Su Xuerong cut straight to the point: "Mr. Ge, do you know who the leader of the uprising in Shaoxing is?"
Xiao Yuan frowned slightly.
He thought Su Xuerong had come to him because she wanted him to help her find the culprit who framed and slandered her that day.
I never expected it to be like this.
"I heard that a military household named He Dazhuang is leading a bunch of rabble to attack Hangzhou."
Su Xuerong shook her head: "No! The real leader is Xu Songnian!"
Xiao Yuan's eyes narrowed sharply, his gaze turning piercing as he stepped forward and asked, "How did you know?"
His figure was so tall that he instantly enveloped her in his shadow.
At that moment, Su Xuerong felt an overwhelming aura of pressure emanating from him.
He carried a faint scent of ambergris, which gave her a suffocating feeling, making it almost impossible for her to breathe.
Su Xuerong swallowed hard, then looked up at him: "Back in Suzhou, I overheard Xiao Shiyan and Xu Songnian talking outside the study..."
"Oh?" Xiao Yuan stared intently into the woman's eyes.
She was nervous, but not timid; however, her eyes were quite open.
"...The plan they mentioned back then was..." Su Xuerong tried to avoid looking at his burning gaze in the shadows, turning her gaze away, "...to pre-deploy their people in the territories of various vassal kings, disguising them as rebels, so that when necessary, they could use their identity as rebels to launch an attack on the vassal kings..."
She wasn't lying.
This is what she overheard when Xu Wanjing made her request to Xiao Shiyan.
Xiao Shiyan had no idea what the Xu family had done behind his back for him and his son. Xu Wanjing would occasionally reveal these things in order to control him.
I said it to her on purpose.
Make her understand her own status; she can never be compared to the Xu family.
Xiao Yuan stared at her coldly without saying a word.
After Su Xuerong finished speaking, she didn't hear his reaction for a long time, so she couldn't help but look up at him.
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