Li Xuan and An Rulong looked at each other in surprise.
An Rulong said excitedly: "Since there is a secret room, it must be a place where treasures are kept. Imperial Envoy, let's go and have a look?"
Li Xuan was also very interested, nodded and said: "Let's go over and have a look, maybe we can find some evidence of crime!"
The secret room is located in Salang's bedroom, hidden behind the wall of the dressing room, very hidden.
After pulling a handle, the wall slid open slowly and silently, revealing a hole in the wall that could only allow one person to enter and exit, and it was pitch black inside.
An Rulong coughed dryly and said, "Your Majesty the Imperial Envoy, I suspect that there is evidence of Salang's murder of Her Royal Highness. Why don't you go in and check it out first, lest the evidence be destroyed by random people."
Li Xuan smiled knowingly and said: "The prefect is right, I'll go down and take a look first, and then I'll invite you in if there's no danger!"
The spiritual power surged in the palm, and a ball of fire burned in the palm, turning into a torch.
Li Xuan just slipped into the hole in the wall as if no one was watching. After walking two or three meters with his neck bent, a small secret room suddenly appeared in front of him.
The secret room was not too big, only about two meters long and wide, and it was not filled with treasures as Li Xuan imagined. There was just a huge iron box randomly placed on the ground.
Li Xuan did not open the box rashly, who knew if there was any mechanism on it.
He looked carefully and made sure that there was no danger, then he gently touched the lock of the box, and the box popped open with a "click".
The first thing that caught Li Xuan's eyes was a pile of spiritual crystals, red, yellow, and white, emitting crystal clear light, shining brightly under the light of the torch.
A rough estimate is that there are at least several hundred of these spiritual crystals, which is a considerable amount of money if converted into spiritual stones.
But for Li Xuan, who owns 10% of the income from a spiritual crystal mine, these spiritual crystals are really nothing.
What he was more concerned about was what was placed on the side of the spiritual crystal. It was a piece of black velvet with something wrapped inside.
Gently lifting the velvet, Li Xuan narrowed his eyes.
It was a piece of folded parchment, with a complex and exquisite pattern outlined in red ink lines.
This pattern is full of geometric beauty, and the symmetry contains some strange magic. It seems that there is an anxious and sensitive power hidden in it, which may burst out with terrible power at any time, sweeping everything to pieces! "Crazy Explosion Formation"
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Li Xuan recognized it.
It’s actually the talisman circuit design diagram of the “Crazy Explosion Formation”! “Good stuff, good stuff!”
Li Xuan murmured in a low voice, carefully holding the parchment in his hand, as gently as if he was stroking a newborn baby, for fear of accidentally crushing it.
"This should be the design that appeared at the last Maplewood City auction."
Li Xuan thought to himself.
"Your Majesty the Imperial Envoy, have you found any evidence?"
Li Xuan was excited when An Rulong's questioning voice came from outside.
"There is only one box of spiritual crystals... Come in."
Li Xuan shook his hand, and the parchment slid into the private plane.
Of course, only fools would hand over such good things to line their own pockets! An Rulong led someone in, saw a box of spiritual crystals, and said with some surprise: "Salang actually hid so many
Spirit crystal!"
The spiritual crystals were quickly moved out of the secret room, and a special person was responsible for counting them. An Rulong pulled Li Xuan aside and said, "Your Majesty, I have something to ask you."
Thanks to An Rulong's knowledge of the house raid this time, Li Xuan was able to get the design drawings of the Explosive Formation. He was in a good mood and said after hearing the words: "Your Majesty, you are too polite. If you have anything to do, just ask me."
"It's like this, my son is not young anymore, and he has always been doing nothing.
He admires the Imperial Envoy very much, so I hope to send him to you as a retinue, what do you think?"
Li Xuan really didn't expect that An Rulong would give his son to him as a retinue.
A retainer is not necessarily a servant, especially a retainer of a monk, who may himself be a powerful monk.
Some soldiers and monks who have experienced hundreds of battles are even comrades and brothers who live and die together.
Despite this, noble children still rarely serve as followers.
Especially for a prefect like An Rulong, who was a moderate official in the empire, to be willing to let his son serve as a retinue. This would be considered a strange news if word spread.
But looking at An Rulong's look, it didn't look like he was joking at all.
Then I heard An Rulong say again: "Master Imperial Envoy, I also have selfish motives.
You are very popular in front of Her Royal Highness the Princess. My son will definitely have a bright future by following you.
For the sake of considering us as colleagues, please don’t refuse this matter!”
An Rulong's show of goodwill has reached this level, and Li Xuan is really embarrassed to refuse. Besides, he really needs some manpower now, and You An Rulong's son is a good choice.
"I recognize your son, his name is An Zhihuan, right?"
Li Xuan said, "He has done me a favor before, and the young man is not bad.
Since the prefect is willing, let him follow me."
"Thank you, Your Majesty the Imperial Envoy!"
An Rulong said happily.
An Rulong calculated very clearly that if the Sa family fell, Maplewood City would definitely be ruled by the Ding family in the future. After the situation stabilized, there might be a big reshuffle.
At present, Her Royal Highness the Princess's attitude towards her is very unclear. If she wants to keep her position as prefect, she must have a good relationship with Li Xuan, the popular person in front of the Princess.
As long as Li Xuan can say a few nice words in the princess's ear, everything will be worry-free.
By letting your son follow Li Xuan, you can get close to the princess and find out her preferences in the future.
When the time comes, by figuring out the princess's thoughts and doing things, maybe he can continue to get promoted and make a fortune! How could Li Xuan not know An Rulong's thoughts, but he was just employing people, and he didn't care if he was used a little bit by others.
What's more, it's still unclear who is taking advantage of whom! Each of them has their own thoughts and needs, and they are both in a good mood. They worked for a while and finished counting the Sa family's property, and then went back to report to Xia Ruixue.
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Xia Ruixue looked at the list, waved her hand and said, "Prefect An did a good job, you can go back and rest.
Li Xuan stays..." An Rulong quickly saluted, winked at Li Xuan, and then withdrew.
Li Xuan was the only one left in the hall. When he saw Xia Ruixue looking over, he hurriedly asked: "Do you have any other instructions from Your Highness?"
Xia Ruixue shook the list and said, "You keep half of the belongings here."
"Give me half?"
Li Xuan said in surprise.
In fact, this list is already a reduced version. Li Xuan has already left part of it. If he keeps another half, it would be almost equivalent to changing more than half of the Sa family's property to Li!