The prince can read minds! I just want to be a princess and have a bad time

Chapter 459 Lost Contact Outside the Pass (4)

Jin Yi didn't dare to hide it anymore, and immediately knelt down to plead guilty, telling the truth, "Your Majesty, I have no evidence..."

"Tell me about it." Seeing that he was still keeping his head down and silent, Lu Yingxing frowned, "Who do you suspect?"

He was nervous and annoyed that the prince had seen through him... It was just a guess. He couldn't bring himself to speculate about his colleagues based on his imagination. "Prince..."

Seeing him like this, Lu Yingxing thought about it and understood, "For someone to be protected by you like this, he must be a confidant. Just now... did you suspect Gu Liu?" He paused, "No, that's not right. You suspect... the Gu family?"

"Yes……"

Having been guessed right, Jin Yi sighed and had to explain, "General Feng has always been in charge of the area outside the Great Wall. Logically, the soldiers under his command are the least likely to tip off the Beirong people, but..."

He stole a glance at Lu Yingxing, and seeing that his eyes were calm, he had to grit his teeth and continue, "But, the troops stationed at the pass are all former General Gu's confidants. I'm not saying they will betray the country, but Gu Liu has only been in charge for a short time. Although his father's influence is there, but, but..."

"But over the years, it has always been the Gu family over there who has been in contact with the generals..."

Lu Yingxing understood what he meant. Those old members of the Gu family would not pass on messages for the Yun family or the Beirong people, but if the Gu family needed to send a servant to the border or send something to the front line under some excuse, they would surely help.

Lu Yingxing narrowed his eyes. It seemed that he had underestimated the bottom line of these people. "Gather the people and set off in an hour."

At the same time, one hundred miles outside the pass, in a camp.

Zhao Fan was kneeling on the ground at this moment, lowering his head and begging for mercy, "I really didn't lie to you, we just came out from the Nan County Pass. Princess Zhuo set up a 'mercenary union' to get us out of the pass to the iron and silver mines! This jade pendant is the pass I bought!"

Opposite him sat several men, all dressed as foreigners. The leading man was about fifty years old. Although his skin color was a little dark and half of his face was covered with beard, his facial features still showed the outline of a Linyue person.

He played with the jade pendant in his hand. On the back was indeed the mark of Prince Zhuo's Mansion, and on the front was also engraved the words "Adventurer Zhao Fan". The rest of the people were the same, with identity tags hanging around their waists.

He looked at Qin Shibo on the left, shook the thing in his hand and asked, "What about you? You have this ring-shaped jade pendant more than them. Why does it say "Team Qinnan"?"

Qin Shibo suppressed the fear in his heart, raised his head tremblingly, and followed Zhao Fan's words, "Reply, reply to the leader... I gave more money than them, so I was able to form a team. I am the leader of this pair of people."

"Oh?" His words attracted the attention of a young man sitting below him.

"You mean, you were bought as the captain? Tsk! I didn't expect that the dignified Princess Zhuo would be so blatant in amassing wealth?" His tone was full of disdain, and a little condescending.

The attendant standing behind him immediately echoed, "It is said that although this Princess Zhuo is the daughter of the Minister of Revenue, she has been unwelcome since she was a child and was thrown into a temple to fend for herself... As soon as she arrived in Zhuo City, she started a workshop and bought a lot of slaves. A woman who doesn't stay at home and give birth to children is obviously crazy about money."

Another man continued, "Women... want to make money but don't know how to do business, so they have to do something reckless, right? Hahahaha, but she even came up with a way to buy the captain, it's really..."

"Hahahahaha..."

For a moment, everyone in the hall was laughing at Prince Zhuo for having no vision and marrying a woman who was not presentable.

Zhao Fan lowered his eyelashes, hiding the smile in his eyes. It was obvious that the information in these people's hands was obviously misleading.

He was captured on purpose. On the third day after their departure, the group successfully reached Tara's mother's tribe's land.

They took Muerte and hid for a long time, and found that these people were not well guarded, and they were obviously amateurs. According to Muerte, those walking outside were all from the Northern Rong of the Yun family, and he did not see any adult men from Mohe...

One of their secret guards easily sneaked into the camp and found that there were more than 20 men being tortured and interrogated. There were also dozens of women and children imprisoned in the stable at the back, but it was obvious that the Yun family had no interest in them.

There were only about sixty or seventy people on the other side. Zhao Fan assessed the combat power of both sides. He could wipe out all the enemies, but he was not sure he could kill them instantly, for fear that one of the enemies might escape and leak the news.

After eavesdropping for a long time, I found out that they were indeed after the silver and iron mines. They even thought that the Yun family's plan was very successful and that they were all dreaming. More importantly, they didn't know about the opening of the Nan County switch...

A new plan quickly took shape in Zhao Fan's mind. The twenty of them were divided into two teams. Molt and others tried to get in touch with the imprisoned tribesmen, while their team pretended to be a lost adventure team and appeared openly.

The result was just as he expected. These people were terrified when they saw the sudden appearance of the Linyue people.

Zhao Fan and others did not resist. They just thought that the other party was from Beirong and directly stated their identities and begged for mercy. Then, this scene happened.

Qin Shibo, who was standing by, was so shocked when he heard them constantly slandering Princess Zhuo that his jaw dropped!

Oh my God, except for him, the nine people kneeling on the ground are all from Prince Zhuo's Mansion! If the princess knew that I dared to frame her, I don't know how I would die! !

He shook his head and explained, "No... it's not like that... I just paid for the qualification to leave the city, the brave certificate, and the captain qualification. All these add up to only 20 or 30 taels, not much money." So the princess did not amass wealth! !

In his eyes, giving money means buying something, and ancient people had no concept of handling fees.

As a result, the people on the other side laughed even more happily when they heard it, "Hahahaha! You're so generous and you only charge twenty or thirty taels, hahaha, this is really not up to standard. Our Princess Yun's random shop earns hundreds of taels a day. Your Princess Zhuo is not that good, hahaha!"

"Hahaha, that's what I said!"

"Tsk! This kind of woman has long hair but short knowledge!"

They talked one after another, slandering Princess Zhuo without reason, and their words were full of deep disdain and contempt for women. But while belittling Princess Zhuo, they praised Princess Yun to the utmost, as if Princess Yun was a rare treasure in the world and Princess Zhuo was just a weed on the hillside.

Qin Shibo wanted to explain that a few dozen taels were not a lot, but Princess Zhuo earned several thousand taels a day?

Just as he was about to speak, he was bumped by Zhao Fan who was kneeling beside him...