vrcanaries Chapter 1163 Shen Nanqiao was arrested (126 million reward points plus more)
Chapter 1163 Shen Nanqiao was arrested (126 million reward points plus more)
While everyone's attention is focused on the direction the emperor is leaving.
Shen Nanqiao suddenly pulled down the hood of his cloak, almost covering his entire pale face.
She hunched her back like a frightened bird, using the cover of the baggage carts and the crowd as a cover, and ran towards the outskirts of the camp with unsteady steps but exceptionally fast.
Every step he took was on broken branches and fallen leaves, and the subtle sound sounded like a drum beating in Shen Nanqiao's ears.
Her movements were hasty and awkward. She didn't care that the hem of her cloak had tripped her foot. She ran with one foot deep and one foot shallow, just wanting to escape from this place of death shrouded in flames as soon as possible.
However, not everyone was completely captivated by the emperor's departure or the capture of Duke Dingguo.
Xuanpin subconsciously glanced around, wanting to confirm whether the people she knew were safe.
It was this one glance that allowed her to catch Shen Nanqiao's sneaky figure!
The life or death of Concubine Chen's sister was uncertain, and His Majesty chased after her in a panic. Everyone was immersed in the huge change.
This Lu Shen, as the elder sister of Concubine Chen, is not worried or afraid at this moment, but instead wants to run away as if she has seen a ghost?
There is definitely a problem!
"Stop her!"
Xuanpin pointed her delicate jade finger at Shen Nanqiao's back as she was about to disappear into the darkness: "Quick! Stop Madam Lu! Don't let her get away!"
Two eunuchs and a palace maid nearby reacted very quickly.
Concubine Xuan's rank is not the highest, but she is good friends with Concubine Chen and is the mother of the Sixth Prince.
At this moment, when she gave the order, they rushed out almost instinctively!
When Shen Nanqiao heard the sound behind him, he was so frightened that he staggered and almost fell to the ground.
The instinct of survival made her burst out with amazing strength and rush forward regardless of anything!
But how could she, a pampered woman, outrun the well-trained palace maids?
Just as Shen Nanqiao rushed out a few steps, his arm was grasped tightly by a clamp-like hand!
Immediately afterwards, another eunuch arrived and rudely twisted her other arm.
The palace maid cleverly blocked her way of escape.
"Let me go! Let me go!"
Shen Nanqiao was like a live fish thrown into boiling water, bursting out with hysterical strength and struggling and twisting wildly.
Her cloak slipped off as it was torn, revealing her face, distorted by extreme fear and tears streaming down her face.
Shen Nanqiao's carefully applied makeup was blurred into a mess, and the noble attitude she had deliberately maintained in the past was gone.
She screamed, her voice distorted and broken by extreme panic, with a kind of bravado and madness: "I am Concubine Chen's biological sister! Why are you arresting me?!"
"I need to get out of here! I'm scared!"
"There are rebels here! There are Huns! Let me go!"
"I want to go home! Your Majesty! Your Majesty! This is an injustice!"
"I just want to go home! Let me go!"
Shen Nanqiao spoke incoherently, shouting these words over and over again.
It was as if she had fled only out of fear of the rebels and the Huns.
Xuanpin quickly stepped forward and looked at Shen Nanqiao who was being held down tightly, her delicate brows tightly furrowed.
There was deep confusion in her clear eyes.
Mrs. Lu’s reaction... is too much!
If she was just afraid of the rebels and the Huns, why didn't she run away just now, but became so panicked when the camp was already under the control of her own people?
Xuanpin's intuition told her that something was very wrong with Madam Lu, but she couldn't find any solid evidence...
"what happened?!"
Upon hearing the sound, Zhan Weiran strode over, his majestic gaze swept over Shen Nanqiao and Xuanpin, his face solemn.
The sudden changes in the camp and any suspicious movements were enough to touch his tense nerves.
Concubine Xuan gathered herself and pointed at Shen Nanqiao, who was still struggling and screaming in vain on the ground. She said, "Commander Zhan, Madam Lu was acting suspiciously just now. She ignored the ban and tried to escape the camp during the chaos."
"I feel...something is fishy!"
Zhan Weiran's sharp gaze cut across Shen Nanqiao's tear-stained face like a knife.
The repeated words "let me go" and "I'm afraid" sounded like an attempt to hide her panic to the experienced commander of the imperial guards.
"take away!"
Zhan Weiran didn't hesitate at all. His voice was as cold as iron: "Keep him under strict supervision. I will interrogate him after Your Majesty returns to the camp!"
"Yes!"
The two imperial guards dragged the limp Shen Nanqiao from the ground without mercy.
The rough action ripped her bun apart, Shen Nanqiao's pearl hairpin was askew, and the messy hair stuck to her tear-stained face.
She was dragged to the edge of the camp, to a makeshift prison, and her desperate and frantic cries gradually faded away in the night wind.
Leaving behind countless surprised and doubtful looks.
Luluo, who was curled up in place, witnessed the whole process of Shen Nanqiao being dragged away.
She lowered her head tightly, her body shaking uncontrollably, and she wished she could bury herself in the dirt beneath her feet.
It’s over…it’s all over!
The lady has been arrested. Will the hairpin containing the deadly poison, the terrible secret... be discovered?
Can this personal maid of mine... still survive?
Luoluo remembered the lady with extraordinary demeanor behind the horse feed pile that day.
The other party promised... that as long as she was obedient, he would save her life and send her away from this dangerous place!
Green ivy seemed to have grabbed the only life-saving straw, and its eyes swept across the crowd in panic like a frightened little animal.
Her gaze finally fell on Lin Wan who was not far away.
Lin Wan's face was expressionless. She looked calmly in the direction where Shen Nanqiao was dragged away, as if she was just watching a farce that had nothing to do with her.
Luoluo's heart suddenly shrank!
That lady... is the second young lady of the Duke Dingguo's Mansion?!
Duke Dingguo had just been arrested for treason, and she was a relative of the traitor!
She can't even protect herself, so what she said that day...does it still count?
Green ivy's body shook even more violently.
Live... Can I really survive?
……
Deep in the dense forest, the coldness quietly surged in from all directions, penetrating through layers of dead branches and leaves and seeping into the bone marrow.
The dry firewood that Gu Jinxiao found was burning cracklingly in a shallow pit that was dug temporarily.
The orange flames tried hard to lick the cold air, but were ultimately no match for the greedy swallowing of the cold night in late autumn.
The light from the fire grew dimmer and dimmer, like a candle in the wind, struggling to cast a last flickering glow of warmth around the two of them.
Shen Zhinian curled up beside the fire, next to a relatively dry rock.
The exhaustion from running was like a heavy tide, crashing into her consciousness wave after wave.
At first, she was still holding on, alert to any slight disturbance.
But the body eventually reached its limit.
Shen Zhinian's eyelids became heavier and heavier, his head leaned against the cold rock, his breathing became long and weak, and he fell into a semi-comatose sleep.
Gu Jinxiao sat cross-legged on the other side of the fire with his back to Shen Zhinian, holding a half-broken branch tightly in his hand, like a silent stone statue.