Chapter 565: Deliberate Deception
"What? Don't you understand what I'm saying?" the Ninth Prince scolded.
"Ninth Prince, please forgive me. It was I who offended you just now." The man immediately admitted his fault with a sincere attitude and humbled himself. "May I ask why, Ninth Prince? I will go back and work with Eunuch Fan when I return."
"There's no reason, I just don't want to think about it anymore." The Ninth Prince said, waving his hand impatiently at him. "Just tell Fan Zhengde this. He knows what I'm doing and won't make things difficult for you."
The person standing in front of the Ninth Prince seemed to have struggled for a while before gritting his teeth and disappearing from the Ninth Prince's sight.
However, the Ninth Prince's prediction was wrong, and Fan Zhengde slapped the man in the face.
"Didn't I ask you to keep an eye on him? Why did he suddenly stop going?"
The visitor didn't dare to cover his face with his hands. He just lowered his head and said to Fan Zhengde, "Eunuch Fan, the Ninth Prince was about to leave, but he happened to meet Prince Jiang, so he stopped."
"Jiang Lin?" Fan Zhengde frowned. "What business did he have with the Ninth Prince?"
"I don't know." The man lowered his head even lower.
Fan Zhengde immediately glared at him, "Then what use do I have for you? You might as well..."
"Eunuch Fan, please spare me. This is indeed the case. You also know that Prince Jiang... I dare not offend him, so I dare not eavesdrop on their conversation."
Fan Zhengde thought of something, then uttered an irritable sound and said to the visitor, "Go on, when did Jiang Lin leave?"
"It was raining when Prince Jiang left. Later, Prince Jiang waited until the rain stopped before leaving." The visitor finally explained the whole story clearly, and then waited to see how Fan Zhengde would deal with him.
However, Fan Zhengde was no longer able to care about him at the moment. He had a question, "When did the relationship between Jiang Lin and the Ninth Prince become close?"
There are still some clues to this problem. In his opinion, Jiang Lin has been coming here frequently since the Ninth Prince appeared in that house. As a result of these visits, the house has become what it is today.
This is not good news for Fan Zhengde. These two people should not be together.
"When you go back, find a place for the Ninth Prince to stay. Never let Jiang Lin know where the Ninth Prince is." Fan Zhengde did not ask about the Ninth Prince's inaction.
In his eyes, he would only be worried if Jiang Lin and the Ninth Prince were in collusion.
"Yes!" Without the need to set out, the man was naturally happy and at ease, and happily took on the task.
When the Ninth Prince heard about the change of venue, he simply asked a question without further inquiry or resistance and nodded. This made Fan Zhengde even more alert, and he wanted to cut off all opportunities for the Ninth Prince to talk to others.
Jiang Lin was completely unaware of this.
They were now looking at the list of losses on a street handed to them by Anliu.
"This is really much better than I expected." Qin Xiangnuan said after taking a look.
"Yes!" Anliu had seen it himself and was very happy about it.
Nothing could be more comforting than hearing Qin Xiangnuan's description of the difficult situation and then seeing with your own eyes that the situation has improved a lot.
However, although the number now is less than expected, it is still not a small number, and this is just on one street. There is no telling how many such streets there are in the capital, and it is impossible for them to help one by one.
"Jiang Lin, what do you think?"
After Anliu expressed his doubts, Qin Xiangnuan threw this difficult problem to Jiang Lin.
Jiang Lin looked into Qin Xiangnuan's eyes, then chuckled and looked carefully at the losses recorded by the undercurrent.
When he read to the end, Jiang Lin's expression changed. He raised his brows and stared at the things on the paper, then glanced at Anliu.
Anliu straightened up at this glance and asked softly, "Master, what went wrong?"
Although he asked this, Anliu thought it was impossible. These were all collected by Anliu and his people from house to house, and not a single stroke was fake.
Jiang Lin was certain that the undercurrent was wrong.
Anliu was speechless. This was a denial of his busyness for so long. Anliu stared straight at Jiang Lin, trying to see more from his face.
Jiang Lin didn't show an answer on his face, but he said to Anliu, "Have you seen these things?"
Undercurrent looked up and his gaze fell on the location Jiang Lin pointed.
These happened to be written down by Anliu himself. He frowned and said, "These things were washed away by the rain, so they are naturally nowhere to be found."
"Oh?" Jiang Lin raised an eyebrow. "Are you sure they have such valuable items? And what a coincidence, could it really have been washed away by the rain?"
Anliu only then realized what was going on, and his eyes turned red, simply because he was angry.
Anliu, who was getting angry, snatched the paper from Jiang Lin's hand and looked at it from top to bottom.
Jiang Lin obediently let go of his hand, then half leaned back on the chair, looking at the undercurrent with a smile on his face.
An Feng sensed An Liu's rising anger and looked up with him.
After taking a few glances, An Feng also discovered the problem.
It can be seen that the losses of the first few households were still reasonable, but later on, the losses reported by some places were a bit ridiculous.
Perhaps these people saw that the undercurrent people were rich and had the good intention to help them, so they couldn't help but release their inner greed and tried to make some profit from it.
"How can these people be so hateful!" Anliu found all the unreasonable things.
Anliu still had some impression of some people. They looked extremely sad, and after receiving the rain boots and other help given by Anliu, they expressed their gratitude profusely. However, he didn't know that the other party had already intended to deceive him.
"Don't be angry." Qin Xiangnuan said from the side, "I asked you to ask, not out of charity."
Anliu felt a sense of security at Qin Xiangnuan's words. "People like this shouldn't be helped. Let them fend for themselves."
But after saying this, Anliu felt that something was wrong. In fact, these people still had hands and feet, and they only lost some personal belongings. They could continue to live without help from others.
"Miss Third, why do you want us to ask these questions?" Anliu asked doubtfully.
Qin Xiangnuan pursed her lips. At that time, she really thought that the heavy rain would last for a long time, and it would inevitably cause a certain disaster in the end, but in fact, this was far less than one-tenth of the bad situation she imagined.
However, since she had already discussed it with others, Qin Xiangnuan also wanted to take this opportunity to see how much damage such rain could cause to the people in the capital.
Natural disasters and man-made disasters always come unexpectedly. After this time, she can also estimate what to do if such a situation occurs in the future.
But I won’t say these words, as they don’t make much sense.
Therefore, after considering for a moment, Qin Xiangnuan said to Anliu, "Just asking. Now it seems that there is no need for this heavy rain to be a scare."
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