There was a palm-sized bruise on her waist. It looked scary, but it didn't hurt that much because her skin was too white.
After Feng Shuo finished scaring her, he still left the room and asked an old maid to come in and apply medicine on her.
Jiang Yanyi lay on the mattress, and the old nanny put medicated oil on her hands and massaged her. She tilted her head to look at the bookcase opposite. She knew what books were in his bookcase without realizing it.
After being together for a long time, it seems that a tacit understanding will be formed invisibly. With just one look from him, she knows what he is thinking. She can probably guess some of the things he didn't say.
After Feng Shuo interrogated the coachman, he didn't say much when she asked him about it. It was obvious that the horse fright was not arranged by the emperor.
If you count the people she had offended in Xizhou, the only ones were the Hu family and Manager Xu of Lai Fu Restaurant.
The Hu family has completely collapsed. The owner of Lai Fu Restaurant is a businessman. He has had conflicts with her in business, but he would not do such a thing as murder for money.
When Ruyi Tower opened, it encountered troublemakers. She sent people to follow them and learned that they were people under the command of Marquis Xing'an. However, it was the Marquis of Xing'an who came to the rescue. Later, the Marquis of Xing'an also came to Ruyi Tower many times and was very warm to her and Chu Shubao. It seemed that she was unaware of the identities of those troublemakers.
The incident might have been caused by Marquis Xing'an trying to vent his anger on his daughter.
In this way, the frightened horse today could not be the work of Xing'an Hou. After all, even if she died, Feng Shuo had already acknowledged Xing'an Hou's wife as his sworn sister, and it was impossible for him to marry her. Xing'an Hou had caused trouble for nothing by doing this.
Jiang Yanyi thought about all the people who might have had a grudge against her, but she really couldn't figure out who wanted to kill her.
After the old nanny applied the medicine to her, she tiptoed out. She got up, put on her clothes and walked out of the room.
***
Outside the hospital.
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 light a large amount of smoke, which knocked out the guards in the house, and then rescued the people."
The fire was spreading and the whole alley was filled with people fleeing and fighting the fire. It was a chaotic scene.
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 out the source of the smoke?"
Xing Yao shook his head.
Feng Shuo seemed to have expected this and there was no sign of anger on his face.
Xing Yao continued, "Except for the inn where Xing'an Hou stayed, I have led people to search the entire city, but I didn't find him."
Xing'an Hou is an old fox. He looks kind, but he is very good at putting on airs. By checking the inn where Xing Yao stayed, it was clear that he no longer trusted this ally. Xing Yao did not dare to act 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 shifty eyes and couldn't produce household registration documents, but he had the token of the Marquis of Xing'an, so I didn't dare to detain them without permission."
He paused and asked, "How about I take someone to go to the Jixiang Inn?"
Feng Shuo answered irrelevantly and asked, "Song Zheng, a general under the command of Xing'an Marquis, sent his daughter to Lu Bo. How is she now?"
Marquis 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 Lubo, Lubo was his courtesy name; the other was An Yongyuan.
Although these two men were both outstanding, they already had wives at home. Marquis Xing'an was reluctant to let his daughter become someone else's concubine, so he asked Song Zheng, a powerful general under his command, to send his daughter to marry them.
An Yongyuan was the second most brutal soldier in the army after Feng Shuo, and his face was disfigured. Song Zheng naturally didn't want to let his daughter suffer, so he chose to marry her to the Han family.
Han Lubo killed people without blinking an eye on the battlefield, but he was also handsome and smooth-talking. He was an old hand in the world of romance and there were few girls who were not delighted by him.
Xing Yao said: "It is said that she is already one month pregnant."
Marrying a concubine is different from marrying a wife. When Han Tuo married the daughter of the Song family, he picked an auspicious day and carried the person into the house in a sedan chair without inviting any guests.
When Feng Shuo heard about the pregnancy, he raised his eyebrows and said, "That boy is really quick. Let him stabilize Song Zheng."
Marquis Xing'an wanted to win over Han Tuo through marriage, but Feng Shuo took a fancy to Song Zheng, a powerful general under his command.
Xing Yao had followed Feng Shuo for many years and could guess what he was thinking. He immediately understood why Feng Shuo didn't ask him to investigate Xing'an Marquis directly but asked about Song Zheng instead. He asked in surprise, "Does the master want to use Song Zheng to replace Xing'an Marquis?"
"He sought his own death, and I only helped him."
Feng Shuo's tone wasn't exactly cold, but Xing Yao only felt a chill on his back.
He had always thought that Feng Shuo was being restrained by the Marquis of Xing'an, but now it seemed like it was just a matter of courtesy before force.
Xing'an Hou had the power over 50,000 soldiers, and Song Zheng was the one he trusted the most, with the power over 10,000 soldiers alone.
When Feng Shuo sent Lu Linyuan to Yuzhou to lobby Marquis Xing'an, he had already made plans to let someone under Marquis Xing'an take his place if the lobbying failed.
If he directly took over the 50,000 troops of Marquis Xing'an, perhaps some of Marquis Xing'an's former subordinates would be resentful. If he let someone under Marquis Xing'an take over, a lot of trouble could be saved.
Feng Shuo had said so much, and Xing Yao knew what to do next. The remnants of the previous dynasty were most likely hiding in the Jixiang Inn. If Marquis Xing'an died in the inn, they could still claim to the outside world that it was the remnants of the previous dynasty who did it.
Power politics has nothing to do with being honest and upright.
The winner is the king and the loser is the bandit. Whoever wins will be praised in the history books of later generations.
He clasped his fists and said, "I will go and deploy it right away."
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 retreated.
Before leaving, he saw the servants of Feng Mansion using a wooden ladder to hang lanterns under the eaves. The red lanterns looked very festive in the vast snow.
Counting the days, it’s only a few days away from the Chinese New Year, but some people are destined not to be able to celebrate this New Year.
After Xing Yao left, Feng Shuo looked towards the corridor blocked by the bamboo bushes and said, "Come out, how long are you going to hide?"
Jiang Yanyi slowly moved out and said awkwardly, "You knew I was here all along?"
After applying the medicine, she went out to find Feng Shuo and saw him staring at a cedar tree in the outer courtyard. She wanted to go over and scare him, but as soon as she got there, Xing Yao came over.
When she heard them talking about government affairs, she wanted to avoid them, but Feng Shuo had his back to her, while Xing Yao was facing her. When she turned back, Xing Yao would notice her, so she had to crouch down and hide behind the asparagus fern bushes.
Feng Shuo said: "I can smell it."
"Smell?" Jiang Yanyi quickly smelled himself.
Although it was very cold and it was inconvenient to boil water in a big pot, she still took baths frequently. She wouldn't have a smell on her body, right
After she sniffed, she found that Feng Shuo had a tight smile on his face. Then she realized that she had been fooled. She was so angry that she raised her fist and punched him: "You lied to me!"
Feng Shuo easily caught her fist, leaned over and sniffed her temples: "I'm not lying to you, it really smells, but it's fragrant."
Jiang Yanyi finally realized that he was being teased and his 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. "They are the remnants of the previous dynasty. Xing'an Hou is also involved in this matter."
Jiang Yanyi was shocked when she heard that the remnants of the previous dynasty had sneaked into Xizhou and contacted Xing'an Hou. She keenly grasped one point: "Xing'an Hou is a smooth person. He is still in Xizhou. What benefits did he get to dare to take such a risk?"
Feng Shuo didn't understand this point either. The old subordinates of the previous dynasty were just a bunch of rabble. What conditions could they offer that would appeal to Marquis Xing'an
"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 some soft tentacle. 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 gate who claims to be surnamed Huo looking for you. She said she is your maid."
When Jiang Yanyi heard the last name Huo, she guessed it was Huo Jianjia. She asked, "Does she have a red birthmark on her face?"
Fuxi nodded in agreement.
Jiang Yanyi said: "She is my maid."
She borrowed the flower hall of Feng Mansion to meet Huo Jianjia. Huo Jianjia looked disheveled, with blood stains on her hands and face.
"What happened?" Jiang Yanyi was also surprised when he saw her like this. Thinking that she was injured, he quickly ordered the servant at the door: "Go call a doctor."
Huo Jianjia wiped his face twice with his sleeves: "Boss, I'm not injured. This blood is not mine."
Jiang Yanyi finally breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "What exactly is going on?"
Huo Jianjia lowered her head and said with some guilt: "I heard that the boss was almost hit by a carriage. It was my fault that I didn't deal with the situation properly, so the boss was targeted."
Jiang Yanyi was confused: "What do you mean?"
Huo Jianjia pulled out the sheepskin scroll from her bosom and said, "My father went on a convoy mission, and the cargo he was going to deliver was this sheepskin scroll. We were hunted all the way, and in the end my father and the person who was going to receive the cargo died. I couldn't find anyone to deliver the cargo, so I kept this scroll with me."
"Today, someone came to the noodle shop to steal the scroll, and I realized that the boss was in danger."
Based on Jiang Yanyi's many years of experience in reading novels, any scroll is likely to be related to treasure.
If the people who tried to steal the scroll were the same group of people who drove the carriage and hit her today and kidnapped Jiang Yanxi, then she would probably know why Marquis Xing'an had to get involved.
But it is still not certain whether what Huo Jianjia has in his hand is a treasure map.
Jiang Yanyi asked: "Jianjia, have you opened this scroll and read it?"
"I've opened it." Huo Jianjia opened the scroll casually, revealing a piece of yellowed 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, but it has always been blank."
Huo Jianjia had traveled all over the country with her father, so she had naturally heard that some writings could only be seen after being soaked in water or heated over fire. After her father died, she wanted to find out what was hidden in the parchment scroll, so she tried various methods, but unfortunately none of them worked.
When the parchment roll was roasted over the fire, a piece of it was burnt.
Jiang Yanyi's thoughts were confused for a moment. Could it be that the parchment scroll in Huo Jianjia's hand was just a cover
She thought that if the person who tried to steal the scroll was still alive, she might be able to get something out of him, so she asked, "Are there any survivors among those who went to the noodle shop today?"
Huo Jianjia patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, Boss. I'm very accurate with my knife! One cut will kill a head. No one will survive. They'll all be dead!"
Jiang Yanyi: “…”
Looking at the little girl's proud expression, she didn't know what to say.
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