Chapter 87: The Silly King’s Uneasyness

Feng Shuo’s fiefdom in the south includes two wealthy prefectures, Yuzhou and Hengzhou. Hengzhou is close to the sea and almost monopolizes half of the official salt supply of the Daxuan Dynasty. Yuzhou has always been known as a granary.

After moving to Xizhou, the court cut off the salt supply to the Xizhou camp, and the salt and grain were all transported from Yuzhou and Hengzhou.

Before he did not rebel, the grain road would naturally not intercept the grain and grass transported to Xizhou, but now he has to pay attention to this problem.

Many ordinary people in Xizhou are still hungry, so where can they get the surplus grain to supply the military camp. If the court sends troops to attack Xizhou and directly cuts off the grain road, it can be said to be cutting off the firewood from under the cauldron.

The staff members below pondered for a moment and said, "Yuzhou is located in the central part of China. Going south, it can reach Yuzhou and Hengzhou by water. Going north, it borders Xingling, and then Xizhou. If we want to protect the grain route, we must take Yuzhou."

"Yuzhou is under the jurisdiction of Xing'an Hou. Xing'an Hou holds military power. If we attack by force, we will also suffer a great loss of vitality."

"Since ancient times, it has been emphasized that courtesy should be

used before force. Why not send an envoy to negotiate peace and test Xing'an Hou's attitude first." An staff member spread his hands and shook his head, saying, "Who should be sent? Xing'an Hou is a fierce general. If he is loyal to the court, the person who goes there will most likely not come back alive."

Of course, they have to pull Xing'an Hou. If they send a coward and waste, they are afraid that they will be beheaded if they disagree with him for a few words. It also showed that they did not take this alliance seriously.

But if they sent a brave and strategic person, and he was really killed by Xing'an Hou, it would be a big loss for them.

The staff had not yet come to a conclusion. When Fu Xi came into the room to add tea, he whispered to Feng Shuo: "Your Majesty, Miss Jiang is here."

Feng Shuo pinched his eyebrows and said: "Be good at serving her. It will probably take me a while to get over here."

Fu Xi had just left the room when Chi Qing came in again.

He presented the two statements with the recorded confessions to Feng Shuo: "Your Highness, Yuan Yi went to confirm, and the person who came was none other than the woman who escaped last night. The woman's confession was consistent with what Lu Linyuan said. The woman had been living in Lu Linyuan's house since she arrived in Xizhou City a few days ago. On the night of the murder in Red Street, she had an argument with Lu Linyuan, and in a fit of rage she ran away from home and mistakenly went to Red Street, where she was molested and later rescued by a Turkish prince who had escaped." "

The deceased was killed by the Turkish prince. The woman was timid, and later when she saw the soldiers searching, she fled for fear of getting into trouble. Lu Linyuan tried his best to conceal the matter, for fear of damaging the woman's reputation."

A decent woman was molested in Red Street and a murder occurred there, which was indeed detrimental to the woman's reputation.

As soon as this was said, the staff and generals in the room could not help but talk about it.

Feng Shuo asked, "Have you verified the woman's identity?"

Chi Qing said, "The household registration documents on her body don't look fake. Her surname is Li and she is from the capital."

When Feng Shuo heard that the woman was from the capital, he remembered that day in the carriage, Jiang Yanyi asked her to check the people who came from the capital, and he couldn't help but feel the same strange feeling as before.

Is this another coincidence?

He temporarily suppressed these doubts and slowly sorted out the doubts he found after listening to Chi Qing's report: "Ugusdan saved her? I'm afraid Ugusdan is not so kind."

Chi Qing also doubted this point. He said helplessly: "Ugusdan is a stubborn person. We have used all the torture instruments that can be used, but we still can't pry open his mouth. The woman surnamed Li seemed to be unaware of Ugusdan's identity and even thought he was a girl. When my subordinates interrogated her, she kept pleading for Lu Linyuan and Ugusdan."

Feng Shuo thought about it and did not make a decision immediately.

If Lu Linyuan and the woman surnamed Li were not lying, then what happened last night might really be just a misunderstanding. Lu Linyuan went to such great lengths just to save his beloved. The woman surnamed Li did not commit any crime. If Lu Linyuan was held accountable, at most he was guilty of not reporting the crime.

Feng Shuo held the teacup with blue and white porcelain glaze in his hand, and felt the pattern on the lid with his fingertips, but he did not drink. He said, "Take the woman to the dungeon, and make sure that Ugusdan sees her being locked up, but do not let the two of them have any communication."

Chi Qing understood what Feng Shuo meant and smiled, "Your Highness's plan is still brilliant."

They now suspected that the woman was Ugusdan's accomplice, but the woman and Lu Linyuan both denied it. So, they only needed to look at Ugusdan's attitude after seeing the woman being locked up in prison, and they could figure out whether the woman was innocent or not.

Seeing that it was already noon, Feng Shuo asked his staff and generals to go downstairs for lunch first, and he went to look for Jiang Yanyi.

As soon as the snow fell, the glazed tiles of the flower room in Feng Mansion were covered by heavy snow. The sunlight inside was poor, and the growth of peppers was not as good as before. Jiang Yanyi even found that the skin of several peppers that grew more luxuriantly had turned into white shells.

She was not very good at calling the servants of Feng Mansion, so she asked the boy who was guarding the flower room to find a wooden ladder for her, and then found a thin bamboo pole. She climbed up to the roof with the wooden ladder and used the bamboo pole to push the thick snow off the glazed tiles.

The bamboo pole was a bit long, because she had to use one hand to hold the wooden ladder. It was really laborious to push the snow with one hand. After a few times, Jiang Yanyi felt that hand was sore and painful, and it was almost useless.

She used her other hand to pick up the bamboo pole to clear the snow. While she was busy, she suddenly heard a deep shout: "What are you doing?"

Jiang Yanyi looked down and saw that it was Feng Shuo who came over. He was probably concerned about her safety. Seeing her climb so high, Feng Shuo's face was a little ugly.

Jiang Yanyi said: "I'm cleaning the snow on the glazed tiles! The light is not enough, and the peppers are all white."

Feng Shuo looked up at her: "Come down, I will send someone to clean it later."

The bamboo pole was too short to clean the place near the roof. After Jiang Yanyi handed the bamboo pole down, she was about to climb down the wooden ladder. Unexpectedly, the servant who helped her stabilize the wooden ladder used one hand to receive the bamboo pole. He couldn't hold the wooden ladder with one hand, and the whole wooden ladder tilted sharply.

The sudden feeling of weightlessness frightened Jiang Yanyi so much that her heart almost stopped beating. Fortunately, she often chopped bones with a knife and flipped a pot with one hand. Compared with a real lady from a rich family, she still had some strength. She held on to the wooden ladder tightly to avoid falling.

Feng Shuo was quick to hold the wooden ladder, and Jiang Yanyi was able to stabilize her body.

The servant was so scared that his face turned pale. Jiang Yanyi herself was still in shock. She stepped back on the wooden ladder with both feet, and she felt a little more at ease.

Feng Shuo's face was particularly ugly, but he was afraid of scaring her, so he held back his temper and said, "I'll hold the ladder, you just come down step by step."

Jiang Yanyi nodded with a lingering fear, and turned around to tell Feng Shuo that she was fine and asked him not to worry too much, but because she was standing too high, she saw Jiang Yanxi being taken away by Chi Qing on the other side of the wall.

At first she thought she was dazzled, but when she looked closely, Jiang Yanxi seemed to sense her gaze and looked up at her.

The snow was flying, and the two people's eyes met in the wind and snow. One had a face as bright as a crabapple, and the other was as pale as a chrysanthemum.

There was shock and suspicion in the eyes of both of them, but there was a hint of panic in Jiang Yanxi's eyes. She quickly retracted her gaze, and her steps became flustered.

Jiang Yanyi looked at Jiang Yanxi's back as she walked away. After being shocked, he became thoughtful.

Seeing that she was slow to come down from the roof, Feng Shuo couldn't help but shouted, "What are you looking at?"

Jiang Yanyi came back to her senses and said, "It seems that I saw an old friend."

She went down the roof along the wooden ladder. Her hands were already frozen red. Feng Shuo pulled her hands and warmed them with his palms. He lost all the dignity in front of his subordinates and said with a dark face:

"You almost fell down, but you didn't learn your lesson. Do you have to lose your limbs before you regret it? Next time you climb a ladder, don't be distracted even if you see an old friend, let alone the emperor."

Jiang Yanyi felt that he was scolding her like a child. There was a servant in charge of the greenhouse next to her. Her face was burning: "I know. Why are you so fierce?"

Feng Shuo glared at her: "I'm not fierce to you. You can remember it."

After scolding him, he asked about the old friend Jiang Yanyi mentioned, and asked: "Who did you see just now? I was stunned for a long time."

Feng Shuo's words made Jiang Yanyi a little confused. Jiang Yanxi was already in his house, and Chi Qing was leading her personally. How could he not know?

Jiang Yanyi looked at Feng Shuo suspiciously: "Chi Qing just brought a woman through the corridor on the other side of the wall."

When she said this, Feng Shuo knew who she was talking about. He held her hand and walked back slowly: "Someone died in Huajie, and that woman was related to the murder. How come you know her?"

Jiang Yanyi thought to herself that it was really a narrow road for enemies. She could even be related to the heroine of the original book by running a noodle shop, but Feng Shuo really didn't seem to know Jiang Yanxi's identity?

Under Feng Shuo's surprised eyes, she spoke with a complicated mood: "That's my half-sister."

This was like a bolt from the blue.

Feng Shuo thought of the two confessions that Chi Qing had examined, and laughed angrily. His sharp eyes suppressed a hint of anger: "It seems that Lu Linyuan is really playing tricks on me!"

His words startled Jiang Yanyi. Was this matter related to Lu Linyuan?

It was no wonder that Jiang Yanyi was confused. In the original book, neither Lu Linyuan nor Jiang Yanxi had anything to do with Feng Shuo.

Now, because of her own change, the Chu family moved to Xizhou. It was also because Chu Changping had rushed to Xizhou before and brought the news that Fan Yaonian had come to Xizhou that Feng Shuo was able to catch the Turkic prince and uncover the conspiracy of Fan Yaonian and Xie Zhizhou.

Feng Shuo and Chu Changping would not take the initiative to tell her about these military secrets, which resulted in Jiang Yanyi being completely in the dark about the current situation. Occasionally Feng Shuo would tell her something, and she would be able to pick out some useful information from the sadomasochistic plot that occupies 90% of the book, just like a blind cat catching a dead mouse.

However, considering the degree of obsession in the original book that Lu Linyuan never married in order to make the heroine live alone until old age, it is not surprising that he helped Jiang Yanxi hide her identity.

Feng Shuo obviously thought of this, and he checked a lot of Jiang Yanyi's past, so he naturally knew the entanglement between the three of them.

How much she used to like Lu Linyuan, so much so that she was willing to sacrifice half of her life for him.

Feng Shuo has been restraining himself from thinking about the things that happened between her and Lu Linyuan in the past. Now that she has exposed Jiang Yanxi's identity, he doesn't know if Lu Linyuan has something to do with it.

But Feng Shuo could feel his heart tightening subconsciously. It's not a good feeling to think

that someone you cherish is a treasure, but there is a corner in her heart that may be worried about someone else.

Feng Shuo wrapped Jiang Yanyi in his arms and hugged her tightly. Finally, he asked the question that he wanted to ask countless times before, but avoided because of pride: "What will you do if I deal with Lu Linyuan?"