Chapter 309 Weakness

"Xiao Yuan," Shen Anan ran back with the marriage talisman in her hand and held his hand, "This is a very good fortune, and there is also a marriage talisman with our names written on it. We must keep it well so that we can have a good marriage in the next life."

Xiao Yuan's eyes fell on the marriage talisman in Shen Anan's hand, and he glanced at the abbot beside him unnoticeably.

The latter immediately lowered his head.

Are you feeling guilty?

Xiao Yuan withdrew his gaze calmly, raised a smile, and nodded slightly to Shen Anan, "Then let's go."

"Amitabha, take care, both donors." The abbot said immediately.

Xiao Yuan held Shen An'an's hand and left Xiangjue Temple, preparing to go down the mountain. Before leaving, he suddenly turned around and said to Qing'an, "Go to the back mountain."

Qing'an was stunned for a moment, then he understood what Xiao Yuan meant and frowned slightly.

They saw Master Wenyin's body with their own eyes that day and watched him being buried, so how could this be fake?

Xiao Yuan's eyes were deep. The abbot's actions just now kept repeating in his mind, which really made him doubtful. "Bring a few more people and open the coffin."

"yes."

Shen Anan was staring at the talisman in her hand, looking back and forth. Hearing this, she raised her head slightly and looked at Xiao Yuan.

He retracted his gaze, and the coldness just now disappeared immediately, as if it was just her illusion, "Let's go, let's go back home."

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The Imperial Palace.

At a desolate corner gate, a eunuch dressed in eunuch's clothes walked forward with his head bent, and finally stopped in a dark place. He turned around, looked around, and made sure that no one was following him, then he quickly slipped into a rockery on the side.

Little did he know that as soon as he entered, a figure flashed in the darkness and jumped onto the big tree on the rockery.

After a while, a suppressed quarrel sounded from the rockery.

"How can we have any money? Over the years, we have paid off his gambling debts..."

"In that case, let him have his limbs broken. We can't do anything about it. We are powerless. When they sent us to the palace, they had already severed all ties with us."

The black-clad man on the tree's eyes suddenly lit up, and he leaned forward, trying hard to hear clearly.

The intermittent voice continued to be heard, "It is precisely because I am now serving the emperor that I cannot help the tyrant to do whatever he wants. If the emperor knew about this, no matter how many lives we have, we would not be able to survive!"

"What did you say?" Eunuch Liu suddenly let out a sharp cry, then immediately lowered it, "You said he...he beat someone to death?"

"What a sin! How dare he do that? He wants to kill our family."

"I am in charge, but how can I be in charge? I am just a eunuch. Do you think I am a man of great power or a high-ranking official?"

Another voice finally sounded, "I beg you, for the last time, to help him once. You are already like this, and our family is counting on your brother to continue the family line. Do you have the heart to let him go to jail or be beheaded?"

"Accidentally injuring someone is not a death sentence. At most you will be sentenced to ten to eight years in prison." Eunuch Liu said coldly.

"No, the man he injured was related to an official, so the government sentenced him to death. Son, you are the most promising one in our family, so you should help your brother."

"Okay, stop crying," Eunuch Liu sighed and said helplessly, "This is the last time, let me think of a solution."

"Oh, okay." The man responded repeatedly.

"I will send you away immediately. Don't follow the eunuchs who are in charge of purchasing into the palace again. If the eunuch in charge of purchasing and I have a close relationship, we will all die if others find out."

"Oh, okay, okay, I'll leave right away. I'll leave right away."

The man in black on the tree narrowed his eyes slightly, and left in a flash.

After a while, two people walked out from behind the rockery. Eunuch Liu raised his eyes and glanced at the tree inconspicuously, then nodded slightly to the middle-aged woman beside him.

The man in black walked quickly along the palace road and turned into the office of the Imperial Guards. After a while, a young man in plain clothes came out and walked out of the palace.

"Hey, Zhang Laoqi, aren't you off duty today?"

The young man named Zhang Laoqi smiled innocently, "Liu Da asked for sick leave today, so I'm here to take his place."

Hearing this, the man curled his lips and said, "What sick leave? He must have gone out to have fun again. He just wants you to be bullied."

"We are all colleagues, it's no big deal to help each other." Zhang Laoqi looked honest and simple, which attracted many people's ridicule and contempt.

After he left, the man who spoke spat on the ground and said, "Coward."

Zhang Laoqi walked out of the palace gate with a silly smile on his face and soon disappeared at the end of the official road.

In the evening, at the Fifth Prince’s Mansion.

Xiao Tian was reading the books left by Shen Yunbai when the butler knocked on the door and reported, "Fifth Prince, someone wants to see you."

"Come in."

Not long after, a hooded man in black followed the butler in. He bowed and saluted, "Fifth Prince, we found a breakthrough."

This person is a secret agent left by Shen Yunbai and is absolutely loyal.

Xiao Tian put down the book, looked at the person who came, frowned and listened to him finish the whole story, his brows were tightly knitted.

"Are you sure?"

"I heard it with my own ears, so I am definitely not wrong."

Xiao Tian said nothing and fell into deep thought.

He didn't understand some of the ins and outs of the palace, but he knew that it was extremely difficult, almost impossible, for ordinary people to get in.

He expressed his doubts.

He could only be extremely cautious towards the couple and could not afford the slightest risk, because just a single wrong step would lead to an abyss.

Zhang Laoqi frowned and thought for a while, then said, "After all, Eunuch Liu is in the presence of the Emperor, and the palace maids who make purchases have to look at his face. It is not difficult to secretly transport someone into the palace to please him."

Xiao Tian remained silent, seemingly thinking.

After a long while, he slowly spoke, "We need to be cautious about this matter. You should go to his house first to find out whether this matter is true or not. If it is true, then..."

"Yes." Zhang Laoqi agreed and quickly disappeared into the night.

Xiao Tian did not sleep all night. He just sat in the study room quietly waiting for news. Finally, at dawn, Zhang Laoqi came back.

"Master." He held a stack of rice paper in his hand, with a lot of things written on it.

"I went to the Liu family and asked the neighbors. The Liu family was once a wealthy family thanks to their son in the palace, but they had a youngest son who was not ambitious and became addicted to gambling. He lost all the family fortune in just half a year and even killed someone a few days ago. He is now imprisoned in the government office and has been sentenced to execution!"

"This is the government office. This family's place of origin, everything matches. It can't be fake."

Xiao Tian flipped through the rice paper handed to him by Zhang Laoqi. His eyes gradually became gloomy and his lips slightly raised.

Since there is a soft spot, everything will be much easier to deal with.