The war god prince climbs the wall every night, and the princess is angry

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the audience was shocked.

Shen Qionghua and several other officials looked delighted, while Xie Qian'an, Marquis Yongning and the official who had just been making things difficult for Shen Qionghua all felt a sinking feeling in their hearts.

Xie Qian'an reacted the moment his expression changed, suppressed his uneasiness and forced a smile.

Yongning Hou's eyes were filled with disbelief. How could it be possible? The secret room was so hidden, how could King Rui find it in such a short time...

Shen Qionghua knelt on the ground, taking in the shock in Yongning Hou's eyes, and couldn't help but sneer in his heart.

The secret room in the Yongning Marquis Mansion is indeed hidden and the mechanism is very ingenious. Most people only need to rotate something or press a brick on the wall to open the secret room.

The key to opening the secret room in the Yongning Marquis' Mansion is to close all the doors of the wardrobe, even the drawers.

Only in this way can the secret room be opened.

Who could doubt a wardrobe with its doors open and nothing inside visible?

There are two entrances to the secret room, one is the Qizhuyuan of the Yongning Marquis Mansion, and the other is in a small house on a relatively remote road not far from the Yongning Marquis Mansion in the capital.

In her previous life, after Zhou Lingyi faked her death, perhaps because she was afraid of the crowds at the gate of the Marquis' Mansion, she was tied up and taken through the entrance of the small house and thrown into the secret room of the Yongning Marquis' Mansion.

Originally, she shouldn't have known about the mechanism of Qizhuyuan, but it was Zhou Lingyi who hated her so much that, apart from torturing her, his greatest pleasure was to play with her.

Giving her hope over and over again, and cruelly shattering it again and again.

Zhou Lingyi liked to give her a bowl of mute medicine when it was late at night and everyone was asleep in the Marquis' Mansion. This medicine would not make her completely voiceless, because Zhou Lingyi liked to hear her screams and desperate whimpers, but it would make her unable to make any sound for three hours.

All the gatekeepers at the exits of the Marquis' Mansion were replaced by his confidants, and she was thrown like a dog on the dusty floor of Qizhu Courtyard.

Zhou Lingyi looked down at her with malicious eyes and said that he was willing to give her a chance to escape, so that she could avoid being hunted down by the masters and confidants of the Yongning Marquis' Mansion.

She knew that this was just a game played by Zhou Lingyi. A tight net had been laid in the mansion long ago, so how could she escape?

But the unwillingness and hatred in her heart forced her to try her best to escape again and again. She did think about asking for help, but the maids and servants who had seen her died the next day, so she could only rely on herself.

The closest she came to escaping was when she discovered the dog hole in the corner of the Yongning Marquis Mansion. She had clearly escaped, but there was no one on the street in the middle of the night.

Her knocking and hoarse throat could not wake up the sleeping people. People chased her and she struggled hard, but was eventually dragged back.

Even the bloodstains left from the torn wounds were cleaned up.

At dawn, everyone started a new day full of hope, but she was imprisoned in a dark basement.

The mute potion had expired, and after another failure, the desperate whimpering mixed with the screams caused by the rising and falling of the whip. Zhou Lingyi said that was her favorite sound.

When she heard this voice, she felt that the five years of waiting and enduring humiliation were worth it.

How ridiculous! He won her heart but didn't marry her. Instead, he married another woman for the position of crown prince. Wasn't it that beast Xie Qian'an who made her wait for five years?

She didn't blame Xie Qian'an, but instead blamed herself for being the one she and Xie Qian'an had plotted against?

What is the logic?

You're simply crazy!

As Shen Qionghua's thoughts drifted away, she heard the emperor's commanding voice from above, "Found it? Where did you find it?"

Li Shunquan glanced at the Marquis of Yongning and Xie Qian'an and said, "Yes...it's at the Marquis of Yongning's mansion."

After he finished speaking, Marquis Yongning was shocked, and the last bit of hope he had was gone.

He quickly stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, I am innocent..."

"Marquis Yongning's words are truly puzzling. All this silver was found in the secret room of your mansion. Who else could have gotten this silver into the secret room of your mansion without anyone noticing, unless it was with your instructions?"

As the sonorous and powerful words fell, Xie Nanyuan and the fifth prince walked in from outside the hall, followed by several royal guards carrying several large boxes.

Xie Nanyuan clasped his hands together and said, "Your Majesty, I have fulfilled your orders and will recover all the relief funds."

"You've worked hard." Xie Rong said softly.

Xie Nanyuan stood up straight, his gaze fixed on the Yongning Marquis. He said, "Yongning Marquis, are you still trying to argue that the silver belongs to your Yongning Marquisate? You've probably forgotten that the boxes of disaster relief silver all have the word 'Shen' engraved on them."

As they spoke, the two royal guards poured out all the silver from one of the boxes. The shining silver ingots fell to the ground, but no one cared.

"Father, please take a look."

Li Shunquan immediately ordered two young eunuchs to move the box to Xie Rong.

Xie Rong lowered his head and glanced, and sure enough, he saw the word "Shen" in the same place. Even the font was exactly the same. He knew at a glance that it was written by the same person.

Xie Nanyuan continued, "Father, everything that happened today was premeditated. I carefully investigated the secret passage and discovered that the secret room in the Yongning Marquisate has two entrances. One is from the Qizhu Courtyard in the Yongning Marquisate, and the other is from a small house in the capital."

"That small courtyard is located along the route used to carry the silver back to the palace today. It seems the Marquis of Yongning used his position to divert some of the disaster relief silver and placed it in the courtyard, then secretly hid it in a secret room."

"When I was searching the Qizhu Courtyard today, the Yongning Marquis's son obstructed me in every possible way. He must be someone who knows about this."

"Everything Third Brother said is true. I can testify to it." The Fifth Prince responded.

Xie Rong listened to his two sons talking back and forth, a fierce look flashed in his eyes, and he looked straight at Yongning Hou, "Yongning Hou, what else do you have to say!"

Marquis Yongning's lips trembled and he couldn't utter a word of defense. If the word "Shen" didn't exist on the box, he could still make some excuses.

But the evidence has been placed before the emperor, and the emperor has already believed it, so any excuses will be useless.