground of the palace road, and the cloak was surging like waves in the wind.

Gradually, he finally saw the magnificent palace gate, standing like a mountain, at the end of his sight.

“Who is it?!”

There were four guards guarding the gate. The leading general noticed the approaching white figure and stopped him vigilantly with a long spear, and a roar shook off several layers of snow.

The snow was too heavy, and they didn’t recognize that this person was Shen Zhejiang.

Hearing this, Shen Zhejiang stopped.

He knew the rules in the palace too well. The palace gate was closed at night, and no one was allowed to go out without the emperor’s order. Those who broke in would be killed without mercy.

Shen Zhejiang didn’t intend to break out, his cold and stiff fingertips pinched a dragon scale ring and showed it to everyone, his tone as cold as his face: “Ordered to leave the palace, open the city gate.”

The four guards exchanged glances. How could such an important object from His Majesty appear in this person’s hands?

The leading general narrowed his eyes and stared at the ring in Shen Zhejiang’s hand, suspecting that this person was either forging it, or stealing it, or maybe it was real, but why did His Majesty send someone out so late, with thousands of doubts, and did not dare to act rashly for a while.

Xiao Zhinian never guarded against Shen Zhejiang, and when doing those things, he was afraid of hurting Shen Zhejiang. No matter how irrational he was, he would always take off these sharp things first. The same was true at noon. Shen Zhejiang took the opportunity to leave it secretly.

After a while, the leading general asked, “Who are you?”

Shen Zhejiang didn’t want to delay any longer, and said directly: “The people from Yanqing Palace, if you don’t let me go, delaying His Majesty’s important affairs, will you take the responsibility?”

Such weight was pressing on the general’s head. If what this person said was true, then he would not escape death, but if this person was deceiving him…

Looking at his clothes, he didn’t look like a palace servant, let alone a guard. Should he let him go?

“What is this doing?”

A deep voice sounded behind Shen Zhejiang, like a stone falling into the lake, startling Shen Zhejiang’s heart.

Could it be that Xiao Zhinian sent someone to catch up so quickly?