Yusui Chang'an

After coming out of the dungeon, An Zhixian stood in the yard, looked up and sighed.

He learned the method of torturing Han Qi from the way Lin Jinyan dealt with Liu Momo. Seeing Han Qi in such agony, the sadness and hatred in his heart did not diminish. Instead, he felt suffocated.

Ling Yi, Ling Wu, Ling Jiu and Ling Shi were all silent. They looked up at the brightest star in the sky and silently remembered King Ling in their hearts.

After a long time, Ling Yi came forward holding the baby:

"Master, what should we do with the women and children of the Han family?"

An Zhixian turned around, glanced at the baby who had been acupunctured by Ling Yi, and looked away evasively:

"For the time being, lock up the Han family members in one place and keep them under strict guard. If anyone escapes, they will be killed without mercy. The old man of the Han family and Han Qi will be sent to Han Yaohui in batches."

Ling Wu worriedly said:
"Master, if Han Yaohui receives the remains of his father and son, and in anger and grief, tells the princess about it, wouldn't that harm her?"

An Zhixian had already figured this out. Leaving the women and children of the Han family behind was not only to prevent them from killing them, but also to contain Han Yaohui:
"The Han family is in our hands. Concubine Xian and King Qin are all in Kyoto. If he tells the story of his mother, that person will definitely kill him. He will keep his mouth shut."

Ling Wu nodded repeatedly after hearing this, thinking that he was too concerned and confused. How could his master, who was so smart and cautious, not think of these things?
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Zhangzhou, Zhenxi Army Camp.

Han Yaohui was furious because he could not find out at whom the prefect and the governor died, so his confidant Gao Liqiong, the head of the army, hurried in.

After the ceremony, Gao Liqiong took out a letter with "Han Yaohui's personal address" written on it:

"General, it was poured out of the bag of rice. We haven't found out who put it in there and when."

Han Yaohui unfolded it and looked at it, and his anger grew even stronger:

The unsigned letter asked him to submit a petition to the capital, saying that he was suspected of military equipment and worried about the instability of the army's morale, and asked the emperor to send a general to temporarily take over the command of the Zhenxi Army and resume his post after the authenticity was verified. If he acted according to the letter, good things would come to him, but otherwise, his family would be implicated and he would be in danger.

"What a big tone, it's totally out of your control!"

Although Han Yaohui did not take the letter too seriously, he still ordered Gao Liqiong to check carefully to find out who put the letter into the grain bag.

Just two days later, Chu Chengye received news that the Han family was missing and that Yeliang spies had killed the eunuch who was delivering the palace's imperial edict. The second letter poured out from the grain bag, with the same content but in a tougher tone.

Knowing that his family members' disappearance must be related to the messenger, Han Yaohui was furious and panicked. After searching for the messenger without success, he sent people back to Beijing to search for his family members.

At the same time, he ordered his confidant to take people and search the granary where the military supplies were stored. Sure enough, two more letters were found in the grain bags, which were exactly the same as the previous two.

It seems that they had calculated the date long ago and stuffed the food into the grain bag early, but they were afraid that they would not be able to eat the food in the stuffed bag, so they made preparations for both situations.

The messenger was so cautious that it was indeed difficult to find out.

However... there is so much food in the granary, and the messenger knows so clearly when the food with the letter hidden inside can be eaten. There must be an insider in the army, or he must be the insider hidden in the army...

After thinking for a long time, Han Yaohui wrote a memorial to the capital, stating that he was upright and that the murder of the eunuch was instigated by spies from Yeliang. He asked the emperor to send people to search for his family.

Before the memorial was delivered to the emperor, Han Yaohui received his father's remains.

Seeing his father's corpse lying in the wilderness, eaten to pieces by wild dogs, Han Yaohui was overwhelmed with grief, and roared with red eyes, vowing that the murderer would not die a good death. (End of this chapter)