Chapter 175: The Meng family in Tongcheng is wiped out?
Su Yuan frowned, reached out to take the thin piece of letter paper, unfolded it in front of his eyes and read it.
After a while, the woman, who had always been calm about everything, suddenly turned as pale as paper.
She took a deep breath, trying to hold back her throbbing solar plexus, and handed the secret letter to Meng Yunqiao beside her. She said in a hoarse voice:
"Yun Qiao, take a look."
After hearing this, Meng Yunqiao looked around at Su Yuan and Ji Shian with confusion, then obediently took the piece of paper and took a look at it.
It was this casual glance that made her head buzz as if struck by thunder, and she froze in place for a moment.
'To comfort the imperial envoy Wu An, I sentenced the two wealthy merchants in Tongcheng, Meng and Qin, to collude with mountain bandits to harm passers-by. I insisted on taking them to Jiangzhou for retrial.
But no one expected that more than 300 people would be killed on the way, and no one was left alive. Only one escorting officer escaped and testified that it was the bandits from Songling Mountain who did it.'
The signature was King Nanyou, and the message was sent half a month ago.
Meng Yunqiao picked up the fallen letter in disbelief, and read it again word by word.
In a moment, her straight shoulders suddenly hunched down, and heart-wrenching pain mixed with huge hatred filled Meng Yunqiao's body, as if a rotten worm was constantly gnawing at her flesh and blood, making her panic and heartbroken.
After a while.
Meng Yunqiao suddenly came back to his senses, wiped away the tears that had fallen on his face, turned his head and looked at Su Yuan, crying hoarsely:
"I am sure that the Meng family has never colluded with bandits. Someone must have framed us. Are Su Yuan, me, and my mother really all dead? I don't believe it..."
Meng Yunqiao's voice became more and more vague in the following words, and she obviously knew that she was daydreaming. King Nanyou would send a message to prove that this was 100% true, but she just didn't want to believe it.
However, before Su Yuan, who was being questioned by her, could speak, Ji Shian, who was standing opposite him, sighed first and frowned:
"Because the message was delivered by carrier pigeon, my mother was afraid that someone would intercept it along the way, so she tied a string of secret codes to the pigeon. Um..., she said that the content of the letter was what Wu An told her."
"According to the spies she arranged, the head of the Meng family was not killed on the spot, but rolled down the cliff. Now the road to the capital is controlled by Wu An, who seems to be looking for someone. According to my guess, he should be looking for the head of the Meng family."
Hearing this, Meng Yunqiao's hazy eyes suddenly shot towards Ji Shian, and with a hint of surprise in his tone of sorrow, he asked:
"My mother might still be alive?"
After seeing Ji Shian nod, Meng Yunqiao's eyes suddenly lit up, and he used his hands and feet to climb down from the couch in a panic, breathing heavily with excitement:
"I, I will go back to Tongzhou immediately and save her."
Seeing this, Su Yuan reached out and firmly grasped Meng Yunqiao's arm, and said in a low voice, "I will stop you."
"Yun Qiao, you can't go."
"The capital is thousands of miles away from Tongzhou. Not only will you waste time going back to Tongzhou alone, but you might also run into Wu An on the way. Wouldn't that be like walking into a tiger's mouth?"
After she finished speaking, she frowned, slowly closed her eyes and forced herself to calm down, and analyzed rationally:
"My mother-in-law fell off a cliff, and Wu An sent people to search along the way, but they reported to King Nanyou that there was no survivor. From this, we can draw two pieces of information. First, Wu An is guilty and must be the murderer of my mother-in-law."
"Secondly, she is not sure of her mother-in-law's whereabouts, and she has already checked in Tongzhou and searched along the way, which means that her mother-in-law is very likely on her way to join us. If you act rashly at this moment, not only will you miss her, but you may even add fuel to the fire."
Ji Shian nodded in agreement and interrupted:
"Yes, my mother noticed this and has arranged for someone to search for him in secret."
Meng Yunqiao saw that the two of them had analyzed the situation thoroughly after talking to each other, especially when he heard that King Nanyou had helped to find someone, his stiff body relaxed a little.
She clenched her teeth tightly, tilted her head, and looked at Su Yuan with red eyes. Her voice was hoarse and deep with a hint of helplessness:
"Well, what should we do now?"
Now her mind was in a mess. Apart from relying on her instinct to rush back to save her mother, she couldn't think of any other solution. She had to ask for help from her brother's wife, Su Yuan.
Hearing this, Su Yuan took a deep breath and helped his trembling friend sit down on the couch.
Then he fixed his eyes on the cups on the table, narrowed his eyes slightly, and spoke in a sharp but soothing tone:
"Since King Nanyou has sent people to search along the way from Jiangzhou, we will ask someone to go from the capital to pick her up. Human life is more important than anything else. Now we have no evidence, and Wu An is far away in Tongcheng. We should find my mother-in-law first and then talk about the grievances."
"As for manpower, in addition to sending Su Qinger and the others, I will also ask for help from people in the martial arts world. As for you, try to stay normal these days to avoid letting father-in-law and Yun Lan notice anything and causing more worries for the two male relatives."
When Meng Yunqiao heard her mention the two male relatives, he seemed to have found his backbone. He nodded woodenly, took a long breath, and murmured:
"Huh..., yes, I still have my father and brother, I need to cheer up."
After saying this, she picked up the cold tea on the table with slightly trembling fingers, wanting to take a sip to calm herself down. Unexpectedly, just as the teacup was about to her lips, she heard two sudden noises coming from outside the door:
“Pah—”
“Plop——”
The first sound seemed to be the sound of a cup breaking when it hit the ground, and the second sound was the dull thud of someone falling to the ground.
Hearing the noise, Meng Yunqiao's heart, which had just fallen into the air, rose again. She put down the teacup with trembling hands, and her feet landed limply on the ground with the aftereffects of the injury, intending to go out and take a look.
However, someone rushed to the door before her.
The other side.
Su Yuan had just reached the door of the study room when she saw her second husband Meng Yunlan, bleeding from the corner of his mouth and fainted on a pile of porcelain fragments and tea.
Seeing this, her pupils trembled, and she quickly walked to the man's side, squatted down, and carried him into the side room of the study. After a while, Su Yuan turned her head to look at Meng Yunqiao and Ji Shian at the door, and said:
"Shi'an, please ask a doctor to come to the study. If anyone sees her, tell them that Yun Qiao is drunk and unconscious. I'm worried about her, so I asked you to find a doctor to see her."
This matter must not be known to others, otherwise Meng's father would come to visit when he heard that his son was in trouble. Meng Yunlan has always been filial and upright, and not good at lying. If Meng's father becomes suspicious and asks him about something, he will probably faint again.
Especially since Father Meng is so old, and it is the season of change now. He just recovered from the cold two days ago, and who knows how serious his illness will be by then. As a son and his wife, she has to think more about everything.
Upon hearing this, Ji Shi'an said "OK" and turned to leave. Meng Yunqiao was also sent away. Su Yuan stayed in the room to change the man's clothes and put him on the bed.
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