Chapter 104: Feint to the East and Attack in the West

Suddenly, Pei Jinyu was stunned when he heard this, and thought: Sister-in-law, are you going to the Third Prince’s Mansion to find evidence?

Then, Pei Jinyu looked at his elder brother.

Pei Jingchuan pursed his thin lips, with a hint of worry and entanglement between his brows: Indeed, entering the Third Prince's Mansion so openly is a good opportunity to find evidence, but he is also worried about Xu Qingyan's safety.

"Husband, just let Jinyu and I go together! At worst, you can lend us a few powerful secret guards." Just as Pei Jingchuan was struggling with this matter, Xu Qingyan stretched out her fair little hand, tugged at his sleeve, and looked at him with her bright eyes blinking.

Seeing this, Pei Jingchuan couldn't help but feel soft in his heart, and he could only nod and agree: "Okay!"

Well, if she wants to do it, then I will send someone to protect her secretly.

Therefore, Pei Jingchuan sent his most skilled personal guard to Xu Qingyan's side.

Originally, the Third Prince's wife was still worried that Pei Jinyu would reject her post. She was still thinking about how to explain to the Third Prince that she had not done what he asked her to do.

But just when she was worried, a servant suddenly told her that Pei Jinyu and the others had agreed to visit the prince's mansion tomorrow.

Although the Third Prince's wife didn't quite understand why Pei Jinyu had a close relationship with Xu Qingyan and agreed to visit the mansion after she had a conflict with her, she was still prepared to entertain her warmly.

But the next day, when Pei Jinyu brought Xu Qingyan to visit, the smile on the Third Prince's wife's face froze instantly, and she said, "Miss Pei, why did you bring irrelevant people with you?"

"What's the matter, Third Prince's wife? Don't you welcome me? If you don't welcome me, then I will leave now." Pei Jinyu smiled faintly when she heard this.

After hearing what Pei Jinyu said, the Third Prince's wife's face turned pale. She held back her anger and said with a smile, "How could this be? I was just a little surprised. I didn't invite the Crown Prince's wife, but I didn't expect that she would come."

After the Third Prince's wife finished speaking, she thought to herself: How could I chase Pei Jinyu out? Everyone in the Prince's Mansion saw Pei Jinyu coming. If I chased them away, the Third Prince would know about it and he would definitely skin me alive.

Therefore, the Third Prince's wife could only grit her teeth and imply that Xu Qingyan was shameless. She hadn't even invited her, but she still had the nerve to come.

Xu Qingyan pretended not to understand and ignored the Third Prince's wife. Pei Jinyu on the side chuckled and said, "I also didn't expect that the Third Prince's wife would actually invite me to the Prince's Mansion as a guest!"

"Jin Yu, my stomach is a little uncomfortable. I'm going to the bathroom. You can have a good chat with the Third Prince's wife here. I believe she must have something to ask you!" At this moment, before the Third Prince's wife could get angry, Xu Qingyan spoke first.

The Third Prince's wife looked at Xu Qingyan with some surprise, thinking: She is in pain at the right time, I just don't want to see her! Xu Qingyan is very sharp-tongued. If I propose to match Pei Jinyu with the Third Prince in front of her later, I don't know how she will make trouble! Now, it's better for her to leave for a while, so she quickly asked the maid to take Xu Qingyan to the palace.

Xu Qingyan followed the maid from the prince's mansion out of the hall, walked straight along a corridor on the right, then turned two corners and stopped in a remote courtyard.

"Princess Concubine, this is the courtesy room. We'll be waiting for you outside." The maid pointed to a small room next to her and stood respectfully at the door.

Xu Qingyan glanced over there and asked in confusion: Have we arrived already?

"Okay! Then all of you come closer and don't be too far from the door. This place looks eerie and it scares me." Xu Qingyan ordered the maid.

After hearing what Xu Qingyan said, the maid could only move closer.

When Xu Qingyan walked in, while no one was paying attention, she quickly took out the smoke that she had prepared in advance from her sleeve, and blew it through the crack in the door towards the two maids outside.

As for her maids Dan Yan and Zi Yan, they were standing far away. After seeing the two maids from the prince's mansion fainted, they followed Xu Qingyan's previous instructions and found a place where they would not be easily discovered and lay down and pretended to be fainted.

This was a side room, and not many servants came and went. But when Xu Qingyan came out, she pushed the two maids at the door into the guest room, locked the door, and left quietly.

She used her superpowers again to check where the third prince hid the woman, and found out that it was in the third prince's study!

The Third Prince built a huge secret room under the study, where he imprisoned and tortured the women. An important place like the study must be guarded by servants. It was almost impossible for her to go there without being discovered, let alone get in.

So, without any hesitation, she directly called out the secret guard that Pei Jingchuan had arranged to be beside her.

"Can you think of a way to send me to the third prince's study without anyone noticing?" Xu Qingyan asked the captain of the secret guards directly.

The captain of the secret guard thought for a moment and said, "Yes, but this may still alert the secret guards of the prince's mansion. They can get in but will be easily discovered."

After all, the secret guards of the Third Prince’s Mansion are not for nothing.

Xu Qingyan thought for a while and said, "It's okay, just do this..."

She told the captain of the secret guards about her plan, and his eyes lit up when he heard it.

"Oh no! A thief broke into the backyard, and the concubine and several maids are missing!"

Before long, the backyard began to become chaotic.

Several servants guarding outside the third prince's study heard the shouting from outside from afar.

"What on earth is going on? How could a thief break into the house?" Upon hearing this, a servant at the door of the study looked at another in bewilderment.

"How dare this thief to rob the Third Prince's woman? He is so bold! All along, I thought that this study was the most vulnerable place to thieves, but I didn't expect that the first place to be robbed would be in the backyard!"

"Yes! The Third Prince sends us to guard this place every day, but I am a..." The servant hadn't finished his words when he suddenly felt a pain in his neck, his eyes rolled back, and he fell heavily to the ground.

The eyes of the other servant standing opposite him suddenly widened, and just as he was about to shout, he was also hit hard on the back, and his body went limp instantly.

All the secret guards of the prince's mansion went to the backyard, so there were only these two servants left in the study. The other servants outside the yard had already been knocked unconscious by Xu Qingyan.

Xu Qingyan quickly broke into the third prince's study, and after studying it for a while, she finally found the passage to open the secret room.

A long staircase opened from under the couch, and Xu Qingyan took a lamp and slowly went down the stairs with the secret guards. Before she landed at the bottom of the dark room, she heard the woman's fearful breathing in the air.

The breathing was very rapid, and he wanted to scream but was too suppressed to do so, which gave people a vaguely eerie feeling.

In an instant, Xu Qingyan felt goosebumps all over her body, and she asked the secret guards to follow her one after another.

When Xu Qingyan walked to the bottom of the dark room, she saw that scene and almost couldn't control herself from screaming. This was too scary!