588 Assassinating the Emperor (3)
If not for the fact that the construction of the tunnel required too many people, she would definitely not have wasted time explaining it to them.
Seeing that she actually dared to attack his people, the commander quickly waved his hand and got someone to take her down.
Unexpectedly, as soon as they surrounded him, they heard the guard, who had already turned pale from fear, exclaim, “There’s really someone here.”
“Who would be down there? You must have heard wrongly.” The guards looked at each other.
“Commander, there are people below. They’re shouting for help. Hurry up and save them.” The guard jumped up and casually picked up a wooden stick to start digging.
He did not look like he was pretending at all. The others also leaned forward to listen. As expected, they heard a weak voice, and it came from more than one person.
Could it be that someone was buried alive inside?
Everyone did not dare to delay any longer. They picked up the things around them and squatted down to dig.
The commander’s facial muscles twitched a few times. When he looked at the strange young lady again, she was already moving other stone pillars.
After some thought, he ran out to get someone and tools for digging.
Everyone picked up the materials. By the time Shen Yijia moved all the stone pillars away, a few pits had already been dug up by them.
However, what lay below was not the living pit they wanted, nor was it the passageway to the basement that Shen Yijia wanted. Instead, it was a tightly fitted iron plate.
The cry for help became clearer. It was on the other side of the iron plate.
Shen Yijia frowned. These definitely did not exist before, and it was impossible for them to be prepared overnight.
She was even more worried about Song Jingchen’s situation.
The dozen or so guards held shovels and chiseled for a long time, but there was no movement. Shen Yijia scratched her head in frustration and snatched one of them’s shovels.
She said coldly, “All of you, stand on the ground.”
No one knew what she meant, but they still subconsciously did as she said, including the impressive and awesome commander from before.
Shen Yijia shook the shovel in her hand, raised it, and stabbed it down.
The shovel broke, but the iron plate didn’t move.
It was not that there was no movement at all. Shen Yijia clearly felt something loosen.
“Give me another one.” Shen Yijia reached out and ignored the way everyone looked at the monster.
A guard beside her swallowed and handed over the shovel in a daze.
With a loud bang, it broke again.
Shen Yijia reached out. This time, without her saying anything, someone obediently handed her a shovel.
Four of them broke. When the fifth one was broken, the iron plate under her feet suddenly fell.
At the same time, a wave of heat assaulted his face.
Shen Yijia hurriedly stabbed the shovel into the soil beside her to stabilize herself. She used the momentum to jump to the ground.
After a few seconds, there was the sound of an iron plate falling to the ground.
Everyone saw the scene below clearly.
It was indeed no different from a living person’s pit, but it was a little big.
From the heat wave just now, it was not difficult to guess that there was a fire inside.
They sealed all the exits and lit another fire. If there was enough air, the people inside would be burned to death. If there wasn’t enough air, they would suffocate. They would die anyway.
However, it seemed that they were about to suffocate to death.
Shen Yijia did not break the other iron plates. She turned around and left.
She felt that You Yi had returned.
“Wait, what about the others?” someone called out to her.
Shen Yijia turned around and glanced at the person who spoke. It was the commander. She frowned. “There’s already one opening. Use that.”
With that, she ignored him and quickened her pace away from the crowd.
As soon as she entered the alley, You Yi appeared in front of her. “The old prince was arrested for attempting to assassinate the emperor. The palace is under martial law.”
Shen Yijia’s pupils constricted and she quickly asked, “What about my husband?”
The old prince was going to confess. How could he stab the useless emperor? Perhaps all of this was a trap.
“I came back after receiving this news.”
Just now, Shen Yijia had instructed her to send news to Song Jingchen or to spread the news from the palace immediately.
Shen Yijia’s heart skipped a beat. She clenched her fists a few times and wanted to hit someone, but she held back.
She turned around and ran. Halfway there, she stopped. “Take me home.”
You Yi glanced at her, grabbed her collar, and flew away.
“Jiajia, where did you go? Why are you like this?” Madam Li happened to come out of the kitchen.
“Mother, I’m fine. I have something to do later.” As Shen Yijia spoke, she had already entered Song Jingchen’s study.
Seeing her anxious expression, Madam Li was worried, but she was afraid of delaying her, so she could only suppress her doubts for the time being.
In less than ten minutes, Shen Yijia came out. She glanced at Madam Li and forced a smile to comfort her. “Mother, I’ll come back with my husband later.”
Madam Li wanted to say that Song Jingchen wouldn’t be off duty so early, but Shen Yijia was already gone.
