Chapter 136 Letter
"I saw a man escaping from the exit outside the palace through the passage. He fought with me and was defeated by me. I asked him where the passage led to. He said that he would tell me as long as I promised not to stop him and not to immediately inform others of his escape. I promised not to stop him and not to inform others at that time. Then he told me that this passage was dug by him and led directly to the abandoned garden in the palace." Ding Datian answered truthfully.
Meng Lian suddenly thought of Chen Woyin's disappearance. He asked Ding Datian when and when he saw the man escape from the palace, and asked about the man's general situation. Ding Datian answered in detail, and his answer told everyone present that the man who escaped from the exit was Chen Woyin.
"Chen Woyin! He must have dug it out! So that's how the traitor escaped from the palace!" King Jingyin said angrily.
At this time, a guard handed some letters to Meng Lian.
It turned out that before this, Hong Mian confessed some things about Sun Guye after waking up, and also confessed the subordinate of Sun Guye who appeared in the pharmacy with him. The subordinate was named Cui Cong, who knew Sun Guye's secrets and knew more related things than Hong Mian. After Zhao Lin got the news, he sent people to arrest Cui Cong and temporarily locked him in a cell for interrogation, but Cui Cong refused to say anything.
The reason why Hong Mian suddenly fainted at that time was because he had been living in severe fear and anxiety for those days. Since he and Cui Cong worked for Sun Guye under the threat of Sun Guye, he was in a state of panic all day long, unable to sleep or eat, his face was haggard, and his health was getting worse and worse. Although he took a lot of medicine, he still couldn't cure his panic. He was always worried that everything he did would be discovered one day, so when Prince Zhaolin asked him personally, he fainted in fear. After waking up, his heart was still beating fast, his hands were sweating, his mind was blank, he was in a trance, and he was sober and quiet but his body was shaking. A series of painful reactions and intermittent chaotic thoughts prompted him to confess some things under the painstaking questioning of others. After speaking out, although he knew that what was waiting for him would not be good, his physical and mental pain disappeared, and he felt much more comfortable.
Before the trial of Ding Datian that day, Zhaolin reported to King Jingyin that Zhu Lianzhi was dead and that he had sent people to arrest Hong Mian and Cui Cong. Meng Lian, Liu Qimei and Yin Ruchen, who were present at the time, also knew about those things. After learning that Cui Cong refused to tell the whole story, King Jingyin sent people to continue questioning him. After listening to Zhaolin's narration, King Jingyin had some inferences in his mind, but he didn't say anything to anyone. He felt that not only Sun Guye's house needed to be searched, but also Lu Juefeng's house needed to be searched, so he secretly sent some people to search Sun Guye and Lu Juefeng's houses respectively. The person who turned in the letter at this time was one of the searchers sent by King Jingyin. King Jingyin believed that the search must be completed before Sun Guye and Lu Juefeng were tried. As expected, those searchers acted quickly and soon searched Sun Guye and Lu Juefeng's houses. This search did not find anything from Lu Juefeng, but only found these letters in Sun Guye's house.
When Meng Lian opened the first letter and saw the words on it, he couldn't believe his eyes.
(End of this chapter)
