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Chapter 563
Sending letters by flying pigeons is much faster than ordinary letters sent by humans.It was only one day after Jiang Shaoyan received Jiang Pingping's letter from Flying Pigeon.

The appearance of Xiaoli made Jiang Pingping confused. Compared with Dali who seems to have a hand in everything and decides everything, Xiaoli is more like her shadow.

But at this moment, Xiao Li, who suddenly disappeared, actually appeared, and she still appeared on Jiangnan Road...

Reminiscent of Yang Yan who is also in Jiangnan Road, although there is no definite evidence, it is probably Yang Yan who intercepted Xiaoli at that time.

Without Dali, Xiaoli was brought in. Why did Yang Yan insist on this pair of sisters?What is the identity behind this seemingly innocent Gusu talent?
Jiang Shaoyan became more and more curious about Yang Yan.And that old Mrs. Yang's walking stick, the whole Yang family looked a little strange no matter how they looked at it.

Zhong Hui and Lin Yan would investigate these matters, and she would not intervene.Compared with this, right now, she has something more important to do.

Getting up to call Xiao Wu, Jiang Shaoyan said, "Get the carriage ready, I want to go out."

Zhou Fang, here comes the news.

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The carriage stopped in front of a new pharmacy at the end of the street.

Jiang Shaoyan got off the carriage and walked into the shop.

Shi Yaoqian, who was counting the medicinal materials behind the counter, looked up when he heard the movement, and when he saw her, he immediately put down what he was doing and walked over.

Shi Li smiled and said, "Master!"

Jiang Shaoyan nodded to him, and looked up at the well-arranged pharmacy: It's not fancy, it's not bad, it's just like an ordinary pharmacy, it's no different.

This is what she asked of Shi Yaoqian: profit is not counted, just don't be too conspicuous.

"He's here?" Jiang Shaoyan coughed and asked.

Shi Yaoqian nodded, pouted his mouth and put his head behind his head, and said, "The one who came to grab the medicine is in the backyard!"

Jiang Shaoyan gave a soft "hmm" and went to the backyard of the pharmacy.

When he entered, Zhou Fang was looking down at a little boy making medicine with his back turned to her. That boy was Shi Yaoqian's child, and he also learned the skill of making medicine since he was a child, and helped Shi Yaoqian.

Hearing the noise, the man turned his head and was stunned for a moment when he saw Jiang Shaoyan who had lifted the lid, but he quickly recovered, cupped his fists and saluted, and said, "Miss Jiang Fourth! Thank you for your kindness! Zhou will keep it in his heart, and he will go through fire and water, and will not hesitate!"

"You don't need to be so polite. I don't need you to go through fire and water. You will help me the most if you do your job well." The girl said, her eyes fell on the bandages on his body, and she asked , "What happened to your injury?"

She opened this pharmacy with the intention of asking Zhou Fang to buy medical joints by borrowing his injuries, but it can be seen that he is covered with injuries all over his body. If it is just for joints, there is really no need to cause so many injuries.

Therefore, this injury was not intentionally caused by Zhou Fang, but an injury he had to suffer.

"This is the injury caused by the captain of the forbidden army in the same palace." Zhou Fang explained, took out a belt from his sleeve pocket, showed it to her, and said, "I was incorporated into the forbidden army in the palace by His Majesty."

From a murderer who could be killed at any time, he turned into a guard of the imperial guards in the palace, Zhou Fang can be considered to have learned what the weight of the emperor's word is.

"How did you win His Majesty's trust when you met His Majesty?" Jiang Shaoyan said, looking at Zhou Fang with more scrutiny in her eyes.

Although Zhou Fang's rebellion is unlikely, and there is still Miss Fang, he is willing to die for Miss Fang, which shows the weight of this relationship in his heart.

But no matter how important the matter is, if this matter is not careful, it may lose everything. She dare not gamble, so she must ask clearly.

Facing Jiang Shaoyan's scrutiny, Zhou Fang smiled, and the stone in his heart that had never completely landed had finally landed.

It was only when she looked at herself that she proved Miss Jiang Si's trustworthiness.

"I sacrificed Mr. Jiang and the others to surrender, and I also told the stronghold of the cottage where they stayed. Although it was extremely sincere, His Majesty still asked me why." Zhou Fang said.

This question is not unexpected, it was already expected before going to see His Majesty.

"Besides being unwilling to die, I also mentioned another reason." Zhou Fang said here, smiled wryly, and sighed faintly, "I don't know why I have persisted for so many years, even if I really do it. Can you beat His Majesty? Is it necessary to fight this battle? Isn’t it inevitable to lose?”

What is the difference between losing a battle and dying?
"I went to the street and asked random people to ask, is there any people who want to fight? I really can't think of the meaning of doing these things in this war. When I joined the army, I wanted to make a Fan Chengcheng has already wasted 20 years now, and I don’t want to waste any more.”

The meaning of these words is obvious.If people are not for themselves, heaven and earth will perish.He wanted to live for himself. The passionate Erlang had already passed the age of a young Erlang, so this change is not surprising.

These words are half true and half false, but they are in line with the thoughts and thoughts of the superiors.

"I also said that those who achieve great things don't care about small things, but whoever seizes the throne will not have to shed blood? Someone wins and someone loses. If you lose, just accept it." Zhou Fang said, "My Majesty is a wise king. able to shake."

These words were exactly what His Majesty was thinking, Zhou Fang's words could be said to be exactly what he wanted.

"Of course, His Majesty will not notice that I am an ordinary warrior. He thinks what I said is true, and after a few words of praise, he arranges me into the imperial army."

The imperial army is very close to the emperor, it is not only a favor, but also a disguised form of surveillance under the nose.

"The captain of my forbidden army is named Chen, and his name is Qianyu."

Chen Qianyu?For some reason, the name sounded familiar, and Jiang Shaoyan's face changed slightly: "Could it be..."

Zhou Fang nodded, and said calmly: "He has an elder brother named Chen Wanyan. It's not a coincidence, it's the Yancheng magistrate Chen Wanyan I killed."

Putting the brother murderer by his side, he knew what Chen Qianyu would do.Zhou Fang's life will not be easy.

Zhou Fang smiled wryly, pointed to the bandage on his body, and said, "My injuries are all thanks to him!"

This Mr. Zhao family is completely different from the Mr. Zhao Xiaolang he is familiar with. He is scheming and deep in the city.

However, even though he gave up all his injuries, it was not completely fruitless.

"Once Chen Qianyu called me out to practice. I was really fed up. I was short of breath, so I fought back with all my strength. Because of this, he got a lot of color on him. He was so angry that he spoke indiscriminately and said nothing. Shut up." Zhou Fang said.

He came out to dispense medicine this time just because of this slip of the tongue.

"What did he say?" Jiang Shaoyan asked.

Zhou Fang looked at her and said, "He scolded me a lot, and then he bitterly scolded us as villains who colluded with the Duan clan of the previous court and have ulterior motives!"

Jiang Shaoyan's face changed slightly: This sentence seemed to be just casually mentioned by Chen Qianyu in anger, but upon careful consideration, there seemed to be something slightly wrong.

Zhou Fang and others may be "villains with ulterior motives" in Chen Qianyu's mouth, but where did this so-called "collusion with the former court" come from?
If Zhou Fang and others who were defeated by Baidi said that they hated the most, it was not the current Majesty and the former Duan family who colluded with each other to frame them.Well done, how could Mr. Jiang and others collude with the former Duan family?
"We have never colluded with the Duan clan of the previous dynasty," Zhou Fang said seriously, "They have caused us such misery, how could we have colluded with them?"

But Chen Qianyu did say such things, and it didn't look like he was bluffing him, but he really thought so.

So... Where did Chen Qianyu hear the news about the Duan family from the previous dynasty?Zhou Fang felt that there would be no other possibility except Chen Wanyan who died in his hands.

"But I don't think people like Chen Wanyan will leak the information they have found for no reason. After all, if he can't hide things, His Majesty will be the first to spare him, and it is impossible to stay in the Jiangnan Dao generation for so many years. "Zhou Fang stopped here, and after a long while, he spoke again, "So, I thought of a possibility!"

Whether they are brothers or not, Chen Qianyu and Chen Wanyan are close, occasionally hearing one or two plausible words from him, and making their own guesses.

Chen Qianyu knew that Chen Wanyan was investigating some things, and the matter of Cha Baidi's former ministry was not a big secret, but other matters were.Only these, Chen Qianyu will not know.

"If Chen Wanyan heard the word Duan, he would instinctively blame all of this on us, and then it would not be surprising to conclude that we colluded with Duan." Zhou Fang said here , not forgetting to say, "Of course, this is just my guess, it's hard to say whether it is true or not."

"I don't think this is conjecture, I think what you said is very reasonable." The girl glanced at him thoughtfully, "So apart from investigating your affairs, Chen Wanyan is also very likely to be under orders in the south of the Yangtze River." The Daoist generation will investigate Duan's affairs."

It is unlikely that this matter about the Duan family refers to Prince Dongchuan and his son, it must be someone else.

So there are other old things in the Jiangnan Dao generation that can't be done?Except for those old events on Jiulongling that could not shake the foundation of Dazhou, she couldn't think of anything else for the time being.

Zhou Fang couldn't stay longer, took the medicine and left.

Jiang Shaoyan also left the pharmacy, walked to the carriage, and was about to step on the carriage to go back, when suddenly she stretched out a hand to cover her mouth and nose.Jiang Shaoyan's face changed slightly, and he was about to reach out to pull out the hairpin on the bun, but he heard a familiar voice behind him: "Ayan, it's me."

It was Ji Chongyan's voice.

It turned out to be him!Jiang Shaoyan breathed a sigh of relief, and glanced at Xiao Wu who was standing there and deliberately walked aside to block the two of them, and let Ji Chongyan lead her to a dark alley beside her.

After booing her, Ji Chongyan stretched out his hand and opened the door of the house beside him, and led her into the house, then closed the door and dropped the bolt, only to hear a voice behind him.

"What is Zhong going out like a prince? In the middle of talking with me, he threw Zhong aside for no reason without saying a word. It turned out that he was going to meet a beautiful woman privately."

Jiang Shaoyan looked towards the source of the sound, but saw someone sitting on a stretcher in the gazebo not far away, looking towards them with a smile.

Jiang Shaoyan's eyes fell on his legs and feet in front of his body, and he paused for a moment, then saluted the elegant middle-aged scribe in front of him, "Lord Zhong."

"Miss Jiang Si." Zhong Hui also nodded and greeted her.

Both of them have never met each other, but it does not hinder Dao Ming's identity.

Having never seen her before, Zhong Hui would not show any astonishment. After nodding his head, he looked at Ji Chongyan with a half-smile and said, "Senior Ji, I don't hide any of these things from Miss Jiang Si. Aren't you afraid of scaring Miss Jiang Si?"

Ji Chongyan shook his head, looked down at the girl, with a gentle expression: "No." He looked at the girl and said, "She won't be afraid, and not only won't be afraid, if I want to set fire, she will give it to me on the sidelines." I'll pass you a flint."

As soon as these words came out, Zhong Hui, who had just seen Jiang Shaoyan, showed a look of astonishment: "It turns out that he is a character like a hero among women, I'm sorry!"

Compared with the beauty of the girl in front of him, courage is obviously more impressive to Zhong Hui.

After Jiang Shaoyan said "Don't dare", he walked over with Ji Chongyan and sat down in front of Zhong Hui together.

Then Zhong Hui said leisurely: "Ji Shizi, do you know why I am looking for you this time?"

Ji Chongyan was silent for a moment, then raised his head to look at Zhong Hui: "You can't do such things as private meetings with courtiers, and it's also inconvenient to do so. If you can meet me with two ordinary stretcher-bearers without any guards, it's inevitable. It is for the emperor's order."

When Zhong Hui heard this, he clapped his palms and smiled immediately, and said: "Sure enough, I can't hide it from my son! Your Majesty wants me to check whether the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty have different intentions, and whether they are related to the previous dynasty and the old Baidi. If there is no omission, I will check now. Arrived at Shizi's place."

Ji Chongyan said "Yes" and asked Zhong Hui: "On my side, what are you going to say to His Majesty?"

Zhong Hui said frankly: "Naturally, I will answer truthfully. What is the relationship between your age and the previous dynasty? But your identity is the same as your appearance. It is inevitable that some people in the army have changed. We still need to focus on it and not relax."

Ji Chongyan let out a "hmm", the expression on his face didn't change much, and he said calmly: "That's okay! I've been here all these years, it's no different."

"Of course it's no different." Zhong Hui's smiling expression suddenly changed at this moment, he snorted lightly, and said with a sneer, "Because the prince has always been the one who takes the initiative, not the one who passively sits and waits to die."

Ji Chongyan glanced at him and said, "Master Zhong, did you make this trip on purpose because I was the only one who took the initiative?"

of course not!The sneer on Zhong Hui's face turned into admiration: "Sure enough, I can't hide it from the prince. Of course, I made a special trip today not to talk nonsense with the prince." Having said that, he paused, and took out a scroll from his pocket. The dossier was thrown in front of the two of them, "You are not the only one who wants to shake the foundation of Da Zhou."

The dossier that was thrown in front of the two of them was obviously very old, and there was even an opening at the front of the dossier that had been eaten away by insects and ants.

But no matter how old it is, it does not prevent them from looking through this file.

Before opening the dossier, Ji Chongyan looked at Zhong Hui, and asked, "The one you mentioned who wants to shake the foundation of the Great Zhou Dynasty is related to the Duan clan of the previous dynasty?"

(End of this chapter)