Zhao Xingzhong snorted coldly, his eyes searching the room. "I heard someone delivering medicinal herbs just entered this room. Where is he?"
When Su Huaiyue just came back, Wei Che was gone. He must have gone to collect evidence. Suddenly, her heart tightened, but her face remained calm: "I asked him to prepare some other herbs. This prescription needs to be adjusted."
Zhao Xingzhong looked at her suspiciously and took a few steps forward, as if trying to find a flaw in her expression. "It's better this way. Don't try any tricks. If my brother's illness can't be cured, you won't be able to leave this villa alive."
At this moment, Wei Che avoided the search and hurried back from the secret room.
He heard Zhao Xingzhong's voice in the house and thought to himself that something was wrong, but he quickly calmed down.
He deliberately made some noise and then pushed the door open.
"Miss Su, the herbs are ready." Wei Che lowered his head and pretended to be busy.
Zhao Xingzhong turned around abruptly and stared at Wei Che: "Are you the one who delivered the herbs? Where did you go just now?"
Wei Che was nervous, but he tried to make his voice sound steady: "Reply... reply to the adults, I went to the warehouse in the back to look for herbs. Miss Su said that the prescription needs to be changed."
Su Huaiyue quickly took over the conversation: "He is familiar with medicinal herbs, that's why I let him go."
Zhao Xingzhong looked at the two men with suspicion in his eyes and called the guard at the door.
"Did you see him go out just now?"
The guard shook his head, "No."
"Then how did you come back from outside!" Zhao Xingzhong glared at Wei Che, as if he had determined that he was the thief who went into the secret room.
Wei Che remained calm and said, "President, look at this guard. He's yawning non-stop. He must have not had a good sleep for several days."
Then he looked at the guard and asked, "Did you see me come in just now?"
The guard glanced at Zhao Xingzhong and continued to shake his head. He felt very guilty at the moment because he had indeed dozed off just now.
"President, I..."
Zhao Xingzhong went up and slapped him, "You useless things! What's the point of having you!"
"Chairman Zhao, you have also seen that this is a false alarm. Should we save him or not?" Su Huaiyue breathed a sigh of relief, and now he spoke with more confidence.
Zhao Xingzhong unhappily made way for Wei Che to enter, but he did not relax his vigilance and even sent more people to guard the door.
On the surface, Wei Che and Su Huaiyue continued to be busy preparing medicinal herbs and treating their sick subordinates, but they knew in their hearts that they had only escaped danger temporarily and the danger was not really over.
While Zhao Xingzhong was gone, Wei Che lowered his voice and said to Su Huaiyue, "I just found some important letters in the secret room. They contain a detailed plan of President Zhao's collusion with the Western Zhao Kingdom, as well as evidence of other chambers of commerce's involvement. I just haven't had time to read them all."
Su Huaiyue's eyes flashed with surprise, but soon returned to worry: "That's great, but now the security outside is tighter, how are we going to send this evidence out?"
Wei Che pondered for a moment and said, "I've observed that a group of horse-drawn carriages delivering vegetables will enter the villa this afternoon. We can find a way to hide the evidence in the vegetables and have the delivery people take it out and hand it over to County Magistrate Chen."
Su Huaiyue nodded slightly: "That's a solution, but..."
The two were discussing in low voices when they suddenly heard a noise coming from outside.
Wei Che quietly walked to the window and looked out through the gap. He saw Zhao Xingzhong and several of his men pacing back and forth in the yard, seemingly discussing something.
Wei Che's heart tightened, and he quickly returned to Su Huaiyue: "President Zhao and the others are outside, I wonder what they are planning."
Su Huaiyue frowned. "No matter what they want to do, we must speed up our actions. I'll go hold President Zhao back first, and you find a chance to hide the evidence."
After saying that, Su Huaiyue took a deep breath, opened the door and walked out.
Seeing Zhao Xingzhong, she pretended to be calm and said, "President Zhao, I just checked the brothers' conditions. Several of them have serious symptoms and need some special medicinal herbs. Can you send someone to prepare them?"
Zhao Xingzhong looked at her suspiciously. "Miss Su, you'd better not play any tricks. I've already sent people to check for the herbs you mentioned. If they find out you're lying to me, you should know the consequences."
Su Huaiyue smiled slightly: "President Zhao, don't worry, how could I joke about the lives of my brothers."
While Su Huaiyue was dealing with Zhao Xingzhong, Wei Che quickly took action inside the house.
He found a large box filled with herbs in the corner. He had an idea and carefully rolled up the letter and hid it among the herbs.
After hiding, Wei Che walked out of the room and saw Su Huaiyue still talking with Zhao Xingzhong, so he walked over and said, "Miss Su, the herbs are all ready, waiting for you to mix them."
Su Huaiyue nodded slightly: "Okay, let's get started."
The two returned to the house and continued to work.
Although Zhao Xingzhong had left temporarily, the guards outside the door became more vigilant and stared closely at every move in the house.
Time passed minute by minute, and finally it was time to deliver the food in the afternoon.
The carriage delivering food slowly drove into the villa and stopped at the kitchen door.
While the guards were not paying attention, Wei Che quietly went to the kitchen and moved the herbal box containing the letter onto the carriage.
Just as he was about to leave, he heard a guard yell, "What are you doing?"
Wei Che was startled, but he quickly calmed down, turned around and said, "I'll help move the vegetables. Miss Su said that some herbs need to be placed together with vegetables to better preserve their medicinal properties."
The guard looked at him doubtfully. At this moment, Su Huaiyue also came over and said, "I asked him to help. What's wrong?"
The guard quickly said, "Nothing... nothing, Miss Su, you are busy."
Su Huaiyue and Wei Che looked at each other and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
The carriage slowly drove out of the villa.
However, what they didn't know was that one of Zhao Xingzhong's close confidants was secretly observing their every move.
This confidant had been hiding in the dark, watching Wei Che's every move like a hawk.
When he saw Wei Che moving the boxes onto the carriage, alarm bells immediately rang in his heart, and he thought to himself, "Why is this person delivering medicinal herbs suddenly so interested in the carriage delivering vegetables? There must be something fishy going on!"
He didn't dare to delay, so he crouched down and quickly crossed the courtyard, jogging all the way to the room where Zhao Xingzhong was.
Zhao Xingzhong was sitting on the armchair, brows furrowed, thinking about his next plan.
The confidant flung the door open and gasped, "President, this is bad! The herbal medicine delivery guy has put a box on the vegetable cart. I think something's wrong."
Upon hearing this, Zhao Xingzhong's face instantly darkened like the sky before a storm. He stood up with a vengeance and roared, "Send someone after the carriage immediately and bring the box back to me! If they send the evidence out, we'll all be doomed!"
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