Ye Qingwan ran and flew for a whole day and finally returned to the capital before sunset. It was a little faster than taking a carriage.

The crappy light skills given by the crappy system are finally useful.

She originally wanted to go directly to the sect, but she thought that no matter how fast she flew, she couldn't fly as fast as the pigeons?

So she rushed back to the prime minister's residence, preparing to send a letter by carrier pigeon, but when she ran back, she found that the door was closed and the guard at the door was nowhere to be found.

Ye Qingwan was stunned for a moment, feeling something was not right.

She climbed over the wall to get in, and then climbed over the wall again to get home. This was something that no one had ever done before or since.

When she jumped down, she found that the huge prime minister's mansion was empty. The furnishings in the room had not changed, but there were signs of having been hastily tidied up around. There were no valuable items in the prime minister's mansion, so what was taken away were only daily necessities.

"Uncle Lin..."

Ye Qingwan called out loudly in the attic, but there was no sound except the whistling sound of the wind.

She wanted to scream, but suddenly a hand reached out from the attic, covered her mouth, and pulled her in.

"Don't be afraid, it's me."

Section 148

Liu Sheng held her, quickly opened the cabinet on the wall, and stuffed her in: "Don't talk."

As soon as the cabinet door was closed, Meng Tao's voice came from outside: "Who is it?"

"Commander-in-chief, it's my humble servant." Liu Sheng went out to greet him.

Meng Tao seemed a little surprised to see him, and frowned, "Master Liu, why are you here so late at night?"

"The Prime Minister's Mansion was emptied overnight. I was curious about what happened, so I came to check it out."

"Your Majesty has ordered that no one is allowed to approach the Prime Minister's Residence. Lord Liu, please don't make things difficult for me."

Although Meng Tao said this, he did not drive him away.

Liu Sheng cupped his hands and said, "I understand."

Meng Tao didn't say anything else. He glanced at the cabinets in the room, then turned and left the attic.

After he walked away, Liu Sheng opened the cabinet door and pulled her out.

"What happened? Where are my parents?" Ye Qingwan didn't care about anything else and asked him quickly.

Liu Sheng hesitated for a moment, but still said it clearly: "Someone reported that the leader of the sect was the former general of the cavalry, the uncle of the former prince, and that he was colluding with the former prince's orphan daughter to attempt to usurp the throne. His Majesty sent a large army to encircle the sect and captured the leader alive."

Ye Qingwan thought about it and realized that’s right, that’s how the plot developed, but what does it have to do with my father?

"The officers and soldiers were kidnapped on the way to escort the clan leader back to the capital." Liu Sheng added.

Ye Qingwan frowned. She had actually guessed 80% of it, but she still asked, "And then?"

"Then the prisoner capture failed."

"And then what?"

Liu Sheng looked at her, and hesitated for several seconds: "The kidnappers have been caught, and they confessed that your father sent them. The Prime Minister is now in the Jinyiwei."

Ye Qingwan took a deep breath, not too surprised, it was the expected result. But she couldn't understand why her father did this: "Did my father really send them?"

Liu Sheng nodded affirmatively: "Yes."

"Why would my father do this?"

Liu Sheng was not sure about this for the time being, as he had only been an official for ten years. The prime minister and his men were two generations older, and those who knew about the former crown prince's incident were either old or dead, so he had no way to investigate.

In addition, the emperor was most averse to others discussing the events before he ascended the throne. Over time, all those grievances and grudges were lost in the long river of time along with the dead.

Ye Qingwan lowered her head in thought. In the original novel, there was no such thing as a prisoner rescue, and it was even more impossible for her father to be involved.

It was only after the sect leader was arrested that he falsely accused her father of colluding with their sect, which led to her father being arrested by the emperor. But her father always refused to admit that he had colluded with the sect.

How come her father is actually going to rob a prisoner now? Could it be that the system is automatically filling in the plot again, and then let her father be arrested and imprisoned, so as to bring her father down?

"Where are my mother and the others?"

"Don't worry. Before the operation, the Prime Minister had secretly taken everyone in the Prime Minister's Mansion away. The Royal Guards didn't find them, so they should be safe now."

Ye Qingwan heaved a sigh of relief and suddenly remembered, So the Ninth Prince wanted to take her to the Western Regions, did he already know her father's plan?

No wonder they all behaved so strangely, the Ninth Prince was strange, Xia Xuejian was strange, and her father was strange too. It must have been her father who asked the Ninth Prince to take her away.

"Is the Ninth Prince back?" Ye Qingwan asked while pulling Liu Sheng aside.

Liu Sheng paused for a moment and said, "Why would he come back? The Ninth Prince was ordered by the Emperor to go to the Western Regions to bring Princess Shui Sheng back to the capital."

Ye Qingwan understood immediately that her father had borrowed the Ninth Prince's hand to take everyone in the Prime Minister's Mansion to the Western Regions.

They were afraid that she would not cooperate, so they deliberately let her take the back road with the Ninth Prince to deceive her. Her mother mixed in with the people from the Prime Minister's Mansion in the guard of honor and took the official road.

Seeing her expression, Liu Sheng immediately guessed the whole story.

A few days ago, the emperor suddenly received news that Princess Shui Sheng wanted to return to Beijing. As the prime minister had an emotional entanglement with Princess Shui Sheng, he should have been against it, but he actually tried his best to make it happen.

It turned out that this was the idea. No wonder everyone in the Prime Minister's Mansion disappeared overnight.

Using the emperor's hand, more than a hundred people in the prime minister's residence were sent away openly. This was really daring and showed great courage and calculation.

No one in the government or the country can match his scheming and tactics.

He had planned everything, but he still didn't expect that his daughter held the script.

"The sect has been surrounded and suppressed, so where are Ning Qingqing and Ning Shaoqing?"

"They all ran away, and only the sect leader was captured." Liu Sheng felt that he must have done it on purpose, and was planning to use himself as a bait to frame the prime minister, but he never thought that the prime minister would go to rescue him.

Wasn't it intentional? The old sect leader was so skilled in martial arts that it would only take him a few minutes to escape. He was captured on purpose so as to frame her father.

If he wasn't Qingqing's father, he would really like to open his skull and see if it was filled with a sponge that only absorbed water.

"I want to see my father." Ye Qingwan begged Liu Sheng.

"Not now. The emperor has replaced the commander of the Royal Guards and has not allowed me to interfere. The surveillance is extremely strict. If you show up now, you will become the target of public criticism."

The reason why he and Meng Tao appeared here was because they received news that Ye Qingwan had returned to the capital alone, and the emperor sent Meng Tao to the prime minister's residence to arrest someone.

It's a pity that even though His Majesty trusted Meng Tao so much, Meng Tao still let him go.

"But..." Ye Qingwan was very worried about her father.

"Just be obedient, I'll take care of it." Liu Sheng said, and handed her the men's clothing he brought with him: "Put on this, I'll take you away from here first."

Then he went out to observe the surroundings and made sure there were no spies. Then he came back and took her hand: "Let's go."

"Where are we going?" There might not be a place in the entire capital city that could accommodate her.

"Go to Prince Xiang's Mansion." Liu Sheng answered seriously.

Now, anyone in the capital who had anything to do with the Prime Minister's Mansion was under surveillance. This included the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Works, and those old ministers who had originally stood on the same side as the Prime Minister. Even the Ninth Prince's Mansion and the Liu Mansion were not spared by the Emperor. However, nothing happened to the Xiang Prince's Mansion.

"Go to Prince Xiang's mansion?" Ye Qingwan was still a little scared when she thought of Prince Xiang: "He won't report me, right?"

"Will I be rewarded with military power if I report you?"

King Xiang's disdainful voice startled Ye Qingwan, and she instinctively hid behind Liu Sheng, looking at him in horror.

Liu Sheng touched her head and comforted her with a smile: "It's okay, he came with me."

Uh... I'm a little uncomfortable with the fact that King Xiang suddenly becomes a good guy!

If King Xiang heard it, he would probably roll his eyes at her.

This king is not a good person. This king simply cannot stand outsiders making trouble in his territory, Dayu.

As I said, no matter how they fight among themselves, it is just a fight among their family members. How can outsiders stir up trouble in Dayu?

That won’t work!

Especially that old woman Xibe Xiao Ning, she still wants to move into the Central Plains?

Let her dream her long life.