Since Xiao Changtai didn't know that Ye Wantang was in her hands, why did he go to Beijing? Xiao Huayong could only have misled him. Ye Wantang fell into Xiao Huayong's hands with the purpose of tricking Xiao Changtai into going to Beijing and letting down his guard when he saw her, so that he could strike at this time!
"Fourth brother's wife, she's in my hands." Li Yanyan only needed to say this one sentence to make the clever Xiao Changtai figure out the whole thing.
"Foolish woman, you have misled me!" Xiao Changtai suddenly slammed the table and stood up. At this moment of anger, Xiao Changtai felt his limbs suddenly go limp. He hurriedly supported himself on the table, staring at Li Yanyan with disbelief and fierceness.
"You are..." Li Yanyan was angry at Xiao Changtai for insulting her, but when she saw Xiao Changtai suddenly hesitated, she became worried. She was about to stand up and ask, but she found that she was a little weak. She hurriedly shouted outside, "Someone come..."
Because of his emotional fluctuations, the poison he had been infected with took effect faster. Xiao Changtai reacted immediately and quickly calmed himself down. Li Yanyan called for help, but no one answered.
The two of them were originally having a secret meeting, and neither of them brought too many people here. Xiao Changtai came alone, and he never thought that this place had already been exposed. Noticing that the effect of the drug that made him weak and powerless had weakened, he pulled out a dagger from his waist.
There was a flash of cold light, and Li Yanyan was so scared that her face turned pale and she collapsed on the stone bench. Xiao Changtai stared at her closely, raised his hand and stabbed the dagger into his own arm. The pain made his gradually blurry consciousness instantly clear, and also seemed to give him a little more strength.
He gritted his teeth, turned around, and stumbled away holding onto the pavilion pillar.
Li Yanyan did not practice martial arts, and her resistance to this kind of muscle-softening drug from the Western Regions was even weaker. She fell on the stone table, like a fish out of water, breathing heavily, and watching Xiao Changtai go away with increasingly blurred vision.
Suddenly, there was a movement in the yard, and a figure quickly stood in front of her. She opened her eyes with great effort, and saw that familiar and resolute face: "Ah Zhen..."
Xiao Changzhen looked down at her, his eyes slowly moving away, looking at the blood on the ground. He resisted arrest and tried to leave. Li Yanyan suddenly got the strength from nowhere and grabbed his sleeve: "Ah Zhen..."
Soon after, people from Jingzhao Prefecture broke in with their men, saying that someone had reported that a murder had occurred in the house.
These people saw Xiao Changzhen and his wife, and saw the bloodstains on the ground, and immediately followed the bloodstains all the way to a study. After entering the study, the bloodstains disappeared outside a wall. Everyone knew that there must be a secret passage, so they searched everywhere, but to no avail.
"Your Highness, there is a secret passage in the Qian Mansion, and the Fourth Prince has escaped." Tian Yuan passed the news to Xiao Huayong as soon as he got the news.
Xiao Huayong had already returned to the East Palace. To avoid suspicion, he would stay in the palace no matter what happened next. He couldn't do it himself, so it didn't matter where he was: "Bring the drawings from Qian's house."
They conducted a thorough investigation of the Qian Mansion, and their people had infiltrated the mansion, but they still could not find the secret passage of the Qian Mansion.
Tian Yuan unfolded the layout of the Qian Mansion in front of Xiao Huayong, and Xiao Huayong asked, "Where is the entrance to the secret passage?"
"This room." Tian Yuan pointed two fingers on the map.
Xiao Huayong quickly scanned the area and thought about the location of the Qian Mansion and the streets nearby. He turned around and looked at a huge map behind him, which showed the layout of the entire capital. After a few breaths, he raised a thin wooden stick and pointed to a location: "Let Luling take people to intercept here."