Chapter 1095: The Tenderness of Prince Xiao (VII)
At the corner of the alley.
Ren Feng lifted the car curtain and looked at the middle-aged man outside: "Is anyone following us?"
The middle-aged man shook his head: "I didn't see anyone."
Ren Feng was silent for a moment: "Did I guess wrong? They are not coming for me?"
The middle-aged man said, "Since you are suspicious of those Jinling Guards, why don't you let me deal with them?"
Ren Feng's expression was somewhat serious: "Those few people cannot be moved. Once they move, it will cause greater trouble."
The middle-aged man frowned: "Who are they?"
Ren Feng glanced at the middle-aged man and said, "One is the eldest son of King Weiyuan, one is the grandson of the former commander of the Five Armies, and another is the grandson of the commander of the Imperial Guard. The others are no ordinary people either."
The middle-aged man was silent, then asked in confusion: "What are these people doing in Liaodong?"
Ren Feng's expression was somewhat solemn. "Young Prince Xiao is deeply trusted by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. He has handled many major cases in recent years. His purpose in coming to Liaodong will be known once Xue Kun arrives."
The two stopped talking, and a quarter of an hour later, Xue Kun, the pacification envoy of Jinling Guard of Liaodong, came to the alley.
As soon as he arrived, Xue Kun said with some displeasure: "Master Ren, Prince Xiao is in the city now, you and I shouldn't meet."
Ren Feng didn't care about Xue Kun's attitude: "I don't want to trouble Master Xue, but now that Prince Xiao and his family are living in the Ren Mansion, I feel uneasy, so I wanted to ask Master Xue to come and help me solve my doubts."
As he said this, he looked at Xue Kun seriously.
"Master Xue, why did Prince Xiao come to Liaodong?"
Xue Kun snorted coldly, "Why? It's because you've become more and more arrogant these past few years. It's fine if you're trading with the Hu people privately, but you actually dare to openly allow them to enter and leave Haqi City."
"No matter how disguised they are, there is a difference between the Hu people and the Daxia people. Jinling Guards discovered the traces of the Hu people and reported them directly to the court."
Ren Feng frowned: "Master Xue, why didn't you stop me? You know, you and I are in the same boat."
Xue Kun's expression grew increasingly grim. "Sir Ren, although I am the highest-ranking official in the Liaodong Jinling Guard branch, many of the Jinling Guards under me were directly assigned by the Emperor and the Crown Prince. I simply cannot control these people."
Ren Feng was silent for a moment: "What should we do now?"
Although Xue Kun was filled with anger, he still said, "Prince Xiao came to Liaodong mainly to investigate the situation of the Tatars' comeback. During this period, it would be best for Master Ren to stop all contact with the Hu people."
As he spoke, he looked at Ren Feng solemnly.
"Master Ren, a few days ago, when Prince Xiao and his companions were on their way to Haqi City, they encountered some Hu people and were then chased by a group of men in black. Did you know about this?"
Ren Feng was stunned for a moment, then shook his head: "I don't know."
Xue Kun: "Young Prince Xiao will live in your mansion, perhaps because they discovered something during that chase."
Ren Feng's face darkened. "I'll investigate this matter when I get back." He then looked at Xue Kun and said, "Don't worry, Master Xue. Now that we know the purpose of Prince Xiao's visit to Liaodong, I will clean up the mess and won't let them find out anything."
Xue Kun: "That's the best. As long as Young Prince Xiao doesn't find anything, they will leave on their own. However, Master Ren, I still want to advise you that you'd better stop trading grain seeds with the Hu people privately."
"Although the border troops' hunger has been suppressed, if the situation gets worse, it will eventually explode. When that happens, will you follow the example of the Eighth Prince?"
After saying that, Xue Kun left without caring about Ren Feng's reaction.
Looking at Xue Kun's back, Ren Feng's hands on his knees slowly clenched into fists, and his eyes showed some complicated emotions.
One wrong step leads to all wrong.
He failed to curb his greed back then, which led to him concealing the discovery of the silver mine. A series of events that happened afterwards pushed him step by step into the abyss.
He had no regrets about killing Ye Jingwu and dragging Liaodong officials into the waters.
However, he was discovered by the Hu people when he was secretly mining silver, and was then threatened to sell high-yield grain seeds. He regretted it!
He did not think it was wrong to seek power and profit as an official; but as a commander-in-chief of the border defense, he was making a huge mistake to use his country's high-yield grain to support the enemy country.
"Go back!"
The carriage started and returned to Ren's mansion after a while.
Looking at the gate of Ren Mansion, Ren Feng's eyes flashed. So what if he regretted it? For the sake of his family, he still had to keep going.
The Ren family was busy with the funeral, while Xiao Moxi and others were busy investigating.
Xiao Moxi looked through the token obtained from the Hu people: "Have you found out why Ren Feng made this token?"
Wu Yutang: "Ren Feng has a guard team under his command, and this token is said to be their waist badge. However, I don't quite believe this statement."
Xiao Moxi: "Hmm?"
Wu Yutang: "What a coincidence! We were checking the token when we saw someone with the same token. It seemed like he was eager to tell us where the token came from."
"What's even more outrageous is that a servant of the Ren family accidentally revealed that the assassin of Second Master Ren was a Hu people, because last month Ren Feng and his guards were ambushed by the Hu people, and several guards were killed at that time."
"Listen, isn't this telling us that this token was lost in that ambush and picked up by the Hu people?"
Xiao Moxi tapped the table lightly: "This Ren Feng has some serious problems!"
Wu Yutang: "That's right. If you really have nothing to hide, why would you come up with so many excuses?"
Two days later, Xiao Moxi and his team discovered that the clues about the Hu people had been cut off, and Ren Feng could not find anything unusual. Regarding the Tatars' comeback, Jinling Guards also made progress.
"Young Prince, the Tatars have indeed frequently appeared on the border in the past two years, but they have only been minor incidents. The Tatar royal family has not recovered from the severe blow they suffered over twenty years ago."
Xiao Moxi listened to Xue Kun's report without comment: "Master Xue, you have worked hard. I will report these to the emperor and the crown prince. I don't have anything to do here, you can go and do your own thing."
Xue Kun glanced at Xiao Moxi, who had a gentle smile on his face. He was unsure whether Xiao Moxi believed what he said, so he could only bow and retreat with worry.
Looking at Xue Kun's departing back, Xiao Moxi narrowed her eyes: "He can't wait for us to leave Liaodong!"
The more this is the case, the more complicated the situation in Liaodong is.
But the clues are broken, how can I investigate?
Xiao Moxi thought of Ye Yueying. If this girl was really Ye Jingwu's daughter, she would definitely continue to assassinate Ren Feng. Maybe he could start with her!
Leng Feng has been away for three days and has not returned, which makes Ye Yueying a little worried. She knows the location of the silver mine, but her lightness skills are not good enough. If she goes there, Leng Feng might be implicated.
Ye Yueying didn't want to sit and wait for death, nor did she want to rely on Leng Feng for everything.
Leng Feng is just the adopted son of the Ye family, and he should not bear the blood feud of the Ye family.
Just then, Ye Yueying heard a commotion coming from the street. She walked to the window and saw that it was Ren Feng's only son passing by with a group of servants.
Ren Feihong!
Ye Yueying pondered for a while, turned around and left the inn. After asking someone, she found out that Ren Feihong was going to the He family shop at the city gate to buy funeral supplies.
Knowing this, Ye Yueying's eyes flashed and she quickly followed.
In the backyard of the He family shop, Ye Yueying saw a carriage carrying goods leaving the city. She quickly put the black scarf she wore when she broke into Ren's house that night into the cargo, and deliberately left a corner of it exposed.
Ren Feihong is a very arrogant guy. When Uncle Leng assassinated Ren Er that night, he was right next to him. If he saw the face scarf, he would definitely chase after him.
Just as Ye Yueying expected, when the carriage passed by the store, Ren Feihong saw the face towel on the carriage, called two idle servants and followed it.
As soon as the carriage drove out of the city gate, Ye Yueying, who was hiding in the crowd, threw the stone bullet in her hand, which hit the horse's back accurately. The horse felt pain and immediately ran away.
When Ren Feihong and his two servants saw this, they didn't even bother to call for help and quickly chased after him.
The carriage ran two or three miles before the driver stopped the horses.
The driver got off the carriage and was about to check what was wrong with the horse when he felt a sharp pain at the back of his head, then his vision went dark and he fainted.
Ye Yueying dragged the coachman to the bushes beside the road, then got on the carriage and drove it towards a secluded woods.
"stop!"
Ren Feihong caught up.
Ye Yueying didn't want to cause any trouble, so seeing that there was no one around, she waited for Ren Feihong and the two servants to approach, then she quickly drew her sword and attacked them swiftly and fiercely.
"You are indeed the assassin that night."
Ren Feihong's face lit up with joy. He prided himself on his martial arts prowess, so instead of being afraid, he went straight up to meet the enemy.
Today, Ren Feihong went out of the house mainly to buy funeral supplies. He brought a servant with him, not a guard. The servant, who had no martial arts skills, was dealt with by Ye Yueying in a few moves.
Soon, only Ren Feihong and Ye Yueying were left to face off.
The more he fought, the more frightened Ren Feihong became.
It was because the opponent seemed to know how he would attack and suppressed him every time.
After more than ten exchanges, Ye Yueying injured Ren Feihong's sword arm with a sword, causing Ren Feihong to drop his weapon. Then she spun around and kicked him sideways, knocking him to the ground.
“Swish!”
The sharp sword pointed directly at Ren Feihong's face.
At this moment, Ren Feihong realized that he was afraid and shouted anxiously: "My father is the commander-in-chief. If you want to kill me, my father will definitely cut you into pieces."
Ye Yueying looked at Ren Feihong indifferently, a sneer on her lips: "You are still exactly the same as when you were little. When you can't fight, and you lose, you cry and scream for the elders."
Ren Feihong paused, looking at Ye Yueying inquiringly: "Who are you?" Then, as if he had thought of something, his pupils shrank sharply, "Are you Yingying?"
Ye Yueying didn't respond to him, but said coldly, "My father taught you martial arts for several years, so he can be considered half your master. I really want to ask you, how could you have the heart to pass the poisoned wine to my father that night?"
Ren Feihong suppressed the fear in his heart: "Yingying, you misunderstood me. I didn't even know the wine was poisonous. If I knew, how could I possibly harm Uncle Ye? For the sake of our childhood friendship, please let me go."
How could Ye Yueying believe what Ren Feihong said? Thinking of her brother who was less than one year old and died in the man-made avalanche, she stabbed Ren Feihong in the chest with a sword without any hesitation.
"Ren Feng, you wiped out the entire Ye family and made me suffer the pain of missing my family. Now I want you to taste the pain of losing your son."
After making sure that Ren Feihong and the two servants were dead, Ye Yueying took her face towel, drove away the carriage, and left quickly.
Not long after she left, Xiao Moxi and Wu Yutang came out from behind a tree not far away.
"Yingying, this is the girl's name. It seems that Brother Ye is really Ye Jingwu's daughter!"
Looking at Ren Feihong, who died with his eyes wide open, Wu Yutang sighed, "He was quite ruthless. When I heard their conversation, I thought Brother Ye was going to soften his heart, but I didn't expect him to be so domineering and decisive in the end."
Xiao Moxi looked at the direction Ye Yueying left without saying a word.
(End of this chapter)
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