Back in the main courtyard, the nine people began to be assigned rooms.

Qian Chang still wanted to sleep together, but the plot didn't allow it this time, so they had to sleep in separate rooms.

Shehe took Shi Jinzhe and Ye Zhan to live in the main house, Lin Shu, Huang Yingzong, and Qian Chang were assigned to the west house, and Fu Guanzai still brought Jiang Xiaowan and Yao Shu with him. The three of them chose the east house.

As soon as they entered the room, Shi Jinzhe tied Ye Zhan up.

Sheh was annoyed. He stared at Ye Zhan until he petrified Ye Zhan's body, then covered his mouth with a curtain, out of sight, out of mind.

The old house had very poor lighting, so as soon as it got dark, Shi Jinzhe would light the candles that Aunt Qu had given him.

The flames suddenly burst open, illuminating the entire house before returning to normal.

Shi Jin sat down on the stool and caught a glimpse of Shehe's shadow in an instant, its large, fluffy tail swaying, just like the fox he had seen that day.

Shech himself noticed the shadow of the tail.

The teacher was actually a vixen.

The flames returned to their normal size, the shadow of the tail disappeared, and Shi Jin began to act out the scene, trying his best to express his fear.

He tried to run outside, but the door was locked.

Unable to make a sound and with nowhere to turn for help, the deaf-mute could only bang on the door.

The main door of the house was shaken by Shi Jin's hammer, and the banging was so loud that his head was suddenly hit hard by a hard box.

A small wooden box made of Phoebe zhennan wood fell from the roof and landed on the ground.

There was a knock on the door. Fu Guan asked with concern, "Has something happened here?"

"No, go back."

Only Sheikh's voice could be heard in the room. She said that the two teenagers had gotten along and started fighting, but there was no need to worry, it was alright.

"Really not? Teacher, please tell me if you're scared."

"No, you can go back now."

After dismissing the others and ending the story, Shi Jinzhe and Shehe carefully opened the sealed wooden box and took out several yellowed letters.

It is a letter Yu Shuang wrote to her father.

To summarize, Yu Shuang was worried that his younger sister was not doing well in the Yu family and wanted Yu Qiongzhi to leave Banshan and live with him, which would also make it easier to find a good marriage partner.

The reasons for his misfortune were given vaguely, but it was clear from the lines that it had a lot to do with his stepmother.

Yu Qiongzhi was engaged when she was fifteen, but her grandmother passed away, and she voluntarily observed three years of mourning, which was delayed until she was eighteen.

Later, the man broke off the engagement and remarried. She was the eldest daughter of a widow who had lost her mother early, so the marriage became a problem. The Yu family father and son were unwilling to compromise, and Yu Qiongzhi's marriage was delayed for another two years.

Later, her stepmother wanted to introduce her nephew from her maternal family to Yu Qiongzhi, but for some reason, Yu Qiongzhi was very unwilling and suffered a lot of trouble.

The second letter was Yu Guang's reply, in which he agreed to let Yu Qiongzhi go to her brother's place. The following pages were filled with the father and son's concern and inquiries about Yu Qiongzhi.

Yu Qiongzhi lived in the capital for half a year. Yu Shuang's letters were full of helplessness. There were many suitors, but he didn't like any of them.

Yu Qiongzhi showed no interest in these people and spent her days carving seals. After living there for half a year, she took the initiative to suggest returning to Banshan to accompany her father.

Sheh: [The stepmother treats Yu Qiongzhi badly. Yu Guang cares so much about Yu Qiongzhi, didn't he notice?]

After reading it, Shi Jinzhe said, "There are many kinds of bad. Sometimes, excessive concern is also a kind of bad. Look at this letter."

"Yu Guang said he had met his stepmother's nephew, who was handsome and learned, and had a good chance of passing the imperial examination next year. Yu Guang, a grown man, had many inconveniences facing his adult daughter. When his wife introduced such a man to Yu Qiongzhi, he was satisfied. At this time, he would not think badly of his second wife."

"And Yu Qiongzhi is so sensible, so it's even less likely that she would take the initiative to tell her father about this. Yu Guang has a half-brother with another woman, so he is no longer just Yu Qiongzhi's father. She has to take care of both sides. Even if Yu Qiongzhi tells him, it won't change anything. She can only get Yu Guang's conciliatory attitude of trying to keep the family together."

[it is a pity. ]

Shekh conjured a snake's tail and coiled it around the roof beam to search for any other letters.

There was no letter, but there was a small, long box stuck in a corner of the roof beam. Inside was a seal stone with a kapok flower engraved on its tip.

Shi Jinzhe took the stone and weighed it in his hand. "Tianhuang stone is the best material among seal stones. The ancients said that one tael of Tianhuang stone is worth three taels of gold. The top-grade Tianhuang stone is priceless and is called the Emperor Stone. This stone is very good. The only flaw is that the carving is not very fine."

He turned it over and found that there were no words carved on the bottom, but the carving was of kapok flowers.

Putting the seal back into the box, Shi Jinzhe said, "A casual letter hidden in a sealed box is not a simple letter; it may contain some shady information. Let's look for it."

He spread out several sheets of paper, glanced at Ye Zhan halfway through, and then pulled the curtain up to block her view.

Looking at it from every angle, after being soaked in water and roasted by fire, the last few sheets of paper were stacked together, and the misspelled words on the letter formed a paragraph.

Yu Shuang instructed her father to prepare a large amount of money and provisions, and to find an opportunity to give them to Ming Pei, who was passing through Banshan after the battle. She specifically instructed him that it was better to fail than to expose the situation.

Shi Jin folded the letter and put it down. "Beset by internal and external troubles, with treacherous officials in power, and lacking money, provisions, and a war god who has never been defeated in battle, this faction wants to rebel."

Shehe stared absently at the Huangtian stone seal, then suddenly asked, "When Yu Qiongzhi lived in the capital, did she have the opportunity to meet Mingpei?"

He tilted his head and pointed to his own ear.

"You're so annoying," Sheikh wrote, grumbling as he wrote.

[Would Yu Qiongzhi have had the opportunity to meet Ming Pei while in the capital? If they were planning a rebellion, then when he protected Yu Shuang, wouldn't he have already known her?]

Shekh confirmed with Shi Jinzhe: [Rebellion is a very serious crime, isn't it?]

"Yes, they discovered the practice of executing nine generations of a family."

[Yu Qiongzhi loves carving seals. This piece of jade is very expensive, but her carving skills are only average. Among the people she can contact, Ming Pei is probably the most likely to own Tianhuang stone.]

Under the candlelight, the flames flickered, and he patiently waited for her to finish writing.

[Yu Shuang and Ming Pei cannot appear too close. If there is something between Yu Qiongzhi and Ming Pei, then her decision to return to Banshan suggests she understands there's no future for them and doesn't want to interfere with her brother's plans, hence her return.]

She was a very filial and sensible daughter. She understood everything. She had a sweetheart, but she couldn't say it out loud. She could only keep it in her heart and stay far away from him.

In the silence, the door to the west room creaked open, and someone left the room.