Fang Jie didn't know how Zhuang Die left his sight. When he came back to his senses, the team escorting the prisoners had already passed quite a distance. He looked in the crowd, but he couldn't see the woman's figure anywhere. Among the prisoners, there is sorrow and despair.
Fang Jie subconsciously walked forward, trying to find the woman.
His arm was held by someone, it was a pair of very wide and thick hands.
Fang Jie turned his head and saw Wu Yidao who he was about to meet.
Wu Yidao stretched out his hand from the crowd to grab Fang Xie's arm, then shook his head slightly at him. At this time, he struggled out of a very strange feeling. He was shocked from the bottom of his heart, and a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes. He knew that he and Zhuang Die had no feelings at all, even if he sympathized with this woman, it was impossible for him to be so confused. The moment of trance just now almost made him do something impulsive.
If Wu Yidao didn't give him a hand, maybe he would really rush over at this time.
"What's wrong with me?"
he asks.
Wu Yidao pointed in one direction, then walked out slowly. Fang Jie took a deep breath, followed Wu Yi and squeezed out of the crowd. The two walked behind the crowd and left the street leading to Caishikou and also to the gate of ghosts. Turning around an alley, Wu walked into a tea house together. Fang Jie had been to this teahouse before, and there was a house under construction opposite.
East Eighteenth Street.
Wu Yidao, who was dressed in his iconic sapphire blue robe, sat down on a seat by the window, casually ordered a pot of high-quality tea and four kinds of dried fruit, the owner of the teahouse knew Fang Jie but not Wu Yidao, but From Fang Xie's attitude, it can be deduced that the status of the advanced person must be very important, so he personally entertained him very warmly.
Fang Jie sat down opposite Wu Yiyi and looked out the window.
Opposite is the house that is under construction in full swing, and the original decadent appearance can no longer be seen. The dilapidated houses and courtyard walls have been pushed down, and the remaining bricks on the ground have also been raised. Since these days, the progress of the project has been extremely fast, and basically everything that needs to be cleaned has been cleaned up.
Early spring is a good time to start construction, and the wages of craftsmen are higher than before, so the enthusiasm is also high.
Wu Yiyi looked at the busy scene over there and smiled and said: "I saw that place many years ago, and I always wanted to buy it but I didn't do it. It's not because of any rumors about gods and ghosts, but because this street has become more and more deserted. Even though this land is cheap to buy, it will not be able to start any business. No matter how little the investment is, it is meaningless if there is no profit. If I think that I will not do business here and only build workshops, it will not be your turn. "
Fang Jie smiled: "It has been left unused for so many years, why don't you just wait for me to buy it?"
"But the money for the land is mine."
Wu Yidao twitched his lips, and Fang Jie couldn't help giving him a blank look: "You account for most of the income from the garment workshop."
"forget it."
Wu Yiyi shook his head: "I really didn't pay attention to this small amount of money. Now you already know that the world of goods is His Majesty's property, and the reason why I dared to give you such a large sum of money at the beginning was not afraid of the debt. Any loopholes on it were found out by His Majesty, because the silver is not actually mine, nor is it considered to be a commodity."
"Whose silver is that?"
Wu Yidao pouted towards Caishikou: "How many of your benefactors will be beheaded today... The money I gave you was intercepted by me, and it was all the officials under Prince Yi." Deserved dividends. The amount of capital invested by these people in Hutong Tianxia is astonishing, but the amount of dividends is up to me. When these people die, their capital will naturally be charged into Hutong Tianxia. Your Majesty's money. As for the bonus, I kept a part and gave you a small part."
"So that's how the money comes from..."
Fang Jie sighed: "You withheld their money before the incident happened, no wonder they want to kill you."
Wu Yidao shook his head indifferently: "Anyway, they are all destined to die. The money in their mansion will be charged to the national treasury, and the money in the commercial bank will be considered His Majesty's. If I don't leave some dividends, I will be really stupid. .So you don't need to be grateful to Dade, this little silver is my private reward for your majesty."
"I didn't appreciate Dade at all."
Fang pouted.
Wu Yidao smiled: "Actually, there is one more thing I didn't say, because I felt it was a bit vulgar."
He picked up his teacup and took a sip and said, "You knew that His Majesty didn't want you to meddle in the affairs of the world, but you still intervened. You knew that saving me might trap you yourself, but you still came... This little money , just take it as my thanks, even though you didn't help much. Isn't it vulgar to say that?"
"I like this vulgar one."
Fang Jie smiled, but there was a little helplessness on the corner of his mouth.
"What were you going to do just now?"
Wu Yidao saw the strangeness in his smile, and asked in a solemn tone: "Do you want to rescue that woman named Zhuang Die from the prisoner's ranks? Then give her a bright future? Then she will treat you Thank you, Dade, for having children and carrying on the family line for you?"
"I... didn't think about it that much."
"She didn't deserve to die."
Wu Yiyi glanced at Fang Jie and said lightly: "She told everything she knew in one breath in the prison, and all the instruments of torture in the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice were useless. Not only did she know about Prince Yi As much as I have said, even the dirty activities in the Crescent Tower have not been left behind. And... the origin of this woman is a bit strange."
"She said she was an orphan, from Jiangnan."
Fang Jie said.
"Yes, she is an orphan."
Wu Yidao looked at Fang Jie and asked: "Before entering the Xinyue Tower, a family in the south of the Yangtze River saw her and took her in. That family originally had a daughter who was a few years younger than her. She was very fond of this family. The biological daughter liked it very much, and coaxed her behind her back every day, just like her own sister took care of her younger sister. Later, one day her adoptive parents went out and told her to take good care of her younger sister. When they came back, they saw that they were crying Zhuangdie of man."
"The biological daughter of that family accidentally fell into the well and drowned."
When Fang Jie heard this sentence, his pupils suddenly closed.
Seeing Fang Jie's expression, Wu Yidao nodded slightly: "Have you already guessed it?"
Fang Jie swallowed and spit, feeling a little bitter.
"Because of the death of their own daughter, the couple naturally loved and sympathized with her even more. They held her in their hands and cared for them, and never asked her to help when they went to work in the fields. When she was thirteen years old, she was kidnapped by a river and lake that passed by their village. The traveler lied to her body and promised to take her to travel around the world, and then left her in the wilderness. When she was desperate, she used her body as a fare to beg a traveler to take her back to her village, but the traveler took her away. It was sold in the imperial capital."
Wu Yidao sighed: "This is what she said by herself. When she was in the prison, she narrated everything she knew like crazy, and even wanted to use her own body for a way to survive, begging the jailer to let her go. escape."
"Is she pitiful?"
Wu asked together.
Fang Jie nodded.
"Does she deserve to die?"
Wu Yi asked again.
Fang Jie was silent for a long time, then nodded again.
"She said that you are an accomplice of Prince Yi."
Wu Yiyi put this sentence at the end.
Fang Jie took a deep breath, and then smiled: "She has been lying for half her life, and she is still lying in the end. Maybe when she looked at me and said those words, she deceived herself."
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"The reason why I came to you was not because of Zhuang Die."
Wu Yiyi looked out of the window with a lazy tone: "It's just that I happened to pass by and saw it, but I didn't expect your determination to be so fragile sometimes. Zhuo Buyi also praised you as the most determined person he has ever seen. Even his illusion may not be effective for you. Now it seems that Zhuo Buyi was mistaken."
"maybe."
Fang Jie shook his head.
When he saw Zhuang Die, he was indeed very fragile. Perhaps it was because he had been recalling the warmth of his previous life before, so that the coldness brought to him by this world was temporarily forgotten.
"If you are so easy to make mistakes, then you should not go to the southwest to meet Luo Yao."
Wu Yiyi looked away from the window, looked at Fang Jie and said, "Your Majesty asked you to go to Yongzhou, do you really think it's just because of the eldest princess's marriage?"
"Someone once told me that His Majesty has absolute faith in Luo Yao."
Fang Jie answered.
Wu Yiyi smiled, a little coldly: "No one else should tell you who your majesty believes deeply in. Others are just guessing what your majesty is thinking. The reason why someone told you this before is because you haven't To the height of being able to know another aspect. In other words, an insignificant person is not qualified to know any secrets."
Fang Jie was silent, he knew that Wu Yidao was right.
"I say this, not to tell you Luo Yao has any strange thoughts. It's just to let you know what you should look at... Your Majesty is going to march west. Where will the soldiers come from? The defenders of Gyeonggi Province can at most be transferred again." Thirty percent. The important area of Chang'an has never been guarded by less than 200,000 troops. With the 30% removed, the defenders in Gyeonggi Province are already less than 200,000. The soldiers of the other guards have their own responsibilities. Your Majesty will not All the soldiers may be transferred away, so it is impossible to say that the county soldiers and the palace soldiers will be transferred."
"Luo Yao has been expanding his army these years, and the left guard has no less than 300,000 soldiers! His Majesty wants to use it, but I don't know if Luo Yao will be dissatisfied. If Luo Yao is pushed into a hurry, do you think this person will make a move?" What is going too far? One must know that the southwest where Luo Yao is located is less powerful than the northwest where Li Yuanshan is located, and the imperial court's control is unimaginably lower. Did Luo Yao prepare something in the southwest like Li Yuanshan did?"
Wu Yidao sighed: "Your Majesty is not only worried about the happiness of the eldest princess, but also worried that Luo Yao will take the opportunity to separate the Dao's Southwest Dao. Luo Yao is domineering in the Southwest, and the officials of the four Dao are like his retainers." Similarly, his control of the southwest is more worrying than Li Yuanshan's control of the northwest."
"Your Majesty wants to use Luo Yao's soldiers is one, and checking whether he has rebellion is the second."
"If there is, the imperial court would rather give up the northwest than the southwest."
Wu Yidao drank the tea in his cup in one gulp: "The bitter cold place in the northwest still needs to be dispatched by the imperial court every year. But once the rich and rich land of fish and rice in the southwest is divided by rebels..."
"Do you know why His Majesty sent you there?"
Wu Yidao did not wait for Fang Jie to answer, and said seriously: "Because your status is low, because you are a newcomer to the court, and because you will make Luo Yao look down on you... Only when your opponent despises you can you have a chance."
"Why do I suddenly feel that going to the Southwest is a close call?"
Fang Jie sighed: "If Luo Yao really has a heart, will I be the one he beheaded to sacrifice the flag?"
"If you're unlucky, yes."
Wu Yidao patted Fang Jie's shoulder, pointed to the opposite house and said solemnly: "Don't worry, if you die, your property is small, but I will take care of it for you."
Fang Jie hummed: "Now I finally don't have any guilt or guilt for spending your money, thank you. Don't you have any more reminders and pointers for my upcoming adventure of life and death? "
Wu Yiyi stood up and prepared to leave, smiled and said: "Good luck, nothing else."