"Hahaha..." Wang Shouli laughed wildly, "Who do you think you are? What can you do to me?"
"If I kill you all today, who would know what I've done?" Wang Shouli said with a twisted expression. "After you're dead, I'll put an end to the plague. Who knows? The emperor might even give me a promotion for my meritorious service, and by then you'll all be dead!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the yamen runners unleashed their weapons. The personal guards Situ Yao had brought with him were no pushovers either, and a fight could break out at any moment.
But Wang Shouli raised his hand to stop them and ordered Cui Mixue to be brought up. "If you put down your weapons obediently, this little beauty can still survive."
Wang Shouli pinched Cui Mixue's chin and forced her to face Situ Yao, "Are you really willing to do this?"
He always thought that Cui Mixue was Situ Yao's person.
"Kill me if you want." Situ Yao handed him the East Palace token and sneered, "But before you do anything, I advise you to take a look at this first."
Wang Shouli tried to open his eyes wide and saw two words written on it.
East Palace!
"You, who are you?" Wang Shouli still held on to a glimmer of hope.
"What do you think?" Situ Yao pursed his lips. "You've tried to kill me time and again. How many lives do you think you have left to atone for your sins?"
This time Wang Shouli was really scared and let go subconsciously.
Qingfeng took advantage of this opportunity and quickly pulled Cui Mixue over.
Wang Shouli, without anyone to threaten him, became even more panicked. He forced himself to remain calm and said, "Just based on a token whose authenticity is unknown, you can say you are the crown prince? What a joke!"
"Come here, arrest them all, regardless of life or death!" Wang Shouli ordered the bailiffs to take action.
Those people were frightened when they saw Situ Yao take out the token, but because of Wang Shouli's instigation, they thought he must be fake. After all, how could the real prince come to Chu City?
Then all the yamen runners rushed forward and slashed with their swords.
Wang Shouli took advantage of their fight and fled in panic.
The yamen runners were no match for the Eastern Palace's personal guards, especially when they saw Wang Shouli running away. They lost their fighting spirit and surrendered one after another.
Situ Yao glanced at them and asked in a cold voice, "Where is the governor imprisoned?"
"It's right in front." Although the yamen runners could not confirm his identity, they were still afraid of him.
The bailiff pushed open the door, and found it empty, without a single person inside.
He panicked and fell to his knees, "Master Xu was really imprisoned here before."
"Not good." Su Mengyan's expression darkened. "Wang Shouli took him away."
"Qingfeng, send someone to look for him. Wang Shouli is with only one person, so he can't get far." Situ Yao glanced at the yamen runner kneeling on the ground, "Take a few more people with you and capture the other officials from Chu City and bring them here."
"I..." The bailiff didn't dare to go, but when he saw Situ Yao's cold eyes, he immediately nodded and ran away.
Xu Chuyun and others were tied up with iron chains. Su Mengyan found the key from the yamen runner and rescued them.
The first thing the two brothers said was, "Where's my father? Did you rescue him, young master?"
"Don't get excited yet." Su Mengyan hesitated for a moment and said, "The governor was taken away by Wang Shouli, but the young master has sent people to look for him."
"I'm going too." Xu Chuyun took a few steps forward and fell to the ground.
Situ Yao stood in front of him and said indifferently, "You are in this state now. You won't be able to bring back the governor even if you go."
"Is there a secret passage in the prefect's mansion?" Situ Yao suspected that Wang Shouli had disappeared in a short period of time and must have escaped through the secret passage.
However, Xu Chuyun shook his head, "I have never heard of a secret passage."
"You guys go and rest for a while."
Situ Yao ordered people to guard the city gates, and if Wang Shouli dared to escape, he would be immediately recaptured. He also turned the prefectural government house upside down, but could not find the so-called secret passage.
Wang Shouli and the prefect of Chucheng seemed to have disappeared out of thin air and could not be found at all.
"Your Highness, they caught someone who was trying to escape." The bailiff came in with the fat Lord Zhang.
When he heard that Wang Shouli had run away, he guessed that something had happened, so he wanted to escape from Chu City with the silver, but he was caught before he left the city.
Zhang hadn't expected that the person sitting in front of him would be the former Master Si. He didn't know his identity yet, so he attentively took out the silver and handed it to him, "Master Si, were you the one who sent the people at the city gate?"
"As long as you let me go, all this silver will be yours."
Situ Yao didn't even glance at him and directly ordered Qing Feng, "Lock him up."
Many Chucheng officials who had committed crimes in the past were imprisoned there, and almost all of them were caught by Situ Yao in one fell swoop.
After Lord Zhang was captured, he was still shouting and was knocked unconscious by Qingfeng.
Situ Yao took over all the affairs of Chu City, and Su Mengyan went to the refugee camp to help.
When she reached the entrance of an alley, Su Mengyan suddenly noticed a person who looked very much like Wang Shouli at the corner ahead.
She followed him quietly for a distance, and after finding out where Wang Shouli was hiding, she turned around and went back to tell Situ Yao to arrest him.
Su Mengyan was knocked unconscious as soon as she turned around, and saw the enlarged face of Wang Shouli before closing her eyes.
An hour later, Su Mengyan woke up. She was locked in a clean room, and the governor of Chucheng was also there.
Seeing that she had woken up, the governor of Chucheng asked, "Miss, how did Wang Shouli capture you?"
"Don't worry, Lord Xu, the young master will find us soon." Su Mengyan's hands were tied behind her back. After struggling, she finally found the knot.
However, it was a deadlock! Trying to untie it was harder than climbing to heaven.
Fortunately, she was not far away from the prefect of Chucheng. Su Mengyan crawled over from the ground and signaled with her eyes the rope in her hand.
The governor of Chucheng reacted quickly. The two men stood back to back, and just when the rope was half untied, Wang Shouli pushed the door open and came in.
The two of them paused and remained as they were.
Wang Shouli vented his anger by beating the governor of Chucheng, "Old bastard!"
"It must be you who went to report the news and brought the prince here." Wang Shouli became more and more ferocious and was about to beat the man to death.
"Wang Shouli!" Su Mengyan's voice stopped him. "If you kill him, do you think you can escape?"
She guessed that Wang Shouli took the Chucheng prefect with him to use as a bargaining chip for escape.
Wang Shouli really stopped, staring at Su Mengyan's face and said, "Before, I just wanted to leave alive. But now it's different. If I use his beloved 'brother' to negotiate, do you think the ruthless Crown Prince will agree?"
"What do you want to do?" Su Mengyan turned her face away, avoiding his gaze.
"I want to be a high-ranking official with a high salary and become the best of the best. I want to trample you all under my feet." Wang Shouli stared at her fiercely and said, "If it weren't for you powerful people like you, would I have ended up like this today?"
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