Seeing that she didn't react, Lin Ru immediately extinguished the sedative stick in her hand!
She said to herself, "Sister, why are you ignoring us? Do you think we're too talkative?"
"Don't blame us, we were just too scared. Now that we've relaxed, we've been wanting to cry!"
After saying this, she stood up and, under Bai's cover, took out a porcelain bottle from her bosom. The bottle also contained sleeping potions. She had asked her third uncle to study sleeping potions since there was nothing else to do on the journey! And he had quite a few results! She opened the porcelain bottle and then waved it under the little maid's nose!
That would make things absolutely foolproof!
They waited a while until the smoke in the room had completely dissipated before removing the handkerchiefs from their noses!
The person watching from outside could tell from the reflections inside the room and the conversation that these people desperately wanted to talk to someone, but once they started talking, they went on and on, and they even cried, which annoyed the little maid!
Actually, he was getting a little impatient listening to this from outside!
He couldn't understand why he, a dignified guard, was here to monitor these women who only knew how to cry!
The crying finally stopped after they removed the handkerchief from their noses!
After a while, they turned off the lights and then lay down on their beds to rest!
The guard watched for a while, and when there was no movement inside, he lowered his guard!
He leaned against the tree and slowly closed his eyes!
The four people inside the room had their eyes wide open like saucers!
Trying to adjust her eyes to the darkness, Wu Juan sat up as soon as she saw Lin Ru sit up!
The two slowly opened the back window, then used their light-footed skills to jump out from the back!
Their movements were extremely light!
That person didn't notice at all!
Then the two of them quickly ran towards where the prefect was!
Lin Ru secretly prayed that they wouldn't finish discussing everything in such a short time!
Otherwise, all my efforts would have been in vain!
Fortunately, when they arrived, the discussion inside hadn't finished yet!
The room was brightly lit, surrounded by a group of guards, and there were even people watching over the roof!
They could only hide in the big tree nearby!
Lin Ru closed her eyes, trying to block out the noise around her, and listened to the conversation inside!
There are two voices inside!
One was the prefect's voice, and the other was a voice she had never heard before! It was the voice of a strange man!
Inside the room, the prefect sat in the main seat!
He finished swiping his teacup and looked at the people sitting below.
"Old Shi! What do you think of my approach?"
The man sitting below nervously clasped his hands together.
"Sir, are you sure what they said is credible?"
"If we contact Kyoto on our own, will I blame us?"
"After all, we'll still be living under his thumb in the future!"
The governor scoffed, "If he really cared about our lives, he wouldn't have delayed sending troops for so long, forcing us to go out and conscript men ourselves!"
"Besides, we only captured a few thousand able-bodied men this time, which is not nearly enough to kill Prince Shun and his gang!"
"That dog emperor doted on his younger brother the most when he was alive, and gave him a lot of soldiers. They must have 100,000 troops under their command now!"
"All of us together only have a little over 30,000!"
"What do we have to compete with them with?"
"If I abandon the city and flee, they won't give me any high-ranking official position when I get there."
"Why not take a gamble!"
Old Shi hesitated upon hearing this.
"This...could be a solution then!"
"Is it really possible that Kyoto will send someone over?"
"Why do I always have a feeling that this county magistrate is a bit unreliable?"
Why did his father send him and his mother to this remote little county? To die?
"Or perhaps these two are simply not favored by anyone."
"Otherwise, even though the mother and daughter would have already been in trouble, that person would still be as stable as Mount Tai in Kyoto!"
The prefect smiled and took a sip of tea!
"I don't care if he's favored or not, the title is enough for him!"
"Once we resolve this crisis and establish connections with that high-ranking official in Kyoto, we'll know whether they're truly favored or not. If his presence is an eyesore to that official, we might as well return the favor and eliminate him!"
Old Shi touched his chin, feeling that what he said made a lot of sense!
"Indeed! In that case, we have two options!"
"Moreover, if we take this opportunity to expand our territory, we'll have more leverage when we seek refuge with others in the future!"
The man became more and more excited as he spoke!
He stood up and bowed to the prefect above.
"Then I'll go and do it right now!"
"After all, Prince Shun is coming soon!"
We'd better hurry!
The prefect laughed and said, "What's the rush! Prince Shun isn't stupid. The ones he destroyed before were just small counties. Now we're a whole prefecture!"
"He won't attack the city rashly!"
"Please sit down for a moment. We still need to discuss this further with the Commandant's trusted confidants!"
"We originally thought we could wipe them all out this time, but we didn't expect that the ones who suffered losses were all our own people!"
"They must have already discovered it!"
"And now I've learned a lot more!"
"The military tally in the hands of the Commandant of the Prefecture has not been found yet. Although Pang Da has taken over the military camp, without the military tally, we cannot make them completely work for us!"
"These people are probably just waiting to see me make a fool of myself!"
The man touched his chin again!
After thinking for a moment, he said, "Actually, we've already crossed the line, and these people have obediently entered the military camp, so let's arrest them all!"
"I refuse to believe that no one is unaware of the bottom path of the Military Seal!"
"Especially his adopted sons!"
"Most suspicious!"
"If you torture him a little longer, he'll confess sooner or later!"
The prefect thought about it for a moment and neither said whether to do it this way nor that to do it that way.
"Alright! Go and take care of that matter!"
"Send a message to Kyoto, and then send a message over there!"
"Then we'll see who moves faster and gets to occupy more territory!"
"If that person is less skilled, they can't blame us!"
Old Shi smiled and left.
Lin Ru watched as the rather elderly man walked out from inside!
Then they walked in the other direction!
Lin Ru and Wu Juan were just about to go after them!
Unexpectedly, one of the guards at the entrance suddenly looked at the big tree where they were hiding, his eyes sharp!
He turned his head and said a few words to the guards beside him, then used his lightness skill to come towards them!
Wu Juan immediately gripped Lin Ru's hand tightly!
I don't know what to do!
As the person drew closer and closer
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