"Well, I'll be waiting for your news."

Yue Fei led the Iron Tiger Army on their journey, a bumpy and displaced journey before finally reaching Yongzhou. Even in the palace, he wasn't idle. He wandered around and saw a brick kiln already built, with bricks already being fired and put into use.

More of the city's barren dwellers had joined the construction team or performed odd jobs, gradually improving their economic status. I have to say, in this respect, I admire Zhuge Liang's strategy, using words that first undermined and then praised to fool those people.

He was inexplicably fascinated by this kind of capitalism.

Things had been quite quiet these past few days, but the sudden appearance of Su Xi and Su Lie had disrupted his plans.

He will never forget that day.

Su Xi and Su Lie looked particularly miserable under the glaring sunlight. There was even an arrow stuck in their waist, flowing down their white robes.

Su Xi was not a fool. He knew to bring his token when he came.

He remembered that he seemed to have given an order to get the token back from the evil man's house.

It has been a long time and I have forgotten about it.

"Your Majesty, please save our evil mansion."

Look at these words, considering their injuries, they seem extremely miserable.

"Good fellow, I've only heard of your evil deeds in the House of Evil. Who has disturbed your lair?"

“…”

Su Xi looked at Zhao Xin in disbelief, gave him a deep look, then turned and left.

He sensed despair in that look.

"I was just joking. Now that you have joined the imperial court, I can't help you, right?"

"Speak now, who is it?"

Su Xi was not shy either. She sobbed and rushed to Zhao Xin's desk, covering her face with her hands and crying uncontrollably.

"It's...my stepmother."

"The Ten Great Families have always had a grudge against our Evil House. I don't know what got into my father that he was so determined to marry the young lady from the Feng family. He refused to listen to any suggestion that he was possessed by a demon, and the wedding was held on the An Shen Festival."

Zhao Xin pondered, the Peaceful Festival was more than half a month away.

How could he not notice the depressing atmosphere that emanated from the moment he entered the room?

Su Xi felt much better after crying. What worried him the most now was Su Lie who was standing beside him and talking nonsense.

He looked at Su Lie. Su Lie's eyes were red and he seemed a little uncalm.

"Go on."

"We in the Evil House have never approved of this marriage, but since he's the head of the family, we can't say anything. But we didn't expect something to change in the past few days. The secret treasure of our Evil House was taken away."

"The key to the attic of the Linglong Tower is in my father's hands!"

"I really don't know what kind of hateful whispers that woman has whispered to my father. She really deserves to be thrown into that brothel and be messed around with men..."

As soon as these words were spoken, Su Lie's face changed, and he quickly covered his mouth with his hand, which was not even closed. He was afraid that the emperor would hear something and get angry and kill him.

"Su Xi, speak properly."

"That's the Emperor's brother—"

"Forget it, I'll just talk to His Majesty."

"Your Majesty, we are sworn enemies with the Ten Great Families. Those ten families are quite famous in the Central Plains. Their heyday was in the Eastern Wu and Western Han Chu regions. Almost everyone knew about them."

"Because the head of the family did not want to cause trouble for him, he could only live in seclusion in Daqin and build his own mansion."

Speaking of this, a strange idea suddenly popped into Zhao Xin's mind.

Illegal building?

"Go on."

"That woman is the eldest daughter of the Feng family, named Feng Qingsi. She came here with several Feng family secret guards and is here to destroy our Evil House!"

Now that it was finished, he understood.

It was about a woman who stole her husband's property after marriage, and then went back to her parents' home to call people to burn down her husband's land.

Who gave you the courage to be so shameless?

This is too bad.

"The master of the family hasn't woken up since that day until today! The doctors in my evil mansion are quite famous, but they haven't been able to diagnose the disease for a long time. It's even more surprising that they haven't found anything wrong with him. It's as if it's impossible for him to faint."

It's just fucking weird.

"Report—"

"Your Majesty, a bloody storm has erupted in the western border area. I wonder who got the news and even crossed the mountains to fight them.

The Southern Barbarians are helping us defend against foreign enemies. Your Majesty, we are now under attack from both sides!"

Southern Barbarians?

This was unexpected.

I thought that since the last battle, these southern barbarians just turned a blind eye to them, but I didn't expect that they could shoot me in this war.

"It's okay to not tire those southern barbarians too much. If they really want to capture Daqin, then lead them to Shu County. We've received news that the rebel army has turned from Yongzhou to Guanghan County."

Why not just let them wait in Shu County? That would kill two birds with one stone.

"Your Majesty, I don't quite understand what you mean... But that man is from Dongwu!"

"If we capture the Southern Barbarians, they will spread to Yancheng and Jianning County. Wouldn't that mean we've lost two more cities?"

When he usually heard such things, he would just send them off to do the job, but today, for some reason, he still wanted to explain it to them.

"Think about the group coming from Eastern Wu, and then think about where the supplies are plentiful. And where are the places where they can be stationed?"

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