Chapter 124 The Disappearance of Zhou Zhilu
In the blink of an eye, it was the day for Wuan and Yunli to leave, and both of them would go to the northern border.
Everyone gathered in Tianxiang Pavilion again.
Zhou Zhilu, Fusu, and the others raised their glasses and saluted Wuan and Yunli, saying, "I wish Brother Wuan and Brother Yunli all the best on this trip to the northern border. May you display your skills, achieve great things, and spread the prestige of the Song Dynasty!"
Wu An and Yun Li also raised their glasses in response.
"Alas..." Yun Li sighed beside him: "After this separation, I really don't know when we can meet again."
The frontier is not like a county town in China. Once you go there, you have to obey orders. The higher the position you hold, the more difficult it is to leave.
Wu An put his arm around Yun Li's shoulders and shouted, "Why are you sighing? We're going to make a name for ourselves! Zhilu and the others may not be able to see us, but we're going to make a name for ourselves, so that even back in the capital, they can hear about my reputation as a killer in the army!"
"Hahahaha, well said! Cheers to the God of Killing in the Army!"
Then everyone started talking about the Western Regions.
Yun Li said, "The Southern Dynasty still denies all claims regarding the Buddhist world, saying it was the personal actions of General Zhendong and that scholar, and had nothing to do with the Southern Dynasty."
Fusu added, "I heard the court only reprimanded him and didn't pursue the matter further. Is that the end of it?"
Zhou Zhilu, however, knew more details and explained, "It's not that they just let it go. The Southern Dynasty secretly made compensation, but they just didn't make it public.
"Currently, neither the Great Song nor the Southern Dynasty has any intention of starting a war. If this matter were brought to light, they would have to fight back, otherwise where would their face be? So they reached a settlement in secret, and the amount of compensation paid by the Southern Dynasty seems to be quite large."
Wu An shook his head upon hearing this and said, "This Southern Dynasty really needs to be dealt with. After I finish my trip to the northern border, I'll go to the western border and I'll definitely meet them there!"
"Oh right!" Wu An said, "I heard Liang Yuan wrote to you. What did he say? Is he able to return to the capital?"
Zhou Zhilu's expression suddenly became strange, and he couldn't help laughing: "He did write a letter, but I didn't expect that he was from a good family in the capital."
"A new aristocratic family?" Yun Li asked in surprise.
Zhou Zhilu nodded and said, "However, Liang Yuan is only a member of the Liang family's branch. He was originally sent to the Western Regions because he offended someone from the original family.
"After this achievement, the Liang family took notice of him. He then wrote to the Liang family saying that the Western Regions were too peaceful and stable, and that he couldn't fully utilize his talents, so he wanted to leave.
"So the Liang family said that since you are so capable...then they would send you to the northern border. There are many wars there, so there is room for you to show your abilities."
Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and then burst into laughter.
"Hahahaha, great, great!" Wu An clapped his hands and said happily, "I won't be alone on this trip to the northern border. This team is really getting bigger and bigger."
In fact, in addition to Liang Yuan's letter, Zhou Zhilu also received letters from other people in the past few days.
Yu Yao wrote to say that if she wanted to investigate the Zhou family's ancestral traces, the Yu family would be willing to help find them, and it all depended on her wishes.
Although it depends on one's own wishes, the positive attitude of the Yu family still made Zhou Zhilu feel a little suspicious, so he declined and went back.
In addition to the letter from the Western Regions, the Seventh Princess Song Luo also sent Aunt Mo to deliver a letter. The content was not very nutritious. The whole letter was full of complaints. Ever since she revealed that she could extract properties from demon blood, she had been watched by the Fifth Prince for research and was strictly forbidden to go out to play alone.
However, the research on the extraction of demon blood has also reached a bottleneck. The value of the extracted blood of low-level demons is too low, and it is too highly repellent to the human body. At present, there is a lack of a large amount of top-level demon blood for experiments. We can only wait until there is a harvest in the north.
At the end of the letter, she said that she would definitely find a way to sneak out and play with him.
Zhou Zhilu smiled, fearing that he would no longer be in the capital by then.
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On the South Fourth Ring Road of Beijing, the former Fan Mansion is now overgrown with weeds.
Mainly because of the existence of the Fan family, this house seems somewhat ominous, and no one is willing to take it over so far.
Not far from the Fan Mansion, there is a house that is no less large than the Fan Mansion, and its interior is even more beautifully decorated. This is the Jiang Mansion.
However, there were still some white ribbons left in the Jiang Mansion at this time, making it look like a funeral had just been held not long ago.
From the inner room, the sound of women arguing could be heard.
"Jiang Shang! Speak up! Shengtian just died like that, and you're not going to do anything? Are you still his father?!"
A woman dressed in gorgeous clothes pulled the arm of the middle-aged man in front of her and cried at the top of her lungs.
And this middle-aged man is naturally Jiang Shengtian’s father, Jiang Shang, the current third-rank assistant minister of the Ministry of Personnel.
Jiang Shang flung the woman to the ground with a flick of his hand and angrily said, "What do you want me to do? Don't you know what crime Shengtian has committed?
"That's rebellion! It's a heinous crime punishable by the death of nine generations of your clan! If it weren't for the Left Prime Minister speaking well of Shengtian in front of His Majesty, saying that Shengtian was simply bewitched by some demonic god and had nothing to do with our Jiang family, you and I would have been beheaded by now!
"Holding a funeral for that rebellious son at home is already my biggest concession. What else do you want me to do? Do you want me to do it too... humph!"
Jiang Shang paused, his many years of experience as an official taught him that even at home, he must not speak without restraint, so he turned away angrily and left.
The woman was left alone sitting on the ground crying.
At this time, a young man came in, helped the woman up, and said in a gentle voice: "Mom, the ground is cold, please get up quickly."
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