The next day, the first ray of sunlight peeked into the room through the window.
At the post station in Lingnan County that received exiled criminals, the officials did not wake them up early today, and no one got up early either.
After An Xin got up, he heard that Liu Huai had gone to the government office to go through the procedures for handing over these prisoners according to regulations.
As for the dead and injured prisoners, the six big men were originally temporarily arranged into the exile team, and their names were not on the official documents received by the government offices.
As long as Liu Huai doesn't mention it himself, the government office in Lingnan will not know about the existence of these people.
Liu Huai knew that he could not hide the fact about the others who died in the last fight, so he told the truth.
He also didn't know why the group of officers who were temporarily arranged to escort the prisoners suddenly wanted to kill all the exiled prisoners. When they put up a desperate resistance, those people either escaped or were killed on the way.
Anyway, that group of people was killed by An Xin alone, and only his close associates, a few of her students and Lu Qinlong knew about it. The others ran to the mountains for fear of being killed.
When we came back when it was safe, almost all the bodies had been buried.
His man Liu Huai had already told him that those fake officials were killed by everyone working together, as for the other few people.
Just seeing that they ignored anyone who asked about it, I knew they knew the seriousness of the matter and wouldn't talk about it.
Liu Huai had often escorted exiled prisoners here over the years and was familiar with some of the people here. After the handover, Liu Huai invited several people from the yamen to a restaurant for a meal and a drink, and the matter was left unresolved in Lingnan.
As for what happened after returning to Beijing, since the higher-ups suddenly arranged so many strangers to escort the exiled prisoners, it would be nonsense to say that they had no idea what they were going to do.
Therefore, Liu Huai knew that so many people had died, and if he returned, Shangguan would definitely push him to take the blame.
In the evening, An Xin, who was sitting in the room, looked up from the window at the bright red sunset in the sky.
Then I heard a staggering sound of footsteps coming in, and then someone knelt heavily on the ground with a thump.
An Xin turned around and looked at Liu Huai in confusion. He was obviously drunk and kneeling in front of her with a red face.
"What is this, Chief Liu?" An Xin frowned and said, "If you are drunk, go back to your room and take a nap. If you have anything to say, talk to me when you sober up."
An Xin didn't want to listen to what a drunk person said.
Zhu Shijing and his companions, who were exiled prisoners and were originally required by the postmaster of the post station not to leave their rooms at will, saw Liu Huai in the room, looking drunk and staggering, walking towards the room where the headmaster of their own village lived.
Knowing that the mother and daughter of the Chen family who lived with her were called to the kitchen of the post station to help, Xiaoshan was the only one in the room. Several people's eyes flashed coldly and narrowed dangerously.
Without caring about anything else, he hurriedly opened the door and walked towards where the woman lived.
Although the others noticed that what they did was a bit inappropriate, when they saw the cold expressions on Leng Xiangbai and Zhu Shijing's faces, they also pout in anger but said nothing, pretending they didn't see anything.
"You want to work with me." An Xin said in surprise: "Brother, I am in exile now, why are you so desperate to be my younger brother?"
Leng Xiangbai, Zhu Shijing, Jiang Zhou and An Rui had just arrived at the door when they heard their headmaster shouting in a rare surprised voice, barely lowering his voice.
Because they knew that Liu Huai was not the drunk guy who broke in to do bad things as they thought, they did not rush in. When they met An Xin's gaze, they chose to stand at the door and keep watch.
Liu Huai had a good alcohol tolerance. After he got those Lingnan officials drunk, he himself was only six-tenths tipsy.
Although his face was red and his neck was thick, his mind was not completely confused because of drinking.
"Lord An, you don't want me to be forced by my superiors to take the blame after I return home, do you?" There was a hint of grievance in Liu Huai's honest face and his deep eyes.
An Xin certainly knew why he felt aggrieved.
The assassin that night was obviously someone arranged by Prime Minister Xiao to kill their teacher and students to eliminate their future troubles.
Now all those people secretly trained and arranged by Prime Minister Xiao were killed by himself.
In order to avoid being punished and resented by Prime Minister Xiao, Liu Huai's boss would definitely put the blame on Liu Huai, the leader of the officials escorting the exile team.
If he doesn't feel wronged, then who else would feel wronged? It would be better if he felt wronged too.
Seeing Liu Huai looking at him aggrievedly like a big dog, he knew that if he was allowed to go back to report like this, the lightest punishment would be that his position as leader would be demoted. If he was not careful, he might even be thrown into prison and executed.
An Xin, who had little conscience left, knew that this incident was caused by their teacher-student relationship, but she did not feel guilty.
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An Xin is not the kind of person who would stick her head out even though she knows others are going to chop her head off.
It was obvious that those fake officials wanted her and herself to protect them behind them. She couldn't just surrender when it came to Leng Xiangbai and the others' lives, so it was inevitable that those people would be killed.
But after thinking about it, An Xin decided to keep Liu Huai.
Then King Liang sent people to secretly pick up those officials he had secretly placed in the capital, hoping to learn more specific information about the court situation from them.
Wei Yaoxin and his men, who had been showing off in front of An Xin and others before arriving in Lingnan and being picked up by King Liang, were not hacked to death by the fake officials that night. Instead, as soon as they entered King Liang's study, they fell to the ground miserably with blood gushing from all their orifices.
King Liang was shocked, and then sent people to the post station to arrest An Xin and others for questioning.
However, he was informed by the postmaster that not long after the people from the Prince of Liang's mansion took away the exiled officials, the exiled prisoners were taken away by people from the government office and arranged to be sent to various villages where exiles were located.
The officials who were originally taking An Xin and the others to the exile village were also forced to a valley by An Xin, a man without martial ethics.
They glared at An Xin and the others with resentment, and then looked in disbelief at Liu Huai and the others who were waiting in the mountain cave for this woman who looked more like a bandit than a bandit.
He gnashed his teeth and shouted, "Captain Liu, aren't you the chief of the officials who escort exiled prisoners in the capital all year round? How can you be with this..." The several yamen runners from Lingnan didn't know how to address this person, and looked at their women with a smile.
After looking at An Xin and then sideways at Liu Huai, the Lingnan runners seemed to have suddenly figured something out. They looked at Liu Huai and said bitterly, "You are not having an affair with her, are you? You betrayed the court for a woman, Liu Huai, you are stupid!"
"Quickly capture them and send them to the village of exile." Several Lingnan yamen runners said to Liu Huai in a righteous manner: "For the sake of our past friendship, we will just pretend that nothing happened today."
Several people obviously misunderstood that Liu Huai was seduced by An Xin and wanted to run away with her.