There was indeed a word "Ling" on it, which meant a token, but it looked different from the token Song Wan remembered. The one in Song Wan's hand was round and had a hard surface, more like a small box.
Song Wan observed it for a few seconds, then pinched it hard, causing the word "Ling" to become concave, as if there was something inside.
After digging for a long time, the thing inside finally fell out. It was a small note.
"Look, Liu Er! It seems he is more than just a thief!" Song Wan held the note in front of Gu Yanji.
Gu Yanji also discovered something wrong. This man had obviously practiced martial arts and was a professionally trained assassin or private guard. He was not an ordinary thief at all.
The thief on the ground saw that Song Wan easily opened the so-called token, and his eyes almost popped out. How did this woman open it!
Gu Yanji didn't miss the change of emotions on the thief's face. He took the token with a dent in the middle handed to him by Song Wan, and saw the groove in the middle that she had pressed down. He picked up a smaller stone and threw it in, and the dented and deformed part could actually be closed again.
Seeing Gu Yanji suddenly laugh, Song Wan was very confused and asked, "What's wrong?"
Gu Yan hurriedly threw the useless token back at the thief and replied, "This token must have been specially crafted. Not only does it have a mechanism inside, but it's also very hard on the outside. I think it's even resistant to fire."
Song Wan subconsciously glanced at her right hand after hearing this. "So his ferocious expression right now is because I easily destroyed the intelligence he worked so hard to bring out?"
Gu Yan smiled anxiously and nodded, "Yes."
Gu Yu listened at the side with admiration on his face, "Sister, you are amazing!"
Being praised, Song Wan straightened her body and said proudly, "It's nothing."
"Then take a quick look at what's written on it." Song Wan stuffed the note into Gu Yanji's hand, then squatted down to search the thief's body.
Gu Yan looked anxiously at the thing in her hand, then glanced down at the person on the ground who was enthusiastically stripping the thief's clothes.
He strongly suspected that she slipped the note to him just to take off his clothes.
Song Wan stripped the thief's clothes very quickly. After a few moves, the thief was left with only two thin undergarments, without a single copper coin left.
This was truly the poorest undercover villain she had ever seen.
Not finding the silver she was looking for, Song Wan couldn't help but kick a few more times, "You're an undercover agent after all, how can you not have a penny on you!"
Gu Yan hurriedly opened the note, read what was written on it, and winked at Gu Wu.
Gu Wu understood, turned around and went to the shop to find a piece of cloth, twisted it into a rope and tied the man up.
The method used to tie up pigs.
"You are a servant who escaped from the Wei Mansion." Gu Yanji's eyes suddenly turned cold. He looked at Gu Wu and said, "Go to the Wei Mansion and find out what happened."
Gu Wu accepted the order, "Yes! Master!"
Hearing that the situation seemed to be getting serious, Song Wan stopped kicking the ball herself and instead pulled Baozi over to let him take it and practice his leg strength at the same time.
She moved closer to Gu Yanji and asked, "Did he escape from the Wei Mansion?"
Gu Yan hummed anxiously, "This note should have been given to him by that accomplice."
"There's an accomplice?" Song Wan glanced around, "But I didn't sense the presence of another person just now."
Gu Yan quickly turned sideways to look at her and said, "I think his eavesdropping accomplice has been discovered by the people in the Wei Mansion."
"Who are you?" The man on the ground struggled to spit out the cloth that Gu Wu had stuffed in his mouth before he left, and stared at Song Wan and Gu Yanji angrily.
"We are your uncles!" Song Wan retorted.
Gu Yan was so anxious that she almost couldn't hold back her laughter. "His accomplices probably didn't hear much. The message they wrote to their master behind the scenes was just saying that a mysterious person would enter the Wei family tomorrow, and that they were secretly sending someone away."
Song Wan: "This mysterious person entering the mansion must be referring to us, right?"
When the man on the ground heard Song Wan's words, his eyes widened and his face was full of shock. He never thought that the secret of the Wei Mansion that An Shi sacrificed himself for was now standing in front of him.
"Who on earth are you—wooooo!" Song Qi walked forward and blocked his mouth with the cloth again. Although this shop was remote, there were people living nearby. If his shouting attracted outsiders, it would be troublesome.
"I think he should be Emperor Li Shi's man." Gu Yan made a hasty judgment.
In the entire capital, only Li Shi has the ability to place his own people in the Wei Mansion, and more than one of them.
"So he was originally going to deliver intelligence to Li Shi, but after finally escaping from the Wei Mansion, I kicked him over the wall of your shop and knocked him to the ground." Song Wan sorted it out and said belatedly, "He must hate me to death!"
After Song Qi stuffed the cloth into the bag, he continued, "That's right, Miss. This guy's eyes are like poison."
"The more you look at it, the uglier it gets." Gu Yu squatted beside Song Qi and commented seriously.
Gu Yan smiled anxiously, "A Wan, can you do me a favor?"
Song Wan immediately said, "You tell me, I will definitely help you as long as I can do it."
Gu Yan curled the corners of his lips and raised his hand to stroke her face. "This person definitely can't enter the palace. He must have someone above him. This token must be handed over to him above him."
Song Wan tilted her head. "Do you want him to send the token over intact?"
"Yes." Gu Yan nodded hurriedly, "But the content of the note needs to be removed from the second half."
He was not sure who Wei Xuezhi was going to send out of the city, so it would be best to eliminate him safely.
Song Wan understood, "I can do it!"
Her mental power is very useful except that it cannot be eaten.
"But can I add a word?" Song Wan thought for a moment and asked.
Gu Yan raised her eyebrows anxiously, "What do you want to add?"
Song Wan smiled cunningly.
Wei Mansion.
Wei Xuezhi waited until midnight, when the person he had sent out hurried back and told him that there was no one left at the village outside the capital.
Wei Xuezhi was shocked, "What! How could there be no one?"
The person sent was the same servant who had knocked Ami down on the road last time. He lowered his head and said, "Indeed, there is no one there. Ami and I have been searching for half an hour. According to people from other nearby manors, they saw a carriage leaving the manor in the afternoon. I think the distinguished guest from the manor might have left at that time."
Wei Xuezhi was silent for a while, then finally waved his hand, "You go down first. You and Ami have worked hard today."
The servant bowed and left the study. Madam Wei came out from behind the curtain and said, "It seems that the only way we can do this is the one you mentioned."
Wei Xuezhi sighed, "I have already sent a letter to the elders of the Wei family. If they want to rescue the Wei family member in prison, they should find a way to bring his family and one thousand taels of silver to the Wei Mansion early tomorrow morning."
Madam Wei thought, "This is really a bad idea. If your two sons find out, I wonder what you will do."
As the Prime Minister of a dynasty, he actually saved a heinous death row prisoner for a mere thousand taels. I wonder how outsiders would look at him if this matter were to be made public.
"I'm not really going to save him."
Mrs. Wei certainly knew the trick, but outsiders did not. What they saw was a senior official of the court blatantly abusing his power to commit favoritism and corruption.
Wei Xuezhi sighed and said, "As long as I can hide it from the emperor, it's just a matter of reputation. What can't I give up?"
Madam Wei knew her husband's temper, which hadn't changed in decades. "I've already sent people to strengthen the defense of the mansion."
Wei Xuezhi was puzzled. "Even if the emperor really suspected me of having second thoughts, he wouldn't send people to encircle and suppress me so quickly. Why did you do this?"
Madam Wei rolled her eyes at him and said, "I'm afraid your two sons will hear the news and come over to beat you up."
"......" Wei Xuezhi's old face was as fierce as a tiger, but his momentum was not enough, "They dare!"
"What's there to be afraid of? They could all be your biological sons." She only gave birth to these three sons in her life, but none of them looked like her.
"Just be thankful that the third brother is not in the capital right now." Old Madam Wei smiled faintly.
The three sons' tempers got worse one by one. The eldest was the gentlest, the second was impatient and a little irritable, and the third was the one who was so angry that he even dared to point at his own father and scold him.
Wei Xuezhi: “…”
The wind blows the leaves outside the window.
After hearing this, Gu Wu on the roof stopped and took advantage of the night to quickly fly away and dive into the endless black alley.
When Gu Wu returned to the shop, Song Wan and Gu Yanji had just returned with the thief. She used her mental power to control the thief to contact his superior, who was still in a brothel.
Song Wan didn't know why people here liked to use brothels as meeting places. She saw so much silver but couldn't move it, which made her almost forget to concentrate her mind and let the thief and his superior tell them about her and Gu Yanji's existence.
Her mental power cannot completely control a person's mind, but it can control a person to do what he wanted to do before being controlled.
It can be said that the thief was sober but found himself going to the meeting place completely out of control and saying the words he had prepared. It was like a puppet that suddenly had his own thoughts, but still relied on human control to make his own movements.
However, controlling people in this way is a very mentally exhausting thing, so at this moment Song Wan was completely listless. While lying on Gu Yanji, she was being fed sweet cakes.
At this moment, the thief on the ground also wilted. Gu Wu didn't know that they had left. Seeing the thief on the ground who seemed to have no desire to live, he thought that Song Wan and Gu Yan were torturing him.
"What did you find out?" Gu Yan asked Gu Wu anxiously while feeding him.
"My Lord, the person the Prime Minister wants to secretly send out of the mansion is his granddaughter, who hasn't even reached the age of marriage yet. It seems the two Lords Wei misunderstood that the Prime Minister wanted to send his granddaughter to the palace, so they plan to send her to Jiangnan tomorrow." Gu Wu recounted everything he had heard. "As for this accomplice, he was already under control when I arrived, but it seems he hasn't confessed anything."
Gu Yan was anxious: "What else?"
Gu Wu continued, "Also, it seems that the Prime Minister has found a 'substitute' for us."
After talking for a long time, Song Wan was most interested in this substitute. After recovering one-third of her mental strength, she asked Gu Wu, "What kind of substitute?"
"A death row inmate is a young member of the Wei family. The elders of the Wei family have been hoping that the Prime Minister can exonerate this young man," Gu Wu explained. "The Prime Minister has already arranged for the elders of the Wei family to bring 1,000 taels of silver to the Wei Mansion tomorrow to discuss rescuing him."
Gu Yan's eyes darkened in anxiety. "The Prime Minister is trying to use his reputation to dispel the Emperor's doubts."
Song Wan's eyes lit up, "Then let's rob this silver. Without the silver, we'll see what the elders of the Wei family say!"
Gu Yan couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth and looked down at her. He knew very well that she was thinking about the one thousand taels of silver, but what she said was indeed the simplest and most effective method.
Gu Yan hurriedly raised her hand to wipe the corner of Song Wan's mouth, "Ah Wan, this is a very good idea."
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