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Chapter 545: The Imperial Concubine is Pure and Elegant (296)

Chapter 545: The Imperial Concubine Is Pure and Elegant (Two Hundred and Ninety-Six)

The guards in the cellar greeted their master with a hasty salute, saying, "Your Majesty, Princess, it's all my fault for not keeping a close watch on her. This woman took the opportunity to commit suicide by taking the poison. The doctor has examined her and is convinced she can't be saved."

"No problem, she can easily hide the medicine."

Qiao Li went forward to check Wu Lan's breathing and found that she had indeed stopped breathing.

"Where are you sending her?"

"In reply to your question, Princess, this person assassinated you and the Crown Prince. Her death is not a pity. According to custom, she will not be allowed to enter the funeral cemetery and will be taken directly to the mass grave outside the northern suburbs of the city."

Qiao Li nodded, then asked the guard to come closer and whispered a few words to him. The guard's expression was a little shocked. He turned around and glanced at the dead man on the ground, then quickly replied, "Yes, Princess, please rest assured. I will do it right away."

After leaving the cell, Xuan Yunian asked, "Why bother with all this trouble? She has evil intentions. If she wants to die, let her die."

Qiao Li smiled and said, "My dear husband, if she really wanted to die, why would she do all this? Isn't it just a bet that I will be magnanimous towards the dead and won't cut her into pieces? I want to see her expression."

Xuan Yunian pulled her cloak tighter, held her hand and said with a smile: "Madam is right, Madam is kind. If I were your husband, I would not show mercy to the dead. She will have to die even if she doesn't want to."

Qiao Li shook his head and said, "I'm not merciful. These Wu people don't have any other skills, but they use this one skill over and over again, and it never fails. But she's really unlucky to have fallen into my hands today. If she just did it on impulse, it would be fine, but if she had someone to help her, she would be even more unlucky."

After Qiao Li finished speaking, the couple returned to the house together. At night, the cart carrying the corpse left the palace through a small gate and headed all the way to the mass grave. When they arrived at the location, two servants, without stopping, pushed the things off the cart and immediately drove away.

A quarter of an hour later, five men in black suddenly appeared at the mass grave.

"There is no ambush, hurry up and save the patriarch."

Several people came forward and carried the person on the ground away.

The sound of wind blew across the mass grave, and it seemed that several dark shadows flashed.

The next morning, Xuan Yunian's confidant whispered a few words to him. After the confidant left, Xuan Yunian said to Qiao Li, who had just left the house, "My people have already sneaked in."

Qiao Li was surprised and asked, "Oh? Last night?"

Qiao Li knew the answer from Xuan Yunian's smile. Well, she only wanted to get rid of the little tail, but Xuan Yunian wanted to catch them all in one fell swoop!

After saying goodbye to his daughter and Master Xuan Wen, Qiao Li got on the carriage and set off. Xuan Yunian would lead a group of people on horseback, and Xuan Shi and Qiao Li would follow behind, disguised as a caravan heading to Liangdu, and their speed would be slower.

Three days passed like this, and Xuan Shi told Qiao Li that the woman had woken up.

Wu Lan opened her eyes and saw the mother and son. She thought she was dazzled and screamed, "Why are you here?"

Xuan Shi touched his nose and said, "As you can see, my mother saw through your plan to fake your death. My mother was kind enough to think that you might want to hurry back to the capital to report the news, so she took you with her."

Wu Lan looked at Qiao Li, her eyes blazing with anger, and said, "How did you see through me? The poison was truly toxic, and I really couldn't breathe!"

Qiao Li chuckled and said, "I have some knowledge of medicine and poisons, and I happened to hear about the Wu clan's method of faking death. Especially that Wu Meng back then, didn't he also fake his death to escape the palace? Thinking of him, I went to the secret prison to see you. It was originally intended to be our last meeting, but we ended up meeting again today."

Wu Lan hadn't expected to escape successfully. She touched her rough face, which seemed to be covered with a special potion that concealed her true appearance. She felt that her trip to the northern border had truly failed. This wasn't the first time she had used the trick of faking her death to escape, and it had been discovered.

Because she did not take the antidote, Wu Lan's body could not recover. She currently had no internal strength, her hands and feet were weak, and she could not escape at all. She could only wait for her tribesmen to find her. So she had to be obedient and not make any noise along the way.

When the caravan was resting, Qiao Li was observing the outside through the gap in the curtains on the carriage. When he saw a small and strange symbol, he sneered and said, "Wu Lan, you're dreaming if you want someone to save her."

When the caravan entered Liangdu, Wu Lan was held in solitary confinement, her face becoming increasingly gloomy. She finally understood that her men either did not want to rescue her or were simply unable to rescue her.