Chapter 196: Encounter in the Stone Chamber

After some thought.

Su Yuan decided to go in and take a look.

She pushed open the stone door and walked in slowly. What came into view was a huge stone chamber with rows of wooden bookshelves filled with bamboo slips.

Seeing this, Su Yuan took a few quick steps to the bookshelf and swept his eyes over the bamboo slips with a small wooden plaque at the end.

She reached out and picked up a scroll of bamboo slips. With the faint light from the night pearl above her head, she could clearly see the words engraved on the small wooden sign:

In the twenty-sixth year of Fengqi, Xu Xuan.

Su Yuan raised his eyebrows, opened the bamboo slips and scanned them carefully.

As expected.

The above records all the official career of Xu Xuan since he bought the official position. Then she found the oldest and latest records of selling official positions in order, which was last year.

Without exception, most people are employed.

Some of the names Su Yuan look very familiar.

For example,——Tao Bojian.

He is currently the Shaoqing of the Dali Temple and the wife of the eldest son of the Duke of Qi.

Of course, they were also among the first group of people to buy official positions!

Seeing this, Su Yuan's eyes darkened.

She scanned the huge stone chamber, finally picked out the information of Tao Bojian and the nearest person and stuffed it into her sleeve, then restored the bookshelf to its original appearance.

As to why she didn't take them all away.

no way!

The court nowadays is like a loophole, with too many people being framed by the Qi public security police.

If she takes them all back.

Not only will it alert the enemy, but it will also be a waste of effort.

Because it is impossible for Emperor Fengwu to get rid of everyone. If he really did that, the court would be clear, but half of the officials would be lost at once. Who would take over?

The so-called killing the monkey to scare the chickens, killing their leaders and beliefs is the strategy to win over their hearts.

By then, this group of people will become a pile of loose sand and will not be able to cause any big waves. In addition, the new round of imperial examinations will introduce fresh blood and they can be successfully replaced.

Su Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly, turned his head to look in the direction of the stone door, and took a step forward to leave the stone chamber.

Unexpectedly, just as she moved, she heard a faint sound of footsteps outside the door.

Su Yuan's breathing stagnated, he looked around the stone chamber, and immediately hid at the end of the bookshelf.

“Crunch—”

"Da, da, da."

After two barely audible noises, there was another sound of flipping bamboo slips, which was exactly the same as what she had just done.

Hearing this, Su Yuan raised his eyebrows slightly and looked forward through the gap in the wooden board.

He was wearing a black cloth and a nightgown.

When Su Yuan saw the man dressed like that, his first reaction was: Could it be a thief?

Then he shook his head. There were several night pearls on his head. If he was a thief, why didn't he pick those things but instead rummaged through a pile of worthless bamboo slips?

However, before Su Yuan could figure out what to do, there was another noise outside the door.

The man in black obviously heard it as well. His action of flipping through the bamboo slips suddenly stopped, and his men quickly put the slips back to their original state.

Seeing this, Su Yuan raised the corners of his eyes.

I sighed in my heart:

Quite professional!

Just now she was worried that this person didn't know to take this step, and it would be terrible if he was discovered. She didn't expect that he would think of it the next second.

but……

Where is he going to hide?

However, before Su Yuan could figure it out, a swift black figure came straight towards her, and the door of the stone chamber was pushed open from the outside:

“Crunch, crunch.”

As the voice fell, the man in black came to Su Yuan. Obviously, he did not expect that there were other people in the room.

The moment his eyes met Su Yuan, his pupils narrowed slightly and a sharp light flashed in his eyes.

opposite.

Su Yuan, who was only one step away from him, sensitively noticed the strange look from the man in black.

The corners of her lips curled up silently in a sneer, and she looked at the man with cold and indifferent eyes, raising her eyebrows at him provocatively.

Want to get rid of her?

After that person leaves, it’s still unknown who will suffer the loss!

Think of the last person who came in.

Su Yuan frowned, shifted his gaze away from the man in black opposite him, and continued to look out through the gap in the wooden board.

The sturdy woman in a short cloth dress was holding a string of small wooden signs in her hand and muttering:

"What did Shopkeeper Tang talk about, Li Hong? Yes, yes, that's Li Hong. I have to find this person quickly. If I delay too long, the shopkeeper will get angry."

After hearing this, what else did Su Yuan not understand?

This woman is from Fenglai Casino!

She let out a long sigh.

Fortunately, I did not rashly fight with the person next to me, otherwise, if a person disappeared in the gambling house for no reason, it would inevitably make people think too much.

However, what Su Yuan didn't know was that the man in black next to her was having just as many thoughts as her.

The man in black, no, to be exact, it was Lu Shengling who was sent out by Emperor Fengwu.

Recalling the eyes he had just met, Lu Shengling's heart, which had always been as cold as water, couldn't help but beat faster.

The pupils are round and bright, the corners of the eyes are pointed and the tails of the eyes are slightly raised. The eyes are moving like the first melting winter snow, cold and arrogant with a hint of chillness.

He had been following Su Yuan for a long time, but had never seen such a pair of eyes on anyone else's face. He then recalled what the empress said a few days ago:

"I have also sent Su Yuan to investigate. If you meet him, you can cooperate with each other."

Lu Shengling was 80% sure that this person was Su Yuan, as for the other 20%...

He pursed his lips tightly into a line and glanced at the woman's profile with a big black mole, speechless.

Just one glance.

Lu Shengling immediately looked away.

It's really eye-catching!

But before he could think too long, he heard the sound of "da da da" someone approaching them.

Hearing the voice, Lu Shengling's eyes darkened and he quickly scanned the room which was empty except for the bookshelf.

Finally, it stopped above the bookshelf, and it was easy for him to hide there.

I’m afraid…

That man is just a civil official, I don’t know if he can do it?

Otherwise, let him take people up!

Think about this.

Lu Shengling turned his head to look for Su Yuan beside him.

Unexpectedly, it was a failure.

The corners of his mouth curled slightly, and he looked around for places where people might be hiding, and finally found the woman in the blind spot of the bookshelf at the end.

Because the person was about to walk to where he was standing, Lu Shengling didn't have time to think any further.

He immediately moved to the opposite side of Su Yuan.

If there is danger, as a military general he can defend the woman for a while, right?

Su Yuan had no idea what Lu Shengling was thinking.

She raised her eyelids slightly, glanced at the man who was so close to her, pursed her lips and said nothing in the end.

The two of them are now in the same situation, and if they start fighting because of a little bit of displeasure.

Wouldn't they be exposed together?

Su Yuan can kill people without them being seen.

But because of the noise she made, all her hard work over the past few days was in vain.