Chapter 155: Death of the Fake King
Butler Yan outside the door witnessed the whole scene and was surprised at the change in his master. He took the initiative to hug a girl! My God, this was something he would never have dared to think about before.
Not to mention hugging, even talking to him within three steps was unheard of. Even my own daughter was terrified when she saw her master, not to mention other girls.
What shocked Housekeeper Yan even more was Miss Ji's attitude. With this reaction, you don't look like a girl at all! She was picked up by a man, but she could still stare at him straight, neither shy nor panicked.
Butler Yan felt that he had just watched a big show, which was more interesting than watching the King of Li beheading Zheng Yun. He quietly withdrew and asked someone to prepare tea and snacks. It seemed that the master would stay here for a long time! In the room, Jin Sui asked directly: "Jiulang, are you not surprised at all that I turned into a woman?"
Yan Jiulang laughed: "What do you mean by becoming a woman? Brother Ji... Miss Ji is originally a woman, isn't she?"
Jin Sui took two steps forward, looked him in the face and asked, "How can you be so calm? Don't you have anything you want to ask me?"
If it was Yan Shiyi, he would have jumped three feet high. This guy was so calm that it was boring. Could it be that he had seen through my disguise a long time ago?
"It's not that Yan Jiu is too calm, but too many shocking things have happened to Miss Ji, and Yan Jiu has become accustomed to it."
Jin Sui choked, "Uh, are you immune to my affairs? I didn't do anything serious. I just dressed as a man, then a eunuch, and now I'm dressed as a woman again."
All the things I did during this period were for my character setting! Since I am playing the role of the violent king, I can't play a coward! Jin Sui chuckled and said, "Yan Jiulang is indeed worthy of his reputation. It seems that there are not many things in this world that can scare you! Anyway, thank you for saving me."
"Are my grandfather and brother here too?"
Yan Jiu shook his head: "They are in another villa. Liuyun is too badly injured to be moved. I will send someone to ask Master Ji and Jin'an later. If they are willing to come, I will pick them up."
Jin Sui said hurriedly: "If the villa is safe enough, don't pick them up yet! This is Yanjiao, right? Even if we pick them up, we will have to leave again and walk the same route again. It's better for me to find them!"
She was telling Yan Jiu in disguise that she would not stay in Yan.
Yan Jiu didn't comment, as if he didn't understand her hidden meaning, and said softly: "Are you hungry? I'll ask someone to bring some snacks."
Jinsui nodded: "I am indeed hungry, but before eating, I need Jiulang's help with something."
Yan Jiu hurriedly said, "Please speak, Yan Jiu is willing to serve."
There was an urgency in his tone that he himself didn't even notice. Jin Sui sighed inwardly and understood what he meant. He wanted to get her to stay by serving him.
As a big boss, it is rare to go to such lengths to retain talent.
But now she could only ask Yan Jiu for help: "The young rickshaw driver who died in the land temple died for me. I want to bury him with honor and give his family some compensation."
"in addition……"
Yan Jiu looked at her gently, without rushing her, waiting quietly for her to think.
"Also, since he died for Ji Sui, then Ji Sui should be considered dead. Please spread the word, Yan Jiulang, that the fake Li King has died at the hands of the thieves."
Yan Jiu's expression changed slightly: "Have you thought it through?"
Jin Sui opened his arms and let him see his clothes: "Can I still pretend to be Ji Sui again?"
"If you can't bear to leave Border Town, why not come back in disguise?"
Jin Sui's heart skipped a beat. Damn it, are you guys so brave? And you all say I'm brave. At least I know I'm playing the role of the King of Glory, and my character cannot be ruined.
You and Cheng Yu told me without any reservation that if I wanted to rebel against King Zhenli, they would immediately stand behind me.
She quickly shook her head: "Biancheng belongs to Gu Changxiao. If I really do something like this, I'm afraid Jiulang will be afraid of me in the future."
Today you can help me seize Gu Changxiao's border town, and someday someone will help me seize your Yanzhou.
Besides, I really don’t have the ambition to be a queen or anything like that. All I want is for Grandpa and Jin to be safe, and for me to find a paradise where I can sleep well, have enough food and clothing, and live freely and at ease.
During the time I was the fake King Li, I couldn't get a single good night's sleep.
"Besides, only after Ji Sui dies can I secretly find out the truth. I thought I could get away by leaving Yandi, but it seems that this is not possible! Since some people don't intend to let me live in peace, I can only find them out."
Yan Jiu said softly: "No matter what Miss Ji wants to do, Yan Jiu will help you."
Jin Sui still bowed his hands and clasped his hands together as he did in the past: "Thank you! Jiulang, you are such a good friend."
After realizing that she had returned to her female body, she imitated the strange manner of a woman and folded her hands, "Is this right? Thank you, Master Yan."
Yan Jiulang chuckled quietly: "No need to do that, Miss Ji, just be casual."
Soon a maid brought tea and snacks, as well as a tea stove, and Yan Jiu personally made milk tea for her.
He did not hide the fact that the imperial eunuch had come to Yanzhou, and suspected that the eunuch had other missions, but he had not yet found out.
Jin Sui then told Fang Ze what he had said, and said with some concern: "If this eunuch is Prince Yu's man, will he secretly hate Gu Changxiao?"
Yan Jiu slowly rubbed the tea bowl in his hand and asked softly, "Miss Ji, are you going to contact King Li?"
Jin Sui was stunned for a moment, then laughed at himself after a while: "No matter what the reason is, he asked me to leave Border Town in such an embarrassing way, I can't forgive his behavior."
"Ji Sui is dead. King Li has nothing to do with me. I just want to avenge Ji Sui and get out of this mess."
Yan Jiu nodded: "I understand Miss Ji's thoughts. In this case, the funeral of the fake Li King must be grand so that it can achieve the effect you want."
After the meal, Yan Jiu resigned. He would not stay in this villa. At the same time, he would go to the land temple in person to hold a funeral for the fake King Li. This news would spread throughout Yan at the fastest speed.
This early winter is destined to be uneasy. Before the people could recover from the incident of the real and fake Li King, they received the news that the fake Li King had died at the hands of thieves. How unpredictable things really are! Jin Sui wrote a letter to Grandpa and Jin An, asking them to take good care of themselves in the villa. As for Liu Yun, don't let him leave for the time being.
After a while, when she has finished her work, the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren will quietly leave. This time, they will definitely not encounter any danger.
She couldn't help but think that she would inevitably need Yan Jiu's help by then. The friendship between adults was maintained by interests. Yan Jiu was being so nice to her now, so naturally he wanted to keep her to work under his command.
If she insisted on leaving afterwards, Yan Jiu would definitely be unhappy and would have to give her something in return.
Jin Sui wondered what he had in his hand that could impress Yan Jiu. If they wanted to cooperate in business, he was not the King of Li now, and could not mobilize manpower and material resources, and he could not stay in Yandi, so it would be difficult to do business.
Give him a secret recipe? That's not right. More secret recipes are good, but less is fine for the Yan family. And no matter what the recipe is, it takes time to test it successfully.
Jin Sui looked at the falling snow outside the window and her thoughts wandered. She actually thought of something that would be a perfect gift for Yan Jiu. Moreover, she believed that after he got this thing, he would not be unwilling to let her go.
Having lived two lives, Jinsui fears most that thing is owing favors to others.
Using the original owner's body, she took on the responsibility of taking care of Grandpa Ling and Jin'an, as well as clearing Ling's father's name.
Gu Changxiao rescued three generations of a family from the hands of bandits and blocked a knife for Jin'an. She pretended to be the King of Li and gave him a better border town. Even though she was driven away, she was sad but did not want to retaliate and just regarded it as repaying a debt of favor.
It would be enough to just be a stranger to Gu Changxiao in this life.
The young driver died for her, and she wanted to avenge both the young man and herself, so she must find out and kill all the men in black!
Of course, she has no ability to retaliate against the culprit, Prince Yu, but Prince Yu is also on her blacklist. Even if I can't kill you, I will secretly trip you up!
Then there was the person she owed the most debt to at the moment—Yan Jiu.
Admittedly, the work is not done yet, but I have to figure out how to pay off the debt first.
Jin Sui asked the maid to bring paper and pen. When Butler Yan heard that Miss Ji was painting, he was surprised again. It turned out that Miss Ji, after returning to her female body, still knew some things that a girl should do.
I thought she only knew how to fight and kill people! Halfway through the painting, her eyes got tired, so she went for a walk in the yard. She dressed warmly, as the maid had brought her a few pairs of new shoes.
She had cotton shoes for home and deer boots for going out. She put on the boots and went to the yard to walk on the snow.
Ask the maids: "How heavy was the first snow in Yan in the past?"
The maid smiled and said, "It will take at least three days. The snow came relatively late this year. It already snowed in mid-September last year."
Jinsui repeatedly told himself that the border town was no longer his business, but he still couldn't help wondering, do those refugees who had just left the mountains and the people who had traveled thousands of miles to the border have warm houses to live in?
I hope Cheng Yu can make proper arrangements so that the people who have traveled to the border town with so much difficulty don’t face the risk of freezing to death or starving to death again.
Just as the maid said, the snow really lasted on and off for three days before the sky cleared up. Long icicles formed on the eaves of the house, and the icicles on the trees were intertwined with snowflakes. The scenery was even more beautiful than in mid-spring.
People who can appreciate the beauty of snow scenery must have enough clothes and food. What the lower-class people fear most is the severe cold.
During these three days, Jinsui had been drawing. When his hands were frozen, he would sit by the fire, drink milk tea, and then go to the yard to watch the snow.
She didn't ask the maid Yan Jiu when she would come? It was basic courtesy not to cause trouble to others when staying at someone else's house.
What she didn't know was that although the land of Yan was already covered in snow, the news that the fake King Li had died at the hands of thieves was as shocking as throwing a fish oil firearm into the ice and snow.
Yan Jiu did it on purpose and let the news spread in the border town as soon as possible. Cheng Yu, regardless of the wind and snow, led the border soldiers to rush to the grave overnight.
Ignoring the objections of the Yan family and risking a feud with Yan Jiu, he insisted on digging up the grave and opening the coffin to conduct an autopsy.
Unfortunately, the body was unrecognizable. It was said that the horse thieves who killed the fake King Li were Zheng Yun's former subordinates, those who escaped in the Zheng Yun case.
In order to vent his anger, he destroyed the fake King Li's body like this.
After Cheng Yu performed the autopsy, he said nothing, but respectfully burned incense in front of the grave, apologized to the Yan family, and returned to the border town with the border soldiers.
Chen Yunniang and the other women all cried until their eyes turned red. They choked up and asked, "Is it really Little Taoist Ji?"
Cheng Yu nodded in public: "God is jealous of talents."
The border soldiers all cried quietly. The King of Li was fake, but the relationship he had with the border soldiers when he was in the border town was real.
We didn't even have time to say goodbye properly, and when we met again, we were separated forever.
After everyone left, Cheng Yu whispered to Chen Yunniang, "It's not Taoist Little Ji! I knew that with his intelligence, it's impossible for him to die easily at the hands of thieves."
Chen Yunniang's sadness turned into joy: "Really!"
"Really! Although the corpse is disfigured, it is stronger than Taoist Xiao Ji and has big feet. Anyone familiar with it will know it is a substitute."
Chen Yunniang was puzzled: "Why did the head of the Yan family hold such a grand funeral for the substitute of Taoist Ji? And why did he let everyone in the world know about it?"
"Of course it's to protect the real Little Taoist Ji! There are still many people in Yandi who want Little Taoist Ji's life!"
"Does the prince know?"
Cheng Yu was stunned: "Yes, I will send a message to the prince right away. I hope the prince will not be deceived by false news."
Chen Yunniang sighed softly. As smart as you are, you were so flustered when you heard the news of Taoist Xiao Ji's death that you rushed to the Yan family to perform an autopsy without any hesitation.
What’s more, he is the prince!
In this kind of situation, only bystanders can see clearly. The more concerned someone is, the more likely they are to believe lies.
Chen Yunniang's guess was correct. When Gu Changxiao received the secret letter and read the short sentence "Ji Sui was killed by an assassin in the land temple at night".
At that moment, Gu Changxiao only felt a buzzing sound in his ears, and the world turned into nothingness.
He felt as if his soul had left his body, as if he had been hit hard in the chest, his vision went dark, and his hands didn't even have the strength to hold a piece of paper.
I heard Han Xing shouting in panic: "Prince!"
He was shocked to realize that he had fallen off the horse. At the same time, his throat felt sweet and a mouthful of blood spurted out.
Han Xing and the others were shocked and hurried forward to help him off the horse: "What happened, Your Majesty? Quick, bring some medicine."
Gu Changxiao came back to his senses, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and said, "The king is fine."
He pushed Han Xing and the others aside and dug the note out of the snow. His hands were shaking and his heart seemed to be tightly grasped. Every breath he took caused a sharp pain in his chest.
At this time, Han Xing also saw the words on the note clearly. He was also shocked and felt dizzy, but he soon reacted:
"My Lord, this news must be false!"
"Master Xiao Ji is so smart, how could she be killed so easily! Besides, you sent Liuyun to escort her secretly. Master Xiao Ji is armed with firearms, so a few thieves can't hurt her!"
Gu Changxiao's eyes, which had been as hopeless as death, gradually brightened up: "Yes, he is not someone who would allow himself to be slaughtered without using firearms."
"I want to go and see for myself. If he's alive, I want to see him. If he's dead, I want to see his body!"
He climbed onto the horse and tried to turn it around, but Han Xing stopped him: "Your Highness, please wait a little longer. Lord Cheng will definitely go and see it in person. If you go back now, you will fall right into that man's trap!"
Gu Changxiao roared, not at Han Xing, nor at the soldiers of the Black Feather Camp, but at himself, at fate, and at the invisible hands that controlled fate.
He was like a trapped beast, with both his mind and body forced into a dead end.
A thought couldn't help but emerge in my mind, what if it was true?
He also brought Master Ji and Jin An with him, just in case Liu Yun didn't come to rescue him in time, just in case he didn't have time to use the fish oil firearm, just in case he really died...
I parted ways with him just to let him survive, at least so that he could survive, even if he hated and resented me, and let him leave the border town in such a miserable state.
But in the end, he still died.
Gu Changxiao, you are so useless!
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