Chapter 20: Yin Huan Encounters an Ambush

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  Yin Huan panted as he ran, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that his imperial brother was not considerate, actually sneaking out of the palace so late without notifying him, and definitely not bringing many guards with him.

  What if something happens to him? What will happen to this country of Li? What will happen to himself?

  "Hmph, stupid imperial brother!" Yin Huan kicked the pebbles at his feet. "Hey, hurry up!"

  He didn't even turn his head and ordered Li Gonggong and the guards who should have followed him, but after he finished speaking, surprisingly no one responded to him.

  What? Have they all been infected with the habit of that handsome but arrogant man in white who ignores people? Yin Huan turned his head back angrily, wanting to scold them severely, but... he suddenly discovered that none of the people who should have followed him were there!

  Yin Huan felt a little scared in his heart. He remembered this road, because of the reason of no shadow and no trace, there were never many people on this road, but now it was daytime, it shouldn't be quiet to this extent, it seemed that even birds and cicadas didn't exist.

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  "Hey, come quickly!" Yin Huan shouted around.

  He also knew that one of his brother's concubines who had died recently was said to have fallen into the water on this very road, and before she died, Yin Huan had sent someone over to give her a warning, with the sole purpose of making her stop pestering his brother, without any intention of harming her.

  But... if she becomes a female ghost, will she still resent me?

  As soon as he thought of this, Yin Huan felt a chill run down his spine. He wanted to leave quickly and took big strides towards the Golden Temple, but suddenly found that as he moved, the scenery around him seemed to be running with him...

  What the... Is this for real?

  He fell to the ground in fright, his small fists clenched, and shouted loudly at the empty air where no life existed, "Don't think I'm afraid of you! I'm not afraid of anything! Who cares if you're a ghost or a monster!"

  As soon as the words fell, Yin Huan suddenly felt a gust of evil wind coming from behind him. He turned his head abruptly and before he could see what it was, he felt a numbness in his neck and lost consciousness.

  ……

  After meeting Yin Huan, Fei Dian spent the entire afternoon in a daze, with his hands supporting his cheeks. In his mind, he kept recalling what Xiao Die had told him: when they found Wan Feng, she had already fallen into the water once and was showing no signs of life; during the time they went to look for Ying Wutong, something unknown happened, and when they came back, Wan Feng fell into the water again, and it was Yin Huan's guard who fished out her body.

  Yin Jie said that the first fall into the water was done by Guoshi, but Ying Wuzong said that she did not drown to death...

  Yin Huan's guards, weren't they following Yin Cheng out of the palace only after hearing Yin Huan's orders? If so, it's also possible that those guards wouldn't have appeared at Wan Ying's death scene unless they heard Yin Huan's words. Who else would those guards listen to besides Yin Huan? Yin Cheng?

  That's right... Xiaodie said that when Wanying lay on the shore with a wet body for the first time, she saw a short and fat figure... Who is this person? Yin Huan? If it were him, Xiaodie should have known immediately, after all, there aren't many children like that in the palace. Guoshi? He's tall and thin. Yin Ji? Yin Sheng? How is that possible... The perfectly shaped adult men of the Yin family, even a blind person wouldn't call them short and fat.

  I really want to use magic to see who killed Wan Xiang... No, Fei Yan shook his head, can't ruin his own mission for this matter.

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  "Rumble..." A sudden clap of thunder outside, Flying Electric raised his head, only to find that the sky had unknowingly darkened, and the summer rain was about to arrive.

  Fei Yan stood up and moved around, stretching his slightly numb body from sitting for a long time. He looked out the window at the bamboo leaves dancing in the somewhat annoying strong wind, thinking that Ying Wutong was indeed a noble person, able to find such a secluded place even within the imperial palace.

  Suddenly, Fei Yan saw a row of guards rushing in hastily. Were they here to take shelter from the rain?

  They entered the courtyard and began to rummage around, seemingly searching for something, but unfortunately to no avail. One of the guards hastily knocked on the door of the flying electric room and shouted, "Sir, please let us in, we're looking for someone, it's urgent!"

  Fei Dian witnessed all their movements in front of the window and was also curious about who they were looking for, so he opened the door to let them in and asked, "Who are you looking for?"

  "Your Majesty," a guard said, "Prince Huan has disappeared. Your order is to find him, even if it means turning the palace upside down."

  The guard finished answering and continued to search, Fei Dian supported his chin and looked at him, asking, "Yin Huan is a living person, if he's hiding here, he would have made some noise or movement by now."

  ...so, I'm afraid that when I find Yin Huan, he will already be...

  The guards did not pay attention to Fei Dian again and carefully searched every corner that could hide a child.

  "Yin Huan, missing, short and stout, guard, follow, command..." Fei Dian muttered to himself a few words that had been disconnected for a long time. Suddenly, a flash of white light appeared in his mind, and Fei Dian snapped his fingers. He had found a hypothesis that could explain everything!

  He was somewhat excited and wanted to go find Yin Sheng immediately. Perhaps his hypothesis could help Yin Sheng find Yin Huan!

  Fei Yan hastily rushed to the Golden Hall, just like before, and didn't wait for the announcement to burst in. However, he saw a long-whiskered man kneeling down and saying, "Your Majesty, Prince Huan has an auspicious appearance, nothing will happen to him. Please don't disrupt the formation!"

  Yin Sheng hastily helped the man up, "Fu Shangshu, it's not that I've lost my footing, but I'm really worried about Huan'er..."

  "Your Majesty, it's not necessarily Rui Wang who did this," said Fu Wan, "You're going to find him and give him the imperial seal, use the throne to protect Prince Huan. But you can't guarantee that Rui Wang won't harm you and Prince Huan in the future. You understood this when you were young, why don't you understand it now?"

  ！”

  Yin Sheng's face turned red with shame, his voice trembling with tears, "I was worried about Huan'er..."

  He wanted to cry but couldn't, could only redden his eyes and endure, Fei Dian suddenly felt a sharp heartache... Fei Dian thought of Yun You, brothers and sisters and grandma all protected him, but he didn't have anyone to protect him, suffered harm no one to tell, can only silently bear alone... He always forgot that he was also a not-too-big child, a hurt child who needed comfort.

  Fei Yan walked over lightly, thinking about what tone to use when speaking to this heartbroken person, but as soon as he opened his mouth, it was still the same cold and icy voice, "You want to find Yin Huan, why don't you let me help you?"

  Yin Sheng suddenly lifted his head, he remembered Fei Dian helping him find the cat, and knew that this fox demon was still good at finding people. He hastily pulled on Fei Dian's sleeve, "You... are you willing to help me find Huan Er?"

  "If you ask me, I will definitely not refuse."

  Yin Sheng's heart emerged with a glimmer of hope, this glimmer of hope even made him overlook that sentence, which would definitely not be refused.

  "I'm begging you, quickly find Huan'er for me..."

  "You don't need me," Fei Dian said without much expression, "You need to invite me, using the most equal tone, and call yourself 'I' instead of 'Your Majesty', this is the basic courtesy."

  Yin Chen, who wasn't raised with a silver spoon in his mouth, didn't have any airs about him and immediately said, "I'm asking you to find my missing younger brother, I'm worried about him..."

  ……

  Fu Li sat in the Bamboo Wind Pavilion, eating pastries brought by his loyal servant Gao Gonggong. His short legs couldn't reach the ground, so he hung them over the stool and swung them back and forth.

  They had been sitting for two hours, and Father and Emperor Ge were still talking, how boring. He secretly complained in his heart, then turned around to take a sneak peek at the high-ranking official, only to find that he had fallen asleep at some point. So, he quietly picked up two pastries from the table and jumped down from the stool, sneaking out of the room.

  The emperor brother and father did not take him out to play, so he found a place to play by himself.

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  A loud "boom" of thunder, and he found that the people in the palace seemed to suddenly become busy, with the neatly dressed guards hastily walking around looking for something.

  Fu Li quietly distanced himself from them, lest he be seen by the high-ranking official who had just passed by and be dragged back.

  Suddenly, a cat with an all-black body and four white paws jumped out from somewhere and stood in the middle of the path, staring at Fowle and meowing sweetly at him.

  "Your claws are so beautiful..." Fú Lí praised, beckoning to the cat with his finger, "Kitty, come here."

  This is Yin Sheng's little yellow chicken, it saw this child who was about the same size as Yin Huan and thought that a child of this size would like itself, so it ran over and jumped into his arms.

  "How beautiful......" Fu Li pinched its paws, suddenly he raised the corner of his mouth, and a completely unchildlike evil glint appeared in his eyes, "I really want to cut off all four of your paws and wear them on my body."

  Little Yellow Chicken suddenly felt a chill all over its body, a strong sense of danger transmitted through the boy's eyes, it wanted to jump down from his arms, but Fu Lei suddenly grabbed its tail.

  "Meow......" Little Yellow Chicken turned around, arched its back and fluffed out its feathers, glaring at Fowl Devil.

  Such intimidation was completely useless on Fuli. Fuli pulled out a knife from his sleeve and stared at Little Yellow Chicken with a sinister gaze, "Heh heh..."

  "Rumble——" Another thunder, the rain also fell with this thunder, and another great idea emerged in Fowley's mind. Fowley pulled off his own hairband, tied the four limbs of Little Yellow Chicken tightly together, and then threw it into the nearby bushes.

  "I wonder if cats are afraid of getting rained on." Fú Lǐ curled up his mouth and smiled slyly, "Let's see if the palace cat has the ability to untie its own bonds."

  The little yellow chicken stared at him with innocent eyes, its four legs tied together and unable to break free. It then rushed towards Fow Lei and clucked twice, seemingly pleading for mercy, yet also seeming to be perplexed by Fow Lei's actions.

  "Heh heh," Fuli smiled, "you can struggle here, it seems like there will be a very, very big rain..."

  After Fodi finished speaking, he continued his personal adventure in the imperial palace. He looked around and finally decided to head towards a dark forest.