Chapter 182 Zhou Qun's Identity
But as a brother, Kaneki still mustered up the courage to say: "General, Agui is just, just..."
Kaneki stuttered, unable to form any words, but the person waiting outside the door couldn't help himself.
Agui walked in with a dagger in his hand and knelt directly in front of Shen Yu.
"I know I'm wrong and I'm willing to accept the punishment!"
Shen Yu laughed sarcastically but said nothing.
Agui kowtowed three times to the ground.
"General, I don't mind dying. I only ask you to find Miss Xiaowan as soon as possible. Once you're sure she's safe, I'll end my life!"
Upon hearing this, Shen Yu remained expressionless, but Jin Mu beside him kept coughing, trying to give Agui some hints.
Jinmu was extremely anxious. When he came back earlier, he found Agui wandering at the door and immediately brought him back.
However, I haven't had time to tell Agui that Xiaowan is Aunt Wan.
"Heh," Shen Yu chuckled, "You took the person away, then lost him again. Now that you know you're in trouble, you come back to find me, General?"
Agui knelt on the ground and didn't dare to say anything. He just started to kowtow again.
He was sincere enough that after knocking his head a few times, his forehead became red and swollen.
Seeing him like this, Shen Yu frowned and said in a deep voice: "Go and get twenty military sticks!"
"That Miss Xiaowan..."
Agui wanted to speak more, but Jinmu covered his mouth and dragged him out, "Stop talking, accept your punishment, Miss Xiaowan is fine."
Agui struggled to pry Kaneki's hands open and shouted, "But I have something important to tell the general!"
Jinmu finally let go of him and asked, "Couldn't you have told me the important things earlier?"
Agui: "No matter how important the matter is, it has to take precedence over Miss Xiaowan's matter, right?"
Kaneki couldn't refute this.
Agui knelt back in front of Shen Yu.
"When Miss Xiaowan and I were in Haicheng, we met a young man named Zhou Lingling. After both Miss Xiaowan and Zhou Lingling disappeared, this servant and his servants searched everywhere for them. On the way, they encountered Zhou Lingling's father, who was also there looking for someone."
"While searching for someone along the way, I discovered that Zhou Lingling's father was no ordinary person. He was an excellent doctor, and the silver needles he used were made of a special material, like something from the Imperial Hospital."
Shen Yu reacted very quickly, as if he had thought of something, "Is Zhou Lingling's father Zhou Qun?"
"Yes. At first, he only called himself Zhou Chi, denying that he was Zhou Qun and insisting that he didn't know Chen Yuanshi."
"Later, we tracked him all the way to the outskirts of the Imperial Capital, but were pursued by a group of unknown origins. In desperation, he confessed his identity to his subordinates."
Shen Yu asked, "Where is Zhou Xun now?"
Agui replied, "He was rescued by a group of men in black."
After a while, Shen Yu fell into deep thought.
Zhou Xun, Zhou Lingling, Chen Yuanshi, Xiangnu...
There was also Wei Changjia, who had chased all the way to the border town to find Chen Yuanshi.
Wei Changjia is the commander of the Fengwei and is the Empress Dowager's man.
Plus the letter just now...
Shen Yu figured out the key and sighed.
"I'm afraid there will be chaos in the imperial capital."
*
Let me explain this from two perspectives.
Xiang Tu stared at Wen Wan's hand as she read the letter, as if he couldn't wait to see what was written on the letter.
He was really curious about what kind of news made the general rush to deliver the message to a concubine.
His curiosity was written on his face.
When Wen Wan raised her head, she saw his awkward look.
Wen Wan raised the letter in her hand and said, "I really want to know what's in the letter?"
Xiang Tu hesitated for a moment, nodded and shook his head.
Wen Wan rolled her eyes and said, "It's not a big secret, just some gossip. If you want to see it, it's not impossible."
As she spoke, she handed the letter forward, but when Xiang Tu raised his hand to grab it, she took the letter back.
"But there's no such thing as a free lunch. If you want to read the letter, you have to give me some benefits."
Xiang Tu looked alert and asked, "What do you want?"
Wen Wan rubbed her hands and said with a smile, "Ten taels of silver."
Xiang Tu was surprised, as if this answer was somewhat unexpected.
Wen Wan: "Well, money is tight, even a mosquito leg is meat. This letter contains a huge secret. I wouldn't show it to anyone else even if they paid me. But since you are the general's personal guard, I am giving you a favor and satisfying your curiosity."
Xiang Tu was still hesitating.
Wen Wan took the letter and walked to the oil lamp, "Since you don't want to read it, I'll burn it..."
"No!" Xiang Tu gritted his teeth, took out the silver and put it on the table, "Let me see!"
Wen Wan raised her lips and smiled, took the money on the table, and then gave the letter to Xiang Tu.
Xiang Tu picked up the letter and felt a sudden pain in his heart.
*
In the evening, Jinmu and Xiangtu came to visit Agui who had been beaten with twenty military sticks.
Jinmu brought a lot of supplements, but Xiangtu came empty-handed.
Xiang Tu felt a pang of pain in his heart when he thought about what happened today.
"It's not that I'm stingy, it's just that someone just swindled me out of my money. Fortunately, I have food and lodging at the General's Mansion, otherwise I would have lived up to my name and been eating dirt for the whole month."
Jinmu and Agui were both surprised. "How dare someone deceive our people in the General's Mansion? Who is it? Tell us, and we brothers will take care of him for you."
Xiang Tu's eyes lit up, "Really?"
"How can we brothers coax you?" Jinmu said.
Xiang Tu complained with hope, "It was Aunt Wan! Aunt Wan cheated me out of my money!"
"My monthly salary is only ten taels of silver, and with just one word from Concubine Wan, the silver I just received today was taken away before I could even feel it in my pocket. Tell me, why does the general look at such a woman in such a different light?"
Agui and Kaneki looked at each other.
The two of them snorted coldly at the same time.
Kaneki: "I advise you to take back what you just said, otherwise our brotherhood will end here today."
Agui nodded and said, "Yes."
Xiang Tu was increasingly confused, but due to the threats from the two, he reluctantly said, "Okay, since you all say so, then I'll take it back... No, what exactly do you want me to take back?"
He really doesn't know that what he said is wrong?
Jin Mu had a blank expression on his face. "It's an honor for you that Miss Xiaowan is interested in your money. If I find out that you've been saying that Miss Xiaowan is a liar outside, we'll sever our ties!"
"Ah?" Xiang Tu looked at the lying Agui with a look of disbelief and reluctance.
Ah Gui echoed, "I agree with him."
Xiang Tu: “…”
This brother is really helpless!
After a trip to the border town, my brothers' elbows have become twisted!
Xiang Tuqi drank a cup of cold tea and stood up to leave.
Kaneki grabbed his arm, "Wait."
Looking at Xiang Tu with longing eyes, "Do you know you are wrong?"
Kaneki rolled his eyes at him, "What the hell is wrong! So, what exactly was written in that letter?"
Xiang Tu: “…”
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