Women dressed as men: powerful officials

Chapter 239 Action (1)

"Who was shocked?" Chen Shan didn't understand.

"Hide first."

Before Xu Yuan finished speaking, Chen Shan moved faster, grabbed her arm, and the two of them hid directly on the beams.

The door was pushed open again.

After Qi Shengzhu looked back and forth, he murmured, "Could it be my illusion?"

Bei Yuan's study has always been heavily guarded. Although a lot of palace soldiers were dispatched today, there shouldn't be no one left guarding the study.

Qi Shengzhu was doubtful, but when he saw the empty study in front of him, he put his doubts aside and started searching quickly.

Today's opportunity was hard-won, and she couldn't continue to waste time.

Thinking of this, Qi Shengzhu didn't waste a moment and started looking again.

In the past few days, she has often visited the Prince's Mansion under the pretext of visiting her sister, just to enter Bei Yuan's study.

Qi Shengmei has been in poor health and has become increasingly thinner since she married into the Prince's Mansion. Now she has had another miscarriage, and Qi Shengzhu can't bear to see Qi Shengmei suffer any longer.

However, she was a girl from the boudoir, so she had no chance of winning against the prince. Instead, it would be easy for others to notice her and affect the Prime Minister's Mansion.

But now, she found an opportunity.

Bei Yuan was greedy for profit and in order to gain support from the Prime Minister's Office, he was willing to do something despicable that would damage the image of the royal family in order to marry her sister.

Now seeing that her sister is in poor health, she has set her sights on her and Song Xiu Yue.

Qi Shengzhu had long understood Bei Yuan's intention, so he had always wanted to arrange the marriage as soon as possible to put an end to Bei Yuan's idea.

But recently, Bei Yuan and Song Xiujing have been in frequent contact.

And all this happened after the Shen family's snow-viewing banquet.

To be fair, Song Xiujing was indeed beautiful, but there were many beautiful women in the capital, and Bei Yuan was no fool. He abandoned her for Song Xiuyue because Song Xiujing could bring him greater benefits.

The third prince was unaware of this benefit.

Otherwise, he would not regret the engagement.

Now it seems that the Third Prince’s decision to break off the engagement was probably also due to the instigation of the Northern Yuan Dynasty.

What Qi Shengzhu wanted to find out was what benefits Song Xiujing could promise to Bei Yuan.

Although she couldn't use this to threaten the prince to divorce her sister, it could at least make her sister's life better in the future.

Qi Shengzhu flipped through the books on the desk one by one and put them back in their original places carefully.

"Who's in the study?!"

A loud shout.

Qi Shengzhu was so frightened that his hands trembled and the candlestick fell to the ground.

Chen Shan listened to the footsteps outside and hid on the beam again.

At the same time, Qi Shengzhu stomped out the candle on the ground and squatted under the desk.

Outside the house, the candlelight flickered.

Qi Shengmei held up the lantern and asked slowly, "What's the matter?"

"Replying to the Crown Princess, there seems to be someone in His Highness' study."

"The prince went to the Chengwang Mansion for a banquet. Who could have come from there?" Qi Shengmei's voice was small but her aura was strong. "Besides, the prince's study is always guarded by someone. Even I can't go in. Who else can go in?"

Hearing this, the servant scratched his head and said, "But there is no one guarding outside the study room now?"

He is also very strange.

After Cheng Huan returned home, he transferred some people away, but the people guarding the study were not transferred away.

But now, there is no one left.

But the Crown Princess is the master, and the servants dare not question her words.

"Everyone has three urgent needs, don't you think? We should be more considerate of each other when we work in the Prince's Mansion, right?" Qi Shengmei said.

Qi Shengmei didn't know the servant in front of her, and thought he was an unimportant person. The guards guarding the study were all Bei Yuan's personal guards.

If he reported to the prince that the guards guarding the study were not doing their job properly, the four men would be punished but would not lose their lives. However, it was different for the servant in front of him.

What awaits him will be endless revenge.

Qi Shengmei believed that the servant in front of her could understand.

Upon hearing this, the servant immediately responded, "It is true that the Crown Princess has pointed out this. I have made note of it."

After the servant finished speaking, he left in a hurry.

After everyone left, Qi Shengmei stood in front of the door and said, "Zhu'er, they've left, come out quickly."

Qi Shengzhu breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the voice and immediately left the study without daring to delay.

Xu Yuan and Chen Shan also quietly opened the window and went out.

When they came out of the Prince's Mansion, the night clothes on the two people had been thrown into the fire. Seeing Xu Yuan's calm appearance, Chen Shan couldn't help but ask: "Mr. Xu, you didn't do anything this time, why do you look so confident?"

"The purpose of this trip is only to save Xin San. As for whether I can find other things, that is fate. I have achieved my goal, so I am naturally confident."

As Xu Yuan was speaking, he thought of Qi Shengzhu and said, "It's not that I didn't gain anything in the prince's study."

"What do you mean?"

"There's one more person joining this game of chess." Xu Yuan smiled.

Qi Shengzhu's appearance surprised Xu Yuan and made him even more delighted.

Chen Shan was a military commander and did not understand what Xu Yuan said, so he asked another question: "Wu Shiming does not seem to know that Xin San from Tianlao is a fake, aren't you worried about something going wrong?"

"Nothing will happen. When Wu Shiming sees Xin San in the Heavenly Prison, he will understand what I am going to do."

After Xu Yuan finished speaking, he thought for a moment and said, "Maybe he still doesn't understand, but it doesn't matter. I wrote him a note, and when he sees it, he will understand."

Chen Shan raised his eyebrows and said nothing.

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Jail

Unlike the joyous atmosphere outside, there was deathly silence in the prison.

The jailer on guard was making wine by a fire in front of the door while discussing the banquet at Prince Cheng's mansion.

In the snow, a carriage slowly stopped and an old man got off the carriage carrying a food box.

Upon seeing this, the jailer immediately went up to him and said, "Greetings, Mr. Wei. I wonder why you came here so late at night?"

Old Wei was the steward of the Taiwei Mansion and the most capable person around Wei Chenyi. When he heard the jailer's flattery, his expression remained unchanged and he said in a deep voice: "The master went to the Chengwang Mansion for a banquet today. He remembered that the young master was still in the Tianlao, so he ordered me, an old servant, to bring some food to the young master."

Mr. Wei raised the food box in his hand a little higher.

The jailer did not dare to question, let alone search, and immediately gave way and said, "Master Wei, please."

Mr. Wei nodded, said nothing, and stepped in.

After the people walked away, the jailer muttered: "He brought food and eight people with him. The young master of the Wei family should be released from the prison soon..."

"Fortunately, we didn't treat him harshly. Otherwise, who knows how that young master would retaliate against us when he got out."

……

The wind and snow are getting stronger.

Wu Shiming and his companion Wu En walked at the back.

Seeing this, Wu En whispered, "Master Wu, it seems to me that there is something wrong with these people."

Wu Shiming had already been planning a prison break. When he learned about Xu Yuan's plan, he asked Wu En, who had the best skills, to sneak into the Taiwei Mansion just for today.

However, in order to avoid any mistakes, he did not reveal the truth. However, since he had already been put in the prison, Wu Shiming did not hide anything and said directly: "The Wei family wanted to silence us, so these are the killers."

What he had to do was to save Xin San when this group of killers took action.