Chu Zeming and Feng Yizheng, the mayors of Xuanzhou and Suzhou prefectures and the captain, who came in, had just finished reading the letter from the head of the Situ family.

Seeing the four people coming in, Master Ou, Old Man Luo, Mr. Luo, Sun Yu and the other four gentlemen stood up one after another. After greeting them, they found an excuse and walked out of the hall one after another.

Seeing this, City Lord Sang of Xuanzhou Prefecture winked at City Lord Wang, "Uh, may I ask if Master Ou is free now? We have something to ask you?"

Ou Mengde was stunned when he heard this, and instinctively turned his gaze in the direction of Meixiang. After seeing a flash of surprise in her expression, he nodded slightly.

"Then I will respectfully obey your command." Ou Mengde replied with a bow, and then sat down again after City Lord Wang and the other three sat down.

While they were greeting each other and talking, Xiao San served hot tea and Aunt Li also brought four bowls of steaming hand-rolled noodles.

"You four came here so late, you probably haven't had dinner yet. Aunt Li cooked a bowl of noodles for you to fill your stomach first." Meixiang picked up the tea bowl with a smile.

City Lord Sang and his three companions rubbed their fingers together and chuckled to Aunt Li. "Thank you very much. Thank you very much. We won't be polite then. It smells so good. It smells so good!" Before they finished speaking, the noodles in the bowl were already brought to their lips.

While Lord Sang and his companions were having dinner, Meixiang casually handed the letter from Patriarch Situ to Master Ou.

Ou Mengde's body froze, and he was at a loss. He never dreamed that he could read the letter from the top leader of Haoyue. When Meixiang looked at him with puzzled eyes, he wiped his hands on his collar twice, and took it with trepidation.

The four people who were concentrating on eating noodles secretly exchanged glances when they saw this, and from then on, there was more respect and scrutiny in their eyes when they looked at Ou Mengde.

After eating and drinking their fill, the four of them reached out to take the hot towel handed to them by Xiao San and wiped their faces. Only then did they feel like they were alive again.

"Why are you here at this time?" Meixiang didn't ask the question on everyone's mind until this moment. Although the current situation was a bit tense, it was far from tense enough to require the leaders of the two governments to rush here in the middle of the night.

"Alas," City Lord Wang sighed deeply before he began to speak, "Don't even mention how pathetic this matter is. If I hadn't been cunning this time, I wouldn't have been able to shake off those tails."

"Tail?" Situ Yidun sat up straight sensitively. This was not a happy word at this moment.

"Well," City Lord Sang said, "Since we received the letter from Prince Chu and were preparing to come here, we found that the government office, the residence of the subordinates, and the official roads to other cities were all secretly guarded."

"When did this happen?" Chu Zeming and Situ Yidun asked in unison. No wonder they didn't receive a reply to their letter or see anyone coming from Xuanzhou or Yuanzhou for several days after they sent it.

Speaking of this, the Lord of Xuanzhou Prefecture and the Commandant could not help but wipe their sweat, "I am incompetent... Later, I took advantage of Lord Wang's invitation and used the excuse of going to Suzhou Prefecture to accept the invitation, and then I took a shortcut to get here."

Upon hearing this, Meixiang and the other four looked at each other, and anger rose in their hearts. When did Haoyue's defense become like a sieve, allowing them to do whatever they wanted?

"You did a great job this time. Fortunately you passed the message on, otherwise we would have suffered a great loss in the future." Meixiang glanced at the four frightened people and repeated to herself twice: Now is not the time to pursue responsibility, the first priority is to solve the problem.

Taking a deep breath, Mei Xiang asked in a deep voice, "In your opinion, how long has this situation lasted? How many people are there? Do you know when they came in?"

City Lord Wang and City Lord Sang looked at the commander of Suzhou Prefecture together. Mei Xiang and the other five people were not strangers to this commander. He was City Lord Wang's old partner, and they had walked out of Liuzhou Prefecture together.

"The checkpoints at Liuzhou Prefecture have always been manned by the three border prefectures in turn, with a rotation every four months. Before I came, I sent someone to secretly learn about it and keep an eye on it for a few days. For the past four months, it has been Yuanzhou Prefecture that has been in charge of the registration officers and soldiers..."

"We were afraid of disrupting the princess's plan, so we didn't dare to act rashly after we found out. We just put those who seemed to be amiss in the past few days under joint supervision of the two governments."

The captain paused and then explained, "Because I couldn't contact Liuzhou Prefecture at the moment, and I was afraid of alerting the enemy, I made the decision privately. I hope the princess, the prince, and the princess will punish me."

As they spoke, the four of them stood up at the same time, took a step back, and were about to kneel down.

Meixiang quickly gave a look, and Master Ou and the mistress who came in to refill the tea stopped the four people.

Situ Yidun's pupils shrank, and he glanced at a corner outside the window. His lips moved slightly, and a few leaves on the tree outside the window swayed slightly, and soon returned to calm.

Only Chu Zeming, who was born with a sensitive body, was slightly aware of the changes in these few breaths, while other people felt nothing at all.

"I've said before that you did a great job on this." Meixiang cast her eyes on the four people who had re-sat down. "Next, what we need to do is to clean up these tails in advance. Even if we can't clean them up immediately, we have to make them shrink their tails, not dare to move, and worry."

Everyone in the room nodded in agreement. At this time, Xiaoliu, who was in charge of guarding the door tonight, hurried to the normal door and interrupted everyone's conversation.

"What's the matter? Xiaoliu, come in and answer."

"Yes, Miss, Brother Chen San rescued two people, claiming to be the Lord and Commander of Lizhou Prefecture."

"save?"

"Yes, both of them were injured. Brother Chen San asked me to report first, and they will be here soon."

"Got it. You go and take a look first. Come in and report any situation at any time." Meixiang frowned deeply. Lizhou?

"There is a kind of fruit that is produced in abundance in Lizhou and is very popular among the people. Our caravan has been purchasing some of it, so we are considered to be semi-acquainted with it." Seeing Meixiang's puzzled look, Feng Yizhen explained, "It is that kind of sour and sweet little green fruit. I remember that Sister Xiang'er also likes it very much."

Mei Xiang nodded and cast her gaze towards City Lord Wang. City Lord Wang met her gaze and instantly understood what she meant. He nodded slightly and said, "These two are smart people."

With just seven words, the positions of the two people who were about to enter the room and had never met before were determined in everyone's hearts.

When Wang Chengzhu took over Suzhou Prefecture, he first came to Liu Mansion to surrender, so Meixiang believed him. But she didn't know what happened to cause the two of them to be injured, and they were coincidentally rescued by Chen Sanba.

"Go and see which gentleman has not gone to bed yet, and ask him to come over. If they have all gone to bed, don't disturb them. Just bring my medicine box over." Meixiang turned to the mistress standing behind her and said, then she thought of something, "Also, please ask Aunt Li to cook some food for us."

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