Chapter 113 I confess everything!

The group found nothing in the house, so they took Chu Ran back directly.

Chu Ran was tied to a chair, and Shen Minghan stood opposite him, looking down at him.

Chu Ran raised his head and glanced at Shen Minghan, and couldn't help but sigh.

"I'll tell you the truth. I really don't know what you just asked. If I knew, I wouldn't have been caught by you, right?"

Shen Minghan sneered, waved for someone to bring a chair over, and sat face to face with Chu Ran. It seemed that he had made up his mind to spend some time with Chu Ran.

"I have already ordered people to investigate. The man's name is Xing Ji, is that right? For so many years, he has been the one passing messages between you and Yunzhou." Shen Minghan sat down. The tone and demeanor of his voice were as if he was chatting with a familiar friend, relaxed and at ease. Even so, it still made people feel very uncomfortable.

"So who are you? A close confidant of Qin Yuxiao and Li Fu? Or an informant planted in the palace by Yunzhou? Why did they plant you in the palace? To gather information? Or is there some other purpose?"

Shen Minghan made so many guesses, but none of them were correct.

However, since Shen Minghan said so, Chu Ran continued speaking according to Shen Minghan's guess.

Besides, the people have been captured here, and Chu Ran has no intention of hiding it from Shen Minghan.

"Actually..." Chu Ran stretched out his tone and said slowly, "I am indeed the spy planted by the King of Dingbei in the palace. The main task given to me by the king is to find out the news and report it back to Yunzhou in time. Prime Minister, you are really observant and see through everything. I really admire you."

Shen Minghan originally planned to use soft tactics first, and if soft tactics didn't work, then use hard tactics, such as coercion, inducement, and if that didn't work, then torture. There was always a way to make Chu Ran confess.

Unexpectedly, before any method could be used, Chu Ran confessed first.

Bones become soft so quickly?

Qin Yuxiao would actually employ such a person?

It was rare that Shen Minghan, the old fox, was caught off guard by Chu Ran, the little sheep, and he didn't know what to ask for a moment.

Since Shen Minghan hasn't thought of what to ask yet, Chu Ran will help him think about it.

Chu Ran took a deep breath and blurted out, "I got the news that the emperor and the prime minister might hold a banquet in the palace when the Dingbei army returns. So I tried to sneak out of the palace. I was going to find the contact in the capital from Yunzhou, oh, that is, the person named Xing that the prime minister just mentioned, to send a message to Yunzhou to ask the prince and the prince not to come to the capital. But I didn't expect that the prime minister was so smart and found out my plan first, and kidnapped me here, so my plan failed."

"I have explained my identity, the purpose of my stay in the palace, and the reasons and consequences of my sneaking out of the palace to you, Your Excellency. Is there anything else you need to ask?"

Shen Minghan stared at Chu Ran in silence.

He knew that what Chu Ran had just said was all true, and it was precisely because they were true that Shen Minghan remained silent.

On the one hand, it was unexpected, and on the other hand, it was doubtful.

He was already very suspicious, and the more readily Chu Ran confessed, the more suspicious he became. Even if what Chu Ran said was true, he still suspected that there was an element of hypocrisy.

After thinking for a while, Shen Minghan said, "Let's go back to the original question. Where is the person who is going to pick you up?"

Shen Minghan had asked Chu Ran this question when he was just pushed onto the chair and tied up. Even after all this time, Shen Minghan was still asking this question.

Chu Ran was speechless and helpless.

What was speechless was that he really didn't know where Uncle Xing had gone. What was helpless was that he had emphasized many times at the beginning that he didn't know Uncle Xing's whereabouts, but Shen Minghan just didn't believe it.

"I really don't know." Chu Ran could only say this. After he finished speaking, he thought about it again. It seemed like nonsense, but it was Chu Ran's true thought. "Maybe he went to buy groceries? Otherwise, why don't you ask someone to wait at the door? He might be back in a while."

"It's been more than two hours. Who would take so long to buy groceries?" Shen Minghan suddenly pulled a long face. "Besides, according to the people living nearby, they haven't seen him for several days."

"Then I have no idea!" Chu Ran felt that he was really wronged to be suspected. "Prime Minister, you also know that I have been staying in the palace all these days and have never left! Besides, don't you know whether I have left the palace? I think you caught me as soon as I left the palace. You must have sent people to keep an eye on me. In this case, you must know what I did and who I contacted. Then you should know that I didn't lie to you."

At this point, Chu Ran continued, "You must be wondering why I confessed everything as soon as I saw you. Actually, the moment I saw you just now, I knew everything. You knew everything I did. If that's the case, why should I lie? It's better to confess quickly and avoid suffering, right?"

Shen Minghan was always the one who could see through others, and few people could see through Shen Minghan's thoughts. And Shen Minghan also realized that this little eunuch looked silly, but was actually very smart, and was definitely not the kind of person who was easy to deal with.

Shen Minghan's eyes gradually became gloomy as he looked at Chu Ran, but Chu Ran seemed to be unaware of it and even gave Shen Minghan a shy smile.

"I can't help it. I'm just so aware of the times."

Shen Minghan knew that he would not get any more answers no matter how much he asked, and Chu Ran seemed to have confessed everything.

"If Eunuch Chu remembers anything else, you can always find someone to tell him the truth."

He walked to the door and turned his head to watch the open door slowly closing. Chu Ran, who was tied tightly to a chair in the middle of the room, also gradually disappeared from his sight. Until the door was completely closed, his cold eyes were still full of doubt.

It was when the door was completely closed that Chu Ran's slightly tense body finally relaxed for a moment.

It is indeed extremely difficult to sneak out of the palace under Shen Minghan's nose.

Fortunately, Chu Ran was not really naive to think that he was so lucky that he could pass the news under Shen Minghan's nose.

Sneaking out of the palace and getting involved made Shen Minghan really believe that this was the method he had come up with to deliver the message.

I hope the news has been successfully brought out of the capital.

As long as Li Fu gets the news, he will definitely not return to Beijing as planned.

There was just one point that Chu Ran didn't understand.

Where on earth did Uncle Xing go?

But it's better if Uncle Xing is not here. He was originally worried that Uncle Xing would be implicated, but now it seems that Uncle Xing might have received some news in advance and then found a place to hide.