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Chapter 868

From Wang Luo's point of view, Yu Dechen must have died.

It's normal to die, even Wang Xiaoben was prepared to die in Taiyuan.

When he said "he must be dead," he thought he was tactful enough, and the sigh was enough to express his condolences.

"died?!"

Unexpectedly, Li Zhaocheng took a step forward, shouted in confusion and shock, and lost his composure.

Wang Hao had no choice but to explain a bit, and finally said: "When I was in Huozhou, I heard rumors that Hao Laosan seemed to be dead. Maybe this is the reason why Zhang Hongfan stopped hunting us and rushed back to Taiyuan. I appreciate the kindness of Taoist Priest Yu for saving his life... ..."

"Then you didn't see my senior brother die?"

Wang Xiao fell on Sun Deyu's face, feeling a little helpless for a while.

In addition to King Qin's elder brother, this Dean Xiao Sun is also one of the ministers who see King Qin the most times.

You can't afford to offend them all.

"Although I haven't seen it with my own eyes, I can infer that Daoist Yu will surely escape."

"Why?"

Wang Luo didn't want to admit it, but he still reluctantly responded: "I was trapped in Taiyuan alone, and I was watched by Zhang Jiu and Hao Qi, and even I was not sure...Even I had no plan to escape, let alone He even assassinated Hao Laosan in public."

Not only was he sure that Yu Dechen must die, but he also saw that he was close to Li Zhaocheng and Sun Deyu, and he didn't dare to let them hold on to hope and hate him even more, so he simply said it to death.

"I'm so ashamed that I couldn't bring him back."

After finishing speaking, Wang Luo sincerely bowed his hands and solemnly apologized to Li Zhaocheng and Sun Deyu.

As for the Jiang Di siblings, they were ignored by him.

Wang Luo can be subdued to others, but not to those who are lower than him...

Li Zhaocheng was silent for a while, stepped out of the way, raised his hand slightly, and said, "Brother Mu Qiao has worked hard this trip."

"It's not hard to work for the king."

"Please."

After Wang Luo left, the four of them stood by the side of the road for a while, feeling a little downcast.

"Why did you let him go?" Jiang Cang raised his fist and said, "It takes a beating to relieve his anger."

"You should beat him up and curse my senior brother indiscriminately. He didn't even see what happened to senior brother." Although Sun Deyu said this, he lowered his head and complained in a low voice to himself: "I don't know how to take it seriously. , I have to show off every time, okay..."

Jiang Di stood there without speaking, always looking a little calm. After hearing Sun Deyu's complaint, she said: "When I was in Qingfu County, the whole county was searching for him, but he was still in front of me... Muyu This person just looks too wooden, which makes you all underestimate him."

Saying this, she actually smiled and said, "Don't worry, he must still be alive."

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Li Zhaocheng looked back and saw Jiang Di's figure was very free and easy. After comforting Sun Deyu for a few words, she went straight to Mokanyuan again.

It looks a little cool.

"Why is sister like this?" Jiang Cang muttered, "It doesn't seem to be worried."

Li Zhaocheng said: "She believes that Muyu must still be alive..."

Having said that, Li Zhaocheng couldn't help being a little disappointed in Jiang Di.

Moving from Jiangnan to Guanzhong, it was because of these few friends that he felt that this place was not a foreign land. Although he understood Jiang Di's attitude, it still made him feel that she didn't care so much about her friends.

After entering Prince Qin's Mansion, I saw Li Xia in the lobby.Li Zhaocheng suddenly understood where Jiang Di's cold personality came from.

It seems that Li Xia doesn't need any emotional support, family and friends, even if he is alone in a foreign land, he always looks tough.

Not sad, not discouraged, cold-tempered, alienated from others, unmoved by anything.

This may be one of the reasons why Li Xia is so powerful.

Li Zhaocheng knew that he would never be able to do this in his life. He was much more humane, but also much weaker.Even just seeing Jiang Di's strength and calmness made him feel uneasy.

He hoped that Li Xia would be weaker occasionally.

……

Li Xia had just met Hao Tianyi, and was marking something on the map with a charcoal pencil.Seeing Li Zhaocheng come in again, he ordered official duties without looking up.

"It's just in time. It's the end of September, and the water conservancy project in Guanzhong is about to start in early October, and the first batch of banknotes is already being packed. Everything is ready, and the interests involved are great. You must pay close attention to it. Tell me. What's the problem, what's the problem?"

After speaking, Li Xia waited for a while, but did not hear Li Zhaocheng's report.

Then he put down the pen in his hand and said, "What's wrong?"

Li Zhaocheng hesitated, and asked, "Can you remember the past?"

Li Xia didn't understand at first, but after a little thought, he realized that he was asking about memories before rebirth, so he shook his head.

"Then...if I die, will you be sad?" Li Zhaocheng asked again.

Li Xia couldn't help but frowned.

Even the wives and concubines in his family don't have such pretentious problems.

"What? Are you seriously ill?"

"No, I just want to ask. If I die, you will still do what you have to do, right?"

"Ah."

Li Xia nodded without hesitation, and seeing Li Zhaocheng's expression was a bit disappointed, he finally added, "But I will try my best to keep you alive."

Although there was only one sentence, Li Zhaocheng seemed to be quite comforted.

Li Xia is preparing to continue asking Lian Fangsi about it.

But Li Zhaocheng asked again: "Do you think Yu Dechen can survive in such a situation?"

Li Xia didn't answer, but instead said: "Wang Xi told you everything? He thought that if the Taiyuan incident failed, he could talk about it everywhere, right? He would break the can and smash it when he encountered a setback. I think his temper is even more ruthless." Knock, knock."

Feeling Li Xia's displeasure, Li Zhaocheng was a little apprehensive, and hurriedly responded, "He just...trusts me."

Afterwards, he hesitated for a while, facing Li Xia's stern gaze, he raised his head and asked, "Can you tell me how Yu Dechen is doing?"

Li Xia was silent for a moment, then said, "I don't know."

He looked back at the mountain of official documents on the case, and sighed somewhat self-deprecatingly.

"I can't get in touch with those many details. Not only Yu Dechen, but the lives of many people have become details that I can't get in touch with..."

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In the evening of this day, Li Xia returned to the back house and sat in the room watching Zhang Wenjing change his son's diaper.

Talking about everything that happened today, some of the things he can't say to Li Zhaocheng can be said to Zhang Wenjing.

"Wang Xi came back from Taiyuan, he did a good job."

If Wang Luo heard Li Xia say this with his own ears, he would be very surprised.

But this matter, in fact, can be understood after thinking about it.

Hao Tianyi was sent back to Taiyuan by Li Xia, so as long as Kublai Khan is not a fool, it is absolutely impossible for Li Xia to use Hao Tianyi's hand to control the Mongolian army on Taiyuan Road or the smuggling trade route in Shanxi.

In other words, Wang Luo's trip to the north, on the surface, had no possibility of success at all from the very beginning.

Li Xiashi used his arrogant and high-profile features to attract Kublai Khan's attention.

However, Liu Yuanzhen, Lin Zi, Dong Wenyong and others secretly operated in Henan, and through smuggling, further secretly contacted the princes of various places, especially the Zhang family in Baozhou. This was Li Xia's real purpose.

A very small example, if Zhang Hongfan stayed in Baozhou, Li Xia would not be able to achieve his goal.

There are many generals under Kublai Khan's command, but there are not many who are both civil and military, understand the situation in the Central Plains, can appease and deter the princes, and are loyal.Shi Tianze counts as one, and so does Zhang Hongfan.

As long as Wang Luo can convince everyone that Li Xia is trying to get through Shanxi with all his strength and ignore Henan, the actual task has been completed. Zhang Hongfan's stay in Shanxi is a proof.

"Your ninth brother was dragged in Taiyuan, it should give us more opportunities to get in touch with Baozhou."

When Li Xia said this, he thought for a while, and then said: "Of course, Taiyuan can become a mess and hold your ninth brother back because Yu Dechen killed Hao Tianju."

Zhang Wenjing asked, "Who is Yu Dechen?"

"A good man sent by the Military Intelligence Department to protect Wang Luo..."

Li Xia said a few words briefly.

In fact, killing Hao Tianju has both advantages and disadvantages.Although it can turn Taiyuan into a mess and hold back Zhang Hongfan; it will also give many Central Plains people the impression that Li Xia only assassinates.

But after talking with Li Zhaocheng today, Li Xia didn't care much about this disadvantage.

"Remember when we were in Luyi?" Li Xia asked suddenly.

"Yeah." Zhang Wenjing sat down next to Li Xia, took his arm, smiled softly, and said, "How could I forget? For a lifetime."

"At that time, I was also a pawn and a small person, but now I control the fate of others. I send them to the dangerous situation in the Northland, and the missions I tell them are all fake and unimportant. As long as I let them go north, it doesn't matter even if they die. ...I am afraid that I will become the same person as those temple princes back then. I don't want to treat anyone as a 'little person' or a 'pawn', but sometimes I do."

Zhang Wenjing patted his hand and said: "You are different from those people. They don't care about the lives of the chess pieces, you do. Sometimes, some things can only be done that way, there will be sacrifices, and the people who are sent will die. , but you care... I know."

"I'm just being too calm?"

"Well, you're just too calm."

"Want me to change it?"

"I don't want to." Zhang Wenjing turned her head and looked at Li Xia seriously, her eyelashes seemed to touch his face, "I still like you like this, and I'm not tired of it yet, so let's not change it."

Li Xia then smiled and was about to speak when the baby on the couch burst into tears, as if his parents were only focused on talking and ignored him, insisting on attracting attention.

Zhang Wenjing picked up the child and shook it gently. Looking at the little face, she couldn't help feeling proud, and asked Li Xia, "He is so cute. If my father can see it, he will like it very much, right?"

The reason why she was so worried about this matter was because she knew that Li Xia was qualified to recruit Zhang Rou after guarding Guanzhong, and had already sent someone to Baozhou to contact her, so she inevitably had expectations for the outcome of this matter.

However, Li Xia only received information from the direction of Shanxi, and the specific situation in Baozhou has not yet come back, so it is not sure whether Zhang Wenjing will be disappointed.

~~
In the next few days, the Palace of the Prince of Qin was still busy with the issuance of banknotes and water conservancy in Guanzhong.

But on September 29, a messenger from the east rushed to Qin Wangfu.

"Report to the king, an urgent letter from Junzhou..."

Junzhou is located in Henan and is not under Li Xia's rule.In addition to the smuggled ironware, there are also letters from Junzhou, which shows that the activities of the Military Intelligence Department have made progress.

The letter was encrypted, and it was densely packed with numbers. Li Xia filled out the deciphered text word by word, but after reading it, she frowned slightly, thinking that she might disappoint Zhang Wenjing this time.

The plan to connect the states in series did not go well.

Kublai Khan actually drew his salary from the bottom of the pot with one trick, and directly appointed the official and promised a post, and wanted to transfer Zhang Rou from Baozhou to Yanjing.

More specific news has not yet arrived, Dong Wenyong only said to stay in Zhang's house temporarily to find a turning point.

But once Zhang Rou left, it would be very difficult for the Zhang family to have another person who had the guts to make decisions, was capable of doing it, and could also secretly connect with Li Xia without Khubilai's eyes and ears.

I'm afraid this turnaround will be hard to come by...

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At the same time, Zhending Prefecture, Hebei.

A large group of carriages was being stopped in front of the checkpoint. Someone in the convoy greeted the patrol in front of them unhurriedly, and rewarded them with a string of copper coins.

"The Zhang family in Baozhou transported the approved Ding kiln porcelain to Kaifeng."

The patrol did not dare to neglect, and quickly let go of the road.

The convoy set off again, and filed through the checkpoint. On one of the carriages, Lin Zi lifted the curtain and looked out, then closed the curtain again, and said to his companions in the carriage: "I didn't check, you can rest at ease..."

(End of this chapter)