The man may have been in a hurry and accidentally let something slip.
Hearing the word "Imperial Concubine", Situ Yao instantly became alert. He rushed over and grabbed the man by the collar, not caring at all about the pain of his arm being pressed between the two pillars of the prison door.
"You just mentioned the Imperial Concubine. Did Imperial Concubine Bai ask you to do this? Are you from the Southern Barbarian Land colluding with Imperial Concubine Bai?"
Situ Yao was so strong that even Su Mengyan's attempts to pull him away were in vain.
"Your Highness, please let go of me! You're making such a big noise. It would be bad if people outside heard it. Don't forget that we're here just to find out the truth. You're too excited. If you accidentally anger them, I'm afraid they won't tell us everything..."
Su Mengyan leaned close to Situ Yao's ear and spoke. Only then did Situ Yao realize that he was indeed a little rash. After letting go of his hand, the man began to get anxious.
"The Crown Prince is so great! Can the Crown Prince just grab someone's collar at will? What do you care who I just talked about? If I don't want to tell you, you will never know who ordered us to do this!"
"Okay, stop making trouble! Xiaolan, take Brother Ming aside quickly. Brother Ming, when can you change your impulsive temper?" Qing'er frowned and looked at the man she had just called Brother Ming.
The man looked at Situ Yao indignantly. After hearing Qing'er say this, he had no choice but to walk aside under Xiaolan's guidance, holding his breath unwillingly.
"Your Highness, please don't be offended. This is just Brother Ming's temper. Let me explain the details to you."
"It's okay, but I just heard you mention the Imperial Concubine. I don't know who ordered you to assassinate my father."
"In fact, we are indeed people who came from the southern barbarian land. Our lord, who adopted us, is a very important person to us. A few years ago, as this young lady said, our lord was deeply infected with the cold poison, and it has become more and more serious over the years. We don't want to see our lord leave us so early, so we have been searching for the whereabouts of the antidote all these years. Until a while ago, Concubine Bai's subordinates came to us and said that Concubine Bai had the antidote that could cure our lord's cold poison, so we took the risk to go to Concubine Bai..."
"But how do you know that Concubine Bai has the antidote you want?"
Hearing Qing'er's words, Su Mengyan was puzzled. How had Concubine Bai deceived them? The book she had read before crossing over said that there was only one bottle of antidote, and the bottle in her hand was also found by chance. So what exactly was the bottle in Concubine Bai's hand?
All these strange things made Su Mengyan feel that it was too coincidental.
"Because there was also someone close to Concubine Bai who was infected with the cold poison... It was that person who came to us... and said that Concubine Bai had the real antidote... We believed him, so we rushed to Concubine Bai's side to work for her..."
"The man who came to you just said he had a cold poison and was cured by Concubine Bai, and you believed him. This is simply ridiculous. How can you just believe something you didn't witness with your own eyes?"
Su Mengyan was dissatisfied. These people were assassins after all, so why were they so stupid?
But there was no time to complain too much, Situ Yao immediately interrupted.
"What exactly did Concubine Bai ask you to do?"
"Concubine Bai said that if we agree to assassinate the emperor, she will give us the antidote after the success. Not only that, she will also escort us out of the city safely and allow us to bring the palace physician back with us to treat the master..."
"Then did she tell me what her purpose was in assassinating my father?"
"We don't know about that... We are only responsible for assassinating the emperor, and Concubine Bai didn't tell us anything else..."
Qing'er told Situ Yao everything she knew. Situ Yao looked at these people with suspicion. Ming Ge hated being looked at like that the most. He stood up angrily and pointed at Situ Yao and yelled.
"Don't think you're great just because you're the crown prince! We've already told you everything we know. What else do you want to do to us? Let me tell you, none of you in the palace are good people! You're not trustworthy at all!"
"Alright, Brother Ming, we've already spoken out about all of this... Your Highness, please consider our perspective... We were only too eager to save our lord, so we listened to Concubine Bai's words..."
Qing'er said this dejectedly and glanced at Su Mengyan.
"So... we've told you everything we know, the antidote..."
"I'm a man of my word. I'll naturally give you the antidote, but we also need your help."
After Su Mengyan finished speaking, Brother Ming, who was standing aside and disdained to argue with Situ Yao, started speaking again.
"Tsk, it's really funny to think that someone in your palace would ask something of us one day. When I get out, I will make sure to publicize this matter so that the common people can see how you lackeys in the palace are trying to curry favor with assassins like us."
"You!" Situ Yao was so angry that he just wanted to rush in and beat up the man, but fortunately Su Mengyan stopped him in time.
"Alright, put your sarcastic remarks aside for a while. As long as you're willing to do us this favor, I promise to personally deliver the antidote to your lord."
"You can tell me what you want. As long as we can get the antidote to save our lord, we promise that we will never approach you again, nor will we ever have any plans to attack the emperor again."
Qing'er looked at Su Mengyan as if she saw hope.
"In three days' time, Your Highness, I will personally interrogate you in front of the Emperor. I hope you will tell him everything you know. This is because the Emperor's life is at stake, so every word you say is very important to us."
"no problem!"
Qing'er quickly agreed, and then they discussed some specific details of the interrogation three days later. After everything was done, Su Mengyan planned to leave with Situ Yao first.
"Wait a moment."
When the two were about to leave, Qing'er stopped them.
"Anything else you want to say?"
Su Mengyan asked her in a very soft voice.
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