Pampered Consort Of The Fragrant Orchard Chapter 110.5: Shocking Changes in the Palace! (5)

“Can't find them.” Leng San said, “Could they have encountered any danger? Even during the marital send-off procession, we encountered an ambush.”

Han Mingyi looked back towards the sky to the north, pondered for a moment, and said, “No. Since we can't find any traces of them, withdraw the Flying Eagles. Send them to protect Du Xiuheng.”

“Yes.” Leng San turned around and left.

Han Mingyi looked at the cerulean blue sky and muttered, “With your ability, who knows what you've gotten yourself into again, hmm? It seems like you’re trying to rush back. Originally I was planning on having you wait until things are taken care of.”

Previously, Du Xiaoli had simply drawn a few strokes on Luo Qi's face and completely changed him into someone else. If she had dressed everyone up, with changed appearances, of course others wouldn't be able to find any trace of them.

“Someone come.” After thinking for a while, Han Mingyi called out.

“Master.” Leng Qi came in front of Han Mingyi.

“Go find Prime Minister Du and tell him about Li'er's matter, so he can rest a.s.sured.” Han Mingyi said.

“Understood.” Leng Qi took two steps back, turned around, and strode off.

“Leng Si.”

“Your subordinate is here.”

“Go bring those two generals here, we'll discuss our counterattack again.”

“Yes.”

Han Mingyi stayed in the courtyard for a while longer, waiting for the two men with black cloaks to come in before turning around and entering the house with them.

Li'er, I'll try to take care of these things before you come back...

In Du Yunhan's room: he had just gotten word of Du Xiaoli's disappearance and thinking something had happened to her, panicked. When Han Mingyi's message was sent over, it allowed Du Yunhan, who was originally planning to leave, to set his worries down and lie back into his bed.

By evening, several parties had gotten the news of Han Mingyi and Du Xiaoli's disappearance. Although the Empress Dowager was a bit surprised, she wasn't worried– it had only been a few days since they had set out to return, so it was unlikely that Han Mingyi would return in such a short time.

She had already decided– she would give it at most two more days. If Han Mingze still refused to reveal the whereabouts of the jade seal, she would have Han Minghong forcibly ascend to the throne: anyone unwilling to serve would be killed to set an example, and those who still remained unwilling– directly exterminated!

Han Minghong was extremely worried when he received word of Du Xiaoli's disappearance. He originally wanted to go look for her, but thinking that he could ascend to the throne at any time, he gave up and just sent some of his people to look for her whereabouts.

Zhong Meiqing got the news of Du Xiaoli's disappearance from the Empress Dowager and told Du Kexin– the mother and daughter pair gloated happily in their own house for quite some time. Zhong Meiqing even went to Du Yunhan's room to report this good news to him, leaving in satisfaction only after seeing the shock and pain on his face.

Nighttime. In the mountains.

The snow was blocking the road, and the nine horses were struggling to walk.

“This weather, really!” Ying Ge complained.

Du Xiaoli anxiously looked ahead. The wind and snow were too heavy, the horses' eyesight at night was not as good as humans', and it didn't help them to push on hurriedly like this. Considering that the last time they had rested was midnight last night, she proposed, “Why don't we find a place to rest for the night first.”

“Where can we rest on this big mountain?”

“We can look for a cave or a place where hunters stay when they hunt in the mountains.” Luo Qi answered.

Although everyone had internal power to protect their bodies, the horses couldn't take it anymore. With this windy and snowy weather, it was unsuitable to rush through the mountains, so everyone started searching in the mountains.

“Mistress, there is a house in the valley.” Xia Yuan pointed ahead of them and to the right.

Du Xiaoli looked over. Settled in a divot of the mountain, it seemed to be a house built by people who came up the mountain to hunt. “Let's go and take a look.”

And so the group led their horses over.

“This house is even quite big!”

“It seems like there are a lot of people who hunt here.”

Although the house only had one room, the room was large, and it was definitely no problem to take in their nine people and nine horses. Moreover, it looked like it had been repaired not long ago, and the layer of snow piled on top of it didn't affect the house’s structure.

“Bring the horses inside.”

Everyone dismounted and brought the horses together into the room– however just these nine horses alone took up two thirds of the room.

“Let's go gather some firewood.” Mu Shan and Mu Shui said.

“We'll go too.” Leng Yi and Leng Er said.

“No need.” Du Xiaoli said, “Someone has prepared it for us.”

“Who's so nice, preparing firewood for us?” Leng Er asked.

Du Xiaoli pointed behind the horses. She had been the first to come in, and had seen the firewood piled up inside the corner of the house. When Leng Er and the others came in, the horses in front of them had already blocked the firewood.

There was a lot of firewood; most likely restocked and acc.u.mulated by people regularly, so now it was just right to solve their urgent problem. Even if they were to look for firewood now, it would be wet and not easy to light.

“Ha, that saves us from going out.” Leng Er went over and carried a pile back.

Using matches he had brought, he lit the firewood on fire, and soon, the cold house became warm, and even the horses rested more peacefully.

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