She strode out of the pavilion, away from the lake and out of the back garden.
Zhao Changde and others were guarding outside the door to the back garden. Seeing that she looked unhappy, they hurried over to her.
"Jing Tailai!" She stopped at the gate of the back garden.
"I am here!"
A burly middle-aged man as big as a bear flashed up to her, bowed, clasped his fists, and agreed in a deep voice.
He has thick eyebrows, big eyes and a simple and honest face.
"Call twenty guards, bring tools that can demolish the house, and go to the gate of the mansion!"
"Yes!" Jing Tailai clasped his fists and turned to leave.
"Princess?" Xiao Meiying felt something was wrong and whispered, "This is..."
Xiao Miaoxue's eyes widened and she said excitedly, "Princess, are you going to tear down the house? Whose house are you going to tear down?!"
Zhao Changde whispered: "Your Highness, don't forget the emperor's order. You can't leave the palace. Otherwise..."
"Such a nagging!" Dugu Shuming glared coldly.
Zhao Changde said with a stiff upper lip: "Your Highness, please think twice. The Emperor is still angry. If you disobey the imperial edict, it will only add fuel to the fire. I'm afraid the punishment will be even heavier!"
"Let him be!" Dugu Shuming said coldly: "Zhao Changde, shut up now!"
"...Yes." Zhao Changde bowed and stepped back.
He turned around and left quietly, quickly finding Su Ru.
When Dugu Shuming was about to step out of the house, Su Ru hurried over: "Your Highness!"
She stood in front of Dugu Shuming, her beautiful face calm and said, "Your Highness, are you going to disobey my order?!"
"Aunt Su, please get out of the way!" Dugu Shuming frowned.
Su Ru said: "Your Highness, do you know the punishment for disobeying the order? Even if you are a royal family, you will still be sentenced to death!"
"If you want to die, then die!" Dugu Shuming snorted.
Su Ru said: "Even if the emperor spares your life, you can forget about staying in the capital!"
"Just go!" Dugu Shuming sneered.
"Then has your Highness ever thought about Concubine Yu? Would you rather let Concubine Yu stay alone in Mingyu Palace?"
"Mother..."
"If His Highness is not here, how miserable it will be for Concubine Yu to be alone in the palace!"
Dugu Shuming frowned and glared at Su Ru.
Su Ru looked at her calmly, not taking a step back.
"Swish, swish, swish..." A cold light flashed at Dugu Shuming's waist, and then expanded into a cold light, and the surrounding flowers, branches and trees were torn into pieces.
The fragments fell down, Dugu Shuming sheathed his sword, turned around and walked back: "Let's disperse!"
"Yes, Your Highness!" Jing Tailai shouted in a deep voice.
Xiao Meiying and Xiao Miaoxue breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Su Ru with admiration.
The only person in the princess's mansion who can stop the princess is Aunt Su.
Dugu Shuming returned to the pavilion in the back garden and did not let anyone in. He quietly watched Li Chengkong lying on the couch.
…
Another sixteen days passed.
Dugu Shuming practiced hard in the back garden every day, but he was always one step short of breaking through to the Falling Star Realm.
Early in the morning, she sat beside Li Cheng's empty bed, staring at him with her bright eyes without blinking.
Time passed slowly, and when she was about to despair, Li Chengkong slowly opened his eyes, covered his chest and sat up.
Dugu Shuming quickly stuffed two elixirs into his mouth: "Heal your wounds quickly!"
Li Chengkong closed his eyes, white mist soon emerged from his head, and his face gradually turned red.
Dugu Shuming's heartstrings became more and more tense.
It was at this time that his condition took a sudden turn for the worse, rapidly deteriorating and causing him to die. Will it be the same this time?
After a while, Li Chengkong opened his eyes and said, "It's all right now."
"Hu——" Dugu Shuming let out a long breath.
Li Chengkong looked around.
The furniture and caisson were both exquisite and elegant, with a faint fragrance floating in the air. One could tell at a glance that it was a woman's room. Although the windows were closed, the faint sound of water could tell that it was on the lake in the back garden of the princess's mansion.
"Your Highness, a month has passed, right?"
"Um."
"Couldn't you hide it from the Emperor?"
"With that palm from old villain Yan, we will be able to hide it!" Dugu Shuming recounted what happened and his face darkened again.
I thought again of how hateful that old man Yan Kuan was.
Li Chengkong breathed a sigh of relief.
He was also still frightened.
As the saying goes, man proposes, God disposes. With so many variables, I am really lucky to be alive.
Moreover, he died twice in one breath and came back to life twice, which was equivalent to two trials of life and death, and his body became stronger.
The heart, in particular, is broken and then rebuilt, and is incredibly strong.
A strong heart means great strength and amazing powers.
"What are your plans for the future?" Dugu Shuming stepped forward to open the window of the waterside pavilion.
Li Chengkong hurriedly stopped him.
Dugu Shuming was puzzled.
Li Chengkong pointed to the northwest: "There is someone watching this side over there. Once the window is opened, they can see me."
Dugu Shuming frowned: "Impossible, everyone has evacuated!"
Li Chengkong smiled.
"Which direction?"
Li Chengkong stood up and walked to the window. He gently opened a crack and leaned in to take a look. "It's under the boat on the lake."
Dugu Shuming turned and walked out of the waterside pavilion, shouting, "Jing Tailai!"
"Your Highness!" Jing Tailai, who was as burly as a bear, stepped on the treetops from a distance. His strong body seemed to have no weight, and he hurried over on the lake.
Dugu Shuming put one hand behind his back and pointed to the boat at the northwest corner of the lake with the other hand: "There's a peeping guy over there, catch him!"
"Yes!" Jing Tailai shouted in a deep voice.
He stepped on the lake water and rushed towards the boat.
Li Chengkong's voice came from the waterside pavilion: "He can't catch that guy ."
Dugu Shuming said: "Jing Tailai is in the Great Light Realm!"
As the chief guard of the princess's mansion, Jing Tailai is a master of the Great Light Realm and the most powerful martial artist in the princess's mansion.
He can't catch him, and no one else can do anything about it.
Li Chengkong didn't say anything else.
Jing Tailai jumped to the side of the boat and shouted like thunder: "Come out!"
Throw out a punch.
"Bang!" A column of water shot up into the sky, ten feet high.
Jing Tailai threw another punch.
"Bang!" Another column of water shot up into the sky, two meters high.
"Bang!" A three-meter-high column of water.
There is a human figure hidden in this column of water.
He rushed to the top of the water column, broke through it, then stepped on the tip of the water column with both feet, and his body suddenly accelerated and shot away.
"How dare you!" Jing Tailai shouted and threw a punch.
There was a rumble of thunder in the void.
The gray figure suddenly turned around, pushed against the exploding fist force, and used the force to accelerate again.
He flew across the sky and over the waterside pavilion like an eagle.
Dugu Shuming watched the gray figure passing over his head and disappearing into the distance.
Although Jing Tailai was fast, he was left behind by more than a hundred meters and could not catch up with this guy at all.
Dugu Shuming jumped up, a cold light flashed at his waist, and chased after the gray figure.
But the grey figure was too fast and her sword couldn't reach him at all. She could only watch him run further and further away.
"Swish!" Amid the sound of clothes tearing, a ray of white light came out from the window of the pavilion, like a rainbow piercing the sun, and accurately hit the gray figure.
The gray figure fell straight down, and Jing Tailai, who was chasing him, reached out and grabbed him in mid-air.
But it was a thin middle-aged man with a flying knife stuck in his lower abdomen, his face was pale and his eyes were calm.