However, this series of shocks didn't prevent Li Lin from asking, "How did you know his name was Tan Min?"
Song Wan sighed. Does this Prince Yi have a hundred thousand questions?
"Why do you think we followed him to your house if we didn't know him?" Song Wan said, flicking the whip.
Gu Yan hurriedly added, "We accidentally captured a spy for King Yu in Xinzhou earlier. He told us that Song Qin had been imprisoned in King Yu's mansion, but had later escaped. That's why we ventured out of Guizhou this time to find Song Qin."
"Gu Yanji is right. It was that guy named Xu Lie and Tan Min who told me that my second brother might take the Yizhou route to Qiandi." Song Wan said.
Li Lin: "How did you know about their conversation?"
Song Wan glanced at him and said, "That's easy. I climbed up on the roof and listened, just like I climbed over the wall to listen to you trying to get Tan Min to talk."
Li Lin...
It was the first time he had seen a woman speak so openly about eavesdropping on other people's conversations.
Concubine Rou also calmed down at this moment. She looked at Gu Yan anxiously, "Then is there anything wrong with you taking the risk to come out like this?"
She was afraid that the two families left in Guizhou would be affected.
"Don't worry, Your Majesty. Everything is fine in Guizhou." Gu Yan said anxiously.
Concubine Rou nodded and muttered, "That's good, that's good."
"By the way, which room is Tan Min in?" Song Wan flexed her wrist. She hadn't cracked the whip seriously for a long time.
"What do you want to do?" Li Lin reminded her, "Tan Min brought quite a few people with her. If we pin them down directly, it's easy to alert the enemy."
Although Yizhou was his fiefdom, Li Lin knew that the Emperor and Prince Yu had never truly trusted him, and that they must have their people in Yizhou City monitoring Prince Yi's Mansion.
"It's okay, I'm not afraid of snakes. I'll chop them down one by one." As he said that, Song Wan casually waved the whip, and the stone table next to him broke into a pile of rubble.
Li Lin: "..."
He suddenly felt a little sympathetic to Tan Min.
Li Lin arranged for Tan Min to live in the north courtyard, and the men he brought with him also lived there.
Li Lin intentionally arranged a courtyard that was farther away from the main courtyard of the palace. It would take half an hour to walk there from Concubine Rou's courtyard.
Song Wan sighed as they walked. It took them less than two quarters of an hour to walk from the inn to the palace, but once they entered the palace, they had to spend most of the hour walking around to find someone.
There were about ten of them walking on the street, looking very imposing. If you didn't know them, you would think they were gangsters.
When they arrived, Li Lin pointed to the small courtyard in front and said, "The people are inside. I put drugs in their food earlier. They should have fallen asleep by now."
How could Li Lin sleep peacefully when a group of secret guards with great martial arts skills suddenly moved into the palace and kept an eye on him all the time?
Since we can't kill them directly, let them really "sleep" every night.
"I didn't expect you to be so smart." No wonder she didn't feel any other dangerous factors along the way except the secret guard who was "knocked out" by her mental power.
Li Lin: "...What do you want to do?"
Song Wan: "I want to know what my second brother went through in Prince Yu's Mansion."
Every wrong has its perpetrator, and if she can't find her second brother, she will go and help him get revenge first.
Li Lin disagreed. "I'm afraid he won't say it easily. Besides, if you rashly appear in front of Tan Min and King Yu finds out, he will definitely not let you go easily."
"I think it's better to take a long-term view. I will continue to ask questions while you stay in the dark. This way, we will be able to succeed, one in the light and one in the dark." Li Lin told his plan.
"It's too long and too troublesome. I like something simpler." Song Wan rejected his suggestion and waved his hand. "Song Qi and Gu Wu, go in and kidnap the people. Qi Fu Yunzhuo will clean up the battlefield."
Song Qi and Gu Wu skillfully took out a pile of pig ropes and jumped into the yard in three or two steps. Qi Fu also very experiencedly took out a few cloth bags and gave one to Yun Zhuo and his two followers.
Yun Zhuo stood in the yard, holding a cloth bag, looking at the secret guards lying scattered on the ground. He felt vaguely familiar with the scene, but was mostly bewildered. "Where is the battlefield?"
Qi Wu: "The purpose of cleaning up the battlefield is to see how much silver and valuables they have on them."
After hearing the explanation, Yun Zhuo finally figured out why he had a familiar feeling. This was almost exactly the same secret room where they had searched for Xu Lie's hidden gold, silver and treasures before. The only difference was that this time they needed to search for the secret guards who had fallen asleep.
"Don't tell me that your master made his fortune from this." Yun Zhuo had a hunch.
Qi Wu smiled at him and said, "So you're not stupid after all."
Yun Zhuo: "..."
Including Tan Min, there were sixteen people in total, and they were tied up one by one by Song Qi and Gu Wu with pig ropes. This kind of pig rope would get tighter the more you struggled, and unless there was help from outsiders, there was no way you could untie it yourself.
In addition, Song Wan used his mental power to restrain their internal energy, so the dozen or so people were now no different from ordinary people.
Unfortunately, Qi Wu, Yun Zhuo and the other two searched for a long time, but apart from finding more than 100 taels of silver on Tan Min, they didn't find even a piece of straw paper on anyone else.
When Song Wan saw that more than a dozen people combined did not even have two hundred taels on them, his face changed immediately. After all this time, it turned out that King Yu was still a miser, and Yao Xu was more generous than him as a prince.
Without money, Song Wan didn't even want to be polite. She simply wrapped Tan Min with a golden whip, dragged him in front of everyone, and whipped him to wake him up.
No one knew what kind of drug Li Lin had given him, but it was so effective that she spanked him ten times before he finally woke up from the pain.
Before he even opened his eyes, Tan Min felt a burning pain all over his body. The moment his head hit the stone, he finally opened his eyes with great effort.
Who is teasing him? Doesn’t he want to live anymore?
As a result, when he looked up, he saw more than a dozen pairs of eyes staring at him.
The leader among them was a woman, and the whip in her hand was the culprit that caused the stinging pain all over his body.
Tan Min's eyes flashed with fierceness. She tried to struggle to stand up, but found that her hands and feet were tied together, making it extremely difficult for her to even roll.
"I am King Yu's man! Prince Yi, I hope you can understand this!" Tan Min roared.
Song Wan was annoyed by his noise and whipped him in the face. She then yelled back on Li Lin's behalf, "You eat and drink his food and still have this attitude. You deserve a whip!"
Li Lin: "..."
Why did he feel that she was angry because she didn't find enough silver?
This idea was too absurd, so Li Lin quickly rejected it.
Song Wan used all her mental strength in this whip. Tan Min was in so much pain that she couldn't close her mouth and couldn't speak clearly. "What do you want to do?"
"What did you do to my second brother when he was in Prince Yu's Mansion?" Song Wan bent down and controlled the golden whip to move back and forth over the wounds on his face.
Tan Min didn't recognize her at all, "Um, I don't know you, Erguo!"
For some reason, Song Wan hated him, and each time he attacked him, his blows became more severe. "Stop talking nonsense! Didn't you come here just to capture my second brother?"
Tan Min widened her eyes. Song Qin was her second brother, so wasn't she a member of the Song family?
Wasn't she supposed to be exiled in Guizhou? Why was she in Prince Yi's mansion? When did Prince Yi secretly contact the Song family? What did he want? To seize the throne?
It has to be said that in just a few moments, Tan Min imagined countless possibilities.
Li Lin looked at Song Wan's simple and rough methods. He was glad that he didn't let his mother come with him. Otherwise, if his mother saw such a bloody scene, she would probably be scared.
The left half of Tan Min's face was intact, but the right half was beaten to a bloody mess.
His gaze moved away from Song Wan's face and fell on the person beside her. He suddenly stopped, with horror in his eyes. Gu Yanji was still alive!
Shouldn't he have died long ago? Tan Min opened his mouth to say something. He clearly remembered that the order to poison Gu Yanji was given by him personally to the spy in the Southwest Army. The reply letter also said that the plan had been successful. Gu Yanji drank half a cup of poisoned wine. Even if he didn't die immediately, he would not live for more than a month.
In addition, the assassination attempt was accompanied by a reply from the secret guards. They chased him all the way, and although they forced Gu Yan to escape in a hurry, they also stabbed him many times. Even if he was not poisoned, he would have bled to death.
If King Yu had not known that Gu Yanji was doomed to die, he would never have allowed the elderly, weak, women and children from the Song and Gu families to live in Guizhou for so long.
The hundreds of bodies of the servants buried in the wilderness might not be what Linyuan Hou guessed, but the personnel left by the late emperor to the two families.
It was Gu Yan who rushed over, and he was not dead at all!
No! He wants to tell King Yu the news!
Tan Min struggled again, trying to break free from the ropes that bound him. He had to escape!
He was the most persistent person Song Wan had ever met. No one knew how many benefits King Yu had secretly promised him.
"You're not telling me yet?" Song Wan gradually lost her patience. She didn't want to whip anymore. The blood on the golden whip was almost dry. If she delayed any longer, it would be difficult to wash it off.
After all, he had been in the army for several years, so Tan Min had some backbone and would not betray his master easily.
"Tan Min, you must know that once King Yu finds out that you were captured by the emperor's men and escaped alive, what do you think King Yu will think?" Gu Yan looked down at him coldly.
Song Wan rolled her eyes and wanted to ask when they became the emperor's people. At this time, Gu Yanji was in a secret place and quietly pulled her fingers.
She seemed to understand what Gu Yan was anxious to do, so she simply shut up and let him continue.
Sure enough, when Tan Min heard Gu Yan anxiously say that she was the emperor's man, panic flashed in his eyes.
"Otherwise, why do you think my poison can be cured? Why you bribed the officers but still couldn't kill us? That's because all this is a show performed by us and the emperor for King Yu to see." Gu Yan thought of this when he learned anxiously that they had found several thousand taels of silver from the officers.
I think the emperor and King Yu stuffed a lot of silver notes into it.
Tan Min was so shocked that she had forgotten the pain on her face. If Gu Yan had hastily surrendered to the emperor, what chance would King Yu have of winning?
Song Wan lamented Gu Yanji's bluffing tactics. She had tried so hard for such a long time but couldn't get Tan Min to utter a single word. Gu Yanji just told a few lies to deceive him, and he was actually scared!
Is it true that pure brute force output is no longer popular these days?
Song Wan fell into deep self-doubt.
"Think it over carefully and decide whether you want to tell it or not." Gu Yan hurriedly asked Gu Wu for the sword and drew a line at the wound on Tan Min's face with an indifferent look.
"Haha, so what? Don't think you can turn things around just by joining the Emperor!" Tan Min spat at him, saying viciously, "Prince Xiang is stupid and selfish. He has no right to sit on that throne. If you join him, you'll be exiled and beheaded sooner or later!"
As long as he said nothing, time would prove that he, Tan Min, had not betrayed the prince.
Gu Yan looked anxiously and coldly, "Are you sure you don't want to tell me?"
Tan Min turned his head away, looking ready to die.
Gu Yanji didn't continue, but took a step back and made room for him. "Awan, it's your turn."
Song Wan: "You're not going to continue?"
Gu Yan hurriedly shook her head. "Be polite first, then use force. Since he's unwilling to confess, we can end the 'be polite first' step."
The reason why he lied to Tan Min at this time was to shatter his inner loyalty to King Yu.
If Tan Min believed that the Song and Gu families had surrendered to the emperor, it would be useless even if he swore allegiance to King Yu until death.
Possessing both the Song and Gu families at the same time is equivalent to being able to quickly control the military power in the southwest and northwest. Isn't this what the emperor and King Yu have been fighting for for many years?
Only when you have more soldiers can you maintain a stable position.
Song Wan thought about it and nodded, "Okay! Then I'll continue!"
She just didn't believe that she couldn't break his hard bone.
There was no place on the right side of his face to be whipped, so Song Wan looked at Tan Min's right arm and right leg. She only whipped half of it, letting him experience a half normal and half painful feeling.
Tan Min felt as if half of his body was in an ice cellar, and the other half was on fire. He felt an unprecedented pain all over his body.
"Tell it or not!" Song Wan imitated the bully tone she had learned from TV when teasing decent women, and said while smoking.
The others looked at this scene and felt something was strange. They didn’t know if it was their illusion. Did they seem to see a hint of vulgarity on Song Wan’s face just now?
Looking at the bloody mess on the ground, they looked away tacitly. It must be the strong smell of blood that gave them the illusion.
A girl, no matter how bad she is, would never show a vulgar expression to a bloody man.
After pumping for a long time, Song Wan had almost digested her dinner. She suddenly regretted what she had said before about not preparing meals.
"Gu Yan is in a hurry, how about we go get a midnight snack first?" Song Wan twisted her sore wrist and said, "Eating and drinking enough will give you the strength to pump harder. At worst, I can stay up all night and pump all day and all night!"
The people on the ground finally had a chance to catch their breath, but then they heard that the other party actually wanted to take another day and night!
Tan Min, in excruciating pain, finally collapsed. He yelled, "I'll tell you! I'll tell you everything! Don't hit me! Don't hit me!"
After hearing him finally beg for mercy, Song Wan sighed, "It would have been better if this had happened earlier. You have to endure this torture once before you're satisfied."
It seems that pure brute force output is still very effective.
Tan Min gasped for breath, half of her body trembling. "I only know that the people who sent people to intercept the grain carts were sent by King Yu. Although Song Qin was lucky enough to escape with serious injuries, he was captured by King Yu's people in Huaizhou and brought back to Yuzhou."
"And then?" The more Song Wan listened, the tighter her brows furrowed.
Tan Min swallowed and continued with a trembling voice, "Then Song Qin was imprisoned in Prince Yu's Mansion. I was Xu Lie's deputy general, and I only went to Yuzhou once in a while. I only knew that Song Qin was bullied in Prince Yu's Mansion, but I really don't know the specific circumstances!"
He shook his head repeatedly. "King Yu didn't even tell the general! But the general thinks King Yu wants to use Song Qin to control the Song family in Guizhou. Oh, and King Yu also asked the general to bribe Lieutenant Jiang stationed in Guizhou, to send people to monitor you, and then wait for his orders."
Song Wan felt very strange. "Why can I control the Song family by holding my second brother hostage? Shouldn't it be the other way around?"
Gu Yan quickly thought of the reason and guessed, "Maybe it's because your second brother is the only male left in the Song family."
Song Wan understood and said, "Oh!" It was the so-called "only men can pass on the incense" thing again.
Feudal superstition kills people. Children are born by women, and it is women who continue the family line.
"But why did King Yu control the Song family?" Song Wan felt that the ancients thought about things in a roundabout way, and she couldn't guess it.
"King Yu probably wants to 'vindicate' the Song family." Gu Yan said sarcastically.
"Rehabilitation?" Li Lin frowned. This was not like his second brother's style.
Gu Yan hurriedly continued, "It was the Gu family who 'collaborated with the enemy and rebelled', and the Song family was just an accomplice. If he redresses the Song family's grievances, the Song family may return to the court and become a thorn in the eyes of the new emperor, so that they can take the blame for him. The Gu family far away in Guizhou will feel resentful because of the unequal status between the two families. Then he can extend a hand to show his goodwill. From then on, the Song family will take the blame for him, and the Gu family will be at his disposal. Yuzhou is only separated by a Tahui Pass in the southwest. What do you think King Yu is planning?"
Li Lin's eyes showed shock. Li Che actually had this idea!
Tan Min, who was lying on the ground, was also shocked. He didn't expect that Gu Yanji had guessed most of their plan!
"Is King Yu daydreaming?" Song Wan frowned after listening to Gu Yan's long and hasty analysis. "He may not have much ability, but he has a lot of beautiful dreams."
Gu Yan laughed anxiously, "Prince Xiang doesn't understand, and Prince Yu will never understand. Do they think the Song and Gu families can be so easily alienated?"
But was it really just for this that King Yu ordered his men to capture Song Qin? Gu Yanji felt that it was more than that.
If this is what Song Qin knew, King Yu would not have needed to send people to search along the way to the capital.
He only needed to send a letter by carrier pigeon to his grandfather, Marquis Linyuan, and ask Marquis Linyuan to send people to capture Song Qin before he entered the capital.
Unless King Yu was afraid that Marquis Linyuan might fail and allow Song Qin to successfully enter the capital, the only person in the capital that King Yu was afraid of was the emperor.
King Yu was afraid that Song Qin would tell the emperor something.
"Lock them up first. Tan Min should be kept in a separate room." Gu Yan glanced anxiously at the man on the ground who was about to faint. "Give him some medicine. Don't let him die of pain."
Tan Min is still useful.
There are several dungeons in Prince Yi's Palace, which were specially built by Li Lin when he was renovating the palace.
The fewer people who knew about the torture, the better. So Gu Yanji did not ask Li Lin to find other people, but asked Gu Wu and Song Qi to string more than a dozen people together on a rope. Song Qi pulled one end and Gu Wu pulled the other end, and they dragged them into the dungeon.
Seeing this, Song Wan's eyes lit up and she asked Gu Yan anxiously, "Are you imitating me?"
When she moved the silver, she strung several sacks of silver together on a rope and carried them on her shoulders.
Gu Yan curled her lips anxiously, "Yes, A Wan's method is very time-saving."
Song Wan became proud and said, "Of course, I'm very experienced!"
When the end of the world just came, she did not have the spatial ability like others, nor did she eat a lot. In the early stage when her mental ability was low, in order to obtain more supplies, she relied on brute force to snatch resources from other high-level ability users in abandoned supermarkets and shopping malls.
In order to save time, she could only string the bags of food together with a rope and tie them around her body.
Although the arrival of Song Wan, Gu Yanji and others disrupted Li Lin's plan, it also eased his predicament.
Fortunately, as long as there is no trace of Song Qin, Tan Min and others will be kept in the dungeon of the palace, and Xu Lie, who is far away in Tahui Pass, will not suspect anything so quickly.
Song Wan had no intention of letting go of the two teams of people that Tan Min left behind in Suizhou and Xiangzhou.
Calculating the time, the team that circled Xiangzhou was probably about to reach Jinzhou. When Li Lin heard that they were going to Jinzhou, he took the initiative and said, "That's easy. They will definitely look for my uncle when they go to Jinzhou. I will write a letter and send it to Jinzhou. After my uncle reads it, he will know what to do."
Gu Yanji also wanted to do this. Now that the people from Xiangzhou have found a solution, it will be easier for those who stay in Suizhou.
"Tan Min only left five people in Suizhou. Gu Wu, you go and deal with them." Gu Yan ordered urgently.
Gu Wu's kung fu was originally the best among those around Gu Yanji. Combined with Song Wan's subsequent intensive training, it was more than enough for him to deal with five ordinary secret guards silently. Gu Yanji believed that he could accomplish it alone.
Gu Wu said solemnly, "I obey your orders."
Song Wan quickly followed and said, "Song Qi, you should go too. Five heads are just enough for a match."
Hearing about the competition, Gu Wu, who had just become serious, instantly returned to his martial arts fanatic state, "Miss Song, is it to see who can get the most heads?"
Song Wan nodded, "Yeah, it's just a competition to see who has the most heads."
Song Qi was also looking forward to it. He rubbed his hands and asked, "Will there be a reward for the winner?"
Song Wan nodded again, "Of course."
She is not the kind of stingy person who would set up a competition without any rewards.
When Gu Wu heard that there was a reward, he wanted to go to Suizhou immediately and bring back five heads.
If possible, he hoped the reward would be gold. The gold he had taken from the tower when he returned was still a little too little. He should have brought another cloth bag to hold it.
Song Qi was more measured than Gu Wu. He knew to ask clearly, "What reward?"
Song Wan replied word by word, "Of course, this is my chance to teach you martial arts unilaterally. How is it? Are you surprised?"
You know, she doesn't guide others easily.
Surprise? More like a shock.
Song Qi and Gu Wu exchanged a glance, and then quickly spoke before him, "I suddenly feel that losing once is also good. Accumulating experience from failure will help you achieve greater success in the future."
Gu Wu managed to utter his flowery words, "You're talking nonsense!"
He obviously didn't want to be beaten.
Song Qi blocked it and said shamelessly, "Brother Gu Wu, be more elegant."
Gu Wu rolled his eyes politely.
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