Chapter 57 The Enemy Comes to Your Door

Prince Zhongxin dispatched his own men from the towns along the way, and had no connection with Zanhua Lane based on the status of the royal palace.

The county magistrate thought that Zanhua Lane itself was very powerful, and he became more respectful to the people there. In addition to the business dealings that had been agreed upon at the beginning, he was even willing to report to the higher authorities and ask for credit for Zanhua Lane.

Shen Yingxue originally wanted to gain a good reputation, but appearing in the court's sight always made him feel uneasy.

Haven’t you seen that the heroes in “Water Margin”, after being recruited by the imperial court, completely became their guns, fighting everywhere, suppressing rebellions for them, without even giving them a moment to rest, exhausting people to death?

There weren't that many uprisings in this dynasty. Although there were foreign enemies, the court could handle them by itself. There was no need to give military power to the Jianghu people. The worst consequence of their friendship with the court would be to fight those Jianghu people, which was similar to what they were doing now, but there was a big difference in essence.

Shen Yingxue had never had any contact with anyone in the court and had no idea what their attitude towards the martial arts sects was, so she wrote a letter to ask King Zhongxin. After receiving a positive answer, she gave the county magistrate a reply. The incident was reported in the court newspaper the following month. By then, the people of Chuncheng knew that behind Baihua Xiao was actually the martial arts forces of Jiangnan.

More and more people came to Baihua Xiaoli just to make friends with Zanhua Lane. Some people even asked to see the owner of the flower, and when they couldn't see her, they made trouble. All of them were beaten out by Manu.

"It's too chaotic." Shen Yingxue looked at the noisy people outside and lost her mood for vacation.

Ever since his disguise fell off, he no longer had to pretend to be the flower owner. He could go out and play freely every day without having to ride a rocking car.

But Lan Jin was very worried. He was concerned about many things and did not dare to let Shen Yingxue go out often. So most of the time, Shen Yingxue stayed in the room. After more people came outside to find trouble and give gifts, Shen Yingxue could not go out even more.

There was no point in staying here any longer, so Shen Yingxue told Lan Jin and packed up her things to go back to Zanhua Lane.

Unlike when he came, Shen Yingxue was like a salted fish that had lost its dream when he left. He spent most of his time in the carriage, quietly watching dramas along the way, and even dared not play games, trying his best to avoid communicating with Jiang Hanfeng.

Jiang Hanfeng was used to his silent and dull look, but when he thought about how he had been pretending to be the flower master for so long, he felt that his illness was not as simple as it seemed.

The subordinates had arranged an inn for them to stay in advance. Shen Yingxue had a pale face and a dazed expression as she was helped out of the carriage by Jiang Hanfeng.

The flower owner's fame grew, more and more people talked about him, and his characteristics were very obvious. On the way back, Shen Yingxue did not use the identity of the flower owner and was very low-key.

The inn was not cleared out and there were still other guests eating and drinking inside. When they saw someone coming, some of them looked at the door, while others were chatting happily with friends and did not notice the noise behind them.

In Shen Yingxue's eyes, these people were not worthy of attention. Their mosaics were too ordinary. Only the blue, very conspicuous cat head in the corner caught his eyes with its outstanding visual impact.

Jiang Hanfeng followed Shen Yingxue's line of sight and recognized her.

He pulled Shen Yingxue to the other side and stood in front of him, "Are you tired?"

Shen Yingxue was still looking over there. "I've seen that thing before."

Shen Yingxue was deeply impressed by the mosaic of the robot cat.

Xun Yan didn't let them touch it before, so Shen Yingxue had never tried the feel of a robotic cat.

Who wouldn't want to experience being a robot cat?

"Don't look over there." Jiang Hanfeng was already used to his choice of words and sentences. Lan Jin went to talk to the shopkeeper, and Han Jing followed him. "That person... do you want to see him?"

Although the man was very different from before, Han Jing still recognized him.

Tingxuan was captured by the Demon Cult and brought to Broken Shadow Mountain. Because he was very beautiful, he was given to Shen Yingxue. For some unknown reason, Shen Yingxue did not drive him away, but she did not mess with him either. She just made him a servant and took care of her daily life.

Sometimes when Han Jing came to see Shen Yingxue, he would see the master and servant chatting and laughing in a relaxed tone.

The adoptive father and Tingxuan have a very good relationship. Han Jing was once jealous of Tingxuan, thinking that the adoptive father did not care about him as much as he cared about a servant.

After understanding his adoptive father's feelings for him, Han Jing finally got over the knot in his heart and no longer felt jealous when he saw Tingxuan.

It was Tingxuan's betrayal of his adoptive father...

Han Jing tightened his grip on the sword, turned to look at Tingxuan, and sneered at him sarcastically.

The man who was drinking silently sensed a hint of coldness, looked up suddenly, and saw the beautiful woman with cold eyes and a sarcastic expression.

This woman... seems to have been seen somewhere before.

Tingxuan rubbed his eyes and noticed the two men beside the woman in white.

They turned their backs to Tingxuan and were about to go upstairs. When Tingxuan saw their backs, he felt even more familiar. He stood up hastily and quickly chased after them, "Wait!"

Shen Yingxue looked back and found that the blue robot cat stumbled for a moment, then flew towards him in a very two-dimensional posture, just like in an anime, and hugged his legs.

From this height and this distance, it looks like the fall was pretty heavy.

Shen Yingxue smiled and said, "Be careful."

Tingxuan looked at Shen Yingxue's smile and couldn't stop crying.

Since the Demon Cult was gone, he had never seen Shen Yingxue smile like this again. In the past, when Shen Yingxue was with Xun Yan, she was always silly and would not respond to him when he talked to her. He never thought that after so long, he could still see the Cult Leader smile.

Jiang Hanfeng pulled Shen Yingxue's hand slightly harder and looked at Tingxuan unkindly, "Let go."

"Jiang Hanfeng." Tingxuan gritted his teeth in pain and shouted fiercely, "Let him go!"

Jiang Hanfeng said: "You are the one who should let go."

Lan Jin noticed the movement here and immediately walked over, smiling sinisterly and asking, "What's going on? Mr. Jiang, is this your friend?"

Jiang Hanfeng said: "No."

Tingxuan got angry when he saw Jiang Hanfeng's face. He didn't dare to let Shen Yingxue go. The fall just now made his leg bones hurt. But it was nothing. Compared with what he experienced three years ago, it was really insignificant.

Tingxuan slowly stood up and said to Shen Yingxue, who had a blank expression, "You can't be with him."

He only regretted that he was too weak now. Even if his character changed, he didn't have enough strength to compete with Jiang Hanfeng. Gu Liansheng wasn't here, nor was Xun Yan. He was the only one, and he couldn't save Shen Yingxue at all.

"Jiang Hanfeng is a beast who only knows how to take advantage of others! If the master is awake, he will never be with you! Master, wake up and don't believe him!" Tingxuan was grabbed by Lan Jin and could not get close to Shen Yingxue. He could only watch them leave.

After such a commotion, other people in the lobby also turned their attention to this side and started whispering to each other.

Lan Jin looked serious and said with a smile: "Who are you?"

Tingxuan was not willing to be outdone. Even though he was already very vicious, he still firmly fought against fate and sneered along with them: "Who are you?"

Before Lan Jin could say anything, Ting Xuan continued, "I remember now. You are from Zanhua Lane, and this girl, you are both from Zanhua Lane."

He spoke loudly, and Zanhua Lane was well-known. Dibao was a newspaper distributed all over the country, and even if not everyone read it, word of mouth pushed Zanhua Lane's reputation to a new height.

Everyone knows that Zanhua Lane has colluded with the imperial court, but what this force did was very decent, it was to save the weak and innocent people, and the murderer was a bloody man, so Zanhua Lane was also against the Demon Cult.

Its reputation continued to grow, and many people wanted to join Zanhua Lane to seek the protection of the flower owner, and Zanhua Lane did recruit some people.

At this moment, the scandal in Zanhua Lane was suddenly brought up, adding a different color to the mysterious organization.

It’s a pity that the person involved was not the owner of the flowers, otherwise… otherwise they probably wouldn’t have been able to leave the store alive.

Tingxuan only felt pain, because Shen Yingxue had obviously forgotten them all. He had a bad memory to begin with, and forgetting the past was a very easy thing. Jiang Hanfeng only needed to coax him with a few words to let him down.

How can this be!

The leader is such a proud and arrogant person, how could he allow others to humiliate him? Tingxuan had never seen what he looked like in Yuding Villa, but he heard from Gu Liansheng that after they rescued Shen Yingxue, Shen Yingxue was very afraid of getting close to others, and her mental state was very unstable and could collapse at any time.

These were all done by Jiang Hanfeng.

Tingxuan said: "Last time, Jiang Hanfeng was by the Flower Master's side. Xun Yan also surrendered to the Flower Master, right? Haha, I never thought that he would do such a thing for power. I thought he would always be loyal to his master."

After hearing this, Lan Jin already knew that he was from Shattered Shadow Mountain.

But he couldn't say it out loud, because it would implicate Shen Yingxue. Just like Tingxuan didn't call Shen Yingxue "leader" directly, they tacitly helped him hide his identity.

Lan Jin looked at him cruelly: "It seems you know a lot."

Tingxuan snorted coldly.

Lan Jin asked Han Jing: "If I make him mute, break his hands and throw him away, do you think the master will be angry?"

Han Jing thought for a moment and said, "Yes."

"What a pity." Lan Jin moved his hand in his sleeve and put the poison back. He walked forward slowly and said, "Then use this."

After saying that, he pinched Tingxuan's chin, forced him to open his mouth, and threw a pill into his mouth at a very fast speed.

Tingxuan leaned forward, holding his throat and vomiting, but nothing came out. His eyes were wet, adding to his beauty: "What did you give me to eat?"

"You'll know soon." Lan Jin glanced coldly at the other people in the lobby. When they met his gaze, they turned away and did what they were supposed to do. A few timid ones put the money on the table and left secretly.

Lan Jin watched Tingxuan gradually lose his strength and fall down at the stairs. She walked over, picked him up, and dragged him upstairs as if he were carrying garbage.

He asked Han Jing, "Who is this person?"

"My adoptive father's attendant, who is also the person closest to him, is called Tingxuan," said Han Jing.

"It turned out to be him." Lan Jin said meaningfully.

After hearing the news of Shen Yingxue's death, Lan Jin was depressed for a long time. Then he got up and tried to find out the truth. He knew very well what those people from the righteous path had done.

He was too weak at that time, and Zanhua Lane was also a very inconspicuous place. The people in the Anbu were still a motley crowd who could only do useless logistics and had almost no combat capability.

Lan Jin hated those who had hurt the leader, but he could do nothing but let himself get drunk and become depressed.

Lan Jin had repeated the name Tingxuan many times in his mind, wishing he could kill him and make him pay for his crime to the leader.

But he hid too well, and seemed to be with those righteous people at the beginning. With the power of the Anbu, it was difficult to deal with Tingxuan alone, let alone others.

"I understand." Lan Jin now knew why Han Jing said that the owner of Tingxuan would be angry because he used poison.

This is the master's enemy, and the master hates him no less than anyone else. It would be better to let him take revenge on his own, just like he did with Fu Sheng.

Fortunately, he did not give Tingxuan an irreversible poison.

Lan Jin took Tingxuan to her room, tied him to a chair with a rope, and went to Room No. 1 to visit Shen Yingxue.

Ever since her disguise fell off, Shen Yingxue's condition became erratic, which was definitely not a good sign.

Not long ago, Shen Yingxue was no different from a normal person, but now he has become like this again. Lan Jin is also very nervous. He adjusted the prescription for Shen Yingxue and fed him medicine every day, but it still had no effect.

Lan Jin knew it was definitely because of Jiang Hanfeng.

But he didn't know what his master's attitude towards Jiang Hanfeng was. Tingxuan's words just now made him alert.

What if Jiang Hanfeng really falls in love with Shen Yingxue... Even if they have such a close relationship, they must not live in the same room!

When Lan Jin came over, she saw Jiang Hanfeng sorting out his package, taking out some clothes to change, and some dry food that had been stored for a long time. Shen Yingxue sat on the bed, looking at him obediently, her eyes following his movements.

"Mr. Jiang, you have taken care of the young master for a long time on my behalf, so I won't bother you today. That man just now seemed to have some misunderstanding with you, so why don't you go and explain it to him, and I will take care of the young master." Lan Jin said.

"Do you think what he said is true?" Jiang Hanfeng asked.

"Isn't it?" Lan Jin said, "Although I am a person close to the master, I cannot allow the young master to be bullied. Otherwise, I will have a hard time explaining to the master and King Zhongxin. Now that outsiders have made it so clear, I naturally cannot turn a blind eye."

Jiang Hanfeng turned around and looked at Shen Yingxue, and saw that Shen Yingxue had a blank expression, which was completely different from her previous state.

He brought pressure to Shen Yingxue, and it was he who made Shen Yingxue's condition worse and become what it is now.

Jiang Hanfeng felt a pain in his heart, "I'll go next door."

Lan Jin said, "I gave him some medicine. Master Jiang, please keep an eye on him and don't let him get away. You should be aware of the grudge between him and you. An enemy who comes to your doorstep should not be let off easily."

Jiang Hanfeng nodded silently, put Shen Yingxue's things down in the bag, packed up the rest, and went to the next room.

Shen Yingxue was absorbed in watching TV for a while. When he came back to his senses, he found that Jiang Hanfeng was gone and Lan Jin was taking off his clothes. He raised his hands in cooperation.

"Master," Lan Jin said, "Do you want me to kill Jiang Hanfeng?"

Shen Yingxue was startled and quickly turned off the TV.

He was distracted for such a short time, how could he have reached the point of killing Jiang Hanfeng?

Lan Jin saw Shen Yingxue's panic, "You don't need to be afraid of him. We are no longer the same as we were before. Even though Jiang Hanfeng is a master swordsman, he is still in your hands. It is not difficult to kill him as long as you catch him by surprise. Why do you have to force yourself to be with him?"

He could sense that when Jiang Hanfeng was not around, Shen Yingxue was more relaxed and talked more. But when Jiang Hanfeng came back, Shen Yingxue would become withdrawn again.

"I didn't force myself." Shen Yingxue lowered her head, "I just felt a little confused."

He lied to Jiang Hanfeng, so he should feel guilty about it. But Shen Yingxue didn't think she did anything wrong. The boundary between his roles as "Shen Yingxue" and "Flower Master" was also broken. Shen Yingxue didn't know how to face Jiang Hanfeng.

"I want to get better. I don't want Mosaic anymore." Shen Yingxue sighed. The only way to get rid of Mosaic is to develop Zanhua Lane. It is unknown how long it will take to gain a firm foothold in the world.

The most important thing is that Shen Yingxue's memory is always blocked. He can't keep an eye on Zanhua Lane and design its development personally. He can only give a rough framework and let others do it.

Lan Jin's eyes became gentle, "I'm useless and can't cure you. But who is that Mosaic?"

Shen Yingxue blinked.

"Is Mosaic one of our friends? Tell me who he is and I'll chase him away."

Shen Yingxue: “…I don’t know.”