Chapter 316 Whose is it?
It's better to fail the mission than to lose your life.
Coward, just running away like that.
But how could Su Yue let the rest of the people run away? Wouldn’t she report to their leader when she returned, thus exposing her weirdness?
How could this be possible? So she killed all six people who escaped.
All fifteen people were knocked down without bloodshed, and this was the result that Su Yue was most satisfied with.
She jumped off the carriage and said to An Yi: "You watch here, I'll go over there."
"Yes, Princess, please be careful. If you need anything, be sure to call me."
"Don't worry, I'll be fine. Just look after Aunt Yu."
Aunt Yu is the cook.
An nodded.
Su Yue first went to the woods on the right and quickly came to the place where the killers died. She searched their bodies for a while but didn't find anything valuable. Instead, she received a lot of silver bills, which she collected.
Then she looked around the place. It was a small woods with few large wild animals. So she put the body into the space and would deal with it when she had the chance.
Then he went to the other side and found a lot of silver bills on the corpses. He put the corpses into the space as well, and got on the carriage after returning.
In the carriage, Aunt Yu gave her a wry smile: "I was too nervous."
Nothing happened, but she was so scared. She left a bad impression on her master. She was afraid that Su Yue would not use her in the future.
"No problem, let's go."
Why should Su Yue bother with a servant? It was already good enough that she wasn't scared to death.
When she returned to the palace, it was already dark. Murong Li was actually waiting for her at the gate. When he saw their carriage arrive, he immediately went to meet it and helped Su Yue get off the carriage.
"Has Yue'er gone to the manor?"
Su Yue nodded at him: "Yes, it's too late because I encountered some trouble on the way, but I have solved it. Let's go back and talk about it."
Murong Li's eyes darkened, and he said in a deep voice, "Okay."
However, Su Yue still thought of Aunt Yu in the carriage. After entering the mansion, she explained to Jiang Bo that she should be arranged to work in the kitchen and be responsible for her meals in the future.
Uncle Jiang took the order and went to make arrangements for Aunt Yu.
Su Yue and Murong Li returned to Lingxiao Courtyard. Murong Li asked anxiously, "Yuer, what happened on the way?"
Su Yue closed the door and brought Murong Li into the space. They came to the fifteen corpses and said, "I met these people and killed them all. Can you tell who sent them?"
"Can I take a look first?"
Murong Li said as he squatted down to check.
After watching for a long time, he stood up, shook his head and said, "I can't tell where these people come from."
Having dealt with Murong Yi many times, Murong Li was able to identify him completely.
In addition, the secret guards and death squads in the various aristocratic families in the capital all have very secret markings. Others may not know them, but he knows them.
These people had no markings on them, and they were not the emperor's secret guards.
These people's martial arts skills are not very strong. If these fifteen people were all masters, it would not be so easy for them to die at Su Yue's hands.
Murong Li fell into deep thought. Who do these people belong to?
Suddenly, Murong Li suddenly remembered that there was a person who had been missing, and that was Murong Jing.
Were these people sent by him?
It is very likely that although these people are killers, the calluses on their hands are not very thick, unlike An Yi and the others who have been trained since childhood, and the calluses on their hands can only be cut with a knife.
If it really is him, then we can't just sit there and wait for death.
Murong Li took a breath and said, "I'll send someone to check it out later. I think these people are Murong Jing's men. Yue'er should be careful when she goes out in the future. Be careful of this person."
He is in the dark and they are in the light. It is better to be safe than sorry. Even tigers take naps sometimes, and they might fall into his trap one day.
Su Yue frowned: "Is it him? He really is a rat in the gutter. How could he come back to the capital so quickly?"
Murong Li's eyes were heavy. "That's pretty close, right? There's still no news from that old fellow Qingyuan. He must have been captured by Murong Jing. Let's investigate him together. If he's not dead, bring him back."
It has been more than a month since this guy came back to the capital, and there is still no news or sighting of him. It is likely that he has fallen into Murong Jing's hands.
When he followed them back to the capital, although he didn't tell them his purpose, Murong Li could guess that it was related to Murong Jing.
The man escaped from his hands, so he must have felt uneasy and had to catch him personally.
If he really fell into Murong Jing's hands, then let's save him.
Qingyuan has done them a favor, so let's just consider it as a way of repaying him.
Su Yue nodded: "Have you eaten? I'm hungry. Let's go out and have dinner."
"No, I'll wait for you to come back and eat together."
Su Yue smiled, touched his face lightly, then took him out, asked the servants to set the table, and the two began to eat.
After the meal, Su Yue told Murong Li about the situation at the farm.
"When the sweet potatoes are harvested next year, we will take the emperor to see it. Seeing is believing."
After the old man recovered, except that he treated him a little better, his personality was exactly the same as before, suspicious and self-willed.
It would be better to let him see the sweet potato yield with his own eyes. If sweet potatoes are not suitable for growth in some places and the yield is not so high, it cannot be blamed on him.
"Yes, if he wants to reward us, we can have a few more manors like this one, regardless of location."
"Alright, then we can just ask him to give us the Northwest County as our fiefdom. We received news today that we might not be able to keep our salt production site."
Su Yue looked up and saw it, and asked in surprise: "Who discovered it?"
In such a secluded place, the people transporting salt all move around at night, and during the day they act as usual. It would be impossible to discover them unless someone pays close attention.
"It's the Niu village chief."
"It's him, what else is he thinking?"
Su Yue was a little surprised. The village chief of Niu Village was a descendant of the prince of the previous dynasty. He wouldn't want to restore his country, right?
"We don't know now. Our people have him under control, and Yunwu Village is also under control. Whatever he wants to do, he probably won't be able to accomplish anything. But we want to keep the salt production area forever, so for now we have to make Northwest County our fiefdom."
The emperor is in good health now, so it won't be a problem for him to live another ten or eight years. Maybe a little prince will be born in the future.
It is still uncertain who will be the emperor in the end.
"Okay, then I don't want the manor anymore. I want Northwest County to be our fiefdom. I think he will agree."
It's a barren place with no financial revenue every year, and it has to invest a lot of financial and material resources in the past two years. If the emperor could get rid of this burden, he would probably be smiling in his heart.
(End of this chapter)
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