Chapter 130: Breaking the Wall
"The Guo Xin in Pencheng is Cui Pan." Sun Wei put down the letter in his hand and said to the outside, "Please ask Sima Deng to send someone to the Tian Mansion to inform Tian Ying of the discussion just now and ask him to send more people to capture Cui Pan with all his strength."
At this moment, Deng Lian took a breath.
"I just received news that Chief Steward Tian went to Pencheng in person."
Sun Wei felt a chill in her heart.
Tian Ying, this reckless man. She had previously warned him not to leave Xunyang, but he couldn't restrain himself.
The more Sun Wei thought about it, the more he felt that this situation was going to go wrong. After a moment's reflection, he said, "For now, the first thing to do is to protect Xunyang City. Ask Sima Deng to personally go to the palace, find Fu Changshi, and use his seal to issue an order to close the city gates immediately!"
Deng Lian agreed, then hesitated and said, "But if I leave, what will happen to the princess? I can't let her be imprisoned here."
"At this point, why bother looking for a mechanism?" Sun Wei said, "Send fifty guards over and tear down this house."
The guards brought a thick log and used it to break the wall outside.
In the candlelight of the secret room, Sun Wei was busy studying Mrs. Yao's letter.
This woman is really not simple.
She had a close relationship with Huan Xiu, who listened to her every word. However, Madam Yao actually followed the orders of Lü Qiuyan and played Huan Xiu as she pleased.
"Aru," after watching for a while, Sun Wei raised his voice and asked outside, "Is Huan Xiu still here?"
"Yes." Aju said, "Sima Deng has locked him up."
Mrs. Yao seemed to have the habit of burning letters. She only kept letters from about one month ago, and none of the letters before that were found.
Sun Wei rummaged through the cabinets in the secret room and found an iron box. The box was very heavy and could not be moved at all.
Sun Wei opened it, and under the candlelight, he saw neatly arranged rows of small flying knives.
She picked up one and felt it looked very familiar. After thinking about it carefully, she suddenly remembered.
In Jingkou, the female assassin who rescued Cui Pan used this hidden weapon.
Everything suddenly became clear.
Sun Wei's heart was in his throat, and he hurriedly said to A'ru, "Send someone to find out if the people from Tongxin Temple who were trying to capture Yao have returned. Have they caught them?"
Aju agreed.
Before long, a hole was finally smashed into the thick wall of the secret room.
This secret room was built entirely of brick and stone. From the outside, it looked like just another part of the house. But in reality, it was hidden behind the wall, cut off from the outside world except for a small ventilation hole.
Sun Wei reluctantly came out and ordered someone to clean up the secret room and transport all the items inside back to the palace.
Just as she was about to leave, she suddenly caught a glimpse of a slender figure flashing across the wall not far away.
Her heart trembled, and Aju had already knocked her to the ground.
"Someone come here!" Aju shouted.
The guards hurried to chase after him, but the figure had disappeared without a trace.
There was a flying knife on the ground.
If Aju had not protected him in time, Sun Wei might not have lived as long in this life as in his previous one.
At this moment, the raging fire in the study and the secret room also caught fire.
The guards who had been busy moving things were now rushing to put out the fire.
A'ru said, "Just now, the guards triggered some mechanism that suddenly caused the fire to burst out. If they hadn't dodged it quickly, I'm afraid someone would have died."
Sun Wei only felt her heart still pounding.
Mrs. Yao was very meticulous in her actions. It was obvious that she had already thought about how to deal with the aftermath if the truth was revealed.
Sun Wei thought for a moment and asked A Ru, "How is Tongxin Temple?"
Aju didn't say anything for a moment.
Sun Wei felt a sinking feeling in his heart when he saw her complicated expression.
A'ru whispered, "Several people who went to Tongxin Temple were injured. They didn't expect that this woman had such special skills."
Sun Wei lowered her eyes and picked up a book from the floor. It was the one the guards had just brought out from the study. The title of the book was "Searching for Tea Mountain." She crumpled the book until it was wrinkled.
"Where is Huan Xiu? Take me to see him."
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Huan Xiu was locked in Madam Yao's bedroom.
His eyes were a little dazed, and when he saw Sun Wei, he suddenly showed a sneer.
"You're finished," he said.
Sun Wei didn't answer, only saying, "Prince Huan is a distinguished guest. He visited Xunyang without even greeting Prince Yuzhang. It seems he has other motives. Did he come here specifically to see Madam Yao?"
After she said that, she threw the "Searching for Tea Mountain" in front of Huan Xiu.
Huan Xiu didn't even look at it because he was the one who gave the book to Mrs. Yao.
"I send this from afar," Sun Wei read the inscription on the title page leisurely. "Prince Huan is truly deeply in love with Madam Yao. I wonder if your wife knows this, and if the Duke of Nanjun knows this?"
Huan Xiu snorted coldly: "You're just being clever."
"Lüqiu Changshi should know, right?" Sun Wei asked. "Prince Huan's infatuation with Madam Yao was facilitated by Lüqiu Changshi. Now, Prince Huan was supposed to be accompanying Lüqiu Changshi on a military inspection tour in Jiangxia, but Lüqiu Changshi took the responsibility, freeing Prince Huan to come to Xunyang and meet Madam Yao, right?"
Sun Wei did not need Huan Xiu's recognition, because this was all said in the letters between Lu Qiuyan and Madam Yao.
"Lord Huan, do you know the relationship between Lüqiu Changshi and Madam Yao?" Sun Wei asked straight to the point.
Seeing Huan Xiu's suspicious look, Sun Wei realized that he was completely unaware of the situation.
She pulled a letter from her sleeve.
She had just picked this up in the secret room.
At that time, she had thought about coming out to take another look, but unexpectedly, it became the only remaining evidence.
The letter said that Huan Xiu was addicted to the Five-Stone Powder and would not live long, so he asked Madam Yao to be patient for a few more days and continue to feed him the Five-Stone Powder as he wished, and he would soon disappear.
However, if Huan Xiu died early, his body must be properly handled so that his death could be linked to Jiangzhou Prefecture, allowing the Duke of Nanjun to vent his anger on Sima Jun.
Huan Xiu stared at the letter and suddenly stretched out his hand as if to tear it into pieces.
Aju took the lead and snatched it away.
Huan Xiu's eyes were red and he laughed in anger.
"What an adulterer and whore!" he shouted angrily.
Then, he gasped, suddenly covered his chest, and then vomited all over the floor.
A'ru hurriedly pulled Sun Wei away.
"Just leave it alone," A'ru said with disgust, "It wasn't the princess who caused it."
Sun Wei was thinking about more important things.
Huan Xiu must not die in Xunyang City.
"Return to the palace and summon the imperial physician."
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Sun Wei ordered the guards to seal Madam Yao's house and bring Huan Xiu back to Xunyang Palace.
Deng Lian blocked the city gate as instructed by Sun Wei. When he came back to report, he told Sun Wei the new news from Pencheng.
"Pencheng is not far from Xunyang, so Manager Tian should have arrived long ago. But the people in the main camp said that Manager Tian had not been there. Some people in the city did say that a man who looked like a general did come to the city today, but he was invited to a tavern and has not been seen since."
Sun frowned slightly.
What you fear will come to you.
"You still don't know where he is?"
"We're still investigating."
"When we have more space here, we'll send some more people over." Sun Wei said, "Manager Tian wants to see the body alive or dead."
Deng Lian agreed.
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