Chapter 2904: Being too clever
Tingfu took the order and waved to the outside. Several young eunuchs immediately came in escorting a person. Ling Shansi subconsciously turned his head to take a look and his face suddenly changed.
The person who was brought in was the young eunuch Xiao Lizi who served her.
The lights in the room illuminated Little Li's bruised face and body, evidently tortured. He was escorted in, and upon seeing Ling Shansi kneeling on the ground and Nan Yan sitting at the table, he immediately broke free from the people behind him and knelt on the ground, kowtowed repeatedly to Nan Yan: "Your Majesty, spare me, Your Majesty, spare me! Concubine Ling ordered this servant to do all this. I know nothing!"
"you--!"
Ling Shansi was furious and was about to scold him, but Nan Yan said slowly, "No hurry, no hurry."
“…”
"Don't be so quick to make excuses."
“…”
"There are some things I need to clarify first."
As she spoke, she winked at Tingfu, who immediately took out a letter from his bosom and placed it in front of Nanyan. The letter had already been opened, and it was obvious that Nanyan had read it before coming.
She said, "Little Leo, this letter was found on you, right?"
Little Leo said hurriedly: "Yes."
"Who gave it to you?"
"It's Lady Ling."
"Who do you want to hand it over to?"
"She didn't say it explicitly, but simply told me to go to an old house in the south of the city and put the letter into the hole in the third brick on the left side of the door, saying that someone would take it away naturally."
Ling Shansi's expression became increasingly ugly. Seeing that Xiao Lizi had spoken out everything, she knelt down anxiously, pointing at Xiao Lizi and yelling, "You're lying!"
As he spoke, he looked up at Nan Yan again.
"Your Highness, he lied. I know nothing!"
Little Lizi was also anxious, kneeling in front of Nan Yan, but Ruoshui immediately stepped forward to stop him. Little Lizi didn't dare to do anything, but anxiously said to Nan Yan: "Your Highness, I dare not lie. Everything I said is true. All this was done by Concubine Ling."
Nan Yan suddenly laughed.
He said, "You two are quite interesting, master and servant. When something goes wrong, you push me and I push you."
Her face suddenly darkened, and she said in a deep voice, "However, whether it's true or not, do you still have the right to lie and quibble in front of me?"
When she said this, she was talking to Ling Shansi.
Ling Shansi's heart sank. He saw Nan Yan taking the letter and pulling out the letter paper. There were only a few simple words on the letter paper.
The scapegoat has been found and is temporarily safe in the palace.
Although she had already read it once, Nan Yan still sneered when she read it again. She picked up the eulogy again, put them together, and put them in front of Ling Shansi.
“……!”
Ling Shansi's heart sank instantly.
It was not until this time that she understood why Nan Yan did not catch Xiao Lizi and ask her about the letter as soon as she arrived, but instead asked her if she had written the eulogy, and did not explain everything until she admitted it.
because--
The handwriting above is exactly the same!
At this moment, Ling Shansi seemed to have had his bones pulled out. His face was ashen and he knelt dejectedly on the ground, as if his soul had been taken away.
Looking at her like this, Nan Yan sneered.
She continued, "Actually, even without this eulogy, it wouldn't matter."
“…”
"I can still find you."
“…”
Ling Shansi raised her head. At this time, her face had changed into a cold and even sinister expression, and her eyes were filled with a sharp gaze like a knife.
She said, "Why?"
Nan Yan smiled and said, "Why don't you ask why I knew to send someone to the old house in the south of the city to wait for your people to show up?"
“……?!”
Hearing this, Ling Shansi's expression changed again.
Just now, she was just horrified that Little Leo was caught and that her letter was found. Her mind was in a mess and she wanted to get rid of the charges, but she had no time to think about it.
It was not until now, when Nan Yan said this, that she vaguely realized it.
I realized something more terrifying than Leo being caught or my letter being found!
Nan Yan said slowly, "If no one told me, how could I have sent people to that place to intercept the letter you wrote?"
“…”
"Besides you, who else knows that place?"
“…”
"Who told me that place?"
Ling Shansi's face was pale, and she sat there motionless. After an unknown amount of time, she raised her head and said tremblingly, "You, you caught—"
Nan Yan said three words slowly and methodically: "Dragon, Thunder, Cloud."
“…”
"He is now in jail."
“…”
Ling Shansi was still a little bit incredulous: "He, he was caught by you? You caught him? Why..."
"Why are you completely unaware? There's no news from the court, right?"
Nan Yan sneered, "Because it wasn't the guards in the capital who arrested him, but His Royal Highness the Prince of Wei."
“…”
"His Royal Highness the Prince of Wei captured him on his way out of the capital. To prevent the news from spreading, he secretly sent someone to escort Long Tingyun back to the capital. The detention and interrogation were also carried out in secret, and no one else knew about it."
“…”
"If not, how could we catch you?"
“…”
At this point, Nan Yan chuckled softly, looking at Ling Shansi with a hint of admiration, and said, "You are quite clever. You have been hiding in the harem for so long, keeping silent, like a dead chess piece. If I hadn't searched Ge Yunli's house and found that he had planted someone among the selected concubines, I would never have thought that there was such a hidden chess piece in the palace."
Ling Shansi said: "How did you suspect me? I have clearly already -"
"You mean to say that you've already made us suspect Yao Ying, right?"
Nan Yan took over her words, chuckled, and said: "Indeed, you did a good job."
“…”
"Knowing that Ge Yunli's property was raided, you probably guessed that this matter would be exposed sooner or later. So, after meeting Pang Hu, you had already made up your mind to escape. You deliberately hid him in the woodshed of Jingyixuan, luring those around Lipin to see him. If I am not mistaken, you should have drugged Liu'er long ago - since you all live in Jingyixuan, it would be convenient for you to do it."
“…”
"Use Pang Hu to scare her and drive her crazy, then send your people to kill Pang Hu."
“…”
"This way, you won't be exposed, and you can use Liu'er's connections to draw our attention to Yao Ying."
“…”
"That's a really good trick."
When Ling Shansi heard what he had done, all the color disappeared from his face.
"What a pity,"
Nan Yan continued, "Too clever is to be fooled."
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