"Then take a look, what is this?"
Her subordinate threw something in front of her; it was her mother's hairpin.
She sneered, not even looking at them, and said, "It was clearly you who arrested my family and tried to frame Your Majesty!"
“You trust Gao Ping so much, but that doesn’t mean Gao Ping will trust you.” Song Yaozhu raised her chin, and her subordinate picked up the silver hairpin. “I’ll have someone send this hairpin and your position to Gao Ping and see what she does.”
That very evening, the imperial concubine received the item and screamed in terror.
"Gao Ruhai! Gao Ruhai!" Eunuch Gao hurriedly ran in and picked up the hairpin from the ground.
"She's not dead! She's actually alive!" the Imperial Concubine exclaimed angrily. Why didn't Xie Liwei kill Mo Yu? What was the point of keeping her alive? "She must have told Xie Liwei everything about me! If Xie Liwei knows I killed Xie Wanqing, he won't let me go!"
Eunuch Gao hurriedly comforted Gao Ping, "Your Majesty, don't worry. Didn't Mo Yu say that she escaped and returned to her hometown only to find that her family was dead? She asked to meet with you. Why don't I send someone to see her? Regardless of whether she confesses or not, I will let her go and reunite with her family!"
"Then hurry up and get on it!"
Gao Ping scolded, and as soon as Eunuch Gao left, she paced anxiously back and forth in the room. Why wasn't Mo Yu dead? If she were truly loyal, she should have committed suicide to protect her!
Little did she know that Xie Liwei was worried that Mo Yu would commit suicide, so he had Mo Yu locked up in the mountain stronghold to give her hope of escape, allowing her to escape each time, only to be caught again each time.
Mo Yu was also very nervous. She had read the letter Song Yaozhu had sent to the palace and hoped that Gao Ping would send someone to rescue her. At the same time, she was also afraid. What if Gao Ping really did send assassins to deal with her, just as Song Yaozhu had said?
She deserves to die, for the sake of the Empress, for the sake of her faith. Die now, so that everything can stop at its perfect moment. Before her heart dies!
"Not good, stop her!" Song Yaozhu noticed the change in her eyes and immediately ordered someone to stop her from thinking.
But Mo Yu had already rushed towards the wall, intending to smash her head against it and die.
They couldn't stop him, but they didn't die either.
The village's barefoot doctor bandaged the man up and exclaimed, "Such a hard skull, it's such a pity it broke."
Song Yaozhu looked at Mo Yu lying on the bed and had her tied to the bed.
"Your Highness, should we gag her to prevent her from biting her tongue and committing suicide?"
"No need." Would someone who has already died once and failed have the courage to die a second time?
Song Yaozhu didn't think Mo Yu had that kind of courage; otherwise, she wouldn't have chosen to commit suicide at this time. She should have killed herself the moment she was caught to show her loyalty.
She was unwilling to accept the cruel reality that was about to be faced. She did not want to face the fact that the empress she had served loyally had killed her entire family, and she did not want to accept that the person she loved had turned the knife against her.
She didn't have the courage to face it, so she chose to escape by dying.
However, her cowardice and timidity prevented her from seeking death a second time after experiencing the fear of death once.
"Have someone disguise themselves as her and go to see the Imperial Concubine."
Just like back then, they hid her in a secret room, listening to the person who could save her being just a wall away, yet unable to call for help.
The difference is that by doing this, he could save Mo Yu's life.
After making the arrangements, Song Yaozhu returned to Shangbei Academy. She had been staying at Shangbei Academy with her sister-in-law, Madam Yin, for the past few days.
Xie Liwei obtained the Ministry of Revenue's defense map and, at the opportune moment, led Fang Rao to conduct a night raid on the Ministry of Revenue's treasury.
Liu Jiaci hid the key to the vault behind the plaque in the main hall of the Ministry of Revenue. Xie Liwei took the key, bypassed the patrol, and entered the vault.
Inside the vault, a luminous pearl was placed, and the dim light illuminated the vast interior.
Xie Liwei walked close to the wall, his fingers groping along the surface. When he found a small indentation, he took out a key that Song Yaozhu had carved from memory and inserted it into the indentation.
Such a confidential place as the vault naturally has mechanisms, but fortunately these mechanisms have only been under maintenance and not modified over the years, otherwise Song Yaozhu would have been helpless.
The key was inserted into the slot, and with a "click," the sound of a chain slowly moving came from inside the wall.
Xie Liwei took out a stone from his pocket and tossed it forward. After waiting a few moments to make sure everything was alright, the two of them went inside.
"Master, I'll go first." Fang Rao took the tinderbox and walked ahead, so that Xie Liwei could escape quickly if anything happened.
The two quickly arrived at the vault door. Xie Liwei took out the key and unlocked it, and a musty smell that had never seen the light of day for years wafted out.
Xie Liwei saw that the walls of the secret room were inlaid with luminous pearls, and the faint light revealed the scene inside.
In the center of the room is a large table made of gold bricks, and on both sides of the wall are shelves made of gold bricks, on which are displayed national treasures.
The inner room didn't look big, but it took the two of them about half a cup of tea to walk from the end.
The room was filled with gold bricks, luminous pearls, and other items, making Fang Rao, who didn't usually care much about money, swallow hard.
This is just too... eye-catching!
It's all gleaming gold! Even the masters of Huangjue Temple would probably be tempted to take a second look if they came here!
Xie Liwei paced back and forth in the secret room. If Tong Qian didn't want others to misappropriate his treasures, he would definitely have separated his own things from those in the national treasury. He just didn't know how he would do it.
Furthermore, according to regulations, in order to ensure that the Minister of Revenue would not abuse his power for personal gain, he had to be accompanied by two inspectors each time he entered the treasury, and he had to register each time the treasury was opened.
Even if he wanted to open the storeroom door without permission, the guards would not allow it.
Song Yaozhu said that someone who loves to amass wealth would occasionally visit his gold mine to admire these gold and silver treasures and satisfy his delusions...
"Fang Rao, find the mechanism; there must be no secret passage here!"
Fang Rao accepted the order, and the two began to search the vault filled with gold.
However, the room was poorly lit and completely exposed, making it seem like there was nowhere to tamper with it. The two searched for several hours, feeling every floor tile and every crack in the walls, but found nothing unusual.
"Master, it will be dawn soon if we don't leave now."
Xie Liwei glanced at the secret room with resentment, forcing himself to calm down. The more someone wants to find something, the more focused their attention becomes on the object they've identified, thus ignoring the bigger picture.
And often, what they are looking for is within these broader contexts, so much so that no matter how hard they search, they can't find the item they want.
He calmed himself down and scanned the entire room with his eyes, trying to observe it as a whole and discover any differences.
Suddenly, he noticed that a luminous pearl was positioned lower than the other pearls!
"Here!"
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