"Are you ready for the fast horse?" asked Shen.
"Madam, we are all ready and ready to leave at any time." A man in front of him saluted respectfully.
"Very well, you go and wait outside."
Mrs. Shen gave an order, turned around and walked towards the room.
When she appeared again, her clothes had been changed.
The original ladies' dresses were replaced with women's trousers and shorter skirts, which were suitable for traveling on horseback.
Although Shen is in her forties, she is extremely well-maintained and looks like she is around thirty years old. Her body is in good shape due to regular exercise.
"Someone is coming."
She called towards the door.
The man who had been waiting outside opened the door and came in.
"Madam, what are your orders?"
"Go and see where Butler Li is now."
"Yes, ma'am."
The man walked away quickly.
After a while, the man came quickly, his face a little gloomy.
"Madam, when Butler Li entered the house where the master lives, there was no movement or coming out. None of our people inside came out to deliver the news." The man said quickly.
"Get ready, leave now." Shen said quickly.
"Where to go from?" The man was stunned for a moment.
"Go through the secret passage. In addition, send people to rush to Qingsong's place and ask him to take his confidants to the south quickly to get rid of the Li family and find the people I asked him to contact."
Mrs. Shen ordered as he walked towards the courtyard.
After she entered the bedroom, she pressed on a wall, and a secret door slowly appeared.
This was a secret door that even the head of the family, Li Chengji, didn't know about. She had arranged it a long time ago.
Most of the maids around her have been dismissed, and the only one left is Cai Wei.
This maid Caiwei is different. She is nominally a personal maid, but she actually raised her with her own hands. Many inconvenient things are left to Caiwei to handle.
Caiwei was also aware of this arrangement.
In the secret passage, after Mrs. Shen took the people away, Caiwei left the secret passage and entered the bedroom. She patted a certain position with her palms several times. With a click, the huge door-breaking stone came down and directly closed the secret passage. The door to the Tao is blocked, really blocked to death.
Caiwei stayed outside, sitting on a chair in the bedroom.
After a while, there was a series of footsteps outside, and guards wearing armor kicked open the door and poured in.
There were about twenty people. They didn't stop in their tracks, but walked quickly inside.
"Search separately."
"Don't let anyone get away, even a cat or a dog can be spared."
There was a sound of shouting and drinking outside.
Caiwei stepped out of the bedroom, left the door and came to the yard. She saw that the guards were already looking everywhere with spears and swords, even chopping near rockery potted plants and the like.
"Who are you? How dare you break into Mrs. Li's house privately?"
Caiwei felt chilled when she saw that these guards were all unfamiliar faces, not a single familiar face, but she remained calm and unafraid on the surface.
"I am Yuan Bing, the bodyguard of the Li family. We are here to invite the eldest lady on the order of the head of the family."
The leading guard is a man with a tiger beard, he is Yuan Bing.
"Is this what you're doing when you invite Madam over? Look what your men are doing in the yard?" Caiwei sneered.
She didn't believe a word Yuan Bing said.
"We are all following orders. This is the order. We must invite Madam over at all costs."
"Come here, take this girl away, and the others will search with me." Yuan Bing ordered.
Immediately, two guards came forward and motioned Caiwei to follow them.
Caiwei didn't resist, nor did she say anything more, because she knew that nothing she said would be of any use, and that she might be beaten and subjected to other coercive measures. She was a weak woman, so she might as well be honest.
Two guards escorted Caiwei out of the courtyard, and others entered the room and began to search everywhere.
But after the secret passage is blocked by the broken door stone, it cannot be found elsewhere.
"Seal this courtyard and don't allow anyone to enter or leave."
After Yuan Bing gave the order, he took some people and left.
…
In the courtyard behind the Elder's Hall.
"Have all the previous details been discussed?" Zi Yan stood in the courtyard and glanced at Li Qingyuan who was standing nearby.
"They are willing to cooperate with the imperial court, and this plan will be carried out according to your instructions." Li Qingyuan said.
"I didn't say it. This plan was decided by the imperial court. There can be no mistake about this." Zi Yan said slowly.
"I understand, I will inform them when the time comes."
"Don't worry, you haven't established a foothold in the Li family yet. First, you need to stabilize people's hearts. Secondly, you need to meet your father, Li Chengji." Zi Yan said.
"Master Jiang, why do you want to see him? You also know that what happened back then... he may not have noticed." Li Qingyuan didn't quite understand, and it was Li Chengji's power that he had taken away this time, so it seemed a bit strange to see him again. .
"You were able to successfully seize the position of head of the family this time because of Li Chengji's help. If he was determined not to give in, you wouldn't be able to seize it. He even has the ability to replace all six elders in one go." Zi Yan slowly said Slowly.
"How is this possible? He has such great ability?" Li Qingyuan blurted out.
"You don't believe it? Think about it, what are the core rights of the Li family?" Zi Yan prompted.
"The right to control money, the right to personnel, and the right to control the escort team should be these three. The most important ones are the first two." Li Qingyuan still knew these.
"If you think about it again, who can clearly know all the accounts, who is the specific person who controls the money and food, and what is his relationship with Li Chengji, and who is the person who manages the personnel promotion information, and what is his relationship with Li Chengji?" Zi Yan said.
"...I know. They are all his cronies, as well as the big boss of the family guard. They were all promoted by him personally." Only then did Li Qingyuan discover the mystery.
"Yes, now you understand what I said. Besides, you were still young, so how could you figure out the hidden meaning of what happened back then? The nun I arrested for you can only prove that your mother was raped by someone. Damn it, what about the rest... What other clues and evidence do you have? You have nothing."
Zi Yan continued: "So you have to meet Li Chengji."
"Besides, I'm not optimistic about your arrest of Shen. You've already alerted the enemy, and Shen will definitely escape in advance."
As soon as Zi Yan finished speaking, Yuan Bing's voice came from outside.
"Come in."
Li Qingyuan asked Yuan Bing to enter the courtyard. When he saw Yuan Bing's ashamed expression, he realized that Zi Yan was right. Shen really ran away and was not caught.
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