The guards standing at the door heard the chattering of these people inside. Although there was no order from above, they still couldn't help but walk to the front of the building and glare at these people.
"What are you guys arguing about? Do you know what's going on right now? I'm so annoyed. I'm warning you, you'd better behave yourself, or I'll send you over and chop you off!"
The guard yelled at them loudly, and the assassins stopped talking.
After a while, Su Mengyan asked someone to deliver food to these assassins. It looked quite rich, but what these people didn't know was that there was something added to the food.
When the guards brought the food boxes to the assassins, the dancer and the capable-looking man had no desire to eat. It was not until the guards lifted the stone lid that they saw that the food inside was the same as the food in their hometown.
When Su Mengyan was cooking these dishes, she noticed that the assassins, especially the dancer, had some difficulty in dancing. There was also a sachet on the dancer's body, and the spices in the sachet were obviously only found in the southern barbarian land.
When these people saw the food, their eyes lit up instantly. They didn't care whether it was poisoned or not, and rushed forward to eat it.
The guards watched the assassins lick the plates clean before nodding in satisfaction and leaving.
Situ Yao and Su Mengyan discussed some countermeasures for this matter. After discussing for a long time, they decided to interrogate the assassin first before making a decision.
In order to avoid alerting the enemy, Situ Yao announced that he would publicly interrogate the assassins in front of the emperor three days later. However, he actually sneaked into the prison in his nightgown late that night.
He took out a small wooden tube from his arms, which seemed to contain something. He looked at the small wooden tube and remembered what Su Mengyan said when she handed this thing to him during the day.
"This contains a magic incense that can make people sleep for three days and three nights without being able to wake up. When you use it, just light it with a tinderbox. Then remember to cover your mouth and nose. If you inhale even a little bit of it, you will fall asleep too."
Situ Yao suspected that if he lit the incense, the assassins would also fall asleep.
But he couldn't care less about that at the moment. After carefully lighting the incense with a fire stick, he quickly covered his mouth and nose with his hands. After about half an incense stick of time, the guards and other prisoners in the cell all fell asleep.
Seeing this, the imprisoned assassins thought that their superiors had come to rescue them, and they excitedly stuck to the prison door.
"Lord! Are you here to save us?"
The dancer shouted excitedly, with a joyful expression on her face, until she saw Situ Yao wearing a nightgown, walking towards them and taking off the mask on his face, her expression changed drastically.
"It's you? Ha, a dignified prince has come to this cell, yet you resort to such sneaky tricks?"
Situ Yao didn't care at all about the ridicule from the man in the cell.
"I'm not here to save you, but if you're willing to tell me everything, perhaps I can spare your lives for your honesty."
Situ Yao threw the incense he had lit aside and faced everyone with a serious expression.
The dancer changed from being excited to looking lost. It can be seen that the lord she just mentioned must be a very important person in her heart, and perhaps also the leader of these people.
"Humph, who doesn't say something to scare people? I've been scared since I was a child. My Lord, if you want to do something shameful, we can pretend not to see it. But you went to all this trouble to come here and scare us, and even knocked your men unconscious? If this gets out, I don't know what will happen to your reputation."
The man was still mocking, but Situ Yao didn't bother to argue with them. He kept noticing the dancer's expression; she seemed to have not yet recovered from her loss.
"Why don't you tell me about your lord? I'm very interested in him."
Situ Yao simply ignored the man's verbal taunts and walked straight to the dancer, asking about the lord the dancer had just called out.
"You want to know about the lord? Ha, so what if the prince is of noble status? Do you think you are worthy of knowing about the lord?"
When the dancer heard Situ Yao mention his master, her face instantly became uneasy. The woman grabbed the pillar of the prison door tightly like a madman and roared at Situ Yao.
Just as the atmosphere between the few people began to become tense, a sound was heard not far away, as if someone fell.
"Ouch...it hurts so much...How come you didn't even know how to use the incense to carry the person aside..."
Su Mengyan rubbed her waist as she supported herself and stood up. When she fell just now, her waist hit the weapon in the guard's hand, and now she felt some pain.
"Su Mengyan? What are you doing here for no reason?"
Situ Yao looked at Su Mengyan in shock. The woman was wearing black clothes and holding a large food box in her hand, but there were still a few guards guarding outside. How did this woman get here unarmed?
When Su Mengyan heard Situ Yao's words, she walked here with the food box.
"Prince, I was afraid you couldn't handle it alone, so I came here with some things."
Su Mengyan smiled at him, then looked at the assassins. She inadvertently discovered a few plates on the ground that had been licked clean, and smiled and said.
"It seems like you guys are enjoying your meal. I made some of your dishes. It's already this late, and I think you guys must be hungry. If you don't mind, please continue to enjoy it."
Su Mengyan handed the food box to the assassins. The dancer was shocked when she heard what Su Mengyan had just said.
"Did you just say you cooked those meals by yourself?"
"Yes, I did it all by myself. I know that you all come from the southern barbarian land. I noticed it when you went to assassinate the emperor last time. Okay, okay, let's not talk too much for now. People are made of iron and rice is made of steel. You have to eat first, right?"
At this moment, Su Mengyan did not care at all that the people she was facing were the assassins who had previously assassinated the emperor, nor did she consider whether these people would take the opportunity to blackmail her when she handed them the food box, and use her life to threaten Situ Yao.
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