Most of the people in the Zuo family's mansion have gone to bed. In the courtyard of the inner house, Zuo Wenxuan took a cup and poured tea for the people who came to report.
On the stone table, half of the incense used to repel mosquitoes produced curls of smoke. With a wave of his hand, the chaos was dispersed just like Zuo Wenxuan's thoughts at the moment.
"...The young man named Sun Wukong who stopped Yue Yun tonight looked very much like..."
"Oh, I told him not to go, but I still went to find him..." Zuo Wenxuan rubbed his forehead, "This matter needs to be kept strictly confidential."
"Really are……"
"Once exposed, the matter can be big or small. Looking for Chen Shuangran and Zuo Xingzhou today is just a trivial incident. This matter will affect the attitude of the Southwest to the Southeast in the future, and even to the entire Confucianism.
…”
"Understood……"
"..."
"But boating..."
"What happened on the 22nd can't be found yet..."
In the night, Zuo Wenxuan's words were low and slow, as if he was afraid of waking up the sleeping people, and like ripples falling on the water.
"Maybe it's gone..."
…
Same night.
He shaved off the beard on his face with a stab of a short knife. When the face in the mirror gradually became a bit more "bright-eyed", some other emotions rolled up in his mind and he let out another bang.
He slapped the knife on the table.
"What did you do..."
It was already halfway through the ugly time, and the city outside was quiet, but the irritability in his heart was still surging. It was not just the pain he had experienced at Yinqiaofang at night, but also more frustration. He put on his clothes hastily and returned to his hometown.
After going out, he said to the concierge: "Uncle Xu, I'm going to the princess's mansion."
Riding through the night.
Not long after, he sat in the starry courtyard, his sister rubbed some medicinal wine for him, and talked about the progress of the night.
"... When he was in Jiangning, Chen Shuai once said that Long Aotian was a soldier of the Chinese Army, and he just accepted a temporary mission and left... Miss Yan thought he was dead at the time, and now she doesn't know where he has gone. Unexpectedly, in
See you here..."
"It turns out it was him..."
Reaching out to pat the medicinal wine on Yue Yun's body, Yin Ping's expression became quite solemn for a moment.
Then he said: "Why did you shave your beard? You know that you no longer look like a human or a ghost?"
"Sister! We're talking about business!" Yue Yun became angry in embarrassment.
Yin Ping smiled.
"Thinking about it this way, I understand Zuo Wenxuan's attitude. The night Zuo Xingzhou released your doves in Yinqiaofang, he met these two obscene demons and had an affair. Zuo Wenxuan should also know that, so he followed
You said there was nothing strange about the matter. But in this case, there should be no news about Zuo Xingzhou from their mouths... It's strange why they came here..."
"Mr. Ning has saved us, and has friendship with father, His Majesty and others. But in the final analysis, we are not from the same group as the southwest regicide rebellion. The people who came here are both overt and covert. There is nothing surprising..." Yue Yun said angrily.
said.
"That's what I said." Yin Ping patted him, "In the past in Jiangning, I had a lot of dealings with Miss Yan. Later, Chen Shuai said that Long Aotian was one of theirs, so I never thought about it carefully, but now I think about it.
, if it is really a masterpiece from the southwest, this person's behavior is really strange. According to Miss Yan, this talented person is bold, upright and outspoken, but what I said to you today is really thoughtful and thoughtful.
, watertight..."
"...Did he deliberately sabotage the marriage between Yan Jiabao and Shi Baofeng?"
Yue Yun stared.
"It's not impossible." Yin Ping thought for a while, "But it all seems strange. The strangest thing is that they are not very old. When they were in Jiangning, they were not even qualified to be secret agents, and they were always
Running around with the name of a pervert is embarrassing to say the least..."
"The one surnamed Sun has a solid foundation. He has the rumored Tai Chi circle skills." Yue Yun thought carefully and said, "Sister, do you think it is a junior from Black Flag who comes to practice?"
"This may be a big deal, but if you think about it this way... Yue Yun, if you go out to travel around the world and come back with the name of a five-foot-long pervert, what do you think people will say about you?" Yin Ping paused at this point.
, shook his head: "...It's too strange."
"...It's so weird." Yue Yun also shook his head and sighed, "Dad will beat me to death with one slap."
"That's not the case... it's inevitable to hang him up and beat him."
"We can't talk about kissing yet."
"The whole family can't lift their heads..."
"Hmph..."
"hehe……"
This night, I suddenly saw the two obscene demons I had been looking for in Jiangning. It was a bit confusing for a while. The two siblings thought about it and joked a few words casually. After a while, Yue Yun finally said: "Then go left.
Zhou, then I have no clue..."
Yin Ping was silent for a moment.
"Recently, it seems that the situation in Fuzhou is no longer a matter of two trivial matters... Yue Yun, there is a war here."
When she talked about fighting, Yue Yun's muscles tensed up for a moment: "...Huh?"
"Do you still remember that before we came out, dad once told us that there might be a big chaos in Fuzhou before the fleet comes back?"
"...Is this this time?"
"Now it seems that there is a great possibility that it will be this time." Yin Ping said, "In the past six months, many gentry in various parts of Fujian have been dissatisfied, causing trouble from time to time, and even killing yellow dogs to cause uproar. They are secretly,
The imperial court is in the Ming Dynasty, and the fight will never end like this. In fact, neither side is satisfied. Your Majesty wants to resolve this matter. Why don't the gentry with evil intentions in various places not think about it - they will not wait until the sea trade fleet comes back, or
Attack the ship, or it will happen before then..."
"..."
"In March and April, Chen Shuangran made constant moves. Whether it was deliberate or opportune, she had attracted the attention of all parties. She was the most obvious thorn in the side of the powder keg. She was the key to the next game of chess.
The fate of eighty-nine will fall on her. She wants to cause a scene, and people with evil intentions from all sides want to take advantage of her. Your Majesty, His Highness and even the gentlemen in the city may also want to make it clear.
After a round of fighting, as long as I can win this time, the wallflower who is vacillating in private will be able to settle down for a long time..."
"But..." Yue Yun thought for a while, "Mr. Li once said that the best way to govern a country is to be those who are good at fighting without great achievements..."
"If the officialdom sticks to the old ways and the local gentry in Fujian takes advantage of their power and resumes the work of the dragon, the thorns in the trouble can naturally be dealt with secretly before the world notices. But His Majesty does not want Fujian to just be peaceful.
In the Xiaowu Dynasty, there was no other way to carry out reforms. The world is different from before. Eighty-nine percent of people are muttering in their hearts. If you want the innovation to continue, you must always get rid of the most prominent thorns.
Let the wavers at the rear know the determination of innovation."
Yin Ping sighed: "Now it seems that Zhong Ergui and Zuo Xingzhou are also caught in the chaos..."
"...Then don't you just...don't complain and find someone?"
"You have to cry out for grievances, and people have to find them, but you also have to know what will happen next. Now it seems that if you do something wrong, the city of Fuzhou will become a river of blood."
When Yin Ping said this, he paused slightly.
"If you think about it carefully, since the two people from Yinqiaofang came from the southwest, and Zuo Wenxuan also knows about it, the matter is a bit complicated. It is not easy to distinguish between some things that should be asked and those that should not be asked. With your temper, don't do it these days.
Let’s knock on the door again to avoid causing trouble... If I have time, let me find a time to explore the depths of that five-foot obscene demon.”
After she said this, Yue Yun nodded at first, but then he hesitated a little and hesitated for a while: "Sister, otherwise, I'd better go..."
"……how?"
"Well, that guy is a pervert. He looks sanctimonious and deceives a lot of ignorant women on the street. Sister... you are not married yet after all..."
Before he finished speaking, he was punched in the back by his sister.
"What are you talking about? Am I also an ignorant woman?"
"Sister, of course you are not, but he does look pretty good. He is seven times as handsome as I am after shaving off my beard... and it is said that obscene demons are not good at martial arts. I am mainly afraid that you will fall into his trap..."
Yue Yun thought of Yan Yunzhi from Jiangning. Although he still didn't know what the five-foot obscene devil had to do, when he thought about it carefully, his vigilance was raised to the highest level. He tried to dissuade his sister who had always been reliable, and was beaten again in the process.
, and couldn’t care less.
Yin Ping was dumbfounded by his seriousness and beat him for a while. He mentioned his recent mission at the Princess Mansion and said, "I may not have time to go there." Only then did Yue Yun stop nagging. Thinking about it again, he felt ridiculous again.
"Intrigues and gatherings from all directions were considered big events in the past, such as Chengdu in Southwest China and the Jiangning Conference, but here we are... what we were talking about a few days ago was the arrival of the flower monk Tunyun, and today there is another
What happened to these two four-foot and five-foot obscene demons in Fuzhou? Such a big event only attracted a group of obscene demons to gather together..."
Under the starlight, I smiled bitterly and sighed...
…
The same starlight spread over Fuzhou City.
When Qu Longjun woke up in the middle of the night, he opened his eyes and did not see the figure on the bed opposite.
She lay on the bed, looked over there, bit her fingers and waited for a while.
Then he picked up the fire stick and lit the small lantern hanging beside the bed.
It feels like there is a missing piece in my heart...
Feeling scared…
She carried the lantern and left the room.
…
It's almost Yin time, and the silver glow is falling from the night sky.
Ning Ji sat on the roof, watching the rows of roofs extending under the clear light of the night.
In my mind, I am thinking about complex issues.
At a certain moment, I heard a slight sound coming from below.
Qu Longjun got out of bed, walked in the room, went to the direction of the latrine, and passed through the side corridor.
"Little dragon, little dragon..."
He heard her shout softly, her voice was very soft, like a rabbit in the night.
For some reason, Ning Ji hesitated and did not answer...