My Love Comes to See the Grass on my Grave - Chapter 24

Gu Lang took a carriage and hid in the alley at the back door of Zheng Mansion.

This morning, the crown prince received news that Zhao Zhuo was being held in the water prison in the Zheng residence.

“The Zheng residence is heavily guarded, and the water prison is even worse.” The prince said, “If you want to force people out, I’m afraid it won’t be easy.”

Gu Lang looked at the other message in the letter in his hand, “Zheng Yufei was not in the mansion when he was Shen?”

“Yes, he invited Gao Cheng to the racecourse.” The crown prince pulled Gu Lang to sit at the table for breakfast. “After he leaves the residence, I will pretend to be him and go to the water prison to bring people out.”

Gu Lang said, “I’ll go too.”

“I’ll let someone meet you at the back door,” the prince said, “don’t worry, you can wait for news outside the city.”

Gu Lang said firmly: “I will go to the back door to meet you.”

The prince looked at him with bloodshot eyes that hadn’t slept all night, and said with relief, “Okay, then you have to be careful. Come on, eat more, you didn’t eat last night, and you’re not afraid of starving…”

Gu Lang looked at the prince who was serving porridge and felt that he had become Wu Qi again. It seemed that Prince Dayan ran out to frighten him and disappeared again.

He was in a trance, unable to identify who the person in front of him was.

During the application period, Zheng Yufei rode his horse and left the house. After a while, the guards of the Zheng residence saw him come back on horseback again.

The little servant came out to lead the horse and asked curiously, “What did your lord forget?”

Murong Yan, disguised as Zheng Yufei: “General Gao has something to do, and the appointment is changed tomorrow.”

Neither the guard nor the servant were suspicious, and Murong Yan entered the Zheng residence generously.

He crossed the courtyard, followed the map on the letter, and came to the water prison. There were two guards guarding the door, and Murong Yan asked them to open the door.

He walked in and saw a pool in the prison with a person tied to it. The man was bloodied and dying.

Zhao Zhuo raised his head laboriously, opened his eyes reluctantly, saw Zheng Yufei, and spat viciously, “Bah, treacherous villain!”

“Someone!” Murong Yan shouted, “Drag him out!”

“Yes!” The two guards outside the door walked in, opened the shackles for Zhao Zhuo, and dragged someone to follow Murong Yan out.

So, the guards of Zheng Mansion saw Zheng Yufei walking towards the back door with a sullen face, with two guards dragging a person behind him.

I don’t know if it was Murong Yan’s crow’s mouth. After Zheng Yufei arrived at the racecourse, Gao Cheng sent someone to send a message saying that he was unwell and would not come to race today.

Zheng Yufei drank a cup of tea, then got up and went back to the house.

He rode his horse to the door, the servant stood by the door, looked at him, looked back at the mansion, scratched his head and said, “Master, sir, you just… Didn’t you come back?”

Zheng Yufei’s expression changed, “What did you say?!”

The servant said, “I just saw you entering the manor…”

Zheng Yufei hurriedly dismounted, ran in, grabbed a guard and asked, “Where did you see me just now?!”

The guard said tremblingly, “You seem to be taking someone… to the back door…”

As soon as Murong Yan opened the door, he heard a noise behind him. Before the two guards could react, they had a pain in the back of their neck and were unconscious.

Murong Yan helped Zhao Zhuo out, and Zheng Yufei led someone to chase after him, “Stop!”

“Uncle Zhao!” Gu Lang, who was waiting outside the door, quickly helped him onto the carriage.

Murong Yan said, “You take Uncle Zhao first!”

“Then you…” Before Gu Lang could finish speaking, Murong Yan swung his whip and the horse jumped out.

“Stop them!” Zheng Yufei shouted, but saw more than a dozen men in black suddenly fall from the roof opposite, blocking the guards of Zheng Mansion.

The swords collided, clanging loudly. Murong Yan turned around and drew his sword, blocking Zheng Yufei’s angrily slashing at the carriage.

“Who are you?!” Zheng Yufei was fierce and kicked the same person in front of him.

Murong Yan dodged dodged, smashing the sword with a sword, “You don’t look good to someone.”

The battle between the two sides became more and more fierce, and the soldiers of the Zheng Mansion continued to pour out. At this moment, a carriage suddenly galloped up, and the groom shouted in horror, “Ahhhh…the horse is crazy! Ahhhh…”

The carriage collided with the scuffled crowd, and the people immediately turned on their backs. Murong Yan took the people and threw himself away while taking advantage of the chaos.

“Hey…” The prime minister covered his head and climbed out of the carriage, facing Zheng Yufei who was angry.

“Zheng… Commander Zheng?”

Zheng Yufei gritted his teeth, “Xu Zhiyan!”

The Prime Minister didn’t know why, looked at the people who were stumbling around, and asked, “This is… what’s wrong?”

Zheng Yufei: “What did you say?!”

The Prime Minister was also very dizzy. He came out of the palace and was going back to the palace in a carriage, but the horse suddenly went crazy, and he was still staring at the stars.

Gu Lang took Zhao Zhuo back to the bamboo forest outside the city.

He settled down with Zhao Zhuo, went down to the bamboo building, and saw the prince holding a green bamboo, cutting it while sitting on a chair.

Gu Lang walked over, his hands still stained with blood from Zhao Zhuo’s wound. He said, “Today I owe Your Highness a life, and I will pay it back tomorrow.”

The prince blew on the bamboo shavings and said amusedly, “What do I want your life to do?”

Gu Lang lowered his eyes and said, “I only have one life.”

“You don’t have to pay it back.” Bamboos in the forest were noisy and the greenery swayed. The prince put down the bamboo in his hand and looked at him with his chin on his back. “It’s alright.