Seeing that she hadn't moved for a long time, Chuntang shouted anxiously: "Miss, something happened outside. I heard that the imperial army has surrounded our house! The master and his wife called the slaves to call you. Miss, please get up quickly!"
"What did you say!" Song Mingyan was startled, and the joy on her face disappeared. She rolled up the gold in a quilt and hurriedly got out of bed: "Help me get dressed! Hurry!"
Chuntang quickly took off the clothes from the screen and put them on for her one by one. After tidying them up, the door was pushed open.
"Yan'er, come out first."
Seeing that her daughter was safe and sound, Mrs. Xu outside the door breathed a sigh of relief. But she was worried that the monster was hiding in her daughter's boudoir, so she hurried in and pulled her outside.
"Mom, what happened?"
The anxious Song Mingyan passed by the Imperial Guards who came in to search. Before she could understand the situation clearly, she saw from the corner of her eye that one of the Imperial Guards who were searching suddenly changed direction and walked towards her bed.
How could they just touch the bed of a girl who had not left the palace?
Song Mingyan felt angry in her heart, and just when she was about to scold him for being presumptuous, the man had already picked up the gold ingot she had left on the bed.
Afraid that he would steal it while others were not paying attention, she became anxious and quickly shook off Mrs. Xu's hand and rushed over: "What are you doing? This is my thing!"
Song Mingyan snatched the gold ingot and glared at the searching imperial army.
At this moment, another forbidden soldier pulled out a bunch of black clothes from under the bed: "Boss, it's night clothes, I just changed them!"
The way he looked at Song Mingyan changed.
The leading imperial soldier opened the quilt on the bed and picked up the remaining two gold ingots.
The mark underneath was clearly unique to the batch of gold lost in their gold mine.
He glanced at Song Mingyan coldly.
"take away!"
"Hey! What are you doing? Let me go! How arrogant! Is this lady only for you dog slaves to touch?"
When Xu saw the Imperial Army arresting the demon thieves arresting Song Mingyan, she didn't react for a moment.
Until she saw the night clothes that were found and thrown to the ground, and then saw the gold ingot in the hands of the imperial guards.
Knowing that this was probably stolen goods, I almost fainted with fright.
"My lord, these things definitely don't belong to my daughter! I can swear on my life that the Tutor's Mansion has also been poisoned by that demon thief. If my daughter is a demon thief, how could she not even spare her own family? It must be the demon thief who wants to They want to frame us!"
Song Mingyan was shocked. What kind of demon thief? Didn't these gold ingots be given to her secretly by her mother?
Thinking that the ugly monster with three heads and six arms described by the servant might have entered her room, she cried in fear.
"I don't know, I really don't know anything. As soon as I opened my eyes, I saw these gold ingots on my bedside. It really wasn't me!"
If she knew the origin of these gold ingots, she would definitely not even touch them!
"You should keep these words until you explain them in front of the emperor, and take them away!"
The Forbidden Army has not forgotten that Song Mingyan just called them dog slaves. Whether it was her or not, there must be an explanation for this matter.
"No, what do you want to do? Let me go! Mom, help me! I don't want to be taken away by them, I don't want it!" Song Mingyan was so frightened that her pretty face turned pale, she cried, screamed and struggled.
However, her little strength was no match for the Forbidden Army, and she was brutally pushed out with her hands cut behind her back.
Xu wanted to step forward to stop him, but was soon taken away together with her.
Because stolen goods were found in Song Mingyan's room, everyone in the Song family was sent to prison.
Only Song Wenjun, who studied at Mingshan Academy with Lu Peichuan, escaped.
Mingshan Academy is far away from the capital, and it takes half a month to get there by carriage.
Song Mingyan could not accept this fact and cried a lot in the cell. Song Panshan and Xu continued to complain.
But no one paid any attention to them.
The commander of the imperial army temporarily detained the person in prison and sent the news to the palace overnight.
When Emperor Shun'an learned that the gold mine had been stolen, his face turned dark and ugly. At this moment, he was sitting on the edge of the bed with his legs spread out, a storm raging in his eyes, with an astonishing venom.
Veins popped out in both hands, as if they were trying to strangle the demon thief's neck, they clung to the bedpost.
When he saw the commander of the imperial army coming in, he raised his deep eyes, and his gaze seemed to be pressing on him with a huge force.
"What happened? Don't tell me that you returned without success again."
Chen Shizhong lowered his head and his palms became sweaty: "Your Majesty, we found three gold ingots lost in the gold mine in Miss Song's boudoir in the Taifu Mansion, as well as the night clothes worn by the demon thief when he stole the gold mine. .”
"According to what you say, this demon thief is the eldest lady of the Song family?" Emperor Shun'an said in a mixed voice.
The invisible pressure made Chen Shizhong sweatdrop on his forehead. He knelt on the ground stiffly, not even daring to raise his head.
"Returning to the emperor, I believe that the demon thief's ability will not reveal such a big flaw. This move may be to frame the fault of the Taifu Mansion, so as to use the Taifu Mansion to draw our attention and escape."
"The demon thief's ability is extraordinary. His subordinates led people to surround the Taifu's Mansion. They searched inside and outside but found no trace of him."
He observed Emperor Shun'an's face and saw that he looked ugly and was on the verge of breaking out. He immediately lowered his body and said, "This subordinate is incompetent, please punish me!"
"For the present plan, Your Majesty, why not move the gold smelted from the other gold mines to a safe place as soon as possible. Since the demon thief already knows the location of the gold mines, he will not let go of the other gold mines."
Only a few close confidants knew about the gold mine. Emperor Shun'an didn't care about insulting Chen Shizhong anymore and immediately sent the shadow guard to tell him about the matter.
Emperor Shun'an never expected that the demon thief would steal the gold mine so quickly, but he still did not give up his previous idea of trapping the demon thief and asked the shadow guards to arrange the situation as quickly as possible.
"Your Majesty, how will the Song family be executed?" After the shadow guard left, Chen Shizhong asked respectfully.
Emperor Shun'an was diverted by other things, and his anger dropped a bit. After thinking for a moment, he said: "Since it is related to the demon thief, he ransacked the Taifu's house, put all the property into the treasury, and ordered They will set off today to be exiled to Yongzhou!"
Now that the treasury is empty, Emperor Shun'an will certainly not miss this opportunity to rob the Song family. He has long wanted to punish Song Panshan, but he has never found a suitable reason.
"Send a message and ask Fuyang County to detain the Lu family for a few more days until the Song family and others arrive, and then let them go on the road together."
He narrowed his eyes slightly, his gloomy eyes full of calculations: "Tell Song Panshan, if he wants to atone for his sins, he'd better spare no effort to deal with the Lu family on my behalf. If he can get rid of the Lu family on the road to exile, I will remember He did a great job."
