Princess Menglang is hard to change, the whole capital is embarrassed for her

Shen Li nodded.

Fang Jitao thought about it, still a little confused. "Who would cooperate with the Western Qiang spies? Isn't he afraid that the Western Qiang will kill him after they use him?"

"Cousin," Shen Li said slowly, "I guess that noble man is the son of the Grand Princess of Xiqiang."

Fang Jitao seemed to have thought of this as well. He was stunned, and suddenly remembered something. His eyes were suddenly filled with shock. "They said that if the third prince ascended the throne..."

He covered his mouth, so scared that he almost stopped breathing, and dared not say anything more.

......

Xiao Chenze and his men hurried back and actually arrived before dark.

Without saying anything, he immediately arranged for people to sprinkle the potion in the pool near the cave. Shen Li said that after a day of observation, it has been confirmed that they are all using the water here to cook.

Sure enough, not long after dinner, the people in the cave began to feel abdominal pain and dizziness.

Before this, Xiao Chenze's personal soldiers from the Northern Frontier had already sneaked into the cave and secretly placed the kerosene one by one.

So that night, a huge fire suddenly broke out on a mountain near the Michigan Iron Mine.

Later reports said the fire burned for a full day and night. People from nearby villages rushed to put it out, only to discover it burned strangely and no amount of water could extinguish it. When the fire was finally extinguished, they went inside to find the bodies of hundreds of people, burned beyond recognition, practically reduced to charcoal.

On the night when the cave caught fire, all the Xiqiang people who stayed in the mining area fell ill. They all had stomachaches and were sweating profusely, unable to walk.

The assassins and secret guards among them had a bad intuition, so they held their knives tightly and hid in the dark.

Just as they hid, they felt their hair stand on end for no apparent reason. When they turned around to look for it, the poisonous insects penetrated their bodies, and in the blink of an eye they began to feel dizzy and vomit.

The poisonous insects were released by Shen Li. Seeing that all the assassins were poisoned, Shen Li came out of the space calmly without leaving any one alive.

It was this group of people who almost killed her uncle, so she was avenging her uncle.

In the mining area, the group of Xiqiang people who were suffering from stomachache knew nothing yet. Just as they were looking at the direction of the fire anxiously, the usually carefree Brother Shi appeared.

He and the tall man he was protecting brought medicine, saying it could relieve their abdominal pain.

After drinking the medicine, everyone started to see stars in front of their eyes. As the stars got brighter, they felt as if they were flying in the clouds. They couldn't stand anymore and fell to the ground one after another.

They let Fang Jitao and Dayong drag them into a large warehouse where a batch of ore had just been cleared out, leaving enough space for them to rest.

Then, in a daze, they felt a little hot.

Why is it so hot?

So hot.

Someone pried open his eyelids and saw flames rising into the sky outside. The beautiful fireworks were the last memory left in his mind.

Later, Fang Jitao and Xiao Chenze talked about the reason why they successfully killed all the spies that had been laid out by the Western Qiang for decades. He said that it was because this place had been too peaceful. After all, they were protected by the local officials. They had been lax for a long time, so they were easily wiped out.

On the second day after the mine fire, the prefect Wu Yongguang received the news.

He quickly took the mobilization token and led his men to the Yan family army's camp outside Mizhou.

Unexpectedly, as soon as they arrived there and took out the token to explain their purpose, they were surrounded by Yuan Zhilin's men.

Ever since Yuan Zhilin received the news from Xiao Chenze, he sent people to keep an eye on Wu Yongguang.

Unexpectedly, even at this time, Wu Yongguang was still stubborn, "I am the father and mother of Mizhou. How dare you arrest me? I will make you pay the price, I will..."

"Wu Yongguang, stop pretending. Aren't you just a lackey of the Second Prince of Xiqiang? Your family has been in the Great Zhou since your grandfather's generation, and you've done a lot to harm the stability of the Great Zhou. Am I right?"

Wu Yongguang was shocked, but he still refused to admit it. "Don't slander me. I have the military order personally granted by the emperor. How can a few words from a child like you..."

Snapped.

Yuan Zhilin threw the token in his face, then took out another one from his arms and shook it in front of him, "Look carefully, this is the token bestowed by the emperor himself. The one you have is fake, fake, do you understand?"

fake?

Wu Yongguang's head was buzzing, and he didn't understand how things had suddenly turned out like this.

Isn't it always under your control?

What happened?

"Bring the person up." Yuan Zhilin ordered.

After a while, two people came in. A young man with a dark face was supporting a girl with a tight bandage on her head. Upon closer inspection, Wu Yongguang's face turned pale.

It’s Xing’er.

She didn't die.

"You didn't expect that, did you?" Yuan Zhilin said coldly, "Those good things you did, you thought you could just keep it a secret? That's wishful thinking. There are still things you didn't expect."

After saying that, he clapped his hands, and another woman was escorted up by officers and soldiers. When Wu Yongguang saw her, he almost collapsed.

"Rou'er? Why are you here..."

The woman named Rou'er just cried and didn't say anything.

Yuan Zhilin said, "Once the remains of your wife and father-in-law are dug up, your family will be reunited. Don't worry, your family and the Western Qiang spies around them are all under our surveillance. Wu Yongguang, don't even think about getting away with this. You, the bills alone are enough to get your entire family executed, not to mention you're a Western Qiang spy. You still want to live? You're dreaming."

At the same time as Wu Yongguang was captured, Yan's army had already sneaked into the Mizhou government office and knocked down and captured the prefect's wife.

There were also several secret guards who were hiding in the dark to protect her. Just as they heard the noise and were about to take action, they were attacked by a cloud of smoke, choking them so much that their tears and snot flowed, and in the blink of an eye they were choked to the ground by knives.

Until their death, they had no idea that the magistrate's wife in front of them had already been replaced by someone else.

......

Beijing.

Before setting off, Xiao Chenze told the emperor and Fang Yao that he would openly go to Northern Xinjiang to pick up people, then secretly go to Western Qiang to get rid of Mergan in Western Qiang, and then return to Northern Xinjiang.

When Fang Yao received the secret letter from Xiao Chenze from Mizhou, she learned that both he and Shen Li had gone to Mizhou.

From the letter, we learned that Fang Jitao was very safe, and the Mizhou prefect Wu Yongguang was a spy from the Western Qiang. All the officials in the capital who had close contacts with Wu Yongguang were under surveillance by Fang Yao's people.

Xiao Chenze also told Fang Yao about the traitor who betrayed him. Fang Yao asked Xiao Chenze's men to pretend to accidentally reveal the news of the incident in the Mizhou government office.

The traitor was shocked and hurried to find the guy who spoke in a half-murmured and half-gruff voice to report the news.

When that guy heard this, he was even more surprised than the traitor.

After all, he had just returned from Mizhou and told his master that everything was normal and they could start the rebellion once the weapons were delivered to Beijing.

How could such a big thing happen just after I left?

He was so frightened that he quickly sent a carrier pigeon to deliver the letter. Unexpectedly, the pigeon was shot down by an arrow as soon as it flew into the sky.

He immediately knew that he was being watched.

He quickly took out the poisoned wine that he had prepared long ago, but before he could open the bottle, another arrow shot over, breaking the bottle and spilling the wine all over the floor.