Fake Daughter Is the Real Legend novel · Chapter 19 of 24

Chapter 19: The Hundred Riders

Shen Zhuo had spent twelve days on a horse, and in all of them he had not decided what to say.

He rode through the eastern gate of Jingzhao at dusk with a hundred of his best men behind him.

On paper the hundred were an escort.

They carried the quartermaster's account book and the stolen medicine ledger for the capital's military court, sealed in a lacquer box under his own chop.

It was the only reason the gate captain let a frontier commander through with armed troops.

Shen had left his deputy the camp, a sealed order, and a note for the cook.

He had never left Ironwall in eleven years.

He had told himself it was the box.

The city streets were full of lamplight and people in a hurry.

A tea seller stopped him at the second corner to say that the Marquis of Anping's house was in an uproar and the Grand Princess's Guard had come out of every alley in the capital.

"Go on," Shen said, and rode harder.

He found the sergeant at the Marquis's outer wall, with blood on his collar and four Ironwall men around him.

The sergeant saluted so fast that his knuckles struck his helmet.

"Commander. Thank the sky. Miss Qiao is alive."

Something in Shen's chest came loose.

"Where?"

"Inside the Princess Court, sir. On the roof."

"Why?"

"The Grand Princess proved it this morning, sir. Miss Qiao is the Marquis's blood after all."

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