Song Sanniang knew the truth in her heart, but it was not a good thing for the rumors to continue spreading outside, and it would also affect her future pursuit of her wife. With a quick thought, she came up with a plan...
In this world, people at the bottom of society have a hard time living. In order to make a living, some people do all kinds of unconventional skills that can make money, even if it means they may lose their heads.
But for those people, being alive now is a blessing. If they don't work, they will starve to death, but if they work, maybe nothing will happen.
Zhang Qi is one of them. He specializes in speaking ill of others. The most common thing he receives is spreading rumors to ruin the business of the person who entrusts him with a task. Even more vicious are some young ladies. For various reasons, they will frame the reputation of the young lady who does not get along with her. Although this kind of job is risky, the money paid is high.
Of course, on the surface, he is still a storyteller. The restaurant where he tells stories has been doing good business recently, which is a good thing. However, he did not expect that with more customers, he became more picky and said that his stories were outdated.
If he doesn't come up with new content, the restaurant owner will definitely replace him soon. He has been thinking about new stories recently, but if he can really write one that will make people applaud, then he will not be on the storytelling stage, but in the academy.
I finally fell asleep at night, but I woke up because I drank too much tea during the day. Although I was extremely reluctant, I finally got up, squeezed my legs together and ran outside to get up at night.
Only after taking care of the important matters did he come out of the dry toilet with a sense of relief.
'I feel better now. I can't drink so much water tomorrow.' Thinking of this, something suddenly fell on his head. When he found that there was no one around, Zhang Qi dared to curse in a low voice the wicked guy who threw things around.
He cursed out all sorts of things, and finally calmed down. He then turned his attention to the thing that had hit him, and when he looked closely, he saw that it was a thick stack of books.
He took a closer look in the moonlight, and then his heart began to beat faster. He slammed the book shut, looked around like a thief, put the book in his pocket, and went into the house.
At the same time, more than ten 'Zhang Qi' received the book.
A few days later, the teahouse patrons suddenly discovered that the storytellers in the teahouses suddenly had wonderful stories. There were stories like the real daughter who was taken away by mistake and returned home, or the family suddenly discovered that there was an adopted sister. Or there was the concubine who switched their children during childbirth in order to get revenge on the wife, and finally the wife discovered that the child she had been abusing was actually her own child...
Although he felt an indescribable panic, the storyteller had not yet finished his story when the incident of child swapping was exposed. Not just one case, but several families had discovered such incidents. When the news came out, the storyteller became an instant hit.
Now, if I walk on the street and ask anyone, I know everything.
As for the gossip about Song Sanniang a few days ago, no one mentioned it again.
At this time, Song Sanniang was on the road with Xie Jinze. They were taking a break when 108 spoke.
Song Sanniang learned from the system about the situation she had caused in the capital and smiled. She just couldn't stand seeing the people being so bored.
Song Sanniang: Gossip is lively only when all kinds of flowers bloom.
In order to take care of Xie Jinze's health, they did not travel very fast along the way. By the time they arrived at Tongguan, more than twenty days had passed.
"Thank you, Miss. We are here."
Xie Jinze lifted the curtain and looked at the huge monster in front of him.
Tongguan was originally just a simple earthen wall. It was built by the people living here at that time to resist the barbarians from the Ulan and Yue tribes who came to burn, kill and loot.
Later, it was gradually improved and built into the current city wall with a height of 75 feet and a circumference of 6 kilometers.
Because it is located at the border and has been subjected to war for many years, the outer city walls are full of traces left behind.
Song Sanniang's face lit up, and then the soldiers standing guard above exchanged slogans and confirmed their identities, and then the city gate in front of them began to open towards them.
"Thank you, Miss. Let's go into the city."
Xie Jinze nodded, "Okay."
As for the title "Miss Xie", when Song Sanniang called him that for the first time, he wanted her to change it, but she blocked it back to him in order to avoid others noticing anything wrong.
By now, he could respond without changing his expression.
Accompanied by the sound of "da da da" of the carriage, the group quickly entered Tongguan. As the sound of the city gate closing rang out, tranquility returned outside the city, with only the wind and sand whistling from time to time.
Song Sanniang placed the person in the general's mansion first and asked Wen Qing to stay and look after him. She wanted to talk to her father first. She was worried that the news would leak out, so she simply reported her safety to Father Cheng in the letter. As for Xie Jinze's affairs, he was still unaware of it.
So when the two sides met in the afternoon, Xie Jinze found that Cheng Wuan was the same as Mrs. Cheng before. He just chatted with Song Sanniang for a while, and then his attitude towards him changed 180 degrees.
Just like the look in General Cheng Wuan's eyes today, it seems that the two are indeed husband and wife, and they are very similar in some aspects.
After some greetings and a meal, General Cheng said that he and Xie Huaixu were old friends, and he could stay in the general's mansion as long as he wanted, and he should treat it as his own home and not feel burdened.
In this way, Xie Jinze settled down in the general's mansion. As for the fact that he released carrier pigeons from time to time, Song Sanniang pretended not to notice and even helped cover it up.
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A few months passed, and what was supposed to come finally came.
The Cheng family members who stayed in the capital brought news that Emperor Jing was dying, but a few days later, the news they received changed.
'Emperor Jing died of illness and passed the throne to the Second Prince Xiao Tingmo'. In addition to this sentence, there was also a secret code in that sentence. Combined with the message in the letter, it meant that the news that Emperor Jing died of illness and passed the throne to the Second Prince was questionable.
After reading it, Cheng Wuan handed the note to Song Sanniang who was standing beside him.
"Yuchuan, what do you think?"
Song Sanniang glanced at the contents of the letter and was silent for a moment. "Father, it's obvious that those behind Concubine An couldn't help themselves, or perhaps they discovered something, so they attacked the emperor."
After hearing what Song Sanniang said, Cheng Wuan looked around nervously, feeling extremely guilty.
He slapped his daughter a few times (on the back) and lowered his voice, "I just asked you to analyze it briefly, not to speak out loudly like that. What if someone hears it?"
Song Sanniang looked at her father with innocent eyes.
Seeing this, Cheng Wuan didn't know what to say and sighed.
"Forget it, you should go and see the girl from the Xie family now."
Song Sanniang also had this plan in mind. She nodded and turned around and left.
Cheng Wuan looked at her back, the smile on his face disappeared, and a few more wrinkles appeared on his face.
The storm is coming. I wonder how Songyue is doing.
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