Chapter 112

There was a palm-sized bruise on her waist. Because her skin was too white, it looked scary, but it didn't hurt that much.

After Feng Shuo scared her, he still left the room and asked an old maid to come in and apply medicine to her.

Jiang Yanyi lay on the mattress, and the old maid put medicated oil on her hands and massaged her. She tilted her head to look at the bookcase opposite. What books were in his bookcase, she knew it all without knowing it.

After being together for a long time, it seemed that a tacit understanding would be formed invisibly. With just one look from him, she knew what he was thinking. She could probably guess some of the words he didn't say.

After Feng Shuo examined the driver, he didn't say much when she asked about it. Obviously, the shocking event was not arranged by the emperor.

The only people she had offended in Xizhou were the Hu family and Xu, the shopkeeper of Laifu Restaurant.

The Hu family had completely fallen. The shopkeeper of Laifu Restaurant was a businessman. He had business conflicts with her, but he would not do such a thing as stealing money and killing people.

When Ruyi Restaurant opened, she encountered troublemakers. She sent people to follow them and learned that they were people under the command of Xing'an Marquis. However, it was the county lord of Xing'an Marquis who rescued them. Later, the county lord of Xing'an Marquis also came to Ruyi Restaurant many times. He was very warm to her and Chu Shubao, and seemed to be unaware of the identities of those troublemakers.

The trouble might be that the Xing'an Marquis wanted to vent his anger on his daughter.

In this way, today's startling incident was not the work of Marquis Xing'an. After all, even if she died, Feng Shuo had already recognized the county head of Marquis Xing'an as his sister, and he would never marry her. Marquis Xing'an's actions had caused trouble for nothing.

Jiang Yanyi thought about all the people who might have had a grudge against her, but she couldn't think of who wanted to kill her.

After the old nanny applied the medicine to her, she quietly retreated. She got up and put on her clothes before walking out of the room.

Outside the courtyard.

Xing Yao went to Pipa Lane in person and informed Feng Shuo of the situation there: "A fire broke out in a house next to the house where the remnants of the previous dynasty were imprisoned. Someone took advantage of the fire to burn a lot of smoke, which knocked out the guards in the house and rescued the people."

At that time, the fire spread, and the whole alley was full of people fleeing and fighting the fire. It was in chaos.

Feng Shuo stood under a cedar tree with his hands behind his back, looking at the falling snow on the pine needles, wondering what he was thinking: "Have you found the source of the smoke?"

Xing Yao shook his head.

Feng Shuo seemed to have expected this, and there was no anger on his face.

Xing Yao continued: "Except for the inn where Xing'an Hou stayed, I have led people to search the whole city, but I didn't find him."

Xing'an Hou is an old fox. He looks kind, but he is the best at pretending. Checking the inn where he stayed clearly shows that he no longer trusts this ally. Xing Yao didn't dare to make a decision on his own.

He recalled the encounter with the woman and the man, and said, "But before I left, I found a woman and a boy sneaking around outside the Protectorate. The woman was a traveling doctor, and the boy had a sly look and could not produce any household registration documents, but he had the token of the Marquis of Xing'an on him, so I did not dare to detain him without permission."

He paused and asked, "How about I take someone to the Jixiang Inn?"

Feng Shuo answered irrelevantly, "Song Zheng, a general under the Marquis of Xing'an, sent his daughter to Lu Bo. How is she now?" The

Marquis of Xing'an did not marry his daughter to Feng Shuo because he was not confident about the alliance.

Feng Shuo had two powerful generals under his command, one was Han Tuo and Han Lu Bo, Lu Bo was his courtesy name, and the other was An Yongyuan.

Although these two men were both outstanding, they both had wives at home. Xing'an Hou was reluctant to let his daughter become a concubine, so he asked Song Zheng, a fierce general under his command, to send his daughter to marry them.

An Yongyuan was second only to Feng Shuo in terms of brutality in the army, and his face was disfigured. Song Zheng naturally didn't want his daughter to suffer, so he chose to marry with the Han family. Han Lubo

killed people without blinking an eye on the battlefield, but he was handsome and slick. He was an old hand in the world of romance, and few girls were not coaxed into bloom by him.

Xing Yao said: "It is said that she is already one month pregnant."

Marrying a concubine is not like marrying a wife. When Han Tuo married the daughter of the Song family, he picked an auspicious day and carried her into the house in a small sedan chair without inviting any guests.

Feng Shuo raised his eyebrows when he heard about the pregnancy: "That boy is really quick, let him stabilize Song Zheng."

Xing'an Hou wanted to use the marriage relationship to lure Han Tuo over, but Feng Shuo was interested in Song Zheng, a fierce general under his command.

Xing Yao had followed Feng Shuo for many years and could guess his thoughts to some extent. He immediately understood why Feng Shuo did not let him go directly to investigate Xing'an Hou, but asked about Song Zheng instead. He was surprised and asked: "Master, do you want to use Song Zheng to replace Xing'an Hou?"

"He is courting death, and I will help him."

Feng Shuo's tone was not cold, but Xing Yao felt a chill on his back.

He always thought that Feng Shuo was restrained by Xing'an Hou, but now it seems that it was just a courtesy before force.

Xing'an Hou had 50,000 troops under his control, and Song Zheng was the most trusted one by him, with 10,000 troops under his control.

When Feng Shuo sent Lu Linyuan to Yuzhou to lobby Xing'an Hou, he had already made plans to let Xing'an Hou's subordinates take his place if the lobbying failed.

If he directly took over Xing'an Hou's 50,000 troops, perhaps some of Xing'an Hou's former subordinates would be resentful. Letting Xing'an Hou's subordinates take over would save a lot of trouble.

Feng Shuo had said this, and Xing Yao knew what to do next. The remnants of the previous dynasty were most likely hiding in the Jixiang Inn. If Xing'an Hou died in the inn, he could still claim to the outside world that it was the remnants of the previous dynasty who killed him.

Tactics are never related to being open and aboveboard.

The winner is the king and the loser is the enemy. Whoever wins will be praised in the history books of later generations.

He clasped his fists and said, "I'll go and make the arrangements now."

Feng Shuo nodded, and said, "Let Lu Linyuan come to see me."

Although Xing Yao didn't know Feng Shuo's intention, he still took the order and left.

Before leaving, he saw the servants of Feng Mansion using a wooden ladder to hang lanterns under the eaves. The red balls in the vast snow looked very festive.

Counting the days, it was only a few days away from the Chinese New Year, but someone was destined not to make it to this New Year.

After Xing Yao left, Feng Shuo looked at the corridor blocked by the asparagus fern, "Come out, how long are you going to hide?"

Jiang Yanyi moved out slowly, and said awkwardly, "You knew I was there all along?"

After applying the medicine, she went out to find Feng Shuo, and saw him staring at a cedar in the outer courtyard. She wanted to go over and scare him, but Xing Yao came over as soon as she got here.

Hearing them talking about politics, she wanted to avoid them, but Feng Shuo had his back to her, while Xing Yao was facing her. When she walked back, Xing Yao spotted her, so she had to bend over and hide behind the asparagus fern.

Feng Shuo said, "I smell something."

"Smell?" Jiang Yanyi quickly sniffed herself.

Although it was very cold and it was not convenient to boil water in a big pot, she still took a bath very frequently, so she couldn't have a smell all over her body, right?

After sniffing, she found that Feng Shuo had a smile on his face, and then she realized that she had been fooled. She was so angry that she raised her fist and hit him: "You lied to me!"

Feng Shuo easily caught her fist, leaned over and sniffed her temples: "I didn't lie to you, it really smells, but it's fragrant."

Jiang Yanyi finally realized that she was being teased, and her face turned red.

She changed the subject: "Jiang Yanxi was rescued by Xing'an Hou's people?"

No wonder he looked so unhappy before.

Feng Shuo saw through her little trick and knew that she was thin-skinned, so he didn't expose her. "It was the remnants of the previous dynasty, and Xing'an Hou was also involved in this matter."

Jiang Yanyi was also shocked when she heard that the remnants of the previous dynasty had infiltrated Xizhou and contacted Xing'an Hou. She was quick to grasp a point: "Xing'an Hou is a smooth person. He is still in Xizhou. What benefit did he get that made him dare to take such a risk?" Feng

Shuo didn't understand this point either. The former dynasty's old subordinates were just a bunch of people. What conditions could they offer to make Xing'an Hou excited?

"We'll find out after we close the net." He looked down at Jiang Yanyi and said, "This will all be over soon."

Jiang Yanyi's heart seemed to be gently touched by something soft. This was what she had said before.

Just as she was feeling mixed emotions, Fu Xi, the housekeeper of Feng Mansion, came from the hanging flower gate, greeted her and Feng Shuo, and then said to her, "Miss Chu, there is a girl outside the door who claims to be surnamed Huo looking for you. She said she is your maid."

When Jiang Yanyi heard the surname Huo, she guessed it was Huo Jianjia. She asked, "Do you have a red birthmark on your face?"

Fu Xi nodded.

Jiang Yanyi said, "It's my maid."

She borrowed the flower hall of Feng Mansion to meet Huo Jianjia. Huo Jianjia was dressed in wolf clothes, and her hands and face were stained with a lot of blood.

"What happened?" Jiang Yanyi was also shocked when he saw her body, thinking that she was injured, and hurriedly ordered the servant at the door: "Go and call the doctor."

Huo Jianjia wiped her face twice with her sleeves: "Boss, I'm not injured, this blood is not mine."

Jiang Yanyi breathed a sigh of relief and asked: "What's going on?"

Huo Jianjia lowered her head and said with some guilt: "I heard that the boss was almost killed by Ma. "I was the one who caused the boss to be hit by a car. I didn't deal with the problem and the boss was targeted."

Jiang Yanyi was confused: "What do you mean?"

Huo Jianjia took out the sheepskin scroll from her arms: "My father went on a convoy and the goods he was going to deliver were this sheepskin scroll. We were chased all the way. In the end, my father and the people who were going to receive the goods died. I couldn't find anyone to deliver the goods, so I kept the scroll with me."

"Today, someone rushed to the noodle shop to steal the scroll, and then I knew that the boss was in danger."

Based on Jiang Yanyi's many years of experience in reading novels, if there is any scroll, it is 80% related to treasure.

If the people who went to steal the scroll are the same group of people who drove the carriage to hit her today and kidnapped Jiang Yanxi, then she is 80% sure why Xing'an Hou wanted to get involved.

But it is still uncertain whether the thing in Huo Jianjia's hand is a treasure map.

Jiang Yanyi asked: "Jianjia, have you opened this scroll to read it?"

"Yes." Huo Jianjia unpacked the scroll and found a yellow sheepskin with nothing on it.

Jiang Yanyi was stunned for a moment when he saw it: "Is this sheepskin originally blank?"

Huo Jianjia nodded: "I have flooded it with water and roasted it with fire, and it has always been blank."

Huo Jianjia followed her father to travel around the country, and naturally heard that some handwriting can only be seen by soaking it in water or roasting it with fire. After her father died, she wanted to find out what was hidden in the sheepskin scroll, so she tried various methods, but unfortunately none of them worked.

When it was roasted with fire, a piece of the sheepskin scroll was burnt.

Jiang Yanyi was confused for a moment. Could it be that the sheepskin scroll in Huo Jianjia's hand was just a cover?

She thought that if the person who tried to snatch the scroll was still alive, she might be able to ask something, so she asked: "Are there any survivors among the people who were killed in the noodle shop today?"

Huo Jianjia patted her chest and said: "Don't worry, boss, I'm very accurate! One knife to the head, no one is alive, all dead!"

Jiang Yanyi: "..."

Looking at the little girl's proud expression, she didn't know what to say.