Afterwards, Zhao Wanyan was imprisoned in Xie Jingrui's dungeon along with the secret guards.

In the dungeon, she saw Liu Yunni.

And on Xie Jingrui's side.

When they arrived in a hurry, they searched Yihong Courtyard from top to bottom, but did not find any trace of Liu Yueru.

I just heard from the madam inside that a woman dressed the same as Liu Yueru had been taken away by several men and her whereabouts were unknown.

After Zhao Wanyan was taken away from Liu Mansion, people from the Dali Temple quickly arrived with a group of people.

And demanded that everyone in the Liu Mansion come out.

Liu Zhengtang didn't understand what was going on. He stepped forward and asked humbly, "Lord Lu, it's getting late and the children have gone to bed. Is it wrong to wake them up at this time..."

Liu Zhengtang didn't say anything else, but the other person's face turned visibly colder.

The people who came were from the prince's gang, and the person behind them was the queen. Lord Lu came here at the instruction of the queen, so he had no intention of letting the Liu family go.

The Queen has now figured out the close relationship between the Liu family and Xie Jingrui, so she wants to take this opportunity to drag the Liu family into the water.

Lord Lu said to Liu Zhengtang with a faint smile: "We received a notice that someone from the Liu Mansion escaped. We are acting impartially. Lord Liu, please forgive us and don't make things difficult for us. Just call everyone from the Liu Mansion and let us check. We will leave naturally after we see the person."

Liu Zhengtang's face looked a little ugly. Liu Yueru was secretly taken away by those secret guards. How did Lord Lu know about it?

He cast a scrutinizing gaze on Lord Lu, and then tentatively said, "Lord Lu, there are people from the Dali Temple guarding outside. All the people in the mansion who know martial arts are here. The rest are women and children. If we want to wake them all up, it will take some time to wash and groom them."

"I'm afraid I'll have to keep Lord Lu waiting for a long time." Liu Zhengtang said in a neither humble nor arrogant voice.

Lord Lu directly signaled for someone to bring him a chair to sit on.

He had already determined that Liu Yue would not be able to come back tonight, so he could wait no matter how long it took.

He looked at Liu Zhengtang with a half-smile and said, "It's okay, we'll wait slowly. Lord Liu has been an official for so many years, he must know that it is a serious crime to violate the imperial order and escape privately during the confinement period! I don't want Lord Liu to make such a mistake, it will not be worth it to lose the Liu Mansion at that time."

Liu Zimo and Liu Zhengtang looked at each other.

Everyone had a clear mind.

Liu Zimo stood in front of Liu Zhengtang and bowed to Lord Lu, but his face was calm and he said without any fear: "Thank you for your hard work, Lord Lu. Please wait here. We will go and get the women and children up now."

The words fell.

Liu Zimo took everyone from the Liu Mansion away.

After leaving the front hall, Liu Fufeng dared to ask in a low voice: "Master Lu, how did they know that Yue'er was not in the mansion?"

Liu Zimo was also quickly sorting out the relationship in his mind.

This matter should have been tipped off by Zhao Wanyan's people. She wanted to kill the people in Liu Mansion, so naturally she would not ask Xie Jingrui for help.

Now, the only people who can threaten their status through the existence of Nengliu Mansion are the prince and his gang.

The prince is not in good health right now, and the queen has been behaving abnormally for some time.

Liu Zimo narrowed his eyes slightly.

She whispered, "It's the Queen."

The Queen's relatives had some connection with Northern Xinjiang, so the only people Zhao Wanyan could choose were those from the Queen's faction.

Liu Zimo deliberately lowered his voice and said, "Zhao Wanyan had this idea from the beginning. She wanted to kill two birds with one stone, destroy Yue'er, and then label the Liu family as traitors, so that the Liu family will never be able to recover from this incident."

Liu Fufeng said angrily: "We should have killed her in the secret passage just now. We can't be soft-hearted towards a woman like her."

Liu Zhengtang said with a dark face, "Nonsense! The more we are at this time, the more we need to be careful. Zhao Wanyan was found in the secret passage of our Liu Mansion and was arrested. She is also a spy from the Northern Frontier. The emperor is suspicious to begin with."

“If she died in Liu Mansion and people knew about it, even if we had no connection with Northern Frontier, we would not be able to easily dispel the suspicion in the emperor’s mind.”

"Only if Prince Jin finds another excuse can our Liu Mansion be excused."

Liu Zimo's face is now full of worry, and the Liu family is now in a difficult situation.

He said in a hoarse voice, "I don't know how Yue'er is doing now? Did the prince save Yue'er?"

Several people looked outside.

Liu Zhengtang was the first to speak and give some instructions; "Delay time first, and give the prince as much time as possible. Even if we can't find Yue'er by then, we can't say that she is not in Liu's mansion. Even if we don't know where she went, you all have to remember this."

"Yes." Several people agreed, and then asked the servants to go to each courtyard to look for people.

Dai was imprisoned in the ancestral hall at this moment.

Liu Zhengtang and Liu Fufeng went there together.

They didn't know yet that Dai had an affair with someone and gave birth to Liu Mubai.

Liu Fufeng stood in front of the ancestral hall, looking at the disheveled Dai, unable to hide the anger in his heart.

But now was not the time to settle accounts with Dai, so he glared at Dai fiercely.

When Dai saw the person coming, she immediately knelt on the ground and asked with concern: "Where is Mu Mu? Is she okay?"

Liu Fufeng's face darkened, and he spoke with displeasure in his voice: "Mu Mu is fine. If we were a step later, those beasts would have chopped off Mu Mu's fingers one by one, and then they would have said they wanted to defile Mu Mu."

Liu Fufeng couldn't bear it any longer and kicked Dai hard.

"Are you so confident in handing a child as young as Mu Mu to an outsider? Just because you want a house? You almost ruined Mu Mu, do you know that?" There was a hint of trembling in Liu Fufeng's voice.

Dai also didn't expect that Zhao Wanyan would actually fall in love with Liu Mubai.

She felt a chill down her spine and shook her head desperately: "I didn't know it would be like this, I didn't mean it, let me see Mu Mu..."

Liu Fufeng kicked her aside and signaled the servants to help her wash up. Then he looked at Dai with a cold gaze and said, "Take your dirty hands away."

Liu Zhengtang told Dai about the situation in the Liu Mansion.

After that, he reminded her again: "If you want Mu Mu to be well and the Liu Mansion to be safe, you should just stand aside and say nothing."

Dai nodded repeatedly in agreement.

As time passed, Xie Jingrui had not yet returned with Liu Yueru.

Everyone's heart was hanging in the air.

Lord Lu no longer had the patience he had just now and began to send people to urge him.

Liu Zhengtang had no choice but to take his family members, who had already washed and dressed, to the front hall.

Lord Lu's eyes fell on those people, and he sneered, "Lord Liu, you guys have been cleaning up for so long, and you only bring these few people to deal with us?"

Liu Zhengtang straightened his back and replied calmly, "It's really the wrong time for Lord Lu to come. Everyone is sleeping soundly at this hour. Please wait a moment. They will come to the front hall after they have packed up."

"Bang!" Lord Lu slammed the table hard and stood up suddenly!

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