No. 1 Girl in the Imperial City

Chapter 461 Cao Mian Arrives!

The port outside Yingzhou City is very lively today.

In fact, it is usually lively enough here, but today it is very different.

The Fang family left the city in a mighty early this morning, and the head of the Fang family, Fang Changyun, was the leader.Even the local aborigines in Yingzhou haven't had many chances to see Fang Changyun in recent years.

It can be seen that the guests who are going to land on the island today must be extraordinary.

Not only that, but the Fang family also set aside a pier for the distinguished guests. A large group of well-dressed guards holding weapons surrounded the pier tightly and blocked passers-by who wanted to watch.

People can only see a huge merchant ship slowly approaching the shore from a distance.

Fang Changyun led the Fang family to wait on the pier, and walked over quickly after seeing the boat docking.

By the time they got to the shore, the people on the boat had already started to go down.

The first to come down was a group of plainly dressed servants. Seeing that they were neat and tidy even though they didn't say a word, they knew that these people were not ordinary servants.

The attendant cleared the way, followed by a middle-aged man in a pale blue Confucian shirt.

The middle-aged man looked about 45 or [-] years old, with a neat short beard, a slim face and a tall and straight figure. He looked like a middle-aged scholar from a scholarly family who had read poetry and books.

Behind him were several men and women in different clothes and appearances, all of whom behaved decently and looked calm, and were not moved by Fang Changyun's ostentation.

When the middle-aged man walked down the last step, Fang Changyun took two steps forward and said with a smile: "Brother Cao, after a farewell last year, Brother Cao's demeanor is even better than before."

The middle-aged man was the governor of Qingzhou, Wen Dinghou Cao Mian.

Just looking at his appearance, it is really hard to imagine that he is a feudal official who can control the power of a state's military, government and people's livelihood, let alone that he would do those insane things.

It's no wonder that many people expressed disbelief when they first heard these things. This person is indeed a scholarly demeanor just by looking at his appearance.

Cao Mian nodded slightly, cupped his hands and said, "Brother Fang is overjoyed."

Fang Changyun smiled and said: "What a joy, it's just looking for an opportunity to be lively and lively, and it's just a gathering with friends. The current situation...is there anything gratifying about it?"

Cao Mian looked calm, "Brother Fang is worrying too much, why bother to think about those disappointing things on the day of great joy?"

Fang Changyun nodded and said with a smile: "What Brother Cao said is that Brother Cao has worked hard all the way here, please go to the house to rest first, and you and I will have a drink or two in the evening, and then we can talk?"

"Please." Cao Mian nodded.

While saying this, the two walked out side by side, and the people behind Cao Mian also followed silently.

Huo Shan, who was standing in the Fang family's team, and another man beside him exchanged glances with the person standing in the Cao's team, and then moved away as if nothing happened.

Not far from the port, Luo Junyao sat on a tree trunk, watching the mighty team coming out of the dock from afar.

"That's Cao Mian?"

Gu Jue said: "I haven't dealt with Cao Mian before, I just saw him a few times, it should be."

Luo Jun shook his chin, sighed and said: "It is true that he has a good appearance, and he must have been a handsome young man when he was young."

Gu Jue couldn't help but glanced at her. If you want to talk about good looks, their regent princess is the one who really has good looks.

She obviously gave birth to an exquisite and well-behaved ice and snow appearance, who would not think that she is a well-behaved and charming girl after seeing her?
Actually?This is clearly a female Rakshasa.

Luo Junyao sighed: "Actually, I haven't figured it out until now. What do you think Cao Mian is doing?"

Gu Jue said disapprovingly: "What else can I plan? Wealth and power, let the land dominate."

Luo Jun looked at him, shook his head and said, "I'm afraid it's still a bit difficult to conspire against and dominate Qingzhou. Cao Mian should not be so naive. If you retreat to Yingzhou, you can indeed hold on for a short time, but... This place like the Fang family can be a local emperor, but if you really want to be king here, that would be a joke."

"How to say?" Gu Jue said with great interest.

Luo Jun said: "It's too small here, and it's not far from the Central Plains. When the court is too busy to deal with it, how can you let it go? If you really want to be king overseas, I personally recommend it." Zhangzhou."

Gu Jue reminded: "Zhangzhou is not far from the land."

Luo Jun said: "But Zhangzhou is very far away from the Central Plains. The imperial court has not even settled the southern border. If there is an incident in Zhangzhou, and then try to form an alliance with the southern border to support each other, the imperial court will never dare to solve the southern border. Hastily sent troops to Zhangzhou. Even compared to ocean trade, Zhangzhou is far more convenient than Yingzhou, and Yingzhou has the advantage of being closer to the Central Plains. If the Central Plains Dynasty banned all trade related to Yingzhou, what do you think will happen?"

Gu Jue sighed and said, "Fortunately, your surname is Luo."

Luo Junyao smiled and said: "What does this have to do with my surname?"

You are such a weird girl, if your surname is not Luo, I will wonder if you are the second Bai Jingrong.

Glancing at Chu Qufang who was standing not far away, Gu Jue wisely didn't say this.

Seeing Fang Changyun and Cao Mian get in the car and leave, Luo Junyao stared at the person who followed Huo Shan and said, "That is Fang Yuan, right?"

Gu Jue took out a portrait and glanced at it, nodded and said, "It's Fang Yuan."

Qu Fang naturally also heard the conversation between the two, turned around and walked back under the tree and asked, "I really don't need to take action?"

Luo Jun smiled and said, "Why bother Mr. Qu with a trivial matter?"

Qu Fang raised his eyebrows slightly, his eyes flicked on the two people on the tree.

Gu Jue laughed quickly and said, "Assassination... I'm not very good at it." He is a general who fights on the battlefield, and his tactics can be surprisingly successful, but he is absolutely aboveboard when he is desperate.

As for the assassination, he really didn't do much.

"Shall I make arrangements?" Gu Jue asked.

Although he is not good at it, there are people who are good at it this time.

Luo Jun shook his head, "No need, I'll go."

Gu Jue froze for a moment, then hesitated and said, "Is this not good?"

Luo Jun shook his head and said: "What's wrong, Mr. Fang is still waiting for news from us, let's go."

Jumping down from the tree, Luo Jun patted the dust off his body and walked outside.

Gu Jue had no choice but to follow, looked at Qu Fang and said, "Mr. Qu, do you see this?"

Qu Fang raised his eyebrows and smiled, and asked, "Who did she learn Kung Fu from?"

Gu Jue shook his head and said that he didn't know, "The Luo family doesn't lack good masters, right? I occasionally saw the prince teach some."

Qu Fang shook his head and said: "She is not in the same way as your lord. If she is really an enemy, she may not be able to kill Xie Yan."

Qu slowed down and followed.

Gu Jue, who was left behind, was stunned, and he quickly realized what Qu Fang meant.

He meant that the princess was good at assassination.

How could the Luo family teach the girl such things?

Gu Jue remembered that Wei Changting said that the concubine once vomited blood from the prince. Although the prince was injured at the time, it was severe enough.

He always thought that Wei Changting was joking.

On the other side, after Fang Changyun and Cao Mian were sent back to Fang's house, Huo Shan turned around and came out of Fang's house after seeing that nothing was wrong.Just a few steps away, someone chased after him.

"Huo Shan."

Huo Shan looked back at the man who was chasing him, and said with a bit of sarcasm: "Mr. Fang is not taking orders from the Patriarch, what are you doing with me?"

The mocking meaning in the three words Mr. Fang was too obvious. The man's face darkened for a moment but he didn't attack. Instead, he said, "I heard that my brother and sister gave birth to a son yesterday? Congratulations on your precious son."

Huo Shan lowered his eyes and said: "Yes, Fang Yuan, I am now a father." He and his wife have been married for more than three years, and this is their first child.

Fang Yuan said with a smile: "This is a great event, it's a coincidence that my nephew's birthday is only two days away from the Patriarch's. Why don't we invite Shen Sui tonight and have a few drinks together?"

Huo Shan said: "He is not called Shen Sui now, he is called Cao Ying."

Fang Yuan didn't care, looked at Huo Shan and said strangely: "What's wrong with you today? Isn't it a good thing to have a son, why do you look a little unhappy?"

Huo Shan nodded and said: "Yes, it is indeed a good thing. Maybe it's because there are too many things recently, and the pressure is a bit high."

Speaking of many things, Fang Yuan also restrained his smile, and said: "I'm really busy recently, if it wasn't for foster father's birthday tomorrow, I'm afraid I won't be able to come back."

Huo Shan glanced at him and said, "I'm being scolded by the Patriarch every day as a grandson, what's the situation with you?"

Fang Yuan shrugged, said with a wry smile: "It's not about those things, a group of people who came here recently are a bit difficult to deal with."

In the past year, the Fang family has recruited a lot of people from the rivers and lakes, and those people are not as easy to deal with as ordinary soldiers.

Fang Yuan's strength is not weak, but it is still difficult to suppress those people.What's more, Fang Yuan is only the adoptive son of the Patriarch after all, so many people are jealous.

"Madam felt a little uncomfortable when I went out in the morning, I'll go back and have a look first," Huo Shan said.

Seeing that Huo Shan didn't intend to invite him, Fang Yuan didn't say much.

The relationship between him and Huo Shan is actually not that good, it's just that they seem to have the same history, share a common secret, and both are considered lonely in Fang's family, so they seem to be better friends than others.

Huo Shan married Fang's daughter, Fang Yuan recognized Fang Changyun as foster father, it's hard to say which one is better, but obviously both have their own dislikes.

In Yingzhou, Fang Yuan's reputation is bigger than Huo Shan's.Huo Shan keeps a low profile, compared to everyone knows that Fang Yuan is a vicious dog raised by Fang Changyun, he will bite whoever Fang Changyun points at!
It is also because of this that Huo Shan's relationship with other members of the Fang family is okay, but Fang Yuan and many members of the Fang family seem to be in conflict.

Of course, this is what Fang Changyun is happy to see. He seized power by himself and the other party's family members and even his own son don't trust him very much.That's why Huo Shan and Fang Yuan were reused, and naturally they didn't want them to join forces with the rest of the Fang family.

Fang Yuan turned to leave, but was stopped by Huo Shan again.

Huo Shan looked at him silently for a long time before asking, "Did you regret what happened back then?"

Fang Yuan was a little surprised, he didn't expect Huo Shan to ask such a question.

After a moment of silence, he said in a deep voice: "No, I have never regretted it." After finishing speaking, he looked at Huo Shan and frowned and said, "What's wrong with you? What happened?"

Huo Shan shook his head slowly and said, "Maybe I have a child suddenly, and I think a little too much."

After bidding farewell to Huo Shan, Fang Yuan walked on the street a little bored.

Huo Shan's words echoed in his mind, do you regret it?Of course I don't regret it.

What's so bad about being Fang's dog, compared to spending most of your life incognito as a dispensable nail?At least he has money and power!
Even if you regret it, what's the use?

The crowds coming and going on the street were very noisy, but Fang Yuan felt really irritated in his heart.

After thinking about it for a while, he wondered if Huo Shan's words just made him feel unhappy, and he didn't have the mood to look for Shen Sui, so he simply turned around and planned to have a few glasses of wine with the dancer he had met in the city.

The brothel is not open during the day, so it is rare and quiet compared to other places in front of the door.But even if it is closed now, the brothel will not stop a big customer like him.

Just as he was about to knock on the door, he suddenly heard someone calling himself.

Fang Yuan looked around, and saw a strange young man poking his head out from the corner not far away to look at him, "Commander Fang, a young master asked me to give you this letter."

The boy held an envelope in his hand and smiled very innocently and cutely.

Seeing his appearance, Fang Yuan's expression softened a bit, he turned around and walked over, frowning and said: "Who asked you to give it to me?"

The young man said: "A young man in dark blue clothes, there seems to be a scar on the left side of his face. He said..."

Hearing this, Fang Yuan's expression became serious, he quickly walked up to the boy, stretched out his hand and said, "Give it to me."

The boy withdrew his hand, stretched out the other hand and said, "He said you would give me beautiful pearls."

Fang Yuan glanced around vigilantly, pulled the young man into the narrow alley behind him, and said impatiently: "I don't have any pearls on me, here are you..." Before he finished speaking, Fang Yuan only felt that With a chill in his heart, he suddenly raised his head and met the smiling eyes of the young man.

"You..." A gorgeous dagger with a cold blue light was inserted into his heart, the severe pain and the blood that kept gushing up his throat made him speechless.

Luo Junyao supported the man who was a head taller than himself, and said softly: "Commander Fang, it's the first time we meet, goodbye."

Fang Yuan trembled in pain, he wanted to push the boy in front of him but he couldn't use his strength, "Who... are you?"

Luo Jun shook his head and said: "Zhen Guojun, Secret Character Battalion."

Fang Yuan's eyes widened suddenly, before he could say anything, the dagger stuck in his heart was pulled out, and the next moment it cut his throat neatly.

Fang Yuan kept his eyes wide open, and swallowed his last breath.

Luo Junyao asked him to sit against the corner of the alley, clicked his tongue and said: "The head can't be lifted anymore, so let's take this as a token." He cut off a piece of jade pendant around Fang Yuan's waist and took it in his hand, turned around a few The ups and downs disappeared in the narrow alley.

After an unknown amount of time, a drunken man came out from the back door of the restaurant, kicked something accidentally and almost fell to the ground.

The drunk staggered to his feet, cursed dissatisfiedly and lowered his head to look at the things blocking his path, and couldn't help but kicked again.

A moment later, a terrified scream came from the narrow alley!

　It's the last day of the end of the month~~ Brazenly begging for a wave of tickets~
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