Gu Moran waved to Lin Qingdai and Kim Seon-a, then walked straight down the corridor without stopping.
"You two stay outside and keep a close watch on the door. No matter what noises come from inside, you are not allowed to come in."
Kim Seon-a turned around and looked at that figure, her lips moved but she didn't say anything, she gritted her teeth and quickly followed.
"Your Highness, be careful. The Japanese are cunning and treacherous; even a fool might not be safe."
Outside the west wing of the backyard, the night wind made the paper windows rustle.
The door was pushed open from the outside, Gu Moran stepped inside, casually locking the wooden bolt behind her.
The room was lit only by a dim oil lamp, Takaichi Nanako was sitting barefoot on the edge of the bed, swinging back and forth.
Shen Ling'er just changed her into a light green silk dress that she usually wears.
However, Shen Ling'er was petite, while Takaichi Nanako, though only nineteen years old, had an astonishingly developed figure.
The light green silk skirt bulged high on her body, and she couldn't even fasten the ties;
The skirt only covered her calves, leaving her two fair, round, and straight legs dangling unobstructed over the edge of the bed.
Upon hearing the door open, Takaichi Nanako immediately concealed the coldness in her eyes, and her face once again displayed that blank, innocent, silly smile.
She leaped off the bed, her bare, delicate feet pattering as she ran to Gu Moran, reaching out to grab Gu Moran belt.
"King of Black! You've finally come to help Nanako catch butterflies! Nanako is hungry!"
"Still putting on an act in front of me?"
Gu Moran stretched out his right hand and lashed out with the cold riding whip:
"What? Not even 108 heroes are enough?"
You still have the energy to deceive me, Your Majesty?
The Qi-Sealing Golden Pill was expelled, and the poison from the Datura was completely removed.
Princess Nanako Takaichi Nanako, are you still going to play dumb? Perhaps I should arrange it again?
Takaichi Nanako's two white legs, which had been moving around, suddenly froze.
The silly smile on her face gradually faded, and her big, watery eyes were no longer clouded at all.
He moved back half a foot, his back against the carved wooden railing, the turbidity in his eyes completely gone, leaving only arrogance:
" Your Prince Yi has a good eye."
"Now that you've split that pure gold wax pill open, I might as well be frank with you."
She raised her left hand and slowly smoothed the stray hairs around her ear with her fingertips.
"That old fox, Shōni Sukemoto, is inherently suspicious and would never entrust his true weaknesses to others."
The topographical map of Iwami Silver Mine that you took was a reversed yin-yang diagram drawn by the Onmyōryō (Bureau of Yin and Yang) he had drawn.
Gu Moran stood by the bed, holding an ebony horsewhip in his hand, without even lifting his eyelids:
"Reverse image? How do you mean reverse?"
"The area marked on the map as the 'gate of life' and the treasury of silver has been completely hollowed out by Shōni Sukemoto's men, filled with a full three thousand catties of mercury, and connected to eight hundred trapdoors filled with rotting corpses and poisonous fumes."
Takaichi Nanako raised her chin slightly and drew out the last syllable.
"If your Great Yan cavalry were to charge in according to that map, the moment they stepped on a single brick, mercury mixed with poisonous smoke would gush out."
In less than a quarter of an hour, your three thousand elite soldiers will all be turned into a pile of mangled flesh!
Seeing that Gu Moran stood there without saying a word, she assumed that the Prince of Great Yan had been frightened and had become much bolder.
"Not only that."
Takaichi Nanako loosened her grip on the corner of the blanket, letting her overly tight light green dress slip down half an inch, revealing a large expanse of dazzling collarbone. She crawled two steps to the edge of the bed.
"You just arrested that eunuch named Shuangxi and forced him to write a transfer order to deceive the Great Yan Navy in the outer sea, didn't you?"
"When I was at the Dazaifu, I personally overheard Shōni Sukemoto discussing matters with the messenger of that Vice Minister of Ministry of War of the Great Yan."
Every half hour, the fleet at sea had to check the nighttime light signals with the Sea-Gazing Tower) at the Tsukushi City Wharf!
The imperial envoy's seal in Shuangxi's possession could only fool the first sentry ship; what if the lanterns on the Sea-Gazing Tower were hung the wrong number of times?
That Vice Minister will immediately set sail and flee far away!
At this point, Takaichi Nanako leaned forward, her ample bosom almost touching the hem of Gu Moran's python robe:
"Your Highness, I am the first in line to the throne of the Wa Imperial Family!"
"Just prepare hot water and fine clothes for me now, and treat me with the respect due to a state."
"Wait until I tell you the real way to navigate the Silver Mountain Mechanism and the dock lights,"
Your army beheaded Shōni Sukemoto for me, forced my father to abdicate, and helped me return to the capital to ascend the Capital as Empress...
Of the Iwami Silver Mine, I'll give you half!
Otherwise, you won't get a single tael of silver from Great Yan!"
Gu Moran looked down at the Wa princess in front of her, who thought she had her weakness in her grasp, and took a half step back in disgust, creating a two-foot distance between them.
This woman caused a ruckus in the rear camp for most of the night.
Even though Shen Ling'er had someone clean her up, Gu Moran still felt disgusted by the sight.
He silently recited the command in his mind and immediately activated the system 'Eye of Detection.
A pale blue light screen unfolded in her field of vision, sweeping upwards along Takaichi Nanako's violently heaving chest, directly extracting all the images and words she was contemplating in her mind.
[Target: Takaichi Nanako ]
[Current inner monologue: You fool from Great Yan, do you really think I'd tell you the truth?]
[Core Secret Extraction 1: The communication signal for naval fleets at sea is "three long and two short," which must be displayed three times consecutively using a tallow-colored red lantern on the east side of the Sea-Gazing Tower Sea-Watching Tower).]
[Core Secret Extraction 2: The true lifeline of the Iwami Silver Mine in the drainage ditch at the "Kan" position. One must walk thirty steps against the current, following the third bluestone slab on the right, to avoid the mercury-laden flap.]
[Malice warning: -95 (Plans to use the venomous barb hidden under the tongue to sever the host's throat when the host approaches.)]
Gu Moran almost laughed in anger after reading the words on the panel.
These Wa women are not only filthy, but also incredibly cunning.
Seeing Gu Moran staring at her without saying a word, Takaichi Nanako assumed that the rumored greedy and lustful Prince Yi was captivated by her beauty and the bargaining chips.
She bit her lip, deliberately pulling her loose light green skirt down a little further, and stretched out her fair, delicate arms to climb onto Gu Moran's calves:
"Your Highness, if you agree to my request, I might even..."