"three!"
As soon as Mu Jingrui finished speaking, Tie Shijie felt his scalp tingling. He did not doubt Mu Jingrui's words at all.
"I say."
Tie Shijie was so scared that cold sweat broke out on his back. He calmed himself down and said, "In my room."
"You'd better not play any tricks." Mu Jingrui warned coldly.
"I don't dare."
Tie Shijie felt exhausted all over. Under Mu Jingrui's hostage, he returned to his room and took out a box from the secret compartment in the bed.
“It’s all here.”
Tie Shijie handed the box to Mu Jingrui.
Mu Jingrui motioned for him to open it, and there were some letters neatly stacked inside.
He took the box, hit Tie Shijie hard on the chest, and jumped out of the window.
Tie Shijie spat out a mouthful of blood, barely supported himself to stand up, and stumbled out of the room.
His men immediately came forward and asked, "Master, do you want to chase them?"
Tie Shijie's face was ashen and his whole body was cold.
"Send a message immediately. Do not let them send the items away no matter what."
Mu Jingrui caught up with Huo Gang and others. Huo Gang was just about to hand Ge Shuyan over to others to take care of and go back to pick up Mu Jingrui.
Ge Shuyan was seriously injured. After careful consideration, Mu Jingrui dismissed his men and went with Huo Gang to sneak into the government office with Ge Shuyan to find Shangguan Wanning.
Shangguan Wanning had just fallen asleep when she hurriedly got up to bandage her brother Shuyan's wound.
Mu Jingrui and Huo Gang studied the letters together, and they indeed contained evidence of the interactions between the Turkic prince and Liu Xian and Ling Ruiying.
"It is true."
Mu Jingrui narrowed his eyes. He knew that Liu Xian alone could not play such a small game.
At this time, Ge Shuyan came out with the support of Shangguan Wanning.
Her eyes fixed on Huo Gang and she said softly, "Thank you."
"No need." Huo Gang seemed to see a hint of tenderness in Ge Shuyan's eyes.
His heart was slightly startled and he quickly lowered his head to avoid her gaze.
"Did you get the stuff?"
This time, Ge Shuyan looked at Mu Jingrui.
Mu Jingrui just nodded and pointed to the letters on the table.
Ge Shuyan read through the letters one by one, his brows furrowed deeper and deeper.
"Princess, what's wrong?"
"There should be one more thing." Ge Shuyan sat down a little tiredly and said, "I know that not long ago my eldest brother and the accomplice in the Central Plains signed an alliance treaty, and both sides also stamped their seals."
Shangguan Wanning and Mu Jingrui looked at each other.
If we can find the alliance treaty, it will be the most favorable evidence. No matter how powerful Ling Ruiying is, he cannot deny it.
"Could it be that he is still in Wujimen?" Huo Gang was a little anxious. "I'll go check it out again."
"Brother Huo, don't go. After today's commotion, Wujimen will definitely be guarded more strictly. Even if you want to go, you have to think carefully before going."
Shangguan Wanning stopped Huo Gang.
"I have to rush back to the camp as soon as possible." Mu Jingrui packed up his things and gently told Shangguan Wanning, "Pretend that what happened tonight never happened. I will arrange for someone to send you and Qin Liu back to the capital as soon as possible."
Shangguan Wanning nodded obediently.
Ge Shuyan was in a hurry to go back, so he followed Mu Jingrui.
Not long after Mu Jingrui returned to the camp, he received news that the court was urging him to attack the Turks as soon as possible.
He had no choice but to launch several small-scale attacks on the Turks. Both sides suffered losses, but none of them were serious.
Late at night, Mu Jingrui arranged the troops and dismissed the deputy general and the vanguard. He took out the letters and studied them carefully, hoping to find clues and look for the alliance treaty.
Suddenly, the flames on the table jumped a few times, followed by several flashes of swords, and a dozen men in black attacked him.
Mu Jingrui clapped his hands heavily, and the long sword placed beside him flew into the air. He grabbed the hilt of the sword and unsheathed it, picked it up and swept it across, killing the three men in black.
The fight in the military tent alarmed the soldiers patrolling outside, and they rushed in.
Mu Jingrui stood aside. He found that the martial arts of these men in black were not like those of people from Central Plains. He already had the answer in his mind.
He looked carefully and found that the men in black seemed to be targeting something on the table.
Do they want to get those letters back?
Mu Jingrui didn't want to delay time, so he joined the battle and subdued one of the men in black.
"You're not going to get anything from me."
After the man in black finished speaking, he quickly stepped forward. Before Mu Jingrui could retract his sword, the man in black's throat had been pierced by the sword.
Seeing this, the other men in black realized that they could not complete the mission, so they drew their swords and committed suicide.
Mu Jingrui didn't feel too much about this scene.
He walked to the table, looked at the letters on the table, and couldn't help falling into deep thought.
Early in the morning, Shangguan Wanning took grapes to the yard to collect dewdrops to make tea.
She found that every servant or maid who passed by her today would stay or look at her a few more times, intentionally or unintentionally.
Are they monitoring her?
Shangguan Wanning calmly took Grape back to the room and asked in a low voice, "Do you know where Brother Huo went?"
Grape shook her head in confusion and replied softly, "I haven't seen him since I woke up this morning."
Shangguan Wanning suddenly had a bad feeling.
She leaned over to Grape's ear and whispered a few words, and Grape nodded heavily.
At noon, the weather was a bit hot, making people drowsy.
With a creaky sound, Shangguan Wanning's door was cautiously pushed open, and two maids walked in quietly.
Shangguan Wanning was seen lying on the chaise longue with her eyes closed, motionless.
"Princess? Princess?" The nanny called out twice tentatively.
Seeing that Shangguan Wanning had no reaction, the two of them were obviously relieved.
"You can reply to your Excellency that the matter has been accomplished."
The two men passed the message outside and then came over to lift Shangguan Wanning up.
Suddenly, they felt their legs go weak, their heads turn dizzy, and they both fell to the ground.
Grape, who was hiding behind the screen, poked his head out and quickly ran to the fallen nanny.
Shangguan Wanning also sat up from the chaise longue.
"Princess, you are so awesome." Grape clapped her hands.
"Stop talking. We can't stay here for long. Let's go."
Shangguan Wanning took a dagger and put it on her waist for self-defense, then walked out of the yard with Grape and headed straight for the back door.
The huge government office was silent at this moment.
Shangguan Wanning asked Grape to put some medicine in the kitchen when no one was paying attention. Now most people, as long as they had eaten, had fallen into a coma.
"Princess, where are we going now?" Grape asked nervously.
"Leave the city."
Shangguan Wanning secretly left a mark for Huo Gang and headed straight out of the city. She knew that she had to see Mu Jingrui as soon as possible.
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