"Speaking of which, it's strange. Suddenly I knew that one of my own people was behind this. I was inexplicably relieved and felt a lot more relaxed." Song Jue looked at Shen Haolin, Shen Cha and Bai Meng, "It's one of our own people." , it’s much better than being an outsider, to be precise, than being a group of people from the Jin or Liao countries, right?”
"I feel a lot better after hearing what you said." Bai Meng and Shen Haolin exchanged a look and shook their heads helplessly, "Although we may have scruples, we don't have to worry so much. If the other party dares to confront us head-on, we are not vegetarians. ,Yes or no?"
"I'm not too worried about force. With you, Xiaobaizi, Haolin, Xiaocha, and Liu Shuai from the south, if it's a head-on confrontation, he should be able to annihilate his entire army, right?" Seeing Shen Haolin, Shen Cha, and Bai Meng smiling at him, Song Jue continued, "What I care about now is his financial resources. After all..." He shrugged, "We are poor!"
Everyone in Tai Chong Hall looked at each other. They had experienced what it felt like for the richest person in the entire Great Xia to cry for poverty.
Shen Cha sighed softly, feeling that this topic could not continue. If he could not catch Song Jue in time, he might be led somewhere by Song Jue. She looked at Ah Liang, pointed to the cushion not far from her, and asked her to sit down.
"Let's talk about Wan Yanping. In addition to insufficient food reserves, what other difficulties does Yiqing Mansion face?"
"General, Yiqing Mansion is now in a dilemma, and every day is a joy in hardship." Ah Liang smiled bitterly, "In the beginning, the siege was not as serious, and I don't know who is so heartless. The guy pretended to be Wanyan Ping's subordinate and ran to Wanyan and Wen's mansion to set a fire. Although it was extinguished in time, he was still caught. Wanyan and Wen's young master, for so many years, They are all pretending to be pigs and eating tigers. In the past, because Wanyan and Wen were still there, he still knew how to restrain himself. Now that Wanyan and Wen, the people who can suppress his ambitions, are gone, his true purpose has been completely exposed. The matter of arson just happened to gave him a good excuse, he..."
"He led troops to besiege the city?"
"In the few days after setting the fire, there was no movement from him. About seven or eight days passed. Suddenly, I discovered that there was a private soldier outside Yiqing Mansion. They were so powerful that they looked quite bluffing. Human. Later we learned that from the day the mansion was set on fire, the eldest son began to transfer the family's property and sell the family's shops one after another. When everything was settled, he took the people in the mansion and his cronies with him. , taking advantage of the dark moon and high wind, secretly left Yiqing Mansion."
"Yiqing Mansion doesn't have a curfew?" Shen Cha frowned. What Ah Liang said were details that were not mentioned in the secret letter. She listened very carefully, "The people and cronies in his mansion, as well as the people around his cronies. Man, if so many people go out of the city together, it would be quite eye-catching, why doesn’t anyone notice it?”
"The eldest son's family left the city the day after the fire. I remember that it was on the pretext that the family members were frightened, so they went to Zhuangzi outside the city to rest their spirits and calm down. On the day they left Yiqing Mansion, I I also went to see it, and there were more than twenty carriages."
"You have never been suspicious, why are there so many carriages?" Shen Cha frowned slightly, "This is not a mistake you will make."
"Because his family had a large number of family members, so many carriages were within a reasonable range. What we didn't expect was that they would never come back." A Liang sighed, "When we have something By the time you noticed it, it was already too late.”
"What was Wanyanping's reaction at that time?" Bai Meng held her cheek and looked at Ah Liang, "If according to you, the siege has a sequence, after the eldest son besieged the city, Wanyanping should have immediately Isn’t there anyone who takes action?”
"She was so confident in herself that she didn't take these people seriously at all, even if the entire Yiqing Mansion was besieged later, she didn't care."
"This is a lesson. Being cornered by someone you look down on is probably not a good feeling, right?"
"Commander, I know Wan Yanping very well. To this day, she doesn't pay attention to those people." Ah Liang shrugged and spread his hands, "She has the confidence to deal with the outsiders of Yiqing Mansion. That group of people, after all, those people have interests first, they come together because of interests, and they also go their separate ways because of interests."
"That's true." Bai Meng nodded, "Those people are not of the same mind, but they just have common interests and want to take advantage of the situation. So, what Wanyanping really cares about is the person behind the Teng family?"
"And herself, I think."
"Huh?" Several people frowned slightly, "What does this mean?"
"The person behind the Teng family is the one she wants to defeat, but the one who really tortures her is herself. Ever since she moved into the palace, her whole spirit has been very worried, and she looks very worried every day. Before she moved into the palace, she could still sleep for two or three hours a day. After moving in, she slowly slept from two or three hours a day to half or an hour a day. In most cases, That means taking a nap.”
"Well, our strategy played an important role?"
"Yes, General." Ah Liang nodded towards Shen Cha, "Wanyanping always said that she was tortured a lot. In every corner of the palace, in every palace, you can see deceased friends. She felt those old friends hanging around her. Every night in the dead of night, when she closed her eyes, those people who died because of her for no reason appeared in front of her eyes. However, the one she dreamed about the most was the eldest prince. I heard that they were connected. For more than ten days, she dreamed of the eldest prince standing in front of her covered in blood, which scared her awake. From then on, as long as she wasn't extremely sleepy, she would try her best to stay awake. It was because she couldn't sleep well. She couldn't eat well, and her whole body was in an extremely tense state. Her temper became more and more irritable, and she became more and more angry, so that people around her were scolded or beaten more or less."
"Didn't the people around me resist?"
"Of course there is. Several palace maids and guards tried to assassinate her, but of course they didn't succeed. Instead, she killed the chicken to scare the monkeys." Ah Liang sighed, "Now this person is becoming more and more difficult to figure out, and he is unpredictable. I don't know when I will fall out and deny people. What I said the day before will not be acknowledged that night or the next day, and she will blame the people around her for setting her up." She looked at everyone, "Even if she lowers her attitude now, Ask Daxia for help. If we really agree, she might regret it. Not only will she regret it, but she will bite her back."
