An Shiqi escorted the County Magistrate of Yao and his family, along with the officials involved in this matter, to the jail at the Governor's Office and released all the refugees imprisoned within the Governor's Office. An Shiliu, following Hua Yan's instructions, chose a Hidden Guard and urgently sent all the confessions and a letter written hastily by Hua Yan to the Capital City on horseback.
The elderly man was somewhat excited, as he had not expected his fate to be so good that he avoided the disaster of imprisonment and witnessed such a peculiar case. He took the silver that Hua Yan instructed Caiqing to give him for the journey to the capital, thanked them with tears in his eyes and asked cautiously who Hua Yan was.
Caiqing naturally did not reveal Hua Yan's identity, but simply said, "We are from the Crown Prince's Eastern Palace."
