Allure of a Country Maiden

As soon as Shangguan Xuanyi left the wedding scene, he went to his and Xiaoer's exclusive private room in the Four Seasons Restaurant.

He quickly wrote a few letters, and then took out a few carrier pigeons from the space ring, and the flying pigeons sent the letters out.

Although he didn't know how long it had been since Shangguan Wanru was kidnapped, the manpower required to conduct an all-out search was definitely not as fast as a flying pigeon, so he immediately sent a letter to make arrangements.

After Shangguan Xuanyi finished all this, he quickly left the Four Seasons Restaurant and rushed to Prince An's Mansion.

He had to see the scene and see how those people robbed Guan Wanru!

A majestic palace with hundreds of guards! It's not easy to kidnap someone!

And this isn’t even the middle of the night!

When Shangguan Xuanyi came to Prince An's Mansion, Shangguan Ruixi was interrogating the soldiers guarding the cell about what was going on and why Shangguan Wanru was kidnapped so easily.

The leader of the guards knelt on the ground, his heart beating faster in fear: "We were all drugged and knocked unconscious. When we woke up, we found that someone had kidnapped the princess!"

"You? How many people do you mean? Didn't anyone else find out about the robbers?"

"Almost everyone in the mansion was stunned." The leader lowered his head after saying this.

"All of them!? Are you kidding me?!" Shangguan Ruixi screamed without caring about his image!

There are at least hundreds of servants in the mansion. Those robbers have extraordinary abilities, so they stunned everyone!

The leader lowered his head a little more and did not dare to speak.

"How long have you been unconscious?"

Shangguan Xuanyi came to them, sat down, and asked.

"We were unconscious for about a quarter of an hour."

A quarter of an hour? Not too long! But if everything goes well, fifteen minutes will be enough for the bandit to kidnap the person and escape from the imperial capital city!

"It's been so long for a quarter of an hour. You just said that almost everyone was knocked unconscious. This means that there are others in the mansion who are not fainted. Didn't any of them find out that the princess has been kidnapped?"

After Shangguan Xuanyi said this, he looked at Shangguan Ruixi: "Are all the guards in your palace just to eat and not to work? Not everyone is like you, looking for but not useful, right?"

Shangguan Ruixi's face turned dark after hearing this, but he was unable to refute, so he could only vent his anger on his subordinates: "Where are the people who were not stunned? What did they do? It took a quarter of an hour to find out that the princess had been kidnapped. gone!"

"Hui Shizi, those people were all killed by the robbers." The leader of the guards said.

"So don't you know who the robbers are and who came?" Shangguan Xuanyi asked.

The leader of the guards lowered his head in shame.

"A bunch of idiots!" Shangguan Ruixi couldn't help but curse.

"Do you know how the robbers knocked you out?" Shangguan Xuanyi asked again.

"King Hui Rui, because the fifth princess is getting married today and there is no master in the house, our servants will not test for poison when eating and drinking water. The robbers poured the Mongolian sweat medicine into the rice and water. The medicine will not cause symptoms immediately after taking it. , it took about a quarter of an hour for the attack to occur. The guards and servants in the mansion changed their shifts in two batches. Generally speaking, within a quarter of an hour, the servants just finished their shifts, so the first batch of people who were poisoned were at their posts. If the poison occurs, another group of people will go to the canteen to eat, and they will not know that the food is poisonous."

Prince An's Mansion has guards and maids, and more than 500 servants. These servants are divided into night shift and day shift. After lighting the lamp in the evening, the guards and maids on the night shift will go to their own rooms after eating. Go to work. Those who work the day shift can go back to their rooms to rest after eating.

Therefore, if those sweat medicines take a quarter of an hour to take effect, then a quarter of an hour is enough time for the two batches of servants in the palace to just stagger!

Because there are regulations in Fuzhong that the shift handover time cannot exceed a quarter of an hour!

Shangguan Xuanyi heard this and said, "Who poisoned you? Have you found out?"

It shouldn't be an outsider who knows so much about the shift changes in the palace's servants.

"I haven't had time to check!" As soon as he woke up, he heard the guards in the dungeon coming to report that the princess had been kidnapped, and then he immediately ran to inform Shangguan Ruixi!

"Then why don't you send someone to check it out!" Prince An said angrily after hearing this!

"Is the food in the mansion so delicious? Has everyone eaten and drank? There must be one or two people who haven't eaten or drank!" Shangguan Ruixi said in disbelief.

"There were five guards, two women and maids who didn't eat, but they were all killed."

"Damn it!" Shangguan Ruixi cursed angrily.

"You should be lucky that those people didn't poison everyone in your house, they just fainted. Let's go and see if there are any clues!" Shangguan Xuanyi stood up and said calmly.

"Drugs that can poison people to death usually don't take effect so late as a quarter of an hour!" Shangguan Ruixi said.

"That's right. I didn't expect you to be so smart sometimes."

This man! Whenever! And I’m still in the mood to criticize myself! Shangguan Ruixi thought depressedly.

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The servants of the palace were stunned for a quarter of an hour. It took the steward about another quarter of an hour to report back and forth. It took them another half-quarter of an hour to rush back to the palace. This time was long enough for the robber to escape far away.

But as long as we can find the direction in which they escaped, it's not impossible to chase them back! The premise is to know the opponent's escape route.

Everyone carried lanterns and checked around the cell. The door locks were not broken, and there was no sign of a fight at all.

After leaving the cell, there were signs of fighting and bloodstains in the garden.

There should have been no fight between the unconscious guards and the robbers.

The sharp-eyed Shangguan Xuanyi noticed a flash of light in the grass, and there was something there that reflected the light of the lantern.

He walked over, bent down and picked up a token from the grass.

Upon seeing this, Shangguan Ruixi quickly came over and took a look at the token in Shangguan Xuanyi's hand: "This is the token from Gong Zixuan's subordinate. I saw it once by chance. It seems that the person who kidnapped Wanru was indeed Gong Zixuan. They were sent by Zixuan!"

"I have sent people to investigate in the direction of Nangong Kingdom, and have given orders to guard every pass back to Nangong Kingdom. We must not let anyone take Wanru back to Nangong Kingdom!" Prince An said as soon as he returned to the house. We sent people to chase them, but more than two quarters of an hour was too long. Those people could have changed countless directions. What's more, it was already dark now, and it was even more difficult to find traces of their escape.

Everyone knew that the chance of successfully rescuing Shangguan Wanru was slim, so neither Shangguan Xuanyi nor Shangguan Ruixi spoke.

Shangguan Xuanyi shook the token in his hand and felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't remember what was wrong for the moment.

"Your Majesty! The study has been rummaged through! Go and see if anything is missing!" At this time, Prince An's servant ran over and said.

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