"The Liang family is suspected of colluding with the Northern Barbarians. Someone, take Madam Liang and the servants of the Liang Mansion away."
Lord Lu waved his hand and ordered the officers who rushed into Liang's house to take the man away. Mrs. Liang's eyes widened and she opened her mouth to argue.
However, Lord Lu did not give her any chance to speak any more. He just gave her a look and ordered his men to cover her mouth and take her away.
The Liang family, which had attracted much attention in Beiguan City this year, became prisoners in the Beiguan Military Intelligence Prison.
In the garden, everyone was still a little dazed for a moment.
Lord Lu cleared his throat and said,
"The Liang Mansion colluded with the Northern Barbarians' spies. At today's banquet, not only were drugs put into the drinks, but also incense was lit in the hall."
"If you had not left in time and not stayed in the flower hall for too long, you would probably be feeling unwell by now."
"What?"
"There was actually aphrodisiac incense burning in the flower hall earlier?"
Everyone was shocked, and when they looked at the few families who had just taken the lead in leaving, they couldn't help but feel grateful.
Whether the Northern Barbarian spies and the Liang family can succeed is not the point for now. After all, the aphrodisiac incense is harmful to the body. Many of them present brought their unmarried daughters with them. Inhaling the aphrodisiac incense for a long time is no joke. Don't let it leave any root of illness!
"There's also drugs in the drinks..."
Over in the flower hall, the Liang family served sweet fruit wine to the ladies of each family.
However, the banquet had just begun and most people were busy chatting and had not had time to drink much.
Some ladies who had drunk the wine looked worried, "Did they put drugs in the wine, or in other teas as well?"
"We found drug powder on the kitchen steward, but we haven't been able to verify which drinks and dishes were laced with the drug yet. If you are worried, you can go back and ask a doctor to come and take a look."
"The city is in chaos. Please leave the Liang Mansion and return home as soon as possible to avoid worrying the masters on the front line."
The female members of the family responded quickly.
The carriages from various mansions had long been waiting at the back door of the Liang Mansion. Most of the families who came to the banquet lived in the north of the city. Some did not wait for the carriages from their own homes, but first got on the carriages sent by other neighboring families.
After a while, the originally crowded streets near the Liang family became quiet.
Wei Yunlan also got on the carriage with Gao.
Until everyone left, Lord Lu did not explain more about the powder. Some ladies hurried back or went straight to the largest clinic in the north of the city, just to let the doctor see if they were poisoned or had other underlying diseases.
Wei Yunlan knew, however, that everyone's worries were in vain this time. It was not because the dosage of the medicine powder ingested was not enough, or because they were lucky enough not to eat the dishes with medicine powder added, but the medicine powder that the Liang family used to make everyone unconscious had been replaced by someone from Tianshu Pavilion.
The few maids who were useful to Madam Liang were followed by people from the Shadow and Feather Departments of Tianshu Pavilion for several days.
Those people were all very good at martial arts and concealment, so the maids didn't notice anything unusual these days.
Instead, they found out a lot about the Liang Mansion. For example, the man sent by the Northern Barbarians to negotiate with Madam Liang was a man who looked somewhat like a Yong person. As long as he didn't speak with an accent from outside the Great Wall, he wouldn't be exposed at all.
Also sent by the Empress Dowager to assist Madam Liang in handling these matters was Nanny Zhou, who was often by Madam Liang's side.
It was a pity that neither the northern barbarian nor Madam Zhou had ever said anything to Madam Liang, and Madam Liang didn't even know why the two parties had such a cooperation. From the beginning to the end, she was just a puppet in the hands of the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother asked her to arrange the overall situation set up by the wedding banquet, so she had no choice but to sacrifice her eldest son's marriage and do it.
The real northern border checkpoint is still some distance away from Beiguan City.
The fighting on the border has not yet affected the city.
However, before that, when the incident happened in Liang Mansion, another group of Northern Barbarian spies appeared in the city, and these people tried to create chaos in the city.
Especially near the north gate.
The intention is obvious.
Unfortunately, their hopes were dashed. Before they could reach the north gate, they were captured by a team of soldiers who had been lying in ambush on the city wall.
A total of nearly a hundred Northern Barbarian spies, and dozens of people captured in the Liang Mansion, were now taken to the Military Intelligence Department prison.
When Wei Yunlan and Gao returned to Jingping Lane, only Cheng Yue'e, little Jiayan and little Jiarong were at home.
"Father has just sent Steward Wang back. He probably won't be able to come back before the war is over, so he needs to stay in the City Affairs Office to assist Lord Gong in guarding the North Gate City and catching the spies in the city." Cheng Yue'e explained.
Wei Yunlan nodded, knowing that the City Affairs Office was facing enormous pressure.
Fortunately, there was a prior warning and the officers from Beiguan City were not sent to other places. General Shi also left a team of soldiers, in addition to the people from Tianshu Pavilion who were either in the open or in secret.
As long as the border is not breached, there shouldn't be any major chaos in the city!
"Mingxuan is injured?" Cheng Yue'e was shocked when she noticed the blood on Wei Mingxuan's cuffs.
"It's okay, sister-in-law, this is not my blood, it's the blood of the Northern Barbarian spies!" Wei Mingxuan raised the bloody arm to prove that he was not injured.
"Many of the guests who attended the banquet were veterans of the battlefield. After I reminded them, they quickly discovered the trap hidden in the beams. The situation in the front hall was controlled in time. Not long after the Northern Barbarian spies broke in, the people from the Military Intelligence Department arrived, and not many people were injured."
"That's good." Cheng Yue'e breathed a sigh of relief, but then couldn't help but sigh.
"Hey, why did a war break out out of nowhere?"
"I heard that the Northern Barbarians sent out 30,000 cavalrymen. I wonder what the current situation of the war on the border is like."
I heard what Cheng Yue'e was muttering.
Wei Yunlan's heart skipped a beat.
Yes, why are the Northern Barbarians now at war with Dayong?
Previously at the Liang Mansion, the situation was urgent and she had no time to think deeply.
At this moment, he felt more and more confused. In his previous life, the Northern Barbarians came with great force and it was clearly ten years later that they invaded Dayong.
She had no memory of this battle.
In the previous life, the Liang family married Huang Yuling as their daughter-in-law and lived a stable life until the fall of Beiguan City nearly ten years later. She was still working for the Second Prince with the Jinyang Marquisate.
There had never been any news in the capital that Northern Barbarian spies had sneaked into the Northern Gate City, killed officials, and kidnapped women as hostages. I guess this didn't happen at the wedding banquet in the previous life, otherwise the Liang family would not have been unaffected.
So this battle was just a test by the Northern Barbarians and was not serious enough to lead to an outright war between the two countries.
Or has something unexpected happened that has caused the Northern Barbarians to lose their patience and now want to go to war with Dayong?
Secretly, Wei Yunlan hoped it would be the former. At least in this way, the current situation would not be so serious.
But if it is the former, how to explain the Liang family’s wedding banquet?
Memories of past lives can no longer serve as a complete reference.
Now, things are starting to change!
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