171, flying fire
The sudden loud noise shocked the Empress Dowager and asked in a deep voice, "What's wrong? Come and see!"
As soon as he finished speaking, two eunuchs ran towards the place where the sound was made. Seeing this, the others gathered back to the main hall in groups. Luo Xi also followed Xu Shu back to the hall. Xu Shu took advantage of the crowd and panic to get away from Luo Xi.
The two eunuchs who went to check soon came back and knelt down and replied, "Greeting back, it was the fireworks stored in the warehouse that were mistaken!"
"So that's it!" The Empress Dowager smiled, "A false alarm, a false alarm!"
Everyone was also known, but Xu Shu captured the fear in the eunuch's voice when she replied, "It's definitely not as simple as a simple firework being misled."
The Empress Dowager said again, "The imperial kitchen has prepared a banquet. After playing for a long time, you are tired. Please move on and have a meal!"
Immediately, a eunuch who was in charge of the ritual came forward and led everyone to the banquet.
Xu Shu listened carefully to the footsteps, and indeed heard the footsteps of the Empress Dowager leaving in a hurry, and walked in another direction. After thinking for a while, Xu Shu stopped following the crowd, gritted her teeth and followed the Empress Dowager.
The Empress Dowager was in a hurry all the way, and Xu Shu followed him very far away, but he was not followed. The Empress Dowager finally walked around the school martial arts field, and Wanfeng hurriedly grabbed Xu Shu, "Miss, there are so many people over there!"
Xu Shu stopped and Wanfeng hurriedly pulled Xu Shu to the hidden place, "Miss... Let's go, there are all guards here, it's bad if you are revealed..." Judging from this heavily guarded posture, there must be something very important. If they see them hiding here, they are afraid that their lives will be difficult to save.
Xu Shu shook her head, "This is my debt, I must pay it back!" After that, she took out another thing and gave it to Wanfeng, "Take this to the Queen of Kunning Palace, and you must hand it over to the Queen of the Queen! Also, this token was given by the Queen of the Great Emperor. If you encounter difficulties, you can help you get out!"
Wanfeng took the thing and refused to leave. Xu Shu raised her eyebrows and shouted, "Go away!" Wanfeng then put the things in his arms and left.
Xu Shu held her breath against the wall and heard the angry voice of the Empress Dowager inside the wall, "Master, this flying fire is powerful, how can you play with me!"
The emperor's awkward and lingering fear came, "Don't rest ashamed of anger, I didn't expect an accident!"
The Empress Dowager's face relaxed a little, but her tone was still very unhappy. "The emperor also knows what day it is, so why did he have to choose today for inspection? It would be fine if the guests were scared. If there was no mistake, the royal family would lose all their faces! The Ai family had said long ago that the flying fire was too variable and difficult to control. You need to be extremely careful. Don't use it easily when the time is not right, but the emperor refused to listen, and almost caused a big mess!"
The Empress Dowager was criticized in such mercilessly in front of the ministers. The emperor was a little embarrassed and coughed without responding. The Empress Dowager glanced at the intact target in the distance and the burned charred ground ten feet away, and even blamed him, "If you fall closer, you will hurt..." Before he finished speaking, the meaning was self-evident. If the Emperor was hurt, the consequences would be unimaginable!
The emperor patted the dust falling on his body and said calmly, "I have a sense of responsibility, so my mother doesn't have to worry!"
The Empress Dowager didn't care. She saw the flying fire bombs in boxes on the side prepared for experiments and scolded, "What else are you doing? Take them down!"
The officials on the side looked at the emperor. The emperor waved his hand and two guards came forward to carry the box out.
The official ordered, "Be careful, don't make any mistakes!"
The two guards looked at the charred ground, and carried the box in fear and moved slowly and carefully. When they went out, they tripped by the threshold. In a flash, several flying fire bombs rolled out. The two guards were so scared that their faces were pale and looked back at their commanders. Seeing that their commanders were concentrating on showing the new bows and arrows to the emperor, they did not notice the movements on their side, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief. They hurriedly put down the box and wanted to pick up the rolling flying fire bombs.
While picking up, I suddenly heard the chief scolding, "Why are you still being stunned here? Why don't you send it back to the warehouse!" The two guards didn't care whether there was any fire bomb that they picked up, and hurriedly carried the box and left.
After the guard left, the entrance door was closed again. Xu Shu walked to the gate that had passed the corner and wanted to close it. After walking for more than ten steps, she suddenly squatted down and reached out to touch it. Sure enough, she felt a flying fire bomb leaked by the guard. As soon as she heard the sound, she noticed that a flying fire bomb had dropped here, but the guard did not pick it up. This saved her a lot of effort and it was too easy to get it!
Xu Shu bounced the flying fire into her sleeves and walked back along the road she came from without any hurry. She didn't walk far away. Xu Shu suddenly felt someone following her and couldn't help but speed up her pace, but she couldn't see her. No matter how fast she walked, she was slower than ordinary people. Moreover, she didn't have time to pay attention to the environment and road conditions as soon as she walked quickly, and she fell to the ground accidentally.
The moment he fell to the ground, Xu Shu tightly pinched her sleeves to prevent the fire bombs in her sleeves from being dropped out or falling on the ground for business accidents, so she could not care about other places at all.
Thinking of the dull sound of his knee hitting the hard stone slab, Xu Shu frowned tightly in pain, but she still had to check the flying fire bullets in her sleeves first, and then stood up slowly with the palace wall beside her.
I bent down and touched my knees through the skirt. A sudden burst of pain came. Through the layers of fabric, I could feel the stickiness between the skin and the fabric at my fingertips, which was the blood flowing out after the knees were broken.
The more he got injured his leg, the more he couldn't walk faster. Xu Shu simply dragged her legs and walked back slowly. Even if she was really caught by someone, it would be fine. At worst, she would die together!
Xu Shu thought so when she accepted her fate.
But the person following behind did not appear immediately. Even after Xu Shu slowed down, he slowed down his qualities. Xu Shu was confused and stopped. Unexpectedly, the person following behind him also stopped.
After standing for a moment, Xu Shu suddenly turned around and walked back. The person who was following him did not expect Xu Shu to do this. He was stunned for a moment and didn't know how to react. Should he follow him and walk backwards or go head-on?
Seeing Xu Shu getting closer and closer, the person following him was anxious, and his hand was ahead of his brain's reaction. He reached out to the back of Xu Shu's neck. Xu Shu didn't even have time to make a sound, and he fell down softly, but even though he fell down, he still tightly pinched her sleeves.
Chapter completed!