A pure white jade hairpin held up his hair, below which was a gentle and refined face, with a pair of captivating peach blossom eyes etched on his face, exuding a myriad of charms.
The azure robe brushed against Ji Yanwen's cheek as he entered the room.
Ji Yanwen's eyes darkened slightly. He closed the window, turned to look at him, brushed away the dust that had been swept by the corner of his clothes, and the veins on his forehead throbbed.
"Tsk tsk, why are you still wearing that fake face?"
"Speaking of which, you were almost dead from your injuries last time, how did you recover so quickly?"
The newcomer immediately launched into a barrage of teasing; though his voice was clear and pleasant, his words were anything but pleasant to hear.
Ji Yanwen remained silent, reached out and removed the mask from his face, revealing his true appearance.
"Hey, why don't you have any pimples on your face? I remember the last time I saw you, your face was covered in pimples. I was so sorry that such a beautiful face was ruined like this."
"Although you are not as good-looking as me, you are still quite handsome. This mask has ruined your appearance."
"Unexpectedly, it has recovered. Could it be that it changed its mask?"
Before Ji Yanwen could say a word, he started babbling on and on, and even reached for the mask that Ji Yanwen had placed on the table, as if he wanted to check if the mask had really been upgraded.
After he slapped his hand away, he didn't seem to care and started rambling again: "I say, Ji Mo, Ji Mo, you really are something else. The last time we met you, you were just a poor scholar. I never thought that when we met again, you would be someone's son-in-law."
"How's it going? How does it feel to be a live-in son-in-law? Do you feel like you're living off a woman?"
Seeing that he was going too far, Ji Yanwen couldn't hold back his anger any longer and gritted his teeth, saying, "Yu Shang, can't you just shut up?"
It turns out that this handsome young man, who unfortunately had a mouth, was none other than Yu Shang, who had recently gone to Jiangjia Village to help deal with the Wang family's assassins.
Ji Yanwen was clearly angry, and Yu Shang finally stopped talking, muttering, "Fine, I won't say it then."
"You contacted me yourself, and you won't let me speak? Well then, I'm not going to say anything from now on."
He might say he wouldn't say it, but that didn't stop him from continuing to produce output.
He sat down skillfully, picked up the wine pot on the table, poured the wine into his mouth, took two sips, put it down, smacked his lips, and said, "The taste of this wine is far inferior to that in the capital."
"Can't you be serious for once?"
"Look at yourself! Do you still look like a prince?"
Ji Yanwen couldn't help but feel a headache coming on when he saw him like this.
“You said yourself that you are a young master of the Prince’s mansion, not the heir of the Prince’s mansion. What’s wrong with me like this?” Yu Shang didn’t care. He picked up his chopsticks to pick up some food, but as soon as he picked it up, Ji Yanwen pressed down his chopsticks and handed him a packet of silver needles.
Be careful when you're out and about.
"You're just too cautious," he muttered, but still checked each item with the silver needles one by one before Ji Yanwen allowed him to eat the food on the table.
"Why did you specifically seek me out?"
Knowing that this person usually kept himself very private, and that he would never contact him unless absolutely necessary, Yu Shang stopped joking around and started talking about serious matters.
Ji Yanwen couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"I wanted to ask you about the matter of the county magistrate being deposed. What's the current situation?"
Yu Shang paused, turned to look at him, and said, "Why are you asking about this all of a sudden? Is the dismissal of the county magistrate related to you?"
He looked at him suspiciously, then thought about it and realized it was impossible.
He's too busy hiding his identity to actively seek out such trouble.
"I'm worried." Ji Yanwen's expression didn't change at all.
Seeing Yu Shang looking at him with suspicion, he didn't answer, but instead asked, "After the county magistrate's incident, what has happened at the Chen residence?"
The topic was changed, but Yu Shang didn't mind. He just ate his food and said, "There hasn't been any commotion. After Wang Shaoyang left, that guy surnamed Chen has been quiet."
"After the county magistrate got into trouble, someone did send a visiting card to his residence, but he didn't see anyone."
"Speaking of which, Jiang Bai's cousin seemed to have gone to the Chen residence yesterday..."
At this point, Yu Shang paused, put down his chopsticks, turned to look at Ji Yanwen, and said incredulously and with shock, "You don't actually think the Chen family would pin the county magistrate's troubles on Jiang Baitou, do you?"
Seeing Ji Yanwen nod, Yu Shang's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.
One is a high-ranking county magistrate, and the other is an unknown village girl. What kind of fool would blame her for the county magistrate's dismissal?
He couldn't believe it at all.
“Jiang Bai… is not simple.” Ji Yanwen was silent for a while, and could only manage to utter this sentence.
"She's really something else. She even managed to cripple the Wang family's assassins. I thought she had been trained as an assassin when she was young!" Yu Shang nodded repeatedly, recalling the scene he saw when he visited the Jiang family last time.
"Mainly, Jiang Songzong knows Jiang Bai's strength."
“Wang Shaoyang sent people to try several times, but they failed. Chen Qi is eager to make a contribution, so he may take this opportunity to arrest Jiang Bai and put him in jail.”
"Given his style of doing things, hasn't he done this kind of thing countless times?"
It was precisely because Ji Yanwen knew what kind of person Chen Yuanwai was that he felt such concern when he learned that Jiang Bai had dismissed the county magistrate.
He can find a crime to accuse you even if you're innocent, let alone the fact that Jiang Bai did it.
"If that's the case, then when Jiang Songzong came out of the Chen residence, he was indeed beaming with joy, and he was carrying quite a few gifts from the Chen family."
"Chen Qi would not meet with a student who has not even passed the preliminary examination for the imperial examination for no reason."
Yu Shang's expression turned serious.
"March."
I knocked on the window, and the window of the private room next door opened, revealing March's head.
"Go, send someone to keep an eye on Jiang Songzong. If he wants to return to Jiangjia Village, find a way to make him unable to speak, and preferably unable to write either."
March nodded, took out a whistle and blew it. Soon a man in black appeared in the private room where he was. After receiving the order, he withdrew.
Ji Yanwen, who was inside the room, did not stop Yu Shang from giving instructions.
After learning that Jiang Songzong had visited the Chen residence, his suspicions were about 80% confirmed. Rather than waiting for trouble to strike, he decided to take the initiative.
“Jiang Songzong is just a tool; the real mastermind is Chen Qi,” he reminded him. Yu Shang then knocked on the window and called for March.
"Young master."
"Have someone cause some trouble for Chen Qi, so he won't have time to deal with the case of the county magistrate being dismissed."
"yes."
After giving the orders, March summoned another man in black to cause trouble for Master Chen.
Thinking that neither of them could pose a threat to Jiang Bai for the time being, Ji Yanwen breathed a sigh of relief.
Yu Shang sat down at the table again, picked up his chopsticks, ate a few bites, and then asked, "Do you remember what you mentioned in the message last time?"
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