The Rebirth of the Deposed Empress

After hearing this, the guard asked the shaman to open the box.

The shaman quickly complied, opened all the boxes in front of him, and turned them over with his hands.

They are indeed all cloth.

Watching the shaman close the box again, the guard patted the box below.

"Are these also cloth?"

"Yes, yes, these boxes contain the same things."

When the guard heard the shaman say that the boxes contained the same things, he looked at him.

Hu Linxiao's caravan had been delayed at the city gate for too long, and a long queue had formed behind them.

As more people came, they started to make a noise, with a few voices of urging mixed in with the noise.

"Why aren't the people in front moving yet?"

"Hurry up, those in front!"

……

Hearing this urging, the shaman spoke tentatively:

"Sir, look at this..."

The guard closed the Guandie and returned it to him.

"Let's go."

"Ah, ah, ah, thank you, sir."

Soon, Hu Linxiao's caravan passed through the city gate and left Anyang City.

In just a moment, the caravan drove into the forest.

Because the carriage was moving too fast, it was inevitably bumpy, and the sound of Hu Linxiao's angry curses came from inside.

"You're rushing to your death by walking so fast! Are you going to drive me to death?"

The shaman sat outside the carriage and looked back, but the gate of Anyang City was no longer visible.

He breathed a sigh of relief and quickly pulled the reins to slow the horse down.

"My Lord, I am afraid it is too late to get back to Montauban before midnight tonight."

"We're not far from the Night Country, why are you panicking?"

The shaman quickly apologized and drove the carriage steadily towards the border.

The trees ahead were becoming increasingly sparse, and the forest was about to end.

Beyond this forest is the grassland, and we are out of the territory of the Night Kingdom.

Seeing that he was about to enter Montauban, the shaman's originally cautious expression relaxed visibly.

He waved the reins, urging the horse to speed up.

Just as the horses raised their front hooves and prepared to rush out of the forest, a group of men in dark tights suddenly appeared and surrounded the caravan.

Before the shaman could react, he was kicked off the carriage. Then the man tightened the reins hard, and the horse neighed and stopped at the edge of the forest.

Hu Linxiao was bumped in the carriage by the sudden stop. He lifted the curtain in front of him, stared with his eyes wide open and was about to get angry when he was silenced by the knife on his neck.

The shaman was stepped on the ground by someone and could not move. He watched helplessly as the boxes behind him were opened one by one and the cloth inside was turned out. There was anxiety in his eyes.

After checking the boxes in the first row and finding no problems, the person who was checking the boxes turned around and glanced at the shaman, who was obviously the guard just now.

It turned out that the guard just now was an elite soldier of the Black Iron Army ordered by Ye Yi. The elite soldier patted the box on the bottom floor and found that the sound made by that box was different from that of other boxes.

The shaman then claimed that the box was full of cloth, and the elite soldier concluded that the shaman must have hidden someone in the box.

If there hadn't been so many people at the city gate, and if the fight hadn't inevitably resulted in the injury of innocent people, the shaman would never have been able to leave Anyang City.

Sure enough, the elite soldiers found Luo Xue in the box of the lowest unit.

Luo Xue's identity as a spy from the Northern Kingdom had been confirmed, so she was thrown into prison directly after being caught.

In order to prevent the spy from committing suicide, Luo Xue has been acupunctured.

When Ye Buhuo and Hua Wuke arrived outside the prison door, they saw Luo Xue sitting on the ground with her back against the wall, unable to move.

Ye Buhuo tapped Luo Xue with his chin, and Ye Yi immediately stepped forward to untie Luo Xue's mute point.

"Miss Luo, is there anything you can tell me about the Fire Lotus Jade Pendant?"

Luo Xue closed her eyes, as if she didn't hear anything, and didn't react at all.

Seeing that she was so uncooperative, Hua Wu Ke said:

"I heard that the spies in the northern country all take a kind of poison and then take the antidote every three months, otherwise their bodies will fester and they will die."

"I wonder if what I said is right?"

Hearing this, Luo Xue opened her eyes and looked at her:

"Do you have an antidote?"

Hua Wu Ke shook his head, "Of course I didn't."

"But if you can't get out of this prison within three months, you won't get the antidote, right?"

Luo Xue curled her lips and smiled sarcastically.

"Do I still have a chance to get out of here alive?"

She said this and looked at Ye Buhuo again.

"Will Your Highness Prince An allow a spy to escape alive from here?"

"This king will not let a spy go easily."

"But if you are willing to cooperate with us and surrender to the Night Country, I may spare your life."

Hua Wu Ke nodded.

"If you surrender to His Highness, His Highness will naturally have a way to cure the poison in your body."

Ye Buhuo raised his eyebrows subtly and glanced at Hua Wuke. Suisui really thinks highly of me.

Hua Wu Ke looked back as a matter of course, that was of course.

Luo Xue has been an orphan since childhood and was just a pawn used in the Northern Kingdom. There is really nothing worth remembering about the Northern Kingdom for her.

She thought about it for a few breaths and made up her mind.

If you don’t cooperate, you will die, so it’s better to fight for a way to survive.

"The Fire Lotus Jade Pendant does exist."

In order to trick Lou Zhe and Hu Linxiao into taking the bait and to prevent the fake jade pendant from revealing a flaw, the Fire Lotus Jade Pendant that Lou Zhe saw in the theater that day was real.

Later, after Hu Linxiao kidnapped Luo Xue, the shaman received an order to send the Fire Lotus Jade Pendant away and not let the real jade pendant fall into the hands of outsiders.

Time was running out, and the shaman had no choice but to find a fake jade pendant of similar shape to fool the man.

Just like that, the real Fire Lotus Jade Pendant was swapped.

"We got rid of Lou Zhe to prevent the news of the Fire Lotus Jade Pendant from leaking out."

Ye Buhuo: "What is the secret of this Fire Lotus Jade Pendant?"

"Among the spies planted by the Northern Kingdom in the Night Kingdom, there is a leader, codenamed Fire Lotus."

"This Fire Lotus Jade Pendant is the symbol of leadership."

Unexpectedly, there were other spies involved behind this. Hua Wu Ke said:

"Do you know where this Fire Lotus is now and under what identity?"

Luo Xue shook her head and said:

"I only know that Huo Lian has been lurking in Ye Country for a long time and rarely contacts us on his own initiative."

"It was another person who gave us the task with this jade pendant."

Upon hearing the news that Huo Lian had been lying in ambush in Ye Country for a long time, Ye Buhuo and Hua Wuke looked at each other.

There was a solemn look in both of their eyes.

They had been lying in ambush for a long time and were very cautious. In order not to be exposed, they did not even contact their own people easily.

This person is probably lying in ambush in the most important place of the Night Kingdom - the capital.

Luo Xue gave an important clue, the Fire Lotus, and also drew the pattern of the Fire Lotus jade pendant.

Ye Buhuo also kept his promise and handed her over to Doctor Zhao, asking Doctor Zhao to study the poison in her body.

The matter of the Fire Lotus Jade Pendant has been solved, but now the two are worried that there are more dangerous spies lurking in the capital, so Ye Buhuo leaves the rest of the matter to Zuo Yunqing.

He took Hua Wu Ke and rushed to the capital without stopping.