“I’m currently staying at the Yue Lai Inn in the Western City. I’ll send someone to inform you once I’ve settled in.”
Jia Yu looked towards the entrance of the underground chamber, from which two pitiful cries could be heard.
Then, Jia San and several soldiers, who had gone down, came out from the underground, dragging two people with them.
One was a middle-aged man, the other a young man whose leg was continuously bleeding.
They continued to cry out in misery.
“Second Uncle, Cousin?” Gao Hui was shocked when she saw the young man and the middle-aged man.
She knew both of them.
Wasn’t it said that her cousin had left the capital long ago?
How could he be in her house?
There was actually a secret chamber underground!
All this made her feel confused.
The wet nurse and the maids knew what to say and what not to say.
They recognized the young man and the middle-aged man.
“Master, we have captured the assassins.”
Jia San threw the young man to the ground: “We didn’t expect him to have accomplices when we entered the tunnel, and they almost escaped through the water channel.”
When the middle-aged man saw the armored soldiers, his first reaction was to take the young man and jump into the well in the secret chamber.
It was a way out.
The young man’s leg injury was not a consideration.
The young man lying on the ground couldn’t believe that these people would pursue him relentlessly.
“Who are you! Why are you hounding me!”
The pain in his leg made the young man speak one word at a time.
He glared at Jia Yu fiercely, he still didn’t know what had happened.
Wasn’t it just to assassinate a woman with the backing of a Jinyiwei centurion?
Why were these people so persistent?
He had vaguely realized that the man in the teahouse was of a different status.
Otherwise, they wouldn't have pursued him all the way to the Gao residence.
But who was he?
His uncle was Gao Hu, the current Minister of Personnel, a Cabinet minister, and soon to be the Chief Grand Secretary.
“You’re quite arrogant, aren’t you?”
Jia Yu stepped forward to the young man, raised his foot, and stomped down hard.
Crack.
The crisp sound of shattering made Gao Hui, the wet nurse, and the maids feel excruciating pain in their knees.
Ah!
The young man let out a piercing scream, which moved everyone present.
“My name is Jia Yu, the current Commander of the Capital Garrison. Tell me, who sent you to assassinate me.
Tell me, and I’ll give you a quick death.
Otherwise, I think the eighteen martial arts of the Jinyiwei prison will make you suffer endlessly, regretting your existence.”
“You’re Jia Yu, the Commander of the Capital Garrison?”
The young man, sweating profusely from the pain, became somewhat dazed upon hearing Jia Yu’s words.
“I assassinated you?”
When Gao Hui heard the words “Commander of the Capital Garrison,” she finally understood why she was familiar with the name Jia Yu.
She often attended various gatherings, and frequently heard the name “Commander of the Capital Garrison” from her other sisters.
Many of her sisters wanted to marry him.
In their words, marrying the Commander of the Capital Garrison would instantly make them the mistress of the house, with wealth and glory bestowed upon them.
Gao Hui was not interested in these things, she only loved scholars, especially those who were elegant and talented.
She thought those who only knew how to fight were crude.
As for wealth and glory.
Born into the family of the Minister of Personnel, she had never lacked money since childhood, and as she grew up, she received a constant supply of money and gifts.
Therefore, wealth and glory did not hold much appeal for her, she simply wanted to find someone who was compatible with her.
But looking at Jia Yu’s face, her heart was pounding.
Even though he was the assailant who had barged into her courtyard.
“Playing dumb, are you?!” Jia San couldn’t stand the young man and directly stepped on the young man’s hand: “Hurry up and reveal your mastermind, and we’ll give you a quick death.
Otherwise, the Jinyiwei prison awaits you.
Calculating the time, the Jinyiwei will be here soon, you don’t have much time left.”
With such a major conflict happening between Jia Yu and the Gao residence, the Jinyiwei who were always around the master would definitely report the intelligence to the palace in the first place.
Jia San and the others already knew when they left the military camp that there were many Jinyiwei personnel following Jia Yu.
There were also many Jinyiwei spies in the military camp, some of whom were even their comrades.
While the Jinyiwei were infiltrating the Capital Garrison, they were also being infiltrated by Jia Yu’s soldiers.
The young man stammered: “I, I, I, didn’t assassinate the Commander.
I just wanted to, kill that woman, I really didn’t intend to assassinate the Commander.”
“Whether you did or not, it’s not up to you to decide.”
Just as the young man finished speaking, a rather sharp and effeminate voice came.
In the light of the fire, Eunuch Liu, wearing the Jinyiwei uniform and accompanied by twenty or thirty Jinyiwei personnel, walked into the courtyard.
“Eunuch Liu, I didn’t expect you to lead the team personally.”
Jia Yu was surprised to see Liu Hong personally in charge.
“The event involves you, His Majesty takes it very seriously.” Eunuch Liu replied, his expression solemn: “I have been ordered to bring the suspect and his accomplices to the prison, and we must find their mastermind.”
Eunuch Liu said, looking at the pale young man: “Zhou Yun, I didn’t expect you to escape, and even hide in the Gao residence.
I thought we wouldn’t be able to catch this rat for so long.”
Seeing Liu Hong, Zhou Yun’s face turned pale, his eyes filled with despair.
The Jinyiwei commander had just been replaced by a eunuch a while ago.
Then, those of them who had been running errands for Prince Wu suffered a devastating blow.
He was lucky to escape the encirclement, and after that, he had been recovering in the Gao residence.
Gao Hui didn’t know any of this.
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