"I didn't dare to alert the snake, I kept sending people to keep an eye on him secretly."
Xiao Mingxuan hummed and looked up at the door.
"Qin Yin."
"master."
Qin Yin quickly walked into the room without Xiao Mingxuan asking questions at all.
"What the master just ordered has been arranged by your subordinates?"
"Well, go and bring everyone in."
"yes."
Qin Yin turned around and left the Nuan Pavilion neatly.
After Qin Yin left, Luo Jiuli turned to look at Xiao Mingxuan.
"Your Majesty, is this arrangement really feasible? We haven't found anyone from Dali Temple and Hu Jue yet. Is it too risky to do so?"
On the side, the Duke of Guo interrupted his daughter.
"Girl, the purpose of the prince's doing this is to catch him by surprise and attack him unprepared."
"Where Jiang Mansion's spy is hiding now has not been found. Even if it is found now, we are not sure whether she will be controlled by us."
"In this case, why not make it up and tell the truth so that even that old man Hu Jue can't figure out what's true and what's false."
When he mentioned Hu Jue, the Duke of Guo gritted his molars and his eyes glowed green like a wolf.
Just today, he also learned that the fundamental reason why the Grand Sima Hu Jue sent people to assassinate Jiang Fengnian and burned the lives of thirteen people in Jiang Mansion was actually related to the Xiyin case.
Shirts of silver are the only thoughts that can be left to the family after a soldier dies on the battlefield.
But even this small amount of money was skinned and stained by officials at all levels.
How not to make him angry, how not to make him angry.
"As a great Sima, he has integrity, kindness, money, and respect. What else can he be dissatisfied with?"
"Why are you so greedy that you still want to take away the money earned by those soldiers who worked hard to earn it?"
"Shameful, hateful."
The Duke of Guo clenched his fist tightly and slammed it on the table.
The tea cup on the table made a clanging sound, causing a little boy who had just been brought in to shrink his neck in fear.
"Master, everyone is here."
Qin Yin pushed the two people behind him toward the brightest light source.
"Little miss, this servant has met the miss."
The little boy knelt on the ground and saw Luo Jiuli at first sight.
Luo Jiuli looked over with a smile.
That boy and his mother were the same mother and son whom she treated on the day of the fire in Jiang Mansion.
"Shitou, are your injuries healed?"
Shitou knelt on the ground and nodded repeatedly.
"Okay, okay."
Before this end was finished, his mother pressed him down.
"Quick, kowtow to the masters."
After all, the woman was from the Jiang Mansion. When she saw the aura of Xiao Mingxuan and the Duke of Guo, she was so frightened that she trembled.
At that time, there was a fire in Jiang Mansion, and she had seen these two people, one was the prince and the other was the duke. These two were high-ranking officials, and very big officials.
The mother and daughter banged their heads twice.
Xiao Mingxuan was as motionless as a pine tree, and the Duke of Guo was used to it, and Luo Jiuli was letting himself adapt.
After the mother and daughter stopped kowtowing, Xiao Mingxuan waved his hand to Qin Yin.
Qin Yin nodded and shouted toward the door:
"Come in."
After a while, a graceful figure walked in from outside the door.
"Look, you two know her."
The Duke of Guo pointed behind the mother and son.
The mother and son turned around and collapsed to the ground with a frightened bang.
"Die, Aunt Die'er."
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The night was deep, the stars had disappeared at some point, and suddenly a gust of wind blew outside the window.
"Squeak..."
A window in Hu Jue's dormitory in Sima Mansion was blown open by the wind, and the Anshen Incense in the corner was blown out.
Hu Jue opened his eyes suddenly. He just felt a needle-like sting on his arm, but the pain was so fleeting that he couldn't tell whether it was a dream or reality.
Under the brocade quilt, two maids, one on the left and one on the right, let go of Hu Jue's feet.
"Sir, please go and close the window."
One of the maids wants to get up.
Just as the maid stood up, there was a knock on the door.
"grown ups."
The voice of the person outside the door was a little urgent.
Hu Jue didn't know why, but his heart skipped a beat.
He glanced at the door with his dim old eyes. Immediately, the maid got out of bed attentively, pushed aside the heavy curtain and walked out.
After a while, a servant followed the maid into the bedroom.
Hu Jue lay on the bed and did not move. This man was old and slept less, but at the same time he was also very afraid of the cold.
The servant who had just entered the room was kneeling on the ground, hunching his neck, not daring to move, even his breathing was slender.
"What happened in the middle of the night?"
"Sir, someone at the door has just handed you a letter. It says that it is extremely urgent. I am afraid of delaying your affairs, so..."
"letter?"
Hu Jue's sharp eyes seemed to penetrate through the thick curtains.
Sending a letter to Sima Mansion in the middle of the night was a weird thing.
"Brazier."
"yes."
Immediately someone came in carrying a brazier and placed it inside the curtain.
Another maid helped Hu Jue up and put a thick fox fur cloak on him.
"You guys go down."
"yes."
The maids stood up, and outside the thick curtain, someone brought Mrs. Tang and handed it to Hu Jue respectfully.
Immediately, all the servants serving in the dormitory left.
"Bring it here."
There was no emotion in Hu Jue's tone, which made people confused and panicked.
When the kneeling man heard this, he wiped the sweat from his forehead, lowered his head and handed the letter in.
"Who sent it?"
"It's a little mute beggar."
Hu Jue took the letter suspiciously.
"Where are the people?"
"The concierge left it here in case your Excellency may ask questions."
"Um."
Hu Jue waved his hand and said:
"Go down."
The servant breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly retreated as if he had been granted amnesty.
Hu Jue looked at the envelope. The handwriting was beautiful. On the front it was written, "Your Majesty Sima personally sends it." At the bottom, it was written, "It's urgent."
Hu Jue felt even more surprised and hurriedly took it apart to take a look.
There was only one page inside, which was light and thin, but the content on it weighed heavily on Hu Jue's heart, making him almost breathless.
The content above was not long, just a few hundred words short, but every word was as sharp as a needle, making Hu Jue's dim old eyes shoot out with ferocious venom.
"Lord Sima, you didn't expect that your servant is still alive. I work for you and have always been loyal. But I didn't expect that your master would kill me so cruelly. In order to silence you, you would join forces with Dali Temple and drive all your slaves to death."
"My life is worthless, but the evidence in your hands is precious! Your Lord is so cruel and vicious, I will risk my life to pieces!"
"Before dawn, if you don't recall all the people who were intercepted and killed, after dawn, I will risk my life to make these evidences public."
Below, there is no signature, but there is a red private seal imprint, several names and the amount of money.
Hu Jue's eyes scanned these sentences over and over again, staring hard at the names, especially the strings of money amounts.