Forced to be a third person: I turned around and left the palace to marry a villain

"What is your purpose here?" he asked coldly, with a threat in his voice.

"Since Mr. Cao San asked, I'll just say it straight. What I want is the package that Cao Zhiqing gave you in the woods that night." Jiang Xue spread out her hands to indicate.

Cao Ling was shocked. Was she also there in the woods that night?

"Master Cao San, there is no need to be surprised. After all, the emperor personally ordered Cao Zhiqing to be handed over to the prince for handling. Why do you think you were able to easily intercept her carriage that day?"

Looking at Cao Ling's surprised expression, Jiang Xue sighed in her heart that love really makes people blind, and they didn't even notice such an obvious flaw.

But this also gave them the opportunity to take advantage of it.

"What did you do to her?" Cao Ling was most concerned about Cao Zhiqing's safety.

If what Jiang Xue said was true, the Crown Prince Shangguan Jin was also in the dense forest that night.

He knew the location of the mansion outside the city and also knew the whereabouts of Cao Zhiqing.

"As long as you, Third Young Master Cao, cooperate and hand over the things, Second Young Lady Cao's safety will be guaranteed."

At this moment, the mansion outside the city should have been surrounded by the prince's men. Cao Ling's weakness has been grasped by them, so he probably dare not act rashly.

After glaring at Jiang Xue for a moment, Cao Ling took out a stack of documents from his lapel.

"If anything happens to Zhiqing, I will never let you off easily."

Although Cao Ling was cruel to other women, Cao Zhiqing was his only weakness.

Jiang Xue took the contract handed over by Cao Ling and quickly browsed through it, and found that most of them were mining contracts, and there was also one about a salt mine.

So that's why. No wonder Cao Zhiqing took such a big risk to hand these over to Cao Ling, because his name was signed on these contracts.

Private mining and illegal salt trafficking, these two offenses alone were enough to bring disaster upon the Cao family.

Obviously, Shangguan Xi used these contracts to put a lot of pressure on the Cao family.

Cao Zhiqing was willing to give everything for this relationship.

If Shangguan Xi knew about this, she would probably not be able to escape.

Seeing Jiang Xue flipping through the contract page by page without showing any signs of abnormality, Cao Ling's doubts gradually turned into anger. Why didn't this woman react at all?

"You may be surprised that I am still safe and sound after coming into contact with the poison in the contract."

Jiang Xue put away the contract and looked at Cao Ling with a smile.

"I forgot to tell you that I have been learning poison making and medical skills since I was a child. I often test poisons on myself and have long been immune to all poisons. Ordinary toxins have no effect on me."

How is this possible? Cao Ling clenched his fists. He didn't expect that this woman was immune to all poisons.

"Okay, now that I have the things in my hands, Mr. Cao San, can you do me another favor and walk me out the door?"

Jiang Xue gently pulled the trigger, the pistol made a slight sound, and the bullet was in place. As long as she exerted a little more force, Cao Ling's life would be seriously threatened.

In order to save his life, Cao Ling had no choice but to obey Jiang Xue's instructions, opened the door with a gloomy face and led the way.

"Sir?"

The robbers downstairs were teasing the last surviving woman. When they saw Cao Ling appear so quickly, they hurriedly got up. One of them had no time to tidy up her clothes and was shocked.

After Cao Ling signaled to his men, they immediately realized the severity of the situation, quickly changed their equipment and spread out to defend.

Jiang Xue followed closely behind, and when she passed a room, a muffled sound from inside the room caught her attention. She glimpsed a strange tall figure through the window.

"You are becoming more and more courageous." A low and cold voice sounded, but it had a magnetism that could not be ignored.

Suddenly, a sharp gaze met hers.

Jiang Xue felt a chill. These eyes were as chilling as if they came from the abyss of hell.

After a moment of eye contact, the man disappeared.

Instead, Cao Yuan fell to the ground, covered in blood.

She remembered that Cao Yuan had originally intended to humiliate the woman who had resisted stubbornly. It seemed that the woman had been rescued by the man just now, and Cao Yuan had been punished and lost his fertility.

Although she was indifferent to Cao Yuan's experience, Jiang Xue became very interested in the mysterious man. The man's identity was obviously extraordinary.

At this time, Cao Ling had already led her to the front yard of Cao's mansion.

"That's enough!" Cao Ling said, "I've brought you here, this is my bottom line. Now, put down your gun and leave."

"Don't joke around, Third Young Master." Jiang Xue responded, "Your men are already lying in wait in the dark. If I let go now, wouldn't that be a trap for me?"

The air was filled with a pungent smell of sweat, and Jiang Xue felt the breath behind her getting closer and closer.

Suddenly, she turned around quickly and shot down the guard who was about to launch a sneak attack. The man fell to the ground and the weapon in his hand made a crisp sound when it fell to the ground.

Jiang Xue's eyes were determined as she reloaded the bullet and aimed at another guard who was rushing over. Continuous gunshots echoed in the courtyard.

Xiao Zhan and Jiang Chen, who were not far away, heard the noise and quickly led their men into the Cao family's mansion.

After breaking into the room, they saw a dusty scene. The dust gradually dissipated, and Jiang Xue's figure appeared in front of them, holding a firearm, pointing at Cao Ling's forehead, and showing a triumphant smile: "Third Master Cao, admit defeat."

Cao Ling was defeated, and he was defeated by a woman. Facing the broken gate and the chaos in the yard, his heart was filled with resentment and anger.

The hatred towards Jiang Xue was no longer just about revenge for his brother.

Shangguan Jin was handling official business while inquiring about information about the Cao family.

"Ms. Si returned safely to the mansion with the help of Master Huaichen and Prince Gong, and got what she needed." The spy reported respectfully.

Shangguan Jin put down his pen and a satisfied smile appeared on his face: "Let's go, we'll go to the Young Master's Mansion." He was eager to see the thing that Cao Zhiqing was determined to get from the Fourth Prince's Mansion at all costs.

In the young master's mansion, Jiang Chen and Xiao Zhan carefully read the stack of documents that Jiang Xue brought back.

The documents revealed that the Cao family illegally controlled mining resources and sold them to other countries.

This not only includes iron ore, copper ore and stone mines, which are all strategic resources that the country should control. The Cao family dared to privately occupy and mine them, and then resell them to other countries.

What’s more serious is that the Cao family was also involved in the private salt trade, raising the price of salt, and forcing people to buy and sell, making life difficult for the people living in the border areas.

This also explains why residents of the northwestern border would go to other places to compete for salt and resources. Apparently, some conservative forces led by the Cao family were frantically exploiting the people.

Xiao Zhan put down the only salt mining contract, took the account book handed to him by Tieyi and began to look through it.

The account book records in detail the changes in Beixi's salt prices in recent years. It is obvious that in the past three years, Beixi's salt prices have soared to the top of the ten countries, almost three times the average salt price of the other nine countries.

"The Cao family controls so many mineral deposits. Could it be that the emperor of Beixi is really unaware of this?" He looked at the contract in front of him and thought to himself that the value of these mineral deposits was enough to buy several Beixi.