Lu Xiuyuan didn't know why Miss Hua suddenly asked about this matter. Ever since the last time he secretly sent a letter to the chief minister informing the young master of the thorough investigation of Qian Yingying, the young master had become suspicious of him.
At the moment, he will certainly not tell Miss Hua what the young master has told him.
Seeing that he refused to answer, Hua Rujin could probably guess his concerns.
Ye Chengguan must have told him not to interfere in these matters again.
"I'm afraid that the difficulties encountered by the general during his northern expedition are beyond our expectations. Everyone knows that King Fu wants to transfer him to the border."
At this juncture, Hua Rujin also expressed her feelings without any concealment: "If Qian Yingying could be found earlier, this would at least make King Yun have some scruples, and he would not dare to harm the general easily."
Lu Xiuyuan also made it clear: "So Miss Hua wants to use Prince Yun to control Prince Fu?"
Hua Rujin nodded hesitantly.
Lu Xiuyuan was a little confused: "But right now, we haven't got any clues about Qian Yingying, and the inspector has not traced Qian Yingying's whereabouts."
"No news is the best news."
Hua Rujin smiled and said: "At least King Yun has not found this person."
"Miss Hua wants to use Hua Minze to lure out Qian Yingying. This was your plan at the time, but I'm really worried that if Prince Yun finds out, he won't let Miss Hua go."
Lu Xiuyuan was now ordered to protect Hua Rujin's safety, and he didn't want to see anything happen to her.
"Even if I compromise now, I'm afraid Prince Yun won't let me go."
Hua Rujin raised her eyebrows and said: "What I'm worried about is that Prince Fu and Prince Yun are colluding with each other. If they join forces to kill the general, the border is thousands of miles away from the capital, and I'm afraid we won't even be able to know anything about the military situation in Mobei.
"
Thinking of the deaths of Yan Huaqing and Shu Jinxuan, she became even more worried.
At this time, she couldn't put all her expectations on Luo Chuhuai.
If this person is determined to go to King Fu, it will be difficult for Ye Chengguan to come back once he leaves.
Lu Xiuyuan thought for a long time, and finally nodded and said: "Okay, I am willing to listen to Miss Hua."
After hearing this, Hua Rujin nodded happily and led everyone back.
As soon as she arrived at the city gate, she met a mysterious man wearing a bamboo hat following the carriage, keeping a short distance from the carriage, which immediately caught her attention.
She stuck her head out and whispered to Ting An: "Turn the horse's head around, let's go to the north of the city."
Ting'an followed her instructions and quickly headed north of the city.
Arriving at a secluded alley, Hua Rujin stopped the carriage and asked Ting An and a few little guys to wait at the entrance of the alley. She got off the car and went to a shop selling rouge and gouache nearby.
Lu Xiuyuan was a little puzzled. There was a gouache shop not far away from the city just now, and he didn't know why Miss Hua took such a long way to buy it here.
Anyway, he couldn't guess what his daughter's family was thinking, so he had no choice but to follow them in.
After Hua Rujin entered the shop, she did not buy any rouge and gouache. She only stayed for a moment. When she saw the mysterious man following him, she looked at the back door of the shop and walked out.
Arriving at a deserted deep alley, Hua Rujin suddenly stopped.
Lu Xiuyuan was startled and asked in confusion: "Where is Miss Hua going?"
Hua Rujin smiled indifferently at him, and then shouted at the entrance of the alley: "Your Excellency, come out, why are you so sneaky?"
The mysterious man wearing a bamboo hat was hiding in the corner. When he heard the sound, he was startled. Then he walked out slowly. He took off the bamboo hat and said with a smile: "Miss Hua is really observant. I didn't expect that I have already noticed it."
"You recognize me?"
Hua Rujin looked at the mysterious man who came forward, slightly surprised.
"certainly."
The man smiled warmly: "I am one of the best female litigators in Jiangling City, how could I not recognize her?"
Lu Xiuyuan immediately became alert and drew his sword.
"Lu Dianshi doesn't have to worry."
Hua Rujin signaled him to take back the sword and explained with a smile: "If he had evil intentions, he should have taken action before we entered the city."
The man was even more surprised: "Miss Hua is really smart."
"You don't have to flatter me."
Hua Rujin snorted coldly and said bluntly: "If I guess correctly, you are the mysterious person who secretly sent the account books to my general a while ago, right?"
"How can I see it?"
The man was surprised again.
"What's so hard to guess?"
Hua Rujin pursed her lips and smiled and said: "Since you have no intention of murdering me, and you know that I am a lawyer, if you want to seek help, you can come to me openly. If you are so sneaky, you may have some shady activities.
Or you just have worries."
"Miss Hua's guess is correct. I am indeed the mysterious person who delivered the account books to the Number One Scholar a few days ago."
The man no longer concealed anything and answered truthfully: "I am Luo Xuan, who was once a steward of the Zhuo family."
"Your surname is Luo too?"
Hua Rujin is a little sensitive to this surname.
"Exactly."
Luo Xuan answered unequivocally: "If you want to talk about it, Miss Hua has to call me brother. My biological mother was a maid serving Governor Luo in the early years. However, due to the persecution of Princess Zhengning, my biological mother suffered a tragic death.
Princess Zheng Ning and Prince Fu poisoned me, if I hadn’t been protected by the old nanny in front of my mother, I probably wouldn’t be alive now.”
"It's his fault again."
Hua Rujin sighed.
This Luo Chuhuai is really harmful. Thinking of her and Hua Youen's fate, she quickly asked: "So Mr. Luo came here today to ask me to join forces with you to avenge your biological mother?"
"Of course revenge must be avenged."
Luo Xuan said angrily: "But what I want is not the lives of Zhu Zhiang and Zhu Zhengning. I want their brother and sister to be ruined."
After a pause, he continued to narrate: "Over the years, I have been hiding in the Zhuo family and have learned a lot about the shameful deeds that King Fu used to use the Zhuo family to do with Beiguo. Miss Hua doesn't know it yet. Long before General Ye came to Beijing,
King Fu has already secretly signed the Tanshui Agreement with the Tatars, and the content of this agreement is that all the land north of Yanmen Pass belongs to the Tatars."
"It doesn't make sense."
Lu Xiuyuan was filled with indignation when he heard this: "In these years of war between the two countries, the imperial court invested a lot of troops and financial resources to regain the lost land, but it was just given away by King Fu. How can he have the face to be above the imperial court?"
Luo Xuan also shook his head and sighed: "In recent years, everyone has only heard that the two countries had frictions on the border, but there was no real war. When Taizu was alive, our country already had strong soldiers and horses, and the three expeditions to Mobei even defeated the Tatars."
After being defeated, he fled and retreated to the desert hundreds of miles north of the Shuo River. Why did the new emperor invade frequently in the years after he ascended the throne, not to mention conquering cities and territories? All of this was just a strategy of Zhang Xian, the governor of Datong, to support the invaders.
"
"Zhang Xian?"
Hua Rujin still had some impression of this name. He was the general who falsely accused Yan Huaqing of collaborating with the enemy and treason.
"This man was a staff member of King Fu in his early years. It is said that he has been with King Fu since he was a child. Later, he stayed in the Mobei garrison with Governor Luo after the Northern Expedition. He had 150,000 soldiers in his hand, but His Majesty did not notice.
To say that Yan Huaqing and Sun Ting had a bad start this time is not because Zhang Xian deliberately refused to save them. How could he not save the supporting troops with the cavalry in his hands?"
Luo Xuan's eyebrows were lowered and he sighed heavily: "I'm afraid he will use his old tricks again this time and put General Ye in danger."