Chapter 53

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“This…” the housekeeper was brimming with embarrassment, “The king has instructed that no one can say anything about this! Even if the Princess wants to kill her servant, I would not dare to mention it.”

Hearing such righteous speech, Zhu Yan became so angry that she raised her hand and wanted to give this man a blow. Next to him, Grandma Sheng quickly exclaimed and stepped forward to pull him away, saying repeatedly with a sharp voice: “My precious Princess ay, ay… you have just gotten well, how is this going to help you? Quickly let go, quickly let go…”

Zhu Yan glanced at the housekeeper, sneered, and actually lowered her hand completely. While everyone breathed a sigh of relief, she suddenly reached out her hand quickly as lightning and nudged the housekeeper’s eyebrow! A stream of light from her fingertips penetrated the housekeeper’s forehead, caught by surprise. It was the art of mind-reading – in just a moment she penetrated into the innermost thoughts of this tight-lipped loyal servant and extracted all the secrets she wanted to know instantly and straight away!

“Princess!” Grandma Sheng didn’t know what was happening and rushed over to separate the two of them, grabbing her hand in a deadly grip, “What are you doing? Heaven… you, you’ve made the housekeeper faint!”

However, in that one moment Zhu Yan had already gained insight into everything and took two steps backwards, “What?!”

As her fingers moved away, the housekeeper facing her immediately collapsed, his face as pale as paper. However, Zhu Yan didn’t care about him at all and just stood there in a daze. Suddenly, with a stomp of her foot, she rolled on her toes and headed inside.

“Princess… Princess!” Grandma Sheng helped the housekeeper up and pinched him hard to wake him up. Over there, however, she saw Zhu Yan rushing into the room, casually gathering some luggage and quickly heading out of the door, so she couldn’t help but be startled and hurriedly rushed up, screaming in agony, “My little Princess! What are you trying to do again?”

“I’m going to the Imperial Capital!” Zhu Yan gritted her teeth.

Grandma was confused, “To the Imperial Capital? What for?”

“Go and stop that bastard of a Father! If I don’t go, he… is going to sell me out all over again!” She said with hatred, almost crying out. Yes, just now, she had extracted straight from the housekeeper’s mind the words her father had spoken, sentence by sentence, as if she had witnessed them in person…

“Since Ah-Yan is not seriously injured, I will go back to the Imperial Capital first, the White King is still waiting for me! It’s an extremely urgent matter there, so I cannot afford to delay. Keep an eye on Ah-Yan for me and don’t let anything else go wrong.”

“The King is secretly meeting with the White King, could it be that he wants an alliance between the two Clans?”

“Yes, the White King has proposed a marriage, and I must hurry over to meet with him. Once this marriage is successful, not only will my Clan regain its reputation, but Ah-Yan will also marry a good husband, so I will be relieved.”

She heard it only once, and it chilled her to the bone.

What? Her last husband has just died a few months ago and her father is actually planning to marry her off again! What does he think about his own daughter?

Zhu Yan, shaking with anger, took the horse and headed out.

Yes, she had to stop her father from doing such a stupid thing! If he insisted on marrying her off again, she would break off her father-daughter ties with him! Then she would wander the world and never return to the Royal House again!

However, she was just about to mount her horse when she saw the scrawny child following behind and frowned impatiently, “Sumo, what’s wrong? You should just stay here! Do not follow me.”

The boy, however, shook his head and pulled at her reins, his eyes stubborn: “I’ll go with you.”

“Hey, I won’t let you following me to get involved! Don’t make a mess,” Zhu Yan was in a bad mood and got a bit impatient, so she used her horse whip to pluck away his hand and said out loud, “I’m just going out to do something important! Can’t you be more obedient?”

No, the child was also very stubborn and refused to let go – looking closely, there was in fact a deep fear and suspicion hidden in the depths of the child’s eyes, however, the Red Princess, who was in a hurry to leave, didn’t notice and was only furious: “Let go! If you don’t let go, I’ll smack you!”

But Sumo took a firm grip on the reins of her horse and still refused to let go.

“I’m really going to hit you!” She was so angry that she raised the whip high and smacked his hand – it was not a heavy blow, just to scare the child who would not let go of her, yet at that moment Sumo trembled momentarily and his eyes suddenly changed.

“You hit me?” The boy looked at the whip mark on the back of his hand with some disbelief, and glanced up at her again. Zhu Yan was stung by the look in his eyes, yet in her anger she did not immediately show weakness and angrily said, “Who told you to refuse to let go? You asked for the beating yourself!”

“…” Sumo suddenly let go of his hand and took a step back, looking at her with a deadly stare.

“Ahy, ahy, my little Princess, what are you making a fuss about?” Grandma Sheng took this opportunity to catch up and stopped the horse’s header, saying repeatedly with a distressed old face, “Get off the horse! Stop it, there’s a curfew everywhere now, where else do you want to go?”

“Martial law?” Zhu Yan froze for a moment, “Why?”

“Wasn’t it because of the incident at the Star Ocean Cloud Pavilion the day before yesterday? What a surprise, it was actually a stronghold of the Restoration Army there, harboring so many rebels!” Grandma Sheng slapped her thighs with an expression of disbelief, “Now the Lord Governor has sent his men to raid the Star Ocean Cloud, sealed off the entire city, and is searching door-to-door for the remaining members of the Restoration Army!”

“…” she was shocked to hear it and couldn’t help but blurt out, “Really?”

“Of course it’s true!” Grandma Sheng pulled on the reins and advised bitterly, “There is a martial law outside now and no one is allowed to leave the city without a handwritten order from the Lord Governor – how could you possibly go out?”

Zhu Yan froze for a moment, and a gloomy expression crossed her face.

Yuan was originally the Left Envoy of the Restoration Army, but now he had been killed by her Master. The situation might be even more serious if Bai Fenglin took this opportunity to mobilize his army to search the entire city – her heart sank with concern when she thought about this.

Yes, she still needs to go out and find what’s going on outside.

Without saying a word, Zhu Yan pushed away Grandma Sheng’s hand and said, “No matter what, I’m still going to make a visit!”

“Aiyo, my little Princess!” Grandma Sheng cried out in agony, “You are trying to kill me!”

“Don’t worry, I will go to the Governor’s Mansion first and ask Bai Fenglin for a warrant to leave the city, I won’t mess around.” Zhu Yan paused, reassured the Nanny, and pointed at Sumo on the side, “You guys stay here at the Palace, just keep an eye on this little brat for me.”

“No! I don’t want to stay here alone…” the child shouted instead, looking around with a hint of fear in his voice, “It’s… full of Kongsang people here!”

“Don’t worry, they won’t mistreat you. I’m just going to run an errand and will be right back.” She pondered for a moment, took out a handwritten journal from her bosom and tossed it into Sumo’s arms, “Here, I’ve translated it all into Kongsang, you should be able to read it. Come back and ask me if you don’t understand something – and remember don’t show it to anyone else.”

Yet Sumo just stood there, gazing at her, without speaking. This solitary, thin child had the expression of a battered adult in his eyes so often.

The streets were as busy and bustling as usual, with nothing unusual in sight. A quick glance revealed that there was no longer a single shark in the hustling crowd. As Zhu Yan galloped down the street, she saw warriors stationed at every intersection, checking the pedestrians one by one, and many of them were knocking on the doors of every house, not missing a single one.

Relying on the token of the Red King’s Palace on her waist, she made her way through many barriers without incident and sped towards the Governor’s Palace with anxiety. However, before a junction, she caught a glimpse of something from the corner of her eye and suddenly halted her horse and looked up at the wall.

There were several bulletins posted there with some pictures of people who were on a Wanted list.

The surface of one of them was depicted with a face she was very familiar with. Underneath it was written, “The Left Envoy of the Restoration Army, Zhi Yuan. Three thousand golden baht for capturing, two thousand baht for killing, one thousand baht for surrendering.”

“What?” Zhu Yan was taken aback and couldn’t help but turn her head to ask the soldier next to her, “Isn’t this… this Left Envoy of the Restoration Army dead? Why is he still wanted?”

“When did it happen? He is obviously still alive!” The soldier shook his head, “If he was really dead, would Yecheng still be turned upside down by him?”

“What?” Zhu Yan’s whole body shook as she gripped the soldier over, “Truly alive?”

“Dang… of course it’s true!” The soldier was stunned.

“…” All she could feel was her hands shaking and her eyes going blank for a moment. Without saying a second word, she threw away the soldier who was about to run out of breath, tore the wanted notice off the wall as quickly as she could, and spurred her horse into a wild gallop towards the Governor’s Mansion. Yuan… Yuan is still alive! He, had he survived his Master’s Heavenly Punishment?

How can this be! No one has ever survived the Master’s Heavenly Punishment!

“Princess…?” It happened to be Bai Fenglin’s trusted confidant Fu Quan who was on duty at the door and recognized her at a glance; he was shocked and greeted her, “What brings you here? I’ve just returned from delivering your tonic to the Palace! I thought you were still ill, Your Highness? How come you are here now…”

“Is Bai Fenglin here?” Zhu Yan jumped off her horse, threw the whip to the boy at the door, and barged straight in.

“Your Highness please stay… Your Highness!” It was only when she had almost barged into the inner room that Fu Quan managed to stop her and apologized with a smile, “The Lord Governor is not in, he went out early in the morning.”

“How come he’s not here!” She was stunned and couldn’t help but stomp her foot, “Where did he go?”

“With such a big trouble at Star Ocean Cloud, the Governor is busy these days besieging the Restoration Army and is rarely at the Residence,” Fu Quan knew that this Princess was hot-tempered, so he spoke in an extra humble voice, “Today the Imperial Capital sent the Primus Army to help quell the rebellion, and the Governor went to greet General Qinggang early in the morning.”

“Well then, I will ask you the same thing then,” Zhu Yan didn’t say much as she tossed the Wanted Notice into his arms, “Is it true what it says?”

“Wh… what?” Fu Quan froze for a moment, unfolding the Wanted Notice and looking at it, murmuring with suspicion, “That’s right. The person on it is indeed the treacherous leader of the rebels!”

“That’s not what I’m talking about!” She frowned, “Is the person on this Wanted Notice still alive today…?”

Fu Quan couldn’t understand why she asked that for a moment, and after another glance at the Wanted Notice, he nodded and smiled mockingly, “Naturally, he is still alive. This leader of the rebel gang even led his men into Yecheng’s Water Prison three days ago, killing and injuring hundreds of people and taking dozens of prisoners of the Restoration Army…”

“Really?” Zhu Yan said with a sigh of relief, only to feel her body sway.

“Of course it’s true. Why do you ask this question?” Fu Quan was a little surprised and studied her face, “Could it be that the Princess has information on the whereabouts of this rebel head?”

She didn’t reply, just slowly fumbled to find a chair and sat down, sighing with relief.

There was a moment of silence before suddenly breaking into a fit of laughter.

“Princess… Princess?” Fu Quan froze. What was she laughing at?

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