Chapter 184 Departure
Seeing Lu Shiyan remained silent for a long time, Jiang Tangtang slowly opened her eyes, looked at him a little aggrieved and said, "Is it not possible?"
Lu Shiyan felt that her aggrieved look was a bit like the rabbit his sister used to raise, with pure and innocent eyes.
He raised his hand and stroked her face and said, "It's not that I can't, it's just that I don't want you to take risks, and I don't want you to work too hard."
Jiang Tangtang said, "It's not hard." It's just raising your hand and putting things into the space. How can it be hard at all?
As for the danger, she looked at him and said, "How about you come with me then?"
Although he already knew that his wife was unusual, Lu Shiyan couldn't help but be surprised and asked, "Just the two of us?"
Since Jiang Tangtang had mustered up the courage to say that, she was already prepared to reveal the secret. She nodded, looked at Lu Shiyan and said, "Yes, just the two of us."
Lu Shiyan didn't ask any more questions, but lowered his head to look at the map. After a while, he pointed at the map and said, "How about going to the Song family first? There are fewer guards here, and it's closer to the camp."
Jiang Tangtang didn't expect that he didn't ask anything, but just looked at the map to figure out where to go.
She was slightly stunned and lowered her head to look at the map.
After looking for a while, she pointed to the area with the densest concentration of small flags and asked, "Is this the treasury of Prefect Xiang's family? How are his guards?"
"There are more guards than at General Song's house," Lu Shiyan looked up at her and said, "Do you want to go to the Xiang family first?"
Jiang Tangtang nodded, feeling a bit surprised. She didn't understand how a prefect could have more soldiers guarding his private treasury than the person who held military power.
Lu Shiyan saw her confusion and told her about Xiang Wanlin's background.
It turned out that the Xiang family was a big family in the local area and had been entrenched in Lingnan for many years. The wife he married was the legitimate daughter of the Zhongdu Protector.
In addition, he has been in office for many years, but he has not stood up for the people. Instead, he has done all kinds of unscrupulous things. Every year, there are a few people who have been harmed by him and have nowhere else to go who come to seek revenge on him.
Therefore, he raised private soldiers early on to do some shameful things for him in secret.
However, these were all done in secret, and if Lu Shiyan's people hadn't been careful, they wouldn't have discovered it.
Jiang Tangtang was furious after hearing this, "Let's go to Prefect Xiang's house!"
She wanted to make that corrupt official who loved money lose all his money.
"Okay, you take a rest. I'll go out and make some arrangements. We'll leave in the afternoon." Lu Shiyan stood up and cleared the dishes away.
After Lu Shiyan left, Jiang Tangtang planned to take a nap, but she couldn't fall asleep at all when she lay in bed.
Her mind kept thinking about what to do next.
It must be said that the night visit to Magistrate Xiang's private vault disrupted her original plan.
Originally, she was supposed to rush back to the dock today, choose a suitable place, transfer the sweet potatoes in the space, and then return to the island to resettle the refugees.
But the food in the military camp would only last for a few days, and a large amount of food was needed to accommodate the refugees, so she had to get the food as soon as possible.
She closed her eyes and rubbed her brows, thinking about how to arrange for the refugees since she couldn't go back for the time being, when she heard Yuan San's voice outside.
Jiang Tangtang stood up and ordered the soldiers guarding outside the tent to let the people in.
Yuan San walked in, bowed to Jiang Tangtang, and immediately talked about the results of his secret investigation into the private vault.
He found the private vaults of three families in total, namely General Song, the Fu family, and the magistrate of Raoying County.
The information he found was not as comprehensive as Lu Shiyan's, but he was able to find so much information in just one night, which was already very good.
Jiang Tangtang praised him and took out his seal, saying, "I have something to do here and cannot return to the island for the time being. Take my seal to the workshop to get food, and then return with the food to help Yuan San resettle the refugees."
Yuan San was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that he was only asked to check the private database and there was no further news after that.
This is totally unlike the master's style!
He opened his mouth to ask, but swallowed the words back, "What about your safety after I leave?"
"Resettling the refugees is more important. Don't worry about me. The military will send a team to escort me when the time comes."
Jiang Tangtang added, "This matter has been discussed between your parents and me, so you can go without worry."
Yuan San took the seal, bowed deeply to Jiang Tangtang, and left with his men.
After dealing with the refugee issue, Jiang Tangtang felt much more relaxed. This time, she fell asleep on the bed in a short while.
She slept until evening.
Looking at the fiery red sunset in the sky, Jiang Tangtang gave Lu Shiyan a scolding look, "Why didn't you wake me up?"
Lu Shiyan said: "It's okay, we can still make it in time if we leave later."
"How can I make it in time?" Jiang Tangtang muttered, "I can't fly!"
Lu Shiyan just smiled and said, "Eat something before you leave."
Jiang Tangtang grabbed a steamed bun and said, "Eat while you walk."
Lu Shiyan looked at her with a smile and said, "Are you sure?"
"Of course!" Jiang Tangtang said confidently, until she saw the tall horse! Her eyes widened immediately.
She swallowed the steamed bun in her mouth with difficulty and said, "Shall we go on horseback?"
Lu Shiyan smiled and said, "Still eating while walking?"
Jiang Tangtang glared at him unhappily, "Why didn't you say so earlier?"
Lu Shiyan kindly handed over the broth beside him, "The steamed buns are dry, don't choke."
Jiang Tangtang didn't know how to ride a horse, and she didn't have the confidence to eat on horseback. No matter how anxious she was, she could only sit down and eat the steamed buns with the meat soup.
She originally thought that the soup looked delicious, but after taking a sip, she was immediately shocked by the soup in the bowl, "What kind of soup is this? It's so delicious!"
Lu Shiyan said: "Turtledove soup!"
There was a shortage of food in the military camp, and the people in the camp went to the back mountain to hunt every few days. Now, most of the large prey on the mountain had been eaten by them.
Yesterday, the soldiers from the kitchen went up the mountain and worked for a long time, but they only caught a turtledove and a snake.
So they stewed the turtledove and the snake together and sent it over.
Lu Shiyan was worried that Jiang Tangtang would be scared when she heard about snake soup, so he deliberately said it was turtledove soup.
Jiang Tangtang frowned in confusion, but didn't think much about it.
After a simple dinner, the two set off.
After Lu Shiyan rode a horse with Jiang Tangtang to Shimentuo, they changed to a water route.
This is the very famous Death Canyon in the local area. Because the river is fast-flowing and there is a waterfall over 40 meters high, no one sails here.
Jiang Tangtang was slightly surprised to see that Lu Shiyan was going to board a boat and travel by water from here.
However, although she was surprised, Jiang Tangtang did not ask any more questions.
She knew Lu Shiyan's personality. If he wasn't sure, he would never take her into danger.
As she expected, the boatmen were very skilled and were able to avoid danger and row the boat steadily every time.
When they arrived at the waterfall, Jiang Tangtang was even more certain that Lu Shiyan was well prepared!
The boatman first found a place to dock, and then several people sat in a basket and went down the waterfall. There was actually a boat prepared under the waterfall.
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