Chapter 68 Chapter 68 Pointing to a way out

Qing Chuan stood up and said loudly: "I've endured it for a long time. Why can we Han court ladies only eat this simple food, while Manchu court ladies have meat and vegetables." Xuezhen said coldly: "This is the rule!" Qingchuan sneered, and said tit for tat: "Bullshit rules, sisters, think about it, we work more than them every day, and have less rest time than them, why do we have to endure such treatment?" As soon as this remark came out, many Han court ladies responded. Everyone was used to being bullied by Manchu court ladies. Seeing that someone was taking the lead in causing trouble, they all rushed over to help.

"It's true, I can't get enough to eat every day, and I don't even have any oil or water throughout the year." "We want fairness, we want fairness." Seeing Qingchuan taking the lead in making troubles, Xuezhen was unavoidably frightened, and yelled sternly, "What? You want to rebel? Someone, arrest them all!" "So what about the rebellion? Today we rebelled against you. Let me see how you explain to the court?" Qingchuan said, stepped forward to overturn the dinner table, and encouraged everyone: "Sisters, don't be afraid of them, and make things big If you do, the imperial court will know how hateful they are. Instead of living a life of torture here, it is better to fight for your own way of life. Sisters, go!"

For a while, the Manchu and Han court ladies all fought together.Xuezhen was shocked when she saw this, and hurriedly sent someone to call the imperial guards. A moment later, a group of imperial guards rushed in and surrounded the troublesome palace ladies. Seeing that the situation was under control, Xuezhen sized up Qingchuan and the others with sharp eyes, and said with a sneer, "Catch them all!" The imperial guards were about to make a move, but they heard a coquettish shout from outside the door, "Stop it all, and I will kill anyone who dares to move again." Everyone turned their heads and saw Nian Gengyao coming in from the outside with Yinshuang holding the disheveled Nian Gengyao.Seeing that the commander was restrained, the imperial guards were a little flustered for a while, and shouted: "Commander..."

Nian Gengyao still had the hairpin stuck around his neck, and the other end of the hairpin was tightly held in Yinshuang's hand. He didn't dare to provoke Yinshuang, so he yelled at the guards: "No! Do it! Put down your weapons first!" The imperial guards did not dare to act rashly, and hurriedly obeyed Nian Gengyao's order, and put the weapons in their hands on the ground.Taking advantage of this opportunity, Qingchuan rushed to Yinshuang with the maids who made trouble together, and Yinshuang asked Qingchuan in a low voice: "Qingchuan, shall we rush out together?"

Qing Chuan looked at the imperial guards, Xue Zhen and others outside the house, shook his head and said: "No, no one will care about the safety of the Commander once we leave the garden. At that time, we will only have a dead end. Let's go, go to the underground palace .” As he spoke, he held Nian Gengyao hostage together with Yinshuang, and led everyone back towards the underground palace.Seeing them retreating to the underground palace, Xuezhen felt at ease, there is no way out in the underground palace, as long as Qingchuan and the others go in, they are not afraid of them going out of the sky!Thinking of this, Xuezhen was not in a hurry, and only led the imperial guards to slowly push past.

After Qingchuan and others retreated into the underground palace, Nian Gengyao was held hostage by Yinshuang and guarded in front, while Qingchuan took a few court ladies to dig the tunnel.Unexpectedly, the mountain rock blocking the road was extremely huge, and even the efforts of several people could not move it away.When Nian Gengyao saw that the maids were trying to dig out from the underground palace, he couldn't help laughing, "It's useless, no matter how hard you dig, you won't be able to escape." Qing Chuan was taken aback for a moment, got up and walked in front of him, and asked, "Why?"

Nian Gengyao glanced at her disdainfully, and said with a sneer, "I was ordered to supervise the construction of this underground palace. I know the structure inside. There are walls outside the walls, and walls outside the walls. May go out." He is the commander of the imperial guards here, so what he said could not be false, everyone was immediately discouraged when they heard it, and some of them began to regret that they shouldn't be making trouble with Qingchuan. But Qingchuan didn't want to believe that all his hard work ended up being empty, so he took the tools and turned back to dig the tunnel.Seeing that he was being kidnapped by a group of mentally handicapped women, Nian Gengyao couldn't help but sneered, and laughed at himself, "I never thought that my majestic Nian Gengyao, who was smart all my life, would be ruined by a pair of women. Hahaha... ..."

Qing Chuan raised her head in astonishment when she heard the words, Nian Gengyao?Nian Gengyao, the important minister of Yongzheng?She looked at Nian Gengyao, looked him up and down, and asked in surprise, "Are you Nian Gengyao?" Seeing her expression like this, Nian Gengyao was not surprised, and asked, "Do you know me?" Qingchuan couldn't help laughing when he heard the words, most of the fear in his heart disappeared immediately, he just smiled and said: "It's good that you are Nian Gengyao, I believe we will be able to escape." Nian Gengyao was even more surprised to hear her say this, and asked, "Why?"

Qingchuan smiled mysteriously, and said, "Because you still have a lot of important things to do, you won't die here." He is just a small commander who guards the concubine's bedchamber in Xiaoling Mausoleum. No one has ever told him about any important things to do, let alone a small palace maid. Nian Gengyao felt even more strange. He forgot the hairpin in his neck and just asked, "How do you know?" Unexpectedly, Qing Chuan insisted on not saying the reason, but only said: "I just know." The two of them chatted and laughed freely here, but Yinshuang and the others at the side couldn't bear the mental pressure. The gate of the underground palace was already surrounded by the imperial guards. Even if Xuezhen didn't attack, she could trap them to death like this.

"What should we do now? I don't want to die, I don't want to die... How about this? Let's exchange Nian Gengyao with them, as if nothing happened today." Everyone was a little maid who had no idea. When they heard that nothing happened, they all nodded in agreement, but Qingchuan objected: "No, once the hostages are released, they have no bargaining chips. How could they Let us go?" But Yinshuang's mind has been tense until now, and it has already reached its limit. How could it be possible to listen to Qingchuan's words, so she only greeted the maids and said, "But, it's better than sitting here and waiting for death. Sisters, we have nowhere to go. This is the only way, if you are willing to fight with me, then follow me, if you are willing to stay, follow Qingchuan."

As soon as he finished speaking, he escorted Nian Gengyao and rushed out of the underground palace.Everyone hesitated for a moment, and hurriedly followed her and ran out.Qingchuan watched anxiously, but couldn't stop her, so she could only watch them swarming towards the outside of the underground palace. Outside the underground palace, Xuezhen had surrounded the entrance with archers from the imperial guards. Seeing Yinshuang and others escorting Nian Gengyao out of the underground palace, she immediately ordered the imperial guards to shoot arrows and attack.For a moment, the arrows rained heavily, and most of the maids were shot down.Seeing that the archers didn't care about his life, Nian Gengyao couldn't help shouting angrily: "I'm still here, how dare you shoot arrows? Believe it or not, I'll kill you?" But Xuezhen shouted loudly from behind the crowd: "Commander Nian has sacrificed himself to suppress the rebellion of the court ladies, so continue to shoot arrows." Those archers hesitated for a moment, then decisively drew their bows and released their arrows.Yinshuang couldn't dodge in time, and was shot by a feathered arrow in the chest. Nian Gengyao didn't care much, and quickly pushed her away, covered the wound on his neck with his hands, and quickly retreated into the underground palace. In the underground palace, Qingchuan was still digging the tunnel by himself, seeing Nian Gengyao stumbling back in alone, he couldn't help being startled, and asked him, "Where are they?" Nian Gengyao sneered and said, "These people are too shameless. Not only did they kill them, but I also wanted to kill them. Fortunately, I have sacrificed my life for so many years for them." Qing Chuan was taken aback, did those people who were alive just now died like this?Just thinking about it like this made her feel fear in her heart, and she couldn't help asking Nian Gengyao, "Are we going to die here?" But Nian Gengyao laughed loudly, "They thought they could trap us to death. They were wrong. Since I built this mausoleum, I naturally have a way to get out." Qing Chuan was overjoyed when he heard that, "Really?" Nian Gengyao nodded, and was about to say more, but suddenly felt his feet shaking, and couldn't help shouting: "It's broken, they touched the mechanism of the secret path, and the underground palace will be sealed soon." Qingchuan remembered that Xuezhen said that it would be seventy-seven and forty-nine days since the death of the old concubine tomorrow, and the underground palace would be sealed up. Now this incident happened suddenly. In order to suppress this matter, they had to advance it one day The underground palace was sealed.Once the underground palace is sealed, the air inside will be exhausted soon, and if the two of them still can't get out, they will have to suffocate inside! Qing Chuan was anxious and shouted: "Then let's go!" Nian Gengyao wanted to go forward to open the secret passage, but after walking a few steps, he fell to the ground because of the strong shaking in the underground palace.Qing Chuan was still pointing at him, and hurried forward to help her, but Nian Gengyao pushed her away and shouted, "Leave me alone. Hurry up and move the mechanism on the stone bed." There was already a gap in front of the stone bed, Qingchuan tried hard to open the gap, but the mechanism was extremely heavy, she exerted all her strength, but the stone door was still motionless.Nian Gengyao watched anxiously, and said bitterly: "Oh no, I forgot that it takes two hundred catties of strength to open this mechanism." The underground palace is already full of flying sand and rocks, and stones fall from the top of the head from time to time, and the underground palace is about to collapse.In panic, Qingchuan's eyes lit up, and he quickly overturned the altar with incense candle offerings in front of the stone bed, grabbed the table and stuffed it into the crevice of the stone, and then used the principle of leverage to use all his strength to go to the altar. Turn the other end, and with a dull creaking sound, the mechanism finally opened slowly. Qingchuan didn't care much, dragged Nian Gengyao from the ground and got into the secret passage, followed by a loud booming sound, and then dust rushed from behind.Qingchuan couldn't care about anything else, and ran forward with all his might, dragging Nian Gengyao along.The secret path was extremely long, and the feet were uneven. The two staggered and fell several times, and only after running for a quarter of an hour did they get out of a hidden cave.It was already dark outside, and the sky was full of stars. Nian Gengyao pushed Qingchuan away, sat down on the ground, gasped and said, "The Xiaoling Mausoleum has been left here, you and I are safe, let's part ways here!" Qingchuan glanced at his neck that was still bleeding, feeling a little unbearable in his heart, and said, "Your injury..." Nian Gengyao interrupted her coldly, "I can't die!" Qing Chuan escaped with him, feeling somewhat grateful to him in his heart, and said, "I'm still worried, why don't I take you to where you want to go." Nian Gengyao laughed out loud when he heard this, and said with a smile, "I'm a man of seven feet, why would I need a woman to send him off? Besides, I don't even know where I'm going?"