Princess Promotion

This unexpected result aroused Fu Hongxuan's curiosity. Shen San was the same age as the princess, and people would usually be suspicious when Shen San took the initiative to contact Li Yinhan.

With a little investigation, you will find out that the day Shen San appeared in Xi Zhou coincides with the time the princess disappeared.

Li Yi: "The spies first found out that she was delivering food to Li Yinhan. It was a girl about her age who asked her to run errands to deliver the food."

Li Yi paused. "The spies followed Shen San all the way and discovered that she was chatting happily with the servants and vendors. She also behaved rudely, eating in the street and spitting fruit pits everywhere. So they speculated that the princess deliberately found a woman of similar age and stature to deliver the message to Li Yinhan, so that Shen San could distract them."

Fu Hongxuan felt that this didn't make sense. Even if these spies weren't the most elite, they weren't completely brainless. "Could it be that just because Shen San behaved so rudely, they dared to confirm that he wasn't the princess or someone related to her?"

Li Yi: "All the information the spies have gathered proves that Shen San fled from Yicheng to Western Zhou a month ago, before the barbarians attacked Qi. It is precisely because of this that the spies speculate that this was a deliberate scheme by the princess, deliberately finding a woman who fled from Qi or Yicheng to replace her in contact with Li Yinhan."

Once the spy accepts the assumption that Shen San is a cover set by the princess, the princess will definitely not contact Shen San again, and there will be no need for Shen San to follow him. He can naturally find the princess by just keeping an eye on Li Yinhan.

Li Yi: "I have also sent people to inquire with merchants who know Shen San, and they all really believe that Shen San escaped from Yicheng, Qi State a month ago."

When Li Yi first heard these testimonies, one can imagine how shocked he was. If he and the general had not rescued the man from the barbarians personally, and the incident had clearly happened less than half a month ago, why did everyone around him seem to have seen Shen San a month ago?

Li Yi almost doubted whether Shen San had really escaped to Western Zhou a month ago, but this was impossible.

If Shen San bribed everyone around him with money, not to mention the feasibility, these untrained ordinary people, one or two of them were lucky enough to deceive the well-trained spies, it is impossible that everyone lied and the spies were unaware of it.

But if everyone around you tells the truth, is this possible?

How did Shen San do it?

Fu Hongxuan shook his head and waved his hand to let Li Yi go down.

Li Yi left the study and closed the door. Fu Hongxuan picked up a piece of braised meat on the table with chopsticks and muttered to himself, "It tastes good!"

"Really?" A female voice came from under the wall outside the house.

I saw a petite woman slowly crawling out from the bushes under the wall.

Yao Chuguang turned his body and found that he was stuck and couldn't get in no matter what.

He could only look up at Fu Hongxuan and say, "Can you help me? I'm stuck."

There was a figure shaking above his head, and Li Yinhan jumped over the wall swiftly and stood still in the yard.

Fu Hongxuan looked at the neat and tidy Li Yinhan, and then looked at the dusty and dirty Yao Chuguang who was still stuck in the dog hole.

His eyes seemed to be wondering why he had to go through the dog hole instead of jumping in like Li Yinhan?

Yao Chuguang: "It's easy to climb over the wall alone, but can we bring another person with us? Besides, I spent 5 copper coins to buy the information about the dog hole. If it's not useful, wouldn't it be a waste of money?"

Fu Hongxuan: "So you paid to drill a dog hole?"

Yao Chuguang: “...it’s not important.”

Fu Hongxuan: "Madam Shen, do you know that trespassing into the General's Mansion is a capital offense?"

Yao Chuguang dusted herself off and replied, "Stop pretending. You know I'm a princess of Qi. There's no record in history books of a princess being beaten to death for breaking into a house."

Li Yinhan: "He knows?"

Yao Chuguang: "I told you my name is Shen San on the first day we met, and that I'm the third child in the Qi royal family. It was such an obvious hint, but this bastard pretended not to know."

God knows, that day Yao Chuguang almost said directly that she was the princess of Qi State. She thought that the general could take her back. She didn't expect fine clothes and delicious food, but at least she would have enough food and drink.

As a result, this guy pretended not to know, causing her to almost have to sleep on the streets.

Li Yinhan: "Then why don't you just reveal your identity?"

Yao Chuguang: "There's a famous saying that you can never wake up someone who's pretending to be asleep."

Fu Hongxuan didn't want to get involved in Qi's internal political struggles, so even if Yao Chuguang revealed her identity to him, he would pretend not to know.

If you put the princess in the open, it will be difficult to clear yourself no matter how you deal with it, but it will be different if you put the princess in the dark.

The princess is right under his nose. No matter which group finds the princess first, as long as he detains her, he will have the bargaining chip for negotiation.

The worst outcome would be to expose the princess's affair. Then he would just deny anything when asked, and those people would be unable to do anything to him.

Fu Hongxuan just waited for the princess' bait to catch a big fish.

The best outcome would be if someone from Duke Li's Mansion found her first. If they were unlucky and the other party found her first, he would have a corresponding plan.

The worst outcome is that people from Duke Li's Mansion are tracked down and found, and the two groups arrive at the same time.

Once they recognize the Duke Li's Mansion, they will be discovered immediately. If a fight breaks out in another country, their whereabouts will inevitably be exposed. Unless they kill all the other side's troops at once, the barbarians will definitely ambush them on the way back to Qi.

The situation will get out of control.

Unexpectedly, she was able to maneuver even in such a situation. The princess first made a plan to conceal her identity, and then quickly took action to contact Li Yinhan. When the spies were careless about her, she went out of the city directly to meet up with Li Yinhan.

The chain of events is truly exquisite.