The Rebirth of an Orphan

Zhao Xihua looked at the two girls and said, "Don't worry. Although I am not a good person, I am definitely a man of my word. You just need to do as I tell you."

As she spoke, she took out some lamp oil and candles she had saved from making river lanterns from under her bed, handed them to the two maids and said, "I will be hiding in the half-pit dug over by the banana grove. You light my room on fire and make the fire as big as possible. Then the guards outside will come in to put out the fire. You can take advantage of the chaos to knock out a guard and drag him to the banana grove. I will then change into the guard's clothes. The scene will be very chaotic, so we can escape in the chaos."

The two girls widened their eyes. They didn't expect Zhao Xihua to come up with such an idea. And he went out through the main door openly. It was really something that not everyone would dare to think of.

Zhao Xihua added: "As long as we leave this house, we don't have to run too far before someone finds us."

Zhao Xihua was so confident because she believed that the Tianmen Camp established by Gu Lun was definitely not there to do nothing. The Tianmen Camp had done so many things for the Ninth Prince. Even if the Ling family and the Queen Mother Wang joined forces, they failed to destroy the Tianmen Camp. That meant he must be very powerful.

Soon, a fire broke out in the house where Zhao Xihua lived. The two maids who were guarding it screamed and called for the personal soldiers outside to come in and rescue.

The guards who were guarding outside discovered that a large number of sky lanterns floated out from the yard where Zhao Xihua lived. Just when they wanted to check what was going on, they didn't expect thick smoke to come out of the house again. The guards were scared. The person living in this yard was the apple of the eye of the major general. If anything went wrong, the major general could skin them alive.

"Hurry, hurry up and save Miss Zhao, otherwise it will be too late."

The bodyguards had no doubts at all. Some went out to find water, some rushed in to rescue people, and the whole house was suddenly in chaos.

The two maids who were guarding Zhao Xihua had some martial arts skills, and it was more than enough for them to deal with a personal soldier together. They quickly knocked out a lone personal soldier and dragged him behind the banana grove.

Zhao Xihua put on the clothes of the personal soldier, lowered his head, and followed the two maids out of the main door of the house one after another. The two maids pretended to report to the young general and took Zhao Xihua into the night while the house was in chaos.

It was already late at night, and bursts of shouting were heard from the interconnected alleys. The fire in this area, coupled with the strange sky lanterns in the sky, soon attracted people from the Five Cities Armaments Department.

Ling Zhi was also extremely anxious when he got the news, but he couldn't come to find Zhao Xihua in person. He had to stay in the Presidential Palace, so he had to send secret guards to help put out the fire. He didn't want to make a big deal out of it. If he attracted people from the Tianmen Camp, he would have no way out.

It didn't take long for Ling Zhi to realize that he had been tricked by Zhao Xihua. After the guards put out the fire in the house where Zhao Xihua lived, they found that there was no one in the house, not even a charred body. What was even more strange was that the two maids guarding Zhao Xihua were also missing, and Ling Zhi realized that the cunning woman had escaped.

Everyone thought that Zhao Xihua might escape from Kyoto, or escape to the Gu family or the Zhao family. No one expected that Zhao Xihua was hiding in a pile of firewood in the deepest part of the alley at this time.

For safety reasons, Zhao Xihua and the two girls hid separately. The two girls jumped onto the roof and lay on top of the house, while Zhao Xihua hid in a pile of firewood that emitted a fishy and foul smell. They lay there motionless, just waiting for the people chasing them to go far away, then she took the two girls out of the alley.

Zhao Xihua staggered, luckily she had the support of two girls beside her, otherwise she would not have been able to hold on for such a long and desperate escape.

Another burst of noise came, and Zhao Xihua's heart began to panic. The two girls beside her also secretly groaned. The doors on both sides of the alley were closed, and there was no place to hide.

"Let's go, run over there." The two girls were about to take Zhao Xihua and escape to an exit on the side of the alley, but Zhao Xihua suddenly grabbed the two girls' arms.

"Wait." The two girls were anxious. "Miss Zhao,"

Zhao Xihua stared at the oncoming car. She couldn't see the driver clearly, but the woman she saw when she opened the window next to her was very familiar to her.

The car drove towards them, and the dim headlights shone on Zhao Xihua's body. The woman in the car exclaimed: "Fourth sister?"

"Third sister," Zhao Xihua ran over happily.

The person in the car was Deng Xiao, and the person sitting next to him was Zhao Chishu. Deng Xiao had been looking for Zhao Xihua's whereabouts before, and they were dumbfounded when they learned that she was locked up in the Rain Viewing Terrace. It was okay in other places, but it was harder than climbing to the sky to get someone out of the Rain Viewing Terrace.

But Deng Xiao thought that Gu Lun was dead, his grandfather was also dead, and the person he cared about most was Zhao Xihua. If he couldn't even save her, Deng Xiao really had an urge to commit suicide in front of Gu Lun's spirit.

I just didn't expect that after all the hard work these days, I would have such a chance to meet Zhao Xihua. Before, I mobilized all the people in Tianmen Camp to search every inch, but there was no result.

He was worried that after Gu Lun died, Mo Yuan would also die. Seeing that the Third Prince was about to take the throne, he was most afraid that the Queen Mother would secretly execute Zhao Xihua in the next few days. He did not expect to discover that someone was releasing sky lanterns in this area of ​​Kyoto tonight.

He hurriedly ordered the people in Tianmen Camp to shoot down a few sky lanterns, only to find that there were words on the lampshades. Zhao Chishu happened to see them and said that they were words written by Zhao Xihua. He also discovered that they were acrostic poems written by Zhao Xihua, and found out the message that Zhao Xihua gave them from the poems.

They followed Zhao Xihua's instructions and waited for the people from the Five Cities Armaments Department to finish patrolling the area before they led their men to search in the alleys. Unexpectedly, they actually met the escaped Zhao Xihua.

"Fourth sister, I've had such a hard time looking for you." Zhao Chishu hugged Zhao Xihua and burst into tears. She was really scared. She thought she would never see her again, but unexpectedly she found her again. She was so excited that she didn't know what to say.

"Shu'er, let's take my sister-in-law away first. We can talk on the way." Deng Xiao had finally found Zhao Xihua, and he didn't dare to make any more mistakes.

He helped Zhao Xihua into the car, and then ordered people to carry the other two girls away as Zhao Xihua instructed.

Soon Deng Xiao brought Zhao Xihua, his wife and several bodyguards from the Tianmen Camp to a weed-covered riverbank, then boarded a dark sail boat and slowly headed downstream along the winding river.

Several people sat in the boat and finally breathed a sigh of relief. Zhao Chishu cooked hot porridge on the stove and gave it to Zhao Xihua to drink. Zhao Xihua was really hungry and ate it voraciously.