Chapter 29 Help Him
"I should be the one saying that."
Sun Gui didn't care at all, leaning back on the soft couch, "If you know what's good for you, stay and play with me for a bit."
"If you don't know what's good for you, you'll come in standing up and leave lying down today!"
"Oh dear, I have such a bad temper." Shen Ruzhi rolled up her sleeves, clenched her fists, and stepped forward.
In an instant, several men in black rushed in through the back window and shielded Sun Gui behind them.
"Hmph, I am Consort Chun's maternal uncle. Do you really think I go out without bodyguards?"
Sun Gui said smugly, "To tell you the truth, these secret guards were all given to us by the Emperor."
"Who in this world can surpass His Majesty?" Sun Gui said, clenching his fists and bowing towards the air.
Upon seeing this, Haitang and Shaoyao immediately drew their daggers and stood in front of Jiang Wanning and Shen Ruzhi to protect them.
Shen Ruzhi pulled the peony behind her back.
It couldn't be moved.
I had to walk a few more steps to get around the peonies. "This old lady is born with a death wish; she doesn't know what fear is."
"If you won't listen to reason, you'll have to suffer the consequences." Sun Gui sneered. "Dispose of them for me."
This is a brothel. They disguise themselves as men and come in. They can kill people and then secretly bury the bodies. No one can find out. Sun Gui isn't that stupid.
Shen Ruzhi could no longer bear it. She swung the wine pot on the table at Sun Gui and then stepped forward to fight with five or six guards.
Jiang Wan Ning also drew a long whip from her waist and lashed it out, wrapping it around the neck of the guard behind Shen Ru Zhi.
With a sharp pull of his wrist, the guard fell backward.
They quickly dispatched the guards.
"Have I improved recently?" Shen Ruzhi looked at her hands. "I can even easily deal with the Emperor's secret guards?"
The Emperor's secret guards are no ordinary people; it's not impossible for one of them to take on a hundred.
To say that Jiang Wan Ning could fight to a draw would be something she believed, but herself...
"They're holding back," Jiang Wanning whispered in response. "Take care of Sun Gui first."
Shen Ruzhi gave a wicked smile, stepped forward, placed one foot on the table, and held a sword to Sun Gui's neck. "How about it?"
"You...you dare to kill an official of the imperial court? Consort Chun will not let you get away with this!"
Jiang Wan Ning's lips curled slightly. "This is a brothel. Even if we kill you, who would think of us?"
Sun Gui: "......" Wasn't this what he was just thinking?
"I'll ask one more question: will the embezzled money be returned or not?"
"Hey Ningning, why waste words with this kind of person! Let's beat him up first." Shen Ruzhi said, raising her fist to strike Sun Gui's fat face.
Seeing this, the peonies and crabapples also joined in.
Sun Gui curled up on the ground, his initial threats turning into a final plea for mercy.
"Spare me, spare me, I'll pay, I'll pay, please stop hitting me!"
Shen Ruzhi then stopped.
"Hiss—" Sun Gui gently touched his scratched face. "I'm not done yet."
Sun Gui sent someone to the yamen to retrieve the silver notes.
"Brothers, you can get up now. Take this man surnamed Sun and these silver notes to report to the Prince."
Jiang Wan Ning took out several new silver notes from her bosom and stacked them together.
The people lying there were not moving.
Jiang Wan Ning sighed softly, "I know you are the prince's men. The embroidery on the cuffs of your clothes is unique to the prince's secret guards."
After being exposed, the bodyguard could no longer pretend and could only get up and take the silver notes from Jiang Wan Ning's hand.
"Thank you for your help."
In his previous life, Sun Gui also acted recklessly, taking advantage of Consort Chun's favor in the palace to do all sorts of bad things.
Jiang Wan Ning only found out later.
Sun Gui believed that the bodyguards behind him were specially sent by Consort Chun to protect him.
In reality, these secret guards were all men of Prince Langya, Pei Yanchuan.
Behind Consort Chun is the Qu family, the most prominent aristocratic family, who have been secretly maintaining close ties with Prince Qi for years.
Prince Qi was the most ambitious of all the princes, and in his previous life he had fought with the emperor for a long time.
In order to appease the powerful families, the Emperor chose Consort Chun, who was beautiful but also the most brainless, to enter the palace.
They deliberately showered him with affection, but in reality, they were trying to kill him with flattery.
Although Consort Chun was foolish and sought many official positions for her family members, these people only committed some corrupt acts and were not enough to eradicate the Qu family completely.
The silver notes he handed to the guards were something Pei Yanchuan had only found long after his previous life.
There is evidence that the Qu family operated illegal mines and forged weapons for the King of Qi.
The Qu family kicked out Sun Gui, a distant relative, and assigned him to handle dangerous tasks.
But Sun Gui wasn't stupid. He hid some of the evidence in his embezzled private treasury, with a banknote attached to each piece of evidence.
It was also for his own protection, fearing that one day the Qu family might kick him out and make him a scapegoat.
That's why it wasn't discovered for a while.
He couldn't directly hand over this evidence to Pei Yanchuan, so he originally wanted to use Lord Shen's help.
Unfortunately, he wasn't in the capital, so he could only rely on Liu Zhuang and some small vendors' affairs.
Then, they secretly slipped the evidence they had found into the banknotes and sent it to Pei Yanchuan.
In this life, it's her turn to protect him.
The Prince of Langya stared at the silver notes in front of him, his face dark. "Where did you think she went?"
"Your Highness, it's...Drunken Immortal Pavilion."
The guards whispered their report, explaining that they had tacitly pretended to be dead when they learned that the other person was the future mistress.
Unexpectedly, they were discovered.
Prince Langya, Pei Yanchuan, frowned slightly, and the atmosphere in the entire study plummeted to freezing point.
Mo Qing picked up the silver notes from the desk. "Your Highness, why don't I exchange these silver notes for smaller denominations and return them to the people? After all, it was the Princess's good intentions."
Although the princess meant well but ended up making things worse...
Pei Yanchuan glanced at the silver note and reached out to take it.
He unfolded the cards one by one, and when he picked up one of them, he gently touched it with two fingers.
"Light the candles."
"Ah...oh oh." Mo Qing didn't know why candles were being lit in broad daylight, so she didn't dare to say anything and immediately did as Pei Yanchuan instructed.
Pei Yanchuan held the silver note up to the light and could vaguely see a few lines of text on the back.
Then I picked up one of them, which was a very small map.
Mo Qing's eyes widened. "Your Highness...this?"
"Your Highness is quite clever to have stumbled upon something so unexpected; you actually brought up what we've been searching for!"
Pei Yanchuan did not respond. Sun Gui wouldn't be so foolish as to discover the evidence so easily; she must have discovered it long ago.
How could she know what she was looking for?
Pei Yanchuan handed the silver note to Mo Qing, "Handle it."
"yes."
After saying that, he looked up at the guards and said, "You can leave now."
Pei Yanchuan carefully put away the evidence that Mo Qing had prepared and took it into the palace.
Inside the Imperial Study.
Emperor Xiao Yu looked at the evidence and slammed his fist on the dragon table. "My uncle is really quite restless."
"Your Majesty, please calm down." The eunuch serving beside him knelt down and whispered, "Be careful not to upset yourself."
The Emperor looked at Pei Yanchuan, "Achuan, what do you think I should do about this?"
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