"Are you sure the content of the letter is true? I'm warning you. If you dare to deceive me, you won't see the sun rise tomorrow."
Hearing this, the two men both shivered involuntarily. Immediately afterwards, determination flashed in their eyes.
"I heard that the Empress Dowager has been investigating the secrets of the envoy. This letter should be a great help to you, right?"
Shi Muyuan averted her gaze. It seemed that these old guys weren't all stupid.
"Then show me some sincerity first. If you really help me get rid of the treacherous officials, I will surely reward you handsomely. After all, Prince Lian isn't that generous, is he?"
This sentence hit right on their sore spot. Remembering what Prince Lian had said before, one of them didn't hesitate to take out a letter from his body.
"This is one of the tokens of our sincerity for this visit. Please take a look, Empress Dowager. If you don't trust us, you can take this letter to test the envoy. I'm sure the envoy's reaction will satisfy you."
They were quite smart. Shi Muyuan looked at the content of the letter and the corners of her mouth curled up slightly.
Sure enough, Prince Lian had already planned everything behind the scenes. He just hadn't had the chance to act yet. Now that she had such evidence, the envoy should start to talk, right?
"Wait here. I'll go to the prison."
"Yes."
So the content of the letter was probably true, but Shi Muyuan wouldn't completely trust those two men.
She led the palace servants in the direction of the prison. When she arrived, she happened to run into her elder brother.
"I wonder how the envoy is doing. Have you found out anything recently, elder brother?"
Shi An thought his younger sister shouldn't come to such a place. It would dirty her eyes.
"I can handle everything. The Empress Dowager should go back. The dirty things here might bring you bad luck."
Shi Muyuan was very touched by her brother's concern. She smiled slightly and waved the letter in her hand.
"I've brought some help for you this time, elder brother. I'm sure the envoy will be quite surprised when he sees the content of this letter."
Shi An cast a curious look. After reading the content of the letter, interest flashed in his eyes.
"I didn't expect that our Prince Lian had some high - level tricks up his sleeve."
As they were talking, they walked into the prison. When they reached in front of Lan Xi, Shi An said impatiently,
"We've given you many chances. If you still refuse to talk, don't blame me for using other methods."
Lan Xi still looked like he would rather die than talk.
"I really don't know anything. That's my answer even if the Empress Dowager comes to ask in person. If you haven't found any evidence, you'd better let me write a letter to our king quickly to see how this matter should be resolved. You detained me without the permission of my king. I won't let this matter go so easily."
Shi Muyuan took out the letter unhurriedly and threw it in front of him.
"Actually, I have an easier way to deal with the rumors you spread. I just wanted to give you a chance. I've always cherished talent. If you don't want to cooperate and insist on your stance, then I'll have to make these letters public."
After seeing the cover of the letter, Lan Xi had a bad feeling in his heart. He suppressed that emotion and opened the letter. After seeing the content, his eyes changed.
"Where did you get this letter?"
The emotions in his heart could no longer be suppressed and burst out. He thought he had done everything so secretly. Even when he met with Prince Lian, he didn't let anyone notice. Now that such a big flaw had appeared, he felt extremely frustrated.
He had planned so carefully. It should have been foolproof. How could it turn out like this? If they could get one letter, did it mean they had obtained many others?
Once such thoughts appeared, they could no longer be suppressed.
Seeing him so flustered that he didn't even bother to maintain his usual pretense, Shi Muyuan knew it was right to bring this letter today.
"Now does the envoy have a lot to say to us?"
Lan Xi clenched his fists, as if holding on to the last thread of defense in his heart.
"So what if the Empress Dowager knows? You still won't get any useful information from me. I won't say a single word. If you don't like me, you can just kill me."
Shi An was extremely angry. Hearing his words, he really drew a sword from the waist of the guard beside him and was about to strike.
"Since you've said so, it would be wrong of us if we don't fulfill your wish, right?"
Seeing that his elder brother couldn't hold back his temper and the sword had already made a wound on Lan Xi's neck, Shi Muyuan quickly stopped him.
"Elder brother, calm down. I believe the envoy isn't completely unyielding. Have you forgotten what I said before?"
She was afraid that this reckless man would say something else to anger her elder brother, so she kept winking at him. "The envoy won't really fail to recognize the situation and want to die at my elder brother's hands, right?"
She didn't believe that there was really someone who wanted to die.
And Lan Xi, of course, wasn't a man who was bent on death. He gritted his teeth and took a step back. "The Empress Dowager is right. I can tell you everything, but I also hope to make a deal with you."
Shi An was too lazy to listen to him now.
"Do you think you have the capital to make a deal with us now?"
Lan Xi had already laid all his cards on the table. If they didn't agree now, he would just kill himself.
"Fine. If the general doesn't agree to me, you might as well just kill me."
"You!"
Shi An was almost driven mad by this man. He wasn't even afraid of death. Was that deal really that important to him? But if it was a deal that violated principles, he definitely wouldn't agree, nor would he let his younger sister agree.
Shi Muyuan saw what her elder brother was thinking and tried to smooth things over. "You might as well tell us your deal. If I think it's okay, I'll agree to you."
"Okay. The reason I've been working for the King of the Western Regions whole - heartedly is that he put a curse on me. The antidote to that curse is in the hands of the King of the Western Regions."
His words were straightforward, but they presented a difficult problem to Shi Muyuan.
"You don't really think we have the ability to go deep into the Western Regions, do you?"
Lan Xi lazily raised his eyes. "The Shi family's subordinates are all over the world. It shouldn't be too difficult to get the antidote. Moreover, before, I noticed that there were several people from the Shi family around the king. Am I right, General?"