Chapter 1288: Chapter 1289: Lured Out
“What else is there?”
“Don’t tell anyone about this matter. With identities like theirs vanishing in Nanzhao Country, if word spreads within Nanzhao, they’ll be in danger even if they haven’t disappeared.”
Xiang Chun responded with a quick “Understood” and hurried off to prepare the items needed for entering the palace.
Gu Youyou sat alone in the room, her brows tightly furrowed into a shape resembling the character for “river.” Before long, another maid ca in to report, saying, “Princess Consort, a Taoist priest from Sanqing Temple seeks an audience. He claims he has urgent business with you.”
“A Taoist priest from Sanqing Temple?” Gu Youyou was montarily startled and hastily asked, “Did he ntion his na?”
The maid replied, “He said his na is Zhiqiu.”
Zhiqiu? Gu Youyou had never heard this na before.
With so many Taoist priests in Sanqing Temple, there were plenty whose nas she didn’t know.
Just now, people from the Yue Marquess’s household ntioned that Jin Zijin and Yue Rujing had gone missing. Now, a Taoist priest from Sanqing Temple arrived claiming urgent business with Gu Youyou.
There must be so connection between the two.
Gu Youyou quickly rose and followed the maid out to see the Taoist priest nad Zhiqiu.
Xiang Chun had just finished preparing the items needed for entering the palace when she saw Gu Youyou hurrying away. Full of urgency, she called out, “Princess Consort, you haven’t changed your clothes yet! Wait for your servant!”
Xiang Chun, flustered, grabbed the prepared items and rushed out but could no longer see any trace of Gu Youyou.
“Where is the Princess Consort?” she asked the servant stationed at the gate.
“She talked with the Taoist priest from Sanqing Temple for a while and then left.”
“Where did she go?” Xiang Chun asked anxiously.
The gate servant dared not inquire about Gu Youyou’s destination and could only shake his head at Xiang Chun, saying, “I don’t know.”
The carriage Xiang Chun prepared was now being taken out by Gui Yunxi. He had tid his arrival perfectly, only to find Xiang Chun looking panicked but with no sign of Gu Youyou.
He asked, “The Princess Consort hasn’t co out yet?”
Xiang Chun replied hastily, “She left, she’s been gone for quite a while.”
anwhile, Gu Youyou was in a small grove not far from her ho.
She followed the young Taoist priest Zhiqiu to this grove, where he finally stopped walking.
“Now can you tell ? Where exactly are they?”
Zhiqiu turned around, his face devoid of emotion, and stared at Gu Youyou.
Seeing his unnatural expression, a sinking feeling gripped Gu Youyou’s heart.
Just at that mont, Zhiqiu opened his mouth to speak, “It was you who killed Brother Zhuo Qing years ago, wasn’t it?”
“Zhuo Qing?” The na had almost faded from Gu Youyou’s mory. It was only when this young Taoist priest ntioned it that she rembered who it belonged to.
Back then, in that ancient tomb, in order to escape, they had orchestrated a carbon monoxide poisoning accident that killed Zhuo Qing.
They managed to flee but were ultimately captured again.
With the surroundings eerily silent, Gu Youyou now knew she had fallen for a trap, and she was in danger.
Although things had changed since Xuanzong’s reign, there were still so die-hard followers of Yu Jizi lurking around. It seed that this young Taoist priest, Zhiqiu, was one of them.
Gu Youyou cautiously eyed him and said, “I didn’t kill Zhuo Qing. He died in his sleep, and it had nothing to do with .”
At this mont, she could only stall for ti. She hoped Xiang Chun would show so cleverness, notice her absence, and imdiately send people to look for her.
This grove wasn’t far from the gate. If people ca to search, they would find her sooner or later.
Zhiqiu let out a cold laugh and said, “I saw it with my own eyes—how they all died in that tomb. Even my master was deceived by you, wasn’t he?”
Gu Youyou sneered, “You’ve got it wrong. That old bastard sched against first. How could a re woman like possibly deceive him?”
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