The 30,000 Gu people here moved down the mountain with the help and care of 2,000 soldiers and more than 100 doctors and nurses.
Prefect Yun Zhao was overjoyed.
This matter was reported to Emperor Mingzheng Xuanyuan Hao, who couldn't help but feel happy, as this was a big problem that had been solved.
He ordered the Northern Army and the Western Army to draw troops and rush to southern Yunnan. Together with the remaining troops after the epidemic in southern Yunnan, they formed the Yunnan Army, also known as the Southern Army, and set up comprehensive defenses on the Yin Mountains. Ye Zhou was initially in charge.
Ye Zhou received the imperial edict and couldn't help but kick Helan Cheng: "You've got me involved. The epidemic is over, you can leave, but I still have to stay here."
Helan Cheng said: "Either you bring in Prince Qing or Prince Yu, or you should quickly train up new talents like you did with the Western Route Army."
He added: "Your Majesty is very smart. Each army still has some plans for itself. Who would be willing to give up the good soldiers and generals that have been trained with great effort?
If this were to send troops to Yun Zhao, then the other armies wouldn't know what kind of men they would send. This is to send troops to you, so the other armies wouldn't dare to go too far, and would have to sacrifice some of their own, which would surely be painful for them."
Ye Zhou felt better, and said, "I hate you even though I feel pain in my heart."
Helan Cheng said: "My Lord, you forgot that I was working under a secret order. On the surface, this was all your work."
Ye Zhou: ...
Wang Lingyi left her second uncle's house and saw Jiang Heng coming to meet her from a distance. Since Jiang Heng got the news that Wang Lingyi had come to see her second uncle Jiangnan, he knew that the truth was about to be revealed.
When Grandpa had told him about it, he'd told him not to tell anyone, not even his father. He'd agreed. Grandpa was old, and he was still worried about the Jiang family being stigmatized and ruined. He'd just told him to handle it himself.
When Wang Lingyi saw Jiang Heng, she asked directly, "Have you gone to Yu Mingyi to look for those two pictures in these years?" Jiang Heng realized that his second uncle really didn't listen to his grandfather and told him everything.
Jiang Heng hugged his wife and said, "Of course we didn't look for him. We sent both the visible and covert guards. We secretly searched Yu Mingyi's house inside and out.
They looked for his two children, his sheep pen, his chicken coop, and even his blacksmith shop, but nothing was found.
However, Yu Mingyi was also a devoted man. His wife had been separated from him for many years, and later she married a hunter and gave birth to a son. They lived a happy life.
Yu Mingyi lived not far away with his two children. When others moved, he moved too. He just followed them from a distance. When the hunters came and attacked him, he didn't fight back.
After hearing this, Wang Lingyi suddenly asked, "Have you ever looked for his wife? And that hairpin..."
Jiang Heng asked, "What hairpin?"
Wang Lingyi thought, perhaps her uncle hadn't told anyone else about this little detail, especially since Jiang Heng only learned about it from his grandfather. So she said to Jiang Heng, "Wait a moment. I'll go ask my uncle again."
Wang Lingyi reappeared a moment later. "A golden hairpin with two lotus flowers embroidered on its head. It's worth quite a bit as a divorce gift. The head is quite large. Send a secret guard to look for it."
When the hairpin was handed to Jiang Heng and Wang Lingyi, they turned it over and over for a long time. They cut open the golden lotus with a precious sword and found that the inside was hollow. One of the two city defense maps was inside the "lotus", and the other was tightly rolled into a stick in the hollow hairpin.
Wang Lingyi's third visit to her uncle Jiangnan's home was with Jiang Heng. Jiangnan knew immediately that this was a painting he had personally created. The oiled paper had been given to him by the Northern Hun. He had painted it on the spot and then added annotations at the Northern Hun's request.
They took a piece of fire and burned it all up, and the three of them felt relieved.
Wang Lingyi asked quietly, "Can the gold hairpin be returned?"
Jiang Heng said, "Don't worry. I've sent it to our own gold shop. I'll return it with an identical, solid, and heavy gold hairpin."
In the past two days, the high priestess of the Gu tribe—a little girl—has been coming to see Ye Zhou.
Ye Zhou suddenly felt that it might not be a good idea to drive the Gu tribe down the mountain. He was very busy, and the high priest was lying on his table, looking at him with his head tilted.
Ye Zhou asked: "Don't you have anything to do?"
"I'm the high priest, and if I do something, it's going to be a big deal."
"Your Gu tribe is infected with an epidemic, and the entire tribe is relocated. Isn't that a big deal?"
"It would have counted, but didn't you guys do all the work?"
Ye Zhou: So we are the ones meddling in other people’s business.
Helan Cheng: "High Priest, please move aside."
Little girl: "I don't want to move. I want to see him."
Helan Cheng had no choice but to put the stack of documents aside. Ye Zhou asked: "So many?"
Helan Cheng said, "Prefect Yun Zhao has already taken almost 40% of it. These are all special cases that have no precedent. We give him 30% and 30% of it, but he always takes more. He's a real man."
Then he said to the little girl, "What's so good about him?"
The little girl said, "It's not pretty, but I just want to see it."
Helan Cheng imitated the little girl and looked at Ye Zhou for a while, then shook her head: "No more, I can't eat."
The little girl said, "You ate very happily after seeing my sister yesterday."
"Oh? Is that true?" Ye Zhou raised his eyebrows, quite interested, and looked at Helan Cheng meaningfully.
Helan Cheng searched his mind for a while, but couldn't find a person or thing that matched him. He thought the girl was helping Ye Zhou. How could he still suffer such a loss?
He immediately nodded and said, "Yes, it looks good, very good looking, as the saying goes, beauty is a feast to the eyes."
The little girl was a little unhappy: "Prettier than me?"
Helan Cheng: "It looks good."
The little girl became even more unhappy and looked at Ye Zhou angrily.
Ye Zhou was forced to express his opinion, but what sister, no one saw this person. Helan Cheng also looked at Ye Zhou. Ye Zhou: "Ah, yes, it is beautiful."
The little girl finally got down from the chair, walked out angrily, and turned back to glare at them: "Are you two blind?!"
After successfully getting rid of the high priest, the two men began to work. While reviewing the petition, Helan Cheng said, "Jiang Yan has also been sent out by His Majesty. Lord Jiang wrote to urge us to hurry up. He can't return until we finish our work in southern Yunnan."
Ye Zhou asked, "How did he, a water conservancy worker, get involved with our mission in southern Yunnan?"
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