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Chapter 12 Don't Play with Fire

Chapter 12 Don't Play With Fire

The fake guards waited in the room for a few people to walk away, then opened the door and hurriedly searched in the direction where the two men had just carried the things.

"The Zhizhou Mansion is so big, can you find it?" Xu Youxi was a little tired after following this man.

The fake guard seemed to have lost interest in Xu Youxi's identity, and didn't bother to talk to her anymore.

"Shadow One, come out."

Xu Youxi stopped, stood on the spot and shouted, and then a tall and thin man wrapped in black suddenly appeared near the wall shadow, "Where did Wang Jin go just now?"

"Front, turn left, south courtyard, small house." Ying Yi spoke very slowly.

"Take me there." Xu Youxi patted Yingyi on the shoulder, pointed at Huai and scolded Sang, "You are much more reliable than some people."

"..." The fake guard was silent.

Under the leadership of Ying Yi, the two quickly found the room used to hide things. From the outside, the room looked like an ordinary utility room.After opening the door, through the moonlight, you can vaguely see that there are many traces left by moving the boxes on the ground.

"What's the smell?" Xu Youxi frowned, and subconsciously raised his hand, but the movement was a bit like holding fire again.

"Can't light the fire!" The fake guard almost blurted out.

"Why can't you light the fire?" Xu Youxi, who had a somewhat casual attitude at first, gradually became serious, "What's in the box?"

"Are you from the imperial court, or from the White Lotus Sect?" The fake guard looked serious.

"Of course I belong to the people." Xu Youxi said ambiguously. For some reason, the boxes in front of her gave her an extremely dangerous feeling.

Throw a "identification technique".

[A well-stored box of black powder: Sister, you can't afford the price of playing with fire]

"It's the smell of black powder. Where did so much gunpowder come from?" Xu Youxi was so surprised that he even took two steps back subconsciously, and then gritted his teeth, "No wonder the magistrate of Jingzhou wanted to run away. He hid so much gunpowder at home, can he not run for his life? !"

The fake guard took a deep look at Xu Youxi with a confused expression, then turned around and planned to leave.

"Shadow One, show his face."

Xu Youxi ordered, she hasn't asked this person's real purpose yet, so the fake guard wants to run away?
When Ying Yi heard the sound of making a move, the fake guards naturally resisted, and in the end, with just three or two strokes, he was successfully removed by the shadow guards from the helmet used to cover his face.

"Tell me. Are you going to introduce yourself, or wait for your acquaintances to claim your identity after your portraits are all over the street?" Xu Youxi looked at the other party carefully through the moonlight, and had to admit that the fake guard under the helmet , indeed has a good appearance, even compared to Mr. Yu when he was young, it may even be said to be a bit better.

"Let me go." The fake guard struggled, but failed. The shadow guard was too strong to be a real person, "Jingzhou Guang'an County Magistrate Rong Yingran! May I ask this heroine to let your guard go?" Yet!"

"You are Rong Yingran?" Xu Youxi had really heard of this name before.

Rong Yingran's heart "thumped", she wouldn't have any old feud with herself, would she?
"Hang Shilang and Ben Gong have mentioned you. It is said that you are the candidates of the first class. The Holy Majesty chose him as the number one scholar and you as the best candidate. But you were not convinced, and because of this, the Holy Majesty was angered. The opportunity of being a scholar, and then only become an eighth-rank petty official?"

Seeing Xu Youxi pointing out her experience in a few words, Rong Yingran also had some guesses about Xu Youxi's identity at this time, and asked tentatively: "Princess God Bless?"

"Ah."

Rong Yingran thought for a moment, then knelt down: "I implore the princess to thoroughly investigate the case of the White Lotus Sect and the black gunpowder!"

"You sneaked into Zhizhou's mansion privately to investigate this matter?"

"Yes. The White Lotus Sect has absolutely no good intentions in stockpiling these explosives in private. The imperial court must investigate to the end, and lead people to copy the rebel lair as soon as possible, so as not to cause even greater disasters."

"Then do you know what they plan to do with the gunpowder?"

"I don't know." Rong Yingran was confident, "But judging from the total amount of gunpowder that can be stored in this room, it is not enough to blow up the entire Jingzhou. I initially guessed that the rebels might want to blow up an important landmark or building. This caused chaos in Jingzhou City."

Xu Youxi lowered her eyes, thoughtful.

Suddenly, an inexplicable inspiration flashed across his mind, Xu Youxi trembled slightly with his fingertips, and panickedly took out the [Jingzhou Topography Map] that he had obtained from Hang Shilang before.

She got it!

The 20% progress of saving Jingzhou was obtained not at all because of persuading Hang Yonghan to give up the plan of 'constructing water conservancy', but because of getting this topographic map!

Several of the most important water conservancy sites in Jingzhou are prominently marked with red pens on the map, for example, the Jingzhou Dam, which is very close to Jingzhou City!
These bastards are going to blow up the dam!
The magistrate of Jingzhou escaped from Jingzhou and even asked to close the city. He was plotting to make all the people in Jingzhou die in this flood!
"This matter should not be acted rashly." Xu Youxi looked at the map with an increasingly cold expression.

Rong Yingran retorted: "If the court doesn't take action, once the gunpowder explodes, many innocent people will suffer."

"I won't do it so quickly." Xu Youxi took a deep breath and calmed down for a long time before saying, "The dam they want to blow up should be the dam, and they still need enough time and manpower to transport all the gunpowder there. If we don't send the people behind the scenes this time Catch them all in one go, if they can design to blow up the dam once, there will be a second time!"

Xu Youxi's eyes fell on Rong Yingran, and he said slowly: "This palace first came to Jingzhou City, and I don't know who is available, and I still have to rely more on Master Rong in the future."

Rong Yingran is a smart person who knows almost everything, and at this moment he couldn't help cursing: "It turns out they're after the dam, these bastards! What do they care about human life!"

"You go with me first."

"Where?"

"Meet your old friend, Hang Yonghan." Xu Youxi looked at Yingyi and commanded, "Don't follow me now, follow Wang Jin and find out where they hid the gunpowder."

[Save Jingzhou: 40/100]

After calling Hang Shilang back urgently, Xu Youxi, Hang Yonghan, Yu Xuejing, and Rong Yingran held a small meeting together.

According to the many news that he found a few days later, Xu Youxi focused his attention on a man named "Jiang Yu" in the White Lotus Sect.

Jiang Yu is cunning and suspicious by nature, but also somewhat arrogant.Jiang's father was once an official of the imperial court, but was implicated by others and convicted of rebellion. The whole family was killed except him who escaped by himself.

Therefore, Jiang Yu hated the surname "Xu" to the core.

It's nice to have hate.

After Xu Youxi thought about it, he calmly arranged for Xue Jing to spread the news among the people, trying to use his reputation to lure Jiang Yu out of the cave!

——Princess Tianyou has a clever plan, she has long thought that there will be a plague in Jingzhou, and she came here to save the people of Jingzhou!
——Princess Tianyou was taught by the gods in the south of the Yangtze River. She is a real person blessed by God and protects our Daqian Dynasty.

——In our current plague, even the magistrate of Jingzhou ran away, but Princess Tianyou did not back down at all, and vowed to advance and retreat with Jingzhou, with the strength of a royal family.

——It is said that it was Princess Tianyou who managed to get food for Jingzhou so that everyone would not have to go hungry.

—— together with the upright magistrate of Rong County in An County, they all took the initiative to say that the princess is the one whose destiny belongs to her. It seems that Jingzhou will be saved this time.

A few days later, the name of Princess Tianyou spread wildly throughout Jingzhou, and she received countless praises.

All this, only the 'Jiang Yu' who has been rooted in Jingzhou for several years has gone mad!
"I'd like to see how clever this princess can be! Go! Go arrest people with me!"

(End of this chapter)

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