Jiang Luofu couldn't help but spit, "Your mouth is as sweet as honey, no wonder you've had so many female confidantes around you these days."

Zu An feigned surprise: "Principal, have you tasted it? You even know the secret that my mouth is sweet."

Jiang Luofu finally couldn't take it anymore: "You rascal, you're clearly trying to save Yu Yanluo, but you're making it sound like you're doing it for me."

Zu An said in a deep voice, "If it weren't for you, even if I wanted to save people, I wouldn't have been able to take out the Phoenix Nirvana Scripture."

Feeling his intense gaze, Jiang Luofu's heart couldn't help but beat a little faster. When this guy first entered the academy, she only thought of him as a naive little kid, but now he's so mature...

She lowered her gaze and said with a half-smile, "You've been holding my hand for so long, do you know that's enough to constitute the crime of harassing a woman?"

Zu An said seriously, "Principal, you are mistaken. You are not married yet, so how can you be called a woman?"

Jiang Luofu became serious: "According to the laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty, all women who have reached the age of 14 are referred to as women in legal texts."

Zuan: "..."

He then remembered that she was ranked eighth in the academy and her major was Lawyer. No wonder she changed her demeanor when talking about these things. He decided it was best not to try to show off his limited knowledge in front of her.

Jiang Luofu took the manual and withdrew her hand, then said, "I will seal this manual away and take it back to Princess Qi. No one else will see it, and of course, I won't look at it myself."

Zu An laughed: "Of course I don't mind if the headmistress sees it, but this technique is harmful to women, so it's best not to look."

This manual is a fake Phoenix Nirvana Sutra that the emperor tampered with. It's obvious that practicing it would be dangerous, but unfortunately, he couldn't say that openly. He could only use this method to warn the other party.

Jiang Luofu smiled and didn't explain further. In front of him, she put the manual into a box and then sealed it.

This seal was developed by the academy and is frequently used in military and imperial documents. Once sealed, opening it will inevitably break the seal and allow others to discover it.

Clearly, she did all this to show that she wouldn't peek during the process.

After doing all this, she finally put the box into her storage bag.

Zu An withdrew his gaze and asked curiously, "Now that I've given you the items, what's the plan to save Yu Yanluo?"

Jiang Luofu answered crisply, "To break them out of prison."

Zuan: "???"

Do you really need to tell me how to do this? It's such a simple and straightforward method.

Jiang Luofu explained, "Now Yu Yanluo is under strict guard by Xu Yu and the people from the Imperial Envoy's side. Xu Yu is a meticulous man, and Sang Hong is also an old fox. It would be extremely difficult to sneak her away from under their noses. It would be better to just rob her directly."

Zu An frowned and said, "Xu Yu has the imperial edict in his hands, and the prison is now full of experts, with a sword immortal like Xiao Yao guarding it. How can we possibly snatch it by force?"

"More importantly, how do we clean up the mess after the looting?"

He wasn't ready to be a wanted criminal yet. If he were hunted down by the imperial court and accused of colluding with demons, everything he had worked so hard to build would be completely destroyed. The key issue was that he couldn't see any future, and there was no place for him in the world.

"That's all I can do." Jiang Luofu leaned back in her seat, her beautiful curves on full display. Clearly, the unexpected success had put her in a good mood. "But I need to do some preparations. I'll contact you again in a few days."

"Okay." Zuan also needed time to transport Yu Yanluo's clansmen out first.

If it were anyone else making such a promise without any substance, he certainly wouldn't believe it. But Jiang Luofu was different; he believed that the other party wouldn't lie to him.

Watching Jiang Luofu's hurried departure, Zu An fell into deep thought.

Initially, he planned to join forces with the Prince of Qi to deal with the emperor, but as a series of events unfolded in Yunzhong County, it became clear that the two sides could not truly be on the same side, and even a superficial peace was impossible.

The power that King Qi had painstakingly built up here was wiped out by him. He returned to the capital. No, he might not even need to return to the capital. King Qi's revenge had already begun.

He could have avoided all of this if he had pretended not to know anything at the last moment, but he couldn't bear to ignore the deaths of his wife and children, who were sunk in the boat, and the innocent people in that village.

While spiritual practice may grant superhuman powers, it can also lead to the loss of even the most basic principles of being a decent human being. What then is the point of spiritual practice?

Since he couldn't just sit idly by and watch the Qi Prince's Mansion actually form a marriage alliance with the Pei family, he decided to use the fake "Phoenix Nirvana Sutra" to completely resolve the situation.

No matter how powerful an emperor is, he cannot outlast time. His time is not far off, so he can simply lie low for a few more years.

On the contrary, King Qi is in his prime. If he were to defeat Zhao Hao and ascend the throne, his own fate would be dire.

Having figured all this out, he smiled wryly, left the tea money, and drifted away.

He transformed into Jian Yanyou once again and returned to the Duke's mansion. He then quickly issued various orders and mobilized all sorts of carriages, as if he were about to make a big deal.

This alarmed even Zhang Ji, who ran over with a worried look on her face and asked, "Your Highness, what are you doing?"

“So many things happened before, causing a lot of goods that should have been completed to be stuck there. Now that things have stabilized, we naturally need to arrange for normal circulation as soon as possible,” Zuan explained.

Zhang Ji sighed softly, "My lord, although I don't know much about these things, I can see that with Madam just arrested, how can you possibly be in the mood to deal with those backlogged transactions?"

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