The Cannon Fodder and Villain’s Happy Ending
Chapter 519

Chapter 519

Through the window, a spider could be seen between the branches and leaves, and an insect stuck to the spider web as it struggled to break free.

Yuan Minggang presented the ledger to the emperor, who casually turned over a few pages and then asked indifferently. “Where did this ledger come from?”

Without waiting for Lord Chengen to answer, the emperor continued. “Did Tang Fengchun bring it from Huahong Tea House?”

The emperor’s words were still addressed to Lord Chengen and did not even bother to glance at Gu Jing.

“…”

Everyone knows that Tang Fengchun was the second prince’s consort, so several courtiers in the imperial study instinctively looked at Gu Jing.

Even Lord Chengen was no exception.

Gu Jing still maintained a bowing posture, his face visibly turning a third whiter, his eyes widened, and his body stiffened.

The change in Gu Jing’s expression was tantamount to answering Lord Chengen’s doubts and immediately knew in his heart. The emperor was right, and this ledger was indeed brought by Tang Fengchun from the Huahong Tea House.

In other words, all their plans had already been under the emperor’s watchful eyes.

In other words, the emperor had long been aware of their cooperation with Wang Yu.

At this moment, the last glimmer of hope in Lord Chengen’s heart was extinguished as his limbs went cold, as if his whole body had been soaked in a bone-chilling lake in winter.

They have been tricked!

In the past few days, the emperor allowed them to cause trouble in the court and chose to remain silent, not just to protect Empress Wei and the Wei family, but to dig out this line, and to force Wang Yu to take action…

Thus, from the very beginning, they have already lost and just acted like a clown in front of them, and now they have lost everything.

The other people present who heard and saw everything mostly experienced the two dynasties. They had seen the ups and downs of the court that others could not, and so, no one sympathized with Lord Chengen at all and just let out a sigh.

The emperor glanced calmly at Gu Zezhi, but the latter seemed unaware and was still looking at the spider web outside through the window.

The struggle of the insect caused the cobweb to tremble, and a spider that size of a fingernail came out from the shadows and nimbly crawled towards the trapped inset along the thin cobweb, getting closer to its prey…

This stance and pace were determined to win!

The emperor leaned back, resting his back on the back of the chair, and made a gesture to Yuan Minggang again, “Yuan Minggang, you continue.”

Yuan Minggang then continued to report, “The Imperial Guards have already raided the Huahong Teahouse, and have also just copied a secret letter sent by Wang Yu from Yuzhou, confirming that this restaurant is Wang Yu’s stronghold in the capital, specializing in transmitting news for Yuzhou.”

“A total of more than fifty people were captured this time following the trail, and are currently being interrogated in the Imperial Prison.”

The fact that Wang Yu had laid out intelligence points in the capital was something they had also guessed long ago. However, Wang Yu’s intelligence hideout was not only secretly set up, but they also always changed places and were very cautious.

Imperial guards have been trying to catch their tails for a long time but have not been able to find it; rather, there was no starting point at all.

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