Jiapingguan Chronicle

Chapter 2262 No More Regrets 9.0

Shen Haolin, Shen Cha and Xiao Fengqi looked at each other, shook their heads helplessly, stood up, and saluted respectfully towards the three old men who came out of the woods not far away.

"Master, Uncle Yan, Uncle Qi." Shen Cha smiled at the old man who came out and waved at Merlin, "Add more chairs and tea."

Merlin responded and quickly asked the servants in the distance to bring back a small tea table, three stone benches, and the three old men's tea sets, and respectfully invited the three people to take a seat.

"Master, you three have been standing there for so long without coming out. Aren't you tired?" Shen Cha personally poured tea for Qin Zheng and the other two, and brought them some snacks. He said, "It's more comfortable to sit down, isn't it?"

"It's tiring, but the gains are not small." Seeing Xiao Fengqi about to salute, Qin Zheng waved his hand at him, "Mr. Xiao, there's no need to be polite. Please take a seat!"

"Thank you, senior!"

"Master's takeaway is what Second Grandfather just said, that the stories you know are not complete?"

"More than that." Qin Zheng patted Yan Bo who wanted to say something, and used his eyes to comfort Qi Bo who was sulking, and said, "You almost died, but you still want to hide it from us. What are you thinking?"

"Well, what's the point of telling you? Isn't it just making you worry in vain?" Master Jiang raised his eyebrows slightly, waved his hand at them, and comforted them, "Think about it, we didn't know each other during the Jiangning Prefecture case, right? It was only after I went on a diplomatic mission to the Liao Kingdom and returned to Xijing City that we met and became friends for life. But at that time, it had been some time since the Jiangning Prefecture case, and those thrilling days and nights had long become a thing of the past. Telling you, wouldn't it just add to your worries? Wouldn't it make you follow me and be afraid in your dreams at midnight? Since we are brothers, I naturally don't want to see you like this, so it's better not to tell you."

"Why did you say it today?" Qin Zheng raised his eyebrows slightly. "I was going to tell you once these youngsters asked, wasn't it?"

"Their considerations should be different from yours. They have their reasons and you have heard them. Since it is a serious matter, shouldn't we talk about it?" Mr. Jiang smiled at them, "Don't be angry. If it weren't for them, I'm afraid no one would hear these past events, and they would all go into the coffin with me."

Qin Zheng, Yan Bo and Qi Bo looked at each other. To be honest, they were indeed a little angry when they heard that Master Jiang had concealed some truth from them. But after thinking about it and considering what Master Jiang had said, their original anger had completely disappeared. Now they just felt that this person had suffered a lot and endured a lot of hardships in a place they didn't know about. Someone who had experienced so many hardships had to fake his death in order to continue living in this world. This world was really unfair to him.

"Hey, what's wrong?" Seeing the expressions of these people, Mr. Jiang knew what they were thinking. "Don't be like this. I don't think it's unfair. I've had a rich and colorful life. I've encountered things that others may never encounter in their lifetime. Isn't that good? At least I haven't lived in vain, and I haven't let down my identity, right? Now my regrets have been made up, my wishes have been fulfilled, and it's already very satisfactory."

"As long as you feel happy and fulfilled." Yan Bo wiped the corners of his eyes, "Okay, the children are still waiting for your story, why don't you quickly tell us what you experienced in Jiangning Prefecture back then." "Where should I start?" Master Jiang thought for a while and said, "After I met her? You should all know how we met, right?" Seeing everyone nod, he chuckled and said, "There's no need to talk about this part. She later said that she was deliberately making trouble to see if the boss behind Hefeng Building would show up, and she really tricked him out. It's just that she was an outsider, and she was unfamiliar with a place like Jiangning Prefecture. She offended the local tyrants, and no one would take her in except the inn where I stayed. So, when I sent her back, I found that her things were left at the door by the shopkeeper, who said something like the inn was too small to accommodate a big Buddha, and forced Xiaonan to move out."

"So it seems that someone from the Yao family threatened the store?"

"Yes." Mr. Jiang nodded, "It's okay. Not all inns in Jiangning Prefecture are afraid of trouble. The inn I live in is very fearless."

"Why?" Xiao Fengqi looked at Master Jiang curiously, "Isn't the Yao family the local boss of Jiangning Prefecture? They are in cahoots with the government, so how could they be afraid of an innkeeper? Speaking of which, when my great-aunt talked about that inn, she was also very curious. The Yao family dared to cause trouble in other places, but they didn't dare to do so in that inn."

"If you cause trouble in other places, they can handle it, but there." Mr. Jiang sneered, glanced at the silent Shen Cha, and said, "That would be a matter of life and death."

"Fear for life?" Xiao Fengqi was stunned. "This is the real local tyrant, right? If this is the case, why can he still survive a narrow escape?"

"We can't stay in the inn all day!" Mr. Jiang didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Most of the time, we are outside."

"That's right." Xiao Fengqi nodded, "They can't do it inside the inn, so they can only choose to do it outside."

"Because the inn where Xiaonan originally stayed would not take her in, I took her back to my own inn and arranged a separate courtyard for her to live in. At that time, I didn't know she was a girl. When she was in Jiangning Mansion, she always dressed as a man. It was only later because she was injured too many times that I slowly discovered that she was actually a girl." Master Jiang glanced at Shen Cha, "Senior Li later said that he recognized Xiaonan as a girl at first sight, so he arranged for her to live in a separate courtyard. He also said that he had hinted to me several times, but I didn't respond at all, which made him very anxious."

"Senior Li has seen countless people, so he is definitely not comparable to a young boy like you." Qin Zheng chuckled and waved at Merlin who was about to refill his tea. "When was the first time you encountered an assassination attempt?"

"On the third day after Xiaonan moved into the inn, the two of us went to another restaurant to inquire, and on the way we encountered an assassination attempt by the Yao family. I only had two guards with me, but Xiaonan had no one. The other side had thirty or forty people, and we were really a bit overwhelmed and almost wiped out. Later, it was Liu Shibo's people who arrived in time to save us."