Chapter 22: Fu Li Meets Huang

  "Haha, I originally thought you were just someone trying to find a foothold in the palace with your own charm, but it turns out you're quite clever," said Li Gonggong, narrowing his eyes in admiration. "After I killed Wan Guifei, on one hand to clear my name and on the other to frame Rui Wang, I pushed her into the pool again. Originally, I thought that was the end of it, but unexpectedly, I encountered a few meddling guards who came out of Lingxu Hall looking for me. I had no choice but to tell them someone was crying for help over there and have them rush to rescue."

  "What about the fact that I and Yin Chen left the palace last night, how did you know?" Fei Dian continued to ask, "Or are those guards following Yin Chen not sent by you either?"

  "It's only natural," said Li Gonggong, "As the chief eunuch of the Lingxu Hall, it's my duty to care about Your Majesty's safety."

  "Who believes you care about Yin Chen's safety? You just want to monitor him!"

  "Haha, you're really a straightforward person," said Li Gonggong with a smile. "Yes, I'd like to kill Yin Xiang too. All those people who have been standing at the starting line of desire for so long should die!"

  Fei Yan got the answer he wanted, and he didn't want to know anything more about Wan Ying's affairs. He changed the subject and asked, "Where did you hide Yin Huan?"

  "Hmph, Yin Huan?" Li Gonggong said disdainfully. "Neither you nor that little emperor will ever find him!"

  "Whether or not I find him, it's all the same to me, just as you said, I also dislike him." Fei Yan said lightly, "However, Yin Chen is innocent, he is also a pitiful child with a miserable life, and Yin Huan is his only loved one, so I still have to find Yin Huan."

  "Oh? You actually care about our emperor that much?" Li Gonggong sneered with a strange smile, "Stand still and don't move. Let me kill you. Who knows, I might spare Yin Huan if I'm in a good mood."

  "You didn't mention it and I almost forgot to ask," Fei Yan said calmly, "Why do you want to kill me? Before this, I had never even met you."

  "Haha……" Li Gonggong laughed and said, "Yes, you had no grudge against me initially, but you couldn't help but investigate Wan Feng's affairs. Today, while following Huang Shizi to play, you coincidentally saw the scroll that I dropped, which was something I had just stolen and hadn't sold yet. Suddenly, I thought that maybe you knew the truth because of this, or even if you didn't know, you would eventually suspect it, so I decided to kill you."

  "Haha, indeed a sufficiently foolish human," Flying Electric said with a cold smile. "I didn't even notice the scroll that accidentally fell out of your hands. Even if I had noticed it, I wouldn't have known it was something you stole. I suspect you're just bullying Yin Huan's guards because you seem to be their real master."

  "So that's how it is..." Li Gonggong said, "I guess I was just being paranoid. Whatever, you're going to die anyway."

  Li Gong said, raising the axe he had been holding in his hand.

  Fei Yan didn't show any fear, nor did he dodge, and continued to say, "You said that Yin Huan treated you in such a way that made you unbearable, so you want to kill Yin Huan. But the way you treated Yin Huan's guards and all the servants in Ling Xiao Hall, aren't you also being hated by others?"

  Fei Yan finished speaking, and Li Gonggong's face changed slightly, but immediately returned to normal. "I have the qualifications to bully them, it is the result of my endurance of pressure and torture for decades, but what about Yin Huan? What did he do? Why does he have such a good life?"

  "Is being born into royalty a good fate?" Fei Yan thought of what Yin Huai had said to them, "Isn't Yin Huan equivalent to having no parents from birth? He wandered for many years and only developed such a two-faced and treacherous personality in order to survive..."

  "That's enough!" Li Gonggong swung his axe at Fei Dian, "What qualifications do you have to defend him? What qualifications do you have to judge me? But I don't care anymore, anyway you're going to die now!"

  Fei Dian dodged calmly and slowly, unable to use his magical powers, he had no ability to counterattack, but he was not afraid. Until Li Gonggong's axe came again, at this time Fei Dian had already dodged to the edge of the pond, with nowhere to go.

  Li Gonggong had a somewhat evil smile on his face, and as he looked at the axe falling, Fei Yan's head would be separated from his body.

  Suddenly a sword flew in from somewhere and lay horizontally between the flying electric saw and the axe, the strong impact causing Li Gonggong to stumble backwards.

  He turned his head in some annoyance, and Fei Yan also turned to look at the newcomer, a black-clad Mirror Guard Captain standing effortlessly upright, with an air of righteousness on his face as he sheathed his sword, looking at the two people in front of him.

  "I never thought that as soon as I returned to the imperial palace, I would hear such a shocking truth. It turns out that the death of Consort Wan had nothing to do with Prince Rui, but was actually your doing, you despicable slave." Jing said coldly.

  "Hmph, Captain of the Imperial Guard, even if I had the power to defy heaven, I wouldn't be able to escape from you again," Li Gonggong got up from the ground and walked to the edge of the pool. "However, you can forget about finding Prince Huan!"

  Li Gong said, and then he jumped into the pool. Jing was caught off guard and hurriedly flew over to pull him back, but it was too late.

  "Hurry, go save him!" Jing urged Fei Dian, "He can't die, the Marquis of Huan has not found him yet!"

  Fei Dian opened his mouth as if to say "What qualifications do you have to order me around", but the words that came out were "I don't know how to swim..."

  Jing furrowed his brow, he didn't know how to swim either, and this place was where Ying Wutong started living. There were no other guards around, if it wasn't for Jing looking for Yin Huan passing by here, Fei Dian might have died here too.

  "You'd better give up," Fei Dian said calmly, "When it comes to life, if the owner doesn't cherish it and is determined to die with a stubborn heart, you can't save it no matter how hard you try. Life can be killed by one's own will."

  Jing couldn't help but admit that he didn't understand what Fei Dian was saying, but for the sake of Yin Huan's whereabouts, he still had to save this Li Gonggong who had already sunk to the bottom of the water, so he threw down Fei Dian to call for help.

  Fei Yan opened his mouth, although he felt a bit embarrassed to be saved by an inferior creature, but since childhood he knew that one should repay kindness, his "thank you" was still on his lips, Jing's figure had already disappeared.

  ……

  Yin Huan slowly opened his eyes, but everything was pitch black and he couldn't see a thing. The space seemed very narrow, and no matter which direction he moved, he would bump into hard walls.

  He wanted to cry for help, but his mouth was stuffed with something and he couldn't shout. He was both hungry and thirsty, and from a young age, he had never been treated like this before. He felt wronged, and his nose turned sour as tears fell.

  Choking back tears, Yin Huan suddenly thought that his brother must be worried about him now, and without him to protect his brother, would that idiot brother of his get into danger...

  No, can't cry, must conserve energy and wait for others to rescue him, brother can't be without himself, himself also can't be without brother!

  Yin Huan calmed down for a moment. He didn't know where he was or how thick the walls were, but he had to try and make himself heard by people outside.

  He concentrated all his strength on his back and crashed into the wall, the protruding stone blocks on the wall painfully hitting his back, he bit the thing in his mouth and continued to crash into the stone blocks behind.

  The sky had completely darkened, and Fuli walked into the forest that looked gloomy. He happily looked at the trees with their branches dancing in the wind, and for some reason, he felt amused. By now, Father and Emperor Brother should have finished talking, right? Then he realized he was gone, Father must be worried, searching everywhere but couldn't find him... then Emperor Brother would blame the eunuch who took care of him, and in a fit of anger, kill him...

  Hehe, Fuli got more and more excited, unknowingly walking to the middle of the forest. He felt a bit tired, so he leaned against a pile of stones to rest for a while.

  Tonight I'll sleep here and go back to see Father tomorrow, Father will definitely be anxious and cry. Fu Li thought with a smile.

  Suddenly, he heard some noise coming from behind him, "Bang - Bang -" one after another.

  Fu Li hastily stood up and looked at the pile of stones behind him, what was inside?

  He didn't feel a bit scared, he walked around the stone in a circle, was it someone who had been buried alive by stones in the imperial palace, or a dead zombie, or a little rabbit that had drilled in and couldn't get out?

  A strong curiosity drove Fowley to want to see what was inside, so he tried to move a smallest stone.

  But even the smallest stone was bigger than his entire body, and he couldn't move an inch.

  He had no choice but to sit down cross-legged, staring at the stone heap for a solution.

  Do I have to smash it? No way, this stone is too hard, it can't be smashed.

  What should I do then...

  "Ahhh——" A deafening roar suddenly came from behind Fu Li, he was startled and quickly turned his head to look, only to find a snow-white tiger had quietly appeared behind him.

  His eyes flashed with excitement, and he quickly reached out to touch the white tiger's body. The white tiger turned its head and let out a fierce growl at Fow Lei, pinning him down under its paw. It raised another paw, ready to strike.

  "No!" Fú Lǐdà yelled, "Don't hurt me, you stinky old tiger!"

  The white tiger didn't stop its movement, and a thread of fear finally appeared in Fow Lei Xin's heart. Could it be... that he would be buried under the tiger's claws? He closed his eyes in fear.

  However, the imagined pain did not fall on his body. The White Tiger turned around and looked at the stone heap behind him, which was still continuously transmitting the sound of collisions, and suddenly let go of Fu Li, walking towards the stone heap.

  It sniffed with its nose and then turned around to roar loudly outside the forest.

  Fu Li opened his eyes and immediately got up from the ground, hiding behind a tree closest to the stone pile, staring at the tiger... He really wanted to go ride it!

  After the white tiger's roar, it tilted its neck and bumped into the top layer of stones. The stone fell to the side of the stone pile, revealing a person hidden in the stone pile.

  The white tiger lowered its head, picked up the person covered in bloodstains with its mouth, gently placed him on the ground, and licked his wounds with its tongue.

  It is exactly the reunion of Yin Huan under the sky.