Quickly Wear The Face Of The Devil

FOD Chap 5.8

Chapter 5.8

Soon, Qin Ce had no time to think about other things.

Because the capital had imposed martial law, he hadn't been able to sneak into the city last time. This time, he led a group of refugees to storm the city gates, leading to relaxed defenses and a great deal of chaos, it was a good opportunity to infiltrate the capital.

He made up an excuse to leave the Zhang family, and disguised himself as an imperial guard to easily sneak into the palace.

The emperor had a lot of loyal ministers in the court, if he died and the young crown prince quickly followed, the ministers would inevitably get suspicious and cause a lot of trouble. 

Therefore, the Empress Dowager didn't dare arrogantly touch the crown prince, planning to wait for her son to succeed the throne, then slowly poison the crown prince, so he could follow in his father's footsteps.

Qin Ce smoothly contacted the young crown prince, but when leaving the palace, he was accidentally spotted by some patrolling guards, leading to a city-wide manhunt.

At the same time, a young servant boy of the Zhu family also delivered some news. General Ding Yuan, heir to the Shen Wei Marquisate's deputy general, and the man the master was searching for had very consistent characteristics. 

He was 6ft tall, looked majestic, well-built, and smoked tobacco every day, which earned him the nickname Chimney in the army.

Zhou Yun Sheng was overjoyed at the news, he immediately spent a lot of money to bribe the capital's gate guards and snuck into the city, staying at the inn across from General Ding Yuan's residence, ready to guard a tree-stump, waiting for rabbits.

　After waiting for a whole day and never seeing the man's visage, he felt quite disheartened, and returned to his room to rest after a late dinner with Tweety and Lu-shi.

"Gongzi, your bath is ready, please get in." 

The inn servant filled the large wooden barrel behind the screen with hot water and flatteringly handed over a basket of flower petals.

"What's this?" 

Zhou Yun Sheng pointed to the basket of flowers, the corner of his mouth twitching.

"This was prepared by your maidservant, who said it would leave a sweet fragrance after the bath. I'll help Gongzi sprinkle some into the barrel."

Tweety and Lu-shi thought that their young master had come to the city to meet his lover, so naturally they envisioned everything. It was too late for Zhou Yun Sheng to block it, so he had no choice but to throw a piece of silver to the overly attentive inn worker, then stare at the floating petals, stunned.

Forget it, he could even give birth now, why should he care about this kind of thing? He smiled self-deprecatingly, took off his clothes and slowly sank into the water. 

Half-way through the bath, the window behind him was suddenly forcefully pushed in. A hooded man in black halted by the barrel and stared at him, astonished.

More precisely, he was staring at the sindoor between his eyebrows.

"You're a Ger?" 

The man in black blurted out.

"Little Black?" 

Zhou Yun Sheng quirked his eyebrows. Hearing messy footsteps downstairs, he dragged the stunned man into the barrel and pressed him under the water, then he quickly closed the window. Fortunately, the water was filled with petals, concealing everything.