Chapter 3170 Going out to sea
At this time, Nan Yan said seriously: "Your Majesty, what mission did He Yi fail in?"
Zhu Feng originally wanted to put on a stern face and scold her, but when Nan Yan walked up to him, she wrapped her hands around his arms like a snake, looking like a clingy cat. Zhu Feng couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth.
Seeing him like this, Ruoshui at the door also breathed a sigh of relief.
Although she was curious, she knew that such matters were not something a servant should inquire about, so she retreated cautiously.
Zhu Feng didn't say much, he just picked up the file on the table and handed it to Nan Yan.
She immediately took it and unfolded it to take a look.
His brows suddenly frowned.
I thought it was some kind of file before, but when I looked closely, it turned out to be a route map for an action. Nan Yan had also learned to read a lot of maps from Zhu Feng before, and I could roughly tell that this was a waterway, from Jinling all the way to the Zhoushan estuary. There were also several places circled in the middle, which should be where something happened.
She looked at it for a long time, and finally put the file back on the table in confusion, saying, "Did the emperor ask He Yi to arrest someone?"
Zhu Feng glanced at her with a faint smile in his eyes.
"Well, not stupid."
"Who are you arresting?"
"What do you think?"
"Um……?"
Nan Yan thought about it and looked at the map again. Obviously, He Yi's route started from Jinling and ended at the Zhoushan seaport. He had failed in his mission at that place, so he must have escaped to the sea.
She whispered, "Luo Xingwen?"
Zhu Feng glanced at her again: "Why do you say that?"
Nan Yan said seriously: "He is the only one who can still be considered useful now. But——"
"Just what?"
"It's just that he's already so old. Since he's decided to leave Xingluo Lake, he really doesn't have the heart to cause trouble anymore. Why is the emperor doing this?"
Zhu Feng pinched her with a mixture of anger and amusement, saying, "Even you can figure out such a trivial matter, how can I not?"
“…”
"I am such a petty person that I wouldn't even let him go when he was at the end of his rope?"
Hearing this, Nan Yan became even more confused.
If it wasn't Luo Xingwen, then who could it be?
"Who did the Emperor ask He Yi to capture?"
It was not until this time that Zhu Feng's expression slowly darkened. Not only was his face gloomy, but Nan Yan even saw a hint of murderous intent in his flickering eyes that had not been seen for a long time.
After a long while, he finally said, "Zhu Chengjin."
"What?!"
Nan Yan was horrified and cried out in disbelief, "How is it possible for him?!"
She couldn't believe her ears.
Zhu Chengjin? Did Zhu Feng really say these three words?
How is that possible?!
Nan Yan stood there in a daze, and after a while, she looked at Zhu Feng with an expression of disbelief: "Does the emperor know what he is talking about? Zhu Chengjin!"
Zhu Feng looked at her calmly, as if he knew she would be so surprised.
Nan Yan still couldn't calm down: "He, he, isn't he dead?"
“…”
"Right in front of us, he was carried by the dragonfly and jumped off the boat together. He died in the iron net set up by Taoist Master Miaoming."
“…”
“Even the bodies were fished out.”
Zhu Feng said, "But the body has already been completely destroyed and cannot be identified at all."
Nan Yan frowned and said, "Even if the body cannot be identified, we saw him jump off the boat with Qingting holding him while he was still alive."
Zhu Feng could sense her anxiety; even the hand gripping his arm tightened, practically strangling him. He reached out and gently patted the back of Nan Yan's hand, then said, "We did see it with our own eyes, but are you sure it was him you saw?"
"What?"
Nan Yan was shocked again.
But this time, her reaction was quick.
She still remembered that on the morning of the accident, after she walked onto the deck, the sky was always dark. In fact, it was not even dawn yet. Zhu Chengjin was standing at the bow of the ship, and there were people protecting him. Except for the last time when Qingting carried him off the boat, no one could get close to him.
She really didn't see Zhu Chengjin's face clearly from beginning to end.
But after thinking about it, she felt something was wrong, and Nan Yan said, "But he, it's obviously him. I remember his figure and his voice!"
Zhu Feng glanced at her and said calmly, "Are you stupid too?"
“…”
"If on that day, in such a dim sky, you were to meet my substitute, are you sure you could recognize it at first sight?"
“…”
At this moment, Nan Yan was stunned again, and then she began to understand.
"A substitute...? His substitute?"
She remembered that after ascending the throne, the emperor would immediately find several people with similar body shapes and appearances from the people to serve as his stand-ins. When he went on tour, he would arrange several teams of imperial carriages to travel at the same time, so that some assassins with evil intentions who wanted to assassinate along the way would not be able to accurately determine the emperor's true whereabouts.
Zhu Chengjin had also been an emperor, so it was natural for him to do this.
However, Nan Yan still found it hard to believe it.
She said, "Your Majesty, are you sure he's not dead?"
Zhu Feng said, "Although I didn't see him in person, do you remember what he arranged on the ship?"
Nan Yan said, "gunpowder."
"good,"
He said coldly, "That is to say, he had already thought of this escape plan."
“…”
"Regardless of Qinglong's final action, the stand-in on the bow is his deadpool. From the very beginning, they had planned to blow up the entire ship with gunpowder. By then, the body would naturally be nowhere to be found, and he would have escaped again, just like he did before at Zichen Palace."
Nan Yan gasped.
When she looked down at the map on the table again, her eyes became blazing, and she said, "That He Yi—"
Zhu Feng said, "I wasn't sure if he had such a trick before, but after all, he escaped in the Jingnan Campaign that year. So this time, no matter how fierce the fighting on the river gets, I've already arranged for He Yi to wait downstream of the waterway. If he wants to escape, he'll definitely go that way."
Nan Yan immediately said, "The Emperor should really go there in person."
“…”
Zhu Feng rolled his eyes at her.
This young woman probably even forgot in whose hands she was at that time.
If Zhu Feng had not gone there in person, and the ship's gunpowder had really exploded, no one could tell what the situation would be now.
But Nan Yan had completely forgotten about this matter. She only focused on looking at the circled areas on the map and said, "Are these the places where He Yi met him?"
Zhu Feng nodded slightly.
"That--"
At the end of this road is the Zhoushan estuary.
In other words, Zhu Chengjin went out to sea!
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