Pei Xuanzhi heard this, but still forced himself to tease Song Wanning, "Why are you crying? It's just a minor injury, it will heal after some rest. The Prime Minister will be jealous if he sees you crying for another man."
Song Wanning was amused by Pei Xuanzhi's words and said, "It's already this hour, and you're still saying such things. Think about how you're going to explain it when you get home."
"I won't confess." Pei Xuanzhi closed his eyes and said slowly, "You are the one who should confess."
Song Wanning knew in her heart that now that the Pei family had saved her life, she didn't know how to repay them, and she didn't know how to face Master Pei and Madam Pei with the face.
"Go back home and check on your injury first. I'll come to see you another day." Song Wanning sighed twice.
Song Wanning got off the carriage and ordered his men to send Pei Xuanzhi to Pei Mansion as soon as possible, while he stayed there to question her with Yin Yichen.
General Chen now stood here explaining to Yin Yichen, "Prime Minister, you may not know this, but the reason these bandits are so rampant is because there's a mountain not far from the capital called Langfeng Mountain. There's miasma on this mountain, and the bandits somehow figured out how to be immune to the miasma, so they've gone up the mountain and guarded it, preventing outsiders from entering. These people were originally from a mountaintop hundreds of miles away, and they were wiped out a few years ago. Who would have thought that a few of them escaped, grew stronger, and are now causing chaos here? Now they're even daring enough to stop the Prime Minister's carriage. They're truly audacious."
Yin Yichen frowned upon hearing this and immediately continued, "It's obvious these people came prepared. How did they know when Madam would be traveling?"
"This..." General Chen shook his head and spoke slowly, "I'm afraid someone in the capital reported it, otherwise it's just a coincidence."
"It was Jiao Rong, the manager of Fengxian Restaurant. Seeing that I had reduced his power, Jiao Rong must have been resentful, so he sent someone to tip off the gang. But why he was able to associate with the bandits on Langfeng Mountain is unknown." Song Wanning shook her head slightly and sighed, "Who would have thought that I would encounter such a thing when I was just visiting the shop."
Yin Yichen took a deep breath, his eyes cold, and said in a very cold voice, "Put Jiao Rong's matter aside for now. I will take care of it."
As they were talking, Song Jing and Song Lan arrived on horseback. Song Jing dismounted, looked at Song Wanning, and said, "Wanning, I heard you encountered bandits outside. Are you okay?"
"I'm fine," Song Wanning said with a guilty tone, "but Xuanzhi was seriously injured while helping me, and he just returned to the Pei Mansion to recuperate."
"How could there still be bandits lurking at the foot of the capital?" Song Lan frowned, looking at Song Wanning with doubt, "I heard there were bandits on Langfeng Mountain before, could they be that group of people?"
Song Wanning nodded and sighed, "These bandits have quite a connection with my father. After hearing my name, they actually want to take revenge."
Song Jing's face grew even more furious after hearing this. "It was my fault that a few of them escaped in the first place. I should have wiped them out completely. I'll report to His Majesty someday and I'll definitely go up the mountain and capture them all."
Song Lan leaned in front of Song Jing and advised him, "It's good that the people are fine now. I'm afraid we need to make long-term plans to suppress the bandits. I heard that the bandits are now on Langfeng Mountain and there is miasma protecting the mountain. Ordinary people will be poisoned if they go up the mountain. Now it's important to go and see Xuanzhi."
Song Jing thought this made sense and immediately said to Song Wanning, "Wanning, the most important thing now is to go see Xuanzhi first. Go home and rest first, and go see Xuanzhi when you're free."
Song Wanning responded and watched Song Jing and Song Lan return on horseback.
Yin Yichen stood in front of Song Wanning, put his arm around her shoulders and whispered, "Don't worry, I will always repay Pei Xuanzhi's kindness with you."
Song Wanning responded softly. Now that Pei Xuanzhi had been injured for him, she needed to find a way to repay such a great favor. Although she heard Yin Yichen's comfort, she still couldn't be happy.
Song Wanning followed Yin Yichen back to the Prime Minister's Mansion. She was frightened, extremely sleepy and tired, and fell asleep in a short while.
However, Yin Yichen, who was beside Song Wanning, got up and went to the study.
He looked at the book in his hand and called out softly, "Guardian Talisman."
Yin Yichen's subordinate Wei Fu came in from outside a short while later. He heard Yin Yichen continue to speak, "Go and bring Jiao Rong, the manager of Fengxian Restaurant, to me. I want to interrogate him personally."
Wei Fu said yes and quickly went out to catch the man. But within an hour, the man was tied up and brought to Yin Yichen.
Wei Fu explained in a low voice in Yin Yichen's study, "Master, the man has been captured. However, when we went to arrest him, Jiao Rong was selling things in the house. I'm afraid he was trying to escape. Fortunately, we went there early, so he didn't succeed and was arrested."
Yin Yichen looked up and glanced at Jiao Rong lying on the ground. Jiao Rong's face was now red as liver color, and the ropes on his body were tied tightly, causing the fat on his belly to flow out from the gaps in the ropes, which looked very funny.
"Take the cloth off his mouth." Yin Yichen's eyes were cold and indifferent, and the look he gave Jiao Rong was very oppressive.
Wei Fu responded and raised his hand to remove the cloth from Jiao Rong's mouth. Seeing this, Jiao Rong moved his fat body and tried to kneel on the ground, but failed several times. He kept begging for mercy, "Prime Minister, Your Excellency, this is all a misunderstanding. Please forgive me this time."
"Did I ask you? Why did you start talking about it yourself?" Yin Yichen's eyes dimmed slightly, and his face was as cold as a knife.
"Your Excellency, I... I... I heard about your wife's misfortune back home. Now that you've brought me here, I'm afraid there must have been some misunderstanding. So I'm explaining." Jiao Rong's lips were trembling as he spoke. "Your Excellency, I'm telling you, I've never done anything to offend your wife. How dare I?"
"Either you admit it yourself, or you are taken to the Ministry of Justice prison. You choose one." Yin Yichen sneered and didn't look at Jiao Rong again.
"I... I was truly possessed by a demon. Today, my mistress went to Fengxian Restaurant and said she wanted to replace me. She also asked me to pay her back. I didn't have the money to pay her back, so I got so angry..." Jiao Rong kept trying to explain himself. "I know I was wrong now. If you, Lord Prime Minister, forgive me this time, I will immediately pay you back and take my family away. I also ask that you, Lord Prime Minister, consider my father's lifelong loyalty to Old Master Yin."
Yin Yichen raised his eyes again, his gaze cold, and said word by word, "I just want to ask you, how did you know the bandits from Langfeng Mountain?"
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