Chapter 115 They can only take a gamble

Ji Yunshu patiently drank tea while waiting for him to make a decision.

Jin Shi asked hesitantly, "Can I know what will happen to Suzhou in the future?"

Ji Yunshu knew his concerns and said patiently, "The Suzhou bureaucracy will be cleaned up. I can't say it will be completely clean in the future, but those people shouldn't be as rampant as before."

Jin Shi took a deep breath after hearing her words.

"The Emperor will also send people to eliminate those hiding in the dark bit by bit. Of course, no one knows what those desperate people will do. I understand that you don't dare to gamble with the Jin family."

Ji Yunshu said this, but she knew that Jin Shi actually had no choice.

His collaboration with me will soon be known to everyone, and by then no one will care how much he says.

Many times, if loyalty is not absolute, it means absolute disloyalty.

Just as Ji Yunshu had expected, Jin Shi quickly made a decision: "The ones that weren't sent to Mobei are still in Suzhou. Someone was supposed to come and transport them away recently, but they didn't come."

Ji Yunshu smiled and said, "Maybe he has already come, but you don't know it."

Jin Shi was stunned for a moment, thinking of the sudden changes in Suzhou in the past two days, and said with a wry smile: "You are right. The Jin family is just a handy tool for them, a chess piece that can be discarded at any time when something goes wrong. What important things can they know?"

Ji Yunshu nodded: "So where is the thing?"

Jin Shi said, "It's in a mountain near the Suzhou garrison camp. The terrain there is dangerous. To be honest, it's right under the garrison's noses. At first, we didn't think it was related to Mobei."

"In the mountains?" Ji Yunshu suddenly had an idea. "Have you ever been there?"

Jin Shi said, "I've been there once. It's a remote location. Because it's a garrison camp, there aren't many civilians nearby, and everyone entering and leaving is strictly guarded."

Ji Yunshu asked, "Is there anything unusual there?"

Jin Shi thought for a moment and said, "If I must say there's something unusual, it's that the guards are exceptionally strict. I've been to the border with my own caravan, and I feel like the entry and exit controls in border towns aren't as strict as there."

Ji Yunshu had a rough idea in his mind.

After Jin Shi left, Ji Yunshu returned to the backyard and saw Zhao Shen still the same as when she left, lying on a chair reading a letter.

She stepped forward and took the thing away from his hand: "You said you were going to recuperate, but your brain doesn't rest for a moment, how can you recover well?"

Seeing that she seemed to be in a good mood, Zhao Shen said, "It seems that you had a good conversation with the young master of the Jin family."

Ji Yunshu sat down on the small stool next to him: "Well, he is a smart man. He knows that there is no point in hiding some things. He should tell everything he knows. He got some unexpected news. Guess what it is?"

Zhao Shen pondered for a moment and said, "He probably doesn't know much about Mobei, and he doesn't dare to say anything. The rest is about the medicinal herbs and weapons. Did he tell you where the medicinal herbs those people stockpiled in Suzhou are?"

Ji Yunshu felt that this person was almost a genius: "You can even guess this?"

Zhao Shen smiled and said, "I'm afraid this isn't the unexpected news you mentioned."

Ji Yunshu deliberately kept the secret and asked, "You are so capable, can you guess what the unexpected news is?"

Zhao Shen tilted his head, looked at her, and asked with a smile, "What good is it if I guessed it?"

Seeing the smile in his eyes, Ji Yunshu thought for a moment and said, "Tomorrow is Mid-Autumn Festival. If you guess right, I'll make mooncakes for you."

Zhao Shen didn't expect her to say this, and asked with some doubt: "Can you make mooncakes?"

Ji Yunshu: "Who are you looking down on? Tell me quickly."

"That's not hard to guess. Suzhou may be large, but the place they choose to hide their things has one necessary condition: it must be safe. What place in the world is safer than a garrison camp?"

I actually guessed it.

Ji Yunshu opened his eyes wide.

Zhao Shen was looked at by her seemingly admiring gaze and turned his face away unconsciously.

He felt that this singer's face was not suitable for Ji Yunshu.

She is a little too charming, and her eyes are full of allure.

Ji Yunshu, however, continued to speak seriously, "You guessed right. Young Master Jin said the garrison is very heavily guarded. I suspect they are forging weapons there privately."

"I think so too, so I've sent someone to investigate. We should have news soon."

Ji Yunshu couldn't help but look at him.

It didn't take him long to figure out everything about Suzhou.

Noticing that her gaze was a little strange, Zhao Shen asked, "Why are you looking at me like that?"

Ji Yunshu said, "Compared to you, I feel like I have no brains."

Zhao Shen said helplessly: "What nonsense! You haven't even come to Suzhou yet, but you've already guessed that I'm in Zhou Mansion. Isn't that very smart?"

Ji Yunshu smiled and said, "I usually think I'm quite smart, but unfortunately, when I meet you, I feel like my brain isn't enough."

Zhao Shen: "It's all my fault."

Ji Yunshu felt that it was pointless to dwell on this: "Now that you know everything, I feel relieved."

She stood up and said, "I'll go to the kitchen to see if there are any ingredients for making mooncakes."

Oh, if only Lu Ru were here, I could eat delicious mooncakes just by moving my mouth.

Before she knew it, she had been here for half a year.

She went to the kitchen with a feeling in her heart.

Zhao Shenze stared in a daze at the direction she left.

Gu Xing jumped in from outside the wall. Seeing him like this, he couldn't help but ask, "Prince, do we really have to hide this from Madam?"

Zhao Shen was silent for a moment before he said, "I'll tell her later."

What's the point of saying it after everything is done?

Gu Xing hesitated and said, "Your injuries haven't healed yet. If you keep running around, Madam will probably get angry. Why don't I take someone with me?"

Zhao Shen shook his head: "That place may be more dangerous than we originally imagined. I will have to go there in person to feel at ease."

Zhou Qingbang died, Lu Yanlin was captured, and there was no news of the 500 soldiers sent out. Everyone knew that something had happened in Suzhou.

The garrison camp stores a large amount of supplies, which may not be able to be moved in a short time.

Those people knew very well what they had done, and if they were discovered, they would be dead.

So they had no choice but to take a gamble.

Ji Yunshu took Bai Ling around the kitchen.

Today she asked Bai Ling to let go of most of the servants in the Zhou Mansion, but kept the people in the kitchen.

There's no way, they brought a lot of people with them and they all need to eat.

The cook asked awkwardly, "What would you like to eat, young lady?"

To servants like them, everything was incomprehensible.

Yesterday, a fight broke out in the lady's yard, then the army came to attack from outside, and finally another wave of people came and captured those people.

Now the master and the mistress are both dead.

There were two unknown people living in the mansion, and they were asked to cook as usual every day.

Fortunately, the money they were given was a lot, and they had nowhere to go, so they kept it.

Ji Yunshu said, "Tomorrow is Mid-Autumn Festival. I want to make some mooncakes."

The cook said, "During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the mansion was supposed to give gifts to various people. Madam had already asked for mooncakes to be made and given away. Now... I'm afraid they're no longer needed. They're all lying around. Would you like to try some?"

Seeing that she was a little nervous, Ji Yunshu smiled and asked, "Then let me try it. Are there any special Mid-Autumn Festival activities in Xingqing?"

Seeing her smile and friendly words, the cook relaxed a little. "Every Mid-Autumn Festival, Xingqing Prefecture has a lantern festival. People from nearby prefectures come to watch. It's very lively."

After that, she said embarrassedly, "Maybe it's not that special. I'm from Suzhou and I don't know how other places celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival."

Ji Yunshu was about to say that this was already very special, as she had never seen a Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival before, when Yin Ye walked in and whispered in her ear, "It seems that the prince is planning to go to some dangerous place with Gu Xing."