Chapter 58 Princess Yiyang
Going deeper into the new cave, Zhao Ji, Di Renjie and Li Yuanfang led the guards and continued forward.

I don’t know how long I walked before I saw an elegant wooden door.

Everyone opened the wooden door, and suddenly the inside was bright and revealed a different world.

There was a faint fragrance in the air, and the surrounding decoration was elegant and exquisite, making people mistakenly think that they had stepped into the boudoir of some lady from a noble family.

Deep in the cave, a wooden bed came into view. A light yellow silk curtain hung on the bed, and a human figure could be vaguely seen inside the curtain.

Zhao Ji walked to the wooden bed, pulled open the silk curtain, and touched it lightly. Unexpectedly, the person inside fell onto the bed.

The person was already dead, a petite woman whose armor seemed too big for her.

Zhao Ji immediately understood that this was Jin Mulan's scapegoat.

Di Renjie walked to the bed, tested the temperature of the corpse with his hand, and looked at the blood at the corner of her mouth.

"He took poison, and he died not long ago."

Li Yuanfang grabbed the two unlucky henchmen again and asked, "Do you know who this woman is?"

The two men stepped forward to recognize her, shaking their heads like rattles and saying, "General, I don't know her."

"Do you really not know me or are you pretending not to know me? Tell me quickly!" Li Yuanfang drew his knife and threatened again.

"Oh, General, I have never seen her. But I know that our leader is called Jin Mulan, a woman, and she might be this person." A minion pointed out with fear on his face.

Li Yuanfang and Di Renjie were both surprised when they heard this: "You said the leader is a woman?"

The two nodded hurriedly. These two lackeys seemed to be too low-ranking to provide any particularly valuable information.

Li Yuanfang thought for a while and said, "Sir, looking at the layout of the room, it really doesn't look like an ordinary person's residence. I don't think they are lying."

Di Renjie did not comment, and ordered the guards, "Move the body and all the items in the room out. I will check them in detail later."

The guards received the order and went forward to move the body.

Suddenly, something fell from "Jin Mulan's" body and made a "jingling" sound on the ground.

Zhao Ji leaned over to pick up the thing and handed it to Di Renjie: "Sir, it's a bunch of keys."

"Sir, we found a stone door here and it can't be opened!" a guard outside shouted loudly.

Hearing the guards' shouts, Di Renjie hurried over with Li Yuanfang and Zhao Ji, only to see several guards pushing a stone door with all their might.

Di Renjie looked carefully and found a keyhole on the door.

He ordered the guards to step back and tried to open the door one by one with the key. After trying two or three times, he heard a "click" and the key turned.

Seeing this, Zhao Ji and Li Yuanfang stepped forward and pushed hard, and the stone door slowly opened.

There is a cave behind the stone gate, which seems to be used as a warehouse and is filled with boxes of various sizes.

Zhao Ji waved his hand: "Come on, open all the boxes!"

The guards obeyed the order and stepped forward, opening the boxes one by one. Inside were full of gold and silver ingots.

Di Renjie picked up a silver ingot, took a look at it, and smiled: "This is the official silver that was lost from the Youzhou treasury."

At this time, Li Yuanfang shouted: "Sir, there is another stone door here!"

Di Renjie quickly put down the silver ingot, rushed to Li Yuanfang, followed the same method, opened the stone door with the key, and stepped forward to go in.

Li Yuanfang quickly stopped Di Renjie and said, "Sir, let me go in and take a look first."

Di Renjie smiled helplessly: "Go ahead, please."

Li Yuanfang asked the guards for a torch, pushed open the stone door and walked in, followed by Di Renjie and Zhao Ji.

The clothing, saddles, ornaments and weapons of the Turkic delegation were neatly arranged by category, with several boxes nearby.

The sight before him startled Li Yuanfang: "Sir, these... these are all the clothes of the Turkic envoys!"

Zhao Ji went forward and opened the boxes one by one. Inside were jewels and precious stones. It turned out to be the "ten carts of jewels" given by Wu Zetian to the fake envoys. But it seemed that there were not enough carts, and the "thirty beauties" were still missing. It was really an unsolved mystery.

Di Renjie also came over and picked up a piece of jewelry with the words "Shaofujian" written on it.

"Shao...Fu...Jian, this is a reward from the emperor." Di Renjie used the light of the fire to make out the words on the jewelry with difficulty.

Suddenly, Zhao Ji turned his head and looked in the other direction of the cave. He noticed that there was someone there.

Sure enough, a cold female voice came out: "Who are you?"

Di Renjie and Li Yuanfang were startled and immediately turned to the source of the sound. A woman dressed in gorgeous clothes slowly walked out.

"Who are you?" Di Renjie asked the woman.

Zhao Ji walked towards the woman holding a torch. The light of the fire illuminated Li Qingxia's figure, making him dazed for a moment.

The princess is truly the best, and her reputation is well-deserved, but it’s a pity that she has a heart as vicious as a snake.

Li Qingxia did not react to Zhao Ji's approach, but walked forward calmly.

"Stop!" Zhao Ji did not give in, but stopped him with a torch.

"Put away the torch." Li Qingxia ordered coldly.

Zhao Ji still turned a deaf ear and stood in front of her without moving.

Seeing this, Di Renjie ordered Zhao Ji to move aside: "Chengyuan, let her come over."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Ji had no choice but to put away the torch and step aside.

Li Qingxia snorted coldly, looked at Zhao Ji arrogantly, and walked towards Di Renjie.

Zhao Ji's face suddenly became somewhat gloomy, and he cursed in his heart: "The most stupid idiot, he is sending himself to death without knowing it, I don't know what he is proud of."

Di Renjie looked at Li Qingxia who was walking in front of him and asked again, "Who are you?"

Li Qingxia still maintained her proud attitude, gave Di Renjie a cold look in response, and then slowly said: "This is my question to you."

After saying this, he no longer looked at people straight in the eye.

Di Renjie was much more open-minded than Zhao Ji, and he didn't care about Li Qingxia's attitude.

He introduced himself with a smile, and his tone had the aura of a prime minister: "I am Di Renjie."

When Li Qingxia heard the name "Di Renjie", an expression of surprise suddenly appeared on her face.

Di Renjie also saw her face clearly in the light of the fire and asked in surprise: "You... why do you look so familiar?"

Li Qingxia had changed into a respectful posture at this time. She bowed down and her voice became much softer: "Uncle, please accept my daughter's greeting."

"The daughter of Prince Changle, Li Qingxia." Li Qingxia answered softly.

Di Renjie immediately showed a look of joy, and suddenly realized: "I was wondering why she looked so familiar, it turned out to be Princess Yiyang!"

Li Yuanfang was stunned and uttered a cry of surprise, while Zhao Ji remained quiet as usual, watching Li Qingxia's performance.

Zhao Ji secretly complained: "Li Qingxia's acting skills are not as good as Hu Jinghui and Liu Jin. Those two are at the level of movie emperors, while Li Qingxia is just a traffic star who relies on her face."

This evaluation is relatively objective. Compared with Hu Jinghui and Liu Jin, Li Qingxia was able to hide the truth from Di Renjie because of her identity as a member of the royal family of the Li Tang Dynasty.

Di Renjie was overjoyed to see the resurrection of the Li Tang royal family, and hurriedly asked: "Princess, you... weren't you assassinated?"

Li Qingxia showed a trace of sadness on her face, and sighed, "It's hard to put it into words."

Di Renjie got to the bottom of it and continued to ask, "What happened? Why is the princess here?"

　Thanks to Timothy Ganami for the 100-point reward

　　
　
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