Chapter 212: Cleaning Up the House First

An Yan scoffed at her and said, "You're really inconsistent. You said before that he fell to his death after walking out of my place, and now you say he died of poisoning. How did he die?"

The second steward laughed sinisterly and said, "No matter how he died, it was you who killed him."

Yan Qingqiu said, "It seems that you have had bad intentions for a long time."

"Don't try to be tough with me. There are also people from the mansion here. You will suffer if you resist." said the second butler.

"We'll know only if we try." Li Rongsen was ready to fight his way out.

But An Yan held his wrist, signaling him not to worry, and asked the man, "So what do you want to do now?"

"You stay with her first. I'm going to meet those two old guys and then come back to deal with you." The second butler signaled a few people to carry Miss Dong's body in, and then closed the door.

She said outside the house: "Everyone knows that you are long-time friends with deep feelings. So stay together. Living and dying together is the best testimony of your friendship."

As he was speaking, he heard the sound of someone nailing the windows and doors.

Yan Qingqiu asked: "What should we do now?"

At this time, I saw a fire outside the house and thick smoke drifting in.

Li Rongsen looked at An Yan and found that she was giving Miss Dong an acupuncture. He asked her, "Can you still revive the dead?"

"She is dead. I just felt her breath." Yan Qingqiu also said.

"Don't worry." After An Yan finished the injection, she stuffed a pill into Miss Dong's mouth.

"I suspect you are too sad. She is already dead." Yan Qingqiu reminded again.

"This is what she and I have calculated. Don't worry, just watch." An Yan signaled them not to speak, so as not to be choked by the incoming smoke.

After a while, Miss Dong woke up. She immediately looked at Hong Yan and said, "It turned out that the people around me betrayed me, right?"

"The second housekeeper in your house." An Yan told her.

"This bitch, just wait and see how I'm going to deal with her in the future." Miss Dong gritted her teeth.

Yan Qingqiu was surprised and asked, "Why? Is this a fake death?"

"I'll explain after we get out." After saying that, An Yan looked at Miss Dong and asked her, "Do you have any way to get out?"

"Don't worry, all of you follow me." Miss Dong said as she walked towards the innermost corner. She moved a large box aside, revealing the wall inside. Then she stomped on the ground three times, and the wall moved to the side, revealing a secret passage. She said, "Come on, follow me in. The stairs are a bit narrow, so be careful."

An Yan followed her in, and Yan Qingqiu and Li Rongsen also went in together.

After everyone walked in, they saw that the wall had been moved back up, with no visible signs of having been moved.

Miss Dong led them all the way to the innermost part, which was a luxuriously decorated dark room with a lot of food stored inside. It was enough to hide there for ten days or half a month.

"This is a very clever arrangement. It's actually hidden underground." Yan Qingqiu blurted out.

"Don't be afraid of you laughing at you. This is the courtyard where my late husband often came. He would paint and write here, and play with his concubines. He was afraid that I would be unhappy, so he built a place like this for him to hide and play." The eldest lady of the East Palace said frankly.

Li Rongsen frowned. He was disdainful of such things.

An Yan looked around and thought, no wonder there was always an indescribable smell of decadence.

Miss Dong gestured for them to sit down, and then asked An Yan, "What should we do now?"

"She should impersonate you and meet with people from the North Courtyard and the South Suburbs." An Yan said.

"Join forces with them to deal with West City?" Miss Dong speculated.

"No, it's not a union. It's about capturing the leader first. We can take the opportunity to control them and then negotiate terms with the people over there." An Yan felt that the second butler was also very ambitious.

Yan Qingqiu said, "She might not have thought of this."

"She may not have thought of it, but it's hard to say about the woman on the Flower Snake Mountain. She is the one who wants to unify the martial arts world and doesn't bother to form an alliance with anyone. Now you and I are in her hands, which is half of what we have. Why bother to please the people over there?" The eldest lady of the East Mansion said bluntly.

"That's it." An Yan nodded.

Li Rongsen asked: "If so, what should we do?"

"The four snobs haven't gotten together for a long time. I thought we should meet." An Yan said.

"If you want to meet, then meet. I have no objection. We should have gotten together when you took over the city, but you said you didn't have time." Miss Dong responded.

"We are at two different ends now, how can we meet?" Yan Qingqiu asked.

"If you want to see him, then you can. It's not a difficult thing." Miss Dong said as she stood up and went to the inner room. She stepped onto the bed, lifted the gauze curtain covering the wall, turned the mechanism on the wall, and saw that the wall was opened.

Li Rongsen glanced at An Yan.

Listen to Miss Dong say: "Let's go, let's go out." Then she led the way.

"You go first." Li Rongsen gestured to An Yan to walk in front, while he followed behind and asked Yan Qingqiu to follow as well.

Yan Qingqiu was the last one to come and perform the finale.

This is a long passage with torches on both sides, so it doesn’t make people feel scared, but I don’t know how long it took, but it was a very long time.

Even Li Rongsen felt his legs aching. In the end, Yan Qingqiu couldn't help but ask, "How much longer do we have to walk? It feels like we've already walked for half an hour."

"This road leads to the outside of the mansion, and it's the shortest distance."

"You can see how big the East Palace is." Yan Qingqiu said

Miss Dong asked, "Where is your car parked?"

"Stop at the door." An Yan replied.

"If the car was still there, we could save some effort. If they destroyed it, we would have no choice but to run there." Miss Dong frowned.

"Don't you have horses at home?" An Yan said.

"Yes, I do, but I'm afraid it would be too conspicuous if someone dragged him out now. It's better for me to do it myself." Miss Dong didn't want to alert the enemy.

"An Yan's health isn't good, she probably can't run." Li Rongsen said.

"Then just carry her on your back and run away." Miss Dong blurted out.

"Really? I must be the first one. You can't even catch up with me." An Yan didn't want Li Rongsen to carry her on his back, and she knew why Miss Dong said that. She was just making fun of her.

Miss Dong smiled and said, "We don't need to rush. We can just kick the door later."

"It's fine with me." An Yan had no objection.

Yan Qingqiu said, "In the situation just now, not a single person said a word. They all immediately recognized the second steward as their master. Aren't you afraid of dying in vain by suddenly appearing?"

"Am I the head of the Dong Mansion for nothing?" Miss Dong asked him unconvincedly. She had already walked out. It happened to be a small courtyard outside the mansion. Usually, not many people came here, and the courtyard was piled with straw.

The four people came out safely.

Miss Dong said, "No matter what, I have to clean up the house first." She looked at An Yan and asked her, "How are you? Can you help me clean up the house?"

"I'm very capable. You go first and I'll follow you." An Yan gestured to Miss Dong to go forward.

Miss Dong went to her mansion and when she stopped at the door, she fired a sky rocket, which exploded in the sky with a "bang".

This is the logo, no one will fail to recognize it.

(End of this chapter)