Of course, her ideas are always the best, and Song Wan has always been very confident in herself.
"Then what should we do with him?" Song Wan pointed at the thief lying on the ground with no hope in his life and asked, "How about I make him stupid for a while?"
"Just let Gu Wu watch over him." Gu Yan said anxiously, "He's not worth wasting your energy."
Song Wan thought about it and it made sense. After all, they had squeezed out all the value of this person.
"Then let's go hungry for three meals first." Song Wan rubbed his hands.
Gu Yan hurriedly called Chen San, the mute of the thief on the ground, and asked Gu Wu to throw the man into a room and guard him.
That night, at about the hour of Yin, one person entered through the Changle Gate with a token, and after passing through layers of inspection, they entered the emperor's bedroom.
It was actually a letter from a spy from the Wei Mansion.
Li Shi remembered that he had planted these two spies with great difficulty. Unless the information was very important, they were not allowed to contact each other at will, let alone contact their superiors.
After drinking some wine during dinner, Li Shi supported his head and waved his hand to let Zhang Fuzheng, who was serving him, go and take the secret letter.
Zhang Fuzheng walked down the steps, hunched over, to receive the token, then presented it, "Your Majesty."
Li Shi pressed the trigger skillfully and asked the people below, "How are those two people?"
The person kneeling below was the owner of the brothel that Song Wan had complained about. He had always been the spy leader secretly trained by Li Shi, and the brothel was responsible for collecting and organizing the intelligence sent by the spies that Li Shi had planted in the residences of ministers in the court.
"An Shi was exposed, but Chen San wasn't," the spy leader replied truthfully. "After Chen San handed the token to me, he returned to the Guard House."
Li Shi finished reading the contents of the paper and frowned slightly. "Didn't you send anyone to follow?"
The spy leader nodded and said, "I sent An Liu to follow him. He saw Chen San return to the mansion with his own eyes and then came back to report."
These were naturally not witnessed by the so-called An Liu himself, but were caused by Song Wan's mental interference, which made him mistake the shop for the Wei Mansion. He also made Song Qi put on the clothes that Song Wan had taken off Chen San in front of him.
"Did Anshi only say these two sentences?" Li Shi unfolded the note and revealed the two sentences to everyone. "Just for these two sentences, I lost a chess piece in vain. How do you train them normally?"
Zhang Fuzheng glanced at him and his eyes flashed slightly.
The spy leader lowered his head even deeper and hurriedly explained, "Your Majesty, An Shi said something when he handed the token to Chen San. Chen San asked me to bring it to you."
Li Shi snorted coldly, "Did she say that there was something strange going on in the Wei Mansion and that I should go and take a look myself?"
The spy leader didn't expect that Li Shi actually knew this. It seemed that An Shi was afraid that Chen San would die before he could finish speaking, so he wrote it down on the note.
"That's exactly what Chen San told me." The spy leader kowtowed.
Li Shi stared at the words on the note, remained silent for a long time, and asked Zhang Fuzheng to bring a candle lamp.
Zhang Fuzheng carefully took out a candle and bowed humbly, "Your Majesty, the candle is here."
Li Shi hummed a sound, then placed the smoothed paper over the candle flame and roasted it repeatedly until a few plum blossom petals appeared faintly in the lower left corner, and then he stopped.
At the same time, Zhang Fuzheng took away the candle lamp and placed it aside.
The Plum Blossom Seal is a secret method of communication between Li Shi and An Shi, unknown to anyone else.
With this mark, Li Shi had a little more trust in the contents of the note. He raised his hand and asked the people kneeling below to stand up. "Did Chen San say anything else?"
The spy leader stood up and shook his head, "Chen San delivered the token and left in a hurry."
Li Shi frowned when he heard this. He wondered what Wei Xuezhi was doing. If it had nothing to do with him, An Shi would never have risked his life to send him these two seemingly plausible messages.
"What do you think, Eunuch Fu?" Li Shi handed over the note.
Zhang Fuzheng reached for the cup with both hands and said without raising his head, "It's better for this old servant not to know about this kind of thing."
Li Shi laughed heartily. "Eunuch Fu, you once served the emperor. It's just a few words. I wouldn't be so stingy."
It is impossible to say that he has no suspicion towards Zhang Fuzheng, but if he had not whispered to his father, he would not have been able to defeat Li Che so easily and sit on the supreme throne.
So as long as he did what a eunuch should do, Li Shi was willing to give him some face on the surface.
Zhang Fuzheng still didn't raise his head, and even lowered his head even lower, "Please forgive me, Your Majesty."
Li Shi was very satisfied with his attitude. His father had respected him too much in the past. Now, an old eunuch should be humble and submissive.
"Alright, I won't make things difficult for you." Li Shi put the note away and said slowly, "Then, Eunuch Fu, do you think I should go to the Wei Mansion in person?"
"Yesterday, Minister Liu reported that bandits were rampant in the area north of Jiangnan, and there were floods in the south. These matters of state await your attention, Your Majesty. Therefore, I thought Your Majesty could send someone to secretly investigate under the guise of a visit." Zhang Fuzheng analyzed slowly, "Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven. The future of Dai Viet depends on you. If the Wei Mansion is not a serious matter, Your Majesty should remain in the palace."
"I and Eunuch Fu have the same idea, but..." Li Shi glanced at the contents of the note again, his voice gradually becoming colder, "I really want to see the background of this distinguished guest of the Prime Minister."
Zhang Fuzheng's eyelids trembled slightly, and he wanted to persuade her, "Your Majesty, I thought that—"
"Of course, Eunuch Fu's worries are not without reason." Li Shi interrupted him, "But Wei Xuezhi is different from other ministers."
After all, Li Shi had never completely let down his guard against Wei Xuezhi. After much deliberation, he sent someone to call over Wei Lin, the leader of the Imperial Guards.
"Wei Lin, you didn't catch the Song and Gu families the last time you went to Xinzhou. I remember you said you sent people to block all the routes beforehand, but still didn't catch anyone."
"Your Majesty, I did have people block all the roads, so I guessed that the Song and Gu families might have passed through Xinzhou in advance. Later, I also verified it with Jiang Zhen, the governor of Guizhou, and found that the Song and Gu families entered Guizhou the night before I arrived in Xinzhou." Wei Lin answered truthfully.
"Heh, it seems Jiang Zhen's mind isn't pure enough." Li Shi scoffed coldly. He raised his eyes and said, "Tomorrow you will bring 5,000 imperial guards to accompany me to the Wei Mansion."
Wei Lin was surprised, "The emperor wants to encircle and suppress the Wei Mansion?"
You have to know that five thousand imperial guards are a big force, enough to search the residence of an important official.
"The Prime Minister has devoted all his energy to Dai Viet. How could I do such a thing? I just wanted to entertain the guests on his behalf." Li Shi sneered, "Wei Lin, tomorrow you will send a few more people to secretly go to Guizhou to see if the surviving members of the Song and Gu families are here."
Wei Lin: "I obey your order."
Li Shi added, "Also, check on Jiang Zhen."
Wei Lin's eyes flashed, and he nodded slightly, "I understand!"
Li Shi waved his hand, "Go ahead."
"Zhao Liu, you continue to go back and keep watch. Send two more people to monitor Chen San. Once the Wei Mansion shows signs of suspicion about him, you should know what to do." Li Shi lowered his eyes and looked at him.
Zhao Liu was the name of the spy leader. He responded firmly, "I'll do it right away."
After everyone left the inner hall, Zhang Fuzheng finally spoke up, "Does the Emperor suspect that Prime Minister Wei is harboring a traitor?"
Li Shiwei closed his eyes and raised them again. "I remember that the poison King Yu gave Gu Yanji was not simple. In a place like Qiandi, if no one helped him, how could Gu Yanji have survived until now?"
"I just thought that I should go and meet the guest who is so valued by the Prime Minister." Li Shi didn't believe others.
If the guest was really Gu Yan, the five thousand imperial guards were specially prepared for him.
Zhang Fuzheng stopped talking, lowered his eyes, and rubbed his fingertips lightly.
At daybreak, Song Wan crouched on the wall of the Wei Mansion. Seeing two figures passing not far away, she tilted her head and asked Gu Yan anxiously, "How do you know so much about this emperor?"
He said that Li Shi would send someone to monitor Chen San, so he asked Gu Wu to tie the person up and sneak into the Wei Mansion. As a result, what he said came true.
"I don't really know him, I just have a good grasp of his personality." Gu Yan hurriedly whispered, "Li Shi is a suspicious and arrogant person. If he guessed that the person tomorrow would be me, he would probably send a trusted imperial guard to secretly investigate Jiang Zhen in Guizhou."
Song Wan used her mental power to interfere with the two spies while her eyes widened. "He can actually think of this. It seems that not all the descendants of the late emperor are stupid."
Gu Yanji almost laughed out loud, and held her other hand tightly.
Whenever Song Wan released her mental power, Gu Yanji could feel as if there was a very powerful force surrounding her, which was out of reach.
"After consuming so much tonight, can you still hold on tomorrow?" Gu Yan was anxiously worried, afraid that her continuous use would have a negative impact on her body.
"As long as you stay by my side, there will be no problem." Song Wan's mental power has just been upgraded to level nine, and she is in a state of having strength but nowhere to use it. She wishes there were more people to play with, and it would be best if she could upgrade it to level ten in one go.
Song Wan didn't realize that her words had offended the other person.
Gu Yan stared at her anxiously for a long time, the corners of her lips slightly raised, and finally she promised in a gentle voice, "Okay, I will always be by your side."
Song Wan responded confidently, "I think you've said this before."
Gu Yan's voice was slightly hoarse with anxiety. "I just want to say it a few more times. Is Ah Wan tired of hearing it?"
Song Wan was using her mental power to spin two people in the distance around, trying to confuse them. When she was distracted and heard Gu Yanji's words, she thought that Gu Yanji must be sulking.
He thought she was getting impatient with him.
Song Wan thought for a few moments, then replied, "You can say it as many times as you want. I won't get tired of it."
This is how it’s played out in TV dramas: regardless of whether the heroine did anything wrong or not, the hero will take all the blame on himself.
Song Wan thought her answer was perfect, otherwise why would Gu Yanji be smiling at her now, and smiling so beautifully.
She was mesmerized by Gu Yan's anxious smile. Seeing that he didn't seem very interested in her playing the spy game, she asked, "Are you bored? How about I go and capture Li Shi now?"
Speaking of which, Song Wan discovered that she had played with the cuckolded prefect and the perverted prince, but it seemed that she had never played with the hypocritical emperor.
The author has something to say:
A Wan: Some weird collecting hobby?
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
