Su Ningxin imagined the scene in her mind. A saint who was usually cold and aloof, would cover her face at night and climb over the wall with a bag of condiments like she was stealing landmines.
It should have been very inconsistent, but when Mu Zhiyun's face was placed on it, it didn't feel inconsistent at all.
Su Ningxin smiled and asked, "Then where do you hide the seasoning?"
"Under the bed." Mu Zhiyun said as he lifted the lid of the pot.
"It's a good place where people all over the country are the same."
After Mu Zhiyun put the food on the table, Su Ningxin said to her, "How about asking you for help with something?"
"You want me to borrow troops, right? No problem." Mu Zhiyun said without any hesitation.
Su Ningxin asked in surprise, "How did you know that I came to you to do this?"
Mu Zhiyun pretended to be very smart, "There are only three of us in Yangzhou now. Chu Jihan still has to take care of Xiyan's secret guards. We are the only two who can go. If I were you, I would also He wouldn't leave a woman to live with her husband, isn't this the beginning of the misunderstanding in the story?"
"What are you thinking about?" Su Ningxin felt like she was going to be defeated by Mu Zhiyun's imagination. "This is an unintentional deployment of troops. Aren't you afraid that the emperor will blame you?"
"Don't I have your support? What am I afraid of? You can even write an imperial edict yourself and pretend to be the Queen Mother to ask the Emperor to call Grandma. It's just a trivial matter for me to mobilize troops. You can't solve it easily." Mu Zhiyun said confidently.
These words made Su Ningxin unable to refute, and she felt that what she said really made sense.
However, Su Ningxin asked Mu Zhiyun to mobilize troops not because she was worried that she and Chu Jihan were under the same roof, but because Su Ningxin really had no good candidates.
With the official officials and covert guards sent by the emperor arriving in Yangzhou, neither Jingsha Pavilion nor several aristocratic families dared to be as blatant as before. They almost all hunkered down and tucked their tail between their legs.
But this also brings about another problem, that is, there are fewer killers outside Jingsha Pavilion, but there are more killers hiding in the lair.
With those killers being able to detect even Chu Jihan and Chu Luoye, Xi Yan's secret guards would definitely be discovered if they were to investigate, so now they are the only three who can explore the several lairs given by Master Ji. .
One of the three people must be sent to borrow troops. This kind of thing that requires knowing the inside story and deceiving people cannot be done by others.
Compared to exploring the Jingsha Pavilion where killers gathered, it was less dangerous to borrow troops, so Su Ningxin proposed to let Mu Zhiyun borrow troops.
But now that Mu Zhiyun agreed so happily, she didn't need to explain any more.
He took the letter written by Gu Mingxi and the token and handed them to Mu Zhiyun, "I'll leave this matter to you."
"No need to be polite to me." Mu Zhiyun waved his hand nonchalantly.
The next day, Mu Zhiyun disguised herself and rushed to Hedong County, not far from Yangzhou. If everything went well, she could bring back the garrison there in five or six days.
Su Ningxin and the others had not thought about borrowing too many soldiers, they just wanted to have a few thousand to scare the aristocratic families in Yangzhou. If they relied on Yangzhou officers and soldiers, there was no guarantee that those aristocratic families would not be ruined, but if there was complete If forces beyond their control deter them, then they must think carefully before making a decision.
Many times a person makes a desperate decision just in one thought. What Su Ningxin and others did was to hang a knife over their heads so that they would not dare to make a decision easily, as long as they did not slap their heads when making the decision. If they just make up their mind and think about it a little, they won't go all-in.
After all, Yangzhou is located in the hinterland of Da Qi and is surrounded by Da Qi's elite soldiers and generals. They only bring members of one family with them, so they cannot escape no matter what.
After sending Mu Zhiyun away, Chu Jihan and Su Ningxin began to explore the whereabouts of Jingshao Pavilion.
The two disguised themselves and walked around for three days, and finally discovered the whereabouts of the Jingsha Pavilion killer in a gambling house.
Su Ningxin, who was dressed as a hawker, said to Chu Jihan, "This is the penultimate location given by Master Liao Ji. The last one is a brothel. Fortunately, I found traces of them here. I didn't dare to Imagine these cold killers appearing in a brothel. It would be even more ruinous if they were dressed as women and stayed in the brothel."
Chu Jihan: "..." As a wife, I always think of strange things.
However, Chu Jihan couldn't help but follow Su Ning's thoughts and shuddered as he thought about it.
In order to quickly get the scene out of his mind, Chu Jihan hurriedly spoke to divert his attention, "What do you think we should do now? Should we wait for Mu Zhiyun to come back and then take this place down in one fell swoop, or should we go check it out first? Check the situation.”
Both options have their own pros and cons. Choosing to wait before taking action may lead to unexpected situations due to unfamiliarity with the people and terrain inside, and exploring now would risk alerting the enemy.
Su Ning thought for a while and said, "Let's change our clothes and go in and take a look tomorrow. They chose a crowded casino as a cover. If we don't use this crowded casino to go in and take a look, we are really letting them down." .”
Chu Jihan had no objection to this. After they entered, they gambled like other gamblers. When the time comes, they would act on their own initiative and it should not attract the attention of those people.
Now that they had the news, the two of them didn't want to stay here any longer. Seeing that the vendors around them had already closed their stalls and gone home, they also closed their stalls and planned to leave.
At this moment, there was a loud noise at the door of the gambling house. The two of them looked over and saw a gambler in tattered clothes being thrown out by the drug dealer's guards. One of the guards spat on him and said, "If you do it again, If your hands and feet are unclean in the gambling house, I will break your hands directly."
The man who was thrown out didn't care at all. He stood up and patted the dust on his body and said, "You are such a scornful person. When you, Uncle Wu, win a lot of money, you won't kneel down in front of me and beg me."
"Hahaha, just you?" Several guards laughed, and the guard who just spat on the man stepped forward and kicked him to the ground again, and then also laughed.
Su Ningxin and Chu Jihan followed everyone and looked at the farce at the entrance of the casino. They waited until the man named Wu got up again and left dejectedly before retracting their gaze.
Then Su Ningxin heard an aunt in the stall next door say to the old man opposite her, "This Wu San is a famous gangster on North Street. I heard that he pawned his wife and sold his son for gambling a few days ago. Father, you will set up a stall in the future." You have to be careful and don’t provoke people like this.”
(End of chapter)