Chapter 379 Rescue
When Su Qingqing came back, it was like a ferocious beast breaking into a forest, scaring many people so much that they couldn't sleep or eat.
As early as a month ago, Yue Niang received a message from Jin Ye, the chief escort of Weiyuan Escort Agency, asking her to find a way to rescue Duke Xue.
These words are easy to write, but how do you really save people?
Duke Xue was directly imprisoned with his entire mansion, and all the servants in the mansion were put under strict surveillance. Not only could she not see Duke Xue who was imprisoned in the Sky Prison, she couldn't even see the doorman and servant of Duke Xue's mansion.
Yue Niang said anxiously to Qingyue who was sitting opposite her: "You should think of a solution quickly."
Qingyue's face was also gloomy.
Their princess was escorted back to Da Qi by the Minister of Rites and Xiao Yu. Logically, she should have arrived in Da Qi by now, but she has not received any news until now.
She had no idea where the princess was or whether she was safe.
Duke Xue has done this again...
Qingyue clenched her fist and slammed it on the table next to her. "It is impossible for anyone to plead for him for embezzling donations. Even if there is, the emperor will definitely not agree. He just ascended the throne, and the people's support is very important.
If we want to save people now, there is only one way, and that is to break into the prison."
Although she said so, Qingyue felt from the bottom of her heart that it was not worth it.
Why spend manpower and resources to jailbreak?
Duke Xue is important, but only if he is still the Duke Xue who controls the food lifeline of the Great Yan Dynasty. Only then can he be useful.
Now he is a prisoner, what’s the point even if he is rescued?
The emperor would not re-employ him, and the Eight Great Families would no longer have any dealings with him. As for the personal connections he had, the remaining six of the Eight Great Families had already begun discussing how to divide them up after Duke Xue was escorted back to the capital.
Since the eight major families are tied together by interests, they will never do anything that is detrimental to their interests.
Looking at the anxious Yue Niang, Qingyue frowned and said, "If you want to rob the prison, you can only arrange it on your side. I can't arrange anyone here. The group of people we gave to Duke Xue before were all captured by Su Qingqing. They were the most brave scouts of our Da Qi.
I only have one person I can use, and he doesn't have any martial arts skills, so you can only rely on yourselves to break into the prison."
Her words were sincere, but her refusal was also clear.
Yue Niang was immediately annoyed. "What do you mean by this? When you and your Highness signed the alliance, you clearly stated that we would share mutual benefits and live and die together. The ink on these eight words may not even be dry yet, and you want to break your promise?"
Qingyue didn't buy her trick, "Then don't you think about how much evidence Duke Xue had this time to embezzle donations? How can anyone beg for mercy for such a thing?"
Yue Niang ignored all this and said coldly, "We are in the same boat. Don't forget that we signed the treaty with you. We wrote it down clearly in black and white. We have fallen to this point, but your princess still has a bright future. Aren't you afraid that I will send the treaty to your Emperor of Da Qi?"
Qingyue's face turned cold and he reached out to grab Yue Niang's throat.
Yue Niang didn't even try to hide, "It's no use killing me. Killing me will only speed up the process for the Emperor of Da Qi to know what your princess has done!
We, the people of Weiyuan Escort Agency, may not have any special abilities, but we have many friends in the underworld!"
"Are you threatening me?" Qingyue grabbed Yue Niang's neck viciously.
Yue Niang looked at him with disdain, "I am clearly discussing with you how to rescue our Duke. You'd better think clearly whether it is more important for our Duke to die or for your princess to be implicated."
Qingyue was furious at her words, but she didn't dare to act rashly. She shook off Yue Niang's neck and asked, "What do you want?"
Yue Niang rubbed her neck which was covered with finger marks and said, "I don't want to do anything. I just want to rescue our Duke."
"There's no way to save this case. This case can't be overturned."
Yue Niang looked at her and said, "Everything depends on human effort. How do you know it won't work if you don't try hard? Our Duke teamed up with merchants to defraud people's donations, but isn't this what everyone does when donating money for disaster relief over the years?
Why can others do this and get away with it, but we can't?
Because we were exposed?
That doesn't make sense.
What's more, this time it is said that the Duke embezzled the donations to fill the holes in the Weiyuan Escort Agency, but there is no such hole in the Weiyuan Escort Agency. Even if it does exist, our escort agency can fill it ourselves. Why do we still need the Duke to use the donations!
This is clearly a frame-up.
I am sure that the missing silver was taken away by Su Qingqing. She took the silver but pushed the blame on our Duke. Shouldn't such despicable behavior be exposed? "
Qingyue was stunned for a moment, "You want me to push all this onto the Queen?"
Yue Niang said, "I'm not putting the blame on her. She was the one who did it. She stole the silver. This is a fact."
"Let me think about it. Let me think about it carefully."
While Qingyue and Yueniang were discussing feasible countermeasures, the old lady of the Minister of Rites's mansion, the Minister's wife, and concubine Zhou gathered in Su Qingqing's bedroom.
As soon as Su Qingqing came back, they couldn't wait to see her. After enduring a whole night, they finally waited until the next morning, handed in the memorial, and began to wait tremblingly.
I thought I wouldn't be able to see him, but unexpectedly, before dark, news came from the palace that the Empress had summoned me.
"I gave you more than four months to investigate, but have you found anything useful that can be used to buy your life?" Su Qingqing held a cup of tea and looked at the three people kneeling on the ground.
The old lady of the Minister of Rites said respectfully: "Your Majesty, we did find out something. Every year, our eight major families will train the leader of their own family to be the pillar to lead the entire family.
Mansion of Duke Xue. On the surface, it seems that Duke Xue has only one stupid son, and it seems that he really has no other descendants to inherit the family business. However, we discovered that the Xue family, as a big family, is not actually only the lineage of Mansion of Duke Xue. It’s just that Mansion of Duke Xue and the Xue family have never had any contact in these years, so that everyone mistakenly believes that Mansion of Duke Xue is the only one left in the Xue family.
In fact, this is not the case. The Xue family in Jiangnan is a newly emerging family that loves poetry, literature, farming and reading.
This family was very low-key in Jiangnan. They never revealed their relationship with Duke Xue, and even had a member of the family write a document to attack Duke Xue.
But I discovered that every year Duke Xue would give a large sum of money to the Xue family in Jiangnan to help the Xue family take root and develop in Jiangnan.
The Xue family member who wrote the document to attack Duke Xue also successfully entered the Imperial College in the selection and assessment at the end of last year, and it is said that his performance was very good. "
