The Marquis Is Innocent

The maid Su E Huang sent to wait for Ding Qu came hurriedly.

“Madam! General Ding has sent someone to ask you to go to Mau Long Gate and wait…”

Before she could finish her sentence, she ran into Su E Huang’s mutilated face. Her eyes opened wide as if she had seen a terrible ghost, screaming “Ah” and turning her head to run out.

Su E Huang subconsciously touched her face and immediately chased after her.

The maid heard the footsteps, turned her head in fear, and saw Su E Huang holding the blood-stained dagger in her hand. Su E Huang’s gaze was gloomy, and her face was like a severe ghost. The maid’s legs trembled in fear. She could not run anymore. Her knees went weak, fell to the ground, crying and begging for mercy: “Spare me! I am loyal to Madam! I didn’t see anything! I promise I won’t say anything…”

Su E Huang stabbed the maid to death with no expression on her face. She picked up the mask, put it back to cover her face, and hurriedly ran towards the Mao Long Gate.

The palace, which used to be full of singing and dancing, fell into chaos today.

The palace maids ran in all directions while the guards took advantage of the situation to rob the palace.

With the last few followers left, Su E Huang ran to the North Palace’s Mao Long Gate in one breath.

The place was empty, and no one waited for her as expected.

In her ears, she vaguely seemed to hear the shouts of Wei Shao’s soldiers entering the Zhuque Palace Gate.

She became agitated and couldn’t stop walking back and forth on the Mao Long Gate’s stairs, cursing. The golden beaded hairpins in her temples constantly trembled with her hurried steps.

“No more waiting, let’s go by ourselves–”

She gritted her teeth, stopped her footsteps, took her followers, and turned around to flee toward the Mao Long Garden when suddenly there was a chaotic sound of footsteps behind her.

When she turned around, she saw Ding Qu leading a group of followers hurrying toward her.

Su E Huang was overjoyed, called “General Ding,” and ran over with her skirt.

……

Ding Qu has long known the name of Madam Yulou. After joining Xing Xun’s side, he could see her face in person on one of the palace banquets. His heart secretly made a comparison.

Although she was far less beautiful than Wei Shao’s wife, she had a unique style. The butterfly mask over her face made her mysterious. Hearing that she was Xing Xun’s most favored woman in the Lotus Terrace, he inevitably had some thoughts. Without Xing Xun’s knowing, Ding Qu soon became the subject under Su E Huang’s skirt and was devoted to her.

Today, when the city collapsed, he came back in the chaos and saw her waiting at the Mao Long Gate, so he hurriedly welcomed her and said, “Madam, come with me! I know there is a passageway from the west gate. I may be able to fight to find a way out. I will protect you…”

Before his words finished, the yellow-gold butterfly mask on Su E Huang’s face abruptly fell to the ground when she was running.

Under the beautiful butterfly mask, it was a mutilated face.

Under the dazzling sunlight at noon, everything was clear.

Ding Qu stopped in his tracks in horror. His eyes glared like copper bells.

Su E Huang suddenly felt a chill on her face, looked up, and saw Ding Qu and his entourage instantly open their eyes wide. She realized she had not worn her mask correctly, so it fell off in the run. She was shocked, subconsciously screamed, and covered her face with her sleeve.

“General Ding! Don’t be afraid! I was not like this before! I was a beautiful woman. Everyone in Luoyang knows my name as Madam Yulou! It’s all because of Wei Shao! He made me like this! If you take me out of here, I will help you take over the world!”

Ding Qu stared at her face and could not believe his eyes. It finally dawned on him why she had never allowed him to spend the night with her. As if swallowing a fly, his face showed a heavy disgust and contempt, turned and ran away.

Su E Huang was shocked and immediately chased after him, pulling him by the sleeve from behind.

“General Ding, I was born with an extremely noble destiny. The fortune-teller said my destiny is very noble! You have to believe me–”

“Tear” sound.

Ding Qu drew his sword to cut off his sleeve, which she had tugged, and went away without looking back.

Su E Huang’s followers stared at her face in horror, slowly backed up, looked at each other, suddenly turned around, and each fled for their lives.

Su E Huang fell to the ground with a pale face. Her fingers clutched Ding Qu’s cut sleeve, shaking uncontrollably, and shouted: “General Ding, stay! You know the old thief Xing Xun’s treasures can exceed a country’s wealth! The gold and silver hidden in the Lotus Terrace is just a hair on his head! I asked him where he hid the other treasure while he was drunk! If you take me out of this place, I will repay you with the treasure!”

Ding Qu hesitated, stopped, and slowly turned back: “Are you telling the truth?”

Although Su E Huang’s face was still pale, she slowly regained her composure, bending down to pick up the butterfly mask that fell off, put it back on, and said: “Xing Xun, that old thief used to favor me. Others do not know, but don’t you know? What’s difficult for me to ask him where he hid his treasure? If you want to go, go! I will not force you! Lotus Terrace treasure, from today, belongs to Wei Shao! It’s a pity, the other treasure buried with me!”

Ding Qu was partially convinced and saw Su E Huang turn around and leave proudly.

He could not help but waver.

These years, Xing Xun scoured the world’s wealth and had them hidden in various places. Among them was hidden in Lotus Terrace, which the world knows.

At this moment, after listening to Su girl’s words, he immediately moved.

Although this ghost-faced ugly woman was hateful and disgusting and had cheated him to such an extent, he already arrived here. Furthermore, there was a hidden treasure, so it was better to believe her again. After escaping, if she has lied to him, it is not too late to kill her.

With greedy thoughts, he immediately changed his face and said: “Madam, stay! Come with me! If it’s too late, we won’t be able to escape!”

……

The people of Luoyang, who had closed their doors and guarded their homes, survived a long day with fear.

The sounds of fighting and killing coming from the direction of the city gates finally thinned out and stopped, changing into the sound of a neat and low marching pace coming from the main road of Ping City leading to the palace.

The curfew was imposed in Luoyang that night, and punishment came upon those who left their homes without permission. When the people stayed home, they saw a fire rising from the eastern suburbs outside the city. The fire blazed and burned throughout the night, lighting up the night sky of half of the eastern suburbs of Luoyang.

The next day, the news had spread.

Wei Shao, the Marquis of Yan from Youzhou, had seized Luoyang. After six months of being the emperor of Jiang’s Kingdom, Xing Xun died.

Wei Shao’s entire army stayed outside the four gates. Last night, he sent only two thousand soldiers and horses into the city to control the palace and the three government offices.

Luoyang Magistrate issued a peace bulletin early this morning, saying that the Marquis of Yan ordered that soldiers were unallowed to disturb the citizens. The people finally let out a long sigh of relief.

Immediately after, another news was circulating wildly in the community.

Rumor has it that the wife of the Marquis of Yan, Qiao’s daughter, was beautiful and charming. Xing Xun once said he would take Qiao’s daughter and keep her in Lotus Terrace. After the Marquis of Yan conquered Luoyang, the first thing he did last night was burn down the Lotus Terrace. Last night’s fire that lit up the night sky of half of Luoyang’s eastern suburbs was the fire that burned Lotus Terrace to the ground.